COMPETENCIES:

Cloud Strategy Consulting | | Project Management Data Center Optimization | Solution Architecture

SUMMARY:

• High visibility program and project stabilization at the enterprise scale
• Over eight years of experience with private, hybrid and public cloud implementations
• Extensive experience with leading global business and large scale IT transformation programs and projects
• Unique exposure to enterprise grade, green field, software defined datacenter implementations
• Over ten completed enterprise cloud, datacenter scale migration projects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Consultant (Lead Datacenter Architect, PM, BA)

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented green field converged infrastructure based on HPE, VMware solutions
• Successfully migrated over ~100 legacy applications to the new hybrid cloud environment
• Introduced 50 % workforce reduction savings by advising on resource planning strategy
• Personally oversaw five data centers delivery projects, resulted in new, larger contract win for Confidential
• Introduced additional cost savings by providing mentoring services for program management process, technical architecture and security areas
• Guided the vendor to avoid costly litigation issues by leveraging latest forecasting and trending analysis

Technology: HPE C700, HC380 converged infrastructure, VMware vSphere 6.0, 6.5, vRealize Operations, Confidential, 3PAR storage arrays. Cisco and Brocade switching fabric, PowerShell and PowerCLI automation Whirlpool, VMware

Confidential,, St. Joseph, MI

Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed baseline analysis for vCloud Air and AWS application migrations
• Identified critical areas in the infrastructure, introducing proactive remediation cost savings, over 30% reduction
• Advised to client's personnel on cost savings for appropriate virtualization products and services

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Defined project scope, deliverables, quality metrics, time and cost
• Performed information gathering activities: team interviews, system scans, documentation reviews, data center visits
• Conducted assessment data dissemination and analysis
• Created integrated architecture solution deliverables for infrastructure, data center and end user computing assessments
• Utilized COBIT5, ITIL and NIST frameworks to review existing disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
• Worked with pre - sales and business operations teams to define new business opportunities
• Presented recommendations to CEO, VP and IT Directors
• Achievements: long term business impact based on the tactical and strategic changes identified. Potential infrastructure savings: over 2 million dollars

Confidential, Southborough, MA

Senior Business Systems Consultant / Product Manager / BA

Responsibilities:

• Defined product vision and implementation strategy
• Identified technology verticals suitable for transitioning company’s datacenters to “green field”, steady state and infrastructure automation adoption.
• Defined business requirements for a new IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platform design
• Supported security initiatives based on VMware NSX firewall micro segmentation
• Identified scripting requirements for Infoblox IPAM and vRA, vRO integration
• Provided analytical and technical guidance, created use cases for the following technology work streams:
• VMware vRealize suite
• VMware NSX
• VMware vCloud AIR
• Achievements: Identified potential roadblocks for the program, enterprise wide cost savings close to 30% of overall budget. Proposed a new delivery methodology for the program, increased program success rate by 50%.

Technolgoy: VMware vSphere, vBlock, Cisco UCS, Confidential ViPR, Chef, Puppet automation, ServiceNow and vRA integration architecture, Confidential VMAX, VNX storage

Confidential, Boston, MA

Hybrid Cloud Architect / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed on premises infrastructure implementation: Cicso Meraki, ASA, MS Server 2012 R2, DNS, GPO
• Migrated existing user base and core authentication services to Office365, Azure.
• Conducted on-premises infrastructure integration with Microsoft’s Azure ADFS, Office365 and VMware vCloud hosted data center
• Orchestrated MimeCast services for Exchange implementation
• Managed third party vendors during the infrastructure migration phase, reporting to CIO
• Completed zero downtime transition of critical infrastructure services to a new cloud platform.
• Managed project delivery on time, saving the company millions of dollars on public relations campaigns and consulting costs.

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed and documented IT operations business requirements
• Conducted interviews, incident reviews, recorded findings and data analysis
• Reviewed existing infrastructure services and provided best practices gap analysis
• Provided recommendations on company’s IT strategic development to CFO and VP of Engineering
• Developed roadmaps for infrastructure optimization with prioritized short term and long term objectives

Confidential, Southborough, MA

Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed scope, plans and budget definition for site moves, infrastructure upgrades and data center consolidation projects
• Managed Google Cloud Services migration projects (GSuite implementation)
• Initiated standard site definition process for network services upgrades
• Managed project approvals, onsite-offshore team communication, escalations and status reporting

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed high level data center upgrade plan detailing time, resources and finances
• Initiated disaster recovery and business continuity plans
• Worked with agency leadership to establish facility options for disaster recovery environment
• Ensured project resources alignment with scope, time and quality expectations

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led data center migration projects and technology upgrade work streams
• Successfully managed legacy and R&D application migrations
• Managed pre and post migration related performance optimization assessments and troubleshooting

Confidential

Pre-Sales Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed Proof of Concept initiatives for BMC SaaS cloud performance monitoring software
• Presented end user experience monitoring solutions to prospective clients
• Managed client’s web application performance and business value optimization assessments
• Authored KB articles for supported products.

Confidential

Infrastructure Consultant / Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Completed incident management reviews across virtualization, storage, server and network groups
• Conducted interviews with team leads, processed data and created reports
• Analyzed reporting systems data, identified support issues trends and key incident metrics
• Presented research and findings on industry best practices and solutions required to increase stability, security and operational efficiency

Confidential

Lead Datacenter Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Completed global infrastructure audits for datacenters and office locations (scope: 5 data centers, 16 sites)
• Interviewed IT personnel, site leadership teams for business requirements, documented findings and initial architecture and design deliverables
• Led networking infrastructure upgrade projects (WAN, LAN, WLAN and VoIP) for all audited locations

Confidential

Lead Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consultant responsible for data center upgrade and consolidation projects
• Lead architect on VMware private cloud upgrade project
• Developed and documented a multi-tiered support algorithm addressing company-wide storage issues
• Designed and implemented inter-site secure file transfer services for financial asset management services
• Initiated content management database and virtual machine provisioning integration
• Trained client’s IT support and third-party helpdesk teams on best practices for infrastructure support, virtualization and messaging.

Confidential

Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected, implemented and managed company’s messaging infrastructure projects
• Completed Lotus Notes to Exchange and AD user base migration (over 1000 seats)

Confidential

Consulting Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided IT consulting and business analysis services for small, medium and enterprise size businesses.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained global network infrastructure