SUMMARY:

Cloud Solutions/Systems Architect with over 20 years of IT experience. Well versed in planning using Agile, designing with Visio, and implementing Windows, Linux, Solaris, switches, routers, SAN, NAS, Cloud, VMware, Oracle, ERP and Unified Communications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, Georgia

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Manifest solutions with little to no information by investigating environments using Linux commands, F5 load balancers, Akamai, DNS, Dashboards, vCAC and firewalls that meets both the immediate and future needs of the business.
• Troubleshoot implementations with the team to elevate performance and connectivity issues with F5s, firewalls, Akamai, DNS, ESBs and Chef.
• Meet with key team members to alleviate bottlenecks to ensure products are delivered on time.
• Assist on the deployment of datacenter cutover where we shifted production infrastructure from the East Coast to the West Cost and back again.
• Deploy VMs using vCAC and Cloudbolt.

Confidential, Lawrenceville, Georgia

Solutions Architect / Agile Product Owner

Responsibilities:

• Defined infrastructure architecture (servers, storage, firewalls, SQL always on, and load balancing) .
• Gathered and documented environment details via all Office applications.
• Collected user stories, acceptance criteria and presented stories in grooming to scrum team.
• Maintained status of projects, keeping projects on track.
• Managed daily stand - ups, providing input on blocking issues.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed an innovative scripted metric gathering application that saved .5 head count worth of man hours per year.
• Successfully design and manage hundreds of cloud implementations including a 300 petabyte iCloud solution.
• Designed and architected the Confidential & Confidential billing infrastructure leveraging EMC and NetApp Storage, and VMware, providing a multi-tiered, fault tolerant, and load balanced solution.
• Facilitated the transition of existing platforms (Windows and UX) to Linux for 35 business units from the main mobility billing system to call detail records applications.
• Coordinated with various implementations teams to deliver a plan of record for a complete solution.
• Team lead on power management which set the standards for mobility data center power consumption and reservations for all mobility facilities within Confidential & Confidential .
• Architected hundreds of implementation with equipment including HP/Sun/Oracle/EMC/Hitachi hardware and software with a huge emphasis on virtualization.
• Facilitated numerous meeting for data gathering, knowledge transfer and owner validation.

Storage Capacity Planner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed capacity forecasts using systems and business metrics produced monthly web based reports.
• Procured and allocated storage space for future projects on a quarterly bases.
• Evaluated the organization's data processing and storage needs, developing long-term plans to meet business requirements for over 500 petabytes of enterprise wide storage.
• Scripted tools using Java, Perl and SQL Plus to collect data for the web based reporting.

Network Planning Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Team SME on implementation tools, requirements gathering, data collection, and equipment delivery for various layer 4 technologies teleconferencing technologies including Confidential & Confidential own communications application.
• Developed and integrated network capacity implementations from the recognition of port saturation to deployment with an emphasis on layer 2 & 3 switches for US and World markets.
• Successfully project management of a large scale Apple iCloud storage and networking equipment implementation of over 300 petabytes across 3 different data centers.
• Provide executive level summary of all work delivered and help transition from concept through to deployment of hundreds of pieces for hardware in multiple geo-diverse datacenter including most of world.
• Migrated thousands of ports from hundreds of EOSL 2948s and the 3750s to new equipment which included direct management of the switches, cost analysis, device replacement requisition and disposal.
• Develop spreadsheets with macros and pivot tables to collect data and manipulate data for enterprise switches and routers for port saturation, port grooming and peak performance utilization.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Engineered SAN and NAS topologies to support InterMail and Voice Over IP for over a million users using EMC 8830, ED-1064, and NS600 hardware.
• Supported services such as BrightMail, Openwave InterMail, Voice Over IP, Radius, DNS, Netbackup, ECC, Jumpstart, Veritas Cluster Server, and Patrol.
• Implemented and supported Confidential Blade Center and Linux RedHat AS for Accelerated Dialup.

Confidential, Roswell, Georgia

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility involved designing and implementing ECC 5.x, ESN Manager, NAS code for Celerra with CIFS and NFS shares, TimeFinder FS, TimeFinder, Volume Logix, Power Path and Connectrix installation.
• Primary responsibility involved designing, implementing and upgrading ECC 5.x, ESN MGR and Volume Logix.
• Secondary responsibilities included knowledge transfer, TimeFinder, SymmOptimizer, and PowerPath implementations.
• Significant presales work in customer facing activities including configurations and design.

Confidential, Norcross, Georgia

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrated the conversion from AIX, Oracle, Gembase, and Renaissance to Windows NT.
• Lead in the migration of an entire infrastructure from an HP Unix networking system to Cisco Switches, Routers, Compact Servers, and Citrix Win terminals for in house maintenance which included total responsibility for directing individuals Confidential six sites for network connectivity, system tuning, and processing of information.
• Implemented Citrix Metaframe which connected six different sites across the US via Frame Relay.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained 10 Novell and 3 Windows NT file servers over Ethernet with more than 200 nodes using tools such as Ghost to create and distribute images of operating systems.
• Constructed a test lab which included switches, 100 and 10bps Ethernet hubs, token ring hubs, and server based bridges for communications between Windows NT servers and Novell servers.
• Implemented Lotus Notes 4.0 Server for internal use and directed study.