SUMMARY:

• Accomplished IT Infrastructure Architect with over 20 years leading the design and production of innovative cloud solutions using state - of-the-art tools and design theory.
• Well versed in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) ITIL Foundation, Agile, Scrum Master and other workflow management methods to lead applications and design teams through development, testing and production phases.
• Technology expert in VMware virtualization and cloud technologies.
• Strong systems engineering background includes design, setup, configuration, troubleshooting, scripting, systems backup, disaster recovery, security, data storage management and documentation.
• ITIL foundation certification.

SPECIALIZING IN:

• Infrastructure Architecture
• Strategic Planning
• Innovation
• Coaching, and Mentoring
• Project Management
• Stakeholder Relations
• Executive Communications
• Team Building

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization & Cloud Platforms: VMware Vsphere (ESXi), VMware VCSA, VMware NSX, VMware VCD

Storage Platforms: Confidential VNX (unified and block), Avamar, Confidential Symmetrix DMX, Confidential Clariion CX, Confidential Celerra NS, DataDomain, NetApp 30XX, Hitachi lightning 9900 series, Hitachi 9520, IBM DS4500, STK D2XX, SUN storage arrays (A5200, A5000, D1000), Brocade 48000 Fibre switches, McData 6164, 6140, i10k directors

Operating Systems: V-Sphere, CentOS, Ubuntu, AIX, RHEL, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Compaq Tru 64 Unix, IRIX, Win2Kx

Administered Platforms (hardware): Cisco UCS, SuperMicro, IBM P&X-series, SUN (E10K, E4500, E450), HP9000 (K, N, D class), Data Domain, F5(Big IP), P.C (Dell, Compaq, HP), CISCO & Arista switches.

Languages: Perl, Shell (ksh, csh, bash)

Tools: Razor, Puppet, cfengine, LVM, IBM VIO, IBM HMC, DNS, NIS, NFS, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Cluster Filesystems, Veritas DMP, Confidential PowerPath, NetApp, Confidential Connectrix Manager, Confidential Navisphere, IBM Storage Manager, Hitachi Resource Manager, Apache, JRUN, Websphere, MQ Series, LDAP, Siteminder, Tripwire, Jumpstart, Kickstart, HP-UX Ignite, Legato, TSM, LSM (Compaq), sendmail, Samba, Netsaint, Checkpoint firewall, Data Ontap

CAREER HISTORY:

Sr. Member of Technical Staff

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed cloud reference architectures, governance policies, security models and best practices for VMware based public and private cloud offerings.
• Designed, tested and automated deployment of modern technologies for integration into the vCloud Air SDDC platform. Installed and configured a global integrations environment for vCloudAir.
• Setup network switches (Cisco and Arista), Confidential VNX storage arrays, vSphere hypervisor, vCenter management platform, SDN using NSX edges and VCD (vCloud Director) as the service layer for VMware public cloud.
• Oversaw the automation and lifecycle management of core SDDC components (hypervisor, network, storage, compute, monitoring, capacity management).
• Setup the operations management layer (OSS) and the top-level management software layer (TLM) which included setting up the puppet framework, Rabbit MQ, Mongo DB, Apache, Zabbix monitoring and other tools to manage and monitor the public cloud management framework.
• Build tenant clouds using a home-grown automation tool "zombie" to support an end-to-end vCloud automation system for deploying customer environments.
• Deployed monitoring solution in Integrations using Zabbix, alerting using Pagerduty.
• Designed the layout and elevations of all infrastructure elements, network switches, compute and storage in a datacenter. Created wire maps for Data Centre Operations (DCops) to follow.
• Maintained ongoing configuration documents.
• Automated and completed an at-scale roll out of routine tasks such as BIOS upgrades of various appliances and automated asset tagging.
• Diagnosed and solved complex technical implementation issues escalated by operational teams.
• Deployed, managed and monitored all vCloudAir labs in Wenatchee and Bengaluru, India data centers using Nagios. Tested and installed hardware and software products for vCloudAir use.
• Tested and validated SolidFire SSD storage for use with the Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution and the global roll out of Infoblox for name services replacing bind.

Sr. Member of Technical Staff

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Solved a shortage in storage capacity caused by rapid growth of the vCloudAir, VMware cloud services division.
• Located and configured a decommissioned 450TB VNX storage array providing a 10-fold increase in capacity.
• Met with each lab manager and allocated storage capacity that exceeded near and long-term requirements.
• Worked with Confidential, Corporation to transfer the costs to the appropriate center.
• Led a team that handled a global cloud infrastructure spanning 5 datacenters across the globe.
• Collaborated with other teams to maintain Confidential to cover a shortage in staffing resources.
• Formed partnerships with various groups to assist with specific tasks.
• Teamed up with VMware's internal network architecture group to assist with lab network support.
• Trained Data Center operations team to perform basic storage provisioning tasks.

Sr. Storage Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of dedicated storage engineers to design, build and run the storage platform for one of the first public PAAS (Platform as a Service) offerings based on CloudFoundry.
• Deployed the first full Virtual Private Cloud stack for vCHS (vCloudAir) pilot.
• Led operations support for Video Surveillance as a Service product responsible for compute, storage, network and monitoring issues across multiple datacenters around the world.
• Developed and implemented an automated site failover solution for Cloudfoundry NAS using Confidential unified VNX frames.
• Developed and documented standard performance testing procedures for the iSCSI block only Confidential VNX frames for vCHS.
• Planned and implemented SAN based on Shard design for Cloudfoundry, including physical rack layout, disk layout, disk pool layout, LUN layout, storage allocation and front end host configurations.
• This served as a template for the Confidential Shard during the design phase.
• Designed and implemented compute and storage infrastructure for a new site and on-boarded new customer (ADT-Residential) for Video Surveillance as a Service.
• Designed a Nexenta-based NAS solution for vCHS (vCloudAir) pilot using SuperMicro hardware.
• Provided operational support for the Horizon single sign-on service including deploying code releases, Apache web server support, Tomcat application support and Red Hat OS support.
• Developed a solution for the Cloudfoundry service to be resilient to site or data center outages providing a 24/7 operation with virtually zero unplanned downtime.
• Designed a solution using Confidential 's unified frames to sync data at the backend storage layer across geographical locations enabling the front-end service to connect to the data and resuming service with a minimal outage.

Lead Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed outsourced and offshore teams of 30+ personnel supporting Confidential 's production datacenters.
• Allocated resources to incident and problem management, running the change review board, managing escalations, generating reports for executives and a semi-annual evaluation of the outsourcing vendor.
• Lead engineer for AIX OS-based systems responsible for OS standardization, creation of standard custom build images, install and configuration of AIX virtualization platform (VIO), Virtual Tape Library.
• Point of escalation for all Unix systems related (AIX & RHEL) issues for production support teams. Conducted root cause analysis of any issues impacting the business operation.
• Automated large-scale deployment of Linux hosts and configuration management using cfengine.
• Trained Level-2 support teams to support storage frames (Clariion & Celerra), Brocade SAN, IBM AIX & RHEL servers.

Lead Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implemented the SAN for a new data center in Phoenix, starting from physical Infrastructure layout, Frame install, Confidential DMX bin file design with Confidential engineers, SAN layout and design documents for Oracle RAC DBs, Brocade Virtual SAN design.
• Oversaw vendor selection, initial vendor negotiations, design and implementation of the SAN.
• Used Confidential ’s business continuity volumes for near line short-term archival and Data Domain’s solution for long-term data archival.
• Disaster Recovery -- used Data Domain replication strategy to back-up and recover databases

Storage Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Engineered and implemented SAN solutions for large-scale applications.
• Managed project schedules and vendor installations.
• Created procedures for support teams to automate storage provisioning.
• Diagnosed performance problems, identified bottlenecks, and implemented solutions or workarounds.
• Developed best practices for each storage vendor platform.
• Implemented enterprise-wide SRM tools

Lead Administrator & Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supervised a team managing over 200 Unix and Windows servers including IBM P690, Sun Fire 15k servers.
• Installed and maintained all components of a 3-tier infrastructure.
• Used IBM http server, IBM Websphere, MQ Series, Actuate reporter, Prognosis predictive tool, CA Siteminder and LDAP for single sign-on.