SUMMARY

• Strong technical team building experience in large companies concerned about profitability, growth, and mitigating risk in today's complex virtualized infrastructures.
• Accomplished leader with fifteen years experience in systems design, integration and administration.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills, self - motivated, and self-starter.
• Proven ability to coordinate and perform multiple, concurrent projects.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to relate current operational analysis to present and future business goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

Co-Founder

• Completed design, engineering and buildout for PaaS, and SaaS offering. Hands on buildouts for for multi-tenant private cloud service delivery utilizing vSphere 6.0, Cisco Routers and Confidential Gigabit switches and leveraging WAN /LAN /VLAN /VPN /BGP /CDP /LLDP /HTTP /HTTPS /SSL/TLS/NFS/CIFS. Installation, configuration, and integration for ESXi, vCenter 5.5 & 6.0, vSphere 6, Redhat Enterprise servers, Windows Servers + Active Directory and LDAP integration for Linux/Windows and Confidential /EMC Monitoring and reporting applications. EMC VNX and EMC Isilon cluster deployment. Installation, configuration, and integration of full EMC SMARTS suite plus M&R (Watch4net). Hands on deployment of corporate Cisco CME VOIP installation. RHEL 6.0 Linux Certificate mgmt., SFTP, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP Kerberos, kernel, network, storage NFS (VNX & Isilon cluster), crontab configuration, MySQL, Apache Tomcat, X desktop and client app setup configuration and maintenance and troubleshooting. Cisco CUCME VoIP and Aeronet Wifi installation, configuration with IP Communicator and 7821 IP phones. Build and troubleshoot SOAP/XML data collection for AXL interface to Cisco Call Manager. Bash scripting for SMARTS escalations and adapters. ASL programming for advanced trap processing. DynModel build and compile for MPLS cloud models. Perl scripting for ticketing adapter using oraclient and Oracle DB.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Senior Technical Advisor

• Responsible for Cloud infrastructure component reference architecture, leaf/spine (Arista / Big Switch / Nexus / MDS / UCS / VCE / vBlock / VXrack / VXrail) and both converged and hyperconverged component selection and deployment strategies. vSphere, vCloud Director, vRealize Suite, vRealize Operations / Automation, NSX, VSAN, SD-WAN, Service Catalog planning, and Customer Portal considerations. Product focus: Cloud Services, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, monitoring and reporting, capacity planning, operations and maintenance. Product research an analysis for SAN and NAS systems storage subsystem selection and features comparison. (ECS, ScaleIO, XtremeIO, Isilon, VNX, 3PAR, LPAR, IBM v7000, etc)

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Network Management Systems (NMS) Architect

• Engineering Design, deployment, and administration of Private Cloud platforms using Redhat Virtualization, Virtual Firewalls, VLAN, and Cisco Policy Based routing. Network Management System deployment design, planning, implementation and integrations NMS administrator for tools deployed via private Cloud(s). Bash and Perl scripting to automate configuration and maintenance of over 140 RHEL 6 servers hosting over 800 Application instances. Extensive utilization of Confidential DRAC, and HP ILO, and setup and configuration of management alerting, control and monitoring at the BMC/IPMI level. Extensive experience with Confidential OpenManage agents and servers and Confidential OpenManage applications. Regular use of TcpDump, and Wireshark.
• Tool installation, administration, integration, customization and programming for EMC SMARTS (V7/V8/V9.3) / Ionix / SIA (Storage) / ESM / ACM / BGP / EIGRP, Multiple buildouts, configuration, administrator and operations of SCOM - Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 & 2012, APG Watch4Net 6.2, EMC SRM 3.5 Storage Reporting, MSSQL, MySQL. Additional tools exposure and integration with HP Openview, SiteScope, Voyence, EIQ, and VitalSuite. Daily tasks include working in perl, bash, sh, xml, java, html, and some powershell/vbscript. Occasionally required to perform C++, and or .ASL enhancements to application core.. Responsible for Alerting forensics, discovery troubleshooting, alert tuning, device modeling, and business modeling. Provide mentoring and training for tools administrators, systems integration engineers, and Operations personnel.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Network Management Systems Integration Engineer

• HP Openview Suite systems integration for confidential components. Performed C++ and HP-UX 11 sh and ksh shell scripting to integrate confidential. Integrated confidential alerting from confidential with EMC BIM (Business Impact Manager). Purpose of Integration effort was to be able detect pooled application faults within a 12 machine middleware platform. Application was distributed across the pool making it impossible to pinpoint the CPU at fault, and whether the Application was failing (across all systems), or on one system, and which machine was at fault. Integration successful. Root Cause detection of pooled middleware application faults implemented using Business Modeling, C+, Shell, traps, HP Suite, and EMC SAM.

Confidential, Round Rock, TX

Network Management Systems Engineer

• Provided training, orientation, product overviews and other related presentations to Network Engineering and Operations teams. Configuration, maintenance and enhancements for Confidential ’s Global Network Operations. Platform consists of 43 servers running 87 network related application instances monitoring 40,000 devices. Instances include VOIP,BGP, OSPF, MultiCast, MSSQL, Trapd, Syslogd, Tomcat and IIS6 webservers. Responsible for Windows shell, ASL (C++), and Perl customizations and enhancements. Participate in forensic analysis of network problems related to DNS, AD, Firewall, Routing, ODBC, etc. Integration with layered products for reporting. Integration and maintenance for Watch4Net APG Automatic Performance Graphing w-Oracle and Linux, Apache, Tomcat-catalina, Smarts Report Manager w-MSSQL and Crystal Enterprise web services.

Confidential, Davis OK

IT Director

• MSSQL2000, Dbase IV, Foxbase - Maintenance of 30 synchronized instances of Goldmine CRM database product across 12 time zones. Firewall and security responsibility. Multimedia authoring and web site development for confiddential School of Dentistry courses to be televised internationally via the Eyedletime networks confidential platform (customized XML version of Windows Media Platform). Successfully facilitated the conversion from Borland engine to MSSQL for CRM system. Confidential VOIP phone system design, planning and deployment with Unified Messaging and Computer Telephony Integration (CTI-API) to CRM system. E-Commerce website design and programming for product sales via secure E-Commerce (Verisign). Client website PHP forms processing. SEO Search Engine Optimization (Google, Yahoo, MSN, ODP) for 15 websites - achieved page one, number 1 for dozens of targeted phrases and terms. Achieved page one listings for our client websites. Conducted positioning and competitive research and analysis, Ad-Words, and pay-per-click campaigns. Server administrator for Client Websites (IIS6) and Unix based Plesk / Imail email systems administrator for hundreds of users.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Senior Technical Consultant

• SIP protocol analysis tool selection project management responsibilities. BrixWorx VOIP call quality and analysis tools and integration with Spectrum NMS. Engineering and testing responsibilities for data and voice transport spanning DWDM, SONET, ATM, DS3, Frac T-1 & LAN.
• Opticom Iview (on Solaris) installation and configuration for capacity planning, trending, availability and web based reporting. ICS Continuity (Spectrum layered product on Solaris) SLA/SLG monitoring and alarming product installation, configuration and business rules and strategies. Project management working with Finance and Marketing to establish benchmarking methodologies and procedures and Sales tools and MSP (Managed Service Provider) Product offerings for the Confidential VOIP Customer base.
• Custom event configurations for TC1000 / SS7 PSTN gateway devices using various vendors enterprise mibs to map to Spectrum events. Project Manager for BMC Patrol Integration with Spectrum. Hands-on Solaris and Windows 2000 administration and configuration. Unix scripting and sendmail.cf configurations for DNS masquerading to avoid firewall and SPAM/”BadMail” detection.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Senior Technical Consultant

• Planning, design, configuration, and implementation of networks utilizing ISIS, BGP, EGRP, and OSPF routing protocols and SNMP management. Implementation of Micro-frame Sentinel 2000 remote access RSA/DES encryption and authentication. QOS for network layers 2 (DLC/MAC), 3 (TCP/other) and 4(application layer). Development and testing of RTP/RTCP traffic management strategies using differentiated services and the Ipv4 TOS byte as well as testing with MPLS and RSVP methods of delivery.
• Perform network design engineering and testing (25 city/15,000 node international network). Facilitate systems integration for new networking hardware/software products. Testing, evaluation and implementation of network management systems. Design, plan, document and execute nation-wide network upgrades and changes to production PSTN sites. Project manager for Year 2000 testing and UNIX/Layered product upgrades. Responsible for UNIX (includes AIX, Solaris and HP-UX), NT, VAX operating systems upgrades and maintenance for platforms related to network engineering. System Administrator for Nortel Network Optivity products on both NT and HP-UX platforms.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Technical Specialist - Infrastructure Consulting

• Performed as Corporate “Fire- Fighter” for difficult problems requiring high degree of multi-platform and systems integration experience. Example: Directory services integration with Mainframe CICS, X.500, and Microsoft Exchange and Novell directory services.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Senior Technical Specialist

• Senior level support and customer problem resolution for 2000 seat conversion from Windows 3.x to Win95 and WinNT. Client configuration analysis and systems integration. Provided training and documentation for network and second level support.

Confidential, Irving, TX

System Administrator

• System Administration and maintenance of 82 UNIX workstations and 4 DEC Ultrix Servers. Unix operating system internals and tuning, operating system installation and configuration, NFS and YP database setups. Extensive scripting to automate installation and maintenance tasks. Managed user account maintenance. Worked closely with programming staff for various software design, troubleshooting, rollout and implementation projects (mostly “C” programming). Performed Unix hardware and software system configuration and maintenance as well as backup design and business contingency and system survivability. System integration (printing and data sharing) for 60 client SUN Sparc 10’s and 20’s and various other platforms (all coexisting in the same networked environment).