PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a Sr. Technical Architect (Lead Data Center Design Engineer) with 25 years of IT experience.
• He has forecast and designed plans for future growth as it relates to the infrastructure evolution in addition to implementing technology infrastructure.
• Proficiencies include creating application, network design documents and data flows. Just recently, Confidential has completed the migration and design of two new data centers located in Phoenix Arizona.
• Recent responsibilities included migrating and virtualization of all applications and systems, providing capacity analysis of existing physical systems to determine if the applications were a good candidate for a VM solution.
• Worked with VMware and ESX hosts, designing, implementing, managing new installations and migrating existing physical systems to virtual systems.
• Ability to communicate on a technical and business level with application teams, network operations, network security, third party vendors to coordinate solutions to clarify inter - dependencies among systems to provide a seamless migration to end users.
• He has also designed infrastructure components for large, complex applications.
• Provided technical and security specifications for technology infrastructure and contribute to technical specifications in RFPs and RFIs.
• Confidential has also been responsible for all applications, server, mainframe and network infrastructure even including cooling systems, chiller plants, power plants, Confidential systems, raised floor, cabinet and rack space capacity.
• Applied and extended standardized methodology and tools to designing technology solutions.
• Confidential also was responsible for creating technical specifications and standards documentation for current infrastructure, even on equipment no longer supported or the manufacture was no longer in existence.
• In summary, Confidential can deliver the critical skills required for System Administration, Architecture, Data Center Discovery, Assessment s and Migration Solutions.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Programming Languages: HTML, Flash, Java

Software: Lotus notes, Serve U, MS Power Point, MS Front Page, Flash, MS Projects, MS Office Suite, ACT, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Outlook, Packet Sniffers, Network Security Tools, Vantive, Microsoft IIS, Tom Can, Apache, Norton Anti-Virus, MacAfee Anti-Virus, All Windows Operating systems, MS Exchange. Ghost, Image Cast, Auto Cad, Visio, Backup Exec, Disk keeper, Eco Tools, SMS, IPSentry, Control I.T, Check Point, Sygate, MTS Microsoft Transaction Server, MQ Series, DB2 Connect, Confidential Web Sphere 7, Samba, Send mail. Aloha POS, BMC Patrol, Citrix, ITCAM, PerfMon, SAS, Perform Predict, Surveyor, Load Runner, Tivoli, VMware, SQL, Oracle. 2012 Configuration Manager, Open Stack, Nimsoft, DynaTrace, Splunk, Veeam, Sophos, WSUS, the dude network analyzer, Spiceworks.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012/ Linux

Hardware: Configured and installed servers, hubs, switches, routers, firewalls, controllers, SAN, NAS, CSU’s, DSU’s, LIU’s, LDS, Media Converters, fiber and copper network cabling, data racks, 110, 66, BIX, Krone, connection blocks, patch panels, system cards, Telco Switches, towers, antenna systems, sound and signal devices, CCTV systems. I also possess a working knowledge of various data communications test equipment to include data scopes, RS232, and V.35 breakout boxes, reflectomitors, multi-meters, oscilloscopes, tone generators, butt set, OTDR’s. Axway secure file transport, VMware, ESX Hosting. Dell power edge and Dell blade servers, HP servers and HP blade servers, Confidential P-series servers. Sun mainframes. F5 load balancers, Barracuda web and mail filters.

Networking: LAN, WAN, VPN, SMTP, TCP/IP, VoIP, FTP, SSH SFTP, PPP, OSPF, ATM

Methodologies: SOA, SDLC, ITIL, Risk Management, Project Management, Change Management, Agile, Waterfall, Team Building

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as the Network Administrator.
• Objective, Manage and maintain the physical and network infrastructure.
• Managed user domains, group polices, Email accounts, local and network printers.
• Maintained system, network security and user access.
• Managed backups, system updates, patches and anti - virus.
• Managed all co-located systems at PNAP
• Performed disaster recovery of critical systems including file and Email restoration.
• Managed and maintained the VMware virtual environment.
• Managed and maintained the WIFI environment.
• Maintained and supported all intra and internet websites and portals.
• Worked with the following software, tools and utilities: VSphere, Exchange, Veeam, Sophos, Backup Exec, WSUS, the dude network analyzer, spiceworks.

Confidential

Technical Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as Technical Infrastructure Architect.
• Objective, Architect an enterprise monitoring solution for open stack environments.
• Architected, Installed, configured and tested leading edge monitoring technologies
• DynaTrace, Nimsoft, Splunk and ELK
• Utilized Visio to create architectural diagrams of monitoring environments.
• Managed all architectural artifacts and build out of labs for POC.
• Worked with 3rd party vendors, systems engineers and project managers to achieve project objectives.
• I generated weekly vendor and project reports, reporting directly to the director of cloud subsystems

Confidential, Glendale, AZ

Lead Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as Lead Infrastructure Architect
• Objective, Provide managed services to support the district.
• Managed Windows 2K, 2K3 2K8 and 2K12 servers
• Managed 2008 exchange servers and email accounts
• Managed active directory user accounts and group polices.
• Managed VMware environment
• Managed and configured Cisco ASA firewalls
• Installed and configured F5 load balancers
• Installed and configured barracuda web and email filters
• Managed and configured Configuration Manager and WSUS
• Managed SQL data bases
• Managed VOIP PBX
• Installed and configured district software and applications
• Performed backups, patches and updates to systems and software
• Maintained Network security, user accounts and remote access.
• Designed physical security system for the data centers and all IDF’s
• Maintained MacAfee Anti-Virus systems and vulnerability scanner
• Performed risk analysis to reduce threats and network breaches.
• Developed plans for the purpose of ensuring that electronic information is secured.
• Documented and Created datacenter as built’s, application play books and network cabling.
• Designed, configured and installed WIFI networks throughout 30 district locations.
• Created proposals for E-Rate and 3rd party vendor
• Managed bids for E-Rate government funded projects.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as Senior Solutions Architect
• Objective, Create solutions which scale and meet business requirements.
• I am accountable for the technical design, development and documentation of solutions that meet business requirements.
• I lead solution development efforts originating from portfolios, participate in IT initiatives and provide active guidance for better planning and decision making.
• Performed deep dive discovery’s with application teams to assess application functionality and interdependencies.
• Utilized Visio to create as built’s, future state and disaster recovery diagrams.
• Scheduled peer reviews of current and future state solutions.
• Worked with governance and security to assess current and future state designs
• I remediated current designs when designs did not meet security and governance requirements.
• Performed capacity analysis to determine if physical systems could be virtualized.
• Utilized P2V technology to convert physical servers to virtual servers.
• Utilized load runner to stress test systems.
• Participated and supported in application cut over.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Lead Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as Lead Solutions Architect
• Provided architectural expertise, SME, technical guidance,
• Objective, to provide an end to end monitoring solution for the enterprise.
• Utilized Visio to create as built’s, future state and disaster recovery diagrams.
• Managed all architectural artifacts and build out of labs for POC.
• Worked with 3rd party vendors, systems engineers and project managers to achieve project objectives.
• I generated weekly vendor and project reports, reporting directly to the director of the performance and tools team.

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as Solutions Architect
• Objective, identified opportunities for process improvements
• I provide solutions architecture, capacity analysis and technical support for windows and VMware.
• Consults with clients, developers, Network Engineers and DBA s on Windows and VMware implementation, and maintenance solutions.
• Created all win2k3 win2k8 win2k12 gold images for VM templates and physical server builds.
• Migrated legacy Windows servers to modern virtual environments.
• Managed active directory user accounts and GPO s
• Managed DNS, DHCP, firewall rule sets.
• Performed application installations and upgrades.
• Maintained MacAfee Anti - Virus systems and vulnerability scanner.
• Performed risk analysis to reduce threats and network breaches.
• Performed security lockdown on all new server builds
• Installed and configured software and applications
• Performed backups, patches and updates to systems and software
• Created and maintained all VM templates for server deployment
• I identified opportunities for process improvements.

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as Application Architect
• Objective, to migrate 2,000 applications from phoenix DC to north Carolina DC
• My responsibilities include data center and application design, data center migrations, virtualization, P2V and lift and ship of physical systems.
• Create as built and future state Visio designs.
• I provided capacity analysis of existing physical systems to determine if the applications are a good candidate for a VM solution.
• Manage all DNS, FQDN, SMTP, F-5 load balancing, VIP's, and network configurations.
• Created all firewall rule sets, reviewed all ports and protocols being used by the application.
• Reviewed and recommended infrastructure technologies suitable for use across multiple platforms and applications.
• Worked closely with application teams, network operations, security and governances along with third party vendors to coordinate solutions to clarify inter-dependencies among systems so that migrated systems appear seamless to their users.
• Designed infrastructure components for large, complex applications.
• Provided technical and security specifications for technology infrastructure and contribute to technical specifications in RFPs and RFIs.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Chief Data Center Architect

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as Chief Data Center Architect
• Objective, to provide system and application migration plans.
• Design of the production and DR data centers, to include the consolidation and migration of all regional systems and applications.
• Design of infrastructures including servers, storage / SAN, SQL clustering, middleware, virtual environments, networks, and the physical facilities that support the applications and business processes required by the client.
• Performed deep dive discovery’s with application teams to assess application functionality and interdependencies.
• Created migration plans and solutions, business impact and financial risk analysis to successfully migrate all regional systems to the new production and disaster recovery data centers.
• Reviewed and recommended infrastructure technologies suitable for use across multiple platforms and applications.

Confidential, Glendale, AZ

Lead Design Architect

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as Lead Design Architect
• Objective, to consolidate and migrate15 data centers, systems and applications.
• Responsible for the migration and design of two new data centers located in Phoenix Arizona.
• Migration of data centers and virtualization of all applications and systems.
• Provided capacity analysis of existing physical systems to determine if the applications were good candidate for a VM solution.
• Virtualize 75% of all physical systems utilizing P2V technology.
• Created application, network design documents and data flows.
• Worked closely with application teams, network operations, security along with third party vendors to coordinate solutions to clarify inter-dependencies among systems so that systems appear seamless to their users.
• Designed infrastructure components for large, complex applications.
• Provided technical and security specifications for technology infrastructure and contribute to technical specifications in RFPs and RFIs.
• Provided comparative evaluations of competing technologies and products.
• Reviewed all documentation submitted by the application teams for PCI, HIPAA and SOX compliance.
• Remediated current designs to meet Confidential security standards.
• Created all firewall rule sets, reviewed all ports and protocols being used by the application.
• Recommended infrastructure technologies suitable for use across multiple platforms and applications.
• Forecast and designed plans for future growth as it relates to the infrastructure evolution.

Confidential, Phoenix AZ

IT Architect-Capacity Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as IT Architect-Capacity Engineer
• Objective, to identified performance issues and forecast capacity needs.
• Performed capacity planning, proactive troubleshooting, performance optimization, and service level management at Confidential within three tier network architecture.
• Collected information on traffic patterns, error conditions, server performance, and predictive trends, recommended upgrades and pinpoint errors, problems, and misallocation of resources before they degrade application performance.
• Developed capacity plans that sensibly forecast future system requirements.
• Manage off shore application developers and stress testers during the design phase of development.
• Designed and recommended systems that best support the application.
• Worked with VMware and ESX hosts, HP servers and HP blade servers, Confidential P series systems on large scale virtualization efforts.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as Systems Engineer
• Objective, to support, and maintain servers and operating systems
• Windows NT, 2K, and 2k3. Planning for and responding to E1, E2 and E3 service outages.
• Duties included scripting and light programming, project management for systems-related projects and computer security up to and including deploying software patches, preventing break-ins and other security related tasks.
• Responsible for monitoring systems/software, performing backups of data, applying operating system updates, configuration changes.
• Installed and configured new hardware/software, system performance tuning. Adding/ deleting/ modifying user account information, resetting passwords, answering technical queries and documenting the configuration of the system.