SUMMARY:

20 + years of experience Pre - Sales, Solutions Architect, Systems Design, Installations, configurations, Performance Tuning, Systems Administration and Project Manager with the following Systems: AIX, VCE VBlock, Converged Infrastructures, Cloud Technologies, Data Center Relocations, Data Center Builds, Application Migrations, VMware VSphere 5.5, and Microsoft’s Hyper V Virtual Environments, Stratus Computers, VOS Unix and RedHat Linux Systems Administration, Hewlett Packard’s HP-UX Unix / Ignite, Omniback/ backup product, EMC Storage Symmetrix Remote Data Facility / Time Finder, HP OpenView, MC-Service Guard High Availability for Failover and Load-balance, and Intel Based Servers, Sun Solaris, IBM System 88, IBM AS400, RS6000, IBM System P, AIX Nortel ATM Switches and Routers, Cisco Routers, Hitachi Data Systems Storage & SANs, and Windows 20012, Microsoft Cluster Server - Failover and Load-balance, Veritas Cluster Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wantagh, NY

Cloud Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Putting together solution designs based on Client requirements
• Responsible for implementing and manage best practice migration strategies.
• Responsible for managing discovery tools Responsible for migration design.
• Responsible for implementing and managing Proof of Concepts (POC’s)
• Responsible for installation and configuration of various virtual environments

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Understanding customer requirements, and recommending cost effective solutions.
• SDN / Open Flow & Software Defined Data Center Solutions
• Putting together solution designs based on Client requirements
• Responsible for implementing and manage best practice migration strategies.
• Responsible for managing discovery tools Responsible for migration design.
• Responsible for implementing and managing Proof of Concepts (POC’s)
• Responsible for installation and configuration of various virtual environments
• Unix Migrations utilizing EMC's / RecoverPoint replication tools
• Windows Migrations utilizing Zerto replication tools
• IBM AS400 Migrations utilizing iTera replication tools
• EMC's SRDF / BCV replication

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Direct Pre-Sales and Post-Sales Technical Account Responsibility
• High level, and deep dive technical presentations.
• Understanding customer requirements, and recommending cost effective solutions.
• Putting together proposals, SOW’s, and responding to RFP’s.
• Putting together solution designs based on customer’s requirements
• Responsible for implementing and manage best practice migration strategies.
• Responsible for managing discovery tools Responsible for migration design.
• Responsible for implementing and managing Proof of Concepts (POC’s)
• Responsible for installation and configuration of various virtual environments
• Unix to Linux migrations, Migration of various applications to the Cloud - VCE VBlock
• Hands On Systems installation / configuration / administration - Various Virtual Environments - VMware, Hyper V, and SAN Storage

Confidential

Solutions Architect / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Direct Pre-Sales and Post-Sales Technical Account Responsibility - High level, and deep dive technical presentations.
• Understanding customer requirements, and recommending cost effective solutions.
• Putting together proposals, SOW’s, and responding to RFP’s.
• Responsible for implementing and manage best practice migration strategies.
• Responsible for managing discovery tools.
• Responsible for migration design migration onto VCE VBlock platforms
• Develop strategic migration project plans aligned with solution architecture
• Responsible for installation and configuration of various virtual environments
• Hands On Systems installation / configuration / administration - Various Virtual Environments - VMware VSphere 5.5, Hyper V, and SAN Storage

Confidential, Wantagh, NY

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Understanding customer requirements, and recommending cost effective solutions.
• Putting together proposals, SOW’s, and responding to RFP’s.
• Implement and manage best practice migration strategies.
• Responsible for managing discovery tools.
• Responsible for migration design.
• Develop strategic migration project plans aligned with solution architecture.

Confidential

Solutions Architect / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Recommendations of cost effective solutions to the various LOB’s within the Investment Bank.
• Project Manager to decommission various physical servers, and implement server virtualization for various LOB’s within the Investment Bank.
• Approve or reject various IB LOB’s new server and storage requests.

Confidential

Project Manager and Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Migration of applications onto new EMC SAN.
• Implement server consolidation onto IBM P series servers.
• Replication of data from R1 to R2 Datacenters using EMC’s SRDF.
• Provide customer with a DR solution. Systems discovery.
• Implementing systems performance monitoring tools.
• Identifying servers for consolidation / virtualization
• Hand-off final recommendation document to customer.
• Hands on experience with Systems design, configurations, installations, and integration for Unix, (IBM AIX

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Systems discovery.
• Implementing systems performance monitoring tools.
• Identifying servers for consolidation / virtualization.
• Hand-off final recommendation document to customer.
• Hands on experience with systems design, configurations, installations, and integration for various Unix, (IBM AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and Windows 2003 systems).
• Systems performance monitoring, tuning and capacity planning.
• EMC SAN / SRDF / Time Finder - Data Center Replication / DR
• Network Design and Installation.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Consolidation utilizing high end Unix server platforms that support multiple operating environments, and dynamic partitioning. Also required the recommendation of Intel based blade technologies for server consolidation.
• Responsible for Confidential County Data Center Relocation to a new facility.
• Recommendation of various High Availability, and Disaster Recovery solutions.