SUMMARY:

Articulate professional with an extensive history of success developing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining technically advanced enterprise architecture solutions.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Proven success designing enterprise architectures to suit a vast range of client needs while meeting deadlines and adhering to best practices.
• Exemplary troubleshooting skills, including identifying root causes, communicating action plans, and resolving complex problems with timeliness and ease.
• Broad knowledge of the full software development lifecycle matched by technical expertise in process automation, product customization, and project management.
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication strengths leveraged to train users, troubleshoot system issues, and ensure total client satisfaction.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Platforms: UNIX, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Red Hat, Centos, Fedora

Software: Cloud: Amazon AWS, Office365, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack. Enterprise Software. Messaging: Exchange, Office365, GroupWise. DevOps: CI/CD. Virtualization: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper - V, Dockers, Container Linux. Databases: Microsoft SQL, MySQL, MongoDB. Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Kubernetes. Security: IDS/IPS concepts, Firewalls. Networking: Switching/Routing protocols. Scripting: PowerShell, Python, JSON. Frameworks: Enterprise Architecture. ITIL

Hardware: IBM, Sun and HP Servers, SCSI devices, Fibre Channel, SAN Switches, Dell Switches, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Nexus, Barracuda, EMC VNX, IBM StorWize, VBlock, FlexPod.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior IT/Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Develop complex migration and project plans considering assessment data, vendor needs, service-level agreements, and cost-analysis data.
• Orchestrate migration projects from planning to implementation.
• Provide cloud technical expertise including strategic design and architectural mentorship, assessments, budgeting in support of the overall sales lifecycle or consulting engagement process.
• Maintain detailed documentation of the technical design process, including high and low-level design, methodologies, and project requirements.
• Increased revenue steam by over $1M that was achieved by building customer and partnership relations through successful delivery of high profile projects.
• Reduced operational expenses by 35% by re-architecting operational infrastructure and introducing DevOps methodologies to optimize service delivery and process triage flow.
• Provided thought leadership to various customer engagements and supported pre-sales activities for cloud-related proposals.
• Worked with solution providers to build FlexPod & vBlock architectures for future customers’ VPC hosting.
• Lead and completed high profile migration projects based on various cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
• Performed in place non-disruptive OS upgrades for NetApp, Nexus, RDMS, vSphere clusters
• Introduced DevOps methodologies into the company’s operational workflow.

Confidential

IT Architect

Responsibilities:

• Supported ongoing organizational success through pre-sales, post-sales and steady state architecture development and support.
• Architected and led the deployment of various virtualized solutions based on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V platforms.
• Evaluated Azure/AWS cloud platforms for client’s cloud enablement strategy to influence decision making process.
• Provided technical expertise and project oversight during various migration projects.
• Engaged in pre-sales activities to develop personalized solutions, CAPEX/OPEX budgets.
• Architected and led the deployment of multi-tenant virtualization platform with self-service and billing capabilities.
• Used VMware & Microsoft virtualization technology expertise to create scalable private cloud projects based on FlexPod infrastructure.
• Managed and directed all phases of product qualification and problem report tracking.
• Developed and deployed cross-regions Disaster Recovery solutions.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided advanced technical expertise in architecting and supporting internal infrastructure.
• Over sought daily operations activities of the infrastructure.
• Supported the integration of Office 365 into Exchange environment.
• Developed and effectively integrated Disaster Recovery solution with fully automated fail-over capabilities.
• Championed continuous improvement through implementation of mobile device management solutions for both Android and iOS.
• Utilized VMware SRM to develop and deploy disaster recovery solutions.
• Performed architecture and cost analysis for Office 365 migration.
• Built highly scalable financial calculations system with on-demand extendibility to AWS for compute resources.
• Integrated a centralized Windows Servers Update System to improve servers and workstation update times.
• Improved operational workflow through the internal processes development.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed global infrastructure assessment and re-development.
• Configured hardware, software, and upgrades.
• Created detailed documentation of upgrades and procedures.
• Worked with various stakeholders in developing new manufacturing build processes through information technology enablement.
• Managed the manufacturing technical support operations center.
• Reduced network downtime by 12.5% through implementation of Nagios global monitoring system.
• Designed and implemented a centralized McAfee antivirus solution, deploying it globally and reducing malware-related downtime by five percent.
• Integrated HA/scalable Cisco UCS/NetApp clusters globally for the manufacturing processes improvement.
• Optimized manufacturing build times globally by 35%.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completed system upgrades and builds infrastructure migrations.
• Researched and recommended new technology to improve internal various infrastructure components and software to support organizational improvement.
• Maintained provided continuous professional services to the range of the customers.
• Supported the transfer of a complete data center to a new location.
• Brought new revenue streams to the company through new technology adaptation for ongoing customers.