SUMMARY:

Extensive private and public sector experience in infrastructure engineering, enterprise IT architecture and IT strategy with focus on virtualization and private/hybrid cloud deployment, big data analytics, data center modernization, capability buildout, solution and platform design, deployment planning and oversight of implementation teams. Hands - on as well as technical leadership background in ITIL compliant service delivery and managed operations of data centers including integrated ITSM, Enterprise Monitoring and Management and DR/COOP solutions in globally deployed, mission critical environments. CIO University certified in Federal Executive

COMPETENCIES:

• UNIX (Linux (RedHat/CentOS), SUN/Oracle Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX)
• VMware vSphere 4.x/5.x/6-Cloud Windows 2K3/2K8/8/10 MacOS 9/10.x
• Confidential /Oracle IBM Dell
• Confidential Brocade Apple Macintosh
• EMC2 Hitachi Motorola
• Netapp CISCO Digital/Compaq
• StorageTek Qualstar Data General
• UNIX Shell:bash/Korn/perl C/C++/Python BMC PSL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead Consultant, CEO

Confidential, Lincoln, VA

Responsibilities:

• Provide cloud and infrastructure engineering, design and deployment, as well as ITIL framework integration services to corporate and government customers in the areas of IT managed operations, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, ISP/data delivery and telecommunications.

Confidential, VA

Sr. Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• In the role of a storage and virtualization architect participate in the development of global cloud architecture for the Confidential .
• Develop an enterprise-wide cloud storage systems solution using the Netapp platform (SAN/NAS) including WAN based replication and live migration of storage connectivity to a convergent technology.
• Meet with key military leadership within the Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems to review requirements and strategy.
• Prepare and present the Logical Design of the overall solution as well as the Network Architecture plans with focus on the deployment of FCoE and WAN based data replication to ensure business continuity as the cloud service evolves through its respective maturity stages.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Develop the architectural solution and head the implementation of the East Coast Data Center for the Confidential in order to consolidate, modernize and virtualize all of Confidential ' software development, testing and quality assurance activities.
• Migrate Confidential 's current data centers hosting its dispersed development and testing environments into the secure, multi-tenant cloud supporting a large HP-UX server farm along with RHEL, Solaris and Windows OSs virtualized under VMware ESXi 4.1, VMware's Cloud Director, vCenter Chargeback, vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM), BMC Remedy and server automation tools.
• Solution is to include a self-service model for virtual environment provisioning to be delivered as IaaS and PaaS.
• As a service delivery manager work with the systems engineering and application administration teams during the migration of the existing data centers into the ECDTC - propose the migration strategy, draft and maintain the project plans and report on the status to the military leadership.
• Develop a security framework to meet the operational requirement of NIPRnet using VMware vShield tool suite.
• Design the infrastructure management SAN.
• Evaluate and compare multivendor cloud related product offerings from NetApp, Cisco (UCS/Flexpod), HP and EMC.
• Recommend software and hardware components to be used in the implementation, ensure adherence to industry best practices, prepare specifications and eBOMs, build and present to the military leadership Visio diagrams detailing the overall solution, participate in the DoD Information Assurance audits and remediation (STIG, Golden Image) to ensure timely accreditation of the new facility.
• Design the infrastructure management framework including all datacenter services and a BMC Remedy & BPPM based monitoring and management solution to ensure compliance with ITIL service delivery methodology.

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed Operations' premier corporate customers both in the US and internationally with focus on the financial, manufacturing and oil/gas sectors.
• Support SUN's internal global storage infrastructure as a PSE for SUN ITOPS Managed Storage group responsible for the administration of over 3 Pb of distributed SAN storage serving the needs of SUNs NOCs and offices worldwide.
• Perform in-depth analysis of the customers' systems, storage and network architecture. In the combined role of a technical architect and service delivery manager lead and oversee SUN's server, storage and database teams, prepare formal recommendations related to the overall infrastructure design, technology standardization, capacity planning, virtualization, fault tolerance, elimination of performance bottlenecks and information assurance.
• Review customers' run books, operational procedures, and recommend changes and enhancements.
• Also ensure adherence to SUN's ITIL based infrastructure management methodology including event, incident, asset and change control.
• Participate in organization-wide, high level strategic planning sessions, prepare and present to customers' executives technology roadmaps, recommendation for hardware refresh cycles, infrastructure component maintenance policies, virtualization implementation plans, data center migrations and modernization initiatives.
• Guide the customers' own systems managers, engineers and administrators through the implementation of the proposed solutions, provide effective problem resolution to operational issues, and coordinate SUN's teams of database, security, network and lower tier unix engineers to ensure quality and timeliness of all customer deliverables.
• Involved in all aspects of systems administration of Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux/VMware and AIX servers as well as extensive provisioning and troubleshooting tasks on SUN StorEdge, Hitachi, and EMC storage arrays and McData and Brocade fiber switches in complex, mission critical environments.
• Maintain, enhance and troubleshoot auxiliary system services (LDAP, NFS, SUN DiskSuite, Veritas Volume Manager), virtual servers (Solaris 10 zones), selected web applications (Weblogic, SunOne), and clustering software (VCS and SUNCluster).
• Troubleshoot complex problems, which cannot be resolved by the lower tier engineers.
• Prepare RCA documents for unplanned outages.
• Conduct training for SUN's technical staff related to problem remediation procedures and general systems administration topics
• . Educate customers, partners and recent hires in the ITIL practices used within the SUN Managed Operations organization.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Redesign the existing architecture and re-deploy BMC Patrol enterprise management suite in an ERP production environment consisting of approx.
• 100 HP-9000 servers running HP-UX v11.x and serving 20,000+ users.
• Ensure the company's financial systems' compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) approved business processes - interface with the auditors, review work Instruction procedures for junior and mid-level sysadmin staff, resolve system and applications vulnerabilities detected by security scans.
• Assist in the resolution of complex technical problems, build new and troubleshoot existing system automation configurations in CA Autosys, set up an HP-UX Ignite server for network-based system recovery.
• Manage disk and tape resources utilizing a wide range of HP Virtual Array and IBM Shark storage hardware.

Confidential, Sterling, VA

Responsibilities:

• Administer the General Services Administration distributed web server farm (GSAAdvantage ) running SunOne (iPlanet) and Apache with Oracle and Sybase RDMBS deployed on heterogeneous infrastructure built out with 80+ SUN Enterprise class servers (E450, E3K-5K, V420 and R480 Sunfire), 2 SANs consisting of McData and Brocade switches and EMC Clariion CX600 arrays, and SUN StorEdge D1000, A1000 and A5200s.
• Responsible for all aspects of data storage and file system management of GSA's production servers as well as the design and implementation of an enterprise wide security posture to ensure compliance with contract provisions.

Confidential, Vint Hill, VA

Responsibilities:

• Provide UNIX system engineering support to a large scale software development effort contracted for by Confidential Dean Witter and aiming at a world-wide deployment of a Web-based real-time financial planning tool in a HA environment consisting of the SUN Solaris, Veritas Cluster Server, Oracle 8 and BEA Software Weblogic.
• Ensure 24x7 platform availability to the development team as well as customer representatives performing on-going user acceptance testing.
• Design the production system architecture including server hardware configuration and fault-tolerant network connectivity.
• Recommend for purchase, install and bring on-line new servers and storage equipment, recommend and implement a system backup and patch management strategy.

Confidential, Tyson's Corner, VA

Responsibilities:

• Perform all aspects of system administration of 80+ SUN Solaris, AIX and HP-UX servers and workstations, also provide around-the-clock UNIX systems support to the end users of a wireless network design tool at hundreds of customer sites worldwide.
• Routine tasks include DNS and NIS server management, file system and database recovery, administration of storage subsystems (SUN StorEdge, EMC2 Symmetrix), troubleshooting of network connectivity problems, installation, upgrades and troubleshooting of Enterprise class SUN hardware as well as supervision and training of junior and mid-level personnel.
• Design and implement a state-of-the-art enterprise backup system using Legato Networker and AIT-2 tape libraries; upgrade and optimize data storage facilities using Veritas Volume Manager and SUN DiskSuite; install and administer multiple Informix 7.x RDBMS instances, redesign mail delivery and printer management scheme; resolve complex technical issues as needed.

Confidential, Dulles, VA

Responsibilities:

• Design and head the implementation of an HP Openview-based enterprise management architecture for a global data network providing Internet connectivity to hand-held PCS devices. Network backbone consists of HP-9000 UNIX servers, conventional terrestrial WAN components (fractional T-1s, X.25, ISDN and analog dialup) and a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites. Deploy BMC Patrol as the primary application management tool for Confidential 's Real Time Message Switch.
• Integrate with HP Openview and Seagate NerveCenter. Write shell scripts, develop new and customize existing Knowledge Modules using PSL and PERL to manage a variety of subsystems -- X.400 MTA, SMTP Gateway and Informix DSA. Act as System Architect/Administrator for Confidential 's US Headquarters Network Operations and Engineering. Install additional and upgrade existing HP and SUN servers.
• Design and implement a file system backup solution using DLT libraries and Legato Networker.
• Install MTI Gladiator RAID systems and re-engineer storage policies to improve performance. Install and maintain Informix v7.x database servers.
• Redesign and upgrade the in-house network infrastructure to include a collapsed backbone and a high speed Internet connection. Build a DMZ using CheckPoint Software Firewall-1, establish system-wide security policies, configure DNS servers for in-house and customer use, install and configure Cisco and Ascend routers, resolve LAN/WAN connectivity issues. VENDOR