Senior IT Infrastructure Consultant/Architect Resume

SUMMARY

Self - driven, result focused, versatile and accomplished IT professional with background that includes Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering and over 20 years of industry experience. Solid expertise in IT service delivery, system architecture design, enterprise application integration, platform support and project management. Demonstrated commitment to superior customer service through leadership, positive attitude, and hands-on teamwork .
Proven track record of successful mission-critical system design and implementation projects with focus on Enterprise Unix platform and Storage technologies;
Extensive knowledge of UNIX systems, recently focusing on Linux, IBM AIX and HP-UX. In-depth understanding of OS internals, performance tuning, storage configuration, security issues, High Availability and Virtualization;
Broad understanding of current enterprise-grade Storage and Data Protection products and technologies;
Cross-platform application migration experience;
11 years of independent consulting for multiple large enterprise clients provides:
Valuable knowledge of today’s trends and challenges in Enterprise IT;
Understanding of business needs and how to translate them into technical requirements;
Capacity to quickly “get on board” and deliver;
Ability to “think outside the box” and find optimal and cost-effective solutions;

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior IT Infrastructure Consultant/Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Implementation of HP-UX virtual environments based on Itanium blade system infrastructure from ground up, including new SAN platform and data migration.
Upgrade of Linux-based clustered environments from RHEL 6 to RHEL 7
UNIX admin activities for legacy Linux/HP-UX/AIX platforms.
Application migration from PA-RISC to Itanium HP-UX with HP9000 containers and Serviceguard.
Design and implementation of Linux management infrastructure for multiple secure segments based on RH Satellite.
Migration of critical legacy reporting system from Tru64 and HP-UX to Red Hat Linux platform.

Senior IT Infrastructure Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Low-level design review and implementation of in-house AIX environments to enable migration out of HPE data center
Implementation of single sign-on for new AIX systems based on Oracle Identity Manager.
Inventory of existing P6-P7 systems
Warranty support and handover to support teams
Scope - 15 new Power 8 (8286) frames supporting ~150 AIX LPARs and ~300 existing AIX instances.

Senior Infrastructure Consultant/Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Low-level design and build of new environments using HP-UX virtualization and containers on Itanium blades
Migration of legacy HP-UX PA-RISC applications and data using HP9000 containers
HA design and implementation of multi-node ServiceGuard clusters and CFS
Deployment and configuration of c7000 enclosures using Virtual Connect.
Review of existing infrastructure based on Red Hat Linux/Pacemaker HA platform. Implemented multiple recommendations and best practices resulting in improved system availability and “manageability”.
Documentation, knowledge transfer and training for full-time staff.

Senior UNIX Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Unix/Linux Consultant for major infrastructure upgrade project (~400 servers). Design optimization, build, testing and documentation.
Technologies: Red Hat Linux, VERITAS Cluster (VCS), Vmware, Oracle RAC, OVM.
Escalation engineer for core production UNIX environments (~3000 servers). Worked on major incidents and high-complexity/high-visibility infrastructure changes.
Unix SME for multiple infrastructure projects, including system lifecycle, security/audit remediations, application integration, data migrations and new system builds.
Automation and continuous improvement of existing technology processes using UNIX shell scripting.
Roll out of Centrify authentication infrastructure.

Technologies: AIX, GPFS, SUSE/RedHat Linux, HP-UX, VMware, PowerHA, ServiceGuard, EMC and HDS storage.