Senior Infrastructure Architect Resume

SUMMARY:

Over 15 years of experience performing AIX/UNIX system engineering and Operating System - based planning, implementation and support.
Able to harness my expertise in AIX/UNIX to deliver large-scale, mission-critical solutions within time and cost constraints.
Detail-oriented and able to multitask in fast-paced environments.
Extensive experience leading consulting engagements and influencing strategic business decisions for AIX/UNIX platform systems within small and large organizations with multi-tier IT Services environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Confidential AIX, Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE, Solaris

High Availability: VCS High Availability/Disaster Recovery, Geographically Dispersed Resiliency (GDR), PowerHA/HACMP, Geographically Dispersed Open Clusters (GDOC)

Hardware & Virtualization: Confidential Power8, Power7, PureSystems, PowerVM, PowerKVM, PowerVC, VMware, LPM, SEA, VIOS, InfiniBand, TCP/IP, OS Security and Hardening, DNS, DHCP, NFS/AutoFS, NIS, Samba, NTP, VxVM, VxFS

Storage & Replication: Spectrum Scale/GPFS, Metro Mirror on SAN Volume Controller (SVC), Confidential Global Mirror on SVC, EMC Symmetrix, SRDF, HDS TrueCopy, and Veritas Volume Replicator, Multipathing, TSM

Perl, Shell Scripting, Control: M, CFEngine, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, PowerSC TNC/PM, AIXpert

ITIL/Service Management, PRM: IT, Cloud Workload Transformation, Cloud Strategy and Design, TOGAF, Business Continuity Management, Data Center Relocation, Solution Design, IaaS, PaaS, Change Management, Lean Six Sigma

Tools: SoftLayer, Hardware Provisioning, CloudMaker, RDS, Cloud Orchestrator, VM Provisioning, Microsoft Visio, Project, Excel, & PowerPoint, Putty, VNC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Infrastructure Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Data Center Operations, ongoing support service level assessment, and technical project management in Open systems platforms.
Assess IT operation scopes and provide gap analysis report on aspects such as DR readiness, infrastructure availability, and cloud migration readiness.
AIX and Linux (RHEL, SLES) migration, installation, and ongoing system administration and engineering support.

Confidential

Sr. IT Management Consultant/AIX Systems SME

Responsibilities:

Championed the adoption of Confidential amongst Confidential ’s technical community by co-authoring white paper on Geographically Dispersed Open Clusters (GDOC), Confidential ’s first cross-platform DR services methodology based on Symantec VCS software.
Earned recognition as thought leader in area of AIX, Linux, and high availability delivery services, contributing to success of multiple client engagements including workload transition and transformation projects.
Recognized for sustaining high level of customer satisfaction on client engagements, solidifying trusted partnership and gaining repeat business.
Produced high-quality deliverables by leveraging strong customer-facing skills, including communication, negotiation, presentation delivery, and meeting facilitation.
Increased project success and operational efficiency by anticipating staffing requirements, identifying skill gaps, and participating in candidate selection process.
Ensured engagement targets were met by working closely with IT suppliers and offshore contractors.
Advocated continuous improvement and reduced project derailing factors by driving timely root-cause analysis and technical deep-dive reviews.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Senior Technical Analyst, Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

Designed, configured, and performed failover testing for a 12-node cluster built as a replica of the Production cluster that I built in 3Q 2012.
This Genesis Siebel environment includes an active/passive Siebel Gateway, two active/active Siebel Application Servers, four Siebel Component Servers, two Websphere MQ servers, and CA7.

Confidential, TX

UNIX System Deployment architect

Responsibilities:

Provided Symantec Storage Foundation HA consultative services for technology buildout team and a farm of enterprise class production servers.
Developed 200+ pages operational manual covering all aspects of the client teams work activities.
Provided technical guidance to a team of 4 IBMers and client AIX technical staff.
I went on to work with Confidential Sales team and technical solution staff to define services and obtain contract SOW signing for an initial 1 year service engagement with a high potential of additional services PCRs.

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