SUMMARY

• I have extensive experience providing leadership, project management, and consulting expertise in the design, implementation and integration of processing systems.
• I have worked with a nationwide customer base focusing on the federal, DoD, healthcare, transportation, telecommunications, legal, banking, and engineering industries. I coauthored seven books on virtualization, security, and network technologies and served as the Technical Editor on one.
• My experience in virtual technologies and cloud solutions allows me to leverage that knowledge to provide an expandable infrastructure meeting the dynamic needs of business.
• I have experience in planning and migration of local virtual applications to AWS and Azure platforms. I have set up the Azure Pack and Azure Stack to enable a hybrid cloud environment for a federal client.
• I have experimented with Google Cloud Platform and CenturyLink Cloud. I have extensive experience in VMware virtual technologies. These include ESXi 5.0,5.5,6.0.6,5, Horizon View, Horizon Apps, Virtual Volumes and AppStack.
• Other VMware technologies such as VSAN and vSwitches are part of the overall virtual infrastructure. I have leverages these technologies to build both medium and large d Confidential centers and physical cloud environments.
• I am used to managing larger groups of people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to build a team that solves problems. I am well experienced in Agile project management and SCRUM team dynamics and practice DevOps principals whenever possible.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: ESXi - vCenter, DRM, vSAN, vSwitch, Horizon View, Horizon Apps, AppStack, App Volumes

Microsoft: Windows Server, Hyper-V, IIS, RDP, AppV - System Center - SCCM, VMM, SCOM, SCSM, SCDPM - Windows 7, 8, 10 - SQL Server

Nutanix: Acropolis, Hyperconverged systems

Citrix: Xen Server, XenDesktop, XenApp

HP:Blades, servers, 3PAR, Lefthand storage

Cisco: Routers and switches, UCS servers

Project Management: Agile SCRUM Master and ITILv.3 and DevOps Foundations

Cloud: Azure, AWS, Google, Cloud Strategy Planning, Architecture, Center design

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

• I managed six teams covering all aspects of the infrastructure. This team of over 40 people cover disciplines of service desk, desktop support, server, storage, networking, hosting, monitoring, dbase, and procurement.
• The infrastructure consisted on Windows servers and desktops and supported custom developed and COTS software running on Windows, Solaris, Redhat, cloud based servers.
• Dbases were SQL and Informix that interacted between local and cloud based servers.
• I provided the architecture design to allow for migration of all servers and services to the Azure or AWS Federal cloud when the agency was ready to make the migration.
• During this position I have organized the groups into an interactive team and implemented DevOpsSec practices and an Operations Kanban board to manage the throughput and work in progress limits of the team. I participate in multiple cross functional boards of a mix of government and contractors to establish and approve technical design and changes that benefit the agency and the end users.
• I routinely interact with both government and vendor stakeholders and other departments to design and deliver innovative IT solutions that meet federal regulations and department mandates. I mentor and plan the of the entire team. I have participated in the successful re - compete of the current contract. I manage a task budget of $4.5M per year.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided the engineering support for new applications entering the d Confidential center. Each application is evaluated for systems resources and requirements. I have developed processes for evaluating the applications and implementing them into the center.
• I am currently developing the architecture for the customer’s global cloud environment. This process includes the required systems, network, storage, and user interface to meet the end user’s needs. The enterprise management tools for running the environment have been evaluated against the Request for Proposal requirements.
• Promoted to Engineering and Testing Manager to direct the new initiatives for d Confidential center automation and consolidation. Participated in the vendor selection for the next generation of the center.
• I integrated the testing team into the application inclusion process to enable development of testing plans to insure application performance.
• As the Enterprise Architect I was responsible for the technical baseline and overall architecture of the d Confidential center. The enterprise d Confidential center consisted of Vmware ESXI 5.0 5.5, and 6.0 hosts.
• All were managed by vCenter and the various storage technologies were used to create a multi-tenant virtual environment providing secure and isolated virtual machines for the client commands.
• I supervised the implementation of best practices and compliance for the d Confidential center and managed the Engineering team. I was responsible for designing the d Confidential center and all infrastructure for secure multi-tenancy.
• The inclusion of a SharePoint based ECM solution was used to allow individual commands to upload their files, projects, and other content into their individual repositories but also allow for an enterprise search of all repositories for approved content.
• Designed and deployed a Horizon View VDI solution for testing. There were 100 users that were provided a Windows 7 and Windows 10 desktop. This solution proved to be robust and cost effective.

Confidential

Director

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Network Consulting Group in the western region maintaining the quality of service on all deliverables was primary task.
• Acting as the Project Executive for several large-scale network design and implementation projects utilizing s networking products used documentation standards and project management methodology.

Confidential

Network Consulting Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established the Network Service group in the Kansas City office and managed the Network Engineers on various projects.
• Provided the architectural and design of the SMS implementation for GEHA and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.