Cloud Architect/Solutions Engineer Resume

SUMMARY

Results driven cloud evangelist and technical consultant with 11+ years of technical sales experience and cloud architectural design in both enterprise and federal markets.
Recognized professional who drives clients business objectives by leveraging the latest technology to drive revenue.
Extensive experience designing enterprise architectures to maximize business critical applications across on - premises, collocated, managed/hosted, private and public cloud environments to minimize time-to-market, maximize profitability, mitigate risk, and minimize costs.
VCP5-DVC (VCAP-CID in progress, anticipated Dec. 2014), SDDC, SDN, VMware vSphere, vCloud Director, vCAC, NSX, vSAN, EMC SAN technologies, NetApp SAN technologies, F5 load balancers, Juniper and Cisco Networking, Windows/Linux, Big Data (Hadoop, Cassandra, others)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Cloud Architect/Solutions Engineer

Responsibilities:

Qualify sales opportunities through gathering and analyzing business requirements and application requirements, while determining risks, constraints, and assumptions for the end solution
Integral part of the design and implementation of VMware’s government community cloud offering vCloud Government Service
Engineer solutions to meet FedRAMP, FISMA, DIACAP, HIPAA, and PCI requirements

Solutions Architect (Consultant)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Develop a consultative 2-day workshop for the Signature Client Group and Premier Client Group where we analyze the account teams’ customers’ business challenges, application requirements, and existing relationships to develop business-impacting solutions around the Confidential family of cloud and hosting products utilizing VMware vSphere with vCloud Director as well as OpenStack in conjunction with the Confidential network
Design solutions around Confidential Unified Communications, IPFlex, Network-Based Firewall, DDOS Defense, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise +, SoftLayer Cloud Solutions, and more
Confidential

Technical Trainer/Engineer

Responsibilities:

Developed and delivered training curriculum for system administrators, intelligence analysts, case agents, and monitors in both Spanish and English utilizing technical terminology in both languages Confidential a native level
Interfaced with customers to analyze current systems of telecommunications intercept and intelligence analysis then identified weaknesses and shortcomings in my company’s application and worked with development teams to design solutions to meet the needs of our customers as they transitioned systems
Part of the field team responsible for site-surveys and in-country deployment in Latin America
Trusted with my company’s most high-revenue-generating and most highly-classified customers to train their personnel and foreign nationals with whom they work abroad
SME for intelligence analysis teaching how to utilize tools such as HLS (human language services, voice recognition, and keyword spotting), geolocation data, and statistical data to advance a case
System administrator for training systems and spearheaded the company’s first steps into virtualization (VMware)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Fluent in Spanish - I was selected as a Rotary foreign exchange student in 2002 and completed the IB program in Pamplona, Spain in 2003. My ability to communicate in Spanish and multicultural view enhances my ability to relate to people of all backgrounds. Since 2010 to present I have been working globally performing technical training in Spanish.
Basic communication in French and Arabic
VMware vShpere 4-5.5, vCloud Director, View, Windows Server 2003, 2008 r2, 2012, Microsoft SQL, Visio, LAN/WAN networking and security, telecommunications service provider infrastructure, telephony, Active Directory, VBUCM (VoiceBox), and Apple OS X