Solutions Architect Resume Manchester, NH - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Dynamic IT professional with 23 years of experience designing, building and optimizing large enterprise Cloud infrastructure, data centers, Storage Area Networks, and Backup & Recovery systems.
Proven relationship manager who partners with client stakeholders and internal teams to develop a deep understanding of their business needs and technical challenges then translate them into comprehensive solutions.
Cloud visionary with successful experience developing and leveraging new and emergent technologies to deliver industry leading cloud, mobility and virtual computing solutions that align with market needs.
Masterful leader with demonstrated experience coaching, mentoring, and leading teams of professionals to exceed business goals.
Trusted SME with a track record of driving innovation across compute, storage, database, big data, application - level services, and networking technologies.
Proven leader across all areas of business, technology, people, and teams.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Manchester, NH

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

Led an organization-wide upgrade from a legacy Cisco UCS to a new UCS for a large state government client.
Successfully replaced all the old legacy switches and upgrade the entire system.
Designed and delivered multiple new virtualization centers and virtualization system upgrades without any downtime to customers.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Global Data Center Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

Consolidated 14 data centers into 2 through excellent project management, vendor management, and procurement skills, delivering a streamlined, innovative solution that saved Seagate millions of dollars.
Oversaw an application database migration project that successfully migrated 60% of ERP applications to Singapore resulting in massive cost savings.
Identified critical financial databases and applications that were too large to send overseas from Oklahoma City, OK to Longmont, CO with no downtime to users.
Completed POCs with AWS, Azure and Confidential Bluemix for testing Disaster recovery features for VMs and NAS data
Replicated critical hosts to AWS and successfully tested fail lover and failback simulating a DR scenario
Implemented a Business Continuity solution between data centers for US sites
Co-ordinated efforts to migrate and host ERP app from on-prem to GCP
Implement and configure Seagate Lyvecloud Object storage for backup targets across all sites in US and Asia. Manage buckets, permissions.

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

Global Data Center Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

Led the migration from legacy Confidential system to Confidential, 3PAR, and EMC access storage.
Delivered the new system on time, on budget, and with no downtime to internal users.
Spearheaded the migration of Solaris OS with veritas clusters to Confidential AIX with HACMP clusters.
Single internal SME on AIX that led the organization through the upgrade.

Confidential

Technical Lead + Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Provide Level 2 technical support in Disk Arrays and Tape Libraries for Enterprise Customers including Confidential.

Confidential

Technical Solutions Consultant II and Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

Oversaw a team of 52 engineers to provide technical support on Confidential Disk Arrays (EVA, VA, MSA, AIO) and Fabric switches (Brocade, Cisco and McData) under heterogeneous o/s platforms (Windows, HPUX, Solaris, Tru64, Netware) for Enterprise Confidential Customers in North America Region

Confidential

Application Engineer and Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

Led a team of 28 engineers to support Confidential enterprise customers for Confidential region with Confidential hardware including storage, servers and tape libraries

Confidential

Gateway Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

Responsible for managing large, complex projects for Confidential managing a team of 35 direct reports.