SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

20 years of experience Pre-Sales, Solutions Architect, Systems Design, Installations, configurations, Performance Tuning, Systems Administration and Project Manager with the following Systems: AIX , VCE VBlock, Converged Infrastructures, Cloud Technologies, Data Center Relocations, Data Center Builds, Application Migrations, VMware VSphere 5.5, and Microsoft's Hyper V Virtual Environments, Stratus Computers, VOS Unix and RedHat Linux Systems Administration, Hewlett Packard's HP-UX Unix / Ignite, Omniback/ backup product, EMC Storage Symmetrix Remote Data Facility / Time Finder, HP OpenView, MC-Service Guard High Availability for Failover and Load-balance, and Intel Based Servers, Sun Solaris , IBM System 88, IBM AS400, RS6000, IBM System P, AIX Nortel ATM Switches and Routers, Cisco Routers, Hitachi Data Systems Storage SANs, and Windows 20012, Microsoft Cluster Server - Failover and Load-balance, Veritas Cluster Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Solutions Architect

• Direct Pre-Sales and Post-Sales Technical Account Responsibility High level, and deep dive technical presentations.
• Understanding customer requirements, and recommending cost effective solutions.
• Putting together proposals, SOW's, and responding to RFP's.
• Putting together solution designs based on customer's requirements
• Responsible for implementing and manage best practice migration strategies.
• Responsible for managing discovery tools Responsible for migration design.
• Responsible for implementing and managing Proof of Concepts POC's
• Responsible for installation and configuration of various virtual environments
• Unix to Linux migrations, Migration of various applications to the Cloud VCE VBlock
• Hands On Server Systems installation / configuration / administration Various Virtual Environments VMware, Hyper V, and SAN Storage
• Hands on Network / Firewall installations and configurations
• Hands on Installation and configuration of Unisys Stealth Security products

Confidential

Solutions Architect / Project Manager Pre- Sales

Responsible for Data Center Relocations / Application Migrations / Project Management.

• Direct Pre-Sales and Post-Sales Technical Account Responsibility High level, and deep dive technical presentations.
• Understanding customer requirements, and recommending cost effective solutions.
• Putting together proposals, SOW's, and responding to RFP's.
• Responsible for implementing and manage best practice migration strategies.
• Responsible for managing discovery tools.
• Responsible for migration design migration onto VCE VBlock platforms
• Develop strategic migration project plans aligned with solution architecture
• Responsible for installation and configuration of various virtual environments
• Hands On Systems installation / configuration / administration Various Virtual Environments VMware VSphere 5.5, Hyper V, and SAN Storage
• Hands on Network / Firewall installations and configurations

Confidential

Consultant

Solutions Architect Server / EMC Storage / Project Manager

• Responsible for Data Center relocation, and application migrations.
• Understanding customer requirements, and recommending cost effective solutions.
• Putting together proposals, SOW's, and responding to RFP's.
• Implement and manage best practice migration strategies.
• Responsible for managing discovery tools.
• Responsible for migration design.
• Develop strategic migration project plans aligned with solution architecture.

Confidential

Solutions Architect / Project Manager

• IT Governance ICOP - Ensuring IB Governance Policies, and Guidelines were used within the Infrastructure Cost Optimization Project.
• Recommendations of cost effective solutions to the various LOB's within the Investment Bank.
• Project Manager to decommission various physical servers, and implement server virtualization for various LOB's within the Investment Bank.
• Approve or reject various IB LOB's new server and storage requests.

Confidential

Project Manager and Solutions Architect - Server / EMC Storage

• Data Center migration and relocation.
• Migration of applications onto new EMC SAN.
• Implement server consolidation onto IBM P series servers.
• Replication of data from R1 to R2 Datacenters using EMC's SRDF.
• Provide customer with a DR solution. Systems discovery.
• Implementing systems performance monitoring tools.
• Identifying servers for consolidation / virtualization
• Hand-off final recommendation document to customer.
• Hands on experience with Systems design, configurations, installations,
• for Unix, IBM AIX Servers
• Hands on experience installation of Cisco Routers / and Checkpoint Firewalls

Confidential

Project Manager

• Very large server consolidation / virtualization project for 3000 windows servers and 400 Unix servers.
• Systems discovery.
• Implementing systems performance monitoring tools.
• Identifying servers for consolidation / virtualization.
• Hand-off final recommendation document to customer.
• Hands on experience with systems design, configurations, installations, and integration for various Unix, IBM AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and Windows 2003 systems .
• Systems performance monitoring, tuning and capacity planning.
• EMC SAN / SRDF / Time Finder Data Center Replication / DR
• Network Design and Installation.

Confidential

Project Manager EMC Storage SME

• Data Center Migration to Architect and insure Standards Compliance, and Best Practices related to their IT Infrastructure.
• Data Center Consolidation utilizing high end Unix server platforms that support multiple operating environments, and dynamic partitioning. Also required the recommendation of Intel based blade technologies for server consolidation.
• Responsible for Nassau County Data Center Relocation to a new facility.
• Recommendation of various High Availability, and Disaster Recovery solutions.

Confidential

Principal Architect / Network Administrator

• Project Manager for various large Enterprise implementations involving 5 System Architects, 4 System Engineers, 10 Sys Administrators, and 5 Software Developers.
• Installed and maintained Windows NT 4.0 SP6 and 2000 Servers, Microsoft Cluster Server, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, POP3, Windows 2000 Terminal Services, LDAP, Active Directory Services, TCP/IP, MS Exchange Server, SNA Server, IIS Server.
• Built Active Directory Domains, and performed Active Directory Administration, Active Directory Replication, and Active Directory Migration.
• Installed Wireless 802.11x LANs.

System Administrator

Confidential

• Installed and maintained EMC SANs, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility, and EMC's Time Finder product. Worked extensively with HP's Omniback product for backup.
• Installed and maintained MC-ServiceGuard Hewlett Packard's High Availability Clustering solution used for Failover and Load Balancing.
• Installed and maintained Sun Solaris 9 Servers and Redhat Linux Servers, and performed Redhat Linux Systems Administration.

Lead Architect

Confidential

• Conducted performance monitoring and systems tuning of various Enterprise Servers.
• Wrote Technical White Paper on Streaming Video Technologies for Senior level Management.
• Wrote Technical White Paper on VoIP Voice over IP for Senior level Management.
• Developed, maintained, and deployed standards and guidelines for Corporate IS
• Enterprise Architecture AIX 5.0 Systems Administrator / IBM RS600

Confidential

Server / Storage Systems Engineer

• Provided Technical Support for the Emerging Service Provider Business. Applied knowledge of HP products, technologies, programs, and support processes to architect proposed solutions.
• Worked very closely with Sales Reps providing Pre-Sales Support. This would require going on sales calls to provide Technical Presentations. Gathering customer data and requirements in order to propose cost effective solutions.
• Participating and presenting at various Trade Shows.
• Technical writing and responding to RFI's and RFQ's.
• HP-UX Systems Administration Certified HP-UX Omniback, HP-UX / Ignite Set up Ignite Servers for software installations.
• HP's MC-ServiceGuard High Availability Solution Responsible for planning, installation and ongoing support.
• EMC's Storage Products Planning, installation/configuration and ongoing support. SANs, SDRF and Time Finder.
• Solutions Architect for HP's StorageWorks XP Product SAN partnership and collaboration with Hitachi Data Systems Storage.
• Conducted Systems Performance Monitoring and Tuning.
• Project management to gather customer requirements in order to bring their systems into HP's Benchmark and Performance Testing Centers.
• Solutions Architect for HP Unix and Intel IA32 Based platforms

Software Technical Skills: Siebel 7 CRM, BEA, HP OpenView, Software.com, Broadvision, Ariba, Inktomi, Configured Checkpoint Firewalls, Email Messaging, SMTP, POP3, LDAP, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, IPsec VPNs, L2TP, PPTP, Tunneling protocols

• Provided solutions with Intel's Network Appliances.
• Products supported included: SSL Accelerators, XML Accelerators, and Network Caching Appliances.
• Supported HP's High End Superdome Server Mainframe Class
• Configured RADIUS Authentication Servers Funk Software
• MCSE Certification Windows