SUMMARY:

• Skills Extensive Cloud Datacenter Architectural Design experience in cloud technologies such as Openstack, and Eucalyptus. A strong advocate of SDDC architectures featuring SDN, IaaS and PaaS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Dell Poweredge, HP C7000, HP ProCurve, Dell Force10, Cisco Catalyst, EMC, Compellent, F5, Citrix Netscaler, Checkpoint

Operating Systems: VMware vSphere ESX 3x, 4.0, 4.1, ESXi 5.0, 5.1, VMware vCloud, Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, Linux RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, Openstack

Eucalyptus Security: Checkpoint UTM. Checkpoint Firewall - 1, Checkpoint VPN-1, Cisco ASA/PIX, Cisco Security Agent (CSA) 5.x 6.x, Websense.

Networking: Cisco, HP Procurve, Dell Force10, F5, Citrix Netscaler

Deployment / Automation: Puppet, Chef, RightScale, VMware OrchestratorMonitoring: Whats up Gold, Paesler PRTG, HP Openview, VMware Operation Manager

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Tampa, Florida

Datacenter Architect

Responsibilities:

• Currently designing and implementing Openstack cloud architecture for the next gen datacenters
• Designed F5 LTM Application Delivery Controller architecture
• Designed and implemented Eucalyptus Cloud Architecture
• Manage and support Network/Firewall/Load Balancing architecture for Confidential

Confidential - Tampa, Florida

Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure Manager -Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Planned, designed, built and manage Washington, DC HA Data Center infrastructure.
• Designed, implemented and manage Force10 10Gb switch fabric
• Designed, implemented and manage 10 Gb iSCSI Compellent SAN
• Designed, implemented and manage 40 Host 1200 guest VMware 5.1 Infrastructure
• Designed, implemented and manage Checkpoint Firewall architecture
• Designed, implemented and manage Citrix Netscaler Load balancers
• Implement and manage Citrix Netscaler Integrated Caching for online applications
• Implement and manage environment to facilitate Citrix Zen App and VMware View VDI Cloud infrastructures.
• Manage 38 Host 1500 Guest VMware 4.1 infrastructure in our SAVVIS managed Atlanta datacenter
• Coordinate and delegate operations, maintenance and hosting projects among hosting staff
• Capacity reporting and planning for upper management
• Manage vendor relationships
• Manage all datacenter related Projects
• Designed and deployed user VMware vSphere virtual infrastructures.
• VMware 3.x to vSphere migration /upgrades.
• Designed and implemented 4 node HA Microsoft Cluster environment for 40,000 user SQL infrastructure. Full multi- path system design successfully implemented.
• Utilized VMware vCenter Lab Manager for application development initiatives.
• Implemented P2P VPN between datacenters using Checkpoint UTM Firewall technology and Cisco ASA Firewalls
• Configured and deployed iSCSI Network Storage leveraging the EMC Celerra / Clarion Family SAN.

Confidential

Senior Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Planned, designed, implemented, and supported an Enterprise Microsoft AD forest for the company divestiture. This included Active Directory Object Migration with approximately 700 user accounts, member servers, exchange servers, and data. The design leveraged the MS Server 2008 R2 environment.
• Designed and implemented VMWare vSphere 4.0 Virtual Infrastructure for approximate 300 VMs on IBM xSeries hardware.
• Streamlined MS Windows Server 2003/2008 builds using VMware VM Templates for virtual machines and Altiris Deployment Server / Acronis for physicals.
• Organized and lead team to design and deploy Enterprise Data Center and network infrastructure. This included Data Center rack and cabinet design and layout, power requirements, redundancy, failover, and Disaster Recovery.
• Developed and deployed scalable remote office architecture using dedicated servers and Riverbed technologies.
• Developed and managed Altiris Asset Management infrastructure with emphasis on Patch Management and Deployment Server for physical imaging.
• Designed and implemented Application terminal Server Farm.
• Utilized Quest Tools Migration Manager to facilitate both the migration of AD and Exchange data and to provide system coexistence throughout the transition. Also utilized the Quest Tools Resource Update Manager for desktop migration.
• Performed P2V migrations using Acronis, Symantec, and Altiris imaging technologies.
• Developed detailed project plan and coordinate status update meetings with infrastructure team.

Confidential

Senior Technical Consultant / Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and support Virtualization / P2V solutions using VMware ESX/ ESXi 3.x. Dell Poweredge 2950 servers.
• Migrate physical servers to virtual servers.
• Design, implement and support Altiris Asset Management Software (CMS, TMS), Patch Management, and Software delivery.
• Configure and support Cisco Security Agent software on Servers and Workstations for a 600 node financial institution.
• Server Hardening. Perform baseline with MS SCW.
• Design and implement Enterprise class fiber based HA EMC SAN Storage. Fully redundant solutions (power, service processors). Silkworm fabric switches.
• Design, develop, and implement MS SharePoint Intranets and Extranets, MS Exchange solutions.
• Perform Exchange 5.5 to MS Exchange 2007 migrations.
• Active Directory, LDAP SSO.
• Blackberry PDA Enterprise Solutions

Confidential

Director/ Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Directs, plans and manages internal operations of the Information Technology Services
• Develop Enterprise Server 2003 Active Directory forest rollout and support.
• Design, implement, and support MS Exchange 2003 messaging architecture.
• Design, implement and support MS SQL server.
• Design, implement and support Production data backup solution using Symantec Backup Exec.
• Develop MS Exchange/ Lotus Domino coexistence architecture.
• Design, Implement and support Blackberry Enterprise Server.
• Develops, organizes, supervises and assesses programs on new and revised systems, procedures, and applications; and responds to user needs.
• Analyzes researches, organizes and supervises technology related projects.
• Researches and recommends system development priorities, charges for user services; resolves procedural problems; assists with formulating departmental policy and procedures; recommends new or revised standards, procedures, and policies
• Participates in decisions that have major impact on the entire office.
• Preparation and administration of the IT budget; maintains and monitors appropriate budgetary controls.
• Development of information system standards; and designs and implements new and revised systems to ensure effective and efficient services.
• Plans for, selects, coordinates, monitors, and evaluates support staff.
• Develops, organizes, supervises and assesses programs on new and revised systems, procedures, and applications; and responds to user needs.
• Analyzes researches, organizes and supervises technology related projects
• Provides 24 X 7 Service Desk for entire organization.
• Managed entire ERP Migration Project SBT 5.0 - Sage Pro 7x. Designed and implemented supporting architecture.
• Designed and deployed Group Policies, Active Directory / MS Exchange roll-out.
• Designed and deployed Cisco PIX FW/VPN
• Configured VMware for Server/Application consolidation and optimization.
• Configured Citrix servers for remote users.
• Managed help desk software rollout and designed current help desk operation system (staff and procedures).

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer/ Sr. Messaging Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Support, develop and maintain the 1150 user Enterprise Messaging Infrastructure including - Lotus Domino 5.11 / Exchange 2000 and BES Blackberry Enterprise Server 2.2
• Provide senior level support for Lotus Domino releases 4.x - 6.x and Exchange 5.5 - 2003 messaging infrastructure
• Imaging and Asset management using Altiris IT Lifecycle Management Suite.
• Developed, planned and implemented enterprise anti-spam filtration system using Clearswift Mimesweeper and Symantec Anti-virus for SMTP Gateways.
• Designed Exchange 2003 messaging infrastructure to support 3000 users.
• Primary role was to serve as Project Manager of the user (Lotus Notes, Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 Microsoft 2000/2003 Active Directory) migration/integration design for global merges and acquisitions.
• Coordinated cross directory services links using MIIS (Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003) for forest to forest directory synchronization, Notes Domino connectors for Notes to Exchange synchronization.
• Develop global Lotus Notes messaging directory for cross platform (Exchange 5.5) directory synchronization
• Developed Enterprise PDA messaging backbone BES Servers for Blackberry and Palm (Treo 600) devices with Syncrologic Servers.

Confidential

Sales Engineer / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include creating and delivering technical product presentations to prospective Enterprise Web Hosting / High Speed customers and business partners, including C level decision-makers and technical staff.
• Concentrations include, but not limited to UUNET Data Center network architecture and UUNET domestic / international Backbone architecture and the inherited technologies (BGP4, ISIS, ATM, MPLS, iEBGP, Frame Relay) as well as network security.
• Formulate high-end mission critical enterprise WEB HOSTING and COLOCATION secure solutions via high availability technologies such as load balancing, content distribution, DFO database solutions, SSL Accelerators and fail-over firewalls.
• Manage teams of 3-5 persons using Microsoft Project to track the following projects:
• Develop Multi-server (application servers, database servers, web servers) solutions using industry standard hardware / software as well as custom hardware and development environments.
• Develop secure network solutions such as Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1 on Nokia and Sun appliances. Deployed network architectures with secure private VLANs, DMZs, Honeypot strategies, Network Address Translation, and Intrusion Detection Systems such as (Cisco Netranger).
• Facilitate classes for sales and engineering departments covering topics such as network architecture, internet technologies, BGP, and security techniques.
• Develop Corporate Enterprise messaging system using MS Exchange 2000.
• Develop test scenarios which include: stress tests and fail-over projects in a lab environment using fail-over protcols such as HSRP, VRRP, and OSPF. Hardware includes Cisco 1600, 2500, 3000, and 12000 series routers and Cisco 6000 series switches. Also, load sharing architectures