Overview

• Cloud and Infrastructure Architect/Engineer with extensive skills designing engineering and deploying large enterprise and highly complex environments using the latest cloud and unified platforms.
• Senior level technology trainer/instructor who has developed training material and performed extensive jumpstart accelerators and group training sessions on behalf of Cisco VMware and EMC.
• Highly diversified background technically managerial presales project management and other skills for leadership capabilities.

Technical and Business Skills

• Effectively plan install configure and optimize Cloud IT infrastructure to consistently achieve high availability and performance. Proven ability to create and deliver solutions tied to business growth and efficiency.
• Skilled problem identifier and troubleshooter.
• erremark RackSpace AWS vCHS Cloud Providers vSphere ESX i Citrix Xen Microsoft Hyper-V and OpenStack deployments and administration. System Security and Solutions Mixed-OS and Application Environments Systems Installation Configuration Patches Upgrades. Middle-Ware Management Technical Support Customer and Production Support.
• Heavy infrastructure expertise crossing all major compute platforms such as Cisco UCS-B/C Series HP DL and BL Platforms along with management toolsets Dell SUN and IBM. EMC NetApp HDS 3Par IBM/XIV Nimble Storage platforms. Cisco Juniper and Brocade Network infrastructure.
• Plan and develop roadmaps for Cloud based Products/ Services. Management of Projects Work Flow Planning and Changes. Configuration Releases Capacity Productivity Improvements Service Improvements. Customer Service Desk. Incident and Problem Resolutions.
• Creator of Self-Service Automated solutions using web portals backend scripting and API connectors and orchestration using VMware vCD vCO vCAC Terremark and OpenStack Puppet/Chef.
• Product designing and development in lab and real-time vendor and partner channel collaborations. Examples would be HDS Reference Architecture using Cisco UCS HDS AMS and VMware solutions. Creation of Certified Designs and Reference Architecture Cisco CD VMware RA and others .

Professional Experience

Confidential

Cloud Architect and Engineer

• Provided technology assessment for all Intuit cloud infrastructure to insure it met requirements for cloud platform deployment and automation.
• Daily meetings with cloud team to evaluate automation technology such as Forms vCAC BladeLogic and other virtual technologies and determined proper execution on new platform.
• Adjusted internal build process to automate hardware deployment.
• Provided detailed documentation for automation deployment and assessment for build storage and network provisioning.

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Cloud Architect and Engineer

• Created enterprise public/hybrid cloud group using Terremark RackSpace and vCHS while deploying an internal Greenfield cloud on Flexpod. Heavy IaaS environment.
• Created documented cloud intake process material for public catalog which I later converted to an automated intake process for self-service automation.
• Assisted Cloud vendors in all aspects of datacenter and cloud design.
• Worked with software vendors to create integrated solutions for customer portal and automation.
• Enabled OpenStack environment for Symantec products cloud labs and used vCAC for front-end.
• Redesigned Symantec network topology and services to support integrated cloud infrastructure.
• Create Cloud automation team to enable private and public cloud Puppet/Chef automation.
• Documented and created vCAC blueprints.

Confidential

Infrastructure Architect and Engineer

Consultant for VMware EMC and Cisco at the following clients Sutter Healthcare Verizon Terremark ViaWest PostMedia State of Michigan Sanofi-Aventis CC Communications Department of Confidential.

Confidential

• Deployed vCloud Director and vCAC.
• Deployed vCenter 5.1
• Performed/created all reference architecture pertaining to integration and all flow process orchestration using VMware Orchestrator
• Document all vCD PowerShell and JavaScript Processes.
• Documented and created vCAC blueprints.
• Performed Demo of working integration and created GAP analysis of vCD VSM and internal web interface.
• Heavy interaction with Storage Infrastructure and Development engineers
• Performed case study and in-use interviews of business owners to discover end user gaps.

Confidential

• Per Verizon acquisition of Teramark I am responsible for the complete integration of Teramark into Verizon.
• Performed Cisco Nexus 1000v Upgrades.
• Design of Cisco UCS and Virtual platform for Teramark/Verizon Integration.
• Upgrade all Cisco UCS hardware to Verizon standards.
• Created Project workflow documents.
• Extensive documentation of Cisco technologies.

Confidential

• Migration of Cisco UCS 6120 to 6248
• Migration of Cisco Call Center Manager to new platform
• Deployment of Cisco C-Series
• Training and Knowledge Transfer to Verizon Staff
• Extensive documentation of Cisco technologies.
• Provided Support for break/fix TAC Cases
• Created Project workflow documents.
• Creation of Cisco automated scripts for bare metal and virtual resources.
• VMware vShpere 5 Upgrades.
• Architectural Design of Verizon Corp and Verizon Wireless 2 year roadmap.
• Detailed design of Computer Network and Storage platforms.
• Extensive collaboration with Cisco Unified Technology team for parallel project success.

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• FlexPod Deployment
• Created design and deployed Cisco UCS with iSCSI and FCoE NetAPP storage.
• Provisioned VMware vSphere 5 Hypervisor with vCenter
• Designed and Deployed VMware vCloud Director
• Created automated vCD operation with vCO scripts and VSM.
• Designed and Deployed VMware SRM 5
• Deployed Linux and Windows Bare Metal servers for use case.
• Knowledge Transfer sessions.
• Created 5 use cases for customer demo and sales material.
• Prepared design and environment for Cisco Audit.

Confidential

• First production environment to successfully virtualize Microsoft FAST with performance increase.
• Lead Engineer and Architect for Cisco UCS VMware vSphere vCloud Director vCO and VNX Storage.
• Deployed vCloud Director with vCO and VCM for automated cloud orchestration.
• Created and Deployed custom Cisco UCS design with vSphere 4 Hypervisor.
• Created multi-site DR strategy for 24x7 application availability.
• Led multiple knowledge transfer sessions.
• Close side by side work with Cisco Systems Advance Services VMware Professional Services and EMC vArchitectural Group.
• Deployed SRM
• UCM 2.0 upgrades and upgrades to current XP fabric IOMs.
• Provisioned all Brocade and VNX appliances for zoning and storage LUNs.
• Extensive documentation for all settings and step by step.
• Created all SAN LAN and Server Templates and Policies.
• Cisco Fabric Interconnects are on split network segments. Use of VLAN management and hard pinning were put in place.
• Created and presented multiple design documents PowerPoint presentation and other reference architecture documents.
• Prepared and successfully passed VMware and Cisco audits pertaining to design and deployment best practices.
• Performed multiple test cases and use cases for validation.
• Managed several Cisco and VMware bug cases and identified method of fix.
• Create public media release for Microsoft FAST on VMware.
• Configured EMC VNX storage.
• Create Case Study for future deployments.

Confidential

• Deployed vCloud Director.
• Integrated vCD and vCO with in-house custom service catalog web interface.
• Deployed SRM and vCenter 5.0
• Performed/created all reference architecture pertaining to integration and all flow process orchestration using VMware Orchestrator
• Document all vCD PowerShell and JavaScript Processes.
• Performed Demo of working integration and created GAP analysis of vCD and internal web interface.
• Heavy interaction with Storage Infrastructure and Development engineers
• Performed case study and in-use interviews of business owners to discover end user gaps.

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• Performed VMware Health Check
• Review reference architecture of HP and Cisco Blade environment to insure accurate deployment and best practices.
• Reviewed all provisioning of VMware ESXi host to insure proper deployment and VMware best practices.
• Met with Network Storage and Server infrastructure teams to discuss finding and provide guidance for resolution..
• Documented all finding and provided business strategy to further RIO and to implement organization policy for virtualization..
• Extensive technical deep dive into all environment variables concerning virtualization to unsure problems were resolved.

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Consultant for new VMware vSphere deployment.

• Provisioned new HP Proliant environment for ESX cluster.
• Provisioned NetApp FAS for Fiber Channel Storage.
• Installed and provisioned new cluster via vCenter. Installed VUM and other monitoring utilities.
• Profiled 30 physical servers for virtualization qualifications.
• Performed 5 P2Vs to demonstrate/prove environment.
• Trained client on NetAPP and VMware instaltion and provisioning.
• Created client documentation for design and How-To.

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• Lead consultant for Citrix XenServer and XenDesktop.
• Performed POC for United States Navy Citrix XenServer and XenDesktop used for VDI.
• POC was performed to compare VMware View and Citrix capability.
• I was chosen for this project due to my experience with both VMware and Citrix.
• Provisioned POC on HP C7000 Blade Environment with NetApp Storage and Cisco.
• Trained Navy Civil and Military personnel.
• Documentation for all activities.
• Worked under extreme security and access controls/procedures.

Confidential

• Technical Lead to work extensively with Cisco VMWare and Hitachi to development a new Unified Systems product using Cisco UCS and Network Components VMware vShpere and Hitachi AMS similar to EMC vBlock and NetApp Flexpod
• Architecture and deployment of test lab using 2 Cisco UCS 5100 Chassis and B200 Blades with Menlo and Palo with two Fabric ICs. Additional hardware involved were MDS 9000 fabric switches Nexus 5000 7000 and 10000 Series switches and Nexus 1000 and Nexus 1010. The storage side consisted of a Hitachi AMS.
• VMWare vShpere with Windows 2008 R2 and Linux Servers using IOMeter VDBench Zoltes Control Center Solarwinds and extensive scripting were used to create VMs that would generate real world load and I/O which in turn would allow us to test all aspects of HA Performance and Deployment modifications.
• Several meetings and side discussions to determine customer use cases and test plans.
• Working side by side with VMware Cisco and Hitachi all test cases were executed and results gathered to later be used for support documentation reference architecture deployment documentation and marketing material used by Cisco and Hitachi. Data was also used as feedback to the Cisco UCS development teams for product improvements. This corrected data will be used in the product appendix.
• Unified System Product name to be determined at a later date. Marketing is still working on this task.
• Advance technology used were Cisco/VMware PTS Pass-Through Switching Nexus 1010 MDS F-Port Port Channel for vSANs and aggregation Extensive UCS Profile modifications. VMware PowerShell Scripting with VM Template Profiles for mass VM creation.
• Usage of Amazon S3 Cloud storage.

Confidential

• Architecture of new ESX/ vSphere environment.
• Implementation of Cisco Unified Computing System UCS . Assisted in hardware installation creation of service profiles firmware updates and host ESX 4.1 O/S installation.
• Extensive work troubleshooting and resolving problem with existing VI3 and vSphere environment.
• Migrated existing 3.5 environment to new 4.1 environment on UCS hardware platform.
• Implemented Cisco 1000 Nexus switch on vSphere 4.1.
• Implementation of VMware SRM 4.
• Performed 120 P2V of older/legacy servers to 4.1 environment.
• Worked extensively with storage team to add Clariion 960 to storage environment implement SRM and enable FAST on both 480 and 960.
• Added EMC storage viewer to vCenter.
• Reduced LUN count/paths on ESX environment they were pushing about 800 paths almost hitting the 1024 LUN limit .
• Assistance in some day-to-day operational tasks to keep existing environment healthy/stable.
• Worked within LA County team environment and project team.
• Provided detailed documentation and architectural Visio designs on current and future state.

Confidential

• Architecture of new ESX/ vSphere environment for new datacenter.
• Created Migration plan for enterprise applications on physical and virtual host to new datacenter and hosted environments LPI and OPSource .
• Creation of project plan communication plan Visio designs and execution plan.
• Project work was to remove ACS as in-house vendor and bring enterprise support in-house.
• Continuous explanations of VMware technologies to help business better understand what they were getting and how to best use virtualization.
• Evaluation of new infrastructure technology choices and validate technology worked best with VMware.
• Provide in-depth VMware Certified training jumpstart program to VMware client.
• Moved internal application to Amazon S3 Storage and FPC and FWS.

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• VMware Lab Manager training Jumpstart.
• Provide in-depth VMware Certified training jumpstart program to VMware client.

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• VMWare vSphere and Lab Manager Training
• Provided in-depth VMware Certified training jumpstart program to VMware client.

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• Datacenter discovery and migration from In-House DC to COLO working with several vendors EMC was the primary and managing current daily operations.
• Extensive work with VMware ESX 3.5 upgrade hosts management to vCenter 4 .
• I was responsible for all technology operations and migration planning with regards to the virtual environment storage technology using Clariion CX4 Recover Point OM and SAN Copy. I performed roughly 200 sVMotions to prepare environment for migration from IBM DS4800 to CX4
• I also performed a few upgrades to older ESX host to bring the VMware standard from 3.0x to 3.5.
• I created the project plan and communication plan with business owners to prepare physical servers for migration to the CX4. This included using EMC OM and SAN Copy installation of PowerPath and removal of IBM DS agents and software.
• Required to resolve problems with unhealthy servers before the migration effort.
• Extensive work with EMC to schedule LUN replications and to determine best storage strategies.
• Continuously meeting with vendors to discuss DC migration plans and mitigate problems/conflicts.
• Worked with application owners to keep existing projects on schedule and to create plans for application migrations to the DC.
• Provided detailed written and visual application and infrastructure documentation to vendors and Electrolux.
• I was responsible for the complete provisioning of the CX4-240 and 480. This included FLARE updates initial LUN and storage group creation and adding host to storage groups once presented. Troubleshooting and HBA firmware driver updates.
• I was responsible for Recover Point creating consistency groups and journals as well as site failover once the migration was ready to kick off.
• Training provided to Electrolux employees in VMware and EMC storage technologies and how to manage.

Confidential

• Datacenter discovery and migration from In-House DC to COLO working with several vendors EMC was the primary and managing current daily operations.
• Extensive work with VMware ESX 4.0 vSphere which includes all suite products such as vCenter SRM etc. ESX lived on HP DL Series. I was responsible for all technology operations and migration planning with regards to the virtual environment. I performed roughly 50 P2Vs to retire P-Series blades that were off lease and other applications that had expiring hardware or simply chose to go virtual. I also performed a few upgrades to older ESX host to bring the VMware standard to 4.0.
• Maintained HP Blade environment using P-Series and C-Series chassis with a combination of G1-G6 blade servers running both Windows and Linux. All blades were monitored with Insight Manager. I have EXTENSIVE experience with Virtual Connect as well as on-board administration. Countless firmware updates profile creation network profiles creations and troubleshooting etc.
• Extensive work with EMC to schedule LUN replications and to determine best storage strategies. Heavy interaction with the Beckman storage team to insure deadlines were met and to provide assistance to prepare existing storage for migration to new VMax Symmetrix and 480 appliances.
• Continuously meeting with vendors to discuss DC migration plans and mitigate problems/conflicts.
• Worked with application owners to keep existing projects on schedule and to create plans for application migrations to the COLO DC.
• Provided detailed written and visual application and infrastructure documentation to vendors and Beckman.
• I provided assistance to install servers in COLO DC and provide feedback as to any delays in DC migration schedule and other DC related problems regarding hardware locations cabling problems and power problems.
• Training provided to Beckman employees in VMware and HP Blade technologies and how to manage.

Confidential

• Successful design planning and execution of an EMC Storage migration Active Directory Domain migration Exchange 2003 to 2007 migration and a VMware consolidation
• Successfully collapsed two existing Windows 2003 Active Directory domains into a single Windows 2008 Active Directory domain. I did this using Microsoft and Quest tools. This domain migration was also used as an opportunity to document all applications.
• Successfully deployed an Exchange 2007 infrastructure in the new Windows 2008 domain and once the 2003 domains were migrated with Exchange 2003 the mailboxes were moved to the Exchange 2007 environment. All Exchange 2003 servers were then decommissioned. Exchange 2007 Continuous Data Replication was used rather than EMC MirrorView
• Successfully planned and executed a VMware migration from an existing IBM Blade infrastructure that was inherited with an acquisition to an existing HP Blade C Series VMware infrastructure with HP Virtual Connect. This was performed using built-in VMware technologies such as VMotion and VMotion Storage. It was required to use this opportunity to match all ESX 3.5 versions and VM Tools versions. An upgrade to vSphere was considered and a POC performed but not chosen due to application compatibility concerns. A VCB gateway was deployed to move VM backup jobs off the VERITAS agents.
• Successfully worked with EMC to migrate data and hosts from a CX3-700 to a CX4-480 along with migrating from Celerra NS-G2 to Celerra NS-G8 and decommissioning a Centera.
• Extensive provisioning experience with EMC Navisphere SnapView MirrorView PowerPath Control Workstations and so on. Other experience with third-party tools such as Symantec/VERITAS Storage Foundation Robo-Copy Linux and Windows DFS Linux and Windows built-in storage management consoles and other data mover tools.
• Very experienced with proper storage provisioning using Fibre Channel iSCSI and NFS protocols and multipath agents/drivers.
• Very experienced with Brocade and Cisco switches for zoning as well as popular HBA adapters etc.
• I utilized my leadership skills to provide direction to the EIG technology staff. The EIG staff was essential to my success.
• I provided continuous strategy and direction to EIG management to help pave a path for future growth and to minimize the pain when acquiring future companies.

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• Successfully executed a massive infrastructure design operation to reduce datacenter power consumption and implement a disaster recovery solution. My role in this operation was to deploy a VMware VI3 infrastructure and work with the technology staff to migrate as many physical servers to virtual as possible.
• Secondary responsibilities were to work with other in-house vendors to clean up an existing EMC CX3-700 re-allocate the use of a DMX4 and deploy a NetAPP FAS3100. I was to assist by recommending the best storage solution for the VMware environment. I was a key player to the Disaster Recovery Project Team by providing detailed technical documentation and understanding to how each application should be provisioned for DR.
• I successfully re-deployed VMware ESX 3.5 on HP Blade C7000 Chassis with BL580s. I then retired an existing Dell 2900 VI3 infrastructure that was a POC prior. HP Rapid Deployment and Virtual Connect were used for this task.
• Extensive work with VMware to introduce the option of vSphere. A lab was created for early testing but no production use due to the newness of 4.0 and the hassle of re-certifying applications that had recently been certified for 3.5.
• I successfully coordinated smaller VI3 infrastructure deployments at remote locations that had layered network and SAN storage capabilities. These locations would be potential DR sites determined by application requirements. Working with Meditech and Perot Systems isolated VI3 environments were deployed specifically for the Meditech software due to strict governance laws and other requirements such as HIPPA.
• Working with St. Josephs I.T. staff we successfully migrated over 500 physical servers to virtual machines using PlateSpin and P2V Enterprise.
• I utilized my team player strengths to work with the Storage Architect and Storage Team to overcome challenges with capacity planning and performance problems for existing applications and future application deployments. This involved several weeks of meeting with EMC and NetApp to determine where applications best belonged and to compare both vendors storage technologies. This was used to create the critical application data tiers.
• I provided several Visio and PowerPoint presentations to assist the disaster recovery teams ability to determine how and where to deploy application DR provisioning. I was able to save over 100K in cost by identifying DR capability that already existed and leveraging more of the VMware environment. VMware SRM was bought in later to provide an additional layer of site-to-site DR.
• I also saved over 32 000 watts of power by migrating 60 Citrix Presentation Servers to VMware which allowed 60 Dell Blades to be decommissioned. Xen Server was considered for virtualizing the Presentation Servers but it was later decided to standardize on one virtual platform.

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• Datacenter migration using net new hardware and virtualization.
• Heavy use of Altiris to install new systems.
• Racking of all hardware as well inventory management.
• Active Directory migration planning and provisioning.
• Daily status meetings.
• Extensive use of VMware to replace new servers coming off lease.
• Extensive work with other Sr. teams to discuss and define standards.

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Solutions Architect and Engineer

• Successfully provided expert architecture experience with specific focus on VMware Microsoft Linux Storage Citrix Web Server and security technologies.
• My responsibility was to provide expert recommendations and reference architecture to the American Express business groups and CTO.
• I participated in several meetings with business leaders to acquire an in-depth understanding of their business needs. Using that knowledge I presented to them several technologies that could help them achieve their goals.
• When no technology solution was commonly known or a technology was requested that I did not have experience with I performed extensive research on those technologies to create a scorecard based on the business requirements. These technologies were then deployed in Lab scenarios to determine how well they would satisfy the business requirements. The results were then presented to the business leaders for a final decision.
• Upon a business decision as to what technology solution would be used I was responsible for creating the Architectural Solutions document. This document was normally made up of Reference Architecture documents for the solution building blocks that pointed to all technology components required for deployment. This would become the standard for all deployments within American Express.
• Technology standards I created were Microsoft .Net Framework VMware ESX 3.X Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Operating Systems Citrix Presentation Server and XenServer IBM Tivoli HP/Compaq Insight Manager HP OpenView Dell Open Manage System Center Configuration Manager System Center Operations Manager Deploying Windows 2003 and 2008 Server on VMware ESX 3.X Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2003 Security Principals.
• Technology standards I assisted with Redhat Enterprise Linux EMC PowerPath VERITAS Storage Foundation WSUS and SQL 2005 Server.
• Other tasks I was successfully able to complete were working with outside vendors who requested my team benchmark test provision and validate capabilities of their products. Three examples of this would be IBM s acquisition of XIV storage products HP s bake-off with their C7000 series and Dell s M600 Series and Cisco Video Conferencing TelePresense .
• IBM s XIV had my team stress test their prototype and provide results as well as recommendations for improvement. Cisco had my team do the same for their TelePresene product. HP requested my team perform a non-bias feature comparison and overall performance test with HP s C-Series blade product and Dell new M600 series. This also included HP s Virtual Connect Rapid Deployment and Insight Management tools as well as Dell OpenManage and Advanced Management Console tools.
• I participated in several vendor NDA Non Disclosure Agreement meetings for future products to help provide American Express better future direction.
• My team was responsible for all American Express Technology Standards. In other words if my team didn t approve the technology or create an architectural design for it .It was not deployed.

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Infrastructure Architect and Helpdesk Manager

• Successfully executed several projects in short amounts of time.
• Worked with Dell and EMC to identify why the CX-300 was having excessive performance problems. Identified the storage was provisioned with SATA disk used for a VMware VI3 environment. This obviously caused I/O bottlenecks. I spent several months working with Dell and EMC to determine how the problem could be resolved with minimal cost due to the recent investment already made with a new VI3 and SAN environment.
• Resolved Cisco switch problems with spanning tree MAC port failover. Upgraded the SUPs on a Cisco 4800 Series and performed extensive network configuration changes to resolve performance and capacity problems. Cisco equipment used two Cisco Catalyst 4800 Core Switches several Catalyst 2500 client switches ASA and Cisco VPN 300 concentrator.
• Extensive provisioning and troubleshooting work with the Cisco ASA to integrate several remote locations and recently acquired companies.
• I am not CCNA certified but can do anything a CCNA can do. Just don t ask me what the 7 layers of OSI are .I never remember Application Presentation something something something .
• Successfully integrated foreign international companies that were acquired. This required subnet modifications masking creating domain trust WINS and DNS replication ACL changes and additions and so on. This also required a very open personality and work ethic awareness due to the foreign culture and international labor laws.
• Successfully deployed VMware Lab Manager and assisted with training of development staff.
• Extensive work and interaction with the development team to help them reach their goals and to keep the infrastructure operational when put under extensive stress for DEV QA Testing.
• Successfully migrated Exchange 2003 to a high availability Exchange 2003 environment and created bridgeheads between remote site messaging environments even environments that were not part of the same domain.
• Redesigned the Active Directory topology and imported/migrated several domains into the existing domains suing several domain tools to modify AD attributes.

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Consultant for Infrastructure Architecture and Engineering

• I have a great script writing ability using VB Batch and Perl. I also have a great exposure/understanding .Net XML Java Script and Shell Crystal Reports. I have experience with software continuous integration using the Agile software delivery methodology.
• Consultant for ICS Inc clients such as Intel Corporation Microsoft Honeywell Department of Defense JP Morgan Chase Equity Methods CSK Auto City of Phoenix Network Appliance Catholic Healthcare West Research International Salt River Pima Indian Community DHL CSAA and Charles Schwab.
• Experience successfully deploying and migrating Windows and Linux operating systems for multi-tier applications while providing O/S hardening clustering for high availability local and multi-site disaster recovery and application/infrastructure upgrades along with advance troubleshooting. I have deployed Windows Servers in just about every possible role. My expertise with Linux/UNIX is not as strong as my Windows but I have deployed over 200 Linux servers and 50 Solaris Intel and Sparc servers physical and virtual running web services MySQL instances remotes access connectivity file sharing with NFS LDAP services SSO and network resource services.
• I have over 7 years of experience working with applications with multiple vendor and cross platform requirements using all versions of Windows Redhat and Suse Linux and other O/S and application components.
• I have led virtualization deployment projects using VMware on Dell HP and IBM hardware.
• I have performed hundreds of physical to virtual P2V migrations virtual to virtual V2V migrations and virtual to physical migrations
• I have designed presented and deployed many DR/HA solutions ranging from simple application DR requirements to site-to-site geo.
• I have provided architectural documents to outline existing infrastructures and help understand what exists where it is at and how it can be improved. I sometimes find technology that is not needed and can be replaced with free and/or lower cost solutions and provides a lower impact of technology management.
• I am great with helping the business discover solutions to meet their needs and possibly get more than what they asked for while staying under budget. I am often thanked for how easy I make it for non-technical audiences. Project Managers love it.
• I have extensive experience with deploying provisioning and supporting storage appliances using all connectivity methods like iSCSI Fiber Channel NFS and NAS. I am very useful when you need someone who understands and can resolve problems at every level/component your infrastructure lives on.
• I have created many 2 3 and 4 tier yes there is a 4th tier application infrastructures to satisfy the strictest government and banking regulations as well to provide a solution that is bullet proof working side by side with the application vendor development team and business sponsor.
• I have over 5 years of experience creating architectural solutions and presenting those solutions via written documentation PowerPoint presentation Visio drawings and flow charts. I have many hours under my belt for standup presentations.
• I have over 7 years of experience provisioning security models for small and large infrastructures. Creating layered and flat network designs applying realistic switch ACL s and firewall rules while applying routing when it makes sense and limiting protocols to what is required. Creating DMZ s internal and external and provisioning safe wireless 802.11x using PEAP firewall segregation and 2-3 layer security authentication.
• I have over 10 years experience configuring deploying and securing advance network hardware such as Cisco PIX and ASA appliances VPN concentrators content directors and load balancers as well with small and large switch/routers. Other network and security appliances I have hands on experience with are Sonicwal CheckPoint Watchguard and Iron Foundry. I have used these devices to offer remote access create fault tolerant WAN connectivity site DR and capacity planning where it did not exist.
• I have many years of design and hands on experience with Exchange Server 5.5 to 2007. I have deployed all roles of Exchange 2007 on both 2003 and 2008 operating systems. I have dealt with the headaches that can go into mailbox migrations getting all roles to properly communicate with each other configuring organization policies moving from or to non-Exchange messaging services. I would have to create a whole new resume to go into all I have done with Exchange.
• I have designed and have hands on experience with storage backup solutions and data deployment solutions such as Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec NetBackup Altiris CA ArcServe Enterprise Vault Snapshot thin provisioning and DDUP technologies.
• I have many years under my belt working with software development teams. Although I am not a developer I have enough fundamental knowledge to review application code and assist with resolving application and script errors and helping development teams validate their applications and scripts. I was successfully able to assist Equity Methods re-engineer and architect their award winning Option Navigator application. What was a single tier no HA or DR product is now a multi-tier site DR enhanced scalable and secure solution that was purchased by a large client solely due to the successful work the development team and I performed.
• I am more than capable of working with other skilled technologist and business sponsors to engineer and solution small and large designed for storage network application internet disaster recovery datacenter migrations and deployments and so much more.
• I am easy to get along with low maintenance. I do not need my hand held I am self motivated as long as you have work to fully utilize my skills. I can easily dive into your project or the whole organization and discover areas than can be improved. I overcome challenges with minimal bruising most of the time. I am confident but do my best to not become arrogant.
• Over 12 years of experience with a variety of Microsoft application servers such as SharePoint MOM/Systms Operations Manager SMS WSUS IIS BizTalk All MS Office Suite products and Unix Services for Windows Application Center ISA and so much more.
• I have been involved in several security audits and have a solid understanding of what it takes to certify an infrastructure to meet SEC PCI SAS70 Sarbanes and other State and Federal requirements and corporate standards.
• I have worked in 24x7 On-Call situations and travelled when necessary.

Confidential

Solutions Architect and Engineer

• Successfully provided expert architecture experience with specific focus on VMware Microsoft Linux Storage Citrix Web Server and security technologies.
• My responsibility was to provide expert recommendations and reference architecture to the American Express business groups and CTO.
• I participated in several meetings with business leaders to acquire an in-depth understanding of their business needs. Using that knowledge I presented to them several technologies that could help them achieve their goals.
• When no technology solution was commonly known or a technology was requested that I did not have experience with I performed extensive research on those technologies to create a scorecard based on the business requirements. These technologies were then deployed in Lab scenarios to determine how well they would satisfy the business requirements. The results were then presented to the business leaders for a final decision.
• Upon a business decision as to what technology solution would be used I was responsible for creating the Architectural Solutions document. This document was normally made up of Reference Architecture documents for the solution building blocks that pointed to all technology components required for deployment. This would become the standard for all deployments within American Express.
• Technology standards I created were Microsoft .Net Framework VMware ESX 3.X Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Operating Systems Citrix Presentation Server and XenServer IBM Tivoli HP/Compaq Insight Manager HP OpenView Dell Open Manage System Center Configuration Manager System Center Operations Manager Deploying Windows 2003 and 2008 Server on VMware ESX 3.X Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2003 Security Principals.
• Technology standards I assisted with Redhat Enterprise Linux EMC PowerPath VERITAS Storage Foundation WSUS and SQL 2005 Server.
• Other tasks I was successfully able to complete were working with outside vendors who requested my team benchmark test provision and validate capabilities of their products. Three examples of this would be IBM s acquisition of XIV storage products HP s bake-off with their C7000 series and Dell s M600 Series and Cisco Video Conferencing TelePresense .
• IBM s XIV had my team stress test their prototype and provide results as well as recommendations for improvement. Cisco had my team do the same for their TelePresene product. HP requested my team perform a non-bias feature comparison and overall performance test with HP s C-Series blade product and Dell new M600 series. This also included HP s Virtual Connect Rapid Deployment and Insight Management tools as well as Dell OpenManage and Advanced Management Console tools.
• I participated in several vendor NDA Non Disclosure Agreement meetings for future products to help provide American Express better future direction.
• My team was responsible for all American Express Technology Standards. In other words if my team didn t approve the technology or create an architectural design for it .It was not deployed.

Confidential

Infrastructure Architect and Helpdesk Manager

• Successfully executed several projects in short amounts of time.
• Worked with Dell and EMC to identify why the CX-300 was having excessive performance problems. Identified the storage was provisioned with SATA disk used for a VMware VI3 environment. This obviously caused I/O bottlenecks. I spent several months working with Dell and EMC to determine how the problem could be resolved with minimal cost due to the recent investment already made with a new VI3 and SAN environment.
• Resolved Cisco switch problems with spanning tree MAC port failover. Upgraded the SUPs on a Cisco 4800 Series and performed extensive network configuration changes to resolve performance and capacity problems. Cisco equipment used two Cisco Catalyst 4800 Core Switches several Catalyst 2500 client switches ASA and Cisco VPN 300 concentrator.
• Extensive provisioning and troubleshooting work with the Cisco ASA to integrate several remote locations and recently acquired companies.
• I am not CCNA certified but can do anything a CCNA can do. Just don t ask me what the 7 layers of OSI are .I never remember Application Presentation something something something .
• Successfully integrated foreign international companies that were acquired. This required subnet modifications masking creating domain trust WINS and DNS replication ACL changes and additions and so on. This also required a very open personality and work ethic awareness due to the foreign culture and international labor laws.
• Successfully deployed VMware Lab Manager and assisted with training of development staff.
• Extensive work and interaction with the development team to help them reach their goals and to keep the infrastructure operational when put under extensive stress for DEV QA Testing.
• Successfully migrated Exchange 2003 to a high availability Exchange 2003 environment and created bridgeheads between remote site messaging environments even environments that were not part of the same domain.
• Redesigned the Active Directory topology and imported/migrated several domains into the existing domains suing several domain tools to modify AD attributes.

Confidential

Consultant for Infrastructure Architecture and Engineering

• I have a great script writing ability using VB Batch and Perl. I also have a great exposure/understanding .Net XML Java Script and Shell Crystal Reports. I have experience with software continuous integration using the Agile software delivery methodology.
• Consultant for ICS Inc clients such as Intel Corporation Microsoft Honeywell Department of Defense JP Morgan Chase Equity Methods CSK Auto City of Phoenix Network Appliance Catholic Healthcare West Research International Salt River Pima Indian Community DHL CSAA and Charles Schwab.
• Experience successfully deploying and migrating Windows and Linux operating systems for multi-tier applications while providing O/S hardening clustering for high availability local and multi-site disaster recovery and application/infrastructure upgrades along with advance troubleshooting. I have deployed Windows Servers in just about every possible role. My expertise with Linux/UNIX is not as strong as my Windows but I have deployed over 200 Linux servers and 50 Solaris Intel and Sparc servers physical and virtual running web services MySQL instances remotes access connectivity file sharing with NFS LDAP services SSO and network resource services.
• I have over 7 years of experience working with applications with multiple vendor and cross platform requirements using all versions of Windows Redhat and Suse Linux and other O/S and application components.
• I have led virtualization deployment projects using VMware on Dell HP and IBM hardware.
• I have performed hundreds of physical to virtual P2V migrations virtual to virtual V2V migrations and virtual to physical migrations
• I have designed presented and deployed many DR/HA solutions ranging from simple application DR requirements to site-to-site geo.
• I have provided architectural documents to outline existing infrastructures and help understand what exists where it is at and how it can be improved. I sometimes find technology that is not needed and can be replaced with free and/or lower cost solutions and provides a lower impact of technology management.
• I am great with helping the business discover solutions to meet their needs and possibly get more than what they asked for while staying under budget. I am often thanked for how easy I make it for non-technical audiences. Project Managers love it.
• I have extensive experience with deploying provisioning and supporting storage appliances using all connectivity methods like iSCSI Fiber Channel NFS and NAS. I am very useful when you need someone who understands and can resolve problems at every level/component your infrastructure lives on.
• I have created many 2 3 and 4 tier yes there is a 4th tier application infrastructures to satisfy the strictest government and banking regulations as well to provide a solution that is bullet proof working side by side with the application vendor development team and business sponsor.
• I have over 5 years of experience creating architectural solutions and presenting those solutions via written documentation PowerPoint presentation Visio drawings and flow charts. I have many hours under my belt for standup presentations.
• I have over 7 years of experience provisioning security models for small and large infrastructures. Creating layered and flat network designs applying realistic switch ACL s and firewall rules while applying routing when it makes sense and limiting protocols to what is required. Creating DMZ s internal and external and provisioning safe wireless 802.11x using PEAP firewall segregation and 2-3 layer security authentication.
• I have over 10 years experience configuring deploying and securing advance network hardware such as Cisco PIX and ASA appliances VPN concentrators content directors and load balancers as well with small and large switch/routers. Other network and security appliances I have hands on experience with are Sonicwal CheckPoint Watchguard and Iron Foundry. I have used these devices to offer remote access create fault tolerant WAN connectivity site DR and capacity planning where it did not exist.
• I have many years of design and hands on experience with Exchange Server 5.5 to 2007. I have deployed all roles of Exchange 2007 on both 2003 and 2008 operating systems. I have dealt with the headaches that can go into mailbox migrations getting all roles to properly communicate with each other configuring organization policies moving from or to non-Exchange messaging services. I would have to create a whole new resume to go into all I have done with Exchange.
• I have designed and have hands on experience with storage backup solutions and data deployment solutions such as Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec NetBackup Altiris CA ArcServe Enterprise Vault Snapshot thin provisioning and DDUP technologies.
• I have many years under my belt working with software development teams. Although I am not a developer I have enough fundamental knowledge to review application code and assist with resolving application and script errors and helping development teams validate their applications and scripts. I was successfully able to assist Equity Methods re-engineer and architect their award winning Option Navigator application. What was a single tier no HA or DR product is now a multi-tier site DR enhanced scalable and secure solution that was purchased by a large client solely due to the successful work the development team and I performed.
• I am more than capable of working with other skilled technologist and business sponsors to engineer and solution small and large designed for storage network application internet disaster recovery datacenter migrations and deployments and so much more.
• I am easy to get along with low maintenance. I do not need my hand held I am self motivated as long as you have work to fully utilize my skills. I can easily dive into your project or the whole organization and discover areas than can be improved. I overcome challenges with minimal bruising most of the time. I am confident but do my best to not become arrogant.
• Over 12 years of experience with a variety of Microsoft application servers such as SharePoint MOM/Systms Operations Manager SMS WSUS IIS BizTalk All MS Office Suite products and Unix Services for Windows Application Center ISA and so much more.
• I have been involved in several security audits and have a solid understanding of what it takes to certify an infrastructure to meet SEC PCI SAS70 Sarbanes and other State and Federal requirements and corporate standards.
• I have worked in 24x7 On-Call situations and travelled when necessary.