Cloud Architect/Sales Engineer Resume Austin, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

Visionary IT strategist, leader, sales engineer & solutions architect.
Architect and PM for numerous AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud deployments, migrations and benchmark feasibility tests.
Comprehensive experience in public and private Cloud solution design, sales, project management, technology deployment. and migrating enterprise workloads.
Trusted by my clients and peers to make critical technology and business decisions based on 20 years "in - the-trenches" consulting and operations experience.
Proven ability to design and implement Cloud solutions that provide timely ROI through optimized spend, improved performance, reliability, scalability and compliance.
Able to motivate teams and customers to effectively transition enterprises to current technology.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Cloud Architect/Sales Engineer

Responsibilities:

Authored proposal resulting in win of Texas Department of Public Safety AWS Storage contract valued at 250K annually.
Co-designing digital evidence solution with AWS consulting following CJIS compliance regulations
Authored proposal resulting in win of Pennsylvania Turnpike Authority contract to migrate BI reporting services to AWS valued at 160K annually.
First Cloud deployment of virtual firewalls by any Pennsylvania government agency
Designed and deployed web app, tiered storage, backup & DR, HPC, MapReduce, and IaaS solutions in Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud
Onboarded DoubleHorn into Microsoft CSP reseller program to resell Azure and Office365
Onboarded DoubleHorn into AWS GovCloud reseller program
Created new BI portal comparing Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS services, sentiment analysis, catalogs, and HPC instance performance benchmarking

Confidential, Austin, TX

Senior Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

Project Manager & Solutions Architect with full responsibility for technical design, P&L, staffing, and delivery of banking technology projects for a client base of 700+ banks and Federal credit unions in the United States.
Required to demonstrate the highest-level of technical competency while managing multiple projects concurrently in security-intensive environments.
Charged with providing guidance to C-Level stakeholders in creating sound technology strategies and implementing better IT processes.
Develop business at existing accounts in the areas of cloud services, DR/BC system design, HPC network design, encryption solutions, payment processing technology, and application selection.
Top-level troubleshooting skills in MS Windows Server 2012, AD GPO, ESXi, Azure, and Exchange.
Maintained a customer satisfaction rating of 4.9/5.0 in 2014 and 2015, the highest in my division.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

Enable Cloud Services/SaaS reseller capabilities to CHR's existing communication service provider (CSP) clients throughout the United States as a seamless addition to their existing online product catalog.
Design focused on scalability, automation of provisioning and billing, and profitability of SaaS offerings which included hosted MS Exchange, MS Sharepoint, and MS Dynamics.
Confidential is one of Houston's elite boutique law firms.
Tasked with designing and implementing the transition from a traditional, internally managed IT organization to an outsourced, hosted managed services solution with 24x7x365 support.
Migrate on-premises VM's hosted on ESXi to Hyper-V hosts in CHR's private cloud using SCCM.
Achieved "best-in-industry" performance and reliability while eliminating the management and overhead of a traditional IT department.
Implement successful BYOD policies and technologies.
Project success resulted in me being assigned as vCIO.
Design a scalable infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform for one of the world's largest mobile communication companies.
Create high-availability HP- Blade/Windows Server 2012 datacenter host clusters to auto-provision virtual private servers (VPS) for use by various Ericcson business units using SCCM, Powershell scripts, and Chef.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Director

Responsibilities:

Founded advertising and industrial design firm and developed business with a 200% annual growth rate with product offerings including HTML 5, mobile device management, website content design, 3D modeling, and video content distribution design
Responsible for creative services sales, project management, advertising concept creation, media buying, post-production, facility management, IT management, and all other managerial duties associated with a small start-up Confidential

Confidential, Houston TX

Associate

Responsibilities:

Project Manager, and Interim IT Director for numerous AMLAW law-firm clients throughout the US including Confidential
As PM, implemented Citrix Metaframe, NFuse, Confidential, OS/application upgrade, Groupwise-to-Exchange migrations, Storage Area Network (SAN) & firewall-based security technologies for our clients
Developed proposals, new service offerings, best practices methodologies, and recruiting guidelines to build the business

Confidential, Houston TX

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

PM assigned to Confidential -Mobil to design and deliver proxy server and web-content management solution based on Cisco firewalls, MS Proxy/ISA/IIS servers, and Websense filters
Design a system with 99.7% availability to service a user-base of 70,000+ and provide automated reporting on outbound Internet traffic to HR management
Manage internal cross-departmental team of 10, project budget of 650K and 3 rd party vendor consultants following strict risk-management policies