PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• I.T. Professional with over 25 years of experience in multiple roles from Chief, Enterprise & Solution Architect, Director of I.T., Project Management, Software Engineer/Developer & Product Management.
• The past 10 years have concentrated on Business Transformation, Datacenter Migration (public & private clouds), Infrastructure Design, I.T. modernization (Automation, Streamline Operations, DevOps, Implementing Agile Methodologies & improving efficiencies).
• Strong track record in developing, presenting, documenting & delivery of I.T. Architectural recommendations.
• Have been exposed & have successfully engaged accounts globally with a variety of I.T. challenges & understand how to influence stakeholders on I.T. strategy & garner collaboration to achieve stated goals.
• Remain hands - on within the different technology stacks.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Infrastructure Design (Hybrid, Private, Public)
• Application & Database design
• Data Center Migration
• Project Management
• Hyper converged, SDDC, DevOps
• Strong AWS, Azure & VMWare experience
• Staff Management, Vendor Management
• Executive Level Organization & Management
• Streamlining Technical Operations
• Automating IT service management, Infrastructure and Application lifecycle SDLC
• Financial Planning
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITILv3) Certified
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) certified

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise Architect & General Manager

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead sales and delivery efforts for services valued between $500K-10M per engagement
• The overall reduction of infrastructure costs were presented to the customer Confidential and Confidential with financial modeling to justify immediate action using ROI calculations with actual costs and benefits that were realized by transforming the customer environment.
• Progressive levels of responsibility included being the thought leader, developing teaching materials to scale this capability, keeping abreast of new technology and developing deliverables in line with changing technologies. Established a reputation of delivering quality solutions regardless of the challenges faced including the resistance to change by the customer.
• National resource selected to face customers in difficult circumstances to create opportunities to drive business solutions and increase revenue successfully
• Responsible for managing and delivering engagements for Infrastructure Optimization with financial justification, server consolidation, improving data center services, project management, and performance tuning for midrange and large systems.
• Conducted assessments of customer environments, identifying customer operations and process inefficiencies and recommended specific efforts to align client IT with client corporate objectives.
• Assisted sales teams in developing their sales proposals to fit into the customer roadmap
• Highly skilled in EMC, VCE and other software and hardware product offerings including VMWare products, Nutanix, Mulesoft, AWS, Azure, Splunk, etc.
• Performed engagements Nationally in challenging environments providing guidance to sales and technical teams to drive solutions with financial justification using the ROI tool to accelerate customer decisions.
• Final reviewer of for Center of Excellence deliverables ensuring quality of final documents and to establish sales teams’ confidence in deliverables.

Confidential

Principle Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Global Head of the Center of Excellence (COE) responsible for transforming the customer environment to align with optimization and realize cost savings.
• Lead sales and delivery efforts for services valued between $2-40M per engagement.
• Progressive levels of responsibility included being the worldwide thought leader, developing teaching materials to scale this capability worldwide, keeping abreast of new technology and developing deliverables inline with changing technologies.
• Established a reputation of delivering quality solutions regardless of the challenges faced, including customer resistance to change.
• Responsible for managing and delivering engagement for Infrastructure Optimization with financial justification, server consolidation, improving data center services, project management, and performance tuning for midrange and engineered systems.
• The overall reduction of infrastructure costs were presented to the customer Confidential and Confidential with financial modeling to justify immediate action using ROI calculations with actual costs and benefits realized by transforming the customer environment.
• Worldwide resource selected to face customers in difficult circumstances, creating opportunities to drive business solutions and increase revenue streams.
• Chief Architect in creating the architectural framework for Confidential client requiring migration of 23 global data centers to Amazon AWS within an 18-month deadline.
• Assisted sales teams in developing their sales proposals to fit into the customer roadmap.
• Performed engagements globally in challenging environments providing guidance to sales and technical teams to drive solutions with financial justification using ROI tool to accelerate customer decisions.
• Finial reviewer for Confidential deliverables, ensuring quality adherence of final documents gaining confidence from the sales teams

Confidential

Director Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining strategies to deliver value-driven technologies, Hybrid Cloud based business solutions, and driving revenue growth for the $1.2 billion Confidential contract with the state of Texas.
• Position entailed evaluating, recommending, defining and advocating enterprise business architecture models, standards and platforms to enable end-to-end business and IT transformations across complex environments.
• Provide leadership and framework to align technology investments with business and client goals.
• Create and present business cases on investments, lead the development of standards, framework and product sets, IT transformation and modernization.
• Lead team of Solution Architects in RFS and consolidation activities.
• Lead Innovation program to modernize Enterprise hybrid cloud solutions and assisted in marketing Confidential services to Texas cities, school districts, and municipalities throughout the state.
• Drove contract negotiations and value-add strategies in bringing Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud offerings to the Confidential Corporate and strategic business units ( Confidential ’s).
• Lead Confidential automation project based on VMWare vRealize automation suite interfacing with an internal Enterprise Service Bus (Mulesoft) to streamline provisioning of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings.

Confidential

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining the business drivers and associated system capabilities and services required for I.T. transformation of enterprise server environments for server consolidation, including cross-tower dependencies and analysis with storage, data center consolidation, application migration, platform consolidation, server refresh, capacity management, etc.
• Built strong client relations by demonstrating an understanding of customer business needs and technical priorities and ensured a strong partnership in meeting desired goals.
• Developed, designed, and implemented technical solution design options.
• Developed hardware configuration and architecture recommendation based on a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model appropriate to the client’s needs.
• Hands-on knowledge of Confidential, PowerVM, Linux, VMWare, Solaris and optimization technologies, methodologies and application rationalization and consolidation techniques.

Confidential

Senior Solution Architect, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing all mission critical environments based on Confidential, Power VM, Power Systems, Solaris, HPUX and Linux platforms in the corporate datacenter, including architecture, build, tune, maintenance, performance monitoring, and project management.
• Lead projects related to System design and implementation, Business Impact Analysis, Data Integrity/Recovery, Disaster Recovery Planning, Contingency Planning, Risk Assessment, and Cost Benefits Analysis.
• Position required strong leadership skills to coordinate and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating, and leading teams.
• Managed daily tasks and projects assigned to junior Unix administrators.
• Position also required presenting business impact and ROI analysis to senior executives.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning and executing Q.A. SAN testing on all (pre- Confidential .) Confidential pSeries hardware platforms.
• Testing included all Confidential SAN units as well as 3rd party hardware such as EMC and Hitachi. All aspects of the SAN environment were tested from device drivers on the HBA to zoning of switches, cascading switches, creating arrays, masking luns, to the fibre channel protocol.
• Managed communication between development teams both internal and external to Confidential during the QA process.
• Collected and presented status with projected completion dates to management. Testing often included forensic examination from Fibre traces taken using a Finisar device to resolve complex problems discovered through our testing methodology.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Software Engineer developing Confidential ’s Confidential Software Initiator under the Confidential operating system.
• Responsibilities included low level forensic examination of SAN over TCP and code changes to resolve issues found during testing.
• Worked closely with other Confidential and Cisco developers for the 9000 series MDS multilayer switches to recommend test plans and to resolve possible software and hardware issues between the two products. Developed Confidential ’s first Confidential device driver for the Confidential operating system.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for programming new features and for defect resolution of Fast Connect, Confidential ’s Common Internet File System ( Confidential ).
• Job duties often encompassed complex forensic examination of customer core files.
• In addition, worked on revamping testing procedures and automating improved quality assurance standards and moved focus to functionality, regression and performance.
• As a direct result, our department was able to locate problems more quickly in code modifications and resolve defects on a more regimented schedule, resulting in a substantial improvement to productivity.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included quality assurance testing of Confidential ; development of software used by Confidential ’s entire Unix Product Test (UPT) department; and testing of Linux and Confidential, which over 100 personnel would implement.
• Worked closely with Confidential teams to resolve defects incurred and to continue updating new feature testing methods.
• Managed a team of programmers to port and automate over 10,000 test cases, some of which required changes to source code for compliance to the 64-bit platform. This was accomplished within 6 months, though originally earmarked for over 1 year. Confidential estimated the productivity increase saved the company over a million dollars in man-hours alone.