SUMMARY:

• Over twelve years of architectural experience in Enterprise IT
• Over eight years of experience with private, hybrid, public cloud and data center technologies
• Extensive experience with leading global business and large scale IT transformation programs
• Unique exposure to enterprise grade, green field, software defined datacenter implementations

COMPETENCIES:

Cloud Strategy | | Project Management Datacenter Optimization | Solution Architecture

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Business Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise level IT assessments and business strategy development
• Next generation datacenter design and implementation (hybrid cloud and hyper converged solutions)
• Management of high visibility enterprise class business and IT transformation projects
• CEO, CIO advisory services

Technology: AWS, GCP, Azure, vRealize, Chef, Ansible, VMware NSX SQL, MySQL

Confidential, Houston, TX

Solutions Architect / Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented green field converged infrastructure based on HPE, VMware Cisco, 3PAR solutions
• Successfully managed migration of ~100 critical and legacy applications to the new hybrid cloud environment
• Advised the client on SLA optimization, ensuring 99.9 % critical systems uptime
• Guided the vendor to avoid costly litigation issues by leveraging latest forecasting and trending analysis
• Managed five data centers delivery projects (Agile / Scrum / proprietary methodologies), resulted in new, larger contract win for Confidential

Technology: HPE CS700 HC380 HCI vSphere 6.0,6.5, vRealize, Confidential, 3PPAR, Cisco Nexus, Brocade

Confidential, Southborough, MA

Senior Technical Business Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed high level datacenter automation architecture
• Proposed solutions for integration process and architecture leveraging vRealize automation, Service Now, Active Directory and Confidential storage abstraction software layers
• Managed DevOps team, responsible for cloud automation and orchestration
• Successfully managed design for VCE vBlock monitoring platform
• Developed high level hybrid cloud infrastructure design for the following platforms Azure, AWS and vCloud Air

Technology: Vmware vRealizeNSX, VCE, MS SQL, ServiceNow, ViPR, AWS, Azure vCloud Air

Confidential, St. Joseph, MI

Business Solutions Consultant / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed baseline analysis for vCloud Air and AWS application migrations
• Identified critical areas in the infrastructure, introducing proactive remediation cost savings, over 30% reduction
• Advised on AWS environment best practices configuration:EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, Route53
• Reviewed existing Azure workload migration plan. Provided best practices analysis for Azure platform performance and security areas (Azure AD, SQL, Express Route)

Technology: vSphere 5.5, AWS vCloud Air, Cisco UCS

Confidential

Business Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led information gathering activities: team interviews, system scans, documentation reviews, data center visits
• Conducted assessment data dissemination and analysis leveraging latest BI and infrastructure intelligence tools
• Created integrated architecture solution deliverables for infrastructure, data center and end user computing
• Utilized COBIT5, ITIL and NIST frameworks to review existing disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
• Presented recommendations to CIO, VP and IT Directors
• Identified long term business impact, based on the tactical and strategic changes identified. Potential infrastructure savings: over 2 million dollars

Technology: Cisco R/S,Cisco Nexus,Solarwinds vSphere, Azure, AWS, Confidential VNX, Confidential VMAX,MS Server,RHEL, MS AD, DNS

Confidential, Southborough, MA

Senior Business Systems Consultant / Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Defined product vision and implementation strategy
• Identified technology verticals suitable for transitioning company’s datacenters to “green field”, steady state and infrastructure automation adoption.
• Defined business requirements for a new IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platform design
• Advised on infrastructure as a code projects, Agile, CI/CD development, DevOps initiatives.
• Advised on hybrid cloud IaaS design including AWS, Azure and vCloud Air architecture and security best practices
• Identified potential roadblocks for the program, enterprise wide cost savings close to 30% of overall budget. Proposed a new delivery methodology for the program, increased program success rate by 50%.

Technology: vSphere vRealize vCloud Air, CloudFoundry, NSX,VCE vBlock, Chef, Puppet, ViPR, VMAX, vPLEX

Confidential

Hybrid Cloud Architect / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed hybrid cloud infrastructure implementation
• Conducted on - premises infrastructure integration with Azure platform, Office365 services, hosted vCloud datacenter and remote offices
• Architected new SharePoint environment designed for the hybrid cloud implementation
• Orchestrated messaging security services implementation
• Managed third party vendors during the infrastructure migration phase, reporting to CIO
• Completed zero downtime transition of critical infrastructure services to a new cloud platform. Managed project delivery on time, saving the company millions of dollars on public relations campaigns and consulting costs.

Technology: Azure, Vmware vCloud, Office365, ADFS, Cisco ASA, Cisco Meraki, MS Server 2012, 2008, MimeCast, Powershell

Confidential

Senior Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed scope, plans and budget definition for site moves, infrastructure upgrades and data center consolidation projects
• Managed Google Cloud Services migration projects (GSuite implementation)

Confidential, Boston

Senior Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed high level data center upgrade plan detailing time, resources and finances
• Initiated creation of disaster recovery and business continuity plans
• Worked with agency leadership to establish facility options for disaster recovery environment

Confidential

Technical Project Manager / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led data center migration projects and technology upgrade work streams
• Successfully managed legacy and R&D application migrations
• Implemented and managed pre and post migration related performance optimization assessments and troubleshooting for R&D and GxP environments

Confidential

Pre-Sales Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented Proof of Concept initiatives for BMC SaaS cloud performance monitoring products: EUEM, TrueSight, EdgeView
• Conducted client’s web application performance assessments
• Authored KB articles for supported products.