Principal IS Architect Resume

SUMMARY

Expert Level Cloud Solutions Architect and Leader with 20+ years of a proven track record of results. Led teams to deploy and manage large production Windows, Unix, and networking environments.
Played an integral role in transforming several organizations to cloud operating models in IaaS/PaaS/SaaS. Provided Fortune 500 SME’s and business clients with world class solutions dat were strategic in nature, results focused, and pragmatic.
Adept at development and implementation of 24 X 7 operating environments, SaaS systems, co - location arrangements, cloud computing AWS/Azure, automation, machine learning, virtualization, monitoring systems, server farms/clusters, disaster recovery, IT security, database systems, orchestration, automation, and CI/CD.Core Competencies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

TEMPPrincipal IS Architect

Responsibilities:

Developed teh organizational cloud strategy and cloud capabilities roadmap to 2022.
Designed and prototyped a migration strategy to move 2000+ physical and virtual servers and services to Amazon EC2 cloud instances.
Led $MM projects to leverage cloud technologies for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions.
Designed and implemented business workflows leveraging cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings in AWS and Azure dat sped up development time and release to production.
Setup and mentored a CI/CD engineering team to orchestrate cloud infrastructure lifecycles.
Designed, orchestrated, and implemented a server lift and shift strategy to migrate ~250 services to cloud compute.
Created teh organizations reference architecture for leveraging cloud infrastructure.
Architected an automation framework to execute infrastructure provisioning and orchestration.
Developed cloud based security polices and controls to enforce industry best practices.
Developed requirements and selection of external vendors to support business initiatives.
Performed assessments of technology and services to validate adherence to corporate architecture and security standards.
Implemented “Tech Talk” sessions to promote capabilities and values of cloud services.

Confidential

VP of IT Operations & Chief Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

Helped grow teh consulting and management service organization from a small team of 4 resources to over 75 delivery and technical consultants and $100M in annual revenue.
Helped several organizations go from small startups to public company: Aryx Therapeutics, Monolithic Power Systems, and Sertanty Inc.
Aryx Therapeutics (ARYX): Enterprise server virtualization and consolidation project migrating 50+ physical machines to VMware ESX infrastructure across multiple data centers.
Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union: Data center uplift project to modernize infrastructure and networking technologies by leveraging virtualization.
Monolithic Power Systems (MPS): Buildout and migration of enterprise servers and services in data co-location facilities in San Jose, Seattle, Chendu, and Singapore.
Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) deployment of large scale backup and recovery solution leveraging cloud for high availability and redundancy.
Terra-Gen Power: Buildout of a cloud and hybrid solution to allow remote management of power grid systems from anywhere using mobile devices.

Confidential

Senior Operations Engineer / Software Developer

Responsibilities:

Automated teh deployment of services horizontally dat traditionally took days into 15 minutes.
Setup self-healing monitoring services.
Deployed teh organizations first RISC based load balancer technology.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex data center and server issues.

Confidential .

Director of IT Operations

Responsibilities:

Reduced operational cost by $1.5M worldwide utilizing Lean strategies.
Delivered company’s SaaS software solution to worldwide partners as well as established quality assurance guidelines for teh development and release of products and product updates.
Designed, implemented, and maintained worldwide NOC’s supporting over 5 million subscribers.
Built-out 4 international data centers (Australia, Hong Kong, U.S., and teh U.K.) supporting 85,000 direct SaaS customers and 5+ million indirect customers.
Led organization to successful IPO in Australian stock exchange.
Negotiated successful partnership with British Telecom to deliver Pocketmail Technology to mobile email subscribers in teh UK and Singapore.
Led on-shore and off-shore software development efforts to leverage technologies for organization’s product suites.

TECHNICAL SKILLS