SUMMARY:

Sr. Cloud Architect, Lead and Sr. Storage Architect.

Conducted assessments and architected designs for numerous clients in several industries from manufacturing, telecommunications, mobile, entertainment, and government to healthcare. Assessed, analyzed, cloud, OpenStack, AWS, SoftLayer, Big Data, storage and infrastructure related to data center migrations / transformations - systems, storage, cloud, OpenStack, AWS, SoftLayer, Big Data, DevOps, Apache Hadoop, applications, application interdependencies, load balancer, utilizations, databases and network infrastructure along with the associated application, storage type, and systems requirements including capacity, storage growth, consumption, demand, and performance parameters and requirements such as - Metrics, KPIs, Disk I/O, latency, bandwidth, application upstreams/downstreams, app. flows, utilization, IOPS, Servers, Arrays, Systems, and Databases - Oracle / SQL and issues. Proficient in IBM, EMC, HP 3PAR, NetApp, Hitachi, Apache, SUSE, Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Apache Hadoop. Analyzed storage offerings, solutions, capabilities, value, constraints, data type, SAN, NAS, VMware, Disaster Recovery, backup/recovery, compression and deduplication among major storage vendors. Proficient in design, troubleshooting and capacity management. Professional Consultant SME - with 25 years of professional consulting on-site, off-site, remote engagement experience with national and international travel within North America United States of America and Canada and Europe. Dual citizen posses American and Canadian passports .

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Cloud / Sr. Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• Proficient with Vblock - EMC storage arrays, VMware, switches Brocade and Cisco, servers, infrastructure and networking.
• Conducted assessments and architected designs for numerous clients in several industries from manufacturing, telecommunications, mobile, entertainment, and government to healthcare. Analyzed data and architected solutions including storage, cloud, OpenStack, AWS, SoftLayer, Big Data, Apache Hadoop, Load Balancer, VMware, Linux and Windows. Proficiency in VMware 5.5 and ESXi 5.5, and VMware Best Practices ESX 5.5 along with maximum thresholds and capacity management.
• Excellent listening and communications skills. Proficiency in deliverable formulation and design. Conducted reviews, research, and due-diligence for requirements analysis and target architecture.
• Extensive experience with Open Stack, AWS, SoftLayer, and IBM cloud platforms. Proficiency in sourcing environment and designing target cloud platforms and ecosystems. Proficiency in POC - IaaS, AWS, Amazon - Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, DevOps, Chef, Puppet. Proficiency in SoftLayer POC and design. Proficient in design and debugging scripts Python and Bourne / Korn shell along with OpenStack issues in deployments and configuration. Proficiency in cloud leading practices, identifying risks and issues and formulating a roadmap and making recommendations.
• Worked strategically and technically on migrations within manufacturing, mobile and telecommunications industry in the cloud environment. Worked as lead senior architect on a team formulating, designing, architecting, and procurement and provisioning of storage solutions on storage arrays, applications and hosts.
• Worked as a Lead Sr. Storage Architect. Proficient in EMC, HP 3PAR, NetApp, Hitachi, - Storage Engineer / Capacity Management - Metrics, KPIs, Disk I/O, latency, bandwidth, utilization, IOPS, Server and Database - Oracle / SQL issues. Proficient in 3GPP, 3GPP , VoLTE, 4G LTE, SIP, IMS, Diameter, and VoIP/ Server Consolidation and virtualization.
• Evaluated, designed, architected and migrated data from source to target storage to support the business requirements and scope of the SOW. Assessed and determined the viability of the environment, across sites and regions, for continuous availability and data mobility platforms to allow consideration of mission-critical applications to remain up during downtime scenarios Proficiency in SAN, NAS, storage, VMware, SIP, AAA, 3GPP, IMS, VoIP, VoLTE, 4G, Diameter, IPv4, IPv6, TCP/IP, security, network infrastructure, latency, bandwidth, IOPS, performance, capacity, analytical skills and effective communication skills were required.
• Q3 2012 - Q3 2014 . DELL. Proficient with Vblock - EMC storage arrays, VMware, switches Brocade and Cisco, servers, infrastructure and networking. Worked as a Storage Advisor and Storage Architect -to assist the Dell migrations. Proficiency in Dell Compellent Storage Center storage provisioning, EMC
• Unisphere LUN provisioning and discovery. Proficiency in EMC, VMware, vCenter, VMware vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client. Worked as a lead storage architect on international migrations.
• Q4 2011 - Q3 2012 . CSC. Proficient with EMC storage arrays, VMware, switches Brocade and Cisco, servers, infrastructure and networking. Worked as a Storage Architect / Engineer leading migrations and SAN design for clients within the United States.
• Q1 2008 - Q3 2011 . USDA FS. Proficient with EMC storage arrays, VMware, switches Brocade and Cisco, servers, infrastructure and networking. Proficiency in Storage Management, Capacity Management, Disaster Recovery and Applications Management.
• Q2 2010 - Q4 2010 . DIRECTV. Proficiency in applications, infrastructure zones, DMZ, LAN, internal, external zones, load balancer, storage, apps, VMware, UNIX / Linux, Windows, VMware, SAN, NAS and Wintel platforms. Conducted client interviews, assessments and formulated design deliverables and designed total IT solutions for client.
• Q4 2009 - Q1 2010 . United Health Group. Conducted team lead activities and worked as an IT Architect / Systems Engineer for large scale medical client. Applications were housed on UNIX / Linux, Windows, VMware, SAN, NAS and Wintel platforms. Conducted client interviews, assessments and formulated design deliverables and designed total IT solutions for client.
• Q1 2006 - Q4 2007 . IBM and Fiat / IVECO Manufacturing Conducted team lead kick-off meetings with all pertinent stakeholders and utilized Microsoft Project to manage migrations. Analyzed infrastructure related to applications and associated system and performance parameters. Extensive travel 100 travels within Europe and the United States to and from client site Fiat / Iveco working continuously on the project deliverables, some remote work required.
• Q1 2003 Q1 2006 . US Navy DELL Government / Manufacturing Conducted team lead activities and worked as an IT Architect / Systems Engineer for large scale medical client. Conducted client interviews, assessments and formulated design deliverables and designed total IT solutions for client.
• Q1 2002 - Q1 2003 . Government Provided advanced Senior UNIX Enterprise consulting and administration to Colorado Secretary of State . Mentored junior staff. Created documents on processes and systems.