Introduction

Widely accomplished and well - credentialed technical Program Manager and Data Center Design Engineer with extensive experience working several global top-tier firms, looking for another hands-on challenge. Proven ability to design, install, configure and troubleshoot when necessary, enterprise-level data centers for both private-sector and government clients. Demonstrates exceptional business acumen needed to drive innovation and generate growth with an uncompromising commitment to excellence. Management experience also includes military service as a U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret Officer with Top Secret Clearance.

Areas of Strength

• Strategic Planning Product Development Project Leadership Process Improvements
• Risk Mitigation Installations Software Development Network Migration Data Centers
• System Replenishes Troubleshooting Configuration Client Relations Team Leadership
• Data Analysis/Reporting Virtual Capacity Planning Virtual Capacity Projection

Confidential

Solutions Architect

• I function as a senior Subject Matter Expert for the delivery of systems engineering solutions for the ever broadening products delivered. Through a combination of both design and re-design, I provide technical consult and leadership in developing new engineering solutions like those that have contributed to the growth of iGov as an integrator and services provider. Specifically those duties are itemized as:
• Provide technical and operational leadership to assigned tasks and stay abreast of the status of systems engineering efforts across all programs and projects.
• Identify necessary engineering tools, processes and partners.
• Provide technical systems engineering expertise and advice throughout the organization.
• Provide engineering mentorship as appropriate.
• Provide systems engineering input to marketing.
• Support pre-sales engineering activities through participation in trade shows, marketing calls with business development, speaking engagements, and the development of white papers.
• Work on proposal teams to include developing win strategies, designing solutions and architectures, and responding to RFI/RFPs.
• Participate in the development and review of technical project plans and reports.
• Provide direct client support for discreet short term systems engineering services requirements.
• Assist the iGov Director of Technology in the identification and insertion of technology for iGov's contracts and programs. Support corporate strategic planning objectives as they relate to IT engineering services as well as the growth of the company.

Confidential

Project Technical Lead

Currently providing project management and detailed technical design for a hands on project using IBM BladeCenter with Cisco Nexus switches to consolidate multiple remote sites into a centralized vCenter solution with secure remote access nationwide. Remote clients are all of the DoD and other ancillary federal agencies and services are provided thru IaaS, SaaS and PaaS for these Cloud clients. Agile Scrum Construction Lifecycle software development is being utilized to produce software updates and remodels required for database consolidation. Supervision with active on site participation is employed to detect and resolve technical issues occurring during the relocations, consolidations and virtualization of each solution build. During and upon resolution, train local and contract staff appropriately to prevent future issues as well as document all aspects of the solution.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect TCP Master

• Career culminating as team leader for 100 architectural engineers and project managers that provided design and technical support initiatives to identify proactive and reactive data center improvement opportunities.
• As a TCP Master, supported every aspect of enterprise systems including Linux and HP UNIX Serviceguard clusters, Cisco, Brocade and McData storage area networks SAN, and Cisco, Juniper, HP Procurve through FlexFabric, IP network configurations and installations LAN/WAN implementing complete IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Private and Public Cloud infrastructures. Evaluated client data centers to define and recommend technology architecture, with a focus on modernization. Also to implement hardened procedures for logging, categorizing and maintaining Change Control in accordance with the guidelines appropriate for that particular client. A summary of the many Private and Public Sector data centers centralization, consolidation and virtualization solutions follow:
• Project Lead and Project Manager for a Team that designed, installed and configured Oracle Access Management software to deploy a single sign-on, authentication and authorization incorporating both mobile and social sign-on technology. The installation enabled secure access from mobile devices enterprise wide as well as a seamless integration with applications.
• Project Lead and Project Manager for a Team that designed and implemented a Bring Your Own Device BYOD solution for a Federal contracting agency with national and international data centers. The network upgrade included hardware reconfigurations and geographical relocations. Security was implemented to utilize two factor authentications that used device recognition to determine which two factors were used and how they were collected.
• Project Technical Lead for a Team that designed and implemented a data center virtualization utilizing VMware, we to delivered solution providing a 30 reduction in a size and cooling. The redesign accomplished the reduction in utility cost and space requirement while increasing the server count from . The HP Blade and 3Par solution also included a mixture of SUN servers and storage.
• Project Technical Lead for a data center relocation of over 2500 miles for a Canadian company using the action to move 1200 servers to a vCenter with failover and snap clone capabilities. Some of the existing hardware was utilized in the move, controlling some of the cost of the move. By staging the transfers we accomplished zero down time.
• On multiple occasions was the Project Technical Lead for a team that designed, installed and configured over 15 federal Continuity of Operations Plan COOP facilities for a variety of Federal Agencies to accomplish, depending on their individual requirement, a minimum standard of MACII. Facilities ranged from 300 to over 2500 servers in size.
• Project Technical Lead and Project Manager for a Team to relocate a data center that supported 30K users from Tampa, FL to Tewksbury, MA. This two year project had a net downtime that totaled only 8 hours despite absence of inter-site network connectivity in 2002.
• Project Technical Lead and Project Manager for a Team to completely revamp a satellite control data center including system replenish of 500 servers and associated data center equipment. Project successfully completed with zero hours of downtime.
• Conducted lab training sessions for the HP corporate annual Expo from . The lab consisted of multiple HP-UX High Availability clusters configured with Oracle RAC using a Red Hat quorum server for each cluster. During the session, students would install and troubleshoot systems after receiving personally developed classroom instructions and materials.
• Selected to preside on HP-UX, Blade, and Converged Infrastructure Certification Boards to write exam questions and review existing examination qualifications. Also served as Subject Matter Expert for CompTIA Network and Security certifications.
• Recognized for sustained high-performance levels promotions to Senior Technician, Expert Technician, and Master Technician.
• Editor-in-Chief for monthly internal publication The Escalator . The publication provided technology updates for all technical staff within HP's Global Escalation Division.

Key Technology Credentials

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional CISSP Project Management Professional PMP Federal Information Technology Security Professional FITSP Information Systems Security INFOSEC Microsoft Certified Professional MCP Microsoft Server Virtualization Dell Blade and PC Certified Professional Red Hat Certified Technician RHCT Brocade Certified Fabric Professional BCFP ITILv3 Certified
• HP: HP-UX Systems Administrator Systems Engineer in HP-UX 11iv3 High Availability HP-UX 11iv3 Security HP-UX 11iv3 Virtualization HP-UX 11iv3 HP ASE Network Infrastructure 3Par Storage HP EVA Storage HP XP Storage HP ASE Network Security HP ASE Converged Infrastructure Administration HP ASE Converged Infrastructure Architect
• Cisco: Certified Network Professional Routing and Switching Certified Network Professional Security Certified Network Professional - Data Center Certified Network Professional - Voice IPS Specialist IOS Security Specialist IPS Specialist Informational Security Specialist VPN Specialist Firewall Specialist Data Center Unified Fabric Design Specialist
• CompTIA: A Linux Network Security Server Subject Matter Expert