SUMMARY:

• Over 23 years managing large enterprise complex IT projects and teams, 14 years technical Pre - Sales experience and Manager of Systems Engineering infrastructure teams, over 10 years as SAN Storage and VMware Architect.
• Most current Technical focus on Hyperconvergence,with ScaleIO Software Defined Storage, Cloud Virtualization with VMware and OpenStack, EMC products, Brocade + Cisco SAN Fabrics, Oracle RAC, Linux and Windows.
• Skilled with Tier 1 multi-platform, multi-tier distributed systems, architecture design, ITIL process and enterprise level support.
• Highly successful with worldwide projects up to $50M for Government, Private and Public companies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Current Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 7, Oracle Linux 7, CentOS Linux 7, Debian 8, Ubuntu 16, Windows 2012 R2, Mac OS X.

Cluster Software: Redhat Clustering, Windows Failover Clustering, Oracle O2CB, Oracle CRS.

Clustered File System: VMware VMFS5, Redhat GFS, NFS, Oracle ASM, Oracle OCFS2.

Cloud Virtualization: VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5, vCenter Server, vRealize Operations, OpenStack Mitaka release, Hyperic, vFoglight, VM Turbo, VMware Converter / Doubletake.

Software Defined Storage: VMware vSAN, EMC ScaleIO

Converged Infrastructure: Confidential vBlock 740 VMAX 400k, Confidential vBlock 540 XTremIO, Confidential vBlock 340 VNX8000

Cisco Servers: UCS 5108 Chassis, B200 M4 Half Blade, B420 M4 Full Blade, UCS 2208XP Fabric Extender, C220 M4, C240 M4, C460 M4

Dell Servers: Dell 1000e Chassis, M630 Half Blade, M830 Full Blade, B22 FEX, R910, R820, R720xd, R620

HP Servers: HP Proliant c7000 Blade enclosure, BL680c, BL490c, BL460c Blades, Flex10, HP Proliant DL580, DL380, DL360.

Hyperscale Cloud: Quanta / QCT Server T41S-2U (4 Node)

SAN Directors and Switches: Brocade DCX Backbone, Brocade VDX 6740/T, EMC Connectrix Directors, Cisco MDS 9710 Director, Cisco MDS 9509 Director

EMC SAN: Symmetrix VMAX 400k, 40k, 20k & 10k, EMC XtremIO 3.0 All-Flash 6 X-Brick, EMC VNX8000, VNX7500, EMC Clariion CX960, CX480, EMC VPLEX GEOSynchronicity V2, EMC Recoverypoint 4.0

EMC NAS: VNX File Unified, Celerra NS480, Isilon S200, Isilon X200, Isilon IQ 108NL

Pure Storage SAN: Pure Storage All-Flash FA-450

HP SAN: HP P10000 3PAR V400, HP 3Par All-Flash 7450c, EVA 8400

Netapp SAN/NAS: FAS6000, FAS3000

EMC Software: Solutions Enabler SymCLI, Unisphere for VMAX, Unisphere for VNX, ViPR SRM, Replication Manager, Timefinder Clone / Snap, SRDF/a, Navicli, Powerpath, ESRS.

HP Software: 3Par Management Console, 3Par Remote Copy, 3Par CLI, Command View, EVA Perf.

Netapp Software: ONCommand System Manager, Management Console, Operations Manager/DFM, Config Advisor, Filer View, Virtual Storage Console, SMVI, RCU.

Brocade SAN Software: BNA Brocade Network Advisor, DCFM, SAN Health, CLI

Cisco SAN Software: Fabric Manager, Device Manager, CLI

Database: Oracle RAC Enterprise Database 12c, MySQL Community Server 5.1, MS SQL 2014 and 2012

Backup: Commvault Simpana 9. Data Domain DDX Array, DD890, DD880, DD690G, DD580.

Scripting / Automation: Bash Shell, PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python, NodeJS, Javascript, VB Script, Batch Script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Project Sr. Architect Private Cloud Infrastructure

• Day to Day Management of the largest VMware live production implementation in the world, well over 8000 VMware Hypervisors, and 50.000 guest VMs spread across the globe.
• Implemented migration plan to move from older VMware stacks to state of the art private cloud, including fully automated build process, diskless hypervisors, standardization and QA process of the clusters.
• Most current stack in ESXi 5.5u3 on HP DL Gen 9 servers with HP 3Par SAN storage, legacy stack on mix of ESXi 5.0 on HP Blades and Dell R720 servers on 3Par and Netapp SAN / IP storage.
• Performance remediation / troubleshooting on 3Par and Netapp storage array identifying busy VMs, utilizing VROPs, vCenter Server Performance Analysis, ESXTOP, Sysstats to pinpoint IO latency, busy neighbors, hot datastores.
• FC and IP Storage provisioning, Datastore migrations, rebalancing storage of workloads, clustered storage, RDM luns, proactive performance surveys and optimizations.
• Presenting opportunities of optimization and improvement to the management team to reduce cost of operations, automation, improve SLA, reduce license utilization, datacenter footprint, increase uptime, and full stack life-cycle.
• Worked with several teams, to address security and vulnerability patching in an orchestrated fashion of this very large environment.
• Conducted train the trainer sessions with Offshore teams to address several projects requiring follow the sun model.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Sr Pre-Sales Converged

• SoCAL vArchitect developing solutions around Confidential product line, vBlock, VXRack, VXRail, Converged, Hyperconverged, and Business continuity solutions.
• Performed complex technical pre-sales for multiple Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 accounts spanning California, including Kaiser Permanente, Toyota Financial, Sony, NBCU, Intel, Disney, Confidential, Farmers-Zurich
• Assisted to wrap up an 8MM dollar deal with Toyota Financial, and developed a plan to deploy +100 vBlocks for Kaiser Permanente remote locations around the US.
• Participated of end-to-end sales campaign, account development process, consultative meetings with technical stake holders.
• Developed and conducted client presentations of solutions, product demos, architecture design, rightsizing building blocks for converged and hyperconverged platforms with ScaleIO and vSAN, White boarding sessions with client and internal Confidential teams.
• Produced configuration quotes, build of materials, utilizing internal Confidential configuration tools and EMC tools across the whole matrix of EMC products (ScaleIO, VMAX, XTREMEIO, VNX, Isilon, Avamar, DataDomain), Cisco products (Nexus IP line and FC SAN Directors, UCS Blades / Servers, FEXs, interconnects, licenses), VMware (multiple products and licenses).
• Co-Participate developing opportunities with partners and VARs like WWT, Presidio, Trace3, Red8.
• Assisted Sales team to coordinate meetings with clients, glued communication among separate technical teams.
• Mentored clients and Confidential vArchitect team about ScaleIO software defined technology and Hyperconvergence, creating POCs, and live demos.
• Quarterly personal development certification training.

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

Consulting

• Managed project to install and migrate multiple legacy vBlock 300 workloads to new vBlock 740 with VMAX 3 400k, worked with Confidential and EMC to prepare site readiness, SAN fabric requirements, firmware and code levels, assisted on the right sizing of the solution, established installation and migration plan steps and run books, integration of the new VMAX to EMC VPLEX Local, standardized LUN and Datastore sizing, created storage policies based on SLA, performed migration and cut-over of several Bare Metal MSSQL and VMware environments via VPLEX or Storage vMotion to the new vBlock 740 with VMAX 3, Assisted on activities related to multiple VMAX Enginuity and VNX flare / Dart code upgrades.
• Integrated 2 new All Flash EMC XtremeIO 6 X-Bricks, to the Dev / QA MSSQL Delphix environment, assisted DBA teams with performance and capacity planning.
• Integrated a new All Flash Pure Storage FA-450 array and assisted with the migration of hot LUNs (TempDB and Transaction Logs) from several EMC VNX 7500 arrays.
• Created migration plan, automation scripts and runbooks, to migrate legacy EMC Celerra NAS CIFS volumes spread around 80 remote offices across US, to several VMware and Hyper-V virtualized Microsoft File Servers.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Consulting - Sr Architect Private Cloud Infrastructure

• Managed technical architecture projects spanning several concurrent teams to bring new products from design to go-live, and to enhance the Confidential VMware vSphere Private Cloud architecture, related to broadcasting, content linear / non-linear encoding / streaming, compute and storage scaling + density. Concurrently connected client devices is well over 40 million, spanning multiple continents. Environment is well over 5000 VM servers on several co-locations (mix of Dell blades, Cisco UCS), 3Par for block over 8Gb FC (Brocade DCX, Cisco MDS fabrics) and Netapp for file over 10Gb IP NFS. Standard operating system is Redhat Linux 6.5, running several Redhat clusters (virtualized on top of VMware 5.1).
• Day to Day Responsibilities:
• Architecture and design of infrastructure to support new company internal and publicly facing products to be incorporated to Confidential Private Cloud Production environment, across the complete company matrix, IT team, Development team, Database team, Network team, Storage team.
• Design and enhancement VMware vSphere architecture, creation of common VMware block model (Compute / Storage / Network), to reduce physical datacenter footprint, achieve best ROI based on CAPEX / OPEX analysis.
• Work with vendors to evaluate of configuration specs to achieve best price sweet spot, power and cooling capacity.
• Deployment of new environments, including Dell M620 Blades, M1000e chassis, B22 FEXs, Brocade SAN switches, and 10Gb connectivity to Cisco Nexus 6k switches.
• Creation of 3Par CPGs, Thin Virtual Volumes, storage presentation / masking to ESX clusters, port mapping, switch zoning administration on fabrics, presentation of Netapp NFS File systems to VMs for shared volume access, ASIS/Deduplication, aggregate capacity management, filer head performance.
• Automation of installation of VMs and base OS software via bash scripting, customization of templates, ESX server profiles, OS installations, RPM package management, Redhat kernel updates and upgrades.
• Automation via VB / Powershell and PowerCLI scripting of day to day ESX tasks, storage volume provisioning, mounting and un-mounting from ESX clusters of new LUNs, running snapshots reporting, capacity usage reporting.
• Sizing of VMs to achieve application requirements (vCPU, memory, disk, IOPS, Network) for Websphere application servers, standalone Java servers, compiled application servers, Oracle RAC environment including Infiniband cluster interconnect, ASM volumes presentation.
• Creation of Redhat Cluster of VMs for tier 1 applications, vCenter fencing configuration, application automated failover / restart and cluster resource monitoring.
• Cluster balancing via automated vMotion using DRS policies, storage vmotions to re-balance FC datastores, administration of Distributed Virtual Switches, and standard vSwitches, Port Groups, VLANS, Performance and capacity management via vCenter server, and vCOPS, IOPS profiling, network performance troubleshooting.
• Upgrades of vCenter server, upgrades of ESXi servers, upgrades of VMs virtual hardware, VMXNET3 driver upgrades, TCP Offloading/RSS scaling configuration, and VMware tools upgrades, vCenter and ESX licensing administration.

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Consulting - Project Physical Datacenter Migration

• Project to physically migrate a complete datacenter to a different location, assisting on the architecture and design of the new datacenter IP networking and SAN fabric, block replication, virtual machine live migration, documenting migration strategies using runbooks, EMC VMAX 10k to 20k migration utilizing EMC Open Replicator (Hot PULL) live with cut over window, EMC Powerpath Migration Enabler (PPME), EMC RecoveryPoint, EMC VNX, Avamar and Data Domain physical migration, Tape libraries migration, physical hosts migration.
• EMC VMAX 20k Enterprise SAN storage administration, Enginuity 5876, performance, troubleshooting and overall storage management through Solutions Enabler 7.6 SymCLI, Symmetrix Management Console, and Unisphere for VMAX, administration of Storage Pools, TDEVs, BCV devices, RDF devices, meta devices, gatekeepers, auto-provision, binding to storage pools, mapping devices, masking devices, FAST pool/policy administration.
• Timefinder Clone / Snap and SRDF administration, creation of device groups and composite groups, SymClone (precopy / activate), SymSnap sessions, SRDF device pair creation, establish / split and query operations.
• Coordinated Enginutiy upgrades for all VMAX arrays, validated pre-requisites, upgrade plan, remediation plan including Solutions Enabler, Powerpath, Replication Manager, Flare code, Unisphere for VMAX and VNX.
• VMAX performance management, director / cache / disk performance and bottlenecks detection, pool capacity.
• Validation configuration via EMC Grabs and E-Lab navigator, troubleshooting via EMC Primus and Powerlink.
• Cisco MDS 9509 SAN Director Administration, Fabric Manager, alias, zone and configuration activation, user management, HBA logins, and troubleshooting.
• Working with vendors and internal teams for capacity planning, forecasting, and growth expansion purchases.
• Storage Architecture, for large Oracle / SAP database environments on UNIX, ESX, Windows and Linux
• Design storage migration strategies around OpenReplicator (Hot PULL).
• Design storage migration strategies around Powerpath Migration Enabler PPME.
• Design storage migration strategies around VMware Storage vMotion.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

President / Founder - Consulting and Professional Services Company

• Within three years awarded sales consulting contracts with many Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 Publicly held Corporations
• Achieved company profitability after first year
• Built the corporate roadmap to double revenue within the second year, and forecast to double revenue again by the end of 2016
• Day to Day Responsibilities:
• Managing company affairs, bylaws, minutes, stock, federal and state requirements, review and approve contracts
• Customer, vendors, investors, media and strategic partner relationship, develop prospective clients, scope business opportunities, Marketing, Sales, Client presentations, Web presence, Social media campaigns.
• Quarterly and yearly financials for CAPEX and OPEX, forecasting, setting financial goals
• Establish and maintain yearly review insurance, Legal, EDD and compliancy requirements
• Execute quarterly TAX strategy, prepare with CFO yearly Corporate Federal and State Tax
• Companywide budgeting, purchasing approvals, vendor selection / interaction
• Building company team, and mentorship
• Created product and services roadmap, documentation of service catalogs, established support agreements, negotiated contracts and bids
• Training, travel arrangements, Interviewing, conducting performance review, training of new hires, hiring, promotion, demotion, termination, manage benefits, compliancy and retirement plans.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Consulting

• Team Lead/SME for the West Coast Infrastructure. Architected Tier 1 business applications infrastructure, High Availability and Disaster Recovery, solution around VMware ESXi + Site Recovery Manager Virtualization, 3Par + Netapp Enterprise Storage, and Brocade DCX Storage Area Network.
• Re-architecture the Production ESX environment, created a new framework to reduce and consolidate the datacenter footprint, reduce CAPEX and OPEX cost, to increase VM density per host to 150:1, including Platinum, Gold and Silver SLA tiers, Disaster Recovery via VMware SRM + Array Based Replication, instantaneous backups of the VMs via Array based snapshots, long term backups to a separate array, increasing the uptime, and reducing the infrastructure complexity by standardizing the complete stack building blocks.
• Vendor Relationship interaction for technology refreshes, architecture roadmaps, score carding, ROI/TCO analysis, white boarding, creating/conducting presentations, proof of concepts, assisting Sr. management on architecture/technical decisions.
• Surveyed Top-Down production infrastructure assisted the company to find opportunities around cost reduction, consolidation, performance, efficiency, scaling and density.
• Multiple Colocations/Data Centers between West and East Coast, +2000 server footprint (50% Linux/Unix, 50% Windows), 50% Physicals / 50% Virtuals.
• Architecture and Operational Support of a large farm of Netapp Arrays 3PB, 20 Netapp heads (3xx0 and 6xx00 series), distributed among west and east coast. Architecture and Operational Support of an effort to migrate critical Tier 1 Business Apps from SAN attached Netapp arrays to 3Par V400 arrays (S400s, T400s, V400s), distributed among west and east coast.
• Implemented 3Par Remote Copy IP Async replication between LA and NY sites, part of the Disaster Recovery architecture.
• Migrated hundreds of Terabytes from old end of life Netapp arrays into new 3Par V400 arrays, for the VMware Production ESX environment.
• Upgraded multiple 3Par arrays to latest InServ, Netapp arrays OnTap, Netapp 31x0 to 32x0 head swap.