SUMMARY

• Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure Professional with 12+ years of business - savvy systems analysis, design & deployment experience can provide leadership, excellent communication skills with a deep focus on efficient, client centric services.
• Information Technology Service Management and Operational Excellence training & experience continue to inform me in developing & leading solutions design and delivery with clear secure, highly available, manageable, performant quality attributes.
• Experience within different business disciplines has been instrumental in understanding the domain needs of stakeholders that rely heavily on systems within their current capabilities.
• In addition, I maintain a deep desire to extend an ever expanding skillset with equal employment opportunity in Internet of Things/Everything, Big Data Science, API & Integration Design.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Enterprise Architecture
• Resiliency Design
• Strategic Driver Alignment
• Infrastructure Architecture
• Security Design
• Capacity Planning
• Cloud IaaS & PaaS Architecture
• Service Design & Automation
• Continuous Improvement
• RESTful API Architecture
• Manageability Design
• Change Management
• Big Data Architecture
• Recoverability Design
• Configuration Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• VMware Center 4.1, 5, 5.5, 6
• AWS API Gateway
• Business Model Canvas
• VMware ESXi 3.5 & 4.1, 5, 5.5, 6 Hypervisor
• AWS SQS
• IT4IT Reference Architecture
• vRealize Business Advanced
• AWS IoT
• CSA’s TCI Reference Architecture
• vRealize Automation 6.x & 7.x
• Apache Hadoop
• Lean IT & SAFe Practices
• vRealize Orchestrator
• IBM Streams 3.x / Apache Storm
• Infrastructure Design Compute, Storage, Network
• vRealize Operations Manager 6.x
• MongoDB
• ITIL Service Strategy & Service Design
• Windows Server 2008 R2 & 2012 R2
• Oracle 11g & 12c RDBMS
• Secure SDLC from CSSLP & CEH training
• OpenStack Havana & Icehouse
• IBM WebSphere MQ Server 8.0
• RESTful API Design & Architecture
• AWS VPC & Direct Connect
• Microsoft AppFabric
• JSON & Javascript programming
• AWS EC2 & Route 53
• Microsoft Office 365
• Python 2.7 & 3.4 programming
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7
• APIgee Edge Microgateway
• HTML5 programming
• Cisco UCS Platform
• MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
• Business Capabaility Mapping & Modeling ArchiMate
• Cloud Foundry & OpenShift PaaS
• Ansible Python & YAML - based DSL, like Puppet
• IT Strategy Modeling ArchiMate
• Active Directory & Azure AD - Directory Services
• vRealize Code Stream based on Jenkins & Artifactory
• Enterprise Governance COBIT & ISO 38500
• VMware Identity Manager On Premise
• OpenAPI Swagger and RAML
• ISPMA Software Product Management Framework

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Architect - Hybrid Cloud/SDDC

Confidential, Milford, OH

Responsibilities:

• Work with Stakeholders to define and refine cloud strategy and launch cloud initiatives
• Program level organization planning
• Assessment & Evaluation of application portfolios & technology building blocks
• Design & build cloud infrastructure service capabilities
• Drive Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Technology(POT) evaluation(s)
• Designing Azure + AzureStack, Azure + vRealize Suite, Cloud Foundry, CloudForms
• Design High Level SDN Deployment Architectures Routing Protocol, Network Topology, Network Mgmt Svcs, etc.
• Evaluation of critical cloud application architecture(s) for secure scalable application delivery
• Mentor engineers towards solution development and execution
• Support pre-sales Architecture activities for Cloud RFPs Working in the VMware CoE, I design and implement solutions to address business problems in various industry verticals via the following activities:
• Work with Stakeholders to define and refine technology strategy
• Design & build cloud infrastructure service capabilities
• Drive Proof of Concept (POC) and Proof of Technology(POT) evaluation(s) on interoperable platforms
• Designing vCloud/vRealize Suite, OpenStack & AWS Cloud Architecture(s)
• Cloud Platforms
• Design High Level NSX Deployment Architectures Routing Protocol, Network Topology, Network Mgmt Services, etc.
• Comparison of cloud application architecture(s) for secure scalable application delivery
• Designing Cloud SDLC cycle process improvements
• Managing teams for cloud development
• Train and mentor engineers towards solution development and POC/POT execution
• Migrating existing web applications to Cloud Platforms
• Backup & Restore leveraging cloud-based object storage solutions

Principal, Cloud Solution Architect & Engineer

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Analysis and evaluation of the creation of the course material for the confidential course.
• Created Examination questions for the confidential’s Professional Cloud Developer course.
• Served as Project Engineer an Solution SME on project delivered.
• Slated to be included as a Cloud SME for the Development of confidential’s OpenStack-specific Cloud Architect & Developer courses.

Principal, Cloud Solution Architect & Engineer 2013 - 2014

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Lead Solution Engineering Development effort for the Enterprise Production, Development and Test/Disaster Recovery Environments of a IBM PureData for Hadoop Deployement integrating it into the a new Tier 4, confidential certified Datacenter.
• Created Cloud Solution Architecture for Production & Development Environments of a Custom Applications, 1 built on top of OpenStack Havana, the other was a hybrid solution encompassing Amazon Web Services Infrastructure and OpenStack.
• Lead Solution Architecture Effort of 3 Cloud Solution Architectures 2 IaaS, 1 PaaS on IBM SCO an OpenStack-based Product from IBM, WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance & VMware vSphere 5.x for Production, Disaster Recovery, Peformance Testing and Development Environments of a Custom Applications, built on top of the IBM WebSphere Application Infrastructure, integrating it into the a new Tier 4, LEED Gold certified Datacenter.
• Participated in Data Warehourse Solution Engineering Development effort for the Enterprise Development and Disaster Recovery Environments of a Teradata 2700 Deployement integrating it into the a new Tier 4, LEED Gold certified Datacenter.
• Created Solution Architecture for BinaryTree Application to facilitate the co-existance of Microsoft Exchange 2010 Infrastructure and the Lotus Notes Domino Server Infrastructure.
• Served as Project Engineer and Solution SME on all projects delivered.
• Performed Capacity Planning for Solutions Designed
• Performed Chanage Management Process intiation for updates to new deployments that had been recently promoted to production after User Acceptance Testing Extensions

VMware Systems Engineer/SME & Architect 2010-2012

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to Cloud Architecture Development effort that worked toward integrating a Cisco UCS with IBM Hardware into a complete IaaS foundation.
• Lead virtualization engineering team knowledge transfer to the service desk team
• Initial Design and Creation of training documentation for the Virtualized Environment on behalf of Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning team.
• Created Application Solution Architecture for simple Business Intelligence application deployed on OpenStack Essex to facilitate ongoing capacity planning of the virtualized environment.
• Responsible for Security Management through UAT, up to and including Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2 Image Customization & OS Server Hardening
• ESXi Cluster Deployment and Administration on IBM HS22 Blade Servers Management Cluster and x3850 RackMount Servers Production and DR
• Delivery of Virtualized Citrix XenApp Solution architecture for SAP UI
• Performed Capacity Management of the Virtualized Environment
• Performed Chanage Management Process intiation for updates to new deployments that had been recently promoted to production after User Acceptance Testing Extensions
• Administrated Windows Active Directory environment (DHCP, DNS, OU, GPO and User Creation) within Staged Production and Warm Diaster Recovery Environment
• Participate in SAP MDM and XI Architecture requirements analysis and decisioning; deployed & configured supporting virtualized infrastructure
• Implemented a PowerCLI & Powershell solution to automate virtual machine configurations in the disaster recovery site.

Technical Systems Engineer, 2009-2010

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Provided analysis, diagnostics, and solution recommendations for VMware Virtual Center 2.5/4.0 and ESX Host server 3.5/4.0 performance issues
• Delivered troubleshooting and re-designed disaster recovery solution architecture recommendations for the clients
• Designed and implemented solution architecture of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 for confidential Management Pack deployment.
• Designed, implemented & supported solution architecture confidential’s Virtual infrastructure mapping and reporting solution (Enterprise Reporter)
• Administrated Windows Active Directory environment (DHCP, DNS, OU, GPO and User Creation) within Test, Development and Lab Environment
• Supported customers and internal system engineers with IIS and .NET 2.0 troubleshooting
• Performed VMware environment upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0
• Troubleshooting and client relationship advisor for junior support engineers and technical support analysts

Information Technology Analyst, 2006 - 2009

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• VMware VDI administration for user base in Asia
• Recorded and Monitored Change Management Tickets as a part of problem resolution for Voice and Infrastructure Operations
• Supported nearly 35% of the 15,000 DFS users with access to Citrix Xen Apps System
• Tier 1 administration for privileges, identity, access and authentication management utilizing Active Directory and Oracle (SUN) Identity Manager
• Administered enterprise wireless mobile operations including confidential user administration as well as both T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless PCI cards
• Provided first and second level administration for telecommuting laptops users in North America on basic Desktop related issues to Lotus Notes 6.5 and Microsoft Office 2003
• Resolved internet access issues for entire Discover laptop user base including the telecommuting workforce
• Updated the unites with custom laptop image re-deployment
• Provided first level support for company VPN solution, prioritized and escalated issues to other management/staff as needed

Technical Support Representative, 2005 - 2006

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Assisted residential users with resolving internet access issues
• Provided in depth home networking problem resolution
• Engaged in Tier 2 Anti-malware and antivirus software troubleshooting
• Delivered Tier 1 VoIP quality of service maintenance and technical support
• Educated customers on a proper email client configuration and account usage