CAREER OVERVIEW:

• I have over 20+ years of IT industry experience in environments that range from start - ups to large enterprises.
• I specialize in Microsoft Azure Architecture and DevOps, providing system administration, automation, security, data backup, high availability solutions, disaster recovery and agile application deployment support for hybrid cloud environments.
• 5 Years Microsoft Azure Architect and DevOps for Federal Government (EPA).
• 16 years cloud based infrastructure design, implementation and maintenance//support experience
• 3 Years of life sciences and medical imaging technology experience
• 17 Years software development, design and management experience utilizing a diverse range of methodologies, programming languages, commercial products and relational database servers
• 12 Years IT management experience managing team leaders, group managers, programmers, network/system administrators, support staff and database administrators
• 10 Years IT strategy, data center design and cloud technology planning and implementation experience

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lafayette, LA

Senior Consultant - Microsoft Azure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, testing and implementation of a new Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud virtualization platform for the EPA.
• This system will replace a legacy virtualization platform hosting mission critical applications for the EPA.
• Routinely perform hands on activities to maintain and support existing services as well as architecting and implementing new services with the Azure infrastructure.
• Design high availability solutions using clustered servers in a network load balancing topology.
• I have set up backup jobs using MS Data Protection Manager to backup critical server images and SQL databases to the Azure Cloud Storage Containers.
• System Center Operations Manager is used to monitor all jobs.
• We run monthly system wide security scans and I am responsible for remediating any vulnerabilities identified.

Confidential

Senior Professional Services Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Independent consultant providing IT project management, infrastructure architecture, computer system and software support services, web site development, IT strategy proposals and recommendations to small and medium businesses.

Confidential

Adjunct Professor of Computer Science

Responsibilities:

• Taught computer science classes covering, IT Project Management, Hardware and Software Architecture, data center design and implementation, Database Fundamentals using MS SQL Server and software development using C#/ASP.NET, SQL and PHP.
• The Database Design and Development class covers XML, HTML, PL/SQL, C#/ASP, and MS SQL server stored procedures as well as Oracle database administration.
• The programming language instruction and advanced application development classes cover the Visual Studio and Netbeans integrated development environments in a Windows 7 environment.

Confidential

Executive Director of Systems and Software Development

Responsibilities:

• As Executive Director and member of the Executive Committee with responsibility for day to day operations of the company, I developed IT strategy for IT Department and software development organization.
• Instigated, designed, planned and managed the implementation of a ~$1.2M enterprise wide data center upgrade and technology refresh project.
• Followed through on strategy and design recommendations by managing the implementation and overseeing the production cut over activities.
• Reduced data center footprint from 4 racks to 1 using Cisco Routers, switches and firewalls, HP Blade Servers, VMware, NetAPP, F5 Big IP and Windows Data Center Edition.
• Upgrade reduced maintenance and support costs and time to market for new products.
• Managed financial aid software platform re-write project that included a student single sign on feature utilizing proprietary web services bases authentication and security.
• Successfully ensured compliance with SAS 70 audits every year.
• Big Data - Database size was 500GB. Handled ~5B/year in financial disbursements.

Confidential

Director of Systems and Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the IT infrastructure architecture for a ~$30M statewide public safety grant project.
• Also followed up with the design, procurement, management, implementation and overall software/system architecture of the network, systems, and data integration projects.
• Designed and managed development of J2EE based suite of public safety applications that utilized web services, IIS, Apache, Java, JBOSS, Hibernate and PostGreSQL.
• Also utilized Netbeans IDE and rich client platform.
• Performed Linux administration, configuration and XML/shell scripting and trained staff.
• Deployed data warehousing solutions to allow information sharing.
• Implemented single sign on system for all users using the Oracle Secure Global Desktop to pass user credentials to the Windows active directory server and Linux LDAP server to allow users to access the correct application icons.
• Big Data - Consolidated public safety databases statewide.

Confidential, New York

Director of Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Worked with start-up management team on company/product strategy, project management and business planning.
• Responsible for research, software engineering and team management for Java 2 EE, Weblogic, Websphere, Unix/Linux, Windows 2000, DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server based cloud computing systems.
• These systems Also ran on equivalent open source environments that leveraged Apache /Tomcat/JBOSS/OpenEJB/Hypersonic SQL and MySQL/PostGreSQL.

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Systems Software Architect (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for technology research and strategy recommendations for Java and C++ based application server Weblogic /Websphere /TPBroker /Visibroker / iPlanet) and LDAP server products.
• Evaluated product features, functionality and executed performance and scalability testing within Confidential and Confidential test labs.
• Performed Oracle DBA and performance tuning function for project team and developed C++ applications in Unix Solaris server environment.
• Benchmarked system and Application performance under various load conditions in Confidential and Sun Microsystems Test Lab.
• Made software and system architecture and strategy recommendations to Confidential based on research, testing and findings.
• Provided Project Management support to the team through-out this contract engagement.
• Tested enterprise applications and off the shelf products with large telecom data sets

Confidential, Irving, TX

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed back office enterprise applications for Confidential Long Distance and Competitive Local Exchange Carrier.
• Developed C++ applications, web Applications and Informix database applications in HP UX server environment.
• Utilized Rational Unified Process and tool suite.
• Developed object relational mapping code in C++ for Informix database. Deployed data warehousing system.
• Fulfilled role of Project Manager for the development team.
• Loaded and processed terabytes of telecom records daily and supported analytics.