SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Solutions Infrastructure Architect with extensive experience in technical presales activities and early adopter implementations of the Unisys Real-Time-Infrastructure RTI stack, selling data center transformation and Cloud offerings to global prospective clients. Proven expertise in architecting, implementing, hosting and maintaining large 40 80 CPU Unix Virtualization projects, large custom prospecting databases 60TB , and / or highly tuned SAN performing at an aggregate 1.4 GB/s for a single server for several top 50 financial institutions. Very hands-on Solution Architect with the tenacity for resolving complex issues to the root-cause through knowledge and experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Solutions Architect

• Provided prospective customers with technical reference architectures, Proof-of-Concepts POC , conducted pilot programs, other presales activities and early adopter implementations of the Unisys Real Time Infrastructure RTI portfolio. Portfolio included uAdapt, uOrchestrate, uProvision, uChargeback and server virtualization.
• Promoted and marketed the RTI COE as the global focal point for architectural, technical, and product capabilities of the RTI suite of products to other internal global, country, and regional organizations.
• Advocated the Unisys Stealth products Data-In-Motion DIM and Data-At-Rest DAR to global prospective clients working as member of the Unisys Stealth Swat team.
• Developed, maintained and delivered customer demos, technical documentation including white papers for key RTI products.
• Championed established production data center operational policies, procedures, and operational readiness for RTI products by integration testing and redundant hardware configurations.
• Advised in architectural development and validation for RFI / RFP's.
• Assisted marketing in identifying the prioritization of product enhancements, maturation, performing new release beta testing of current products, and reviewing / testing additional possible tools / applications to the RTI portfolio suite.

Confidential

UNIX Administrator

• Architected and implemented large-scale infrastructure initiatives supporting mission critical Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions via ASP and SaaS platforms to fortune 100 organizations. Many of these initiatives utilized large servers 40-60 CPUs were virtualized with HP nPar / vPar software product to consolidate footprint and reduce costs.
• Architected, implemented, and maintained a robust storage environment of over 200TB of storage between multiple locations with much of the storage SAN based and virtualized with HP EVA technology. The results of this methodology was a SAN island with a measured performance of 1.4GB/s sustained aggregate IO on a 60TB Oracle database, external customer satisfaction and several requests to speak with vendor's potential customers about these implementation details.
• Architected and Implemented several optimization projects utilizing HP Work Load Manager WLM resulting in several application specific systems being consolidated to a single virtualized system utilizing WLM to dynamically manage the system resources for the application based on specific pre-defined business requirements.
• Designed and Implemented several Data Center consolidation projects including several large SMP Digital GS series servers into a virtualized HP Superdome server utilizing HP nPar and vPar technology.
• Managed several consolidation projects requiring the server relocation from a regional data center to the core facility in Alpharetta, GA.
• Architected, implemented, maintained and upgraded an innovative backup environment that encompassed multiple firewalls resulting in a substantial consolidation and cost savings.
• Defined and Implemented server and storage call home feature providing early awareness of issues and in many case proactively prevented downtime incidents when enabled.
• Actively performed beta testing with HP supplied new HP hardware and software products including HP-UX, vPar, and Storage software. Because HP funded the required components servers and storage , the business result was a very inexpensive demonstration environment when not utilized for HP testing.
• Defined and implemented a divisional Internet facing secure sftp server.
• Defined and implemented HP Ignite-UX server Disaster Recovery process and procedures.
• Identified as single point of contact for all major hardware and software escalations focused on resolution of complex technical issues.

Confidential

Principal Systems Programmer Analyst

• Configured and maintained the environment servers, networking, and printing that supported the worldwide ERP application. Designed and implemented a Windows Server infrastructure migration from Novell Netware.
• Redesigned and implemented the Wide Area Network consisting of a Fractional Frame Relay network to utilize ISDN dial backup during Frame Relay interruptions as well as ensuring Y2K compliance.
• Designed and implemented a redundant storage sub-system utilizing hardware and software solutions.
• Redesigned and implemented local and remote sites Local Area Networks for simplicity and improved performance.
• Designed and implemented a complete Data Center centralized backup solution.