SUMMARY:

• Worked in teams that have been responsible for Capacity Planning, Platform Administration/Engineering and Architecture, TCO/TCA/ROI Analysis for executive review, Automation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Disaster Recovery Planning with execution, and Vendor Management.
• Last year delivering 14 projects and found ways to deliver them on - time, and below budget with a $4.5m cost avoidance combined. Throughout my career, I have always been singled out as an effective leader of my team and have ascended every one of my teams to that level.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CO

Shared Analytics

Responsibilities:

• Working in the Shared Analytics team managing the data and ETL platforms from an operations standpoint.
• Toolsets: Informatica, SAS, Tableau, Cognos, RStudio, Waterline, Solix, Cloudera, Hortonworks,
• Currently supporting over 450 environments with a total storage footprint of ~3PB
• Currently managing a lifecycle refresh, re-platform, and modernization effort with a budget of ~$75m
• Contributing to finding financial efficiencies with infrastructure deployments
• Showing 35% cost reduction in compute infrastructure
• Showing 60% cost reduction for in-rack structured cabling
• Implementing Software Defined Networking utilizing Cisco ACI architecture.
• Currently overseeing all changes and incidents ongoing through the environment with 24/7 coverage staff.
• Currently overseeing and managing infrastructure architecture personal challenged with reviewing and deciding new analytics platforms deployed in a cloud environment.
• Implemented infrastructure DevOps solutions to increase automation and increase speed to market utilizing Ansible toolsets.
• Currently on boarding new Hadoop infrastructure and challenged with the task of operationalizing the platform.
• Scaled an spec’d thee new clusters: hi-speed transactional, data science, and archive/data distribution. 12PB in total with cross-site replication
• Currently engineered data distribution architecture for Azure cloud architecture for use in PaaS and IaaS platforms.
• Implemented a new team support model focusing on filling gaps present in the current infrastructure support model in regards to architecture and engineering responsibilities.

Confidential

Lead Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in the Global Systems Engineering team managing systems, projects, teams, and resources world wide. Working with teams in Europe, Russia, Asia, India, China, and Africa.
• Worked to deploy an architecture of +1000 Hadoop nodes adding to the exiting 1200 servers that were deployed in 2015.
• Worked on 4 new data centers in China, Russia, and UK with end-to-end architecture diagrams, manifests, and documentation.
• Targeting 6 platform to be modernized on commodity hardware and open-source software
• Solutions Design is responsible for the IT Service Design tasks within the ITIL model.
• Worked on several high-profile projects to completion. These projects have world-wide impacts and requirements. Working with disparate teams from all over the globe to coordinate and drive for results.
• Public Projects: ApplePay/SamsungPay, Fundamo acquisition, Visa Checkout. Visa Debit Processing Fraud Detection Services.
• Proactive project management mindset to pre-forcast tasks and needs to ensure the projects and objectives meet their mark.
• As a Lead, responsible for the cross-functional team relationship in both the technical and business sides of the organization to drive for results. There are 5 pillars of the business and we must keep relationships with all organizations.
• Also responsible for finding opportunities and create business cases with financial data to support those actions. Delivered 9 TCO/ROI/TCA analysis for projects in excess of $10m each.
• Platform Modernization
• 320 P2V Large DB migrations completed to date with complete TCO/ROI/TCA
• Migrations of 6-8 year old hardware to new platforms
• Currently working on 4 platform migration projects
• Migration from RDBM to NoSQL
• Migration from ETL to Hadoop
• Worked with several clustering technologies such as OpenStack, Veritas Cluster, and GPFS in a virtualized configuration.
• Single Database Cluster Instances with hundreds of nodes and multi-Petabyte configurations with a cross between JBOD and SAN storage configurations.

Confidential, CO

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator/ Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architected, setup, and configured 2 new core datacenter environments in the Denver area while simultaneously working with the business migrating off older infrastructure in Atlanta datacenter that was being shutdown.
• Worked with and mentors other co-workers from other IT departments to create more robust, effective IT and business processes and solutions.
• Worked with executives in the company to provide proper documentation for budgets, mandates, and regulatory compliances.
• Responsible for core systems architecture which includes working with all needed vendors to provide overall solution.
• Implemented new virtualized technology and brought a significant return on investment with the savings of years in man-time gained of productivity enhancements.
• Provide capacity planning reports to the quickly growing company with explanations and tracking of usages across the platform.
• Sarbanes-Oxley audit management

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Held Secret Level Security Clearance.
• Converted Contractor with expanded responsibilities that increase management of servers placed all over the United States.
• Responsible for setup and configuration of two new datacenters with servers and storage in a high profile project. Daily status reports delivered directly to Chief Technology Officer.
• Mentor and support newly hired Junior SA contractors.
• Installed and Maintained 3100+ user environment with LDAP authentication.
• Supported and Maintained Disaster Recovery Backups using Tivoli Storage Manager for multiple sites around the country.
• Supported HACMP Cluster environment in a distributed facility environment.
• Sarbanes-Oxley audit management

Confidential, Aurora, CO

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Lead for a team of three employees supporting production server based in the Denver area.
• Supported large installation of Tivoli Storage Manager responsible for safeguarding critical data for the entire Denver Campus.
• Support and guided incoming projects with little steering from management based in California.
• Delegated workloads and tasks to peers based on workload and skill set level while still mentoring and building on evolving skills.
• Planned, coordinated, and execute production installations of various products across the network.
• Started to plan a multi-site disaster recovery plan for the entire enterprise.

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Helped companies prepare and execute disaster recovery plans at a cold site.
• Plan and implement upcoming tests with prebuilt documentation and procedures.
• Fully document client exercises to review later with clients on how to improve those plans in the event of a real disaster or another test.
• Helped troubleshoot and diagnose issues with clients directly during exercises.
• Setup for tests included building of servers, SAN connections, storage, and network connectivity.
• Constant multi-shift work and remote support for less experienced personnel.

Confidential, Pueblo, CO

Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Manage and coordinate daily activities with all groups within the company.
• Manage and monitor critical backups of data using Tivoli Storage Manager.
• Progress with project all the way through the lifecycle.
• Researched, developed, and implemented a Oracle RAC Clustered environment.
• Monitored and performed Capacity Planning using Tivoli Distributed Monitoring.
• Developed, planned, and fully executed multiple times a corporate disaster recovery strategy utilizing cold site recovery.
• Responsible for primary RIMS application for the corporation.

Confidential, Springs, CO

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed backups of PCs owned by our group of 8 employees.
• Performed system administration tasks on midrange servers.
• Installed and maintained performance and capacity planning software for a large installation of calling products by MCI.
• Provided trends and recommendations of increasing utilization of systems based all over the United States.