SUMMARY:

• Success oriented. Creative and innovative solutions to today’s IT challenges. Adapt quickly to change keeping pace with computer technology’s and Infrastructure’s evolution. Team Lead, Well organized, Self motivated with many years of “Hands - On” in the Computer and Technical Engineering industries. Very methodical problem solving skills. UNIX Platform Deployment, Disaster Recovery and HA Specialist, Specializing in System Virtualization. Outstanding interpersonal communication as well as strong presentation skills.

• Solutions, Systems, Infrastructure and Recovery Solutions Architecture, Technical Lead, Technical Project Management for delivering UNIX and Open Systems hosting Oracle, Informix, DB2, Progress, Data Warehouse, SAS, SAP, Financials, Healthcare, Web & B2B projects.
• IBM Power Systems Virtualization, PowerVM - AIX, Linux-on-Power, System i/AS400
• Reference Architecture & Systems Engineering drawings and documentation (Visio, Word, Excel)
• Disaster Recovery Plan Development, Audit and Assessment, Design, Implementation, Testing
• UNIX System Security, Compliance Audit and Implementation, HIPAA (AIX, HPUX, Solaris, Linux)
• UNIX/Open Systems Platform/Network Integration and Technology Refresh Technical Lead
• Performance Analysis and Tuning for UNIX and Storage Systems
• System Usage Trend Analysis and Capacity Planning
• Field Deployment and Systems Roll-Out and Delivery Specialist
• Data Center Relocation and Infrastructure Design, Planning and Implementation
• Team Development, Staffing and Mentoring
• Technical and Business Needs Analysis
• RFI/RFP Generation and vendor solicitation
• Vendor and Technology Evaluation with vendor selection and management
• Legacy Systems Migration Planning
• System Analysis and Documentation with Data-Flow Diagrams (DFD)

• Experience in a variety of industry verticals. (Entertainment, Gaming, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Distribution, Financial, Education, Services)
• Platform Architecture, Virtualization of IBM Power/P-Series p4 through Power8, AIX 5.2 - 7.1, System i, PowerVM, HMC, VIOS, GPFS, NPIV, LPM, PowerHA in multiple SAP Environments
• Successful UNIX Platform Tech-Refresh Migrations and Data Center Deployment Projects
• Re-hosted Fully Virtualized Oracle Data Warehouse, SAS Business Intelligence Grid models, FileNet and Credit Application Processing systems in a financial systems environment.
• SUN SPARC T-Series , T5120, Solaris 10, Solaris Zones, ZFS
• Redhat Linux 5.5 for B2B Servers, Security Appliances, Firewalls and Call-Center applications
• SuSE, SLES 11 for SAP application servers and Bolt-On Oracle RAC Servers
• SAN/NAS Integration, EMC VMAX, Symmetrix, CLARiiON, IBM Shark, DS4700, NetApp
• NetBackup with Data Domain DD880 Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL)
• Technical Writing and Visio drawings, Documentation, Admin Turn-Over & System Training.
• HealthCare Information Systems and HIPAA Compliance

• Detailed UNIX Platform Deployment and Migration Planning (Various UNIX Platforms, System i)
• Operating System Software Installations, Updates and Patching process development
• Storage System Design (SAN & NAS) with performance designs
• UNIX Systems Documentation, Administration and Training Services
• HA & DR Strategies developed with Fail-Over, Clusters and replication to Active remotes sites
• UNIX System and Network Security Implementation and Compliance

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Consulting Systems Architect, UNIX & Platform Implementation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Technical Consulting focused on the Architecture, Implementation and Deployment of High Performance, “Mission Critical”, “Highly Available” secure platforms within the client budget constraints and meeting the demanding Service Level Agreements (SLA’s). Reporting directly to CIO’s, SVP’s, Directors of Information Technology and Directors of Professional Services. Verticals include Entertainment, Gaming, Financial, Telco, Healthcare, Wholesale Distribution and Logistics
• Manufacturing, Transportation, Education, Government and the Defense Industry and Technology industries.

Confidential, Westlake Village, CA

Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Midrange Platform Infrastructure and Data Center Architect.
• Responsible for designing and developing AIX, Linux and AS/400-System i Server consolidation strategies from multiple dedicated host designs to fully virtualized System LPARs on IBM Power8 systems using PowerVM and Dual VIOS for High Availability. Including DR replication strategies.

Confidential, Las Vegas

Power Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Consulting Member of the Confidential IT Infrastructure Architecture Team focusing on delivering AIX platform solutions to Confidential IT initiatives.
• Both fully virtualized server solutions as well as physical server solutions. Working with various lines of business, Casino Management Internal Banking, Online Gaming, Data and Digital Security, translating business requirements in to the technical requirements for server solutions and platforms. Adhering to Caesars’ Compliance Standards, ITIL and Best Practices for server designs including, Performance Requirements, Capacity Planning and SIEM Compliance.

Confidential, Burbank

Technical Specialist, Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Aggressive developed the migration strategies and system design packages for over 130 IBM AIX Power Systems Servers including PowerHA clusters (Production, Test, Dev and DR) implementing IBM PowerVM and Live Partition Mobility (LPM) to be logically migrated from an outsourced atacenter to a new Disney datacenter.
• Power7 770 and 740. This included PowerVM V2V, P2V as well as P2P platform migrations and refreshes using a variety if migration and replication techniques. System Design packages were then given to the Disney strategic sourcing partner to be built in NC. This server list included Disney’s massive SAP implementation with BWA (one of the world’s largest SAP shops), and other lines of business such as the Studio’s various AIX application environments.
• Ingram Micro November 2011 to July 2012 Senior Manager of Engineering, Enterprise Computing, Global, IS
• Managed a team of engineers as Technical Project Delivery Managers who are tasked with designing and validating the reference architectures that are to be deployed as highly available high performance systems in a very high transaction rate SAP landscape within Ingram Micro’s Global IS.
• This included VMware, Cisco UCS B200//B400/C-Series Servers, IBM Power7 Systems, AIX, LINUX, EMC VMAX/Data Domain Storage and Windows 2008. My team transformed business requirements into value driven technology solutions that support the global infrastructure.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Senior Enterprise Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• I designed, utilizing emerging technologies and implemented full virtualization using IBM’s Power7 Systems with PowerVM, HMC, VIOS and AIX. Deployed HPUX, Sun Solaris Zones, RedHat Linux farms, Oracle RAC on AIX. Credit Application Processing Systems using Progress Software database. Primary Architect developing the corporate standard for Disaster Recovery replication processes using Active-Active and Active-Passive strategies with Database log shipping technologies, EMC SRDF and Data Domain VTL replication over a WAN from California to Texas. Worked closely with the SAN and Database Architects implementing enterprise solutions.
• Implemented UNIX and Network system’s Security Compliance aligning with the Corporate Compliance Policy and best practices.

Confidential

Recovery Solutions ArchitectConsulting Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and tested custom Point Solutions for an “in-house” Disaster Recovery strategy and Plan for the primary patient Accounting Systems Keane/PatCom and McKesson-HBOC-STAR.
• Worked with Confidential and Keane to develop a migration plan for the Patient Accounting data migration from HBOC-STAR to Keane in preparation for a Keane to EPIC migration.
• Performance Monitoring and tuning of UNIX and storage environments
• Performed the systems engineering and reference architecture designs to migrate Keane’s patCom from Data General’s DG/UX to IBM Power Systems and AIX.
• For several years, when the Confidential Level-3 support engineer left the company, due to my knowledge of the environment, I assumed the primary system support engineer role for the McKesson HBOC-STAR system working closely with the STAR Applications Admin. This included 24x7 Level 3 Support, Monthly Code releases, DR Planning and Testing and system updates, tuning and outage recovery.
• Worked closely with the Confidential Compliance Officer for HIS System’s HIPAA Compliance.