SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Infrastructure Architect, Director and Manager specializing in vendor footprint reductions, virtualized environments, cloud environments, big data, continuous availability, and rapid disaster recovery and business continuity assurance.
• Deep understanding of operational fundamentals, big picture concept development, cost reductions through standardizations and process simplifications.
• Exposure to a wide array of infrastructure management methodologies and product implementations.
• Extensive experience with off the shelf as well as custom developed application environment assessments and migrations from siloed legacy environments to highly standardized common deployment environments.
• High level and multi - faceted virtualization strategies encompassing OS, storage and networks.
• Specialization in highly leveraged environments where idle standby equipment is either reduced or eliminated while increasing failure resistance.
• Balanced outlook on requirements versus financial reality.

SKILL:

Technology: Cloud Services, Virtual Systems, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/DRaaS, Media/Publishing, Internet, Engineering, Data Warehousing, Data Center, Telecom, Wireless/Mobile, IoT/Embedded

Operating Systems: Microsoft, RHEL, CentOS. Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Embedded Linux, BSD, Aix, Solaris, Mac OS

Platforms: Intel/AMD, Cisco UCS, Nutanix, Sun/Oracle SPARC M/T, IBM pSeries/xSeries

Virtualization: VMware/VCenter, Hyper V, Linux KVM, Oracle VM, Xen, Citrix, VirtualBox, Solaris Zones

Cloud: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud GCP, Amazon AWS, Rackspace, VMware vCloud

Storage: NAS, SAN, Zerto, Azure Site Recovery, SnapMirror, Actifio, Kashya/Recovery Point, Replication Manager, Storage Foundation, EMC2 VNX/Clariion, EMC2 VMax/Symmetrix, EMC2 Isilon, HP/3Par (SSD), Pure Storage (SSD), Brocade, ZFS, NFS, SAMBA/CIFS, FCoE, iSCSI, Storage Tiering

Networking: Cisco, Nexus, Foundry, F5 Load Balancing, Net Scaler, Palo Alto, Riverbed

Database: Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SyBase.

High Availability: Veritas Cluster, Sun Cluster, MS Cluster, VMware SRM, Oracle DataGuard, Attunity/Qlik Replicate, Distributed Computing, Distributed Storage, Actifio, Snapshot Shipping, NetBackup, TSM/Spectrum Protect

Management Tool: SolarWinds/Orion, NetApp OCI, ArxScan, Zabbix, MRTG, RrdTool, Cacti, BigFix/Endpoint Mgr, Science Logic, Nagios, Splunk, Rapid7, CyberSecurity, SentinelOne

Protocols: TCP/IP, VLAN/VNet/VPC, SSH/RDP/VNC, CyberArk, Active Directory, LDAP, DNS, PAM, SAML, OSPF, BGP, RouteD, FTP, RSS, RTSP, SSL, TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, SNMP, SMTP, DHCP, IPF, SS7, R2

Communications: MPLS, MetroWAN, SONET, ATM, T1 T3, OC3 - OC48, ISDN/XDSL/DOCSIS, 10/100/1g/10g BaseT, 802.11a/b/g/n/an WiFi, Bluetooth, ZigBee/Z-Wave, GSM, CDMA, PCS, iDEN

Other Tools & Languages: KSH/KSH93, Bash, Borne, Shell, Csh/Tcsh, Perl, Python, C, MS Visio, MS Office, MS Project, Solidworks, Illustrator, Photoshop, X11r6.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and cyber event recovery and isolated testing environments for thousands of virtual, legacy and cloud based application hosts to onsite, colo and cloud targets.
• Engineered robust and independent Single Sign On provisions (AD,LDAP,SAML) to otherwise isolated testing environments that regularly simulate large scale failures of infrastructure.
• Engineered DNS and DHCP spoofing environments to lift and shift large quantities of replicated recovery test environments.
• Architected complex interconnected network structure across legacy, private cloud, Co-location, Azure and Google Cloud Platform to provide multi-faceted recovery of applications for testing, for Cyber Event isolation and for widespread metro area failures.
• Configured reliable live recovery procedures to automatically acquire system identities in alternate run environments to allow them to run completely independently from their geographical home location.
• Environment encompassed thousands of hosts spanning hundreds of locations worldwide.
• Seamlessly used a multitude of replication and recovery strategies, using Zerto, Azure Site Recovery, NetApp SnapMirror, IBM Virtualized Server Recovery, Actifio, and Spectrum Protect as well as other strategies.
• Organizational subject matter expert for networking, compliance, security, and authentication

Hardware: Nutanix, IBM pSeries, Oracle Supercluster/Exadata, NetApp, Sun/Oracle M Series, Sun/Oracle T Series, IBM Storewise, EMC VNX, Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, PulseSecure, Juniper SRX

Software: Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Azure VNets, Azure ASR, Azure NSGs, Azure NVAs, ExpressRoute, GCP VPCs, OneCloud, Zerto, Actifio, Oracle, MS-SQL, VCenter, VSR, DataGuard, Windows, RHEL, Solaris, AIX, Docker

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Security Engineer, Infrastructure Architect, Project Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Act as principle liaison between OHIA group and overall infrastructure groups, as well as primary interface for network security and Project Management for infrastructure projects.
• Author network firewall rules and specify server side security rules.
• Specify design requirements for storage, network and systems, and act as primary presenter for committee review for all net new infrastructure projects for group.
• Perform analysis and engineering for High Availability and Disaster Recovery among current and future Data Center, Virtualization and Cloud deployments.
• Act as subject matter expert, and principle research contact for infrastructure feasibility, cost analysis justification, and performance expectation aspects of OHIA.
• Produce budgeting workflow, follow through with approvals and track fulfillment and deployments of infrastructure projects.
• Specified configuration deployment rules and specifications for security jailed environments for Tableau, using Citrix XenApp, and Palo Alto Context Firewalls.

Hardware: Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM Power Systems, IBM/Lenovo X-Architecture, IBM Storwize, Netapp FAS, Palo Alto Context Firewalls, Azure

Software: MS Windows, IBM AIX, MS-SQL, Oracle, Attunity Replicate, Tableau, Citrix XenApp, HyperV, VMware, Azure, Epic Systems, SAP Business Objects, DUO, Hadoop

Confidential, Santa Monica, CA

Principle infrastructure Architect, Performance and Monitoring Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Created system of SQL, XML, and JSON application scripts to dynamically populate AD and SAML data and configuration databases for use with Science Logic enterprise monitoring environment.
• Participated in POC trial of dynamic deployment project comparing Ansible, Chef, Puppet and Salt for use in rapid Hybrid Cloud deployments in Azure and AWS .

Hardware: Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, AWS, Azure, Netapp, Aruba AP and RAP

Software: Science Logic, VMware, MySQL, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Terraform, Github, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows

Confidential, Hollywood, CA

Infrastructure Architect, Storage Architect, Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Authored detailed Agile Project Plan for the evaluation and implementation of Solid State Storage Arrays from multiple vendors.
• Scheduled and defined extensive testing criteria for high volume Database applications and extensive virtualized environments in support of storage evaluations.

Hardware: Cisco UCS, EMC VMax, EMC VNX 5700, EMC Isilon, IBM DCS9900 (DDN), NexSAN, StorNext, Pure Storage FA450 SSD, HP/3PAR 7450 SSD, FusionIO

Software: RHEL, CentOS, Windows Server, VMware, Citrix Xen Desktop, MS SQL, Oracle, Tivoli TSM, Solarwinds, NetApp OCI, ArxScan

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Systems Infrastructure Manager, Infrastructure Architect, Sr System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed enterprise infrastructure operation teams for Tribune Publishing entities.
• Proposed and executed common enterprise infrastructure deployments to replace purpose built individually specified legacy environments drastically reducing environment complexity.
• Proposed and executed mass deployment of wide ranging virtualized system structures for operating systems, storage, interfaces and physical hardware.
• Reduced enterprise wide datacenter environmental operating costs and real estate usage dramatically, often providing cost savings of upgrades in less than a fiscal quarter while dramatically increasing performance.
• Deployed enterprise wide single sign on strategies across thousands of operating environments through AD and LDAP.
• Designed the business critical disaster recovery and high availability environments using a run anywhere methodology.
• Provided consistent design documentation to management for migratory and new project deployments in a highly presentable, easily understandable format.

Hardware: Cisco UCS, Sun/Oracle Intel, AMD, Niagara blade environments, Dell Blade environments, Sun SPARC servers, Sun Enterprise Class servers, IBM RS6000 Servers, EMC Symmetrix, EMC Clariion, EMC VNX, EMC Recovery Point, Netbackup appliances, NetApp V Series, NetApp FAS Series, Sun StorageTek, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco load balancers, Cisco routers, Nexus 7000 switches, Riverbed Steelhead Accelerators, Brocade FC switches

Software: Solaris, Open Solaris, CentOS, RHEL, Windows Server, AIX, VMware, Solaris Zones, Branded Zones, VMWare, Xen, Apache, Tomcat, webSphere, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL, Sybase, Active Directory, LDAP, Ksh, Bash, SAMBA, SMB, CIFS, NFS, ZFS, Veritas Storage Foundation, Snap Mirror, iSCSI, Veritas Cluster, Sun Cluster, MS Clustering, DataGuard, VMWare SRM, VMotion, VCenter, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Cloud, Azure, SNMP, Endpoint Manager, Tivoli TSM.

Confidential, Calabasas, CA

Lead Enterprise Architect and Director of Networks, Systems Security

Responsibilities:

• Directed the development of high performance, high availability enterprise wide network infrastructure in Los Angeles, CA with major data centers in San Jose CA, San Diego, CA, Houston, TX, New York, NY, and Reno, NV, with additional data centers in Montreal, Canada and the Caribbean.
• Engineered systems for extremely high traffic loads using load balancing and distribution routers to distribute traffic to high performance server arrays.
• Developed standardized enterprise server structure for system interchangeability and servicing, allowing for complete server replacement by semi-skilled personnel at remote locations.
• Engineered highly redundant infrastructure; system inconsistencies and server failures could be dealt with by simply removing effected system from operation with essentially no system performance degradation.
• Lead engineering team in the development of a cutting edge video streaming environment. Environment was an exponentially scalable product able to grow to unlimited capacity.
• Operation functioned as alpha and beta testing facility for leading edge technologies such ASIC based load balancers, and solid state storage.
• Among other modernizations, system was updated with NAS sub-systems for company’s Video on Demand and Cellular Streaming products.

Hardware: Intel Based Servers, SPARC Based Servers, Cisco/Arrow Point Context Load Balancers, Foundry Edge Routing Switches, Cisco Catalysts, Various RAID Solutions: AcceleRAID, MegaRAID, PromiseRAID, and Areca

Software: Solaris X86, Solaris SPARC, RH Linux v3.03-FC5, Windows 2000-2003 Server, Apache v1.2-2.4, MySQL v1-5, PHP v2-5, Perl v2-5, Ksh, Bash, Windows Media Server v7-10, SAMBA, NFS, DiskSuite, LVM, MRTG.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Founder, Principle Engineer, CEO

Responsibilities:

• Founded Confidential Engineering as a technology assessment and development organization, primarily focused on leading edge modular infrastructure technologies, and more specifically within the Internet, video broadcasting and wireless market places.
• Authored technical aspects, cost analysis, and capital requirements for investor relation’s documentation.
• Acquired several privately held and limited liability companies (LLCs) and integrated their technology assets into Skorpio.
• Constructed a technology footprint with the intent of deferring capital requirements until substantial development had been completed in order to minimize venture capital ownership in corporation.
• Engineered self-configuring server product that would adapt to the environment it was installed in with regards to network infrastructure and downstream hosts.
• Developed high volume, real time, Internet video streaming technology deliverable to generic JAVA enabled devices via virtually any broadband (128kps+) network infrastructure including WiFi and G3 Cellular.

Hardware: Intel Based Servers, Intel Based Embedded Computers, SCSI Based Video Capture Devices, Sony Industrial Video Cameras, Crown Perimeter Zone Microphones, Sierra Wireless Cellular Modems, PromiseRAID Cisco Routers and Switches

Software: Solaris X86 v9, RH Linux v7-9, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows Mobile v4. Palm OS, Apache v1.2-2.4, MySQL v4, PHP v4, Ksh, Bash, Java, MIDP, PPPoE, SAMBA, NFS, MRTG

Confidential, Charleston, SC

Senior Enterprise Systems and Network Architect, Director of Technology

Responsibilities:

• Created South Carolina’s premiere Internet Service Provider for Dial-up Internet.

Hardware: RISC Based HP Servers, HP Routers, Livingston and Ascend Modem Aggregators.

Software: HPUX v10, x86 Solaris v5, Windows NT4, RADIUS, PPP, Netscape Server (iPlanet)