SUMMARY

• Highly - skilled Cloud Architect with over 3 years of total experience in building AWS and Azure Cloud solutions.
• Over 10 years of experience as a Storage/Infrastructure Architect in design and deployment of on-premise and cloud storage solutions incorporating commercial and DOD security requirements.
• Spearheaded planning, design, and development of Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) or Platform as a Service (PAAS) using cloud computing.
• Recognized for leading technical teams with exceptional communications and teamwork skills.
• Hold an active interim Top Secret security clearance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Computing: AWS - EBS, EFS, S3, EC2, SGW, IAM, VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, Glacier, Media Services, CloudFront, Key Management Service

Microsoft Azure: Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure StorSimple, Azure Container Service (AKS), Virtual Network, Load Balancer, ExpressRoute, Blob Storage, Key Vault

Tools: Splunk, GitHub, Puppet, Chef, Cloud Formation, Hytrust, CyberArk

Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Confidential

Storage: Netapp - V-Series, FAS Filers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work with DevOps to ensure availability of tools for system monitoring and log management to effectively handle incidents.
• Drive IT systems to be compliant with Confidential and industry certification and security requirements.
• Advise senior management Confidential Dept. of State on technical and/or process aspects to lead teams in planning, evaluating, and recommending solutions for enterprise level issues.
• Lead project team in analysis, research, and development of state of the art Microsoft Azure solutions with different types of tenancy (private, public, and hybrid).
• Perform service delivery platform benchmarks and develop framework for cloud implementations.
• Create, evolve, mature and execute a cloud migration plan that includes detailed road map and risk assessment and mitigation approach.
• Provide technical leadership to evolve, mature and migrate mission management application to government cloud services.
• Partner with infrastructure operations, platform optimization, and datacenter operation teams to scope, define, size and execute application on boarding, migration & consolidation initiatives.
• Recommend technology strategy by understanding key client objectives; diagnosing and mapping client requirements; articulating solution risks and barriers; creating delivery approaches; preparing time estimates; planning full project life cycle.

Confidential

Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Defined design, concept of operations, methods, system policies and tools for migration of TSA systems to Microsoft Azure.
• Delivered technical roadmaps and architecture that integrated cloud technologies and industry standard security frameworks (NIST, FISMA) for IT systems.
• Constructed architecture and associated solutions to support current and future business needs.
• Developed business case for solutions and create solution to help prototype and develop the customer’s new environment, and guide the solution through launch to market.
• Managed engineering team and ensured work products exceeded business and technical requirements.
• Led teams in planning, evaluation and recommending cloud solutions to complex security issues, including with new equipment and associated technologies.
• Served as technical advisor to executive management on Storage/Cloud matters.
• Collaborated across business and technical leadership Confidential TSA to resolve issues.
• Designed cloud solutions and new approaches to optimize administration of technologies.
• Developed optimization strategies and recommendations to enhancehighly virtualized environment.
• Evaluated and documentedproblem isolation for Software Designed Data Center Infrastructure for converged technologies.
• Defined processes to maintain all Infrastructure devices and functions across physical media, operating systems, file systems, protocol stacks & network components.
• Provided effective leadership, development, coaching and guidance to the team.

Confidential

Sr. Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed Systems Engineering Life Cycle deliverables using the appropriate document templates.
• Performed systems hardening to FDIC standards.
• Maintained up-to-date documentation of designs/configurations.
• Assisted in defining security requirements for the storage environment.
• Managed complete life-cycle for storage environment including coordination and planning of hardware and software upgrades, new deployments, and maintaining current operations.
• Reviewed current storage driver, operating system, and firmware levels and recommended standards for FDIC environment. Ensured required patches are applied to storage platforms.
• Provided long term trends and associated planning of future growth to maintain capacity.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Implementation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provisioned and maintained EMC, HP and NetApp storage arrays; configured storage on Sun Solaris, Windows, and Linux operating systems.
• Engineered and configured data replication using EMC SRDF/S & SRDF/A, and NetApp Snapmirror.
• Developed strategies to reduce the frequency of supporting EMC / NetApp OS patch application.
• Implemented online backups using TimeFinder/Snaps and Netapp Snapshots for Vmware datastores.
• Provided reports on storage utilization and uptime of the storage arrays.
• Analyzedand recommended solutions for security, performance and reliability issues in storage.
• Provided application support for storage testing and implementation.
• Achieved commitments in a production environment as required by SLA’s.
• Monitoredand corrected issuesrelated to system capacity (CPU, memory, ports, disk space, etc.).