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Chief Architect

Summary

• Leader of overall technical environment, decision maker for future technologies and subject matter expert for RHEL / VMWare / WAS.
• Led effort to modernize IT Infrastructure, taking company from a rigid standalone XEN environment with no shared storage, to a flexible Capacity On Demand modern environment utilizing a Blade Center, EMC SAN and VMWare.
• HP C7000 Chassis and BL460 gen 7 8 blades.
• Played key role in bringing organization to SAS70 Type II SSAE16 Compliance
• Responsible for complete overhaul in IT process standards, top to bottom including naming conventions to logic behind the request and acquisition of resources.
• Key player for implementing ITIL standards
• Developed road map for future technology delivery to maximize ROI on new infrastructure.
• Developed disaster recovery plans for internal company use, as well as DR plans and process plans for key critical customers who needed these plans to be compliant with auditing standards for their industry.
• Creation of SoE using RHEL and a minimalist approach to gold image system building. Newly deployed VMs were packaged using VMWare OVA containers so new deployments were fast and error free.
• Migration of legacy XEN based virtual machines to newly implemented VMWare Infrastructure V2V . This also included performing platform migrations on many systems to bring them into compliance with SoE vision.
• Migration of legacy physical standalone machines to newly implemented VMWare Infrastructure P2V .
• Creation of 90 of high level impact diagrams and topology diagrams for how products and infrastructure works.

• Responsible for driving project through all phases of implementation.
• Worked with clients to ensure they were on technical sound footing for their projects and that the budget was ball-parked accurately.
• Responsible for Blueprints to ensure projects adhere to standards, creation of individual blueprint diagrams for each new server being delivered into the environment. This was done in document format as well as in proprietary online systems internal at AT T ADEPT .
• Performed TCA and TCO analysis for projects. Optimized projects to save customers and AT T money, cost savings on average of 22 per project.
• Responsible for attaining quotes from multiple vendors. These quotes included hardware to be ordered as well as the labor needed to get the hardware installed on the machines.
• Saved money for clients and AT T when possible by repurposing depot stocked equipment instead of ordering all new equipment when customer requested.
• Introduced metric driven formula for AT T's virtualization engineering and architecture to divide up virtual machines into cost derivative slices to be sold back to customers, this allowed for maximum utilization of hardware, and cost savings for the capacity needed for customers.
• Labor costing and impact matrix for different parts of global organization.
• Coordinated efforts between multiple teams to ensure projects were delivered.
• Participated in weekly sessions to help define the corporate Blueprint standards
• Participated in weekly sessions to review and improve the processes of IT org.

• Responsible for global implementation of new SAP environment at Fortune 100 customer.
• Architecture, engineering and configuration of LiveCache product in a HotStandby configuration utilizing EMC SolutionsEnabler.
• High level impact diagramming and AIR document creation for IBM solution utilizing Power7 equipment and WPAR / LPM.
• Creation and verification of build documents for every piece of the SAP environment, including BI, ECC, LVC, GTS, PI, SCM, SOL, SRM, EP and BO.
• Architecture and engineering of logical device mappings to WPARS / LPARS using VIO 2.x.
• Deployment of WAS instances on Cisco UCS hardware
• Architecture, engineering and configuration of Linux environment using SLES 11 SP1.
• Responsible for creation of standards for the Linux gold image, including kernel modules to be included, standardizations of performance tuning and overall system layout.

• Implemented RHEV Solution for major manufacturing organization.
• Installed multiple RHEV-H instances, as well as integrated RHEV-M management to facilitate advanced virtualization functions such as Live Migration.
• Wrote drivers for unsupported hardware, working with RH Engineering to ensure kernel compatibility.
• Helped define standards within the guidelines of the Open Source Community for continual improvement of software.
• Leader of Red Hat Virtualizations Bare Metal Hypervisor Emerging Technical Project.
• Perform remediation work to ensure machines are current on errata.
• Performance tuning for RHEL on SAN, including advanced I/O tuning with schedulers..
• Installed and managed multiple RHEL Cluster Suite sites, including high availability, load balancing and combination solutions.
• Managed and configured instances in Amazon EC2 Cloud, including remediation work and migration to more updated OS.
• Deployed RH Satellite Server for multiple customers
• Helped clients transition from a VMWare Virtual Infrastructure to RHEV.
• Installed and configured multiple KVM Hypervisors for major government organization.
• Did performance and kernel tuning on virtualized environments to optimize for high traffic I/O load.
• P2V Machines using RH P2V Tool and VMWare Converter.
• Architected environments ranging in size from 200 1500 Linux servers including virtualization KVM, RHEV ESXi and RHCS Red Hat Cluster Suite .
• Configured Live Migrations using KVM , VMWare and RHEV

• Acted as technical architect and team lead for 38 person IBM Engineering team assigned to Ameriprise.
• Performed Websphere WebSphere 4, 5, 6, 7 deployments for new Ameriprise Applications and troubleshot those applications as needed.
• Handled back-out for Websphere Websphere 5, 6, 7 deployments that needed to be downgraded to the previous version..
• Supported more than 100 HACMP clusters ranging in version from 4.3 to 5.3 ES XD .
• Zone disk space on EMC Symmetrix 5 series and CLARiiON CX300 devices, added disk space to filesystems as needed and wrote scripts to perform automated cleanup of problematic filesystems.
• Performed data migration on SAN backend and on front end thru LVM and logical volume copying. Ensured data replication was accurate and non corrupted.
• Worked with virtualized IBM p5 systems, including p595's with more than 10 LPARs per system.
• Installed and maintained virtualized HACMP using heartbeat over san and virtual IP addresses.
• Configured custom NIM packages to do routine maintenance.
• Used IBM R.E.T.A.I.N database to lookup APAR and Patches for AIX and other proprietary IBM Software Applications.
• Installed and maintained Tivoli TSM Backups.
• Daily administration of Tivoli TSM Client and Server products
• TSM Server Migrations and support for new versions after they were put into production.
• TPM and TSM Day to Day Maintenance including installation, troubleshooting, migrations and customer support.
• Worked with virtualized IBM p5 systems, including p595's
• Installed and maintained virtualized HACMP using heartbeat over san and virtual IP addresses.
• Configured custom NIM packages.
• Capacity and architecture planning for cross platform migrations including Solaris 9-10 -> Linux RHEL4, AIX 5.x -> Linux RHEL4, Linux RHEL4 -> AIX 6.x, HPUX 11 -> AIX 5.x, HPUX 11 -> Linux RHEL4.

• Created, managed and directed all necessary activities to implement systems and processes to ensure smooth running of the department.
• System Administrator for supporting four IBM SP2 environments for NAFTA DaimlerChrysler 150 SP nodes SP-attached Servers hosting SAP and Data Warehouse applications both development and production sites . Duties include: Installation, configuration, implementation, support, and troubleshooting of SP2 Control Workstation, SP2 Frames, and SP-attached Servers running AIX 4.3.3/5.1/5.2 and PSSP 3.2/3.4/3.5.
• Supply Project planning and implementation of projects GSAP, QNA, MIM etc associated with SP environments, including capacity planning, lease replacement of the servers, and disk replacement when needed.
• Supply backup support for the NAFTA DaimlerChrysler AIX environment including plant systems, HACMP 4.x.x 5.x clusters, and additional servers.
• SAN administration in environment of Brocade 2800 and 3800 switches and McDATA Directors 64M . Tools used: EMC VolumeLogix, EMC Connectrix Manager for managing McDATA Directors. Strong knowledge of WWN and zoning.
• Data Migration: Strong knowledge of data migration in a complex SAN environment. Performed frame to frame SAN migrations, which reduced I/O constraints, and lease extension costs.
• Disk administration Strong skills of EMC Symmetrix, PowerPath, EMC ControlCenter/Solution Enabler, Volume Logix, ESN Manager, Connectrix Manager IBM SSA Disk Storage System, EMC SRDF.
• Installed configured IBM Regatta eServer p670 and p570 servers. Used LPAR and HMC to partition the system and allocate dynamic virtualized resources.
• Configured NIM Network Installation Manager Master performed OS upgrades on NIM clients.
• Experience with OS Hardening security .
• Installation of DB2 software, Websphere 3.5 4.0, Webserver 1.1.19 Apache MQ Series.