Founding Partner and Senior Consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

Cloud Architect and Implementation professional with expertise in Microsoft Office 365 and Amazon Web Services environments as well as traditional IT infrastructure (SAN, Storage and Unix)

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Cloud: Microsoft Microsoft Office 365, Outlook/Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, Office Suite (Word, ExcelPowerPoint, etc.), Amazon AWS EC2, S3, EBS, Glacier, VPC, Route 53 (DNS), RDS SQL and NoSQL Databases, Lambda (serverless computing), IAM access management, Multi - AZ, Multi Region, Elastic Load balancing, AutoscalingCloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudSearch

Hardware: Hitachi and EMC: Multiple SAN and NAS storage arrays, IBM servers: pSeries: p770, p570 Mainframe: z9, z8

Software: Carbonite, Symantec Netbackup, Symantec Endpoint Protection, RecoverPoint, Data Domain, Tuning Manager, HDLM (multipathing software), HDT (dynamic tiering), HDP (dynamic provisioningthin provisioning) Tiered Storage Manager (Cruise Control), Shadow Image, VmWare, SRDF, ECC (EMC Control Center), PowerPath, AIX, Confidential, Confidential /XD, Confidential, GLVM, Redhat Linux, Tivoli Monitoring, SRM, z/OS, CICS, TCP/IP, CA products, Omegamon, BMC Mainview

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Founding Partner and Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Designed, implemented and supported multiple Office 365 environments for small businesses.
Migrated users from in - house server environment to Office 365.
Microsoft Business Partner.
Designed custom AWS application for a mid-sized non-profit.
Advised mid-sized business on replacement of in-house storage with enterprise cloud resident storage repository.
Presented Introduction to Cloud Computing, AWS and Office 365 to multiple organizations.

Independent Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Migrated non-profit organization to Microsoft Office 365 environment - redesigned their entire IT
Analyzed and selected cloud vendor, chose software, customized and implemented cloud solution and backup, trained users, provided technical support.
Supported small business and non-profit clients.
Developed AWS backup plan for small business client.
Created Google Apps for Work to Office 365 migration plan.

Assistant Director, Enterprise Storage, Enterprise AIX/Linux Systems and Mainframe

Confidential, Yonkers, NY

Responsibilities:

Initiated, designed, purchased and implemented enterprise SAN environment that unified disparate user storage and improved uptime, resiliency and provisioning speed. Migrated Unix, Windows and mainframe onto the SAN.
Designed and developed SAN to complex, highly active configuration, including 15 Hitachi and EMC enterprise storage arrays and multiple Brocade storage directors at two sites, supporting over 400 real and virtualized servers. Provided enterprise with high storage reliability and five nines (99.999%) availability.
Implemented and managed enterprise backup and storage disaster recovery/business continuity, offsite replication and Continuous Data Protection for key applications, significantly decreasing data loss exposure.
Negotiated, acquired and implemented storage arrays, SAN equipment, storage software, enterprise backup hardware and software, implementing state of the art technologies and negotiating over $500,000 in cost savings.
Advised and supported application software teams during design, testing and implementation regarding storage and high availability. Improved application resiliency and availability, reducing downtime by up to 98%.
Designed, purchased and implemented enterprise AIX/Linux consolidated server environment currently consisting of nine large multi-LPAR IBM pSeries servers at two sites running over 100 virtualized systems supporting many critical applications. Many systems protected locally with Confidential and replicated offsite. Implemented Live Partition Mobility to non-disruptively move applications from one server to another for no-outage maintenance.
Centralized operating system and hardware support and administration of many systems, greatly improving support quality, upgrade speed and application uptime while reducing administration and acquisition costs.
Negotiated acquisition of major hardware and software components including servers and system software, implementing state of the art technologies and negotiating over $450,000 in cost savings.
Advised and supported individual application teams during design, testing and implementation on server architecture and high availability. Improved application resiliency and availability, reducing downtime by up to 90%.

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