SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Enterprise Architect/Engineer offers 20 years’ experience in Architecting and Engineering of both enterprise scale and small scale projects, design, delivery and, administration of cost - effective Data Centers and high-performance technology solutions with a focus on reducing TCO and improving business and workflow process.
• Successful history of architecting and managing multiple large and small scale enterprise projects in order to meet customer milestones as well as possessing strong hands on experience.
• If you are looking for someone who thinks outside the box, understands IT Infrastructure Design, Business processes and has the hands on experience with Implementation, I would like to help your company successfully meet its goals and objectives as part of your team.
• IT Delivery & Data Center Operations Emerging Technologies & Enterprise Architectures
• Strategic & Operational Technology Planning IT Infrastructure Design & Implementation
• Systems Analysis & Performance Optimization Data Center Design, Implementation & Management
• Server Based Computing Server & Desktop Virtualization & Cloud
• Team Development & Management IT Best Practices

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HARDWARE:

Network Equipment: Cisco 8540, 5509, 2900, Extreme Networks Summit 1, 2, 4i & 7i, Alcatel Omni Switch, Foundry BigIron, Fore ASX1000, Cisco 4000, Cisco 3500 Router, Cisco 1721 Router, Cisco PIX Firewall, Cisco 3005 VPN, Ascend MAX, Bay Network and Lantronix Terminal Servers.

Server Hardware: Sun M5000, M4000. Sun CMT servers T2000, T5240, T4, T5-2, Sun F6900, F4900, F2900, E10K, F15k, F6800, F4800, F3800, E6500 E5500, E4500, E3500, E6800 E4800, E3800, E450, E420R, E220R V60, V65 & V20Z, V40Z, Sun Blade B1600, Sun Blade 6048 Sun X2100 & X4200, X4600m2, Dell 6350, 2450 & Web App 100, Compaq 6000, HP DL585 G5. Confidential P750, P520, HMC

Storage: SSA, D1000, A1000, A3500, A5200, A3500FC, T3, T4, 3510, 3310, Hitachi Data Systems 9960, Storedge 6320, 6540 & Storedge 6920, SAN Switches 64 Port McData and Brocade SAN switches, Veritas Volume Manager, DiskSuite (SVM), QFS, ZFS

SOFTWARE: VSphere 5.1, Samba, Sun Cluster2.2, thru 3.2, Inter Domain Networking (IDN), Raid Manager, Sun Management Center, Component Manager, Oracle 9i & Oracle 10g, Oracle RAC, MS Office Products, Visio, SunOne, Apache, Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1 & 5.0, Confidential WebSphere MQ 6.0, MySQL, Virtual Box 3.2, VMware 3.5, Virtual Center 2.5, Glassfish V3, Apache WebServer, Active Directory, Sun Identity 8.1, OpenDS 2.3, Sun Open SSO 8.0, Legato Networker and Veritas Net Backup. Sunray 4.0, Nagios, Service Now, VSphere 5.1, TSAM ( Confidential Service Automation Manager) Joomla 3.7, Office 2010 & 2013

Operating Systems: Solaris 8, 9, 10 &11, Open Solaris, Sun OS, Oracle Linux, AIX 3 & 6, HPUX 10 & 11, DEC OSF, Tru64, Sequent, Red Hat Linux 6 & 7, SuSE Linux, Fedora Linux, Oracle Linux 6 & 7, Novell 3.11 & 4.0, and Microsoft Windows Operating Systems XP, NT4,0 2000, 2003, 2008, Windows 7 & 10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise Competency Center Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Collect all assets across the enterprise based on Qualys scans to monitor for security issues and potential patching as well as validating the assets against BMC Remedy (CMDB) using Oracle Discoverer.
• Create Access 2013databases by importing Excel 2013 spreadsheets and utilizing ODBC connection to ETL database in order to extract specific data through queries for reporting purposes and posting to Competency SharePoint site.
• Gather all configuration Management Documentation such as install, baseline, configuration control and drift management form the various Confidential groups, verifying that the documentation meets ITIL standards and then posting the documentation to Competency Center SharePoint site meeting SACM requirements.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect/Network Cloud Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Training in AWS through Confidential .
• AWS Associate Architect Training through UDEMY for Certification.

Confidential

Confidential Group/Enterprise/Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat. Reporting directly to the CTO, analyze the current Enterprise Infrastructure with focus on Servers, Storage, Network, Security, and Middleware and write a report for the CTO detailing the opportunities for improvement as well as helping to establish a clear strategy for future IT direction.
• Lead an initiative to bring Linux into the environment through a Portal and Collaboration server called LifeRay. Design the infrastructure to support Linux within a Windows environment with the goal of bringing Windows up to current technologies such as Enterprise management, Enterprise Monitoring, Intrusion detection with Compliance and Reporting.
• Interview Key Stakeholders from IT Leads, IT Operations Management, IT Apps Management, IT Engineering, DBA’s, and Architects to determine what is not working and Opportunities for improvement in their disciplines and across the Enterprise.
• In conjunction with Confidential, interview business groups to determine where is the Enterprise maturity level in Incident Management, Service Management, Problem management, Configuration Management, Release Management, and Change Management currently.

Confidential Technical

Systems Architect/Systems Designer

Responsibilities:

• As a Solutions Architect, conduct customer meetings to determine a general cost effective solution and complete preliminary budget proposals of VPMO Projects for Unix2Linux, VMWare, Confidential AIX Lpar’s, Cloud and Bare Metal projects which included hardware, network, storage and security in budget estimates. This also included both applications and database configurations in Linux, Windows and UNIX environments.
• As a Solutions Architect, complete budget estimates and manage the designs on concurrent projects with all the required teams and stakeholders such as Application, Network, Storage, Security Data Center for migration, VMware, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery and Cloud projects.

Confidential

DuPont/Pioneer Solutions Architect/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As an Architect, provide solutions for migration of Sun/Oracle corporate infrastructure from DuPont to Pioneer utilizing current virtualization technology, such as VMware VSphere, Solaris 11 Virtual (Containers) machines on T5-2’s and Linux Cent OS. After design approval I did the configuration and implementation of the solutions.
• Develop architectural design from customer requirements for migration of Oracle infrastructure from DuPont to Pioneer using available virtualization technology.
• Engineer Solaris 11 x64 virtual machines in a environment with 4 Solaris 10 local zones as a POC/test environment for Production.
• Install and configure a T5-2 with Solaris 11 and 4 Solaris 10 zones with ZFS volumes for multiple Oracle Databases with Confidential (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) and Trunking.

Confidential

Technical Systems Architect/Systems Designer

Responsibilities:

• As Solutions Architect conduct complex technology and systems assessments for component architecture with customers to determine an effective solution. Manage the designs on an average of 9 concurrent projects with all the required customers, teams and stakeholders such as application, network, storage, security and datacenter for migration of, VMware, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery and Cloud projects. Act as a lead in component architecture and participate in Enterprise Architecture activities. Collaborated with key stakeholders and internal teams to define Enterprise Architecture principles, standards. guidelines, and blueprints.
• As an Architect I worked with both Hybrid and Pure Cloud in a IAAS and PAAS architecture. This entailed taking the project from the budget phase as a TCAM (Technical Cloud Account Manager) process to the implementation phase using Confidential TSAM ( Confidential Service Automation Manager) through completion by the customer and the security group.
• In conjunction with team members, architect the Kings Mountain Data Center design to support all infrastructure servers for all stakeholders such as systems, storage & network and security.
• With different team members architect systems solutions to help reduce data center foot print in order to reduce power consumption, cooling and floor space through virtualization using the current Oracle and Confidential virtualization technologies such as LDOMS, Zones, VMWARE, VPARs and LPAR’s as well as large scale projects.
• Architected a 5 node (T5220’s) Oracle RAC configuration with 91 TB ASM shared storage for Oracle 11g database, a reporting server (T5440) using Oracle Data guard to pull current data from the RAC database, and the primary database being backed up by doing a BCV on the EMC Vmax and mounting the BCV on the Net Backup media server running RMAN to tape. Develop a best practice documentation for adding RAC nodes.
• Architected an upgrade in order to handle capacity by adding 5 new T5220’s for application and web portal as well as adding new instances of the web application to the existing portal and application servers, including designing IPSec tunnels with Silver Peak WAN accelerators to secure and speed up data transfer.
• As part of a team effort worked on the server design and lay out for all infrastructure support groups. This included layout of both Windows and Linux servers, VSphere clusters in a primary and fail over environment to support Virtual servers with replication consisting of Data Domain, Avamar and Zerto JFS replication which was used for DR and Licenses cost reduction.

Confidential, West Des Moines, IA

Sr. System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reduce cost of system management by automating system administration processes such as scripting hands free jumpstart, Ldap automation scripts to add and remove users from Ldap netgroups and automating the Solaris OS patching process.
• Write Documentation for procedures such as, adding a node to Storage Foundation RAC Cluster from a Flash Archive, and Patching process for SFRAC cluster using Live Upgrade.
• Conducted security audit patch remediation for 60 Sun Systems running Solaris using Live upgrade to automate the procedure.
• Daily support of IFMC database and application environment supporting Confidential WebSphere and Apache with Oracle clustered databases.
• Migrating IFMC’s test environment consisting of 40 servers to ISO/IEC 27033 standard Vlan. This involved coordinating the changes to network, DNS, servers, patched OS and patched SFRAC.
• As a team member I helped with setting up the Fair Health project consisting of Confidential P750’s, P520, HMC, NIM server and HP Dl380G7’s with NetApp Storage serving up NFS mounts for Applications and databases.

Confidential, West Des Moines, IA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted security audit patch remediation for Unix/Linux servers using xVM Ops Center and Red Hat Satellite Server along with documenting the processes, including installation of Guardium product to secure Oracle databases.
• Implemented a POC for Identity Management to help meet regulatory compliance utilizing OpenDS 2.3.0, Sun Identity Manager 8.1, OpenSSO 8.0 and Sun Role Manager 5.0.3