Jason Perlow

Email: abo6ot@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** ** **** **

City: CORAL SPRINGS

State: FL

Zip: 33065

Country: USA

Phone: 201-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: 150

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Jason H Perlow

8466 NW 43RD Court

Coral Springs, FL 33065

201-***-****

abo6ot@r.postjobfree.com

Language skills

English

Fluent

Spanish

Good

Professional experience

Profile

Highly motivated and experienced distributed systems architect with a strong background in client/server systems integration, enterprise systems management, Internet/Intranet implementation with a specialization in server consolidation, systems/platform migration, virtualization and performance optimization of LINUX/UNIX and Wintel based systems.

Diverse background includes 15+ years in Banking, Finance, Government, Transportation, Telecom, Technology and Manufacturing industries. Well-known and published technology industry freelance writer in the subjects of distributed systems, enterprise systems architecture, Open Source, Linux, Microsoft technology.

Key skills

VMWare ESX, Linux KVM, Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors, High Availability web servers (Apache, MySQL, Postgres), J2EE/LAMP/PHP applications on Red Hat and SUSE servers. Linux SAN configuration and SAMBA servers. Windows 2008 high availability, virtualization and clustering. Linux Kernel tuning/recompiling, RAID, clustered and journaling file systems. 10+ years with UNIX/Linux on the x86 platform. 5+ years with Linux on Itanium and IBM POWER architecture. Comprehensive Microsoft and Active Directory integration experience with Linux and UNIX operating systems.

Open Source Linux Infrastructure Strategy: Microsoft Windows integration and Unix to Linux Migration, Data Center Consolidation and Virtualization, High Availability and Thin Client server computing, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Systems Management, Internet/Intranet infrastructure implementation, Wide Area Networking and Cyber Security.

Systems Documentation and Authoring / Published Expertise: Jason is a frequent contributor to various computer industry magazines on various technology subjects. His articles can be found at ZDNet and Linux Magazine.

Key courses and training

2011: Microsoft Windows 8 Server Reviewer's Workshop (Redmond, Washington)

2011: ALDM Workshop at IBM TJ Watson Research Center

2010: IBM Cloud Services Portfolio

2009: IBM Team Solution Design

2008: IBM Architectual Thinking, IBM GSMethod

2007: IBM Project Management Orientation, RH302 Red Hat Certified Systems Engineer, VMWare Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure

Career history

09/2007 - to date

IBM, United States of America

Advisory IT Architect

Systems Architect for IBM's IT Strategy and Architecture Delivery and Server Optimization and Consolidation (SCON) Practices. Participated in numerous server consolidation/migration efforts at large (F500) customers, utilizing Wintel and Open Source skills using VMWare and Open Source virtualization and consolidation toolsets.

06/2005 - 09/2007

UNISYS, United States of America

Senior Systems Architect

Founding member of the Unisys Open Source ASSIST Team, a pre-sales organization that provided Open Source architecture services for Unisys`s top 250 customers.

Provided outsourced architecture and design services for Microsoft's and DELL Corporation`s professional services organizations.

01/1995 - 06/2005

Argonaut Systems Corp, United States of America

Proprietor

Argonaut Systems was my personal systems consulting firm. Primary clients included New York Transit Authority, IDT, Sharp Electronics Corp, Citicorp, Chase Manhattan Bank, JP Morgan, The Robert Plan, Lechters Inc, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Compaq Computer Corporation, Deloitte and Touche.

Assignment history

08/2012 - to date

Central IT agency of a major US City (New York City Department of IT and Telecom (DoITT))

3 month(s)

CitiServ angency infrastructure consolidation

Project Description:I am currently engaged at the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telcommunications (DoITT) as SWAT team lead for the city's CitiServ project, the objective of which is to consolidate the majority of all of the city's government agencies aging IT infrastructure into a shared hosting environment running under VMWare vSphere 5. My role is to evaluate and assess the infrastructure of specifically targeted city agencies, determine what can be consolidated or requires remediation in order to do so, make appropriate recommendations as trusted adviser to DoITT, and then lead the required migration resources to move the systems if directed.

06/2012 - 09/2012

Major US-based Financial Services Firm (Broadridge Financial Services)

4 month(s)

Disaster Recovery Documentation

Project Description:I was assigned to document the disaster recovery procedures for approximately 100 Intel-based systems running a mix of physical and VMWare-based Linux and Windows OSes, which are hosted at an IBM Poughkeepsie and use a Global Mirror of IBM storage systems replicated from a source datacenter in Columbus, Ohio.

I participated in two Disaster Recovery test events, both of which used my procedures and were executed flawlessly.

04/2012 - 06/2012

Major European Financial Services Firm (AXA)

3 month(s)

SCON Assessment

Project Description:Performed Phase 1 assessment of 1200 systems for the North American division of a major European financial services firm and computed end-state requirements using IBM's SCONRAT tool.

12/2011 - 04/2012

Regional Wireless Services Carrier (US Cellular / AMDOCS)

5 month(s)

AMDOCS Implementation

Project Description:At US Cellular, IBM is engaged with Israeli wireless industry CRM software firm AMDOCS in implementing the company's next-generation 4G LTE extranet and billing system which is scheduled to come online in December of 2012. I performed in the role of VMWare and Linux/Wintel architect, where I implemented and designed the infrastructure for vSphere 5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server 2008R2 for the Non-production and Production environment running the application on IBM xSeries blade servers.

07/2011 - 11/2011

Large Health Management Organization (WellPoint)

5 month(s)

Data Center Consolidation

Project Description:At Wellpoint, IBM ITS partnered with our Strategic Outsourcing division to provide a comprehensive data center migration solution for Lumenos, a company which had been acquired in 2005 along with legacy computing assets. I was assigned the role of Lead Migration Architect and implemented Platespin Protect and Platespin Migrate infrastructure, leading a team of approximately a dozen IBM US and India employees running daily P2V jobs and re-mediating Wintel and Linux-based systems in a triage-based environment.

03/2011 - 06/2011

Large Petroleum Industry / Offshore Drilling Consulting Services Firm (Baker Hughes Inc.)

4 month(s)

Data Center Consolidation

Project Description:At BHI, IBM Integrated Technology Services partnered with our Strategic Outsourcing and Datacenter Hosting divisions to provide a comprehensive datacenter migration solution for over 400 systems hosted at Verizon datacenters in Maryland and in Ireland to our facilities in Poughkeepsie, New York. My role was specifically to design a standardized build process and template for Linux, Solaris and Wintel systems to reside at IBM facilities and also to provide a virtualization and P2V solution for legacy Sun SPARC systems running Solaris 8 and 9 to newer Oracle SPARC T-series and M-Series systems.

10/2010 - 02/2011

State Government Multi-Agency Institutional Customer (Georgia Technology Authority (State of Georgia))

5 month(s)

GTA Multi-Agency Data Consolidation Effort

Project Description:At the Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) I was part of a large team of IBM system architects and specialists that was tasked with the consolidation of 1000+ servers in 13 distinct government agencies in the State of Georgia.

My involvement was in the role of migration architect and it involved coordination between multiple vendors as well as various agencies within the State of Georgia including the office of the CIO at the Georgia Technology Authority. My concentration was in the area of providing intrusion detection services and security logging for virtualized Windows servers that were Internet-facing, such as for the Georgia Department of Revenue (DOR) and the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS).

03/2010 - 09/2010

Large Mulitnational Telecommunications Company (Telefonica AG)

7 month(s)

International Datacenter Migration

Project Description:IBM was engaged in a large, multinational datacenter consolidation for Telefonica on behalf of one of its large hosting customers, MAPFRE, a large Latin American insurance company. As an Infrastructure Architect my role was to assist in the migration in devising solutions for accelerating the P2V portion of the engagement and resolving numerous critsits during the migration phase in Brazil for legacy Wintel-based systems.

02/2010 - 02/2010

Large SMB in Marketing Analytics (The NPD Group)

1 month(s)

Project Description:I was asked on behalf of IBM's Strategic Outsourcing division to examine a Red Hat Linux environment on commodity hardware being used by the customer ($200M+ annual revenue) to perform Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) operations using Ab Initio for possible performance degradation issues and if the environment was properly optimized for Linux. After determining the problem was architectural and application-based and not misconfiguration, I developed a go-forward plan for the customer to examine their volumetrics to see if their current hardware would handle their expected load (4Billion rows insert monthly / 100 million row extract / 1000x jobs + transform).

I conferred with Ab Initio industry experts to determine that the customer was not using good practices in its use of the product by overcommitment of the system in terms of the amount of concurrent processes they were allowing and by using a custom scheduler instead of a commercial one. Recommended monolithic test on large UNIX system to determine relative levels of performance against a "normalized" Linux configuration on production workloads.

12/2009 - 01/2010

Large Multinational Brokerage Firm (Morgan Stanley / Smith Barney)

2 month(s)

Project Description:At this customer, IBM GBS enlisted the help of the ITS&A group within IBM GTS to provide the Infrastructure Architecture expertise into helping the customer formulate its strategy for assuming and integrating the legacy environment of a recent acquisition of another brokerage business from a large retail multinational bank. We were asked to assess the level of complexity for approximately 50 applications in the legacy environment and what it would take to re-platform them and make architectural changes needed to move them into the customer's hosted IBM datacenter in Poughkeepsie. Our work at this customer is currently ongoing.

09/2009 - 11/2009

Large Aerospace/Defense Industry Contractor (Lockheed Martin Space Systems)

3 month(s)

Project Description:At this high-security defense industry customer I worked with another ITS&A Sr. Architect to perform a Virtualization Assessment of 400 servers at one of their larger business units. Originally the engagement was designed to use the VSV Methodology used by the SCON group but due to various customer issues we were required to use a different tool, PlateSpin Recon.

This required adapting IBM methodology as well as coming up to speed on a tool that was not normally utilized in our usual delivery method. I created a virtual lab environment to test and learn the tool and we were able to deliver the Assessment on time, this despite constant setbacks at the customer due to technical issues with the tool and the customer's network/applications and a challenging high security environment that required a "sandbox" which had to be used remotely and severely limited our activities and ability to gather information.

07/2009 - 08/2009

Ivy-League University (Brown University)

2 month(s)

Project Description:At this large educational institutional customer I was asked by IBM BCRS to write restore procedures for the customer's Linux environment. Initially these were intended to be manual procedures that would cover multiple versions of Linux at the customer's primary datacenter. Instead, I came up with a plan to create a Linux-based virtual machine which would be SAN replicated to the recovery site that would restore the Linux systems in an automated fashion, eliminating the need for complex manual scripts that could introduce human error and minimize the need for trained Linux experts during a disaster event. The virtual machine was tested during a test event over the summer and successfully was used to restore the customer environment.

04/2009 - 06/2009

Large Multinational Insurance Company (Zurich Insurance)

3 month(s)

Project Description:At this customer I again worked with the Datacenter Relocation Services SPL in a large migration of a Baltimore datacenter to Chicago. I was instrumental in convincing upper management at this customer in abandoning a high-risk "Lift and Shift" strategy that potentially could have caused a disastrous business continuity failure. Rather than to "lift and shift" their storage environment over 800 miles via truck, we built a business case for purchasing new storage and replicating their environment at Baltimore and moving the copied new storage to Chicago before the final move.

01/2009 - 04/2009

$1B Voice Over IP Services Company (CBEYOND)

4 month(s)

Project Description:Solution Design: I worked with the Data Center Relocation Services SPL in Phase 1 and Phase 2 in designing the migration strategy for this customer. The deliverable, of which I was the primary author, has been distributed for use as "glossy" global ICAP for Datacenter Relocation Services worldwide.

Customer had over 200 Linux Servers, 200 Wintel and 40 legacy Solaris with an extremely entangled legacy middleware architecture which needed to be re-platformed and migrated to a new Data Center by December of 2009. Employed Infrastructure Architect skills, Migration Architect, Server Consolidation Architect roles.

10/2008 - 12/2008

Large National Retail Bank (CapitalOne)

3 month(s)

Server Consolidation

Project Description:Performed Stage I (Design/Architecture/Planning) for a 150 server Wintel consolidation/Datacenter move on VMWare ESX 3.5., Oracle 10g and SQL Server 2005. Created component model, affinity mappings, software vendor qualification matrices. Created data migration strategy and VM storage consolidation deliverables.

08/2008 - 10/2008

Large Multinational Insurance Firm (AIG)

3 month(s)

Project Description:Created Logical Infrastructure Architecture (Complex Component Model) for a next-generation global insurance claims application, using Open Source software, IBM WebSphere, DB2, and IBM zSeries SYSPLEX architecture.

07/2008 - 08/2008

Large Regional Commercial Bank (US Bank Corp)

2 month(s)

Project Description:Architected technology refresh for 30,000 desktops and 3000 branch servers, server monitoring, patch management and strategic outsourcing of technical support services for $150M+ bid and proposal response.

05/2008 - 07/2008

Large International Transportation and Shipping Company (UTi Worldwide)

3 month(s)

Project Description:Architected pilot VMWare, AS/400 and AIX environment on IBM BladeCenter H and pSeries p570 platforms using EMC DMX storage and IBM SVC for consolidated paper goods shipping application and entire US Wintel server infrastructure - 20 branch locations to be decommissioned. Designed test infrastructure for DR SAN replication using SVC to Hitachi-based SAN storage in Frankfurt, Germany and EMC storage in Pretoria, South Africa.

03/2008 - 04/2008

Retail Mail-Order Pharmaceutical Vendor (CVS Pharmacy)

2 month(s)

Project Description:Led Infrastructure design effort for Bid and Proposal to design Reference Architecture and draft SOW for consolidated AIX and z/Series infrastructure. Large enterprise consolidation of over 100 AIX systems and 4 mainframes for over $14M in services. Proposal was won by IBM.

12/2007 - 02/2008

Large Regional Commercial Bank (National City Bank)

3 month(s)

Project Description:High Availability feasibility study for new Cleveland datacenter. Reference Architecture design of multiple levels of HA based on business unit requirements on VMWare, Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms.

10/2007 - 12/2007

Large International Investment Bank (Citicorp / Smith Barney)

3 month(s)

Project Description:Architectural Assessment of customer's Branch Server infrastructure and SOA transformation. Created End-State Reference Architecture for 600 Branches running legacy Windows 2000/COM+/SQL Server/VB Fat Client applications migrated to Citrix-based thin client solution, combined with SOA/J2EE-based redesign of their primary Line-of-Business financial analyst application. Produced draft SOW for approximately $20M in services and strategic outsourcing.

09/2007 - 10/2007

Large Credit Card Processing Company (First Data Corporation)

2 month(s)

Project Description:Consolidation of a 5000 server heterogeneous Windows Server, UNIX (AIX, Solaris, HP/UX) environment to IBM BladeCenter on VMWare ESX 3.5 and AIX 6 on pSeries 595. Produced Reference Architecture and wrote final deliverable for Phase 1 Assessment, wrote draft SOW for Phase 2 implementation ($100M in services)

12/2006 - 04/2007

Large National Telecommunications Provder (Verizon)

5 month(s)

Project Description:Linux architect for large data center/server consolidation and application migration project (700 servers). Provided virtualization and Linux support and solutions design on a large proof-of-concept UNIX-to-Linux telecom application (10M lines of code) with multiple legacy middleware dependencies.

10/2006 - 09/2007

Large Government Financial Agency (United States Federal Reserve)

12 month(s)

Project Description:Lead Architect for Check 21 Project, a large scale J2EE-based client-server system that currently processes 450 million check images per week. System design involved over $60M of hardware, software and services including Oracle 10g/RAC, IBM WebSphere ND and Unisys ES7000 8-way/32-way/64-way SMP servers and EMC DMX-3 storage.

06/2006 - 09/2006

Large Educational Transportation Firm (Laidlaw Education Services)

4 month(s)

Project Description:Linux architect for Data Center Migration project. Migration of Windows IIS/Active Server Pages-based corporate extranet web sites to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.2/Apache 2.2.x on eGenera Bladeframe bladeframe environment.

05/2006 - 08/2006

State Financial Agency (Massachusetts Department of Revenue)

4 month(s)

Project Description:Integrated 32-processor SMP Unisys ES/7000 hardware with Redhat Linux 4.2, EMC SAN and Oracle 10i RDBMS for tax fraud data mining application.

04/2006 - 06/2006

Large State Government Agency (Texas Workforce Commission)

3 month(s)

Project Description:Integrated Solaris-based proprietary Nortel Voice Recognition Systems with Data Center management infrastructure and systems monitoring tools.

07/2005 - 04/2006

Medium-Sized Server and Grid Computing OEM (Penguin Computing)

10 month(s)

Project Description:Provided training and Scyld Redhat Enterprise 3-based Beowulf Linux cluster verification for Penguin Computing customers.

07/2005 - 04/2006

Large Regional Public Transportation Agency (New York Transit Authority)

10 month(s)

Project Description:Transition project for implementation of server monitoring and systems migration.

Wrote Novell Netware documentation for server monitoring transition team, assessed server inventory in preparation of ZenWorks on SuSE Linux and Novell Open Enterprise Server migration.

06/2005 - 07/2005

Regional Supermarket Chain on behalf of Tier 1 software company (Raley's / Microsoft)

2 month(s)

Project Description:Conducted Infrastructure Baseline Security Audit for Raley`s Supermarkets on behalf of Fortune 50 software company.

Utilized Open-Source NESSUS security scanner and Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer to determine network and local security vulnerability on Red Hat and Windows NT/2000/2003

Wrote network security remediation recommendations document for client on behalf of Fortune 50 software company.

12/2004 - 05/2005

Large Institutional Regional Energy Supplier (New York Power Authority)

6 month(s)

Project Description:Architected and Implemented pilot project for Linux Desktop Compatibility testing for 25 users, using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, Novell Linux Desktop 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 beta.

Compiled and authored all necessary documentation for server configuration, network architecture and desktop rollout.

Implemented Linux to Windows 2000 Active Directory integration for single sign on (SSO) using SAMBA Winbind and Kerberos, and Centrify Identity Management.

Implemented Thin Client server configuration using Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) and Symbio Workstation Manager 4.0, using re-purposed PXE-boot enabled PCs and dedicated thin client terminals.

Performed comprehensive compatibility testing between Novell Ximan Evolution 2.0 and MS Outlook 2003 using Novell Exchange Connector.

Worked with Novell/SuSE platinum reseller and Novell to provide template and baseline for support agreement contracts for customer.

11/2003 - 12/2004

Multinational Digital Effects/CGI Studio. (Digital Production Solutions (IDT Corporation))

14 month(s)

Project Description:Led migration team of 5 engineers in Newark NJ, and Tel-Aviv, Israel for Windows XP workstation to RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 (100 seats) for a multinational digital effects studio.

Installed and configured Maya 5 3D animation software for Linux and created standard workstation distribution image including specialized compiled drivers and software for digital effects production on high-end Dell Precision workstations using GHOST 8.0 and RedHat Kickstart scripts.

Evaluated IBM, Intel, HP and Sun blade server hardware for 500 processor Linux render-farm running on Pixar Renderman. Integrated NFS connectivity with 70 terabyte EMC Clarion SAN.

Installed and configured Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) to integrate Active Directory with Linux NIS user authentication services and to provide combined NFS and CIFS file sharing services for Linux and Windows clients

Administrated and configured KhyberPass firewall system and Microsoft VPN over public Internet connection to Israel office.

Other relevant information

Publications

Jason Perlow (Sr. Technology Editor): ZDNet, CBS Interactive/ZDNet (2008-present)

Jason Perlow / Sr. Technology Editor: Linux Magazine (1999-2008), 2008

Organizations

Internet Press Guild

Member

Other job-related activities

Core Member, IBM Community of Practice for Microsoft Technologies

Member, IBM Community of Practice for Open Source

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