RESUME

Michael A. Perry

**** ** **** ******

Suite 102-379

Gainesville, FL 32606

abnkn9@r.postjobfree.com

352-***-****

Travel negotiable.

No relocation.

Clearance: SECRET

SUMMARY

Senior IT Professional with 30 years of experience seeking Infrastructure Enterprise Architect or IT

Management position within a progressive organization.

Vast background in systems and applications software engineering, IT architecture, operations, and

administration delivery.

Broad and deep level of technical experience, including complex enterprise application systems

design and development; operating system and database internals; large scale IT architecture and

infrastructure design, business continuity and fault management, process development; and

architecture design.

• Advanced experience with most (non-mainframe) mainstream operating systems.

• Experienced with Microsoft products, design and development disciplines, operations, and

administration principles.

• Exceptional written and oral communications skills. Considerable experience creating technical

documents and presentations. Capable presenter with the experience of many years of public

speaking and technical presentations for many varied types of audiences.

EDUCATION

1999 – 2001 Florida Metropolitan University – Tampa, Florida

MBA/Information Systems (Summa Cum Laude)

1987 – 1989 Florida Metropolitan University – Tampa, Florida

BS/Computer Information Systems (Summa Cum Laude)

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

January 2009 to Present

Bank of America

Capacity Planning Engineer

Jacksonville, FL

Contract employee with Bank of America in their capacity planning organization. Responsible for

obtaining assignments derived from their Countrywide Mortgage acquisition and analyzing current

and future server processing requirements to help architect the future/target design of the application

services farm.

October 2007 to December 2008

EDS Corporation, an HP company

Managing Consultant

Gainesville, FL.

Managing Consult/Architect in EDS’s Infrastructure Modernization group. Delivery of server and data

center consolidation services to clients. System level consulting and delivery of infrastructure and

business practice management processes. Delivery of Unix infrastructure consulting services for

large scale data center migration and consolidation services.

November 2006 to October 2007

Hewlett-Packard Corporation

Senior Solutions Architect

Gainesville, FL.

Senior Infrastructure Solutions Architect in HP’s Consolidation and Integration group responsible for

delivering server and data center consolidation services to clients. System level consulting and

project management services. System architecture and process definition. Total Cost of Ownership,

server consolidation, and capacity planning. Delivery of infrastructure and business practice

management processes. Delivery of consulting services including: IT Infrastructure and Service Level

Agreements, business continuity strategies, service level improvement methodologies, operations,

and administration strategies.

February 2004 to November 2006

Michael A. Perry Consulting

IT and Management Consultant

Tampa, FL.

Contract delivery of consulting services to clients. Delivered system level consulting and project

management services. UNIX and Windows (NT) system troubleshooting and administration. System

architecture and process definition. Total Cost of Ownership, server consolidation, and capacity

planning. Delivery of infrastructure auditing and business practice management processes.

Management and delivery of consulting services including: IT Infrastructure and Service Level

Agreements, fault management and business continuity strategies, service level improvement

methodologies, operations, and administration strategies. Provided expert level IT analysis, auditing,

and solution recommendations. Created presentations and performed speaking engagements on

computing technologies

and service delivery subjects.

April 2003 to January 2004

Veritas Software, Inc.

Project/Technical Manager

Tampa, FL.

Manager of on-site engineering/consulting team providing Veritas product support and resources at a

large telecommunication data center. Provided and implemented architectural design to manage

customer’s infrastructure. Presented detailed monthly management reporting to customer staff. Acted

as liaison with customer and Veritas organizations. Managed cross-functional activities within Veritas

sales, support and consulting services to coordinate customer satisfaction. Worked with other service

provider vendors to overcome difficulties managing system integration in Verizon’s environment.

January 2000 to April 2003

Sun Microsystems, Inc

Professional Services Engineer/Consultant

Tampa, FL.

Consultant in Sun’s Consulting Services field organization. Management level consulting services

delivered include data center analysis and audits, disaster recovery and fault analysis, server/storage

capacity planning, total cost of ownership (TCO) studies, server consolidation, project management,

architecture design and implementation, strategic policy/procedure audits of infrastructure, and

service level agreement (SLA) analysis. Deployment level consulting services delivered include

system administration (Solaris), SAN technology, network services, security, clustering, storage

management, scripting, system builds, performance tuning, and development of build specifications,

March 1989 to November 1999

Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.

[Purchased 2000 by IBM]

Tampa, FL.

1993 to 1999

Enterprise Technical Support Engineer - Consultative

Senior Engineer in the Regional Technology Organization. Responsibilities included database

technology (Informix, Sybase, Ingres, and Oracle), system internals knowledge (UNIX), system

architecture, and system performance tuning (UNIX, Windows).

Pre-sales customer system benchmarks for our national sales organization. Sales presentation for

architecture and systems to customers.

Fly-to-Site engineer responsible for diagnosis and repair of customer systems (UNIX), including

performance tuning and architecture analysis - this included the operating system, database,

applications, and network. Delivered knowledge transfer and on-site customer education. Back-up

resource for our Professional Services organization providing expert-level system support for the PS

engineering staff.

1991 - 1993

Professional Services Consultant

Responsible for delivery of on-site consulting services to Sequent customers including: system

administration, network management, script writing, performance tuning, database tuning, systems

layout and set-up, capacity planning, and SAN administration.

1991 to 1993

Senior Technical Support Engineer

Technology Engineer responsible for pre-sales customer benchmarking, database performance,

customer system diagnosis, and assisting sales engineers. Specialized in system administration,

network management, benchmarking, pre-sales field assistance, system performance tuning,

database performance tuning, fly-to-site customer resource, and capacity planning.

1989 to 1991

Senior Sales Analyst

Sales Engineer on GTE National Account Sales Team. UNIX evangelist to GTE installations in North

America. Responsibilities include pre-sales customer benchmarking, sales and technical

presentations to customers and prospects, and assisting other Sales Engineers in the delivery of

technology to GTE. I also worked extensively with GTE technology architects towards acceptance of

UNIX in the environment.

INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL TRAINING / CERTIFICATIONS

Sun - ST-350 - Sun Systems Fault Analysis Workshop

Sun - ES-333 - Sun Cluster 3.0 Administration

Sun - ES-400 - Sun Enterprise 10000 Server Administration

Sun - ES-421 - Sun Fire F12K/F15K Server Administration

Sun - ES-218 - Sun StorEdge T3 and T3+ Administration

Veritas - VERITAS Cluster Server 3.5 for Solaris (Suite)

Veritas - VERITAS NetBackup 4.5 for Solaris (Suite)

Microsoft - Microsoft Windows NT Network and Operating System Essentials

Microsoft - Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows NT Server Environment

Microsoft - Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows NT

Microsoft - Administering a Microsoft SQL Server NT Database

Microsoft - Implementing Microsoft Windows NT Server

Institute for the Certification of Computer Professionals - Des Plaines, IL

Certified Computer Professional

Informix Corporation – Certified Informix Professional – Administrator V7 & XPS

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