Management Project Manager

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Nash R. Radovanovic

FLMI, ACS, ALHC

#*** - **** ***** **., *********, ON L4J 8J2

Telephone: 416-***-****

Email: abph9n@r.postjobfree.com www: http://www.bgdconsulting.com/nash/

I work with medium to large (enterprise-level) organisations who require independent, unbiased and

reliable advice that is guaranteed to be focused on the most appropriate technological solution for their

business needs.

I, as an INDEPENDENT consultant specialising in Information

Technology (IT), will help you understand and use the most

appropriate (i.e. best-of-breed) technical solution to gain

competitive advantage for your business.

I provide UNBIASED (i.e. non influenced by any vendor) view of

technology capabilities and possible real life solutions for your corporate

environment.

I will RELIABLY support you and your organisation throughout the key

decisions regarding anticipated future direction of both technology and

organisational behaviour. Today. Tomorrow. Always.

I GUARANTEE to help you assess, re-organise, re-engineer and streamline your

organisation by using the most suitable management techniques and technology

solutions resulting in increased Return on Assets (lowered Total Cost of Ownership),

increased employee productivity, higher Service Levels and improved business agility

(more revenue with the same or fewer resources).

After agreed upon business objectives, I will FOCUS and lead your organisation, from long

term planning and systems architecturing, through business and technical design, all the

way to implementation of the IT solution that will be the best for your business.

SKILLS PORTFOLIO

Business Development Manager:

Creating and managing project proposals, responses to

RFP/RFI's, statements of work, support level agreements,

software licencing agreements and other forms of business

relationship management including detailed specifications and

Cost/Benefit Analysis.

Account relationship building and maintenance throughout the life of

the professional services sales cycle; engagement management and

oversight of delivery quality.

System Architect:

Infrastructure and application architecture assessment, design and

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implementation for high availability, scalability, performance and security

(Security Assessment Methodology and Operational Capabilities

Assessment (SunReady Methodology).

Server consolidation and data center virtualization

Project Manager:

Management of complex highly available infrastructure design and

deployment, including all aspects of environmental, hardware an d software

components.

Leading, coaching and managing infrastructure, development, maintenance and support teams.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Gluetext Inc. Toronto, ON (December 2006 Present)

http://www.gluetext.com

Web start-up to design and develop a patent-pending technology solution to deliver Internet

search engine which harnesses the power of the true collective knowledge on the Internet and

reduces the effort it takes one to cut through Internet information pollution when searching for

something.

Sun Microsystems Inc. - Professional Services, Markham, ON (June 2000 Present)

BackGrounD Software - Sun Partner Advantage

Canadian practice support through resourcing, program development, customer engagement

management, account business development and all aspects of products and services sales

cycle.

Leading an extended professional services delivery organization with 50+ consultants with

various areas of expertise, across North America, but centered around high availab ility,

enterprise class IT infrastructure solutions.

Highly available infrastructure architecture, project management, technical and business

consulting for various enterprise-level clients nationwide.

Major Accomplishments (by industry/vertical):

Consulting - Professional Services

Comprehensive marketing and business development in the financial sector program created

for Sun corporate and Sun Canada.

Program and project management of Utility Computing initiative for Sun Microsystems in

Canada.

Customer engagement management, RFP/RFQ/RFI responding and project and programme

proposals up to $100M. Comprehensive solutions "From Bare Floor to Enter Key", server

migration and consolidation activities along with standardisation and introduction of "Centers o f

Excellence" concept. Sun ITM methodology based approach (based on ITIL and PRINCE2).

Technical consulting to help introduce new business unit, to promote third -party software sales

through services engagements and cross-department resource leveling.

resourcing for projects within Sun's bench and outside (Sun's selected employment

agencies)

Engaged on various levels with the following third party solution providers to pursue joint

opportunities (hardware, software and consulting):

o Actuate o Gigaspaces o Plato

o AirDefense o Greenplum o Proxima

o Casatt o Guardium o SAS

o DIS o Halcyon o Teleran

o Eagle Invest. o Microsoft o Turboworx

o Eracent o Mobius o Gemstone

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o Espion o OpTier o VMWare

o Expertus o Oracle o VoIP Shield

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WORK EXPERIENCE (cont'd)

Financial (Banking/Insurance)

Development of the Sun Platform Virtualization enterprise strategy and Reference Architectures

based on Sun Logical Domains and Solaris 10 Containers

Design, and implementation of Sun Enterprise M5000 and M8000 servers (Sun Application

Readiness Service)

Lead Sun and VMWare Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Proof-of-Concept project

Lead a team of consultants to perform a multi-site, HA, Wall Street Systems FX Trading

infrastructure review

Design, and implementation of three Sun Fire E25K servers (Sun Application Read iness Service)

Lead a Proof-of-Concept project to test and compare IBM MQ v5.3 and v6.0 in a Sun Solaris 10

zone/container environment with HA achieved through Veritas clustering

Lead a Proof-of-Concept project to verify functionality and compare Actuate i Server v8 and v9.

Lead a Proof-of-Concept project to test VMWare based virtualization of Sun Fire X4600 server,

using Solaris 10 and Windows 2003 OS images.

ZFS GA Proof-of-Concept

Envisioned, designed and managed implementation from bare floor - a Sun lab consisting of 13

servers (SPARC and x64), fully redundant SAN (Brocade and Sun StorEdge, 28TB), NAS (Sun

StorEdge), StorageTek Tape, fully redundant Gigabit Ethernet, with all necessary flexibility of a

typical Sun benchmarking centre.

Performed Basel II architecture consulting, including architecture review, performance and

capacity planning for shared ETL infrastructure. Finalised almost 9 months of gathering of the

Basel II Non Functional Requirements for all project streams (Retail, Trading and Wholes ale

Banking).

Developed capacity and performance model to verify NFRs against SLAs for each area.

Sold and delivered OLTP solution infrastructure reviews for an application environment

consisting of almost 50 servers contributing to a significant stabilisation of the environment (ie

100+ green days reached and no Severity 1 incidents since).

Asset Management Software Proof of Concept (PoC) - Eracent

Sun/Greenplum Data Warehouse Appliance PoC

PoC for multiple client diskless boot (Sun Fire x64 nad Sun Fire T2000 hardware)

Gigaspaces solution research and introduction

Microsoft Virtual Server PoC as an alternative grid solution based on Sun Fire X2200, X4100 and

X4600 hardware.

Business case development based on performance benchmarking and enterprise lice nsing

agreements around positioning Sun Fire T2000 as a new standard for Weblogic deployment in

an application grid environment.

PoC implementation of Oracle 10g on Sun Fire T2000 (Sparc T1) hardware and data load

benchmarking on a stand alone Oracle server.

PoC implementatino of Oracle 10g RAC on three Sun Fire T2000 s RAC nodes and data load

benchmarking.

PoC implementation of Oracle RAC configuration without Veritas software stack (VxFS, VxVM

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and VCS) achieving High Availabilitiy via native Solaris and Oracle functionality.

Performance benchmark testing using SPECweb99 and SPECweb99SSL tests on Sun Fire T2000

and x64 hardware against baseline consisting of currently common web serving standard (Sun

Fire V210; V490). Testing included competitive testing of Sun JVM vs IBM JVM, as well as Monte

Carlo simulation done on x64 and T2000 to showcase floating point performance differences.

Solaris 10 demo + Solaris 11 customer preview.

Zettabyte File System (ZFS) early PoC (March 2006 pre-beta release)

Sun Hypervisor v2 + Logical Domains (LDOMs): pre-beta release/development code demo with

Solaris 10 and Solaris 11.

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WORK EXPERIENCE (cont'd)

Estalishing of a corporate standard documentation for hardware virtualisation via Sun Fire

domains and software virtualisation via Sun Solaris 10 zones/containers

Independent forensic audit of the security incidents involving production server outages.

Developed implementation guideline for deployment and Solaris 10 RBAC security approach.

Managed DTrace demonstration and development of a customised DTrace menu driven

interface containing 10 canned DTrace scripts.

PoC running VMWare ESX on Sun Fire X4600 hardware.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 PoC running on Sun Fire X4500/X4600 hardware

PoC for potential ZFS replacement of VxFS/VxVM on T2000

Benchmark testing x64 RevF servers using SPECjbb2005 tests on new Opterons (Sun Fire X2200

M2)

System architecture and implementation of multiple data warehouses for Business Intelligence,

Customer Relationship Management, Business Development and Anti Money Laundering

environments for a major Canadian financial institution, up to tens of terabytes of data, all

based on Sun hardware (SunFire server family (V/volume and E/enterprise class servers up to

E20K) and StorEdge range of storage products (from workgroup (3510) to enterprise class

(9985) SAN solution) and including various software components: Veritas (FS, VM, NB), Oracle

(8i/9i/10g), Informatica, Hyperion, Brio, SAS and iPlanet.

Management of SunRay ultra thin client proof of concept

Management of SunReady Application Readiness Service, including design, installation,

configuration and hardening of four SF 6800 application servers.

Management of benchmark testing of the new retail banking front end application for a major

Canadian bank (replacing in-branch 3270 based application) (SF E15K, SF E6800, SF V480, E10K,

StorEdge T3, Solaris 8, Sun Cluster 3.0, Oracle 8.1.7, Oracle Parallel Server, Mercury LoadRunner

7.5, IBM MQ Series 5.2, IBM IMS Connect)

Management of implementation of two clustered (SunFire V880, Solaris 8, VxFS, VxVM, SC 3.0,

Oracle/HA and Documentum) pairs, tape library (L180), lanless backup and recovery (V880,

VxNB) and SAN (StorEdge T3, 6960).

Architecture review for Eontec s BankFrame application implementation. M anagement of

Solaris, Weblogic and TCP/IP tuning.

Media/Telecommunications

Benchmark testing and performance optimisation of image processing on SPARC and X64 Sun

servers.

SunReady Availability Assessment, i.e. data centre assessment of key 10 IT manageme nt areas

with specific concentration on people, processes and technology. Executive summary and

detailed report comparing corporate results with best practices benchmark.

Architecture review of iPlanet wireless client portal.

Management of web server performance assessment (Solaris/Apache load balanced with Cisco

Arrowpoint).

Transportation/Logistics

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Re-hosting of mainframe based applications on Solaris platform (IMS DB/DC, COBOL/CICS/DB2)

Retail

Management of system administration including system performance tuning and backup &

recovery policies and procedures (Solaris 2.6).

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WORK EXPERIENCE (cont'd)

Government

Provincial: management and infrastructure architecture detailed design and implementation for

financial application framework. (10 Sun Enterprise servers (E6900, E4900, V440, V240), Solaris

9, Resonate load balancing solution, Veritas File System, Volume Manager and NetBackup,

Oracle HA DB cluster, Oracle Application Server (OAS), Sun RunBook).

Provincial: infrastructure detailed design and implementation of development and testing

environment including Sun Opteron X64 line of servers (V40z) running RedHat Linux Enterprise

3.0.

Provincial: management of complex Production Design Service (PDS) and SunReady Availability

Assessment (SRAA) (four data centres). Detailed infrastructure architecture design and

implementation for Development and Test data centre from bare floor (4 SunFire 3800 servers

with two domains each (Oracle DB, WebLogic), 4 SunFire 280R servers (Oracle 11i, DNS,

Directory), V880 server, tape library (L180), 8xT3 storage, 4xFC switches, Solaris 8, Sun

Management Center).

Federal: implementation and documentation of complex solution including tape library (L180),

D130, D240 and T3 storage (>25), SunFire 6800 (>5), Netra telco servers (>30), Compaq servers

(>20), Cisco switches, content switches, routers and firewalls (>25), Nortel VPN (1000+ users),

Brocade FC switches. Details on this engagement are NOT available.

Provincial: management and infrastructure architecture detailed design and implementation for

financial application framework. (11 Sun Enterprise servers (E6500, E4500, E420R, E220R), tape

library (L700), Solaris 8, Resonate load balancing solution, Veritas File System, Volume Manager

and NetBackup, Oracle HA DB cluster, Oracle Application Server (OAS), Sun Management

Center, Halcyon, Sun RunBook).

Municipal: management and infrastructure architecture detailed design and implementation for

City s web site, Business License Renewal and DineSafe applications. (14 Sun Enterpri se servers

(E220R, E420R), Solaris 7, BigIP load balancer (HA), Checkpoint Firewall -1, SecureNet firewall,

Oracle HA DB cluster, IBM WebSphere WAS).

Federal/Military: management of assessment, network redesign, firewall implementation and

server hardening (Solaris 7, SecureNet). Details on this engagement are NOT available.

Details on other engagements are available upon request:

DST Canada, Toronto, ON (Jul 1999 - May 2000) Lucent Technologies Inc., Naperville, IL, USA (Nov

1998 - May 1999)

Crimson Logic, Toronto, ON (May 2002) SwissRe, Toronto, ON (Mar 2002)

Sygma Play AG, Z rich, CH (Sep 1999) Cantel AT&T IT, Toronto, ON (Aug 1999)

VITAFOAM Products Canada LTD., Toronto, ON BGD Software Inc., Toronto, ON (1997 - present)

(Jun 1999)

Manulife Financial, Toronto, ON (Aug 1998 - Oct Buehler AG, Uzwill, CH (Aug 1998)

1998)

NetWorkers AG, Givisiez, CH (Aug 1998) BGD Consulting, Scarborough, ON (Aug 1998 - Oct

1998)

Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, ON (Feb 1997 - Zenlabs Inc., Toronto, ON (Mar 1998)

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Aug 1998)

Prolink Consulting Inc., Toronto, ON (Sep 1997) Trade and Travel International., Belgrade, YU (Aug

1997)

Sun Life Assurance of Canada, Toronto, ON (Jul The Prudential Insurance Co. of America,

1996 - Feb 1997) Scarborough, ON (Mar 1996 - Jul 1996)

Crown Life Insurance Co., Regina, SK (Mar 1993 - Nash R. Radovanovic, (self-proprietor) Belgrade,

Mar 1996) YU (Feb 1992 - Oct 1992)

Informatika Inzenjering, Belgrade, YU (Aug 1987 - Elektrodistribucija Beograd, Belgrade, YU (Aug

Aug 1988) 1988 - Oct 1992)

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PUBLICATIONS & PUBLIC SPEAKING

2008

"UNIX Virtualization with Sun Logical Domainson Sun Enterprise T5240", Sun Microsystems of

Canada, 2008

"Sun Application Readiness Service for Sun Enterprise M5000 and M8000"", Sun Microsystems

of Canada, 2008

Sun Connection: IT Infrastructure Management Platform, Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2008

"Sun Operational Capabilities Assessment for a Major Canadian Financial Institution", Sun

Microsystems of Canada, 2008

"Migrating HP Superdome to Solaris Platform", Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2008

2007

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING TEXT-CONTAINING DOCUMENTS ; US Patent &

Trademark Office, 2007

ZFS: A New Technology Introduction & Sun Lab Testing Report, Sun Microsystems of Canada,

2007

Sun SPARC M4000: An Introduction, Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2007

Sun/VMWare Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Proof-of-Concept, Sun Microsystems of Canada,

2007

Microsoft Exchange 2007 on Sun Fire X4600, Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2007

Weblogic Server 10 Cluster without Veritas Software Stack Reference Architecture Summary,

Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2007

IBM MQ 5.3 vs. 6.0: Solaris 10 Zone/Container with Veritas Cluster Testing Report, Sun

Microsystems of Canada, 2007

Actuate iServer v8 vs. v9: testing Report, Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2007

"Decreasing your infratstructure cost by using VMWare on Sun Fire X4600", Sun Microsystems of

Canada, 2007

Sun Application Readiness Service for Sun Fire E25K", Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2007

"Consolidate Your Exstream Dialogue Application From Windows to Solaris and Save

Millions!", Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2007

"A Microsoft Based Approach to Virtualization of Sun x64 Systems - What Works and

What Doesn't, Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2007

"Diskless Grid - Reference Architecture Summary", Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2007

2006

"Oracle 10g RAC without Veritas Software Stack - Reference Architecture Summary", Sun

Microsystems of Canada, 2006

"Web Server Head to Head: Sun Fire T2000 vs V240", Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2006

"What's New: Solaris 10, JumpStart, DTrace and ZFS, Sun Microsystems of Canada, 2006

"Virtualization Preview - Sun World: LDOMs, Containers/Zones and BrandZ, Sun Microsystems

of Canada, 2006

1997-2005

GreaseMonkey JavaScript extensions for Firefox @

http://www.bgdsoftware.com/freejs/index.htm, 2005

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"Maximum Achievable Storage Array System Availability", 2002

"Security Assessment Methodology", 2002

VB/VBS/ASP code snippet archive @ http://www.bgdsoftware.com/freeASP, 2001

10 Int'l Rexx Symposium: "Using Rexx to Publish Mainframe Reports to the Web", 1999

th

"Using Perl to Create Dynamic, Dynamic Content (DDC)", 1999

Rexx code snippet archive @ http://www.bgdsoftware.com/freerexx, 1998

"Using Point-and-Shoot Fields to Navigate through ISPF Panels"

"Creating dynamic WWW sites using HTML templates and Perl", Web Techniques: "Using

JavaScript to Write JavaScript" http://webtechniques.com/archives/1997/09/junk/, 1997

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ASSOCIATIONS

Master Consulting Services Agreement (MCSA) with Sun Microsystems Canada, Inc.,

Professional Services

Sun Microsystems Partner Advantage

Member of IBM S390, Internet Technologies/San Francisco/Java and DB2 PartnerWorld for

Developers

Microsoft Developer Partner

Espion Intl. LLC Channel Sales Partner

RSA SecurWorld Partner

Strategis Industry Canada, SourceCAN Industry Canada

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Singapore Trade Development Board

Fellow, Life Management Institute (FLMI), Life Office Management Association

Associate, Customer Service (ACS), Life Office Management Association

Associate, Life and Health Claims (ALHC), International Claims Association

SECURITY CLEARANCES

York Regional Police background check

RCMP Enhanced Reliability (ER)

Canadian Controlled Goods Directorate (CGD) / US International Traffic in Arms Regulations

(ITAR)

COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS

MAINFRAME/Web Reports (1997) http://www.bgdsoftware.com/mwr/

GlueText (2007) http://www.gluetext.com

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