Architect Cloud, Security, and Compliance Operations

Summary

Seeking a position in which over ** years of technical, sales and project management experience will assist an organization in achieving its business and technical objectives.

Employment History

IBM Architect - System Integration and Architecture Management (Promoted September 2016)

VCM Compliance SME (May 2016 to September 2016)

IBM – (remote)

May 2016 to Present

Proven Background in VMware, vBlock, storage, enterprise monitoring, VCM compliance (HIPPA, PCI, Infrastructure Drift), and disaster recovery operations.

Successful background working with stakeholders to develop architecture framework and requirements that aligns strategy, processes, and IT assets with business goals.

Work closely with project managers, developers, and focus groups to avoid redundancy, minimize expenditures, and improve overall product delivery within organizations.

In-depth experience establishing best practices and guidelines for selecting, vetting, developing, and implementing information systems within the enterprise.

Acute knowledge of hardware, software, networking, applications, and systems engineering.

Familiarity with SCRUM operations.

Sr. Virtualization and Converged Architect

Nike Inc. (TEKsystems) 6-month Contract (remote)

August 2015 to March 2016

Insourcing and datacenter collapse project.

Plan, architect, and insource IT operations from Xerox and ATOS to Nike Managed operations.

Managed / trained two reports – VMware / UCS operations.

Architected scripted processes for VM migrations between datacenters.

Present, plan, and articulate infrastructure needs and direction to senior management.

Responsible for daily operations, management, and maintenance of HP Proliant and VCE vBlock systems.

Designed processes for daily operations to guide Jr. personnel.

Versed in VCE vBlock/UCS operations and management covering fault resolution and matrix upgrades.

Heavily involved in Nike's virtualized resource optimization and storage consolidations projects.

Provided daily operational support working primarily with VMware vSphere and tools.

Familiar with the use of PowerCLI for VMware administrative operations.

Managed Dell Foglight, VRO for capacity planning and provided daily infrastructure reporting to senior management.

Sr. VCE Converged Infrastructure Specialist

Canadian Pacific Rail Ways, Minneapolis MN

July 2013 to Present

Supervised three reports.

Plan, architect, and insource IT operations from IBM and HP to newly acquired VCE vBlocks projected to save $68 million annually.

Key member of CP rail’s multi city, multi datacenter build out.

Present, plan, and articulate infrastructure needs and direction to senior management.

Responsible for daily operations, management, and maintenance of 8 vBlocks (2x 300’s and 6x700’s) encompassing 2500 vm’s requiring 9x5 uptime for train control and related operations.

Fluent in VCE vBlock operations and management covering fault resolution and matrix upgrades.

Heavily involved in storage operations and optimization on both VNXe and VMAX

Performed load balancing and business continuity operations across multiple datacenters using Recover Point, SRM, and VMware built in web-client replication manager.

Directly responsible for building and managing CP Rails cloud operation using VCAC, vShield, and VCOPS for release management, highly fault tolerant, and available applications.

Managed and provided daily infrastructure optimization support utilizing VCOPS.

Directly responsible for building and managing in partnership with CP rail SecOPS, CP Rail’s compliance operations using VMware Configuration Manager.

Provided daily operational support working primarily with VMware vSphere and tools.

Provided daily reporting and all aspects of converged infrastructure to senior management.

Versed in SAN architecture, virtualization, Cisco MDS 9000x, and Nexus 1000v.

Member of the VMware View VDI team build out covering 1500 virtual desktops.

Familiar with and the use of PowerCLI for VMware administrative operations.

Architected, Implemented, and currently managing VCM (HIPPA) to provide compliance accountability and insight in CP Rails infrastructure.

Sr. Systems Solutions Engineer

Global Cash Access Inc., Las Vegas NV

March 2012 to May 2013

Provide daily infrastructure management for 3 datacenter footprints totaling $3.5 million for 2012 covering 250 VM’s with plans for scaling up to 4500 VM’s (National ATM operations), Global cage gaming operations, cloud services, and critical business systems.

Primarily tasked with compute (UCS), virtualization (VMware), storage (Hitachi, cx-480, vnx-300- dual VMAXe, Isilon, and business continuity operations (Recover Point, VMware SRM).

Performed design and implantation specifications on assigned projects.

Performed SAN reorgs and migrations

Continuous environment upgrade managing vBlocks i.e. VCE matrix upgrades

Support of Cisco switches – IOS i.e. MDS 9506

Solid working relationships with industry leaders i.e. VCE, EMC, VMware.

Daily management and maintenance of GCA Core technology base:

VCE (UCS) platforms.

MDS 9506 Fabric switches

ESXi 5.0 / vCenter 5.0 – upgraded from 4.1

VMware Operations Center

VMware Configuration Manager

VMware View, horizon, persona – ATM project, FiPAY, VDI, Horizon, Persona

SQL LDVM clustering stretch layer II, SQL RDM clustering in vBlock FCoE

Dual CX-480 SANs – 50 TB each

Dual vMAXe – 100TB each

vPLEX

Avamar

EMC Data domain

Isilon – EMC NAS

Recoverpoint 3.4

VMware SRM 5.0

Veeam

Windows 2008 R2 Domain Administration

SE Architect & Storage Engineer

Switchflye Systems Inc., Burbank CA

September 2009 to March 2012

Supervised three developers and two Jr. Systems Engineers.

Provide integration and scaling solutions for 3rd parties in support of sales operations.

Design, implementation, and management of all storage systems NetApp.

Responsible for design, implementation, and management of all virtualized systems (VMware).

Deployed and maintained virtual desktop environment for Switchflye.

Successful implementation of VMware SRM.

Design, configuration, and management of backup systems (Veeam).

Project management and resource management of contract employees for storage system deployment.

Achieved a 95%+ ratio of virtualized systems.

SE Architect

Evo Era Communications, Gilbert AZ

October 2007 to September 2009

Provide integration and scaling solutions for 3rd (faithfone PCS, CornerStone Comms) parties in support of sales operations.

Lead support engineer and architect for all virtualization contract services with Evo Era Communications.

Sales support and architecture review for new customer of Evo Era.

Design, and testing for all mobile platforms requiring carrier grade backend service.

Performed VMware configurations and support for DR customers.

Daily, weekly and monthly trending and analysis for monitoring and scaling planning.

Back line support for all windows resources for tier III assistance.

Windows Server 2008 functional testing lead.

Windows Server 2003 architecture review and lead for build standards and documentation

VM storage migration project manager.

24/7 on-call support for all Evo Era systems across all locations company wide.

Sr. Systems Analyst (Tier II)

IndyMac Bank, Tempe, AZ

April 2006 to October 2007

Server Administration - Server 2003 – Vertias backup services

Managed 500+ server environment performing hardware break fix operations 24/7 on HP, Compaq, SQL, Netcool, Oracle, Remedy, clusters, Storage Tek, EMC, SAN, NAS, Server 2003, Exchange, SQL clustering, Active directory, at the Tempe Data Center.

Supported 3000 users.

Acted as the lead shift analyst responsible for ensuring daily deliverables, process adherence, and mission flow.

Responsible for writing process documentation and procedures for the Tempe data center.

Provided application support to business units throughout the infrastructure.

Fluent in the use of Tools for example - Remedy, VMware, DsView, HP Open View, Share point.

Monitor and supported Cisco VoIP call manager and Unity systems.

Provided remote support and disaster recovery functions.

Managed data vaulting through third party vendors (Iron Mountain.)

Sales Engineer and Architect

Voilà IP Communications, Houston TX

March 2005 to May 2006

Supported Sales team in delivery high end communication systems

Generated detailed engineering plans, technical specifications, and drawings relating to carrier grade VoIP operations and hosted telco scaling operations.

Worked on DR planning with customers using ZEN networks.

Responded to RFQ’s, RFP’s, and special project requests.

Generated processes and work flow methods to streamline technical sales support

Technical researcher for the sales department.

Supported Broadsoft, Cisco VoIP call managers, and Unity systems

Education

New Horizons Learning Center

725 South Rural Road

Suite C-207

Tempe, AZ 85281

El Cajon Community College

Admissions and Records

8800 Grossmont College Dr.

El Cajon, CA 92020

St. Johns Military School

Academic Dean

PO Box 827 6201

Salina, KS 67401

Certificates and Awards

2014 - VCE fundamentals training

2014 - VMware vShield training

2013 - EMC VMAX training

2012 - EMC / E20-547,517

2012 - EMCISA / E20-001 – Certified

2012 - NetAPP / NS0-154

2011 - VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure

2005 - 2276: Implementing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Hosts

2005 - 2275: Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment

2005 - 2274: Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment

2000 - Cisco VoIP services

1993 - USN submarine services qualification SSN652,SSN752

Further work history and references available upon request.

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