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DevOps Architect

Location:
Fort Worth, TX
Salary:
$140000/yr, $80/hr
Posted:
November 15, 2017

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Robert E. (Pete) Pedersen

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Fort Worth, TX 76179

SUMMARY

Enterprise architect with a passion for enabling change and growth in large organizations. Experienced infrastructure domain specialist focused on DevOps and cloud, pushing new technologies out to all parts of the organization. Experienced consultant with outstanding presentation skills, adept at adjusting to the level of the audience, be it C-suite or sysadmins, with a wide variety of skillsets and experiences to lead a client or employer through strategy formation to component selection to production systems; at home in the boardroom or data center and all stops in between.

CAPABILITIES

Enterprise Architect – Interface with business leaders to insure that IT correctly supports their business plans, fit the IT plan to the business plan; create and implement IT strategic plans and roadmaps, develop and maintain IT standards, processes and procedures; provide IT assessments and evaluations with recommendations, provide workflow and business process assessment and design recommendations; conduct E2E business process and technology assessments with recommendations and roadmaps.

Infrastructure Architecture – Design innovative solutions to infrastructure problems using bare-metal or cloud infrastructure, create new infrastructure roadmaps, evangelize containerized solutions and infrastructure, move infrastructure to internal/external cloud or hybrid using DevOps approach.

DevOps Consultant – Lead clients through the process of building a DevOps strategy, identifying where in the organization to start the transformation, guide them through the transformation, and train/educate/mentor all levels on their role and how it changes. Guide clients through selecting a process to transform, selecting the tools required, building the infrastructure required, and implementing a DevOps toolchain and pipeline. Mentor all involved in expanding that to include the whole organization.

EXPERIENCE

Axis Technology (at Lockheed-Martin), Fort Worth, TX – DevOps Infrastructure Architect 10/2016-Present

Assigned to the Joint Strike Fighter Program at Lockheed-Martin to introduce DevOps into AeroSource, the primary product lifecycle management (PLM) platform used in the program. Led the project to document the as-built environments, create the strategic plan to move towards DevOps and cloud operations for the program, and to create new environments for Development and Integration Testing in OpenStack using Jenkins and Ansible. Led the team that ran performance tests on a new environment with new operating systems (Windows and Linux) in a cloud (OpenStack) environment. Mentored the system administration team, configuration management team, and development team in using the new (to them) DevOps technologies. Presented training and guided the education of all involved. Developed Jenkins jobs and pipelines, Ansible playbooks, and mentored others in developing the same. Mentored management in moving forward with DevOps, making use of corporate resources where possible and creating new projects where needed. Became a resource to all of the Aeronautics division in that respect, taking active part in the various cloud and DevOps working groups within Lockheed-Martin.

Specific Technologies: OpenStack, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Red Hat Linux 7.x+, MS Server 2012-2016, Solaris 10/11, Oracle 11g, Oracle RAC, AWS (public, GovCloud, and on-premise).

Genesis10 (at Bank of America), Richardson, TX – Infrastructure Architect, 1/2016-6/2016

Assigned to Bank of America/Merrill Lynch as the technology lead on project teams, responsible for architecting solutions, design and configure new systems to meet user requirements for a function or unit, often using new technologies. As an experienced resource, advise and consult on Hadoop implementations and Hadoop-As-A-Service infrastructure. As a trusted advisor within the organization, recommend the appropriate compute platform from IaaS, virtual servers, or standalone, dedicated hardware, along with the work stations and communication linkage required to support mainframe, distributed and client server business processes and information flows. Technology lead on datacenter migration for trading document generation systems, designed new infrastructure fit and oversaw the implementation. Served as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource; routine accountability is for technical knowledge and capabilities as a team member or as an individual contributor.

Specific technologies: DevOps, IaaS, PaaS, HaaS, Red Hat Linux 5/6/7, VMware, Wintel, Solaris 10/11, Oracle, SQL Server, 3DNS, Big IP, EMC Storage, NetApp.

Open Systems Technologies (at Citi), Plano, TX – Infrastructure Architect, 9/2014-8/2015

Designed and modified complex, multi-system environments; identified and analyzed business requirements to integrate hardware, storage, operating systems, and connectivity solutions; created and maintained standards and developed patterns used within the Consumer infrastructure technology space. Partnered with business leaders, developers, engineers, and production support teams to provide design guidelines, impart knowledge on technical trends and serve as a Subject Matter Expert on systems configuration and integration, capacity planning, performance analysis and optimization. As the corporate Infrastructure Architect for EMEA, oversaw the optimization efforts for Unix, Linux, and database platforms. Led the technical effort to plan the creation of two new data centers in Russian, and the migration of all systems that manipulate or store data pertaining to Russian customers. This involved extracting the data from regional data centers and migrating it to the new data centers. Also designed the end-state environment for Unix to Linux migrations (AIX to Red Hat, p-Series to x86/VMware).

Specific technologies: DevOps, IaaS, PaaS, x86/Red Hat Linux 4/5/6/7, Wintel, IBM p-Series/AIX, Solaris 10/11, Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, TIBCO, MQ-series, Safenet LUNA HSM, VMware, 3DNS, Big IP, EMC Storage, NetApp.

Digital Systems (at Capital One), Plano, TX – Infrastructure Architect, 3/2014-8/2014

Assigned to the Capital One account as an Infrastructure Architect, working in the Financial Services organization to assist in the migration of the Plano Data Center to Chicago. Activities include building model architecture, cataloging systems and ensuring they are ready to be migrated to the new model. Planned capacity upgrades for legacy Solaris and HP systems in advance of migrating them to x86/Linux with the move to the new datacenter. Much of the work involved moving applications to a JVM framework hosted on a Linux platform. As all work at Capital One is accomplished using the Agile methodology, we’ve been fitting infrastructure projects to Agile using the Kanban method through VersionOne. My position is on the Systems Team, which mediates between development and delivery, ensuring that the proper Dev/Test, QA, and Production/DR systems are available when needed.

Specific technologies: DevOps, IaaS, PaaS, x86/Red Hat Linux 5/6/7, Wintel, IBM p-Series/AIX, Solaris 10/11, Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, Big IP (local and global), EMC Storage, NetApp

Zettaset, Mountain View, CA – Sr Systems Architect – Big Data, 12/2012-02/2014

Provide expert advice to clients on designing Big Data ecosystems. Use enterprise and global architecture experience to assist prospects and clients in developing Big Data strategies and programs. Evangelize Hadoop and Big Data to prospective clients and partners through seminars, Meetup groups, and conferences. Consult with clients to plan and implement test and production systems using Hadoop and the Zettaset toolset. Research the Big Data and Hadoop communities and ecosystems, using the results to educate co-workers, partners, vendors, clients, and prospects in new technologies and use cases. Assist the sales director in building relationships with other Big Data vendors, partners, prospects, and clients. Designed and installed evaluation systems on cloud technology, OCP, commodity hardware, and Power technology. Technologies used include the Open Source Hadoop stack with HDFS and MapReduce, distributions by Cloudera, Hortonworks, Wandisco, IBM, and Intel; platforms include OCP, commodity servers, virtual environments like VMware and Virtualbox, and IBM Power systems; ancillary technologies including LDAP, Active Directory, and Kerberos; other Hadoop projects such as Ambari, Hive, Pig, Hcatalog, Hbase, Flume, Sqoop; monitoring packages such as Nagios and Splunk; Hadoop-related projects like Oozie and Zookeeper. Primary OS is Linux with implementations using Redhat, CentOS, and Ubuntu. Other technologies encountered from a familiarization perspective include R, Mahout, Kitenga, Pentaho, RushAnalytics, Informatica, and MicroStrategy. Published whitepapers on Hadoop Cluster Sizing, Hadoop-As-A-Service, and Hadoop Infrastructure Tiers.

Specific technologies: x86/Red Hat Linux5/6, x86/CentOS 5/6, VMware, OCP, Hadoop, Splunk, Hortonworks, Cloudera, Talend, HaaS

INFOSYS, Plano, TX – Senior Consultant/Infrastructure Architect, 7/2012-12/2012

As an Infrastructure Architect, provide expert senior-level advice on infrastructure architecture design and implementation; discover and assess client's infrastructure requirements; create requirements traceability matrix, Bill of Materials (BOM), and professional infrastructure architecture documents comprised of Technical Reference Architectures (Logical and Physical Architectures) to depict customer’s current environment and recommended future requirements; apply appropriate estimating techniques to determine the level of effort and financial investment required for the technical implementation of the solution; effectively manage projects for efficiency, completion, and quality; provide technical management of implementation of infrastructure architecture and provide technical mentoring, guidance and clarification to other architects and technical implementation resources.

Designed technical architecture to re-platform a major office supply retailer's electronic business platform, reducing the footprint by 75% through the implementation of blade architecture and virtualization technologies.

Designed new data center architecture for a major food product distribution company in preparation for a migration of all corporate IT assets to new data centers and a move to a new hosting company. Led the assessment of the current environment, development of the new solution, and design of the final architecture. The new platform makes heavy use of converged networks and systems at all levels, moving from monolithic Unix environments (AIX) to distributed Linux environments (Redhat). Did the evaluation of remote hosting and co-location facilities in preparation for selecting new environments.

Specific Technologies: DevOps, IaaS, x86/Red Hat Linux 5/6, Wintel, VBlocks, Cisco UCS, IBM p-Series/AIX, IBM iSeries, VMware, SAP, Oracle, EMC storage, NetApp

Digital Systems (at Capital One, Plano, TX – Infrastructure Architect, 12/2011-7/2012

Assigned to the Capital One account as an Infrastructure Architect, working in the ITO organization in the Project Engineering Group to design the technology infrastructure for assigned IT projects in the financial services area, ensuring that the system design and implementation adhere to Capital One architectural standards; work to integrate similar projects from each of the Capital One divisions, moving toward a consolidated, centralized environment with IT as a services division that owns and manages all IT assets, providing IT as a service to the corporation.

Specific technologies: DevOps, IaaS, x86/Redhat Linux 5/6, Wintel, S IBM p-Series/AIX, Solaris 10, Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, Big IP (local and global), EMC Storage, NetApp

McKesson Corporation, McKesson Provider Technologies, Alpharetta, GA

Enterprise Architect/EMR Technology Engineer 5/2005 – 5/2011

Trusted technology advisor to national and regional level corporate accounts that utilize the full spectrum of McKesson products; consult with clients to analyze system needs and translate customer objectives and critical success factors into actionable business and technology strategies, and advise clients on the technology and infrastructure required to implement and integrate clinical, laboratory, pharmacy, scheduling, and document imaging products.

Created information technology plans based on an understanding of the customer's organization, strategic direction, technology context and business needs for acquisition and upgrade of current systems; develop technology architecture including servers, shared storage, end-user devices, LAN and Wireless Networks, WANs, virtualization, and use of collocation facilities..

Provide expert guidance on the formation and implementation of migration plans from older Unix-based clinical systems to newer Linux-based systems, including migration to co-located data centers as appropriated.

Generated new development efforts supporting enhanced application integration and interoperability using HL7.

Major Project 2005-2007: Developed the overall technical direction of the McKesson arm of Tenet Healthcare Inc’s technology uplift and centralization program to the pharmacy, laboratory, radiology, surgery, and order management for 40+ hospitals; planned the migration of systems to a new centralized datacenter from the hospitals; liaison between the client, the outsourcer, and the software vendor for the project. Led others in the definition of project scope, plans and deliverables including cost projections and proposed implementation dates for the technical implementation and installation of the necessary systems. Developed the technology strategy based on consolidation of IT assets of geographically close facilities and then centralizing those assets for the entire corporation. The main compute and storage environments were in a centralized, collocation facility.

Specific technologies: IBM p-Series/AIX, x86/Redhat Linux 4/5/6, Wintel, Oracle, SQL Server, Citrix, Citrix Load Balancers, IBM & EMC Storage

ST CHARLES MEDICAL CENTER (SCMC) Bend, OR

Systems Architect for Unix & Networking, 1/2003-6/2005

Provided architectural oversight and top-level administration for Unix (AIX, Linux, HPUX) and networking environments.

Developed the architectural plans, budgets, and work plans for moving networks and Unix systems to enterprise level platforms from a heterogeneous mixture of loosely coupled systems.

Developed the plans and budgets for the projects to modernize networking to the network edge and beyond, including redesign of the network from flat to subnetted, addition of a wireless overlay, and redundant paths to remote sites and the Internet. Managed the implementation of those projects and the operation of the systems.

Developed, planned, and implemented an emergency initiative to consolidate core hospital systems onto large-scale IBM p-Series servers, utilizing DLPAR technology to manage the systems.

Managed the Unix-based systems operations scheduling, backup, storage, and retrieval functions. Implemented a new IBM Tivoli-based backup and DR system in a collocation facility, developing the DR functions and maintenance and testing program to go with it.

Assisted with management and administration of iSeries/AS400 systems, managing external print devices and incorporating them into a Tivoli-based backup and DR system in a collocation facility.

Advised management and end users in the selection, procurement, usage, and maintenance of software programs and hardware. Developed and implemented standards for desktop-based services, printing services, and back-office procedures and programs.

Developed and managed change management program and other enterprise-level system management policies, mentoring peers, subordinates, and management in the implementation and management of these policies.

Mentored other groups within IT on how to implement enterprise-level policies and procedures in their environments in order to raise the level of the entire corporation's IT services.

Specific technologies: IBM p-Series/AIX, IBM iSeries(AS400)/OS400, x86/Redhat Linux 4/5, Wintel, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM Storage

EDUCATION

Core Certificate in IT, System Mgmt Masters Program – USC (Overseas)

2nd Major, Computer Science, Angelo State University

BS in General Studies, Excelsior College

AAS in Instructional Technology – Community College of the Air Force (CCAF)

AAS in Communications Processing Management - CCAF



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