CONTACT

ADDRESS

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Crown Point, IN 46307

PHONE

773-***-****

EMAIL

ac9j0v@r.postjobfree.com

SKILLS

Agile Development

(Gitlab, GIT, IBM Cloud Garage)

Cloud Deployment

(IBM Cloud Orchestrator, IBM Softlayer,

Amazon Web Services, Chef)

OS Deployment Automation

(AIX, Linux, Windows, HP-UX, Solaris,

VMWare)

Project Management

(MS Project, Gitlab, Rational Team

Concert, Basecamp)

System Administration

(Shell scripting, Perl, Python,

Powershell, Apache, mySQL)

NELSON

VELAZQUEZ

IT SOLUTION ARCHITECT

EDUCATION

University of Texas at San Antonio

August 1994 – May 1998

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science

GPA: 3.79

WORK EXPERIENCE

IBM IT Solution Architect

March 2006–Present

Primary responsibilities include:

Provide high-level architectural/design direction in operating system provisioning/cloud deployments.

Implement and maintain agile development processes.

Provide project management oversight and steering.

Define business and technical requirements with product owners.

Create and share cost cases based on requirements. Secondary responsibilities include:

Provide OS technical direction and implementation for Windows, AIX, and Linux platforms.

Implement DevOps automation (Chef, GIT, Puppet, etc)

Support of BAU image creation activities (patching, device driver inclusion, security compliance, new

features/enhancements)

Design and implement metrics gathering tools to show deliverable usage.

Manage project visibility outside of normal usage channels

(blogs, graphics, videos).

Work with Chef automation to deliver automated security hardening to the Linux platform.

Act as the Agile scrum master for all projects.

Accomplishments:

Assisted customers with designing and deploying private and public clouds. Assisted in automating workflows, OS image deployments along with third-party software installation and configuration.

Wrote and published official IBM blogs and videos for the IBM International Technical Support Organization (ITSO).

Led and performed IBM Puresystems pattern creation, customization, and maintenance for x and p-Series

environments.

Implemented provisioning services for operating system and software distribution in Cloud environments (Softlayer). RECENT CERTIFICATIONS

Team Solution Design

Issued 28 Feb 2018

Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator

Issued 20 Dec 2018

Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

Issued 16 Dec 2018

Patent Issuance

Issued 30 Sep 2018

IBM Agile Explorer

Issued 11 Apr 2018

IBM Agile Advocate

Issue 02 May 2019

IBM Private Cloud – Foundational

Technology

Issued 14 May 2019

Docker Essentials

Issued 14 May 2019

IBM Cloud Private Infrastructure and

Architecture

Issued 04 Jun 2019

LANGUAGES

English

Spanish

Led heterogeneous development teams to converge on single OS provisioning/software distribution solution to reduce cost to the business.

Implemented OS provisioning technical solutions on-site at largest customers in India, United Kingdom, and France

Produced high-level/low-level documentation.

Provided technical sales support for sales engagements in India by implementing OS provisioning solutions and providing demonstrative training on those solutions.

Architected and led chief design contribution to apply for US Patent for Automated Operating System Device Driver Update Solution.

IBM Systems Engineer

October 2004–March 2006

Primary responsibilities included:

Define solution operational needs.

Define business and technical requirements.

Create and share use cases based on requirements.

Provide high-level architecture and low-level design documentation for given solution.

Overseeing development efforts and overall testing on requirements.

Perform design and code reviews on project deliverables.

Assist with deployment of given solutions.

Accomplishments:

Architected various centralized, automated operating system provisioning solutions across various customer accounts.

Performed product evaluations/recommendations of existing software solutions to be leveraged in all solutions.

Engaged customer bases in Japan, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States to gather requirements and propose various solutions for their OSP needs.

Coordinated development activities to ensure solutions were compliant with published security guidelines

IBM OSP Team Leader

July 2000-October 2004

Accomplishments:

Lead team to provide a GUI interface to the RedHat Linux Kickstart process.

Certified and packaged 3rd party software to be installed on UNIX-based clients from a centralized server in an automated, unattended fashion.

Technical lead for AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris to oversee the implementation and deployment of operating systems and third party applications.

Overall team leader for all platforms in 2002 to guide and manage overall build issues. Led efforts in moving team into a true software development hierarchy.

IBM HP-UX System Administrator

June 1998 - July 2000

Accomplishments:

Oversaw building new target HP-UX systems for a national telecommunications company.

3rd party software installation and configuration

High-availability cluster design, implementation, and configuration

Assisted in hardware procurement and general customer support.

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