Software Sales
Resume:
CONTACT
ADDRESS
Crown Point, IN 46307
PHONE
*********@*****.***
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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