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June 20, 2016

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C y r a n o R i z z o

CIO, CTO, Cloud Computing, Network, Linux at USP

******.*****@*****.*** / +55-11-997**-****

https://linkedin.com/in/cyranorizzo

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Summary

Comprehensive experience in critical mission computer infrastructure and project/service delivery for prestigious organizations seeking increased efficiency, service levels and performance. Seasoned leader familiar with low-level deadline and design work, utilizing experience to lead an effective, productive team. Recognized expert in cloud computing with a sharp learning curve on new technologies. University of Sao Paulo (USP) Jul. 2002 - Present

CIO t Mar. 2015 - Present

t Headed USP IT Center consisting of over 180 employees in operation and projects for data center, telecommunications, and systems. t Regulated data center hires and optimized resources through integration of teams to simplify company hierarchy and reduce SLA time to delivery. t Increased savings and improved efficiency across the board. CTO, Cloud Computing, Datacenter Services t Nov. 2008 - Present t Improved corporate servers by transitioning to the new line Sun M5000 and acquired 100 Tera Bytes spread on four controllers NetApp FAS3270 with flash cache.

t Replaced Catalyst datacenter switches with new Cisco Nexus 7010 and supported virtualization of x86 with 32 Cisco UCS B200 M2 servers. t Developed and executed new infrastructure project to support users forced to operate remotely by employee strikes and student manifestations. t Redesigned infrastructure to support entire university with a virtual data center infrastructure called Cloud USP.

t Rewarded by university, Citrix, and NetApp for Cloud USP development, the largest private cloud in Latin America and among the largest educational clouds in the world.

t Added a new version to support federation, allowing researchers to share resources across the country.

Network, Linux, Unix, Windows Engineer t Jul. 2002 – Nov. 2008 t Redesigned all networks from layer one to layer four and deployed Linux services to personally designed monitoring systems, DNS, DHCP, and Proxy. t Provided support during mission critical enterprise systems to RISC Sparc Sun Microsystems equipment servers with Solaris operational system and VERITAS Volume Manager.

t Implemented high security for dean office buildings with Microsoft Active Directory, policing all 2000 desktops integrated with a personally designed physical and logical network.

t Updated corporate server to SunFire 6900 and storage to StorageTek 6140. C y r a n o R i z z o

CIO, CTO, Cloud Computing, Network, Linux at USP

******.*****@*****.*** / +55-11-997**-****

https://linkedin.com/in/cyranorizzo

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Honors and Awards

Innovations Award 2013 Citrix

May 2013

The University of Sao Paulo won the Citrix Innovations Award 2013 in Los Angeles with the Cloud Computing Project, it had competed with leaders of market, such as, Essar Group and Miami Children’s Hospital. Essar Group: A multinational corporation working in steel, energy, communications, minerals and shipping that uses Citrix solutions to increase productivity and improve cost efficiencies across its divisions. Miami Children’s Hospital: A world-renowned center for pediatric medicine that has built a telehealth infrastructure using Citrix solutions that gives clinicians access to medical data quickly and securely, from anywhere.

http://www.citrix.com/customers/university-of-sao-paulo-en.html Epic Story 2014 NetApp

October 2014

The University of São Paulo (USP) is a global research powerhouse. Brazil’s largest and most prestigious public university, USP produces more doctorate degrees annually than any other university in the world and ranks fifth in the number of scientific articles published. Relentless dedication to advancing research in all areas of knowledge and accelerating the time to discovery have helped USP become one of the world’s leading research institutions. With 150 disparate IT environments, the university struggled to meet service levels and coordinate backups across its massive and complex environment. IT costs were rising, and individual organizations could not scale quickly enough to support the growing capacity and performance requirements of their users. To maintain its prominence among the world’s most competitive and innovative institutions, USP needed a fast and flexible IT infrastructure that could stay a step ahead of users’ needs. http://www.netapp.com/us/company/customer-stories/usp.aspx NetApp Insight 2014

October 2014

"NetApp Insight 2014 Cyrano Rizzo Thank you for being part of NetApp Insight 2014. Your knowledge and leadership inspire us all. Together We Can Win! Rob Salmon President"

50 years of IT at University of Sao Paulo STI

June 2015

The IT history at the University of São Paulo is full of unquestionable successes. Since its first steps, IT USP, with its centers of capital and countryside, has always been an activity-half of fundamental importance to the core activities of the University could be performed in a proficient manner and expressive quality. "Fifty years of Information Technology at the University of Sao Paulo Cyrano Rizzo The University of Sao Paulo thanks for your dedication and significant contribution to building a proficient Information Technology and expressive quality. University of Sao Paulo Superintendent of Information Technology June / 2015" http:// www.sti.usp.br/50- anos-de-ti-na-usp/

C y r a n o R i z z o

CIO, CTO, Cloud Computing, Network, Linux at USP

******.*****@*****.*** / +55-11-997**-****

https://linkedin.com/in/cyranorizzo

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Languages

• English (fluent)

• Spanish (intermediate)

• Portuguese (native proficiency)

Education

University of Sao Paulo (Polytechnic School)

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Technological innovation in computer networks, 2007 - 2009 Faculdade de Tecnologia das Américas

Engineer's Degree,

Computer Networks, 2003 - 2005

Interests

• IT Infrastructure

• Cloud Computing

• Hyperconvergence

• Virtualization

• IaaS

• PaaS

• Hypervisor

• Compute

• Storage

Main Skills & Expertise

Operational Systems

• Linux ( RHEL / CentOS / Ubuntu )

• Unix ( FreeBSD / Solaris )

• Windows Server

Hypervisors

• XenServer

• vmware

• Hyper-V

• KVM

Network & Security

• Cisco / HP / Juniper

• Firewall / Router / Switch

• VLAN / VXLAN

• DNS / DHCP / VRRP

• Service Load Balance – SLB

• Software Define Network – SDN

Services

• Apache Tomcat

• Apache httpd

• Apache CloudStack

• LDAP

• MS Active Director - AD

• MySQL

• SQL Server

Administrative

• IT Service

• IT Management

• ITIL

Code

• Shell Scripting

• PHP

• Python

C y r a n o R i z z o

CIO, CTO, Cloud Computing, Network, Linux at USP

******.*****@*****.*** / +55-11-997**-****

https://linkedin.com/in/cyranorizzo

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Main publications

ACS in Brazilian Academic Market

Apache CloudStack Collaboration Conference, Dublin October 8, 2015 Cloud computing strategies were started in many markets around the world, as an example we have Cyrano Rizzo's team, they are responsible by the largest of the Apache CloudStack installation in Latin America, in this section the attendees will see the strategy of main Brazilian academic institutions over the Apache CloudStack, this strategy involved some investments to delivery the country academic needs, such as: authentication based Federated Academic Community (SAML2 plugin), advanced routing based in OSPF and BGP (Routed VPC) and quota service to limit the different tenants. Also it will be possible to keep up with information about the advance of Apache CloudStack in academic institutes in Brazil. The experience of the operation and maintenance of a cloud service IaaS RNP, Brasilia August 24, 2015

“The CIO of the University of São Paulo (USP), Cyrano Rizzo, explained how to operate the USP Cloud, private infrastructure and based on open standards, which is now three years old. "The implementation started in mid-2012, it took 50 professionals. The first virtual machine went into operation in three minutes. It was a holiday in São Paulo, one person received e-mail and was able to quickly set up the machine. It showed us that the tool was easy to use, "he reported. ‘Supporting the demand is the greatest concern today. The Cloud USP was a success, because we are operating at 86% of our capacity. The operation was not a problem, since the user interacts directly with the portal and act as consultants, maintenance is very costly to update templates and virtualization systems,’ said Rizzo, who also said that the service is integrated into the academic community Federated (CAFe), ‘So, any member can log into our portal natively’.”

interCloud USP

CloudStack Day Brazil, Sao Paulo February 12, 2015

"The Director of Vertical Datacenter USP, Cyrano Rizzo, detailed his experience with the study, design and implementation of ‘interCloud USP’, greater implementation of private Latin American cloud, and how it facilitated the process of deployment and Infrastructure delivers a Service (IaaS) for more than 700 University IT staff. Also presented in disclosing the Roadmap and running a demo of the next version of interCloud with CloudStack and support for IPV6. Speechless!" https:// datamondo.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/o-primeiro-cloudstackday-brasil/ Private Cloud Computing/ Infrastructure as a Service BETT SHOW 2015, London January 23, 2015

The University of Sao Paulo’s USP Cloud supports 5,000 virtual machines in six datacenters in five locations, and delivers virtual desktops and apps to thousands of employees, teachers, researchers and students.. This session will describe how software with graphical requirements is being hosted and delivered by USP Cloud using GPU provisioning.

C y r a n o R i z z o

CIO, CTO, Cloud Computing, Network, Linux at USP

******.*****@*****.*** / +55-11-997**-****

https://linkedin.com/in/cyranorizzo

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Supporting Graphical Software in a Cloud Environment Citrix Synergy, Los Angeles May 8, 2014

The University of Sao Paulo’s USP Cloud supports 5,000 virtual machines in six datacenters in five locations, and delivers virtual desktops and apps to thousands of employees, teachers, researchers and students.

This cloud infrastructure runs on Citrix technologies including XenServer, CloudPlatform, CloudPortal Business Manager and NetScaler, as well as NetApp and Cisco products. This session will describe how software with graphical requirements is being hosted and delivered by USP Cloud using GPU provisioning. In this session Cyrano spoke about:

• About the implementation of 128 NVIDIA GPU cards using Tesla and grid cards

• Why USP Cloud won the Citrix Innovation Award in 2013

• About future plans for the cloud infrastructure

The University of Sao Paulo (USP) in the cloud computing age Citrix Synergy, Los Angeles 2013 May 22, 2013

The University of Sao Paulo (USP) innovated with cloud computing to rapidly deliver new IT services, while addressing the challenges of limited infrastructure and computational resources and decentralized storage of very sensitive data. USP is delivering a full spectrum of systems and services, including virtual desktops, applications and storage.

The deployed architecture provides a high level of data security, high availability, elastic capacity, high performance, multi-tenancy, security and centralized management for cloud resources.

In this session Cyrano spoke about:

• How USP developed its innovative cloud services solution

• About scaling an architecture for 140,000 teachers, researchers, students and staff

• How a major university successfully deployed cloud computing solutions NetApp and Citrix customer discussion on desk virt and data sharing Citrix Synergy, Los Angeles May 23, 2013

Hear directly from customers about how a NetApp and Citrix infrastructure transformed the role of IT within their organizations. Joint Citrix and NetApp customers will discuss architectural considerations for building virtual desktops, providing secure data sharing and enabling mobile workstyle environments. The panel explored best practices for cost-effectively deploying an enterprise mobility strategy and cloud service infrastructure based on NetApp agile storage with Citrix XenDesktop and Citrix ShareFile. They will describe lessons learned, benefits achieved and considerations when moving from pilot to production. In this session the audience saw:

• How desktop virtualization is being used across their businesses

• About supporting data mobility and the mobile worker

• About developing a desktop strategy with a virtual desktop infrastructure Giving Students the Right Support

Cisco Systems 2012

Brazilian university’s cloud strategy gives students and academics improved access to learning tools, information, and resources

C y r a n o R i z z o

CIO, CTO, Cloud Computing, Network, Linux at USP

******.*****@*****.*** / +55-11-997**-****

https://linkedin.com/in/cyranorizzo

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Main projects

interCloud USP

August 2015 to Present

The interCloud project is an evolution of Cloud USP to a native open source platform, which starts in version 4.5.2. Apache CloudStack with only design customizations

(CSS), allowing the federation of many other academic Cloud Computing projects on SAML 2.0. It will also add advanced routing through OSPF protocol (VPC Routing) and a quota system for distribution of budget. All implementations aligned with the Community Apache CloudStack.

Cloud USP

July 2012 to January 2013

The University of Sao Paulo one of the largest, most prestigious universities in Latin America, USP serves more than 100,000 students, faculty, staff and researchers. The University has built an enterprise cloud based on products Cisco, NetApp and Citrix. By enabling provisioning mobility and self-service of IT across its 11 campuses, then the University is providing a world level educational experience for a new generation of students. This project is a wonderful initiative, because have an objective to provide to USP a large computational capacity of easy use and fast. With the Cloud USP the staffs, professors and researchers can have at pointer of mouse all they needs in seconds, no bureaucracy, no delay... Probably the USP going to have a good improve with the Cloud USP. The project was successful, in just 6 months was designed, purchased, installed, configured and delivered, started on July 2012 and ended in January 25th, 2013.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

January 2012 to July 2013

This project provides to Dean office staffs the capability to access your environment respective of Desktop remote on Internet like local. The dean office suffered with students’ invasion, walkout... With this technology they can work without the dean office building and they have the same local experience. Single user at USP

July 2011 to June 2012

This project provide to USP a capability to single user for any applications, before, the users needed of different account to each system, like: administrative, financial, human resource, grades... Now the users can use the same user and password to any systems at USP.

Digital USP

January 2013 to Present

The Digital USP is the last renewing of corporative cluster, in the last version have a capability to grow dynamically to support the clients demand. The project it is base on open source initiative, on this infrastructure now it's running all system ERP and CRM, this system was developed by the University to support academic, human resource, administrative, financial... Now a days the system have more then hundred nodes.

C y r a n o R i z z o

CIO, CTO, Cloud Computing, Network, Linux at USP

******.*****@*****.*** / +55-11-997**-****

https://linkedin.com/in/cyranorizzo

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12 person has recommended Cyrano on LinkedIn

"Cyrano is a visionary leader with a strong execution capability. He can foresee a trend, define the project to accomplish that vision, organize the ecosystem to support it and drive teams and resources towards the completion of the task. Great customer and awesome business partner, always ready to collaborate in disseminating knowledge and sharing experiences. We had a great business collaboration between NetApp and the University of Sao Paulo." Wilson Grava

"Cyrano is a rare find.. He has a great depth of knowledge across all layers of a cloud computing stack…from the architecture of infrastructure to the deployment of orchestration and cloud services/management delivery platforms. He has extensive knowledge of multiple technologies and is an expert in not only the cloud space, but for technology in general." Tim Nicklas

"Cyrano was my client at the University of Sao Paolo for the introduction of USP cloud services. I was immediately impressed with his breadth of vision, deep technical knowledge and ability to communicate his ideas to the team. Cyrano was always able to clearly communicate his strategy for USP cloud and technical analysis conducted. He is a strategic thinker and pays great attention to detail. As a manager he was always on task with organizing the project, tasks and deliverables. Above all else Cyrano is a real caring human being. I recall on every visit to Sao Paolo he would ensure I had all the resources needed for my contributions to the project, as well as experienced the Brazilian food and culture. Throughout the project, Cyrano was consistent in his vision, and was constantly on the leading technical edge. I always look forward to working with him and the entire USP team. I would highly recommend him for any position, as he is a unique manager with amazing Business, Technical and operations skills." Priyadarshan Ketkar

"Cyrano was my customer when we delivered a cloud computing solution to University of Sao Paulo. Cyrano's technical expertise, approach to complex projects, pragmatic attitude and ability to create a great team, were critical to the successful and timely conclusion to this project. I especially appreciated Cyrano's willingness to adopt a new technology and approach to delivering IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) to his customers, faculty staff and students." Rikard Kjellberg

"Cyrano is certainly a recognized industry talent and is extremely knowledgeable in the areas of Cloud and ITaaS - applied to education and research productivity. Success! Ricardo Santos." Ricardo Santos

"Cyrano is always ready for a challenge. He s very confident, has profound skills on his field and he has the energy to make amazing and outstanding goals come to live. Cyrano also has also a fantastic ability to manage complex projects. With his leadership I m sure that he will continue to do amazing things on the technology space, wherever he is." Daniel Vicentini

"Cyrano is a professional who sets himself to lead great projects and take the most out of it. He is well aware of the importance of the work he is doing and make sure to leverage it as much as possible through PR. He always take advantage of the C y r a n o R i z z o

CIO, CTO, Cloud Computing, Network, Linux at USP

******.*****@*****.*** / +55-11-997**-****

https://linkedin.com/in/cyranorizzo

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opportunities to prompt the University to the front page and also to exchange experiences with his peers in the industry. In summary, Cyrano is a great asset for the University as he would be for any employer. It is a pleasure to work with him." Andre L Meirelles

"I have been working with many IT leaders since a long time. It's very difficult to find someone like Cyrano. He has the ability to make his dreams become truth. Despite all the obstacles of being a public officer he had the courage to dare, innovate and successfully implement the largest Brazilian private cloud. Congratulations Cyrano

Ruver Damasio

"Cyrano is a very experienced professional and has a deep technical knowledge of Cloud Computing and Datacenter. Cyrano has a broader vision of IT and is able to leverage his knowledge to solve both tactical and strategic needs of Unversity of Sao Paulo. I highly recommend Cyrano" Flavio Nobrega

"Cyrano has all the characteristics of a good Director of IT Infrastructure. Have extensive technical knowledge, manage well your team and the relationship with all stake-holders (business areas, technology partners, press, etc Cyrano has skills that mobilizes people and partners towards its goals. Cyrano's participation in the project Cloud USP was crucial, because the skills of Cyrano mobilized people and partners, and this enabled the success of Cloud USP that is now Latin America's largest Cloud. Recommend to any organization that wants a manager with a sense of urgency, technical knowledge and relationship skills." Luiz Veloso

"Cyrano is tireless, dedicated, exacting, and passionate about the mission and technology. A natural leader by example. I highly recommend Cyrano's work." Alex K Rojas

"Excellent professional with extensive knowledge in management of servers and infrastructure." Edson Vicente Carli Junior

"Cyrano is one of the most dedicated and capable professionals he has an unparalleled ability to strategize, define, implement and monitor projects that meet the strategic interests of your company, now the University of São Paulo. Was largely responsible, among other projects, the development of Cloud USP, recognized and awarded internationally; bright. It was an honor to work with him and his team in these projects and be able to follow your vision become reality." Jose Aírês



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