Jot Gill (ad3nrt@r.postjobfree.com mobile:604-***-****)

PROFILE

Jot Gill is a highly accomplished Senior Leader with a proven track record of driving successful project outcomes. Skilled in identifying business needs and providing innovative solutions to optimize operations and enhance customer satisfaction. Strong leadership abilities, adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals. Seeking a challenging role to leverage my expertise, build an effective and efficient team and contribute to organizational growth with diversity.

Worked in and with IT as a service, Disaster Recovery with Compliance and Audit, Dynatrace, VMware, Linux, Nutanix AHV, Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google), Cohesity for Backup, Archive and Cloud based retention, CloudTape with RedHat Linux and zOS. Has Built and conducted Migration between cloud and data centers, migration to the cloud or hybrid cloud with Windows, Linux and Unix,and IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, data privacy, compliance, audit and security. Designed Large Heterogeneous data storage, disaster recovery, backup, compliance and archive. Built out Business centric TCO, ROI and ITIL based processes and models. Led specific design/architectures with potential hybrid or full cloud migrations keeping track of application re-development with DevOps design on server, TCO and process/people changes in an Agile, waterfall and ITIL capacity.

Currently Jot is designing, building, PoC, and deployment of Azure (and eventually AWS) for insurance and customer service applications with Disaster Recovery, Audit and Compliance at ICBC. He is specifically re-engineering the new Enterprise Data Center and Cloud based business compliant backup solution using Cohesity, Exadata and Nutanix for Azure and AWS and with Oracle Exadata from the SAP/Oracle side. Working with SAP ECC and R/4 HANA to design performance and availability improvements using Precisely in an automated AI fashion

Jot has built a strong network well known and established industry partners, resellers and professionals that can assist him in large and medium scale Data Center projects inclusive of Business transformation, Technical and Process migrations, Costs analysis, Operational Maturity, Disaster Recovery planning and operations with SLA, RPO and Risk Modeling. He can also put together specific post Facilities and Technology Architecture and Design, Implementation Training, support and knowledge transfer guides.

From 2005 to 2012, Jot was responsible for building a world class senior Strategic Consulting organization with visibility and responsibility directly to the Executive Leadership and the Founders at a Tier 1(NetApp) Data Storage and Compliance Vendor.

Jot is very comfortable working and effectively communicating with all levels of management and staff relative to any project or campaign in which he is leading or participating. He has successfully demonstrated his ability to work in a peer to peer or a mentorship type team environment in both large and small teams with a diversity of skill sets. He has also created and presented management (cost, risk and operations) and technical level reports based on system topologies and implementations and effectively communicated these at all levels within an organization.

CORE COMPETENCIES

BlockChain Certified Expert and CryptoCurrency knowledge

Azure and AWS Design, PoC, Implementation and Knowledge transfer skills

Using performance tools such as Precisely to help with SAP R/4 HANA migration and deployment

Enterprise Application and Database migration and integration– 19 years

Compiling and building a business case led IT budget and TCO/ROI model with focus on ITIL principles around people, process, technology and cost – 15 years

Backup, Disaster Recovery, Archiving and Compliance using heterogeneous applications and cloud – 18 years

Cloud and Hybrid cloud migration and maintenance experience for medium and large enterprises using either AWS, Azure or Google Cloud technologies or a hybrid and private cloud model. Specifically in a SAP R/3 or R/4 with Oracle and SQL databases – 8+ years

HyperV, VMware, Windows 2016 - 2023 servers, Aix, Hp-UX, Sun, Linux servers both physical and virtual (and recently within cloud) – 19 years

RedHat Linux early adopter specifically for storage virtualization and disk pool based backup, compliance and audit – 10 years

Enterprise Architecture with a core competency on Migration, Virtualization, high performance NAS, SAN, Flash and SSD Storage, Backup and Replication - 19 years

Metrics Collections – Unstructured, Semi-structured, Structured Data compliance and file system based assessments. Heterogenous physical data center assessments – 18 years

Storage and Server Enterprise management and application development experience – 15 years

SAN, NAS, iSCSI, Flash and SSD architecture and design - 19 years

Solutions and skills

Cloud and Hybrid cloud based initial scoping, design, application prototyping, Migrations with either AWS, Azure or Google on WINDOWS instances or Linux and running SQL or Oracle instances

Backup, Disaster Recovery, Replication and Audit in large environments. Working with heterogenous Applications, Databases, OSes and Virtulization. Working closely with Cohesity, Nutanix, NetApp, EMC, HP and IBM.

Design, Evaluation, Prototype and Implementation of large Server farms, Associated systems, application and database backups, offsite replication, archiving and hybrid Cloud based computing

Design and implementation of large DfHSM or HSM, and archiving data sets within heterogenous or geographically dispersed data centers with zOS and Unix (AIX and Linux).

DevOps in an AGILE/WATERFALL DESIGN process based on cloud migration

Guidewire applications (like ClaimCentre) migration and existence within Azure and AWS cloud in Containers.

Presales Design and Architecture. Excellent Communication and presentation skills from management to senior executives.

Strategic IT Operational Modeling – Cloud with Iaas, Pass, SaaS, xSP, ASP.

Data Security, Privacy, Archiving, Audit Classification and Compliance

DevOps, Agile and Waterfall based architecture

ITIL Process and ITSM Consulting

Consolidation, HPC and Grid computing

IT Financial and Risk Modeling

Data Storage Build and Configuration in a SSD, Flash, NAS, SAN, FCoE, iSCSI type arrays and networks

Recoverability and Business Continuance design

Industries

Finance

HealthCare

Telco

Energy and Utilities

Media and Gaming

Biotech and Pharmaceutical

Mining and Exploration

Federal and Provincial government

Manufacturing

Skills and Achievements

Team Player

Project Planning, Negotiations, and Implementation road-mapping

Creative abilities leveraging presentations, diagrams, methodologies

Effective Post sales value added services delivery introduction/creation

Excellent Communication and Presentation Skills

Leadership and Mentoring

New Campaign and Ideas generation

Education and Professional Certifications

University of Toronto: Bachelors of Applied Sciences and Engineering – 1999

SNIA- Storage Networking Industry Association – Forum founding member and Active participant

Storage Networking End User Council – Past Chairperson for Western Canada/Vancouver

Certification – SNIA Enterprise Data Storage Management - 2006

Certification - Project Management Fundamentals – 2005, 2009

Veritas Foundation Suite – 2002

Veritas Advanced Clustering – 2001

Veritas Netbackup Advanced Systems Management – 2002, 2003

Hitachi Data Systems Foundations – 2002

Certification - IBM Storage TopGun – 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

Certification – IBM Storage tuning and performance – ESS, DS8K, FastT and SVC – 2002, 2005

Tivoli Storage Manager – HSM/TSM 2003, 2006, 2009

Certification - Network Appliance Advanced Fibre Channel Systems Administration – 2002

Certification - SAP R/3 foundations – 2001

Advanced LINUX administration and architecture – 2003

Certification – (ITIL) IT Infrastructure Library and Services methodology foundations certification – 2006, 2009, 2011

Certification – Team Management with Effectiveness and Leadership for Productivity – 2007 and 2009

Certification - Law and Ethics in Management - 2008

ITIL v3, v4 and updates – 2008-2013

NetApp Dynamic Data Center Transformation – 2009, 2011

Hewlett Packard Server associated VMware certifications - 2014

Hewlett Packard 3Par Storage and Storage Networking certifications – 2014

Amazon AWS Solutions Architect Associate – courses 2018

Azure fundamentals and advanced configurations – courses 2018

Google Cloud Platform basics – course 2019

AWS Architecture Skills Basics – Certification and Course 2021

Azure 305, 900, 104 – Course 2022

EXPERIENCE

Cloud and DCIP Solutions Leader, ICBC

November 2021 - Present

Information Technology Solution Lead (as a Lead Infrastructure Architect) with focus on ICBCs cloud design, rollout and migration. Team lead designing a ITIL based migration of applications such as SAP (R/3 and R/4), Oracle and SQL databases, extended Active Directory and email towards a Hybrid Cloud (Azure and AWS, and Oracle Exadata). Working with the account team to migrate over Automation and ITIL/ITSM type moves over to Dynatrace. Conduct Executive presentations and build a case for a staggered transformation of computing from current Data Center space to Cloud based. Build an ongoing rolling TCO/ROI model outlining specific and changing CaPEX and OPEX aligned to People, Process, Technology, Risk and Support.

Built out a three tier architecture with a full Proof of Concept for Disaster recovery between two Data Centers and the outsourced cloud backup provider. The design is Nutanix for all the virtualization with Windows and Linux applications with SQL databases. The Disaster Recovery is based on Synchronized and Asynchronized replication between storage volumes and application to database profiles for production and non-production.

Created a customized in house Container Standard portfolio using Kubernetes Orchestration (On RedHat Openshift). Helped build a project path to migrate all internal Guidewire applications over to Containers (running Docker) and over to Azure or AWS cloud, depending on the production requirements.

Helped with the design and implementation of a Dynatrace AI and Support platform using the Full-Stack Monitoring application. Also, worked closely with the Application Development team to transition Guidewire application over to Azure (in an online migration).

Using performance tools such as Precisely to help with SAP R/4 HANA migration and deployment

For the hybrid cloud based migration, Disaster Recovery will encompass Back up of Azure Stack HCI, Hub and Edge data, virtual machines, with infrastructure on-premises. Also designed and built disaster recovery of virtual machines(on Nutanix) to Microsoft Azure with failover and failback capabilities.

Working with Aligning Networking to Palo Alto firewalls, and Cloud Based Backup and recovery to Cohesity with Helios.

Built out Roadmap presentations for aligning key items such as Cloud Landing Zones, Layered Network Components, Data Storage with CiFS, NFS. Data Types such as Structured and Semi-structured data. Specifically complete roadmap and transformation designs for Netbackup to Cohesity, Azure and AWS backup to Cohesity Helios. Also provide Audit and compliance workable scenarios.

Designed Azure Landing zone deployments to support VMware Windows and Linux servers as well as SQL DB and associated insurance applications.

Also, working on a complete Infrastructure as Code rollout using two of the industry standard tools. One of the tools is for a Hybrid cloud situation, which includes AWS and Azure (Terraform).

Work with Technical analysts and architects to build infrastructure standards documents.

Lead Technical Advisor & CTO, Blockwise.ca

October 2019 – December 2021

Lead Advisor Working on a team with developers and architects to design a few private and federated BlockChain solutions for Supply chain management, manufacturing, credit transactions. And redesign an existing non-profit volunteered based Block Chain token. Also working closely with UBC around building other Blockchain and Hyperledger based solutions for Logisitics, Manufacturing, Medicine, Credit based use for services etc. Our design portfolio and documents are stored in a Microsoft Azure cloud for local and remote access(our development team is based out of Europe and Canada). Our virtual machines are on AWS EC2 with S3 storage. Java based and also GoLang full-stack design and development stored on AWS for our applications. We also have created a File systems storage on Azure as we would like to use Data Storage with SQL Database and Web and Mobile APIs. Work on Cloud or hybrid cloud Migration projects for some of our customers. Conduct a quick TCO/ROI analysis along with an ITIL based migration study. Used DevOps and Agile principles with design, development or migration. Used high level design tools (Python, .NET) with Geological mapping. Worked very closely with Kubernetes Containers.

Worked with mid size organisations to put together a business case with a TCO/ROI model as well as a business process transformation model to transition to either a Hybrid Cloud model or a full scale transformation to Cloud. Specifically with Big Data, Database, Storage and Managing, Mitigating and load balancing traffic. Created Storage folders online and deduplicated and single stored unstructured and structured data within CiFS/ADS and SQL data.

CTO and Advisor, SPJGTM Inc

February 2018 – February 2020

Designed and migrated small and midsize customers over to AWS via VMs on EC2 with EBS storage running Windows or Linux servers and some S3 storage for application and databases. All of this was backed up and/or replicated for archiving, compliance and audit as required. Worked with heterogenous Cost models to supply a rolling/ongoing Cost management for the customers to manage their TCO/ROI.

Managed and maintained a rolling Operational Expense model and matched It to budget cycles from the founders. Helped manage small customer migrations to an Azure cloud with online storage and backup/archiving. And migrated running applications onto the cloud running Outlook/Exchange, SQL servers, IIS and web application services as required. Also eventually moved the CiFS shares.

Also built a team of FTEs and contractors for cloud help, migrations, presales and post sales work, via the partner channel. Solutions designed include audit for unstructured and semi-structured data, Custom auditable dark net security software, Seamless VPN type privacy for LAN, WAN. Worked as a design architect helping out the developers to build iOS and Android applications using a Kubernetes back end. Helped with the command line based calls for some instances of the application function.

Designed HSM instances for efficient storage management across data sets either locally within data centers or migrated or newly built on AWS or Google cloud with compliance and audit mechanisms. And used Cloudtape with zOS for HSM as well as linux/zOS based data archiving.Helped as an architect for development teams and worked within a DevOps framework and with Agile and waterfall design scenarios for various mobile, storage and data warehousing applications. Participated in conference calls as the technical lead and CTO and offer technical and implementation details around every solution specific to the customer environment.

Solution Architect, CSI Consulting Inc

January 2016 – March, 2018

Help with and Lead the architectural design for Clients looking at migration, integration and outsourcing of data and application from in-house to either data center space or within the cloud.

Responsible for the creation of Virtual instances from the Server, Storage and Replication side based on a prefilled profile. Primarily using VMware ESX instances on EC2 with ESB and shared storage for clustered VMs and running SQL or exchange databases, or for RedHat Linux web and portal application servers, running either in standalone or in clustered mode on the cloud.

Validated and tested out Luminex Cloudtape Channel Gateway mainframe virtual tape (MVT) solutions to provide storage of infrequently-accessed and long-term retention data, such as archives or additional copies of tape data, in geographically dispersed and encrypted secure cloud-disk storage.

Built an IBM based HSM facility on zOS for audit and hierarchical access and also tiered storage across performance based SSD and disk.

Helped developed the implementation and migration standards, principles and Policies, and a map or graph based end-to-end design of the technical solution.

Systems Designer for Data Center,Telus

April 2013 – December 2015

Working on a team of Systems Architects. To re-design, test, plan and score before migration (and implementation) of a new IBM and Cisco based server and NetApp Storage layout. Migration is being done from EMC and HDS storage over to NetApp Storage. Built out a full Disaster Recovery design based on two Data Centers in Kamloops and Calgary. Used Netapp Asynchronous replication with SAP, Oracle and SQL agents.

The applications included Web-Based billing, GIS management systems, Oracle financials, SAP R/3, Exchange, SQL and VMWare with either Oracle 8i, 9i or MS SQL databases. All this work was done for BC Hydro as they moved over to Telus for outsourcing (away from ABSU). Managed an HSM data center and profile for Archived and long term retention data for compliance and audit capabilities on an IBM Aix system with Tivoli HSM and Db/2.

Provided initial design for RedHat Linux/zOS based migrations to Cloud based tape for archiving. Designed and Presented the Data Center technology (components). Designed servers, storage and backup needs within 8 of Telus data centers across BC, Alberta, Ontario and Québec. Helped with Database design and modeling(SQL, Oracle, DB/2 with VMware with Windows or Linux) and melded NAS, SAN and iSCSI storage with archiving and replication.

Assisted the local HP Server team as a contractual design engineer contributing to the HP Helion Cloud system using a design process based on Agile and Waterfall.

Independent Consultant (On contract) BC Hydro

February 2009 – January 2013

Senior Systems Architect working on the redesign and implementation of a brand new Oracle, SAP and Exchange/SQL environment on AIX and Windows for BC Hydro. Redesign and migration planning of their mix of EMC arrays, IBM DS8000 and SVC, and NetApp FC and NAS filers and arrays. This work also included planning and architecting using various storage protocols including moving from Fibre Channel to IP and iSCSI based protocols. Disaster Recovery and Replication planning and hosting between current site to Telus site in Burnaby as well as replication to Kelowna and Calgary. Worked with BC Hydro Staff and ABSU consulting team to assess and redesign their SAN and NAS environment around Windows, VMWare, AIX and Linux with Oracle, Exchange and SAP. Lead resource that helped put out a new and complete RFP for storage, storage services as well as backup technologies after doing a complete analysis of their current storage and backup infrastructure with application support. Also reworked the project carry-on plan and the overall support, transition and adoption plan.

Strategic Pre Sales Consulting Team and Senior Americas Consulting Manager, NetApp

March 2005 – 2011

Presales Team lead and Americas Senior Manager (at NetApp) retaining highly skilled business process consultants and technology architects as part of the sales team. Partnered up with key software, service and hardware vendors that complemented Netapp. Included companies such as Kazeon, Tektools, Arkivio, Falconstor, DataCore, Veritas, Tivoli. Assessed and analyzed the overall data type Structured, Semi-Structured and Unstructured.

Prepared a feasibility study for this data by archiving it to the business application, compliance needs and the overall time limits.

(For Catholic Healthcare West, Amgen, VHCA, PHSA and HSSBC) Helped integrated hospital apps and associated OSes with Hardware (Servers and Storage). In terms of Compliance, ran a practice with Netapp doing assessments and compliance studies using HiPAA standards and also data assessments using tools for the purpose of better systems design and performance. Worked with a few US based Health networks conducting VMWare analysis, HP-UX and IBM type migrations with applications on top such as Radiology, Patient Record Management etc.

Heterogenous Server and Storage Integration services with full Disaster Recovery profile and architecture. Design and build for Tier 1 customers such as Catholic Healthcare West, Amgen, Activision, Microsoft, Amazon, British Telecom, Qualcomm AT&T, Electronic Arts, Verizon, T-mobile.

Helped the core design and support team working on Activision (Demonware) Call of Duty™ to build a global redundant network for gaming online. Designed Synchronized replication for Disaster Recovery across 10 global sites through Activision using Netapp, EMC, Cisco and Mcdata.

Independent Contractor/Consultant

2003 – 2005

Lead architect and project manager responsible for the strategic migration of a Sybase ASE 12.5.3 group of databases from Tru64 to Solaris 9. Responsibilities include technical resource management of Sybase DBA architects, strategy and test plan document creation and presentation, complete test plan creation and implementation management and final document review and migration plan implementation.

Lead Infrastructure Architect responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of a very large financial enterprise (Citadel Funds, Chicago) backup, archive, restore(RPO and RTO based) and Disaster Recovery solution leveraging VMware, Oracle 8i and 9i, Veritas Netbackup, Netapp FAS and Nearstore, AIX and DB2 and KVS for Exchange; ILM/HSM and NDMP v4 technologies. Deliverables include a detailed findings report, detailed technology analysis(Virtual Tape, HSM and tiered storage strategies), detailed recommendations report and a migration strategy. Full analysis around SEC regulations and SOX compliancy considerations.

Team technical manager for a IBM Blade Center architecture for server consolidation and deployment in a complex Windows 2000/2003 and linux environment. Responsbile for the planning, design and integration including VMware ESX SAN boot, snapshot OS deployment and Veritas Netbackup Enterprise integration. Storage used was a combination of IBM FastT, IBM SVC and IBM ESS (shark).

Lead Architect responsible for the data migration of a live Medical Imaging and Records Management system on IBM AIX servers between older SSA disks and new DMX and Clariion based disk systems. Responsible for migration plan creation, Data flow modeling, Database migration to new Oracle data structure, gap analysis, process flow diagrams, EMC ECC based LUN setups and multipath verification, and physical data migration and confirmation

Lead Architect for a large Intel server and storage consolidation study. Complex designs based on Vmware ESX 2.x, IBM Blade Center, IBM xSeries and high speed Fibre SAN interconnect. Full knowledge transfer on best practices in server and storage virtualization. Financial Cost analysis for 3 and 5 year leases.

Backup and Disaster Recovery Assessment in a large complex AIX, Linux, Windows Server 2003 and HP-UX environment. Detailed assessment of Veritas Netbackup Enterprise and Tivoli Storage Manager with HSM/ILM sub-analysis.

Pre Sales Storage and Large Systems Specialist, Toronto and Vancouver, IBM Canada Ltd. (Working with Anisoft Group from 2001-2003)

1999 to 2003

Technical presales lead responsible for the architecture and redesign of (at the time) largest Canadian Oracle database migration in the Sun UE10000 storage environment to IBM AIX and IBM ESS (Shark).

Authored the production of the prestigious IBM Redbooks publication on performance tuning for the Elite IBM storage subsystems line in the Mainframe zOS and Open Systems area. Specifically around the IBM ESS (Shark), FastT and the first generation of the IBM SVC for virtualization in a FC and SAN environment.

Performed a large data migration (for Best Buy Canada) involved transforming and transitioning approximately 15TB of Oracle (6, 7 and 8) database data from Sun StorEDGE to IBM Enterprise Storage Server (Shark). In depth understanding of Enterprise Solaris 2.6, 7 and 8 and Veritas Volume Manager 3.x and Veritas File System(VxFS) gained. Helped as a team member to move from Veritas Netbackup to Tivoli Storage manager for Futureshop/Best Buy. Moved the backup technology to LTO and created additional disk based backup pools. Configuration, performance testing and validation of various SAN connect topologies for Open systems configurations at the IBM labs in San Jose. Configuration testing included Oracle, DB/2, Tivoli HSM on zOS and AiX, Veritas, IBM Websphere and various related Java based applications on Windows.

PreSales Team leadership role responsible for managing and developing a core team of developers who architected and implemented complex SAP/DB2/Oracle(7 and 8) based SAN and NAS solutions based on FC, iSCSI, SCSI-3 and SoIP technologies on Brocade, McData, Cisco, Qlogic and Emulex technologies in both an Intel(Dell/IBM) and Unix environment.

Design Architect and Team member for large migrations of SAP with Oracle databases from older Sun or HP-UX environments to IBM pSeries servers with large SAN and NAS storage and Tivoli backups. Was responsible for the overall design, architecture review as well as step by step project completion.

Implemented and tested Hitachi Data systems, IBM Shark and FastT, EMC Symmetrix and Clariion storage arrays and Brocade, McData and qlogic SAN switches and directors. Software technologies used and implemented included Tivoli Storage manager, Veritas Net backup and Legato Networker and disk based replication and snapshot software inclusive of FlashCopy, PPRC, XRC, SRDF and Shadowimage.

Lead architect for the development of an Artificial Intelligence based Integration layer leveraging Oracle 9i Database, JDBC, SOAP, XML and Celware technologies and standards.

Unix level Performance tuning of an Oracle Enterprise Database running with Oracle Applications suite ported from an IBM RS/6000 S70 to IBM NumaQ Dynix/PTX v4.4.8.

Performed back-end implementation of a Broadvision CRM solution for a major company in an HP-UX environment with EMC Symmetrix storage and a Brocade SAN.

Designed and implemented the HP-UX, Oracle and Broadvision server architecture including enhancements such as: NIS+, FC Storage and IGNITE UX.

Installed and configured Netscape iPlanet, Broadvision CRM developer environment and eGate Exchange Middleware for SAP integration.

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