Disaster Recovery Solutions Architect
Resume:
David Orson
****.*****@*****.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidorson
Livermore, CA 94550
ARCHITECTURE SKILLS
● Developing and implementing complex, multi-tier technical architectures
● Technology planning
● Disaster recovery, scalability, performance tuning, load balancing, and source control
● Defining strategic direction to set industry defined standards for enterprise solutions.
● Technology evaluation and selection.
● Proof of concept to implementation
● Application architecture design
● Rational enterprise architecture framework as well as open source INDUSTRIES WORKED
● Cloud management
● SaaS startup
● Managed hosted datacenter
● Telecommunication
● Banking
● Video streaming
● E-commerce
● Shipping
● Manufacturing
● Chemical/pharmaceutical
● Gaming
SIZE OF SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURES
● Amazon Web Services (Amazon Partner Network ISV startup)
● Netflix (Network Operations Center)
● eBay (production operations)
● Wells Fargo (mobile/web banking division systems architect),
● Built and designed www.verizonwireless.com infrastructure as the chief architect SIZE OF COMPANIES AND TEAMS MANAGED
● From startup to enterprise; from 50 people in the company to over 250K
● Managed up to 5 teams at once with an average of 10 people per team including manager
MANAGEMENT AND PERSONAL SKILLS
● Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to win the confidence of individuals at all levels, both inside and outside of the group to foster teamwork and vision for the growth of the organization.
● Ability to collaborate with peer technical architecture teams and managers (as a way to leverage and share technology).
● Proven record of team building/hiring as well as motivating and educating clients and staff members.
● Flexible and adaptable to new ideas and approaches
● High-energy and strong ability to work well under pressure, under tight deadlines EXPERIENCE
ClearScale — Presales Solutions Architect — 9/2023 – 03/2024
• Client facing pre sales architecture for Professional Services engagement
• Leading discussions for Request For Proposal/Information (RFP/RFI)
• Creation of proposals and review with client of RFP
• Creation of Statement of work (SOW) and review with the client the SOW o This included staffing skill sets
o Hours required for each personal for successful completion of project o Architect diagrams and written flow of project architecture o Any Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning for the project o Written overview of all AWS services that are to be used utilized for this project Independent Consultant
— Advisory Services for Well Architected Reviews on AWS— 9/2021 - Present
● AWS Well-Architected and the Six Pillars
Operational Excellence
Security
Reliability
Performance
Cost Optimization
Sustainability
● Review the Business Continuity Plan
● Review and exercise the Disaster Recovery plan
● Impact analyses of outages; past, present or future
● Help architect a cloud backup solution if they don’t have one in place. Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Sr. Partner Solutions Architect — 6/2020 - 8/2021
● This role is a combination of technical, business, marking, sales, and influencer.
● Schedule a Well Architected Review for the partner’s applications (one review per application) and follow up with any remediations that arise out of the review. o The partner had 6 months to comply with remediations before moving to the next level of AWS partnership.
o Business Continuity Planning / Disaster Recovery planning
● Evaluate AWS infrastructure stack of Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partners of AWS
● Suggest performance efficiency (scalability), reliability (high availability), cost optimization, security, and operational excellence improvements.
● Align the partner business roadmap with AWS services or teams to help achieve the partner’s desired goal
● Create/edit blog posts for partners on internal or external sites
● Create and execute webinars for partners
● Achieved AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
● Achieved AWS Tier 2 Speaker Certification
Independent Consultant
— Advisory Services for IT (CTO for hire) — 9/2017 - 6/2020
● Evaluate infrastructure stack of small to SMBs in fitness related companies
● Suggest scalability or redundancy improvements.
● Audit of business continuity plan
● ROI on new investment for infrastructure
● Data center/cloud operations management efficiency review
● SaaS review and vendor contracts
● Review the Business Continuity Plan
● Review and exercise the Disaster Recovery plan
● Impact analyses of outages; past, present or future
● Help architect a cloud backup solution if they don’t have one in place.
● Syncplicity — Director of Technical Operations — Santa Clara, CA — 7/2016 to 9/2017 Technical Operations (5 teams with managers)
● SysAdm/Performance Engineering
● NetEng/NetSec
● DBA
● Production Deployment
● Network Operation Center (NOC)
Key Objectives Completed in the first 4 months in the role:
● In charge of $4.5M production operations budget
● Successfully negotiated new Microsoft Licensing agreement
Saving over $1M over the next 3 years
● Implemented a change management process with audit capabilities for SOX/ FedRAMP compliance
● Implemented a patch management process for each of the environments
● Built a new team to build new data centers for production and staging environments
Peak Hosting — Solutions Architect — Portland, OR — 2/2014 to 2/2016 As a Solutions Architect my duties include: Pre-sales and post-sales systems, network and storage architecture. ROI calculations and sales order creation, validation, and approval. Pricing of services, products and hardware. Creation of new products and research of what is in the marketplace for similar services offered. Vendor management and order management of servers, networking gear, and storage. Understanding the software, hardware, business continuity and disaster recovery architecture of all current clients as well as future clients to help them architect for the best bang for their buck. Consulting with current and potential clients from C-level down to developer. Wells Fargo — Systems Architect — San Francisco, CA — 2/2013 to 2/2014 As systems architect the duties include: Model and diagram in Enterprise Architect ver 9.3 the current system architecture for projects related to online money movement as well as reporting systems projects. Model and diagram new projects and re-provisioned servers or decommissioned servers. Account for the licenses of the system software on the servers and the new project expenses related to the systems and software. Kept track of the versions of software (MQ, JDK, WebLogic, Oracle) for upgrades/updates and the approved versions for production/SIT/QA.
eBay — Problem and Change Manager — San Jose, CA — 2/2011 to 2/2013 As a problem manager the duties include: Root cause analysis on incidents that have occurred on the production site; Create tiger teams for ongoing issues that are on the site, but have a temporary fix in place; Communicate status to upper level operations management for high visibility problems; Correlate past incidents and issues to eliminate recurring incidents in the future; Complete business impact analysis including calculating and model uptime losses per incident per component. My areas of focus were Q4 site readiness; disaster recovery; business continuity planning; database stability; capacity planning; and vulnerabilities in which a single entity (user/store/program) could impact the functionality of a specific component on the site. As Change Manager the duties include: Managing the schedule, planning, and administration for the operations change maintenance window for the eBay production site. This is an audit and compliance only change management program. Netflix — Senior Systems Administrator NOC — Los Gatos, CA — 6/2009 to 2/2011 Maintain and support the web site, streaming services, applications, databases, and network for development, staging and production environments. As an ISS Engineer, I help with deploying code, fixing drive space issues, keeping SOX compliance permissions, and promptly/efficiently brought the site back up after an outage. Train and mentor other engineers within the department with the necessary skills and help them to attain a higher level of expertise to perform the tasks at-hand. Web and application layer technologies supported include; Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, LDAP, Windows Active Directory, DNS and Oracle Applications. Verizon Business — Principal Technical Architect — San Francisco, CA — 2/2008 to 6/2008
As a professional services engineer I help bring existing enterprise environments into the Verizon Business monitoring and systems operations framework so that the clients current infrastructure can be monitored and maintained by Verizon Business personnel. As a principal technical architect, I am the senior technical lead of the projects and have to keep the team of engineers working on the project within scope and time. I helped with additional SOWs and kept the client, as well as Verizon management, aware of the projects status and progress. I help create and maintain the documentation for the project (production guides or run books, ACL lists, monitoring documentation, and backup documentation to name a few) that gets Transferred To Operations (TTO) after go-live. After the go-live date I monitor and maintain the enterprise environment until the TTO to the Remote Operations Control (ROC) team is complete. Verizon Business — Lead SOC Engineer —
San Francisco, CA — 2/2007 to 2/2008 contract
Maintain and support the entire company's clients OS, applications, databases, and network for both the staging and production environments. These clients are large E- commerce sites with different architectures, setups and designs. As a Lead SOC Engineer, I helped the clients with deploying code, upgrading servers with memory, CPU, and/or drive space, and promptly/efficiently brought sites back up after an outage all within SLA. Train and mentor other engineers within the department with the necessary skills and help them to attain a higher level of expertise to perform the tasks at-hand. Web and application layer technologies supported include; Apache, ATG, MQ, SunOne, Tomcat, WebLogic, and WebSphere.
American Presidents Lines (APL)
— Director of Systems Architecture — Oakland, CA — 2/2002 to 2/2007 APL is a global container shipping company based in Singapore. The original IT legacy systems architecture was unstructured and therefore plagued with inefficient coding, lack of processes, sparse documentation and no standards. In 2001, APL elected to migrate to BEA WebLogic. As the Systems Architecture Director, I managed planning, developing, deploying and documenting the company's new systems installations using CVS as the source control with a product-oriented structure. In 2004, the company decided on a different course of action and returned to IBM WebSphere. My team successfully participated in the transfer of all the J2EE applications from two separate older environments to the new one. My responsibilities also include the upgrading of Oblix security framework, installing Cyclone Trading Partner Engine in a cluster, Mercator EDI Transformation engine, and upgrading Mercator to the new IBM DataStage TX in a cross-configured cluster as well as overseeing, maintaining and supporting over 50 in- house and other vendor applications in WLP and WLI enterprise environments. Verizon Wireless — Senior Architect
Walnut Creek, CA — 2001 to 2002
EDUCATION
Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ — BS
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