Chief Architect United States

Mark Comeaux Director of IT operations Chief Architect Global Cloud Transformation - Mphasis Corp. Boerne, Texas, United States

Summary Results-driven Director of Technical Operations/Chief Architect with over twenty-five years of experience in design, architecture, and management of software applications, enterprise data storage, disaster recovery, and cloud solutions. Dedicated technology professional with a solid track record collaborating with senior architects, design engineers, business partners, and platform architects to translate business strategy into technology solutions that improve business processes. Technical Director of Global Problem Review Board and Incident Management (ITSM Process Owner).

Core Competencies

AWS Cloud Transformation

Kubernetes/ECS/Docker/EKS/Lambda/Fargate/EC2/VPC

CloudFormation/IaC/Terraform

Azure Infrastructure

Federal HHS FEDRAMP System Cloud Architecture

Enterprise Architecture

Converged/Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Virtualization

Networking/AWS Transit Gateway/WAF/NLB/ALB/VPC Endpoint Security

Python/PyTorch

Certifications

AWS

ML/AI Graduate Certification

New Relic

EMC Proven Professional (PowerMax, VMAX, Unity)

VxRail

VxRack

Nutanix

HDS Storage

Pure

3-Par

VCE Certified\VMware Certified

MCSE

Sun Microsystems SCSA

SNIA Certified

Brocade Certified Architect

EMC ISILON

EMC XtremIO

EMC ECS

Unity

PowerStore

Experience

Mphasis Corporation Alight Solutions, Inc. Chief Architect Engineering Technical Operations Director January 2021 - Present (2 years 10 months) United States

Design and implement technology architectures to align with enterprise standards, processes, procedures, and targets. Advises technology choices to senior management, supervises the quality and implementation of designs, with high performance architects within the organization. Lead all technical operations. Manage and lead all critical incidents to insure SRE processes are followed as designed to uptime SLAs. Lead all RCA technical processes to meet SLAs and drive resolution and restoral of services.

Technology Portfolio:

AWS

Azure

IBM Mainframe (Z-15), Z/OS, Z-Linux and Z-Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

ECS/Docker

Terraforms

Federal HHS Infrastructure Redesign

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

SAN/NAS Storage

VMWare/NSX

Linux/Unix

Mongo DB

DB2

Oracle 19i

SQL

Cisco and Juniper Network Infrastructure.

Palo Alto Firewalls

F5 Load Balancers

Versant Health Senior Technical Architect April 2020 - October 2020 (7 months) San Antonio, Texas Area

Designed and completed DC modernization and data migration from disparate platforms into Nutanix HCI environment utilizing Docker containers within Kubernetes cluster to meet application requirements. Implemented solution utilizing Cisco Nexus switches and CheckPoint firewalls.

United Airlines - Contract Enterprise Solutions Architect June 2019 - March 2020 (10 months) Greater Chicago Area

Designed and architected new PowerMax environment for UDC/NDC Migration Project utilizing Open Replicator and VMware SRM integrated into existing infrastructure. Designed and implemented SDRF-A from Chicago area NDC to multiple sites nationwide. Implemented Open Replicator from HDS, 3-Par and NetApp arrays to new PowerMax arrays. Designed and implemented VMware SRM for migration of UDC environment to NDC environment. Managed daily operations and trained United Airlines personnel for transition.

IBM Global Competency Leader - IBM Chief Technologist February 2017 - June 2019 (2 years 5 months) Austin, Texas Area

Led cross functional global projects to enable new technology support services capabilities. Developed and delivered training roadmaps. Managed OEM lab assets and drove capital planning process. Established and maintained quality processes and procedures to meet or exceed all responsiveness, quality, and client satisfaction targets. Monitored and managed critical situations and ensured that RCAs were performed. Consulted with sales and offerings teams worldwide on delivery capabilities. Provided feedback on investments in resources, training, and equipment. Developed and delivered Nutanix and EMC storage education to address skill gaps.

Visionary Technology Consultants Director of Platform Engineering: Senior SAN/VBlock Architect December 2012 - February 2017 (4 years 3 months) San Antonio, Texas Area

US Bank Corp Designed and built new PowerMax environment with RecoverPoint. Integrated Unity, VxRail and Nutanix Acropolis platform integrated with their new AWS environment.

State of New York (Department of Labor) Analyzed requirements for enterprise storage; designed and implemented RecoverPoint.

Carnival Cruise Lines Designed and implemented upgrade from Oracle 11i to Oracle R12 and D/R utilizing VMware SRM and RecoverPoint. Managed vBlock and VMware design and implemented Nutanix Acropolis platform into new internal access controls.

Spectra Energy Designed and managed VCE, vBlock and VMware.

FreddieMac Designed and tested concept for all storage related software, hardware implementations and VDI (Citrix) solution. Designed and implemented CommVault enterprise email archive solution; configured 2 vBlock 720’s – OORDR via VMWare vSphere, SRM (Site Recovery Manager).

State Of Texas (DTR, HHS, TWC) Analyzed requirements for state enterprise architectures, designed and implemented TOGAF architectures for various departments above.

Various clients Designed, managed and implemented VxRail, VBlock, VMAX, VNX, Isilon, Xtremio, RPA.

Norwin Technologies Senior Solutions Architect January 2010 - November 2012 (2 years 11 months) San Antonio, Texas Area

Examined client’s data center infrastructure and designed solution to include replication and failover to secondary and tertiary sites. Performed analysis, design, and implementation of VCE vBlock 720, EMC Isilon NL series and X series to create pools of storage for performance and near line. Managed ongoing working relationship with key data center transformation partners, hosting providers, cloud service providers and OEM partners worldwide. Designed tier one and tier two platforms: EMC, VMAX2 and 3, EMC ISILON, EMC XtremIO, EMC VNX2, EMC VNX, Unity, VxRack and NetApp filers, Nutanix Flash Array. Designed and managed disaster recovery development project utilizing EMC MirrorView, EMC SAN Copy, EMC SRDF and EMC RecoverPoint in conjunction with VMWare SRM and custom Python scripting.

Wachovia Bank Senior Storage Architect - Planning January 2006 - January 2010 (4 years 1 month)

Architected and delivered solutions that met the performance, availability, and Disaster Recovery requirements of business using Mainframe and Distributed Systems resident applications. Provided technical guidance on Mainframe and Distributed Storage to execution teams across IT. Reviewed and governed execution team plans to include testing and implementation. Implementation of SRDF/a, VMAX, VNX-Series, RecoverPoint 4.0, Celerra Replication.

Education

Elmhurst College and NIU Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Computer Science

Harper College Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science

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