Mohsen Houshmand

) CTO/ Team Lead / Cloud Engineer)

Los Gatos, CA, 95032 Email: adg5le@r.postjobfree.com Mobile: 408-***-****

Committed to solving business problems using technologies. Experience in large scale and business-aligned projects in IT and cloud

Objective

Anxious to put my innovation, creativity, passion, and years of experience to work. My career objectives are:

Using 25 years technical and managerial skills to develop the organization’s vision, mission, strategy, and roadmap

Be part of a professional and agile team to drive next-generation technology in a pioneer and dynamic organization

Skills

Business/Technology strategy and roadmap Leadership and Management

Cloud Computing (Private, Public, Hybrid) AWS(Associate Certified), GCP ( Associate Certified)

Microservice and Containers (Dockers, Kubernetes CKA) Service Mesh(istio, Linkerd)

DevOps and CI/CD (GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible) Infrastructure as Code- IaC (Ansible, Terraform)

Software-Defined anything- SDx(SDS, SDN, SDDC( Server/SAN Technology and system admin(Linux/bash )

Virtualization (VMware Products and solutions)

Professional Experience

11/2019-10/2020 DevOps Solution Architect Equinix Sunnyvale, CA

Build a True Hybrid/Multi-cloud environment solutions by leveraging microservice technology(K8s) and istio service mesh. Onboarding service mesh at the enterprise level

lightening talk in EU ServiceMeshCon Aug. 2020 (at CNCF and Linux foundation event)

True Multi-Hybrid Cloud Architecture submitted to KubeCon 2020

Workload Orchestrator artifact in the hybrid environment

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery POC between public and private cloud

Best practice for K8s and istio service mesh integration and optimization

Observability(monitoring, logging, tracing, auditing) runbook at Enterprise

3/2019-8/2019 Senior DevOps Eng. Walmart labs Sunnyvale, CA

Architect and design CI/CD pipeline to migrate the monolithic application to microservice architecture. Running POC and helping Dev team and Ops team to embrace new technology, roadmap, and strategy

Architect and run POC for an E2E CD pipeline for K8s using Spinnaker

Introduce Service Mesh concept and doing fundamental training

Seamless workload migration to cloud guideline

Monolithic to microservice migration howto, strategy, and roadmap

2/2017-3/2019 Solution Architect(C-Level) IntraServe Systems San Jose, CA

A consultant that helps customer success through digital transformation for hybrid, public, and private cloud environments. By leveraging Virtualization, Software-defined technologies (SDS, SDN, SDDC), microservice and containers (Docker and Kubernetes), DevOps, IaC(Ansible and Terraform) and DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management).

Define strategy, roadmap and action plan for Franchise business model

Design and run POC for state-wide VDI solution

Design an endpoint for VDI with Raspberry Pi( cost less than 50% cloud providers)

Running Docker/K8s POC and create Dev Env for test

6/2010-11/2016 VP of Sale &Marketing-MOB SarvRayaneh THR, IR

As a member of the board, I oversaw sellling and marketing business solutoin, technology roadmap, solution design/deployment, and technical supervision. Committed to customer’s professional and business goals.

Build technology roadmap and new investment guideline for our enterprise customer(banking industries)

Design and deploy private clouds in 38 points with more than 200 Server, 50 Storage Server, and 3000 VMs

Design and implement enterprise BC/DR (Active-Active) based on EMC Vplex and recoverpoint for 2 enterprise bank

Increase annual company sale from 1m$ to more than 6m$ through selling high-tech solutions

Add 5 enterprise solution and 3 enterprise customers to LOB

Develop and drive action plan for 3 enterprise bank to align their business and IT

Design 1st private cloud solution with focus on HA, FT, BC, and elasticity

Build and lead a pioneer team include AM and PM in problem-solving and solutions for enterprise customer

6/2001-6/2010 CTO(Member of Board) SarvRayaneh THR, IR

I led a team of 35 talented people, consists of project managers, senior director, principal engineers and technicians to install, maintain and support project based on Virtualization (VMware ESX3.5-5.5 SRM, HA, FT, VCROPS), storage (EMC, HPE), Network, VDI, backup (HP ESL), and private cloud technologies. We maintained all projects in compliance with ITIL.

Build and expand a team from 3 to 35 talented member engineer

Install and deploy 1st MAN network in city for Metro more than 42KM fiber and 300 switch and routers (Municipality)

Install and deploy 1st Oracle RAC Metro cluster (bank industries)

Install and deploy the 1st Enterprise Virtual Array (oil industries)

Organize and manage a team to support enterprise customer than 20 contracts (24*7 and 5*8) with 2.5m$ revenue

Change product-oriented company to solution-based company

Build a pioneer company in install and SnS enterprise projects

3/2000-6/2001 Research fellow ITRC Research Center THR, IR

Research in IP switching technology and E-commerce

Run 2 workshop

Publish 2 paper

9/1998-6/2001 System Admin (student job) Tarbiat Modares University THR, IR

Windows NT, Novell server, and Unix administrator, Desktop deployment and support

Design and build solution to install and configure windows with all required software on 500 PC in less than 8 hours

Design and run training course for Novell Netware operator

Design and built 1st graphic web site for university

Education

M.Sc. of computer system architecture Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) 1998-2001

B.Sc. Computer Engineering Isfahan University of Technology (IUT) 1990-1994

Certificate and Accreditations

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA) GCP Architect Associate

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF) VMware Certified Associate 6 – Data Cente

VMware VTSP – SDS Virtualization (VCA6-DCV) Feb 2018

VEEAM sale professional VMSP VMware VSP and VSTP Foundation 2017

Toward CKA and AWS/GCP professional architect

Accomplishment

Publish papers in prestigious journals and scientific conferences

Co-founder and MOB of 2 knowledge-based company

Top Student in M.Sc. and Diploma

The thesis of the year in university

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