Shawn Saunders

Palmdale, CA ***** – 912-***-**** – adlo4u@r.postjobfree.com – linkedin.com/in/srsaunders

Enterprise Architect

Project Management – IT Infrastructure – IT Strategy – Solutions Architect – Sales Engineer

Strategic Planning

Team Leadership & Development

Migration Strategy & Execution

Project Road Mapping

Enterprise Applications

Stakeholder Engagement

Over 25 years as a results-oriented, highly adaptable IT professional with extensive experience designing and executing robust technical solutions for diverse industries in both public and private cloud platforms.

Penchant for delivering complex data center and migration projects on schedule and within budget through proactive project management.

Skilled communicator and presenter, able to cultivate strong working relationships across divisions and translate complex technical requirements to key stakeholders.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Trace3 Denver, CO (Remote) September 2020 to Present

Enterprise Architect (Contract)

Client: Lumen Technolgies (formally CenturyLink)

Provide recommendations to drive digital transformation and cloud adoption out of the Infrastructure Assessment & GAP Analysis I performed to drive a roadmap for improved maturation of their infrastructure and applications footprint. Documenting architecture and recommendations using Archimate notation.

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. Atlanta, GA September 2017 to September 2020

Systems Solutions Architect / Enterprise Architect

Established and lead Enterprise Architecture Practice based upon TOGAF, leveraging Archimate for HLD, LLD artifacts. Delivered the corporate Enterprise Architecture strategy and created architectural standards that drive technology decisions and practices across the enterprise.

Key Accomplishments:

Designed and championed Hybrid Cloud Governance and Hybrid Cloud Reference Architecture for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions..

Accelerated new developments and enabled Varian Medical Systems to adhere to evolving best practices by establishing collaborative technology review committees and the Architecture Review Board (ARB).

Successfully eliminated technical silo’s by building and driving collaborative Architectural Review Committees consisting of representation from various infrastructure towers, security and applications architecture teams.

Provided guidance and direction to mature Asset Management with ServiceNow across organization.

Project Managed, designed, and delivered enhanced M&A onboarding capacity by deploying VMware Horizon (VDI) technology on VMware vSphere into enterprise solutions, while maintaining compliance on PII, and GDPR.

Strengthened IT department operations by conducting COBIT/CMMI maturity assessments and generated clear and actionable recommendations for improvements. Managed and implemented improvements to architecture practice and ITIL processes.

Collaborated with the business/engineering on defining the requirements for Hybrid Cloud Management and Orchestration/Automation. Drove initiative from gathering business requirements to selection of solution and POC implementation. Selected VMware Cloudhealth for financial governance, and security compliance while leveraging vRealize Automation (VRA) and Terraform for orachestration within the CI/CD pipeline.

Improved Net Promoter Score (NPS) for Enterprise Architecture by over 30% in six months.

Provided key guidance for a successful in-sourcing initiative for IT department FTEs, to improve service delivery.

Eden Technologies East Lansing, MI August 2017 to September 2017

Data Center Migration Architect (Contract)

Guided client IT representatives and internal team members through data management methodologies, strategies, and solutions architectures, ensuring integrity and stability across IT ecosystems.

Key Accomplishments:

Undertook major data center migration and architecture project for Michigan State University (client); identified client requirements and developed appropriate protocol and architectural requirements of applications and infrastructure migration groups for a successful data center migration and consolidation.

Mercury Technology Group Irvine, CA September 2016 to June 2017

Manager, Server Systems (functionally Infrastructure Architect)

SaaS Oracle e-Business Suite provider. I took charge of Oracle cloud architecture for resilient, highly available enterprise-wide systems and services for major corporations. Manged team of six Linux administrators.

Key Accomplishments:

Design and managed SaaS Cloud Governance and Reference Architecture.

Engineered and deployed automated Linux patch management and improved compliance by over 60% while mitigating risk by standardizing system-wide patching processes using an open-source solution, Spacewalk.

Built and deployed scripts to ensure compliance with Oracle Licencing on our Oracle VM environment which eliminated license compliance issues with annual audits.

Providing engineering and Linux administration mentorship and Linux team management across Hawaii-Aleutian, Pacific, Central, and Greenwich time zones.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Teaneck, NJ January 2015 to September 2016

Senior Enterprise Architect

Handled large-scale ($100M+) MSP outsourcing and digital transformation projects while serving as a key leader and Architect/Pre-Sales Engineer within the enterprise architecture team. Manage client architecture teams of 5 to 15 FTEs in US and India.

Key Projects:

Data Center Migration/Consolidation (Life Sciences): Architected (HLD, LLD) 20 geographically dispersed data center migrations and consolidations using VMware vSphere, Linux and Microsoft solutions. Identified customer requirements and defined strategic direction for a large-scale data migration project.

oArchitected and built level-of-effort and project deliverables for a datacenter consolidation of 20 geographically dispersed datacenter to eight using IaaS and PaaS solution methodologies while ensuring full compliance with national boundary PII and healthcare regulations.

oProvided mentorship to junior architects to drive improved solution delivery for multiple initiatives.

oCognizant Technology Solutions – Triumph Award (Q2 2015): Ranked as the top team in recognition of outstanding work, successfully addressing all customer objectives, and developing a world-class, transformative, winning proposition valued at over $200M.

Data Center Consolidation (Education): Provided Architecuture (HLD, LLD) for a major global education provider; project required migration of 400+ enterprise information systems as-well-as bring them to currency across the virtualization layer (VMware vSphere), OS (Windows & Linux), database, middleware, and underlying hardware for three data centers while maintaining their PCI security compliance.

oArchitected (HLD, LLD) an effective solution and project roadmap to complete digital datacenter transformation leveraging IaaS and PaaS solutions within budget and with adhearance to the projected timeframe.

oCognizant Technology Solutions – Triumph Award (Q3 2015): Ranked as the top-winning team for addressing all customer objectives and delivering a powerful proposition for a $40M project.

Public Cloud Migration (Insurance): Architected (HLD, LLD), and provided complete level-of-effort and project timeline and deliverables for a public cloud migration of 3200+ instances to Azure, using microservices design criteria, while ensuring full information security compliance. Delivered cloud provider portability by repackaging applications using Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

HCL America, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA March 2009 to January 2015

Area Manager (Functionally Enterprise Architect)

As a pre-sales and post-sales architect, I helped close and deliver deals sized in excess of $50M. I developed architecture and design for client applications, systems, and security solutions, ensuring full compliance with key audit controls such as SOX, HIPAA, PCI, NIST, and CIS. Direct and manage architecture and engineering teams from 5 to 50 FTEs in the US, Europe, and India.

Key Accomplishments:

Leveraged consultative selling methodologies to provide sales teams with robust IT solutions resulting in a greater than 80% close rate while exceeding our margin targets.

Spire Health (Clinical Healthcare): Desingned infrastructure processes and procedures for FDA compliant infrastructure to support clinical trials. Built out datacenter infrastructure to support clinical trials.

Warner Music Group (Entertainment): Architected and deployed BladeLogic automation/orchestration for system builds, hardening (PCI, NIST, corporate requirements), and SOX reporting. Providing both Architecure and delivery of services such as a migration of 300 workloads from Solaris platform to Red Hat Linux (RHEL) and Windows Server for multitier applications leveraging Web, middleware and database platforms. Manged and provided mentorship to team of 4 VMware Engineers.

InVentiv Health (Clinical Studies Healthcare): Designed system state guidelines for FDA certification of clinical studies information data systems. Implementation of FDA compliance guidelines against systems. Manged and mentored team of 3 engineers.

Public Cloud Migration (Education): Designed a PaaS solution using AWS elastic load balancing to accommodate the annual registration period load increase for their on-prem registration systems. Reduced cost and improved efficiency of annual registration systems by over 40%.

Gulfstream Aerospace (Aerospace Manufacturing): Re-launceed and chaired Architecture Review Board for 4 years, and chaired Capacity Management Committee for 2 years. Delievered alignment with ITSM, applications, infrastructure and engineering teams demands. Developed plans for properly forecasting data center demand and capacity. Managed and provided mentorship to a team of six (6) architects (Unix, Windows, Network, Storage, Desktop, Apple/Mac).

Managed multiple project workstreams that consistently delivered complex IT infrastructure projects under budget and ahead of schedule.

Delivered Global network transformation resulting in cost savings $4M+.

Delivered priviledge management across UNIX and Mac environments, including SAP BASIS, engineering and support teams.

Gathered business requirements and architected storage solution (2PB) for refresh and additional capacity requirements of business and engineering.

HCL Technologies, Inc. – Value Creators Award (FY 2013 and 2014): Identified opportunities within client infrastructure, leading to improvements resulting in $84M in value to the client beyond the cost of implementation.

Orchestrated critical disaster recovery design in full compliance with industry standards and HIPAA regulations, improving system resiliency, and curtailing identified risks.

Provided mentorship to junior consultants resulting in rapid technical advancement of 90% of all mentees.

Additional Experience:

Sr. UNIX Administrator (Contract &W2: 1997 - 2009) Multiple companies, Southern California

Consultant, Owner (PT) primarily Healthcare vertical California

EDUCATION AND TRADE MEMBERSHIPS

PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, Pasadena, CA

Associate of Arts in Computer Science

Member of Association of Enterprise Architects (https://www.globalaea.org/)

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