Christopher

Clucas

Senior Cloud Architect &

Technical Lead

919-***-****

adwl2f@r.postjobfree.com

North Carolina

https://www.linkedin.com/en/christo

pherclucas

SUMMARY

15+ years providing technology versatility in IT

Engineering, IT Cloud Architectural design,

along with years of providing leadership, vision,

and improved solutions for IT projects in

coordination with key business partners &

vested parties. Extensive knowledge in design,

development, cloud migration and providing

architectural leadership to over >175 strategic

projects like successful deployment of Pega -

PRPC and Java/J2EE based applications.

Proficient in liaising with key stakeholders to

optimize storage, design and analyze complex

business requirements. Adept at deploying

trend-based virtualization, storage and

engineer innovative user-centric solutions.

KEY TECHNICAL SKILLS

•Azure PaaS and IaaS Services / Agile

•Datacenter Migrations

•On-Premises Server - Migration to Cloud

•Building HA Databases - Windows Clusters

•Automation using PowerShell and JSON

Templates

•Disaster Recovery / Risk Management / IT

Audit Best Practices

•Process improvement strategies

•Estimating Budget

•Efforts and Resource Planning

•Mentoring Junior Engineers

•Microsoft MCP: Azure Infrastructure

IT Strategic Direction:

Cloud Management - Azure, AWS, GCP

Hyperconvergence Saas IaaS O365 Agile

Java SQL Python Linux Iot .js

Oracle Responsible Analytics Cisco

UCS / HP C7000 Blade Configurations

SCCM SCOM Leadership O365

Exchange Workday ServiceNow

Infrastructure:

IaaS – AWS, Azure, VMware – Cisco

Devices, Firewalls, Load Balancing, F5,

VIP, Reverse Proxy, DMZ

Career Snapshot

CERTIFICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

vCloud - Senior Cloud Architect - Azure,

AWS, GCP, VMware & IT Transformation

Jan, 2018 - Present

CL Group, LLC Gaithersburg, MD

CL Group is one of the longest operating Commercial Appraisal Firms in the Washington, DC area and surrounding states for over fifty years. Thousands of appraisals with 20-year data retention period. Cloud Services & Delivery

201*-****-**** 201*-****-**** 2019 2020

Cloud Computing: Core Concepts - National State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) AWS Certified Solutions Architect -Associate (SAA-C02) - CompTIA - Certified Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) - CompTIA - Certificate of Completion Automation with Azure PowerShell and ARM Temps

PSSA - Pega Senior System Architect - PegaGang

PLSA - Pega Lead System Architect - PegaGang

Development, Extensions and Deployment for Microsoft Dynamics 365 - CompTIA - Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions - Programming Hub Implementation Specialist - Cisco College - Cisco - RTP, NC Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist Cisco - RTP, NC Symantec Certified Specialist - Cyber Security Services, DLP - BB&T Training Center Advocated efforts to achieve over >250% improvement in performance for a vital analytical report extraction module using query optimization and caching. Developed 24 month IT transformation plan for on-premises physical server infrastructure to multi-domain hybrid cloud solution using GCP, Azure & VMware/VDI roadmap and strategy that consisted of prioritizing strategic and tactical requirements that must be met in-order to proceed further with any cloud Asserted an extensive cost savings by increasing virtualization of infrastructure from 77% physical to 89% virtual in all spaces – Dev, Test and Pre-Prod – Evaluated obsolete legacy source code of two production applications, resulting in increased usability and reduced cycle time performance by 48% Managed and coordinated a team of seven (7) throughout planning, design, implementation and testing of all solutions, and project acceptance, along with performance reviews, six month & annual, etc.

Managed & developed monthly technical roadmap conferences for all IT Employees to discuss any noted ongoing issues with infrastructure / application errors & provide technical solutions / strategies by having each strategic partner and key vendor directors' groups onsite for each meeting.

Integrated vCloud in both Production & Disaster Recovery Data Center by efficiently utilizing sphere replication

Infrastructure Management & Resource Optimization

Managed all performance of SAN-backed VMware ESX infrastructure to direct resource allocation

Customer Servicing & Stakeholder Management

Vice President, BB&T IT Sever Engineering

Cisco UCS Essentials - RTP, NC AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C Project Appreciation Letter & Platinum Award Certified Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Certificate of Completion Automation with Azu

PSSA - Pega Senior System Architect - PegaGang

PLSA - Pega Lead System Architect PegaGang

Storage: Hitachi, NetApp, GPFS, SAN,

File, block, object - Virtualization

VMware hosted on Cisco, UCS, HP

C7000/DLx & Intel based physical

Servers) Network LB, F5, VIP, Reverse

Proxy

Application Side:

PowerShell, Python, JSON, Cloud Shell,

Continuous Integration and Continuous

Delivery (CI/CD), CyberArk, ServiceNow,

Active Directory, GPOs, M365, SAML, LDAP,

SSL, SPML, Legato Backup, Middleware,

WebSphere Application Server, TC

Server, WebLogic, Oracle Fusion, API

Functionality, PEGA, GeneSys Enterprise Call

Center,

Virtualization Platforms:

ESX/ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x, ESXi 6, Microsoft

Hyper-V 2008 & 2012

Server OS: Microsoft Server 2008,

Server 2012R2, Server 2016

Hardware Platforms: HP ProLiant Servers,

Fujitsu Servers, IBM System X Servers, Sun

Fire Servers, SunMicro Servers

Ticketing Tools: ServiceNow, Service Center,

HP SM7 & HP SM9, BMC Footprints

Backup Tool: Installation, Configuration &

Administration of Legato, Symantec/VERITAS

Monitoring Tools: DataDog, IBM Director, HP

SIM, HP Open View, HP BAC Monitor, HP Site

Scope, V

Catalog Administration & Data Management

Key Achievements

Vice President, IT Server Engineering Nov '98 - Jun '17 BB&T Wilson, NC

Pioneer and #4 largest Financial Services company in the United States. Facilitating various clients to manage Edge gateways, Firewalls & segmented network by installing and configuring VCNS & NSX

Forming Public/Private catalogs for successfully uploading and publishing templates Rendering backup and restore services by deploying VMware Data Protection and EMC Avamar

Achieving optimum virtualization ratios while effectively maintaining SLAs & surpassing disaster recovery RTOs/RPOs

Achieved two decades in an integral role at BB&T supporting sustained growth for this financial services institution, from $570M in assets under management to $383B today. Pioneered the cost analysis for the data consolidation effort; interviewed stakeholders to collect cost data, documented requirements and identified shortfalls between the current and future state environment.

Champion an achievement of $83.5M in savings by designing infrastructure with sound and detailed blueprints in-order for migrating, restructuring, and IaaS, all BB&T Insurance infrastructure in thirty-one states over to the first ever multi-tier HA Insurance Data Center.

Pioneered the cost analysis for the data consolidation effort; interviewed stakeholders to collect cost data, documented requirements and identified shortfalls between the current and future state environments with laser focus on the vision, strategy, and validation by establishing identity and access management (IAM) frameworks, authorization and authentication patterns, processes, standards, and guidelines related to systems and business data architecture.

Spearheaded SaaS QA Cloud infrastructure tenant for Moody's Analytics Risk Authority software platform with a hybrid cloud environment to cover regulatory requirements for IFRS 9, CECL, ALM/IRRBB, and Basel I, II, and III to address stress testing under the Dodd-Frank Act Stress testing policy.

Achieved post-acquisition integration of IT infrastructure that supported eighteen regional financial M&A activities, while managing IT teams across 6 states. Translating business questions into use cases and data model requirements for Moody's Analytics Risk Authority software platform with an hybrid cloud environment to cover regulatory requirements for IFRS 9, CECL, ALM/IRRBB, and Basel I, II, and III to address stress testing under the Dodd-Frank Act Stress Testing Policy. Instituted annual development of financial risk management infrastructure, combined with leading IT implementations for companies focusing on anticipating future ad hoc needs.

Control of cost analysis for data consolidation efforts; stakeholder consultation to collect cost data, document requirements and identify deficits between the current and future government environment.

Promoted three design thinking workshops for end users to identify use cases and develop business requirements

Managed relationships with 10 immense vendors with the likes of Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, VMware, CyberArk, WTI, DirectLogix and presented senior management cloud computing strategies to increase ROI and redesign data center servers recovered from M & A activities, achieving annual savings of > 4.5 MM in revenue.

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