System Architect Enterprise

SR. SYSTEM ARCHITECT MANAGER

Porthos Labault

Phone: 321-***-****

Address: Melbourne, FL 32934

Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/porthos

labault/

Email: ********@*****.***

Extensive experience as a Senior Enterprise Architect in High Technology and Defense Industries. Excellent expertise in Enterprise Distributed Platforms, Windows, VMware, Linux, UNIX, Hardware, Software Procurement and Purchasing, Enterprise System integration, Management and Leadership. Independent and self-managed with strong problem-solving ability and leadership. Achieved excellent performance ratings with recommendations and references.

Top Secret clearance with SCI-DCID by Army, CCF and Poly. CompTia Sec+ certificate up to date.

EXPERIENCE

L3Harris Technologies, Melbourne FL

System Architect

October 2018 To April 2024

Environments: Windows 10 Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2022 RHEL Ubuntu Oracle Linux AWS Atlassian Jira/Confluence Jenkins IntelliJ Eclipse Docker Podmon VMWare vSphere Apache IBM Quest Git Puppet Ansible Domain Architecture Led efforts to identify and solve existing problems in the physical servers’ life cycle, which reduced costs by $144,000.00/year for all servers.

Created detail solution designs/documentation based on the project needs and centralized all project information. Provided solutions for physical system migration to virtual environments and then to cloud environments to reduce system maintenance and hardware support costs by $87 M per year on server hosting. Provided automation solutions using a mix of Puppet and Ansible services, which automated backup and deployment of virtual and cloud environments.

Collaborated with network architects to design a more secure and hardened network solution. Also worked closely with the ISSM team to harden all systems to meet DoD standards and maintain accreditation of defense SCIF. Led design plans to integrate MS Domain controllers to better manage user, project accessibility, and security policies. Worked with AWS team on the design and creation of AWS nodes to facilitate migration from physical and virtual environments and supported deployment and maintenance of AWS nodes. Led efforts, plans, and documentation for migration of existing Docker container into Podman containers to make the container have better security protocols.

Conduent, Austin TX

Team Management and Lead VMWare Engineer

June 2016 To September 2018

Environments: Windows 7/10 Windows Server 2012 VMWare vSphere RHEL Ubuntu Led the efforts to identify and solved existing issue across all virtual farms located on their data centers, thereby cutting costs by

~$4,380,000.00/year on support services.

Led a team of eight VMWare engineers to help identify problems with massive virtual environment clusters and designed and applied solutions to solve all existing problems, including instability issue across all VM server clusters. Designed and implemented new PCI rules and server hardening for all Linux VMs that improved security for customer accounts whenever they log in.

Led and implemented plans to migrate all physical servers into virtual environments, which reduced costs by $88,000,000.00/year on in- house server hosting.

Architected new support and security rules for the new VMWare engineers to enhance with team communication and collaboration with other groups.

Led the VMWare team to help educate and train all employees and the support team on the new support and security rules and usage, which cut meeting times by 63% a week.

Potomac Fusion/Sotera Defense Austin TX

IT Director and System Architect

September 2009 To May 2016

Environments: Windows 7/10 MS Small Business Servers Windows Server 2008R2 MS Exchange Server Norton BackupExec RHEL Ubuntu MAC OS Subversion Eclipse Apache VMWare vSphere Cisco Avaya Polycom Jenkins Testlink Atlassian Git Autodesk Inventor FreeCAD Autodesk Eagle CAD 3D Printing systems Led the design, architecture, and implementation of Cisco firewalls and network infrastructure on all company sites. Worked closely with company owners to design and apply network security policies to secure communications between sites and VPN rule for remote system accessibility.

Led the migration of MS Small Business servers to a more stable MS 2012 Active directory and Exchange server company wide. Met with customers to ID solutions, requirements, and gather metrics for future redesign and support, that helped with proposals to bring

$800,000.00 contracts into the company.

Met quarterly with company owners to review financial requirements and needs for each department company wide, to balance and reduce costs for all employees needs by $378,000.00/year. Led a team to keep up to date designs on internal network and power infrastructure current to comply with industry standards. Designed and deployed proper systems, software, and networking equipment to support the needs of the end user. Led a team to design and implement MS Exchange server user/group security policies and system hardening company wide. This helped to maintain robust security measures for remote access to our systems. Led and integrated the use of Subversion, Bugzilla, and Testlink servers running on RHEL, which cut costs from using external testing and tracking services by $700,000.00/year.

Led the design and architecture of the new VMWare Servers for all sites. Led team to design and implement automated backups and deployment services company wide, with the use of multiple storage systems, including SAN, NAS, and LTO5 systems.

Led the design and architecture for Austin, Denver, Virginia, and Aberdeen network infrastructure to support data communications and VoiP with the use of Polycom video teleconference, Avaya IP Office, and VoiP telephone systems. Collaborated with company owners, building architects, communication companies, wire management companies, and furniture suppliers for the design and launching of every new site for the company. Led sizable team of 400+ of purchasers and procurement staff company wide. Assigned the role of ISSM and Concept Custodian for the Austin site and worked closely with CSO to meet and implement DoD industry standards for all our SCIFs.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE

IBM, Austin, TX

Infrastructure Technologies Manager and Senior System Architect. TANDEM COMPUTERS, Austin, TX

FCC and EMC Engineer

EDUCATION

ITT Technical Institute

Associate Degree

Associate of Applied Science in Electronics Engineering Technology

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