Sr. Cloud Enterprise Architect

KENDRICK W. WRIGHT

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CLOUD TECHNOLOGY LEADER

Recognized solutions-oriented and results-driven IT professional with over 25 years of experience ensuring success for diverse companies through the direction of high-performance technology teams and complex initiatives.

Executive MBA at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Lead all aspects of IT Cloud operations, from hybrid multi-cloud multi-site management of infrastructure to design and delivery of cloud-native application modernization that enables vital improvements to business processes.

Generate savings through targeted analysis of technology operations, proactive negotiations with vendors, and implementation of strategic solutions.

Expertly manage integral and multi-faceted IT projects that support organizational growth.

Cloud Well-Architected Framework · Application Modernization

Data Analytics · Machine Learning · Cloud Security · Application Integration

Android/iOS App Development · Serverless Functions · Container Management · Database

Cloud Networking and Content Delivery Expertise · Data Center Management · Vendor Management

Disaster Recovery Planning · IT Security · Okta · Active Directory Design & Administration

Project Management · IT Process Improvement · Team Building

IT Budget & Performance Reporting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

US Department of Veteran Affairs, Washington DC · Nov 2020 - Present

Solution Architecture — cloud native, hybrid cloud, data center, network, systems and security.

Principle Cloud Architect of Research and Analytics Scientific Platform (RASP) — own data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence architecture deployment on both AWS and Azure platforms. Enable self service environment for data scientists to run statistical models, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (MLOps).

Lead Cloud Infrastructure and Application Services team responsible for cloud architecture modernization of over 3500 applications through the VLMF process (cloud journey). Largest cloud implementation on the planet. Containerization, microservices, decoupling, DevSecOps, MLOps, AIOps, Okta/EntraID/AzureAD integration, etc. in FedRAMP High/DOD level compliant environments.

Unisys, Atlanta, Georgia · Dec 2018 – Nov 2020

Solution Architecture — cloud native, hybrid cloud, data center, network, systems and security.

State of GA Account – Chief Architect

$108+ million services project to modernize the IT infrastructure of twelve state agencies consisting of over +3000 servers in a consolidated datacenter and cloud infrastructure design.

oOwned and implemented AWS and Azure GovCloud architecture design.

oOperationalized Okta integration for SSO (Federation with AWS and Azure/M365)

oEstablished the Unisys Architectural Review Board governance process for the State of GA account

oRapid Server Provisioning which enabled customer to procure new servers in 2 hours (integration of ServiceNow, Morpheus, Ansible, Puppet, Kinetic, Remedy, VMware, AWS and Azure)

oAWS and Azure Commercial and GovCloud Infrastructure design and implementationCloud Migration Tool deployment

oAzure Migrate, Site Recovery

oAWS Migration Evaluator, CloudEndure, SMS, DMS, DataSync

oCreate reference architecture and IAC for standard use cases.

oEnsure regulatory compliance standards are met for NIST 800-53 (CJIS), FedRamp Moderate, Federal Tax Information (IRS Pub 1075), PHI, GDLP and others.

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oNetwork architecture and Security policy analysis for Juniper and Fortinet platform transition/transformation efforts (added VxLan for Vmware NSX-T support)Disaster Recovery Architecture design, implementation and annual testing

oIAM Okta/M365

oAuthentication and Application Integration with SAML/LDAP applications. Included MFA, SSO and Federation services with AWS and Azure

oM365 (Commercial/GCC) IAM via Azure AD DS and Azure AD Connect

oOracle Exadata, Oracle Private Cloud Appliance (PCA), Oracle RAC/Dataguard/Goldengate

oModernized applications to containers via App2Container and Google Anthos

oAWS Redshift, Athena, EMR deployment and AWS Data Lake

oPKI Infrastructure Redesign and Refresh (nCipher/Entrust)

oGitLab/GitHub integration with AWS CodePipeline/CodeDeploy/Beanstalk and Azure DevOps

Pre-Sales Cloud Enterprise Architect

Drive next-generation cloud adoption (AWS, Azure, GCP - Commercial and GovCloud) for clients. This includes developing, architecting and presenting business / technical roadmaps to meet client needs. Heavily engaged in sales pursuits with a team of professionals that work together in delivering account growth results. Participate in the full solution and roadmap development cycle, while interacting closely with the client and Client Account Executives to drive services expansion and transformation.

Management Accelerator Program (8 months)

Problem Solving - 20 courses

Business Strategy – 19 courses

Business Fundamentals – 24 courses Talent Management

Opportunity Analysis

Understand client business goals and outcomes and align the company solutions to the client’s end-to-end architectural framework.

Solution Design and Development

Discovers, identifies and articulates previously unrecognized business value opportunities provided to clients through scope, approach, metrics, billing and other changes. Ensures innovation is repeatable and contributes this collateral to the solutioning community through appropriate forums.Identifies any repeating risks and initiates programs to address, engaging leadership across all necessary disciplines.

Defines repeatable solutions, cross-business unit solutions, taking strategic view, optimizing the enterprise solution, and considering in the solutions the required industry-specific needs.

Ensures detailed solutions and architectural framework are aligned throughout the pursuit lifecycle.

Ensure regulatory compliance standards are met for NIST 800-53 (CJIS), FedRamp Moderate/High, Federal Tax Information (IRS Pub 1075), PHI, GDLP and others.

Solution Leadership

Pursuit strategy and client direction influencer at the CxO level.

Is a recognized authority for the business unit and a recognized expert in multiple disciplines.

Influences clients, senior pursuit leaders, sales and sales support organizations, pursuit and enterprise alliance partners.

Create and raise standards for peers, subject matter experts, and other contributors.

Developed Cloud Modernization Solutions

Refactor/Re-architect – Fraud Waste and Abuse Cloud Solution – Data Analytics

oAWS GovCloud – CloudFront, WAF, Cognito, API Gateway, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, DynamoDB, Datalake, QuickSight, Transfer Family, NIST 800-53 compliance, DR

oAPI integration with State/Federal, Equifax, LexisNexis, Ticket Management, Fraud Analytics system, etc.

Replatform (lift and reshape) – State Child Protection System Solution – Mainframe Modernization

oAzure GovCloud – API Management, Power Platform, Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure Container Instances, Azure API, ACR, Azure Data Factory, Azure Files, Azure DevOps (Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts), Azure Defender, Disaster Recovery (99.99% Availability), Azure Site Recovery

oAPI integration with State/Federal, other external sources, batch

Repurchase (SaaS) – Airline Offer and Order Management Solution – Mainframe Modernization

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oAWS – Global Accelerator, WAF, API Gateway, Cognito, Open Ldap, Fargate, DevOPs, Step Functions, SQS, DynamoDB, Oracle RDS, Elasticache for Redis, EFS, AWS MKS, S3 Datalake

oOffered as SaaS or Customer hosted – Unisys Managed solution

Relocate (hypervisor-level lift and shift) – Datacenter Migration w/Private Cloud – Datacenter Modernization

oAWS Outpost, Unisys Private Cloud - Dell Apex, Storage as a Service, Network as a Service, Mainframe upgrade

Repurchase (drop and shop) – ERP Modernization

oAzure GovCloud – MS Dynamics 365 CRM, MS Dynamics 365 Finance, Power Applications, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Managed, Azure API Management

Rehost (lift and shift) - State Law Enforcement Management Solution – Oracle Sun Modernization

oAzure GovCloud – Azure Linux VMs, Azure API Management

Managed Services Cloud Platform Solution – GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI

oBuilt operating cost/price model based on class assignment to cloud services and percentage of cloud consumption.

oArchitected unmanaged and managed Cloud environments

oThis became the standard managed cloud solution model for all CSPs

Zero Trust Backup and Recovery Solution

oCybervault on-premise and cloud agnostic (Faction)

oCyberSense, CyberRecovery, 1.6PB of data (air-gapped)

oStealth cloaked all management paths into and from the vault

Sr IT Consultant – IBM, Atlanta, Georgia · Mar 2009 – Dec 2018

Manage IT infrastructure — hybrid cloud, datacenter, telecom, network and security services.

Sr. Solutions Architect/AWS Lead

Serve as lead architect for highly complex to moderate solutions on multiple accounts. Provide technical leadership and management to a team of IT Architects and Subject Matter Experts during the Assessment, Planning/Design, and Implementation phases of the projects. Responsible for the Technical Roadmap for each of the accounts.

Ally Financial Account – Lead Advisory IT Architect · Aug 2013 – Dec 2018

Organize the decommissioning of data centers, branch offices, and IT services in 18 countries, 41 sites, and over 7000 seats/users.

oLed the cross-culturally sensitive International Operations divestiture project of contract worth $52+ million. Migrations included P2V/V2V to Vmware HSX and migration into AWS VPC. Implemented EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, CloudWatch, Cloud Trail, CloudFormation AWS Config, Autoscaling, CloudFront, IAM, S3, and R53.

Kaiser Permanente Account – Cloud Architect · Aug 2013 – Dec 2018

Drive productivity gains by enabling the ability to provision Windows and Linux servers in the IBM SoftLayer Cloud through iCAPS system integration. Implemented automated local user provisioning instances created in AWS cloud. Physical and virtual server deployment times improved by 163 days and 31 days respectively.

State of GA Account – Server Consolidation & Transformation Lead · Mar 2009 – Jul 2013

Represented IBM’s IT Delivery Team in a $32+ million services project to consolidate the IT infrastructure of twelve state agencies consisting of over +2000 servers into a consolidated datacenter.

oAssigned voting member on the Architectural Review Board for the State of GA.

oServiceNow API integration to automate EC2 server deployments, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection.

oProvide cross-functional team leadership for infrastructure, design, implementation, and support of virtualization (VMware/Hyper-V), LAN/MAN/WLAN, Firewall (Juniper/Cisco), Citrix, SAN/NAS (IBM/NetApp/EMC), and Microsoft AD/Exchange. (1,500 locations/48,000 end users).

Operational Highlights:

Drove performance improvements to 175% for server deployments and was later implemented as part of Global Server Build process.

Define standards and build out new data center infrastructure (IBM xSeries servers, Juniper switches, Juniper SSL VPN, Juniper SRX firewall, F5 Load Balancer, IBM SAN).

Architected VMware design standards for data center and remote offices. The scope includes over 600 remote office VMware hosts, over 300 data center hosts, and over 4000 VMs.

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Technical Lead on Transformation Project which included planning the design for multi-forest AD/Exchange migrations & implementation of Quest migration tools.

Technical Lead on Server Consolidation Project entailing relocation and consolidation of servers from individual agency locations to a data center north of Atlanta. Involved P2V, V2V, and/or P2P server rebuilds. Over 900 servers across multiple data centers are in scope which runs Linux, Windows Clusters, SQL, Oracle, Sharepoint, eCommerce, and various third-party vendor applications.

Financial Achievement:

Architect team member in File Services solution entailing VMware, N-Series, SnapVault, and SnapMirror that enables $9M+ in hard-cost savings and $2.6M+ in soft-cost savings over 3-year span.

Genuine Parts Company (EIS, INC.), Atlanta, Georgia · May 2002-Sep 2009

International distributor of electrical and electronic parts, with annual revenue of $350M.

IT Network Services Manager

Spearhead IT-related activities and administrative direction/support for daily activities of IT department. Lead team of 5 in management of over 45 national/international sites with 900+ users in a multi-platform environment (Cisco/Microsoft/Linux/Mac/IBM iSeries). Develop and implement improvements to technology processes, bandwidth, performance, and security. Provide global solutions to ensure optimum system and network performance for desktops, server farm, data, voice (VOIP/traditional), and wireless infrastructure.

Financial Achievements:

Recommended VMWare implementation that enabled $715K+ in hard-cost savings and $135K in soft-cost savings over 3-year span.

Generated $44K savings yearly by recommending and implementing MPLS network infrastructure. Solution improved performance of critical applications while preparing company for deployment of VoIP. Led Cisco VoIP deployment which yielded a 54% annual ROI and 2.01 yr payback period.

Delivered annual savings of $120K in operational costs through analysis of voice service inventory, contracts, and usage; renegotiated advantageous terms with local carriers and settled a national and international contract with a major carrier.

Operational Highlights:

Developed monthly, weekly, and daily reports to measure the performance of the IT department. CIO Index reported on network/application performance and availability, customer satisfaction, staff time utilization, and project resources. It included baseline, target and actual metrics.

Named Operational Excellence Champion by the VP of Logistics - a proven practitioner of the philosophy of leadership and teamwork resulting in continuous improvement throughout the organization by focusing on the needs of the customer, empowering employees, and identifying wasteful activities from its process.

COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES, Atlanta, Georgia · Oct 2001 - May 2002

Manufacturer, distributor and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates with annual revenue of $3B.

Network Consultant

Served as Project Manager for Cisco Works implementation of enterprise-wide operations management for over 500 routers internationally. Organized support team meetings to assess needs and led design efforts. Contributed to Extreme Epicenter testing and implementation for support of over 2000 switches.

IDAPTA CORPORATION, Atlanta, Georgia · Nov 1999 – Oct 2001

International software development company.

Team Lead/Network Systems Engineer

Served as team lead for network and systems support. Directed activities for LAN/WAN

connectivity, server maintenance, and Java Developers’ SDLC lifecycle managed environment. Managed IT vendor relations. By delivering on this complex initiative it directly supported the success of a new version release, as well as the awarding of $40M in venture capital funding.

CAREER HISTORY: Additional history includes positions as Team Lead/Network Systems Engineer for Idapta CorporationSystems Engineer for Kaiser Permanente (4 years), Network Consultant/Support Technician for DNI, Inc., (over 2 years) and Telecommunications Maintainer for the United States Army (7 years).

EDUCATION, TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS

Executive MBA with Management of Technology focus

Georgia Institute of Technology

Program included International Business exposure via trip to China (Beijing and Shanghai), Hong Kong, Peru and Silicon Valley

Bachelor of Science in Network and Communications Management

DeVry University, Atlanta, Georgia

Associate of Science in Electronic Engineering

DeVry University, Atlanta, Georgia

VMware VCP · MS Azure Fundamentals · AWS Architect Associate

Studying for AWS Architect Professional

IBM Training: Senior IT Architect Certification, HIPPA & ITIL, CJIS, FTI

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Networking

MPLS · Routing Protocols (OSPF, BGP4, EIGRP) · QoS · VoIP · VoFR · Fax over IP

VPN (Remote Access/Point-to-Point/WebVPN) · TACACS+ · Juniper/Cisco Firewalls · Load Balancing

WAN Optimization · WCCP · F5

NOS

Active Directory · Unix/Linux · AS/OS400 (iSeries) · Mac OS X · VMware · VMware Tanzu

Cloud Technologies

Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect

Microsoft Azure Certified Cloud Practitioner

Google Cloud Architect Trained

OCI Cloud Architect Trained

Infrastructure Hardware

Cisco Routers · Cisco Catalyst Switches · Cisco CallManager & Unity System · Cisco IP Phones

Digi EVDO Routers · Adtran CSU/DSUs · Brocade and Cisco MDS 9200 Fibre Channel Switches · NEC PBXs/Key Systems · Shortel VOIP · SilverPeak · Riverbed

Systems Hardware

SAN Technologies (EMC/Dell/NetApp) · Dell, Toshiba, HP, & IBM Servers · IBM iSeries

VxRail, VBLOCK · Tape Drives/Libraries · Disk-to-disk Backup (DataDomain) · Dell Isilon · Oracle Exadata, PCA Dataguard, RAC

Applications

Morpheus · Kinetic · ServiceNow · Ansible · Puppet · Terraform

GitHub/GitLab · TDS · Crystal Reports · MS Project · Excel/SQL Reporting Services · PowerBI

Websense · Visio · CiscoWorks · Hyper-V · Citrix · Sharepoint

Azure WVD/AWS Workspace · Rightfax · Tivoli

Dynatrace · Airwatch · Visual Networks · Fluke · Nagios

Programming Languages

Python · Perl · C#/MVC · Java · XML · JSON · YML · AWS Cloudformation

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