Lead Architect

LEAD ARCHITECT AND TECHNOLOGY VISION LEADER

With 13 Years of IT Experience Delivering Cost Effective and Profitable Technology Solutions

CAREER PROFILE

Purposeful and results-driven technology leader who uses an economics background to forecast technology trends with unfailing accuracy. Demonstrated ability to consistently over-deliver on expectations, while often coming under and never exceeding budget on complex multifaceted projects. Exhaustive understanding of technical capabilities, along with the ability to engineer technology infrastructures to successfully achieve company objectives while ensuring the lowest long-term TCO.Performed in-depth economic and financial analysis on technology strategies to determine the best course of action for the company. Consistently is able to serve as a respected and effective leader across multiple departments to ensure a collective success.

QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS

• Technology Leadership

• Solution Architecture

• Sales and Sales Engineering

• Team Collaboration and Development

• Mentoring and Training

• Project Management

• Financial Analysis of Project Viability

• Economic Return on Short and Long-run Scenarios

• Vendor and Contract Negotiations

• Cost/Cost & Cost/Benefit Analysis

• Product Development

• Product Line Creation

• IT Strategic Planning and IT Roadmaps

Selected Value Highlights

• Designed and built an Internet Service Provider from the ground up.

• Transitioned multiple organizations to a more cost effective virtualized and highly available infrastructure from stand-alone low availability server environments.

• Pitched, designed and implemented primary product line for a Managed Service Provider.

• Created IT strategies for multiple $10M to $200M+ companies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TERENINE (D/B/A OF BASENINE, INC.) – Chattanooga, Tn

Lead Architect JANUARY 2010 – SEPTEMBER 2011

Key individual responsible for the technical solutions of the organization. Created architecture for and persuaded key prospects to become customers, resulting in repeat business. Worked with all IT groups to ensure product delivery and collaboration between each group during project implementation. Negotiated the highest level of partnership with vendors, as well as exceptional pricing on technology and equipment (typically up to 70% off list).

• Managed the ultimate technical architecture the Senior Solution Architects would present to customers.

• Engaged in Cost/Cost and Cost/Benefit analysis to prove or disprove the financial viability of projects.

• Proactively created training opportunities for Architects and Engineers.

• Consistently led projects to success with all clients.

• Helped define a clear vision for interaction with Sales team and Engineering group.

• Crucial decision maker in interviewing and selecting individuals for the quickly growing engineering team. Human Resources suggested that all managers should follow my interviewing methodology.

• Cut server deployment times from 3 days to 2 hours (92% reduction in time of implementation) by implementing virtual infrastructure systems (Xsigo).

• Cut fibre channel SAN infrastructure costs to 1/5th of conventional solutions by innovating with virtual infrastructure solutions.

Senior Systems Architect MAY 2008 – JANUARY 2010

Worked on a small team (primarily consisting of myself, another Systems Architect and a Network Engineer) to design and build a multimillion dollar best of breed datacenter.Created the primary architecture for the VMware and SAN private cloud offering from which Terenine bases all of their services.

• Created and cost justified the vision for Terenine to become a private cloud provider.

• Designed and implemented shared service architectures, which enabled customers to save up to 93% off capital costs.For example, first year expenditure would’ve been $1,036,356.02, but with the shared service architecture, the client’s needs were fulfilled by spending $37,032.84.

• Designed and productized the Terecluster. At only 10 Rack Units, the Terecluster is able to support most $50M/year businesses’ entire datacenter needs at 99.999% uptime.

• Moved a $200M+/year internet- based business out of a failing infrastructure to a brand new datacenter. The failing infrastructure caused the business to lose more than $10M/year in revenue, while the new infrastructure cost less than $2.4M to completely build out.

• Created best practices for using VMware, Force10 and LeftHand Networks storage (now the HP P4000 line of SANs) together in cloud environments.

• Designed the architecture for a massively scalable encrypted backup system, which would utilize a Disk to Disk to Tape methodology.

Linux Systems Administrator JULY 2007 – MAY 2008

Handled all aspects of the datacenter including: cabling, Windows systems, Linux systems, power infrastructure, databases and web servers. Increased infrastructure effectiveness and performed Cost/Benefit analysis resulting in management to enact a datacenter paradigm shift.

• Identified previously unknown campaign marketing email problems, increasing delivery from only .3% of viable email addresses to 99.9% of viable email addresses. This was crucial as 70% of the business’ revenue was dependent on email campaigns.

• Performed a Cost/Benefit and Cost/Cost analysis to prove the need to move from a distributed low availability environment to a highly available virtualized SAN based infrastructure. Upper Management immediately approved the proposal in full.

• Increased the performance of the business’ primary database 100x (as measured by “iostat”). Web analytics team confirmed “a substantial increase” in customer retention as a direct result.

RINGGOLD TELEPHONE COMPANY – Ringgold, Ga

Network Systems Administrator MAY 2005 – JULY 2007

Designed, implemented and administrated the corporate network. Migrated the company from low availability stand-alone systems to a highly available virtualized and SAN based infrastructure. Built automated systems todeploy workstations, software and backups,enabling up to 62% more time per week for company focused strategic development (versus keeping the lights on).

• Proved viability of a shared storage virtualized architecture with free software (such as VMware Server 1.x).

• Automated entire software deployment infrastructure and patching with MSI packaging and Active Directory, decreasing software deployment time from 2 hours per workstation to simple deployment via automated workstation reboots.

• Enabled remote support for the entire infrastructure via free software, eliminating the need to travel to user sites in order to troubleshoot workstations.

Circuit City – Rome, Ga

Computer, Camera &Camcorder Sales Associate JULY 2004 – MAY 2005

Utilized clear and effective communication in order to gain repeat business from customers. Demonstrated exceptional sales ability by achieving Gold and Platinum Sales Status.

PowerCalling.Net – Summerville, Ga

Network Systems Administrator APRIL 2002 – OCTOBER 2004

Single-handedly built an internet service provider (ISP) from the ground up.Trained employees on infrastructure maintenance and operations. Set up accounting measures for user access and billing. Performed consulting services for other ISPs as an internet provider subject matter expert.

Berry College – Rome, Ga

Technical Support Specialist AUGUST 2000 – APRIL 2002

Performed phone support and onsite user support.Maintained a 99% successful call/resolution ratio.

Voyager Online – Chattanooga, Tn

Technical Support/Shift Supervisor JANUARY 1998 – JULY 2000

Quickly promoted to Shift Supervisor within 6 months.Trained all new employees on Voyager Online operations, as well as proper troubleshooting methodology.Performed interviews to recruit new talent.

TECHNICAL CAPSULE

Operating Systems: Apple OSX, Windows Server 200x, Linux (Redhat, Gentoo, SUSE, Debian)

Virtualization: VMware ESX 3.x & 4.x, VMware Server, VMware View, VMware Virtual Center & vCenter

SANs: 3Par, Compellent StorageCenter, HP P4000 (Lefthand Networks), EMC Clariion & Symmetrix

Databases: MySQL 4.x/5.x, Microsoft SQL 2005

Mailing Systems: MS Exchange 200x, qMail, Sendmail, Postfix, Kerio, Courier-imap, Zimbra, Cyrus IMAP

Network Systems: Xsigo VP780, Cisco Catalysts & Routers, Force10 Networks E & S Series, Fortinet Fortigate, Riverbed Steelhead, Monowall embedded firewall, Lucent Max 3000/TNT & Portmasters

Other Software: Splunk, MS Active Directory, MS Sharepoint, MS IIS, Apache 1.x & 2.x, Samba with AD Integration, IP Tables, MyDNS, djbDNS, PowerDNS, Centreon, Nagios, Bit9 Parity Systems

EDUCATION

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MATHEMATICS AND ECONOMICS, BERRY COLLEGE

MISCELLANEOUS AND OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Full Scholarship to Von Mises Austrian Economics University (August 2004)

Full Scholarship to the Liberty and Society Seminar by The Institute for Humane Studies (Summer 2003)

President of Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics Honor Society) for 2 years (2002 – 2004)

Microsoft Certified Professional

VMware Certified Professional 3.x, 4.x

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