Senior Enterprise Architect

David P. Diamond **** Pacific Avenue, Suite *** Playa Del Rey, California 90293-7589 U. S. A 424-***-**** *********@*****.***

A highly experienced and motivated hands-on expert with 16 years in-depth experience in all aspects of Information Technology:

o Senior Level Technical and Operations Management to the International Global Enterprise.

o Designed, implemented and managed Multi-National/Global Data Centers &ISP’s Network Infrastructures.

o Setting long-term strategic goals and tactical plans, procurement of hardware, software, and professional services, recruitment, organization and management of staff, technical support management, multi-platform integration project leadership, and data center relocation/startups.

o Consistently recognized for ability to interpret and communicate complex technical issues and information into business needs.

o International Disaster Recovery Expert.

o Excellent presentation, oral and verbal communication skills

o Single point of contact to the global enterprise. Hands on, day to day Enterprise Network and Systems Management.

o Expert level support for 1 to 40,000 Servers & 145,000 Client Seat Environments

o Large scale Applications & Operating Systems Support

o Physical Enterprise Datacenter Moves/Migrations. Multimillion dollar global enterprise project management.

o Expert in Microsoft 2008/2003/Windows Datacenter, Unix/Linux, Novell, Mainframe environments.

o Designed, implemented and managed enterprise-wide Disaster Recovery Systems and procedures and policies.

o Managed enterprise wide budgets and vendor relationships

o Large contract budget management.

o Fiscal durability, SOX, HIPPA, GovSec, Governmental compliance.

o No Fail Security to the Global Enterprise. Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing and Remediation. Designed, implemented and managed enterprise-wide network security systems and procedures and policies.

o Business Process analysis and management.

o Managed, cultivated and inspired large numbers of staff.

o Particularly strong in the areas of Technical Systems Support, cost/budget management, staff development, vendor relations, procurement negotiations/contracts, and end user relationships.

o Extremely technical to the chip level for HP, IBM, DELL, EMC, CISCO as well as others.

o Operations including no fail power, cable plants, cold air.

o Designed managed and implemented various types of Fusion Centers for command and controls systems as well as Help Desks and Call centers.

o Very technical, very hands on.

2008 to 2009 Cedars Sinai Medical Center/Cedars Sinai Health Systems Senior Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Information Systems

• Senior level consultant to the nation’s largest healthcare provider west of the Mississippi; Cedars Sinai Hospital and Cedars Sinai Health Systems. Hands on day to day management of 2000 servers of various operating systems and server applications support on a team of 4. Hands on Migration of over 1000 servers from 30 year old Hospital run datacenter to new state of the art N+ 3 facilities. Forklift move of all hospital and healthcare servers, storage, and network infrastructures including all systems. Large scale Project management. Business unit expectation management. Managed all datacenter hardware and software issues. Subject matter expert for the Hospital. Responsible for migrating all the NT 4.0 domain controllers to Windows 2003 and 2008 Active Directory servers. Design and manage the AD structure for the hospital by creating multiple OU’s to manage the applications and servers for the various departments. Configure the group policy for each OU, manage computers and servers remotely, and configure DNS internally. Setup multiple AD servers for failover cluster and remote locations. Use of AD tools security migration wizard. Configure AD to manage and deploy software, scripts, and network permissions to all desktop computers. Provide 24/7 support of 700 servers’ consisting of Microsoft Windows 2000 and 2003, Novell and Linux servers. Manage Exchange server, IIS, SQL servers, and setup and secure the Citrix server farm to allow access via the web interface. Installed and configured core hospital systems labs directly with software vendors to provide software support of all in house applications for the hospital. Setup many test and Q&A environments using ESX VMware for application and security testing. Build and configure all HP servers (Proliant BL, DL, and ML models), IBM Sans storage configuration, and Mac Servers. Primary responsibilities are to manage my staff and all the servers and software support for over 30,000 end-users.and patients.

2003 to 2008 D4 Labs, Inc. Principal Engineer, Senior Enterprise Architect

• Technical Director, Manager, Lead and or contract consultant for; DirecTV, O’Melveny and Meyers LLP UTi Worldwide, Los Angeles County Emergency Operations Center, Los Angeles County Probation Department, Honda Motors, Inc., Walt Disney Studios, Girl Scouts of America, M S Aerospace, Inc, R & D Solutions.

• Global Enterprise Infrastructure Management: Budgets, Staff, Contractors, Mid-Range, Servers/Clusters, Sever Cluster/Farms, Virtual Servers/Farms, LAN/WAN/MAN/GAN, Data Center architecture/design, implementation, support, Command and Control Systems to the Enterprise on a Multi-National or Global level. 24x7x365 management of Data Center servers consisting of Windows Server 2000/2003/Windows Datacenter Server, satellite imagery, GIS server support,

• Project Management for the following: Entire Physical Datacenter Moves; Global International Disaster Recovery Programs, procedures and policies. International Active Directory 2008/2003 Rollouts, Global Exchange 5.0-2007, Oracle, SAP, Seibel, GE, SQL 7-2007, Meta Frame, Cisco Routers/Switches, Packet shapers, Vlans, VPN’s, DNS, SMTP Gateways, F-5 Labs 3DNS, Big IP, Multi-Petabyte SAN/NAS infrastructures. Server support in the 1 to 25,000 server -node range with user support to the enterprise in the 1 to over 145,000 end users. Departmental management with direct hands on management and supervision of technical support staff and vendor relationships. Manage the Managers Program, mentor, cultivate and inspire staff, promoting on merit, hire, fire, reviews and budgets. Fiscal metrics and controls. Complex budgeting and performance analysis and preparations. C- Level reporting to the Enterprise and BOD.

• Connectivity Projects: T-1 thru OC-192 s E-1, E-3, VSAT Uplinks, Fiber, Dark Fiber, Gigabit, Terabit infrastructures.

• WWW Connectivity, Terrestrial and non-Terrestrial based transmission systems, Earth Stations, Tier 1Providers, N+3 Environments.

2000 to 2003 R & D Solutions, Inc. Program Manager, Client Relations

• Senior level support for clients including: Sun America, Sanwa Bank of California, www.stv.com, www.etoys.com, www.go.com, www.carsdirect.com, Idea Labs, Inc., Maui Tanning, G4 Television Channel, Inc, O'Melveny & Myers LLP., as well as others. Managed all network operations and security as well as staff. Procurement of equipment, staffing of necessary expert level support personnel and services. Multiple project design and management. Expert in all Microsoft based infrastructures NT4/2k/2k3, Active Directory, Exchange, IIS, SQL, clustering, SMS, etc. Administration on some UNIX/LINUX/Solaris hardware and software. Several Disaster Recovery activations, preparations and implementations utilizing Veritas and CA products. EMC/Compaq NAS/SAN implementations with Physical/Logical disk arrays managers. DR, Backup and restore utilizing Net Backup, Backup Exec, Legato, Arc Server and others. Expert in Compaq, IBM, HP, and Dell servers. Configuration of T-1/3 s, DS3/9 s, OC3/48/192s. Cisco routers, Cisco Switches, Firewall-l. Webmaster, EDI and E-Commerce, Implementation of medium and large scale accounting systems such as Hyperion, MAS 90, MAS 200, MAS 500, as well as other spend managements systems.

1997-1999 Universal Studios, Inc. Senior Network Engineer/Senior Server Engineer

• Day to day operations of a Global Network Infrastructure consisting of 36,000 users/workstations and 1500 Servers. As a hands on senior member of the Universal Studios Information Technology Group I was responsible for core infrastructure components to ensure they were in production, and available to the user community in a 24 by 7 no down time, no fail setting. I personally supported and managed multiple large-scale projects from inception to completion at the same time like installation of a global enterprise-wide Microsoft Exchange system: 30 servers in 22 countries and nationalities. Novell/NT Domain Architecture, Multiple Master Domain modeling. NDS Tree migrations. Server consolidation consisting some 2500 server’s enterprise wide down to less than 250. Extensive Year 2000 compliance project management including acquisition and deployment of 350 Compaq 6&7000R series of servers. Workstation and Server auditing, identification, testing, software debugging and testing, removal of non-compliant equipment and installation of new or compliant systems, process control/restructuring. SNA management, ATM to the Desktop, Network Security/access control, LAN/WAN Administration, Routers, switches, hubs. Personally provided 24x7x365 1st thru 5th tier Help Desk support to Senior Executive Staff and their various personal residences and activities consummate with their positions and responsibilities in the entertainment industry.

1994-1995 Southern California Edison Electric Company Senior Business Systems Analyst/Supervisor, Distributed Systems Support

• Responsible for 11 Business Units and Corporate Divisions including 53,000 end users at the world s second largest power and utility company’s global headquarters campus. Duties were dynamic and diverse in management functions and technologically challenging in the command and control of 24 engineers, project managers and engineering leads. Personally provided level 1 thru 5 technical support to end user community. Responsible for the rollout of 7500 workstations and servers being changed out from legacy mainframe terminals and antiquated input/output devices. Developed customer call center solutions from IT/IS. Evaluated new technologies for suitability to task as well as emerging corporate directives and desires. Moved from distributed systems to client server based technology. Administered multiple LANs and WANs with varying topologies with their associated equipment. Managed Cisco based router switches and hubs technologies rollout to the enterprise.

1993 to 1994 Pinkerton's Investigations, Inc. Legato Systems Manager

• Managed internal as well as external backup systems and support staff. Installed and maintained Legato Net worker enterprise for Alpha AIX, R6000 and NT/2k on Compaq R7000s. Traveled to secure underground site at IBM’s Business Recovery Center in Sterling Forest, New York for successful Y2K Compliance and Disaster Recovery testing of internal systems and services as well as successful initiation of DR plan simulating a total loss of the EDC.

1991- 1992 Weyerhaeuser Mortgage Company Network Engineer/Help Desk Manager

• Setup, administration of multiple LAN s and WANs in a heterogeneous environment. Designed, implemented and managed a help desk for 6500 enterprise wide employees. Server support, 4th tier Help Desk Support. Created a repair facility to update out dated equipment and diagnose to the chip level all systems that were in use. This resulted in a $ 275,000 savings during the next fiscal period. Supervised disaster recovery program for client server systems rebuild.

1990 to 1991 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Help Center/Configuration Center Manager

• Management of 12 Million-dollar department for the delivery and installations of ultra hi-end Apple computers used for a variety of Scientific and Defense purposes. Staffing, Hire, Fire, Accounting, P&L, QA, Quality control. Management of 14 Engineers of varying specific expert level skill sets and abilities. Responsible for all team members that handled all Apple related issues on site and abroad for on site VAR.

1988 to 1990 20th Century Insurance Server Support Engineer

• 22,000-user node/object environment. Roll out of 200 plus Compaq 3500R and 7000R servers to remote offices. LAN and WAN architecture and administration. Other positions include a large Y2K audit and rollout of 6500 Win 95/98 nodes.

Education

• Loyola Marymount, Palos Verdes, California

• U.C.L.A, Westwood, California. Emergency Pre-Hospital Care/Paramedic Program

• Technical and OEM certifications

• PADI Divemaster and Master Diver

References

• Upon Request

Certifications

• Various technologies.

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