Massih Hamidi, Ph.D. (Cand.), PMP, ITILv3, CSM

1 Bayporte | Irvine, CA 92614

Phone (949) 677-7104

massihh@outlook.com

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY  

 

Over 17 years’ experience in leading, managing, architecting, and delivering strategic IT initiatives and solutions.

·               Big 5 Consulting experienced: IT Rationalization, Contracts RFP/RFI, Governance and IT Portfolio Management

·               Applications Development:  Customer facing Application Dev. (Portals, SDLC Apps, In-House & Vendor Apps)

·               Infrastructure & Security: EMC VSnap, Splunk Enterprise, Symantec MSS, Data Center implementations/migrations

·               Customer Centric: C level engagement experience with numerous Cloud initiatives from auto sector to e-commerce

·               Exchange to O365 Migration and Email to SharePoint MOSS upgrades, and Oracle to Oracle Cloud stack

·               Introduced Virtualization and eventually brought company to 70% virtualization and cloud DC

·               Set Global standardization and systems strategy via ITIL/Remedy compliance and security

·               Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery initiatives, TCO and cloud choice adoption

·               Held management positions in large multinational corporations: Oracle, CACI and Hyundai

·               ERP Systems: Major implementations of Oracle ERP systems (OBIEE, PeopleSoft, OBSO suite)

·               CERTIFICATIONS: PMP - PMI, ITILv3, CSM, Security+

Core Competencies

·               Cloud engagement experience with numerous clients and creating enterprise processes

·               Technology research and development & Teaching – 14 years Academic Teaching

·               People Management, Operations Management, Infrastructure Management and Consulting mindset

·               Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco, EMC, IBM knowledge IBM

·               VMware and Hyper-V Virtualization; Windows Servers and Microsoft Technologies

·               Team Developer, Team Manager and Team player

 

EDUCATION

 

 

University of Maryland College Park

(CLARK) – SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING (Projected 2016)

              Doctor of Philosophy (Candidate), Engineering - Project Management

Dissertation: “IT Megaprojects – An Analysis of Impact, Risk and Decisions”

 

The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

(GWSB) – SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

              Master of Science, Information Systems

              July 2001, GPA 3.60

 

              George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

              (SOM) – SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

              Bachelor of Science, Business Administration – Decision Science & MIS

              May 1999

             

              University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE

              (SBT) – SCHOOL OF BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY

              Bachelor of Science, Economics

              May 1997

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

 

 

CLOUDMETHODS, INC. (CLIENT – BEACHBODY, LLC)

 ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT – High Availability/Oracle Apps/Disaster Recover

August 2015 – Present, Santa Monica, CA
Client: Robert Half International via Cloudmethods, Inc.

·         Create high level architecture plan for migrating Oracle applications to dual Data Centers

·         Deep cloud and trend analysis, built deep technical relationships with leadership, DBA’s, Engineers and partners implementing cloud solutions.  Own DR and Cloud projects for BB tech solutions.

·         Architect crawl, walk, run approach to moving 1.5 Billion application to DR with AWS

·         Help implement and run Architecture Review Board (ARB) and drive deployment of workloads.

·         Work with Virtualization/Network/Application/Unix team to integrate and plan application rollouts

·         Advise Oracle Middleware and Database teams on DR, Active-Active, dual DC configurations

·         Recommend tools, strategy, application rationalization to Executives of BeachBody and VARs.

·         Prepare BB environment for High Availability and document solution set and recommendations

Environment: Oracle 11g DB, Oracle EBS, Oracle RAC, Oracle ATG-Commerce, Oracle OID, Oracle OAM, GoldenGate, DataGuard, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Redhat Enterprise, EMC VNX, VPlex, Vcenter, Splunk, Nagios, Confluence, Java EE and Cisco M4 series and Big IP Load Balancers.

 

 

CLOUDMETHODS, INC. (CLIENT – PACIFIC LIFE)

 SENIOR PM - CONSULTANT

March 2015 – July 2015, Newport Beach, CA
Client: MODIS via Cloudmethods, Inc.

·         Project #1: EMC VPSnap – Data protection & recovery for Newport Beach and Omaha

·         Project #2: Splunk Enterprise – Enterprise logging for Newport Beach and Omaha

·         Project #3: Symantec MSSP – Security monitoring for NB/AV/Omaha

·         Project #4: Microsoft – Lync Federation of On-Premise & Lync Online (Split Domain)

·         Project #5: PMO Creation of risk processes and governance for Lifecycle methodology

Environment: HP Converged Infrastructure, EMC VMax, Splunk and Symantec MSS

 

 

CLOUDMETHODS, INC. (CLIENT – ALLERGAN)

 SENIOR CONSULTANT – SME

June 2014 – January 2015, Irvine, CA
Client: OPTOMI via Cloudmethods, Inc.

PROJECTS: Exchange on promise to MS Cloud O365/SharePoint/Exchange and Asset Management.

·      Managed customer facing cloud applications for all users in Allergan. 

·      Trained end users on Microsoft cloud application such as SharePoint Online and Exchange

·      Hands on analysis of Allergan global assets, hardware, software in determination of feasibility.

·      Managed scheduling, performed daily critical analysis, engineering team  and strategy.

·      Perform data analysis (whatif, vlookups, if statements, projections), comms and technical strategy.

·      Integration analysis between on premise systems and Microsoft cloud products and services.

·      Exclusion analysis of financial, sales, migrations, data center, personnel, sites and assets in total.

Environment: Exchange, O365, AD, SharePoint, Lync, Yammer, Pharmaceutical

ALLERGAN Pharmaceutical bought for $65 Billion causing layoffs and project closure.

 

 

 

 

 

ARMANTOR CORPORATION

CHIEF ARCHITECT

June 2012 – June 2014, Washington, D.C.

·      Lead strategic planning efforts for IT, ensuring that IT programs and initiatives align to enterprise

·      Communicate the company’s technology strategy to investors, management, staff, partners, customers, and stakeholders.

·      Serve as organization’s technology thought-leader.

·      Act as adviser to corporate staff and customers at all levels by evaluating and identifying appropriate technology platforms to deliver on the organization’s objectives.

·      Stay apprised of trends and issues within the IT industry, including emerging technologies and applications.

·      Establish IT departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures, adjusting IT standards and technologies to meet a changing technical landscape.

·      Direct development and execution of disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

·      Define and communicate organizational plans, policies, and standards for acquiring, implementing, and operating IT systems, software, equipment and services.

·      Develop, track, and manage information technology annual operating and capital budgets.

 

·      Define metrics based on overall business objectives to ensure the integrity, reliability, security, and performance of information and communication systems.

 

Environment: Startup Company, five core officers and seven employees, Revenue $2 Million

 

 

NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

    ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, August 2001 – December 2015

   (BUSINESS & SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT) Woodbridge, VA

 Teach Information Systems courses:

 ITE 221 – Systems Architecture, ITM 280 – Project Management IST, 245 – Network Security 

 

 

 HYUNDAI AUTOEVER TELEMATICS AMERICA

 MANAGER – INFRASTRUCTURE, OPERATIONS & SOFTWARE QA

 September 2013 – June 2014, Irvine, CA

PROJECTS: BLUELINK V2 Application worldwide, Data Center Migration and Scrum QA

·                     Implemented team of testers of bugs, defect management daily to Hyundai Executives.

·                     Implemented SharePoint governance structure, upgrades and Yammer usage and adoption testing. 

·                     Lead data center analysis between SaaS/IaaS, colocation vs. managed service choices. 

·                     Supported RFI’s, RFP responses, scope, quality, effort, risk, scheduling and presentations. 

·                     Conducted CapEx vs. OpEx development and rounds of updates from vendors/providers. 

·                     Oversaw customer facing application (BlueLink) SCRUM daily meetings and JIRA requirements.

·                     Managed and ran SCRUM QA and App teams in terms of JIRA tasks and reporting

·                     Managed 6 cross-functional teams of operations within a vast array of vendors such as Google

·                     Completed Storage and DR programs, created matrix for analysis and presentation to Executives.

·                     Managed SharePoint infrastructure, site collections and created governance for Hyundai.

·                     Located assets, MDF and IDF facilities and recommended path for new Hyundai building move. 

·                     Insured network core (power, cabling, racking) and services and application delivery.

·                     Played an active leadership role in the organization and ensure collaboration within departments.

Environment: JIRA, Nagios OP5, ORACLE RAC 12c, Yammer, Solaris, F5, Telematics Blue Link                           

2 VISUAL CONSULTING, INC - (CLIENT – FBI)

SENIOR PM / ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

September 2011 – June 2013, Crystal City, VA

PROJECTS: Asset Management Tracking, New Data Center and Network for FBI

·                       Lead the architecture rationalization for Asset Management Group within IT Branch.

·                       Created ITIL Processes for Agile Software Development via FBI Lifecycle Management.

·                       Provided technical and infrastructure expertise to Network and Data Center projects

·                       Project Management and Engineering Lead for FBI Management Division and Projects.

·                       Provide direction and advice on Data Centers, Applications, and network technology strategy

·                       Managed VMware implementation and new global network/DC implementation

·                       Utilized ITIL Framework for management of ticketing system, strategy and process improvement.

Environment: INFRASTRUCTURE – Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise SharePoint 2007, 2010, AD, VMware, BIG IP-F5, BIGFIX, IDS, ESX, VCenter, VSphere, Enterprise SQL Server

 

 

 

ORACLE

PROGRAM MANAGER – Oracle On Demand

June 2010 – September 2011, Reston, VA

PROJECTS:  Oracle EBSO, Oracle PeopleSoft Cloud for Navy, Federal Reserve and GPO accounts

·                       Managed Projects (Scope, schedule, risk, customer reporting, execution and maintenance. 

·                       Performed work for commercial sector and federal sector based on Oracle ERP requirements.

·                       Utilized ITIL processes, standards and structure for improvement within the infrastructure groups

·                       Performed mission Critical Oracle infrastructure analysis, service, deployment and configuration.

·                       Played an active leadership role in the organization and ensure collaboration within portfolio of accounts.

Environment: INFRASTRUCTURE & APPLICATIONS– Oracle 11G, EBSO, Hyperion, PeopleSoft Enterprise, BIG IP-F5, OBIEE, OEM, ESX, SUN Servers, Oracle Fusion

 

 

 

2 VISUAL CONSULTING, INC. (CLIENT – SSB, INC.)

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER – SHAREPOINT ARCHITECT

June 2009 – June 2010, Arlington, VA

PROJECTS: SharePoint Worldwide Portals Development for Army Operations Center

·                       Managed team of admins, .NET developers, SharePoint admins and business analysts.

·                       Created ITIL processes with agile development and structure for engineering and customers

·                       Mission Critical SharePoint MOSS Farm analysis, service, deployment and configuration in DOD.

·                       Insure all activities are well planned, documented and delivered with the highest of quality

·                       Conducted training sessions for each department on SharePoint capabilities, uses and workflow.

·                       Created MS project schedules, processes, risk registers, communication plans and test plans.

·                       Played an active leadership role in the organization and ensure collaboration within G-3/5/7.

Environment: ENTERPRISE SHAREPOINT MOSS & APPLICATIONS– MOSS 2007, BIG IP-F5, SQL SERVER 2008, EMC SAN STORAGE, MS Server 2003& 2008, ESX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CACI

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER – PROMOTED TO DIVISION MANAGER

September 2008 – June 2009, Arlington, VA

PROJECTS: SharePoint Portals for OSD CIO, Java Applications for OSD CIO

·                       Performed and managed projects for a team of (20) 2PM’s, 8 developers, 3 DBA’s and 7 SA’s.

·                       Managed projects for 47 App Division (20 SharePoint) and full P&L responsibility for a $150M.

·                       Created ITIL processes, standards and structure for Development team and Spiral SDLC process.

·                       Mission Critical SharePoint MOSS Farm analysis, service, deployment and configuration in DOD.

·                       Insure all activities are well planned, documented and delivered with the highest of quality.

·                       Integrate 20 applications in SharePoint and 15 Java based applications in terms of processes

·                       Mentored other PM’s that reported within the entire OSD-CIO.

Environment: ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS & DATABASE SERVICES– MOSS 2007, J2EE, .NET, Oracle 9i, SQL SERVER 2005, VMware- ESX, MS Server 2003, VM-ESX

Fortune 500 Company – Our OSD Contract was $400 Million for CACI, Direct responsibility of P&L for $90 Million, OSD-CIO Contract

 

 

2 VISUAL CONSULTING, INC - (US STATE DEPARTMENT)

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

July 2007 – September 2008, Washington, D.C.

PROJECTS: Mission Activity Tracker application, PD IMPACT Dashboard for Executives

·                       Managed Mission Activity Tracker (MAT), PD IMPACT (Executive Financial Project).

·                       Created MS schedules, risk registers, ran daily scrum meetings with customer and developers

·                       Established app targets, goals, business objectives and operations for MAT Posts and users

·                       Provided direction to DBA, Network Services and Development teams working on MAT.

·                       Helped PD IMPACT and Executive Dashboard Projects to Washington and worldwide Embassies.

·                       Conducted upgrades to MAT, user requirements and risks of MAT application daily and weekly.

·                       Worked with State Department Executives, Leaders, Post visits, users and stakeholders daily.

Environment: APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT & DATABASE SERVICES– ColdFusion 7, Oracle 9i,10G, Oracle RAC, VMWare, MS Server 2003, Excelsius, Business Objects Planning Xi

 

 

 

AJILON CONSULTING – (WELLS FARGO/FANNIE MAE)

SR. PROJECT MANAGER

October 2006 – July 2007, Herndon, VA

PROJECTS: Wells Fargo DC assessment and Wells Fargo Code Review of Loan Delivery

·                        Manage series of application and projects for Code Review and Data Center Application assessments.

·                        Provided project leadership, advice, strategy to group with Fannie Mae.

·                        Performed application milestone reviews, code review with security contractors and vendor management

·                        Established meetings with end users managed the scope, time, quality, effort and risk of projects.

·                        Work with Fannie Mae and Wells Fargo Executives, customers and users for the assessments.

Environment: Application Review & DC Assessments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDS

MANAGING CONSULTANT

October 2006 – July 2007, Herndon, VA

  Sr. Project Manager / Managing Consultant within the EDS Air Force Operations Group

Manage series of application and projects in the Network Operations space in the US Air Force

                 Provided project leadership, advice, strategy to group with EDS

                 Worked on ITIL series based proposals for the Air Force Operations Unit

Established meetings with end users managed the scope, time, quality, effort and risk of projects.

  Work with EDS Executives, Leaders, customers and users and stakeholders worldwide.

Environment: EDS Corporation bought out by HP Corporation

 

 

ACCENTURE, LLP
MANAGER – CONSULTING DIVISION

September 2005 – October 2006, Anacostia Annex, DC
Lead Architect of CNIC Navy PPBES initiative

Coordinate systems architecture of 32 applications in the PPBES domain

Distribute weekly dashboard of project progress to Sr. Management

Guide SAIC resources with requirements gathering process of applications

Created architecture requirements, process flows, and as is and to be scenarios

Give steering committee presentations on progress of developers, technical leads and PM

Client Management: On a daily basis worked with and reported to Navy Sr. Executives, Managers and coordinated with Subcontractors, strategized with Sr. PM’s from other firms in CNIC projects

PROJECT MANAGER (Project #4)

Security Certification and Accreditation

(L1 Identity Solutions) Arlington, VA
Project Manager of five subcontractors and Hazprint C&A for IATO – ATO Process

Coordinate architecture of security work plans, action items of client requests

Distribute weekly dashboard of project financials to key VP’s and Executives

Direct daily, weekly status calls and client presentations for five subcontractors

Enforce remediation items, agenda and status to all subcontractors

Created and managed cost estimations, summary and matrices for all subcontractors
Attend and comment on high level client meetings and update calls

 

MANAGER (Project #3)

Incident Management Software Selection, Washington, DC
Manager and Lead of an effort for NAVFAC & Regional Operating Centers

Identify business and technical requirements; conduct RFI for vendors and products

Determining business requirements from applicable regulations for 10 software solutions

Facilitate and complete 30 interviews with key stakeholders and future users

Deliver feature comparison evaluation methodology brief and matrix to stakeholders

Conduct and help facilitate demonstrations given to client from key vendors

Evaluating candidate applications for recommendation via four quadrants of cost, timing to Deploy, adherence to Navy standards and functional requirements

Assess and complete time reports, give final recommendation for implementation

 

 

PMO LEAD (Project #2)

Oracle HR Implementation

(AVIS CAR BUDGET GROUP) Parsippany, NJ
PMO Lead for Avis Car Group consisting of Tech Architect and Tech Lead
Completing deliverables on time to the requisite degree for Sr. Program Managers
Facilitate meetings, weekly status reports, T-Doc generation, Staff Maintenance
Create and maintains project work plan, Project 2003, issue logs, & contractor financing

SENIOR CONSULTANT (Project #1)

Data Center Strategy, Anacostia Annex, DC
Manage and monitor migration activities for 150 + Applications
Facilitate weekly status meeting with team and client on hosting initiative
Identifying and validating sources of data to use in identifying candidate applications
Working with client points of contact to collect necessary technical information
Provide recommendations for timing, cost, and technical systems and applications
Mentor and develop technical and client areas within CNI Hosting for Jr. Consultants
Advise and provide client Executives on technical choices of various approaches
Work with network/server, IA, PMO, client, and data centers on issues and risk factors change Managements aspects, scope adjustments, and other x factors of project
  

 

OPEN SYSTEM SCIENCES, INC.
TEAM LEAD / SR. DBA May 2004 – September 2005, Washington, DC

Maintain Sybase ASE 12.4 and 12.52 and Oracle 9i Architecture and tables for MSC's procurement desktop defense application and contract services.

Sybase Environment of Prod, Test, Dev Servers of 45 gigs, each Database, and Oracle Environment of Prod, Test, Dev of 60 gigs each. Backup was via Coldbackup for Oracle and Tar and Zips via Cron and stored on a SAN via FTP and SCP.  Sybase was on hotbackup mode. Bi-weekly and monthly creation of cron jobs, creating backup, log dump, DBCC, transfer (scp, sftp, and ftp), scripts and vi consistently and continuously in improving and adjusting input and output.

Maintain availability and functionality of WebMethods adapter and Interfaces.

 

 

SYNERGY, INC. / ICF INTERNATIONAL

SENIOR DBA / TECH LEAD, October 2000 – May 2004, Washington, DC

Managed five Air Force bases and supported infrastructure of 6 servers and 400 users

Conducted weekly status calls and presentations to senior management and key stakeholders

Built comprehensive network and data model presentations for Abacus training classes.

Responsible for six Sybase database servers in a Client/Server Architecture Model

Continuous maintenance and health, serving 400 users in four Air Force locations.

 

   SILICON GRAPHICS, INC.

WEB EDITOR, June 2000 – October 2000

Chantilly, VA (Contract)

Maintain and Update Web pages for SGI America Group Intranet

Administrative/Web support for ACS Intranet using IRIX and NT systems

 

 

  U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

  PROGRAMMER, August 1999 - May 2000

  Suitland, MD 

  Program and implement changes to instruments, front and back, QA testing

  Analyze specifications HIS and SIPP, debug, trace, and playback instruments

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relevant Skills/Qualifications

 

Platforms:Agile, Scrum, Spiral, ITIL, Iterative, Waterfall, Hybrid Methods

Languages:J2SE, J2SEE, C# .NET, Transact SQL, PL/SQL, XML

Database:Oracle 9i, 10G, 11G Sybase ASE 12.4, 12.5, Erwin, webMethods

Design:ColdFusion, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, MS Visio 2010

Operating Platforms:Sun Solaris 7, 8, IRIX UNIX, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7

Project Management:    Project Management Professional (PMP), MS Project 2007, 2010

 

 PERSONAL SECURITY CLEARANCE

 

 

 

·    TOP SECRET CLEARANCE (Granted September 23, 2009) – DoD

·    United States Citizen

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