SUMMARY

 

Accomplished Leader in the information technology arena; with an extensive background in providing strategic direction and leadership to the IT organization at large. Over 18 years of experience in the technology space, with proven track record for Leadership, Solution Design, and Client Engagement. Over 4 years experience in Cloud Solutions on IBM and AWS cloud environment.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IBM, Dallas TX12/2014 – Present

Sr. Global Cloud Architect

Client facing Cloud Solutions Architect participating in the sales and offering process.

·   Work with the cloud sellers to inform and educate the clients about IBM cloud products

·   Assist offering teams to enhance and integrate the new and existing offerings by providing technical feedback both from industry experience and trends plus customer feedback.

·   Design migration strategies and cloud solutions based on customer requirements.

·   Oversea transition from build to steady state.

·   Provide technical leadership to thr Client Critical Response Team.

Ericsson NA, Plano TX07/2014 – 10/2014

Architecture Consultant

Consulted on building and enhancing offering to Ericsson customers.

·   Built and updated PCI and HIPPA security compliance offerings to Ericsson’s telecomm customers.

·   Reviewed Software Defined Network (SDN) offering model for Ericsson’s customers.

·   Reviewed the Open Stack Cloud deployment offer strategy for Ericsson’s customers.

 

Hewlett Packard, Plano TX11/2013 – 5/2014

Master Architect/Consultant

Master Architect Consultant for the Data Center Transformation project. Some key client initiatives are below

 

AeroMexico

Engaged with the Client Account Teams and Client to address concern about the EMC storage. Client had a mirrored storage environment in the HP Data Center and due to peak travel season coming up, had concern using the one tier live mirror to be used as the data migration source. I designed the solution to adding a second EMC Array to create a 2^nd tier to the mirror and be used as source.

 

MPAC

Partnered with the Client Account Team to consolidate the network infrastructure using a pair of HP 5830 switches. This allowed the consolidation of large number of static routes and ACLs into a more manageable routing structure.

Also, designed and proposed a server consolidation solution using four DL360p Gen8 carrier-grade servers. This would allow the client to consolidate all the existing out of EOL servers into a virtualized environment with room to grow.

 

Other Accomplishments

·   Design migration and transformation strategy for various HP Client based on Clients Business Requirements. This included gathering requirements, evaluating current state, and future growth and direction of the client’s environment.

·               Manage a team of HP resource by assigning task and managing deliverables.

·               Defining processes to streamline the workflow.

·               Designing Client Migration strategy for a denser Data Center Model

 

JCPenney, Plano TX1/2013 – 10/2013

Distinguish Engineer/Director

As part of the Technology Senior Leadership, I lead and participated in several key IT programs and projects.

 

JCP Cloud Initiative

As part of the initiative team, I research the major vendor offering for Private Cloud (IBM PURE, HP Managed Private Cloud, and VCE Vblock System) as well as Open Source product (OpenStack). Designed a secure cloud proposal on AWS. This included engaging in vendor discussions and several group study and review sessions covering each product. I submitted my proposal in favor of OpenStack given the financial situation of the company.

 

Other Accomplishments

·   Proposed and designed the network solution for JC Penney North America to reduce cost by 25% while increasing availability and efficiency.

·   Designed and led the Identity and Access strategy for the enterprise, including both internal and external hosted applications.

·   Architected and led the redesign of the International Buying Offices network. Including the vendor selection and contract review.

·   Designed and proposed the strategy for migrating homegrown applications to Cloud based or SaaS model.

·   Proposed the redesign of the Architecture group and redefining the role of the Architect in the context of the broader organization beyond IT.

·   Defined and Presented operational model for architectural governance and oversight.

 

 

PepsiCo, Plano TX3/2008 – 12/2012

Enterprise Architecture Consultant

As the Enterprise Architecture Consultant, the primary responsibility entailed providing leadership and knowledge in architectural designs and solutions for the enterprise projects. This included designing the Solution, Presenting for Technical review and “Buy-In”, and presenting to the Leadership for Funding. Some of the key accomplishments are below:

 

SAP Network Infrastructure and Application Security Design

PepsiCo has a very large SAP footprint and needed a security model to protect the environment. The approach I took to design the solution was Defense-In-Depth. I designed a layered security model by segmenting the network using a combination of ASA 5585 and Nexus 7K, creating support network host monitoring tools, and restricting and redefining the access based on roles.

SAP Application Environment was compartmentalized based on the functions such as ERP, Financial, SCM, PLM, and HCMP. Traffic was restricted based on inter-application communication. This allowed an added security layer.

 

Cloud Application Hosting

As part of the Architecture Team, I evaluated several cloud offering including IBM Smart Cloud, HP Helion, and AWS.  I voted to use AWS based on the requirements and ease-of-use, for PepsiCo to test the viability of PepsiCo application hosting in the cloud; initially deploying the mobile application development environment in the cloud. I also design the security model around the application development in the cloud.

 

Other Accomplishments

·               Proposed the strategic model for portal application design and optimization.

·               Designed and led the solution for 3^rd party access solution for PepsiCo Global.

·   Performed an end-to-end assessment of the secure hosting environment. Provided strategic direction towards the optimizing and securing of the hosting environment while making it more scalable and manageable.

·               Architected the solution for field sites wireless strategy.

·   Designed, standardized, and led the deployment of the layered security model globally to protect PepsiCo intellectual properties and sensitive information environments.

§        Designed, architected and led the team in deploying the solution for the enterprise wide management network environment.

§        Designed and led the team in deploying the hardened RBAC solution for critical environment.

·   Designed and proposed the process for firewall, SVA, and VPN change request, recertification, and audit.

·   Designed the solution for point connectivity of the multiple MPLS clouds using Network Service Nodes (NSN).

·   Developed and proposed the solution for a Global SOC based on the industry standard in global security policy, standards, and procedure.

·   Build a security audit model based on CSA and ISO industry standard.

·   Led the effort to put in place an IT Risk Assessment methodology.

 

IBM Global Services,02/2006 – 3/2008

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities included Assigned Client Engagement. Project Highlights.

 

JP Morgan

As the Sr. Architect, I partnered with the Account Team assist in the bidding for the contract to redesign JPM Transaction Services environment. Temporarily, acted as the Account Exec. On the JPM and closed additional business deals.

 

PHP Health Group

As the Sr. Architect, I partnered with the Account Exec. And developed the IBM Healthcare service offering solution (which included the Hosted EPIC software environment) for PHP Health Group. This included migrating the Client Hospitals and Service providers to IBM Hosted Service. Contract worth $1.6M.

 

First Data

As the Solutions Team Lead, assisted the account team to assess the client Infrastructure and Application Security and design the solution to remediate gaps.

 

Intel

As the Solutions Team Lead, my team and I design and presented the core consolidation strategy for Intel Global Data Center Strategy.

 

Capital One

As a member of the Solutions Team, I assisted the Account Team in the designing of the proposal and presented the proposal to Client to win the Data Center migration contract for Capital One, Capital One Auto, and Capital One Card Services. The contract was valued at over $2M for 2 years

 

Cingular/AmDocs, Richardson, TX 4/2005 – 9/2005

Infrastructure/Application Integration Specialist

·   Provided infrastructure and application integration for Cingular/AmDocs Application Environments.

·   Provide application integration to the conversion of Cingular Wireless to AT&T Wireless.

·   Assisted in streamlining the migration of the billing application environment, as well as upgrade the existing version of the application by replacing the BEA Tuxedo CORBA with Websphere MQ series.

 

American Airlines, Dallas TX2/2005 – 12/2005

Infrastructure Architect

Based on the previous work at EDS, I was asked to consult on the redesign of the AA.com and sub-components. This included:

·   Detail Design and Architecture of the American Airlines Customer Technology Self-Service framework.

·   Infrastructure Solution for a set of distributed components; containing core functionality that can be reused across Customer Technology, and exposed as a singular source services environment on a J2EE platform using Websphere Application Server on Redhat Linux.

·   Application Migration Strategy from ATG Dynamo to Websphere Application Server for AA.com.

·   Distributed load balancing solution for multiple JVMs across multiple stand-alone WAS Servers using F5 BigIP.

·   Presenting the total solution, to various teams to get a ‘Buy-In”. Including addressing any concerns the associated groups brought up.

·   Presenting to the Leadership to get funding for the project.

 

Restricted12/2003 – 2/2005

Infrastructure Specialist

 

GIS2, Arlington, TX7/2003 – 12/2003

Infrastructure Specialist (Consultant)

 

Aeroxchange, Irving, TX4/2003 – 8/2003

Infrastructure Specialist (Consultant)

 

Accruent Inc., Santa Monica, CA9/2002 – 2/2003

Sr. Infrastructure Specialist (Consultant)

 

Electronic Data Systems: Plano, TX 10/2000 -- 07/2002

Infrastructure Specialist

 

Walt Disney Company: Burbank, CA03/2000 -- 9/2000

Senior Systems Engineer

 

Magnet Interactive: Culver City, CA09/1999 -- 2/2000

Systems Engineer

 

Digital Domain: Venice, CA11/1998 -- 9/1999

Senior Systems Analyst

 

Pioneer Digital Technologies: Burbank, CA04/1998 -- 05/1999

Systems & Network Administrator

 

Square USA, Inc.: Marina del Rey, CA02/1997 -- 04/1998

Systems & Network Administrator

 

Education

 

Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA07/1995

Major: Management

Emphasis on: Technology Management in the Global Workforce.