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Hossein Bazargani 

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Aliso Viejo, CA  92656
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hossein_bazargani@yahoo.com
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Resume Headline: Hossein Bazargani IT Infrastructure Manager

Resume Value: wusbf4f3g8c5gnfx   

  

 


 

Hossein Bazargani (ITIL v3)

Aliso Viejo, CA 92656

Cell: 310-259-1124, E-Mail: hossein_bazargani@yahoo.com


 

IT Infrastructure Manager

 

Accomplished IT Infrastructure Manager with over 17 years of cumulative experience in developing strong cross-group collaboration, technical aspects and project management initiatives. Experience in Leadership, Business Planning, Project management, IT Operation Management, Solution Architect, and Deploying Large Enterprise Software solutions, and Support with a proven record of consistently achieving and exceeding objectives. Proven ability in creation of Quality, Operation, help desk and other IT departments from scratch. Experience in project management initiatives and acting as a primary client interface throughout the project life cycle. Plan, organize, assign, manage and monitor the execution of multiple concurrent projects assigned to teams. Established new set-ups, streamlined operations and created a team work environment to enhance productivity within the workforce. Innovative solutions-based with significant expertise in troubleshooting and resolving problems and production environments. Strong analytical & interpersonal skills coupled with the ability to structure complex problems and manage multiple business priorities.

 

 

Areas of Expertise

 

ü    Experience working at startups, small, mid-size, and large companies

ü    IT Projects from Software Development, Quality Assurance, Enterprise application deployment

ü    Operation process setup & improvement, Service Level Agreements, Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

ü    Capacity Planning, Server Consolidation

ü    Application/Server Sizing, Disaster Recovery planning

ü    Establish and review IT priorities

 

ü    Application/Network/Server Monitoring

ü    Virtualization VMWARE/HyperV

ü    OS: Unix, Windows, VMWARE

ü    Core Set: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, remote access, VoIP, relational databases, & SNMP

ü    Hardware: Rack servers, Chassis servers, NAS, PC, Access Points, Routers, Firewalls, KVM

ü    Application/Server metrics data modeling & performance (BMC/Teamquest)

ü    Plan, Development & Training of IT Team

 

 

Soft Skills

 

ü    Mentors, develops, recruits and retains a dynamic, mission driven, highly qualified, proactive and service oriented team

ü    Collaborative with various teams, IT Operations, onshore/offshore teams, software development

ü    Customer Facing experience & Delivering Presentations

ü    Regular communications with the management

ü    Leadership, Coaching and Team Management

ü    Translating Business requirements into IT solutions

ü    Excellent Interpersonal skills

ü    Multitasking in Fast-paced Environments

ü    Articulate Oral and Written Communication

ü    Highly Organized and Strong Analytical Abilities

ü    Problem Resolution

 

Professional Experience

 

NBS medical Management, Encino, California

Sep 2015 – Present

MBS Medical Management is a startup company providing medical services such as billing, audit, claims processing, and account management to hospitals and other healthcare organizations

 

 

 

Solution Architect/Project Manager

 

Brought in to build IT infrastructure capable of supporting multiple businesses and be HIPAA compliant.

Major Contributions

 

ö       Implemented HIPAA compliant on PC’s and servers using Kaspersky and removed all the XP PC’s

ö       Improving Network and system security (in progress)

ö       Upgrading servers & operating system and installing applications (in progress)

ö       Upgraded Routers, switches with VLANs to handle gigabit traffic and improve security

ö       Installed new wireless access point with encrypted security

ö       Implemented policies and procedures to safeguard the facility and the equipment therein from unauthorized physical access

Pakedge Device & Software, Huntington Beach, California

Aug 2014 – Aug 2015

Pakedge Device & Software is high end home network solution and monitoring hardware/software provider. Due to high demand, Pakedge Device & Software started to develop its own software for Access Points and routers.

 

 

 

Quality Assurance Manager

 

Created Quality Assurance department from scratch. Selected bug tracking (Redmine) and test case/plan software (TestLink). Hired, trained and mentored QA staff local and off shore.  Developed bug submission cycle process, software release process, support escalation process and have established SLA for customer support problems.

Major Contributions

 

ö       Managed the test and release of 5 different new  products (two Access Point 802.11AC,  two routers, and Cloud Application) from Alpha testing to production testing in one year without any major defects

ö       Collaborated with Sales, Product Marketing and Software Development to finalize the Product Requirement Document (PRD) and have established a process for all departments to follow PRD

ö       Managed the bugs, and feature request reported by customers, setup escalation process based on collaboration with Sales, Product Marketing and Software Development.

ö       Set objectives and priorities and ensured the effective allocation and use of department resources

ö       Managed and coordinated the software release process: working closely together with software development, sales, support, customer service, product managers and operations, software release process was created to improve software release process and avoid mistakes.

ö       Created OEM software release process that enabled sales to tailor software to each customer, resulted in $1 million increased sales

ö       Applied MTBF (mean time between failures) to all products, and update RMA process to isolate defective products

ö       Performed RMA analysis using Tableau analytic software resulted in $200,000 credit from Contract manufactures due to DOA or defective products

Consulted management team on setting up various stages (test, development, staging and production) and testing to be done at each stage prior to deploy cloud base products

 

Broadcom/Qlogic, California

Apr 2010 – Aug 2014

Broadcom Corporation has 14000+ employees & makes chips for TV’s, iPhones, computers, networks, setup boxes, computer routers, switches and high speed network cards.

 

 

Quality Assurance Analyst/ Project Manager Contractor

 

Responsible for initiating and managing multiple testing projects using pre-released high speed network cards against pre-production OEM blades / servers running pre-release beta operating systems in virtualized environment. Involved in test Broadcom 1/10/20/40 gigabit network card in virtualized environment “VMWARE” for OEM customers like Dell, HP and IBM.

 

ö       Managed, lead Engineers and hands-on in testing of 1/10/20/40 gigabyte network cards on a pre-production Dell / HP blades / servers resulted in large orders from OEM’s.

ö       Created a collaborated team that shared their experience with to streamline and automate test cases

ö       Worked on a daily basis with software engineering and vendors (VMware) to understand issues and address them prior to release of new hardware (HP, Dell, IBM) with new pre-release VMWARE software.

ö       Effectively deployed large ESX virtualized solution of Linux and Windows virtual machine prior to software release to venders to test heavy stress under large complex environment that resulted in vendor satisfaction, higher sales and new order on future products with minimum quality issue with venders.

 

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc., Irvine, California

Mar 2008 – Aug 2009

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc (LRS) is an Enterprise Output Management solution provider that manages any outputs, and reports on any printers and devices. Customers are government entities, hospitals and universities that have to be HIPPA compliance.

 

 

 

Solution/Sales Engineer

 

Worked as a Solution/System Engineer for Enterprise Output Management. Involved in providing solutions to hospitals and other healthcare organization to manage, secure and direct their forms, test results and charts. Track record of consistently meeting and exceeding customer expectations and company goals. Core competencies include customer relations, employee supervision, training, operations and sales promotions.

 

ö       Strategized and led sales team to create demand for Output Management Solution / Storage which resulted in $12M sales.

ö       Created saleable proof of concept to the new potential healthcare customers that resulted in $7M sales.

ö       Managed and coordinated the calculation process; working closely together with system design engineers, layout engineers, buyers and the planning and engineering departments, ensuring everyone plays his part to produce a solid and competitive proposal.

ö       Managed competitive proposals and was responsible for optimal pricing of complex Automated Material Handling Systems.

ö       Performed market & competitor analysis and interacted with the principles and partners.

ö       Directed Pre-Sales that involved providing technical design assistance for customers / consultants to support design and tender clarification and also after-sales support services.

ö       Provided training and produced support material for other members of the sales team helping in the design of custom-made products.

 

Independent Contracts (Solution Architect / Project Manager)

Apr 2004 – Mar 2008

 

Solution Architect / Project Manager

 

Contractor on assignment to Arbonne International, built the operation department (ITIL based) & brought in and setup all the reporting, operational monitoring and escalation process from various department to be managed under new Operation department (Sox compliance).

 

ö       Through Interview process, identified infrastructure, data flows from order entry to shipment, what needs to be monitored at each steps and how to monitor each function/data flow.

ö       Created & compiled operation, used monitoring and escalation process as training manual for hiring.

ö       Hired, mentored, managed and trained team of 8 staff on 24 X 7 monitoring locally along with managing 8 off shore formed new operation & monitoring department.

ö       Developed escalation process and escalation SLA resulted in internet sales increase by 4% each month.

ö       Successfully deployed monitoring process for Oracle Production support, SQL servers & Sybase Warehouse System to ensure system availability from order entry web system, transaction authentication systems to Warehouse Control System management.

ö       Formulated Root Case Analysis (RCA) of outages which resulted in reduction of outages by 50%.

ö       Setting up Monitoring & Operation department within IT resulted in $300,000/year cost reduction and move the company closer to be SOX compliant

 

Solution Architect / Project Manager

Responsible for designing and building an IT infrastructure capable of handling and sustaining rapid system / people growth. Upgraded Windows servers, expanded VoIP phone switches, installed NAS servers, switches. Implemented a more secure Firewall, MS Exchange and setup a robust backup system. 

 

 

ö       Managed  Shortel VoIP phone systems and doubled number of phones and switches

ö       Budgeted, purchased, managed deployment and configuration of Fortinet firewall and ACL rules

ö       Successfully saved over $120,000 by buying used equipment (Network racks, VoIP phones, routers).

ö       Upgraded backbone network to gigabit with 4 subnets to improve network availability, performance and stability.

ö       Implemented an SNMP monitoring system resulted in increase application availability by 45%.

ö       Setup co-location site and moved production servers to co-location site resulting in reduction of outage by 30%.

ö       Hired, trained and managed team of 4 for desktop support server / VoIP and network maintenance.

ö       Effectively applied VMware to consolidate 50 production customer servers resulted in reduction of space & electricity bill by $200/month

ö       Deployed VMWARE ESX to over 12 servers each hosting 10 Windows server

ö       Purchased, sized and setup 8 computer racks with Uninterrupted Power supply (UPS)  resulted in reduction of outage by %50

ö       Purchased, configured and performed migration of servers from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 with Raid5 and multiple DNS/DHCP servers for redundancy

ö       Purchased, setup NAS servers with JBOD expansion

 

 

Project Manager – Server Consolidation

 

Company closed 3 offices and moved all IT equipment into one location.

 

 

ö       Setup Internet connectivity, Fortinet firewall, Asterisk VoIP phone system resulted in 60% saving in cost of maintenance of old legacy phone systems and T1 lines and  expensive contracts

ö       Efficiently performed server consolidation of 8 racks of servers to 2 racks resulted in reduction of electrical bill by half.

ö       Successfully archived old data resulted in reduction of servers by 60%.

ö       Effectively upgraded servers to windows2003 servers & reconfigured backup systems to bring systems up-to-date.

 

IT Manager Contractor

 

 

ö       Managed Asterisk VoIP phone systems, NAS servers, FTP Server, Web/application Server and implemented QuickBooks for the company.

ö       Setup Fortinet firewall solution for the entire company

ö       Planned and managed company IT move from San Diego to Oceanside

ö       Designed and implemented the quality lab with configuration, electrical and air-conditioning specification.

ö       Setup multiple Network Attached Storage (NAS), setup replications for both local & co-locations.

ö       Moved the entire computer room to a co-location cage upon company sale and saved over $60000.

 

bmc Software (Solution Architect / Software consultant)

Apr 2000 – Mar 2004

 

 

ö       Managed and performed Application/Server sizing project for Farmers Insurance (50 Windows webservers/Unix Oracle server) using BMC tools resulted in $22 million multi-year contract.

ö       Managed , trained staff & deployed BMC’s Enterprise Monitoring solution for Wellpoint Healthcare over 300 IBM AIX servers

ö       Managed the server migration project at WellPoint Healthcare to migrate Servers from West cost to East cost

ö       Managed deployment of BMC’s application monitoring products at Sutter Health

 

NetVantage/CABLETRON  (Solution Architect/Network engineer/Sales Engineer)

Apr 1996 – Apr 2000

 

ö       Manage OEM customization, manage testing of switches by vendors such as HP, Compaq, Cabletron systems resulted in $30 million annual OEM sales

ö       Created and delivered customized network solutions training for customers with VLAN’s, and port trunk.

 

 

Great Pacific Insurance (Informix DBA/Sr. Unix Admin/Manager)

Apr 1991 – Mar 1996

 

 

ö       Designed, implemented and tested Disaster Recovery for entire company under planned budget of $1 million

ö       Managed application migrations from legacy systems like IBM Series-1 to Linux  and IBM System/38 environment to AS/400-iSeries and to the Linux systems

ö       Managed multiple staff of Jr. Unix Admins, Jr. Informix DBA and Novel Admins

ö       Setup Monitoring plans for all systems

ö       Designed, normalized & created various SQL databases to be used in policy tracking applications

 

 

Education & Credentials

 

Bachelor of Science – Biochemistry

San Francisco State University

 

ITIL v3 Foundation Certification

 

PMP Certification (Pursuing)

 

Affiliations

 

Member of Project Management Institute (PMI)

 

 

Technical Skills

 

 

Hardware: HP 7000 Chassis W/Blades BL660c G8, BL460c, Dell PowerEdge M1000e/M620 and various Dell/HP server, HP ProLiant DL380 G8, DL560 G8, ML350P

Software: VMWARE ESX 5.1, ESX 5.5, vCenter, vSphere, Linux (Redhat 5.9, Redhat 6.4, SLES 10, SLES 11), Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2012



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Current Career Level:

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Date of Availability:

Immediately

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

US citizen

 

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Occupation:

IT/Software Development

·         Software/System Architecture

·         Systems Analysis - IT

Quality Assurance/Safety

·         Software Quality Assurance

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-CA-Orange County

Relocate:

Yes

Willingness to travel:

Up to 50% travel

 

Languages:

Languages

Proficiency Level

Farsi

Fluent