George Parker

Carlsbad, CA | 760-518-1786| GWGPARKER@gmail.com

Core Competencies                 

·   20 years’ experience as a Solutions Architect, Sr. Consultant, x86 Administrator and Data Center Engineer

·   Expertise in Local Area and Enterprise Global Networks utilizing various operating systems

·   Provided Consulting, Purchasing, Integration, Upgrade, Maintenance, Installation, Training, and Management services to numerous Fortune 1000 companies. 

·   Extensive Project Management and team leadership experience

·   High performance results driven innovative approach to network design and problem solving.

·   Excellent reporting and presentation skills provided to upper management and customer base. 

·   Self-motivated and able to handle simultaneous projects effectively while remaining "cool under fire" drawing from a heavy background in thousands of products spanning multiple environments supporting Sales, Telecommunications, Banking, Financial services, Nuclear Utility, and Healthcare services worldwide.

Professional Experience

(2006 – Present) – Southern California Edison, Irvine and San Clemente, CA
Data Center Solutions Architect

·   Transformed SCE’s data center strategy to a fully virtualized Cloud Computing environment. Architected, designed and implemented management solutions for applications on Flexpod including the compute, storage, networking requirements, management, and recovery needs.

·   Architected, Designed and Delivered 8 Flexpod Converged infrastructures across 2 Data Centers (4 General Purpose Pods, 2 VDI Pods, 2 NERC Compliant Pods)  

·   Participated in High-Level Design Sessions and provided expertise on Data Center Network, Compute, and Storage Design. 

·   Managed External vendors (Cisco, WWT, NetApp, VMWare) in Infrastructure Build, Software Deployment, and Advance Services Engagements. 

·   Architected and Deployed Flexpod Event Management Solution including vCenter Operations Manager, Cisco UCS Manager, NetApp Unified Manager, F5, Nexus 5K and IBM NetCool. 

·   Provided Technical leadership in the design and implementation of CISCO UCS Director for infrastructure automation UCS cases to reduce provisioning time, provide rollback generation at execution, reduce error likely scenarios to automation and provide simplified converged infrastructure management.

·   Provided vendor oversight for Quarterly Health Checks on Flexpod Infrastructure (8 Pods)

·   Deployed Non-Production and Production UCS Director Environments with Initial Automation Workflows

·   Conducted Knowledge Transfer/Training for VDI Data Center Flexpods to transition support to SCE operations support staff and managed vendor WWT.

·   Created the first automated workflow for Cisco 5k interface ports and ports channels for UCS and NetApp infrastructure reducing provisioning complexity.

·   Reduced network provisioning time from 2 hours to 20 minutes using UCS Director Automation workflows.

·   Reduced storage provisioning steps from 16 to 4 steps using UCS Director to automate NETAPP storage volumes/datastores.

·   Completed Project to Develop Technology Run books and Standard Operating Procedures for SCE’s Private Cloud.

·   Participated in Virtual Desktop Flexpod Build (VDI) including Citrix XenDesktop Application on VMWare Hypervisor

·   Standardized Server build image for San Onofre Nuclear Generator Environment in line with SCE Enterprise Server Build Image.

·   Designed, Planned, Built, and operationalized the server provisioning process using Enterprise tools to rapid deploy physical servers. Reduced physical server image provisioning time from 12 hours to 4 hours.

·   Completed Active Directory Domain uplift/upgrade from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2.

·   Designed and Implemented a High Availability Microsoft SQL Failover Cluster Platform stretched across data centers for San Onofre environment client applications and IT infrastructure applications.

·   Designed and Implemented the San Onofre environment Citrix Farm for clients to connect securely from any device, any time, and from anywhere.

·   Designed and Implemented a VmWare Virtualization Platform to transform traditional physical server provisioning to virtual server provisioning in 2011/2012.

·   Provided MS SQL Server DBA support for all failover clusters and associated instances for development, test, and production.

·   Provided people, process, and technology management and leadership to the SONGS X86 Services Platform team.

·   Designed and deployed network, compute, storage, and virtualization at IOC data center in 2011/2012.

·   Designed and extended the SONGS Ethernet and Fiber Channel networks to the IOC in 2012.

·   Provided leadership in the design and implementation of SAN mirroring from the SONGS Data Center to the IOC in 2012.

·   Led effort to reduce San Onofre physical server footprint by 30% in 2011 and 40% in 2012 via VmWare’s physical to virtual (P2V) component.

·   Established long range VmWare  vMotion ability across datacenters at San Onofre and Irvine Data centers.

·   Established HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM ) ability across multiple datacenters to provide a means to move physical servers across geographical boundaries in 11 minutes or less.

·   Implemented VmWare’s vCenter heartbeat across datacenters to mitigate circular dependencies, provide fault tolerance and achieve a higher level of availability.

·   Refreshed 51 physical servers in 2012 -- 99% of the server refresh was virtualized. System Availability of >=99.99% achieved.

·   Designed new ESX host cluster using Intel Hardware Architecture.

·   Led and participated in stretching the San Onofre HA/DR application servers from San Onofre to the Irvine in 2012.

 

(2001 – 2006) Computer Sciences Corporation, San Diego, CA

Technical Account Lead, Managed Computing Services, Server Production Engineering

·   Provide systems support for hybrid multi-platform LAN/WAN network for the County of San Diego.

·   Provided Local Area Network Support across all accounts.

·   Designed, Implemented, and maintained multiple HP Storage Works Storage Area Networks specifically HSG80 / MA8000, EVA 3000, EVA 5000, MSA 1000 Series and MSA500 DHCP Cluster.

·   Developed and implemented port level zoning on the 24000 director switches for the EVA 5000, 3000, MSA 1000 series, Intel Nodes, and Unix Nodes for the Western Data Center.

·   Designed, and implemented a deployment solution for unattended server builds using HP Remote Deployment Pack RDP.

·   Standardized the server build process with a standard operating environment (SOE) procedure and documentation for future rapid deployments.

·   Designed, implemented, and sustained heterogeneous backup schemes among all networks with multiple business units.

·   Provided level III support for backups and restores across accounts for both Intel and Sun Sparc architectures.

·   Designed, implemented, and sustained the VMware ESX 3 environment.

·   Assisted in the design of the Citrix Metaframe Farms across accounts.

·   Provided level III Citrix support across accounts. Provided engineering support for solutions and applications architects.

·   Provided level III Support for 1200 servers.  Services involve configuring and upgrading servers, hubs, switches and routers within a Novell/Banyan/NT/Citrix Metaframe environment.

·   Supported 2,000+ users for conversion to Win 2000. Hardware troubleshooting of LAN/WAN systems including connectivity issues, setting TCP/IP addresses, and protocols.

·   Responsible for resolving issues for multiple servers, proprietary software, HP printers, and connectivity for remote sites.

·   Assisted with the migration to optical fiber network involving cutover to ATM.

·   Installation and configuration of PDC, BDC, DHCP, WINS, IIS, DNS, Exchange, SQL, file/print servers and logon scripts for automating installation tasks.

Technical Skills

·   Web Development Languages: ASP, JSP, Javascript, HTML, HTML5, CSS

·   Databases: Microsoft SQL 2012, Oracle 11G, MySQL, Postgres

·   Operating Systems: Windows 2008, 2012, Red Hat 6.2, 6.3/SUSE Linux 11

·   Cloud & SaaS Platforms: Amazon EC2, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Salesforce.com, Service Now, Rackspace, Azure, vCloud Hybrid Service, Office 365

·   Cloud Hardware: Flexpod, VCE vBlock, Oracle Exadata, Cisco UCS, NetApp NAS, F5 Viprion, Cisco Nexus 2K/5K/7K, HP Bladesystem, IBM SAN Storage

·   Cloud Software: Cisco CIAC, Cisco UCS Director, Nexus 1000V, Microsoft System Center 2012 (VMM, SCCM), SUSE Studio, SUSE Manager, Openstack KVM, Cisco UCS Manager/UCS Central, NetApp Unified Manager, NetApp OnCommand Insight. 

·   VMWare: vCenter Operations Manager, vCloud Director 5.1, vSphere 5.1, vCloud Automation Center (VCAC),  vCenter Virtual Infrastructure Navigator, vCenter Configuration Manager, NSX, Distributed Virtual Switching, vCloud Hybrid Service (VCHS), vCenter Orchestrator (vCO)

·   J2EE Platforms: JBoss, Tomcat, WebLogic, AquaLogic and WebSphere

·   Programming Technologies: Powershell, PowerCLI, REST, SOAP, XSLT, XML, Python, BASH, Ruby on Rails

·   Legacy Development Stacks: Java, C#, C++ and Linux

·   Methodologies: TOGAF, SOA, Agile/SCRUM, Waterfall, ITSM, UML, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, XaaS

·   Service Protocols: DNS, WINS, VPDN, DHCP, SLP, NDS, SNMP, TAG SWITCHING/VLAN’S and VINES.

·   WAN Protocols: PPP, ATM, FRAME RELAY, X.25, HDLC, SDLC, xDSL, ISDN

·   Routing Protocols: RIP v1+2, OSPF, M-OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, RTP, PIM, IGMP, CGMP, DVMRP, NLSP, and BGP-4

·   Topologies:  10/100/1000/10000 ETHERNET

·   Media:  CAT 3/5/6 COPPER (110 & 66 BLOCKS)

Academic Qualifications

·   Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, University of Phoenix, San Diego, CA