Alan M. Ghahramani ghahramani@icloud.com

SUMMARY: An accomplished IT solutions/services enterprise architect, solving non trivial complex problems with scalability, performance,

application or services launch and product growth. Architecting services, data center infrastructure, providing plans for storage/server/load

balancer/network implementations, procurements, security, project management and automated deployments. Designing clouds, creating

deployment plans for a high availability production UNIX/Linux environments with multi petabytes of storage devices supporting database

clusters, web or hadoop farms, Oracle RAC clusters, Fusion-­‐io servers, InfiniBand networks, web applications with network gear deployments

consisting of Cisco Nexus 7k/5k/3k and FEX. Well organized individual, with proven ability to lead, implement standards, create procedures for

migrations or deployments of technologies in order to increase performance and functionality while reducing operational costs.

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10 years of architecture in systems engineering, security, automation, services, cloud storage and product development

10 years of Mobile applications product engineering (Android/iOS) with top 2 mobile enovators: Motorola and Apple

Apple achievements 2008-­‐2014: Create and bring up new environments in the clould relevant to iTunes Store, iTunes Radio, Game Center, Facetime,

iMessage, Push Notifications, iAd. Research and implement POCs in order to determine which vendors to choose for introduction the new best of

the breed production class infrastructure including high performance servers matched with automated deployments of the OS, kernel, custom apps

& patched to the scoped requirements. Developed and created faster deployment strategy and end to end automation for many environments with

load balanced puppet masters in order to automate production internal apps deployments and production services.

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Led the development and design for Stanford’s cloud computing for both Office 365 email/calendar solution and ServiceNow! CRM solution for the

entire University campus and Stanford Hospitals collaboratively with enterprise architecture and information security.

Be the focal point for planning as well as organizing meetings with IT leaders and fellow architects to document IT strategic planning, defining and

implementing the cloud strategy for IaaS, PaaS, Saas in all datacenter based on the overall Strategy, requirements and Architecture direction.

Deliver roadmaps for new services launch or migrations, expansions of the infrastructure, server/storage capacity with NAS/SAN filers, Oracle DB

clusters as well as Life cycle management and upgrade planning of existing solutions for HW, OS, DB, applications or POC projects.

Organize, regularly schedule and run meetings in order to understand the requirements for upcoming projects while tracking the progress of ongoing

projects and working closely with key stakeholders to further refine those requirements in order to help achieve all the timelines for the many

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Architected customer release portal with smart updates web integeration from OEM partners’ requested webform to shipping subsequent SDK

packages; essentially releases made in CM tool become available to Go-­‐To-­‐Market (GTM) Team via web for product delivery. Made available

solutions and tools for Motorola PCS Mobile Development needs such as instant messaging, iTAP’s predictive text messaging for Android with

international language bundles for building and releasing Motorola Mobile apps and wireless software to OEM, created device and handset images

for burning prototypes.

Education:

Experience:

Jan 2014 -- Present

BS in IT from University of Phoenix (San Jose, California) Bachelor of Science Information Technology, honors, 3.95 GPA

Stanford University

UIT Administrative Systems, Authentication & Collaboration Solutions

Design and architect the AS ACS infrastructure by planning procurements, building and deploying Linux platforms. Directory team lead

for University LDAP infrastructure and several OpenLDAP platforms for various development and test requirements. Directly

responsible for successfully integrating Office 365 as our new cloud email/calendar solution with Stanford LDAP directory. This

campus-­‐wide effort led by ACS included many directory schema changes to introduce new attributes in order to address the global

visibility of users to the Microsoft Azure cloud stack. Another successful project was integrating LDAP with Uniflow software which the

libraries are now utilizing for the new copier charge back service. Other responsibilities included maintaining Stanford AFS

infrastructure and working with SASL/GSSAPI/Kerberos/SAML 2/Shiboleth and Puppet for Software Configuration management.

Initiated and completed the modernization of the entire infrastructure; streamlined and created new procedures. Architect significant

enhancements to the infrastructure, improve network performance by utilizing LACP. Providing the underlying RedHat/Debian Linux

infrastructure platforms both virtual (Vmware/Xen) and physical to facilitate UIT applications execution and runtime.

Nov 2010 – Jan 2014 Apple Inc. Cupertino HQ

Internet Services Group, Systems Architect

Architect, lead, design, develop, program, document, deploy, create new processes and procedures to streamline operations within

production and QA/Test environments for Apple Mobile Advertising , iAd in the Cupertino HQ. Led and managed a newly formed dev-­ops

team in an effort to fully integragte the acquisition of the newly acquired Quatra Wireless company which was later rebranded as

iAD with Apple’s Internet Services Group. Took the initiative to plan and architect a new end to end solution for imaging and pushing

code or system changes first in QA before rolling it out to production with the introduction of better branching and tagging. Plan for

iAd's expansion and growth by understanding their capacity needs and translating that into HW quotes. Provide solutions for storage

requests for hadoop clusters, Oracle RAC, Oracle Exadata, BI Oracle and other Oracle 11g DB servers as well as application servers for

both SAN and NAS. Design various load balancers by creating Netscaler VIPs and populate server pools to load balance traffic between

various adserver nodes. Cook security fixes into our imaging system such that the new server deployments have the volunerability fixes

already built in. Organize meetings, provide bridge conference calls with our production support North Carolina System Engineering

team on a weekly basis to streamline deployments and deliverables. Regularly meet with Site Reliability Team (SRE) Tools team and

ISG security team to adopt solutions developed and geared for ISG operations and leverage their latest tools for automation and

imaging. Present slide deck to senior management on our Quarterly accomplishments and new services. Design, architect, purchase

and deploy multiple QA and development environments for the iAd wireless application from many various hand held iOS devices can

be routed to the 4G/LTE cellular network test environments. Led the effort in programming the security and other essential modules

for our baseline image along with any other manifests and templates for Puppet in Ruby DSL code to insure the foundation for a

functional, repeatable and reliable system imaging solution for iAd’s multiple application tiers. Work with multiple vendors on POCs

and meet at their labs to get a better conceptualization of their next generation products and asses which would be a potential good

solution for Apple.

Jan 2008 – Nov 2010 Apple Inc. Cupertino HQ

Internet Services Group, Sr. Systems Engineer

As the team lead, work on secret projects from conception to launch. Responsible for all aspects of iTunes Store operations, including

production code pushes, expansions, hotfixes to patch applications or automation of deployments for production class servers, NetApp

filers in order to scale to meet the demands of 100’s of millions of users accessing the many underlying production application tiers.

Introduce new production applications and work on several secret projects by building out its corresponding network and

infrastructure. Bring up new environments relevant to iTunes Store, iMessage, Facetime, Game Center, App Store, push notifications

and various other platforms while introducing new best of the breed production class servers with new kernel & new boot image

requirements for the entire infrastructure including scalability testing and performance tuning. This led to creating a faster deployment

strategy, jumpstart frame work to flash archives imaging and kickstart. Flash imaging reduced iTS deployment times significantly by 4x

for both Solaris application servers and Oracle DB serers. Architected and brought up APNS (push notification, push.apple.com)

sandbox, QA and production infrastructure respectively. Successfully lead and drive 3 to 8 HOT concurrent projects simultaniously with

very aggressive deadlines ranging from few weeks to many months. Lead the ISG wide core imaging project, “Imaging road map” that

consisted of Puppet integration into our refined OS baseline and to determine the various components of the image. Create full images

for iTMS/iTS application or DB servers while streamlining, upgrading and maintaining system images and integration with Puppet for

multi-­‐platform data center automation for our existing non osx app servers and also provide a detailed training presentation on the

newly architected automation

Mar 2007 – Oct 2007 Yahoo! Inc.

(YMG) Media Ops Service Engineer

Service Engineer for Media Operations in Sunnyvale headquarters providing media engineering support to roll out new applications to

various platforms: production, stage, perf, qa, dev and gold. Launched Lifestyles Beta Health (beta.health.yahoo.com), Y! Sports BCP

site, Finance properties. Gathered project requirements and formulated a deployment strategy with the corresponding hardware

and operating system configurations.

Mar 2006 – Feb 2007 MIPS Technologies, Inc.

Sr. UNIX Administrator/Project Manager

Team lead, drafted IT project plan with to ensure successful integration and timely implementation of various platform solutions on

RHEL/UNIX and storage for engineering and IT core systems. Evaluated many storage solutions: Pillar, Sun Storage Tek 5320, Equal

Logic SAN, EMD and NetApp. Designed and architected new infrastructure to facilitate new services NIS/DNS, backup, email services

and increased storage capacity with NAS NetApp clustering solutions. Recommended and purchased suitable hardware and software

for the scope of the project. Planned, configured and deployed diskless SunRay 1G thin net clients w/SMART card technologies

providing the remote accessible development tool chain, the ability to reconnect to your session from other locations

Dec 2001 – Sep 2005 Motorola INC, Mobile Devices Business (PCS)

Sr. Staff Engineer

Team lead, Sr. Staff Engineer for Mobile Devices Software Engineering Operations, for the Sunnyvale campus providing the

infrustructure and adequate environment necessary to meet cross-­‐platform embedded application development technical challenges.

Designed and implemented an infrastructure for website production application, Motorola Instant Messaging Server, as a portal for

Wireless Village. Write SQL scripts to create and install schemas for IM DB servers, populate IMPS user databases. Make available

solutions and tools for PCS Development needs such as Synergy environment systems for building and releasing Motorola wireless

software to OEM. These tasks include Software Configuration Management (SCM) and IBM ClearCase administration for all Motorola

Mobile Devices Software. Driving the release engineering and build process for the Mobile Devices Software lab. Innovative

infrastructure deployment of automated build/release requests for development and other system resources such as cross platform

compilers (ARM ADS, Symbian, MCORE, SDS, TI TMS, Forte, Tasking Infineon) for either Windows or UNIX/Linux environments.

Launched on-­‐line customer release stategy with smart updates web integrtion to IBM ClearCase 5.0; releases made in CM tool

become available to Go-­‐To-­‐Market (GTM) Team via web for product delivery. Write scripts to automate the build and release

functions along with detailed technical IMPS documentation.