Bennett Gilbert

(212) 203 1275

New York, New York

bjgilbert@gmail.com

Vision, drive and a proven track record of designing and implementing transformative cloud services

for fortune 2000 enterprises.

HANDS ON TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

AppOpps- DevOpps: Git, Subversion, Artifactory, Jenkins, Bamboo, Cruise Control, ServiceMesh Release

Manager, Puppet, Chef, HPOO, Atlasian Jira Confluence.

Programming: Shell Scripting / Bash, Java Script / Rhino Script, Perl, PowerShell, REST / SOAP API’s,

Agile / Scrum Methodology.

Virtualization / IaaS / Cloud : Vmware Virtual Infrastructure 3-5. ESX(i) server 2-5.1, VSphere 5.1., VCD,

Amazon EC2, S3 AWS Public Cloud. Terramark Enterprise Cloud. Savvis Compute Cloud, OpenStack.

Storage: EMC Clarion SAN, CX3-80, CX 700, CX4-120, Navisphere Manager, Snapview, Fibre Switches,

Dell Equal Logic ISCSI SAN, NetApp Filers, Lucene Hadoop distributed computing clusters, S3, NFS,

GlusterFS.

Networking: Cisco Nexus routers, switches, IOS, routing protocols: RIP, (E)IGRP, OSPF, BGP, BIG IP F5

Load Balancer, HAProxy, VPN, Cisco 3000 VPN concentrator, Cisco DMVPM, Open VPN, IPSEC, SSL,

TCP/IP, Citrix Terminal server, Bind DNS , DDNS, DHCP, LDAP.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, Active Directory, Sun Solaris 2-8, BSD UNIX, Red Hat

Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Slackware Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Middleware / DB: Microsoft SQL 2008, Oracle 11x., MySql, IIS, Apache httpd, Tomcat, Cold Fusion,

Weblogic, IBM WebShpere.

WAN Backup and Recovery: Arcserve, Symantec Backup Exec, EMC RecoverPoint, S3.

Network monitoring/analysis: Dell OpenManage, Compaq Insight, Argent guardian, SNMP, Sitecope,

Topaz, Nagios, Nimbus.

Enterprise Smtp: Exchange 2003 Administration, SMTP, Sendmail, Blackberry Enterprise server.

Security: Juniper Virtual GW, Cisco ASA, iptables, Checkpoint FW-1, Gauntlet, Nokia, Cisco PIX, VRRP,

Juniper, Protocol analyzers. Network Scanners, Ethereal, IIS, Apache, Tomcat ,Cold Fusion, Weblogic, Java,

RSA Ace server, PKI, SSL, SSH, IDS, ISS Real Secure, LAN Antivirus software, Symantec.

Servers Hardware: Cisco UCS, VCE VBLock, HP Bladesystems, Virtual Connect, Dell, Compaq/HP, IBM,

SUN, SuperMicro server hardware, Avaya IP office, PBX phones systems.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Cloud Solutions Architect ServiceMesh Inc. Santa Monica, CA. February 2010 to Present.

• Professional Services Cloud Solutions Architecture Team Lead. Developed standards of excellence,

reference architectures and best practices. Mentoring junior team members.

• Cloud Solutions Architect supporting the sales cycle and Capture Management for our fortune 2000

client list. Designed and lead Proof of Value demonstrations and Pilots including hands on technical

implementation on Private / Public / Hybrid Clouds. Provide subject matter expertise needed to get

passed client’s objections and the competition in order to win deals.

• Architect and SME for fortune 2000 clients Continuous Application Release Automation / AppOps /

DevOps initiatives. Developed application tool chain integrations, automation and policy driven Self

Service continuous release architectures across their SDLC to multiple cloud providers. Current and

past clients Application Release Automation I have lead: Visa Inc., American Express, U.B.S.,

Pearson PLC, Common Wealth Bank of Australia.

• SME and Lead Cloud Solutions Architect to Australia’s largest bank, CBA. Lead the design and

implementation of their IaaS / PaaS cloud strategy. Provided Expertise in negotiating complex political

and technical enterprise bureaucracies to drive strategic goals to completion. Worked with App Dev

teams to automate and migrate their applications and processes to a Self Service AppOps model across

hybrid clouds.

• Discovery of Enterprise client’s initiatives and strategic goals, translating them into Solution

Architectures based on SMI’s Platform feature set. Identifying gaps and working with SMI’s Product

and Development groups to push through Platform enhancements to meet clients goals.

Lead Enterprise Cloud Architect, Medidata Solutions Inc., New York. March 2008 to February 2010.

• Worked with the CIO to Design and implement Medidata’s Cloud Strategy.

• Lead global Cloud based Disaster Recovery Initiative.

• Architected cloud bursting / Hybrid D.R. design and implemented proof of concept test networks on

Amazon Web Services, Terramark Enterprise Cloud and Savvis Cloud Compute.

• Authored technical and financial analysis of cloud based D.R. proof of concept tests and

presented results to executive team.

• Designed, documented and implemented automated Amazon EC2 / S3 based Disaster Recovery test

network for Medidata’s A.S.P. hosting infrastructure.

• Designed and Implemented Virtual Private Cloud on EC2 utilizing Encryption Overlay network based

on Open VPN to securely extend corporate networks into the public Cloud.

• Administration and automation of production and R&D infrastructure on Amazon EC2.

• Technical project Lead and Architect on new R&D Development cluster built on VMware ESX

3.5, EM CX4-120 SAN and F5 load balancers. This included Project Plan development and technical

management of a team of 5 engineers as well as hands on ESX, SAN, fibre Switch

configuration. Deliverables and Documentation completed 2 weeks ahead of schedule.

• Responsible for producing audit ready documentation for all new deliverables and

change management procedures as Medidata is in a regulated industry.

• Worked with team to build out new collocated production Data Center including: Provider evaluation /

selection, Data Circuit Specifications, SLA’s, Structured Cabling design, Network design /

configuration, power systems and migration.

• Preformed data IO analysis on the Performance Lab’s EMC SAN which was at capacity. My Analysis

showed that the costly upgrade the company was planning was not necessary. I specified and

implemented a Dell Equal Logic PS5000XV ISCSI SAN saving the company $60k.

• Implemented Oracle 11x Database system on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 for R&D.

• Responsible for administration, troubleshooting and SLA based uptime of Medidata’s 247/365

Virtualized Windows 03/Active Directory/ IIS / SQL 05 / SAN / Cisco based A.S.P hosting

Environments.

• Responsibility for design, implementation, administration and automation of Medidata’s Red Hat

Linux / CentOS / mysql / L.A.M.P development environments.

Director of Network Operations Datran Media, New York January 2004- March 2008.

• Built, managed and mentored a team of 10 direct reports.

• Responsible for Design, implementation and administration of 32+multinational heterogeneous

Windows03 / Active directory / Linux / Cisco collocated add serving networks.

• Responsible for maintaining 24/7 365 uptime of collocated networks consisting of 1000+ server.s

• Research, design, implementation and administration of Vmware 2-3.0.5 multiple cluster HA and DRS

environment.

• Team lead on Vmware ESX consolidation project. Performed capacity planning and physical to virtual

consolidation /elimination of 100+ servers leading to $20k monthly savings.

• Administration of EMC CX3-80 multiple SAN storage infrastructure and Recoverpoint WAN

replication.

• Project lead on design and implementation of geographically redundant disaster recovery

Infrastructure utilizing EMC Recoverpoint CDP.

• Management and provisioning of collocated network bandwidth and IP space.

• Designed and implemented Lucene Hadoop distributed computing cluster test network on Amazon

EC2.

• Technical Project lead on Amazon AWS / EC2 / S3 feasibility tests.

• MS Exchange Server 2003 administration. Enterprise Power DNS infrastructure administration on

Linux / Mysql. MS DNS infrastructure.

• Researched and implemented Avaya IP office phone system.

• Design and implementation and remote management of new collocated datacenters nation and

worldwide.

• Design and implementation of new Hub datacenter’s including redundant BGP’ed Bandwidth on Cisco

3825 routers and Redundant Cisco 6509 Core Switch Fabric.

• Implemented Atlassian confluence Wiki on a apache/Mysql Virtual Server. Created and Enforced Web

based Network Documentation portal.

Network Operations Engineer Contractor Webmd.com, New York September 2002-January 2004

• Design and implementation of New York NOC.

• Network monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting of Webmd’s heterogeneous Windows 2000, Sun

Solaris, Oracle and Weblogic Portal infrastructure.

• Installation and configuration of Mercury Interactive’s SiteScope and Topaz web monitoring software.

• Windows 2000 Server builds on Compaq hardware.

• Solaris 8 Server builds on Sun hardware.

Security Engineer contractor McKesson Corporation San Francisco July 2001- August 2002

• Updating and patching San Francisco corporate LAN/Wan in response to Code Red > nimdA worm.

• Monitoring current security threats and keeping systems updated. Updating LAN based antivirus

software.

• Third level technical support in a NT/2000/Netware5X /Solaris 8, Cisco, heterogeneous wan

environment.

• Building Solaris 8 servers on sun hardware.

Security Engineer Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP San Francisco August 2000-July 2001

• Researched, designed and implemented new firewall system for nation wide Internet connectivity.

• Conducted security assessment and project plan to resolve security issues and inefficiencies. Designed

and implemented solutions.

• Implemented checkpoint Firewall-1.

• Built and hardened Firewall-1 management module server.

• Built and hardened 2 SMTP relays for reengineered DMZ.

• Worked with team to research design and implement nation wide VPN for telecommuters using Cisco

VPN3000 concentrators.

• Researched designed and implemented RSA token authentication system utilizing ACE server for

remote access.

• Created firewall administration website documenting all phases of Project for turnkey hand off.

• Designed and implemented automatic IGRP router based fail over for web access on Cisco 7500’s.

• Responsible for router/Switch configuration and trouble shooting on Cisco 7500’s, 2600’s and catalyst

5000’s.

• Responsible for intranet administration and troubleshooting on IIS/cold fusion/Terminal server.

• Responsible for wan/lan NT, 2000, Compaq troubleshooting and administration on 24/7 bases.

• Configuration and monitoring of Gauntlet firewalls on BSD UNIX.

• Designed and built security portal on MS proxy for remote intranet access utilizing Ace server token

authentication on top of SSL.

• Worked with team to design w2k/Active Directory migration. Built parallel forest for testing.

• Redesigned DNS and specified project plan for transferring Authoritative control to managed service.

• Tested and proposed several IDS solutions. Integrated ISS Real Secure.

• Scripted syslog firewall log exportation process for log monitoring and rotation on syslog server.

Network Engineer / contractor Bank of America securities San Francisco Sept. 1999 March 2001

• Building NT/ Compaq servers.

• Wan backup using Arcserve, 12 Arcservers.

• Wan network connectivity troubleshooting 400+servers.

• Network monitoring and analysis via Compaq insight manager.

• Network patches/ updates.

• Cisco router/ switch configuration and troubleshooting.

Systems Engineer/ contractor Merrill Lynch San Francisco Oct. 1998 Sept. 1999

• Administration and support in a Mixed NT 4.0/Unix (sun Solaris)/Cisco trading floor mission

critical Lan/Wan environment

• NT 4.0 Server, Solaris 2.6 workstation hardware software support. Building and optimizing NT 4

servers.

• Network connectivity troubleshooting, Cisco (IOS 11) routers/ Switches 2500, 2600, 5000’s Switches,

routed and routing protocols.

• Back up of all servers using Arcserve.

• Exchange 5.5/outlook administration and support.

• Coordinated rollout of Thin Client/hybrid TGA workstation and infrastructure (configuration of Cisco

2600’s, Catalyst 5500’s) for Middle Markets. Troubleshooting and support.

• Coordinated vendors and managed technical upgrades and repairs.

• Market data support. Bloomberg, Ilx, Bridge, ect.

• Responsible for middle markets Y2k compliance including roll out of new desktop via Ghost

multicast.

• SMS Remote Administration.

• Vlan configuration on Catalyst 5500’s

• Configuration of Cisco PIX firewall.

Systems Analyst/ contractor Prudential Securities IS & CD New York, N.Y. July 97 to Feb. 98

• Project lead for corporate wide Lotus Notes 4.5 roll out.

• Level III support and administration.

• Coordinated roll out of NT 4.0 workstation, created procedures and documentation.

• NT 4.0 server administration.

• Citrix server/client installation, configuration, Administration.

• Network and desktop support for Lotus Notes 4.5

• TCP/IP network troubleshooting and connectivity.

Education

• 2009 EMC Clarion CX3/4 Management Certificate.

• 2009 Learning Tree Linux Administration Certificate course

• 2007 VMware Infrastructure VCP Certification course.

• 2003 FITT Solaris/Linux/Oracle/Perl 5 month training program.

• 2000 CCNA (# csco10099346) Cisco Certified Network Associate.

• 1997 Microsoft Certified Professional

• 1992-96 Hunter College, New York, N.Y. -Biological Science