Joseph Anderson

621 Sorita Circle

Heath, TX 75032

312-446-0107

Joeand37@yahoo.com

Background Summary

Director - Chief Cloud Architect with extensive experience in running and developing institutional practices for large corporations and consulting firms. Extensive experience in project management, leadership, and financial management. Proven leader in the area of cloud/virtual computing and datacenter consolidation initiatives. Industry knowledge spans Energy, Financial Services, Public Sector, and Commercial Services. Summary of my experiences are:

·                Lead Cloud Architect and responsible for delivering NTT Data Inc.’s “Virtual Private Cloud” solution.

·                Expert in cloud technologies, vCloud, vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), VCE vBlock, Cisco UCS, Puppet, EMC, BMC Cloud Lifecycle Manager (CLM), and Cisco VCXD.

·                Architected and delivered a proven Software Defined Network (SDN) stack to allow customers to seamlessly extend their environment into the cloud

·                Designed NTT Data Inc’s DR as a service (DRaaS) capability by partnering with Zerto Inc. to deliver an all-inclusive package to allow customers to protect their onsite infrastructure into our cloud based solution.

·                Highly experienced and proven pre-sales engineer delivering proposals and presentations at an executive level, while showing the value proposition of key services.

·                Strong leader, skilled at motivating teams to deliver unparalleled client service to attain major company/client objectives.

·                VMware Certified Professional with experience assessing and implementing large scale deployments of virtual platforms.

Experience

NTT Data, Inc

Jan. 2011 - Present

Director of Cloud Architecture, Dallas, TX

As NTT Data inc’s Lead Cloud Architect I was responsible for developing and delivering the companies Cloud footprint. The service included Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), DR as a Service (DRaaS), and Desktop as a Service (DaaS). Nurturing our partner ecosystem, I was able to partner with Cisco, EMC and vMware to create a state of the art cloud platform that could be leveraged in both a Virtual Private Cloud and an on premise private cloud solution. My other responsibilities included creating the metric based billing mechanism to charge customers on their usage of the various components. Responsible for selling our service to Fortune 500 companies and driving new client adoption of the cloud. Under this charter I drove our cost center from a loss into a monthly revenue of $850,000 into our business unit.

·                Led the initiative in architecting NTT DATA’s cloud solution leveraging a mix of converged and standalone technologies such as VMware vCloud Director, VCE vBlock, Cisco Nexus switching, and Cisco UCS hardware as a service.

·                Assisted in the pre-sales and customer development working alongside Senior VP and Executive Staff to deliver the go to market strategies.

·                Comfortable meeting with C-level customers and outlining the business proposition and value of NTT Data’s solution catalog.

·                Worked directly with customers through the onboarding process and to develop their migration strategies.

·                Responsible for leading a team of 12 Cloud Architect/Engineers that are responsible for delivering new service offerings to our customers.

·                Lead build out and design of three cloud facilities to host NTT Data’s cloud offerings.

·                Negotiate contracts with datacenter operators, hardware, and software vendors to ensure we were maximizing NTT Data’s investment in technology with the best pricing possible.

·                Developed standards and design documents for the entire cloud solution delivery.

Markit

Aug. 2010 – Jan. 2011

Senior Architect of Virtualization, Dallas, TX

·                Global VMware lead charged with the design and implementation of a Virtualization strategy for Markit’s global infrastructure supporting 40 ESX/i 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 Clusters with 700 active VMs.

·                Working with executive management to develop a strategy to Virtualize 80% of Markit’s 1000+ physical servers over the next 2 years.

·                Implementing a standard chargeback model to help drive IT spending in favor of virtualization over standalone physical servers.

·                In the process of consolidating disparate Vcenter servers into 4 geographically relevant locations supporting SRM and View (VDI) technologies.

·                Developed standards and design documents for all ESX Server and Vcenter deployments.

·                Facilitating a datacenter move into a new CoLo site.

BearingPoint / NICUSA

Nov 2004 –Aug 2010

Senior Consultant, Chicago, IL and Dallas, TX

·                Responsible for providing efficient engagement management techniques in order to maximize results for the client and BearingPoint. Provided project cost estimates, resource planning, performance evaluations, and risk mitigation strategies. Developed methodology and approach for “Datacenter Consolidation” efforts that was standard use by the BearingPoint team. Datacenter virtualization expert, providing design and solution engineering for major customers wanting to leverage cost effective virtualization products. Architected business continuity solutions for datacenter and end users environments. Developed Visual Basic .NET and ASP.NET solutions for operations staff to monitor systems.

Business Sectors and Project Accomplishments:

·                Public Sector: Designed, proposed and led a deployment of VMware Virtual Infrastructure for a major judicial application. Work included business case justification, project leadership, and directing various resources to completion.  The project finished under budget and ahead of schedule while providing a net savings of $700,000 over conventional physical system architecture. Migration Team Lead for network services during a datacenter migration of a municipal agency. Responsibilities included coordination with the Application team leads to ensure external, internal, and site to site network communications were open for various applications, network infrastructure design and approval, and team workload coordination.

·                Energy Sector: Green (“eco-efficient”) Datacenter initiatives, including datacenter consolidation, application consolidation, OS reduction, server virtualization, hardware consolidation and datacenter efficiency designs.  Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery site planning and architecture. Tools included VMware Virtual Infrastructure suite, XEN Open Source, and Microsoft Virtual server.

·                Commercial Services: Directed consulting teams for IT infrastructure migrations especially associated with corporate mergers and acquisitions. Coordinated datacenter operations during disaster recovery site build-out. Planning datacenter consolidation and reduction initiatives. Application migrations. Active Directory design, including group policies, OU placements, and site topologies. Exchange Server deployments and migrations/upgrades.

·                Financial Services: Team Leader for directory services group during a Novell 5.1 migration to Active Directory and Exchange Server to Lotus Notes migration.

Townsend Analytics, Ltd.

2000 – 2004

Senior Microsoft Engineer, Chicago, IL

·                Microsoft Engineering lead. Responsibilities included Active Directory design, Microsoft ISA, Exchange 5.5 -2003. Directed rollout teams on-site and at remote office locations, devising incentives for early and accurate completion of tasks.

Key Accomplishments

·                Designed, implemented and administered Exchange 2000 messaging systems for users of the company’s trading software and for the internal enterprise.  Migration of 5000 user mailboxes was completed on schedule.

·                Decreased administrative costs by two FTE’s by implementing DHCP, Dynamic DNS and Active Directory group policies. Designed, configured and tested a backup/archive system for all critical network servers, using Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Magstar and IBM LTO, which can support several terabytes of information. The system has protected the company from extensive data loss in numerous instances most notably during the SQL slammer outbreak.. Due to the implementation of this system we were able to bring all 150 database systems back online within four hours.

Columbia Distributing Company

1998 – 2000

Microsoft Engineer, Portland, OR

·                Microsoft Engineer in a small IT group.

Stream International

1996 - 1998

Microsoft Support Technician, Portland, OR

·                Provided phone based technical support for public users of Windows 95.

Professional Training

Microsoft:

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Windows 2003.

Exchange 2000, Windows Active Directory, Windows 2000, SMS, Microsoft Commercial Internet Systems, MS Visual Basic.

VMware:

VMware Certified Professional (VCP 3.5)

Virtual Infrastructure 3.0 Install and configure, Virtual Infrastructure 3.0 Deploy, Secure and Analyze.

ITIL:

ITIL Foundation Certification.