Ron E. Jones

 

8906 Jolly Hollow Drive, Austin, Texas 78750
(512) 608-2164

rjones@dynamicthoughts.com                  

 

Professional Summary:

Principle Enterprise Architect with 25+ years of experience including the past seven years concentrating on Business Transformation, Infrastructure & IT modernization. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certified. Work history that illustrates solid business acumens coupled with insight and the ability to ascertain and analyze social, cultural and business needs, define strategic technical vision, forecast goals, streamline technical operations that lead to successful delivery and demonstrated business results.

 

Areas of Expertise:

 

Executive-level Organization & Management – Collaborate with executives to bridge the different organizational business groups to achieve expected results.

Enterprise Architect – Expertise in delivering Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing

Transformation – Facilitating change that is driven by mapping the business intentions to technology capabilities through the assessment of customers, strategies and compliance/regulatory/governance requirements within the cultural framework of the organization.

Develop Strategic Partnerships – Create strategic partnerships from within the organization as well as with vendors in order to achieve positive business and I.T. results.

 

Professional Experience:

Xerox – Principle Enterprise Architect (05/2012 to Present) – State of Texas DCS Contract

Responsible for defining strategies to deliver value-driven technologies, Hybrid Cloud based business solutions, and drive revenue growth for the $1.2 billion Xerox DCS contract with the state of Texas.  Position entailed evaluating, recommending, defining and advocating enterprise business architecture models, standards and platforms to enable end-to-end business and IT transformations across complex environments. 

 

Provide leadership and framework to align technology investments with business and client goals.  Create and present business cases on investments; lead the development of standards, framework and product sets, IT transformation and modernization.  Lead team of Solution Architects in RFS & consolidation activities.  Lead Innovation program to modernize Enterprise hybrid cloud solutions and assisted in marketing DCS services to Texas cities, school districts, & municipalities throughout the state.  Drove contract negotiations and value-add strategies in bring Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud offerings into the Xerox Corporate and strategic business units (SBU’s).  Lead DCS automation project based on VMWare vRealize automation suite interfacing with an internal Enterprise Service Bus to streamline provisioning of IaaS, PaaS, & SaaS offerings.

 

Collabera – Enterprise Solutions Architect - (08/2009 – 05/2012) IBM - State of Texas Datacenter

Responsible for defining the business drivers and associated system capabilities and services required for I.T. transformation of enterprise server environments for server consolidation, including cross-tower dependencies and analysis with storage, data center consolidation, application migration, platform consolidation, server refresh, capacity management, etc.

 

Built strong client relations by demonstrating an understanding of customer business needs and technical priorities and ensured a strong partnership in meeting desired goals.  Developed, designed, and implemented technical solution design options.  Developed hardware configuration and architecture recommendation based on a cost of ownership model appropriate to the client’s needs.  Hands-on knowledge of AIX, PowerVM, Linux, & Solaris and optimization technologies, methodologies and application rationalization and consolidation techniques.

 

URS – Senior Solution Architect (09/2008 to 08/2009) – Austin, TX

Responsible for managing all mission critical servers running on AIX, Power VM, Power Systems, Solaris, HPUX & Linux platforms in the corporate datacenter, including architecture, build, tune, maintenance, performance monitoring, & project management.  Lead projects related to System design and implementation, Business Impact Analysis, Data Integrity/Recovery, Disaster Recovery Planning, Contingency Planning, Risk Assessment, and Cost Benefits Analysis.  Position required strong leadership skills to coordinate & direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating, & leading teams.  Managed daily tasks & projects assigned to junior Unix administrators.  Position also required presenting business impact & ROI analysis to senior executives. 

 

 

 

IBM  -  Storage Area Network – Software Engineer - 5/2004 to 8/2008

Responsible for planning & executing Q.A. SAN testing on all (pre-G.A.) IBM pSeries hardware platforms.  Testing included all IBM SAN units as well as 3rd party hardware such as EMC & Hitachi.  All aspects of the SAN environment were tested from device drivers on the HBA to zoning of switches, cascading switches, creating arrays, masking luns, to the fibre channel protocol.  Managed communication between development teams both internal and external to IBM during the QA process.  Collected & presented status with projected completion dates to management.  Testing often included forensic examination from Fibre traces taken using a Finisar device to resolve complex problems discovered through our testing methodology.

IBM - Software Engineer – 11/2003 to 5/2004 – Ciber Inc.
Software Engineer testing IBM’s iSCSI Software Initiator under the AIX operating system. Responsibilities included low level forensic examination of SAN over TCP and code changes to resolve issues found during testing. Worked closely with other AIX and Cisco developers for the 9000 series MDS multilayer switches to recommend test plans and to resolve possible software and hardware issues between the two products.  Help IBM develop the first iSCSI device driver for the AIX operating system. 

IBM - Developer - 6/2003 to 11/2003 - Global Consultants Inc.
Responsible for programming new features and for defect resolution of Fast
Connect, IBM’s Common Internet File System (CIFS). This technology allows AIX
machines to act as a file and print server in a Microsoft network environment, similar to Samba. Use of CMVC, Retain (Anderson Tools), and dbx was required.

Job duties often encompassed complex forensic examination of customer core files.
In addition, worked on revamping testing procedures and automating improved quality
assurance standards and moved focus to functionality, regression and performance.
As a direct result, our department was able to locate problems more quickly in code
modifications and resolve defects on a more regimented schedule, resulting in a
substantial improvement to productivity.

IBM - Software Engineer - 1/1999 to 2/2003 – Eurosoft
Responsibilities included quality assurance testing of AIX; development of software
tools used by IBM’s entire Unix Product Test (UPT) department; and testing of
Linux and AIX, which over 100 personnel would implement.

Worked closely with AIX Development teams to resolve defects incurred
and to continue updating new feature testing methods. Managed a team of
programmers to port and automate over 10,000 test cases, some of which required
changes to source code for compliance to the 64-bit platform. This was
accomplished within 6 months, though originally earmarked for over 1 year.  IBM estimated the productivity increase saved the company over a million dollars in man hours alone.

 

IBM - Software Engineer – 8/1996 to 1/1999 – Mustang Technology
Responsible for programming new features and defect resolution for AIX Network
Install Manager (NIM). Responsibilities included working with management to
assess departmental needs, and formulating annual budgets for equipment
purchases. Purchasing agent for five departments within AIX development (Server
Division), including annual budgets of over a million dollars.

Lectured AIX classes on the Network Install Management feature to both IBM
employees and outside clients.

IPC Technologies – 4/1996 to 8/1996
Hardware Product Engineer - Austin, Texas
Responsible for all compatibility testing of the Affinity Server line of products to
function properly on Windows NT, Novell, Solaris, and SCO. Worked closely with
Microsoft’s hardware compatibility testing standards to ensure certification on each
product line.

DELL Computers, Inc. – 4/1992 to 4/1996
Technical Support – Large Account Representative – Austin, Texas
Responsible for large account technical support issues, primarily responsible for
Wal-Mart. Position required strong technical knowledge of networking, Microsoft
Windows, and Novell. Was awarded the Dell’s Technical Support Representative 1995.

 

Education

ITT Technical Institute – Associate of Applied Science Degree in Electrical Engineering

     Technology 1992