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10/2015 - Present

Industry: Banking

Sr. Solution Architect (CONTRACT)

Sr Solution Architect for Data Center Migrations.

Architect solutions for moving / consolidating large Citi Data Centers worldwide to centralized locations and/or Citi Private Cloud.. Design Infrastructure to support needs of applications plus apply cost saving measures such as move from Physical to Virtual server, IAAS, PAAS, increased core Utilization. Upgrades to OS, DR components, storage minimization, etc. Work with Citi Application owners and Data Center teams to plan migration timelines. Support Management as project Tech Lead. Develop Bill of Material for new environment for purchase of assets. Oversight of migrations.

4/2014 - 8/2015

Industry: Computer/IT Services

IT Technical Director

Cloud Architect Team Lead, Director, Manager, Supervisor

• Manage day-to-day activities and assignments of over 30 Architects/Engineers developing and deploying 100K to $10M Enterprise Cloud Solutions for multiple clients on platforms such as AWS and Azure..• Support multiple simultaneous customer engagements focusing on delivering quality results on time and on budget.• Work closely with Business Development to define technical approach, risks, staffing, SOWs and budgets for all projects and proposals.• Co--ordinate with technology partners such as EMC, VCE and VMware on Strategic Initiatives.• Expert on Converged Architecture (Vblock and Flexpod) based solution architectures and various Cloud deployment models and service offerings (IaaS ,PaaS, Saas) and vendors• Managed all administrative activities for my staff including hiring, training plans, budgets, promotions, dismissals and other issues.

8/2010 - 2/2014

Industry: Computer/IT Services

IT Manager

PreSales Architect

• PreSales Solution Architect for North American supporting Sales Teams across multiple business lines providing support to develop requirements, define solution architectures, write SOWs, and respond to client requests/RFPs for Data Center Outsourcing, IAAS, Cloud and SAAS opportunities in the $50M+ range. Diverse industry base with most clients in Health care.• Meet with clients both physically and virtually to discuss technology options and define requirements with a vendor/technology agnostic Point of View.• Recognized expert in developing complex high performance solutions using vendor/partner products such as servers, networks, software, and Storage. • Lead and supervise delivery teams implementing solutions that were designed and sold.• Technical leader of Accenture-NetApp relationship. Involved in designing of the solution for all NetApp Flexpod and NetApp NAS opportunities.• Expertise in architecting Cloud based solutions using Converged Infrastructure solutions as NetApp Flexpod, VCE VBlock, HP CloudSystem and IBM Pure.• Foster effective communications and develop deep relationships with OEMs, partners, delivery teams and offshore support teams.• Responsible for co-ordination and delivery of a high quality deliverables such as configurations, architectural drawings, proposals, etc.

3/2009 - 7/2010

Industry: Banking

Enterprise IT Architect

• Develop and deliver Enterprise Technology Strategies for Federal Reserve Banking System to ensure alignment of planned capabilities in Software, Infrastructure, and Support Systems with the business requirements of the member banks.

SOA, IT to Business Alignment, TOGAF

5/2007 - 3/2009

Industry: Computer/IT Services

Enterprise IT Architect

Technical Leader of global Critical Situations team

• Technical Leader of global Critical Situations team responsible for optimizing performance on very large (enterprise wide, $100M+) projects that were not performing as expected. Worked on projects in Europe, Asia, South America and USA.• Examine the project to assess the quality of the overall Systems/Enterprise Architecture, Technical and Managerial risks, technical approach/strategy/roadmap, define significant issues and recommend tactical and strategic corrective actions at all levels. Evaluated projects in Finance, Government, Media/Communications, Manufacturing, Defense and Healthcare .• Validated EDS Standard method and approaches for implementing technologies such as Infrastructure and Software (SOA, .NET, Java). • Developed new practices for use worldwide in Systems Architecture development to ensure better alignment with requirements saving 25% in costs due to a process the yielded standardized results by using a quantitative system with numerical ratings..• Interface with developer level to CEO level employees. Presentations to Executive levels of EDS, HP and customers were common.

7/2006 - 9/2006

Industry: Government and Military

Consulting IT Architect

Systems Architecture Consultant for the Texas Nodal Project. Evaluate the Market Management Systems (MMS) that will manage the Texas Nodal Electricity Market. Examine ERCOT and Vendor designs for MMS to validate they will protect f the market from being manipulated by suppliers. Analyze system requirements for risks and compliance with project goals and objectives. Recommended risk reduction or corrective action approaches. Evaluate Tibco ESB integration strategy. Develop Use Cases to help validate Requirements and Systems Architecture. Help develop IT Security Architecture, Server Architecture, and Nodal IT Systems Management Plans. Program was restructured in 10/06 and Consultants were eliminated to meet new budget /political objectives.

11/2005 - 7/2006

Industry: Computer Software

IT Architect (Pre-Sales)

Define Systems and Enterprise Architecture solutions for customer problems by applying Sun's server and software technology solutions. Help drive $20M+ in revenue annually by designing and specifying solution architectures to meet customer requirements using Sun Servers, Software and Storage. Support several Fortune 100 Sun clients in Dallas area with architecture definition, technical support, and new technology briefings. Extensive daily customer interaction at IT Director and CIO level to get buy-in on solutions.

4/2005 - 11/2005

Industry: Government and Military

Sr. Principal Systems Architect

Technical leadership for the development of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) for Homeland Security projects such as Emergency Response Centers (ERCs), primarily for the UAE. Work with Homeland Security experts to architect a set of SOA based systems to support the Emergency Response process, plans and procedures. Design solutions for support systems such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Video Display Walls, Digital Radio communications, Redundant Networks, etc .that are used to manage the ERCs and their response to a crisis. UAE contract was not extended to development phase and no other unclassifed work was available so I chose to leave.

9/2004 - 5/2005

Industry: Management Consulting Services

Technical Project Manager (Contract)

Technical Project Manager responsible for the success of three concurrent Web software projects: upgrade and rehosting of aChemical Management system; a SQL Server and Web based Access Control Systems Upgrade; a web based Human Resources Portal project for recruting and hiring employees with interfaces to Peoplesoft. Responsible for establishing Web Servies/SOA architecture, requirements definition, cost estimates for implementation, profits/loss, establishing interfaces and coordination among multiple customers, management of vendors and subcontractors, schedule development, hiring/firing of staff, day-to-day leadership of project staff, scope management, cost control, CMMI compliance, and customer expectation management. Also provide technical oversight of implementation activities. Multi-task as a Systems Architect /Consultant on other enterprise projects.

1/2004 - 9/2004

Industry: Computer Software

IT Enterprise Architect (Contract)

Specify, Design and Deploy highly secure Enterprise Architecture in support of the Cisco Global Government Services Group (GGSG). Specify and design cross-platform Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) for internal/external enterprise applications. Architect web services based interfaces from GGSG enterprise systems to other Cisco IT systems such as ERP, E-mail, CRM, File Shares, Collaboration, Desktop, Servers, Networks, etc. Developed system architectures for projects in the areas of Knowledge Management, GIS and Business Intelligence. Solution architectures used Linux, Unix(Solaris) servers from HP and Sun, vendor software, secure TCP/IP networks, Oracle 11 and SAN/NAS storage devices. Security Layer of Architecture included email/file encryption(PGP), VPNs and Identity Management systems, and Access Control Systems.Also specified backup/ disaster recovery plans and products. Built and led a team of 8-10 very senior employees performing as IT Analysts, Security Architect and Java Application Developers. Work with all GGSG Business Units to provide technical direction, cost estimates and requirements verification on all IT purchases. Specify IT architectures for applications, databases, and vendor software. Define system requirements for application development and support. Develop specifications for Desktop, Network and Server Security. Provide inputs to overall IT staff and budgets decisions. Interface often with Vendors, other Cisco Business Unit Managers and Cisco GGSG executives.

9/2002 - 1/2004

Industry: Government and Military

Sr. Systems Engineer

Technical Project Manager for the Verification and Validation of NASA Deep Space Satellite systems. Led a team of Systems Engineers analyzing software for correctness, safety, test coverage, performance, requirements quality, design completeness and code analysis. Evaluated the risk to the program from software problems and recommended risk reduction approaches. Formally documented findings and tracked to closure. On one mission the findings saved over $5M in software rework costs. Developed a new process that saved 20% in analyst time and also made client communication more effective. Develop budgets and project schedules and negotiate funding levels for projects.

11/2000 - 7/2002

Industry: Management Consulting Services

Consulting IT Architect

· Designed and deployed high performance, high availability, complex n-tier Services based Architectures using Microsoft NT/2000 servers, Web Services, AIX , Websphere, DB2 and MQSeries. · Developed world-wide LAN/WAN architecture for a major aerospace company that performed better and cost 35% less to manage.· Performed IT Systems Performance Audits and evaluations for clients in the health, entertainment and manufacturing industries. Recommendations resulted in 15-20% cost savings.· Project Manager for a team of 10 engineers that performed the zero downtime relocation of the server infrastructure of a finance industry firm. Relocation was sucessfuly accomplished ahead of schedule with no outages.· Specified the server consolidation strategy for a large on-line retailer that saved 30% in operational costs and allowed for growth.· Sales and Marketing support for customer proposals for IT System Architectures. Developed solutions, performance estimates, cost/beneift analysis, costs and delivery schedules for clients.· Brought in $3M in new and repeat business in 2001.· Managed a 10 person team that performed SQL 2000 and Exchange 2000 rollouts in a clustered Win2000 environment for an energy company in 10 days. · Functioned as a formal mentor and advisor to future architects.

6/2000 - 10/2000

Industry: Internet Services

Managing Consultant

· Managed a high performing group of eight developers and two Project Managers at a startup "dot com". · Responsible for career development, reviews, tasking and personnel issues for each employee.· Participated in hiring and promotion decisions.· Support Sales efforts by developing project cost estimates and Statements of Work · Led a team that established a formal software development process that decreased defects by 25%· Mentored less experienced Project Managers.· Performed as Architect for an advanced concept web site development project.

10/1999 - 6/2000

Industry: Internet Services

Associate Director I

· Project Manager for a fifteen person project team implementing a $12MM consumer financial information services Web site using Java/EJB/Weblogic and Sun servers.· Responsible for project P&L, staffing, customer relations, risk management, scope control, schedule development, software processes, quality control, task planning, monitoring and overall control of the entire project lifecycle. Project was completed on time, and under budget with high customer satisfaction. Supported Sales and Marketing efforts to expand the business with the client and other firms.

10/1998 - 10/1999

Industry: Internet Services

Web Sales Engineer/Systems Architect

·Designed n-tier System Architectures for advanced e-business sites. · Supported Sales process by defining, documenting, and developing software solutions to meet customer’s expectations. · Wrote the technical sections of over 20 winning proposals. Business value of these proposals was $5-7 million.· Developed small "demo" websites for use as Sales Tools.· Assisted in the development of Marketing communication materials and pricing strategies. Developed a marketing approach to help ICI win VAR of the year award from a major vendor.· Performed technical risk evaluation of emerging technologies and tools. · Tested all e-business/web sites before delivery. · Developed a proposal process and customer screening questionnaire that saved 35% in labor and 50% in time.

3/1996 - 10/1998

Industry: Government and Military

Sr. Software Engineer

· Prototype advanced embedded system architectures. Each architecture was developed as a combination of various processors (PowerPC 603, SPARC and X86), operating systems (VxWorks, POSIX) and networking protocols (TCP/IP and FibreChannel). · Developed and coded a benchmarking algorithm that would equally test the performance of each candidate system architecture.. Benchmark was coded and tested in C, Ada and Ada95.· Evaluated 100Mbit Ethernet, and FibreChannel networking technologies for use as networks connecting embedded systems. · Evaluation results were used to define architecures that could effectively use commerical technology in military systems to save costs.

11/1995 - 3/1996

Industry: Government and Military

Contract Systems Engineer

· Developed a software Architecture for a FORTRAN based simulation that would allow ground based testing of several proposed THAAD Missile system architectures. · Prototype critical portions of system architecture to measure accuracy of the models.·Defined and documented system interface specifications.· Developed software engineering processes, standards and procedures for simulation development. New processes gave higher quality and more consistent results.· Began porting models to Ada

3/1993 - 10/1995

Industry: Government and Military

Lead Software Engineer

· Led the software requirements process and object-oriented client-server design for the International Space Station (ISS) ground telecommunications systems. · Developed the software designs for the control, distribution and management of 50 Mb/sec satellite data. Software decoded the transmission format, extracted data packages, reformatted data into TCP/IP and UDP/IP packets for transmission over ATM. Software was hosted on an IBM RS6000 under AIX. · Participated in definition of the end-to-end system architecture including defining requirements,data flows,hardware and software specifications, and network management. Wrote much of the systems documentation.· Technical coordination of subcontractor building special telemetry processing hardware.· Developed the software development processes and procedures for the project.

2/1990 - 2/1993

Industry: Government and Military

Software Systems Consultant

Contract consultant providing software systems technical expertise and software development process expertise to U.S. Army programs. The following types of tasks were performed:· Software process maturity evaluations of defense contractors (CMM level).· Schedule risk, technical risk and software cost evaluations.· Program technical risk reduction planning.· Developed, and presented software metrics to senior management.· Quantitative and Qualitative evaluations of software products.· Development of integration plans and system test plans. Estimated savings from efforts was at least $10 Million. Recieved several awards from the Army for this work.

9/1987 - 7/1988

Industry: Government and Military

Sr. Software Engineer

· Performed software defect correction, system upgrades and performance enhancements for avionics software.

1/1985 - 9/1987

Industry: Government and Military

Software Engineer

· Performed Concept exploration, design and software development of Artificial Intelligence Expert Systems. Prototype systems were coded in FORTRAN then C, Pascal, Prolog and finally OPS5.

8/1984 - 1/1985

Industry: Computer Software

Contract Database Programmer

·Design and development of PC Database Applications in C.

EDUCATION:

2/2002

Certification

Websphere Architecture & Overview training for WCS 5.X

9/2001

Certification

MQ Series and MQ Integrator product training (basic).

9/2001

Certification

Networking Methodology - Methodology on how to specify and design networks for clients using a top-down method.

4/2001

Certification

Professional Consultants Workshop - Two week long course on consulting approaches, methods and issues. How to engage clients, present solutions, sell next steps, and how to manage small engagement teams.

12/1999

Master's Degree

MBA in Marketing and Management

3/1997

Certification

Six Sigma/Product Quality Management Process

8/1984

Bachelor's Degree

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Too many too list, I have done almost everything from software to hardware to Cloud. Sales, Management, Consulting are all in my background. 34 years experience. Strong current expertise in Data Center Migrations and Cloud.

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