GARY METELITSA

606 Clinton Street

Hoboken, NJ 07030

SUMMARY:

Voice: (917) 488-6001

E-mail: gary7711@outlook.com

Seasoned Data Center and Network Solution Architect with a history of accomplishment in Sales,

Architecture, Implementation and Management of major data center and network initiatives. Design,

implementation and management experience encompassing networks, storage, systems and

applications. Experienced in leading cross functional solution architects in fit-for-purpose Network and

Data Center architecture focused on new logo acquisition and customer satisfaction.

PROFESSIONAL Unisys

EXPERIENCE:

Hoboken, NJ (Home Office)

January 2015 – Present

Global IT services company focused on Cloud and infrastructure services, application services,

business process outsourcing services, and security products and solutions.

Network/Security Systems Architect

  · Drive Security solutions sales penetration into key qualified client opportunities by delivering

technical sales presentations of Unisys’ software defined microsegmentation security based

solution (Unisys Stealth) on premises and in AWS, Azure and SoftLayer.

  · Create detailed conceptual, logical and physical security/networking architectures demonstrating

security solutions integration within customer data centers/hybrid environment.

  · Conduct client facing White Boarding/Visualization sessions demonstrating solution capabilities

and competitive differentiation with VMware NSX, Cisco ISE, Forescout, etc.

  · Perform technical Demos/PoCs consisting of Unisys Stealth software on Windows Hyper-V,

Windows Server 2012, RHEL/CentOS 7.x, Windows AD/DNS, MySQL 5.6, Apache 2.4, IIS.

Unitas Global

Hoboken, NJ (Home Office)

January 2014 – Dec 2014

Privately held, startup IT company focusing on Enterprise Private Cloud, Managed Dedicated Hosting,

Data Center Management & Support and complete IT Outsourcing & Migration Services.

Principal Solution Architect

  · Led a team of 3 North American/European Solution Architects in going to market with dedicated

fully customized private cloud offerings.

  · Captured 3 new logos – Textron, Alliance Life, and Inner Workings totaling $180,000 in

monthly re-occurring service revenue.

  · Pre-Sales Architect on key win in the energy sector resulting in a $2+ million licensing and

services deal.

  · Led RFP/RFI responses, partner sales and existing logo sales opportunities as part of a small team

of solution architects, a pricing specialist and proposal writer.

  · Designed dedicated Enterprise Private Cloud infrastructure solutions for mid-market enterprises

consisting of compute (converged, traditional), virtualization (vSphere, KVM, RHEV, Hyper-V),

containerization, networking, security, storage and backup/recovery.

  · Assess, and document the migration and transformation of enterprise application landscapes (web,

application, database, etc. tiers) across infrastructure domains (compute, networking, storage,

backup/recovery, virtualization and security) to private and hybrid cloud environments.

ATOS

2500 Westchester Ave, Purchase, NY

January 2013 – Jan 2014

International IT managed services company with 2013 annual revenue of EUR 8.6 billion and

77,100 employees in 52 countries. Atos delivers IT services in 3 domains - Consulting &

Technology Services, Systems Integration and Managed Services & BPO.

Network/Data Center Solution Architect

  · Customer facing role providing winning solutions as part of the pre-sales process, including

responding to formal or informal RFPs and RFIs from existing and prospective clients.

  · Captured 4 new logos – Benjamin Moore, Huntsman, Bristow, and Siemens Rail totaling $95M

in service TCV over 5 years.

  · Presented proposals to customers (Director to C Suite), perform due diligence sessions and

participate in a formal delivery turnover process.

  · Matrix managed across functional teams supporting complex data center migration opportunities

including Service Delivery Managers, Sourcing, Pricing and Bid Managers.

  · Designed comprehensive Data Center Transformation and Migration solutions on infrastructure

comprising Compute, Storage, Network, Security, Virtualization, Consolidation & DR. Solution

design typically involves Atos’ leveraged IaaS cloud offering.

  · Provided BOM and labor costing for Managed Services in data networking, voice networking,

security and data center domains.

Hewlett-Packard 2 Penn Plaza, New York, NY

May 2008 – December 2012

HP Enterprise Services is a business division comprised of Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing

(ITO), Applications Services and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). ITO focuses on providing

large-scale data center, networks and end-user compute service outsourcing.

Account Solution Manager

  · Led a matrixed team of 8 North American and European Solution Architects in driving network

and data center solutions on a 10 year, 2 billion dollar ITO and Applications managed services

contract (Alcatel-Lucent) within HP Enterprise Services.

  · Drove solutions from client’s legacy data centers to HP’s highly virtualized dual active-active data

centers with focus on server consolidation, virtualization, availability and disaster recovery.

  · Designed solutions involving virtualization – vSphere/Hyper-V, Converged Infrastructure

Platforms, SAN, NAS, MS SQL Server, Oracle DB, WebLogic, Clustering, Replication, HA,

LDAP, AD, HP Software and transformation of the LAN and WAN.

  · Profiled application landscapes/lifecycles and delivered deployment diagrams to identify a go

forward application strategy via consolidation, modernization, and other alternatives.

Senior Consulting Engineer – Data Center Automation Practice (Professional Services)

  · Served as one of the account team’s technical focal points in driving sales of HP Software services

in the data center automation practice.

  · Worked with customers’ IT, LOB and CxO management to develop an accurate understanding of

business needs.

  · Drove solution implementation, requirements gathering, solution development, presentations,

POC’s, RFI/RFP responses and competitive differentiation to Fortune 1000 accounts.

  · Identified customer-wide IT and business parameters and constraints that impact the solution.

HSBC Bank USA

Jersey City, NJ

Senior Network Management Engineer

2001 – April, 2008

Banking and financial services company providing a range of financial services to commercial,

corporate, institutional, investment, and private banking clients worldwide.

May 2005 – April 2008

Responsible for the build-out, enhancement and support of a fault and performance network

management system for HSBC’s North American network. This collective set of applications

significantly contributed to reduced downtime and allowed HSBC to uphold key network metrics and

business SLA’s.

  · Spearheaded the design and implementation of a highly available, multi-site, HP

OpenView NNM 7.5 fault management system.

  · Designed and implemented CA eHealth 6.0 to provide performance management

statistics for HSBC’s 5000+ node, North American network.

  · Rolled-out a SNMP trap management application to provide for structured trap handling

through filtering and selective forwarding of SNMP trap traffic.

  · Deployed Syslog-ng resulting in enhanced filtering, security, and forwarding capabilities of

critical Syslog events.

Senior Network Engineer

May 2001 – April 2005

Member of a network and security team of 10 engineers with a 99.9% SLA objective within

HSBC’s E-commerce business. Leveraged methods and processes to implement global

e-commerce initiatives for HSBC Bank.

  · Designed network and security infrastructure around web, application, database, and

storage layers with Nokia Firewalls, ISS Proventia’s and Cisco Catalyst switches.

  · Implemented global and server load balancing with Cisco’s Global Site Selector,

Content Services Module, SSL off-load module and CSS 11000 layer 7 switches.

Siemens Medical Solutions

Iselin, NJ

  · Designed and implemented OC-3 multi-homing to dual ISP’s using portable address space with

BGP peering to divergent providers, Internap and UUNET.

1999 – 2001

Supplier of healthcare equipment, IT solutions and services to hospitals, clinics and doctors' offices.

Senior Network Engineer

May 1999 – April 2001

Evaluated Siemens Medical’s multi-site network for cost-effectiveness, disaster recovery, faulttolerance,

network management and future growth of the business. Presented management with a

network plan to re-align the network with present and future needs of the business. Obtained

management buy-in for a $4 million network overhaul that incorporated key business processes with

network design best practices.

Automatic Data Processing Roseland, NJ

Network Engineer

1998 - 1999

Provider of computerized transaction processing, data communication, and information services

worldwide, including employer, broker, dealer and claim services.

January 1998 – April 1999

Responsible for LAN/WAN design, implementation and troubleshooting of 75+ site frame-relay

network. Worked with various Cisco routing and switching platforms to design scalable network

solutions. Trained staff in remote offices how to implement and troubleshoot network infrastructure.

Verizon Wireless

Morristown, NJ

Executed the delivery of telephony solutions for 24x7, mission critical call center.

Designed and integrated client server applications around Aspect ACD.

TECHNICAL

PROFICIENCY:

Routing Platforms:

Operating Systems:

Windows Server 2012, 2008; SunOS 10, 9; Suse 11; RHEL 6, 5

vSphere 5

Cisco ISR 39xx, 29xx, 28xx, ASR 1xxx, GSR 12xxx, 75xx, 72xx

Brocade CER 2k

Switching Platforms: Cisco Nexus 2k, 3k, 5k, 7k, 65xx, 37xx, HP c7000, VMware vSwitch

VCE Vblock, Cisco UCS

Routing Protocols:

RIP, EIGRP, BGP4

Content Networking: F5 LTM/GTM, Netscaler MPX, Array Networks APV, Cisco CSS 115xx,

CSM, Cisco ACE, Cisco Global Site Selector, Distributed Director

Security:

LAN/WAN/SAN:

Cisco ASA, Cisco SourceFire, Checkpoint, ModSecurity WAF, SIEM

Ethernet LAN/WAN, Leased Lines (PRI, T-1, T-3, OC-3), DSL, FiOS, Cable,

IPsec, MPLS, VPLS, FCP, FCOE, iSCSI, NFS/CIFS, Frame-relay

1995 – 1998

Owner and operator of a national wireless network, serving 90+ million voice and data customers.

Telecommunications Analyst

Sept 1995 – Jan 1998

Network Mngmt:

HP OpenView NNM 7.5, 6.41, CA eHealth 6.0, 5.7, ScienceLogic, Alterpoint

DA, Voyence Control, HP/Opsware NA, CiscoWorks LMS NetScout

nGenius Syslog-ng, CSCare Trap Proxy, Lucent VitalNet, Lucent QIP,

MRTG, Cisco ACS, Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold, Sniffer DSS, RMON-2 Probes,

Cisco NAM, Ethereal, Sniffer Pro, MG-Soft MIB Browser/Compiler

NetFlow/IPFIX

CERTIFICATION: Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNA), December, 2001 - 2010

ITIL v3 Foundation Certified, December 2008

Federal Security Clearance (TS/SCI/CI Poly), 2010

EDUCATION:

Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida

Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Economics and International Business