Objective

I am a well-rounded problem-solver seeking a successful Architecture, Team Lead or IT Director position with a company prepared to strategically engage emerging technologies and progressive approaches to familiar challenges.

Certifications and Awards

Open Cloud Expert (Cisco InterCloud, Juniper Contrail Cloud Platform, Mirantis Fuel)
Linux+, Security+, Network+, A+ (CompTIA^©)
CCNA (Cisco^© Certified Network Associate)
MCSE (Microsoft^© Certified Systems Engineer)
MCAD.NET (Microsoft^© Certified Application Developer)
Blue Shield of California ^© Contribution Awards (Channel EDI & Mobility Initiatives)

Publications & Sector Leadership

Current     The Enterprise Cloud SiteCurrentTransformed Datacenter

Current     Enterprise EfficiencyCurrentThe Mobility Hub

Current     Networking WorldCurrentOpen Cloud Council

Core
Competencies

 

Enterprise Cloud Proficiencies

●Unsurpassed OpenStack open cloud platform architecture and design

● Hyper-scale Big Data designs & deployments leveraging Cloudera & Hortonworks

● Specialize in hybrid cloud models and deployment methods

● Proven track-record of stable HPC and high-transaction solution designs
● Cloud/Big Data visualizations with Hadoop/Tableau and OpenStack/Rally

Agile Architecture

● Proficient in solutioning business cases on time and under budget.

● Highly-driven communicator with a multi-disciplined and collaborative style.

● Broad background increases resilience of designs with fewer revisions.

● Solid history with open solution roadmaps with budget & technical constraints.

Infrastructure Automation

● Broad Linux / Unix engineering on private, hybrid & public-facing networks

● Virtualization (KVM/libvirt, containers and bare metal cloud provisioning)
● Enterprise cross-platform automation, monitoring and hardware discovery

● Well-versed in CI/CD automation, build automation and cloud management

Software Defined Networking

● Design and deploy SDN, SDW (software-defined WAN) solutions using NGFW
   technology (next-generation firewalls L3-L4-L7 state and packet inspection).

● Experience with SDN overlay practices to integrate legacy and cloud networks.

● Hands-on design and engineering experience with Open Daylight, Open Contrail,
   Cisco ACI and OpenVSwitch.

Platform Engineering

Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu, CentOS and SUSE.
Cloud Platforms: OpenStack, Hadoop (Cloudera) and Amazon AWS
Open Networking: OpenDaylight, VMware NSX, NSX and Cumulus
Open Storage: Swift, Ceph, Lustre, NoSQL, SQL & Sheepdog
Datacenter Automation: Chef, Puppet, git/SVN, Jenkins and Maven

Development & Automation

Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Python, PHP, shell, JSON, ReST, Cobbler, git/SVN, Jenkins, Maven and related code controls
 

Security / Network

Hybrid SDN network design (open and/or proprietary), cloud application migrations and hyper-scale cloud performance tuning.

Solid understanding of industry SDN players and architectures (Cisco ACI, Vmware NSX, OpenDaylight, Floodlight, BigSwitch, Cumulus, etc) and traditional networking concepts such as TCP, VxLAN, NVGRE, VoIP, RIP/EIGRP/OSPF, PPP/VPN/Frame, BGP/MPLS and native Dot1x.

Values / Principles

● Natural leader excelling with minimal supervision, effective in team settings, easily

   adapts to evolving / shifting priorities and customer requirements.
● Specializes in cloud design & deployments and multi-discipline architecture
● Strong team-player and effective team delegator to exploit core team strengths
● Highly articulate and maintains consistent professional demeanor with all staff levels.

   Result-oriented and engages business units productively.
 

2012 – Current
AQORN INC
Wilmington, DE

Cloud Solution Architect
Open Cloud Consulting Company
 

While On Staff

● Design and develop a custom GUI-driven OpenStack installer using Chef, Cobbler,
   Zabbix and custom patent-pending hardware discovery code.

● Architect and engineer custom OpenStack clouds for Fortune 100 companies including
   Cisco, Juniper, AT&T, SAP, Autodesk and several others. Passionate about turn-key
   cloud controllers such as Thunder, Fuel, RDO, JuJu and custom CM tooling.

● Provide OpenStack bootcamp content and lab development, cloud industry thought

   leadership via OpenStack Summit presentations and author for Information Week.

Recent Roles

● Cisco: Teach OpenStack and Cisco ACI SDN integration to internal Cisco employees.

● Juniper: OpenStack Architect: Design and guide OpenStack clouds using Contrail SDN.

● AT&T: OpenStack Architect: Guide and shepherd Contrail defects within ATT Integrated
   Cloud (AIC) environments.

● StackVelocity: Solution Architect: Design/engineer OpenStack clouds on OCP hardware.

● Autodesk: SDN Architect: Research SDN/NFV and provide IT cloud roadmap assistance

● SAP: OpenStack Architect: Design and automate global object storage clouds
 

2007 - 2012
Blue Shield of CA
El Dorado Hills, CA

Senior Application Engineer (Performance Architect)
Architecture & Engineering
 

While On Staff

● Infrastructure & application architecture, design consultations and performance analysis.
● Senior Engineer/Edifecs SME for extreme throughput (high-performance) solutions
● Tier 3 Linux & Windows engineering advisor addressing platform performance uplifts

Achievements

● Architected and supported EDI platform (Edifecs) pushing 15M+ transactions per month.
● Developed and evangelized enterprise IT roadmaps using SOA, Capacity Planning,
   Service Level Definitions and agile/scrum methodologies
 

Training

●  2014 June      Cisco Systems          San Jose, CA      

    Teach Advanced Openstack (Cisco Instructor role)

●  2013 October     Mirantis               Mountain View, CA  

    Openstack Bootcamp (content capture)

●  2012 August     CompTIA              Sacramento, CA     

    Network+ Certification

●  2012 April       Blue Shield / Edifecs      El Dorado Hills, CA  

    EDI Development / Java Design Considerations

●  2011 October     IBM                 Sacramento, CA     

    IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 - Administration / Problem Determination

●  2010 December   Microsoft Premier Workshop San Francisco, CA   

    Microsoft Failover Clustering

●  2010 October     CompTIA              Sacramento, CA     

    Linux+ Certification

●  2010 February    CompTIA              Sacramento, CA     

    Security+ Certification

●  2008 March     TrainSignal            eLearning         

    MCITP:Server Administrator Training and Certification

●  2007 December   Microsoft Press          MCAD .NET       

    MCSD.Net Training and Certification Track

●  2006 January     New Horizons          eLearning         

    CCNA & MCDST Training and Certification Track

●  2002 August     Lotus Design Seminar     Dallas, TX         

    Lotus Admin and Form Design

●  2000 October     LearnQuick.com         Seattle, WA       

    Accelerated Windows 2000 MCSE Course
●  1994 May       LB City College               Long Beach, CA
    Architectural Engineering (A.S.)