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Napoleon Sanders

353 Mansfield Way ♦ Stockbridge, GA 30281 ♦: (404) 519-1242 ♦ nsande002@gmal.com

 

 

 

Seasoned 18 year IT professional with strong understanding of industry standards and best practices for IT Infrastructures. Strong understanding of cross infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, web and applications) to deliver end to end IT Infrastructure architectures and designs. Experience in platform and data center migrations and consolidations. Experience as an IT Infrastructure Architect, with focus on server, storage, networking, and cloud technologies. Experience with Oacle and MS Server Operating Systems, databases with SAN, NAS design with an architectural viewpoint. Well versed in and have experience with IT policies and procedures and technology standards with knowledge of Cloud technologies (Azure, S3, EC2, AWS, VMware). Experience in leading a team in applying the elements of Technical Consulting with proven communication & interpersonal skills. Demonstrated knowledge in preparing Disaster Recovery Models or recommendations. Over 7 years of direct management experience providing leadership in a matrix environment with a results-driven approach toward making positive change in team performance and efficiency.

 

Summary of Qualifications

 

 

·         TCO Analysis	·         Infrastructure Design	·         Project Management
·         Requirements Analysis	·         Budget Management	·         Employee Development
·         Process Improvement	·         IT Integration / Migration	·         Infrastructure Assessment
·         Team Management	·         Strategic Planning	·         Workflow / Documentation
·         Change Management	·         Incident Management	·         Datacenter Design/Build-outs

 

Gap Analysis, Risk Assessment, IT Security, Firewalls, IP Routing, Cloud Services (Azure, S3, EC2, AWS, VMware)

SQL ♦ LDAP ♦ IIS ♦ Apache ♦ PHP ♦ VMware ♦ Cisco ASA ♦ Server ♦ Citrix ♦ Linux ♦ UNIX ♦ Zen/hyperware

Oracle 10g ♦ SQL Server ♦ MVS ♦ OS390 ♦ TSO/ISPF ♦ COBOL ♦ LDOMS ♦ UML ♦ Java ♦ CommVault

♦ Team Center ♦ Netbackup ♦ Avamar ♦ Enovia PLM♦ Datadomain ♦ Clusters

 

Professional Experience

 

Consilium1 / GE energy Services

 

Infrastructure Architect/ Lead Disaster Recovery Architect, Atlanta, Ga  (Sept 2009 – Present)

 

Responsible for the design, development and coordinating the implementation of technical design strategies, reference architectures and sourcing models to provide failover availability/business continuity of disaster recovery services across 5 GE Business Units. Responsible for technical leadership during client on-boarding designing and documenting the disaster recovery client solution. Lead technical engagements with the customer’s technical teams as well as members of  Database, Web and Solution Architect Team, to gain a thorough understanding of the client Application Environment and to provide detailed disaster recovery technical strategy and procedure documentation is developed and used in subsequent DR Test Validation and Customer DR Testing

 

Selected Highlights

·         Spearheaded the effort for the review, analysis and project initiation of Autosys to accelerate the design and delivery of complex workflow processes effectively integrating the service delivery processes. Developed end-state product delivery strategy to aligned integration efforts with long-term business plans.

·         Perform complex/enterprise level BIAs and analyses to identify upstream and downstream interdependencies, potential single points of failure, and critical nodes within the application and DR infrastructure.

·         Performs risk analysis for corporate functional systems to identify points of vulnerability and recommends disaster avoidance and reduction strategies.

·         Designs, develops and coordinates disaster recovery and high availability strategies, supporting technology reference architectures and program deployment methodologies.

·         Provides subject matter expertise in the development, design, implementation and testing of disaster recovery solutions.

·         Analyzed current Enovia Architecture, Front End Applications, Web-services, System Level OS and FCS and recommended changes and improvements that would allow for Disaster Recovery implementation, failover and recovery of data.

·         Collaborates with other infrastructure and application architects to define solution requirements for recovery environments.

·         Develop reusable disaster recovery collateral, standards and best practices. Evaluates new technologies and capabilities and makes recommendations.

·         Participates in disaster recovery planning assessments, program and strategy development, deployment and fail-over testing activities.

·         Develop and/or maintain disaster recovery guidelines, standard operating procedures, measurement, monitoring and reporting criteria.

 

 

State of Tennessee

 

Disaster Recovery Architect / Infrastructure Project Manager, Nashville, TN (Sept 2008 – Sept 2009)

 

Designed Infrastructure, coordinated the implementation and rollout of a state wide ERP system consolidating 30+ state agencies and their respective systems. Negotiate Disaster Recovery RFP, requirements and  SLA w/External third-party vendors of Sungard hosting site implementation. Project Manager for the States Disaster Recovery Migration Project. Project Manager in the planning, cost-modeling and environment requirements for States proposed new Datacenter covering 1500+ servers on multiple platforms.

 

Selected Highlights

·         Coordinated client activities across multiple disciplines, including Platform Engineering, Database Engineering, Storage Engineering, Backup Engineering, Network Engineering, Capacity Planning, Configuration Management, System Architecture, Monitoring and Integration/Load Performance Testing.

·         Responsible for identifying and developing long range Disaster Recovery architecture for HA environment for state datacenter and agencies. Identified system and application dependencies, mappings and resource requirements.

·         Infrastructure Project Manager to the implementation and rollout of a state wide ERP system consolidating 50+ state agencies financials, HR and procurement system.

 

·         Directed various development staff and IT engineers, administer technical working group (TWG) and client meetings on a regular basis, overseeing project plans and deliverables for each client project, and safeguarded business.

·         Responsible for reviewing business needs, goals and requirements and map technology strategies that address those objectives and business requirements. Key member in identifying Disaster Recovery migration path from physical to virtualization for state environments.

·         Perform complex/enterprise level BIAs and analyses to identify upstream and downstream interdependencies, potential single points of failure, and critical nodes within the states infrastructure.

·         Defined architecture and configuration for 50+ Servers and SAN solution in State to include Web, Application, Database, LDAP, and Portal Servers in support of PeopleSoft ERP system on Oracle 10g.

·         Provided technical expertise on high-scale service efficiencies ranging from data center power and mechanical systems, modular data center implementation, server design, through to storage and networking changes in support of dynamic workload management.

·         Worked with executive management and project leaders and team member to establish guidelines and standards.

 

 

 

Honeywell

 

Solutions architect, Tempe, AZ (July 2008 – Sept 2008)

 

Infrastructure solutions covering systems analysis, applications review. Develop user requirements, system documentation, workflow procedures and system architecture for servers, networks, middleware and security.

 

Selected Highlights

·         Analyze applications services technology and service architecture.

·         Provided Root cause analysis & proactive problem solving

·         Develop technology solutions based upon the existing project Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture and Standards detailed down to the physical level and applications mapping.

·         Utilize existing architecture and standards constructs in providing point solution based on customer request and requirements.

·         Reviewed technology environment to make “standards gap closure” recommendations in partnership with Enterprise Architecture team.

 

 

CARE

 

Global Infrastructure Architect, Atlanta, GA (2005 – 2008)

 

Coordinated efforts with senior managers, business units and technical team members to identify areas of opportunity, make enhancements and improve system performance. Utilized best practice in architecture and design to develop scalable enterprise voice and data network infrastructure. Key player development and implementation of infrastructure build-outs. Develop system documentation, workflow procedures and system architecture for servers, networks, middleware, security, workstations and the physical facilities. Performed research and provide recommendations on emerging technologies & integrations points. Provided analysis, definition, and direction for systems and applications in development of long range roadmap to infrastructure solutions and production activities.

 

Selected Highlights

·         Lead Architect in datacenter design, build-outs and expansions for datacenters in Europe, Africa and US domestic facilities. Coordinated the products and events surrounding office build out, telecom provisioning, data provisioning, installation of servers, network components, PC setup, cabling, audio visual, phone switches as well as electrical and cooling requirements. Developed RFP’s outlining vendor requirements and resources.

·         Responsible for maintaining alignment and mapping interactions between system components servers and application systems with infrastructure and network components, firewalls, policies and QOS provisioning.

·         Responsible for enterprise wide hardware and software rollouts to 72 countries and 250 field office locations, including back office systems, intranet communication systems. Management of over $4 million in hardware assets, and another $2.5 million in software licensing and custom development.

·         Facilitated change management sessions to identify impacted audiences, assess risk and plan for departmental/organizational change.

·         Responsible for maintaining alignment between infrastructure systems and business strategy and processes.

 

·         Developed global standards for infrastructure improvements, implementation and best practices with  projected savings above  20% (more than $1m) in national and international infrastructure hardware procurement

·         Provided technical leadership through a series of LAN/WAN technology upgrades capitalizing on emerging technologies and system enhancements, including the replacement of obsolete systems in international and US domestic locations. Upgrades include cisco catalyst, POE switches for voice/data convergence, EMC fiber-channel SAN implementation and WAN conversion, storage management and policy development.

·         Manager to the planning and execution of the Latin America Messaging Migration initiative to migrate 4 Latin American countries (2000 users) to a global messaging cluster in North America on Microsoft Exchange platform. A regional project driven by global objectives with plans to duplicate systems and process across Europe, Asia and Africa regions. Served as senior consulting engineer to project migration.

·         Develop logical and physical diagrams, including data flows, capacity plans, threshold limits and security parameters.

·         Developed strategy and project plan, assumed responsibility as PM to the assembled team, and implemented an Enterprise level UPS for Corporate Headquarters.

 

 

CARE

 

Infrastructure Network Manager, Atlanta, GA (2000 – 2005)

 

Ensured environment availability and system uptime through policy adherence, best practices and event monitoring. Identified improvement opportunities within enterprise and made recommendations for change and implementation to SMT. Managed the day-to-day operations of the Network Infrastructure Team. Responsible for system maintenance and support of network hardware, software, provisioning of data/telecommunication infrastructure services. Provided technical leadership, project management and managerial oversight to system upgrades and integrations.

 

Selected Highlights

·         Developed Plan and managed the relocation of CARE USA HQ data center with minimal outage time (consisting of 150 plus servers and all networking and data equipment)

·         Evaluated and implemented a VM ware system virtualization infrastructure to streamline data center hardware cost and maintenance requirements with ROI of $400.000. (40+ servers virtualized)

·         Managed employee development, performance management, training, and career development.

·         Managed the project and implementation of establishing firewalls, VPN connection between London, Brussels and Switzerland using Cisco firewalls and SonicWall firewalls. Resulted in company monthly savings of $2,000.00.

·         Planned and implemented office relocation/migration for over 200+ employees in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, working with contractors, third party vendors, to ensure minimal disruption to business operation. Led analysis to evaluate the feasibility of transitioning operations between two facilities.  Planned and coordinated facility floor layout. Coordinated the products and events surrounding telecom providers, servers, PC setup, cabling, phone switch as well as electrical land cooling needs. Planned and coordinated project management meetings.

·         Directed staff responsible for enterprise network support of Win2k/Win2k3 infrastructures, implementation and support of  new and existing server hardware in production environment and new technology testing.. Design, implement and support secure network architectures (Application, Infrastructures, Data base, 2003 and 2008 Email servers on Win2k/Win2k3 and 2008 platforms.

 

 

Rollins Inc

 

Network Supervisor / Engineer, Atlanta, GA (1996 – 2000)

 

Migrated mainframe AS400 system to NT client server environment Provided technical guidance in the development of server implementation standards in support of Novel and Windows server technologies. Develop network roadmap, and configuration of 400 sub offices circuits in a hub and spoke environment. Installed and configured exchange 5.5 email environment in support of 5000 local and remote users.

 

Selected Highlights

·         Provided consulting services to both technical and executive members of Rollins business units regarding all aspects of Window servers (security, backups, pricing.) and network components and environment

·         Installed dedicated WAN circuits between 5 branch locations (including 1 point to point line of sight wireless) The completed project improved administrative efficiency by more than 30% 

§         Consolidated company Novel network sub-business entities into NT domain structure reducing IT hardware cost, maintenance and support requirements.

·         Lead IT team, developers and Arthur Anderson consultants in the organization wide Tivoli framework deployment.  A 1.5 million dollar initiative.

·         Served as NT Workstation and Server support for 4 NT Domains.

·         Supported LAN servicing of over 5000 clients in over 400 domestic offices and upgraded Domains from NT 3.51 to NT 4.0.

·         Researched and implemented wireless network infrastructure for 300 sub offices reducing the cost of cabling and office relocations cost by 40%. (published in Network computing magazines for large scale wireless implementations)

 

 

Buypass Inc

 

Programmer / Telecom Analyst, Atlanta, GA (1994 – 1996)

 

Programmer/Telecomm analyst on Tandem cyclone mainframes using Cobol, MVS/ESA, CICS and UNIX (SCO, HP-UX). Provided support to transaction processing programs linking Tandem server systems with Unix servers and IBM mainframes affording customers and banks to make and/or process transactions from ATM and POS systems

 

Selected Highlights

·         Provided support on retail online transaction processing programs on TANDEM Server(TANDEM/COBOL).

§         Coded and supported X.25 communication programs to connect TANDEM server and UNIX clients (C/TANDEM/UNIX).

·         Coded data conversion programs (Mainframe).

 

 

United states marine corps

 

Analyst, Norfolk, Va (1985 – 1993)

 

 

 

NALCOMIS application administrator/analyst performs data analysis and trend interpretation for development statistical process control methods in support of aviation information and readiness reporting requirements. Operate and maintain the NALCOMIS application for Marine Aviation Logistic Squadrons or Organizational Maintenance Activities

 

Selected Highlights

·         Operate and monitor mainframe and mid-range computer.

·         Monitor and ensure accuracy of maintenance data, and support network systems administration functions for detachments and up line reporting.

·         Use of office automation applications, graphic presentations design and delivery, maintain database integrity on assigned database management servers, collect and organize data.

·         Ensure data confidentiality with regard to the information being processed, stored or accessed. 

Education

 

 

Bachelor of Science in Computer Information System (CIS),

§    DeVry Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga.

 

353 Mansfield Way ♦ Stockbridge, GA 30281 ♦: (404) 519-1242 ♦ nsande002@gmail.com