ü        ITIL v3 Foundation Certified

ü        Certified EMC Cloud Architect

ü        Linux Trained Professional

ü        SoftLayer Trained Professional

ü        AWS Trained Professional

                   

   

 

MS.PM - Master of Project Management – 2009

MBA - Master of Business Administration – 2007

BS.CMIS - Bachelor of Science Degree, Computer Management of Information Systems (CMIS) – 1999

 

 

CloudDesignFX, Global IT Solutions ProviderApril 2012 – Present

 

Sr. Cloud Architect

Ø       Federal IT Solutions (Herndon, VA)

§    Built POC for NASA using Cisco UCS and Enterprise vCloud Suite.

§    Based on vague customer requirements, developed the logical and physical designs to meet the requirements for a complex SAP ERP environment at U.S. Navy.

§    Developed cloud reference models for AWS, HCP, Ensim, vRealize, and Hyper-V.  Presented these solutions to customers and supported the sales team through the pre-sales process.

§    Developed a SaaS POC on AWS for an Application Dependency Mapping tool.

Ø       Visteon (Detroit, MI) Jun 2014 – Dec 2014

§    Developed a hybrid cloud design to support a corporate wide initiative to separate the current infrastructure into 3 separate business entities.

§    Normalized an application discovery (HP-UD), defined the virtual environment, and designed the logical and physical infrastructure footprint for each product group.

§    Replaced an Avamar grid backup solution with a cloud backup solution at 75 global mfg sites.

Ø       West Corp (Omaha, NE)Jan 2014 – May 2014

§    Developed a strategic infrastructure roadmap, incl. vision and strategy for the virtual and storage platforms to support a corporate wide initiative to consolidate infrastructure into a private cloud.

§    Designed a Cisco UCS Private Cloud platform w/ VMware vSphere 5.5, Cisco 5108 chassis, Nexus 5000, Cisco 6296 FIs, and 2296 FEXs.to support a data center consolidation and centralization of over 2500 servers, and 2PB storage globally.

§    Developed a tiered storage platform with a Hitachi VSP and an integrated NAS head that utilized 70 existing storage arrays, and vault technologies to drive down the overall storage costs.

Ø      BioRad (Hercules, CA)Jan 2013 – Oct 2013

§    Developed a strategic infrastructure rationalization roadmap, incl. vision and strategy for the virtual and storage platforms to support a corporate wide initiative to drive down IT costs at 30 sites throughout the APAC region, encompassing 10 countries.

§    Designed an IaaS platform to accommodate the consolidation and centralization of over 725 applications, 1900 servers, and 2PB storage globally onto a Cisco UCS platform with Tier 1 storage on VCE Vblock 340 and Tier 2 storage on existing low-end storage arrays.

Ø      First Advantage (Atlanta, GA)Oct 2013 – Jan 2014

§    Developed a Cisco UCS Configuration Guide and Run book for a financial institution data center migration that included an EMC VNX 5300 storage array, VMware vCenter 5.1, and Cisco unified fabric with 5108 chassis, Nexus 7000, Cisco 6296 FIs, and 2296 FEXs.

§    Designed a Cisco UCS Hybrid Cloud platform w/ VMware vSphere 5.5, Cisco 5108 chassis, Nexus 5000, Cisco 6296 FIs, and 2296 FEXs.to support a data center consolidation and centralization of over 2500 servers, and 2PB storage globally.

Ø       Bridgewater (Norwalk, CT)April 2012 – Jan 2013

§    Created strategic infrastructure services plan and coached the Infrastructure Services team to support a corporate ITIL v.3 initiative and service based model to drive down operating costs 

§    Managed a team of Level 3 System Engineers to support a successful call center.

§    Designed/built a Converged Infrastructure platform with a Cisco UCS utilizing 5108 chassis, B200 blades, and an VCE Vblock 340 storage array to accommodate the centralization of over 4000 servers, 2PB storage and Tier 2 storage on existing low-end storage arrays.

 

 

Peak 10 Inc., Charlotte, NCOct 2011 – Mar 2012

VP of Operations / Sr. Cloud Architect

Ø      Using the Agile Methodology, created a Data Center Academy that delivered training content to a staff of 135 across 10 markets. Improved overall equipment operations, datacenter reliability and job satisfaction through the Web based Data Center Academy program.

Ø       Designed / Built a Cisco UCS platform utilizing 5108 chassis, B200 blades, and an EMC VNX5300 storage array to support end user customer requests for compute resources.

 

Kaplan Higher Education, Fort Lauderdale, FLFeb 2009 – Sept 2011

Executive Director of Data Center Operations / Sr. Cloud Architect

Ø      Managed a high-performing team of 30 engineers that met service levels at a reasonable cost

Ø      Using the Waterfall methodology, designed and implemented a hybrid cloud solution across five global data centers to consolidate the Production infrastructure, cut costs, and improve agility.

Ø      Designed and implemented a Hybrid Cloud solution in the US, London, and Singapore centers using AWS EC2/S3/RDS/IAM/ELB/CloudFront/Auto Scaling for the Development environment.

Ø      Set up the AWS Storage Gateway service, S3 volumes, and EC2 instances to connect the AWS platform to our existing datacenter.

 

Microsoft, Ashburn, VASept 2006 – Jan 2009

US East Area Data Center Program Manager / Sr. Cloud Architect

Ø       Trained the global data center managers in Asia, Europe, and the US on data center operation best practices and SAS70 governance.

Ø       Managed a $6 Billion annual Capex budget and a $250 Million annual Opex budget in my region.

Ø       Conceived, designed, and built-out 16 colos utilizing a “Colo-in-a-Kit” concept (CIK). The CIK standardized the cable plant material and labor for colos totally 400,000 sq.ft. Partnered with key vendors and reduced costs per collocation by $1million each ($16M savings for 16 total colos).

Ø       Implementing a global risk assessment model, drove SAS70 Type II and ISO27001 certifications for 17 data centers worldwide. Developed and implemented the required training at each data center to self-sustain the certification initiative as part of the modus operandi.

Ø       Hired and coached the staff to manage the data center facility operations of the world’s largest data center in Chicago. A $1B, 1M sq. ft., 120MW facility with capacity for 300,000 servers.

Ø       Managed 5 Regional data centers, with 12 Managers, 38 support staff in the US & Puerto Rico.

Ø       Designed the infrastructure plans and deployed over 40,000 physical servers.
Designed the infrastructure plans and deployed 17,000 Bing.com servers in less than 8 weeks.

Ø       Replaced the electrical feeders in a Microsoft data center that housed 50,000 servers with zero downtime. Optimized the cooling system in the 240,000 sq.ft. facility by removing air dams and eliminating short cycling.

 

Sr. Infrastructure Program Manager, Southeast USJun 1998 – Aug 2006

Ø      Major Clients (Lam Research, Farm Credit, BAE, Marmac, ALD, Midlands Orthopedics, and PBR)

§    Designed and built call centers, data centers from the ground up. (PBR, ALD, BAE)

§    Performed detailed hardware/software and facilities risk assessments.  Rebuilt the data center and associated hardware/software while maintaining 100% uptime. (Mid Orthopedic, Marmac)

§    Designed a water cooled rack solution for two data centers to increase the server capacity from 300 to 3200 in the same data center footprint.  Overall savings of ~$15M. (Farm Credit).

 

National Electric Co. Inc., Columbia, SCJan 1987 – May 1998

CEO / Co-Owner

Ø      Built out the call centers & data center infrastructure for all US South East Federal agencies

Ø      Major Clients

ü      GSA, IRS, SSA, ATF, FBI, US Army, Navy, Air Force, Shell, and Exxon.