Kerry Main

Back to the Future IT Inc.

Professional Profile

April 2016

Mr. Main is a Senior IT Data Center Project Manager / Solutions

Architect / Systems Analyst with 30+ years Enterprise IT/ Data

Center (DC) Architecting, Migrations, Program / Project Delivery &

Operations / International Support experience.

Mr. Main’s most recent project role completed in late 2015, was as a

Senior SOA / Web Services Application Workload Migration Project

Manager for a large DC migration between two service providers.

Prior to leaving HP in 2012 to begin a private consulting career, Mr.

Main held the role of “Data Center (DC) / IT Transformation Practice

Lead & Chief Consultant” for HP Canada Consulting Services.

Mr. Main was also a speaker on Private Cloud Application / Shared

Service Infrastructure migrations at HP WW Customer events.

Senior Data Center Project

Manager / Solutions Architect

Data Center Infrastructure &

Application Migrations, Disaster

Recovery, Shared Services Planning

Focus Areas

  Ø Data Center Application and

Infrastructure / Design, Strategy,

Workload Migration, Financials

  Ø IT Divestiture / Merger Strategy,

Planning & Implementation

  Ø Migrating to Private Clouds

  Ø Platform Upgrade / Migrations

  Ø Multi-vendor IT and Data Center

Operations Planning & Support

  Ø Large IT Asset Management

(ITAM) Consolidation Planning

  Ø Performance Benchmarking

  Ø Excellent Communication and

Documentation Skills

  Ø Excellent IT Mentor Skills

Contact Information

Office: 613-271-1943

Mobile: 613-797-4937

kerry.main@BacktotheFutureIT.com

http://ca.linkedin.com/in/kerrymain

Languages: English (fluent)

Canadian Government Security

Clearance: Top Secret

Mr. Main’s strong multi-vendor Program Executive / Technical

support background, along with international customer experience

allows him to contribute to almost any phase of the IT Systems lifecycle

from Data Center Application, Infrastructure Migrations to IT

Transformation, Service Management and Enterprise Operations

Management Integration to DC Service Provider transition projects.

Work Experience Summary

Consulting Services Highlights

Role: Lead Solutions Architect / Senior Project Manager

  · SOA / Online Web Services Application Migration Project Manager for

large DC migration project from one service provider to another.

  · Federal Government Dept. IT Operations Transformation Consultant

  · Rogers Data Center Migration Architect / Consultant

  · Bell Canada Client (global legal firm) Data Center Strategy project.

Evaluated different public/private cloud DC scenarios, costs, created

migration project plans & recommendations for their future IT strategy;

  · HP Lead Architect for Europe (12 countries) Data Center

Consolidation Project at GE Capital Financial Services;

  · HP Lead PMO Manager role for staff augmentation project as part of

multi-year RBC Bank Data Center (DC) relocation project;

  · HP Lead PMO & Application Migration Manager for 90,000 user Active

Directory Consolidation Project (14 AD’s-1) at Alberta Health Services;

  · Lead Architect for SAP / DC planning and implementation at Talisman

Energy (Oil & Gas) - part of transition to hybrid cloud services model;

  ·

IT Assessment of US Census Bureau (US Govt. Agency) looking at

migration to Private Cloud / Shared Services IT model;

  · HP Lead Architect for Domtar-Weyerhaeuser (distributed 57 different

US, Canada paper plants) IT divestiture project;

  · HP Lead for AECL DC infrastructure & application migration report;

  · HP Lead for IT / DC consolidation and future IT UNIX/Windows

strategies project for University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC);

  · Technical review project that examined TD Bank’s existing Data

Center Consolidation plans and strategies;

  · Johnson Controls (JCI) UNIX virtualization & workload mgmt. project;

  · Large 6,800 server multi-vendor IT/DC Consolidation & Futures

Roadmap Assessment project at Wells Fargo (US Bank);

  · North American SAP Data Center Future Strategy report for PepsiCo

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Kerry Main

Back to the Future IT Inc.

Professional Profile

April 2016

Sept/13 - Present Back to the Future IT Consulting Services

  · SOA / Online Web Services Application Migration Manager for data Center migration project

from one service provider to another;

Highlights

  · Federal Govt. IT Operations Architect for transformation from traditional technical focus

(reactive) to services based focus (proactive) that included Next Gen Operations Center;

  · Rogers Data Center Migration Strategy Architect. Ensure DC migration strategies, &

deliverables are in alignment. Lead Business Unit / Application group workshops;

  · Bell Canada Client (global legal firm) Data Center Strategy project. Evaluated different DC

scenarios, cost estimates, created migration project plans & recommendations for the firm’s

future IT strategy;

1993 to Nov/12 HP Consulting Services (HP, Compaq & Digital Equipment)

Highlights

  · HP PMO Lead & App Migration Manager for AHS 90,000 user Active Directory migration

  · Senior HP Architect for GE Capital Financial Services European Data Center Consolidation

program. Lead Technical Towers and Client Executive communication processes. Data

Center (DC) Consolidation, Financial Baseline and Business Case, Application & Asset

Inventory, Disaster Recovery, Server & Storage Consolidation, Facility Reviews;

  · Lead Data Center / Solutions Architect (SA) for Talisman Energy next generation SAP /

Data Center project as part of a transition to a hybrid cloud services model;

  · HP Executive IT Consultant for US Census Bureau; Develop IT strategy & migration plan to

transform their technology (reactive) based support environment to a services (proactive)

environment based on a Private Cloud / Shared Services model; IT Organization,

Operations, Help Desk Support Analysis;

1978 - 1992

Highlights

Digital Equipment of Canada Customer Services Support

  · Level III International Field Support of high profile mission critical customer environments

(stock exchanges, banks, manufacturing, lotteries, cable companies etc.);

  · Level II call center support for Canadian Customer OLTP software environments;

  · Level II IT Operations Support for mission critical Canadian Call Center

  · Provide technical training & mentoring for Canadian and International field offices;

International

Work Experience

Other

1976 – 1978

Awards

Education

1973-1976

References

  · Participated and delivered Technical Architecture, Design, Planning, Mentoring, Training

and Support for Customer and internal IT projects in Ipswich - UK, Lahr - West Germany,

St.Johns – Antigua, Tokyo - Japan, Rio De Janeiro - Brazil, Sophia Antopolis – France,

Mexico City – Mexico, Taipai – Taiwan, Seoul – South Korea, Panama City – Panama;

  · Shared Services, Data Center / IT Consolidation speaker at HP 2010, 2006 and 2005

customer events; HP-Gartner-Microsoft IT Optimization 2004 events in Toronto, Ontario and

Calgary; HP World 2003/2004 events in Atlanta/Chicago; Internal HP-Microsoft Event in

Tampa, Florida & Sophia Antipolis, France;

Ontario Hydro Nuclear Power Division

  · Control systems technician at Bruce Generating Station, Kincardine, Ontario

  · 2011 Most Valuable People (MVP) North America HP Consulting Services Winner

  · 2010 Canadian Maple Leaf Silver Medal – HP Big Deal Formation Winner

  · 2005 John Wisniewski Spirit Award – World Wide HP OpenVMS Ambassador Award

  · Three Year Electronic Technologist Diploma with Computer Control Systems major from

Sault College, Sault St. Marie, Ontario, Canada

  · Available on request

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