PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

 

Mr. Luckey is a Senior Technology Engineer with experience in areas such as AWS Sales Solutions, Management Consultant, TOGAF Architect, IT Director, and Entrepreneur. He has developed IT strategies and solutions for HP Hellion Services, Winstar Communications, Verizon, AT&T, MCI, Cable & Wireless, TRT Telecommunications, Department of Energy (DOE), Army Corps of Engineers (DOD), International Trade Administration (ITA), and various up incoming small businesses Mr. Luckey has been involved in proposal management and preparation, vendor management at all levels, and Amazon Web Services Support. Mr. Luckey is a consonant role player. He possesses a strong ability to manage and communicate directional change to peers and team members; as well as shaping client’s expectations.  He has a long history in responding to and implementing large strategic initiatives using both AGILE and Waterfall System Development Life Cycle Methodologies.

 

 

EDUCATION:BS Economics, West Virginia University

AWS Solution Architecture Training

CERTIFICATION:AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate

VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP 4),

Xiotech (Storage), ITIL Foundation v3

CLOUD SERVICES:AWS, MS 360, SharePoint, Google, HP Hellion, CloudCheckr, ZoneEdit

ARCHITECTURES Amazon Web Services, Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)

Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF)

EXPERIENCE

January 2015 – Present Hewlett Packard (HP) – AWS Architect

Mr. Luckey is a member of the Managed Service Public Cloud (MSPC) team working within the HP Enterprise Services U.S. Public Sector organization, tasked with helping clients transform and manage their Cloud and Workload environments. As a Cloud Solutions Architecture Mr. Luckey is responsible for developing client relationships and facilitating the use of cloud products in the U.S. Public Sector market place. Mr. Luckey technical leadership duties includes gathering and assessing clients business and technical needs; working with client’s IT groups and business communities to develop an accurate understanding of the use of the Cloud and the client’s cloud requirements. Mr. Luckey is also involved in identifying the client wide IT parameters and constraints that may impact potential solutions.  Mr. Luckey is often called upon to applying advanced subject matter knowledge to complex business issues, where analysis of situations or data requires an in depth evaluation of multiple factors. He is an expert in identifying and understanding the client’s business problems, and will champion resulting opportunities that appropriately resolve client’s problems. Mr. Luckey has a ‘thirst’ for knowledge about cloud capabilities, and expresses those capabilities appropriately to HP account teams. He has also taken on additional training (ITIL), and passed the course to meet a RFP demand for certified personnel by studying including nights and over the weekend.  He is now certified for ITIL Foundation v3.  This is an example of how he takes the initiative and going the “step beyond” to support the client. Mr. Luckey has also attained his the AWS Solution Architect certification and is currently preparing for the TOGAF 9.1 and AWS Certified Developer Associate exams. Mr. Luckey is a thought leader for Amazon Web Services for the MSPC practice, tasked with preparing HP’s MSPC AWS responses to AWS related RFI and RFP; as well as providing HP sales accounts with well thought out reasoning and collateral on why they should use/or not use a particular IaaS solution or cloud provider.

 

 

August 2001 – December 2014   Malaika Corporation - Principal/Consultant

Mr. Luckey has worked with several organizations to provide Enterprise Architecture Support and IT Strategic Planning Support Services for federal and commercial organizations, most recently working with the Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration (ITA) in developing IT Strategic Plans used to demonstrate a more proactive approach to adopting and designing new technologies for ITA; resulting in unifying plans for mitigating security threats, and methods for improving OCIO relationships with stakeholders. Mr. Luckey has been a member of the EA team which has delivered several iterations of the Performance Architecture, Technical Reference Model (TRM) and Transition Plans; he has defining various segment architectures resulting in defined business needs and service level agreements and executive level reporting. He has participated in the development of guidance procedures responsible for defining and streamlining processes for IT investment governance, infrastructure alignment, disaster recovery, security, and property management. Mr. Luckey has managed multiple programs and projects based on PMI PMBoK best practices within a ITIL V3 services delivery environment, in addition to driving the use of standardization as well as introducing “economies of repetition" in the execution of projects, such as: the use of IT Service catalogues for Deployment of technologies that drive sustained value in meeting the ITA IT Strategic plan; or the requirements to migrate internal IT services to the cloud, including:

 

o Use of a private cloud model to support a government (SaaS) application,

o Use of Amazon GovCloud services to provide IaaS and PaaS services to a major prototype,

o Future use of cloud-based email (Office 365), Next Generation of Network, and

o Enterprise CRM services.

 

Accounting Firm – Consultant/Architect

Mr. Luckey provided project planning, architecture support for the migration and hosting solution for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for various QuickBooks and Drake software releases, along with its associated data in a hybrid cloud environment. Mr. Luckey, also developed a cloud archiving solution utilized S3 to store and retrieve client data from the cloud. The project allowed the client to begin sun setting there in-house servers. Amazon products used: EC2, Electronic Block Storage (EBS), Simple Storage Service (s3), Identity Management (IAM), Amazon Route 53ers, avoid upgrading some desktops, and allowing access to accounting applications from desired locations.

 

Medical Imaging Company, – Consultant/Architect

Mr. Luckey provided support to stakeholders in developing virtual desktop environment. Process included: Blueprint, Migration Plan and Use Cases for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and the hosting of stakeholders business applications in virtual environment remotely hosted in secure data center using Microsoft’s Hyper-V cloud server environment (2008) utilizing RDP to provide access to Desktop and SharePoint sites; virtual environment accessible by various endpoints devices including iOS 6 and Android 4.2 tablets. Task included Assessment for HIPPA compliance, performance and capacity analysis. Hosting Companies: AWS & Apps4rent; Amazon products: EC2, Electronic Block Storage (EBS), Simple Storage Service (s3), Identity Management (IAM), Amazon Route 53 Budget: ($25K)

 

Department of Defense -United States Marine Corp – Technical Consultant

Provided project management and architecture for the purchase and delivery of Hypervisor and Server with 25 Pano client endpoints utilized in the support of a VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure project. The objective of the project was to establish a test environment of 25 thin pan logic clients. Solution provided the USMC a testing environment for exploring future thin client usage. Budget: ($15K)

 

Common Data Platform – Project Manager/Senior Architect

The Common Data Platform was a project initiated by the Deputy Secretary of Commerce. Its objective was to provide ITA’s business analyst with an online database to encourage resource sharing by standardizing data sources. Mr. Luckey utilized the TOGAF ADM and the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as his development framework and characteristics of SCRUM AGILE, to provide flexible, cost efficient development, in a time sensitive manner. Mr. Luckey provided leadership and coaching to a team of stakeholders who had never developed a system, further establishing their first information portal project. As a result, Mr. Luckey developed both the testing and production environments, and processes which included a series of steps which resulted in the selection of a development platform and the necessary supporting infrastructure. Mr. Luckey developed the project statement and program plan and was major contributor  in the following activities: 1) translating the implementation activities for the Common Data Platform into a Program Plan that involved multiple iterations and a variety of related projects; 2) facilitating definition of the program vision and goals, project schedule and milestones, project organization and roles, project budget and risk management; 3) defined project interfaces, financial and security standards 4) implemented single sign on (SSO). Budget $800,000 Letter of Recognition: Department of Commerce ITA,   2008 Outstanding Group “Common Data Platform”

 

Assessing Future Business Needs – Project Manager/Senior Architect

This project was a precursor to ITA’s Common Data Platform. It involved the following major activities: 1.)Develop service level request by organizing and executing a series of four visioning workshops that enabled ITA stakeholders to voice their requirements for a future data analytics capability and mapping those expectations to applications and a future Common Data Platform; 2) identifying the highest priority services and service level needs, mapping them to a set of Common Data Platform services, e.g., alerts and notifications, work product repository, workflow; 3) generating project blueprints including mock-ups to represent the user experience of the future Common Data Platform, showing how each service would actually be deployed, what it would look like and how it would be used; capacity and demand planning.

 

Data Analytics Blueprint – Solution Architect

This task was established to document artifacts gained from the “future Business needs” assessment. It involved the following major activities: 1) aligning the Data Analytics Blueprint information with the segment architecture requirements as defined by the  OMB Enterprise Architecture Assessment Model v2.1; 2) aligning data sources and systems with the data and application views of the ITA Enterprise Architecture; 3) identifying key security needs; d) aligning the Blueprint architecture with standard technology platforms already deployed at ITA; 4) piloting an informal version of the investment planning process that would ultimately be followed by the data analytics projects planning resulting in the development of the Common Data Platform project.

 

Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) Project Manager / Solutions Architect

Mr. Luckey provided architectural guidance for the development of NABEX a web-based financial management system for the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) using ERwin, COLDFUSION and MS SQL Server. Mr. Luckey developed the initial technical assessment plan, which included; software development, acquisition strategies, capacity planning; hardware and software specifications. Mr. Luckey organized and managed an agile development life cycle process with federal budget analysts, creating business and technical artifacts; resulting in multiple releases of key components of the financial management system. Mr. Luckey provided significant input in defining clients service level requirements including: FIPS, and SOX standards. Budget ($275K) Letter of Recognition: Department of Energy, NNSA

 

December 1999 – July 2001 Winstar Communications

Customer Contact and Product Catalogue Development - IT Director

Mr. Luckey reported directly to Senior Vice President, responsible for managing resources and technical direction for multiple IT groups in support of full life cycle development for the company’s Product Service Catalogue (PCAT) and the Product Ordering (CHOST) systems, used in provisioning both Broadband and Telephony products. Mr. Luckey was responsible for a staff of 150 employees developing Windstar’s Generic Product Ordering process, which substantially reduced CHOST’s product development cost by providing dynamic generated GUIs for ordering broadband data product. Mr. Luckey was responsible for all major system releases, which included determining scope of software release, determining requirements for network and hardware needs, and release communications and scheduling.

Responsibility included the following organizations and/or activities: Executive briefing and User Communications, Procurement and Capital Expenditure Planning, Level 1-3 Help Desk Support, Software Change Control, Performance and Capacity planning, Business Requirements, System Analysis and Development, System Integration Testing, and Product Acceptance. Budget: ($16M)

 

September 1997 – December 1999   Fujitsu USA

Department of Defense - United States Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) – Associate Director

Senior System Architect on the USACE Architecture 2000+ team charged with developing a Web based Information Architecture for the USACE. Activities include COTs evaluation, strategic planning, development of the Information Architecture Framework, and development of an Information Architecture Maintenance Process. The goal of this team was to provide information that will assist in aligning Information technology products and services with business goals and initiatives. As a Senior System Architect, Mr. Luckey developed a TOGAF-based technical reference model the precursor to the DODAF utilizing the TAFIM as a model.

 

October 1991 – September 1997   TRECOM Business Systems (Telecom)

Bell Atlantic Communications and Construction Service (BACCSI) - Solution Architect. This project was initiated to analysis workflow needs, in the capacity planning, for the migration of a UNIX hosted environment to a Microsoft hosted environment. Mr. Luckey was charged with developing the project architecture (Blueprint). Responsibilities included assessment of current infrastructure topology; development of business rules and standards; creation of an “Open Systems Environment” Reference Model (OSE/RM) model which included the infrastructure, software and network support to BACCSI’s total migration requirements. Provided thought leadership for present and future cross-functional requirements.

 

AT&T – Consultant/Technical Director.

Responsible for multiple telecommunication projects supporting 15 systems, 200 consultants and 9 managers. As the Technical Director, Mr. Luckey was responsible for the following task and responsibilities: executive reporting and communications, staffing projects; reviewing time and expense reports; status reporting for multiple projects; staff appraisals and development; problem resolution; project quality control; identify new opportunities and facilitate growth of client relationships.