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Donovan Johnson 

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Columbus, OH  43219
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Resume Headline: Donovan Johnson - Cloud Architect

Resume Value: t9ypx6ttbguqc978   

  

 


Donovan R. Johnson

3211 Crossing Hill Way ·   Columbus   ·   Ohio    ·   43219

614.398.2798                                                                                               drjohnson@marketarkitex.biz

                                                                                                                           Cloud& Virtualization Arhcitect

 

            Strategic Infrastructure Planning / Virtualization / IT Systems Engineering / IT Architecture

 

Infrastructure Professional with over 9 years of business-savvy systems support and administration experience can provide leadership, excellent communication skills with a deep focus on efficient, client centric services.  Information Technology Service Management and Operational Excellence training will assist   me in developing continuous improvement practices, both for myself and team.  Experience within different business disciplines has been instrumental in understanding the needs of internal clients that rely heavily systems within current responsibilities.  In addition, I maintain a deep desire to develop an ever expanding experience in Cloud Infrastructure Design, Storage Area Networking, Business Process Management Servers, Integration Messaging Servers and Enterprise Service Bus platforms.

Experienced in Implementing

 

Continuous Improvement

Incident Management

Capacity Planning

Security Management

Availability Design

Release Management

Change Management

Service Design             

IT Service Catalog

Service Desk

Configuration Management

IT Service Management

 

  PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Cloud & Systems Infrastructure

Applications Infrastructure

Achitect & Engineering Skills

   VMware vCenter 4, 4.1, 5

   VMware ESXi 3.5 & 4.1, 5 Hypervisor

   VMware Mirage View 4.5, 5

   vCloud Director 1.5, 5.0, 5.1

   Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, 6

   OpenStack Havana & Icehouse

   Amazon Web Services

   Apache Hadoop

   Windows Server 2008 R2 & 2012

   Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

   Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04, 14

   Storage Area Networking

   Cisco UCS Platform

   HP BL450s, DL 380s, & DL 560s

   IBM x series 3850

 

 

·          Active Directory – Directory Services

·    System Center Operations Manager

·         IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0

·         IBM HTTP Server 8.0 [IHS]

·         IBM WebSphere MQ Server 8.0

·         Microsoft SharePoint 2010

·         SAP Netweaver & XI/PI

·         Python 2.7 & 3.3

·         Powershell 2.0

·         Jenkins

·         Cucumber & Git

·         IBM Streams 3.x

·         IBM Workload Deployer 3.x

·         Oracle MySQL 5.x

·         SQL Server 2012

·         IBM Optim Performance Manager

·    IBM Cloud Computing Reference Architecture 2.0

·    LEAN Process Improvement

·    ITILv3

·    ArchiMate 2

·    Certified in Value Stream Mapping

·    Business Model Canvas

·    TOGAF framework

·    Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge

·    Design For Six Sigma

·    Basic SoaML & SOMF

·    SysML

·    Capacity Planning

·    Kanban Workflow & Task Management

·    Scrumban Agile Practices

·    Continuous Integration

 

 

 

Key Certifications

LEAN Gold Practitioner                                                                  

                                   ITILv3 Foundation Certified

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Candidate

Vmware Certified Professional

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal, Cloud Solution Architect & Engineer 2013 - Present

MarketArkitex, LLC [Contracted to Nationwide Insurance] – Columbus, OH

 

¨     Lead Solution Engineering Development effort for the Enterprise Production, Development and Test/Disaster Recovery Environments of a IBM PureData for Hadoop Deployement integrating it into the a new Tier 4, LEED Gold certified Datacenter.

¨     Lead Solution Architecture Effort of 3 Cloud Solution Architectures [2 IaaS, 1 PaaS] on IBM SCO & VMware Production, Disaster Recovery, Peformance Testing and Development Environments of a Custom Applications, built on top of the IBM WebSphere Application Infrastructure, integrating it into the a new Tier 4, LEED Gold certified Datacenter.

¨     Participated in Data Warehourse Solution Engineering Development effort for the Enterprise Development and Disaster Recovery Environments of a Teradata 2700 Deployement integrating it into the a new Tier 4, LEED Gold certified Datacenter.

¨     Created Solution Architecture for BinaryTree Application to facilitate the co-existance of Microsoft Exchange 2010 Infrastructure and the Lotus Notes Domino Server Infrastructure.

¨     Served as Project Engineer an Solution SME on all projects delivered.

¨     Performed Capacity Planning for Solutions Designed

¨     Performed Chanage Management Process intiation for updates to new deployments that had been recently promoted to production after User Acceptance Testing Extensions

 

 

 

VMware Systems Engineer/SME & Cloud Infrastructure Architect 2010-2012

Insight Global [Contracted to IBM – GTS] – Columbus, OH

 

¨     Lead Cloud Architecture Development effort that worked toward integrating a Cisco UCS with IBM Hardware into a complete IaaS foundation.

¨     Lead virtualization engineering team knowledge transfer to the service desk team

¨     Initial Design and Creation of documentation for the Virtualized Environment on behalf of Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning team.

¨     Created Application Solution Architecture for simple Business Intelligence application to facilitate ongoing capacity planning of the virtualized environment.

¨     Responsible for Security Management through UAT, up to and including Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2 Image Customization & OS Server Hardening

¨     ESXi Cluster Deployment and Administration on IBM HS22 Blade Servers [Management Cluster] and  x3850 RackMount Servers [Production and DR]

¨     Delivery of  Virtualized Citrix XenApp Solution architecture for SAP UI  

¨     Performed Capacity Management of the Virtualized Environment

¨     Performed Chanage Management Process intiation for updates to new deployments that had been recently promoted to production after User Acceptance Testing Extensions

¨     Administrated Windows Active Directory environment (DHCP, DNS, OU, GPO and User Creation) within Staged Production and Warm Diaster Recovery Environment

¨     Participate in SAP MDM and XI Architecture requirements analysis and decisioning; deployed & configured supporting virtualized infrastructure

¨     Implemented a PowerCLI & Powershell solution to automate virtual machine configurations in the disaster recovery site. 

 

 

 

 

 

Technical Systems Engineer,  2009-2010

Veeam Software – Columbus, OH

 

¨     Provided analysis, diagnostics, and solution recommendations for VMware Virtual Center 2.5/4.0 and ESX Host server 3.5/4.0 performance issues

¨     Delivered troubleshooting and re-designed disaster recovery solution architecture recommendations for the clients

¨     Designed and implemented solution architecture of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 for nWorks Management Pack deployment.

¨     Designed, implemented & supported solution architecture Veeam’s Virtual infrastructure mapping and reporting solution (Enterprise Reporter)

¨     Administrated Windows Active Directory environment (DHCP, DNS, OU, GPO and User Creation) within Test, Development and Lab Environment

¨     Supported customers and internal system engineers with IIS and .NET 2.0 troubleshooting

¨     Performed VMware environment upgrade from 3.5 to 4.0

¨     Troubleshooting and client relationship advisor for junior support engineers and technical support analysts

 

 

Information Technology Analyst, 2006 - 2009

TEKSystems, Inc.  – Columbus, OH

 

¨     VMware VDI administration for user base in Asia

¨     Recorded and Monitored Change Management Tickets as a part of problem resolution for Voice and Infrastructure Operations

¨     Supported nearly 35% of the 15,000 DFS users with access to Citrix Xen Apps System

¨     Tier 1 administration for privileges, identity, access and authentication management utilizing Active Directory and Oracle (SUN) Identity Manager

¨     Administered enterprise wireless mobile operations including Blackberry Enterprise Server user administration as well as both T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless PCI cards

¨     Provided first and second level administration for telecommuting laptops users in North America on basic Desktop related issues to Lotus Notes 6.5 and Microsoft Office 2003

¨     Resolved internet access issues for entire Discover laptop user base [including the telecommuting workforce]

¨     Updated the unites with custom laptop image re-deployment

¨     Provided first level support for company VPN solution, prioritized and escalated issues to other management/staff as needed

 

 

 

Technical Support Representative, 2005 - 2006

Teleperformance, USA – Columbus, OH

 

¨     Assisted residential users with resolving internet access issues

¨     Provided in depth home networking problem resolution

¨     Engaged in Tier 2 Anti-malware and antivirus software troubleshooting

¨     Delivered  Tier 1 VoIP quality of service maintenance and technical support

¨     Educated customers on a proper email client configuration and  account usage

 

 

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in IT - Network Design and Management

Western Governors University, 2011 - 2015 [projected]

 

   Technical Certifications

Achieved Qualifications:

CIW Web Foundations Associate | Project+ | VMware Certified Professional CompTIA A+ | Network+ | Security+ | VSTP

Completed Training:

ArchiMate 2 Certified | EMCCA| Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional [CSSLP] | Arcitura Certifed Cloud Professional: Advanced Cloud Architecture | TOGAF9 | AWS Certified Solution Architect: Associate Level [CBT Nuggets] | IBM Cloud Infrastructure Architect | Big Data University: Big Data Fundamentals | vSphere Infrastructure Design | CCDA

Windows Active Directory Configuration | Microsoft Network Infrastructure

Currently working towards:

VCP-Cloud | CCIE: Datacenter

 



Experience

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Job Title

Company

Experience

Cloud Architect & Solutions Engineer

MarketArkitex, LLC

- Present

 

Additional Info

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Desired Salary/Wage:

190,000.00 USD yr

Current Career Level:

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Years of relevant work experience:

2+ to 5 Years

Date of Availability:

Within one month

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

None

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Cloud Architect

Desired Job Type:

Employee
Temporary/Contract/Project

Desired Status:

Full-Time
Part-Time
Per Diem

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Occupation:

IT/Software Development

·         Computer/Network Security

·         Enterprise Software Implementation & Consulting

·         Software/System Architecture

Quality Assurance/Safety

·         Six Sigma/Black Belt/TQM

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-OH-Columbus/Zanesville

Relocate:

Yes

Willingness to travel:

Up to 50% travel