THOMAS J. GALAT

3446 Valewood Drive                            (C) 703-599-0642

Oakton, va 22124                                           (H) 703-716-8668

                                                        TJ@GALAT.net

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Summary of Qualifications:

 

Accomplished Cloud Technical Architect and Storage Virtualization Architect with over 20 years of experience. Designed, delivered and supported global, enterprise, and ROBO, environments. Researched, introduced and deployed new cloud technologies to include cloud broker and orchestration layers. Delivered multiple POC’s and demonstration environments utilizing the true tenants of cloud. Delivered a virtualized HPC solution for developing a common operating platform. Designed, tested and deployed the COOP architecture for the DEA Web Infrastructure. Performed evaluation and recommendation for full capitalization on existing storage platforms by introducing a unbiased approach that brought multiple agnostic storage systems together via a virtualization layer

 

Retired U.S. Army National Guard (22 Years)

 

Security Clearance’s:

Current: DOD Secret

Current: Public Trust from FDIC

 

Certifications

VMware vSphere VCP (Version 4)

ITILv3 Foundations

 

Professional Experience

 

SRA International 05/13 – to Present

As the Senior Storage Management Group Lead I am responsible for providing oversight and management of the enterprise storage infrastructure that is inclusive high performance EMC and NetApp storage systems.  I continually perform high level and complex advisory consulting work as the lead authority in storage management. I am responsible for coordinating with Operations and Program management on a regular basis to define business objectives to generate and implement plans to meet those objectives. I have expanded my knowledge in leading high performing teams by providing leadership and then management.

·         EMC VMAX, VNX, VPLEX, Recover Point,

·         NetApp,

·         Safe net

·         Netbackup

 

Booz Allen Hamilton 08/12 – 2/13

As an Associate and cloud architect within the Cyber Technologies group I specialize in cloud enterprise and storage solutions. During a data center modernization effort as the Storage solutions architect on the NHLBI contract I wrote the Storage design plan to support NHLBI. We incorporated the DDN WOS to support their CIF/NFS storage needs across the campus and utilized the DDN Grid Scaler to support the high I/O requirements. A application migration required the design of a storage platform that could support multiple virtual machines as well, I selected the VNX 5300 based on its unified platform and EMC FAST storage, this system additionally utilized EMC recovery point to a remote location to provide disaster recovery capabilities. When presenting this solution to the customer it was accepted.

During this time I introduced 3 Cloud storage gateways for evaluation and analysis to provide both analytical and business view’s to provide our Business Development group with options for our customers. All 3 proved to be a successful storage growth mitigation, backup and recovery, and Cloud DR options. I provide a successful demonstration environment by rapidly installing each cloud storage gateway into an existing virtualized platform and connected them to an Amazon AWS S3 bucket for cloud data storage. By actually deploying the cloud storage gateways and capitalizing on their various features I was able to provide a real time view into the advantages the customers would gain with an effective cloud data storage solution. Below are the CSG’s that were evaluated.

·         Riverbed Whitewater

·         Panzura Quicksilver

·         TwinStrata Cloud Array

 

CSC 04/11- 07/12

As the Chief Cloud Architect for the CSC NPS/ITIS Trusted Cloud team architected and deployed Cloud proof of concepts and demonstration platforms for Email as a service (EaaS) and Work Place as a Service (WPaaS) that utilized Cloud Broker and Orchestration layers to take the customer experience to a new functional level. Performed evaluations of cloud broker and orchestration technologies to ensure that the tenants of cloud are defined and met, this led to multiple customer presentations and successfully delivered cloud solutions. Delivered presentations of Cloud capabilities and in-depth explanations of Cloud based services. Evaluated several vendor storage products to provide an unbiased and cost effective set of solution offerings while maintaining the ability to bring the products together under a single storage virtualization layer to improve manageability, scalability, and prevent vendor lock in.

·         VMware vSphere v5.0

·         BMC CLM

·         CA Orchestrator

·         VCE Vblock

·         NetApp Flexpod

·         Hitachi Unified Compute Platform

·         IBM Cloud Burst

·         HP Converged Cloud

 

Agilex Technologies 10/09 to 04/11

As the Senior Principal Consultant /Virtualization Architect for the Solutions Design Center, architected, and wrote the complete design for a fully virtualized platform. This environment capitalized on all the functionality VMware 4.1 offers to support a highly available and selectively Fault tolerant application support. Designed complete backend supporting systems for virtualized platform to be classified as a High Performance compute (HPC) solution to include capitalization on Infiniband technologies and high performance Storage technologies. Incorporated SSD (Solid State Disk) and optimized flash accelerators into the solution to remove most disk latencies.

·         VMware vSphere v4.1

·         Oracle SAS storage arrays

·         Voltaire Infinband Gateway switch

 

Quadramed Corp, 10/08 to 10/09

Senior Information Technology Engineer: As the lead engineer completely redesigned existing EMC SAN environment supporting 3 clustered VMware environments and multiple singularly attached servers to provide full fabric redundancy. The infrastructure initially consisted of 3 separate EMC SANs and finished with 10 VMware ESX servers in 1 and 7 ESX servers in another cluster plus additional standalone servers. This redesign consisted of upgrading the existing CX700 and CX3-20c and replacing the CX-300. The upgrade to the CX-700 and CX-20c was performed by combining the assets with new equipment and creating a CX4-240. By taking an outage this was able to be performed mostly by Storage vMotion. The Data that was not from the VMware environment was then moved at the block level. The replacement of the CX-300 was completed the same way were all the VM’s were moved via storage vMotion and the servers that were directly attached had their data directly moved via block replication. Once completely configured all 17 ESX servers no errors were reported by the systems for several months (These clusters supported over 280 virtual servers). Configured and promoted to production an additional VMware cluster utilizing Dell 3000i ISCSI storage. Installed configured and delivered a proof of concept of OPENTS Panorama. Took ownership, developed, and deployed to production a windows WSUS server supporting all infrastructure workstations and laptops. Had ownership of the VOIP network and worked on developing performance enhancements and stability. Working with and monitoring several CISCO 6509 routers supporting the corporate infrastructure.

·         VMware ESX & ESXi 3.5, HA, DRS, Update Manger, VMware Server, VMotion, Virtual Center, P2V, Plate Spin and VMWares Consolidation tool

·         Cisco 9124, 9216 Fiber switches

·         EMC Navisphere V6

·         EMC CX-700, CX-500, CX3-20c, & CX4-120 & 240

·         Dell 3000i ISCSI SAN

·         Windows 2000, 2003, & 2008 servers both virtual and physical

·         OPNET Panorama

·         Vizioncore vFoglight & VOptimizer

·         MS SQL 2000 & 2005

·         Active Directory, WINS, DNS, NLB

 

Drug Enforcement Administration 04/01 to 09/08

Senior Enterprise Engineer: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); On the DEA Web Infrastructure project, served as a Senior Enterprise Engineer and Enterprise Administrator responsible for researching, defining and implementing the infrastructure architectures and its day to day operations. Authored architectural methodologies and followed them through to implementation.  While implementing this architecture I was tasked with maintaining FISMA compliance while also maintaining the collateral duty of Enterprise Systems Administrator for the existing 70 Windows 2000 & 2003 and HPUX Servers hosting over 300 web sites. Utilized IT-Guru to troubleshoot and resolve application and database response issues by performing exhaustive packet analysis. Worked with customers on application, database server, network implementations and consolidations, much of this was completed by the use of server virtualization. By bringing server virtualization to the web architecture I provided the customer with rapid provisioning and system stabilization to meet the demanding requirements of the DEA. Researched, designed, acquired, built, configured, tested, and brought to operational efficiency the entire COOP site for the Web Architecture. I was known as the “Go to Guy” for all the technical and architectural aspects of the Web Architecture as well as customer support requests and inquiries.

Served as consultant to the U.S. Army’s Department of Information Management (DOIM) to advise, direct and assist in the implementation of Web, network, and systems security measures. These duties were performed Pro Bono during my activation with the National Guard in support of Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom

·         VMWare ESX 2.5.2 – 3.5, VMWare Server, VMotion, ESX Ranger, VM Workstation, Virtual Center, P2V, and Plate Spin.

·         Windows 2000 & 2003 Server on HP & Compaq Platforms, ISCSI, HP SOHO SAN

·         OPNET ACE V14.0 (IT Guru)

·         F5 Networks Load Balancing

·         HPUX 11.1

·         Active Directory, WINS, DNS, NLB, VERITAS 9.1 - 10D

 

 

Digital Now, Inc., 01/00-08/00

As Global Field Services Manager created and managed the global field services division business unit.  Developed processes and procedures for tracking international installations and configurations.  Served as liaison for international customer issues.  Increased system performance while reducing overall system manufacturing costs.  Coordinated system installations and integrations with customer networks.  Developed testing and customer acceptance procedures.  Trained customer management and operators on system functionality and use.

·         High Speed film digitization

·         Kodak & Agfa Digitization Interfaces

 

Perot Systems, 05/96-12/99

As a Network Engineer worked with various clients and assisted in bringing to realization a new CLEC.  On various projects supported a desktop design for 5,000 remote nodes.  Developed customer-relations skills that resulted in several letters of appreciation.  Developed and coordinated engineering proposals, cost comparisons and product evaluations.  Performed development and analysis for a rollout that supported over 5000 nodes.  Designed and installed 12 NT 4.0 servers that supported the development environment.  Designed and installed a Citrix terminal services cluster.  Evaluated and installed an automated systems backup for 17 SUN UNIX and NT 4.0 servers.  Implemented a distribution design for client OEM service software.  Ensured a stable test and development platform for version validation.

·         Sun Solaris, E3000 and E5000 servers

·         Microsoft SMS Server

 

USAir, 03/96-04/96

System Advisor: Researched and developed the deployment, implementation, system administration of a 40-node RISC/6000 distributed computing environment.  Designed, tested and implemented a remote application distribution system supporting 150 O/S2 workstations.  Performed disk-sizing calculations.

·         AIX 3.1 – 3.4.1

·         AIX HACMP

 

American Red Cross, 08/95-02/96

System Architect: Planned and implemented LAN/WAN solutions.  Planned and implemented the consolidation of 44 Data Centers to 11.  Designed an extensive disaster recovery environment.  Engineered the training system platform and Network Control Center management schema.

·         AIX 3.1 – 3.4.1

·         HACMP

 

Electronic Data Systems, 02/89-07/95

As a Communications Engineer on various projects, directed all activities to be performed in response to government statements of work.  Developed solutions using a wide array of technical hardware and software.  Designed local area network and trunk line consolidations.  Designed TCP/IP-based Ethernet networks.  Performed testing, evaluation, selection and implementation of RAID solutions.  Graduated in the Telecommunication Professional Development Program (TPD) where I was a member of the highest ranking team in the 94.6 percentile.

 

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

OPNET: Introduction to ACE and CISCO AAS

F5 Networks: Local Traffic Manager v9.x

VMware vSphere Install, Configure & Manage course

VMware vSphere VCP certified

ITILv3 Foundations

VMware vSphere: Perform a Guided Consolidation

VMware vSphere: Perform a Cold Clone

VMware vSphere: ESXi Installation and Configuration

VMware vSphere: Enhanced VMotion Compatibility

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

 

ICTS/Northern Virginia Community College: CISSP,  CCNA- Interconnected Network Devices; Microsoft MCSE 2000 Course including Microsoft Windows 2000 Network and operating system essentials; Supported Windows 2000 Professional and Server; Supported Microsoft Windows; Implemented and Administered Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services; Designed a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Services Infrastructure; Designed a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure; Designed a Microsoft Windows 2000 Migration Strategy