JOHN SULLIVAN

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JOHNS@SULLECON.COM CELL: (310) 484-6364

SUMMARY

Lead - Sr. Cloud Architect, Cloud Developer, and Sr. Storage Architect. Attended and participated in the

OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2015 and OpenStack Summit Paris 2014. Consulting in the mobile and

telecommunications industry, lead Network - Neutron Design Architect / Scrum Team. Proficiency in architecting

and deployment of ALL OpenStack Components from network - neutron, compute - nova to storage - cinder and

swift. Proficiency in OpenStack, APIs, Cloud Use Cases, Cloud POCs, Cloud Design and Cloud Mappings to

Cloud Requirements Analysis, and dependencies and impact analysis. Proficiency in Network and Storage Design

and architecting Network and Storage solutions. Proficiency in Cloud Design, and Cloud Orchestration, OpenStack

Heat Orchestration Template (HOT). SME as a network, compute and storage architect, design, deployment,

support and trouble shooting and problem resolution. Conducted assessments and architected designs for

numerous clients in several industries from manufacturing, telecommunications, mobile, entertainment, and

government to healthcare. Assessed, analyzed, architected and deployed cloud – private, hosted public and hybrid

solutions. Proficiency in OpenStack, AWS / Cloud and storage and infrastructure related to cloud design and data

center migrations / transformations. Expert knowledge and experience in systems, servers, virtualization, virtual

machines, bare metal, storage, cloud, OpenStack, AWS, SoftLayer, Big Data, DevOps, Apache Hadoop, Linux,

network, storage, applications, application interdependencies, load balancer, utilizations, databases and network

infrastructure along with the associated application, storage type, and systems requirements. Proficiency in

capacity management, storage growth, consumption, demand, and performance parameters and requirements

such as - Metrics, KPIs, Disk I/O, latency, bandwidth, application upstreams/downstreams, app. flows, utilization,

IOPS, Servers, Arrays, Systems, and Databases - Oracle / SQL and issues. Proficient in IBM, EMC, HP 3PAR,

NetApp, Hitachi, Ubuntu, Apache, SUSE, Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Apache Hadoop. Analyzed storage offerings,

solutions, capabilities, value, constraints, data type, SAN, NAS, VMware, Disaster Recovery, backup/recovery,

compression and deduplication among major storage vendors. Proficient in design, troubleshooting and capacity

management. Professional Consultant SME - with 26 + years of professional consulting (on-site, off-site, remote

engagement experience with national and international travel within North America (United States of America and

Canada) and Europe. Dual citizen – (posses American and Canadian passports).

EXPERIENCE

Sr. Cloud Architect / Cloud Developer / Sr. Storage Architect (Q1 2002 - present) SULLECON

  · (Q3 2014 - present). Formulated and Architected Cloud Designs and Cloud Solutions. Consulted in the

mobile and telecommunications industry, lead and architected Neutron / Network Design / Scrum Team

and Storage Scrum Team. Architected, conducted and supported numerous deployments in Lab, QA, E2E,

System Test, pre-production and production environments. Proficiency in architecting and deployment of

ALL OpenStack Components both manual and automated deployments. Proficiency in OpenStack, APIs,

and Network and Neutron Design. Proficiency in network, compute and storage. Proficiency in Neutron L2

and L3 agents, Ubuntu, Canonical Stack, OpenStack APIs, OpenStack Dashboard, cloud ecosystems,

marketplace, private, public and hybrid clouds, along with various drivers and plugins such as

OpenDaylight ML2 Mechanism Driver, OpenFlow Agent, VMware NSX Network Virtualization Platform

Plugin, GlusterFS driver, HDS HNAS iSCSI and NFS driver.

  · . Proficiency in Python scripting using RESTful APIs, MySQL and XML for enterprise/Cloud infrastructure

management. Proficiency in OpenStack core components and sub-projects. Proficiency in bash and korn

shell scripting and vi editor. Proficiency in configurations, analysis, trouble shooting, problem resolution

and root cause analysis. Proficiency in Python programming to extend and customize OpenStack

components.

  · Formulated, architected designed blue prints and built cloud network infrastructure Proficiencies in

switches, routers, virtual private networks, neutron services, DHCP, DHCP agents, DHCP namespace, L2,

L3, LBaaS, FWaaS, networks, subnets, VLAN, GRE, dashboard, CLI, Neutron API, IPs, Floating IPs, and

iptables.(OVSDB) Open vSwitch DataBase Server, (OVS) Open vSwitch.

  · Proficiency in REST API integration to integrate OpenStack with other tools for Orchestration, Monitoring,

network, compute and storage along with Cloud Orchestration, OpenStack Heat Orchestration Template

(HOT). Expert knowledge and ability to formulate and convert high level design to a detailed OpenStack

design with well-defined integration points and interfaces. Proficiency in programming with the Virtualization

layer APIs (e.g., KVM / Libvirt and ESXi / vCenter APIs and Linux operating systems - Ubuntu). Expert

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knowledge and ability in selecting, designing and developing a tool-chains with loosely coupled software

components (e.g. Chef, Nagios, Crowbar) to perform specific technical functions. Use Chef Automation to

deploy the OpenStack platform Orchestration components. Proficiency in deployment automation with Chef

and OpsSimple. Extensive experience with continuous integration in a Github/Jenkins, Puppet and

automated build environment and using automated testing tools along with Agile Project Management and

Agile Business Software such as Rally.

  · Proficiency in Open Stack deployments such as but not limited to the following – OpenStack – Grizzly,

Havana, Icehouse, Juno and Kilo along with Mirantis OpenStack 6.1, MOS 6.1 and 7.0, Ubuntu

12.04/14.04, and Debian 8.1. Proficiency in Cloud POC design, configuration and troubleshooting -

OpenStack versions from Icehouse, Juno and Kilo, Mirantis 6.1, 7.0, Fuel, Murano, Swift, Compute,

Neutron, Identity, Keystone, Heat, Networking, Orchestration, Horizon, Database Service Trove,

Ceilometer, Nova, Glance, Cinder, Ironic, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux Containers, LDAP, RBAC, Sahara,

Bare-Metal, virtualization, Juniper Contrail, network virtualization–SDN controller, virtual router, northbound

APIs, southbound interfaces and protocol plugins, Juniper Contrail SDN, OpenStack Networking API,

OPEN DAYLIGHT (ODL) – Helium, Software -Define Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization

(NFV), Juniper networks, Brocade, Kemp Load Balancers, radware, vmware, and OPNFV.

  · Conducted assessments and architected designs for numerous clients in several industries from

manufacturing, telecommunications, mobile, entertainment, and government to healthcare. Analyzed data

and architected solutions including storage, cloud, OpenStack, AWS, SoftLayer, Big Data, Apache Hadoop,

Load Balancer, VMware, Linux and Windows. Proficiency in vCenter, vSphere, VMware 5.5 and ESXi 5.5,

and VMware Best Practices ESX 5.5 along with maximum thresholds and capacity management.

  · Lead Scrum teams and cloud design in an agile environment. Excellent listening and communications

skills. Proficiency in deliverable formulation and design. Conducted reviews, conference calls, and duediligence

for requirements analysis to formulate target architecture.

  · Extensive experience with Open Stack, AWS, SoftLayer, and IBM cloud platforms. Proficiency in sourcing

environment and designing target cloud platforms and ecosystems. Proficiency in POC - IaaS, AWS,

Amazon - Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, DevOps, Chef, Puppet. Proficiency in SoftLayer, Cloud POCs

and design. Proficient in design and debugging scripts (Python and Bourne / Korn shell) along with

OpenStack issues in deployments and configuration. Proficiency in cloud leading practices, identifying risks

and issues and formulating a roadmap and making recommendations.

  · Worked strategically and technically on migrations within manufacturing, mobile and telecommunications

industry in the cloud environment. Worked as lead senior architect on a team formulating, designing,

architecting, and procurement and provisioning of storage solutions on storage arrays, applications and

hosts. Proficient with Vblock - EMC storage arrays, VMware, switches Brocade and Cisco, servers,

infrastructure and networking.

  · Worked as a Lead Sr. Storage Architect. Proficient in EMC, HP 3PAR, NetApp, Hitachi, - Storage Engineer

/ Capacity Management - Metrics, KPIs, Disk I/O, latency, bandwidth, utilization, IOPS, Server and

Database - Oracle / SQL issues. Proficient in 3GPP, (3GPP), VoLTE, 4G LTE, SIP, IMS, Diameter, and

VoIP/ Server Consolidation and virtualization.

  · Evaluated, designed, architected and migrated data from source to target storage to support the business

requirements and scope of the SOW. Assessed and determined the viability of the environment, across

sites and regions, for continuous availability and data mobility platforms to allow consideration of missioncritical

applications to remain up during downtime scenarios Proficiency in SAN, NAS, storage, VMware,

SIP, AAA, 3GPP, IMS, VoIP, VoLTE, 4G, Diameter, IPv4, IPv6, TCP/IP, security, network infrastructure,

latency, bandwidth, IOPS, performance, capacity, analytical skills and effective communication skills were

required.

  · (Q3 2012 - Q3 2014). DELL. Proficient with storage architect design and storage engineer BOMs.

Proficiency with EMC and DELL storage arrays, VMware, switches Brocade and Cisco, servers,

infrastructure and networking. Worked as a Storage Advisor and Storage Architect -to assist the Dell

migrations. Proficiency in Dell Compellent Storage Center storage provisioning, EMC Unisphere LUN

provisioning and discovery. Proficiency in EMC, VMware, vCenter, VMware vSphere Client and vSphere

Web Client. Worked as a lead storage architect on international migrations.

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  · (Q4 2011 - Q3 2012). CSC. Proficient with EMC storage arrays, VMware, switches Brocade and Cisco,

servers, infrastructure and networking. Worked as a Storage Architect / Engineer leading migrations and

SAN design for clients within the United States.

  · (Q1 2008 - Q3 2011). USDA FS. Proficient with EMC storage arrays, VMware, switches Brocade and

Cisco, servers, infrastructure and networking. Proficiency in Storage Management, Capacity Management,

Disaster Recovery and Applications Management.

  · (Q2 2010 - Q4 2010). DIRECTV. Proficiency in applications, infrastructure zones, DMZ, LAN, internal,

external – zones, load balancer, storage, apps, VMware, UNIX / Linux, Windows, VMware, SAN, NAS and

Wintel platforms. Conducted client interviews, assessments and formulated design deliverables and

designed total IT solutions for client.

  · (Q4 2009 - Q1 2010). United Health Group. Conducted team lead activities and worked as an IT Architect /

Systems Engineer for large scale medical client. Applications were housed on UNIX / Linux, Windows,

VMware, SAN, NAS and Wintel platforms. Conducted client interviews, assessments and formulated

design deliverables and designed total IT solutions for client.

  · (Q1 2006 - Q4 2007). IBM and Fiat / IVECO (Manufacturing) Conducted team lead kick-off meetings with

all pertinent stakeholders and utilized Microsoft Project to manage migrations. Analyzed infrastructure

related to applications and associated system and performance parameters. Extensive travel (100 %

travels) within Europe and the United States to and from client site (Fiat / Iveco) working continuously on

the project deliverables, some remote work required.

  · (Q1 2003 – Q1 2006). US Navy DELL (Government / Manufacturing) Conducted team lead activities and

worked as an IT Architect / Systems Engineer for large scale medical client. Conducted client interviews,

assessments and formulated design deliverables and designed total IT solutions for client.

  · (Q1 2002 - Q1 2003). (Government) Provided advanced Senior UNIX Enterprise consulting and

administration to (Colorado Secretary of State). Mentored junior staff. Created documents on processes

and systems.

Sr. IT / Storage Architect, AdTech. (11/2000 to 12/2001). Gambro provided technical engagement expertise and

strategic engagement expertise consulting in the information technology industry within healthcare industry in

United States and Europe.

IT Architect, Analysts International, (09/1993 to 10/2000). US West Provided SME consultation in the

telecommunications industry. Provided technical engagement expertise and strategic engagement expertise

consulting in the information technology industry within various sectors to AiC in United States and Canada.

EDUCATION

Cloud Architect / Developer – OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2015

Cloud Architect / Developer – OpenStack Summit Paris 2014

Apache Hadoop 2014. Big Data 2014. OpenStack 2014. Amazon AWS 2014. SoftLayer 2014.

VMware ESXi 5.5 Best Practices 2014. VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage V4.1 2011.

MBA, University of Phoenix, Lone Tree, Colorado Campus 2002.

B.Comm. (Co-op), Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1993.

B.A., Economics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1993.

CERTIFICATIONS

VMware vSphere 5.5 2014 ESXi 5.5 Best Practices 2014 / Install, Configure, Manage V4.1 VCP eligible. 2011.

Cloud, SoftLayer, Python, OpenStack, Big Data, AIX, UNIX, Linux, and Opensource architecture, 2014.

Storage Webinars, Webcasts and Conferences 2014.

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Phone (310) 484 - 6364

johns@sullecon.com