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0-5 years of experience
Designed and managed engineering and IT based projects under Communications Engineering Capital Program Management.
- Reduced maintenance cycle time by 90% by designing a user-friendly and scalable maintenance application.
- Created and led the first ever-mentoring forum for NYCT to connect cross-functional departments.
- Increased the success rate on data backup from 44% to 99.5% through the identification and implementation of multiple critical fixes for the digital recording system.
0-5 years of experience
Promoted to oversee architecture enhancements to EAI and B2B infrastructures. Led two separate EAI Broker application upgrades. Defined and executed ‘hot’ upgrade of application infrastructure. Key contributor to B2B application upgrade, identifying processes and procedures for upgrade. Championed project to optimize infrastructure hardware utilization. Architected shared, highly available, hardware environment to enable co-hosting of EAI broker and EAI adapter applications. Determined file system structures, naming standards and business continuation strategy.
- Reduced each upgrade’s planning and execution cycle-time by 50%.
- Contributed to architecture of merging EAI Broker infrastructure with newly deployed webMethods B2B infrastructure.
- Designed and documented test suites, business impact analysis, conducted internal end user communications, and managed onsite vendor resources.
- Conducted architecture reviews with application vendors and Motorola Senior Management, garnering grade-level promotion.
0-5 years of experience
Brought on by the corporate CIO to lead the needs assessment, development, and implementation of a global IT strategy encompassing technology standards and global IT infrastructure. Executed a worldwide benchmarking study across the $73M, 390-employee, highly decentralized IT services organization to develop a long-term strategy that remains today as the company’s guiding principle for IT across all organizational levels. Served as the chief liaison among CIOs heading 8 individual business units.
- Achieved more than $6M in sustained annual savings with the successful completion of this turnkey IT strategic Shared Services initiative.
- Acknowledged with the CIO Award of Significant Contribution for directly impacting profitability through critical IT cost savings.
- Instituted streamlined, consistent IT services delivery by consolidating back office IT services from 10 business units into a single, independent Shared Services business unit to support all of North, South, and Latin America representing nearly 70% of Dole’s overall revenues.
- Realized $1.2M in overall savings while improving telecommunications infrastructure reliability and availability with the global consolidation and redesign of the networking services and service providers.
- Generated $500K in annual savings, brought network reliability to 99.95%, and virtually eliminated product shortages, U.S. Customs violations, and errors in port operations with a comprehensive infrastructure rationalization program.
- Slashed infrastructure services costs 30% while implementing a real-time infrastructure technology, improving applications and system availability, reliability, and serviceability and enabling Dole’s achievement of global product traceability and food safety government compliance.
0-5 years of experience
Designed and managed engineering and IT based projects under Communications Engineering Capital Program Management.
- Reduced maintenance cycle time by 90% by designing a user-friendly and scalable maintenance application.
- Created and led the first ever-mentoring forum for NYCT to connect cross-functional departments.
- Increased the success rate on data backup from 44% to 99.5% through the identification and implementation of multiple critical fixes for the digital recording system.
6-10 years of experience
Responsible for developing data center and infrastructure architectures, strategies and designs, product and technology selection, asset management, and capacity provisioning for both internal business and product computing infrastructures.
- Developed a global VMware ESX based server virtualization architecture that resulted in a 40% reduction in data center space and power costs and reduced server provisioning times by half.
- Developed a consolidated global infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync, scaled for 22,000 users that reduced the need for several data centers to just two.
- Technical project lead for several server, storage, and management tool vendor studies from the request for proposal to the final contract, which resulted in global standards and 20% cost reductions.
- Designed a multi-tenant virtual solution to provide IaaS/SaaS service for customers that resulted in the elimination of an outsourced data center contract.
- Managed a global redeploy process to re-assign underutilized server and storage assets that reduced new purchases by 30%
- Provided technical consulting for an assessment of global cloud service providers.
- Reviewed all infrastructure capacity requests for compliance with security and internal business controls.
- Consistently met or exceeded all project objectives
0-5 years of experience
System Administration / Development, UNIX System Administration & Analyst, Designer & Developer of EXMAS
- Recommended, developed and implemented Expert Maintenance Assistance System, which increased user community by 45%
- Independently designed the expert system for 49 production-system machines so as to speed up the fault-diagnosis process, resulting in a more reliable & timely machine-maintenance.
- Installing the Sun Solaris, HP servers & the requisite patch Bundles
- Creation of Logical Volumes, File Systems, System performance monitoring and fine-tuning
- Maintained and supported existing systems in the post implementation phase
- Assistance in implementation, maintenance and enhancement efforts at TISCO & technical documentation of the complete project
0-5 years of experience
Empowered to identify and drive expanding opportunities for designing the entire distributed server environment to achieve maximum effectiveness.
- Generated over $15M in savings over three years and an additional $2.5M in cost avoidance. Transformed ad-hoc, project-owned islands to an N-tier J2EE, PCI supporting, infrastructure. Redeployed assets, retired over 75 servers through consolidation, and reuse of hardware and software.
- Initiated the first LINUX (SUSE & Redhat) / x86 and Itanium server “new” environments after extensive evaluation, cost justification and business case preparation. Redeployed the common enterprise UNIX database environment from HPUX to AIX based on extensive TCO / cost-benefit analysis.
- Sized and designed a 700+ server VMWare ESX Wintel / Linux Consolidation effort.
- Coordinated the upgrade of over 250 Unix servers from older, slower models to fewer, faster models. (Examples: HP R, K, L, N, V to L, N, Superdome; IBM R, SP2, SP3, S80 to p5x0, p5x5, p6x0; Sun v2x0, v4x0 with associated OS and DB release upgrades)
- Replatformed an application from Laserdisc arrays to EMC Centera CAS.
- Maintained a “license bank”, and redeployed custom applications, licensed software and server resources to accommodate business requirements.
- Provided the cluster design for the Unix Disaster Recovery initiative run by the Operations group.
- Created and presented the evolving server infrastructure/cluster designs to senior management and IT organization bi-annually.
- Increased the obsolescence index, thus decreasing maintenance and switch fabric expenses.
- Led Capacity Management group during manager’s 6-month absence.
0-5 years of experience
Provided risk assessments of key corporate initiatives to create a corrective technology strategy.
- Developed and implemented a custom web-based identity management system to automate the on-boarding and off-boarding of employees across all technologies (PeopleSoft, Remedy, Active Directory, Exchange, and many others).
- Provided strategic technology vision to executives to forecast growth and allocations against projected company revenues and initiatives.
- Designed the migration plan to Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000, and led the implementation team.
- Implemented the Microsoft Terminal Server environment for Customer Care Centers, which dramatically reduced the support costs, while increasing productivity and enhancing workflow.
- Developed custom applications for such internal functions as Exchange Directory updates, web based paging software, and many others.
0-5 years of experience
Develop and maintain the overall logical and technical IT architecture of virtualization, servers, networks, and security. Provide vision and lead strategic security planning for evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future security technologies. Provide technical leadership and consulting across the organization, from strategic recommendations down to the project planning level. Provide direction, and training to IT team members. Develop plans for IT infrastructure, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities. Provide 4th level support/escalation for infrastructure issues. System administration. Network monitoring.
- Redesigned and implemented new corporate WAN environment saving $120,000 / year
- Designed infrastructure for $9 million software implementation
- Implemented corporate Open Source policy
- Responsible for corporate policy and implementation of mobile devices (iPhone, iPad, and Android).
0-5 years of experience
Oversaw the construction of a large-scale active directory and SharePoint infrastructure to accommodate a user-base of 270,000 students, across various campuses.
- Supervised and managed the reconfiguring of SGHE remote access protocols and virtual-hosting solutions to support these campuses.
- Designed and implemented Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment for cloud applications serving clients across the US and Latin America.
- Responsible for leading several business initiatives requiring extensive collaboration among numerous departments and groups.
6-10 years of experience
Project lead on Hybrid Cloud pilot effort, including vendor selection and cost justification.
- Introduced Enterprise Server Virtualization to the company.
- Led contract negotiations with VMware and then implemented a multi million dollar virtualization
- Developed standards and operational procedures for everything from Host Server design to Virtual
- Developed bill-back model for virtual machines based on resource consumption
- Designed multi-site DR solution based on block level storage replication and VMware SRM
- Designed and Implemented small Virtualization stack for Remote sites
- Supervised 5 to 10 technical staff at a time on various projects
0-5 years of experience
Managed projects to upgrade HVMA’s Enterprise Architecture using all ITIL Architecture Processes
- Acted as the liaison between the business units and the IT Infrastructure teams, building Arbitrated Agreements and bringing the HVMA infrastructure back into compliance to Federal standards within six months.
- Directed work for 4 external engineers and 6 internal engineers and two managers for hand-off once the company became compliant.
- Worked with Security Officers of company to define what compliance issues existed within the company based on federal mandates. Developed reports for CIO/CTO to show strategy and design to facilitate compliance
- Designed strategy to bring company back into compliance with security regulatory mandates.
- Developed training manuals and artifacts to be used by the datacenter team, in order to maintain compliance after “lights-on”.
- Trained 12 member team and directors on IT compliance protocols and ITSM best practices
- Wrote SLAs, procedures and processes, produced reports, delivered presentations at all levels of organization
- Directed and communicated activities and agreement with third party vendors.
- Created CSF and KPIs and measured the success and movement forward of the Datacenter on a monthly basis.
- Wrote presentations and presented findings to various Directors and Business Units within entire organization.
0-5 years of experience
Architected and implemented ESX 3.x Infrastructure on HP Blades at multiple data centers.
- Team Lead managing 6 Vmware engineers performing operational support at multiple data centers.
- Successfully migrated over 824 physical x86 servers to a virtual environment.
- Architected Disaster Recovery solution Utilizing VMware and leveraging EMC SRDF replication. Expanded the recovery to include physicals with a P2V process. Successfully tested with multiple live disaster tests.
- Managed SLA’s and SAS70 audit.
- VMware Consolidated Backup engineering and support, Backing up 1700 VMs over night.
- Hosted Virtual Machine User Group for Northrop Grumman and Commonwealth of Virginia.
- Powershell Scripting
0-5 years of experience
Administered the automated SFTP file transfer system used by this financial firm. Managed process to transfer files with approxmiately 200 external firms
- Administered the enterprise scheduling system (TIDAL Enterprise Scheduler). System executed approx. 10,000 jobs per day in support of front, middle, and back office operations
- Re-architected the methodology the firm uses for file transfers between counterparties by writing code to better automate and error check transfers
- Provided project management and infrastructure design services including intelligent automation through script development and scheduling
- Provided general Linux (RHEL), scripting, and storage (NetApp) support as needed
0-5 years of experience
Corrected all Java version problems and memory problems in the IBM WebSphere 5.0 Environment and upgraded the environment to WebSphere 5.1 with no unscheduled downtime to the production environment.
- Implemented and maintained all MS SQL repositories in the Hyperion financial reporting environment (i.e.: backups, cleanups, sql scripts for external authentication, etc.)
- Promoted to team lead Architect of Business Intelligence of Information Technologies – Hyperion Products – Infrastructure
- Maintained and helped design the Infrastructure for the Hyperion Application environment including Hyperion Essbase, Analyzer, and Reports as well as Hyperion Enterprise, Hyperion Financial Management, and Upstream
- Developed custom applications in Visual Basic.NET and Java as well as many DOS batch scripts and WMI scripts for environment configuration and management saving over thousands of dollars for the bank as well as providing a more stable and lower cost of ownership environment.
- Used MAXL and other tools to maintain over 30 cubes within Essbase
- Performed upgrades of all applications for the financial reporting department including Hyperion Enterprise, HFM, Essbase XTD, Analyzer, and Reports. This included redeployment of WebSphere ear files, redeployment of databases, and redesign of the infrastructure to meet with the new demands of the applications
0-5 years of experience
Worked closely with service owners, technical teams, and LoBs to understand current and future network needs to develop a 5 year strategy and capability roadmaps for core network components. Created end-state and transition architectures and provided governance for architecturally significant network projects.
- Delivered 5 year network strategy and technical roadmap used for planning and budgeting future network upgrades and identifying dependencies.
- Acted as network architecture lead for private cloud implementation to improve speed, flexibility, and scalability of IT delivery in Development
- Created high-level design and provided architectural oversight and governance for new data center environment using latest Cisco technology to support migration from legacy data center
10+ years of experience
Architected and implemented technology solutions for multiple government contracts.
- Assessed disaster recovery services for five [company name] accounts.
- Responsible for infrastructure and strategic growth of the Vancouver Technical Resource Center.
- Provided marketing support for local business opportunities and EDS’ targeted industries.
- Served as the national technical coordinator for EDS’ State Operations Division for electronic transmissions.
0-5 years of experience
- Created and drove strategy and implementation of high availability, load balancing, geographic redundancy, disaster recovery, CDN, and whole site delivery within HP.com.
- Served as a capacity planning expert for the E-business unit, helping shopping, single sign-on, catalog, pricing, and other systems to scale.
- Consolidated systems and operations acquired during various mergers, including Compaq.
- Obtained management support and funding for various software development and infrastructure procurement initiatives targeted to increase performance and availability, and reduce costs through increased automation.
0-5 years of experience
Defined the IT design methodology, development process methodology and best practices.
- Focused on the standards and technologies for enabling systems performance qualities, such as availability, scalability, recoverability, etc.
- Established processes to monitor existing systems for performance problems and drafts system migration plan if necessary.
- Monitored performance benchmarks.
- Worked with different departments to facilitate systems integration.
- Provided a focal point for all technical issues and initiatives on projects
- Ensured that all components of the technical architecture are properly implemented.
0-5 years of experience
Audited and Analysed Providence Health Service core Infrastructure network
- Provided capacity planning and performance monitoring to sustain and improve platform availability and efficiency.
- Provided gap analyse for Providence Health Service
- Recommended best practice, and wrote procedure and policies for Providence Health Service
- Defined and evangelized enterprise policies, standards and position statements for new and existing Active Directory related technologies.
- Provided technical and project leadership across a diverse team for multiple Active Directory programs and projects.
- Developed, defined and published best practices and processes for Providence Health Services directory infrastructure based on industry and vendor published best practices.
0-5 years of experience
[company name] serves more than 8 million consumers, as the nation’s largest electronic payment, on-premise and cloud computing healthcare solution that administers reimbursement accounts, including HSAs, HRAs, FSAs, VEBAs, Wellness and Transit Plans.
- Responsible for the Disaster Recovery strategy, build out, execution, and testing for the OnDemand(TM) application
- Responsible for managing hosted service provider contract of approximately $2.5 Million annually. At the end of 2009, renegotiated the contract to save [company name] $400,000 per year with no reduction of service. In 2012, renegotiated the contract again for more than a $2 Million savings over three years
- Managed the Data Center Cutover Project to move all servers from a hosted solution to a colocation environment
- Managed four PCI Audits, including participating in most interviews and updating all company policies/procedures
- Managed the CM team which was responsible for deploying code, managing all configuration changes, managing the change process, and supporting everything in all environments, except for the internally developed application
- Managed the Corporate Infrastructure team which was responsible for supporting desktops, servers, e-mail, telephony, and networking for 250 users across five locations with a budget of approximately $2.5 Million annually
- Managed an internal licensing audit, responded to numerous RFPs, three SAS70 Audits, and a SSAE 16 Audit
0-5 years of experience
- Designed and generated infrastructure architecture models for TIBCO’s Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to loosely couple interrelated applications and minimize business outages, allowing any key application to be enhanced without would effecting the operations of other related applications and loss of business revenue.
- Led and partnered with Solution Architect and Applications Team to design the optimal implementation model for a Corporate Action automation system using a Swift based vendor package. The Software components used n-tiered architect integrating internal systems, TIBCO ESB, Informatica PowerCenter, and WebLogic hosted on HP and Sun mid-range servers.
- Produced Total Cost of Ownership models to identify the best platform on consolidated and centralized Lotus Notes mail servers, improving cost efficiency with a targeted savings of 20% plus.
- Developed an Infrastructure Reference Architecture template and governance model to document reusable technology solutions reducing the upfront planning and design costs.
- Assisted in identifying different point of views approaches to solve technical solutions and uses a variety of techniques to resolve difference of opinions on projects.
0-5 years of experience
Infrastructure architect partnering with systems engineers to implement enterprise architected business solutions.
- Production support including on-call support for packaged and custom applications as well as Infrastructure production support (Includes proactive monitoring and alerting as well as preemptive alerting allowing for problems to be resolved before an outage occurs.)
- Contributed to the architecture of redundant systems to meet present day high availability needs while planning for business growth and future needed systems at Bob Evans.
- Contributed to our WebSphere Portal architecture design utilizing clustered servers and AD integration. Primary support person for WebSphere.
- Contributed to the design, architecture and implementation of MS System Center Operations Manager for internal systems monitoring.
- Create and maintain systems architecture diagrams integrating business process and communications flows.
- Assessed and architected enterprise-wide data management system that allows for business determined data aging and archiving processes in addition to recovery time and recovery point objectives.
0-5 years of experience
Utilized expertise in IT and aviation.
- Managed the transition of an enterprise data set from disparate storage systems to a NetApp V6280A.
- Consulted on the Dassault Systèmes SmarTeam application to improve performance and availability.
- Performed essential functions as a key member of the IT LEAN steering committee.
0-5 years of experience
Provides the architecture structure, support and implementation for investment banking applications interfacing with DTCC, Omgeo, OCC, NSCC, ADP/Broadridge, Equilend, Loanet and others. The environment utilizes MQSeries/Message Broker, TibcoEMS and Solace.
- Supported the integration of an acquired company infrastructure into existing processing flows using best practices.
- Reviewed upgrade to IIB.
- Worked through security audit issues that entailed SSL, CyberArk, open access, and Unix entitlements.
- Migrated from Nastel to BMM product.
- Responsibilities include administration, engineering, documentation of support procedures, development and 24 by 7 global production support that encompasses the full project life cycle.
- Technical support includes working with developers through application issues. This manifests itself in reviewing JMS client configurations, error logs, reviewing processing flows, etc.
0-5 years of experience
Owned and managed application infrastructure for Supply Chain systems.
- Provided architecture design, with a three-year rolling infrastructure plan, including hardware, software, middleware, storage, and network components.
- Provided proactive input to application teams to improve performance and optimize processes.
- Implemented on-going monthly and quarterly meetings with development, engineering, and business customers to review plans, and identify opportunities and potential challenges.
- Managed project teams through three large environment, multi-year, IT infrastructure refresh projects. These projects included multiple sub-projects, and multiple project teams, mid-range and x86 servers, and SAN storage.
- Guided application development and testing teams in test plan designs, to ensure all integration points were validated during testing.
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for SAN capacity, growth and migration of EMC to multiple Compellent Storage Centers
- Architected VLAN tagged iSCSI and multiple VSAN Fiber Channel SAN infrastructures.
- Responsible for VMware consolidation from multi data center to single more dense data center.
- Technical lead for upgrade of 900 + VMware 3.5 vm to VMware vSphere 4.1 with Nexus 1000v policy based VM’s
- Architected virtualization solution avoiding a mutil-million dollar upgrade and reducing data center TCO by nearly 25%
- Principle architect for FCoE ready Cisco UCS, Nexus 7k / 5k data center consolidation project
- Team lead responsible for redesign and build out of high speed Fiber Channel Comvault Simpana VM backup solution
0-5 years of experience
Global Business Services
- Deutsche Telekom, a German Telephone company. Request for Proposal (RFP) for developing the Next Generation Service and System Management (NGSSM). Price expected to be over $100M.
- Facing strong competition IBM has collected a world wide team for a Bid and Proposal effort in the city of Cologne, Germany.
- Served as IT Solution Performance Architect to address the issues of Application Architecture in the area of Performance and Capacity Management. Strong emphasis on DB and data archiving.
- Lead hardware sizing effort. Coordinated efforts of an international team of experts.
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for all aspects of IT infrastructure, architecture, and system performance for the North America region. Collaborated with and advised regional teams outside of NA for global IT projects and company-wide technology decisions.
- Managed production applications, servers, external web presence, and code deployments
- Implemented and managed remote site DR for primary applications and sites
- Responsible for North American Active Directory and related aspects (GPO, etc.)
- Managed and supported ESXi VMware vCenter infrastructures
- Designed architecture to migrate ESXi 4.1 to 5.0 consisting of separate DEV/QA and Production environments
- Designed and implemented a national rollout of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager for the desktop team to manage assets, software, and patches
- Worked with system engineers to design architecture to migrate ESXi 4.1 to 5.0 consisting of separate DEV/QA and Production environments
6-10 years of experience
Primary responsibilities are to develop detailed engineering solutions for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Account in their lights-out data center.
- Manage the standard server model configurations for FDA’s production data center.
- Work with various FDA application development teams to plan multiple large application migration projects from older FDA datacenters into the new lights-out datacenter.
- Work with various FDA application development teams to scale the virtual server loading and sizing requirements.
- Designated primary Firewall Engineer subject matter expert to help various FDA application development teams provide secure access to and within the FDA server environments.
- Assisted network engineering team with F5 load balancer architecture and management.
- Provided ad hoc network architecture training to various software and database engineering support teams.
0-5 years of experience
Enable [company name] customers to achieve business goals with focus on technology, people and process. Strategic analysis and design of infrastructure and cloud architecture solutions for Fortune 500 customers; providing technology and operations leadership from the early sales cycle to the end of the delivery process. Ensure that complex infrastructure and cloud solutions shifting organizations to an as-a-service (ITaaS/PaaS/IaaS) operational model executed to meet successful deployment on time and on budget.
- Developed multi-vendor value positioning and messaging for the solution offerings
- Published dozen of best practice guides focus on operation optimization, virtualization (VMWare and Hyper-V), public/hybrid/private cloud migration and business continuity
- Architected “As a Service” Infrastructure and Cloud solutions in order to meet requirements of customers and Service Providers who rely on providers such as AWS, Google and Virtustream as well as tools like BMC and Cisco
- Designed and Implementation of Application and Data architectures
- Architected, designed and blueprinted of a web CRM system for 65k concurrent users
- Architected, designed and Implementation support of an energy company modernization to virtualized IT with zero downtime and supporting 2.7M customers
- Overseeing execution, including the auditing of the final delivery compliance to the original plan, while assuring adherence to ITIL and operations best practices
- Responsible for all services architecture aspects of the [company name]’s Managed Storage Services
0-5 years of experience
Continued previous role while assisting sales and channel partners to help drive the entire software business unit
- Worked with division executives to make long-term strategic infrastructure decisions
- Liaised as pre-sales technical SME to guide clients in cluster sizing and complexity
- Upgraded vendor status with both hardware and software partners to reduce purchasing costs and increase margins
- Migrated Oracle RAC and Red Hat cluster solutions from DAS to SAN technologies, reducing hardware costs for larger implementations
0-5 years of experience
Led effort to implement IT infrastructure in a new 10,000 sq. ft. Tier 3 datacenter and headquarters campus. Designed structured cabling plant for datacenter. Selected products and designed routed campus network and datacenter FabricPath network using Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000, and 1000V; directed and assisted senior network engineer with implementation. Selected products and designed SAN utilizing IBM XIV, DS3500, and DS3000 storage arrays and Nexus 5000 and 2000 switches. Selected products and designed VMware vSphere environment supporting 500+ virtual machines and vCloud Director for development and testing. Directed and assisted senior system engineers with zoning, provisioning, and deployment of hardware. Planned migration of all corporate IT services and broadcast systems to new facility with no production outages.
- Assisted senior management with planning capital and operations budgets. Suggested, selected, and planned capital projects to meet business objectives. Worked with vendors and resellers to estimate capital costs.
- Researched new technologies and planned proof-of-concept and production implementations. Oversaw and assisted operations staff members with implementation.
- Worked with other technology groups and business units to provide infrastructure services to meet new business objectives and support new initiatives. Ensured delivery of highly-available services for corporate IT needs as well as broadcast and content-production.
- Mentored and advised senior operations staff members on the infrastructure team. Planned projects for deployment of technologies such as Exchange, vSphere, vCloud Director, Site Recovery Manager, XenApp, Microsoft System Center products, NetIQ DRA, and CommVault.
0-5 years of experience
Assisted in maintaining the Unified Communications through Microsoft Lync
- Deployed and configured Polycom VoIP phones for Campus
- Aided in the decommissioning of the PBX Systems
- Solved issues with faxes and phones for faculty and staff
0-5 years of experience
Infrastructure Engineer and Sr. DBA for all Oracle and SQL Server instances supporting the Joint Explosive Ordinance (JEOD) Center
- Establish Standards for all backups, disaster recovery, and physical layouts for all databases. Migrate all instances to standards.
- Sr. Oracle DBA on 3 two node RAC Oracle 11G R2 clusters.
- Sr. SQL Server 2012 DBA on VM Clusters.
- Responsible for the migration of Oracle based applications to corresponding SQL Server 2012 databases
- Responsible for troubleshooting issues, monitoring performance, instance installation, and database configuration of all Oracle and SQL Server Instances.
- 3 month Contract Position
0-5 years of experience
- Responsible for providing key clients with Microsoft technology consulting and design and project management.
- Designed, built and deployed high-availability business systems for McNeil Consumer Healthcare projects including Statistica Data Mining (R&D), Core Dossier FDA Submission (Clinical), Chemical Weighing (Manufacturing), Nortel Symposium Call Center (Telecom), Capacity Planning (R&D) and Performance Data Management (HR).
- Facilitated the on-schedule launch of McNeil’s new product, Flexeril 5, by managing an accelerated technology rollout including deployment of managed mobile computing and voicemail services to a 300+ user sales force
- Reduced infrastructure costs by implementing VMware to consolidate servers and P2V legacy systems
- Increased infrastructure and application availability by deploying leading system management and monitoring tools including HP Systems Insight Manager and OpenView.
- Reduced time for GxP validation work by developing reusable IQOQ templates and automating testing.
- Technologies utilized included Microsoft Windows Server, VMware, SAP, Nortel VPN, Citrix, Lotus Domino, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft Access, enList LDAP Reporting Server, ATG Dynamo, BEA WebLogic, VMS DCL script, VBscript.
0-5 years of experience
- Designed and managed implementation of the enterprise virtualization design and strategy, supporting both the WinTel and Solaris platforms (VMware and Solaris Zones). The strategy included policies, best practices, business continuity and service selection criteria.
- Provided assistance and guidance to the Distributed Systems group in order to maintain, troubleshoot and repair Enterprise systems and services (AD, Group Policy, Messaging, Database and Web Applications).
- Designed monitoring and management processes for VMware virtual infrastructure, AD and Messaging.
- Served as a SME for troubleshooting AD and VMware day to day issues as well as providing guidance in recommended best practices.
6-10 years of experience
Engineer solutions that meet business needs while aligning with operating priorities and roadmaps
- Act as a subject matter expert on various technologies (WAN/LAN, Internet and network security, enterprise hosting, desktop management solutions, enterprise data security)
- Lead IT projects (3000+ hours of IT Project Management experience)
- Serve as a technical lead on IT projects
- Evaluate new technologies and write white papers and position papers for business value
- Write and maintain roadmap documents, control plans, run books and support and process documentation
- Engineering, implementation and maintenance of WAN, Network Security and Internet infrastructure (Radware Linkproof, DefensePro, Alteon, AppDirector, AppWall, Riverbed Steelhead, Checkpoint Firewalls, Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco ASA, Bluecoat ProxySG, Cisco WSA, Cisco Scansafe, Microsoft Forefront TMG)
0-5 years of experience
Design/Architect network infrastructure for all financial/hedge fund consulting clients.
- Provide senior level engineering support for all financial client the company supported.
- Provide account / project management services for customers, which include business process analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and resource management.
- Provide pre and post sales and engineering support and implementation services for new and existing clients.
- Re-architect company’s two data centers to enhance and expand disaster recovery/business continuity services for existing and new financial service customers; provide “go-live” capabilities for business operations and customer applications utilizing EMC/Dell/VMWare hardware/software.
- Work with department managers to review client issues and create projects based off of their needs.
- Establish and maintain relationships with product manufacturers and vendors that the company represents.
0-5 years of experience
Served as primary Infrastructure Architect for all Windows based projects in the Business and Operations Systems business unit, covering [company name], American Eagle, AACargo, B2E, Finance and HR. Work included teaming with Software Architecture to determine the correct development platform, detailing hardware and software configuration, building bill of materials, documenting implementation configuration, ensuring architecture complied with company standards, overseeing test of project in house and turning over to managed hosting provider.
- Major projects included enterprise wise NT4.0 elimination, SOX compliance, and HP Blade and VMWare virtualization strategies.
- Developed Sharepoint based collaboration site for project and document tracking.
- Worked on enterprise wide effort to build DR/BC across physical datacenters for vital applications.
0-5 years of experience
Daily tasks include: Installation and configuration of complete WebSphere infrastructure:
- WAS v5.02 EE server -WAS v5.02 EE ND
- WAS v2.0 Edge Server (load-balancer) -WAS MQ 5.3 w/clusters
- WAS MQI v2.0 Broker, w/Configuration Manager set-up on W2k system
- DB2 UDB Connect EE v8.1 -IBM Directory Server v5.1 (ldap)
- GPFS Configuration -WAS clustering
6-10 years of experience
Served as the infrastructure liaison with corporate and infrastructure areas of [company name]. These corporate areas included diverse business functions, from the Finance area to [company name] Investment Management Company to runoff businesses. I was responsible for initiating the infrastructure portion of the projects, then gathering the business/technical requirements for those projects.
- Infrastructure Architect for the implementation of multiple infrastructure upgrades and new functionality, including a Documentum upgrade and a collaboration product upgrade.
- Followed projects through to the end of the design process to be sure they met business requirements.
- Ensured designs met tactical and strategic infrastructure directions.
- Key resource for dealing with technical issues on projects as they arose. These issues ranged from authentication and authorization designs problems with external companies to how to implement a dongle in a virtual servers.
- Served as a mentor for peers, both from a “how do you deal with this type of customer” to “is this a proper infrastructure solution for this type of situation”.
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for architecting, designing, planning, and documenting of information technology solutions relative to the data, storage, and security infrastructure and related client services within the enterprise to meet business requirements.
- Gather customer’s business and technical requirements and in cases where such requirements are unavailable, should be able to define these requirements based on discussions with the customer.
- Refine technical requirements; functional, non-functional and operational requirements based on business needs, demand, and growth patterns
- Provide architecture consulting and authoritative technical guidance to executive leadership, management, and teams across IT
- Create technical architecture diagrams and description based on these requirements. Be able to create requirements mapping matrices to map each component of the technical solution back to a technical requirement
- Manage large infrastructure migration and consolidation programs & projects
0-5 years of experience
Architect Infrastructure Strategy and align technology with the direction of business.
- Design solutions that accomplish business units objectives.
- Project management responsibilities for determining project objectives, requirements, scope, strategy, milestones, and resources.
- Create proof of concepts and help build internal business cases.
- Played key role in relocation of Data Center across the country to a new site. This relocation saved the company over 3 million a year in IT costs. Lead Infrastructure and Virtualization components of the Data Center move. Additionally built new racks of systems and cabling of Fiber and Ethernet and setting up patch panels.
- Lead virtualization of over 400 servers. Including many mission critical tier 1 applications. Currently scoping out new projects, which will potentially add another 300 virtual machines to the environment.
- Assisted in managing EMC Clariion environment with another admin (CX 3-80, CX500, CX700) and Cisco Fabric and Brocade switches for zoning.
- Evaluated new storage and performed performance benchmarks. Deployed NetApp SAN and Equallogics for proof of concept.
- Capacity planning for storage and infrastructure.
- Worked with C level executives on Architecture Council, which charters the corporate technology roadmap.
- Leveraged SharePoint to automate business processes and track historical data.
0-5 years of experience
Sr Infrastructure Architect on the NGEN (Next Generation), at [company name] of IL, TX, NM, OK
- Oversee the design the for MDM – Master Database Management – This system integrates with Vantage (retail insurance system, formerly Hallmark) with HCSC ODS, DHIM systems.
- Specify the requirements for DMIH – Data movement Integration Hub environments that capture member’s data changes in real time from Vantage (Hallmark systems) and integrate into HCSC systems.
- Data and Analytics – design the reporting infrastructure for reporting for the NGEN project.
- Design the infrastructure for the issuing Health ID cards.
- Size the AIX server for the entire environment.
- Design the infrastructure for the [company name] IL system’s integration with TMG (TMG Health is a national provider of business applications and services for Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D and Managed Medicaid plans) and the Government systems.
0-5 years of experience
Analysis, Design and Implementation of SharePoint 2013 farm.
- Analyzing the client requirements and translating them into technical specs.
- Design of high level logical and physical architectures.
- Installation and configuration of designed farm with Microsoft best practices.
- Defining taxonomy and governance
- Conducting sessions with client’s groups to understanding and defining the taxonomy and governance for the newly built SharePoint 2013 farm.
0-5 years of experience
Responsible for delivering technical solutions to meet business requirements and build project consensus from executive management team.
- Technical advisor providing design direction in multiple infrastructure technologies including Data Center, Networking, Security, Storage, Database, and emerging trends in cloud computing.
- Consistently delivering technical strategies to meet business objectives and providing project delivery roadmaps.
- Created, managed and deployed a Disaster Recovery and Performance Load Testing Solution utilizing a fully managed cloud SaaS provider to offer near real time data protection.
- Designed high performance SQL OLTP and reporting database solutions leveraging I/O performance acceleration hardware.
- Deployed SaaS managed CMS platform to increase product delivery.
- Created RFP requirements, managed technical evaluations and POCs.
- Strong ability to take abstract technical and business concepts and drive concise deliverables.
0-5 years of experience
Accountable for leading team of core messaging and active directory infrastructure architects.
- Designed Lync 2010 and Exchange 2010 implementation with HA and DR
- Presenting proposed solutions to business or executive approvers
- Design (architect), installing, configuring, monitoring, infrastructure including related hardware, virtual resources and software to ensure optimal operation of all messaging infrastructure for 27,000 users with worldwide presence across multiple sites.
- Active Directory, Exchange 2010, Lync 2010, System Center Suite 2012, IronPort, Good, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Active Directory, Quest Migration Manager
- Researching, analyzing issues, & requests to determine messaging and Wintel OS related
- Collaborate with internal/external teams to ensure project success
- Effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Multi forest Active Directory, working with multiple domains and sites worldwide using native tools and Net IQ DRA
0-5 years of experience
Business intelligence infrastructure strategy and planning ( Informatica/Greenplum/Linux )
- Complete ETL environment installation & administration
- Management and direction of offshore support personnel
- RDBMS Break/Fix & Root Cause Analysis investigation and remediation
- Regulatory Reporting analysis & Business Intelligence
6-10 years of experience
- Responsible for defining the application architecture and leading the implementation of Clarity CPM 6.5/7.0 and Oracle Essbase 11.2 for all environments (UAT, QA, PROD and DR)
- Create backup and recovery scripts to export all data from Essbase Cubes using ESSCMD, MaxL and batch scripting
- Create test cases, complete system/integration testing, facilitate user acceptance testing for Financial Applications
- Coordinate technology events impacting the client such as application server power downs, DR testing and server maintenance (SAN Migration, AD Migration and Single Sign On)
- Manage and implement Corporate Comptrollers Portal, migration from ColdFusion and SharePoint WSS 3.0 to SharePoint 2010 environment
- Plan, deploy and manage Cognos 8 Application and Infrastructure and as well as develop reports using Cognos 8 Reporting Studio utilizing Hyperion Essbase Cubes and MS SQL
Infrastructure Architect Duties and Responsibilities
To accomplish their core duty of designing and implementing complex computer systems, Infrastructure Architects are responsible for many tasks. We analyzed several job listings to identify these core Infrastructure Analyst duties and responsibilities.
Analyze System Requirements The Infrastructure Architect analyses existing systems to ensure they offer adequate security and are effectively meeting the needs of the organization. They coordinate with all areas of the organization to see that the system is working as optimally as it should. They also analyze business requirements to identify where they can integrate new hardware, operating systems, or connectivity solutions.
Recommend Alternative Technologies and Improvements Based on their knowledge of IT and their analysis of the systems’ needs, the Infrastructure Architect may recommend alternative technologies or improvements to enhance information systems to support organizational goals. These recommendations are presented clearly and understandably to senior management.
Lead Design and Review of New Systems Infrastructure Architects leads the design and review processes for new systems. They develop and document the proposed technical design for the integration and implementation of any new software, working across the IT department.
Plan for Integration Infrastructure Architects must create detailed plans for the integration of new systems architecture into existing infrastructure. This includes logistical plans for the Operations areas to actually conduct the physical integrations, during which the Infrastructure Architect provides technical direction and support.
Evaluate Projects After a new system has been integrated, the Infrastructure Architect participates in evaluating the success of the project, identifying best practices and lessons learned. They provide feedback to leadership and incorporate this information into future integration plans.
Infrastructure Architect Skills
A strong leader and communicator, a successful Infrastructure Architect is good at solving problems and thinking creatively. In addition to these general skills and personality traits, employers are seeking Infrastructure Architect candidates with the following skills. Core skills: Based on job listings we looked at, employers want Infrastructure Analysts with these core skills. If you want to work as an Infrastructure Architect focus on the following.
- Project management experience
- Experience with web technologies and building enterprise architecture roadmaps
- Experience designing, integrating and managing complex infrastructure solutions
- Knowledge of client-server networking and database management
- Ability to provide technical system solutions, determine overall design direction and provide hardware recommendations for complex technical issues
- Experience planning and developing support processes and adhering to best practices
- Strong written and oral communication skills, and the ability to effectively communicate with technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies
Advanced skills: While most employers did not require the following skills, multiple job listings included them as preferred. Add these to your Infrastructure Architect toolbox and broaden your career options.
- Web server and application server administration and web applications deployment experience
- Web Tech experience (PAN)
- Architecture Certification (TOGAF, CITA, EACOE, Certified SOA Architect, etc.)
- Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) certifications in Windows 2008 or Windows 2012.
- Knowledge of Cisco network and technologies, CCNA(P), CCIE, Linux and Unix.
Infrastructure Architect Resources
We searched the Web to find the best industry resources to help you continue exploring a career as an Infrastructure Analyst. From thought leaders to industry groups, this list is packed with opportunities to learn, connect and engage. On the Web
IT Infrastructure Architecture Blog – Follow trends and developments in IT infrastructure from an expert in the field.
Microsoft cloud IT architecture resources – Learn how to use Microsoft architecture cloud services and platforms, frequently used by Information Architects.
Orbus Software Library – Access many of the IT resources needed in a career as an Information Architect. Industry Groups
Association of Enterprise Architects – Find out about educational resources, scholarly updates and networking events.
Iasa Global – A nonprofit organization for IT Architects, Iasa develops standards, education programs and accreditation programs. On LinkedIn
Infrastructure Architects – Network with over 12,000 other Infrastructure Architects.
IT Infrastructure Industry Professionals – A group and networking platform for all IT Infrastructure professionals, to include Infrastructure Architects. Infrastructure Architect Books
IT Infrastructure Architecture – Infrastructure Building Blocks and Concepts Second Edition – This book by Sjaak Laan explains the history, concepts, and implementation of IT Infrastructure.
Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud Â- Learn how IT Infrastructure is developing and adapting to changes in the IT environment.
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