Bobby Nellis Email & Phone Number

Westlake, Texas, US

Director, Cloud Architect

Southlake, Texas, US

• Supervise a team of 18 highly skilled IT professional including Architects, Engineers, Developers, Operations and Project Managers using the Agile Method focused on SCRUM the framework
• Produced the Road Map for a large number of projects from all Business Units across the enterprise migrating form serval legacy enterprise datacentres into various Cloud Service Providers
• Created and chaired various enterprise committees focused on relationship and process improvement; committees include: Architectural Steering, Cloud Adoption and Cloud Security
• Create, maintain, and enforce all technical diagrams, operational documentation, best practices, process schedules, and maintenance window schedules related to the entire infrastructure
• Developed the enterprise onboarding process to ensure accurate and repeatable system migrations & software deployments that include all department stakeholders to ensure fast accurate migrations
• Enforced the use of CloudFormation templates, Puppet, along with GIT and Jenkins, to package, store code and automation the provisioning and deployment of software and updates/changes to all environments

Dallas, Texas, US

• Design and build high load/user/transaction capacity systems that include security, network, application, database, host, and storage tiers, including the redundancy of all systems involved
• Responsible for trouble shooting, root-cause analysis, system performance, change process management (Agile Method/SCRUM), team training, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement
• Act as project manager of a large number of technical internal and external resources including strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals across the organization
• Create, maintain, and enforce all technical diagrams, operational documentation, best practices, process schedules, and maintenance window schedules related to the entire infrastructure
• Lead the implementation of a software change management program at Worldwide Express resulting in a 99% reduction of production down time and opening new lines of communication between IT teams

Irving, TX, US

• Service client management, case management, rotating on-call duty, weekly client status meetings, and monthly report. Subject Matter Expert in the areas of Oracle Database, Middleware, DR and HA Solutions and Managed.
• Senior Technical Consultant for more than six different accounts including TXU in Irving, Southwestern Energy in Houston, Zachry Construction Corp in San Antonio and TXI in Dallas
• Interacted with executive level staff to identify and execute infrastructure decisions based specific business requirements
• Worked directly with business department and various IT team to deliver highly customized Oracle Engineered Systems (Exadata)
• Provided weekly environment reviews of large production systems to executive level IT leaders
• Hands-on 24x7 support of Linux and Windows operating systems, Oracle and MSSQL databases, monitoring systems, various ticketing systems, networks and storage systems

San Francisco, California, US

• Oracle/MS SQL Database Administrator
• Reviews and improves the current backup strategy including backup tool used, schedule, offsite media rotation, and bi-annual production restore and recover
• Creates database administration documentation including startup/shutdown procedure, daily/weekly/monthly administration tasks, and database/host environment overview
• Performs daily administration of all production, test, and development environments including installations, patching, manage maintenance scripts, upgrades, backup & disaster recovery, and database cloning
• Provides Oracle/MS SQL performance tuning, troubleshooting, and support for the development staff
• Reviews business impact, coordinates scheduling, and updates all affected parties during outages

Dallas, TX, US

• Lead Application and Database Administrator with a team of two DBA’s, three developers, and two support admin during an enterprise wide Oracle Collaboration Suite rollout for over 50,000 users
• Installs, configures, and manages all OCS applications including Portal, Single Sign-on, Content, Mail, Calendar and Secure Enterprise Search for development, test and production environments
• Installs, configures, and manages monitoring tools including Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g (Grid Control) and Symantec i3 across all environments - monitoring over 200 Oracle instances
• Performs daily administration of all production, test, and development environments including installations, patching, managed maintenance scripts (SQL, Perl, Shell, Pro*C, cron), upgrades, backup & disaster.
• Provides Oracle performance tuning, troubleshooting, and support for the Oracle developer staff
• Reviews business impact, coordinates scheduling, and updates all affected parties during outages

• Was responsible for the 2004 and 2005 server refresh project including ordering, receiving, tracking, configuring, application team collaborating, transitioning into production environment, and supporting after the.
• Developed a bootable DVD that includes all security settings, application installs and general settings for Windows 2003 server and Windows 2000 server, reducing overall project hours by 50%
• Developed a Microsoft Access database used to track all aspects of the 2004 and 2005 server refresh effort, insuring accurate information for all server refreshed

St. Louis, Missouri, US

• Developed a rapid O/S deployment method for all new and redeployed PC using Symantec Ghost 2004
• Implemented the rapid O/S deployment method at the New Hampshire facility replacing 150 PC’s in one week
• Led a company wide physical inventory of all IT equipment, recovering over $50,000 of unaccounted PC’s

Corning, New York, US

• Monitored performance of all servers and ensured nightly backup of all essential data using Vertias storage management
• Responded to customer helpdesk calls, offered technical support to system users, and provided updates, status, and completion information to management by logging all support provided
• Implemented a company e-mail policy by monitoring customer mail usage

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Led an infantry team in combat training operations, providing tactical and technical guidance to subordinates and professional support to both superiors and subordinates in the accomplishment of their duties

Aas, Electronic Engineering

Bs, Business Management