Work with internal lines of business, Cloud providers and migration consulting firms to map and migrate all internal application to the PWC next generation cloud.Supervise our internal team to enable smooth interactions with all vendors and consultants assigned to the project.

► Technical Skills✔ Cloud Architecture Frameworks: Amazon AWS, Azure, AT&T Cloud, IBM/Softlayer Cloud, VMWare, OpenStack✔ Data Center: Management and Operations✔ Compute: AWS EC2, VMWare, vSphere, vCenter, Softlayer, Nova✔ Disaster Recovery: Cloud, Hybrid and On Premise✔ Security: Physical, logical and virtual✔ Virtualization: Application integration, Database, Workload Management and Cloud Migration✔ Database: MS SQL, Oracle, mySQL, Big Data, Hadoop, RDB, DBMS, Stored Procedures, DB Objects✔ Storage: Design, backup/archive, cloud, data warehouse, AWS S3 / Glacier, Caching, NetApp, Maxta, EMC, Swift, Cinder✔ Networking: ISO based design, Connectivity, Switching, Routing (Least cost, IGP), Protocols (TCP, IP, UDP), gateways, voice, VOIP✔ Cloud Edge operations: Content Distribution, Table Caching, Media Caching, Session management✔ Business Intelligence: Quikview, AWS Quiksight✔ Development: ASP.NET (VB, C#), Java, J2EE, PHP, C, Chef, Puppet, Object Oriented Analysis, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Version Control Software (VCS) Visual Sourcesafe, Github► Management Skills✔ Project: Planning and Management (Zachman),✔ Cloud: Adoption Management✔ Architecture and Solutions: Business Context Analysis, Conceptual and Logical Solutions, Physical Infrastructure Implementation✔ Subject Matter Expert (SME) covering a wide range of Cloud Frameworks and Roadmaps✔ Management: Teams from 3 up to 30 direct reports, Agile and Waterfall, system design and workflow design✔ Vendor: Evaluation, Product integration, contracting► Sales / Support✔ Presentations: Business and Complex✔ Communications: C-Level, Executive, IT Management & Staff✔ Proposals: Basic to Complex (Shipley, RFP Responses)✔ Contracts and Documentation: Workflow, RFPs, Negotiation, Contracts, Change Orders✔ Pricing: Cost Analysis, Alternative model pricing, project budgeting✔ Training: Course author, Presenter, advanced topics, over 11,000 people trained

Most recent engagement was to provide high-end Enterprise Architecture startup services for a national medical services firm. The scope was multi-layered:* Infrastructure as Code - Terraform on Azure* DevSecOps / CI/CD/ pipeline, process and team structure design for a legacy application cloud migration* Optimze existing application framework from Outsystems to maximize code generation delivery speed and quality* Design and deploy documentation system using Jira and Confluence to track development changes* Work with vendors to create a 3 year technology roadmap - including microservice, kubernetes and Lambda components

• Architect designing cloud infrastructure through application stack for applications migrating from 2 legacy data centers.• Manage US and Guatemala teams providing DevOps, Cloud Automation, Container and VM based application migrations and full IT operations.• Design and deploy DevOps using both Jenkins pipelines and Azure DevOps managed services.• Develop protoclouds for on-demand Dev/Test/QA/Prod infrastructure as code environments using Terraform, Ansible, JSON and Cloud Formation.• Establish specifications for Minimum Viable Product (MVP) based deployments of DevOps, Azure and AWS Enterprise cloud and Application platforms

Fortune 10 Banking – • Cloud Transformation Architect responsible for providing plan to migrate from over 2,000 applications into Hybrid and Native Cloud• Developed People, Process and Technology planning and Minimum Viable delivery tracking for senior management• Documented key architecture adoption components, POC tests and quick starts used by several hundred development teams.• Prepared cloud adoption recommendations, tracking and project plans for CIO briefings• Evaluated 30+ applications legacy designs to validate method and target migration framework for minimum disruption during cloud migration / refactoring• Designed and implemented a Cloud Skills / Role Requirements evaluation and education process to facilitate architects, developers, operations and senior managements transformation to a Cloud Model• Worked with other architectural teams to define adoption and integration requirements for AWS, Big Data Clusters, Development Stacks and Security models.Cloud Education• Teach conceptual and hands-on courses in Big Data, Hadoop, Spark, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS Architecture• Design training paths to facilitate Senior Executive, Architects, Developers and Operations Staff rapid acceptance and adoption of Cloud-based technologyGlobal Financial Services Company • Designed full scale cloud and transformation strategy including staff refactoring and training for over 100 people.• Coordinated migration prototypes taking over 500 legacy systems and mapping them to transformation strategies including: Redeploy, refactor, redesign and retire. • Validated transformation designs using automated Infrastructure as code AWS and Azure prototype clouds• Created legacy IT / AWS integration plan with hybrid and cloud implementations to run over 18 month period saving over $5 million annually on completion.• For global training operation – designed and delivered foundational Big Data implementation and training program including Hadoop, Impala and Spark.

I was retained for my extensive skills in Cloud Architecture, Transformation and Skills Development.* Architecture services included review of 35+ critical legacy Java and .Net applications targeted for hybrid, private or public cloud transformation.* Skills development and mentoring included assessing over 120 senior technical staff and executives while developing and delivering training and hands on labs in Kubernetes, Docker Containers, AWS Architecture, and Redhat Openshift.* Designed a cloud transformation tracking system maintaining Minimum Viable Product (MVP) tracking across initiatives in Architecture design patterns for both cloud and native cloud development stacks.* Worked with engineering teams to mature an enterprise capable DevOPS/CI/CD/C Jenkins pipeline capable of implementing an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) AWS application delivery environment including plug-in unit and regression test features.* Key Architect on integration of Big Data Hadoop clusters for Container and Cloud use delivering analytics via custom applications and Oracle ETL extracts.* Documented and delivered 22+ Use Cases to increase application mapping to the cloud environments.

Cloud Transformation: Design new cloud architecture to enable migration of all non-cloud business critical applications from legacy environments to cloud.Cloud Application Design: Prepare integrated cloud environments in IBM Bluemix, Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS to allow for a complete SDLC / Agile development for most of Hertz critical applications to be redeveloped using Microservices, Containers and cloud enabled components.Project Management: Maintain and create working relationships with all vendors participating in the multi-year migration of all Hertz systems from legacy technology to cloud based.

► Infrastructure Design – Design a robust, scalable and elastic platform to support .NET object oriented cloud applications using either Amazon AWS and/or dedicated hosted blade servers. Support for both Openstack and Cloudstack deployment models. Implement Disaster Recovery model to ensure low RTO/RPO in case of partial or full failure.► Cloud-based trading system – Researched, designed and deployed a cloud based financial modeling and trading system. Managed full cycle Devops team using Agile.► Quantitative Analysis – Developed and deployed transactional object models mapping futures, commodity and stock activities. Designed back-testing systems to validate results.

✔ Work with AT&T customers that were sold the Cloud based Disaster Recovery solution in my prior role. ✔ Collaborate with vendors to ensure that a fully operational Hybrid Cloud solution is in place to provide sub-5 minute RPO and 60 minute and up RTO performance. ✔ Hybrid solutions involved Cloud Components from IBM / Softlayer, AT&T, Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure as appropriate. Orchestration provided in a dedicated rack located at AT&T.► Complete the project management, deployment and documentation of cloud-based disaster recovery solutions initiated while at AT&T. This move was to ensure continuity to the contracted customers valued at over $15 million dollars. The AT&T project team, support and architecture was dissolved impacting the team responsible for providing this solution.► Provided overall technology direction, installation of DR components including VMWare, Cloud Edge Gateway orchestration, Cisco networking and security configurations to complete DR installations. Size ranged from 50+ workloads to over 400 workloads. Paragon was kind enough to participate in the final stages of these AT&T DR projects.

Provide analysis using in-person and webinar discovery sessions of business systems, processes and technology within medium and large AT&T customers. The results are used to recommend process, technology and Cloud solutions to increase ROI across the enterprise.✔ Provided support to over 2,500 national sales members as the AT&T Corporate Disaster Recovery program manager. ✔ Provided primary leadership in meetings with an average of 5-6 new engagements per week. ✔ The DR funnel across all sales groups was maintained at over 90+ active an any time.✔ Winner Sell to Excel "run through the warehouse" 2012► Expertise:Qlikview Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboard Integrated over 400 sales staff and 2 years worth of historical data.► Virtualization - Cloudstack / Openstack, VMware: ESXi, vSwitch, vSphere, vCenter, View, vCloud, and SRM (site recovery manager)► Hypervisors: (AWS EC2 / Xen, Hyper-V, KVM, VMWare ESXi)► Network Design: Networking Protocols (MPLS, PPTP, L2TP/L2TPv3, OSPF)► Design and products: IP Routing , L2 Switching, GatewaysStorage networking protocols: Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS/CiFS, storage multi-path, NAS, SAN, AWS S3, AWS Glacier.► Compute: Blade Servers (HP/DELL) Supermicro configurations compatible with Softlayer architecture, HP and DELL.Firewalls/IPS, load balancers and WAN optimization protocols (Aspera).► Disaster Recovery: Backup/recovery, mirroring, active/standby, active/active using ZERTO, Symantec, VMWare and Double-Take► Cloud Orchestration: Software Defined Networking (SDN) / Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) network address translation (NAT) firewalls, intrusion detection, DNS, and caching automated to some degree with Chef and Puppet when not using Azure or AWS.► Sales: Closed over $12 million in cloud services within first 12 months of rollout while documenting engagement processes for technical overlays. Last fortune 200 close was largest within SW region at 6 million - DR.

Work with business to increase sales and profits while reducing overhead. We use the latest business processes and technology to improve overall ROI. Our programs usually result in net savings within 60 to 90 days or less.MCSE / CNE projects, Windows networking, VAX/VMS integration, Database Design and Management, SQL Server, Visual Studio using C# and VB .NET.Enterprise Architecture consulting to mid-range and large customer base.

Generated sales on identified opportunities in excess of $10 million dollars on integrated telecom, data and VOIP solutions.• Strong customer interaction including business analysis, discovery sessions, contracting and project management.• Used my knowledge of both proprietary and open system architectures and development strategies to solve complex data and communications integration issues both locally and over the enterprise.

Consulting Project: Managing systems development, field training and educational product integration with eCommerce, language development and VOIP systems. Designed and deployed global web-based solutions using ASP, SQL Server and Windows platforms.Designed and led team to deploy web sites in 10 languages, web-based foreign language training programs, basic applications training, VOIP services, landing pages and websites - including eCommerce plug-ins.

Setup all technology, eComm, Social and payment systems. Designed and deployed custom mobile applications tied to back-end Windows and SQL server database systems running ASP applications. Supported over 6,000 users within 3 months of deployment.

Principal and strategic lead for all consulting and training projects.• Led weekly technology briefings for customers invited by our sales team. Close rates were over 35%.• Trained several thousand students on MSCE, CNE, Database, Networking, Development and Internet topics.

Provided architectural design and software development in C for VAXcluster based telephone switches.Integrated I/O driver technology within VMS and UNIX based switching systems.Developed high speed switching and HA failover algorithms to support Line information database systems, Fraud detection and SS7 communications.

• National Support Engineer: for VAX/VMS, Databases, Networking, Storage Systems, VAX Hardware, Microcode• Senior Engineer for Information Services: RMS, DBMS, RDB, Allin1, DECnet• Senior Educational Consultant: Operating Systems Internals, VAXCluster, Fortran, Cobol, C, DBMS, RDB, DECnet.Problem solving and analysis. Customer integration consulting for products.

Maintain Strategic Air Command - Tactical computer systems, communications and storage systems supporting first strike capabilities. (Top Secret Clearance – expired)