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Florida, United States

Portsmouth, Hampshire, GB

Experienced AI Infrastructure / IT Advisor | Trusted Relationship Builder | Solution Development | Cloud Technologies | IT Service Management- Build and nurture strong customer relationships with senior stakeholders, clients, and IT staff as a trusted advisor.- Drive knowledge sharing and mentor the development of solutions for disruptive technologies.

Virginia Beach, VA, US

• As trusted advisor create and maintain effective customer relationships with CIOs and IT teams for clients and internal operations
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and mentoring: development of solution surrounding disruptive technologies, writing white papers, authoring virtual templates for reusable automation, client training material, and to.
• Provide strategic guidance to clients with regard to Hybrid, Private and Public Cloud Technologies, IT infrastructures, and Digital Transformation
• Assist sales groups in IT/Cloud sales and pre-sales and drive the sale of IT consulting services
• Develop transition and transformation plans for customer IT on-premise, Hybrid, Private, and Public Cloud data center migration
• Propose and execute consulting assessment to determine customers’ existing IT landscape including inventory of customer existing environment (application, infrastructure, usage and performance), as to part or whole.

Virginia Beach, VA, US

Working with clients to help formulate, shape and implement their strategic enterprise technology vision, goals, strategies and roadmaps.Understanding and developing the core business objectives, success criteria, and technical requirements & dependencies.Architecting and designing effective enterprise solutions to meet the requirements using a standard.

• Senior Cloud Architect (Contract – Independent – Various Organizations) (06/1997 – 08/2013)Instrumental in advancing a virtual private cloud for the gaming industry. Developed, marketed, and distributed AtGames Silver.
• Designed solutions employing virtual machines for hosting online gaming solutions on demand.
• Advised leadership on the mechanics, benefits, and impacts of cloud architectures, including the utilization of vendors and key points in negotiating.
• Employed the following technologies: Cisco UCS, Cisco routing and switching, HP Blade Servers (C-Series), HP CSA, BMC CLM, NetApp Storage, NetApp FlexPod Architecture, Oracle OVM, VMware, OpenStack.--Other Experience.

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IL

• Assisted in mentoring project team leaders to address certain sensitive issues incurred during projects and ultimately lessening project interruption.
• Direct and lead a multi-national, multi-governmental enterprise operations teams during an internationally funded project with a 53 Million-Euro budget.
• Develop technologies to enable distributed network test beds (Cloud Computing), establishing security policies and procedures to secure and automate intrusion detection and system management capabilities.
• Teach and assist doctoral students in systems management, architecture, distributed networking, and security methodologies, namely system monitoring of Petabyte and Exabyte smart management within the CLOUD.
• Author enterprise-wide Security and Systems Management policies and procedures to be published and distributed to 25 countries and 56 universities.
• Architected and designed a PXE Boot server supporting 353 servers with customized open source Fedora Core OS running a distributed network spoke architecture platform.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Designed, developed, and implemented cost-effective quality assurance and testing initiatives, providing improved reliability, reduced support, and faster product rollout cycles.
• Developed an innovative architecture for a CA Unicenter-based enterprise management solution.
• Participated in the development of a disaster management plan, incorporating redundant back-up solutions using Microsoft clustering; achieving higher security and greater protection of assets.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

• Supported the enterprise-wide integration and implementation of advanced network technologies, providing improved performance, greater security, and reduced maintenance and overhead.
• Administered 21 file servers, 12 application servers, and managed an HP Openview enterprise management solution.