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As part of the partner cloud Product Architecture team I provide ideation and enablement across all three of Rackspace’s hyper-scale public cloud partnerships (GCP, AWS, Azure).• Act as a thought leader for technology direction and provide domain expertise across the product portfolio.• Develop trusted relationships with partners and both internal and external customers • Engage in high-profile and strategic customer discussions while translating ambiguous requirements and conflicting stakeholder priorities into actionable migration plans.

Solutions Architect on a globally distributed “SWAT Team” (Cloud Services – Custom Architecture) responsible for rapidly completing complex enterprise customer projects. Provided architectural designs and guidance for migrating customer environments to Verizon’s IaaS products while simultaneously repairing customer relationships.• Designed and implemented migrations and solutions for Verizon’s public and hybrid cloud customers. Migrations included on-premise and private datacenter workloads and applications to Verizon Cloud.• Discovered build automation processes using Puppet for Verizon’s next-generation cloud product utilizing hyper-converged hardware. Xen based platform. Authored SOPs and delivered implementation cross-training to team.• Influenced corporate direction for various internal product offerings and external customer requirements including cloud environment expansion (AWS EC2, S3, CloudFront), disaster recovery (VMware, Veeam), build automation (PowerShell, Puppet, PowerCLI), and infrastructure upgrades (VMware Update Manager, HPSA).• Collaborated on buildout of VMware based Verizon Compute as a Service (CaaS) cloud product, requiring in-depth knowledge of VMware vSphere 5.5, Active Directory integration, LDAP, HP C7000 enclosures, HP Flex10 converged networking, 3PAR storage arrays, HP Service Automation (HPSA).• Spearheaded software evaluation project to select a capacity planning solution for Verizon’s cloud product. Evaluated SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, VMWare Capacity IQ, Veeam ONE. Negotiated with vendors and senior management to procure financing.• Team lead for Verizon Terremark Enterprise Cloud (eCloud) infrastructure upgrades to VMWare vSphere 5.5.• Creation, management, and migration of instances and applications including Windows, Active Directory, SQL, MySQL, Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, Fedora.• Implementation of FISMA compliant Federal datacenter IaaS. Federal government security clearance required. HIPAA compliant projects.

Venture capital firm providing executive management services to a portfolio of 17 biotech companies. Reported to COO and provided direction to C-suite on all IT related functions.• Modernized the infrastructure to provide an environment for each portfolio company’s specific requirements utilizing ITIL processes. This platform drastically improved Emergent’s ability to respond to the market in an agile manner.• Architected VMWare vSphere 4.1 production and development high availability environments. Rapidly deployed ESX on Dell PowerEdge, HP DL servers to support multiple company infrastructures. Utilization of VMWare vMotion, Storage vMotion, FT, DRS, HA. V2V, P2V migrations using VMWare vCenter Converter. HP/Lefthand P4000 SAN.• Ensured availability of virtual and physical machines including Windows 2008 R2 Servers, Windows 2003 Servers, Active Directory, Terminal Services, Exchange 2010, SQL 2008, Windows 7, Mac OS X. Linux variants include SUSE, Ubuntu, Red Hat. LDAP, MySQL, Apache, PHP. Utilized Hyper-V and VMWare ESX hypervisors.• Provided pre-sales and post-sales support for biotechnology demonstrations utilizing remote presence and collaborative technologies (Webex, LifeSize).• Systems and network management with Active Directory, Microsoft System Center, PowerShell scripting. Cisco switches and routers, Dell PowerConnect switches, Sonicwall Pro firewalls, Sonicwall SSL-VPN 200 appliance.• Backups utilizing VMWare Data Recovery, Symantec Backup Exec (D2D2T) and public cloud services.

Manage IT infrastructure for Callidus Software's Austin, TX office.

Consulting company focused on providing small and medium sized businesses with IT solutions, project management expertise, and high-level IT support and troubleshooting. Selling and architecting solutions based on customer requirements. Project planning and implementation reporting to various levels in each client’s management chain.