Cloud enabling eCommerce systems in private, public and hybrid cloud environments implemented with Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and OneOps/Openstack.

Development of tools and services required to enable the Cloud Native transformation of Cisco IT global, mission critical applications. The Cloud Native transformation relies heavily on containerization driven with a continuous delivery DevOps process. Key technologies include Docker, Kubernetes and Jenkins.

• As the Cloud and Infrastructure Architect, I am responsible for the strategy and architecture for self-service provisioning, administration and workflow automation across multiple infrastructure domains including compute, storage, networking, identify and service management.• I am currently leading an effort to consolidate multiple, disparate IaaS and PaaS provisioning processes into a unified, self-service portal where clients can provision compute (VM and bare metal), storage (NAS, SAN and Object), network (load balancing and access control) and application services (Web, App, DB), reducing average provisioning times from weeks down to hours or minutes.• I am a leader in the cross-domain team of architects developing the strategy and roadmap for Cisco IT’s internal and hybrid cloud solution. The Cisco IT cloud implements both internal and external facing services and must support our legacy information systems, our quickly expanding portfolio of cloud-ready solutions as well as emerging technical capabilities such as container-based platforms.

• As the Compute Domain Architect, I am responsible for the architecture blueprint and technology roadmap for global data center computing services across Cisco IT. The compute domain provides standardized OS instances, virtual machines and bare metal compute capabilities supporting engineering, global business units and IT applications, platforms and services.• I have developed the architecture for our next generation virtualized compute platform utilizing both OpenStack and VMware deployed on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS). • I have developed a new architecture to converge compute resources across the data center into a general purpose, shared pool reducing resources deployed as application-specific infrastructure and reducing the infrastructure reserved for high availability/failure recovery.• I am responsible for the development and oversight of standards and policies applied to design, implementation and operation of the compute domain and ensuring compatibility with other infrastructure domains and client teams. Some of my key standardized operational policies have achieved a 30% increase in efficiency in the first year and with expected increases of 300-500% in subsequent years.

• Responsible for leading teams of architects, design engineers and implementation engineers across multiple projects including both web based information systems as well as business critical transaction based systems. My duties include working with executive leadership from multiple organizations to understand and influence technical strategy and deliver clear direction to project teams. Notable programs include: o Leading the re-architecture effort to upgrade and migrate the Cisco RMS platform. RMS is a service offering used to monitor and support customer networks and communication services including voice and video. The re-architecture effort involves the virtualization of multiple subsystems and requires transition plans allowing for minimal to zero interruption of customer services. o Consolidation of multiple, globally disbursed Oracle ERP systems into a single system with increased infrastructure-level resilience, simplified architecture and reduced dependencies. o Infrastructure Solution Architect for Exchange 2010 infrastructure architecture covering compute, storage and networking aspects for more than 100K users. Global architecture is distributed across multiple locations including geographically separate disaster recovery capacilities. o Solution Architect for Metro Virtual Data Center (MVDC) resiliency system. MVDC uses two data centers in a single metro area to enable failover redundancy providing increased resiliency for the failure of Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings up through the loss of an entire data center. Responsible for overall MVDC architectural guidance as well as architectural strategy for scaling adoption, evolving MVDC platform and infrastructure capabilities and aligning the MVDC architectural strategy with Cisco’s Disaster Recovery architecture.

• Responsible for leading a team of architects, project managers and engineers in delivering development tools and establishing development practices for global software teams across all segments of IT.• Required to attain broad knowledge of industry trends and investigate potential new technologies, introducing disruptive tools and processes in a controlled fashion to advance the Cisco Enterprise IT architecture and development process.• Established the use of agile development practices both for tool and framework development as well as supporting traditional and agile methods for global Cisco IT development teams.• DFT standards include development tool selection, application framework standards, re-usable frameworks and components, testing tools and processes (functional, unit and security), packaging and deployment, source control and runtime monitoring and profiling.

• Led the re-architecture of the Engineering and Manufacturing information delivery system (EMCO) from a specialized, dedicated platform to a virtual platform leveraging Cisco Enterprise information systems.• Influencing the EMCO development community in adopting new tools for implementation, deployment and source code control enabling significant increases in developer productivity.• Mentoring peers in application of development technologies and techniques.• Led team of technology leaders in architecture and design efforts for an integrated suite of web-based tools including bug tracking, project management, checklist/workflow management and an information portal for use by Cisco’s engineers and management.

o Responsible for the successful deployment of 8 new corporate information systems including enterprise wide sales, support, marketing, billing, financial, budgeting, HR and payroll systems.o Integrated multiple Corporate Information Systems as well as customer facing systems through an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) system.o Starting with 1 member grew team to over 25 people, establishing a solid team for customizing, deploying and supporting the BuildNet Enterprise IS Applications.o Multi-project planning and coordination of IT staff and contract resources.o Responsible for staffing, budget planning and administration, strategic planning and departmental coordination for all aspects of corporate information systems.

• Responsible for the overall architecture and design of the BuildNet system, including subsystems for e-business, online catalog, member information and access control, and product data management.• Led efforts to integrate software systems of acquired companies into the BuildNet product line.• Tasked with the research, selection, and implementation of development and deployment technologies.• Ensure interoperability of software systems and common practices in software development.• Implement proof-of-concept and prototype systems for the BuildNet product line.• Serve as a technical representative assisting the Business Development team.• Led the design and implementation of BuildNet subsystems for e-business and product data management.• Initiated and implemented formal processes for requirements gathering, design, and development.• Designed configuration management and build processes for the development organization.

• Led efforts in developing distributed IT systems based around the CORBA distributed object architecture.• Served as Technical Lead and System Architect in developing a client/server based outage reporting and tracking system for an international telecommunications client.• Team leader in developing client/server based national sales force compensation system for Fortune 50 client with responsibility for requirements gathering, analysis, prototyping, design and implementation.• Implemented a development process using the Booch method in a highly iterative object oriented development cycle using tools such as Rational Rose, C++, Tools.h++ and DBTools.h++.

• Worked as a member of the PASSION Parallel I/O Research Group charged with designing and implementing a portable parallel file system used to explore and evaluate new techniques in parallel I/O for high performance parallel and distributed computing.• Responsible for high-level design, planning and implementation of a prototype system using C++, C and message passing systems to create the ViP File System used for I/O research and experimental parallel I/O concepts.

• Designed and implemented the user interface to the campus wide computer and data network and aided in the development and deployment of a remote printing system.