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Austin, Texas, United States

Mexico City, Mx

We are your go-to provider of exceptional technical services in solutions architecture, specializing in cloud and hybrid solutions design.Our solutions architecture approach is comprehensive, meticulously evaluating your existing infrastructure, business goals, and industry best practices to create a roadmap that paves the way for success. We assess your specific needs, whether they be high-performance computing, on-prem to cloud migrations, or secure storage, and architect the ideal environment to exceed your expectations.We are devoted to crafting tailor-made solutions that propel your business to new heights.

A one-year sabbatical to travel, reflect and recharge. Spent the year traveling to different parts of Mexico and reconnecting with my roots. It was an amazing opportunity to spend time with family, see new places with amazing history, and be present with older family members to rekindle conversations started years ago. I also traveled to each of my son’s football games, as he winded down his college career with accolades on the field and off. Getting to be there with him and friends and family was special.Lastly, it was a time well-spent to learn and touch new technologies that interest me. If there’s one professional motto I follow, it’s “Everything I know today, at one point was new.”I spent time building cloud infrastructure projects based on Docker and Kubernetes, and with both AWS and Azure platforms, to be a better, more well-rounded architect.Truly a year to remember, and one that prepared me to hit 2024 with all my energy and continued desire to grow professionally.

West Henrietta, Ny, Us

Act as the technical lead in the sales process, working closely with the sales team to identify and qualify opportunities on the largest opportunities.Engage with potential customers to understand their current infrastructure and applications, and design migration solutions that will meet their requirements.Create and deliver detailed migration plans, including timelines, cost estimates, and detailed technical guidance for the customer.Work with the customer's technical teams to ensure that the migration will go smoothly, and that the customer can fully leverage the capabilities of AWS.Provide guidance on best practices for using AWS services and how they can be integrated with the customer's existing environment. Act as an organizational consultant to customers, guiding them on how cloud migration will transform their business.Stay up to date with new AWS services and features and be able to articulate their value to customers.Develop procedures and standards for the AWS Migration Practice on the Sales Engineering team.Work with AWS Partner Sales leads to build relationships.

Austin, Texas, Us

Developed heatmap documentation and performed architecture assessments with product teams to produce prioritized list of recommendations for improvement across all domains. Reviewed costs and roadmaps to account for future planning.Led effort to document existing standards for network, OS, backups, patching, databases, and storage. As part of this review process, I started an Architect's Retreat: a weekly conversation between the architects to approach product requirements in a standard way, avoiding snow!lakes and one-o"s. Work with other infrastructure teams to recommend changes and propose new standards.Led effort to decommission data center and migrate hundreds of workloads to VMware on AWS. Responsible for the delivery of the architecture, through to !inal applications migration.Technical lead for hardware refresh project, consisting of implementation and design of VxRail platform, and architecture and design for vRA provisioning engine to replace existing custom provisioning tooling.Delivered migration of over 14TB of SQL data from many on-prem sources, to AWS RDS for NADA on-stage demo of new application rollout.Responsible for implementation of company-wide FTP solution to replace older platform, building a secure, reliable and faster solution for all CDK customers.

Rollingwood, Texas, Us

Single point of accountability for Infrastructure Solution Design within the company for both the US and LATAM regions, reporting to the Global Chief Technology Officer. Responsible for the migration of on-prem solutions to Oracle and Azure cloud platforms.Focused on capturing requirements, and working with multiple teams and key stakeholders to select product and services to build solutions that align with the IT Strategy.Rearchitected and implemented Active Directory services, SCCM, DNS, and several other core infrastructure services. Accountable for driving the end-to-end infrastructure design for strategic projects.Act as a leader of change, supporting the introduction of architecture and engineering disciplines into project delivery and IT services.

Mexico City, Mx

Responsible for obtaining the infrastructure requirements, and developing the design documentation of the solution that meets or exceeds the requirements.Perform the hands-on implementation of the approved solution—including both Development and Production environments, based on a VMware stack (vRealize Automation 7 on vSphere 6.5)Install, configure, and document the full infrastructure stack: compute, storage, networking, security, OS and template management, backups and snapshots, Docker containers, etc.Act as technical lead and mentor to junior staff. Lead all activities related to vendor management, technology strategic and tactical decisions.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Responsible for obtaining the infrastructure requirements in terms of VMware technology to lead lifecycle automation cloud infrastructure.Analyze requirements and implement automation solution to migrate from Juniper SRX firewalls to VMware NSX firewalls: study command set, map commands and rules structure to NSX vFW

Conway, Arkansas, Us

Created the new Reference Architecture for running Hadoop clusters under virtualization attached to local storage. Ran a Proof-of-Concept to analyze performance characteristics, availability, recoverability, and operational processes necessary to deploy hundreds of nodes for virtual Hadoop. Invited by VMware to co-present at VMworld 2017. Architected the first vSphere 6.5 Management and Compute clusters at Acxiom, to be used as a multi-tenant/multi-use cluster of mixed workloads--but with a strong focus on virtual Hadoop functionality.Participated in the architecture re-design of all vSphere workloads, in preparation for rolling out the Acxiom Private Cloud. Delivered presentations to teams of infrastructure, automation, and security architects. This is a large, multi-year effort to replace the existing virtual footprint, with a newly redesigned architecture which supports multiple workloads with diverse performance and utilization profiles. Responsible for identifying risks and constraints related to the design and implementation of the new infrastructure, as well as ensuring the solution design fulfills functional and technical requirements which meet established SLAs.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Designed robust and secure Managed Virtualization solutions for implementation of hosted product offerings--across the entire VMware stack: vSphere, vCloud, vRealize Operations, vRealize Automation, and NSX. Consulted with current and potential customers to describe in technical detail the solutions offered by the Rackspace Private Cloud powered by VMware. Own and represent the largest VMware footprint in the world (over 50,000 VMs) in Shared, Dedicated, and Private vCloud markets. Prepared technical documentation in the form of wikis, presentations, and brownbags for internal support team consumption. Designed and implemented POC environments for research and development of new technologies that support and augment VMware ecosystem.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Led a team of engineers, analysts, and developers in the design, implementation and integration of the full stack of HP Enterprise Automation Tools, including Server Automation, Network Automation, Business Service Automation, Operations Orchestration, and Storage Essentials. Designed the infrastructure architecture to migrate all hosted HPSA operations to GM-owned premises, and created all technical design documents for implementation. Managed the migration strategy of thousands of servers across multiple continents to multiple HPSA cores and satellites—bringing them under GM-owned operations management. Conceived and led the implementation of a new network to automate provisioning of physical and virtual environments, employing PXE, Kickstart, and other tools. This resulted in production and green-field deployment gains from weeks to minutes. Managed the integration of vSphere Automation and Orchestration technologies (vCAC, App Director, vCloud, Orchestrator) with the equivalent HP Automation stack. Initiated POC on integration of vSphere, HP Automation, and InfoBlox IPAM appliance for automating provisioning of self-service development environments.

New York, Us

Led a team of engineers in architecting solutions for large VMware implementations (including VDI, Disaster Recovery, and Backup). Led all R&D product testing of virtualization ecosystem products, and published technical research on VMware product stack. Deployed virtualization solutions, including compute, storage, and networking for large customers’ production and testing environments.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Provided thought leadership for the customer’s major VMware initiatives, including issue management functions as well as solutions architecting across the VMware product stack. Accounts managed: Home Depot, USAA, Capital Group, Applied Materials Managed cross-functional VMware project teams, consisting of VMware consultants, engineers, product marketing, and support staff—acting as technical issue owner for the account. Acted as technical liaison between VMware and customer: effectively becoming the front-line technical resource for delivery of VMware Best Practices.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Responsible for overall infrastructure architecture and implementation of the Global Testing Framework, a pioneering effort in cloud-based SaaS used for automating functional testing. This solution was recognized with the Distinguished Award designation by Dell’s Patent Office.Architected virtualization solutions using VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer, and Microsoft Hyper-V. Developed processes and standards for Windows OS images for virtualization farm. Deployed iSCSI SAN appliances and management and monitoring solutions (SCCM, SCOM, SCVMM, SpiceWorks.)Architected and deployed solutions involving hundreds of systems to support dell.com and other business segments; delivered formal presentations to the Technical Review Board--for which I was a sitting member.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Architected and implemented the CA Healthy Families infrastructure, site-wide. Deployed open-source tools like Squid and Samba to monitor Internet utilization resulting in savings of over $150,000 in licensing and support.Point of contact site-wide, and senior technical lead for a team of Unix engineers and Windows administrators.Responsible for planning, design, and implementation of Microsoft and Linux infrastructure, traveling to client sites to perform technical assessments, run POC, and implement solutions.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Managed team responsible for delivering the data conversion strategy for internal CRM, to Kana CRM.Ran all task-tracking, reporting, and other PM activities. Interfaced with the business units to gather requirements, analyze process flows, and make recommendations on changes to business processes.Deployed Microsoft Project Central infrastructure where over 120 resources tracked project progress.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Architected and implemented the Cisco GeoTel call center middleware solution (now called Cisco ICM.) As the technical lead, I was responsible for a detailed solution design document, requirements gathering, scoping, risk assessment, constraints management, and solution implementation. The final design consisted of a large footprint of physical compute, storage, and networking gear--over 60 high-end servers, NAS and SAN storage nodes, and high-performance and low-latency networking switches.Developed Windows 2000 Server technical standards for all production web and application servers. Senior team lead for Y2K Certification efforts.Received recognition award from the CIO for the overnight performance improvements made to the internal EmployeeStorm website, realized under tight deadlines and shortened staff. As a result, I established best-practice standards for the analysis of performance degradation across platforms and operating systems.