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A highly certified IBM and RHEL professional with experience in pre-sales, post-sales, and solution architecture and delivery. Consistently delivers significant performance improvements in production environments, considerable cost savings, as well as new business capabilities while meeting difficult deadlines. Performs a number of different roles to get the job done: Infrastructure Engineer, Technical Lead, Lead Solutions Architect, Senior Systems Administrator, and Senior OPEN Systems Architect. Experienced in a customer-facing role for mission critical projects. Excellent interpersonal skills, and ability to work well with others in both leadership and team member staff roles. Expertise in the architecture, deployment, and support of OPEN systems and storage platforms: IBM Power Systems, PowerVM Virtualization, AIX, Oracle Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.