Robert Knowles Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

As a Principal Cloud Architect at Slalom, I bring many years of experience in technology, data center builds/migrations, co-located data center and on-premises migrations to multiple cloud services. Facilitated large-scale Cloud transformation projects.Perform application rationalizations and TCO analysis with anticipation on migrating to the cloud..

Westport, CT, US

I am a Senior Cloud Architect with Eastern Computer Exchange a global enterprise solution provider. Facilitate large-scale Cloud transformation projects.Recommend, design and implement highly resilient, scalable and agile solutions for enterprise level infrastructure by leveraging cloud based methodologies such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, VMC on AWS within and.

Iselin, NJ, US

I am a Cloud Architect with CloudView Partners, a rapidly-growing, Cloud-focused professional-services startup specialized in facilitating large-scale Cloud transformation projects.Recommend, design and implement highly resilient, scalable and agile solutions for enterprise level infrastructure by leveraging cloud based methodologies such as IaaS, PaaS and.

Seattle, WA, US

Infrastructure/AWS Cloud Architect with more 5 years of experience in Infrastructure Architecting and Cloud Computing, design, development and implementation of highly scalable, highly available, highly secured, distributed infrastructure, client/server and web based software applications with an earned reputation for meeting deadlines and delivering.

• Administered over 800 servers including Windows 2003-2008, 2012, UNIX (RHELvers. 4-5 Linux/Solaris, Ubuntu, CentOS).
• Senior Engineer for cloud initiatives on Amazon AWS and Rackspace.
• Managed deployments/upgrades for all servers running various applicationssuch as Apache, IIS, Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat, Mysql, ASP, Sun OneWebserver.
• Implemented Hybrid Cloud Solutions for On-Premise to AWS Cloud.
• Recommend, Plan and implement AWS cloud strategies.
• Instrumental in migration/lift and shift and re-deployments into AWS.

• Administered over 400 servers including Windows 2003, Unix (RHEL vers 4-5/Solaris).
• Managed deployments/upgrades for all servers running various applications such as Apache, IIS, Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat, JBoss, ASP, Coldfusion, Interwoven, Vignette, JRUN, Sun One Webserver, Netscape LDAP.
• Provided 24hour support for several data centers.
• Implemented cloning/workload management on NT, Solaris, Linux and AIX Websphere installations. Implemented server groups/cloning on Websphere 4.0/5.0./5.1/6.0
• Involved with all software development phases ie. R&D, Dev., QA, Test, Stress Test, Disaster Recovery, Test Production and Production
• Managed projects involving code deployments, hardware upgrades/installations and user acceptance testing.

• Setup Workload Management in a Solaris environment using Websphere 5.0.2.
• Provided full web server, Clustering, WLM and Websphere applications setup, installation/configuration documentation.
• Upgraded 4.0 to 5.0.2 then a final upgrade to the latest 5.1.
• I introduced organization to an enterprise wide J2EE development initiative that would allow 4 countries to share a single cvs repository as well as provide a web based (read only) access to cvs. Setup cvs replication.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

• Built/Administered Websphere & Weblogic environment 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0, included design, development, test, QA and production.
• Setup & administered LDAP, IBM CICS Transaction Gateway, IBM Txseries and IBM UDB/DB2..
• Performed migrations from 3.5 & 4.0 to 5.0 of Websphere on AIX, some Solaris and Windows 2000.
• Managed team of 10 internal programmers and infrastructure members.
• Managed QA team & had hands on involvement in the procedures and setup of regression and load testing.
• Migrated OS390 DB2 data to a Linux clustered environment using UDB 8.1 on Linux. Saved company about $14million per year.

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