California Majors Healthcare Systems Architect

Core member of the Infrastructure Architecture group, specializing in virtualization and hyperconverged solutions. Responsible for assessing new workloads, determining their best hosting fit (on-prem vs. public cloud), and delivering hosting solutions that meet or exceed business requirements.Founding member of the Amgen Cloud and Automation team, architecting an Enterprise-quality curated AWS service for internal customers. Solely responsible for the architecture, engineering, and implementation of an on-prem IaaS solution that instantiated and managed thousands of Virtual Machines including the entire Dev/Test/Prod stack for the Corporate SharePoint environment.SME for a Federally regulated VMware enviroment consisting of several hundred hosts and approximately 10,000 VMs distributed across the globe.Architected, engineered, and implemented a Metro Cluster-style solution leveraging Nutanix platforms for utilization in Biopharmaceutical manufacturing plants, providing building redundancy and enhanced levels of availability for some of the company's most critical workloads.Architected, engineered, and implemented a refresh of the global SAP platform (HANA TDI), moving from a legacy design involving physical servers and SAN storage to an all-virtualized solution leveraging NFS. Created and implemented a custom automated DR solution for the compute stack to meet 4-hour RTO business requirement.Managed a group of several contractors responsible for project task delivery and operational support and maintenance.

Administrator of the following systems/technologies:VMWare vSphere 4Exchange 2003/2007Windows Server 2000/2003/2008Blackberry Enterprise Server - BESDesktop AuthorityMicrosoft Office Communicator 2007Citrix XenApp and NetScalerOpenText RightFax