Ryan Sheldon Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

California Majors Healthcare Systems Architect

Thousand Oaks, Ca

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