Converged Platforms and Solutions DivisionProvides technical and/or business consultative leadership during post-sales cycle. Provides technical implementation leadership for the Dell EMC suite of products to implement and maintain advanced solutions for large scale customers. Provides cross-training across all disciplines related to Cisco, VMware, and EMC technologies for the Dell EMC Converged Platforms and Solutions Division.

Senior Consulting Engineer: VCE Partner role designing and implementing V(x)Block 300, 500, and 700 Series Infrastructure including advanced FEHC and Active/Active configurations and Data Migration solutions.

Paul is a Senior Consulting Engineer with over 20 years of architecture, design, and implementation experience specializing in EMC and VMware technologies. As an industry recognized IT professional he has defined solutions for organizations in the financial services, energy, aerospace, manufacturing, and legal industries. With excellent technological and communication skills, Paul has consistently delivered high quality solutions to very satisfied customers.

Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors - Volunteer non-compensated positionFounder of an all volunteer staffed non-profit company that's primary mission is to provide free technological education, training, and funding assistance to economically disadvantaged individuals across the globe. Key Contributions:• Provided vision for and elicited volunteer support to help start the company.• Effectively elected extremely talented Executive Board Members with the assistance of my co-founder and Vice Chairman.• Utilized business development skills to enlist Vendor Sponsorship, Community contributions, and strategic partnerships with other non-profit organizations.• Led the process for creating Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, 1023 Application to IRS, and all supporting documentation to a ensure successful 501 (c) (3) designation.• Diligently working to generate educational materials and architect the labs based upon real world usage scenarios with fellow Board Member and volunteer support.

Called on to be the converged infrastructure lead responsible for remediating a 10,000 plus virtual machine environment and implement a massive consolidation effort while improving DR and disaster avoidance capabilities. Consolidated the infrastructure from seven sites down to three core sites containing three 700 series and three 300 series Vblocks at each target site in less than one year using replication and orchestrated migrations. Utilized full-mesh RecoverPoint implementation, VMware Site Recovery Manager, and VMware Orchestration and scripting on top of Vblock 300 and 700 Series to ingest the heterogeneous components and enhance DR capabilities.

Leading the development of long term architectural vision, strategy and roadmap across the organization and its subsidiaries using a wide variety of technical solutions to ensure that IT remains in line with the corporate objectives.• Provide subject matter expertise for specific technologies, current standards and practices and long term integration strategies.• Oversee IT initiatives through evaluation and documentation of the current architectural state, definition of the future architectural state and development of migration strategies to insure a smooth transition between them.• Ensure all IT initiatives meet budgetary requirements through the completion of ROI analysis, financial impact statements and the submission of RFPs to multiple vendors on all proposals.• Act as an additional escalation point (in conjunction with vendor support) for all high impact incidents or recurring issues.• Mentor and collaborate with all levels of IT staff.• Clearly communicate the IT philosophy and benefits of technical choices to the wider organization.• Perform periodic health checks on the operational environment to track progress of EA initiatives and identify areas where further optimization will benefit the organization.• Provide communications, project coordination, input on project prioritization and execution of both IT and business initiatives.

Research and review new infrastructure-centric technologies, 3rd party tools, and industry standards,test new technologies, compares candidate solutions, make recommendations, and publish results. Create pilot evaluations and engage subject matter experts to validate the usability of the technology. Provide enterprise virtualization and Linux architecture solutions for student loan guarantee servicer responsible for more than $6B in loan volume. Proactively maintain architectural documentation and diagrams. Responsible for design of automated processes to ensure FISMA and PCI compliance. Lead integrations, upgrade, and enhancement initiatives; aid release planning and organizational change control. Key Contributions:• Provided design and implementation for architecture to support 20x growth of loan volume which included vSphere, Oracle RAC, Cisco Nexus, FCOE, SLES 11, and JBoss.• Effectively sold, designed, and implemented the successful migration of 99% of all Linux, Java and Oracle workloads to VMware leading to over $2M per year at current rates in cost savings and greatly enhanced availability.• Successfully integrated multiple large scale acquisitions into our infrastructure within extremely tight deadlines including CSLF, EDFUND, State of Oregon, and Premiere Credit of North America.• Collaborated with Peers, Storage and Windows teams to implement one-button disaster recovery with the aid of vSphere, Site Recover Manager, RecoverPoint, and Avamar.• Completely automated and centralized compliance monitoring and enforcement with the aid of Imperva, Envision, QAS, and Group Policy Objects.• Completed multiple datacenter builds each well under budget and within the period of a single weekend without incurring any service outages.• Led the migration of Linux and Oracle backups from Netbackup to Avamar reducing backup window by more than 70% and storage requirements by more than 60%.

Delivered design, documentation, and front-line support for mission critical systems and highly valued for my ability to translate business needs into IT requirements at a great value for clients. Key Contribution:• Earned reputation for effectively communicating complex technical issues to users with broadly varying technical skill sets.• Led the successful design and implementation of virtualized Exchange 2003 and BES Clusters in Brussels and the United States for global client Boston Scientific to integrate the acquisition of Guidant while also facilitating the segregation of the stint division sold to Abbott Vascular. Furthermore, several standalone Exchange systems across the globe were consolidated into the virtualized infrastructures in Brussels, MA, MN, and CA.• Provided architecture design, roadmap, implementation, and training to ECMC staff for major initiative to migrate from mainframe to a virtualized Apache, JBoss and Oracle architecture and was offered full-time position because of the quality and expediency of my work product

Hyperion Performance Improvement Project - Assisted with identifying performance bottlenecks for DBMS, Systems, and Network and providing procedures for implementing fixes in Sandbox, Dev, QC, and Production environment. Also assited with implementation of SSL for all Hyperion modules.

Reviewed, analyzed, and developed cost-effective IT solutions for global Fortune 500 companies and local small and medium businesses in several industries including Engineering, Financial Services, Law, High Tech, and Manufacturing. Specialized in consolidation, standardization and high availability. Directly engaged VP and C-level executives while partnering with the Architecture and Engineering staff of each client.Key Contribution:• Successfully started a consulting company in the middle of a severe economic downturn through effective networking, perseverance and business development experience.• Provided all aspects of architecture design, implementation, performance tuning, quality assurance, change management, and support throughout the stack from the physical components to application stack for a highly diverse clientele• Successfully standardized all small business and some medium business clients infrastructure components to reduce costs and complexity while increasing reliability and availability• Consolidated legacy application delivery onto Citrix Metaframe with SQL Cluster backend for global client Westfalia and subsidiary H & T including ERP and CRM systems.•Provided Terminal Services clusters in the UK and US for Rexam Cosmetics International to increase availability and performance for apps formerly accessed from fat clients over VPN on slow WAN links• Performed several successful Lotus Notes and Groupwise to Exchange Migrations for clients.•Provided systems automation through scripting and scheduling facilities.•Implemented call-home and distributed monitoring for proactive support and disaster avoidance capabilities. •Managed large scale desktop and laptop deployment for Altana Chemie USA while also supporting their core infrastructure components and services•Provided SourceForge Enterprise solutions and customized Task Management Systems for the Development Departments of high-tech clients such as Euclid Discoveries

Designed and developed the entire IT and Telephony Infrastructure having started at the company's inception. Responsible for infrastructure team management and all facets of the business including Desktops, Professional Services, Pilot Development, Product Demonstrations, Quality Assurance, Business Development, Partnerships, and Vendor Management.Key Contribution:• Effectively recruited and managed a small team of highly effective engineers to help transform OP40 from a small start-up to a multi-national company with Patents for some of the most impressive technology I've seen even to this day (2010 now) in the distributed systems arena.• Directly engaged and managed relationships with our largest clients, investors, and partners including Sun, IBM, Boeing, BEA, Microsoft, and several private investors.• Self-taught Solaris, Weblogic, Oracle, DB2, Tomcat and JBoss in record time in order to prepare for supporting the Distributed Internet Services Architecture which consisted of multiple tiers communicating and synchronizing deltas between heterogeneous environments, e.g. Weblogic/Oracle synchronizing deltas in a targeted fashion to Websphere/DB2 and/or JBoss/Cloudscape• Completely automated the build process, unit tests, and regression tests for the DISA across all platforms.