Resume of Sr. Integration Architect

Title
Sr. Integration Architect

Primary Skills
UNIX Architect Wintel Applications IT Systems ARchitect Windows network System Deployments System Administration

Location
US-CO-Denver (will consider relocating)

Posted
Jun-24-08

SUMMARY
Senior Systems Architect / Server Consolidation, Application Consolidation and Transformation Expert. Data Center -- Migration / Consolidation and Technical Engagement Professional Expert - with 20 years of professional consulting and on-site, off-site, remote engagement experience with national and international travel in North America (United States of America and Canada) and Europe. Dual citizen -- (posses American and Canadian passport.).

SKILLS / PROFICIENCIES


Technical Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, zLinux, z/VM, SUSE Linux 10, RHE 5, Red Hat 7.3, AIX 3.x, 4.x, AIX 5.3, 5.2, Solaris (2.51, 2.6, 2.7, 8, 9,10), SunOS (5.8, 5.9), HP-UX B.10.20/B.11.00 11x, 11.21, 11.23, Compaq Tru 64, IRIX, SCO, ATT System IV, DEC, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (Enterprise Edition), , Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (Standard Edition), Wintel, Windows (95, 98, NT 3.x 4.0, 2000, 2003, XP Home and XP Professional Edition).
Database: Oracle (7.3.4, 8.1.6, 9.2.x, 9.2.0.8, 10g, 11i), INFORMIX (7.x, 9.21, 9.3), DB2/2, UDB, MySQL and Access, Microsoft SQL Server.
Hardware: Sun Fire Enterprise Servers 220R, 280R, 480R, E450, E480, V240, V490, Sun Enterprise E2900, E3500, E4500, E5500, E6500, E6800, E6900, Sun Fire technology such as 280R, 480R, 10k, 15k, 25K, SUNW, Ultra-2, -4 IBM pSeries (P570 P595 ?, ) xSeries (3650, 3850), iSeries, IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20 (BC1, BC2,) eserver xSeries 235, 345, x366, x445bVM, x445, HS20), IBM RS 6000, pSeries 7028/6C4, IBM System z9 Business Class z9 BC, IBM System z9 Enterprise Class z9 EC, IBM eServer zSeries 990 z990, IBM eServer zSeries 890 z890, IBM eServer zSeries 900 z900, IBM eServer zSeries 800 z800, Gateway 700X, HP SuperDome , HP 9000 K Class, N Class 4000, HP L Class 2000, HP 810/D280, 871/D270, 889/K460, Virtual Infrastructure products, ESX Server, Virtual SMP, Storage Enclosures of Hitachi, Hitachi 9580, 9980, 9200, 9570V, InRange/CNT FC9000, zoning, LUN, LUN management, Cisco 9506, 9509, fabrics, HBA, switches, storage subsystems, Net App Filer F740, NAS, SAN Storage, EMC Symmetrix, CLARiiON, RAID, Compaq Alpha Server GS 140/ES 40, Compaq Proliant (3000, DL380R G3, ML370, ML570, 7000, 6400R) Digital Alpha Server 2100, RS 6000, AS/400, PC, Compaq DL380, Dell Servers, Dual Intel XEON 2.0 GHz, SCSI RAID, routers, bridges, switches, HUBS, desktop, laptop, disks arrays, NIC, RAM, storage subsystems, CPU and servers, LDEV, LUN, WWN, zone, zone-alias, zone set, storage pools, storage volume, LUN Masking, path provisioning, McDATA SWAPI, , Brocade Silkworm, HBA, JNI, Emulex, McDATA, HDS, EMC Symmetrix, LSI, Brocade, Connectrix, proxy, QLogic, Hitachi, TSM.
Languages: HTML, XML, DHTML, Java, J2EE, J2SE, JDBC, ODBC, PHP, Korn Shell, Perl, Visual Basic, PL/SQL, IBM COBOL for AIX Version 2, Oracle Developer 6.0.X, Cobol Microfocus, ESSBASE.
Software: Virtual Infrastructure products, ESX Server, Virtual SMP, VirtualCenter. VMware ESX Server 2.5.2, VMware GSX Server 3.2.1, VMware GSX Server 2.5, VMware VMotion, Xen, Xen Optimizer, Altiris Remedy, PlateSpin , PowerConvert and PowerRecon , VMware ESX Server, Virtual Iron, VMware GSX Server , XenSource
Microsoft Virtual Server, ConsoleWorks, Dimension Data, mon, Peregrine, KVM, DSView, Active Directory management, LDAP, Avocent, keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) switching, remote access, network connectivity and serial connectivity solutions, PerCap, PAWZ, IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0 SP6 for UNIX, Sun ONE iPlanet, SQL, IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0 for Windows, IBM HTTP Web Server, Sun ONE Web Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 Service Pack 5, Cold Fusion, Net objects Fusion, Web Logic, Veritas Volume Management, Veritas Cluster, HACMP, HP Openview, Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli, BMC Patrol, SiteMinder, VisiBroker for C++ and Java 4.0/3.4, Sun Workshop Compiler 5.0, adb, Lotus Notes, Vantive, Norton Anti-Virus, Norton Personal Firewall, McAfee, Checkpoint, Radware, Microsoft Project, Office 2003, Microsoft Word, Microsoft, domains, gateway, firewall, spy software, Ad-aware, SiteMinder, BMC Patrol, PowerBroker, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Visio, Quick Books Pro, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, Web based IMAP/POP Mail, P PowerBroker putty, Netscape, HSSM, Hi Command Storage Services Manager 3.1, 3.1.1 and Hi Command Device Manager 2.3 and 3.0HSSM, HDvM, Storage Services Manager, HP OpenView, Path Provisioning, LUN Management, JBoss 4.0.2, JBoss Web Server, Jetty, NetIQ, perfmon, and adb, . CRYSTAL REPORTS, MQseries, Spazio/Thema, Connect direct, Citrix Metaframe Presentation,Citrix Terminal Services, Business Objects, Microsoft IIS, CICS, Apache Application Server, Tomcat, Apache Web Server, Business Objects Suite, Web Intelligence, Oracle Report, DEV2000 and Hyperion.
Protocols and Security HTTP, FTP, TCP/IP, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, SMP, IP, IPv6, UDP, SRM, DCOM, TCP, SOAP, FDDI, Fiber, Token Ring, WWN, Cat 5, Twisted Pair, Gigabit, Gig, Ethernet, NIC, ATM, DHCP, SSL, VPN, Internet, Intranet, Portals, Web, SSH, broadband, SNIA HBA API, SNMP, SWAPI, DSL, CIM, port authorization.



EXPERIENCE

Senior IT Architect, Sullecon, Inc. 01/2002 to Present. (Q1 2008 - Q2 2008).
• Worked in an architectural role for various client projects as outlined below from 2002 to present date. Extensive travel, onsite/offsite and remote work required. Extensive travel to and from client site (Kaiser) and SAGA working continuously on the project deliverables. Researched, formulated and created virtual assessment deliverables for client. Experience formulating and designing capacity planning models integrating customer and application inputs such as application complexity, database size, registered and concurrent users, transactions, application flow, application interfaces, up streams and down streams. Architected, calculated and designed technical and strategic solution documents taking into consideration the IT infrastructure, source and target - software, software stack, middleware, applications, hardware, network infrastructure, data center size and foot print. Utilized strategies such as virtualization, capacity planning, application migrations, server consolidations, transformations and data center migrations.
• Develop questionnaires, methodologies and remediation and consolidation processes for client engagement. Effectively communicated with client via conference calls, emails and IM. Conducted primary in-person meetings, conference calls for application interviews and application assessments for San Jose data center.

Senior IT Architect, Sullecon, Inc. (Q1 2006 - Q4 2007).
• Extensive travel (100 % travels) within Europe and the United States to and from client site (Fiat / Iveco) working continuously on the project deliverables, some remote work required. Utilized strategies such as capacity planning, application migrations, server consolidations, transformations and data center migrations. Effectively communicated with client via conference calls, emails and IM. Conducted primary in-person meetings, conference calls for application interviews and application assessments for client data center migration project. Successfully translated business challenges for large scale project into requirements and solutions. Planned, created and designed technical questionnaire for the entire architectural team as an effective tool and aid to probe client and collect and analyze system and application information.
• Discovered source environment at client sites and data centers both in Turin and Milan, Italy. Efficiently planed, created and designed technical solution design documents and target server cards for transformation project. Architectural consolidations included commercial off the Shelf (COTS) and on-site and in-house applications, messaging, interprocess communications, application communication, storage, middleware, customer code, and hardware and software onto logical and physical partitions, physical and logical moves, transformations, P2V, / virtual machines.
• Architectural consolidations included software stack analysis and design of target software stack ranging from Middleware, EAI, Application Server & Data Access, Reporting, Enterprise Information Integration, Web Portals, Web Servers, Application Servers, Business Intelligence, Data warehouses, Document & Knowledge Management, Databases (SIDs), OLAP Servers, Application authentications, custom application code and code assessment (such as IBM WebSphere, Oracle application server and Apache). Architectural consolidations included IBM, Sun and HP and Compaq enterprise servers and applications on UNIX (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX) and Linux, Wintel, and Windows platforms.

Senior IT Architect, Sullecon, Inc. (Q1 2003 - Q1 2006).
• Delivered server consolidation and data center consolidations/migrations within UNIX (AIX, Solaris, Hp-UX) Linux and Wintel platforms. Performed assessment, research, analysis, design, conceptual design, physical design, implementation and knowledge transfer to client (US Navy, Intel and Cox Communications and Pfizer). Worked in team atmosphere
• Proficiency and experience formulating and designing capacity planning models integrating customer and application inputs such as application complexity, database size, registered and concurrent users, transactions, application flow, application interfaces, up streams and down streams. Architected, calculated and designed technical and strategic solution taking into consideration the IT infrastructure, source and target - software, software stack, applications, hardware and network infrastructure and data center size and foot print. Utilized strategies such as capacity planning, application migrations, server consolidations, transformations and data center migrations.
• Extensive travel (100 % travels) within the United States to various client sites, onsite and remote work required. Effectively communicated with client via conference calls and emails and IM. Experience includes server consolidations, data center consolidations, virtualization management, architectural engagement expertise in mapping server and application functional requirements to system technical architecture including infrastructure components such as networks, servers, application, databases and desktops. Formulated strategies and solutions focusing on the Implementation of target architecture, reduction of Data Center and IT infrastructure ser
• Provided technical architecture development and deployment in large complex environments. Provided expertise in UNIX systems deployments, installations and configurations of systems and storage discovery software of such as Hi-Command Storage Services Manager, HP OpenView Tivoli, HP Openview. Experience working with development teams and projects and production teams and projects. Excellent communication skills and time management.

Senior IT Architect, Sullecon, Inc. (Q1 2002 - Q1 2003).
• Provided advanced Senior SUN systems consulting and administration to (Colorado Secretary of State), and technical expertise, architected, built, deployed, monitored, maintained and managed UNIX enterprise servers and UNIX e-business solutions in a High Availability (HA) infrastructure environment including technical blueprints, Storage Area Network (SAN), infrastructure assessment, SAN assessment, capacity planning, kernel tuning and disk staging, server sizing, Load balancing, installs and configurations. Provided both technical expertise and architected, lead projects deploying, training/coaching and professional IT enterprise server deployments and commercial web server deployments for client organizations.

Senior IT Architect, AdTech Resources Corporation, (11/2000 to 12/2001).
• Provided technical engagement expertise and strategic engagement expertise consulting in the information technology industry within healthcare industry in United States and Europe. Provided technical engagement expertise and consulting to Gambro Healthcare. Supported the company's systems and formed a new support team and infrastructure to support the organization. Provided core systems architect and administration support both on a strategic and technical level and was the project lead on the largest and highest profile project to replace the company's core Information Technology systems that supported the clinics throughout North America and Europe. Proficiencies in server deployments, time and organizational skills and leadership skills and ability to influence team members in a positive way were a mandatory requirement. Provided technical engagement expertise, strategic and technical systems consolidation, server consolidation, senior systems architect and administration, full cycle system deployments, SLDC, Sr. system administration, Sun, HP, IBM Compaq and Dell enterprise server deployments, UNIX, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Wintel, Windows platforms, infrastructure assessments, server assessments, data center assessments, data center migrations, enterprise server consolidations.

Senior IT Architect, Analysts International, (09/1993 to 10/2000).
• Provided technical engagement expertise and strategic engagement expertise consulting in the information technology industry within various sectors to AiC in United States and Canada. Provided technical engagement expertise and consulting on SUN, IBM and HP UNIX servers and Compaq and Dell Wintel Systems. Performed Sr. System Administration / Architect / Analyst duties. Researched, analyzed, determined requirements, provided system architect, administration, deployed systems, estimated, implemented, and supported network IT infrastructure and procurement of software and hardware. Proficiency in performance tuning, troubleshooting, prioritization, multitasking, communication and problem resolution skills.
• Experience formulating and designing capacity planning models integrating customer and application inputs such as application complexity, database size, registered and concurrent users, transactions, application flow, application interfaces, up streams and down streams. Architected, calculated and designed technical and strategic solution taking into consideration the IT infrastructure, source and target - software, software stack, applications, hardware and network infrastructure and data center size and foot print. Utilized strategies such as capacity planning, application migrations, server consolidations, transformations and data center migrations.


EDUCATION
MBA, University of Phoenix, Lone Tree, Colorado Campus 2002.
B.Comm. (Co-op), Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1993.
B.A., Economics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1993.

CERTIFICATIONS
Reviewed and Studied IBM RedBooks on Tivoli, AIX, p,x,I Series hardware, zLinux and zSeries architecture, 2007/2008.
Storage Webinars, Webcasts and Conferences, 2003-2007.
Completed Storage Services training (HSSM, Hi Command Storage Services Manager) within a SAN environment. 2004.
Completed IBM Technical Briefings IBM WebSphere, DB2, Lotus, Rational, Tivoli, Web services. 2004.
Completed Webinars on IT Project Management, 2004.
Awarded and Certified for IBM e-business (training included WebSphere, e-business, Lotus Notes, IBM Redbooks, and Tivoli), 2003.
Awarded Graduate Masters Course IT Project and Strategic Management, 2002.
Numerous IT certificates in UNIX, AIX, Solaris, BM, DB2, SQL, Lotus Notes and e-business, from 1988-2005.

OTHER
English (Primary Language)
French - education and exposure (lived and worked in Canada, United States and Europe).
Italian - education and exposure (lived and worked in Italy).

Certifications
Certified for IBM e-business
MBA e-business


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