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EMAIL AVAILABLE PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE - Streamwood, ILSENIOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTGlobal, multi-datacenter architect with expertise in Datacenter Migration, Availability, Recovery, Continuity, Capacity Planning, & Virtualization for multi-million dollar savingsIndustry experience in Airlines, Banking, Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance, Investments, Retail Pharmacy, Restaurants, Telecom, Transportation, Logistics and Warehousing. Domestic and International.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEScheduling Change Manager for Fedex (Enterprise Data Center Migration) Nov, 2021 Feb, 2022MessinaTechnologies for Dell Technologies, Chicago, IL.Managed change requests related to change wave scheduling; scope decisions relating to factory/non-factory, remediation partner, retirement and BU ownership.Performed repeated, deep-dive inventory discovery, analysis & reconciliation of data and assets to identify gaps in the pre-existing scope enabling new and accelerated decommissions of guests, hosts and servers.Started creation of a Change Management process to include a board to perform bi-weekly reviews for approval or resubmission of change requests relating to wave scheduling; scope decisions, factory/non-factory determination, remediation partner, rewrite, replace and retirement. Also creating categories of changes to enhance process efficiency.Created a new change management tracking log document that increased client tracking, reporting and satisfaction.Senior Architect for United Airlines (Enterprise Data Center Migration) Aug, 2019 Mar, 2020Advantage Resourcing for HPE, Chicago, IL.Senior level architect, leading the migrations of multiple datacenters into their new corporate datacenterPerformed repeated, deep-dive inventory discovery, analysis & reconciliation of data and assets to identify gaps in the pre-existing scope enabling new and accelerated decommissions of VMWare guests, hosts and servers.Coordinated application teams and business associates to provide migration to sensibly move their application from one datacenter to another. The team migrated over 3,000 servers.Worked with colleagues to establish a repeatable process that ensured that migrations were managed similarly and a standard approach ensured successful migrations.Created application specific documentation, illustrating Security Zones, Host Names, IP information, and any application specific details that would be necessary for future migrations.Gained familiarity with VMWares vCenter and vRops.console and reports.Senior Architect for Aon Insurance (Enterprise Data Center Migration) Mar, 2019 May, 31, 2019FahrenheitIT, Oakbrook Terrace, IL.Led discovery, design, transformation and migration of key AON applications in Latin America and US to Rackspaces cloud.Architected domain migrations and created new application designs; adhering to business criticality, availability & data classification standards.Senior Architect (Independent Contractor) Tango Technology Services Mar, 2017 Mar, 2019Created architectural deliverables for numerous clients; primarily related to Security analysis and product implementations. These included Assessments, Design docs, BoMs (Bills of Materials), Executive summaries, SoWs (Statements of Work). CBAs (Cost-Benefit Analysis), etc.Created an Application and Asset inventory to load into a CMDB. Analyzed maturity state and road-mapped a transition plan.Evaluated alternative RFPs (Requests for Proposal) for fitness to existing environment and match to functional and non-functional requirements.Architected multi-site, resilient solution for both prod and multiple non-prod environments.Recommended redeployment alternatives for existing environments to achieve cost reductions and/or meet company standards.Senior Enterprise Architect for JP Morgan Chase July, 2016 November, 2016Mphasis Technologies, Chicago, IL.Independently identified over $500,000 in billing reductions; with another $2.6 million in architecture pattern exceptions, $2.7M in Storage Retiering; and $2.25M in P2V (Physical to Virtual) & V2V rehosting.Influenced solutions to meet functional (FRs) and non-functional requirements (NFRs) that reduce firm wide cost; maintaining resiliency and security, leveraging standard building blocks and reference architectures.Monitor book of work to completion and ensure project success.Map current technology opportunities to new internal services or actionable initiativesSenior Enterprise Architect for Walgreens 2014 - 2015Q1 Technologies, Naperville, IL.Created architectural deliverables that included detailed conceptual, logical and physical designs; documented functional (FRs) and non-functional requirements (NFRs) that included security, performance and availability needs; as well as seeing that they meet reference architectures or patterns.Architected solutions that migrated applications from one datacenter to anotherDesigned a company-wide capacity planning and forecasting practice leveraging existing technologies.Designed infrastructures that included, F5s, GTMs, LTMs; AIX, Red Hat Linux, VMWare, Windows; Oracle, SQL server; Ab Initio, BPM, ODM, WAS 8.5, Datapower and Pureflex / Pureapp servers, among others.Senior Enterprise / Solutions Architect for McDonald's Corporation & HAVI 2010 - 2014Xerox Business Services, LLC (acquired ACS, Inc.), Oak Brook, IL.Architected global, multi-datacenter infrastructure (multi-platform servers, clustering solutions, storage, network, firewall rules, replication, etc.) solutions supporting critical business functionality after deriving business requirements. Created documentation including: Detailed Conceptual, logical and physical designs; Project workbooks for virtual machines (VMs) in both ESX private environments and public and private clouds, as well as physical servers; ROMs & SoWs with work efforts, risks, assumptions, scope, costs, etc.Designed and implemented many world-wide, security related environments including: Microsoft's Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), Novell Access Manager (NAM) and Novell Identity Manager (NIM), Cisco's ScanSafe, McAfee EPO, and Symantec's ECA.Program managed the 2.5 year project to implement the three continent, primarily and secondarily redundant, implementation of authentication and authorization architecture for all applications. This involved supplier resources (engineers, portal, DBA's, PMs, Datacenter, etc.) as well as client resources (Application Architects, Developers, Business Owners, End-users, Executives, etc) that were globally distributed.Designed Business Intelligence environments for Hyperion, Tableau, Microsoft's Customer Experience Insight (CEI) Market Analytics and Astute.Evaluated F5 and Riverbed's Stingray with Application Firewall differences for front-ending the ADFS clusters. The results provided the needed functionality at a $1.2 million annual savings and was deliverable within the accelerated timeframe.Leveraged Global Traffic Manager (GTM) for global fail-over. This project also included upgrading the previous Zeus Traffic Managers (ZTMs).Implemented a multi-continent PoC for Cisco's Enterprise Content Delivery System (ECDS).Started a 400+ Windows / Linux datacenter migration and upgrade project. Evaluated servers and VMs running on physical servers or home-grown VMWare ESX clusters to migrate to UCS blades, VBlocks for P2V (preferred) or P2P.Solutioned to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Also prepared and responded to RFIs / RFPsSenior Infrastructure Consultant 2008 - 2009Sr. IT Infrastructure Internal Consultant at Discover Financial ServicesDesigned infrastructure (multi-platform servers, clustering solutions, storage, network, etc.) supporting critical business functionality after deriving technical business requirements from multiple business units.Prepared executive level documentation of infrastructure designs.Provided evaluations of many factors including Availability/Resiliency using RTOs / RPOs and cost summaries.Infrastructure Architect Consultant at IBMLead Infrastructure Architect - UNIX/LINUX (2003-2008) 2000 2008United Airlines, Elk Grove Village, IL.Empowered to identify and drive expanding opportunities for designing the entire distributed server environment to achieve maximum effectiveness.Generated over $15M in savings over three years and an additional $2.5M in cost avoidance. Transformed ad-hoc, project-owned islands to an N-tier J2EE, PCI supporting, infrastructure.Redeployed assets, retired over 75 servers through consolidation, and reuse of hardware and software.Initiated the first LINUX (SUSE & Redhat) / x86 and Itanium server new environments after extensive evaluation, cost justification and business case preparation. Re-platformed the common enterprise UNIX database environment from HPUX to AIX based on extensive TCO / cost-benefit analysis.Sized and designed a 700+ server VMWare ESX Wintel / Linux Consolidation effort.Coordinated the upgrade of over 250 Unix servers including the migration of some applications from HPUX to Linux.Created the authoritative reference architecture designs used by senior management and the IT organization.Increased the obsolescence index, thus decreasing hardware and software maintenance costs and switch fabric expenses.Led Capacity Management group during managers 6-month absence.Senior Capacity Management Analyst (2000-2008)Estimated project resource requirements; monitored performance and determined Root Cause Analysis related to performance issues; also developed forecasts; and provided recommendations to meet application needs.Created a standard cost matrix for provisioning hardware and software.Created a multi-vendor, cross-platform, comparative performance, server reference document to assist in migration, re-hosting and growth estimates.Managed the Capacity Planning monitoring software infrastructure.EDUCATION, Bachelors of Science - Applied Computer Science from Illinois State University.ITIL Foundations v3 certified, ISO 20000 trained. |
