Experience in enterprise infrastructure
Holistic Architecture
What sets me apart is that I take a holistic approach to systems architecture – end to end design requirements based highly available, redundant and high performing environments.
End to End Security
Depending on a given companies security posture, end to end security relies on encryption technologies, web filtering / DLP, endpoint protection, traffic analyzing, firewalls and SEIM.
Methodology
I subscribe to several methods of architecture, depending on business requirements and specific environments. TOGAF and ITIL are what I typically align with, focusing on value add.
Monitoring / Capacity Planning
I consistently analyze and reiterate environments looking for waste reduction, places we can optimize infrastructure and scale operations – whether business are in growth mode or scaling back.
Project Management
Scrum / Agile, Kanban, Waterfall and a combination all can work with infrastructure, depending how the team has it set up. Epics, sprints, goals, projects, blockers all have a place.
Networking
Layers 1 – 4 are typically where I shine, but I do have experience in layer 4 – 7 (firewalls, load balancers, web filter / inspection). End to end visibility is also something I have experience in.
Compute
Experienced with all different types of servers and server infrastructure – blades, rackmount, converged, hyper-converged along with operating systems; bare metal and full OS.
Storage
Fiber Channel, NAS, SAN, DAS – I have worked with each of these. Primary Storage, Secondary Storage and Backup Storage as well as native array based replication.
Business Continuity
Different backup types work for different companies; typically I attempt to follow the “3 – 2 – 1” rule: 3 copies of data, 2 different media types, 1 off site (tape, immutable cloud, etc…)