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Kevin Harris1070 Grandy’s Lane Apt. 916

Lewisville, Texas 75077Cell: 972-926-3984

Email: kaharris@gmail.com

Team Lead and Enterprise Architect dedicated to architecting enterprise IT solutions that achieve profitability, performance and security. Extensive background in datacenter architecture, virtualization architecture, security architecture, storage architecture, and network architecture. Energetic professional with exceptional managerial, analytical, organizational and people skills. Strong personal ethics and integrity. Convey a professional image of honesty, compassion and concern for company’s and customer’s needs. Good conflict-resolution skills. Work well under pressure and deadlines. Highly organized team-builder with strong leadership experience. Excellent communicator seeking a challenging position utilizing current skills and abilities.

ExperienceSr. IT Engineer 8/2014 – present

Heartland Payment Systems, Plano, TX Responsible for a team of 8 IT Engineers Automation of VMware, Windows, Linux, IBM Storage, Pure Storage, and Brocade SAN Powershell, Perl, BASH, Batch, KSH Architected, implemented, documented and maintained x86 hardware Architected, implemented, documented and maintained Brocade SAN Architected, implemented, documented and maintained IBM pSeries hardware Architected, implemented, documented and maintained IBM XIV storage Architected, implemented, documented and maintained IBM Flash Systems storage Architected, implemented, documented and maintained Pure Storage Flash Array m50 storage Architected, implemented, documented and maintained Windows, Linux, VMware, and AIX

operating systems Represented the data center infrastructure team in daily ITIL Network Operation Center reporting

meetings Represented the data center infrastructure team in daily ITIL Change Architecture Board meetings Represented the data center infrastructure team in ITIL Problem Management meetings Represented the data center infrastructure team with vendors Regularly briefed IT directors and VPs on plans and status of the data center infrastructure team. Architected vendor agnostic solutions then found vendor solutions to fit the architectures

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Enterprise IT Architect 3/2014 – 8/2014Frontier Communications, Dallas, TX Responsible for projects 90+ days out Investigated new solutions. Software, hardware and services Designed solutions for just under 4000 servers, 70% Windows, 15% Linux, 10% Oracle SPARC,

5% other Scoped Dell M1000 chassis with a combination of Dell M820 and M620 for physical and VMware

virtual environments. Re-architected VMware virtualization environment to support the existing 3000+ VMs as well as

future growth Designed strategy to close a datacenter in Rochester, NY by moving the servers and workload to

Ft. Wayne, IN Created the plan to migrate over 700 VMware VMs consisting of 110 TB of storage. Created the plan to migrate physical servers to VMware VMs Created a VMware environment to migrate from Oracle Databases running on SPARC Solaris to

Oracle Databases running on Linux VMware VMs Detailed a plan to right size VMware VMs stopping the company from purchasing $750,000.00 in

new compute hardware Created a detailed plan to populate a new DR site with existing hardware, by right sizing the

production VMware environment Developed strategies to get more from existing tools by assuring their adoption across the

datacenter and their integration with each other Developed standardized documentation for existing applications and future projects Used BMC Capacity optimizer to drastically reduce hardware needed to run environment Used BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping to map applications to hardware and to

each other Configured BMC ProactiveNet Performance Manager to have less false alerts Architected solutions for element management with Dell OpenManage Architected enterprise compliance solutions using BMC BladeLogic Architected enterprise disaster recovery site Architected, implemented and documented enterprise datacenter migrations

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Security Solutions Architect (Overlay Sales Engineer) 4/2013 – 3/2014Insight, Dallas, TX 117% Q2 2013, 104% Q3 2013 Led enterprise customer sales meetings with C-levels to engineers. Primarily focused on securing VMware virtual environments with both Linux and Windows VMs. Taught consultants how to install enterprise security solutions for virtualization. Created collateral to teach account executives how to sell enterprise virtualization security. Created collateral to teach sales engineers how to sell enterprise security for VMware. Led customer PoCs and demonstrations. Architected enterprise virtualization security solutions for Insight to sell. Architected enterprise security solutions to meet specific business drivers. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise firewall solutions for VMware. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise virtualization intrusion protection system

solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise web reputation solutions for VMware. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise file integrity monitoring solutions for VMware. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise log inspection solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise anti-malware solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise agentless anti-malware solutions for VMware. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise anti-malware solutions for VDI.Architected,

implemented and documented enterprise advanced persistent threat production solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise targeted attack solutions. Documented enterprise security solutions. Documented competitive analysis of different enterprise security products and solutions. Assisted with enterprise datacenter architectures. Assisted with enterprise virtualization architectures. Assisted with enterprise storage architectures. Assisted with enterprise networking architectures. Assisted with enterprise datacenter backup architectures. Assisted with enterprise datacenter disaster recovery architectures. Assisted with x86 and PowerPC architectures for enterprise datacenters. Excellent performance evaluations from management, vendors, and clients

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Security Solutions Architect (Solutions Engineer) 3/2011 - 2/2013Accuvant, Dallas, TX Consistently exceeded all sales and performance goals. Skilled in architecting datacenter security solutions to meet customer’s business drivers. Skilled in presenting to C-Levels, management and engineers. Arranged and delivered technical security training on vendor solutions. Worked with customers to architect enterprise virtualization security solutions to meet business

drivers. Worked customer proof of concepts (POC’s) and implementation services. Recognized expert throughout the Virtualization Security Industry. Co-Founder of Accuvant's Secure Virtualization Practice. Demonstrated ability to architect security solutions and services for Accuvant to sell. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise security solutions for Windows and Linux

VMs running in virtual environments. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise firewall solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise intrusion protection system solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise web reputation solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise file integrity monitoring solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise log inspection solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise anti-malware solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise agentless anti-malware solutions for VMware. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise anti-malware solutions for VDI. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise advanced persistent threat production

solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise targeted attack solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise load balancing solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise BGP solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise wireless solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise content filtering solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise IP Address Provisioning and Management

solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise web application firewall solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise database access management solutions. Architected, implemented and documented enterprise compliance and regulation monitoring

solutions. Extensive experience conducting profitable seminars on Security solutions. Researched security by interviewing vendors, customers, and industry analysts. Onboarded security vendors into Accuvant's secure virtualization practice. Architected the sales process. Maintained a comparative analysis of all security vendor products. Architected Accuvant’s Virtualization Security demonstrations. Created security solutions pre-implementation documentation for enterprise customers. Architected Accuvant’s Virtualization Security enablement lab. Created detailed work instructions to be used by consultants during enterprise security

engagements. Architected security solutions to be used by customers for remote proof of concepts. Brought my deep knowledge of virtualization security together with vendor products to architect

complete secure virtualization offerings. Architected technical security services to sell alongside vendor solutions Excellent performance evaluations from vendors and clients

Datacenter Architect (Team Lead) 9/1997 - 2/2011IBM, Austin, TX

Led customer briefings on Data Center optimization.

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Served as technical subject matter expert in Windows, Linux, Virtualization, x86, PowerPC, networking, disaster recovery and storage technology at IBM's DEMOcentral software demonstration datacenter.

Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise firewall solutions. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise two separate IPS solutions Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise identity management solutions. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise anti-malware solutions. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise migration from token ring to

Ethernet. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise Ethernet solutions. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise Fibre Channel Solutions. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise FCoE solutions. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise rack mount x86 solutions. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise bladecenter solutions. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise VMware solutions. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise 4th, 5th, and 7th generation PowerPC

solutions. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise OS/2, Windows Server, x86 Linux,

PowerPC Linux, zLinux (mainframe), and AIX solutions. Architected, implemented, maintained and documented enterprise SAN Storage, Disk and Tape

Backup solutions. Oversight of $4M Capital Budget and $1M Expense Budget. Recruited, interviewed, hired, trained and managed 8 IT Specialists, low turnover over 6 years. Worked with management to define and understand business drivers. Expert at weighing capital expense and operating expense verses return on investment. Worked with all technology vendors to keep up with current technology. Architected solution for VMware automation to make demonstrations available on demand. Architected, implemented, and documented enterprise datacenter relocation 3 times. Excellent performance evaluations.

Education and Credentials

100 Hours Sales Training

B.S. Degree - Computer ScienceUniversity of North Texas, Denton, TX 2002

Mandel Communications - Presentation and Communication Training - IBM, Austin, TX 2010VMware Certified Professional 510, 2012

Brocade Certified Layer 4-7 Professional, 2012Brocade Certified Network Professional, 2011

Linux Professional Institute Certification Level 1

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