Chris Garrison
Muskogee,OK
Summary
Solutions-oriented IT Consultant with notable success directing corporate initiatives for Fortune 50 clients. Expert in reverse engineering of legacy enterprise systems, ITIL and SAN Consultant. Developer and creator of interactive websites with dynamic data using AJAX, jQuery, and DOM Manipulation.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Architect
Yomi Consulting
01.2017 - Current
- Created cloud adoption and migration plans, performed cloud application design, Implemented cloud management, monitoring, and billing
- Developed a cost-effective application architecture to maximize application performance, reliability, and data recovery
- Designed resilient high-up-time MongoDB and NoSQL cloud architecture with sharding solutions to maximize performance and minimize cost
- Created Kubernetes architecture to handle rapidly scaling customer base to handle a rapid expansion of initial 20,000 patient medical records rising to a level of 5.4 million patients records
- Developed AWS migration strategies and hardware performance compatibility
- Deployed of custom CRM front-end's in the Google Kubernetes Cloud environment
- Created enterprise architecture documentation for internal use and marketing materials for global sales.
Enterprise Architect
WEB 2001
12.2015 - 01.2017
- Developed a wide range of cloud solutions for end customers, Developed custom monitoring and performance programs and scripts
- Acted as technical marketing for our sales organization
- Created multi-year budget forecast projections for small to large scale customers
- Evaluated and budgeted new IT hardware
- Designed backup and DR systems Evaluated and tested head to head POCs
- Virtualized architecture for containerized architectures, for Kubernetes, and VMWare.
Network Appliance Subject Matter Expert
Network Appliance / Nasscom Consulting
01.2015 - 03.2015
- Subject Matter expert and senior IT architect Reverse engineered customer data center environments, server configurations, and customer networks
- Performed Hardware installations and ONTAP system configurations, including storage configuration, networking, and virtualization
- Designed security, storage, and server standards
- Developed project documentation
- Lead engineering teams in server builds and middleware installations
- Created automated system activities
- Achieved all project milestones on time and under budget
- Did Quality of Service on deliverables
- Performed Hardware installations and ONTAP system configurations, including storage configuration, networking, and virtualization.
Storage and Migration Engineer
Las Vegas Sands Corporation / Trace 3
01.2012 - 01.2014
- Direct report consultant to the CIO, inherited abandoned storage environments that included Fibre Channel and iSCSI, multiple vendor arrays, switches, and storage virtualization
- Performed SAN assessments and created data migration plans
- Developed outage schedules
- Reversed engineered storage and server environments and documented the customer environment
- Identified security issues to management
- Developed and implemented monitoring and alert systems
- Performed backup administration and backup system architecture
- Acted as Infrastructure Architect for business solutions
- Lead and taught engineers on technology and process.
Senior Storage Engineer
CareFusion / Cardinal Health
12.2009 - 01.2012
- Developed training programs for offshore administrators
- Performed enterprise backup administration
- Created best practices and procedures during a no documentation data center handoff corporate spinoff of the CareFusion brand from Cardinal Health
- Assumed administrative duties on multiple vendor legacy arrays
- Implemented monitoring and alert systems
- Architected standard systems in converged infrastructure
- Aligned business applications to security standards
- Lead building efforts to migrate to new systems and storage arrays
- Developed custom reporting software solutions
- Architected large database migrations
- Consolidated and closed data centers
- Designed new project documentation
- Set standard build specifications for servers, both virtual and physical
- Managed staff from three outsourced companies.
Cloud Computing Migration, Subject Matter Expert
IBM - International Business Machines / SBS
01.2014 - 01.1015
- Cloud architect and data migration specialist
- Managed customer relations in a hostile customer environment
- Negotiated documentation transfers with soon to be outsourced IT staff
- Reversed engineered customer environments and created documentation
- Performed SAN and assessments and created data migration plans and outage schedules
- Created cloud server environment for customer migrations
- Migrated HPUX, AIX, Linux, Solaris, and Windows hosts into cloud environments
- Migrated VMWARE servers
- Virtualized servers and storage
- Consolidated servers and storage.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Environmental Science
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK05.2017
Skills
- Solutions-oriented IT Consultant
- Reverse engineering of legacy enterprise systems
- Amazon AWS, Google GCP, and IBM cloud deployment and data migration
- Full Stack engineer
- HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
- Certified in front and back-end development
- Cloud Architecture Design
- Monitoring and Logging
- Cloud Governance
- Serverless Computing
- Compliance and Regulations
- High Availability Design
- Data Storage Solutions
- Cloud Application Development
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud Migration Strategies
- API Integration
- Cost Management
- Cloud Infrastructure Design
- Microservices Architecture
- Virtualization Technologies
- Vendor Management
- TCP/IP Protocol
- Code Development
- Infrastructure Development
- System Testing
- Cloud Services
- Enterprise Server Design
- Technical Support and Assistance
- Attention to Detail
- Relationship Building
- Critical Thinking
- CSS Proficiency
- Software Best Practices
- JavaScript Programming
- JavaScript Experience
- Coding
- HTML Expertise
- Application Development
- Microservices architecture
- Git version control
- ReactJS knowledge
- Responsive web design
- RESTful APIs development
- Scrum framework
- NoSQL databases
- Web performance optimization
- API integration
- HTML5 expertise
- UI and UX design principles
- Nodejs experience
- Agile methodologies
- Server-side rendering
- SQL expertise
- Cross-browser compatibility
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Software Documentation Control
- Agile/Scrum Methodology
- Data Storage and Retrieval
- Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Source and Version Control: Git, Github
- Amazon Web Services
- Databases: Oracle, MongoDB
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- API Design and Development
- Software Testing and Validation
- System Administration
- Agile Development Methodologies
- Compatibility Testing
- Debugging and Troubleshooting
- Performance Analytics
- Agile
- GitHub Collaboration
- Code Reviews
- Technical Writing
- Database Management Software
- Creative and Innovative
Accomplishments
3 Time Mirsky's Worst Of The Web Viral Web Website Award Winner.
Voted by the Editors of National Lampoon for having created three of the worst "best/funniest" websites on the internet.
Expert in Data Center Assessments, and reverse engineering of systems and environments
Certification
Full Stack Developer Certification
Languages
Russian
Limited Working
Timeline
Cloud Architect
Yomi Consulting
01.2017 - Current
Enterprise Architect
WEB 2001
12.2015 - 01.2017
Network Appliance Subject Matter Expert
Network Appliance / Nasscom Consulting
01.2015 - 03.2015
Cloud Computing Migration, Subject Matter Expert
IBM - International Business Machines / SBS
01.2014 - 01.1015
Storage and Migration Engineer
Las Vegas Sands Corporation / Trace 3
01.2012 - 01.2014
Senior Storage Engineer
CareFusion / Cardinal Health
12.2009 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Arts - Environmental Science
Oklahoma State University
Full Stack Developer Certification
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