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MICHAEL D. MILLER

Seguin,TX

Summary

Seasoned Enterprise Architect with a proven track record at VISA, specializing in transforming complex requirements into scalable solutions. Expertise in IT governance and technical leadership has led to a 66% reduction in IT CAPEX costs while enhancing infrastructure planning and security architecture. Proficient in disaster recovery and agile development frameworks, driving innovation and resilience within enterprise environments. Committed to leveraging technology to achieve operational excellence and strategic goals.

Overview

39
39
years of professional experience

Work History

Enterprise Architect

VISA
12.2020 - Current
  • Acted as a liaison between business users and technical personnel by translating requirements into solutions.
  • Collaborated with project teams to ensure successful integration of new systems into the environment.
  • Secured network systems by establishing and enforcing access control policies.
  • Ensured compliance with PCI and IT security constraints through system design.
  • Complied with cybersecurity, performance, and compliance standards.
  • Led technical operations, coordinating financial oversight, roadmap creation and rollout.
  • Aligned business needs with project fiscal plans and outcomes.
  • Approved, reviewed, and controlled technology budgets for consistency with company goals.
  • Maintained adherence of business applications to established security and regulatory norms.
  • Increased productivity by consolidating and retiring outdated data centers.
  • Created detailed project documentation, state documents, and project plans.
  • Assessed Quality of Service in deliverables, ensuring adherence to established benchmarks.
  • Created standardized guidelines for constructing server builds across various platforms such as containers, virtual machines, and physical hardware.

Senior IT Architect

Fidelity Information Systems
04.2017 - 10.2020
  • Acted as senior IT architect
  • Led cross-functional teams in the design, development, testing and deployment of large scale projects.
  • Lead engineering teams in the implementation of firewalls, load balancers, and reverse proxies.
  • Lead engineers in server builds and middleware installations.
  • Architected standard systems in converged infrastructure
  • Met with stakeholders and presented in-depth information on hardware and software products, delivering expertise to make appropriate purchasing decisions.
  • Consolidated and closed data centers.
  • I conducted a Quality of Service review on the deliverables.
  • Scaled infrastructure to reflect technical sizing for transactions.
  • Completed design projects for modernized data center infrastructure.
  • Architected IBM Mainframe and AIX server infrastructure.

Senior IT Architect

Experian
04.2015 - 01.2017
  • Acted as senior architect
  • Established relationships with key stakeholders in order to understand their needs and requirements.
  • Created detailed technical documentation for new and existing systems and applications.
  • Designed technical solutions for complex enterprise systems in alignment with organizational objectives.
  • Led strategic planning and execution to enhance profitability and company growth.
  • Met with stakeholders and presented in-depth information on hardware and software products, delivering expertise to make appropriate purchasing decisions.
  • Evaluated and budgeted for new IT hardware.
  • Architected Big Data systems of over 3.5 PB of data
  • Designed backup and DR systems for over 2 EB of data
  • Managed over $500 Million in IT assets
  • Evaluated and tested head to head POCs
  • Reduced IT CAPEX costs by 66%
  • Lead team in creating fault tolerant systems resulting in 0 downtime
  • Modernized DR solutions, creating Hadoop, Casandra, and Hive for data Warehouse and archive
  • Created new chargeback models more aligned to business needs
  • Designed AWS solutions for Marketing Services
  • Lead developer teams generating new SaaS products and business for Experian APIs in JSON capable of handling 20 million transactions per second
  • Lead migration to ServiceNow
  • Taught classes on use of ServiceNow and notifications for Incident Management
  • Lead migrations to and from AWS for Experian businesses
  • Designed solutions to replace Exabytes of tape
  • Lead and taught engineers on technology and process
  • Lead in Infrastructure deployment
  • Architected private cloud on EMC VBlock (UCS, MDS, EMC storage)

President

Yomi
06.2007 - 04.2015
  • Ran a consulting business focusing on infrastructure solutions delivering projects for various companies, mainly focusing on data center and storage migrations
  • Acted as principal Consultant, reviewing and bidding on contracts
  • Designed Storage and Server Architectures
  • Migrated Changepoint to ServiceNow
  • Established CMDB in ServiceNow
  • Architected Datacenter consolidations
  • Designed and managed buildout of Grid Computing
  • Designed and implemented IT solutions for customers
  • Developed new business for consultancy
  • Managed projects for customers
  • Migrated data from platforms and arrays
  • Designed SAN infrastructure on Brocade and Cisco switches
  • Setup Dynamic provisioning to HDS arrays
  • Migrated HPUX, AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows hosts
  • Migrated VMWARE servers
  • Virtualized servers and storage
  • Consolidated servers and storage
  • Designed and established DR replication over FCIP links using Cisco MDS switches
  • Designed storage infrastructure architectures
  • Designed Cisco UCS solutions for customer

Senior Systems Engineer

Symantec
06.2006 - 06.2007
  • Built technical business solutions, designed infrastructure projects, sold data center management software, responded to RFPs and did proof of concepts
  • Acted as a pre-sales engineer supporting multiple account teams
  • Built technical solutions for ITIL process
  • Sold Storage Resource Management software
  • Built and demonstrated technical demonstrations
  • Developed and maintained customer relationship
  • Taught engineers about business process and sales positioning

Senior IT Architect

Sun Microsystems
06.1999 - 06.2006
  • IT Architect specializing in storage for the America's
  • Acted as a principal engineer and project manager on professional services projects working in both pre-sales and post-sales, plus, managed implementation teams
  • Worked with Sun servers ranging from Ultra 2 to E15K, storage arrays from A1000 to HDS9980, tape libraries and silos from L8 to L5500
  • Developed service offerings for Lotus using Sun storage and SAMFS/QFS file systems
  • Designed infrastructure solutions for customers
  • Designed and lead buildout of Sun Grid
  • Sold Sun servers and storage to customers
  • Developed infrastructure solutions and upgrades for customers
  • Developed storage and server migrations and consolidations
  • Developed DR/BCP plans for customers
  • Developed ERP solutions and hardware upgrades for customers
  • Lead engineering teams to implement and manage solutions
  • Analyzed current IT procedures and designed new ones for customers
  • Taught engineers about new solutions and its implementation
  • Taught salesmen on competitive points for solutions
  • Designed and implemented HPC systems
  • Managed engineers on project basis
  • Did pre-sales qualification, specification and planning
  • Consulted on e-commerce projects
  • Provided technical expertise to other engineers, technical support and sales staff
  • Designed and implemented ISP and ASP solutions

DBA

American Bureau of Shipping
07.1997 - 06.1999
  • DBA specializing in MS SQL server and IBM DB2
  • Created data warehouse and managed ETL
  • Acted as senior developer consulting to engineers and developers
  • Lead team in database problem solving
  • Maintained and managed NT user environment
  • Responsible for data warehousing and data recovery
  • Worked as a DBA
  • Acted as back line support for help desk
  • Migrated many databases to Microsoft SQL server
  • Integrated SQL server to DB2 mainframe
  • Lead team in digitizing years of paper records for ship certification
  • Provided third level technical support
  • Coordinated, maintained and managed NT Enterprise environment
  • Designed and implemented database web interfaces
  • Maintained and administered MS SQL servers
  • Designed, planned and implemented server and workstation migrations
  • Designed, planned and implemented NE security procedures
  • Designed and documented server procedures
  • Planned and implemented server upgrades to include cross platform changes
  • Maintained and Managed Netscape server applications
  • Planned and implemented NT Network upgrades and managed the client/server migrations
  • Consultant to software developers

SGT

US Army
04.1986 - 06.1997
  • Served as an Infantryman later as a Medic

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

University of Maryland
MD
04-1989

Associates - Computer Programming

Control Data Institute
Southfield, MI
01.1980

Skills

  • Data modeling
  • Agile development frameworks
  • Agile development environments
  • API integration
  • Solution architecture
  • Subject matter expertise
  • Disaster recovery
  • IT governance
  • Technical leadership
  • Infrastructure planning
  • Security architecture
  • Standards implementation
  • Platform design
  • SaaS models
  • Network architecture
  • IT architecture design
  • Mobile application development
  • Enterprise software
  • Standards development
  • PaaS models
  • Encryption
  • Information security
  • Cyber Security

Technology

  • Operating Systems:

Linux (Various distributions)
AIX
Solaris
Z/OS

  • Big Data & Databases:

Hadoop
Cassandra
Redis

Oracle

MySQL

MS SQL

  • Programming & Middleware:

Java

Kafka

  • Networking & Infrastructure:

Cisco
Brocade

  • Storage Solutions:

HDS (Hitachi Data Systems)
EMC
Quantum

  • Containerization & Orchestration:

Docker
Docker Swarm
Kubernetes
OpenShift

  • Virtualization:

VMware

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Enterprise Architect

VISA
12.2020 - Current

Senior IT Architect

Fidelity Information Systems
04.2017 - 10.2020

Senior IT Architect

Experian
04.2015 - 01.2017

President

Yomi
06.2007 - 04.2015

Senior Systems Engineer

Symantec
06.2006 - 06.2007

Senior IT Architect

Sun Microsystems
06.1999 - 06.2006

DBA

American Bureau of Shipping
07.1997 - 06.1999

SGT

US Army
04.1986 - 06.1997

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

University of Maryland

Associates - Computer Programming

Control Data Institute

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