Sr. vArchitect at VCE
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company
Sr. vArchitect, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Caribbean
July 2012 to Present
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
eGlobalTech
Sr. Cloud Architect
October 2011 to February 2012
Washington D.C. Metro Area
VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company
Sr. vArchitect
February 2011 to October 2011
Genesis10
Sr. Architect Consultant
October 2010 to February 2011
Charlotte, North Carolina Area
Independent Consultant
IT Architect
March 2005 to October 2010
Kemper Insurance
Server Engineer\Architect
1997 to 2004
University of Miami - School of Business
Master of Business Administration (MBA) International Business
2015 to 2016
Florida International University - College of Business Administration
Bachelor of Business MIS
2000 to 2001
Florida State University - College of Business
MIS MIS
1996 to 1997
Helping enterprise customers in their journey into the Cloud and Big Data, with an emphasis on dramatically reducing IT costs, improve time to value and help customers focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating and managing IT infrastructure through the adoption of the "Vblock™ Converged Infrastructure Platform" solution that incorporates a pre-validated, fully supported, repeatable, predictable... Helping enterprise customers in their journey into the Cloud and Big Data, with an emphasis on dramatically reducing IT costs, improve time to value and help customers focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating and managing IT infrastructure through the adoption of the "Vblock™ Converged Infrastructure Platform" solution that incorporates a pre-validated, fully supported, repeatable, predictable and interoperable computing model stack from EMC, CISCO and VMware.
What company does Juan D. Diaz work for?
Juan D. Diaz works for VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company
What is Juan D. Diaz's role at VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company?
Juan D. Diaz is Sr. vArchitect, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Caribbean
What industry does Juan D. Diaz work in?
Juan D. Diaz works in the Information Technology and Services industry.
📖 Summary
Juan is a Data Center professional with over 19 years of IT Consolidation, Governance, Advising and Integration consulting experience in the Private and Public sectors. Including Risk assessment, Infrastructure Architecture, Disaster Recovery, Staff Augmentation within a Tech start-up and established organizations. Current focus is to work with customers and partners on a solution based approach to transforming customer's Data Center from converged Infrastructure, to hybrid cloud and managed services.Sr. vArchitect, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Caribbean @ Helping enterprise customers in their journey into the Cloud and Big Data, with an emphasis on dramatically reducing IT costs, improve time to value and help customers focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating and managing IT infrastructure through the adoption of the "Vblock™ Converged Infrastructure Platform" solution that incorporates a pre-validated, fully supported, repeatable, predictable and interoperable computing model stack from EMC, CISCO and VMware. From July 2012 to Present (3 years 6 months) Miami/Fort Lauderdale AreaSr. Cloud Architect @ Developing the Federal Cloud Computing Enterprise Architecture and Technical Roadmap for the Office of the Federal Government CIO, Steve VanRoekel. Leading technical discussions around strategy, standards, procurement, transition, implementation and continuous improvement with Federal Agencies and pre-qualified cloud providers such as: AWS, AT&T, Verizon and CGI Federal, among others. Assisting with Technical requirement transformation, Data Center Consolidation, Compliance, SLA’s, Capex\Opex, End Points, Governance, Orchestration, Capacity Planning and Trust elements for a transition to the Public Cloud consistent with the Federal Cloud Computing Initiative (FCCI), Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and existing Cloud Storefront, APPS.gov. The vision is a more agile, ubiquitous, computing model mitigating the un-sustained $80B Federal IT Budget. From October 2011 to February 2012 (5 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaSr. vArchitect @ Subject Matter Expert in the converged infrastructure Data Center space in support of pre-sales activities through the partner/channel community. Led analysis, design and development of Vblock™, a fully integrated technology solution with strategic resellers, service providers, system integrators and VAR’s in the Public, Financial, Health Care and Education verticals. Architectural emphasis on hardware capabilities, software requirements, systems integration and professional services. Conducted architectural and sales presentations to technical staff, senior management C-Level executives and Industry event speaker in the understanding of Cloud Computing, VCE, Vblock™, competitive technology and validated business applications within the assigned market. Effectively articulated converged Infrastructure best of breed stack from EMC, Cisco and VMWare, specifically; VMWare-vSphere, EMC Storage-VNX, Symmetrix, Celerra and Clarion storage, Cisco-Nexus routing and switching, Cisco-UCS, MDS, Fabric Interconnects/extenders, EMC- UIM/O Management, EMC PowerPath load balancing in a two facet approach of Infrastructure solutions; such as, TMT, VDI, DR\BC and validated applications, such as SAP, Exchange and SharePoint. Managed relationships in the Latam Region, predominantly in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Puerto Rico and Colombia supporting sales team objectives, engage and leverage Cisco, EMC and VMWare corporate resources, abilities, budgets and personnel as appropriate. From February 2011 to October 2011 (9 months) Sr. Architect Consultant @ From October 2010 to February 2011 (5 months) Charlotte, North Carolina AreaIT Architect @ Currently providing Cloud Computing consulting services to the Lowe’s organization in implementing the store of the future for their 1,800+ stores, 250,000 internal user base and dual data centers with utilization\consolidation\modernization opportunities. The scope involves the discovery of the core enterprise architecture and to deliver advise to a C- Level panel on Cloud opportunities within their strategic plan and $50M Budget. Provided a comprehensive Cloud Computing feasibility study to the South West Florida Water Management District through Verizon Business, Tampa Bay. This initiative involved two phases; a discovery phase of the agency’s internal architecture components including; ITIL, COBIT, BOXI, EMC SAN Clarions, Brocade Switches, DDR’s, backup and restore scheme, server utilization, Cluster and Grid technologies, data center and a written/presentation and recommendation component exploring external cloud opportunities through a case study and Roadmap to complement this agency’s 5 year technology strategic IT plan. American Express, North Star Industries, Progressive management, Glotel consulting and P3 networks, Miami Florida. Tailored Infrastructure projects around the various client’s organizations functional and technical requirements, budget and timeline utilizing tools such as EVA Netmodeler, IBM Architect, Bizz Design Architect, IBM Rational System Architect v.10 and MS project, including Data modeling, Standardization and new and emerging technology. Miami Dade County, responsible for applying architectural strategy to the procurement of enterprise software (EULA) and IT consultant (Professional Services) and hardware consolidation services contracts to reduce Total Cost of Ownership and increase system resiliency. Executed IT acquisition projects set forth by Miami Dade County’s Information Technology Department (ETSD). Savings projected of $2.5 Million dollars over the life of Sole Source County contracts with a total contract... From March 2005 to October 2010 (5 years 8 months) Server Engineer\Architect @ IT Architect Managed staff of 35 IT professionals and business liaisons with a working budget of $4.5M on the development of the Legacy to ERP initiative (Pyramid Project). Led the IT architecture team on ERP infrastructure and software evaluation through implementation and on going support and training. Modules included: PeopleSoft v.8 HR Oracle Financials 11i, in house VB & J2EE modules hosted on cross platform environments such as Windows IIS Server, AD ,UNIX, mainframe and AS 400. Middle tiers included MS SQL, MS Exchange, Citrix MetaFrame, VMWare, Crystal Reports, Test Director and Lotus Notes among others. The infrastructure requirements were sized to include a redundancy scheme from dual power servers & Switches to the Nortel & Cisco Backbone fail over T1/T3 to the team server NICS running 100Mb to the desktop. Server Engineering Team Lead December 1997 – January 2000 Created and enhanced existing IT controls and standards for SAS70 & Sarsbanes Oxley audits. Prepared long and short-range plans for infrastructure enhancement and systems deployment. Coordinated vendor relations including IBM, HP, Microsoft and others, led all infrastructure change management activities, including OS patch distribution and scheduling scheme, server consolidations, hardware & critical application upgrades, roll-back versioning, fault tolerance redundancy scheme and performance enhancements. Performed cost-of-ownership reports and cost-based-analysis for budget/resource justification. Implemented Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project. SAN Back up and restore responsibilities on EMC and IBM SANS Infrastructure with a Silo Storage Tek hosted on HP/AIX. From 1997 to 2004 (7 years) Master of Business Administration (MBA), International Business @ University of Miami - School of Business From 2015 to 2016 Bachelor of Business, MIS @ Florida International University - College of Business Administration From 2000 to 2001 MIS, MIS @ Florida State University - College of Business From 1996 to 1997 Juan D. Diaz is skilled in: Data Center, ITIL, VMware, Storage, Enterprise Architecture, Pre-sales, Cisco Technologies, Infrastructure, Governance, EMC Storage, ERP, Solution Architecture, IT Strategy, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software
Introversion (I), Sensing (S), Thinking (T), Judging (J)
2 year(s), 11 month(s)
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