Experienced Enterprise Architect working on Cloud Computing (OpenStack), GNU/Linux, Open Source Software, and Virtualization. I reside in the Austin , Texas metro area and work for an Red Hat, The world's open source leader!. Specialties: • Enterprise level Cloud Architecture and Design (IaaS). • Cloud Computing and Big Data (OpenStack, VMware, Hadoop). • Linux and Unix (Architecture, Systems design, deployment, administration): RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, SuSe, Debian, Ubuntu, and Gentoo. • Virtualization (VMware vSphere, ESXi, XenServer, Xen, KVM) architecting, advance configuration and administration. • Storage : SAN/NAS installation and administration for iSCSI and fiber Channel devices (Dell Equallogic, Dell PV MD Series, Compellent, EMC CX/VNX Series). • LAMP Technologies (Apache, MySQL, PHP) and Mail server administration (Qmail, Sendmail, Postfix, MailerDaemon.) • Scripting languages including Bash and Python. • System monitoring tools: Mon-Cgi, Nagios, Cacti, Dell ITA and OpenManage. • Microsoft Windows Server 2008, 2003, 2000 (AD, IIS and Microsoft Exchange 03/07/10.) • Enterprise server hardware (Dell PowerEdge and C Series/HP/IBM Servers). • Enterprise networking (Dell PowerConnect, Force10, Converge Networks (FCoE), Cisco). • Red Hat Satellite Server (Installation, Configuration, RPM management). • Configuration management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible).

Senior Cloud Architect @ • Member of the Cloud Practice Team at Red Hat. • Design, create, and deliver cloud solutions at scale. • Act as an OpenStack / RHEL / Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, LXC) Subject Matter Expert. • Be a cloud subject matter expert and demonstrate thought leadership in the cloud community by producing world-class white papers, webinars, etc., as well as speaking at industry-leading conferences. • Act as the customer's advocate to architect the right solutions and ensure they are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable way. • Deliver successful discovery, analysis, and design workshops for small to medium teams of both technical and non-technical backgrounds that shape and influence the customer’s use cases and architecture design decisions. • Scope delivery projects and guide customers through successful pilot and production deployments. • Contribute to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale Red Hat’s services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Austin, Texas AreaFedora Ambassador @ Fedora Project Ambassador From 2009 to Present (6 years) Austin, Texas AreaPrincipal Systems Engineer @ • Research, architect and implement new technologies including but not limited to Linux, Unix, Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Configuration Management. • Plan, design, implement and monitor system administration processes and procedures to ensure efficient and effective utilization of systems and storage,on testing, and production environments. • Respond to questions and resolve tier 2 and 3 problems originated by users through End User services. • Actively participate in design/review activities to evaluate program/project approach, design and supportability. • Entering change controls and performing peer review of all changes pertaining to systems and infrastructure. From March 2014 to February 2015 (1 year) Austin, Texas AreaPrincipal Data Center Solutions Consultant - Converged Infrastructure. @ • Provide remote and onsite design, installation, configuration and support for converged datacenter infrastructure. • Understand, design, propose and communicate requirements to all solution stakeholders (internal and external). • Analysis and gathering of technical details regarding customer environments and system requirements. • Deliver on-site or remote services including creation of high level and detailed design documentation, customization, product integration and acceptance. • Travel frequently to customer sites to audit/monitor delivery quality, perform site surveys and/or deliver deployment/consulting services. • Deliver on-site consulting services such as performance monitoring, network audits, testing/troubleshooting and make recommendations for the optimization of a customer’s design. • Handle technical escalations for any break/fix customer engagements. • Ability to use diagnostic aids, tools and appropriate lab equipment, as necessary. • Coaches and mentors internal employees on advancements in software and hardware technologies, up to and including technical consulting and training. • Acquire expert level knowledge on all Dell Enterprise products as well as some Non-Dell platforms. • Attend advanced vendor training with the intent to build skills and in some cases redeliver to the internal teams. From August 2013 to March 2014 (8 months) Austin, Texas AreaSr. Solutions Engineer - NOS Team @ • Technology expert on Cloud/Virtualization. • Point of escalation for complex enterprise solutions (Cloud Computing, virtualization [VMware, Citrix, KVM ] and Linux. • Coaches, mentors and provides guidance to internal employees to help them improve their technical skills • Provide technical assistance to help resolve issues relating to a variety of enterprise technologies. • Research and reproduce technical issues using enterprise lab resources. • Work with vendors and engineering groups to provide solutions to complex issues. • Develops and delivers training related to technical specialties. • Prioritize projects, issues and tasks. • Attend advanced vendor training with the intent to build skills and in some cases redeliver to the internal teams. • Been a SME (subject matter expert) in different enterprise products (RHEL, OpenStack, Hadoop, SLES, VMWare vSphere, Crowbar, Ubuntu, Windows Server 2008/2003, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell Equallogic, Dell Compellent, Dell PowerVault Storage, Dell PowerConnect, etc). • Customer onsite engagement/consultation for high visibility/complex issues. • Assist management with candidates interviews for junior and senior positions on the team. From March 2012 to August 2013 (1 year 6 months) Enterprise Systems Engineer - NOS Team @ • Responsible for providing expert level knowledge and resolution to issues escalated from the High Complexity support queues, Global Consulting Services and Deployment Engineers regarding Linux (RHEL, SLES), VMware, Citrix XenServer, Netware and other UNIX/Linux OS. • Interact with internal clients to provide guidance and solutions for enterprise technologies such as servers, storage devices, virtualization, cloud computing and HPC. • Perform problem investigation and research to resolve Enterprise OS, Application or Networking issues and escalate to the different software vendors if is necessary in order to provide resolution to complex issues. • Also provide support to Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 core issues and Exchange 2003/2007/2010. From September 2010 to March 2012 (1 year 7 months) Austin, Texas AreaProduct Engineer, AltOS Team @ • Providing software support for Linux and Unix systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSe Enterprise, Novell Netware, Novell Open Server and Solaris 10. • Providing support for the VMware Infrastructure and vSphere, Citrix XenServer as part of the Dell OEM products. • Identify problems, investigate causes and recommend solutions to correct failures. From March 2008 to September 2010 (2 years 7 months) Austin, Texas AreaLinux Administrator @ • Provide technical support in the hosting area based in Linux Servers. • Troubleshoot problems in web servers (Apache) and email servers (Qmail, Sendmail). • Work with DSM, H-Sphere, HSP-Complete and Plesk control panels software. • Install and troubleshoot web applications like Joomla, Oscommerce, Miva Merchant and others. • Fix problems in the VPS (Virtual Private Servers) with IPtables, Apache, MySql. From April 2007 to March 2008 (1 year) Austin, Texas AreaSr. Linux Administrator @ - Deploy and manage Linux (Red Hat and Debian) servers and the network infrastructure. - Configuring Apache, Postfix, MySQL and other services. - Responsible for deploy/manage the Virtual Infrastructure running on VMware ESX. - Creating scripts to increase productivity. From December 2006 to October 2007 (11 months) Sr. Systems Engineer @ • Design and maintaining the Server/Network infrastructure running Linux OS and Windows Server. • Installing/Configure the SAN infrastructure. From October 2005 to November 2006 (1 year 2 months) Sr. Network Administrator @ • Responsible for the design, deployment and administration of the company intranet. • Maintaining the network/servers infrastructure in a hybrid environment (Linux, Windows and BSD). From August 2004 to October 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Bachelor, Computer Sciences @ IS BR - GRANMA - CUBA From 2003 to 2006 High School Diploma, Sciences. @ IPVCP "Blas Roca" From 2000 to 2003 Julio Pelegrino is skilled in: RHCA, Virtualization, Red Hat Linux, Cluster, VMware ESX, Xen, Dell PowerEdge Servers, CentOS, Linux, Windows Server, vSphere, RHCDS, RHEL, Apache, iSCSI