Ralph Perez

About Ralph Perez

My experience and responsibilities as an individual and team lead/Director have focused on identifying, analyzing, justifying, and deploying major transformative technologies and the supporting policies, procedures, and best practices in support of those technologies. This includes, but is not limited to, Public / Private Cloud, Linux Container, OpenShift, IaaS, PaaS, SDN / Network Virtualization, Network / System convergence, APM, Distributed / Commodity storage. Involved in all aspects of IT functions, including architecture, design, engineering, development, installation /implementation, and support of enterprise IT systems. My depth of experiences allowed me to recognize, identify, justify, enable, and usher in new business benefitting technologies and capabilities. A big part of my experience and skills is leveraging my technological strengths, strong communication, sales skills, and financial acumen to build business cases to introduce and deploy major transformative technologies. I have also garnered and leveraged my experiences to address the issues associated with managing the disruption related to the introduction and deployment of major transformative technologies, including managing the impact of resource reallocation and training in introducing new transformative technologies. Accomplishments • Owner - Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins. SonarQube, Nexus JFrog, Chaos Engineering, and CA/Broadcom testing technologies • Introduced APM across 300+ mission-critical applications, increased application availability, and reducing MTTR. • Introduced x86 virtualization replacing physical servers across thousands of ESX servers running 100K+ virtual servers • Disrupted the UNIX environment with the justification, introduction, and deployment of Linux/X86 changing the Unix Standard, displacing Sun Solaris, IBM RISC, and HPUX systems • Introduced Windows technologies including servers and Active Directory across facilities/location • Justified, designed, and deployed our factory floor mini datacenter to drive the automation in our 1200+ package and operating facilities Licenses, Certifications, and Training - Cert Infrastructure Tech Arch - Amazon Cloud Training - SDN Training - HP Discover - IASA Business Architect Council - ASA Infrastructure Architect Course - ITIL V3 Foundation - Project Management Body of Knowledge PMBOK Associations - AMD Advisory Council - Gartner DevOps Council - IASA Advisory Council Common misspellings - Rafael S. Perez, Ralph Perez, Ralph Peres, Rafael Peres, Raphael Perez, Raphael Peres

Experience

1. Principal System Architect

   UPS

   Feb 2010 — Present

   Principal Systems Architect, working with key technology personnel within the organization to identify, establish, introduce, and implement key infrastructures, technological and procedural innovation, and strategies.

Education

• Rutgers University - Newark

  100+ Credits twords a Bachelors Degree, Accounting and Engineering

  1982 — 1985