Gregory Livertovsky 104 Kingsbridge Circle, Thornhill, Ontario, L4J 8N7 Phone: (905) 707-1123  Cell: (416) 300-8291 E-mail: g-liver@rogers.com. Web: http://www.livertovsky.com OBJECTIVE Senior Enterprise IT Consultant, Solution Architect and Cloud Computing Specialist with deep knowledge and wide expertise in virtualization, Data Migration, SAN, Storage, Data Protection, Modern and Legacy Compute Platforms SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION An Enterprise Systems Consultant with over 25 years of experience in planning, designing, implementing and supporting complex, multi-vendors IT environment. Strong expertise and history of success in projects focusing on Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Data Protection, Disaster Recovery and Data migration. Wide knowledge of Database technology, Server and Storage architecture. practical expertise and certifications in IT Security. CERTIFICATION AND PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION VMWare: - VMWare Certified Advanced Professional. Data Center Virtualization Design - VMware Certified Advanced Professional. Desktop and Mobility Design - VMware Certified Professional. Network Virtualization - VMware Certified Professional 6.5. Data Center Virtualization IBM:  - IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert Power Systems with AIX 2009 - IBM Certified Specialist Midrange Storage Technical Support V2 - IBM Certified Specialist Enterprise Storage Technical Support V2 - IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert pSeries HACMP for AIX 5L - IBM Certified Systems Expert. Virtualization Technical Support for AIX and Linux - IBM Certified Deployment Professional. Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 AWS: - AWS Certified Solutions Architect HP: - HP Master Accredited System Engineer (MASE) - Storage Solutions - Accredited System Engineer (ASE) - HP StorageWorks - Accredited Presales Consultant (APC) - HP Superdome Server Solutions - Accredited Presales Consultant (APC) - HP Enterprise Storage Solutions - Accredited Presales Consultant (APC) - HP StorageWorks XP Solutions - HP True64 UNIX V5.0 Certified System Administrator - Accredited Integration Specialist (AIS) - HP BladeSystem Solutions - HP Certified Channel Partner Technical Professional on HP-UX 11.0 - Accredited Integration Specialist - Speciality in HP Storage Works P4000 SAN Solutions SUN: - Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 - Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 10 - Sun Workgroup Technical Certification - Sun Enterprise Technical Certification Red Hat: - RedHat Certified Engineer RHCE Red Hat EL3. Certificate number 803004306009903 - RedHat Certified Engineer RHCE. Red Hat EL5. Certificate number 805007942626085 HDS : - Hitachi Data Systems Certified Professional - Modular - Hitachi Data Systems Certified Professional - Enterprise - Hitachi Data Systems Certified Architect EMC/DELL: - SE Accreditation - CLARiiON - Dell Technologies Proven Professional Oracle: - Oracle Database 10g Administrator Certified Professional. Veritas: - Symantec Technical Specialist. NetBackup 7.5 - Veritas High Availability Professional for Unix using VCS 4.0 Brocade: - Brocade Certified Fabric Professional - Brocade Certified SAN Designer Isilon: - Isilon Certified SE Associate - Isilon Certified SE Storage Professional CISCO: - Cisco Data Center Storage Network Design Specialist - Cisco Data Center Storage Network Support Specialist - Cisco Unified Computing Technology Support Specialist NetApp: - NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator - NetApp Certified SAN Implementation Engineer - NetApp Accredited Installation Professional Fortinet: - NSE 4 Network Security Professional AREAS OF EXPERTISE ¥ Enterprise Virtualization and Consolidation, Cloud Computing, Migrating Infrastructure and applications to the Cloud Platforms. Designing, planning and implementing all components of Virtual Infrastructure, Enterprise Virtual Desktop solutions. ¥ Cross-platforms online Data migration. ¥ Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Data Protection for Enterprise IT Environment. ¥ Designing, Planning and Implementing Enterprise Storage Solutions and SAN ¥ Designing and Implementing High-Availability for Mission-Critical systems and applications. ¥ All aspects of Data Base Solution implementation ¥ Supporting, managing, administrating and monitoring multi-vendors, multi-platforms IT infrastructure ¥ Virtual and Physical network implementation, network and end point security, Authentication and Authorization using cloud-based and on premises Solutions. ¥ Leading and Managing enterprise-class implementation projects. ¥ Advanced Shell, PowerShell and C programming WORKING KNOWLEDGE OF COMPUTER PRODUCTS ¥ Cloud Platforms: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM BlueMix ¥ Virtualization Platforms: VMware vSphere, VMware Horizon, VMware AWS, VMware NSX-T, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XEN, KVM, IBM Power MicroPartitioning. ¥ Operating Systems: RedHat Linux/CentOS, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Microsoft Windows ¥ HA Clustering SW: IBM HACMP/Power HA, Veritas VCS, HP MC/ServiceGuard, Sun Cluster, Microsoft MSCS, Linux Clustering, Oracle RAC, SQL DAG ¥ Server HW: IBM Power VM, HP9000, SUN SunFire series, IBM P-series, IBM x-series, HP Proliant, Dell PowerEdge, Blade Servers technology (Cisco, HP, IBM, Dell). ¥ Storage HW: EMC Unity/PowerMax/PowerStore, HP 3PAR/P4000/MSA, IBM (Lenovo) XIV/v3700/v7000, NetApp filers, Pure Snorage, Nimble, HDS USP-VM,/TagmaStore,/AMS/ HiNAS ¥ Storage SW: HDS True Copy/Shadow Image/Quick Shadow/Hi-Command/Dynamic Path Manager, EMC Navisphere/Timefinder/SRDF/Powerpath/Recover Point, HP CommandView/Secure Path, IBM System Storage Productivity Centre, ¥ SAN Switches: Brocade, Cisco MDS, Qlogic ¥ Backup and Data Protection SW: Veeam, Veritas Netbackup, Tivoli Storage Manager, Symantec Backup Exec, EMC Data Protection/Avamar, HP Data Protector (Omniback), Oracle RMAN, CommVault, Acronis, NetApp SnapMirror/SnapVault , Zerto, Vmware SRM ¥ Database: Oracle, Oracle RAC, Microsoft SQL, mySQL, Informix, Aurora DB ¥ Monitoring Frameworks: Nagios, Zabbix, PRTG, HP Openview (ITO, OVO, Measureware, PerfView, Network Node Manager), IBM NetView, BNC Patrol, HDS Hi-Command ¥ Security: Fortinet firewalls and End Point Protection products, Citrix NetScaler, OKTA, Vmware Identity Manager/NSX Micro-Segmentation/Edge firewall, Splunk, WireShark. ¥ Network: CISCO, HP, Dell, Fortinet switches, VMware and Hyper-V virtual networking ¥ Programming: Unix/Linux shells, PowerShell, Awk, Sed, Perl, C,/C++, Java Script EMPLOYMENT HISTORY FlexITy Solution Inc. Richmond Hill, Ontario 05/2005 – present   Data Centre (DC) Group Lead/Senior Solution Integration Consultant ¥ Manage DC Professional Service Group, responsible for LoE estimation, resource allocation and service delivery. ¥ Provide strategic consulting, design, implementation, control and support in data migration, data center consolidation and virtualization projects for Enterprise customers. ¥ Lead IT virtualization projects using different Virtual and Cloud-based platforms. Assisting clients in migrating to Hybrid and Public Cloud services. ¥ Design and implement Tiered Storage infrastructure, DR and Business Continuity solutions for financial institutions and government organizations using storage and SAN based replication technologies and Enterprise storage software. ¥ As storage architect provided ongoing consulting services and have been responsible for developing strategic storage roadmap for one of the major Canadian financial organization. ¥ Developed and implemented virtual datacenter infrastructure for different clients using converged network infrastructure, Cisco UCS blade centres, VMware VSphere, NSX-T, vRealize Suite, vCloud Director (vCD), NetApp, Isilon, HP P4000, 3PAR, HDS USP and AMS storage. ¥ Participate in pre-sales activities, build POCs, prepare demos for potential clients, and assist sales team in preparing RFP responses. Infostream Technologies Inc. Richmond Hill, Ontario 03/2001 – 05/2005   Principal Consultant * Leaded numerous Enterprise Storage and SAN engagements using variety of Disk Arras (HDS, EVA, EMC, SUN StoreEdge, NetApp), Fiber Channel Switches (Brocade 12000, 6400, 3900, 3800, 2800, McData 6064, 4500) and operating systems (SUN, AIX, HP-UX, Windows, LINUX). * Designed and Implemented Metro Storage Solutions and Disaster Recovery Protection using SAN infrastructure, HDS 9970,9960, 9570 disks arrays and True Copy, Shadow Image, Quick Shadow, CCI software. * Developed and implemented Enterprise Backup solutions with Disaster Recovery protection, based on Veritas Netbackup 3.4, 4.5, Tivoli Storage Manager 4.2, 5.2 and HP Data Protector (Omniback) 5.1. Integrating NetApp filers in backup infrastructure. Integrating Oracle, Informix, SQL and MS Exchange backup/recovery with Enterprise backup. * Provided technical leadership in numerous High-Availability engagements implementing Veritas Foundation Suite, VCS, IBM HACMP, HP MC/SG and NSI Double Take. * Managed new systems migrations, upgrade installations and system rollouts within time and budget constraints. * Implemented Oracle 9 RAC on AIX, HP-UX, and LINUX in stretched cluster configuration. Working with Oracle, HP and IBM teams designing and configuring “showroom” Oracle 9 RAC installations. * Designed, configured, and implemented an enterprise custom JumpStart server infrastructure supporting Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and 9 installations and upgrades and Ignite HP-UX Server supporting HP-UX 11.0 and 11.i. This engagement included designing of sophisticated scripting solution.     Nortel Networks Brampton, Ontario 07/2000 – 03/2001   Capacity Planning and Performance consultant. Contract. * Performance analysis, reporting, and problem determination for mixed UNIX environments of over 400 servers worldwide using BNC Patrol software tools, HP MeasureWare, HP PerfView and native Unix tools. * Evaluation, recommendation and implementation of next generation technologies. * Plan UNIX capacity, architecture and manage performance to assure efficient utilization of corporate computing assets. * Provide system specifications, present solution to clients, management and support departments, consult client representatives, negotiate solutions with vendors. (HP-UX, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Enterprise Storage).      * Proactive utilization monitoring of production environment. * Provide recommendations on global and specific performance issues in various UNIX environments.   GE Capital Information Technology Solutions Mississauga, Ontario 04/1998 – 06/2000   Enterprise System Integration Specialist * Installing, configuring and administrating UNIX, Open VMS and Windows NT operating system. (AIX, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, Solaris, Open VMS 7.1, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95/98). Developing different scripts for network backups and performance monitoring. Installing and configuring new hardware and software. Helping customers in problem determination and developing solutions. Korn, C-shells and VMS DCL advanced scripting. Customer telephone support and consulting. * Planning and designing IBM SP systems. Installing and configuring IBM SP&PSSP frames and nodes. Upgrading software and hardware, installing patches. * Planning, installing, configuring and testing IBM HACMP and HP MC/Service Guard Clusters (SSA, SCSI, AutoRaid and EMC disk arrays). * Performing Oracle 7 & Oracle 8 database installation, administration configuration and tuning on HP-UX, AIX and IBM SP&PSSP environment, developed scripts, reports, RMAN and EBU backup procedures. Designing physical and logical schemes. Supporting and administrating production Oracle databases for a big telecommunication company. Developing SQL and PL/SQL scripts. * Preparing proposals and technical solutions for Enterprise backup and recovery systems. Installing, configuring and tuning ADSM, Legato NetWorker, OmniBack Enterprise network backup and recovery systems for different customers, including database data protection. * Installing and configuring RAID arrays, upgrading RAID controllers. (Digital StorageWorks HSZ-40, HSZ-50, HSZ-70, HSZ-80, ESA-1200 fiber channel, IBM SSA RAID arrays). * Developing database front-end and database logical structure for warehouse system (FoxPro 5.0).   Sector 7 Canada Inc.  Toronto, Ontario 06/1997 - 02/1998  Sr. Software Engineer. Team Leader * Leading a team, developing Software products for automated migration from RSX-11 and Open VMS systems to Digital Unix. (C, sockets, DecNet/OCI, Fortran-90, Fortran-77, Oracle Embedded SQL, Oracle Forms, Lex & YACC. EDUCATION 2019 VMware VMware vSphere Design Workshop 2004 - Red Hat. Linux Linux System Administration 2003,2002 - Oracle Oracle 9i RAC administration. Oracle 9i Database performance Tuning 2003 - Sun Microsystems. Capacity Planning and Sizing for San Platforms - Sun Fire Applied Solutions 2001 - Hewlett Packard Canada Managing SureStore Disk Arrays XP Series 1999 - IBM Canada: Implementing Tivoli ADSM V3 1998 - IBM Canada: AIX V4 Advanced System Administration Advanced Topics in AIX TCP/IP Communications RS/6000 SP Planning and Installation 1981-1985 - Polytechnic University Novocherkassk, Russia. Master degree in Computer Science, Honor Diploma. REFERENCES Available upon request.