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Nicholas

Senior Cloud Architect

Senior Cloud Architect and Technical Instructor with 25+ years of experience in cloud technologies, Linux/Unix systems, and enterprise training. Google Authorized Trainer, certified in multiple cloud platforms, with extensive experience in automation, security, and infrastructure management.

Skills

Professional Experience

Completed a multi-Cloud implementation contract for an Oil & Gas services company in Houston, Texas. Tasks included Architecture and Security for Google Cloud and AWS environments.

With over a decade of teaching experience, I've repeatedly been the "go-to" instructor for difficult environments, be it high-priority customers who need "white-glove" treatment, or delivering the pilot for courses that were not complete at the time of delivery, or working with sales reps to design custom course.

Selected to teach several classes for Google Internal

Delivered Netapp & Cloud Volumes to Google Cloud development team

Architecting with GCP

Getting started with GKE

New-Hire training on google cloud for "Nooglers"

Selected to teach several high visibility Google Cloud Workshops

Google Kubernetes Workshop

Google Cloud Fundamentals

Selected to create and deliver several custom courses for major Google Cloud clients

Multiple deliveries for JPMC focusing on networking & security in GCP

Custom course for Square

Author of the official Google "Professional Cloud Architect Journey" course

Courses taught: Netapp Administration, NFS, CIFS, SAN, Data Protection, Performance Analysis, RestAPI

Netapp Automation using Ansible

Implementing Netapp Hybrid Cloud

Wrote Original Netapp Capacity Calculator Application

Approved new instructors

Selected to teach custom courses for high profile clients such as: Qualcomm, Oracle, FAA, NASA, Apple, SAP, US Aid, E-Bay, PayPal, among others.

Founder

Created dynamic cloud-based lab environment

Delivered Linux Fundamentals courses for US Air Force

Authored LPI Linux Essentials Course

Authored Ansible Fundamentals Course

Entrenza was a reputation analytics startup which tracked positivity towards keywords such as brand name across the web

Built and managed a small team

Wrote initial text categorization system using Naive Bayes classification (mainly Perl)

Implemented hybrid cloud (aws & local servers)

Implemented project tracking tools

Built initial front-end web interface and managed handing that off to front end web development team

Setup Source Control and releases

Industry Professional Certifications

Google Professional Cloud Architect

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

SuSE Certified Administrator (SCA)
SuSE Certified Engineer (SCE)
SuSE Certified Instructor (SCI)
Ubuntu Certified Trainer #19
Ubuntu Certified Professional
Linux Professional Institute Level 1
@stake Application Security Principles
@stake Cyberattacks & Countermeasures

NetApp Certified Technical Instructor

Education

Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc)
Texas State Technical College
College Education
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
1999
High School Diploma
Marblehead High School
1997