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JONATHAN J. SPINDEL jspindel@ieee.org
4101 Pine Tree Drive, Unit 1012, Miami Beach, FL 33140
QUALIFICATIONS
Strong, focused, hands-on, Senior Team Leader, and Solutions Architect with over 21 years of
progressive, passionate, in-depth experience managing, designing and architecting the
deployment of multi tenant enterprise Cloud (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PRaaS), and network solutions
to meet business needs, and initiatives while improving processes. Expertise in building,
managing high performance teams, maintaining team continuity, mentoring technologically while
increasing soft skills, and increasing productivity. Provides end-to-end pre-sales, management
and technical turnkey cloud solutions during the rollout of strategies to increases business
productivity and reduces operational costs, meeting timely returns on investment.
Core SKILLS
Methodologies Databases
Architectures
Element
Management Protocols CLOUD
PaaS,IaaS,SaaS
Engineered
Systems/Virtulization
Storage
Solutions
CLOUD
Computing MySQL BMC SNMP HP Tool-Sets ODA-Oracle Database
Appliance V1/x4-2/x5-2
Oracle ZFS
GRID Computing SQL HP CSA ICMP MS Azure Exalogic x3-2/x4-2/x5-2 NetApp
Virtualization PosgresSQL Oracle OEM
11g/12c/13c DHCP BMC Tool-Sets OVCA-Private Cloud
Appliance (PCA)
EMC Isilon
ITIL Standards Oracle CA Unicenter DNS Appistry CloudIQ Oracle Exadata x3-2/x4-
2/x5-2/x6-2
EMC VMAX/VPLEX
Open Source IBM Tivoli WLAN 802.1x Virtual Routing
and Switching Oracle Exalytics IBM
Aprisma Distance Vector Oracle Tool-Sets VMware 5.x HP 3PAR
NerveCenter Dynamic/Static Amazon AWS/S3 HyperV
OpenXTRA Multi-
path/Hybrid
Virtual Routing
and Switching
ZEN
Routing
Algorithms KVM
Oracle Cloud Oracle Servers x3-2/x4-
2/x5-2/x6-2
Oracle VM 1.x-3.x
JONATHAN J. SPINDEL PAGE TWO
Team Lead – Enterprise Infrastructure/Principle Enterprise Architect
Mythics Consulting 2013 - Present
• Working with clients to help formulate, shape and implement their strategic enterprise technology
vision, goals, strategies and roadmaps, surrounding ExaLogic and other Oracle Cloud platforms.
• Understanding and developing the core business objectives, success criteria, and technical
requirements & dependencies.
• Architecting and designing effective enterprise solutions to meet the requirements using a
standard architectural framework
• Articulating and conveying the high-level design, merits, value, costs, and risks associated with
the solutions to a variety of stakeholders
• Leading a multidisciplinary implementation team through the implementation, delivery, and
turnover of the solutions.
• Trusted advisor to Mythic’s existing and prospective customers. In addition to core duties, the
• Enterprise Involved in implementations and/or issue resolution processes on strategic accounts
• Provide solution advisement services to the sales organization, provide thought leadership within
the company, mentor junior technical team members, and help shape the technical roadmap for
Mythic’s Consulting.
• Manage Technical Consulting Teams, mentor, and contribute to individual technical growth and
instilling “soft” consultative skills
• Architected, and developed multiple complex engineered systems environments for State/Local
and Federal Clients, using solutions such as ODA, Exalogic, Oracle VM, and other complex
engineered systems.
Senior Cloud Architect
AtGames Holdings Ltd., Los Angeles, CA 2012 - 2013
Directed development of technologies enabling Virtual Private Cloud concept s, surrounding the
gaming industry.
Responsible for the development and distribution of AtGames Silver Lining cloud gaming solution
Directed development and infrastructure teams in the design and development of solutions
surrounding a client based cloud distribution, involving provisioning and orchestration stacks, in
the automated deployment of 2D and 3D games over the open internet.
Directed leadership in the adoption of current and future state cloud architectures, and the
assignment and correlation of vendors and the subsequent negotiations to establish a best
practice methodology, in the cloud gaming industry
Designed and developed architectures surrounding technologies, Cisco UCS, Cisco routing and
switching, HP Blade Servers (C-Series), HP CSA, BMC CLM, NetApp Storage, NetApp FlexPod
Architecture, Oracle OVM, VMware, OpenStack…
Chief Architect
SafeMedia Corp., Boca Raton, FL 2011 - 2012
Directed development of technologies enabling Virtual Private Cloud security deployments
Directed, several architects and developers within physical/virtual server connectivity between
current multi tenant clients’ current physical infrastructure and their expansion within Amazon
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Based Technologies.
Directed architect and design security solutions utilizing multiple product sets and suites (Oracle,
VMware, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, and public/hybrid/private cloud scenarios.
Directed pre-sales, sales, product, business, and business partnership development activities
Product Suites
HP Workflow Tool-sets
Security Management Suites
SourceFire
FireEye
Cyber-Threat Mitigation Center
Cloud Computing
Amazon AWS EC2 and VPC deployment and configuration
Server Automation Tool-sets
JONATHAN J. SPINDEL PAGE THREE
Vice President of Engineering/Chief Architect Continued…
SafeMedia Corp., Boca Raton, FL
Directed, architecture and design of open and closed source virtual switching and
routing platforms, for in-line, and on-tap alerting and blocking in cloud scenarios
Emerging Technologies (Cloud Security)
Protocol and Application Normalization
Behavioral Analysis
Virtual Routing, inclusive of secured fabrics
Patent (Pending) written on Cloud Security within Virtual Routing
Senior Systems Architect (Consultant/Contractor)
Verizon/Newt Global Consulting, Irving, TX 2010 - 2011
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onsulting lead in the design and architecture of a virtual private CLOUD (Converged Data-Center
Technology). The project consisted of Oracle OEM/OVM Hypervisors and Middleware Tool-Sets,
250 HP Blade Servers (16 Blades per Server), HP OO/MOAB Tool-Sets.
Responsibilities included:
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eading business and IT team collaboration surrounding development and infrastructure divisions,
assisting in bridging the gap between the purchasing of equipment, in conjunction with
understanding business needs, overall TCO, and insuring on time production delivery within
budgetary restraints.
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onsulting lead in a multi divisional architecture and development team (5 teams, consisting of 50
approximate members) in creating solutions. Directing and orchestrating a budgetary response,
allowing for proper use, and streamlined integration of existing legacy systems, allowing for future
redeployment of newer deployments of rebuilt application stacks.
Develop technologies to enabling Virtual Private Cloud deployment (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PRaaS)
solutions.
Architect and design physical/virtual server connectivity between client’s current physical
infrastructure and their expansion within VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Based Technologies/Data
Center Convergence.
Architect and design management solutions utilizing Oracle product suites (Oracle Enterprise
Manager, GRID Control)
Architect and design API layers utilizing Middleware product suites (SOA, WebLogic …)
Document and disseminate critical project flow throughout the organization through hosted
weekly teleconferences, as well as biweekly face-to-face interactions with clients’ application
development, and infrastructure teams.
Senior Systems Architect (Consultant/Contractor)
COMSYS/Allstate, South Barrington, IL 2010 – 2010
Responsibilities included:
Team collaboration, assisting translation of business requirements into technical and
programmatic readability.
TCO, from a C-Level business and IT perspective, assisting purchasing and asset management
in understanding requirements, allowing for business continuity surrounding overall project
success.
Develop technologies to enable GIS Mapping technology to offer interoperability within client’s
current call center topology.
Bing Maps API
MapQuest API
Architect and design physical/virtual server connectivity between client’s current physical
infrastructure and their expansion within VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Based Technologies/Data
Center Convergence.
Microsoft Azure PaaS
RHEL ZEN Based Hypervisors/Satellites (Open Source HPC Concepts)
JONATHAN J. SPINDEL PAGE FOUR
Senior Systems Architect (Consultant/Contractor)
COMSYS/Allstate, South Barrington, IL
Document and disseminate critical project flow throughout the organization through hosted
weekly teleconferences, as well as biweekly face-to-face interactions with client’s application
development, and infrastructure teams.
Senior Systems Architect/Independent Consultant
Litton Industries, Miami, FL/Washington, DC 2009 – 2010
Directed and lead a multi institutional distributed network design research and development
teams.
HP Blade Servers (Hardware Stack)
(PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PRaaS)
RHEL ZEN Based Hypervisors/Satellites (Open Source HPC Concepts)
Led CLOUD Security and Management research and development to find more efficient
methodologies to manage and secure VPC scenarios.
Develop methodologies to establish policies and procedures, which ultimate ly led to a seamless
transmission from LAN based application and databases to a distributed environment utilizing
SaaS as, IaaS, and PaaS Technologies.
Senior Systems Architect
HEBREW UNIVERSITY, Jerusalem, Israel 2008 – 2009
Sabbatical: Assisted Hebrew University, MIT and Princeton graduate, and post -graduate
students in furthering their studies, under Professor Scott Kirkpatrick, a leading computer
scientist, and Nobel Prize Nominee, within the Albert Einstein Institute of Physics, at Hebrew
University, Givat Ram Campus, in Jerusalem Israel.
Participated and managed ground breaking projects, pertaining to distributed Laboratories,
utilizing alter Kernel level Hypervisors, streamlining application and test procedurals across
1000's of nodes, delivering real world responses, much more accurately then closed network
practices.
Assisted in mentoring project team leaders to address certain sensitive issues incurred during
projects and ultimately lessening project interruption.
Direct and lead a multi-national, multi-governmental enterprise operations teams during an
internationally funded project with a 53 Million-Euro budget.
Develop technologies to enable distributed network test beds (Cloud Computing), establishing
security policies and proced ures to secure and automate intrusion detection and system
management capabilities.
Teach and assist doctoral students in systems management, architecture, distributed networking,
and security methodologies, namely system monitoring of Petabyte and Exabyte smart
management within the CLOUD (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS).
Senior Network Architect
Technology Consultancy 2005 – 2008
Directed and led a design team in the NCC and NOC architectural design phase of the MVII
(Vehicle Intelligent Initiative for Mobility) program for the Department of Transportation.
Authored methodologies to streamline Availability, Stability, Tailored Distribution, and across the
board Security and Performance Management of multi-tenant early cloud adoption (PaaS, SaaS,
IaaS)
Led the research team in 802.1x architecture and the presentation team in designing and
presenting initiatives and architectures to the Government agencies participating in the project.
JONATHAN J. SPINDEL PAGE FIVE
Senior Network Architect
US GOVERNMENT, Miami, FL; Washington, DC; Arlington, VA; Chicago, IL 1999 – 2005
Developed business and technical infrastructures during enterprise management architecture
projects while leading an engineering team of up to 30 contract employees.
Directed a team of 9 engineers and 5 senior staff members during the preparation and
presentation of new strategic network planning, and strategies.
Cut maintenance downtime 35% through the integration of a standalone network sandbox for
testing and experimentation.
Increased uptime by designing Systems Management infrastructure solutions that decreased the
human factor by 45%.
Reduced overtime by 9% through cumulative, successful, business-driven initiatives.
Senior Network Engineer
MOTOROLA, Schaumburg, IL 1995 – 1999
Designed, developed, and implemented cost -effective quality assurance and testing initiatives,
providing improved reliability, reduced support, and faster product rollout cycles.
Developed an innovative architecture for a CA UniCenter -based enterprise management solutio n.
Participated in the development of a disaster management plan, incorporating redundant back -up
solutions using Microsoft clustering; achieving higher security and greater protection of assets.
Network Engineer
PHILIPS, Rosemont, IL 1993 – 1995
Supported the enterprise-wide integration and implementation of advanced network technologies,
providing improved performance, greater security, and reduced maintenance and overhead.
Administered 21 file servers, 12 application servers, and managed an HP Open-view enterprise
management solution.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Computer Engineering, 2004
AIU, Washington, DC
Ph.D., Post Graduate Studies, 2008
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Master of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, 2001
AIU, Washington, DC
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 1994
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY, Orem, Utah
JONATHAN J. SPINDEL PAGE SIX
WHITE PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS
Cloud Security – What does the future hold???
J. Spindel, Ph.D., SafeMedia Corp., 2012
Distributed Network Test Bed (Cloud Computing) Management
J. Spindel, Ph.D., Hebrew University, Jerusalem Institute, October 2009
Distributed Computing (Cloud Computing) and Topologies
J. Spindel, Ph.D., Hebrew University, 2008
Known Issues Using 802.11p and Burst Transmissions
J. Spindel, Ph.D., Hebrew University, 2007
Burst Cloud Computing, Military and Consumer Based Models
J. Spindel, Ph.D., 2003/2008/2013
COMPLIANCY PACKAGES
Heath Care:
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Finance:
SOX - Sarbanes–Oxley Act
Retail/Processing/Banking/Credit
PCI/DSS - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Senior Member in Good Standing Since 2003
IEEE – Senior Member - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, June 2006 – Present
• Voting Member – Protocols and Emerging Technologies
Member in Good Standing Since 2006
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
• Emerging Technologies Division
PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Emergency Medical Technician Certification
Saint Francis Hospital Trauma Center, Evanston, IL
Paramedic Certification
Saint Francis Hospital Trauma Center, Evanston, IL
Nationally Registered Paramedic Certification
NREMT – Nationally Registered EMT-Paramedic
Diver Medic Certification
Center for Hyperbaric Medical Training, Key Largo, FL
Flight Medic Certification
University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Technical Rescue Diver Certification
Ocean Divers, Key Largo, FL