Don Mori is a Principal Consultant at Cognizant with over 30 years of experience as an enterprise infrastructure architect. He specializes in UNIX virtual environments and cloud computing architectures. Some of his recent projects include leading a mainframe migration for a large financial client and proposing UNIX virtualization environments and migration methodologies for insurance and financial companies. Prior to Cognizant, Don was a Senior Certified IT Architect and Chief Engineer at IBM, where he was responsible for technology planning and design across customer accounts.

1. Cognizant Business Consulting – IT IS – Enterprise Computing – Virtual Solutions
Don Mori
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2. Don A. Mori
Lead Infrastructure Architect - Principal Consultant – Information Technology Infrastructure
Services (IT IS)
• Don Mori is a Principal Technical Consultant – Enterprise Infrastructure Architect in Cognizant’s Consulting and Professional Services (CPS) group within IT IS. I have more than
30 years of experience in offering a proven record of success in developing/designing/architecting Open System applications/systems for customer physical and virtual
Internet/Intranet site infrastructure. Highly organized with the ability to manage several tasks while producing a quality product/solution. Proven record of success in
detailed, quality work assignments and a breadth of knowledge on cutting edge technical solutions with expertise that spans:
– Application & System Integration
– Transition & Delivery Architect
– Team Leadership/Teamwork
– Datacenter Migration and Transformation
– UNIX – Oracle, Linux and AIX (Power / PureFlex)
– Technical Team Leadership
– Problem Determination and Problem Resolution
– Customer Communications/Insight
– Leading edge Technology
– Complete Architectural Life-cycle Management
– Accreditation AWS Technical / Business Professional
• His primary focus is in enterprise infrastructure, specifically UNIX virtual environments and Cloud Computing architectures fulfillment. A thought leader providing guidance on
Power virtualization and Cloud Computing. Don engages in the full infrastructure lifecycle analysis process, including requirements gathering, System Integration and System
Engineering, design documentation, POT / POC testing, and full production deployments.
• Recent engagements include:
– A Mainframe Tower / Architect Lead for a large Financial Partner, Inc for a z/OS z114 to zBC12 migration that defined an Mainframe modernization roadmap to simply the
customer technology environment and optimized their architecture and infrastructure transactional system. This technical architect role defined an end-to-end solution
for their complex projects across distributed, host and business intelligence environments, which advanced their technology roadmap. As an Lead Mainframe Architect, I
worked as a Team to assure alignment with architecture roadmaps, reference architecture and standards through their business processes.
– Consultant engagement for a large Financial company that included technical to align their QA environment with the increasing capacity in production by using Power7,
PowerVM, WPARS and / or PowerHA components. The final proposal is an integration and performance test bed needed by using AIX virtualization, to be created to
certify, test the quality, performance and scalability of their data systems more accurately.
– Consultant engagement with a major Insurance Provider to propose a UNIX virtualization environment and a Migration methodology that is align to their Production, QA,
Dev, Test and UAT environments.. The engagement successfully identified and provided integration and performance testing environment needed to create a fully test
the quality, performance, and scalability of this client data systems. Held professional certifications in Professional Development Program, Senior IT Architect, Chief
Engineer, Master IT Architect in OpenGroup, and Member of AOGEA.
• Before joining Cognizant, Don was working for IBM ITD organization. I was a Senior Certified IT Architect and a Chief Engineer as the lead ITD technical resource on highly visible
Pubic and Retail customer accounts. This role as a Chief Engineer owns IBM’s technology and service play for the end-to-end account, including system architecture and design
across all competencies and across all services. I understood the customer’s business and needs across all services, and understood, react, and plan for the account. The Chief
Engineer is responsible for the account’s overall Technology Plan.