1. SONNY BAKER RHCE, VCP5.5
1408 Marshall Creek Road • Roanoke, Texas 76262 • 940.453.8269 • sonny@spotperfect.com
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Principal Architect, Technology Innovation Leader
Infrastructure Systems Architect with 14 years’ experience in complex, data-centric environments, creating
stable systems, reliable processes, and long-term sustainable operations as the critical foundation for
organizational success. In-depth experience managing technology deployments for RedHat Linux, EMC
Storage, in large scale, virtualized, high-availability, enterprise environments. Extensive experience with
various J2EE application servers for numerous Fortune 500 client environments.
Exceptional strategic planning, troubleshooting, and crisis management skills; strong internal and external
relationships; and a record of extraordinary results achieved through technology innovation and team
inspiration. Skilled with Strategic Enterprise Planning, Revenue Generation, and IT Development Strategy
to achieve client goals and objectives.
Professional History
Verizon Business - Terremark, October 2006 – Present
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES & CLIENT TECHNICAL ARCHITECT
Brought onboard to lead complex IT projects for major clients including Lowe’s, American Airlines, and
Borders. Design, build, and support infrastructures, servers, storage, and networks.
†† Currently leading a team of eight (8) engineers designing and implementing a DR solution for
www.lowes.com, a $2bil/year website. Utilizing the latest HP C7K chassis, EMC VNX2, vSphere5.5
infrastructure technology.
†† Managed multiple client arrays including EMC Clariion and the newer VNX2 series arrays.
Developed custom application to watch for individual disk IO hotspots.
†† Implement, test, and troubleshoot sales-based transactional infrastructure for major home
improvement company. Realized $60 million income during holiday weekend without incidents.
†† Wrote new Enterprise Site Framework to migrate client into a virtualized environment on
vSphere5. Upgrade all servers to RedHat 6.3 and WebSphere 7 and migrating to DB2 HADR.
†† Designed Nagios based monitoring solution to lower costs by replacing HPOV and realize quicker
speed to market.
Linux • EMC/VNX2 • NAS • AIX • Microsoft Windows
vSphere 4.1 - 5.5 • IBM WebSphere/WAS Commerce • JBoss
Nagios • Puppet • Cassandra • GIT • Endeca • BEA WebLogic
Tomcat • Apache • MySQL • Java • Perl • Bash Shell Scripting
“Sonny Baker is an all-out ace Technical
Architect. I’ve worked with him on at least
a dozen initiatives for different clients in some
of the biggest B to C websites in the country,
and he never fails to go the extra mile to get
the right solution conceived, designed and
implemented for our customers.”
–David Sanda, Process Consultant - Lean Six Sigma
at Verizon Business

2. SONNY BAKER RHCE, VCP5.5
1408 Marshall Creek Road • Roanoke, Texas 76262 • 940.453.8269 • sonny@spotperfect.com
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Electronic Data Systems (HP) - Plano, Texas, December 2000 – October/2006
INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIALIST• TECHNICAL LEAD /
LEVERAGED WEB HOSTING GROUP
Consulted on the application direction of multiple EDS customers including Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Massachusetts and the Department of Defense.
†† Engineered and installed WebSphere 5.1 and 6.0 for EDS Customers including National Heritage
Insurance Co (NHIC), American Insurance Group (AIG), and Phoenix Life Insurance Co on
Solaris 8, 9, HPUX, and Windows 2000/2003. Solutions were all designed around WebSphere
clustering to achieve high availability.
†† Created Architecture documentation on how to install and configure WebSphere 6.0 WebLogic
7.0/8.1 to be used across all EDS teams supporting WebSphere WebLogic.
Verizon Business - Terremark, October 2006 – Present
†† Designed and configured a client environment consisting of 10 blade chassis, 7 IBM pFrames, and
130 servers. Satisfied an extremely difficult client requirement for all servers to be diskless and
boot from their Clariion CX480.
†† Designed and implemented customer’s new mobile solution consisting of 10 Linux servers
running WebSphere 7.0.
†† Designed, installed, and configured an e-business environment serving 8 million page views daily
and generating $1.1 billion in revenue per year.
†† Designed solution for customer to utilize existing solid state FC drives to improve DB
performance during the holiday season without new cost expenditures and extensive application
rewrites that could not have been performed in time. After implementation, discovered new
bottlenecks at the network layer with the customer’s preferred hardware choice. Created an eight
(8) interface LACP channel solution to extend bandwidth.
†† Implemented TeaLeaf product for customer with 17 Windows 2008 RedHat servers, each having
5TB of disk space and a 20gbe LACP channel.
†† Implemented Integrated Voice Response system for American Airline flight notifications utilizing
customized WebSphere 6.0 (ND) based application to notify customers of flight cancellations and/
or schedule changes with existing reservations. Engineered clustered, 3-tier system with RedHat
EL 4, with IBM (Apache) HTTP server acting as the web layer. Messaging-based application
utilized the internal SIB engine within WebSphere 6.0.
†† Instrumental in developing and implementing American’s terminal kiosks. Collaborated with
team members and American employees to develop multi-language capabilities.
†† Migrated database servers from Solaris to RedHat Enterprise Linux operating on HP DL585
servers. Deployed new hardware, developed Linux kickstart process, and collaborated with
network engineers to ensure all firewall ACLs were correctly in place.
Professional History

3. SONNY BAKER RHCE, VCP5.5
1408 Marshall Creek Road • Roanoke, Texas 76262 • 940.453.8269 • sonny@spotperfect.com
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Education Certifications
University of North Texas (1995 - 2000) Computer Science
RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE #805007634628345)
VMWare Certified Professional 5 - Data Center Virtualization
(11156831-8A1F-097ACC5B458E)
Electronic Data Systems (HP) - Plano, Texas, December 2000 – October/2006
†† Designed and implemented java-based documentation tool using Apache/Tomcat/MySQL for
over 200 engineers to use from the EDS Webhosting Middleware Application teams. Solution
runs on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 compliant operating system.
†† Developed infrastructure-wide software inventory Perl-based client software application discovery
tool (IRIS) for use on over 4,000 client servers to discover 30 different pieces of software. Custom
server-side Java application for processing incoming XML files and writing to a MySQL Database.
Resulting DB was used to track software vulnerabilities and product licenses.
†† Tracked product vulnerabilities and patches from various software vendors. Created patch
upgrade process to minimize or eliminate downtime needed for patching.
†† Installed and configured Netegrity Siteminder Policy Server 5.0, SunOne Directory Server 5.2 for
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
Professional History