Bruce Pellegrino

Business oriented and highly technical senior systems engineer/architect with extensive experience designing system architectures and delivering IT solutions to Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries. Demonstrated business acumen by executing and managing technical sales to outsourcing operations, direct end-user customers and OEM businesses, achieving annual revenue growth of 35%. Resourceful, can do attitude.

Senior Systems Engineer at VMware
Public Company ; VMW ; Computer Software industry
July 2009 – Present ( 3 months)

Systems Engineering - Enterprise Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Public Company ; JAVA ; Information Technology and Services industry

November 1996 – June 2009 (12 years 8 months)

Systems Engineer/Architect - Designed and architected enterprise solutions, and actively delivered solutions to Systems Integrators. Managed presales technical activities, delivered technology, training, and services to pharmaceutical accounts.

Partnered with Unisys to build a business case, develop, brand, and deliver the ES7000-7405R server to the market, resulting in incremental recurring revenue for both Unisys and Sun.

Architected SMS/800 for the telecommunications consortium responsible for managing and registering 800 phone numbers (SOA Architecture/10-20 million transactions/day).

Recommended systems design for Cal-State Peoplesoft implementation (SOA Architecture/90,000 concurrent users).

Established technical partnership with GlaxoSmithKline driving annual revenues from $200K to $18.7million. Delivered broad based solutions to speed drug development and FDA submissions for GlaxoSmithKline reducing time to market for Avandia by 30-60 days. Designed and implemented a global enterprise backup system for R&D improving efficiency.

Architected and delivered solutions for document management, archiving, health care informatics, LDAP directory services, sales and marketing, manufacturing solutions based on SAP, and systems to manage and consolidate servers for the Glaxo and SmithKline Beecham merger.

Presented the "future desktop" at the GlaxoSmithKline annual Emerging Technologies Symposium.

Designed and delivered informatics solutions, bioinformatics systems and systems used for chemical analysis and laboratory support to Wyeth, Dupont and Astra-Zeneca to speed R&D.


Senior Systems Engineering Consultant at Data General Corporation

Public Company ; DGN ; Computer Hardware industry

June 1983 – November 1996 (13 years 6 months)

Senior Systems Engineering Consultant – Delivered presales technical support, installation, and consulting services to major accounts. Designed systems for telecommunication, media and health care accounts.

Ported real-time bond trading application for Garban resulting in reduced system costs.

Architected and installed a large storage environment, clustered servers and disaster recovery site based on CLARiiON for AT&T's first commercial Internet offering.

Analyzed and solved kernel and programming bugs for the first commercial broadband service, GTE Mainstreet interactive cable TV service.

Designed and delivered office solutions for retail, telcom, financial, manufacturing, health care, and state and federal government customers increasing employee productivity.