SUMMARY

• I have over 15 years in the Information Technology field. During my career I have worked with many Commercial Federal Government and Department of Defense agencies at the executive level.
• Comprehensive knowledge of applications development as well as cloud and virtualization - based architectures having full development lifecycle and cutting-edge high availability cloud solutions.
• Expresses Passion to develop high-quality and extraordinary solutions to real complex Cloud-computing problems. Very adept at interfacing with employees’ customers and vendors at various levels to grow business and Revenue.
• Over fifteen years development expertise in development inWeb NodeJS .NET C /C technologies eight years’ experience integrating solutions using Web Services and other technologies.
• In addition to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Terremark cloud service providers I have worked with Big Data and mass analytics with the largest enterprise solutions as an integrator for the intelligence community and large enterprise petabyte systems like Siri Facebook and Xbox Live.
• As of Recent, I have been brought on as a Subject Matter Expert SME for CMS Healthcare.gov to Assist with re-architecting and development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Frontend: .Net, Visual Studio, MS Azure, Angular, Kendo, Visual Studio, REST, HTML5

Backend: SQL Server Management Studio, C#, JSON, Microsoft Tools, Fiddler, .Net 2.0 and 2.2, NoSQL, Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

DevOps: NX DevOps for Angular Builds, Azure DevOps, GIT

Cloud Technologies: Virtualization, Containers, Data Warehousing, PowerShell, SQL, Cosmos, Windows Open Concepts, Azure Active Directory, Network Configurations, Integration with legacy applications, Azure Data Lake, Data Mining, Data mapping, Data Integration, Data Migration,Cloudera Spark, Hive, Scala or Java, Oozie, Impala, SQL queries, Azure Data Factory Data Pipeline, Databricks or Spark, PySpark and Python, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL Database / Azure SQL Data Warehouse. (routers, firewalls, switches, load-balancers, IPS, IDS, SSL, TLS, storage, encryption, security tools, management tools, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, Spark, Ansible, Terraform, Dockers, MapR, Elastic Stack, R, Python VMs, Vnets, SQL Databases, Data Factory V2, Storage Blobs, Configuration Management (Puppet, Ansible, Terraforms) Load Balancers and reverse proxy technologies (Nginx, or similar) network protocols(TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, MAC addresses, DNS, OSI model, routing)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Solutions / Cloud Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Established Business Development Pipeline for New Cloud Computing Venture. Worked across channel partners, Sales, Engineering Development and data Center/ops to Sprint plan, Develop, and Effectively respond to Infrastructure Delivery.
• Enable decision making by collaborating with key stakeholders and the extended IT teams to deliver results, and to resolve conflicts expediently | balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of it.
• Achieved $12.5M in confirmed sales within 09 Months. -Developed Cloud Solutions for a $25M Contract. Implemented OpenStack private cloud serving mission-Critical production workloads and product development.
• Adopted and implemented Software Defined networking and Network Virtualization of PCI to Reinforce Security of cloud Platform which caters to $2B Annual payment Across the Globe.
• Awarded $28M data center consolidation with Gov. Over See Team of 8 Solution architects to bid on Commercial and federal Contracts. -Leverage and Delivery $3M Work -Stream to Migrate a Legacy .NET estate from on-Prem to the cloud; Responsibilities Included Design and build of Azure environment Using Azure Service Fabric, Azure SQL along with other core infrastructure responsibilities(Networking/Automation)
• Acted as Senior Principal Architect overseeing the transition of the cloud services program from an on-premise private cloud, to a hybrid, IBM SoftLayer Private Cloud. Created effective Enterprise Strategies for Workload Migration, Developed and Implemented the architectural roadmap to advance the organization to automated platform provisioning+
• Sprint Planned Drive Automation capabilities through various technologies such as Azure Resource Manager(ARM) templates and Azure DevOps release Pipelines for Iaas deployments.
• Keep It Simple by Working in a Multi-Cloud environment(Azure & AWS) in order to Orchestrate & Automate deployments that were used to establish a repeatable pattern.
• Participated in the enterprise architecture governance to ensure all areas of IT are implementing solutions consistent with architecture principles.
• Leveraged Azure Site Recovery to Migrate a Clients BI/Data Warehouse apps while also setting up SQL server always on Availability Groups to minimize disruptions to the client

Cloud Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Planned and architected hybrid cloud services program to leverage an on-premises cloud with public cloud services (current)
• Developed future-state infrastructure architecture to align with enterprise cloud strategy.
• Remediated infrastructure architecture and led implementation of a significant client project valued at 50M, Executed on a short timeline.
• Designed solutions to capitalize on existing investments, saving $3+ in project costs.
• Designed and implemented new data center infrastructure and hybrid cloud architecture across three locations. Led various project teams while acting as chief Engineer on this project.
• Analyze the existing data streaming into the cloud platform today.
• Analyze how this data is being consumed by current customers, both software and people.
• Deciphering the business requirements for data and reporting and design a solution.
• Roll up sleeves and initiate Deep diving into data ecosystem to understand the potential attributes/metrics, their mapping against tables and their source of origin to capture Root cause analysis of potential issues
• Produced useful insight and valuable information from various raw data sources; to identify and analyze metric variance within tables and work with appropriate business & technology groups to align on solutions. expected to provide support for Data Lake built on Cloud Platform, and the jobs that ingest data and transform them | Create, track and resolve incidents | Monitor data load/transformation job completion within SLA.
• Monitor Control-M Job Schedules while Collaborating with various teams for resolution
• Coordinate with Offshore DevOps in Service Delivery Metrics Reporting | Preventive Maintenance | Problem Management.
• Managed client expectations and kep aware of the project status and critical issues and risks.
• Architected CI\CD build, release and deploy process | managing, developing and building Manage, develop, build CI/CD pipeline, Check code quality | Unit, integration and functional tests implementation | PowerShell scripting for custom tasks automation
• Environments strategy to Develop and manage CI/CD process for different types of application and automate.
• Continuous Deployment: using CD tools such as Chef or Puppet to write CD automation.
• Manage the full release process.
• Oversee DevOps team in fostering DevOps culture of people, process & technology
• Build & Release automation | Creating build packages | Release deployment | VSTS administration.
• Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines that serve the purpose of provisioning and operating client test as well as production environments.
• Provided system support to NOC team in regards to monitoring alerts.
• Design and implement Azure solutions which are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable and cost optimized.
• Spearhead the Design and engineering of automated end-to-end Azure IaaS, PaaS solution | Azure Active Directory can play nice with Azure AD authentication in reflection to Users and groups, Roles | Application Security etc.
• Security | Azure Security Center, Cloud Security, AWS Security experience
• Design model and detailed security control framework for all aspects of cloud topology (Azure & AWS)
• Continuously improve and adapt cloud security control framework given is extremely fast velocity of change to meet industry demands
• Designed logging and monitoring control framework encompassing all levels in the cloud stack
• Continuously improve and adapt cloud security logging and monitoring control framework
• Integrate infrastructure security within CI/CD tool chain in order to increase automation and velocity
• Assist with threat and risk reporting
• Work with existing global cloud security organization to ensure knowledge sharing and collaboration
• Identify where the data consumption can be improved.
• Analyze future uses of this data.
• Design a data warehouse solution which meets the current needs and allows for the future growth.
• Implement the solution across all phases in the Engineering space influenced by Azure IaaS and PaaS components - VM, VNET, ARM, Storage Blob, ExpressRoute, VPN, App Services HDInsight, PowerShell, AZURE stack, OMS, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup.
• Served as the Azure SME to plan and design solutions to transition functionality from legacy equipment to Azure Cloud.
• Would assist with the management, support, and oversight of the virtual server environments and business continuity processes during the lifespan of this project.
• Assisted with managing, maintaining, monitoring and securing (including data security) of all servers including installations, upgrades, patches and documentation.
• Worked across the enterprise to coordinate with the various stakeholders and this is an experienced individual contributor position that will work with cross-functional team members for day-to-day activities.
• Provided guidance on the full life cycle of cloud-based solutions including tools, technologies, and best practices for development, deployment, and maintenance of cloud hosted services.
• Ensured knowledge up-gradation and work with new technologies so that the solution is current and meets quality standards and the client requirements.
• Automate, design and deploy infrastructure systems.
• Applied best practices and establishes procedures in order to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability and ensure compliance with security standards.
• Assisted in the development of documents and artifacts to facilitate traceability of work activities and problem resolution; produces, updates, and applies technical work instructions (WI), standard operating procedures (SOP) and checklists to assure quality

Confidential

Delivery Manager | DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Lead solutions architect Driving service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms.
• Delivery of Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using PaaS and SaaS capabilities.
• Manage complete governance for the cloud environment such as Verifying security, audit, and compliance requirements are met.
• Use Automation first approach for all the functional activities | Ability to design and deliver solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability while accounting for development and maintenance costs.
• Experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on the following: C#.NET, D365, Azure, Azure Stack, Azure AD | claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBA
• Building and supporting mission critical technology components with DR capabilities | multi-tier system and service design and development for large enterprises | Designing technology components for enterprise solutions and defining solution architectures and reference architectures with a focus on cloud security advancement.