SUMMARY

• Professional with over 15 years of experience in project management, database management and application development operations.
• Experienced using DevOps, cloud based architecture and engineering best practices, continuous application development, integration, testing, automation and deployment.
• Skilled in finishing projects within budget and maintaining schedule to ensure maximum customer satisfaction and business revenue.
• Prepared presentations and briefed top - level executives and business stakeholders. Ability to execute tasks, resolve issues and prioritize in timely fashion.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, JIRA S Zachman, TOGAF Framework S Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Data Center Migration & Consolidation S High Availability & Standby Databases S Oracle RAC, PL/SQL, TOAD
• ERWIN, OEM S VMware, vSphere, Open Shift S Data Modeling, Reverse Engineering S Solaris, Linux, Windows OS
• Data Warehouse & Big Data S Business Intelligence, ETL, OBIEE S SAN Storage & Architecture S Oracle 12c/11g/10g & SQL Server 2016/2012/2008 S Application Development Java, ASP, Middleware

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Lead & Architect

Confidential, Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead & Architect for Confidential application middleware consolidation, database upgrade and infrastructure modernization. Project reduced Confidential CapEx and OpEx costs through virtualization by 30%, while ensuring automation and enhancements of DevOps services.
• Worked with PMO staff to define project scope, project schedule, budget forecast and resource planning. Accountable and full ownership of change management process, quality assurance and deliverables including coordination with cross-functional teams, business stakeholders and status reports to upper management.
• Responsible for application artifacts, Gap analysis, capacity planning, As-Is & To-Be mapping and monitoring.
• Supervised virtualization and integration of IBM WebSphere MQ middleware servers, COTS products and JMS APIs from Solaris platform to Linux VMware virtual machines at local data center and AWS EC2 cloud.
• Managed quality assurance group, business liaison, application developers, solutions architect to script and setup testing environment to benchmark application SLAs, known performance indicators KPIs, load balance and automation testing of applications on Linux virtual servers.
• Designed architecture for Oracle RDBMS upgrade to 12c using GoldenGate, and virtualization from Solaris to AWS RDS and Linux platform. Provided guidance to application developers, DBAs and database developers for database performance benchmark and troubleshooting.
• Put standards in place for quick provisioning and scalability of DevOps operations using hardened images for Virtual systems, middleware and testing applications on AWS and local data center.

Subject Matter Expert

Confidential, Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects through Agile and traditional methodologies related to DHS VIS E-Verify program.
• Helped setup implementation of Agile Scrum framework deployment, daily sprints as Scrum master, worked with business analyst and developers to define user stories, managed burn-down charts, sprint/product backlog and participated in sprint review and retrospective.
• Collaborated with software team consisting of ASP .Net programmers, Tibco developers, SQL coders, business analyst, QA team, BI reporting team and test automation engineers to develop best coding and integration practices, deploy applications and automate operations.
• Responsible for migrating DHS highly complex 24x7 operational data center to remote location. Planned and implemented a disaster recovery site at remote data center using NetApp snapshot, Oracle Data guard and tape Netbackup. Designed cross platform migration and database upgrade architecture from IBM AIX platform to Solaris platform.
• Responsible for team of System Admin, Database Admin, OBIEE reporting and Network Storage at data centers to resolve system performance troubleshooting and operations.
• Provided project forecasting, change management and quality assurance processes in a fast paced and cross cultural environment. Responsible for task assignments, peer code reviews and mentored assigned resources to achieve project goals.

Architect

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Responsibilities:

• Presented and discussed with C-level county executive’s, IT application managers and business stakeholders high- level technical design ideas and implementation plans for sign off on the project.
• Managed application developers, solution architects and QA staff to design integrated architecture for county application and database consolidation. Project reduced county operational cost by 25%.
• Consolidated county disparate applications and databases on different versions and operating systems to Solaris virtual containers, Veritas Global Cluster, EMS SAN Storage, Oracle and SQL Server RDBMS. Implemented high availability and disaster recovery solutions for enterprise operations.
• Peer reviewed application and database code and guidance on QA load testing and performance best practices.
• Streamlined and automated county daily operation, ETL processes and put the standards and procedures in place for county administrators, application developers and vendors to follow.

Architect Consultant

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Provided high level expertise for fast track implementation of critical management application at Verizon (Fios) Multimedia. Implemented high availability and disaster recovery standby database architecture using Oracle RAC, ASM storage, Standby databases, OEM grid automation on Linux VMware cluster.
• Managed Java developers, systems personnel, and database admin for successful delivery of the project.
• Migrated SQL Server based application to Oracle RAC and provided guidance for QA benchmarking and load test.

Operations Manager/Architect

Confidential, Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of Java developers, SQL developers and QA staff to consolidate and re-write case management application using Java, Oracle SQL procedures and Oracle Virtual private databases for ease of operational maintenance and enhanced security.
• Managed DOJ operations and team of application developers, database administrators and Unix personnel.
• Designed and implemented 4-node Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) architecture on Sun Solaris platform, Veritas clustering services and SAN. Additionally, supervised implementation of physical and logical standby database for high availability and reporting purposes.
• Planned and migrated department local data center to Network Operations Center (NOC) at remote location in another state. Negotiated with vendors to procure equipment, pricing, implementation details and resource planning. Managed enterprise wide Oracle identity management, Single Sign-on implementation.

Architect/System Specialist

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for management of 24x7 B2B supply chain application and auction site for Aerospace and Defense industry in high availability environment
• Managed offshore hosting for European operations and US data center operations. Responsible for daily activities of team o f database administrators, system engineers, and indirect reports.
• Communicated with upper management regarding project timelines and risk assessments.

Database Lead

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple priorities in a fast-paced e-commerce OLTP environment with high transaction volume.
• Participated in project software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes, engineering reviews and change control.
• Provided guidance to application developers and quality assurance testers on applications design solutions, data modeling, data mining & normalization.
• Responsible for highly visible customer oriented Solaris platform based Oracle database architecture and design, capacity planning, backup, disaster recovery, database performance, query and application tuning.

Project Lead

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple projects related to defense logistics operations. Worked on RFPs, presented project proposals and demo on finished products to government and defense clients.
• Designed and implemented a data warehouse solution involving business intelligence, what-if analysis in collaboration with Java Developers, Oracle Forms developers (on-the-fly screen creation), Statistical Operational analysts SAS, and complex packages on Oracle Backend.
• Developed asset management tracking and inventory control system using Maximo, Oracle/SQL server database.
• Guided conversion of Mainframe Cobol based legacy systems to relational database systems using ETL shell scripts, Java API, DOS Shell (PowerShell), Oracle 8i RDBMS, SQL Loader and Oracle Packages.