SUMMARY

• A highly motivated professional with over a 25+ - year career in the IT industry, including several from Fortune 500 companies like Confidential, International Paper, Capgemini, and Sogetti.
• A driven passionate leader with diverse experience in providing integration, software development, project management, BCP and DR, testing and mentoring all with unyielding integrity.
• Keen business acumen and attention to detail demonstrated throughout a history of providing logical solutions to technical challenges and transforming creative ideas into workable solutions.
• He has specific type of strategy plan that lets an organization know where they are now and where they want to be some time in the future regarding the technology and infrastructure in their organization.
• I have proven ITOM segments that include DBMS, application management, availability and performance, event, fault and log management, network management, configuration management, IT services desk and IT help desk, asset management.
• Expertise in industry, product lifecycle management ( PLM ) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from inception, through engineering design and manufacture, to service and disposal of manufactured products
• Expertise BCP consists of a business impact analysis, risk assessment and an overall business continuity strategy; while the DR plan includes evaluating all backups and ensuring any redundant equipment critical to recovery is up-to-date and working.
• He has data center migration is the process of deploying and transferring an existing data center environment to another data center operating environment. It is a comprehensive process that systematically plans for migrating the existing data center to a new facility or site
• He has completed and thorough analysis of legacy on-premises application in preparation of migration to AWS selecting the legacy applications that can migrated quickly and create migration schedules
• Created DR annual testing and strengthening processes and procedures
• Mentored junior architects to increase overall efficiency
• Excellent ability to simplify complex processes and cut costs
• Well versed in Mainframe technologies and Cloud strategies
• Extensive experience in manufacturing, engineering, and customer facing applications
• Extremely focused on driving customer satisfaction
• Focused on risk and risk mitigation
• Driven on peer knowledge sharing and promoting continuous learning

TECHNICAL SKILLS

IT Operations Management: DBMS, application management, network management, configuration management, IT services desk and IT help desk, asset management.

Cloud Migration: AWS Database Migration Service, Cloudscape, ScienceLogic, AppDynamicsSDLC Project Migration: Requirement gathering and analysis. Design. Implementation or coding, Testing Deployment. Maintenance

Risk and QA Management : leadership, business process, culture, identifying, quantifying, and mitigating product, operational, supplier

Server Operating System: Windows 2000/2003/2008 RHEL IBM ZOS Sun Solaris IBM OS 390, Z/OS

Desktop Level: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7

Package: MS-Office 2003/2007 /2010

Network: LAN, WAN, Wireless Network, VPN

Antivirus : Symantec Endpoint, McAfee, TrendMicro

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior VMware / Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed multiple unique and compatible alternative archiving solutions of migrating Applications from AWS to on-premises., which included an Oracle Database with over 20 TB of storage, and managed to deliver the complete migration 1 month ahead of schedule without business disruption
• Overcame end-user concerns and anxiety by instilling confidence through the creation of several alternative solutions and several contingency and back out processes to ensure business continuity
• Displayed strong and effective communication skills with over 200 business partners through detailed planning giving user’s confidence on project vision and success
• Delivered savings of $760K annually by developing a strategy to migrate and manage over 70 Virtual Machines (VMs) and storage (> 60TB), from VM-Ware VCloud Air (VCA) to local datacentre and then several applications to AWS subsequently
• Thorough discovery and determination of each of the 70 VMs architectural specifications and relationships to other applications
• Over-communication to each of the 200 application owners to review the migration schedule and testing procedures and backout processes
• Thorough communication to each of the application owners before, during and after the migration to ensure and confirm successful migration
• Using VMotion to migrate from VCA to on-premises then analysed candidates to migrate from on-premises to AWS using AWS services including SMS DBMS Cloud Formation, S3, Route53, Glacier, EC2, RDS, Lambda and VPC
• Migrated AWS Oracle VMs to on-premises to avoid Oracle licensing costs
• Mitigated storage migration issues with unique solutions for data migration

Environment: AWS, VCloud, VCA VMs-Storage Oracle VMware MS Project.

Confidential

Senior Solutions Architect / Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the migration of 50 applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) resulting in annual savings of $1.1M
• Managed several Java teams of developers to standardize and use Confidential Java development standards
• Developed Java standards to make use of common components for maintainability
• Displayed keen decision-making skills by promoting the CentOS/Linux software over Windows and reducing widespread use of Windows Datacentre edition resulting in $1.5M in savings
• Performed the migration of over 5,000 legacy VMs to virtual data centers creating annual savings of $250K, as 100 servers and 12 TB of storage were decommissioned weeks ahead of schedule
• Corrected the flawed storage and billing process resulting in over $500K in recoveries
• Implemented and managed the Tanium Endpoint Security and Systems Management software to over 50,000 servers globally, with no production disruptions
• Lead the migration of satellite data centres to core data centers, working under pressure over the weekends with very little downtime to ensure Monday morning access for end-users; the efficient planning and execution resulted in a successful migration and no business disruptions
• Windows upgrade from Win2K/Win2003 to Windows 2008 involving over 45000 servers throughout the world
• Created BCP and DR plans with annual testing and updates with updates and recommendations
• Delivered guidance, leadership and technical expertise for over 400 Aviation IT projects, as well as leading a successful IFS ERP Program with over 5,000 local and international users
• Migration of legacy aviation IDMS data to IFS with Oracle back-end
• Represented Confidential during pricing negotiations with vendors resulting in contracted savings annually of $250K
• Established standard architecture templates and processes in conjunction with best practices relating to setting priorities, allocation of resources, and strong execution, thus resulting in streamlined initiation, execution, and completion of large-scale multi-year migration projects

Environment: Oracle VMware MS Project IDMS ADS/O DMLO Culprit JCL Cobol

Confidential

VMware- Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Detailed analysis of existing applications including Architecture Designs and application specifications
• Interviewed offshore candidates to ensure skills requirements
• Mentored offshore team on scope, vision, and responsibilities
• Developed detailed knowledge transfer training schedule and competency assessment
• Supervised small enhancements and production issues to resolution

Environment: Oracle VMware MS Project

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead for over 20 onsite and offshore resources for Mainframe systems and Technical Publications
• Directed team for bug fixes and enhancements achieving over 98% SLA and several commendations and client awards
• Increased revenue by seeking increased responsibilities and more projects
• Made Mainframe software enhancements and address production issues
• Release management to deliver bug fixes and enhancements in agreed schedules
• Detailed testing and software oversight to ensure quality was high
• String and systems testing for the release
• Work prioritization and delegation to ensure schedule and budget were maintained

Environment: Oracle VMware MS Project DEC Alpha IDMS ADS/O DMLO Culprit JCL Cobol SAS