SUMMARY:

• Working as the Global Enterprise Solutions Architect for the Cloud and Big Data areas for a major healthcare client (AWS, IBM Soft layer, Cloudera and Cloud Foundry SME, Security & BigData CoEs
• Leading a team of Cloud/Enterprise Architects responsible for creating, designing and managing infrastructure and technologies for transitioning platform/software services into Dev/QA/Prod landscape
• Evaluating various private, public and hybrid cloud technologies and tools for technical, functional, integrative and financial feasibility to support ongoing and future operations at scale.
• Ownership of cloud infrastructure to support all services and integration with API management tools, Workload management across different Cloud providers, Application deployment automation etc.
• Driving proof of concepts (POCs) to determine the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate to the business and technology leadership how technology can be leveraged towards an advantage
• Extensive Hands - on experience in Open Source projects that enables Cloud and Virtualization technologies, demonstrated passion and knowledge of the related Open Source projects (Cloud Foundry) PCF, OpenStack etc. (Cloud workload management, DevOPS, Continuous Integration
• Expert in modern software design and implementation methodologies: Agile Development (Rally, Jira, Version One, etc.), SOA (WebSphere, Oracle, Web Services), Micro-Services (REST) etc.
• More than eight years of experiences in Cloud PaaS and/or SaaS environments (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, IBM Cloudant, Bluemix, Soft layer, VMWare, Xen, KVM, VCE, Flexpod, Cloudfoundry, Docker, Swarm, Mesos, Kubernetis, Google Cloud Platform, Google App Engine, Rackspace Cloud, RabbitMQ, Cloudify, ElasticSearch, CoreOS/etcd)
• Architected and implemented multiple Bid Data projects from Business analysis to implementation, thereby saving companies millions of dollars, through better data analytics and forecasting (IBM Watson Analytics, IBM Cloudant, IBM Bluemix, IBM Worklight/MobileFirst, SAP, SAP Hana, IBM BigInsights - IBM Datalakes, Cloudera, HortonWorks, NoSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon Redshift, Hadoop ecosystem with MapReduce, Spark etc. and MapR technologies)
• Extensive coding experience and Infrastructure automation with Perl, Python, Chef, Puppet, Git, Maven, Jenkins, Saltstack, Ansible, IBM UrbanCode, Bash
• Big 4 Consulting Experience at KPMG & Accenture
• Spent most of my career at Fortune 50 companies like ( Confidential, Kaiser Permanente, Confidential, Goldman Sachs, New York Life, NYU Medical Center, State of California etc.), working with all levels of the organizations and divisions, lately at CxO level, and business stakeholders for following a J flow process (Scope, Initiation, Design ...)
• Managed many Capex projects and Capex to Opex Projects with budgets ranging from $4M to $ 4B related to Datacenter migrations and transformations, Cloud Transformations, Big Data/MDM initiatives etc., with resources from 5 to 600 (direct and indirect), for various F-100 clients

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Architecture Certifications: TOGAF, IBM, EMC, AWS, Pivotal, Oracle, WebSphere, NetApp, Greenplum, Cloudera, BigInsightsCloud Platforms: IBM Soft layer, BlueMix, Cloudant, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Datapower, Google App Engine, Rackspace Cloud, RabbitMQ, Cloudify, ElasticSearch, CoreOS/etcd, Informatica Cloud, SalesForce

Converged Infrastructure: VCE, FlexPod, HDS

Virtualization/BYOD: VMWare, Xen, KVM, HyperV

BigData: IBM, AWS, Cloudera, HortonWorks, MapR, Hana on Hadoop, Hadoop, NoSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Scala, R, Kafka, Amazon Lambda, IBM Watson Analytics, IBM BigInsights

Cloud Automation, Orchestration, Containers: Pivotal CF, Docker, Swarm, Mesos, Marathon, Kubernetis, Pivotal Diego, AWS Catalogs, CyberArk, FireEye, Splunk, SaltStack, Prognosis, IBM Tivoli Security Manager

SAP and Hana: SAP, SAP Hana, Hana on Hadoop, SAP Fiori

DevOps & Continuous Integration: Jacl, Chef, Puppet, Perl, Python, Ruby, Saltstack, Jenkins, Maven, Git, Ant, NAnt, MSBuild, Rake, GNU Make, Nexus, SVN, TFS, IBM UrbanCode, ServiceNow, KSH, Bash

Datacenter Migrations, Transformations, Cloud Adoption: Major Healthcare, Financial, Manufacturing, Auto, Mining, Brokerage, insurance clients as well as Public sector with CAPX and CAPEX to OPEX transformations, J2EE Platforms, ESB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Principal Consultant

• Responsible for the Technology delivery/post sales/PoCs/IT Evangelist for the Western Region(AWS/Soft layer//Clod Foundry SME and BigData Platforms - Hadoop, Spark, Cloudera, NoSQL platforms)
• Practice Director with the ownership of the short term and long term vision and strategy for the Cloud, Security, Data and IoT practices, with the Cloud Innovation focus, managing a globally diverse technology delivery
• Working with a major Healthcare provider on the Cloud Transformations/Datacenter Migration and Application rearchitecture (IBM BlueMix, IBM Soft layer, AWS, Cloudera, CloudFoundry, Saltstack, Puppet, Ansible)
• Cloud workloads, Containers, IoT and big data vision, strategy and implementation for a major Insurance Giant
• Application Delivery for a leading Geospatial company, transforming them to open source platforms (MS Azure, CloudFoundry, MS Azure, Chef Puppet, Teamcity)
• Migration of Tier 1-2 applications for a Trading giant in New York (Cloud/Big Data Roadmap, strategy, and PoCs)
• Cloud Transformation/MDM for a leading Federal Agency in Washington DC (AWS/IBM BigInsights)
• Cloud Strategy/Transformation/Roadmap for FTB, State of California (AWS, Docker, Kubernetis, OpenStack)
• Open source adoption and Datawahousing/Predictive Analytics project for a leading Telecom provider in Seattle

Confidential

Enterprise Solution Architect

• Responsible for defining, designing and implementing the technology footprint for the Global Confidential Infrastructure
• Leading Mobile, Cloud and Big Data CoEs, HANA practice for the Confidential ’s Global IT Groups (130+ companies)
• Working as the AWS/IBM Bluemix/Cloudant/Soft layer, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack and Pivotal Cloud Foundry& Diego SME. Data Architect & MDM (IBM Datalakes, BigInsights, Cloudera, Cassandra,Scala,Kafka & MongoDB)
• Developing and leading a Global Enterprise team for Confidential to meet the company's Technology goals
• Technology Evangelist for 130+ Confidential companies - Conducting research on emerging technologies and IaaS, SaaS, DbaaS & PaaS strategy, conduct POCs and ARBs, Rolling out new technologies with RAs & SAs
• Translating vendor specifications into system designs while also incorporating business requirements, recommending technologies which will drive innovation agility, flexibility and cost reduction. Team Size of 16

Confidential

Practice Lead for BigData, Converged Infrastructure and Cloud

• Hands on technology lead for the Converged Infrastructure, Cloud, Datacenter Migrations, DR & BCP areas.
• As Practice Lead, researching emerging technologies in the BigData, Mobile, Cloud, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, DBaaS areas and the emerging security and compliance standards, publish white papers, prepare presentations and briefings to customers and industry partners, as required, and in corporate the newly emerging standards/updating existing frameworks, for the Enterprise Architecture Reference Architecture and Solution Architect Artifacts
• Designed and Implemented the Cloud Datawarehouse platform with Amazon EC2 and Redshift for the Mortgage division of CSFB, along with the Datacenter migration and DR implementation
• Cloud POCs and implementations with VCE and Microsoft Azure platforms for various financial clients.

Confidential

Principal Architect - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms, Security, Big Data, DevOps

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Infosys-Loadstone Premier consulting division, helped to blueprint and implement the IaaS/PaaS/Cloud strategy for New York Life Insurance company and executed the transformation/DR program and the MDM with IBM/Microsoft/VCE/Amazon technologies, for various divisions/groups
• Enterprise Architect for Aetna Insurance Company and Ameriprise, as well as DR Architect for Confidential
• Architected and implemented multiple learning management systems with Success Factors, SABA and Oracle LMS cloud platforms for a leading auto giant
• Architected and Implemented Multiple Library management systems on cloud platforms
• Infrastructure & Application outsourcing contracts for Confidential, Aetna, Confidential, NewYork Life and Sysco accounts, moving them from a Capex to Opex model and Pay as you Go Philosophy (IaaS & PaaS)
• Multiple SAP implementations and SAP HANA rollouts (McAfee, Sysco & Harley Davidson)
• Hands experience DevOPS/Continuous Integration & infrastructure automation (config management, containerization, virtualization, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS)
• Agile Tools (Rally, Jira, Version One, etc.)
• Linux and/or Windows and Virtualization (VMWare, Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, etc.)
• Cloud Computing (AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, Google App Engine, Rackspace Cloud, containers like Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Docker, Swarm, Mesos, Kubernetes etc.)
• Infrastructure Automation (Salt Stack, Perl, Python, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
• Build Tools (Ant, NAnt, MSBuild, Rake, GNU Make, etc.)
• Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins, Cruise, TeamCity, Hudson, etc.)
• SCM Tools (SVN, Git, Jenkins, Angular JS, Perforce, Mercurial, Octopus etc.)
• Scripting Languages (Shell, Ruby, Java, JACL, C/C++, Perl, Python, R, PowerShell, etc.)
• Application Servers, servlet containers, and web servers (WebSphere, Tomcat, etc.
• Expert in Continuous Integration (IBM UrbanCode Release & Deploy, Clearcase, Rational, SCM & build, code review, deployment & release automation)
• Audit & Compliance - HIPPA, SOX, PCI-DSS
• Led the BigData practice with architecture and implementation of multiple projects with various Hadoop distributions - IBM BigInsights, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Scala, Kafka, MapReduce, HDFS, Cloudera, Horton Works, MapR, Amazon Redshift, Pivotal GreenPlum, CloudFoundry, R, Cassandra, Couchbase, Hadoop on Hana, MongoDB, Microsoft Azure, SAP HANA and HDInsights
• Architected and Implemented a Service Management platform with ServiceNow for around 30K users, with a budget of $25M and ITIL Automation development experience with Remedy, Rational Tools, IBM UrbanCode (unit, security, performance, and functional)
• Capacity Planning& Monitoring - Operations application performance, security monitoring and infrastructure monitoring, IBM Private/Hybrid cloud offerings and MobileFirst platforms for Mobility
• Enterprise Architect for the CIO of the NYU Medical center - Architecture and Implementation of Microsoft private/hybrid cloud implementation with Azure, Global AD, Office 365, and collaboration tools like Yammer, SharePoint, Outlook etc., EPIC Implementation and the Datacenter migration
• Architected and Implemented the Datacenter Migration and Technology Transformation program for NYU Medical from IBM Datacenters to SunGard Datacenters with IBM/VCE private/hybrid cloud model with DR program for a budget of $114 M and a team of 350 SunGard and NYU resources
• EPIC implementation (HealthConnect) and multiple Datacenter migrations for Kaiser Permanente
• Designed and implemented Google Cloud for multiple clients - VMWare/VCE/VBlock Implementation, MS Hyper V, IBM Cloud, Amazon EC2 and MS Azure rollouts
• Architected and implemented IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and private cloud solutions for Confidential for over 14000 servers and the VCE environment (Ksh, Bash, Perl, Python, Puppet, Ruby on Rails)

Confidential

Systems Architect, ERP Architect & Security Architect

• Architected and implemented a private cloud/DR environment and the SAP rearchitecture for a leading mining company with Flex Pod environment. Managed 600+ Accenture resources for the technical development and delivery and acted as the Technical Advisory to the CIO
• BigData/Data warehousing and Analytics implementations with Salesforce, Informatica Cloud, Hadoop, MapReduce, Pivotal GreenPlum, Pig, Hive, Scala, Spark, Cassandra, Amazon RedShift, Teradata, IBM Bluemix, IBM Cloudant, IBM MobileFirst, IBM DbaaS, R, IBM Watson Analytics etc.
• Multiple Hadoop/Bigdata Implementations with Cloudera, Horton Works, Amazon EC2 and Redshift
• Designed and implemented multiple enterprise Disaster Recovery solutions, ITIL implementations, Master Data Management, SAN solutions, virtualization
• Security & Compliance with PCI-DSS, SOX, HIPPA etc.

Confidential, Foster City, CA

Senior and Chief Architect

• Datacenter Transformations, Datacenter migrations and Technology Standardization
• Architected and implemented around 150 applications from the IBM legacy environments to the enterprise standard platforms over a period of 7 years with multiple technology revisions and Datacenter migrations, with a team of 35
• Standardized on a Two vendor strategy for the Application landscape with IBM WebSphere and, Net with IBM and Microsoft as the preferred parners for IT/Infrastructure initiatives
• Identity and Access management standardization with LDAP, Netegrity & Siteminder and Oracle/DB2 DBA, MDM
• Implemented Virtualization across environments with VMWare & IBM p series, and z/OS
• Security Architect with Infrastructure and Application areas for PCI-DSS, SOX etc
• Architected and Implemented the Global availability and DR program

Confidential, Folsom, CA

Senior Consultant

• Systems Architecture & Engineering for a leading financial institution
• Systems Management & Datacenter consolidation as part of the Hosted datacenter initiative

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Senior Consultant

• Led the Oracle Financial Implementation for the Department of motor Vehicles, State of California
• Redesign and implementation of the FAFSA-CA Student Aid system from scratch to Go-Live for state of California
• Designed and Implemented one of the first Internet portals for State of California for DMV - Appointment system
• Datacenter Management for California Student Aid commission and Technical lead for Student Aid implementation
• Systems Engineering, management and Datacenter Management for the DC CFO’s office, Washington DC

Confidential

Senior Consultant

• Systems and Datacenter management for the PMO’s office Singapore, Tech lead for Case Management System
• Design and Implementation of the entire financial management systems for Ministry of Defense, Singapore
• Design and Implementation of Safety Information for the Singapore Air Force
• Design and Implementation of the Case Tracking system for the Prime Minister’s Office, for all the citizens
• Systems Rearchitecture for the payments systems for Flexi Financials, Shelton CT