Solutions Architect Resume
South Setauket, NY
SUMMARY
Accomplished, hands - on, senior dev-ops architect with particular expertise in private and public cloud technologies (Openstack, AWS, OpenShift). Strong understanding of building and implementing continuous integration solutions (using combinations of licensed and open-source tools) via automated processes to support dynamic configuration management. Skilled in operational change efforts including migration of critical IT infrastructure to dynamically provisioned cloud services. Lifelong learnerthriving on the latest in technology and contributing to innovation through the creation of patentable ideas. Openstack - Trained and versed in Openstack Cloud architecture and deployment.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Automation frameworks: Puppet, Ansible, CA LISA Release Automation (Nolio/ITKO)
RedHat Enterprise: Linux, CentOS
Tools: Git (Gitlab, Github, Gerrit)
Continuous Integration Tools: Artifactory, Jenkins, CC
Monitoring Solutions: Nagios
Infrastructure (IaaS): Openstack, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, VMware, VBox, Vagrant
Platforms (PaaS): Docker, Applogic, OpenShift
Scripting: Python, Shell, PERL, SQL, PFHP, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra
Web: Wordpress, HTML, REST, JSON, XML, Apache
Design: Photoshop, Flash, HTML/CSS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, South Setauket, NY
Solutions Architect
Responsibilities:
- Consulting with companies to build upon their existing software solution build/packaging procedures towardsan automated continuous integration model.
- Assisting in evaluation, implementation and testing of SDLC, version control, automation, infrastructure, and platform tools/services based upon 20+ years of enterprise software experience.
Confidential, Islandia, NY
Principal Architect Automation and Continuous Integration
Responsibilities:
- Challenged with developing an operating environment capable of supporting automation of agile software development methods (smoke builds, nightly builds, triggers, etc) to normalize and consolidate manual, time- consuming, inconsistent product lifecycle processes.
- Directed teams in multiple international locations to leverage VMWare, AWS, and other cloud automation technologies to produce highly efficient, low cost environments using RHEL, Python, Perl, Bash, AWS API, HTML, CSS, and RESTful interface technologies.
- Reduced the time needed to build and deploy solutions for testing from a week or more, to just under a few hours.
Technologies: VMWare, AWS, RHEL, Apache, Artifactory, Maven, Ivy
Confidential
Director
Responsibilities:
- Challenged with architecting and engineering a consumer-targeted security suite capable of protecting personal computing devices from web and media bourne operating system threats.
- Directed a team of 50+ engineers in 6 locations (New York, India, Australia, London, Herndon and Milwaukee) to develop, test, and support CA Internet Security Suite. An integrated software solution consisting of firewall, anti-spyware, anti-virus, anti-spam, parental control, anti-phishing and backup functionality.
- Implemented department-wide transition from waterfall to an agile software development lifecycle reducing time from inception of new features and development of bug fixes, to customer delivery.
- Contracted third-party vendors to augment development, testing, support and hosting functions; maintaining critical release deadlines.
- Collaborated with Product Management, Sales and Marketing to create direction and prioritize enhancements and bugfixes to satisfy increasing levels of customer needs. Incorporating cost and time to market analysis for decision support.
- Successfully released and supported several versions of products simultaneously and packaged solutions to channel partners, service providers, resellers and consumer markets.
- Improved quality and sales of solutions by 25% over a period of one year (based on support queue metrics and revenue reporting).
Confidential
ManagerResponsibilities:
- Directed multi-national organization (Australia, India, US) responsible for engineering, testing, and support of CA AntiSpyware and Personal Firewall
- Collaborated with Confidential (Germany) to create IREMA proof of concept (in-vehicle telemetries exposed vi iDrive )
- Engineered Patch Management (IPM) software used to distribute patches over a network in a secure manner.
