SUMMARY

• Certified AWS Associate Solutions Architect, whom exemplifies leadership, innovation, negotiations with pre and post sales experience, for scoping architectural & agile based projects.
• On premise and Cloud using AWS, GCP, Azure resource deployment with Terraform Open Source and Enterprise.
• CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins,Dockers, Git, AzureDevops, Artifacts, RBAC. Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Yaml, JSON, Bash, Powershell, for stack generation, using secured backend API calls for automation IaC.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• AWS RDS / DynamoDb AWS CloudWatch
• AWS IAM & Policy Generator AWS VPC
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS Route 53
• AWS Cloud Formation AWS Snowball
• AWS Application Load Balancer AWS Systems Manager
• Ansible (playbooks) AWS ECS / Fargate / Kubernetes
• AWS EC2 / ECR / EKS Docker/ Docker Hub / GitHub / Git
• Terraform Entrprise Chef / Puppet /Jenkins
• SQLworkbench/Redshift Visual Code/VI/AWS Designer
• GCP compute instance packer
• Azure virtual machine AzureDevop
• HP Orchestration, HPSA, HP C7000 NetApp (9+ yrs)
• EMC VMAX 200K and F250 (2+ yr) EMC Symmetrix/Clariion/VMAX (10+ yrs)
• VPLEX V2 (2+yrs) Unisphere for VMAX
• EMC Isilon (2+ yrs) XtremIO(2+yrs)
• 3PAR (5 year)
• Brocade DCX ( 8+ years)
• BNA and webtools) 10+ years
• Cisco MDS ( DCMN and Cisco Fabric Manager) 10 + years
• Unix (Red Hat Linux, Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP - UX administration
• Vmware Vcenter 6.0 (8+yrs)
• Nodejs/Javascript
• Powershell
• Visual Code

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Tools: and Automation Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Service banking internal customers for automation enhancements, software and tools requests as it relates to backend storage management for CloudIQ,VMAX 250F, Hitachi Ventara G and VSP models.
• Installed, configured, Unisphere Windows and Linux managers by creating useradd file for permissions during setup, gatekeeper creation using symcfg and storage group, host profile, port group and masking view for manager and host to storage needs. Setup domain authentication as well as alerting, notifications, monitoring templates and performance adjustments.
• Upgrade of solution enabler for both Windows and Linux.
• Assisted with planning and deploying VM based migration strategies to public cloud based on mapping application dependencies, leveraging cloud centered design requirements, sizing of migration, organization migration paths based on workload types and business SLA, downtime windows, which includes sequencing strategies better scoped with the Open Source or Hypervisor Vendor Support agreement.
• Docker Container, Ansible and AWS cloud launch project.
• Completed sprints based on predefined scopes, according to standards, architectural layouts for AzureDevOps driven pipeline for GCP and Azure Cloud products.
• Assisted with creating AzureDevops pipeline which supported,production, dev and test push,pulls, merges for production commits
• Assisted with scoping, designing and developing an implementation strategy for a secured CICD lifecycle, to allow heterogenous programming and application stacks to properly deploy, to said targets, whether it was by way of Terraform Enterprise and GCP cloud or Azure Cloud.
• Key management using Azure Vault, AD key management, OAUTH, SAML, Terraform Vault,

Senior Cloud and Storage Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Auto deployment using Jenkins for job, scripting, server builds, backups using Naginator, Jenkin Plugins, TimeStamper
• API driven deployments using Terraform Open Source to create EC2, Azure VM instances, VPC,S3, Storage Accounts, IAM roles based policies, resources using Ansible or Terraform for Cloud Formation stacks
• Deploy AWS instances and resources, using role-based policies, MFA authentication for security and best practices, using a Windows or Linux or MAC OS client.
• Deployed VPC, IAM, S3 buckets, EBS, EFS, Security Groups within HA zones, edge location and migrated across regions using copy or snapshot replications.
• Cross region Replication using Versioning, Snowball disk appliance, Storage Gateway
• Using ITSM (Service Now), change, incident, service request, release mgmt and problem mgmt.
• Patching of virtual servers, deploying batch scripting for configuration mgmt, compliance and security vulnerability remediation using ITILv3 change mgmt process.
• Confidential DS-series array administration using Tivoli Storage Manager Interface and SVC virtual repl.
• Manage global resources, US based contractors to support global assets at the incident and problem management level, using Service Now and Remedy ticketing system.
• Provide best practice SOPs, BOMs, Design, Storage and Cloud Modernization for the Global Commercial and Federal Accounts.
• Execution of HTsM, HCS, HUR, Truecopy, SRDF, Open Replicator, based migrations
• Application Integration, Performance modernization and Process Improvement
• MetroMirroring Disaster Recovery, Clustering using DH2i for SQL DBs.

Principle Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide best practice SOPs, BOMs, Design, Storage and Cloud Modernization for the Global Commercial and Federal Accounts.
• Application Integration, Performance modernization and Process Improvement
• Procure Infrastructure assets, license and maintenance agreements
• Storage infrastructure auditing and compliance initiatives.
• Tech Refreshes, Data Center Migrations, Data Center cutovers
• Delivered standards and capacity management for entire infrastructure.
• Led team in areas of storage management, customer relations and project assignment
• Headed up key incident management, problem management, and change management activities in the areas of managed hosting, data center solutions in cloud services.
• Collaborated with vendors and suppliers on key system upgrades (3Par, Netapp and VNX code)
• Provisioned, troubleshoot, quality assured activities for Brocade and Cisco Director level switches,Volumes,Qtrees,Snaps,Quotas,SnapMirror,Vfiler,Vserver,Scheduling,Exports,Igroups
• Virtual volumes, CPGs, Performance Assessments, Peer Motion, UnisphereRaid Group, Storage Groups, Host Groups, Masking View, Initiator Groups, Port Groups, NFS, CIFS, ISCSI,SAN exports to Open Systems and ESX5i environments.
• Performed Dynamic Optimization, HP Operations and Orchestration, HPSIM, Fabric Interconnect
• Performed EMC Vmax and Isilon block and NAS volume management, storage allocations
• Performed EMC VPLEX, storage virtualization with tiered modeling for application performance scaling and DR
• Content Management, Load balancers, Virtual Private Cloud, PostgreSql, MySql