SUMMARY:

• Hands - on, dedicated professional with over 24 years of progressive experience in IT.
• Possess strong knowledge of Systems Administration, Networking, Information Systems Security, Data Center Operations and Hosting Facility management.
• Full accountability for managing day to day systems administration, networking, security and operations changes and hardware or software modifications.
• Recognized for dedication and commitment for delivering solutions for complex business requirements.
• Building strong relationship with IT staff, customers, vendors and third party contractors.
• Proficient in providing architectural solutions related to IT Infrastructure.
• Lead a team of systems administrator, network administrator, DBA and security operations.
• Manage deployment and support of internal infrastructure systems and ensuring delivery and maintenance of the systems at the hosting provider.
• Create business processes, best practices, standards, templates and operating procedures to optimize IT management.
• Oversee projects to design and implement IT infrastructure at the local data center and at the Hosting Facility.
• Assign schedules, coordinate staff and allocate resources to ensure efficiency and productivity are maximized.
• Develop monitoring systems to monitor and alert systems and applications
• Collaborate with other architects, software engineers and IT management to ensure projects meet strategic initiatives.
• Research, analyze and recommend implementation of new technologies.
• Coordinate with external technology vendors, internal staff members and third party consultants.
• Managed projects in the absence of Project Managers
• Mentored and coached new team members

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMWare: ESX (5.5 and 6), Redhat/SuSE Linux, Windows (MS DOS - Windows Server 2008, LDAP, Active Directory, Shell scripts(bash), NFS, DNS, DHCP, Oracle 9i, 10g, Splunk (SEIM), Confidential ASA firewall policies, CheckPoint firewall management, Squid Proxy Servers, LVM, Apache, IIS, Tomcat, JBOSS, MySQL, JIRA, SAN/NAS Storage, iSCSI, Java, AlertSite monitoring, Host Monitor software, Amazon Cloud (AWS), CloudFront (CDN), Version Control (Subversion), Vimeo, LAN, WAN

Security Systems: Auditd, AlertLogic, Qualys, Tripwire (File Integrity Services), Nexpose scans, Systems patching, Backup/Restore, Disaster Recover and Business Continuity, SSL CA Certs, VPN Tunnels, KeePass, Single Sign On (SSO), Account Management, Access Control, Embedded Passwords Protection, IAPP, IDS/IPS, Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF), Systems Hardening, Web Application Vulnerability Scans

Familiar with: Cognos Servers, Pentaho, Rythmix Percussion, Drupal, DevOps, Puppet, GIT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Infrastructure Architect Lead

Responsibilities:

• Supervising the activities of Infrastructure team and ensuring successful execution
• Leading, coaching and mentoring a team of engineers, systems administrators and technology specialists that support the development and production platforms
• Managing production environment support 24/7
• Managing development and production network infrastructure as well as the ongoing monitoring of those networks to ensure that they meet SLA with external and internal customers
• Day to day governance of the JJHWS managed or co-managed environments
• Providing architecture oversight regarding infrastructure technology to ensure scalability, stability and security
• Responsibility for the design and delivery of network infrastructure services in a multi-platform environment.
• Ensuring the proper operation of JJHWS systems, processes and/or assets. Maintain IT environment by identifying requirements and implementing processes to monitoring performance, ensuring the achievement of all SLAs, process requests for changes, ensure organization standards are followed
• Infrastructure asset management for JJHWS environments
• Capacity planning of production environments
• Coordinating with development, architecture and QA teams
• Systems monitoring and alerts management, On Call Rotation management
• Architecture DR and business continuity
• Ensuring all systems comply with corporate guidelines related to system management, monitoring and issue resolution.
• Hosting facility management.
• Systems monitoring and maintenance
• Change control and approvals of deployments
• Budgeting and inventory management
• Tickets monitoring and approvals
• Provided architectural solutions for networks, security and infrastructure.
• Systems monitoring and alerting
• Internal monitoring and external monitoring
• Transaction monitoring
• Network and Information Systems Security management
• Change control and approvals
• Load balance servers management
• PII and PHI data security (Data at rest, Data at transit and Data in use)
• Implementations of Security Projects
• Access Control implementations
• Single sign on
• Password policy implementations
• Network Security implementations
• Firewall access controls, Policies verification and approvals
• Antivirus Software implementations (including Linux servers)
• Analyzing scan reports and fixing the vulnerabilities
• Web Application Firewall implementation
• Change control for DNS, SSL
• Software Development Security
• Web Application Scan Report analysis
• Implementation of multiple environments for the development life cycle (development, QA, staging, User Acceptance Testing and Production)
• Separation of duties
• Operations Security Implementations
• Patch management implementation
• File integrity services (Tripwire)
• User Account Management, Access control (need based) and audit log implementation
• Encryption and secure communication
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning and implementation
• Oracle Data Guard
• SAN sync
• Architected solution for DR
• Provided solutions to increase the performance, reliability of the production servers.
• Consolidated development environments and implemented Virtualization
• Implemented Amazon Cloud for static contents, Content Distribution Network and Vimeo for videos
• Solutions provided to re-architect the current production environment for scalability.
• Hands on with Tomcat, JBOSS, Apache, LINUX, VMWare installations, Zeus Load Balance server clusters

Confidential

Technical Architect and Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Technical architect for Infrastructure Projects.
• Coordinating different vendors and different teams from global locations for projects.
• Responsible for Infrastructure for Enterprise Architecture Integration including QAD and SAP projects.
• Managing Infrastructure and plant automation projects.
• Managing and administering On Demand training and Knowledge Pathways Software implementation project.
• Consolidating Hardware requirements for Confidential projects.
• Capacity planning for servers and storage.
• Written Plant PCs lock down script to restrict access to all applications except the plant applications.

Confidential

Senior Networks Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing systems, Networks, Network Security and Infrastructure
• Designed and implementation of new data center with redundancy for a 24/7 hosting environment
• Implementation of Redundant Data Center Power supply with Generators, HVAC, Dual UPS systems, PDUs, FM200 Fire Suppressions Systems
• Implementation of Load Balancers, Server Clusters
• Managed Implementations for network security, Installed and administered multiple Check Point Firewall Cluster, Squid Proxy Servers, NFR IDS/IPS
• Assessing the systems performance, optimizing and fine tuning the systems
• Implemented monitoring systems using Host Monitor and AlertSite
• Implemented Single Sign On
• Installed and administered redundant NAS and SAN devices
• Implementation of LAN separation and three tier architecture
• Implemented help desk management system for servers and desktop administration
• Capacity planning and VMware implementations and server consolidations
• Implementation of communication devices including BlackBerry Enterprise server
• Planed and implemented processes for Development, stage and production for the web hosting environments.
• Implemented Version Control System
• Supported HIPAA implementation
• Performed IT application and network vulnerability scans and assessments
• Vendor management, IT acquisition integration, IT budgeting, IT Purchasing and contracts management
• Managed Desktops and Servers upgrades and OS upgrades/patching
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning and implementation.
• IT procurement and budgeting
• Managing and reviewing IT staff

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installations and maintenance of Confidential AIX servers
• Installations and maintenance of Network Appliance NAS servers, HP Juke boxes (250 platters)
• Installations and maintenance of web servers
• Systems programming and UNIX scripts writing for various applications for Coinserve application which maintains data for the customers on CD Platters
• Installation and maintenance Solaris servers and FTP servers
• Inter connecting thirteen city offices through WAN, installation and maintenance of networks, UNIX, Windows and Novell servers.
• Maintenance of Novel Netware systems

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Systems Administration team which was doing Installations and maintenance of networks and systems for three different buildings
• Interconnecting three buildings through WAN
• Installation and maintenance of more than 500 PCs and network security
• Installation and maintenance of Solaris servers, Windows NT servers
• Installation and maintenance of Confidential routers
• Installed the satellite link - T1 line / WAN between US office and India office
• Implemented voice over data T1 line using echo cancellation techniques for clarity.
• Planning and implementation of 100 KVA UPS systems and generators