SUMMARY:

• Experienced AWS Solutions architect with networking and infrastructure engineering background.
• Currently working on agile projects as AWS solution architect and cloud engineer using my networking and infrastructure backgrounds to devise and automate cloud designs.
• Worked on a wide range of projects including planning, problem resolution, training, product and solution test, project management, conducting proof of concepts, and infrastructure automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Linux, OS - X, Windows, Cisco IOS

Development Tools: Git, Python, Perl, Expect, TCL, Jira Agile.

Automation platforms: CloudFormation, Terraform, Jenkins, Robot Framework, Selenium.

Systems/Hardware: CCNA, Routing and Switching, VMware vSphere, vCenter, TDMA / CDMA, SIP, call routing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

AWS Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Define service offerings, marketing content, socializing the offerings.
• Responsibilities include a “whatever it takes” approach encompassing pre - sales engineering, solution design and pricing, post-sales engineering, automation engineering, trainer, and project manager.
• Working with customers to identify their business needs, determine desired outcome and solutions including migration assessments, security assessments, cloud optimization services, and migrations.
• Build and secure virtual data center in AWS to serve clients needs including base VPC with specified subnets, routing tables, IGW, NAT gateway, ELB/ALB, EC2, S3, transit VPC with third-party routers such as CRS1000v. Also implemented IAM users, roles, and cross-account access.
• Working with automation tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform.

Confidential

Infrastructure and automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed datacenter migrations into AWS.
• Implemented and managed Operational Infrastructure for Confidential Inventory+, Vehicle Valuations, and Vehicle Exchange products.
• Implemented Monitoring Processes and Dashboards using open source technologies.
• Worked with multiple teams of Developers and Infrastructure Engineers across geographies in a Development/Operations (DevOps) model.
• Designed and executed automation using Ansible and PowerShell.

Confidential

Product Validation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and verify system use cases from User stories and design specifications.
• Verify software release content including, new features, product integration, and end-to-end is on time with high quality.
• Design and develop automated test cases using Git, GitLab, Jenkins and Robot Framework using Python, to test API, device manager UI, and classic Cisco CLI commands.
• Maintain virtualized Confidential lab environments using VMware vCenter and vSphere on Confidential servers interacting with Cisco IoT Switches, routers, and security devices.

Confidential

Product Validation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with marketing, developers, technical leads, and QA members to coordinate and complete testing cycles including reviewing design documentation or user stories, test planning and design, test automation, bug reporting.
• Verify software release content including, new features, product integration, and end-to-end is on time with high quality.
• Write automated test cases in XML for REST API, and web services based on the OnPlus homegrown toolset.
• Maintain device test lab environments for worldwide team with over 150 devices under test supported by a large number of devices including a range of switches, routers, unified communications networks, security routers, and Confidential servers running multiple OSes.

Confidential

Product Validation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed 8-10 week EFT process including reviewing, evaluating, recruiting, and recording results for 6-8 customers to participate for each project.
• Completed EFTs and resulting actions meeting objectives on time.
• Improved efficiency of the EFT testing by using a customer available website portal consolidating the customer interaction and saving approximately 20% of the time utilized with each customer. Improving customer feedback by simplifying reporting.
• Worked with management team to introduce and socialize new project milestones for future products improving overall product quality.
• Developed, implemented, and managed usability testing improving product quality. The new process dropped the number of critical problems found to 2 as compared with 9 - 11 for previous projects.
• Created customer training materials delivering online and directly to customers enhancing their knowledge with related products.
• Verified software release content including, new features, feature enhancements, regression, product installation, upgrades, robustness, product integration, end to end and back office operations on time with high quality.
• Verified and supported customer configurations via back office and API. Resolving configuration and installation issues.
• Created and tracked hundreds of bugs over multiple system elements.
• Reviewed Cisco Service Node documentation for completeness and correctness. to enhance client and internal product knowledge.