SUMMARY:

• Knowledge and understanding of Cloud computing strategies, Implementation of Amazon Web Services solutions, AWS architect, AWS development and AWS operations.
• Results - driven and innovative professional with more than 20 years of hands-on IT consulting experience and more than 10 years of managing projects and teams (both onsite and remote) and Implementing and deploying IT solutions, delivering high quality products, creating collaborative applications, SDLC, gathering business requirements, validation of requirements, creation of prototypes, creation of statement of work, estimation models, budget preparations, control scope, time and budget, mitigate plans, risk analysis, following client contractual compliance for various projects.
• Creation of user experience document, user stories, product backlog document, Sprint planning, Waterfall and Agile methodology with Scrum, functional design document, traceability matrix, test plans (unit, integration, regression, UAT), deployment plan, manual, and post implementation support.
• Provided business analysis and huge business process improvements for Sales and Marketing.
• Monitor and control resources, project budget, and managed expectations of stakeholders, quality control and risk management.
• Experience leading onsite and offsite teams of 5-20 people, excellent communication skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of AWS solution architect technologies, CloudFormation, VPC, EC2, S3, Glacier, EBS, CloudFront, Cloudwatch, IAM, RDS,Kinesis, AWS CLI, SSH, Bash Script. AWS Cloud automation and deployment. Understanding of AWS Serverless analytics include S3 data lake, Glue, Serverless ETL jobs, Redshift spectrum, Athena, QuickSight; Understanding of serverless architecture.
• Development experience with Lotus Notes, SharePoint, K2, Lotus Script, LSX, ODBC, Python, Java Script, Node.js, HTML, CSS, SQL, Java agents, JAVA, JDBC and XML, Knowledge and understanding of Domino server administration, SharePoint Administration, SharePoint designer, infopath, Powershell, Shell script. Enterprise Integration of Domino applications with DB2 on iSeries/AS400 using ODBC and LEI. Using lotus ETL tools and code to work with data warehouse and integrate data with applications to provide reports to management
• Knowledge and understanding of ITSM ServiceNow, Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvine, California

AWS Solution Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Evaluation of AWS Application Security Infrastructure to implement Web Application Firewall.
• Evaluated Fortinet, Barracuda and AWS Firewall service.
• Evaluation of EC2 instances and recommendation to purchase Reserve Instances.
• Presented cost saving report as a comparison between on demand instance types and no upfront cost, full upfront cost and partial upfront cost.
• Resolution of Jira tickets to support window EC2 instances .

Confidential, Virginia

AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect and Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Creation of AWS Infrastructure as a code, Cloud Formation templates provisioning of docker containers, automation of EFS (Elastic File System), Blue Green deployment. EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, CloudFormation, Redis (ElastiCache), SNS, EFS, AWS CLI, SSH, Bash Script,yml, json. Supported docker deployment using bamboo. HA (high availability) and scalable solutions, multitier ECS clusters clusters (Apache Tier, Node Tier, Java Tier, Solr Tier).
• Requirement gathering, creation of architectural diagrams and documentations.
• Jira (Kanban) for project management, confluence for creation of documentation, and Service now for IT services management(ITSM)

Independent AWS Cloud Solution Architect

Confidential, Troy, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Creation of VPC, Subnets, NAT, Security Groups, EC2; Storage solutions such as S3, EBS; Load Balance, Auto Scaling; Relational Database understanding RDS, MySQL, Aurora, PostgreSQL; DynamoDB: Disaster recovery Route 53, CloudFront, Cloudwatch; AWS Security IAM etc.
• Creation of AWS infrastructure VPC, EC2 using Python.
• Architectural understanding of CI/CD continuous integration, continuous deployment using Code Star, Code Pipeline with Code Commit, Git Hub, Code Build, Code Deploy and Elastic Bean Stalk.

IT Architect and Delivery Lead

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Responsibilities:

• Lead remote offshore and onsite teams for custom development of simple and complex applications in SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2016, and K2 five for SharePoint
• Agile methodology with scrum was followed to complete the project. Requirements were gathered as user stories, product backlog created, workload divided into sprints, daily standup meetings, UAT, feedback from product owner obtained. Agile methodology was followed only in those applications where requirements were not clear enough while other applications were completed as waterfall.
• Monitor and control resources, project budget, managed expectations of stakeholders, quality control and risk management. Improvement cost savings through efficient operations, continuous operational improvement, task automation. Led huge innovations and business and marketing process improvements.
• Manage the client experience and engagement relationship though onboarding, initiation, and ongoing operational support.
• Provided technical help to offshore teams in data analysis, reverse engineering, source data understanding and validation, target data test, functional testing with business and delivery of final product, progress reports to management.
• Intensive use of ITSM ServiceNow service portal for incidence, problem, demand management, change management, service catalog, service level management. All demands passed through screen, qualified, approval and completed process and all changes passed through business justification, implementation plan, risk & impact, back out plan, test plan etc. The approval process with business departments responsible for CI and Change Advisory Board(CAB) was followed.
• Amazon Cloud design preparations.
• Several s from Confidential management for exceeding client expectations. from Confidential for extreme customer satisfaction

Environment: Lotus Notes, SharePoint, Nintex, K2 five, Quest and Sharegate migration tools, AWS, MS Project, ServiceNow

Onsite IT Lead Architect

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Provide end-to-end development solutions in SharePoint. Leading onsite and offshore teams of 20 resources for custom development in SharePoint 2013
• Gathered, analyzed, and validated business requirements for SharePoint custom development
• Lead 3 different offshore teams to design, develop, implement custom solutions in SharePoint 2013 using SharePoint designer, InfoPath designer, PowerShell, JQuery and JavaScript and Visual Studio. Legacy data migration from Lotus Notes using DocAve from AvePoint
• Monitor and control resources, project budget, managed expectations of stakeholders, quality control and risk management

Environment: Lotus Notes, SharePoint, Nintex, AvePoint Migration tool

Solution Architect and Project Lead

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Gathered, analyzed, and validated and prototyped business requirements for SharePoint custom development
• Monitor and control resources, project budget, managed expectations of stakeholders, quality control and risk management
• Designed and developed custom solutions in SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio, SharePoint designer, InfoPath designer, PowerShell, JQuery and JavaScript. Created User Interface, Workflows, Custom Actions, Schedule timer jobs, Complex views, etc. Legacy data migration from Lotus Notes using Quest tool
• Led offshore teams in India and onsite in USA to migrate Lotus Notes applications to SharePoint 2013.
• Performed Technical analysis of Lotus Notes environment (3000 databases) from migration point of view and documentation of migration process
• Provided technical assistance to project managers and developers, testers, and SharePoint administrators
• Gathered business requirements and architect of solutions in SharePoint 2013 List and Libraries, and to InfoPath 2010, Conducted peer review and quality assurance of data and functionality
• Demonstrated product to business owners and obtained approval for Brazilian Lotus Notes applications in Portuguese to SharePoint and US Lotus Notes applications in English to SharePoint. Created lists, libraries, content types, user interfaces, and workflows

Environment: SharePoint, Lotus Notes

Solution Delivery Architect

Confidential, Detroit

Responsibilities:

• Technical led GM to migrate applications from Lotus Notes to SharePoint 2010 using Quest migration tools; applications varied from simple to complex
• Requirements gathering, and Analysis of business requirements
• Performed analysis of more than 4,000 Lotus Notes databases, Achieved migrated data fidelity up to 100%. Substantial business and marketing process improvements
• Utilized SharePoint designer, InfoPath designer to create functionality
• Created lists, libraries, content types, workflows, user interfaces, etc. Technical lead to migrate enterprise wide QuickPlace Applications to SharePoint 2010 using Quest migration tools. Led the end to end retirement of QuickPlace infrastructure from General Motor’s IT environment.
• Infrastructure retirement
• Retired all QuickPlace servers resulting in huge annual savings in sustain, server hosting, storage, and hardware lease costs