Solutions Architect Resume
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SUMMARY:
- Trusted by executives: Helped schedule 66% for Confidential 500 cloud solutions with AWS, GCP, iCloud, Azure
- Collaborator: 10% improvement for datacenters for hardware, software, and security during $5 billion M&A
- Helped evolve platform for 75% of specific mobile cloud applications for PPA & security
- Helped take a startup from 0 to $300 million pre IPO
M&A IMPACTED IT/ SOFTWARE / IP/ TOOLS (INTEGRATED DIFFERENT VERSIONS):
CSP offerings: AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM Cloud, VMWare, Aol Cloud, Cisco, Citrix, Rackspace, Century Link, Cadence, FedRamp, PhoenixNAP Cloud, ScienceSoft Cloud Service, Adobe Creative Cloud, Red Hat Cloud Suite, Verizon, Dropbox, Box
ERP, CRM, Collaboration and Business Intelligence: SAP; Oracle; Workday, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Google apps; Private cloud based IaaS (infrastructure as a service); PaaS (platform as a service) for NPI integrating SDLC+HDLC;
PMO and PgMO: Web based; Microsoft Office applications; Project; Excel; Visio; Ruby and Sapphire; Server based project management; Server based multi - tasking portfolio management web app; PaaS for PMO
Scripting: Perl; Tcl; multiple Shell scripting tools; Python
Programming Languages: C; C++; JAVA; SmallTalk; Pascal; Python
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, California
Solutions architect
Responsibilities:
- Integration Management: Roadmap 3 month to 5 year projects for hardware plus software
- Proactive & responsive communications on daily/ weekly/ monthly/ quarterly cadence
- Improving DFQ by incorporating CRM and ERP capabilities globally
- Benchmarking competing IP, ERP, CRM, and security offerings
- Creating platforms for disparate industries eg. mobile, IoT, automotive, sensor - to-cloud, hospitality, and healthcare
Confidential, South California
Senior EPM (System Architect )
Responsibilities:
- Planned for executives; Aligned teams with product roadmap; Empowered development for enterprise and client products; Proactive iterative planning for needs beyond 24 months; Role grew from 1 team to 22 teams
- Thought leadership on vision, win-win, secruity change-management
- Ensured robust integration with input from customer, marketing, software, hardware, procurement, and factory teams; Instituted change control processes; Streamlined program-process of functional-processes that improved schedule by 66%
- Enforced focus and defocus; Requirements generation; Work breakdown structure with architecture, design, test, process, and eco system partners; Executed with customer in mind
- Completed key project ahead of schedule; Furnished good / bad status to executives regularly; Increased monitoring and control to prevent some teams from slipping; Added checkpoints for future decisions; Split program into phases; Leveraged lessons learnt from preceding projects and programs everaged platform waterfall; Shared hardware and software platforms; Multiplexed resources and bandwidth; Planned allocation for floating software licenses
- Helped DFQ and CQI; Helped plan months in advance to get software and hardware with quality for smooth integration; Ensured milestones meet industry standards; Added simulation platforms to ensure quality; Parallel and serial execution for optimal results
- Evaluated and helped improve organizational structure; Motivated team for productivity; Fair on positive and negative feedback; Gave credit to teams in front of executives; Clarified roles and responsibilities; Coached new hires for communication, technical, and organizational readiness
- Planned for value added communication with checkpoints quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily, and multiple-times-a-day; Scaled communication plans based on program; Helped provide summary and details; Escalated critical parameters; Parallel meetings
- Encouraged out of the box thinking; Identified risks inside and outside team; Qualified risks by software, hardware, customer, and supplier; Quantified risks by heap charts; Packaged resource register; Reduced or closed risks; Complied with executive recommendation of a backup plan for a backup plan
- Global process for 247 software uptime; Global process for timely hardware delivery; Forecasting corporate need beyond fiscal year
Confidential, South California
SYSTEM ARCHITECT
Responsibilities:
- Helped raise more than 18 million dollars; Helped translate MRD to TRD; proactively managed in-house and outsourcing; completed 2 product designs on budget and schedule
- Ensured plan robustness with architecture, design, verification, and deployment in mind; Helped integrate hundreds of code files
- Helped translate MRD into TRD; Managed architecture, design and verification; Simplified design for multiple markets by using common IP blocks in products
- Completed 2 product designs on budget and schedule; Furnished good / bad status in high pressure environment; Leveraged lessons learnt on technical and team dynamics; Ensured vendor tool uptime for critical epochs
- Helped used efficient memories on product; Multiplexed resources and bandwidth
- Designed for Quality; Implemented soft probes; Ensured milestones are met with HDLC, SDLCmarketing PDLC for smoother handoff
- Motivated team for productivity; Coached new hires on methodology; Built relationships with critical vendors; Global management
- Helped improve respect for team members; Daily/weekly/monthly presentations
- Identified risks inside and outside company; Qualified risks by software, hardware, customer, and supplier; Helped improve design to reduce risk response time
- Evaluated tools / applications; Helped manage outsourcing; Managed tool integration
Confidential, Texas
Solutions / Cybersecurity Architect
Responsibilities:
- Helped raise 5 million dollars to create jobs in the USA; Helped create a powerful network of government, investment banking, and corporate customers in a JV (joint venture); Agile planning to complete product within budget & schedule
- Ensured compliance for regulatory bodies; Designed for executives & technicians government and investment banking concerns
- Helped iterative planning to beat schedule and budget constraints
- Helped compliance with international regulatory authorities for short and long term
- Helped increase company value 7 fold via proper financial planning and marketing of milestones
- Daily / weekly/ monthly presentation with executives
Confidential, Mountain View, CA
VERIFICATION ENGINEER/ MANAGER
Responsibilities:
- Challenged to architect hardware, and verify with software on a reusable IP (hardware plus software platforms)
- Instrumental in organic growth offshore
- Completed block level testing before system level; Complied with version control for design and test; Documented coverage plan methodically before execution
- Used internal and external IT tools which get results faster; Completed DFT analysis
- Collaborated on methodology improvement; Complied with a move from less than 10 to 17 types of verification
- Built relationships with critical vendors for efficient communication and results
- Improved team work; Daily status under pressure; Utilized issue tracker database
- Helped identify, document, and resolve problems daily; Helped get code coverage on products
- Helped manage outsourcing; Managed tool integration
Confidential, Irvine, CA
SYSTEM ARCHITECT
Responsibilities:
- Aligned team on corporate vision, win-win, and value creation
- Helped setup offshore design center and aligned with HQ on vision, real estate concerns, and engineering operations
- Helped implement architecture that was reusable in multiple industries; this helped move from consumer electronics to telecommunications
- Completed VoIP product faster than Broadcom and TI; Helped new team members execute under high pressure (7 months not 18 months)
- Helped get more than $2MM in funding; Avoided extravagance on corporate trips; Helped partner with university eco-system for win-win low-cost working relationships
- Helped DFQ and CQI; Helped use EDA tools to get more reliable product in 7 months instead of 36 months
- Motivated team for productivity; Helped improve customer experiences
- Coached new employees; Counseled people from different industries; Shared knowledge with executive / engineering staff
- Helped engineering reviews and test coverage before critical need arises
- Helped benchmark before purchasing software; Helped grow platform technology department to ensure program readiness
