SUMMARY:

• Expert and seasoned cloud architect and devOps lead.Experience and insight to elevate any application, computing platform, infrastructure, or data operation to the cloud.
• Successfully designed and delivered secure cloud solutions for major organizations such as Confidential and Confidential .
• Earned a reputation for designing cloud deployment strategies that mitigate risk while meeting infrastructure, employee, customer and budgetary needs.
• More than 8 years experience with IAAS, PAAS and SAAS technologies.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and presentation skills.
• Actively and hands on involved in the creation, implementation, and delivery of private and hybrid cloud based solutions for my customers.
• Extensive knowledge in the programming domain as well as the architecture and infrastructure domains.
• Expertise in creating DevOps group from ground level up.
• Master programmer as well as a master scripter when it comes to VRealize VMware platforms as well as Chef and other DevOps tool script creations.
• 25 years of programming experience in all mainstream object oriented and legacy languages; C, C++, JAVA, Python, Ruby, JavaScript etc.
• 25 years of Infrastructure Architecture Virtualization platform experience as well as migration to cloud of legacy data centers from physical to virtual.
• Computer scientist and information technologist whose aim is to utilize computers and technology to solve the business problems and requirements of companies. I do not want to be tagged as an SME of one single domain as that is the equivalent of a robot possessing artificial intelligence.
• Expert at utilizing whatever technology is required to solve your current situation whether it is programming or platform related. Whether its cloud, in - house or hybrid platform based requiring API integration, or management of an on going project you have in order to accomplish your SOW.

ADVANCED SKILLS IN:

• Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Implementations and Migrations
• Platforms used for Cloud Based solutions:
• Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, VMware Vcloud
• Linux: RHEL, Ubuntu
• Windows 2012 R2 Solutions used for DevOps:
• Chef, Puppet Enterprise, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, VRealize.

EXPERTISE IN:

Cloud Platforms

AWS, Azure, VMware, OpenStack.

Hybrid, Off Premise, On Premise models implemented.

Network Operating Systems

Active Directory, Windows Server 2012, LINUX, UNIX,HP-UX, AIX, Windows 10

Programming and Scripting Languages

JAVA, JavaScript, C++, C#, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, Power Shell, SOAP and REST, SQL

Chef, Puppet, Distelli, Ansible, Salt / SaltStack, CFEngine

VMWare vSphere, vCenter / vRealize Orchestrator

Dell Cloud Manager

CA Technologies Automation / CA AppLogic, Process Automation

HP Cloud Service Automation

Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager, Fabric

Cuisine, CrowBar, Pallet, Juju

Infrastructure as a code using

AWS CloudFormation, AWS AMI’s

AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorksBlue-Green Deployments

AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks

Amazon CloudWatch

Cloud Security using

Identity Access Management (IAM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architect and design person for the hybrid cloud and DevOps world.
• Managed and helped create and grow the DevOps team while focusing on the cloud initiative that includes:
• Data center consolidation and virtualization
• Moving applications locally hosted apps to cloud and hybrid cloud platforms on Open Stack, AWS, Azure, and VMware Vcloud.
• NIST standards followed during architecture and security design.
• SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) implementation
• Service catalog, virtualization, automation and orchestration
• Architectural design and implementation of cloud management tools
• DevOps Solutions employed to utilize infrastructure as a code:
• Chef Software
• Puppet Enterprise 4.0 / 3.6
• Ansible
• Migration of 75% applications to private, hybrid and public cloud.
• Implementation of essential attributes of cloud compute: on-demand/self-service, anywhere network access, location transparent resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and pay-per-use service.
• Consulted in pre-cloud architecture layout and future integration plans.
• Expert in NIST SPI models: SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, DaaS, Caas, BPaas, XaaS.
• Network design typologies, disaster recovery, site planning expert
• Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services AWS, EC2, VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V technologies implemented and incorporated in existing company infrastructure for Cloud Compute.
• Vendor research, selection, contract negotiations, and final approval process formalized and executed.
• Understanding and experience with current Cloud IaaS giants: Amazon EC2 and Microsoft (Azure)
• Exposure to a wide variety of enterprise software, application technologies and cloud services such as, Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Route 53, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
• Experience with Cloud technologies and fabrics - Amazon AWS/EC2, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, vCloud Director
• Experience analyzing, and implementing access control mechanisms and security methodologies.
• Involved in the security issues dealing with cloud computing and analysis.
• PowerShell scripting and use of Quest / Dell Migration manager for AD, Exchange, and office 365 migrations.
• Staged and cut over migrations to office 365 with multiple tenants with multiple forests using ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) and FIM 2010 R2 (Forefront identity manager) utilizing SAML
• Implementation of Cloud laws e.g. FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOX.
• VMware Hybrid Cloud implementation:
• On premise and in cloud implementation of hybrid environment.
• VSphere platform management via vCloud Suite
• VRealize suite of cloud management platform implemented
• VRO orchestrator implemented and scripts created / utilized

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• On premise and in cloud implementation of hybrid environment.
• Migration from previous versions of exchange 2010.
• Data Center Virtualization and Consolidation:

Confidential, Oakland, NJ

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Virtualization / Cloud Migration.
• Implementation of VI3 enterprise edition for server consolidation for Email platform.
• Implementation of cloud computing with VMware and Microsoft technologies.