SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated technology professional with over 18 years of global hands - on IT experience in architecting and managing distributed, complex enterprise-wide strategic IT programs/operations and IT infrastructure services in both on-premises and Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure).
• DevOps Architect/manager to Enterprise applications, implemented end-to-end automation and Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.
• In-depth knowledge of Infrastructure project management methodologies (ITIL, ITSM), Enterprise Data Center operations, ITIL based Service Delivery model along with expertise in remote management and Onsite/Offshore project delivery operations.
• Successfully established and managed Enterprise IT Solutions. Reduced costs and improved project efficiencies through centralized services, automation and implementing standardization. Skilled communicator equally adept at delivering complex technologies, often involved in co-ordination of large number of groups with varying skills at multiple locations to accomplish tasks and goals. Well verse with ITIL based Release & Change management, Incident/Problem management, Configuration Management, Capacity Management, Continuous Process Improvement and availability management best practices in both Agile & Waterfall model.
• Natural leader, managing teams to accomplish software deliverables and Organization goals. Proven ability to analyze & deliver the business objectives.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Sr. Solutions Architect in both on-premises & Cloud platform/migration. Enterprise Release Management & Change management. Problem/Incident/Capacity/Configuration/Availability management. Strategic Planning & process development/improvement. DevOps Architect, Automation, Operations, Project & Program management. Agile Transformation, ITIL, IT Service Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Business Domains: Banking & Finance, Automobiles, Insurance, Publishing, e-Commerce, Pharmaceuticals & HealthCare, Manufacturing, Oil & Refinery, Airlines, Ground Transportation, Customs and al Institutions. Quality Framework

Cloud Computing: ITIL, SoX, GxP, Six: Sigma, Agile, SLDC. AWS and Azure. IaaS, PaaS, EC2, ELB, RDS, Route53 & S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFront, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation, Docker, Chef & Puppet, Elastic Beanstalk, SNS, SQS, SWF, DynamoDB, RDS MySQL, RESTful Web Services, XML, JSON, CLI in AWS & Azure, Auto Scaling, Cloud Foundry, DynamoDB, Analytics, Azure Resource Manager (ARM).

Emerging Tech.: Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Ab: Inito, Dynamo DB, MongoDB, Machine Learning/AI.

Middleware: WebLogic Application Server 8.x./9.x/10.x, IBM WebSphere 6/7, Apache Web Server, IIS, Aqualogic Plumtree portal, Selectica, Apache, Tomcat, iPlanet, Jboss, Jrun, Sharepoint.

Operating systems: UNIX/Linux: (Sun Solaris, SCO Open Server, SCO UnixWare, CALDERA Open-UNIX 8, HP-UX, Redhat), Microsoft windows server, Novel Netware.

Database: Oracle 8i/9i, MS SQL Server, My SQL, MS Access, Pointbase.

Language Tools: C, C++, HTML, Unix shell Script, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Perl, Object oriented Programming

Rundeck, BMC Atrium Suite, Command: FNT, albabet PlanningIT, Aspera SmartTrack, Crystal Reports, Business objects, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TeamCity, Maven/Ant, Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket, Stash, Jira, Confluence, SVN, CVS, VSS, F5 BIG-IP, NetScaler, Crescendo Maestro, QIP, DataPower, Dynatrace, Wily, Vormetric, WebTrends, SiteScope, Site 24x7, New Relic, Foglight, Xymon, Autosys, ControlM.

Other Applications: Microsoft Word/excel/PowerPoint, MS Projects, MS Access, BMC Remedy, Visio, ALM, Mercury Load Runner, Cisco works, HP Open View, Lotus Notes, HP Service Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Cloud Architect, DevOps Manager

Responsibilities:

• Engaged with large scale projects impacting hundreds of users with implementation teams spread across the globe. These projects are extremely critical and highly visible belonging to Anti - Money Laundering, Financial Crimes, Regulatory Reporting, Compliance Risk Framework, Trade-n-Surveillance, Corporate Technology, Credit Risk technology, Data management, Human Resources etc.
• Played role of Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect to Enterprise Applications and migrating to AWS Cloud platform. Designing and architecting Cloud solutions for key applications and creating framework for easy migration in both private and public cloud. Working with chief development office to migrate or onboard new applications in hybrid cloud platform following firm-wide risk & cybersecurity policies. Building a team of highly motivated professionals to maintain application deployments and availability for 24X7 enterprise applications. The team also provide necessary monitoring, tracking, analytics services to hybrid cloud platform for management.
• Played role of DevOps manager/architect to automate deployment pipeline of 400+ key applications involving Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI/CD). Also lead the team to implement end-to-end automation using various tools and technologies in Linux & Windows platform. The initiative made the application development, orchestration and release process much better, faster with cost savings by 21%. Building and a team to support the web infrastructure and application orchestration.
• Created ITIL based release/change management process to track, safeguard and deliver end to end releases from inception phase through actual release deployment to Production playing role of Planner, Coordinator, Architect, Communicator & Quality Gatekeeper. Led Agile transformation to enterprise applications from ground up.
• Responsible for managing and supporting monthly/quarterly releases of new and existing projects and applications. Work involved co-ordination with large groups, building and managing multiple test environments, database refresh and disaster recovery planning & execution, readiness reviews, Go-Live release planning, documentation,, reporting to higher management/stakeholders. Conducted Change Control Board meeting and approving Change requests.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Cloud Solutions Architect/DevOps/Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully designed, implemented and managed AWS solutions and migrated enterprise applications from on - premises to Cloud (AWS) platform.
• Work involved planning, design & architecture, risk assessment & mitigation, capacity planning, cost estimation, work scheduling and execution.
• Reduced cost by 29% by consolidating and migrating enterprise applications to AWS. Architected a flagship application in a short span of time replacing existing legacy application in AWS.
• Used AWS services to help our customers solve business challenges such as rapidly releasing products/services to the market or building an elastic, scalable, cost optimized application. performed role of lead Cloud Solution architect to AWS hosted internet facing enterprise applications. Built and trained a team of dedicated professionals to manage application infrastructure, offer right solution to application development & automated deployment process and implement across environments.
• Led a team of build-release/DevOps engineers. Performed release, change, incident, capacity and configuration management activities in Agile & ITIL framework. Driven automation and continuous improvement of release and change management processes following DevOps best practices.
• Hosted critical Change review and implementation activities involving change approval, game planning, communication planning, status reporting and co-ordination.
• Played role of lead solution architect to drive application design and onboarding process.
• In the role of Infrastructure Project/Operations Manager, managed large scale, high risk, internet facing high visibility (production support related) IT projects and new business initiatives from initiation to delivery.
• Performed all major aspects of project management like - project discovery, kickoffs, drafting and driving project plans, project sizing and forecasting, scope, time and budget management, risk identification, status reporting, closer etc.

Confidential, NJ

Infrastructure Project/Operations Manager, DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Played role of solution architect and Sr. Dev Ops lead to implement automated application release deployment process (CI/CD).
• Lead a dynamic team of professionals to support 24x7 operations of web infrastructure/deployments.
• My team managed technical operational processes and coordinate projects to install, deploy & maintained state - of-the-art web-platforms.
• Performed Technical Release Management, Configuration Management, Availability Management, Capacity Management, and Service Continuity Management, Relationship management, Volume & License management, Budget planning & tracking, Incident, Problem and Change management in Agile and ITIL framework.
• Conducted regular meetings with senior managers, stakeholders, project teams and team leaders to review status, make recommendations, and resolve problems. Provided direction, guidance, and oversight to project team members.
• Measured project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Prepared Reports on project performance and metrics.
• Developed mitigation plans to address identified risks. Also measured project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.

Confidential, NJ

Cloud Solutions Architect/DevOps/Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Helped organization understand and implement advanced cloud-based solutions and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. AWS evangelist - educated customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS. Served as lead, technical expert to team(s) concerned with development and support enterprise technology initiatives in Cloud. Conducted studies of new technologies to provide more efficient and cost-effective architecture solutions and build-buy decisions.
• Oversaw multiple projects in order to preserve the architectural vision, firmwide SLDC process & protect stakeholder interests.
• Created and assessed performance metrics and traceability maps to determine the effectiveness of architecture solutions. Led 20- member strong team for deployment & management of Java and .NET based multi-tier applications in hybrid cloud platform.
• Implemented factory models for architecture standardization, built new capabilities for digital portfolios and led Agile & DevOps transformation projects.
• Added great value in driving the adoption of DevOps practice.
• Inducted Enterprise release management process and procedures in ITIL and Agile based platform.
• Also built a team of release engineers to implement and enforce release and change management process at enterprise level. Performed release, change, incident, capacity and configuration management activities in ITIL framework. Also automated the build /deployment process.
• Participated in requirement gathering, project estimation, proposal preparation & presentation, executing project & financial planning strategies, establishing milestones, maintaining & reporting project status, monitoring team activities, budgeting, scope management, risk management, gap analysis, project tracking, resourcing, overseeing implementation/deployment and post- implementation support, process automation and providing solutions to Clients which met business needs.
• Also provided business solutions to customers, prepared SOW (Scope of work) and KPI report.

Confidential

Lead Solution Architect, DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Involved in large, complex global strategic projects that would start at the Concept Definition Stage, then took the projects from Concepts all the way to the Development Teams and finally into Production environment.
• Led data center and technology assessments, define target state architecture, target state solution to enable delivery of Next Gen Data Center Services to support the business changes. Write responses to data center solution and transformation to meet RFP requirements.
• Overall accountability for Solution design & development for enterprise data center services.
• Derived solid metrics showing where improvements can be made with DevOps related processes, methodologies and tools such that the quality of work is maintained. Designed and implemented DevOps model automating application development and orchestration workflow with automated CI/CD architecture pipeline.
• Acted as SPoC for critical issues and escalations.
• Performed defect analysis, troubleshooting, coordination, escalation and follow-up of issues to mission critical applications 24x7.
• Prepared and executed Infrastructure project plans. Worked on Prioritizing and delegating tasks to teams to maintain deployments and availability of enterprise application.
• Developed and drived mitigation plans and root cause analysis to address identified risks.

Confidential, WI

DevOps/Release Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served as end to end DevOps strategist to build DevOps solutions using relevant tools. Designed and implemented DevOps driven automated CI/CD deployment model across wide variety of critical applications. Also led a team of DevOps engineers to maintain and deploy applications. Played key role in converting business plans into technical solutions to achieve business objectives.
• Performed Change management, configuration, incident and problem management. Planned and implemented complete release management process across the global web infrastructure and application deployment pipeline.
• Developed and managed delivery pipeline and prioritized functioning period & quick server response time. Provided assistance to engineers on performance tuning for critical areas. Acted as SPoC during critical issues and driven teams to faster resolution.
• Performed installation, configuration and maintenance of Web servers and application deployments. Automating application configuration management, deployments across different environments.

Confidential

Solution Architect/Lead Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Engaged in deploying & maintaining continuous integration and related build & release infrastructures to support software development, testing, and production systems.
• Developed algorithms for automation, job scheduling and resource provisioning & allocation to optimize costs and resources.
• Performed Installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting of Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows based servers.
• Managed a team of administrators/engineers to support client needs and deliverables.
• Played role of network administrator to set up WAN and LAN networks across client locations.
• Also worked as storage administrator and setup SAN, NAS and RAID based storage systems.
• Provided solutions to implement application infrastructure and Web-platform to meet customer deliverables.