SUMMARY

• Expertise in cloud operation and process management improvements and transformation
• Seasoned architect creating high performing Cloud Operations & DevOps infrastructures
• Lead Enterprise Cloud Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) that includes - Identity management, VPC/VNet design, cost, performance, availability, and fault tolerance
• Proven experience in IT planning, organization, and development, including budgeting and forecasting
• 10+ years of experience leading project teams
• 10+ years developing business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives
• Global project execution experience - Successfully developed DevOps programs, process improvements and public cloud migrations

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• AWS & Azure Cloud Computing
• Cyber Security
• Agile Methodology
• DevOps
• Kubernetes / Mesos Orchestration
• System and Network Performance
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Budget
• Managerial Accounting
• Human Capital/Resource Management
• Compliance
• Procurement and Vendor Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Azure Architecture
• Security
• Azure AD
• Azure SQL
• Automation
• ASR
• ARM
• AWS Architecture
• EC2
• ELB/ALB
• DNS R53
• DynamoDB
• Auto Scaling
• RDS
• VPNs
• Security
• Resource Manager
• CloudFormation
• OpsWorks
• Orchestration
• Code Deploy
• Configuration Management using Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• Office 365
• AD Connect
• FIM/MIM
• Active Directory
• Exchange Server
• Skype
• Java
• .Net
• C#
• Visual Basic
• Networking
• IP addressing
• Routing
• Firewall
• Load Balancers
• SAML
• OAuth
• Kerberos
• Azure AD
• PKI
• MFA
• OS: Linux
• Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cloud Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and lead IT transformation journeys around integration of cloud computing, mobility, and automation by transitioning to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions that include Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Responsible for cloud infrastructure design, deployments, networking, Docker and orchestration infrastructures, cyber security, DevOps and IT governance.
• Focused on implementing best practices to reduce operating costs, technology and people by moving existing workloads to public cloud.
• Implemented DevOps program focused on improving delivery processes and operations.
• Design authentication services infrastructures and processes leveraging Azure AD, Azure IP. ADFS.
• Designed and implemented process improvements; designed and implemented SaaS Security frameworks; high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR).
• Develop service catalog/cloud brokerage/management portal and CASB for streamlined governance and security.

Principal Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As the Principal Architect, my primary responsibility was to manage a team cloud architects and engineers focused on authentication, collaboration and digital solutions.
• Lead public cloud strategy and IaaS/PaaS migration projects.
• Lead cloud development projects that also included the Office 365 global project.
• Developed the cloud & collaboration roadmap and responsible for annual budget.
• Developed the business case and financial analysis for two major collaboration projects projected to save $15 million over 4 years improving productivity and eliminating redundant and inefficient infrastructures.

Independent Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delivered multiple projects as an independent consultant for customers within the financial, pharmaceutical and insurance industries.
• As the enterprise architect for Hewitt Associates/Aon merger, I lead a team of engineers responsible for redesign of collaboration infrastructures from IBM to Microsoft and Office 365 SaaS solutions.
• Lead engineering team for the integration and collaboration infrastructure merger project.
• After the Aon acquisition of Hewitt Associates, I managed the collaboration team with a focus on SaaS service and public cloud infrastructures.
• Responsible for driving alignment of a global multi-year rolling collaboration roadmap.
• Drove the enterprise platform and framework to include internal portals, knowledge and document management with related governance creation.
• Enterprise architect for Confidential that lead a team to merge infrastructures from the Confidential Bank acquisition.
• Designed and lead the integration and migration of the collaboration stack from Confidential Bank to Confidential Bank.
• Designed comprehensive platform for over 120,000 users across three datacenters for a 24/7 operation with a 99.99% uptime requirement.
• For Chicago Mercantile Exchange, I was responsible for managing the design and implementation for the merging of both the CBOT and NYMEX into the CME Group organization.
• Responsible for managing the collaboration infrastructure that included SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server and Web conferencing.
• Designed and implemented SQL, SharePoint and Exchange and AD infrastructures.
• Designed the disaster recovery (DR/BR) strategy and implementation plan.
• Architected and implemented authentication and security including Windows Active Directory disaster recovery infrastructure with a focus on messaging DR and BC processes.
• As the directory lead, responsible for designing and implementing a meta-directory sync solution across multiple enterprise directories.
• Delivered business value through higher enterprise operating uptime and improved server sizing methodology.

Architecture and Strategy Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delivered architectural expertise for Microsoft's large and strategic customers.
• Enterprise Architect with a focus on Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration technologies, such as SharePoint, Exchange Server and Active Directory.
• Strategy Architect delivering technical roadmaps and strategic planning around current and future Microsoft solutions.