SUMMARY:

• An expert IT professional wif extensive hands - on experience in leading support function including overseeing staff in network management, hardware and software configurations; excellent analytical and organizational skills; committed to a business process improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems, Servers, and Software: Linux RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Suse, Solaris 7/8/9/10, MAC OSX 10.X, Exchange 2000/2003/2007/2010, MS Office 2016/365, Windows NT4.0/XP/ 2000/2003/2008/2012/ Vista/7/8/10, MS-DOS, DNS, DynDNS, DC, DHCP, Active Directory, DoubleTake, MSSQL(Cluster), MySQL(Cluster), MemSQL(Cluster), MarkLogic(Cluster), MongoDB (Cluster), ElasticSearch(Cluster), Hadoop(Cluster), Oracle 9/10 & Parallel server, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, XenApp 5, Blackberry Enterprise, TNMailServer, Solaris Zone, LAMP, LDAP, Jira, Confluence, Wiki, Microsoft Project/Visio, WordPerfect, Symantec (NetBackup, BackupExec, EndPoint Protection, Ghost, AV), TrendMicro AV, McAfee Antivirus, NetShield, Adaptec GoBack, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/Premiere, QuarkXPress, Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt, Terraform, Stacker, RAPTr, ETI, Hudson, Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub, Bitbucket, BeanStalk Mercurial, Logstash, Akamai, Fastly, FrontCloud, Highwind, Memcache, Varnish, Drupal, WordPress, Stacker, AEM (CQ) and SalesForce.

Hardware and Middleware: PC, Sun Microsystems (E, V, & T), MAC, Notebook, iBook, PowerBook, PDA, Blackberry, SATA & SCSI RAID, Sun, Switches Layer 3, Routers, Firewalls, Hubs, F5, Printers, Cisco (PIX & ASA) Firewalls & Juniper & Dell & HP & Sonic Wall Switches & Routers, NAS, iSCSI, SAN, NetApp, EMC, Synology and Compellent.

Tools: and Utilities: TCP/IP, WireShark, Symantec NetBackup, Best Practices Analyzer Tools, CISCO ConfigManager, Pingdom, Zenoss, NewRelic, Nagios, Stackdriver, Goliath, Norton Utility, LANalyzer, HP, SolarWinds, and Kaseya.

Public and Private Cloud: AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, Cloud Watch, RDS, Elastic Cache, IAM, Route53, VPC, ELB, Cloud Formation, and etc.), Azure (vNet, VM A/D/G Series), XenServer 6.1, VMware ESX 3.5/4, vSphere 4/5, VirtualIron, VirtualBox, Vagrant and Docker.

Programming Languages: JSON, YAML, Python (boto), CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Terraform HCL, PowerShell and Bash scripting. Debugging-level knowledge of C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Java, Node.js, and Scala.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

DevOps Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided Cloud Architecture SME advice and guidance related to all of activities including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and DevOps initiatives.
• Coordinated wif enterprise architects and data architects to ensure new cloud services align to roadmaps.
• Assessed the current technology environment state and define maturity strategy & roadmaps to address the gaps between the current and future state.
• Guided clients to identify and implement cloud optimization strategies.
• Helped clients to identified short- & long-term architecture strategy for the overall Cloud & DevOps projects portfolio.
• Designed and implemented secure cloud application environments using public cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Completed Cloud Infrastructure design, systems analysis and work wif client to do effective data center migration to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud .

Confidential

Lead DevOps /Architectx

Responsibilities:

• Advised on roadmap for transformation AWS and migration from AEM 5.6.1 to AEM 6.2.
• Installed and ConfiguredAdobe AEM 6.2 (CQ) publish, dispatch and author instances, monitoring, performance tuning.
• Extensively worked on designing and deploying applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling in AWS Cloud Formation.
• Carried Deployments and builds on various environments using continuous integration tool Jenkins.
• Designed the project workflows/pipelines using Jenkins as CI tool.
• Wrote scripts to automate the build process.
• Managed the Maven Repository using Nexus tool and used the same to share the snapshots and releases of internal projects.
• Installed Nexus repository tool to maintain the artifacts/dependencies jars.
• Created runbooks for each application to halp the release management team for successful deployments.
• Developed, maintained, and distributed release notes for each scheduled release.
• Install and configureHP Fortify SCA (SSC)

Confidential

Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Advised office of CTO’s on emerging technologies halping to create long-term roadmaps.
• Supported planning and implementation of the major product overhaul required for future growth.
• Advised on the roadmap for transformation projects to CI/CD.
• Assessed deficiencies in the existing development and testing.
• Supported implementation of the technologies changes to address major gaps and shortfalls.
• ConductedPCI audit for customer hosted their infrastructure on AWS cloud.
• Designed and implemented the complete network and infrastructure on AWS cloud.
• Implemented Docker solution for the Test/QA environments.

Confidential

Senior Manager, Application Engineering & Operation

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 10 application engineers.
• Achieved the highest level of employee engagement and productivity through a strong focus on the individual strengths and goals of each team member.
• Developed and implemented operational guidelines.
• Leaded operational excellence road mapping in collaboration wif various development teams.
• Evaluated new technologies and provide business cases where needed.
• Negotiated and drove approval process for vendor contracts and renewals.
• Provided strategic IT leadership and directions.
• Analyzed team metrics to ensure SLA's achieved and identified problem areas that needed improvement.
• Translated business vision, strategy, and objectives into an effective infrastructure fabric.
• Responsible for team hiring and performance management.
• Manage migration documentations from OneNote to Confluence.
• Trained team on Chef & Jenkins automation.
• Implemented Goliath monitoring for Citrix XenApp & NetScaler.
• Implemented ITIL, COBIT, andISOframework.
• Performed and assisted wif SOC1, & SOC2 implementation.

Confidential

Lead DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 3 DevOps engineers.
• Proved ability to think strategically to implement and deliver.
• Translated business vision, strategy, and objectives into an effective infrastructure fabric.
• Lead efforts and promote rapid agile business product delivery through DevOps.
• Build new Jenkins CI-system automation framework to enable development teams continuous deployment, continuous integration in a cloud environment their applications.
• Migrated MongoDB cluster from 2.2 to 2.6 and upgraded RDS MySQL from 5.5 to 5.6 wifout downtime.
• Wrote Puppet modules, Bash, Perl and Python scripts to automate provisioning of new servers and ongoing maintenance of them.
• Supported business demand by assisting in forecasting and budgeting efforts, while maintaining quality, low cost and problem free environments.

Confidential

Senior DevOps

Responsibilities:

• Developed multi-detailed strategy execution roadmaps.
• Guided cross-functional development and product management teams to ensure successful implementation.
• Provided overall system engineering experience in the architecture, design, deployments, requirements analysis, data flow, network design, implementation and testing.
• Took ownership of AWS accounts and saved over $250,000 in operational cost.
• Installed Bamboo and maintained the deployment and artifact management scripts.
• Maintained & optimized AWS infrastructure (ELBs, VPC, EC2, AMI, S3, Rout53, SimpleDB, RDS, EBS/Provisioned IOPS, etc.)
• Negotiated pricing and contracts wif partners and services.
• Created Cloudera/Apache Hadoop cluster using Terraform /Ansible.

Confidential

Manager/ Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Led and managed multiple IT projects (AWS migration / PCI compliance / Web Security/ NetApp controllers upgrade).
• Extended the hosted Chef deployment and enabled a uniform method to administer all aspects of the platform across multiple Chef environments.
• Maintained the Jenkins installation, including the build system and artifact management scripts.
• Monitored the production deployment, and diagnosed and resolved operational issues as they arose.
• Assisted all teams wif operational issues that arose in pre-production/production environments.
• Supported successfully a critical hybrid cloud and colocation operations infrastructure that involved AWS VPC (EC2 & S3), Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, Tomcat, Apache, Varnish, Akamai, mySQL, MongoDB, MS SQL, Jenkins, cluster farm behind A10 load balancer, HP blade, Citrix Xen Server, VMware ESX, openVPN, openLDAP, Chef, and Puppet.
• Developed Amazon AWS provisioning and management scripts for fully automated systems deployment
• Established a change log, an inventory, and deployment systems using Python and Ruby.

Confidential

System Administrator of Web Production

Responsibilities:

• Organized and maintained critical infrastructure that involves the configuration of RedHat, CentOS, Tomcat, Apache, Varnish, memcache, mySQL, MarkLogic, MS SQL, Hudson, cluster farm behind F5 load balancer.
• Managed various Linux related tasks including security procedures and protocols, kernel tuning/recompiling, RAID administration, patch testing and deployment, capacity planning, backup schemes, and environment customization.
• Controlled all Windows and Linux systems, supported critical web hosting infrastructure and ensuring an uptime above 99.6%.
• Migrated successfully over 1000 users from a Windows NT 4 domain to a Windows 2008 domain.
• Employed puppet mercurial/git automation and updating tracking.
• Oversaw Akamai and Amazon Web Services EC2, S3.
• Provided application support for end-users and developers.
• Administered NAS Compellent storage clusters, application and debugging support on Windows and Linux platforms.
• Monitored disk space usage, performing backups and tape archive management.
• Maintained and scripted system cron jobs, performed constant system tuning including applying OS patches.
• Managed firewall and necessary security protocols, website publishing process from local servers to a live site.

Confidential

Vice President of Information Technology

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of 7 engineers.
• Led multiple projects including installation and configuration of Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 farm, Firewall consolidation wif Juniper 320, build out of co-location in Chicago, VMware ESX 3.5, migration of Exchange from 5.5/ 2000/, migration of DC from and to 2008; deployment of SQL Servers 2005/2008, configuration of Voice over IP solution; set up and configuration of offsite backup, CISCO ASA 5520 Active/Active Failover, SmoothWall, VLAN, SSH, and SSL.
• Managed IT support personnel and consultants.
• Relocated server room to the new location and re-designed a network.
• Built co-location wif traffic balance solution.
• Consolidated Firewalls wif Juniper Firewalls, and Layer 3 Switches.
• Negotiated contracts and purchased hardware, software, and consulting services.
• Led design and implementation of halpdesk support, call scheduling and ticket tracking solution wif Kaseya.
• Monitored network performance, collected metrics, and fine-tuned configuration.
• Engineered and configured Citrix RAPTr network solution in support of bonds, futures, and securities trading software.
• Designed and implemented a Citrix failover solution.
• Planned and deployed Microsoft Project server to track many internal tasks.
• Consolidated Windows, Linux, Solaris servers into ESX VM’s, and Solaris Zones.
• Deployed and supported load balancers and set security policies for the network, servers, and printers.
• Supported and solved problems wif Windows, Linux, Solaris and various software applications.

Confidential

Senior Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided hardware and software support, troubleshoot and provided solutions for companies in multiple industries.
• Supported and maintained DC’s, Exchange, Blackberry Enterprise, ACT, SQL, and IP Phone.
• Migrated mailboxes and public folders from NT & Exchange 5.5/Win2000 & Exchange 2000 to Win 2003 Exchange 2003.
• Installed and configured Spam/AV solutions.
• Provided telephone technical support and troubleshoot.
• Supported and monitored server, network, and printers.
• Installed and configured security and monitoring software.
• Troubleshoot and supported Design Manager, ACT, and QuickBooks.

Confidential

IT Manager/Network System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and supported AD, DNS, DHCP, VPN, TS and POP3 services for five related entities.
• Managed and assigned tasks to subcontractors - Birns.net, Verizon, Dell, and CISCO.
• Initiated implementation of new technology and upgrades.
• Provided telephone and remote support for 250 end users wifin 12 servers.
• Trained end users and IT personnel.
• Recommended and implemented new software and hardware, including purchases and upgrades.

Confidential

Network System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and supported Network & DB for websites Century21 and Bluedingo, Inc.
• Provided PC and MAC related telephone support for developers, graphic designers, and end users.
• Supported Exchange, Active Directories, SQL, DNS, FTP services.
• Monitored network users, firewalls, VPN, Backup systems.
• Participated in upgrading, IT strategy development, and purchasing of new equipment and software.
• Migrated domain server from Windows .
• Upgraded iBooks and PowerBooks, and halped wif migration to Tiger.
• Supported and upgraded Sun Workstations wif Solaris 10 and Office/Hardware.

Confidential

Technician

Responsibilities:

• Provided support and solutions for companies in multiple industries, including banking, interior design, and construction.
• Supported Terminal servers, networks, and printers.
• Installed and configured security and monitoring software.
• Provided telephone technical support and troubleshoot.
• Maintained Design Manager, ACT, and Quick Books.

Confidential

Technician

Responsibilities:

• Installed Sun, Bloomberg stations, and PCs for Citigroup trading floor.
• Provided warranty support, upgraded and repaired laptops and desktops for DELL and SONY.
• Installed AT&T Routers and configured VPN for AT&T customers, such as Godiva, Inc., Vitamin Shoppe.
• Supported Toys R Us NT Server & MSSQL configuration, network printer installation, and configuration.