SUMMARY

• Dedicated to optimization experienced DevOps Engineer understands the melding of operations and development to quickly deliver code to customers. Has experience with the Cloud and monitoring processes as well as DevOps development in Windows Mac and Linux systems. AWS Certified Solutions Architect 2017.
• Enterprise Architect experienced architecture, design, and implementation. Extensive experience in cloud systems design and implementation. Expert in network and client/server architecture. And have effectively managed projects involving backend infrastructure and architecture design.
• Extensive knowledge and specialization of, as well as a proven record of success with, leading efforts emphasizing the strategy, design, and development of IT service models and designs.
• Lead client - facing business development, engagement delivery, practice development and thought leadership; especially, identifying and addressing client needs communicating a broad range of services, managing engagements, including preparing concise, accurate documents and balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues.
• Managed, IT strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, policy, processes, standards, organizational design, governance, and change management to enable technology and program delivery.
• Lead and built large teams, creating a positive work environment by developing new opportunities, successful delivery of engagements, monitoring of organizational health, and the driving of thought leadership.
• Leveraged Cloud Management Platforms, Virtualization Strategies, Automation and Orchestration Strategies, Public Cloud Platforms, Cloud Capacity/Performance Optimization, and Application Migrations to a Cloud Platform with a clear understanding of how an IT organization capitalizes upon technology to enable the business.
• Identified and addressed client needs including developing and sustaining deep client relationships using networking, negotiation and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities, preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials, and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collection.
• As a practice and team leader, enabled teams to generate a vision, established direction and motivated members, created an atmosphere of trust, leveraged diverse views, coached staff, and encouraged improvement and innovation, and lead by example, while working collaboratively as a member of a team and executing independently.
• Created a solution based practice, grew the organization, developed approaches and methodologies, built a thought leadership platform, lead engagements and provided consistent communication to client and leadership teams.
• Expertise in creating DevOps group from ground level up, hiring new employees and consultants to add to the existing people in the group. I have extensive experience with hybrid cloud using VMware and complete cloud solutions using Amazon AWS.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Platforms: AWS, VMware, OpenStack.Hybrid, Off Premise, On Premise models implemented. Network

Operating Systems: Active Directory, Windows Server 2012, LINUX, UNIX,HP-UX, AIX, Windows 8

SAN Platforms: EMC, Clarion, Symmetrix, V-Max, TimeFinder, SRDF, NAS, CAS, Clustering, Volume Management, and Server Virtualization, Emulex/Qlogic Fibre HBA’s. Fiber Channel Technology, Cisco, McData and Brocade Switches

Web Management: MOSS, Microsoft office share point server, MS Project server, ISA 2000, IIS 6.0, IIS 5.0, Apache, HTML, DHTML, .NET, ASP, Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS).

E-mail Platforms: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 / 2010, Lotus Notes, Dominos, MS Mail 3.X, AT&T Mail 2.71, ccMail DB8 / DB6. Black berry enterprise BES. Quest tools.

Firewalls: Checkpoint FW-1 / NG, PIX.

Network Monitoring Systems: Microsoft Systems Center 2012 R2, HP Open View, SMARTS, Net Cool, NET IQ, SMS, SNMP, MIB Base

Remote software installation software: SCCM, SCOM, System Center 2012, SMS 2003, SMS 2.0, SMS 1.2, Magic, PC Anywhere, EMCO, WEBEX.

Network: TCP/IP, VOIP, PBX, IPX/SPX, DHCP, SMTP, RAS, DNS, WINS, Wi Fi.

Market Data: Bloomberg, ILX, Reuters.

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

AWS Solutions Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked within the Cloud for integration processes.
• Performed DevOps for Linux Mac and Windows platforms.
• Focused on automation and integration.
• Monitored and developed applications and fixed bugs.
• Wrote code and designed continual updates.
• Completed load and performance testing of extremely complex systems.
• Experienced with Interpreted Languages including Perl and Python
• Strong use of Shell scripting languages including BASH for Linux and Mac platforms and PowerShell for Windows systems
• Facilitate with development methodologies including Agile and Scrum.
• Excellent configuration management using Ansible, Aws CloudFormation, and Terraform.
• Extremely knowledgeable about CI/CID integration using Jenkins.
• Created, configured and implemented Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Security Groups, Network Access Control List (NACL), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 instances), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), RDS MySQL, Subnets, Snapshots, Auto-Scaling groups, Route 53 DNS, Glacier, Elastic File System(EFS), RDS in Cloud Formation JSON templates.
• Assigned Roles and Policies to Users, Security Groups by using Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Implementing and setting up AWS security groups for AWS Instances on AWS Environment.
• Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances.
• Implementing and setting up Route 53 for AWS Web Instances & ELB & CloudFront on AWS Environment.
• Setting up redundancy to multiple Availability Zones (AZ) for EC2 instances.
• Created cloud formation template to build a repeatable process to stand up various application deployment environments in AWS.
• Blue Green stack creation for zero down time for production release.
• Handled Production/UAT/Support/DEV databases & application servers and database/application migrations from an On-Premise datacenter & VMware to Amazon Web Services ensuring minimum downtime.
• Responsible for performing tasks like Branching, Tagging, and Release Activities on Version Control using Github.
• Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
• Configured AWS cloud watch logs to monitor AWS resources and applications, including VPC flow logs, ELB logs, RDS logs, creating AWS customized Scripts to monitor various application and system level EC2 Instance metrics and trigger SNS alarms based on metrics defined.
• Setting up Auto scaling of the instance group using AWS CLI (command line tools) and AWS cloud environment for Dev/QA environments.
• Integrated security at various levels such as encryption at rest and in transit of data in EBS and S3, limited accessibility, blocking of bad IPs, fixing security loopholes based on internal penetration tests, event-driven security based on cloud watch logs, aws trusted advisor, aws cloud trial, aws config, aws WAF service etc.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Public Cloud migrations for:
• Amazon AWS for applications that were determined to be public cloud ready
• Private Cloud implementation on Open Stack for:
• Data warehousing and financial critical apps
• Heavy database applications
• High security and High risk applications.
• Hybrid Cloud for VMware:
• Creation of green filed environments and migration of physical to virtual datacenter in the VMware world
• VMware Vrealize suite 7 and VCloud suite 7
• NSX, VSphere, VRO, VRA etc.
• Creation of custom based scripts and workflows within VMware Vrealize Orchestrator VCO automation and embedding the workflows with Active Directory and power shell.
• 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 1500 plus locally hosted apps to cloud and hybrid cloud platforms on Open Stack, AWS, 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
• Puppet Labs
• Ansible
• Salt / SaltStack
• Service catalog, virtualization, automation and orchestration
• Architectural design and implementation of cloud management tools
• Chef
• Run Books creation / implementation
• Analytics for Cloud analysis
• Python on Django framework development
• Puppet
• Automation of AWS build environments
• Ubuntu/ Open Stack
• Orchestration with Juju
• Provisioning with MAAS
• LXD: Deployment of Linux machines
• Desktop Virtualization VDI using Amazon workspace
• Agile development methodologies evolving into DevOps
• Migration of 1550 applications to private 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.
• Cloud Computing Architecture design. integration and implementation
• Expert in NIST SPI models: SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, DaaS, Caas, BPaas, XaaS.
• Private, Hybrid and Public cloud integration and migration expert
• Design and implementation of SOA (Service oriented architecture)
• Implementation of VDI (Virtual Desktop Interface) via DaaS utilizing Amazon workspace and VMware and Citrix VDI’s.
• Utilization of various RAID levels on SAN, NAS, and DAS.
• Management of VMM / hypervisors.
• Implementation of P2V servers.
• Management of software teams who work on cloud compute
• Network design typologies, disaster recovery, site planning expert
• Amazon Web Services AWS, EC2, VMware ESX implemented and incorporated in existing company infrastructure for Cloud Compute.
• Lead architect, R&D on cloud computing
• Architected private and hybrid virtual clouds
• Vendor research, selection, contract negotiations, and final approval process formalized and executed.
• Understanding and experience with current Cloud IaaS giants: Amazon EC2
• 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 in migration of applications from Physical to Virtual environments
• Experience with Cloud technologies and fabrics - Amazon AWS/EC2, OpenStack, vCloud Director
• Understanding of FISMA/FedRAMP security requirements.
• 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
• Cloud orchestration utilizing utilities like opsCode Chef and Puppet labs.
• Implementation of Cloud laws e.g. FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX.
• 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
• Delivery Automation
• Intelligent Operations
• Unified Management
• Design of architecture and infrastructure of Microsoft Exchange in hybrid environment.
• Implementation and upgrade to exchange 2013.
• On premise and cloud architecture, design, and implementation of exchange.
• On premise and in cloud implementation of hybrid environment.
• Migration from previous versions of exchange 2010.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Enterprise Cloud Architect / DevOps Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Private Cloud creation and implementation on Open Stack
• Public Cloud implementation and migration to AWS
• Data Center Virtualization and Consolidation
• Migration of Exchange to Office 365
• DevOps implementation and mentoring
• DevOps & Cloud technologies and governance introduced:
• Jenkins
• Chef
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Vmware VCloud
• Git Hub
• Python Scripting
• JavaScript based VRO Vrealize scripts to create workflows
• Power Shell scripts created and integrated with the Cloud Eco System

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Virtualization and Consolidation:
• Responsible for themigration and decommissioning of existing data centers into new data centers.

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.