SUMMARY

Senior Cloud and Systems Architect, Technical Lead and Visionary with preceding decades of experience in systems architecture and engineering, boasts an exceptional understanding of technology trends, troubleshooting and analytical skills, and almost two decades of extensive experience in most critical Banking, Financial, Energy and Navigation companies’ IT environments, providing expertise for Confidential Maps, General Electric, Novo Nordisk, AstraZeneca, Exelon, Constellation, Accenture, Bank of America, Confidential AMRO, IBM, TCS, Accenture, Cognizant, Confidential and First Union Bank with solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris, AIX and integration with Microsoft Active Directory, architecting and engineering successful cloud solutions (public, private and hybrid) on Amazon AWS, OpenStack, Microsoft Azure, Eucalyptus, VMware and bare metal integration and implementation. Information Security highest level expert, with extensive engagement into top level methods, implementations and requirements, developed enterprise IT procedures and established workflows to achieve ISO, HIPAA and other compliances. Possess high level of expertise in broad range of Open Source tools and products (including security tools). Has team leading, project leading and formal training experience. Has working knowledge of C programming language and strong scripting skills (bash, ksh, perl, python).Experience providing reference architecture, technical, policy and a procedural guidance, creating templates and rigorous procedures to support high volume scalable environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago

Sr. Architect

Responsibilities:

• AWS and Private Cloud design, reference architecture, planning and performance tuning. Providing procedural and technical guidance.
• GE, Enterprise Cloud Architect, in charge for reference architecture for an entire Cloud Migration initiative. Used variou technologies AWS and Hybrid cloud, AWS EC2, Direct Connect, SNS, SQS, ELB, Cloud Watch, S3, VPC, HACL, RDS, Redshift, EMR, Security Groups, AIM policies, automation and many other.

Confidential, Plainsboro NJ

Sr. Cloud and Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architecting HIPAA compliant Amazon Cloud (AWS) - based data warehouse solution centered on AWS Redshift. Hybrid cloud, AWS EC2, Direct Connect, SNS, SQS, ELB, Cloud Watch, S3, VPC, HACL, Security Groups, AIM policies, automation. Data and application migration project with OpenStack. Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Multi-team coordination and cooperation.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Sr. Cloud System Architect and Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Comprehensive HIPAA compliant Amazon Cloud (AWS) -based Red Hat Enterprise Linux high scale solution, that handles 400.000 users (about 40.000 simultaneously) including automation and orchestration. Responsible for design, engineering, implementation and documentation from ground up. Technologies involved include AWS EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, Cloud Watch, SES, SNS, SQS, RDS, Route 53 (DNS), AIM, WorkSpace, Cloud Formation, Cloud Front, Nagios, OSSEC, OpenVAS, Splunk, automation. Third party vendors and teams coordination and cooperation. This includes complete infrastructure design and support, custom scripting and configuration, establishment of security, technical and procedural standards for all related operation and technologies.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior System Architect and Administrator

Responsibilities:

• In charge of Private Cloud deployments, including automation and orchestration, of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems and migration, providing guidance, design and implementation from ground up. Delivered projects in production and lower environments. Design includes Red Hat Satellite and Proxy infrastructure design and support, custom scripting and configuration, establishment of security, technical and procedural standards for all related operation and technologies. (Includes all related documentation).
• Projects involved Microsoft Active Directory to Linux/Solaris integration, Security Compliance and standards setting. Cross platform integration (VMware, HP DL and Oracle infrastructure), multi-team efforts coordination and solution providing.

Confidential Chicago IL

Senior Cloud Systems Architect and Administrator

Responsibilities:

• In charge of design and implementation of entire AWS, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) solution from ground up. Developed universal Accenture Open Source standard and implemented it. This includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 requirements for cloud enterprise environment, physical environment and Amazon AWS Cloud solutions. This includes establishment of technical, security and procedural standards for all related operation and technologies. (Includes all related documentation)
• AWS, EC2, EBS and VMware environment, Microsoft Active Directory to Linux integration, SCOM integration, SCCM integration, “What’s Up Gold” integration. RackSpace OpenStack deployments. Multi-site, world-wide deployment. Third party vendors and multi-team team coordination and cooperation.
• Cross platform integration, multi-team efforts coordination and solution providing.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Architect and Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• In charge of design and implementation of design, implementation, all system administrative procedures, and personal training from ground up. Amazon AWS and OpenStack Cloud Computing design and implementation (EC2, EBS, ELB, Security Groups) including automation and orchestration (Puppet, Satellite). Distributed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in Amazon AWS and VMware Hybrid Cloud virtual environments. Red Hat Satellite-centered Linux infrastructure management. This includes server infrastructure establishment of farm installation servers’ which entails Server hardware and software installation and configuration; storage and backup interconnection and operations; performance and network monitoring and fine tuning all operating systems parameters, assuring security compliance.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

UNIX/Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Was in charge of all system related duties for site of more than 700 systems (Linux Red Hat Enterprise Advanced Server/ Solaris) and provided system solutions and support to all operational environments including most critical production systems. Duties included custom configurations creations, kernel tune-ups to meet applications requirements: multicasting, including advanced networking solutions, performance tuning, security compliance etc.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

System Engineer and Administrator

• In complete charge of all system related duties including complex storage management (EMC, IBM's Tivoli storage solutions), backup operations (IBM's Tivoli Backup) etc., providing support for all environments including most critical production systems (AIX, Solaris and Linux), infrastructure, network, firewalls and security.