SUMMARY:

• As an experienced Cloud Solutions Architect, I seek a challenging assignment in cloud based services, full - stack application development, high-availability systems, information security, IT infrastructure, IT security, compliance management and technical project management.
• With 22 years’ work experience, I bring competence, people’s skills, and reliability to the table.
• Cloud Based Solution Architecture: Has 8 years of experience in architecting cloud based solutions to help companies envision the road map and transform their IT infrastructure, operations & applications to make the most of the scalability, innovation & cost efficiency of the AWS platform.
• AWS Cloud Architecture: Expert-level knowledge of Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, Security groups and network access control lists (ACLs) and other services of the AWS family.
• Business Needs to Solutions: Unique competency in translating business issues into customer solutions including requirements gathering, use case development, creating UI wireframes and Proof of Concepts to help visualize the solution offering.
• Business Development and Proposals: Strong business development background includes strategic planning, identifying and qualifying new clients, winning proposal development and alliance building. Written several business proposals and played a key role for winning new contracts $1 million and above.
• Application of Technology: Unique capability to understand capabilities of technology to solve a particular business problem or create business opportunity.
• Product Development: Full lifecycle experience in scoping, designing, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise scale business application software, using both waterfall and iterative development methodologies. Implemented high-performance, scalable, highly available, and secure IT solutions based on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
• Customer Focus: Experience in understanding client requirements and involved in the various stages of client management from pre-sales to post-sales support.
• Strong project and team management skills on highly complex projects with rapid results.
• Handled the infrastructure planning, network management and served as a C loud SME with hands-on experience. Manage AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, EBS, ELB, VPC, S3, Glacier and ACLs, Security Groups) by establishing industry best practices for in-house projects and also for several prestigious clients.
• Strategized and played an advisory role to the company for cloud related offerings. As an early adopter of AWS cloud, was instrumental in developing several web based applications and product offerings by using AWS EC2, EBS, S3, EFS, Route 53 and ELB.
• Led the team to perform cloud migration strategy to migrate Digipixart’s legacy application to cloud. Spear-headed the migration plan, developed a technical architecture to migrate the applications which were running in Apple iOS based iServe from a managed environment to Linux based system(s) in AWS Cloud. This move resulted in savings in several thousand dollars in IT costs for client and huge performance improvement.
• Designed and developed a proof of concept to create a unique solution for storage area network (SAN) RAID-5 with Parity using AWS EC2 and EBS. This was well appreciated by client as this was a key for successful migration.
• Played a vital role to win the business contract to setup Cloud based infrastructure and built the team to engage them to migrate the entire in-house IT applications for MyEyeDr Inc., (a major optometry eye care service provider in DC metro).
• Gathering requirements; create use cases and concept of operations (CONOPS) to guide the development team. Developed the project schedule and successfully managed the delivery of several project releases. Conducted several interviews to hire employees, contractors, evaluated off-shore companies, effectively managed and collaborated on-shore and off-shore team partners.
• Developed interface design specifications, work with the development team on the usability issues, facilitate user acceptance testing. Followed a simple PEP development methodology for all ProQual projects for several web and mobile applications developed for healthcare and ecommerce domains.
• Collaborated with the offshore and onshore team to effectively bring out the robust GUI design, technical architecture and adhere to software development best practices.
• Manage IT infrastructure which includes evaluating IT requirements, selection of products and development tools - Subversion (SVN), Wiki (OnConfluence), Bugs Repository (Squish), Email Server, DynDNS, Networking, GoDaddy Domain Management and manage and deploy SSL certificates.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Technologies: AWS EC2, AWS VPC, AWS EBS, AWS S3, AWS SNS, AWS ELB, AWS Route 53, AWS Image and CloudBerry

Software Technologies: Java, JUnit Testing Framework, Struts1.1, PL/SQL, Servlets, JSP, JavaScript, HTML2,CSS, XML.

Application/Web Servers: JBoss 8.1, Tomcat 7, Microsoft IIS, Tomcat Application Server

Databases: PostgreSQL 9.1, MySQL, Oracle 8, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, UniData

Software Utilities: MS Visual Source Safe, Ant, Maven, Web Performance Trainer

Software Tools: Eclipse Mars, JBuilder 8.0, OptimizeIt

Projects Tools: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Cloud Solution Architect/Chief Project Officer

Responsibilities:

• Managed programs ranging between $1 million to $5 million with team sizes from small to large, teams of different skill levels and teams spread across various geographical locations.
• Spearheaded the cloud based development strategy and mentored the team to adopt and develop web based applications using AWS cloud services.
• Hands-on skills in setting up AWS cloud platform for all ProQual in-house and client projects including networking of EC2 servers, setting up DB instances in EC2, creation of EBS volumes (snapshots, and periodic backups), ELBs, SNS, setting up ACLS, create AWS images and configuring of AWS Route 53 name server.
• Led the team in the areas of product development, project estimation, pricing strategies, quality assurance, proposal development and document preparation. In charge of overseeing four separate programs, each with multiple projects. Regularly assist in staff recruiting, interviewing, hiring, orientation and placement.
• As a CPO and as an executive member of the company, played active role to make key decisions about strategic direction, prioritizing projects, product road-maps and key initiatives.
• Responsibilities included Readiness Assessment, Gap Analysis, Vendor Selection, Creating architecture and Planning and Estimation for multi-year roadmap to move the organization to the desired future state architecture.
• Identified gaps in the development process and to bridge the gap, implemented Practical Engineering Process, a simple development process (based on RUP) and worked with various teams to adopt the aforementioned process in commercial team projects.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led the team to integrate Cerebra with webMethods Designer BPM tool.
• As a core technical staff, responsible to define the tasks and coordinated the work between offshore and onsite development team.
• Conceiving and directing the build team to implement nightly and weekly builds for dev/test environments

Confidential, Sterling, VA

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the customer expectations, setting strategic direction, leading business development, fostering client and partner relationships.
• Led the project team to comply with PCI DSS and remediate the credit cards stored in the Marriott’s enterprise system by following Secure Software Development Life Cycle and agile methodologies.
• Successful roll-out of the solution which helped Marriott to comply with PCI and save several million dollars in fine.
• Instrumental in setting up Secured Distributed Proxy solution to use mutual authentication (SSL), managed using Marriott’s Entrust PKI tool.
• Hands-on experience in designing the authentication module using LDAP.

Confidential, Mc Lean, VA

Technical Architect/Sr.Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Technical Architect for the Project Enterprise, a strategic project for Freddie Mac to replace its legacy system with a new mortgage system.
• As a key technical resource for Bearing Point, worked with the business proposal team to write response(s) to RFPs and played a vital role in winning several contracts.
• As Technical Architect for TWIC - DHS (Federal Govt Project), served a tech lead to support the program in all the development aspects of registering and scanning of smart card issued to all personnel requiring unescorted access to secure areas within a port.

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Senior Developer/Designer

Responsibilities:

• Senior developer to develop Java based web application for Datatel’s Student Management System. Functional prototyping to develop Datatel’s ERP toolkit based on Java Swing.
• Designed and developed an administrator tool to manage the Datatel Messaging Interface and different components of Datatel’s Application Server

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As a consultant for Drugstore.com, designed and developed Executive Information System which is used provide vital reports to the Executive members of the Drugstore.com about the order related site statistics. As a consultant for Confidential ., was instrumental in developing a web based proto-type to modernize the legacy application.
• Early professional experience includes position as Associate re-engineering mainframe application to a client-server platform for the Client to surmount the millennium problem. Designed and developed several client-server applications to support Market Research Analysis for Confidential .