SUMMARY:

Accomplished leader with more than 15 years of experience in implementing solutions and improving organizational efficiency across Healthcare, Hospitality, Finance, Manufacturing and Services Sector. Ambitious leader steering enterprises to excellence by leveraging innovation, maximizing quality, enhanced performance and continuous improvement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• IT Strategy & RoadmapEmerging Technology Alignment & Integration (Cloud, Big Data, IOT)
• Process Development and Management
• Systems Architecture, Security, Design & Implementation
• Cloud and Hybrid Infrastructure
• Business - Technology Alignment & Business Continuity
• Program, Project & Budget Management
• Cloud Management and Architecture - AWS, Azure, OpenStack
• Compliance and Security Management
• ITIL Processes
• Vendor Management & Negotiations
• Data Center Build and Management
• Shared Services Implementation
• Team Leadership/Restructuring/Hiring/Effectiveness
• ROI and TCO analysis
• Lean Six-Sigma, SDLC and PMLC Concepts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wyomissing, PA

Cloud Solutions Architect

• Analyzed and built PaaS solution for migrating and recovering servers and applications for a major pharma company using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Provided and implemented solutions for BigData, IOT and Cloud Management.
• Conduct security audit for Vulnerabilities, Firewall, Access Controls for acceptable Risk Management
• Support with configuration management tools like puppet and Chef and langauages like python.

Confidential, Exeter, PA

Director, Cloud Infrastructure

• Developed and implemented plans for a long term Global IT Shared Service and Cloud Strategy and delivered a value added pay-per-use based IT as a Service (ITaaS) which include Paas, SaaS and IaaS.
• Implemented Cloud technology and migrated computation and storage to Azure and Orchestration support with System Center 2012 R2.
• Planned migration of databases on Exadata over to Oracle Compute Cloud - Oracle Engineered Systems.
• Configured a Hybrid Cloud Environment with compute and storage spread across Data Centers and Cloud.
• Oversaw the build of an IT Business Continuity Plans (BCP), Archiving and Disaster Recovery (DR) solution.
• Implmented Hadoop BigData Solution for Analytics in MS Azure.
• Installed and supported Red Hat Linux infrastructure on Hyper-V platform and mitegate security risks.
• Migrated Security risks thru 3 rd party vendor audit
• Enabled Encryption, Access Controls, Accountability, Network Lockdown, Incident logging, Patching,Training.
• Well versed with tools like Chef, Puppet, Cloud Formation and scripting languages like Python, Perl.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Manager, Infrastructure and Cloud Platform Services

• Ensured 99.97% up time for all Applications by planning, operating a highly stable IT environment through scalable, secure and proven processes and technology implementations.
• Supported VMware Administration and carving out windows and linux environments.
• Reduced the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for databases by 40% through server virtualization.
• Architect the Cloud Solutions and migrated Compute and DB resources to AWS.
• Planned the migration of all MS SQL server and Applications on Physical servers to Virtual machines.
• Developed a fast cloning strategy for DB and Apps using EMC Recover Point and SRDF technologies.
• Developed a Disaster Recovery solution with 3 rd party vendors after evaluating RTO and RPO objectives.
• Instrumental in designing and building an infrastructure strategy around the shared services system.
• Managed Oracle EBS Applications 11i during the organization’s infancy by stop the bleeding strategy.

Confidential

Sr. Principal Consultant

• Lead teams in implementing full end-to-end Oracle EBS, SAP implementations.
• Held workshop and training on Optimal Server utilization, DB upgrades, Virtualization, Backup and Recovery.

Confidential

Consultant, Manager, EBS Implementation

• Managed all aspects of implementation of a HR solution through Oracle EBS 11i Applications.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Consultant, Project/Testing Manager

• Managed all aspects of implementation of a ERP solution through Oracle EBS 11i Applications.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Consultant, Manager, Database and EBS Suite

• Managed all aspects of implementation of a ERP solution through Oracle EBS 11i Applications.

Confidential, Terre Haute, IN

Lead EBS and Database Administrator