SUMMARY:

• Results - driven, customer-focused leader with disciplines in Data / Database Architecture, IT Consulting, Large Program Management (offshore/onsite model), Infrastructure Architecture and Application Development.
• 20+ years of IT leadership, maximizing growth and business value of the enterprise IT.
• Skillfully shape the corporate IT strategy, optimize processes, drive innovation, engage new technologies, improve inter / intra team communication and transparency, and enhance alignment between Technology and Business while following the corporate strategic & financial discipline.
• Ability to Envision total IT solutions for the business Define job roles Build & manage teams
• Manage budgets Manage licenses Manage outsourced teams Vendor relationships Manage compliance Accountability Design Benchmark & Best Practices Techniques Domestic & International experience.
• Establishing & Nurturing Client Relationships;
• Retail, E-Commerce, Healthcare, Telco, Non Profit
• Data / Database architecture, Cloud computing, Blockchain, Infrastructure & Network management, enterprise software development and ERP initiatives acumen.
• Review current and future data flows, application inter dependencies, and develop data shift & lift strategy for large programs. Develop data sensitivity and masking requirements for lower environments and drive enterprise test data management strategy. Shared Technology Vision; Defining - Mapping Solution/System Requirements; Structural Analysis & Design of Applications.
• Planning, KPI/SLA/Metrics Management, Program status reporting, Inter Departmental collaboration & communication, Budgeting & Estimations, Risk Management and Governance and Contract Negotiations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software development: Oracle APEX, PL/SQL, Microsoft T-SQL, Clarion, Crystal Reports, SSRS, SSIS, WinDev, PHP

Platforms / tools: Oracle 9iAS r2, Oracle EM, TOAD, Embarcadero performance center & dbArtisan, DB-Optimizer, SCOM, SharePoint, HTML, XML, MS Visual Studio, Dreamweaver

Databases/RDBMS: Oracle 7.3, to 18, MS-SQL 7.0 to 2018; MySQL 4.0 to 5.6

OS/NOS: Windows systems, Win Server, NT/2003/2008 Server, AIX, Linux, DOS

Web Servers/Web Software: Microsoft IIS, Apache, Microsoft DNS Server, AtMail Mail server, AltN Mail Server, MS-Exchange, SugarCRM, Rhino FTP Server, Perl Desk Help Desk, Joomla CMS

Productivity Applications - Groupware: MS Office, Visio, MS Project, MS Publisher, Open office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Confidential, Houston, TX

CEO - Founder

Responsibilities:

• Setup in Norway Data center for Crypto currencies mining
• Designed and developed website for the company
• Designed and developed solution to automate Miner management and Customer portal using Oracle APEX 18
• Managed contracts with Norway State Electricity company
• Setup Norway subsidiary to manage the Norway operations

Confidential, Houston, TX

Founder

Responsibilities:

• Identifying and finalizing customizations required for European roll out in terms of language, functionality, data structures etc
• Finalizing pricing structure based on each country’s characteristics such as GDP, Doctor’s compensation, consumer purchasing power and a host of other factors.
• Developed International Sales prediction system on Oracle APEX
• Developing training material that can easily change based on Country / Language
• Working with head of software development to help implement the necessary changes to go global trmplate
• Identification of initial set of physicians in Greece who will participate in the pilot roll out.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Founder

Responsibilities:

• Architected the solution for Asset Management for Houston1st corporation, using AX and 3rd party software
• Architected the solution for CRM & Membership management using Oracle APEX for HCC-SW.ORG
• Working on creating IP on MS-SQL optimization.
• Delivered CMS platform for HCC-SW on Joomla
• Delivered a full Magento ecommerce site for a security company.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP Architect

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the AX System: Security, Licensing, Servers, Data, data replications, backups etc.
• Architected from infrastructure, DB & AX perspective, seven unique environments (Prod, Train, UAT, XAT, CIT, SIT, Dev and a couple of All-in-One environments, totaling 184 virtual & physical servers) with Microsoft’s team to ensure the onsite/offsite development, testing, code integration, system integration, user acceptance testing, training and production
• Architected the production environment to support 3500 stores, 96 warehouses and 250 back-office users, consisting of 20 AOS servers, 4 SSRS Servers, 2 Batch Servers, 4 SQL clustered servers, 3 Tax Servers, 6 store connect Servers, 12 transaction servers and 8 Terminal servers. The entire prod environment run virtualized on VMWare, on Cisco blades.
• Supervised system integration between AX and current reporting systems, scan guns, EDI communications with vendor systems, and various systems such as leasing management (Accruent)
• Employed Microsoft SCOM to monitor systems databases and AX itself
• Architected Terminal server farm to deploy AX in corporate users and Warehouse personnel
• Employed Citrix farm to deploy all POS terminals for all 3500 stores
• Designed the standard server name nomenclature to automated systems and help the team of engineers to understand the environment fast and easy
• Designed and templatized the Code promotion process for all AX environments.
• Created data flows to move data from AX to “Blind Count” inventory system
• Created & managed AX internal tasks
• Managed team of developers to design & implement MDM solution using MS MDM toolset to feed Master Data into AX
• Managed team of BI developers to create necessary SSIS packages to move & transform data from AX to Confidential BI solution.
• Optimized SSIS processes to run fast & smoothly
• Designed the entire High Availability for AX: DB Clustering, AOS clustering, SSRS High availability)
• Designed and implemented the Replication of AX Database to multiple targets
• Designed custom indexes that submitted to Microsoft to help the performance and deadlock prevention which became part of standard AX deployment
• Optimize AX Databases for optimum performance
• Designed and implemented a solution to identify which remote POS machines (about 3500 total POS machines) did not receive data pushed from the AX batch engine (received MVP award)
• Designed and implemented the unification of data from several ERP systems based on data mapping to one BI system.
• Helped implementation on Informatica to transform data from standard AX format to standard ARTS model to be used in Tableau Dashboarding engine
• Implemented Attunity to move AX Data from Confidential Datacenter to Amazon AWS
• Pushed Microsoft to change the architecture of POS to allow them to connect to remote DB servers rather than the local Express DBs only.
• Designed & implemented solution to auto optimize any of the 3500 remote AX express DBs for maximum performance.

Database Architect / Manager of Database Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed Large Oracle & Microsoft database implementations (in terms of data size > 7 TB datafiles)
• In charge for the maintenance of 400 SQL servers and about 3500 SQL Server Express instances, 19 Oracle instances, with full Life cycle environments (Prod / UAT / Train / SIT / CIT / DEV etc.) supporting more than 3500 retail stores in US.
• DB licensing and lifecycle management including massive Database consolidations for better resource utilization, and reduction on DB licensing
• Implemented Data Governance best practices
• Database and application Performance Tuning
• Architected and implemented Distributed Databases
• Architected Security administration across databases and Active Directory
• Designed methodologies for DBAs to fine tune SQL code for better performance
• Utilization of open source databases (MySQL, Redshift, Aurora), through AWS implementation
• Architected high availability solutions including: High Availability Databases (Oracle RAC, SQL Always On Failover Cluster Instances, SQL Always On Availability Groups, Database mirroring, Log Shipping)
• SOX Audit automation
• Implementation of Litespeed for SQL server for automation of Backups & “checkdb”
• Implemented data Movement & transformations (Golden Gate, Informatica, Attunity, SSIS, MS-Replication)
• Created initiative to monitor all databases utilizing Foglight, Spotlight, Oracle EM
• Rolling out database conversion / migration plans through M&A
• Implemented Master Data Services on Products & Locations
• Envisioned, design and deployed Oracle Virtual Private Database (VPD)
• Managed the internal DBA team and the outsourced DBA team (DBA as a Service)
• E-Commerce integration

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architected the push from original SQL data sources in a non-intrusive mode
• Created the actual push jobs in Informatica’s PowerExchange CDC (Change Data Capture) engine to Amazon Redshift.
• Created monitoring methodologies to be performed from production DBAs
• Architected the Data mapping & transformation and load on Amazon Redshift towards the ARTS Datawarehouse
• Architected the Workflow manager Tasks and Workflows

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Defined the enterprise Cloud strategy culminating in the selection of AWS Cloud as the de-facto cloud provider
• Migrated and Deployed about 40 servers on AWS utilizing EC2, S3, Elastic file System and Glacier
• Designed the cloud initiative to support Tableau (BI solution) utilizing DaaS methodologies
• Designed and implemented backup strategies for AWS Redshift
• Trained people on using tools such as Toad for MySQL, and SQLyog.
• Implemented performance Monitoring through Spotlight for MySQL
• Architected solution to utilize Data compression, Massive Parallel processing (MPP), and columnar data storage for dramatic increase in speed
• Managed overall security (IAM) on Redshift cluster
• Moved several Oracle Franchise databases & web apps to work from a cloud solution
• Led migration from in-premise to cloud; implemented Ultipro HRIS cloud
• Executed initiative to move the on-premise Helpdesk system (Helpstar) to the Cloud (ServiceNow)

Web Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Utilize Oracle Application Express (APEX) from version 3.2 to version 5.2
• Large scale projects using multiple platforms and integrating with internal and external apps.
• Built more than 20 projects of various sizes and complexity
• Experience with XML, Web services, and RESTful APIs
• Multiple Schemas
• AD integration for security
• Designed innovative solutions to resolve complex enterprise problems, around stability, high load (5000 concurrent users), 24x7 uptime, performance.
• Delivered training on web development to company audience

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Methodologies used: Waterfall and Scrum
• Tools Used: Wrike (SaaS), Microsoft project, Internal Tools
• Experience in full Lifecycle project management

Senior Infrastructure Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed tactical and strategic communication among IT peers to maintain understanding of business requirements across all IT functions
• Led the initiative to virtualize 80% of 600+ server population
• Implemented IT Best Practices utilizing COBIT 5 framework
• Led the datacenter move to new location and defined architecture for the secondary data center.
• Defined the Infrastructure Monitoring systems strategy (Foglight, Nagios, Zabbix, solarwinds)
• Implemented and manage disaster recovery (Data Center level utilizing IaaS methodologies), departmental readiness, and helping team overcome hurricane IKE.
• Led the initiative to move POS systems from fat clients to citrix based and empowered 3500 stores across the United States
• Consulted on the change in data storage technology (3Par / Pure storage) to optimize data storage
• Led database and systems backup strategies (Disk to Disk and Disk to tape) by utilizing LiteSpeed, RMAN, Veam)
• Architected and implemented high availability systems utilizing Windows Clusters
• Led SaaS-based Office365 deployment for select group of users
• Managed SharePoint Implementation for the entire company (5000+ FTE)
• Officiated as the chairman of the change management committee
• Led the departmental infrastructural preparedness to handle high volume business events (i.e., 4th of July)
• Led the hardware infrastructure strategy: Rack servers to Blades, to Virtualization, to cloud
• Worked with RES team Implementation for Automation, On/Off boarding, Security, Compliance
• Drove inspiration for acceptance of PowerShell Scripting to embrace automation.
• Oversaw the implementation of patching and security baselining utilizing SCOM
• Implementation of load testing solution for the corporate website.
• Implemented Liebert UPS at Headquarters data center location as measure against Hurricane disruptions
• Oversaw the implementation of new CCTV security camera system
• Managed the implementation of Real Estate System (Accruent) and it’s integration with current systems.

Application developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented general STLC principles throughout Software development.
• Several Apps developed utilizing Oracle APEX from Web based Inventory management, to Google like search engine on orders, to global company directory, to Warranty management etc.
• Managed .Net apps development with emphasis on executive and field reporting, utilizing outsourcing.
• REST Web Services implementations between corporate network and Google Earth
• Corporate Web site deployment
• Developed software solution to map all systems, processes and their interaction with human resources to define downtime cost management, change management effects and clear picture to IT and non-IT executives on implications of any change decision.
• E-commerce development utilizing Magento & Virtumart / Joomla
• Website development utilizing Joomla / WordPress and SharePoint
• Overall developed over 70 software applications (domestically and internationally) with most of them were completed on time and within budget.
• Mentored all my immediate reports on how to achieve better results and time management.
• Took leadership in the newly developed ERP Project between Confidential & Microsoft (Dynamics AX 2012).
• Technical leadership in various SOX compliance efforts
• Identified deficiencies in business processes and proposed improvements that helped the entire team to excel
• Saved company money through negotiations on every vendor contract.
• Designed and implemented major CRM system that managed 700,000+ Telco customers
• Managed international teams of developers to deliver solutions on time and below budget
• Establishing and managing relationships/contracts with several hardware, telecom, and software vendors for support, new implementations and licensing contracts.