PROFILE:

Goal - driven, methodical, and concept-to-execution professional with accomplishment-laden experience in leading platform services and infrastructure architecture IaaS, PaaS, IT operations, core business process, and systems and software implementation. Leading all Security measures for the Organization from Intrusion Detection/Presentation, Penetration Testing and Malware detection and Removal. Keeping all Security Governance/Policies in place. Working heavily on agile approach to reduce cost and delivery exceptional customer experience

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Program and Project Management

Application Implementation and Support

Continuous Process Improvement

Systems Design and Implementation

Strategic Planning and Analysis

Advanced user of intrusion-detection, IDS/IPS, DLP, PII, SIEM, vulnerability-scanning, Web gateway, proxy appliances and antivirus tools

System Efficiency and Productivity Streamlining

Solution Architecture and Disaster Recovery

Cloud Solutions Architect for IaaS, PaaS and CaaS platforms

Experience working in mixed Windows/Linux, database and virtualized/physical server environments

Blockchain Architecture Implantation and testing

Web E-commerce Website Factory, Sitecore CMS

TECHNICAL ACUMEN:

Operating System: Windows | Mac | Linux | Red Hat

Tools: Microsoft Office Suite | Active Directory| IAM | Assembly Language | Backup Executive

Big Data Analytics: Cisco/3 Com Switches | Customized Application Support and Security HP Fortify | DHCP | DNS | EDI | EM7 (Science Logic Data Center Monitoring), DocAve | ESXi 5.5 | FTP | Hubs | IIS 7.0 Web Server | JSON | Microsoft Great Planes, NetApp SAN | ODBC | Office 365 | Perimeter | PowerShell | SMTP | SQL | TCP/IP, TRITON Web Sense | vCenter | VMware | Vsphere | What’s UP Gold, Amazon Web Services (S3, RDS, Beanstalk, CloudWatch, and Cloudformation)

Hardware/Platform: NBX 3 Com and VoIP Shoretel Phone Systems | Track It - Ticketing System Microsoft Windows/Linux AWS, Azure Server Platforms

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York City

CTO-Vice President of Cloud Operations | Enterprise Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Capitalize on industry expertise in fulfilling the following technical initiatives:
• Administration of application security through HP Fortify, IBM AppScan, and Nexpose;
• Management and Architecting the Global Clients AWS/Azure platforms IaaS, PaaS Solutions
• Management and Architecting the Global Clients DevOps API/Applications Development for Cloud based application, ecommerce, customized applications utilizing Docker/SVN/GitHub Services
• Management and administration of cloud based EDI, ecommerce platforms and Services offered by AWS/Azure
• IT security specialist leading aligning security architecture, plans, controls, processes, policies and procedures with security standards and operational goals while keeping inline with Governance and GDPR regulations.
• Project leader with proven experience directing all phases of complex projects while managing, motivating and mentoring global team members.
• Extensive experience developing and testing security architectures of cloud-based systems.
• Discussions with Board members to initiate the following derivatives: Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), EU Data Protection, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidance.
• Cloud Services setup for clients: EC2, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, AWS DMS, ELB, CloudWatch, Storage Gateway, IAM User Access Setup/Management, AMI, S3, Route53 DNS Solutions, AWS Cloud Front, Elastic Beanstalk, VPC, Lambda, EFS, Glacier, Direct Connect, Azure VM, Content Delivery Network, API Management, Azure ADDS, Azure DNS, Azure Container Registry, SQL Data warehouse, Backup and Recovery
• Blockchain ecosystem setup coordination with Blockchain engineering team to test transmissions security. Testing with Viacom/Fortress on Secure Transmissions and Cryptography/Crypto Mining activities
• Tracking Projects utilizing Program Tracker, Project Tracker, Waterfall Methodology
• Established Hybrid Cloud Implementations by integration of AWS/Azure Platforms
• Worked on may cost effective models by analyzing the AWS/Azure Services and utilizing the estimation for cost analysis and consumption
• Worked closely with the Application/Infrastructure/DevOps teams on migration, POC, Network/Service Monitoring, Cost Analysis and Change management strategies
• Leading the Migration teams utilizing CI, CD, SDLC to AWS/ Azure Agile Cloud platforms
• Worked with DevOps on our ServiceNow platform to develop scripts in PowerShell to integrate cloud workflows
• Worked with DevOps on automation tasks utilizing JIRA, Elastic Beanstalk and PowerShell scripts
• Managing the Cisco VoIP and Shoretel phone system by adding and removing users; installing phones, extensions, and voice mail; and troubleshooting occurring problems.
• Observe strict compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and PCI compliances in generating service-level agreements, statement of work, proof of concepts, and client’s documents.
• Establish AWS and Azure and service accounts; along with EC2/VM instances with the appropriate operating system in line with client’s and developer’s preferences.
• Organize server and hardware, comprised of RAID solutions, operating system installation, and Active Directory configuration.
• Closely coordinate with colleagues and various professionals, including developers for new APIs testing; DevOps teams in China and India for application development of Cloud/VMware environments; chief executive officer; and chief information officer for the improvement of company process.
• Deal with big data analytics projects in coordination with the financial analytics clients, including Power BI and Hadoop.
• Expertly manage the CRM and MDM solutions; scrum calls, program tracker, project status reports; Cloud platforms; e-commerce site core migrations; and Hadoop for data analytics.
• Earned recognition as the most valuable professional for the company in the Cloud Division.

Confidential, New York / New Jersey

CTO- Vice President of Technology and Operations | Enterprise Cloud Security Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Leveraged knowledge of testing, flowchart, and data mapping tools and procedures.
• Served as customer advocate and liaison for product management and development; and member of the Security Team accountable for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
• Achieved customer’s business needs by delivering comprehensive solution in alignment with the AvePoint’s Product line.
• Established open communication with prospective customers to support them on the entire evaluation and selection process.
• Facilitated web-based training sessions for clients, while leading team member in charge of constructing onsite and remote Dell HP/IBM servers and diagnosing hardware and software problems.
• Formulated and discussed technical solutions and designing prototypes and proofs of concept.
• Maintained active communication with the vice president of Sales regarding sales projections, quotas to achieve, budgets, sales scopes and commission breakdown for the sales teams.

Confidential, New Jersey

VP Cloud | Cloud and VMware Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Made use of internal and external resource in dealing with large projects, including Windows XP and Windows 7/8 rollout.
• Led the intranet server, track-it server IIS 7.0 website server, exchange servers, data fusion servers, FTP Server, and file servers.
• Administered VMware and Cloud Infrastructure for Confidential and Confidential, Roche, and Merck with data center hosts, including Savvis, Net-Access, and cloud-based IaaS at Rackspaceand AWS.

Confidential, New York City

Project Manager (PMO) | Infrastructure System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Presided over daily meetings with the IT Staff; and weekly meetings with vice president and chief executive officer on project updates.
• Initiated and submitted reports in Crystal Reports and Net Tracker 7.5.
• Acquired new learning on latest technology for the company, while maintaining Microsoft licensing and software assurance programs; network and server infrastructure; and high-quality of user in collaboration with the Desktop Support Team.
• Established a reputation for accomplishing the following tasks:
• Management of enterprise backup systems for multiple locations using Symantec interface on respective tape backup drives;
• Supervision of user accounts and profiles through Active Directory;
• Deployment of new code and fixes to the test environment to production and clustered servers;
• Implementation of production applications, including IIS updates, HTML, ASP.net; and
• Resolution of issues in IIS websites and document causes and resolution.
• Processed SLA on the life cycle of a project; SQL queries and SQL database backup procedures; system and hardware upgrades; as well as custom software, including SmartNet, Project Solve, NY511 Manager, IVR Manager, and WUG.

Confidential, New York City

Lead IT / Enterprise Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Organized team meetings and administered group policies for users.
• Promptly addressed issues and determined new technology to support the needs of the business.
• Provided expert oversight to NBX/ 3Com phone system; electronic data interchange for end users; and LAN operations, network infrastructure, and WAN connectivity.

Confidential, New York City

IT System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed new technology in alignment with the business needs
• Kept abreast of latest industry trends to recommend strategic insights for hardware and software integrations to ensure cost effectiveness.
• Efficiently handled departmental budgets, while introducing new programs and technology to users.
• Took charge of installing desktops, laptops, servers, mobile, and remote users; maintaining software and hardware systems and networks; and upgrading antivirus and security.