SUMMARY:

• 19 years of experience in full lifecycle IT application and infrastructure architecture management, focused on IT solution offerings, strategy to execution, digital transformation, IoT (Internet of Things) including mobility, M2M (machine learning), supply chain management, resource management, product management, Hybrid IT, cloud solutions, managed IT services, security, project management, infrastructure architecture planning, transformational roadmaps, GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) management, PaaS/SaaS/IaaS service models, large scale system implementations, data centers consolidation/optimization programs, client management, engagement management with technical leadership.
• Experience with enterprise architecture strategies, IT service management processes and standards to ensure end - to-end architecture across all architecture domains.
• Experience in IT optimization at all stacks including server, storage, network, client and application virtualization technologies and management tools.
• Act as trusted strategic technology advisor with clients, and work across teams to achieve most comprehensive, end-to-end business and IT services to address their business challenges and build strong client relationships.
• Experience in Disaster Recovery strategies, plans and solutions using advanced availability solutions and cloud offerings considering security and regulatory compliance. Experience in messaging and collaboration solutions, network architecture, voice and data networks, considering security, redundancy and reliability.
• Strong architectural knowledge of all components of applications and infrastructure systems including object and component based development environments; web services, Microservices, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) for applications and infrastructure, Mainframe and distributed computing architectures, communications technologies including Messaging (MQ), middleware applications such as (Weblogic, WebSphere 6.0/7.0, WebMethods), J2EE, EAI (Tibco and etc), and ERP systems such as Oracle Applications and SAP; and multiple backend database technologies (Oracle, DB2, Cassandra, Mango DB, SQL) on UNIX and Windows platform

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: Enterprise Cloud Management, Cloud based server, storage provisioning, Optimization, and Automation, Cloud Migration, Managed Hosting, Dynamic and on-Demand Resource Management, Co-location, Cloud Security, Data Center Migration and Consolidation, Data Center Optimization, Server Consolidation, Virtualization (vmware, Hyper-V, Xen and etc), Server Tech Refresh Strategy, Disaster Recovery Strategy, Converged & Hyper Converged Infrastructure, Storage Transformation (Dell, EMC, Hitachi, Brocade, NetApps and etc), SAN Migration, Storage Virtualization, Storage Multi-Tiering, End User Computing Citrix Xen Desktop (XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer, Edgesite, and Provisioning Server), Backup (Netbackup), Recovery and De-duplication, Network Optimization, Management, Unified Networking, System Configuration Management (Puppet, Chef, Ruby), Storage and Interconnect Consolidation, IPv6, Infiniband, FCoE, iSCSI technologies, Security (Firewalls, Load balancers, SSL, VPN, Anti-spam, Anti-Virus, and etc), Directory services (Windows 2012/2008/2003, Iplanet, e-directory and etc), IAM (SAML, WS-Federation, SOAP, WS-Security, WS-Trust, LDAP, XACML, Open-ID, OAuth and etc.) Cloud Technologies (Azure, AWS, Verizon, Century Link, etc.), Core Infrastructure Services (DNS, DHCP, and WINS), Compute platforms (Wintel, Linux and Oracle), Network (LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, VOIP, SDN), Messaging systems (Exchange 2010/2007/2003, Lotus Notes, Blackberry), Monitoring tools (SCOM, Quest, BMC-Patrol, NetIQ and etc.), Patch Management solutions (LANDesk, WSUS, Solarwind and etc), Application Suits (.NET, Java, BEA Weblogic 5.0, IBM WebSphere 5.3/6.0, MSMQ, JDK 1.2.2, J2EE),Document Management (Sharepoint, Documentum), DevOps, Atlassian Tools (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo), Automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansibel, SaltStack, Powershell and etc), Agile, Scrum, Integration tools (Jenkins, ANT, ETL, and etc.), Big Data (Hadoop, MapReduce, HBase, Hive), Analytics (AWS EMR), Databases (Oracle, SQL, DB2, MySQL, Mango DB, Cassandra and etc.)

Operating System: Windows, Sun Solaris 10/9.0/8.0, Novell Netware 6.x/5.x/4.x, Citrix Metaframe Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6/5 server & Advanced Platform Server

Other: IaaS/PaaS/SaaS models, SDLC, TOGAF, MSF, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11and etc, Client Management, Engagement Management, Business Development, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Practice Development & Eminence, People Development and etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Solution Principal/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed business and solution development, and provided innovative cost effective solutions to the business challenges and business cost justification plans and provided tangible savings up to 30%.
• Experience in creating statement of work and level of effort estimate for the proposals to meet the business objective
• Presented the solution to the customer (external and internal) teams and maintained the business client relationship.
• Directly interact with customer to identify, validate their requirements (functional or non-functional) and provide the appropriate solution.
• Led workshops for requirements (business, technical, operational) gathering and architectural/design reviews with application, network, storage, databases, vendors, operations, architects, PMO and engineering team. Provide clear direction, and manage deliverables to the respective delivery build team. Heavily involved in the hardware tech refresh strategy and roadmap for legacy applications and infrastructure services
• Design solutions to satisfy the functional and non-functional (sizing, availability, and performance) requirements for business applications within the environment. Identified issues, risk, created the risk mitigation plans to the standardization across the platform and applications portfolio.
• Heavily involved in the architecture and development of web and mobile platform strategy in cloud, API management, REST web services, supply chain management, digital transformation, retail transformation, mobility, IoT (Internet of Things) and M2M (machine to machine) connected strategy
• Created the application and system architecture standards, cloud computing framework and methodologies and aligned with the business strategy for the enterprise resulted in better operational support
• Created the enterprise cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment strategy (private, public or hybrid), migration path for the applications and infrastructure. Also provided dynamic, on-demand resource pool, managed hosting based computing environment solution.
• Designed the reference architecture model and design patterns to architect and defined the web infrastructure solutions for .NET, SAP Portal, and Websphere (6.x/7.x), J2EE (Java) application environment, MQ, DataPower, EDI, ETL (Informatica etc), Enterprise Services Bus.
• Define, adopt and adhere to enterprise architecture strategies, processes and standards and provided technology assistance and direction to other teams and ensure end-to-end architecture across all architecture domains.
• Heavily involved in creating the strategy and design and architecture of web based applications and server technology (Wintel, Linux or etc.), Storage (EMC, Netapp, or HP), Network (WAN, SDN), Security (VPN, IDS, IPS, and etc).
• Designed the datacenter migration approach for the infrastructure (networks, servers, security) and applications to public cloud such as AWS and Azure for large publisher and retail client.
• Lead the POC for Century Link cloud, Microsoft Azure, Verizon Cloud, Amazon AWS, and defined the cloud architecture. Experience in designing the cloud solution using AWS, Azure, Century Link and Verizon Cloud. Experience with the configuration automation tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Powershell. Involved in DevOps process, and Atlassian tools such as Bit bucket, Bamboo and JIRA for process improvement.
• Experience migrating and building the solutions and environments in the cloud (Azure, Verizon, AWS) such as API Manager, Express Route, SQL Azure, Web Roles, Azure Storage, Azure AD, AWS EC2, AWS S3, RDS, IAM, Cloud Front, Route 53, AWS Config, VPC, AWS Analytics, AWS App Services and Containerization / Cluster Management using Docker containers, Apache Mesos etc. Successfully migrated more than 2000 servers (Windows/Linux) in public cloud and saved 34% in capital cost.
• Experience with Microsoft Directory services (AD) at enterprise level, Group Policies and AD sites and services, messaging services (Exchange) and migrated on-premises exchange accounts (1000) to Office 365 environment
• Experience with encryption, multi-factor authentication, SIEM, web application firewalls, Web site acceleration, DDOS protection, Intrusion detection and protection, host based controls, data security, SSO, federation services and identity management.
• Created the application and infrastructure technology refresh strategy (Data Center or Product) and roadmap and defined the project map and delivery. Defined the challenges, risks, risk mitigation, issues logs and etc for the product or application delivery.
• Responsible for creating, oversee operational framework, policies, and procedures for the infrastructure management. Developed the operational run books, operation guides, procedures, automation, scripts are maintained.
• Designed secure computing environment through the implementation of security standards for systems and applications, as well as security policies and guidelines. Defined security at all levels in the solution architecture including single sign on, data leak prevention, data classification, application classification, data protection, encryption.
• Involved in the operational processes and delivery issues on the account and collaborate with operations to remediate the issues in timely manner.
• Resource Management- Involved in labor and cost estimates, resource hiring on the project, manage resources (8-10), managing on-shore and offshore delivery teams.
• Defined the cost effective solution for the co-location strategy for the customer owned assets and defined power, cooling, space and management requirements resulted in their on-premises datacenter cost by 20%.
• Experience in GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) and operations of IT assets, processes, through appropriate standards and security policies.
• Defined the Disaster Recovery, data protection, storage optimization and replication for an application environment.
• Ensured all the regulatory compliance such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI compliances are met and auditing is in place.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Solution Architect/ Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating the application and system architecture standards, cloud computing framework and methodologies and aligned with the business strategy for the enterprise
• The projects involve designing solutions to satisfy the functional and non-functional (sizing, availability, and performance) requirements for business applications within the environment.
• Identified the risk, created the risk mitigation plans to the standardization across the platform and applications portfolio
• Performed business and solution development, and provided innovative cost effective solutions to the business challenges and business cost justification plans (TCO and ROI) and provided tangible savings up to 30%.
• Defined and designed the phased migration approach for the mid range server environment, operational readiness process area matrix, and defined the complete IT solution offering using third party tools for the POC.
• Define, adopt and adhere to enterprise architecture strategies, processes and standards and provided technology assistance and direction to other teams and ensure end-to-end architecture across all architecture domains.
• Created the application and system architecture standards, cloud computing framework and methodologies and aligned with the business strategy for the enterprise.
• Design and create the network execution architectures for all the environments and execution flows based on the application solution and integration architecture. Ensure the architectures adhere to guiding policies as per defined standards. Created high level availability architectures for application and ensure the integrity, availability, scalability, maintainability and efficiency of the solutions from hardware and software perspective. Performed gap analysis between the current state and future state architecture. Presented the solution to the architecture and Operation board
• Created the enterprise wide application lifecycle matrix and aligned with the business strategy and roadmap.
• Strategize and designed the enterprise cloud strategy for the web based application environment, also defined the virtual Disaster Recovery strategy for the application. Also defined the migration strategy to cloud.
• Facilitated meetings for requirements (business, technical, operational) gathering and architectural/design reviews with vendors, application and engineering team.
• Created the reference architecture model and design patterns to architect and defined the web infrastructure solutions for .NET, SAP Portal, and Websphere (6.x/7.x) application environment, MQ and etc. considering application security.
• Designed the web application multi-tier application (Java and .NET) infrastructure solutions utilizing the technologies such as web servers (Apache, IHS, IIS), App-DB layer (WAS 6.x/7.x or custom application), backend databases (Oracle, SQL, Oracle RAC) considering network (F5 Content switches, Firewall, Load balance), security (https, ports) and storage (EMC, NetApp, or Hitachi), batch or real time processing solutions using (Autosys, CA7 or etc).
• Developed infrastructure roadmaps and product lifecycles for the enterprise from Platform, Network, Storage, and Operations domain and refresh standards and frameworks.
• Defined the transformation / migration framework and delivery structure. Conducted the workshop sessions for technical architecture (network/ systems hardware, software, storage (EMC SAN), custom applications, security). Defined the overall infrastructure transformation plan that includes capacity plans, and performance plan.
• Ensured all the regulatory compliance such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI compliances are met and auditing is in place.
• Created the architecture solution and provisioning artifacts to build the environments (Dev, Test, Perf, Stage, and Prod) considering the size and capacity of infrastructure components such as (servers, network, applications and etc.) in a managed IT services and applications model.
• Defined and strategize the Business continuity functions and disaster recovery strategy, to utilize the high availability plan using Confidential availability services and De-duplication (Data Domain) and VTL and Hitachi Data Replication solution (USPV) solutions. Used Data Domain De-duplication technologies to eliminate the tape restores and improve RTO and RPO. Worked with vendors and 3rd party suppliers.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created the high level project plan objectives for multiple projects (Funds workstation, securities and etc) and defined the milestones, timelines, and resources. Collaborated with engineers, developers and provided the leadership.
• Strategize and designed the solution on virtual infrastructure (VMware - VI3), physical-to-virtual server. Coordinate with cross functional teams (network, systems, databases, application, & operations) & maintained the strong communication across the teams. Created the managed application environment and services model (SaaS) for the Confidential customers and provide the cost benefit analysis. Designed and deployed the highly available and scalable infrastructure for different trading applications (products) environment such as development, QA, UAT and production.
• Involved in evaluation of the production processes and operations run guides for monitoring the applications and infrastructure and provide recommendations for the proactive monitoring of the newly deployed environment.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Defined and created the high level conceptual solution on virtual technologies based on the strategic business vision.
• Created and presented the business cost justification plan and captured the challenges associated with managing dispersed technologies and evolving business processes, maintain consistent application performance.
• Delivered the improved business performance and managed the operational cost and risk by providing the managed IT services model and presenting the improved effective and efficient operations.
• Facilitated the regular meetings with the cross functional team to maintain strong communication within the program
• Managed the multiple architect leads (AD, messaging, storage, network and virtualization streams) in the program.
• Certified the infrastructure design plans for Active Directory, Exchange, storage and virtualization tracks and the migration plan for the three data center.
• Created the data center move strategy, detailed plan to Omaha data center including servers, applications, storage and assess the risk and impact of such move. Tight coordination between the cross functional teams (network, application, engineering, database and operations)
• Created the project plan, set objectives, milestones, and timelines. Managed four (4) engineers and provided leadership. Managed the multiple architect leads (AD, exchange, storage, desktop refresh and virtualization).
• Certify the technology architectures for authentication environment--AD (Windows 2003), messaging (Exchange 2003), storage (EMC - Clarion), desktop refresh (WinXP). Performed the risk analysis and mitigation plans, maintained issues and risk logs, and delegated the closure of issues (technical or business) for appropriate resolution.
• Defined, designed and deployed a highly available, scalable and recoverable file and print design utilizing EMC SAN technology (Power Path) as storage for file services.
• Coordinated with different departments and provided guidance for proactive monitoring for all aspects of the production environment. Involved in creating guidelines, and security policies in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley

Confidential, Chicago IL

Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved in project planning of new windows authentication system (Active Directory 2003) and migration approach.
• Evaluated and certified the infrastructure migration process from legacy windows architecture in the test environment
• Designed and deployed network infrastructure services in the enterprise, and created co-existence strategy for the name resolution till decommissioning of legacy systems.
• Involved in the data center consolidation. Defined the server operating system upgrade process, operation guidelines.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed windows authentication system and the migration approach on Windows 2000 directory structure.
• Defined, designed and migrated the core network infrastructure services / utility services (DHCP, DNS, and WINS)
• Designed the data migration plan from legacy windows systems to new storage system NAS unit (NetApp 800 series)
• Led and provided guidance to distributed operations and ensured 99.99% systems availability.
• Network Architecture and documentation. Deployed server build process, security policies and monitoring.