SUMMARY:

• Cloud & Big Data Solution Architect (AWS Azure Cassandra Cloudera Hadoop) Presales Oracle Architect DBA for Core & APPS (WebLogic FMW Exadata Exalogic RAC ASM Data Guard GoldenGate)An exceptional career of 18 years in to IT with skills in multiple domains, last 4.5 years in architecting Cloud, Big Data solutions and presales support. Previously architecting and administering on - premise Oracle DB, Apps and fusion middleware.
• Unique blend of experience on multiple clouds like AWS, Azure and Oracle. Predominantly in AWS.
• Crackerjack in accessing, designing, developing and migrating large-scale, multi region, highly available, fault tolerant, high-volume, scalable and elastic and cost effective cloud infrastructure.
• Dexterous in presales, Bid Management, RFP, RFI, Statement of Work, SOE, estimation, costing and packaging, presentation, documentation. Apt in present and communicate solutions to the business.
• Extraordinary skills and knowledge on multiple clouds which include AWS, Oracle, Azure and VMware and working across On-premise to public or private or Hybrid or Government or community clouds.
• Pro in setting up Oracle Private Cloud using Oracle VM Server, VM manager and Enterprise Manager Cloud Control and Oracle OpenStack exposure.
• Implementation expert and administration of Exadata and Exalogic on bare-metal (physical) and Virtual (Oracle VM manager and Server) engineered systems, including Database Appliance (ODA).
• Deep expertise in Oracle Database (7i, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, 12c) with RAC, ASM, Data Guard, OEM Cloud & Grid control, performance tuning, multitenant, GoldenGate. L2 in Confidential SQL Server, MySQL DB.
• Including upgrades, migration, patching & tuning the Database and application components end to end.
• Oracle Apps DBA (EBS 11i, R12), SysAdmin, multi node Install and patch, Share Appl Top, PCP etc.
• Implementation and Administering of Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) which includes WebLogic, SOA, SSO, OAM, OIM, OID, OBIEE, Hyperion, Demantra, Agile PLM
• Experience in install & maintenance of Cassandra Clusters up to 20 nodes across multi Data Centers.
• Install, Configure, administer and health monitoring of Oracle Big Data Appliance (BDA), Cloudera distribution of Hadoop (CDH) and Cassandra clusters. HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, Zookeeper, Hive, Sentry, HBase, Cloudera Manager.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud & Virtualization(Public, Private, Hybrid, Government, Community): IaaS PaaS SaaS

Disaster recover & High Availability: AWS: IAM, VPC, ELB, Route53, EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier, RDS, DynamoDB, Elastic MapReduce (EMR), RedShift, Direct Connect, CloudFormation, OpsWorks, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFront, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Auto scaling. Expert in implementing highly available, cost efficient, fault tolerant and scalable workloads and setting up geo redundant disaster recover at all levels (Web, Application, Database, OS, Storage, Networking) of Enterprise (COTS) applications. .

Oracle - Private cloud, IaaS, DBaaS, VM Manager, VM Server: Azure - Virtual Machine, Virtual Network, Blob Storage, ELB

Big Data(Hadoop + NoSQL): Oracle Big Data Appliance (BDA), Cloudera Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, Scoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Cloudera Manager

Presales(Customer facing & End to End solution): Making proposals, walkthroughs and defense (RFP, RFQ, RFI, SOW, SOS, BOM, BOQ). Bid Management, estimation, pricing, and packaging. PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Prezi. POC, CRP, Pilot projects. Working closely with sales team.

Partner Enablement: Delivery (Offshore and Onsite delivery model), Management of customer accounts, stakeholders, ISV’s, GSI’s, VAR’s, Vendor, Distributors, Channel Partners, MSP and Business Unit (BU). Webinars, Seminars, Workshops, Bootcamps.

Database (RDBMS) Engineered Systems: Oracle DB 7, 8i, 9i to 10g, 11g and 12c, RAC, ASM, Data Guard Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control, RMAN, GoldenGate, BI/Data warehousing, OLTP, OLAP.

Exadata: Storage Server, IORM, ILOM, InfiBand Network, HBCC

Enterprise Applications (ERP): Middleware (Oracle FMW)

Engineered Systems: Oracle Apps DBA (EBS 11i, R12), SysAdmin, multi node Install and patch, Share Appl Top, PCP etc. Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) which includes WebLogic, SOA, SSO, OAM, OIM, OID, OBIEE, Hyperion, Demantra, Agile PLM

Exalogic: Network, Storage and multi-Tenant design, Traffic Director.

Operating Systems, Storage, Networking & Data Centre Servers, Open Source, Tools: Unix: IBM AIX, HP-UX, Solaris; Linux Red Hat, OEL, Ubuntu, SUSE Windows Server, Firewall, Gateway, Router, Load Balancer, SAN, NAS, NFS, SSD, iSCSI. Linux (Red Hat, OEL, CentOS, SUSE, Ubuntu), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache, JBoss web/App server. Visio, Sun SPARC, x86, Integrated Systems.

Migration, Implementation, Data Centre Consolidation: Heterogeneous and homogeneous migrations. Green and Brown field implementations. Successful track record of delivering datacenter consolidation projects involving at least 500 servers and 100 TB of disk

Languages: SQL, Shell scripting, Java, Python, JSON

Industry Verticals: Banking, Financial, Government, Healthcare, Pharma, Internet & Communications, Mobile and Electronics, Manufacturing, Retail, Customer goods, Food & BeveragesMedia & Entertainment (Sony Entertainment), Oil & Gas.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Cloud Solutions Architect and Solution Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead solution design and solved technical problems, with lateral and sometimes radical approach.
• Create AWS solution architecture for hosting dev, test/staging and production workloads. Map current on premise software to AWS IaaS and PaaS components where applicable, migrate applications from on premise data center to AWS infrastructure environment, create and implement testing plans post migration, implement changes to architecture (If any) to meet performance requirements, Setup DR and BCP on AWS to meet customer SLA’s. Create VPC’s and deploy servers, setup and deploy servers on multiple AWS zones, implement and run test scripts to test server migration success, architecting a Cloud platform, which calls for solid Cloud Infrastructure skills, leveraging Open Source for the Cloud Infrastructure Linux, Cassandra, MySQL, Docker etc. These projects are end to end life cycle projects that host critical production workloads for customers. Gathering application workload requirements for on premise applications and create an assessment to migrate them to AWS environment.
• Enabling ISV and GSI’s with Presales support (RFP and questionnaires).
• Spear heading cloud provider & ISV companies in architecting, solution, channel partnership, boot camps, webcasts, providing POC and Demo environment.
• Working with all the stakeholders and responsible for reporting out to C level executives and perform trend analysis within our complex environment. Implement the solutions on AWS and Azure cloud.
• Support inside sales teamin solution and helping to generate proposals for new opportunities.
• Conducted Boot camps ( Confidential London), and various workshops, seminars, webcasts, podcasts across globe to partners, clients to enrich them on cloud and some time to win deals in close quarters.
• Big Data implementations with Oracle BDA including Cloudera distribution of Apache Hadoop clusters and Oracle NoSQL DB and Cassandra Databases. Cassandra capacity planning, expand/Shrink Cassandra cluster by adding, removing and replacing nodes, Configure backup, alerts, repairs and monitoring of Cassandra clusters, in conjunction with Nagios/Opscenter and custom scripts. Troubleshoot the performance issue and read/write latency and timeout issues using nodetool cfstats, tpstats, cfhistogram, and repair. Installation and configuration in AWS Cloud.
• Working with customers and leading a team of members to define and gather customer requirements, create solution architecture(s) and lead a team to implement the solutions on AWS infrastructure environment.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr Manager Application Hosting Services Architect

Responsibilities:

• Pioneer in architecting AWS (Private, Public and Hybrid) cloud.
• Collaborating with project presales, sales closure to implement and support functionality with most efficient use of resources and technologies.
• Working with stakeholders and project teams, assign responsibilities, identify appropriate resources needed, and develop schedules to ensure timely completion of projects by meeting project milestones.
• Assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints and risk taking behavior to maximize business benefit.
• A good understanding of hardware and infrastructure resources (CPU, RAM, Storage & Networking) with a good exposure in 10+ Confidential Datacenters, adept in Remote & Network Operations Center.
• Highly motivated and Phenom individual & ability to build rapid prototypes and provide architectural leadership to a high-energy teams, by being hands-on.
• Extensive hands-on experience using Unix commands to configure software and create scripts with a proven background end to end cloud builds with AWS, solid experience in Linux and Shell Scripting, Data systems.
• Passion for working on large data - intensive systems and problem solving of scalability. Very good understanding of implementing strategies, provisioning, configuration management and working with high level researchers and data analysts knowing how to work efficiently within a team and having good working relationships is essential.
• Expertise in AWS technologies and services as well as good understanding on how infrastructure and applications are deployed on AWS.
• Proficiency in AWS IaaS and PaaS technologies and services. Good understanding of Linux operating system and storage technologies.
• Architect designing, Scalability, High Availability, (Disaster Recovery) DR Design on Cloud Infrastructures, AWS IaaS and PaaS solutions based on a range of AWS technologies and services.
• AWS Infrastructure Automation launching.
• Good knowledge and expertise on AWS infra architecting methods and best practices. Experience working on cloud builds with Amazon Web Services.
• Technical assessment to modernize/migrate/move application to AWS cloud, define the target state of application for the relevant cloud environments (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS; Private, Public Cloud), including business case.
• Architect the application for AWS by using AWS services and resources and compare the different modernization options.
• Evaluate different application technologies which can/cannot move to cloud and suggest recommendations. Experience in Crafting integrated Azure cloud Solutions and roadmap, able to work on proposals and RFP and lead the solution.
• Create and own methodologies, frameworks, templates etc. for Infra and application modernization/migration on AWS and able to defend solution and proposals in front of customers and salespeople.
• Architect, implement and managed Oracle Apps (11i & R12), Fusion Middleware (FMW), Weblogic, SOA, Single-sign-on Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Identity Manager, OID, Exadata, Exalogic.
• Implemented Oracle private cloud using VM Manager, VM Server and OEM 12c Cloud Control.
• Well versed with Exadata Machine functions and uitiliteis like IORM, DBFS, Flash Cache, DCLI, ADRCI
• Experience in Oracle Exadata and Exalogic with good understanding of architecture and features
• Oracle Cloud architectural understanding and experience in setting up databases on cloud, including DBaaS model. Oracle Exadata and Exalogic On Premise to Oracle On Cloud migration.
• Centralized proactive maintenance solution for Exadata distributions
• Software and firmware maintenance of the Database servers in the Database machine including upgrades and patching
• Software and firmware maintenance of the Exadata storage servers in the Database machine including upgrades and patching
• Software and firmware maintenance of the InfiniBand switches in the Database machine including upgrades and patching
• Integration of Exadata monitoring and escalation into existing IT monitoring and actionable events
• Provide and implement performance and tuning recommendations of all components in the DB machine
• Advise, provide guidance and develop Disaster Recovery strategies for these Database machines
• Configure the machines to meet internal security requirements
• Provide business as usual data structure manipulation (add, remove, modify storage) in the Database machine

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Preparing and presenting monthly status reports to the management, conducting cross functional team meetings, directing Incident Bridge, providing expert/SME support and advice.
• Architect, implement and managed Oracle (RAC, ASM, DG), MS SQL Server, MySQL Database.
• Well versed with Golden Gate implementations, experience with Golden Gate CDC setup (Real time change data capture (CDC)), and extraction of files for ETL. Software security alert compliance standards. Create Golden Gate architecture and design documents and definitions
• Golden Gate environments backup and recovery, monitoring Golden Gate replication components
• Implement and maintain monitoring tools for Golden Gate components
• Identify and recommend Golden Gate infrastructure configurations and settings
• Create Golden Gate infrastructure designs and engage in architecture forums in consultation with client
• Develop detailed designs for Golden Gate infrastructure in consultation with Client

Confidential

Lead DBA Architect

Responsibilities:

• I lead the 24/7 shift, communication and escalation handling with clients, preparing the shift roster.
• Architected and implement Grid control of 10g, 11g OEM and Oracle middleware components.
• Designed cluster of Hosts and RAC & ASM Instances, Administration and maintenance of EBS and APS (Planning, Sales work bench), cloning, RMAN, patching, administering concurrent manager, Managing Oracle Applications using AD Utilities like adctrl, adpatch, adadmin, auto-config, Monitoring memory, CPU utilization, scheduling Cron jobs, Gather object/schema statistics.
• Architecting, Implementation, maintaining, upgraded and migration & decommissioning of IT infrastructure, Administration of Oracle applications EBS suite (11i, R12), Databases (11g, 10g, 9i, 8i, RAC, ASM), Application servers (WebLogic, JBoss, Apache), on Unix based servers. Little exposure to java and SQL development, Struts & J2EE frame work.
• Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments.