SUMMARY

• Strong background in Cloud Architecture with a focus on architecture, business solutions, information security, governance, risk, compliance, and IT auditing. Business solutions for financial services and telecommunications industries.
• Vast interdisciplinary experience in Data Center build, relocation & migration, infrastructure & architecture and trading floor planning and management in both in domestic and international markets in particular in USA, Australia, Asia and the Middle East. Consistently delivered performance through leadership and cohesive team building.
• Knowledge of The Open Group Architecture Framework, AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, Zachman, Information Technology Infrastructure Library; Knowledge of Project Management Body of Knowledge. Architecture and management skills in Cloud Computing and Server Virtualization on Microsoft Azure, OVM, AWS, and VMware.
• Bachelor in Electronics Engineering and 16+ Years of experience in Administration, Configuration, Virtualization and installation of UNIX/LINUX systems, Configuration, Implementation, performance Tuning, Maintenance, Security Setup, Support & Troubleshooting. In - depth experience in Installing KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine), configuring KVM Virtual Network, creating KVM Networked Bridge Interface, creating KVM Virtual Machines. Expertise knowledge in VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System, and VERITAS Cluster.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products such as Visio, Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Expert in preparing solution presentations (PPT) and SOWs for both managed service and project deals.
• Experience in Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery models with the help of various tools like GIT, Jenkins, Hudson, Chef, and Puppet.
• IT Lead with excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills. Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Exceptionally motivated and skilled in effective time management and meeting user requirements with robust detail.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud &Virtualization Technologies: AWS, Microsoft Azure, OVM, and VMware.

Operating System: Solaris (9/10/11), HP-UX 10.x/11.x, AIX 5.3/6.5, RHEL Enterprise 5/6, SUSE, Oracle Linux, Windows Microsoft Server 2008 R2 / 2012.

Hardware: Exadata X5-2, X3-2, vBlock, SUN Servers 25K/15k, F6800, F4800, V880, E6500, E4500, E3500, E3000, E450, E420R, E220R, E250, V120, V240, V100, Sun Blade 6000, HP 9000, sx2000, rx7640, rx2660, rx3600, rx6600, P 3 520/270/170 , P 5 520/550/570/590 , SUN Ultra Sparc 5/10, SUN Sparcstation20, Intel Pentium PCs, HP BL & DL Series, Siemens Nixdorf Primergy 400, Dell Power edge 1300 OptiPlex, COMPAQ Servers, Macintosh. Backup device DLT Tape drive, Storage TEK L 180, Storage TEK 9730, 4mm tape Drive, 8mm tape drive, CD-ROM’s and most all SCSI attached devices.

Storage Arrays: EMC CLARIION CX600 and FC-4700 StorEdge A1000, D1000, and Disk Arrays, Brocade Silkworm 12000Cisco switches, Fiber Channel cards (Emulex, JNI, and Q-Logic).

EMC Tools: Power Path, EMC Control Center, NaviCli, Active Logix and Time Finder.

Tape Libraries: StorEdge L 180, StorEdge 3310 SCSI array.

HA Clusters: Sun cluster 2.2/3.1/2, VERITAS Cluster 1.3.1/2.0, Service Guard A. 11.16/18/19.

RDBMS: Oracle 8.0/8i, 9i/10g (PL/SQL), SQL Server 2000, Sybase, SQL Loader, SQL PLUS, and IMP/EXP.

Technologies/ Software: NIS+, DNS, DHCP, UUCP, NFS, TCP/IP, RAID5

Languages: Shell Scripting (Bourne/Korn Shells), Chef, Puppet.

Network Services: DNS, NIS, DHCP, LDAP

Volume Management: Solstice Disk Suite, Veritas Volume Manager, and SVM/LVM.

Web Server s: Apache, iPlanet/Sun one, Web Sphere and Web Logic.

Backup Tools: Veritas Netback up, Windows NT Backup, Legato Networker.

Performance Tools: VM-stat, IO-stat, NET-stat, PR-stat, LSOF, truss, top, SAR, NFS-stat, glance, Perfview, measure-ware and PSR-info.

Tools: Cron, SUDO, Secure Shell, Solaris LDOM 1.0.3, Solaris Patch Manager 2.0 on Solaris 10.

Security: Wrappers TCP wrapper. Firewalls/Filtering Sunscreen, IPfilter. Secure Shells/Tools Sudo Security Tools Samhain.

Shells/Restricted Shells: Bash. Korn Shell / Shell scripting, PowerShell

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cary, NC

Group Manager

Responsibilities:

Tailoring and modeling proposal to the clients’ IT and business leadership for Confidential America’s major Initiative Accounts using transitioning through delivery. Offering and describing a solution to customer CIO’s, Chief Architect’s, and VP’s. Interpreting customer prerequisites and responding to challenges to show the assessment and significance to the client corporate. The ability to answer in-depth technical questions on Solution Architecture and Development in the Public Cloud and solutions optional through examples or demonstrations. End-to-end solution determining and explanation architecture for Cloud Migration and Modernization, including estimation, solution planning and interlocking with the appropriate teams to create the optimal customer outcome. Defining Confidential America’s solution contributions for Cloud Solution services and delivery competence counting Managed Services. Communicating with other resolution architects in similar roles and global product management to outline standardized solution baselines, request add-ons as well as technologically advanced delivery options. Planning for and supporting service implementation, service transition, and, service introduction activities including appropriate change management services. Working prudently using our Advisory & Talent Community Leads, substitute as a subject matter expert in Cloud Solution Architecture and solutions, supporting our regional teams with their capability development and skills growth. Building and maintaining strong working relationships with delivery center solution architects and contributing to the collaboration community.

Environment: Togaf, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Infrastructure, Alert Logic, Cisco CSR, PaloAlto, Riverbed SteelHead, SalesForce, AT&T Netbond.

Confidential, Tallahassee, FL

Distributed Computer Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

As a Cloud Architect, as part of the AST delivery team focusing on building solutions maximizing use of emerging technologies to transform the business to achieve superior value and scalability. Providing a methodological implementation of solutions to achieve scalability, security, design, and application of Virtualization and Private-Cloud Computing clarifications. Provided expert-level consulting and delivery for data center &server virtualization and server infrastructure project for various clients. Performed Data Migration Planning and Migration Activities to merge two state data centers at Tallahassee and improve upon existing architecture frameworks to define, design and implement simplified, standards-based, fit-for-repurpose, system architectures. Develop and implement EC2 services with ELB (On-Demand, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances) for global applications deployment utilizing Lambda and EC2 Container Services. Apply the S3 & Glacier service for storage and archiving/backup more than 3 PB on Amazon Redshift. Manage and support Cloud Formation for various Amazon related resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion to ensure reliability and availability for critical applications. Implement security controls to relevant compliance with best-practice, compliance/regulatory requirements. Lead the growing, development and support junior cloud security resources in the cross-matrix client environment. Business development responsibilities around cloud security including origination, capture, and relationship development

Environment: Togaf, Unix & Linux, Microsoft Server 2008 R2/2012, Puppet, AWS, Microsoft Azure, VMWARE ESXi, VCenter, Apache, Splunk, Nagios, F5, Sophos, Ajax, IBM BigFix, OVM, Veritas, Service Gaurd, VCS, Cherwell ticket system, EMC, and Netapp.

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

Project Lead III - Unix Infrastructure Architect.

Responsibilities:

As a Unix Infrastructure Architect with client Allstate Investments worked in the cloud Infrastructure/Architecture team within the Corporate and be responsible for providing support services and oversight to projects and applications. Produced server/network topology design and provisioning, capacity planning and management, infrastructure optimization, and troubleshooting. Coordinated various infrastructure improvement/migration initiatives across multiple development teams and set and enforce technology/infrastructure standards. Worked with both CTG application project teams and infrastructure resources across Allstate. Validate POC architectures, SOWs, project plans, & other assets required to deliver AWS engagements successfully. Experience in building and handling public and private cloud infrastructure with AWS, EC2, and S3 & S3N. Support the delivery of AWS, cloud security, governance (security policies and procedures), strategy (security arrangement), risk assessments & management, cloud data protection (classification, encryption, and KMS), and cloud-based IAM, technology & provider-specific cloud architecture. Strong working knowledge and experience with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

Environment: Agile, Unix & Linux, Microsoft Server 2008 R2/2012, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Splunk, F5, Chef, Hudson, Jenkins, Apache web server, OVM, VMWARE ESXi, VCenter, Veritas, Service Gaurd, VCS, HPSM ticket system, EMC, and Netapp.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Senior Consultant - Cloud Infrastructure Architect.

Responsibilities:

As Cloud Infrastructure Architect for client Bank of America, was responsible for leading the overall technical design, direction, configuration, manageability, and supportability of the Unix/Linux Infrastructure, including operating systems, Storage, Backup, Data Centre migration, and Virtualisation. Worked in unison with a non-technical Service Designer, acting as the technical design authority and leading the evaluation of specifications. Supported the establishment in assessing and coming up with resolutions for client blueprints. Performed and supervising the evaluation of new or updated technology components. Identifying opportunities and proposing maintaining plans for successful new service implementation. In agreement with Product Management and Service Design teams, developing innovative services for the client. Formulating supporting documentation for design, builds, configuration, installation, monitoring, reaction, and support. Managing the product lifecycle, ensuring well-maintained technology components, investigating and evaluating proposals from the client and assessing the consequence of outcome changes. Design cloud tools, techniques, and services (VPC, EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, RDS, SQS, SNS, auto scaling, etc.). Design application architectures, including networks, security models, data storage, data flows, high availability. Migrate legacy applications and data to cloud-based environments (AWS & Azure platform).

Environment: Agile, Unix/Linux, Shell Scripting, Apache, Cloud Infrastructure, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, IBM Cast Iron, Hudson, Jenkins, Puppet, Veritas, Nexus, SAN infrastructure (EMC & HP), Virtualised Infrastructure (AWS & VMWARE & OVM & AZURE).

Confidential

Tech Lead - Unix Infrastructure / Data Center.

Responsibilities:

Supported various clients like confidential n application support group. Lead the technical team to different customers to build Data Center, relocation/migration, infrastructure & architecture and trading floor planning and management in both in domestic and international markets in particular in USA, Australia, Asia and the Middle East. Sys Admin activity for Unix & Linux, VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Cluster Services. VERITAS 3.1/3.3 to 4.1 and Foundation Suite 5.0. Provided 4th line maintenance and solutions commitment on client deployment projects. Demonstrate architectural best practices applied across a breadth of technologies to solve organizational problems, clear roadmaps for development & understand the interaction between infrastructure, operations, and development. Architect solutions for scaling applications, services, and databases in a cloud environment. Develop reference architecture for high availability capabilities such as auto-scaling and multi-site deployments. Reverse engineering of prevailing infrastructure and application environment(s), for migration and organization approach for the new hybrid cloud solution while guiding Azure & Cloud OS Solutions Administrators team throughout the deployment process. Configure VPC on Route 53 (DNS Service) for custom Web-enabled Applications spanning 50 custom apps. Design AWS IAM for hybrid cloud security to ensure users, groups and permissions comply to security policies.

Environment: Togaf, Linux, UNIX, Veritas, Azure, AWS, VMware, Service Guard, Sun Cluster, VCS, Service Guard, Shell Scripting, Apache, Nagios, Rem ticket system, Blade Logic, Tivoli.

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Senior Systems Administrator,

Responsibilities:

Computing environments include hundreds of Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX, connected via redundant Gigabit Ethernet networks and accessing SAN disk and tape libraries via redundant fiber networks Sun 9/10, AIX 5.3, NIS, NFS, NIM, TSM, EMC. SAN Administration & Storage Administration of a vast SAN infrastructure involving EMC BROCADE hardware servicing UNIX (AIX & Solaris hosts) designing and managing large-scale and complex NAS storage arrays. Worked on the development of Solaris 10 standards document for Solaris Container technologies (zones, FSS, projects). Persuade business units to use Solaris 10 to increase server density and lower TCO. Participating in the development of chargeback model for Solaris 10, enabling more accurate billing based on actual resource usage.

Environment: Agile, Linux, Sun Solaris 9/10, AIX 5.3, Shell Scripting, Apache, EMC Power Path, NIS, NFS, NIM, TSM, EMC Control Center.

Confidential

P.O III class

Responsibilities:

Enlisted to USN in 2004 and was on active duty till Sept 2006 as P.O III Class, discharged honorably Navy Achievement Medal from service and was part of reserve till 2012.

Confidential

Senior UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

Worked with various client  confidential , was responsible for the deployment, improvement, and maintenance of mid to large scale Sun Solaris 2.6 platforms for different business units within the Corporate Investment Banking division. Ensure compliance with PCM procedures and participate in quarterly risk audits. Support several applications including Oracle ERP system. Developed and deployed Solaris 2.6 platform for large data mart for integration into existing award-winning online transactional payment system. The Very complex system uses several products to accomplish its objective. These products include Sun Network Data Replication, Oracle Real Application Cluster, and custom developed cluster agents for various applications.

Environment: Sun Solaris 2.6, Sun Network Data Replication, Oracle ERP.