SUMMARY:

• Hands - on, self-motivated team player to provide technical leadership and architectural vision seeking an opportunity to leverage extensive technical skills with an established company to create/refine a distributed system with integration and automation in mind.
• A passionate technology leader who can establish vision, develop strategy, work across silos, and execute tactics with a team building approach to realize desired Cloud technology results, for Microsoft Azure and AWS virtualization technologies with a high degree of comfort with both small and large audiences and ability to adapt to a dynamic changing environment.
• Accomplished Enterprise Architect with a full spectrum technical, and project management experience, core proficiency in architecture hands on solution in application engineering, infrastructure implementation and managing IT programs with personal accountability for delivering quality on time.
• Designed and implemented large scale integrations for software development with change management, process optimization, and technology evaluations. Built hybrid solution with AWS elastic computing and Azure End Points to implement SaaS, IaaS and PaaS models which cut down huge investments on Infrastructure and replace the current traditional, legacy systems.
• Identify and map business needs and translate them into strategic direction, plans and solutions by utilizing TOGAF and Zachman architecture frameworks.
• High-level systems analysis, evaluation, design, integration, and implementation of very complex applications that require a thorough knowledge of administrative technical skills.
• Proficient managing multi-phase, multi-track projects with up to thirty project team members and cooperation between departments to enhance productivity and teamwork.
• Ability to build positive working relationships with peers, cross-functional remotely-sited global teams, external vendors and management personnel. Experienced in all phases of SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile/SCRUM to deliver client solutions.
• Security conscious, self-starter with strong initiative and able to work independently without direct supervision or as a highly functioning member of a project team. Directed large enterprise-wide technology re-platform programs and solution delivery teams inclusive of scope, scheduling, budgeting, and project planning in matrixed environments with aggressive delivery goals.
• Has 15+ years of experience performing business process modeling, system integration architecture, application architecture, usability architecture, SOA governance lifecycle design, object-oriented and microservices designs.

QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS:

Cloud DevOps: Building technical and security architectures in AWS for identified workloads. Selecting a migration approach to move workloads for new application. Executing Architecture Design Sessions (ADS) or Proofs of Concept (POC). Experienced with automated deployment and configuration management of operating systems and applications using tools such as PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Chef, Puppet.

Project Managent: Key member for the Enterprise Technology & Risk organization, working with technical and business areas, working cross functionally with other Sr. Architects, Product Owners and Technologists, attending MD and VP staff meetings to present details of new designs and initiatives. SDLC - Waterfall, Agile. Manage obstacles, issues and the impact to determine next steps to mitigate or completely avoid the risk by implementing best practice approach.Layout a time line of activities and its deliverables with team members to encourage IT staff for growth and expertise. Track record of customer focus, based on openness, trust, and delivering on promises and proof. Wide experience of delivery that includes the use of supplier and off-shore resources. Influential and inspirational professional that brings all the various parties to a mutual agreement on the infrastructure strategic roadmap by creating short and long-term plans and operational procedures.

Enterprise Architecture: Business/IT Alignment, IT Strategy & Transformation, Enterprise Modernization, Cloud Computing, EA Frameworks (Zachman, TOGAF), Modeling (UML), Process Frameworks (ITIL), Open Source, DevOps.

Infrastructure: Design, Multi-tiered optimized, distributed systems based on VMware, Cisco, Windows and Linux technologies. Hands on experience with the VMware suit of virtualization tools, including vCloud Director, vCloud orchestrator. Firewall and DMZ environments (design, setup, troubleshooting, policy design and administration with Check Point NGFW. VPN technology (remote access, site to site, MPLS tunnels, troubleshooting, concepts). E-mail and SMTP security (SPAM, phishing, URL and attachment defense, imposter emails, spoofing) with Proofpoint data security appliance. HTTP/S proxy servers and security (web proxying, web security, filtering/authentication, tunneling mitigation) with Bluecoat cybersecurity appliance. Application delivery with load balancing technology using F5 and virtualized NLB.

Software: Hands on experience with the VMware Clusters, Linux Kernel, Windows Server /Desktop, System Center, SharePoint, MS Project, Visio, MSSQL, LAMP, and IBM Tidal for task automation.

Hardware: Enterprise system hardware from Cisco, IBM, HP and Dell. Infrastructure configurations, high availability practices, site to site infrastructure deployments, redundant networking, Fiber Chanel, MPLS Multiprotocol data caring. Unified Fluid Data Storage. RAID hardware & software arrays. Fault-tolerant storage. Tape and disk based data archiving. Varieties of iSCSI, FC, SAN, NFS, NetApp, NAS, EMC, HP EVA, IBM v7000.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Enterprise Project Manager /Architect

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Statements of Work, contracts and negotiations, closely work with four vendor’s (Tigera, Heptio, Waveworks, Redhat) resources on the K8s project.
• Implemented POC using weave to create a mesh pod network between two K8s clusters.
• Provisioned AWS Heptio POC to understand the state of a Kubernetes cluster by running a set of Kubernetes conformance tests and to get better understanding on the solution.
• Setup Tigera Training and Workshops on Kubernetes, Calico IP networking fabric and Istio Network Policy management in NYC, Montreal, London and Budapest offices.
• Reviewed Statements of Work, contracts and negotiations, closely work with two DDI vendor’s (InfoBlox, BlueCat) resources on implementing project POV and address different use cases.
• Work with Architects on scoping the project to create federated DDI model based on event driven architecture. Modernize core network services (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) and support atomic real time updates.
• Delivered updates in Product Delivery Dashboard, Product Roadmap and Workstreams. Manage project deliverables in the Delivery Tracker and assigned resources allocation in staffing planner.
• Managed obstacles, issues and the impact to determine next steps to mitigate or completely avoid the risk by implementing best practice approach.
• Layout a time line of activities and its deliverables with team members to encourage IT staff for growth and expertise.
• AWS hands on involvement in terms of resolving issues, technical ownership on escalation calls, and architect/design support for enhancements.
• Setup K8s container orchestration system with Docker container and exposed the deployment through a Load Balancer.
• Setup on-premises and cloud-based POV for Linux systems with Docker, Kubernetes and Hadoop.
• Worked on migrating Treadmill lightweight, container-based compute fabric on the AWS cloud.
• Used Python scripts to automate S3 data upload/download and control instance operations with AWS API.
• Implemented a POC, load balanced, highly available, fault tolerant Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Managed local deployments in Kubernetes, creating local cluster and deploying application containers.
• Experience in creating Docker Containers leveraging existing Linux Containers and AMI's in addition to creating Docker Containers from scratch.
• Knowledge in automating builds and deployment process using Python and Shellscripts with focus on DevOps tools and AWS and Azure Cloud Architecture.
• Environment: AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, Amazon RDS, Cloud Trail and Route 53, GIT, VPC, Route53, Maven, Jenkins, EBS, SQL, ELB, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Jira, Terraform, AWS CLI, AWS Auto Scaling, Bash Shell script, Python, Chef, Apache Tomcat, MongoDB, Oracle DB.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Technical DevOps Project Manager /Architect

Responsibilities:

• Hands on design and implementation of strategic deployment of Microsoft Windows /Red Hat Linux/ AIX Unix infrastructure physical and hypervisor environments based on VMware, REHV, LPAR platforms and IBM V7000 fluid storage, database technologies with application behind Citrix NetScaler that are accessible by other Mizuho Entities.
• Key individual for enterprise solution of new technologies, to develop standards based on industry trends and best practice, to optimize current infrastructure configuration for operational efficiency. Both lead and participate in group projects with global as well as regional team members through the design, implementation and support phases.
• Act as senior escalation point of operational issues to be able to cross functional lines in troubleshooting complex problems. Work very closely with multiple Agile application development teams to make sure CasS is properly planned out for production release in OnPrem, AWS and Azure enviroments.
• Work within AZURE Cloud for integration processes. Focus on automation, monitoring, configuration management and streamlined applications delivery to the cloud for faster customer access.
• Build, host, and scale a variety of cloud-based applications and workloads hosting of Windows and Linux virtual machines while also supporting modern programming languages such as .NET, Java, Node.JS, and PHP.
• Provide production incident reporting through global reporting systems (ServiceNow).
• Act as project manager for full project life cycle on all PC/server-related projects; collaborate on planning and design phases of related projects using project/delivery management applications Microsoft Project, Atlassian JIRA. Create disaster-recovery plan in conjunction with BCP Officer. Manage all project documentation and budgets using, JIRA, MS Project and VISIO.
• Identified resources needed and assigns individual responsibilities. Managed day-to-day operational aspects of a project scope. Ensured project documents are complete and current.
• Research, develop, and documents security designs, network diagrams, and technical security controls.
• Work closely with development team to execute windows/shell commands with Apache Maven and Jenkins and setup jobs automation using Tidal.
• Setup Jenkins to automate software test and deployment workflows and to deploy a LAMP Stack app in a test environment based on a code check-in in GitHub.
• Setup a CI CD channel using Jenkins pipelines for microservices with separate repositories for each microservices to deploy containerized builds.
• Implemented Maven and Shell scripts to automatically compile, package, to deploy and test our Dashboard J2EE application and WebSphere platforms to be used by other Bank Entities through Reverse Proxy via direct or P2P VPN connections.
• Enable changes to applications while keeping clients or service consumers isolated from evolutionary changes that happen in the service implementation by implementing SOA principles.
• Identify and manage project dependencies across internal and external departments.
• Direct high-profile 2052a project with over $4 million budget to implement Complex Institution Liquidity Monitoring Report infrastructure.
• Provisioned AWS Account with IAM users, groups and roles membership.
• Defined AWS stacks with CloudFormation automation scripts.Creating a next-gen managed data sync system (Oracle <=> DynamoDB), using AWS EC2 Kinesis/KCL and various Lambdas. Contributed to the establishment of best practices and guidelines.
• Run-through AWS KMS service to set encryption keys for the Webapps and EC2 EBS (Elastic Block Storage).
• Setup EC2 Load Balancer, Auto Scaling Groups and AWS Lambda for serverless automation tasks and Cloudwatch for enviroment monitoring.
• Saved 25% on intermediate holding company infrastructure project with $2 million budget by closely monitoring project progress to catch inaccuracies, streamline statements of work, and ensured completion of all delegated responsibilities.
• Act as a champion for the Security Engineering organization by practicing outreach to other technical and business areas, working cross functionally with other Sr. Architects and Technologists, attending VP staff meetings to present details of new designs and initiatives and working closely with the CTO organization to ensure alignment with the broader technology vision.
• Closely work with the Information Risk Management organization on security related issues (e.g., incident response, vulnerability management, regulatory audits, etc.).
• Consult with application development teams on security related designs and architecture.
• Plan and coordinate AIX remediation activities including security and patching updates to bring legacy IBM Power servers into compliance.
• Work with Data Center team on network and fiber cabling, power connections, stack and rack.
• Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software-based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).
• Working on system dependencies, business requirements and security requirements to optimize the Azure subscriptions, vNet design, routing, deployment model and resource groups. Designed choice architectures for IaaS VMs, PaaS role instances and SaaS applications appropriate for the workloads (OSes, applications, databases), transaction volumes, performance goals and security concerns.
• Responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining SharePoint platform based on medium server farm that consists of four Web servers, four application servers, and multiple database instances on the SQL cluster to be able to scale out and to accommodate the workload placed on these servers. Three tier topology environment that uses dedicated servers on all the tiers. Additionally, these servers are grouped according to their role in the farm. All client related services are grouped two servers and then scaled out by adding servers to this group as needed in response to user demand for these services. This provided the most efficient physical and logical layout to support scaling out or scaling up, with better distribution of services across the member servers of the farm.

Confidential, New York, NY

Infrastructure Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Presented the company with the enhanced technologies by architecting and implementing multi-tier application infrastructure system based on Application Routing Requests, Web Farms configured as Web Gardens to increase Web application scalability and reliability through rule-based routing, client and host name affinity, load balancing of HTTP server requests, and distributed disk caching to support Real Estate Listing Application. Along with in-memory distributed cache to provide a performance and scalability boost for .NET Framework applications.
• Implemented High Availability, failover and disaster recovery planning and design for web applications and databases. Identified and documented the current state of systems while planning and designing for future growth and cleanup of legacy systems. Moved forward to more scalable and secure systems with high availability and quick disaster recovery time with Dell Servers and Compellent Fiber Storage that integrates an array of web-based applications fed from a variety of data sources.
• Put in place SOA and provided better flexibility in building applications and business processes in an agile manner by leveraging existing application infrastructure to compose new services.
• Introduced and implemented Fiber ESX clusters with VMware DRS and tuned allocation of physical resources among virtual machines. Implemented VMs with VMware Fault Tolerance and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) based on Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC). Provided technical guidance and support for the design and implementation of VMware related components.
• Applied Cloud technology strategies and solutions that unite the private and public clouds by automating IT service delivery with VMware vRealize Automation while improving overall efficiency.
• Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that can handled expected and unexpected load and are able to quickly grow during development iterations. Implemented multiple high-performance MongoDB replica sets on EC2 with robust reliability.
• Responsible for leading the DevOps group to create/maintain/support pre-production infrastructure (on AWS EC2 using Chef), release management, environments for development, integration testing, performance testing, and full service CICD support.
• Specialized in: Amazon EC2 Linux, Amazon ELB (Elastic Load Balancing), Amazon OpsWork and Cloud Formation (assisting devteam with Chef and Puppet), Amazon RDS (supporting MySQL and MS SQL Server), Amazon Cloud Front and Global Content Delivery Network service.
• Set Up VSTS and Team Foundation Server 2012 to implement a highly customizable continuous integration (CI) and deployment (CD) pipeline for our .NET, AngularJS apps.
• Hands-on engineering, implementation, and management of a significant amount of infrastructure in designing and implementing SQL 2012 Clusters (physical and virtual) with server configuration, performance tuning and maintenance with very good troubleshooting capabilities.
• Technical leader in projects that implemented Agile methodology SDLC by leveraging Microsoft TFS to create proper Bug/Defect tracking, check-in process, build architecture and deployment processes.
• Provided guidance with business & IT Capacity planning and scalability of systems to document Incident Reporting with Resolutions to pin point issues with legacy application environments.
• Created and maintain Windows 2012 AD forest with integrated DNS that integrates into 2003 production forest with one-way relationship dedicated to the applications in DMZ zone.
• Set up iSCSI NAS to leverage private and public clouds and built cost-efficient POC environment.
• Implemented vCenter Log Insight to collects all types of machine-generated log data, including application logs, network traces, configuration files, messages, performance data and system dumps.
• Setup Nagios for scheduling downtime and toggling alerts for services and hosts.

Confidential, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Systems Architect/ Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple large Infrastructure projects with experience across the Waterfall and Agile systems development life cycle for all project phases plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, implement.
• Directly involved in setting up Virtualization strategies to achieve Server consolidation and server containment, flexible development and test environments, Disaster recovery.
• Liaised with IT Directors and other groups on project track status implementing Network Infrastructure solutions to avoid redundancy, minimize expenditures, and improve overall synergy.
• Budgeted projects and managed tasks/resource allocation, and aid with project status and reporting.
• Analyzed business and technology challenges, assess costs, and suggested solutions.
• Created Performance Test service for performance analysis matrix for the SOA infrastructure for providing SLA (Service Level Agreement) to the consumers.
• Visited Confidential Germany to perform Global KAAP application implementation in Berlin. Deployed analytics application in a distributed ITS environment with load balanced processors and SSIS, SSRS, SSAS servers.
• Involved with KAAP ( Confidential Automatic Audit Procedures) project Pilots in Germany, Norway, Brazil, Argentina and Spain that was based on Windows 2008 R2 and SQL 2008R2 Clusters.
• Planned and implemented Virtualized DEV environment in Littleton Massachusetts consisting of over 600 virtual servers spread across multiple ESX clusters with HA, DRM managed via vSphere Center and HP EVA storage LUNs.
• Built, configured and deployed VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 servers along with AD infrastructure to support our DEV environment.
• Created hardware recommendations based on projected growth and current resource utilization, including an evaluation of any currently implemented systems.
• Developed and maintained documentation regarding the build and ongoing support of the VMware environments. Manage and provision shared storage using NetApp Filers to production systems.
• Organized the installation, functionality and maintenance of NetApp Filer HA and replication to our disaster recovery. Installation and migration of VMWare virtual machines from EVA SAN to NetApp.
• Deployed Nagios to monitor availability and health of NetApp filer appliances and APC equipment.
• Managed small to 30,000+ seats Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange migration projects
• Practical use of Microsoft Windows technologies, Scripting, Active Directory, MDT, DHCP, DNS, Windows Server Operating Systems, SSCM, WDS, Exchange, and Certificate Authority with company’s certificate templates and MS Clusters with NLBs using physical and virtualized hardware.
• Migrated 10,000+ Exchange 2007 mailboxes and a custom SMTP\IMAP mail system to EX 2010.
• Defined, document and deliver Infrastructure components provide critical input for the success of the project and team members, in Germany, India and US.
• Set up Cisco ASA 5505 concentrators with ASDM 6.1 to manage Firewall services that provides the Internet connectivity for our Dev. environment, for the purpose of securing the network from outside intrusions and also allowing authorized users from all over the world contact to it via dedicated VPN.
• Managed, design, and deliver multi-tier web application architecture, infrastructure, and computing platform information security and application architecture including: software engineering, and infrastructure components (hardware, software, networking, and telecommunications)
• Created POC for standardizing physical and virtual SQL 2008 Clusters on the VMware platform utilizing Microsoft Cluster Services.
• Designed and applied performance lab with Microsoft for application testing using VSTS
• Implemented ERP sandboxes consisting of SAP, JD Edwards and Oracle Financial systems.
• Responsible for deployment, and maintenance of service-oriented solutions for the two biggest projects, eAudIT (primarily.NET platform) and NextGen AudIT (primarily SQL/ ERP platform).
• Designed, configuration /installation eAudIT 2010 webfarms, ASP.NET SOA Silverlight application running in IIS 7.0 that consumes WCF services using SSL certificates for encryption and security using Windows Integrated Authentication with a SQL 2008 backend.
• Worked with business analysts, Quality Assurance (QA) staff to analyze and resolve identified defects.
• Managed in-house and offshore consultants along with engineering team working on multiple product deployment and implementation in DEV and QA space.
• Provided architecture assessment and advised to design and implement at high availability, scalability, performance and security. throughout the requirements gathering phases and successfully implemented architectural designs of the eAudIT/ NextGen projects.
• Managed network infrastructure and day to day troubleshooting for multiple product development, testing and deployment of eAudIT and integration of MOSS, Interwoven, ACCT, eAudIT, Knowledge Authoring, IBS applications (SAP).
• Provided the development and execution of system and application design documents, system configuration guides (run-books), development and deployment guides, product standards, research and position papers, product evaluation, analysis, and proofs-of-concept.
• Executed SLDC process, application promotion from DEV to QA, Staging and Production, handed off release notes to production support teams.

Confidential, New York, NY

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Trading floor support specialist that supported multiple business groups from Fixed Income, Asset Management, REEF and provided third level server and desktop support. Expert in supporting and testing Client-Server, Web based applications and the key escalation point to provide an enterprise solution.
• Dramatically reduced IT costs by spearheading the centralization of Virtual Desktops; deployed and demonstrated Proof-of-Concepts for VDI, implemented it in production by administering the VMware ESX cluster with different level Desktop templates and supporting storage.
• In-depth understanding of popular market data applications such as Bloomberg, Reuters, .Net Exchange Pro and DDE linking functionality for equity/fixed income trading desk system support.
• Handled high volume of Lotus Notes 6.5, Citrix, Hummingbird Exceed, Blackberry, Palm device related application and connectivity issues that were manage in PeopleSoft S3 ticketing system.
• Succeeded at IRT response queue for clients on the East Cost (New York, Jersey City, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, and Miami), balanced workload, provided training, and coordinated projects.
• Provided timely and accurate information to daily tasks and overall process, engineering of the projects to ensure the program meets SLAs.
• Implemented installation, configuration, break-fix, and requests for 1,500 proprietary and 3rd party software running on Bank’s desktop and laptop Windows XP builds.

Confidential, New York, NY

Executive Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Advanced the infrastructure for over four thousand users to Windows XP and 2003 server platform by leading XP rollout that involved migrating user’s data by developing a process, which became a standard procedure for Desktop OS rollout.
• Duties included support of all hardware support Server/Desktop, all wireless peripherals including Blackberry’s, Palms, and configuration of companies VPN connection for external access, network administration, Active Directory management.
• Forward-thinking break/fix and troubleshooting skills utilizing software such as: Emergency Repair Disk, Remote Recover, FileMon, RegMon, Partition Magic, Automated System Recovery for Windows XP and Server 2003 based systems, troubleshooting E-mail, networks, TCP/IP, and desktop issues with call tracking database using Vantive 8.5.