SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated self - starter, Cloud solution architect/program-project manager.; delivers multiple priorities simultaneously, builds consensus across interdisciplinary environments, confident- humble solution deliverer
• Business agility engineering to improve enterprise service levels in IT services, projects/programs/processes;
• Private/public cloud experience in an Agile environment developing user-facing systems and apps.
• Eliciting, defining, documenting req’ts for priority features determined by client’s business goals quickly grasping the architecture of client's IT environment(s) and selecting appropriate technologies and approaches to meet the design requirements; With strong leading edge technology skills, self motivated, can-do team builder, with enthusiasm in motivating Stake holders, Senior Managers and project team while overseeing management of focused, traceable, business goal oriented website enhancements, agile cloud services, business intelligence, logistics, cyber security projects and latest cloud security features, multi-yrs in professional services
• Lead app owners, app developers and analysts, and staff to determine business needs and functionalities for new or revised apps.Develops, quantifies, presents risk and cost mitigation strategies and P&L impact valuation to Sr. Managers; develops weekly status dashboard/reports for enterprise Fortune 500 and Federal stakeholders
• Architects/manages/oversee tasks and resource assignments in highly complex leading edge technology projects
• Cyber/security architecture experience: enterprise, Federal POCs, NIST-RMF, DOD DIACAP solution compliance
• Broad hands-on experience: AWS EC2/S3/VPC/IAM; HP Helion, RedHat, and Mirantis Openstack ; VMware vSphere 5.x; established best practices for AWS, security, auto testing and release mg’t builds, and script testing; experience with Jenkins, Bamboo CI build systems, infra-automation: Chef, CloudFormation & Elastic-Beanstalk.
• Developed/managed multiple project plans and schedules using Agile-Scrum methods and tools, e.g.: Jira, Version-One, Agilo, Rally, VisualStudio TeamServer; practical application on User Experience best practices, including design, information architecture, usability, security, availability and accessibility
• Works with team members across functional areas to estimate tasks, new projects, and ideation prioritization
• Identifies, tracks and maintains project risk list/items, associated gaps and mitigations using PMP and NIST 800
• Implemented web content mg’t systems/strategies, working with a cross-functional teams, executive management, stakeholders, Web/Cloud Developers, QA Analysts and other PMs to timely project completion
• Provided guidance to project staff, documented, managed and evaluated staff performance, contributing to evaluation by their managers, developed, implemented, monitored communication plans for team &customers
• Authored technical and documentation, to support and assure successful turnover of complex projects
• Experience in telecom/enterprise transition outsourcing management of services e.g. from Government to contractor management, led IT engineering programs with a cross functional groups, 10-100 team members.
• Meets/exceeds customer expectations. Strong/clear written and verbal communication skills; All-nighter passion for business critical troubleshooting, debug experience in highly complex cloud, web and telecom applications
• Multi-year experience analyzing and overseeing comprehensive client business /solution challenges to deliver integrated solutions, via ITIL best practices, received monetary rewards for solution on time deliveries; Proficient team leadership taking full responsibility for the customer solution’s success provided all support needed for overall solution success; demonstrated engagement knowledge in complex projects requiring cross- organizational/business partner/multiple customer and multi-vendor integration/coordination.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Reston/Sterling, VA

Architect/Project Mgr.

Responsibilities:

• Organized Consolidation and testing of Chef cookbooks in private cloud with “Kitchen tools”
• Agile-architect/PM, designed end2end security architecture: “Splunk CyberSecurity service” AWS SaaS project, consolidated, parameterized, to “productize, designs/practices into subscription SaaS solutions in AWS cloud;
• Agile PM/architect advised enterprise/Federal clients on DevOps CICD maturity practices, tool chain workflow and automation consolidation and AWS architecture projects to improve performance and platform mgt.;
• Lead-engineer: DOD, Darpa Openstack architecture POCs and Cyber Security projects; performance benchmarking, etc. to improve live daily performance, storage mgt., monitoring/workflow process modeling e.g. Nagios; troubleshooting live OpenStack opr’ns and PaaS-based workloads & hybrid clouds:
• Authored Federal cloud and Big Data SBIRS and for live workload-cloud operations; supported Federal IT service RFIs/RFPs; lead hybrid cloud solution strategies including AWS, Openstack, VMware, Openshift, CloudFoundry

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Openstack Cloud Architect Program Mgr

Responsibilities:

• Architect/Program Mgr. compared Openstack vs. AWS DevOps architectures for engagements to install Helion Openstack and PaaS/Cloud Foundry, ALS-services, for Dreamworks, Deloitte, FOX, and Fortune 500 International clients, designed CI/CD using: GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Chef, Jira, Confulence; designed Hybrid-Cloud IaaS/PaaS, solution architectures, organizing integration of Heat and AWS CloudFormation automation templates

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Architect & Prog. Mgr

Responsibilities:

• Session Management Architect - program managed functional architecture and associated cloud SaaS architecture development & application roadmap
• Led large Scrum/Agile cross-functional teams reviews in large IP network Transformation program, Voice/Video Network Services, NextGen Contact Center
• Confidential Federal: designed national 3 data center vSphere 5.5 infrastructure, highly scalable private cloud architecture, secure, auto-scale extend, fully automated DevOps continuous update tool chain for C++ Agile/Scrum software dev via “Solution as a Service” engineering methodology assuring continuous IT operations
• Architected/built DevOps tool chains to deploy enterprise apps
• Established best practices for source control, security, auto testing and release mg’t Build for internal tools to support SW engineering best practices
• Migrated/modified enterprise web-apps to AWS cloud via std AWS utilities; integrated New Relic monitoring agents to validate app-cloud performance. upload Java-apps via AWS console/OpsWorks, and MySQL database to simulate an “air traffic controller app” to manage special Federal flights and network; benchmarked apps against RedHat-Openshift; created a working Puppet-master, Puppet-client Ubuntu AWS architecture to provision network infrastructure elements, for testing coverage/compliance of 800 DIACAP STIG.
• Designed E2E performance management system for carrier’s IP network services and MP4 services;
• Developed Cloud/API architectures, key mobility use cases for Hybrid-Cloud IaaS/PaaS; designed/ built DevOps continuous integration solution architecture; automated VM-configurations for shared IT IaaS service users
• ITIL/PMO management experience in developing, strategic planning for Shared IT Services systems
• Project management of strategic Federal and enterprise projects/activities, including ITIL-based SLMF process development & refinement, Technology Analysis, Tactical Mgt Services, Advisory Services, Mobile Apps;
• Developed Confidential mobility enterprise strategy, architecture and roadmap, under Confidential CTO office
• Analysis, architecture and requirements involving Titanium mobile apps for continuous delivery of sensitive security data-streams, based on Agile user stories, with small SW dev teams; network/access security solutions,
• Cloud-Mobility and End to end QoS architecture for data services, detained design for complex network-services
• Analyzed detailed VoIP, Push-to-Talk, and video interoperable solution architectures, trans national network architectures involving IP-MPLS, needed SLAs, KPIs, SoRs for RFPs, and test plans,
• Applied 3G/4G mobile, E2E QoS, cloud architecture/infrastructure experience to lead development of POCs, lead cross-functional teams, 3rd party vendors and client/user personnel to achieve on-time product/service deployment of APIs, with network launch within timelines and budget

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA & Herndon, VA

Sr. Solution Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Principal program architect with Confidential International involving detailed design for Mexico and Brazil network service rollouts and OSS; developed cloud-calculated SLAs and technical KPI definitions, managed tactical vendors to bring the KPIs into reality, included NextGen service performance: High Performance Push-to-Talk, and internet video-share-service solution architectures, policy-based QoS management architecture; trans-national backhaul architectures involving and KPIs, SoRs/RFPs, test plans, managed vendor processes
• Developed plan and implementation/trial/POC to improve bandwidth management by 30-40%,
• Developed all aspects of Confidential International OSS/wireless detail design & business process improvements
• Sr. Architect/Engineer on MSV/Lightsquared’s 4G/LTE mobile-satellite project
• Responsible for end to end QoS architecture and detailed requirements and inter-domain mappings from QoS-aware handset-clients across to QoS mappings in/out of data center for virtualized network management apps;
• Authored core network, OSS & SDP requirements for RFP, evaluated vendor responses, provided detailed technical support during contract negotiation and validation of all core & OSS technical documents
• Video Solution Architect in Apex projects to AT&T Mobility & HBO for immediate video program delivery to Windows Mobile 7 smartphones, for near-live mobile TV broadcast of Uverse & HBO programs;
• Wireless Engineer @ Cox-Wireless, owned validation of wireless internet performance, IMS & AAA services;

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Solutions Consultant/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected and managed customer solution projects, authored high-level and detail designs, created detailed technical and service-level requirements & implementation plans for Tier 1/ 2 Carriers & Fortune 100 enterprises
• Lead architect for end to end QoS architecture of mobile-satellite carrier Terrestar; also designed policy-based bandwidth management system to accommodate Government priority services and performance analysis of push-to-talk application taking into account satellite to ground time delays;
• Designed Service Assurance architectures for Confidential Mobility Video Exchange application
• Architecture, design & integration NMS-based e-911, CALEA, Push to talk & Priority/Preemption services
• OSS project for major carrier, consolidating customer database, iDEN messaging, portal, NMS /Apps
• Developed preliminary OSS/NMS architecture/ integration and BellSouth-Cingular’s dual-mode handset
• Designed all NMS interfaces and centralized policy based management architectures Microsoft IPTVe

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Video Surveillance/Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Defined IP-VPN and wireless data security features for “GGSN/PDSN” product releases. Obtained approval with sales team resulting in them obtaining multi-million dollar orders from customers.
• Led architecture team in requirements development for key UMTS->4GLTE based network service features and provisioning work-flow, GSM/GPRS and 3G features: “Network QoS, MPLS-VPN; Service Quality Mgt