SUMMARY

• Accomplished and motivated cloud solution architect, wif in - depth experience in teh IT and cloud computing industry.
• Demonstrated success in overseeing complete cloud services lifecycle and in ensuring timely completion of deliverables and adherence to assigned scope and budget.
• Experienced in facilitating communication wif clients and stakeholders at all levels to meet client requirements and drive repeat business.
• Proven ability to identify and implement cloud process improvements which reduce costs and improve productivity.
• Possesses exceptional leadership skills, able to provide teh direction and support needed to achieve key cloud operational goals.
• Adept at prioritizing competing demands in high volume, fast paced environments.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE:

• Cloud Architecture
• Cloud IaaS Infrastructure
• Service Design & Management
• Telecommunications / Networks
• Software Development Life Cycle
• Cloud SaaS delivery
• Unified Collaboration Systems
• Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New jersey

Co- Founder

Responsibilities:

• Design Cloud architectures to exceed key performance indicators such as reliability, capacity, scalability, cost, security, and performance for distributed systems from inception through post-deployment. (Microsoft Azure, AWS)
• Collaborate wif product development managers and solution sales teams to identify and validate new technology service solution opportunities, build standard operating procedures for solution implementation and support.
• Lead in development of cost and pricing models for business development teams for customer cases
• Assist sales and business development team wif creation of solutions as we migrate our customers to teh new design.
• Perform technology readiness assessments, health checks, and project milestone reviews and deliver technical training as required by customers.
• Documentation, practice business plans and create technical roadmaps and strategies for implementation and operations, drive updates to operations framework and establish cross-technology designs and plans.
• Developing reference architecture of advanced AWS Services
• Design and implement data security by encryption, REST and in-transit
• Design end to end security solutions for AWS and Azure platforms
• Using Certificates in cloud
• Setting up secure connections (VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute)
• Best Practices for Identity Access Management
• Audit implementation wif AWS and Azure
• Lead engineering resources in development, support, automation, and technical enablement
• Billing work on projects, individually and through all team members
• Provide best practices for optimizing cloud performance and cost-TEMPeffectiveness of software running on major public clouds. (Microsoft Azure, AWS)
• Provide financial justification, ROI and cost management for all architecture and platform recommendations.

Confidential

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Cloud service design for OpenStack, AWS, Microsoft Azure
• Experience wif major cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, AWS) enterprise design and implementation
• Continuously check cloud projects, goals and take corrective actions
• Defining cloud services objectives and evaluating outcomes.
• Writing Cloud Formation Templates (CFT) in YAML and JSON format to build theAWS services wif teh paradigm of Infrastructure as a Code.
• Providing deployment guidance, supporting on teh development of teh customers’ cloud adoption model, providing appropriate recommendations (me.e. Networking, Identity, Security, Compliance, etc.).
• Contributing to developing, maintaining and publishing principals, standards, guidelines and processes as needed, ensuring alignment wif Enterprise Architecture Building and maintain architectural decisions.
• Design and implement all of Cloud services in Turk Telekom for customers according to business requirements.
• Utilize SDLC and ITIL processes to manage Cloud service development projects for teh largest telecommunication and ISP company in Turkey, wif $5 billion in annual revenue.
• Planned, monitored, and maintained annual Cloud budgets and allocated cloud resources.
• Documentation for procedures, technical design documents, operational documents
• Managed internal cloud process design initiatives, including unifications and redesigns.
• Managing Global partnerships (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services Cloud Partnership in Turkey )
• Served as teh Cloud Project Lead for service design and cloud services planning projects.
• Design and deploy major cloud infrastructure and platform (Microsoft Azure, AWS, OpenStack)
• Reduced teh Cloud projects costs by %50
• Successful cloud projects financial justification
• Coordinated training courses for employees, participation in courses of cloud and data center (Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, AWS, etc.), resulting in each team member earning at least one new certification.
• Maintained annual budget forecasting rates of 95% or greater.
• Oversaw end-to-end cloud management and service design for IT cloud services projects using ITIL and SDLC methodologies. Managed project design, implementation, testing, troubleshooting, and support of all cloud services.
• Prepared and implemented cloud service design requirements, outcomes, disaster recovery and corresponding documentation.
• Facilitated communication and aligned goals between internal teams and departments, including operations, IT, marketing, sales, and customer service departments.
• Established and maintained relationships wif cloud vendor and partners.
• Spearheaded 10 new cloud services which grew teh data center revenue by 25%.
• Created and implemented service design standards for cloud and data center services.
• Implemented teh practice of storing and sharing project and service documents which improved organizational memory as well as team efficiency.
• Developed cloud process improvements which reduced project complexity and accelerated service launch times.

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed operations for VoIP and Microsoft solutions for an official distributor of GrandStream and TP-Link DSL modems. Facilitated communications between clients, technical teams, and internal departments.
• Designed and developed special projects for teh Turkish Authority.
• Co-founded a firm which created software solutions for teh textile production market.
• Introduced first-in-market web technologies to textile dyeing production operations.
• Developed new cloud solutions for teh textile market, including Parallels and SteelEye.
• Ensured systems were easily accessible throughout five campuses wif 1,000 computers and 100 servers which provided service to 23,000 users.
• Integrated Active Directory wif Linux PAM.
• Created teh first Microsoft IT Academy Program in Turkey.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Certifications: ITIL Foundation v3, Service Design, AWS Cloud Solution Architect, Certified Administrator for OpenStack, MCSE, MCSA, MCP (2000), Rackspace CloudU

Servers: Windows Server System, Linux Server System

Scripting: Python, Shell scripting

Software: Exchange Server, SharePoint, MS Project, MS Office, Visio, OpenStack

Cloud / Virtualization: VMware,, Hyper-V, KVM, Puppet, Chef, Dockers, Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, Storage, AKS Container), AWS ( EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, ROUTE 53, Cloud Formation)