SUMMARY:

• DevOps Project Management | Cloud | Hadoop Infrastructure
• Seasoned professional with more than 14 years’ experience in Canada and 25 years’ total international experience with expertise in all facets of Cloud Architecture, Hadoop Infrastructure, change management, DevOps Technical Project Management, and infrastructure project management within high - profile corporations.
• Adept at collaborating with all members of the organization to achieve business, IT and project management objectives.
• Credited with a wealth of technical expertise and achievements in infrastructure support year on year throughout career to date.
• Top-performing leader, with exceptional organizational and communications ability, will add value from the outset to any new organization, where superior technical project management, is required for success.
• Highly customer focused, with expensive customer facing experience as a consultant.
• On all most all of the projects, have advised senior management either at the Director/Vice Presidents (Vps) and SVP(s) levels.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Cloud Architect
• Agile Project Management
• DevOps
• Google Cloud Platform
• Nutanix (Certified)
• Oracle Database Administration vMWare vRealize
• Change Management
• Cash Management & Forecasting
• Vendor Management
• Operations Management
• Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF)
• Excellent Communicator
• Strong Organizational Skills
• Databases
• Leadership & Consulting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IT Skills: Linux Administrator, Hadoop Administration, VMware, DevOps, Cloud Computing (vMWare vRealize and Google Cloud Platform), Hadoop (MapR), SAP HANA Administration, Business Objects 4.0 Administration, Business Application Support (Banking & Finance)

Operating Systems & RDBNS: RedHat Enterprise 5 & 6 Server Administration, SUSE Linux Desktop, OpenSuse Administration, Windows Server 2008 (Onwards), Windows Active Directory, Oracle Database Version 8, 8i, 9i Administration

Methodologies: Business System Analysis, LEAN, Agile, SDLC, Application Life Cycle

Technical Project Management: Infrastructure, DevOps, Release Management, Problem Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant Project Management (Architect)/Application Migration

Responsibilities:

• Application Migration from physical to the Google Cloud
• Data Migration from physical to various data storage options on the Google Cloud:
• Automation using Ansible
• Data Management, Security Audit and Compliance (CDIC, FDIC, ISO)
• Patching
• Working closely with the Senior Management at IBM and Confidential
• Advised Senior Management (VP and Sr. VP level) on Application access and security gaps and issues within the current environment and modifications for future
• Scrum Master for Cloud Application Development and re-platform of Payments Application (New ISO 20022/ISO 27001)

Confidential

Senior Cloud Analyst/Architect and Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Pivotal role as Senior Support Analyst for Confidential, spearheaded integration and support of VMware vRealize Cloud, including swift problem resolution of vRealize virtual machine issues, both RHEL and Windows.
• Proactively researched and tested new vRealize features for future deployment, monitored using vRealize operations management, and provided effective leadership for problem management and Infrastructure Project Management task force, yielding seamless operations.

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Migration of application from the private cloud on to the Google Cloud Platform
• Data Migration
• Google Cloud Security and Audit as per (CDIC, FDIC, ISO Requirements)
• Google Cloud IAM
• Google Cloud Resource Management and Monitoring
• Application Load Balancing
• POC for migration applications to Google Cloud Container and Microservices
• Over responsibility for the entire Google Cloud project plans, proposals, reports, and task order and administrative reporting.
• Attended and lead customer (users and Stakeholders) meetings and served as focal to all Google cloud projects/tasks.
• Conducted daily Scrum Meetings and assisted in removing barriers and blockages affecting properly workflow
• Ensures quality assurance of Google Cloud project deliverables.
• Participated in special projects as required
• Configuration Management using Ansible
• Patching using Ansible and Redhat Satellite Server
• Nutanix Hyper converged Datacenter expansion
• Upgrade of Nutanix firmware
• VMWare ESXi upgrade on all the Private cloud nodes
• Architect of solutions:Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL for the cloud users. Installation template of Oracle (Linux Environment only), Docker Installation. ESXi Upgrade. Nutanix AVH Upgrade.
• Capacity Management
• Configuration Management
• PCI, ISO 270001, Server Hardening, IP360 Scans

DevOps Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Server 2012 to SQL Server 2014: Upgrade every Virtual Machine running SQL Server 2012
• Cloud Template lifecycle management, and DevOps Planning and implementation of Configuration Management, using Puppet in Private Cloud. (Ansible, Python and Powershell)
• Nutanix deployment, firmware upgrade and hypervisor upgrade (ESXi).
• Designed created and executed Cloud Patching process, including all facets of Change Management. created efficient DevOps Bug tracing system, and achieved improved efficiency.
• Planned, Designed and implemented Cloud Security initiatives and built a team specifically addressing Cloud Security issues.
• Cloud Inventory and VM life cycle history automation
• TOGAF - Cloud Enterprise Architecture design
• Planned and Implemented Incident Management, Incident Management and Problem Management for the private cloud and the public cloud. Aligned these processes with the Enterprise processes.
• Cloud DR Planning and conducted annual DR Tests for the cloud.
• Utilized motivational leadership style to effectively engage, lead and manage, a team of 7 to 12 members onshore and similar strength team members in South America and Asia
• Agile Project Management
• DevOps
• DevSecOps

Confidential

Cloud IT Technical Project Manager (Architect)

Responsibilities:

• Worked with key business functions to develop and drive the overall public cloud adoption strategy
• Creation and delivery of a modern governance framework for public cloud usage.
• Established repeatable processes and templates for deploying enterprise applications and services while maintaining organizational control over those applications in a public cloud environment.
• Developed governance of public cloud by establishing requirements for workload owners incorporating guardrails for security, data protection, disaster recovery, shared services, continuous monitoring, connectivity, authentication, and auditing the deployments of workload owners to ensure adherence to security and compliance standards.
• Partnered with Subject-Matter-Experts (SMEs) for the EriCloud portal throughout the global technology team at Ericsson to architect complete, detailed solutions to complex problems.
• Acted as technical lead, in partnership with project management functions, on the delivery of public cloud technology solutions. Participated in the analysis, design and implementation of methodologies, practices, policies and standards to continually enhance business process and the delivery of IT services.
• Stakeholder management along with Technical Project Managers.
• Implementation of Agile Methodology (Mainly Scrum but some Kanban). Scrum Master for the EriCloud Portal Development Team

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implemented GlobalOne application upgrade. Broadly including all phases of Project Management:

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Application maintenance with seven onshore and 8 offshore developers

Confidential

Infrastructure Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned and Implemented Confidential Command Center for 7x24 monitoring and resolving Level 1 and Level 2 Incidents
• Application Onboarding process for monitoring an applications
• Incident Management and Change Management Process

Confidential

Business System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Implementing changes as per recommendation from business users mainly adding new accounts, absorbing fallout's, moving accounts and editing OSI, Recon and Escalation scripts to generate necessary reports applying business rules.
• Troubleshooting external feeds issues feeding into RCM from external sources via ebx mailbox and host jobs
• Implementing projects as assigned.
• Testing reports in lower environments and certifying for production
• Prepare BRDs and/or Assist in preparation of BRDs.
• Business Process analysis and design for the RCM support team

Confidential

Sr. Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Attending to alerts, taking corrective action for seamless functioning of Unix Infrastructure, databases and applications
• Vendor Management and SLA tracking
• Auctioning IMAC requests, change tickets
• Mapping Business process for the support team for ticket handling Business System Analyst.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Migration from all Unix (Solaris, AIX etc) to RHEL 5.x
• Setting up NetIQ alerts on all Linux Builds and also administered NetIQ
• Troubleshooting and resolving all Linux issues

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Migrating application source code on AIX, Linux, Solaris and AS400 servers
• Troubleshooting AIX, Linux and Solaris platform based applications
• Day to day Linux/Unix System Administration tasks