SUMMARY:

• High potential architect/manager with focus on technical pre - sales, design, implementation, and deployment in cooperation with professional services. An aggressive, success-driven, and highly collaborative expert with 15 years of telecom, banking, and consulting experience in financial services both in the US and abroad. US citizen. Outside-the-box thinker and firm believer in telecommunications, automation, open source software, and systematic processes to greatly enhance efficiency and results. Problem solver.
• Deployment Strategic Planning Technical Architecture Travel
• Research and Development Infrastructure Professional Services Performance Management Implementation
• Technical Writing Solutions Design Critical Thinking Reverse Engineering Integration
• J2EE NoSQL Full SDLC Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2 JavaScript, Ruby, Perl Frontend Backend

SUMMARY:

Austin, Texas

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• A typical ASM Deployment would include fully automated hardware commissioning and configuration, OS (RHEL, SunOS, CentOS, SLES, Windows Server 2008/2012/2016 , ESXi etc) and/or clusterware installation, VMs and applications deployment (for example - Foglite, Symantec NetBackup, MS SQL server, etc )
• Had experience working with all major virtualization platforms - VMware, HyperV, KVM
• Deeply familiar with clusterware management portals such as Dell ASM, vRealize Automation and Orchestration, vCenter, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, AWS
• Experienced with Network Operation Systems, Networking in general and all major protocol stacks, VDS, NSX. Storage Virtualizations (VSAN, Hyper-converged architecture)
• Supported VMware products (Dell owns VMware) such as vSphere, vRealize, VDS, etc.
• Familiar with PowerShell script and equivalents - Perl, Ruby, Shell scripting, kickstart scripts, etc.
• Familiar with health monitoring solutions - SNMP, IPMI, iDRAC WSMAN, Nagios, Ganglia

Reston, Virginia

Senior Software Engineer, Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Deployed horizontal scaling mediation project for tier 1 provider (SMSC, MMSC, SGSN, GGSN, CSG, including Fraud Detection).
• Participated in Openet Policy Manager (PCRF) integration projects through all phases - RFP response, Proof of Concept demos, project planning, Level of Effort estimates, requirements analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, deployment, and handover to support. Led Openet Policy Manager (PCRF) system security analysis, performance analysis and tuning, mapping product architecture to system and security requirements. Led IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) CCF (Charging Collection Function) Proof of Concept demo for AT&T.
• Worked on IaaS and PaaS initiatives, based upon Cisco Unified Computing System.
• Designed & implemented components of Virtualization and Performance Improvement, and SLA initiatives in Openet. Participated in evaluation, design and integration of Oracle DBMS replacement with NoSQL databases (SolidDB, VoltDB, MongoDB, other).
• Worked with AWS and EC2 Amazon services and Private Cloud infrastructure, VMware, VirtualBox, KVM virtualization. Led OS transition from SUN Solaris to RedHat Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x.
• Spearheaded in-service upgrade of Cisco Policy Manager in production environment. Evaluated and designed high availability solutions for integration with Openet Frameworks (Veritas Cluster Suite, Pacemaker, Corosync).
• PCRF on Cisco UCS and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (NFV/SDN) - facilitated the deployment of a 48-node cluster in 4-5 hours, and the upgrade of a 48-node cluster in 3 hours (rolling upgrade, with loss of service prevention).
• DevOps - Continuous Deployment/Continuous Integration - fully automated environment for in-house acceptance testing and automated performance testing on Cisco UCS and IBM BladeCenter platforms and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x/7.x. Integrated with Jenkins, Subversion, and Jira. Automated configuration of Cisco UCS.
• Achieved high scalability starting with 2,000 TPS in 2009, reaching 50,000 TPS by 2015, and experimenting with 100,000 TPS.
• Saved $1 million per datacenter in licensing costs replacing Veritas Cluster Suite with Open Source technologies.
• Implemented Openet virtual solutions that allowed reduction of Capex by 68%, operational costs by 67% (estimated by ACG research) for $60 million project.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Customization of BSS/OSS software, with focus on Customer Order Flow and Revenue Assurance. Managed project team of nine members on-site.
• Prepared project plan and design, and supervised quality assurance team.

Ashburn, Virginia

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all technological aspects of Global Access Rights Management project implementation. Worked on four sub-projects simultaneously, designing and implementing new access control features and interoperability with external information systems, including Single Sign-On. Project team included up to 30 members in different phases of implementation.
• Out of four order management systems we worked on, one was previously implemented by Accenture (high cost); one created in-house and based upon Open Source Software; another implemented by a company that went out of business (Eclipse), leaving no product design documentation; last one was written as a programming language that ceased to exist (JAM)
• Completed business analysis, hired developers, designed solutions, supervised development and deployment.
• Project (fixed cost) completed on time, stayed within budget, allowing Verizon Business to get in compliance and continue relationship with its major clients.

Washington, D.C

Development Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and managed development of Log Monitoring system (SIEM system, COBIT). Collaborated with cost-benefits analysis group in research of enterprise log monitoring solutions. Organized and implemented SDLC environment for application development team with use of Rational Unified Process tools and methodologies (UML & XML). Team included up to six developers.

Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed over 20 applications for Costpoint and CostpointWeb, in General Ledger, Billing, Projects, and Inter-Company Work Orders modules.
• Migrated Client-Server solutions to Software as a Service (SaaS) platform (CostpointWeb, based on J2EE architecture).
• Implemented Wide Area Workflow module (DoD/DLA requirements).
• Designed and implemented Data Transformation and Migration tool (aka Project Preprocessor) for data migration from other ERP systems to Costpoint.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization, Cluster computing, High Performance Computing, Cisco UCS, IBM BladeCenter, Linux, VLANs, TCP/IP networking, OSI model (L1-L7 protocols), SSO, RESTful, Red Hat Linux, Open Source Software, Parallel Processing, proprietary languages, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), PaaS, IaaS, DevOps, Puppet, Cobbler, Oracle RAC 10.x/11.x, NoSQL, VoltDB, SolidDB, Performance Optimization, KVM Virtualization, SRIOV, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, VMware, Unix scripting languages (shell, Perl, Tcl, Ruby, Python), JavaScript, Jira, CVS, Subversion, Git, Jenkins, Veritas Cluster Suite, Pacemaker, Corosync, LDAP, TACACS, Wireshark, Diameter, LTE, 4G network, Deep Packet Inspection, Java, Oracle, Perl, C++, PL/SQL, Transact-SQL, Sybase, OpenLDAP, SSO, Tomcat, JAM, Solaris, REST, Open Source, Rational Unified Process, UML, XML, C++, SPSS, SAS, R, SQL Server, DB2, SQLBase, Gupta Centura, Windows, WebLogic, Crystal Reports, Actuate, Pascal, Fortran, Assembler, OSS/BSS, NFV/SDN, Agile