OBJECTIVE:

• Self - starter who enjoys helping customers (internal or external to my employer) with enterprise objectives to improve Data Center operational efficiency and quality of service through automated, standardized IT services involving servers, databases, networks, COTS software and company applications.

SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of IT industry experience implementing Data Center Automation solutions - Server & Client Automation plus Cloud Lifecycle Management. Experienced in translating customer needs into project objectives and solution requirements, along with configuring & Integrating Cloud Technologies like AWS,
• BMC’s CLM etc and have automated Virtualization of Data Centers in VMware, UCS, Physical Servers for use cases like Compliance checks, Patching, Provisioning, Software and Application Deployment, Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Change Tracking, Auditing and Drift Management (deviations from original state). Grounded with experience also in application integration, system administration, and network consultancy. Industries include: Financial, State & Federal Government, Healthcare and Manufacturing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr Infrastructure Architect- Consulting

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Responsibilities:

• Confidential ( Confidential - Confidential .) - As a Sr Architect & Infrastructure manager I was tasked to complete a Health Check of the existing Infrastructure of ALL BMC Automation products, their Integrations and Configurations to arrive at proposing Short and Long term goals for the Department. Successfully presented all the findings and made proposals accordingly to the Director & Team members. Products in the review and assessment included ERMS, ITSM - Remedy, TrueSight Monitoring (TSOM), TrueSight Server Automation (TSSA), TrueSight Reporting (BDSSA), Cloud Lifecycle Management (CLM), CMDB Etc.,

AWS Cloud Architect - Consulting- IT Intellectuals

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Kintetsu Worldwide Express - As AWS Cloud Architect implemented Cloud Security at a major Logistics company providing Architecture to address concerns around AMI’s, EC2, S3, VPC & DDOS Security covering IAM, Network, Application, Log Level & Database. Migrated Applications leveraging Cloud Formation, Systems Manager tools. Performed Security Analysis and Health check of the Env. And fixed identified vulnerabilities.
• Created S3 buckets and implemented versioning. Leveraged Jenkins for an effective CI/CD pipeline.
• Structured proper naming convention for effective tagging with Security Groups & ACL’s. Generated health check reports and actioned few vulnerabilities detected wth ports & permissions Etc.
• Various other AWS tools leveraged: EKS, CloudTrail, WAF & Shield, Elasticsearch, Secrets Manager, GuardDuty, CloudFront, Route 53, S3 Glacier Etc. Configured Palo Alto Firewall.

Sr TrueSight Architect-Consulting

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• Confidential ( Confidential - Confidential .) - As a Sr Architect implemented various solutions working with BMC Partner Transcendent IT. Bladelogic TrueSight solutions like Patching Windows, RHEL, CentOS Etc…And implementing security solutions by scripting STIG’s for various Middleware platforms like Tomcat, JBoss, IIS 7, IIS 8.5 & IIS 10, Citrix Zenapp Etc…to ensure everything is Compliant with the Department of Defence’s DISA/NIST Compliance policies at a Federal client.

Sr TrueSight Architect

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Change Health - Implemented Patching use case leveraging Bladelogic and provided knowledge transfer to the client with appropriate SOP documents.
• Involved in pre-sales activities to pitch TrueSight projects by working on presenting use cases and providing RFI/RFP & RFQ’s to effectively bid on Federal Government clients.

Sr Application Architect

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Responsibilities:

• As part of Enterprise Server Automation | Global Networking and Infrastructure Solutions team various use cases in Bladelogic being leveraged were addressed and appropriate solutions were provided to different internal business units to facilate easier management of their Servers & End points.
• Initiated the very first successful attempt of BSA upgrade in the DEV Environment. This was a tricky upgrade as the order required was to go to TWO different BSA versions in between before completing the desired BSA 8.9 version. Responsible for implementing the solution in UAT, SIT & PROD Environments.
• Handled Global Patching by creating Catalogs, Rules, Smart Foders & Jobs and provide central solution to deploy the same for various businesses within the Bank. Customized Compliance Rules and deployed Applications in BSA and Automated various hardening standards specially pertaining to blasadmin settings etc on App Servers in 5-6 different environments like DEV, POC, SIT, UAT, PERF & Prod etc. leveraging JIRA - Tasks.
• Worked on Server consolidation and release management activities apart form assisting ‘Financial Center’ team to setup various Compliance rules & scripts to automate Large file deploy Jobs using repeaters etc. and provide solutions to use Web services via Rest/SOAP or Chrome effectively.
• Remediate vulnerabilities, assist with Network DMZ (Helix) build, ACL updates, IPAM Servers, mitigate ANY/ANY rule & Firewall Log review via client submitted econnects. Worked on Atrium Orchestrator to check application workflow impacting the SaaS process in AWS Cloud.
• Worked closely with DevOps team to address automation issues and leverage Tivoli TAM following the procedure by referencing SOR Database and the Run book entries match. Coordinate with OpenSys team to implement Ansible - agentless node management and created playbooks with multiple plays to effectively monitor Configuration changes and Roles & Permissions & secured Yaml files.

Sr. Application Architect & Specialist

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Architecture and Designed solutions that manage software source code, application builds & deployments, Setup Windows (all versions) bare metal Provisioning ground up.
• Integrated customized Applications in BSA and Automated various server hardening standards on both internal and vendor builds using BL Packages, Compliance Templates and Rules, XML files and power shell scripts. Worked on Server consolidation and release management activities for various business units & Vendors.
• Reviewed Azure, CLM, GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and AWS Cloud features as part of Design & Architecture team by directly interacting with pre-sales teams as part of the roadmap to implement an effective cloud solution.
• Provide organizational support in BladeLogic implementation (Stood up Test Environment), Application Packaging, Bare metal provisioning and Patch Management. Assisted with Project Management tasks to monitor all activities effectively establishing as Single Point of Contact for all Bladelogic related activity.

Sr Consultant

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Contract Works - Guidance support & Assist fellow Archietcts & Peers in the Industry with multiple short term contracts.

Sr Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked in all phases of project lifecycle involving BMC BladeLogic Server Automation (BSA), including pre-sales presentations; contract and change order development; solution analysis and design (including architecture components of BSA application, database, security and network components); client workshops in support of analysis, design and planning; use case & requirements definition; installation and configuration; testing; product engineering input on discovered defects and testing of fixes/workarounds; Release Lifecycle Management (RLM) and deployment across environments; knowledge transfer sessions with customers and peers; knowledge base contributions (BMC Communities); Project Management work activity planning and schedule updates (MS-Project, MS Excel). Produced documents in support of project lifecycle.

Application Architect & Administrator

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Architecture and Designed solutions that managed software source code, application builds & deployments.
• Integrated customized Applications in BSA using XML files and power shell scripts. Worked on Server consolidation and release management activities for Home Loans & Insurance business unit. Provided global support in BladeLogic “greenfield” implementation, Application Packaging, Bare metal provisioning and Patch Management. Assisted with Project Management tasks to monitor all activities effectively.

BladeLogic SME

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managed various phases of BladeLogic product by providing demos, discussing features and usage assessment by the respective business units for successful adoption of the tool and provide knowledge transfer to developers & Managers for their respective on boarded applications. This was a global enterprise standardization initiative.
• Architected, designed, & planned deployments involving application packaging, bare metal provisioning, release management and patch management.
• Performed BladeLogic 7.6 to 8.0 upgrades using global change control, post-mortem & release planning.
• Planned, setup & performed BladeLogic Disaster Recovery processes. Conducted DR test exercises.

Identity Mgmt. Lead & Migration Engr

Confidential, Florham Park, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Cleaned up Identity Vault for irregular identities & user ID’s.
• Managed security for all the Global users for their resource management and Password Synchronization.
• Migrated 60,000 users worldwide to new Active Directory 2008 domain as part of company merger.
• Configured DirXML to manage security and integrated Active Directory & Novell eDirectory.

Sr Zenworks and WISE Consultant

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Integrated Zen & MSI Applications using WISE Package Studio 5.60 and Zenworks to deploy customized applications to the Production environment.

Sr App Integration Consultant

Confidential, Albany, NY

Responsibilities:

• Integration of MSI Applications using WISE Package Studio 5.60. Deployed packages using LANDesk Management Suite version 8.5.0. Upgraded MSI to 8.70. Performed Active Directory (AD) and Peregrine Service Center 6.1. Administration.

Sr Zenworks Consultant

Confidential, Albany, NY

Responsibilities:

• Integration of NAL (Novell Application Launcher) Applications using Zenworks 4.0 & Citrix.