SUMMARY

• Over 17 years of project management, development and Sr. Solution architecture experience.
• Over seven years of AWS hand on experience with Private and Public clouds (AWS, S3, EMR, Lambda, Azure, and others) to support enterprise adoption of the managed cloud service offerings along with AWS Cloud (EC2, EBS, VPC, RDS, ELB) and working on the governance and corporate polices and establish the practice to maximize the benefits of the enterprise level AWS Web services and AWS Cloud and build the enterprise level architecture that utilized AWS, S3, EMR, Lambda, Azure, Cloud Craze and Salesforce for archives, backups, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, production, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, RDS, Cloud front, Cloud formation, Estaticache, Java/J2EE,Servlet, JSP, JDBC, Web Services, JavaScript, AJAX,HTML,XML,XSL,CSS,RSS, and apps with online payment.
• Several years of AWS, Azure hands on experience with Private and Public clouds (AWS, Azure, and others) to support enterprise adoption of the managed cloud service offerings along with AWS, Azure Cloud (EC2, EBS, VPC, RDS, ELB) IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and working on the governance and corporate polices and establish the practice to maximize the benefits of the enterprise level AWS, Azure Web services and AWS, Azure Cloud and build the enterprise level architecture that utilized AWS, Azure, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS for archives, backups, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, production, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, RDS, Cloud front, Cloud formation, Estaticache, RedHat Cloud 3.1 Management Engine 5.3 Openshift enterprise deployment, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV), Red Hat CloudForms, Cloud Formation Cluster, CfnCluster Tool, IBM Cloud Infrastructure with OpenShift, Docker and Red Hat Satellite. Java/J2EE, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, Web Services, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, XML, XSL, CSS, RSS and apps with online payment by following AGILE and SCRUM development and SDLC Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Mr. Abdullah also has systems development and implementation experience on high - scale distributed systems (such as HADOOP), and implementation of ETL and reporting applications and developing the Cassandra Architect. Hands-on experience with the HADOOP stack (e.g. MapReduce, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Hbase, Flume) and experience with related/complementary open source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP, Chef). He brings PM experience in waterfall and agile methodologies using ISO, CMMI and traditional SDLCs.
• Leadership and hands-on technical solution architect experience involving Hadoop, Big Data, MarkLogic, Greenplum, Unstructured Data, Structured Data, Cloudera, Storage, Data Analytics, BI and Data Management.
• Systems development and implementation experience on high-scale distributed systems (such as Hadoop) and implementation of ETL and reporting applications.
• Hands-on experience with the Hadoop stack (e.g. MapReduce, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, HBase, Flume) and experience with related/complementary open source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP, Chef), DevOps concepts and supporting tools including TFS, Microsoft Release Manager, JIRA, Chef, and Puppet. Knowledge of Hadoop HDFS and architecture. Solid experience with Big Data Hadoop, Green Plum Database and Business Intelligence systems.
• Experience with Analytic framework including Weka, Lucene, UIMA, OpenNLP, and Mahout.
• Systems administration-level knowledge of HTTP/Apache/Nginx, DNS/BIND, SSH, SNMP, NFS, Perl, Shell, Python, Nagios, XenServer. Hands on experience with configuration management software Puppet/Chef/SaltStack.
• Hands-on PMP and developer with extensive architecture, design, development and testing experience across web-based, mobile and social platforms.
• Command development teams of up to 15 individuals, collaborating with stakeholders to assess their business needs and converting those needs into technical requirements used to find the best technological solution.
• Brings PM experience in waterfall and agile methodologies using ISO, CMMI and traditional SDLCs.
• Developed complete virtualization solutions taking into account sizing, infrastructure, data protection, disaster recovery and application requirements and hybrid access to premises based enterprise systems.
• Create a bill of materials for solution specific virtualization product and service requirements, provide cloud focused demonstrations, evaluations and proof of concept support, troubleshoot for the virtualization performance and other issues.
• In depth understanding of authentication and authorization services including AD, ADFS, SAML, LDAP and the backend associated APIs that connect various messaging, cloud and social platforms. Red Hat CloudForms, Cloud Formation Cluster, CfnCluster Tool, IBM Cloud Infrastructure with OpenShift, Docker and Red Hat Satellite.
• Support network, system and application security hardening, penetration testing, continuous monitoring and support of policy.
• Support network and system risk assessment and to support network and system security planning and documentation.
• Managed and preformed V2C, P2C and P2V migrations of systems.
• Provides support for the Engagement manager during the sales cycle.
• Develops strategies, policies and best practices for the customer.
• Designs the solution and supports the installation, customization and integration of the solution. Prepares technical architectural and implementation design documents and works with the project management to development.
• Pre-sales and/or post-sales experience on consultative, solution-based technology. Experience engaging with executive stakeholders on strategic projects. Deep understanding of competitive solutions (Netezza, Teradata, Cloudera).
• Experience managing and/or rolling out mobile devices in an enterprise including BYOD, Mobile Iron, Accellion, hypervisor, email gateways, PKI certificates and web gateways, Security and/or Mobility certificates, HIPAA/NIST Security standards, GIAC, Security Analyst (GMBO), CompTIA Mobility.
• Experience in architecting mobile Native and Hybrid apps using KonyOne platform Cross-platform mobile development services (supporting iOS, Windows Mobile, Android) and Native mobile application development services, HTML5/SPA mobile development services, Hybrid mobile application development services using KonyOne.
• Mixed-mode mobile application development services using KonyOne.
• Expert knowledge in Enterprise-grade Mobility Services including Client Device Capability Landscape, Laptop/Tablet/Smart Phone, Windows, iOS, BB RIM, Android. Mobile Device Management including the Native and Container approaches. Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms.
• Mobile Security including the Authentication/Authorization, PKI, Encryption, MDM. Mobile Connectivity Models including the VPN, Reverse Proxy, Public Services, SaaS and experience integrating mobile apps with Restful web services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

XML technologies, (D)HTML, .NET 4.0, Java, C/C++/C#, Web Services, SOA, Application/Web Server, ColdFusion Builder, CGI, Perl, Flash, AJAX, Tomcat, Apache, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, COGNOS, Hadoop, HBase, SQL, SQL Server 2012, SSRS, SSAS, Oracle, Teradata, Informatica, SPSS, MarkLogic, Eclipse, Mongo DB, BizTalk, SAS, SAS EBI, SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, Windows WF Foundation, MS Project Server, Load Runner/Test Director, ETL, IBM WebSphere, ClearCase, ClearQuest. Agile, Scrum, remote collaborative development, integrated development environments (Eclipse JDT, plug-ins, NetBeans), Source control systems Git, Subversion, Mercurial, Continuous integration including use of Jenkins. Collaborative environments including JIRA and Redmine. Develops coding standards and collaborative processes, enforced by peer code reviews, walk-thru, static code analysis (CheckStyle).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SME/Sr. Technical Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Mr. Abdullah as a SSACloudSubject Matter Expert (SME),introducedsolutions-based on functional business framework for Enterprise Architecture (EA), Enterprise Integration Architecture (EIA), Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Content Management (ECM) & creating global approach along with thetechnology architect, technology design, & implementation value added technology for SSA.
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry technical resource consulting with prospective clients to determine needs, conduct on-site technical assessments, designing effective solutions and resolving business-critical issues on Cloud and on-prem solutions. Collaborate with sales to develop custom designs, purchasing to perform cost analyses on hardware & software components and vendors to prepare specific design elements for price negotiation. Create targeted, engaging presentations and travel to client sites to demonstrate products/solutions.
• Provide expert pre-sales technical assistance and product education.
• Analyze prospect requirements and establish parameters to ensure client receives the right solution, in conjunction with the Sales Representative.
• Cost projects with the Sales Director to guarantee profitability.
• Resolve any client or sales concerns and revise proposals if necessary.
• Once sale is made, manage smooth transition of project from sales to operations.
• Build and lead new Cloud Service Brokers team to architect and implement new public/hybrid/private cloud platforms.
• Architect and deploy Symantec public/private cloud platforms (IaaS, PaaS & SaaS) across Amazon Web Services, Terremark, HP Cloud Services, DataPipe, Google Compute Engine, CloudStack and Rackspace.
• Developed new Cloud Management product features for ScaleXtreme platform.
• Implement new Cloud Management Platforms from CloudSwitch, CloudStack, OpenStack, RightScale, ScaleXtreme and VMware vCloud Automation Suite (vCloud Director, vCloud Connector, vCenter Operations Manager).
• Migrate IaaS, PaaS and SaaS instances between public and private clouds - Java, J2EE, .NET, Ruby, LAMP, Apache, RDBMS, Oracle, SQL, MySQL, Unix/Linux, NAS/SAN, LAN/WAN VPN, Security, IDS, Firewalls and Encryption.
• Lead data center transformations projects to migrate client/server applications and platforms to cloud environments.
• Develop cloud reference architectures, governance policies, security models, and best practices.
• Leverages technology to vitalize critical business operations. Skilled at introducing solutions-based functional business framework for SSA Enterprise Architecture and creating global approach for SSAcustomer experience, including interactive statements, architect, design, and implementation of core business strategies. Manage FedRAMP, NIST, FISMAstandards and develop direction for SSA business units that ensure the Cloud Solutionalignment & technology architectural direction with corporate strategies.
• As a cloud evangelist for Open-Source Software (OSS) leveraged in a Software as a Service (SaaS) & cloud computing model which is the next generation of information technology services forCloud computing by reducing on-going & escalating information technology resources & asset costs.
• Leads in developing overall solutions design and providing expert guidance to assure the successful delivery implementation and operationalization.Support the RRP Greenplum database development team in meeting delivery schedules of RRP.Assist RRP with GP DB performance and data load to meet program SLAs.Assist in creating a strategy and scripts to manage and changetables.Assist RRP with GP DB maintenance activities, including planning, analyzing and implementing script so that the maintenance activities fall within the RRP designated maintenance operational window.
• Architect the cloud service offerings along with AWS Cloud (EC2, EBS, VPC, RDS, ELB) and working on the governance and corporate polices and establish the practice to maximize the benefits of the enterprise level AWS Web services and AWS Cloud and build the enterprise level architecture that utilized AWS, S3, EMR, Lambda, Azure, Cloud Craze and Salesforce for archives, backups, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, production.

Confidential

Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Perform software development and builds large-scale enterprise collaboration and portal solutions using SharePoint, systems analysis and project management. The solution involves real time data ingest and interaction with tools such as Hadoop, Big Data, Greenplum Teradata and MarkLogic.
• Work for AWS, Azure hand on experience along with AWS, Azure Cloud and working on the governance and corporate polices and establish the practice to maximize the benefits of the enterprise level AWS, Azure Web services and AWS, Azure Cloud and build the enterprise level architecture that utilized AWS, Azure for archives, backups, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, production and apps with online payment.
• Develop in web technologies such as: .Net 3.5/SQL 2008, .Net 4.0, C# 4.0, ASP.NET 4.0, services, SQL Server 2012, SSAS 2012, SSIS 2012, SSRS 2012, SharePoint 2010, Java JDK, K2, Nintex web, EJB3, Hibernate, Web Sphere Application Server 7.0, Web Logic Application Server 10.3.4, Adobe Flex 4.5 SDK and Oracle 11g. For Air Force, conducts software modifications, maintenance and tech refreshes on Air Force acquisition reporting systems. Hands on Java, JEE, REST, JSON, Dev Ops, Object/Data modeling and end-to-end stack development, from UI to Data tier Angular JS, Java, J2EE, Restful API and Spring.
• Conduct software modifications, maintenance and tech refreshes on Air Force acquisition reporting systems. Design/Architect and implement large, cost effective BI analytics systems using Hadoop and Green Plum. Also exp using Cloudera and using the scale-out architecture that Hadoop provides with regards to HDFS, MapReduce as well as the Hadoop ecosystem projects including Sqoop, Hoop, Hive, PIG, Flume, HBase, Oozie, Fuse DFS, Zookeeper, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, No SQL, MongoDB, Couch DB, Cassandra DB. Also have experience with Analytic framework including Weka, Lucene, UIMA, OpenNLP and Mahout.
• Work with Hadoop stack (MapReduce Programming paradigm, HBase, Pig, Hive Cassandra, experience with administration, configuration management, monitoring, debugging, benchmarking and performance of Hadoop/Cassandra, experience with open source software platforms and languages (Java, Linux, Apache, Perl/Python/PHP), experience with high-scale or distributed RDBMS (Teradata, Netezza, Greenplum, Aster Data, Vertica). Have a strong knowledge of cloud commuting infrastructure (Amazon Web services EC2, Elastic MapReduce) and considerations for scalable, distributed system.
• Enterprise Collaboration/Portal Solutions:
• Built and architected enterprise collaboration and portal solutions, planned/executed migration from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 and developed/administered farms and sites, including the installation of all required SharePoint 2010 components as needed.
• Performed design, implementation and maintenance of complex multiple product modules/subsystems, created custom workflows.
• Integrated SharePoint content with MS, customized/standardized sites.
• Developed requirements for collaboration/content management tools, designed/implemented custom SharePoint applications (e.g., workflows), K2 blackpoint and Nintex to migrate the content from shared drives or other non-SharePoint repositories to SharePoint and Hadoop, Big Data, Greenplum Teradata and MarkLogic.
• Systems Analysis:
• Developed coding standards and SLAs, supported requirements gathering and performed code reviews and unit tests.
• Project Management:
• Reviewed specifications, provided time estimates, prioritized tasks and deliverables, supported projects in both Agile and RUP environments using Microsoft Project Server, provided leadership/guidance and collaborated with application developers, managers and stakeholders to ensure required features/modifications were included in appropriates releases.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant/Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed mobile learning management system and social media applications in support of Open Gov initiatives.
• Defined and documented the design of functionality through use cases, business process flows, UI design and UML modeling.
• Built, integrated and tuned all aspects of mobile systems to maximize the effectiveness of intelligence data. Multi-threaded code with synchronous, asynchronous code and other mobile technologies by following the object-oriented software design and programming standards and optimizing size and performance of applications and frameworks. Design/Architect and implement large, cost effective BI analytics systems using Hadoop and Green Plum.
• Used Cloudera and using the scale-out architecture that Hadoop provides with regards to HDFS, MapReduce as well as the Hadoop ecosystem projects including Sqoop, Hoop, Hive, PIG, Flume, HBase, Oozie, Fuse DFS, Zookeeper, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, No SQL, MongoDB, Couch DB, Cassandra DB. Also have experience with Analytic framework including Weka, Lucene, UIMA, OpenNLP and Mahout.
• Azure Cloud and build the enterprise level architecture that utilized AWS, Azure for archives, backups, disaster recovery, hybrid cloud, production and apps with online payment.