SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of enterprise IT infrastructure & applications experience across Fortune 500 and global corporations.
• Cloud & DevOps expert with experience in strategy, architecture, and implementation of IaaS/PaaS environments.
• Hands - on experience in public cloud (AWS), private cloud (VMware), and Microservices (Docker, Kebernetes).
• Understanding of full technology stack across server platforms, hypervisor, OS, network, routing, firewall, load balancer, database, middleware, messaging, applications, web, and security.
• Proficient in building systems compliant with standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and ISO27001/2 for maintaining secure information of various kinds (PHI, financial records, etc.).
• Adept at writing SOWs, evaluating vendors and technologies, conducting POC, sizing, and capacity planning.
• Experienced in managing 10+ direct reports, interfacing with the business, and interacting up to C- level.
• Industry expertise in financial services, hedge fund, insurance, telecom, media, healthcare, and air transportation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Strategy, architecture, design, and implementation for private, public, and hybrid cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS).
• Amazon Web Services - AWS: EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, IAM, SNS, SES, VPC, CloudFormation, Security Groups, ELB, Autoscaling, CodeDeploy, Lambda, EC2 Container Service, Route 53, CloudWatch.
• MS Azure - Compute (VMs), virtual network, P2S/S2S VPN, ExpressRoute, Azure Storage, auto-scaling, ASR.
• Microservices - Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Mesosphere.
• Web/Infrastructure - Nginx, HHVM, PHP-FPM, Consul, Chef, Nagios.
• VMware - ESX, vSphere, vCenter, FlexPod, Vblock, VDI, vCAC, vCloud, vRealize. Cisco – UCS, Nexus.

• Storage architecture & design (FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS), implementation, management, and operations.
• NetApp: FAS, ONTAP (7/c-mode), OnCommand, SnapMirror/SnapVault, FlexClone, SnapManager.
• Hitachi (HDS): HDS Lightning/USP, HiCommand, Shadow Image, TrueCopy, HORCM.
• EMC: EMC VMAX, ECC, SYMCLI, PowerPath, TimeFinder, SRDF, VNX, Isilon, Unisphere, Data Domain.
• Brocade & Cisco: zoning, planning, network design, implementation and operations.
• Backup and data protection: design, implementation and operations (NetBackup/CommVault).

• Operating Systems: AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, RedHat Linux, Windows.
• Database storage architecture, RDBMS Systems, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, MariaDB,
• SAP BASIS, ECC, BW, BODS, SLT, HANA.
• Visio, MS Project, Crystal Reports, Cognos Reporting, Exchange, SharePoint, SAP, WebSphere, MQ.
• Programming/scripting using C/C++, Java, HTML, Javacript, Ruby, Python.
• Data Center (P2V, V2V) and Storage (homogenous and cross-platform) Migrations.
• Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF, Zachman), System Architecture, Distributed & Scalable Architecture

• Business process frameworks (eTOM), Service Delivery (ITIL), Compliance, Security Standards (HIPAA, PCI, ISO 9001/27001), Risk Management (SOX), quality standards (ISO/CMMI), Financial Modeling, TCO Analysis.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Los Angeles, CA

S r. Solutions Architect (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Public Cloud Architecture, Deployment, and Migration (AWS) – Led the cloud adoption effort including design and deployment of n-tier architecture on AWS (using EC2 Windows/ Linux, EBS, S3, RDS, Route53 DNS, SNS and CloudWatch). Also provided hand-on scripting and implementation support.
• Cloud Self-Service / Automation (CloudFormation, Docker, Chef) – Implemented automated deployment of application stack in multiple environments across different availability zones using CloudFormation and Docker. Wrote Chef cookbooks and recipes in Ruby to provision pre-prod and prod environments.
• DevOps / Continuous Delivery with Microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) – Designed and implemented full-infrastructure stack using microservices. Wrote Docker Compose scripts to rapidly deploy and scale web-based retail application in the cloud. Environment included: Kubernetes, Nginx, HHVM, PHP-FPM, MySQL, Consul.
• Enterprise Public Cloud Strategy (Azure) – Developed strategic vision, alignment, and definition of integrating new MS Azure based cloud services (IaaS/PaaS) into client systems.  Provided advisory regarding trade-offs, best practices, and risk management.
• Enterprise Data Center Migration (VMware) – Acted as SME on huge migration effort from multiple legacy data centers to next-gen cloud data center (VMware/Nexus/NetApp) covering 500+ P2V mission-critical apps.
• IT Disaster Recovery and High Availability – Developed strategies, designs, and architectures to improve DR, BC, and HA within applications and infrastructures of a global financial market player (SIFMU & RegSCI entity).
• Enterprise Data Center Architecture – Developed data center strategy and direction including current state assessment, future vision determination, detailed gap analysis, and planning for gap closure for multiple data centers (2+ petabyte) spread across NA and Europe.
• End-to-end Infrastructure Management – Re-architected and implemented OnCommand Insight OCI (SANscreen) to produce detailed reports of current infrastructure including Oracle, VMware, Solaris and NetApp.
• Backup & Disaster Recovery Implementation – Helped client strategize, define, and implement backup (SnapVault) and Disaster Recovery (SnapMirror) in geographically distributed data center and office locations to support SLA with worldwide business operations (US and Malaysia).
• Provisioning / Build Automation – Participated in data center-wide initiative to automate (self-service) build of new infrastructure (server, network, storage) using CA IT PAM and NetApp WFA tools.
• Led discussions for capacity planning, tech refresh, and finalizing BOM for new orders.
• Led vendor management & technology roadmap development to align infrastructure with business needs.
• Team Management – Managed ten direct reports including responsibility for hiring, training, and development.

Confidential

Dallas, TX 

Solutions Architect (Pre/Post Sales)

Responsibilities:

• Developed infrastructure solutions (EMC, NetApp, Riverbed, BlueCoat, Brocade, Symantec, VMware, F5) and provided pre-sales engineering support including responding to RFPs and setting up POCs.
• Virtualization / Cloud Architecture – Helped customers in healthcare (HMS), retail (Wal-Mart), and other industries define cloud architecture using VMware, EMC, NetApp, and Cisco Infrastructure.
• NetApp Storage Architecture & Upgrades – Helped customers define storage solutions including architecture, tiering, virtualization, backup, and disaster recovery. Led upgrades from 31xx to 32xx and 62xx systems; also performed upgrades of Data ONTAP with minimal impact.
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Rollouts – Designed & implemented large-scale virtual desktop environments on VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop with back-end on NetApp for 5,000+ users.
• Migrations - Performed migrations from NetApp/non-NetApp to NetApp for upgrades, consolidation, and/or conversions (32-bit to 64-bit aggregates, P2V, etc.) using SnapMirror, VxVM and DTA.
• Delivery & Implementation – Responsible for installing, configuring, and rolling out new NetApp hardware including FAS and V-Series systems (62xx, 32xx, 31xx), UCS hardware, and VMware ESX.
• Customer Management – Advised customer on best practices and process optimization for day-to-day operations, and assisted in capacity planning in a very dynamic and challenging business environment.
• Led engineers and project managers for efficient and high quality delivery of client projects.

Confidential

San Francisco, CA

Sr. Infrastructure Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Global Storage Operations – Responsible for management of 1.7PB of storage infrastructure (SAN, NAS, and CAS) running on EMC DMX-3/4, CX3/4, Celerra NS70xg, Centera, NetApp FAS, Brocade (24K, 48K), Cisco MDS (9513, 9134), NetBackup 6.5.x, StorageTek (L700, L1400), and Quantum (i500, i2000) systems.
• Backup Optimization – Performed backup tuning that resulted in saving of backup space/tapes, network bandwidth, and computing by about 18% for MS Exchange resulting in cost-savings for the organization.
• DR & BCP Planning & Testing – Helped in developing, planning, and executing procedures for full-blown Data Center failover and failback testing.
• Integration of BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors – Assisted in massive technology integration effort of two organizations with multiple data centers spread through the US, Canada, UK, Japan, Germany, Australia.

Confidential

Los Angeles, CA / Champaign, IL  

PS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• SAN Architecture - Helped Fortune 1000 customers in design and implementation of high-throughput, highly scalable, and high-growth architecture for storage, backup, and DR in environments as big as 3PB storage.
• Data Migration – Helped plan, design, and execute host-based and storage-based migrations data migrations (100+ TB) with zero data loss and minimal downtime.
• Storage Consolidation for Heterogeneous Environment (AIX, Solaris, Windows) – Configured volumes/LUNs and performed masking, zoning, HBA configuration, and host configuration.
• Disaster Recovery (DR) Implementation – Designed and architected bunker and remote replication for DR including RPOs, RTOs, and bandwidth requirement for applications.
• Operations Support – Acted as primary contact for customer during post-implementation phase, and developed strong relationships with sales, delivery, and support teams.
• Storage Throughput Analysis & Optimization – Provided in-depth performance analysis and solutions to achieve as high as 1.5GB/sec on FAS6040 active-active cluster in complex layered application environment.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and deployed enterprise infrastructure (HP XP, Clariion, StorEdge 69xx, Brocade, StorageTek).
• Data Protection Solution – Assisted in design & configuration of SAN backup using NetBackup.
• Planned enterprise-wide business continuity & disaster recovery solution including RTO and RPO planning.
• Systems Roadmap – Part of the team devising data center roadmap for the next 3 years.

Confidential

Lead Storage & Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Orascom Telecom was the world’s eighth largest mobile network group by customer numbers at one point.
• Led operations and architecture for storage, backup & DR supporting 24x7 mission-critical telecom apps.
• Implemented HDS SAN comprising Brocade 3900 and HDS9980 supporting HP-UX (RP8400) platform.
• Redesigned and expanded HP SAN using EVA5000 supporting HP-UX, Tru64UNIX, and Solaris.
• Implemented one of the largest SAN Backup Solutions in the region with NetBackup and StorageTek.
• Disaster Recovery – Tested disaster recovery solution using TrueCopy replication on HDS storage.

Confidential

Software Intern

Responsibilities:  

• Developed and rolled out ERP application suite (client-server architecture) for clients using C++ and Oracle.