SUMMARY:

• Self - motivated enterprise technology hands-on trusted leader to analyze, solve, mentor, influence and develop strategic infrastructure solutions for on-premises, cloud & hybrid systems. Over 20+ years of experience in IT architecture, engineering, security, relationship building, advising, auditing, proof-of-concepts, troubleshooting, transformations and systems solution.
• Lead and architect collaborative innovative solutions with improved reliability, performance, monitoring and reduced cost. Very deeply passionate, open-minded, team-oriented, proven technology specialist solving challenging problems with cutting-edge knowledge. Inter-disciplinary engineering leader developing refined and streamlined solutions.
• Big-data | RDBMS | Hadoop | Cloud Solutions | Compliance | Platform Standards | Vendor Management | Technology Roadmap | Budgeting | Engineering | Architecture Designs | Product Selection | Proof-of-Concepts | IT Strategies | Emerging Technologies | Auditing | Risk Management | Database Management | Data Security | Performance & Tuning | Troubleshooting | Disaster Recovery | Data Management | Enterprise Security | Systems Integration | Storage Solutions | Vulnerability & Patch Management | Data Encryption | Project Management | Technical Leadership | Open Source

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS Platforms: RHEL Linux 5.x & 6.x; Solaris 8, 9 & 10; Centos 6.x; Windows 2000, 2008 & 2012; IBM AIX.

Databases: Oracle 10g, 11g, 12c; SQL server 2005, 2008, 2012; MySQL 5.1, 5.6; Sybase ASE 10, 11, 12.

Big Data Platforms: Hadoop, Cloudera CDH 4.x and 5.x, HBASE, HDFS, Map-Reduce, Hive, HUE, Pig, Netezza & GreenPlum; Solr; EMR; Hadoop clients; Fuse; Flume; Cloudera Impala.

Enterprise Monitoring: Cloudera Manager; Ganglia; Oracle Enterprise Manager; AWS CloudWatch; MySQL Enterprise Manager; SQL server management studio; Dell OpenManage; Hortonworks Ambari; EMC Storage Performance Monitoring; BMC tools; Microsoft SCOM; other monitoring tools.

Backups, Storage & DR: Netbackup, Snapshots, EMC Timefinder & SRDF, MySQL dump, SQL, Sybase & Oracle logical and physical backup; HBASE snapshots; Cloudera Backup & Disaster Recover (BDR); Sybase backup; SAN storage; NFS; Oracle logical and physical standby; SQL server log shipping; Multi-AZ and Multi-region AWS backups & DR; AWS Glacier and S3 backups. Oracle ASM; RAID Management; AutoSys.

Clusters: Cloudera Hadoop clusters; AWS EMR; Veritas Symantec clusters; Oracle RAC; SQL server clusters; Hortonworks Hadoop; Red Hat clusters; Oracle OID & LDAP.

Cloud Services: Amazon Web Services AWS, IBM Softlayer; Microsoft Azure; PaaS; IaaS; SaaS; Eucalyptus.

Protocol Services: MIT Kerberos; LUKS & vendor encryption; data masking; DBCC; RPM mgt.,; SNMP traps; Network load balancers; Symantec Storage foundation; Symantec dynamic multi-pathing, SSL, FTP, SSH.

Technology Vendors: Oracle, MicroSoft, Cloudera, IBM, Symantec, Hortonworks, AWS, HP Autonomy, Sybase, EMC, Cisco, Dell, HP, Datalink, Vormetric, Greenplum, Redhat, SAS, AWS 3rd. party tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led, architected and implemented all of on-premises Confidential ’s Member and Market regulation Hadoop 6 large Hadoop shared applications Cloudera CDH clusters with total planned capacity of over 7PB compressed and 220 nodes.
• Hadoop Clusters: 52 node Prod, 92 node DR, 42 node QC, 36 node Dev, 6 node DevLab and 6 Engineering cluster.
• Hadoop Cluster services: Hbase, Hive, MapReduce, HDFS, OOZIE, Pig, Sqoop, HUE, Monitoring, Solr, Fair Scheduler, Kerberos, Multi-home secure networks, Zookeeper, data compression, replication, AD LDAP integration, RHEL 6.3, Namenode, Jobtracker & Hbase HA, Ganglia, SNMP BMC integration, 2x10G Edgenodes.
• Optimized and performed extensive functional, performance & failure testing of Hadoop cluster services, device failures, network failures, data compression, monitoring, security, data encryption, performance benchmarks, HDFS and Hadoop upgrades, HBASE & Hive testing, rolling OS patching, Hadoop cluster sizing etc.
• Guided in analyzing & implementation of Eucalyptus internal-cloud solutions for AWS Hadoop in the Confidential ’s DevLab.
• Integrated high-speed 2x10G data exchange between Hadoop, Netezza and Greenplum GPFdist & GPHDFS.
• Architected and implemented design strategies for fairly and securely share large Hadoop clusters: This included ACL & groups, cluster configuration, Fairscheduler, MIT Kerberos, Hive users, HUE access, quota sizing, Edgenode access and Java memory management.
• Led, developed and authored Hadoop reference architecture for AWS Hadoop deployment single-AZ & multi-AZ solutions.
• Designed Hadoop sizing, interfaces and service role allocation strategies for datanodes; master nodes such as namenode, HBASE master node, Job tracker node; slave nodes such as task tracker nodes and Hbase region servers; Management nodes and Edge nodes.
• Engineered EC2, S3, EBS, Amazon cloud watch, SMS, SQS, SimpleDB, Elastic Load balancer, Security groups, VPC, DNS, LDAP, and Data encryption, AWS direct-connect, EBS volumes and auto scaling.
• Developed strategies on the AMI design, Hadoop node builds, LUKS encryption, bootstrapping, node roles, key management and tagging.
• Analyzed and developed solutions for Hadoop and database backups and snapshots in AWS to S3 and Galcier.
• Developed, analyzed and architected Confidential ’s RDBMS strategy for the AWS cloud. This included RDS vs. EC2, Oracle, MySQL and SQL server strategies, database sizing, backups, encryption options, standards compliance, Multi-AZ data replication strategies, DR solutions, database monitoring, Auditing, database security, security groups and user access management.
• Developed and architected solutions for implementing Linux Redhat and CentOS strategies, AMI build process, OS compliance, sizing and OS security for Amazon AWS cloud.
• Performed proof-of-concept for Cloud analysis, sizing and costing with Amazon AWS, IBM Softlayer and Microsoft Azure solutions for Oracle and SQL server implementation in the cloud.
• Architected life-cycle management of AWS Hadoop: Launch, Monitor, Execute, Reporting, Shutdown, cleanup & housekeeping phases.
• Researched, developed and published Confidential ’s strategic engineering roadmap for over $10M annual spend of all the key infrastructure platforms: Red Hat Linux, Solaris, Oracle RDBMS, Oracle OEM, Oracle security and Oracle OID, SQL server, MySQL, Cloudera Hadoop, Veritas storage foundation and VCS cluster, Sun, HP and Dell platforms.
• Spearheaded the platform selection, architecture and benchmarking for the building of 2 very large Confidential in-house Active-Active datacenters: Led AIX & Linux vs. Solaris analysis; HP vs. IBM vs. Dell; Advised on data management strategies for managing large data systems of NASD and NYSE Member regulation applications.
• Led and architected strategy to migrate over 50 application NYSE databases and schemas from Sybase to Oracle.
• Led, architected and developed strategies to migrate data from Oracle & SQL server on two large HP/EDS managed datacenters to the 2 new Confidential datacenters and cross-platform data conversion strategies from Solaris to RedHat Linux.
• Led, architected and validated 6 large Veritas clusters for all of Tier-1 critical application systems with over 20 service groups, over 60 Oracle databases and complex resource dependencies.
• Provided engineering input for Confidential ’s CAT (Consolidated Audit Trail) design for the big-data, database, replication, meta-data management, archival, backups, data flow and Hadoop network management.
• Authored and published enterprise platform standards, policies, compliance matrix, monitoring and reporting of:
• Confidential Oracle database, SQL server, Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Oracle OID & OEM and Veritas cluster standards.
• Confidential Hadoop standards and operations runbook.
• Software patching policy for strategic and non-strategic vendor software products.
• Confidential ’s device naming standards for Hadoop, servers, Netezza & Greenplum appliances and Windows servers.
• Oracle DBLink policy, Database roles and responsibilities, database physical and logical naming standards, data-fix policies and auditing implementation of Oracle, Solaris, SQL server, Redhat platforms.
• Standardized, implemented and validated based on CIS (Center for internet security) security standard benchmarks for Confidential ’s Oracle, SQL server, and Solaris, Redhat and CentOS platforms.
• Chaired the Enterprise security patching triage committee for patch technical analysis, risk assessment, prioritization and rollout schedule for Confidential ’s platforms: Oracle, SQL server, MySQL, Java, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and Cloudera Hadoop.
• Led Confidential engineering data-at-rest encryption product selection for encrypting all of Confidential ’s data at rest: Gazzang, Vormetric, Protegrity, Bitlocker, LUKS key & policy management, DSM (data security manager) implementation and vendor evaluation.
• Led the implementation of LUKS encryption for Amazon web services AWS cloud with Hadoop clusters.
• Architected and implemented Hadoop security, MIT master/slave Kerberos KDC, SSL, multi-home secure Hadoop network and firewall implementation strategies to secure Confidential ’s 6 large Hadoop on-premises clusters.
• Led Confidential ’s Operations and Engineering group on data protection working group committee charter to address data security, application security, infrastructure security, risk management, risk assessment and threat models.
• Advised internal audit and led annual audit issue resolution for all of Confidential databases, UNIX, clusters, Hadoop and Big data.
• Led several complex projects of planning and developing strategies, coordinating, implementing, reporting and tracking - 200 Oracle, 1400 SQL server databases, 200 Solaris & RedHat Linux servers, 600 Windows and 1400 desktop clients.
• Led strategies and project rollout of Hadoop clusters, RHEL 5.x to 6.x upgrades and cluster expansion.
• Led projects and strategy planning for Oracle, SQL server, Solaris and Hadoop enterprise rollout.
• Led and managed the taskforce for Confidential ’s infrastructure data center service & support data center hosting contractor, standards compliance, vendor performance, issues management, reporting and SLAs for 2 vendor managed data centers.
• Provided trusted advice, vision and influenced on the critical decisions for Internal Audit, CSO, Operations and Engineering senior management, Application senior management, CTO, Architecture Management and external auditors on security, risk, monitoring and operations of Oracle, SQL server, and Hadoop, Solaris and Linux platforms.
• Led engineering of RDBMS upgrades: Oracle 10gR2, 11gR2 & 12cR1; SQL server 2005, 2008 & 2012 and MySQL 5.1 & 5.6.
• Led engineering of Oracle 10gR2, 11gR2 and 12cR1 Oracle client desktop rollout; Oracle advanced security encryption.
• Led Oracle and SQL server replication solutions.
• Led, architected, engineered, tested and standardized Oracle OEM and OID implementations, data-fix strategies, database design reviews, database troubleshooting, database security, patch planning and rollout strategies.
• Conducted interviews and staff selection for 12 Oracle & SQL Server support DBAs, 4 Engineering and Database security.
• Fostered and built solid trusted relationship across the enterprise.
• Led as a key technical advisor and influencer across the enterprise groups including Internal Audit, application teams, information security, big data team, compliance, senior management and technical project managers.
• Led the key platform vendor license renewals, training, new purchases of Oracle, Symantec storage foundation, Cloudera, Microsoft SQL server, Dell, Sun, Likewise and Redhat Linux licenses. Lowered the cost of over $1M.
• Oversaw, managed, coordinated and maintained excellent relationships with all the key Confidential platform vendors, HP/EDS data center service provider and Amazon AWS / IBM SoftLayer / Microsoft Azure cloud providers.
• Developed SOW and purchase orders for Oracle, Cloudera Hadoop, SQL server, RedHat Linux platforms and Dell.

Confidential, Washington D.C

Principal Consultant / Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led complex client/server engineering for 150 Sybase database servers running, 80 large Solaris servers and 1800 clients.
• Improved the mortgage underwriting process from 30 minutes to 10 seconds.
• Implemented database backup & retrieval process from 24 hours day reduced to 30 minutes using automated Netback & SQL backtrack solutions versus the legacy tape operations process.
• Established standards and developed policies and procedures for all the complex database systems management.
• Performed trade-off analysis of the database SAN storage solutions, server sizing, risk analysis, data security, data corruption, reliability testing, monitoring and reporting process.
• Led & implemented Market room operation systems, High availability, zero downtime, redundant and 99.99% availability.
• Led and developed Disaster Recovery strategies by implementing data replication solutions using Database logical data replication and storage block replication solutions for all the very mission critical production Class-1 applications.
• Led, designed, implemented, validated and supported 24x7 Disaster recovery solutions for the contingency sites.
• Tested Oracle RAC solutions and developed data migration strategies from Sybase to Oracle.
• Conducted vendor evaluations, established database benchmarks and performance reporting.
• Led complex projects, developed detail project plans and conducted engineering reviews. Coordinated, engineered and supported Confidential business critical applications.
• Mentored, provided guidance and staffing of the operations and engineering database group.

Confidential

Manager and Principal Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led the design and development of National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) data archival & distribution system.
• Managed and conducted analysis, design & implementation of NASA data ingestion, archival, distribution and user interfaces
• Led and performed analysis of NASA Goddard data center mass storage and delivery system solutions.
• Led and performed requirement analysis, database design and implementation of a Centralized Master Directory & Inter-operable relational database system for NASA Space and Earth Science projects.

Confidential

Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Advised projects during the life-cycle of the enterprise project development process, walk-thrus, reviews and audits.
• Reviewed project and design documents for completeness, content, conformance, consistency and quality.
• Conducted independent system acceptance & integration tests and published project guideline measurements.

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed & implemented software used for programming process-controllers, robotics & factory automation.
• Performed requirement analysis, system design, structured analysis, data flows, data dictionary & program design.
• Taught Undergraduate Calculus as Graduate Assistant and Advanced Engineering Math as a part-time faculty teacher.