SUMMARY:

• 8+ years’ experience with AWS/Amazon(solutions architect), Cloud strategy, engineering assessment, roadmap, TCO, comparative price analyses, on/off - premise or hybrid cloud implementation, large-scale build, migration/management of AWS with auto scaling, CloudFormation, ELB, and other services. Worked with clients for architecture design, system evaluation, infrastructure assessment and IT modernization.
• Cutting-edge IT expertise for AWS architecture and support, Enterprise Architecture, AWS Well-Architecture Framework with design and testing of cutting-edge technology solutions.
• Worked closely with AWS clients (including senior executives) to review AWS compliance documentation, requirements and implementation of AWS controls.
• Created a robust, secure stateful/stateless cloud environments and frameworks that improved efficiency while cutting costs.
• Gathered, documented client requirements, developed technical architecture, customization change requests, and reports. Knowledge of scripting languages, Linux and Windows systems, Cloud, databases, testing, software development methods, QA strategy, cloud STLC and SDLC, Waterfall or Agile methodology, implemented (DR) Disaster Recovery AWS Pilot Light and Warm Standby strategy, Continues Integration and Continues Delivery CI/CD, in DevOps environment, GitHub, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) and networking technologies.
• Contributed toward security assurance, ATO process using Xacta-360 AE and compliance assessments.
• Created proof of concept software extensions and created Open Source based applications that facilitated AWS Cloud Computing.
• Created and installed software at clients’ sites.
• Project level experience, also hands-on with good understanding of FedRAMP, NIST, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 as well as FISMA compliance (SAML 2.0, AD, LDAP, IAM, SSO, MFA) Experience with global data privacy regulations like GDPR or CCPA.
• Monitored environment, troubleshot and resolved technical problems.
• Worked at CMMI Maturity Organizations (Level-3/Defined); solid understanding of CMMI Progress and hands-on with SOW, RFP, RFI, RFQ’s, proposal support, and technical writing. Strong knowledge of Cloud SDLC.
• Mobile and tablet project process experience—iOS, Android, and Windows.
• Successfully migrated IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS instances between public-private clouds.
• Cut costs 28% by consolidating and deploying total of eighteen applications and five were legacy applications to Cloud platforms.
• Migrated on premise data center to AWS and configured Hybrid network. Consulted and advised development teams on architecting/designing Web interfaces and infrastructures powering Cloud.
• Designed secure cloud solutions for well-known major financial organizations
• Effectively managed eight people team including Offshore team members
• Knowledge of new breakthrough technologies to offer smart solutions to customers such as an AI, ML, NLP, Ui Path (RPA), and IoT
• Hands on experience in application modernization, refactoring, and migration approaches to transition applications workloads from On-Premises to cloud-AWS/Amazon Web Services and Azure for multi-cloud strategy
• Conducted systems design, feasibility, cost studies and recommended cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Interviewed stakeholders, gathered system documentation (including discovery materials/analysis) to evaluate costs, architecture constraints, and automated discovery solution for IT Infrastructure
• Gathered requirements and designed public, private, and hybrid cloud-based systems/transitions.
• Architected and planned migrations to commercial cloud service providers—AWS, Azure/Office 365, Google Cloud Platform, and others.
• Contributed toward the development of backup and recovery strategy for applications and databases on a virtualization platform.
• Used AWS Redshift with AWS Glue implementing ETL processes, and developing data and metadata service components
• Researched and made recommendations on software products and services in support of procurement and development efforts
• Established test servers on Amazon for MySQL databases using AMIs. Stored files to S3 and used Glacier with lifecycle rules.
• Created a large-scale, high-performance enterprise application deployment and solution architecture on complex heterogeneous environments with stateful/stateless security model
• Provided hands-on leadership to architects for design and transition of applications to cloud-based systems.
• Led data migration to and from cloud-based systems. Integrated with enterprise networks/systems.
• Created robust strategic plans for cloud services—transition strategies, bundling, mission/vision descriptions and positioning.
• Enhanced processes within (CI/CD) continuous integration and delivery practices.
• Oversaw QA/test planning and automation targeting performance and load testing.
• Led continuous integration with Gradle and Bamboo; experienced with Salesforce development, CRM solutions, and retail cloud solutions.
• Successfully designed high-performance systems and troubleshot and resolved complex performance and scalability issues.
• Effectively analyzed large volumes of data and enterprise data analytics.
• Strong ability to resolve complex project challenges by out of the box thinking and proposing the right product/solution/approach.

COMPETENCIES:

AWS/Amazon Architecture - IT Leadership - Development - DevOps - CI/CD - Cloud Strategy/Roadmap - Cloud QA/Testing - Project/Team Leadership Customer Support Budget and Financial Management - Finance, Banking, Mortgage and Healthcare domains, E-Commerce (B2B) - Vendor Relationships - Compliance - IT Infrastructure Development - IT Planning/Delivery Architecture - TOGAF - Technology-Business Linkage and Planning - Zachman Framework – Consulting/Advisory – Business Solutions-Capabilities/Gap Analysis – Technology Integration - EC2 – EBS – Storage IOPS Optimization – Snapshots – AMI Images – S3 – VPC – RDS AWS Glue – Amazon Redshift – AWS Neptune – SRE – ATO Process – IAM – Directory Service.~ Developed world class AWS architecture and led organizations to achieve higher standards. Hands-on (technical/functional) experience in Cloud-related roles, including assessment/engineering assessment, Cloud strategy, roadmap, TCO, implementation, migration, networking and security scanning, current/future-stage architecture diagramming. Azure and Google Cloud experience. ~

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES:

Tools: AWS/Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft Office 365, MS SharePoint, IE, Firefox, Google Chrome, Git, GitHub, Splunk, Okta, Barracuda, Cloudability, Kdb+, Centrify, Evident.io, Lucidchart, Visio, Lockpoint, Redlock.io, CloudEndure, SEMOSS, MuleSoft 3.8.5, Qlik (View-Sense), SQL Examiner, ATASphere, ATAVision, iOS 8 and 9, Android 4 and 5 Mobile Devices, SAP, Vmware, Kubernetes, Terraform, Xacta 360 AE, Spark, Datadog, CHEF, Puppet, ANSIBLE, Docker, Ui Path(RPA), ServiceNow, SAP CRM, TeamCity, Jenkins, SQL Server Management Studio, Microservices, SolarWinds, Puppet, CloudStack

Testing Tools: Microsoft Test Manager (TFS), HP Quality Center/ALM, Jira/Zephyr, Bugzilla, HP LoadRunner, Selenium, Spawner, Trello

Systems: Windows, Linux

Web: Java, Python, PowerShell, Bash Scripting, YAML, CLI, XML, HTML, XHTML, XSLT, .NET, C Language

AWS: Cloud Implementation, Large scale build, migrate and Management of AWS with AWS CLI, SDK and API’s, ELB, Auto Scaling, Cloud Formation, EC2, VPC, EBS, Lambda, RDS, S3, Storage IOPS optimization, Snapshots, Amazon Microservices, Directory Service, CodeCommit, AWS Cloud Watch, CloudTrail and other Proprietary Monitoring System in Cloud infrastructure. AWS Mobile Hub, AWS API Gateway, Amazon Cognito, AWS Mobile SDK, SNS, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Key Management Service, AWS Config, AWS Federated Authentication, cloud compute cost management with Cloudability tool. Ongoing technology improvement by using the SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and the DaaS Platforms. Knowledge of scripting languages, Linux and Windows systems, Cloud, databases, testing, software development methods, QA strategy, STLC, SDLC, Waterfall or Agile methodology, GitHub, and networking technologies. Created and implemented (DR) Disaster Recovery strategy.

Azure Cloud Infrastructure: VM, SQL, VNET, User-Defined Routes, Subscription Migrations, Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, Azure Automation, Storage, ARM Templates, Cosmos DB, Azure Load Balancer, API Gateway, Azure AD and API Management, On-Premise Infrastructure (AD, DNS, VMWare, Hyper-V, Load Balancer, Firewalls, Routing), DevOps, PowerShell Scripting, Monitoring Tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

AWS/Amazon Solutions Engineer/Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented proof of concept (POC). Evaluated business and technical needs to best design solutions and deploying enterprise applications in cloud platforms
• Accountable for AWS/Amazon architecture and development of AWS/Amazon SaaS billing models. Created AWS cloud computing infrastructure from the ground up.
• Liaised with vulnerability assessment team to work on discovered vulnerability.
• Developed security model, VPC, Elastic IP for databases on Cloud Platform.
• Built strategy using AWS Identity/Access Management (IAM) for community platform systems.
• Contributed toward technical design using requirements and use cases/stories; interfaced with product management and business analyst on product requirements.
• Contributed toward Scrum planning/grooming tasks and created/edited test scripts for GUI functionality testing and complete regression testing. Tasked with security test, testing reports, UA testing, and manual testing of CUonline.
• Utilized SharePoint to report defects, validates reports, and document results. Adhered to QA methodology and QA control (V&V). Documented bugs using Zephyr. Validated data flow.
• Responsible for the major aspects of networking and VPN configuration.
• Extensive research/certification of existing technology products.
• Performed Cloud migration engineering assessment and oversaw cloud migration, cloud strategy, roadmap, and enterprise architecting.
• Designed and implemented enterprise infrastructure and platforms for cloud computing. Evaluated system requirements and ensured systems were securely integrated with existing applications. Orchestrated project management activities.
• Served as enterprise architect to produce strategy and roadmap on the basis of business capabilities, architecture (data, application, infrastructure, security).
• Accountable for AWS/Amazon architecture and development of AWS/Amazon SaaS billing models. Created AWS cloud computing infrastructure from the ground up.
• Developed security model, VPC, Elastic IP for databases on Cloud Platform.
• Built strategy using AWS Identity/Access Management (IAM) for community platform systems.
• Contributed toward technical design using requirements and use cases/stories; interfaced with product management and business analyst on product requirements.

CLOUD QA MANAGER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on IT leadership and top-level oversight on a wide range of IT projects, including business requirements gathering (Imation marketing department to implement project Circle Customer) and development and implementation of technology solutions.
• Comprehensive documentation. Oversaw testing. Supported project management activities including interview coordination, status reporting, and meeting minutes in an Agile environment.
• Played critical role in project kick-off and Scrum meetings with business analysts.

AWS CLOUD ARCHITECT / CLOUD TEST LEAD

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for AWS/Amazon Cloud Watch and other proprietary systems in Cloud infrastructure. Charged with ongoing technology infrastructure improvement.
• Additionally, responsible for AWS/Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Snapshots, Load Balancing, Cloud Formation, Auto Scaling, Redshift.
• Cut costs 28% by consolidating and deploying total of eighteen applications and five were legacy applications to Cloud platforms.
• Successfully migrated on premise data center to AWS and configured Hybrid network.
• Consulted and advised software development teams on architecting/designing Web interfaces and infrastructures powering Cloud platforms.
• Contributed toward the development of backup and recovery strategy for applications and database on a virtualization platform. Created security model, VPC, Elastic IP for DB on Cloud.
• Established test servers on Amazon for MySQL databases using AMI’s. The Stored files to S3 and Glacier for long-term storage.
• Provided hands-on technology leadership for cutting-edge cloud-based technologies.
• Developed engineering assessment deliverables encompassing review criteria, suitability analysis, and migration path recommendation. Extensive comparative price analyses within AWS, Azure, and GCP for each system. Successful migrated (and maintained) legacy applications to cloud environment.

Software QA Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with cross-functional healthcare teams. In-depth understanding of medical coding/billing forms.
• Created test cases/plans and mapped them to requirements in HP QC.
• Ensured patients were designated with correct code under CMS.
• End-to-end test on claim forms and checked patient data.
• Created SQL queries. Covered positive and negative scenarios.
• Tracked/reported defects. Resolved bugs in coordination with team lead and developers.
• Created virtual user scripts.
• Developed SQL queries to verify reports versus database results.
• Coordinated with engineering, search, and technical teams.
• All phases of testing—Smoke, Integration, GUI, functional, system, UAT, and regression.