SUMMARY:

• Managed IT infrastructure and support in 24/7/365 environments
• Managed and Migration Services in Cloud Environment 8 years in migration and managed services in cloud
• Certifications ITILV3, PMP, CSM and AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Project management expertise with technically complex missions such as consolidating and moving data centers Service Delivery Management for 18 customers in managed DC/Cloud hosting environment
• Platform Migration Experience for 8 years to Public and provate Clouds, Converged and Hyper - Converged
• Cloud and Infra Solution Architecture Planning, Preparation and Presentation to CIOs and other Executives

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: V-block 740/340,, Fujitsu Team Servers, Pentium Servers; SUN/SOLARIS - SS-5, SS-20, SS-1000/E, SS-2000/E, SS-4000/E, Enterprise E450 Server, Sun Fire 880, v890, 440, T5240; UnixWare Pentium Servers; AIX - RS/6000, 7025F50, 7025F80, 7026H50, 7013J50, pSeries 660/630/650, P570, P52A, P520, Power5, P520-Express, Power6, P6 570, P7, P8; Linux - Dell PowerEdge 6800/6850/6450 , HP Itanium 64, HP C7000 Blade Chassis, BL460c and BL680c Blades; HP-UX - HP9000 series PA-RISC and Intel Itanium; Storage - VMAX2, VNX, SSA 7133 D40/T40, 7133-010, 7133-020, SAN FastT-600/900, 7133-D11, NAS, EMC CLARiiON CX400, HP EVA, NetApp FAS940/3140, EMC-DMX4, HP-XP; Consoles – IBM 3151/3153, Cybex Commander, HMC-7042-c06, Raritan; AS 400 -9406 -270 AMD i5 systems; Blade Chassis – HP c7000 and IBM multiple blade chassis; UCS –B200 M3 AT&T UNIX – SVR 4.2; SUN – Solaris 2.5/2.6/7/8/9/10 ; Red Hat Enterprise Linux – AS 2.1/3.0/4.0/5. x/6.x; SUSE Linux – 11.1/11.3; UNIX WARE – 2.0; AIX – 4.1/4.2/4.3.0/4.3.2/4.3.3/5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1/7 ; HP-UX – 11.11 (11i), 11.23 (11iv2), 11.3, OS400 - 5.2 and 5.3

Windows: NT, XP, 2003, 2008,2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2

Languages: Shell Scripting, Python, C

RDBMS: Oracle 7.x/8.x/9.x/10g/11g/12C/RAC cluster (installation and environment support)

Backup Tools: Veritas NetBackup, ADSM/TSM, SysBack, Veritas Backup Exec, ufsdump, cpio, dd, tar, Galaxy CommVault, Storix, mksysb, Flash Archive, EMC Networker, Data Domain

Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NETBUI

Cabling: Ethernet (Thinnet, Thicknet, UTP), Token Ring, Fiber Channel, SSA

Clusters: HACMP, VCS5.0, Red Hat Cluster with GFS2,VCS5.3

Storage/Volume Management: NAS/SAN, EMC Clarion CX700, EMC DMX4, HP EVA, HP XP, NetApp 940/3140, ALL FLASH, LVM, Solstice DiskSuite, Veritas Volume Manager (VXVM,VXFS)

RAID Devices: RAID 10/5/1/0/6

Security Tools: TCP Wrappers, MD5, Tripwire, PGP, Check Point FireWall-1, Foundstone

Installation Tools: AIX-NIM, mksysb, preservation/migration, Linux Kickstart, Solaris Jumpstart

Audits: DITSCAP (Department of Defense IT Security Certification and Accreditation Process), SAS 70/SASE16 (a part of Sarbanes-Oxley), SOX (Sarbanes Oxley), PCI

Applications Environments Supported: Oracle databases 7.X/8.X/9.X/10G, Informatica 7.1/8.1 ETLRIMS (COBOL-based insurance package), Solimar PrintDirector, Sybase/DB2/MySQL database environments, Weblogic, Peoplesoft, Tomcat, JBOSS, MQ Series, Apache, Java applications, TIBCO, Vcloud Director, BMC ITSM, Subversion, Perforce, Oracle Forms

LDAP: OpenLDAP (server and client), Linux authentication to AD, Kerberos Authentication

Miscellaneous: VIO Server, MPIO, SMclient, LVM mirroring, HMC, NFS, NIS, NTP, ACL, MQSeries, EMC PowerPath, VMware ESX 3.0/4.x/5.x, Brocade 4600, NetApp V-Series NAS, Solaris Zones, LPAR/DLPAR, Hitachi HDLM multipathing software, BladeLogic, BMC Remedy 7 (ITSM), DNS Servers, OVM, Webmin, Ansible, Puppet, squid, converged platforms, Vblock 740/340; Nutanix, VxRail, Platespin, Doubletake

Cloud: Azure, AWS, Build and support of Confidential cloud on VMware vCloud, V-realize, VRO

SAN/NAS: EMC CLARiiON/DMX-4/DMX-100, HP EVA6000/XP512, NetApp 940/3140, Hitachi SAN –VSP (Virtualized Storage Platform), EMC-VNX5300

Asset Management: Symantec Altiris, BMC Atrium

Monitoring Tools: BMC Patrol, Tivoli, Heroix, Altiris, Unicenter, Nagio, Cacti

Automation Tools: Blade Logic, Altiris, Tivoli, BMC ADDM, SCCM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preaparion of Infrastructure and cloud solutions for Fortune500 and large environments.
• Responsible for technical solution architecture, future technology roadmaps, budgets, RFPs, SOWs and overall project planning and execution.
• Managing large teams in project executions. Presentation of solutions and technology roadmaps to C-level executives.
• Planning AWS and Azure migration Solutions.Preparing businesss case for Cloud migrations.
• Service transitions of customer Infrastructure operations to HCL Operations. Creation of Operations procedures.
• Preparing of technology roadmaps for cost efficiency (Opex and Capex reduction).
• Helping Operations in hiring of resources. Cloud Migration feasibility assessment.
• Consolidation/upgrade of large DC environments.
• Creation of partner CO-LO and DC solutions.

Technology Environment: Azure, AWS, Linux, Aix6/7, P7/8, HP-UX, Hyper-V, Oracle, Ms-sql, EMC, Netapp, VRA, VRO, VBlock, Nutanix, Simplivity, Delphix, Cloudscape, Citrix, NSX, Cisco ACI, Puppet, Github, Devops, Moogsoft, VxRail 4.0, Cloudscape, Cloudendure, IBM Softlayer, I-series, Solaris 10/11, Zones, Docker, Azure Site recovery, Mesosphere, Cisco ACI, Vmware NSX

Sr. Manager of IT Infrastructure and Cloud Operations

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Received customer appreciation for problem management and smooth operations in support of IT infrastructure of 18 client companies with a team of 16 direct reports who were very senior level Unix, Linux, cloud, SAN, NAS, Backup experts.
• This was a Managed Hosting/Cloud environment.
• Some of the clients were Fortune500 companies.
• Successfully Migrated large client environments to Oneneck Vmware and OVM clouds and managed their operations.
• Managed a large team of reports globally including hiring, performance-management and Lay-offs.

Sr. Consultant (Service Delivery MGT) Cloud and Hosting Operations

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Improved business relationships, infused new technical strategies, and boosted overall company credibility.
• Able to provided technology solutions for more than 10000 Unix/Linux servers in Managed Hosting and cloud environment.
• Architect and implement Confidential ’s Federal IaaS cloud and migrate large customers to the cloud.
• Retain key company client by implementing a project for federal government security guidelines on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) AIX systems.
• Architect and implement new cloud environment while providing level-4 engineering support.
• Ensure FEDRAMP compliance in Confidential ’s IaaS cloud environment.
• Conduct large DR tests in IaaS/PaaS service cloud and Data Center hosting environment (400+ servers)

Manager of Unix/Linux, Virtualization and Storage Systems

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Outstanding team reputation for delivering timely results and innovative technology solutions. Implemented processes and procedures to streamline technical efforts and create repeatable solutions. Assist infrastructure operations as technical subject matter expert by optimizing processes and systems.
• Saved costs and space by managing data center migration, virtualization, and hardware consolidation of a mission-critical, $100 million per year annual revenue-generating application to support company’s strategic direction.
• Managed virtual technical team of 6, comprised of very senior level Unix, SAN, NAS, and Linux plus Backup engineers. Productively managed technical staff and team activities—team meetings, administering reviews, creating job descriptions, hiring personnel—while individually contributing to, and providing results on, critical projects.
• Migrated PeopleSoft, a mission critical application, from Solaris SPARC to Linux using HP Blade, resulting in significant cost savings and improved system performance.
• Contributed to business and enterprise success by coordinating diverse projects such as Solaris and Linux virtualization, application migration from SPARC to Linux, application deployment through RPMs, storage migration from EMC to Netapp, and architecting Unix/Linux/SAN/NAS and backup solutions using technical expertise.
• Managed purchases, vendors, and procurement of equipment including vendor negotiations and audits to ensure SAS70/PCI compliance and smooth integrations.
• Implementation of Storage thin provisioning for costs saving on SAN costs.

Senior Systems Architect/Engineer

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Responsibilities:

• Provided installation and support services for various Unix/Linux platforms.
• Created cutting-edge architectural Unix/Linux solutions to support goals and save costs.
• Coordinated PeopleSoft finance migration to virtual platform and communicated with more than 25 stakeholders, resulting in significant license and equipment cost savings.
• Supported audits for SOX compliance for Solaris environments.
• Implemented and supported Aix/Solaris/ HP-UX, Red Hat and SUSE Linux, HP SAN, NetApp Filers, Solaris Zones, Red Hat GFS clusters, VXVM, VCS, and Aix LPARs and VIO severs.
• Lead all major projects and installations for AIX and Solaris virtualization efforts, including Sun SPARC machines into Solaris Zones and AIX machines into LPARs for costs savings and better utilization of system resources.