SUMMARY:

• Accomplished, innovative, persuasive and hands on Technologist with upwards of 18 years of experience. Demonstrated history of successfully managing, planning, and designing highly available and robust infrastructure solutions to meet evolving business needs. Expert in Multisite Cloud Hosting solution architecture.
• Proven track record for devising multisite active - active datacenter strategy that includes migration-to-cloud strategy. Proven ability to identify problems, analyze possible solutions, and determine the most appropriate and efficient course of action to meet objectives. Passionate about providing creative and out-of-the box solution to the problems. Currently working towards Certified Cloud Security Professional (CSSP) and CISSP exams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Johns Creek, GA

Senior Enterprise Architect

Technologies: JBOSS, LinuxOS, Splunk, Dynatrace, BMC, Turbonomics, Visio, Softlayer, Spark EA, DB2, Cassandra, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Design infrastructure solutions per business application requirements.
• Develop conceptual, logical, and physical architectures consisting of one or more viewpoints (business, application, data, and infrastructure) required for eCommerce domain.
• Oversee, create, and review program and project architecture blueprints to frame architecture project work and execution in collaboration with network and security Architects
• Define and enforce solution architecture standards, procedures, metrics, and policies to ensure consistency and adherence processes
• Drive the adoption of new technologies by researching technical trends and developments
• Provide leadership, direction and guidance in assessing and evaluating information security risks and monitor compliance with security standards and appropriate policies.
• Identify IaaS or PaaS as a possible solution.
• Current involvements:
• Working on enterprise container strategy
• Capacity analysis and right sizing the non-production environments
• Understanding Azure cloud’s database as a service solutions DAAS
• Intensive on Cloud Security
• Performing the cost/benefit analysis of the on-prem vs cloud monitoring solutions.
• Devised multisite active-active datacenter strategy. It includes extending infrastructure to Cloud. Responsible for Cloud hosting and migration-to-cloud strategy.
• Designed firewall and F5 load balancer hardware replacement solutions.
• Designed solutions to migrate database systems from physical to virtual machines
• Designed application server environment and provided detailed solution for physical to virtual machines.

Confidential, Saint Paul, MN)

Senior Enterprise Architect

Technologies: .NET 1.1, 2.x, 3.x, 4, WebSphere 3,4,5,6, 6.1 (Network Deployment, Base), IIS, LAMP, CoreID, SharePoint, Softerra, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, WebFocus, eDirectory, Corillian, F5, BigIP

Responsibilities:

• Directly managed 5 and indirectly manage 16 highly technical professionals responsible for the hands-on design, building, and testing of the web infrastructure.
• Lead efforts to design monitoring solutions for all servers using Compuware Vantage, Wily, HP OpenView, and ISM products.
• Took an initiative to provide the solution for the Corillian Retail Internet Banking and Mobile Banking solution to replace an existing retail-internet-banking infrastructure. The new infrastructure would support 6 million registered Confidential customers.
• Design Disaster Recovery Plans, adequately test, and maintain all key infrastructure components.
• Strong understanding of web security, web hosting, PCI compliance and the middleware technologies.
• Designed a secure DMZ network for the internet-facing applications.
• External Facing Infrastructure: Took an initiative to lead the project to design and implement the reverse proxy infrastructure to support external facing applications.
• Took an initiative to work on an active-active disaster recovery project.
• Web Server Farms: Designed and developed multi-tier secure 21 farms to support 107 applications.
• Server consolidation resulted in $60,000 yearly cost savings.
• Implemented efficient processes to speed up the infrastructure development life cycle for new and existing applications.
• Server Virtualizations: Created extensive cost saving by converting the physical servers to virtual.
• Consolidated web server infrastructure that resulted in $75,000 savings in server license cost.
• Successfully implemented a multimillion dollar WebSphere hosted project - HP Select Identity
• Implemented document management website using SharePoint; developed the project plan to create a document management website for the Web infrastructure organization at Confidential .

Confidential, Saint Paul, MN)

Enterprise Systems Architect, Application Hosting Group

Technologies: WebSphere 4,5,6 (Network Deployment, Base, and Express), WebSphere Portal 4, 5, ATG Dynamo, Silverstream Web application servers, DB2, SQL Server, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Managed and maintained engineering specifications and details on WebSphere, ATG Dynamo, and Silverstream servers, clusters and their infrastructure across all environments that run www.3m.com and intranet websites.
• Worked with development and IT Operations to implement fixes and patches for application releases.
• Experience in managing multiple tasks / projects in parallel, prioritizing and scheduling multiple assignments and/or conflicting demands in a 24/7/365, multi-tiered production
• Managed the daily work assignments of 3 consultants. Provided management, administration and operational engineering support to 300 applications running on 3M’s Internet and Intranet environments.
• Saved $200,000 in WebSphere licensing costs by migrating from non-cluster to cluster based architecture
• Solved major performance issues on WebSphere portal by designing the right size infrastructure to support 5000 concurrent users.
• Successfully decommissioned Silverstream environment by moving all applications to WebSphere

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Enterprise Systems Architect, Web Systems Group

Technologies: WebSphere Network Deployment 5, Oracle 8i, 9i, CISCO Local Director (load-balancer), Windows 2003 Server, IBM HTTP Web Servers (Apache), SSL, Digital s, J2EE, ClearCase, Visio, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, MS Excel, WebTrends, Tivoli, NetIQ, SQL Plus, AIX UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Designed and architected WebSphere development, staging and production environments and migrated 43 applications from Silverstream to WebSphere successfully on time and within budget
• Saved ADC $100,000 by re-aligning and redesigning application server environment
• Proposed a cost-effective infrastructure solution for WebSphere implementation that saved $40,000.
• Designed a separate network (DMZ) for the servers exposed to the Internet
• Designed, installed and supported Sales Logix development, staging, and production environments
• Lead design and of web-based intranet/Internet knowledge base KanaIQ system.
• Successfully led a team to migrate Windows NT to Windows 2003 on all web application servers

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Director of Information Technology

Responsibilities:

• Oversee all technology operations and evaluate them according to established goals
• Ensure all data is secure and being backed up at the proper intervals.
• Purchase efficient and cost effective technological equipment and software
• Inspect the use of technological equipment and software to ensure functionality and efficiency
• Identify the need for upgrades, configurations or new systems and report to upper management
• Coordinate IT managers and, technicians and other professionals to provide guidance
• Control budget and report on expenditure
• Assist in building relationships with vendors and creating cost-efficient contracts
• Experience in analysis, implementation and evaluation of IT systems and their specifications
• Sound understanding of computer systems (hardware/software), networks etc.
• Experience in controlling information technology budget
• Manage software development team