SUMMARY:

• Enterprise Architect and IT leader, leading experience into IT from various areas of networks, messaging, infrastructure, database, virtualization, storage, call center apps, mid - range, business continuity planning and disaster recovery.
• Skilled into network storage, database, middleware, infrastructure and virtualization
• Focus on IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and UCaaS on Cloud computing soace and applied hybrid cloud.
• Worked on platforms like Apprenda, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, HP, Cloudera, Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services, Appscale and Redhat.
• Well rounded experience into the deployment of PaaS service and taking IaaS to the next level. Clients include, energy, financial, hospitals and municipal governments.
• ITIL, Prince2 (Project management) and CIP (Certified Information Professional) certified.
• Consistently in customer facing environment at consulting, pre or post sales role, working throughout the life cycle of the large complex projects.
• Proven experience with working on Government level clients on Federal, Provincial and Municipal clients. Possess RCMP, Federal level and City level security screening check.
• Experience working for big IT companies like TELUS, AT&T, Confidential, HP and Avaya.
• IT professional, having Bachelors in Electrical Engineering majoring in Electronics and Telecommunications, with 14+ years of IT experience.
• Constantly worked with Project managers, Directors, Enterprise Architects and IT Managers and provided architectural guidance to efficiently manage IT systems and services.
• Experience in IT Governance, Contract Governance, Service Delivery, Operational Readiness, Process improvements, Vendor Sourcing and Global IT Operations.
• Worked on data centers, business continuity planning, hosted services environment.
• Experienced working with large Oil and gas clients in Houston, Texas and Calgary area.
• Highly skilled into project management, managed IT services and delivery, ITIL concepts, managed services, financial aspects of large complex projects, and emerging technologies.
• Able to communicate technical solutions to both technical and non-technical audience.
• Experience in Linux Administration (Installation, Configuration, Tuning and Upgrades of Linux (Red Hat and Oracle).
• Experienced in all phases of the software development life-cycle (SDLC) with specific focus on the build and release of quality software. Experienced in Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Lean and most recently Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) practices.
• In-depth understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Agile, SCRUM to Stash Migration, Waterfall methodologies.
• Involve in implementing configuration management tools such as Puppet.
• Demonstrated ability in installation, configuration and management of provision tools chef, Puppet and Ansible.
• Coordination experience with various teams like Dev, QA and production Operations.
• Proficient in writing Puppet modules and chef cookbooks.
• Experience in working on version control systems like Subversion and GIT, ClearCase, Stash used Source code management client tools like Visual SVN, Tortoise SVN, Stash, Source Tree, Git Bash, GitHub, Git GUI and other command line applications etc.
• Planned and executed Linux system changes and upgrades, Customer Support.
• Experience in using Nexus and Artifactory Repository for Maven and Ant builds.
• Write, design and code database enabled web applications using Perl.
• Managed multiple AWS accounts with multiple VPC's for both production and non-prod where primary objectives included automation, build out, integration and cost control.
• Worked in Puppet Master and slave architecture environments.
• Hands on exp. On website code and website patch Deployment and deployment tools like UDeploy ( Confidential ), URelease, GIT, Jenkins, Artifactory.
• Also, developed Puppet modules to configure Splunk and other middle ware applications (JBOSS, WAS, etc.)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, AB

Cloud Solution Architect

• This role of Cloud Integration Architect is responsible for automation and orchestration aspects of solution delivery. My role of planning, coordination and execution spanned across multiple disciplines in order to develop robust, holistic solutions for the business as a whole of automation, and identifying opportunities for efficiency.
• I was also responsible for overall selection, delivery, and ongoing management of a cloud-enabled, multi-tenant Automation/Orchestration solution.
• Assessed cloud technology and market trends to identify and present options for meeting business requirements through the implementation of new and existing technologies with security fundamentals in mind .
• Designed and implemented cloud architecture deliverables in a dynamic and still emerging environment through collaboration with other software and infrastructure architects while ensuring compliance with overall systems architecture design and strategy .
• Partnered with Enterprise Architects to understand, influence, and advocate IT strategies, policies, principles, and practices that guided technology decisions for the organization .
• Planned strategic management of cloud-based products and services leveraged at company by working with other members within the Public Cloud team .
• Played an integral part in advancing the Cloud eco-system and culture of technical excellence.
• Championed the Cloud Architecture, live and breathe Infrastructure Automation, define Cloud Solutions, display a strong understanding of Cloud-as-a-Service varieties: PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, etc.
• Created the next generation of Cloud architecture, you will make a key contribution supporting end-to-end private/public Cloud Automation IT and Infra application delivery, including Infrastructure provisioning and integration with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development platforms, using existing and emerging technologies .
• Highly experienced architecting and moving infrastructure / workloads to the Cloud. Consolidated 2 major data centers into 1.
• Designed and created To-Be blueprints / documentation that include design specifications, cabling plans, IP and VLAN requirements, diagrams, test and acceptance plans, Interact with other IT and network project teams in a collaborative way to continuously improve.
• As member of Release Engineering group, redefined processes and implemented tools for software builds, patch creation, source control, and release tracking and reporting, on UNIX platform.
• Setting up the build and deployment automation for Java base project by using JENKINS and Maven
• Responsible for creating and deploying builds on various WebLogic environments, testing in build environment and release to test team on scheduled time.
• Creating builds using power shell Scripts, ANT/Maven scripts manually and automated.
• Troubleshooting deployment and installation issues.
• Automated the Build Process using Jenkins.
• Maintained necessary back-up of the important files and documented Linux scripts for future reference.
• Handling complete Build and Release process including code, documentation and supporting testing team along with the server Administration
• Work with QA to facilitate verification of releases. Running multiple builds at a time.
• SVN administration like give access for branches and SVN repositories.
• Creating SVN repositories and give access rights to the authorized developers.
• Maintained and administered GIT source code tool.
• Created Branches, Labels and performed Merges in Stash and GIT .
• Support the code builds by integrating with continuous integration tool ( Jenkins ).
• Installed and configured Jenkins for Automating Deployments and providing an automation solution.
• Integrated GIT into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process.
• Used Jenkins for automating Builds and Automating Deployments.
• Managed build results in Jenkins and deployed using workflows.
• Managed to deliver specific versions of various components of an application into target environments.
• Maintain and track inventory using Jenkins and set alerts when the servers are full and need attention.
• Modeled the structure for multi-tiered applications orchestrate the processes to deploy each tier.
• Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Integrated delivery (CI and CD process) Using Jenkins, Nexus, Yum and puppet .
• Have used Confluence to create, share and discuss content and projects.
• Familiar and experienced with Agile Scrum development.

Environment: GIT, Ant, Maven, Artifactory, Tomcat, WebSphere, SVN, VMware, Clear Quest Jenkins, Linux, JBOSS, Shell, Perl Scripting, Nexus, JIRA.

Confidential, Calgary, AB

Senior Cloud Solution Architect

• Worked with an agile development team to deliver an end to end continuous integration/continuous delivery product in an open source environment using Puppet and Jenkins to get the job done.
• Used the continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins and Hudson for automating the build processes.
• Conceived, Designed, Installed and Implemented CI/ CD automation system.
• Created and updated Bash scripts and modules, files, and packages.
• Responsible for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) process implementation using Jenkins along with Shell scripts to automate routine jobs.
• Implemented CI and CD for database using Jenkins and UDeploy.
• Installed Docker Registry for local upload and download of Docker images and even from Docker hub.
• Setup Jenkins tool to integrate the JAVA project and maintained Jenkins with continuous integration and deployment.
• Created the UDeploy templates for components and applications, onboarded around 200 apps into UDeploy to achieve continuous integration.
• Designing and developing new back-end services, maintaining and expanding our AWS infrastructure, and providing mentorship to others on my team.
• Develop/capture/document architectural best practices for building systems on AWS.
• Working with technical and non-technical teams across Amazon (AWS).
• Automated the build and release management process including monitoring changes between releases.
• Installed WebLogic Application server 10.3.6/12.1.2 using graphic and silent mode and configured the WebLogic domain.
• Created WebLogic domains, managed servers, clusters, machines and start up scripts.
• Responsible for managing the chef client nodes and upload the cookbooks to chef-server from workstation. Developed Scripts for AWS Orchestration.
• Built a new CI pipeline. Testing and deployment automation with Docker, Jenkins and Puppet.
• Written Chef Recipes to automate our build/deployment process and do an overall process improvement to any manual process.
• Written multiple cookbooks in chef, implemented environments, roles, data bags in chef for better environment management.
• Used MAVEN as build tools on Java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.
• Worked on Managing the Private Cloud Environment using Chef.
• Implemented Chef to deploy the builds for Dev, QA and production.
• Automation of infrastructure by creating scripts of Chef.
• Developed Chef Cookbooks to install and configure Apache, Tomcat , Jenkins , Rundeck and deployment automation .
• Create release pipelines using GIT , Chef for automatic workflow.
• Achieved continuous Deployment using Confidential UDeploy. Integrated UDeploy with nexus and Jenkins to achieve CD.
• Created and maintained Ant build.XML and Maven Pom.XML for performing the builds.
• Proposed branching strategies for using Version Control Systems like GIT, Clear Case, Stash, GitHub & Subversion.
• Created branches, performed merges in version control systems GIT, GitHub, SVN.
• Automated setting up server infrastructure for the DevOps services, using Puppet/Ansible, shell and python scripts.
• Developed Python career path through professional development while working on Python projects.
• Troubleshot switch to server and back to the secure Cloud connection.
• Administered and Engineered Jenkins for managing weekly Build, Test and Deploy chain, SVN/GIT with Dev/Test/Prod Branching Model for weekly releases.
• Involved in the troubleshooting the servers.

Environment: Cloud AWS, CHEF, Docker, Puppet, WebLogic, JAVA, Subversion, GIT, GITHUB, Apache Maven, Jenkins, Apache Tomcat, Shell Script, SOA, PowerShell, Linux, Windows, Atlassian JIRA, Cloud Foundry, Python, ruby and Perl

Confidential, Calgary, AB

Senior Technology Architect

• This role served as a Solutions Architect to our clients from Oil and Gas sector.
• Overall responsibility of a diverse portfolio of IT architecture from project delivery, requirement gathering, solution design, detailed design, implementation and testing aspects.
• Collaborated with Clients’ architecture teams, worked with Portfolio architects and Project managers for Managed services IT Enterprise solutions.
• Lead the team to provide technical oversight into high level solution architecture, product selection, custom solution and off the shelf system solution.
• Provided technical leadership to the Enterprise Cloud team for solution design, architectural guidance, functional business realization and proposed infrastructure changes.
• Engaged on large complex solutions for data center, managed services, storage, telecom, network and IS applications areas. Helped formulate Cloud policies and roadmaps.
• Clients include Suncor, Talisman Energy, Encana, AMEC, EPCOR, CPC.
• Provided high level design, architecture on data center, shared services, switching and security infrastructure to the clients who are under the large complex deals department.
• Proposed and developed the program solution architecture, advised the architecture team.
• Provided TELUS Business product and solutions offerings to public and private sector clients to choose solutions that best fit to their business demands. IaaS is one of those.
• Researched, identified and proposed new emerging and open standard technologies to the customers. Worked on highly visible key projects.
• Led the Cloud platform support services initiative for the clients at Telus.
• Provided best industry practices and solutions that comply with government regulatory authorities to our customers. Applied ITIL concepts for solution development and operation.
• Provided input to the sales and project management teams on resource and timelines.
• Collaborated with TELUS and Customers’ Directors, IT Managers, Enterprise Architect teams to perform various functions from inception, design, build and service maintenance for smooth delivery of products and services to the TELUS customers.
• Job involves being the Project lead on multiple projects into pre-sales, solution designing, working with project teams to develop scope, project plan, resource plan, time and budget.
• Supported the account and sales teams in closing the deal, negotiate the support agreement.
• Reviewed risks and developed risk mitigation strategies and conform to regulatory needs.

Confidential

Client Solution Architect

• This role was into consulting customers’ in formulating their technology policies, practices and roadmaps. Close working relationship with customer’s Enterprise Architects.
• Devised methods and approaches for customers’ short and long term technology plans that will meet their business demand strategies. Helped convert business needs into IT solutions.
• Advised the clients of the IT solutions that meet their functional and technical requirements.
• Proposed technical solutions in diverse areas of IT and IS shared services to the customers. Clients include Shell, Marathon Oil.
• Performed TCO analysis, modifications into the RFPs, RFIs for the clients.
• Prepared project plans, resourcing and risk mitigation plans with Project managers and helped prepare estimated Capex and Opex budgets for a solution or project.
• Developed documentation, diagrams of data models at physical and logical level.
• Prepared functional requirements documentation and transformed it into the Solution architecture documentation describing all functional and technical requirements.
• Ensured that the solution design not only meets business requirements, but meets cost constraints, technical feasibility and effective performance. Developed end to end documents.
• Oversaw the development, implementation and testing phases of the solution.
• Reviewed key project deliverables, modified and monitored for accuracy.
• Collaborated with key experts to align the solution with enterprise architecture.

Confidential, TX

Engineering Lead

• This role involved in providing the high level IT architecture to the clients of AT&T and working in conjunction with Honeywell subcontractors. The clients included Oil and gas companies like Marathon Oil, Conco Phillips, Citgo.
• Led a team of 6 engineers and contractors in the successful design, delivery and post implementation support of various telecom and security systems for our clients.
• Worked with client’s directors and business heads, in formulating their technology policies, practices and roadmaps. Close working relationship with external vendors and suppliers.
• Developed and reviewed the RFPs (request for proposal) with exhibits, bid proposals, negotiation of terms, SOWs (scope of work), IT expenses and billing, and change orders to a or multiple project/s.
• Intelligently utilized project resources (personnel, equipment and budget) for efficient functioning of the department’s budget and expenses.
• Consolidated all the telecom traffic under a single service provider and lead the changes associated with that.
• Managed data LAN, WAN and telecom teams to successfully deliver the customer’s business needs. Consistently maintain a high 99.99% of uptime with the systems and services.
• Organized and deliver proper asset and inventory management with products and licenses.
• Devised methods and approaches for clients’ short and long term technology plans that will meet the business demands. Strategized efforts to achieve those business demands.
• Acted as a liaison between the customers and internal engineering, delivery and helpdesk team. Transition and delivery of services through multiple vendors.
• Worked as a project manager to liase with various vendors, teams to ensure that the project is on track, within budget and of high quality.
• Performed quality checks and supervision by visiting client’s site and coaching and mentoring junior team members.

Confidential, New York

Sr. Client Support Manager

• Worked as a Services Availability Manager in a client facing, critical leadership role where the primary responsibility was to protect the client system availability through integrated incident, problem and change management procedures.
• Supported Confidential product offerings from middleware, application development to infrastructure
• Reported to the Delivery Project Executive and provided cross-functional leadership for incident management, to demonstrate control of the situation to the client and rapid recovery.
• Acted as the primary escalations manager, and owned for the resolution of major incidents, critical situations, and RCAs (Root Cause Analysis).
• Interfaced with various technical teams, directed them towards a problem resolution, solution developing and communicated with account teams and clients.
• Led and supported the team on major outages, directed towards service restoration.
• This operational leadership role was responsible to communicate across the matrix teams, determine specific account needs, plan and seek executive approval.
• Clients include Morgan Stanley, Confidential, Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch.

Confidential

IT Delivery Manager

• This role was to manage the LAN, WAN and Voice (telecom) team to successfully deliver the customer’s business needs. Customers include Citibank, HSBC and Deutsche Bank.
• Managed the team of 14 IT professionals to implement and maintain the IT business products and services of the clients. Vendors include Cisco, Avaya, Nortel, AT&T, British Telecom.
• Performed project management functions for budgeting, forecasting, cost, quality and time management analysis, to resolve roadblocks and deliver smooth services to the clients.
• Consistently maintained a high percentage of uptime with the systems and services.