PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

An astute and Agile Driven Telecom/ IT Professional with tremendous experience in Telecoms and IT. I have experience working as a Telecom RF Design, Deployment and Optimization Engineer, Scrum Master, IT Networking, Architecting, Security roles. Also, I am highly skilled in SQL Database and ETL Informatica PowerCenter.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, charlotte, nc

AWS CLOUD ENGINEER

• Provision AWS resources using management console as well as Command Line Interface.
• Plan, build and configure network infrastructure within VPC with public and private subnets, configure routing tables, security group and internet gateway.
• Configuring NACL, Security Groups and WAF to secure applications and VPC network with respect to access parameters and conditions.
• Setup and configure VPC PrivateLink (Endpoints), Direct Connect, VPG, VPC Transit Gateway, VPC Peering, Reverse Proxy Caching, CDN, IPsec and VPN for secure data transfer, and secured connection to other AWS services and other AWS accounts.
• Automate provisioning of cloud infrastructure using CloudFormation
• Testing and deployment automation with Docker containerization and Jenkins. Automation of manual tasks using Shell scripting.
• Good understanding YAML and JSON scripting.
• Leverage AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto - scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
• Create and manage IAM user accounts and role based policies for access to AWS services.
• Implement and maintain monitors, alarms, and notifications for EC2 instances using CloudWatch and SNS.
• Perform S3 buckets creation, access policies, and archive outdated data to Glacier through Lifecycle Policy configuration.
• Launching databases via RDS to support web application functionality.
• Install Apache and Nginx Web Server on EC2, (proxy server as needed).
• Create and manage users, permissions, directories and files in Linux environment.
• Implementation of compliance with CIS Benchmark on AWS environment.

Confidential

CLOUD SUPPORT ENGINEER

• Developed Cloud Formation scripts to build on demand EC2 instance formation.
• Utilized AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data - stores to S3 buckets and EBS.
• Created nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backups.
• Configured and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using Cloud Watch.
• Migrated applications from internal data center to AWS.
• Encrypted data on server and client side.
• Scaled distributed in-memory cache environment in the cloud using Elastic cache.
• Co-ordinated the execution of multiple computing devices with Amazon SWF.
• Managed automated backups and created own backup snapshots when needed.

Confidential, DALLAS, TX

NETWORK ENGINEER

• Scaling up of system hardware to improve overall system performance
• Monitoring of production environment and file system sever
• Operating system installation and configuration of Windows and Linux system
• Formatting and creation of new disk partition and file system
• Troubleshooting of boot configuration, system start - up problems, and network connectivity
• Performed virus scan and system cleanups, back up, upgrade, patching, manual scaling, and data recovery from corrupt and or damaged hard drives.
• Scheduled maintenance and monitoring of client system.
• Troubleshoot network connectivity issues involving: TCP/IP, DHCP, wired and wireless connections.
• Backing up of data, formatting, Installation of operating system, and creation of new disk partition.
• Troubleshooting, application installation, configuration management, and performing system upgrades.

Confidential

Scrum master.

• Provided coaching to the Agile team to foster agility and help the team achieve higher levels of maturity at a very comfortable and sustainable pace.
• Worked closely with the Product Owner to manage, prioritize and refine product backlogs.
• Facilitated all the Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective).
• Model appropriate behavior in the facilitation of creation and maintenance of feature/story.
• Helped manage risks, dependencies and bottlenecks.
• Tracked and escalated impediments for timely resolution.
• Scrum as an asset; strong knowledge of all the concepts: tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, user stories.
• Excellent team player and team builder with strong interpersonal skills.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.
• Assist in incident management including problem resolution and tracking problems.

Confidential

Senior RF Design & Optimization Engineer

• Execute the nominal radio coverage and capacity rollout design for the region to ensure adequate coverage and provide enough capacity to subscribers on GSM, UMTS and LTE networks.
• Detailed RF Site Design including site configuration for DAS, Mini Macro and Macro sites.
• Analysis of LTE KPIs, investigation and improvement of network issues.
• Recommend parameter changes to improve performance and prepare status reports.
• RF Audit and verification of parameter checks on Macro sites, Mini Macro sites and DAS.
• BSC planning and Rehoming of sites to help decongest heavily utilized BSCs.
• Delivery of Radio Network Performance Improvement (Optimization) service which include monitoring & analyzing the GSM/UMTS Radio Network statistics on a daily basis to ensure KPIs are met.
• Using OSS and Statistical tools (FACTS) to monitor network performance and configuration to ensure conformance with target KPIs (accessibility, mobility, retainability and handover).
• Carrying out optimization techniques (tilting, azimuth change, power control, antenna height, repeater installations) to improve overall coverage and capacity performance of existing sites.
• Radio Network tuning and acceptance for newly integrated.