PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Enterprise Architect experienced architecture, design, and implementation. Extensive experience in cloud systems design and implementation. Expert in network and client/server architecture. And have effectively managed projects involving IT backend infrastructure and architecture design.
• Extensive knowledge and specialization of, as well as a proven record of success with, leading efforts emphasizing the strategy, design, and development of IT service models and designs.
• Lead client-facing business development, engagement delivery, practice development and thought leadership especially, identifying and addressing client needs communicating a broad range of services, managing engagements, including preparing concise, accurate documents and balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues.
• Managed, IT strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, policy, processes, standards, organizational design, governance, and change management to enable technology and program delivery.
• Lead and built large teams, creating a positive work environment by developing new opportunities, successful delivery of engagements, monitoring of organizational health, and the driving of thought leadership.
• Leveraged Cloud Management Platforms, Virtualization Strategies, Automation and Orchestration Strategies, Public Cloud Platforms, Cloud Capacity/Performance Optimization, and Application Migrations to a Cloud Platform with a clear understanding of how an IT organization capitalizes upon technology to enable the business.
• Identified and addressed client needs including developing and sustaining deep client relationships using networking, negotiation and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities, preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials, and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collection.
• As a practice and team leader, enabled teams to generate a vision, established direction and motivated members, created an atmosphere of trust, leveraged diverse views, coached staff, and encouraged improvement and innovation, and lead by example, while working collaboratively as a member of a team and executing independently.

Created a solution based practice, grew the organization, developed approaches and methodologies, built a thought leadership platform, lead engagements and provided consistent communication to client and leadership teams.

• pTIA Cloud Essentials
• CCNA
• MCSE
• Advanced Management Program, Harvard University
• PMP, Project Management Professional PMI
• CSM, Certified Scrum Master
• PMI-ACP, PMI Agile Certified Practitioner

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SharePoint Developer

• Creation and management of DevOps team as it relates to Cloud
• Data center consolidation and virtualization
• Migrating exchange 2010 to office 365
• For the past four years I have been managing and helping create and grow the DevOps team while focused on the cloud initiative that includes:
• Moving 1500 plus locally hosted apps to hybrid cloud
• SOA Service Oriented Architecture implementation
• Service catalog, virtualization, automation and orchestration
• Architectural design and implementation of cloud management tools
• Open Stack, Amazon, and Microsoft Hybrid cloud development.
• DevOps Solutions employed to utilize infrastructure as a code:
• Chef Software
• Puppet Labs
• Distelli
• Ansible
• Salt / SaltStack

Areas of Expertise:

Cloud Computing Architecture design and implementation:

• Management of VMM / hypervisors.
• Utilization of various RAID levels on SAN, NAS, and DAS.
• Implementation of VDI Virtual Desktop Interface via DaaS utilizing Amazon workspace and VMware and Citrix VDI's.
• Design and implementation of SOA Service oriented architecture
• Private, Hybrid and Public cloud integration and migration expert
• Expert in NIST SPI models: SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, DaaS, Caas, BPaas, XaaS.
• Cloud Computing Architecture design. integration and implementation
• Consulted in pre-cloud architecture layout and future integration plans.
• Implementation of essential attributes of cloud compute: on-demand/self-service, anywhere network access, location transparent resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and pay-per-use service.
• Implementation of P2V servers.
• Experience with Cloud technologies and fabrics Amazon AWS/EC2, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, vCloud Director
• Experience in migration of applications from Physical to Virtual environments
• Exposure to a wide variety of enterprise software, application technologies and cloud services such as, Simple Storage Service Amazon S3 , Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon EC2 , Route 53, and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Amazon VPC .
• Understanding and experience with current Cloud IaaS giants: Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure .
• Vendor research, selection, contract negotiations, and final approval process formalized and executed.
• Architected private and hybrid virtual clouds.
• Lead architect, R D on cloud computing for:
• Vendor selection, financials, management and escalation / resolution guru
• Migration of 1550 applications to private and public cloud.
• Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services AWS, EC2, VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V technologies implemented and incorporated in existing company infrastructure for Cloud Compute.
• Network design typologies, disaster recovery, site planning expert
• Management of software teams who work on cloud compute
• Understanding of FISMA/FedRAMP security requirements.
• Experience analyzing, and implementing access control mechanisms and security methodologies.
• Involved in the security issues dealing with cloud computing and analysis.
• PowerShell scripting and use of Quest / Dell Migration manager for AD, Exchange, and office 365 migrations.
• Staged and cut over migrations to office 365 with multiple tenants with multiple forests using ADFS Active Directory Federation Services and FIM 2010 R2 Forefront identity manager utilizing SAML
• Cloud orchestration utilizing utilities like opsCode Chef and Puppet labs.
• Implementation of Cloud laws e.g. FERPA, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX.

Leading the DevOps Team for Cloud Management:

• Service catalog, virtualization, automation and orchestration
• Orchestration with Juju
• Automation of AWS build environments
• Puppet
• Python on Django framework development
• Analytics for Cloud analysis
• Run Books creation / implementation
• Chef
• Architectural design and implementation of cloud management tools
• Provisioning with MAAS
• LXD: Deployment of Linux machines
• Ubuntu/ Open Stack
• Desktop Virtualization VDI using Amazon workspace

Data Center Migration / Consolidation:

• Responsible for the migration and decommissioning of existing data centers into new data centers.
• Creation and storage of project related documents using documentum.
• Deliverables for this role included business case development, project management planning, and detailed migration planning and operational handover back to the business.
• Defining the scope, approach, timeline cost of their project.
• Accountable for delivery of agreed scope as per the approved Project Plan.

Migration to Office 365:

• On premise and in cloud implementation of hybrid environment.
• Migration from previous versions of exchange 2010.
• Implementation and integration of Enterprise Vault
• Archiving solution designed and implemented
• Discovery of public and personal folders
• Migration of global architecture to Office 365 cloud solution.
• Implementation of 2012 R2 ADFS 3.0
• SharePoint integration
• System Center 2012 , SCCM, SCOM integration with Office 365

Hadoop and EMC implementation on backend and desktops:

• Data analytics, data aggregation and data consolidation project initiated, planned and executed.
• Implementation of HDFS
• Use of MapReduce along with Hadoop Common modules on YARN
• Market data aggregation and consolidation for financial analysis and forecasting
• Stock market analysis done on hadoop platform and embedded in the workstation shell for the financial consultants to do analysis and reporting on stock portfolios.

Disaster Recovery planning and implementation:

• Project management and Lead architect for newly built disaster recovery site.
• Performed risk analyses for corporate functional areas
• Recommended disaster avoidance and reduction strategies
• Provided guidance to and coordinated the development of recovery procedures
• Helped units conduct business impact analyses to determine acceptable recovery time periods.
• Coordinated business continuity efforts across different functional areas.

Exchange 2013 migration:

• Design of architecture and infrastructure of Microsoft Exchange in hybrid environment.
• Implementation and upgrade to exchange 2013.
• On premise and cloud architecture, design, and implementation of exchange.

SharePoint Developer

• Design of architecture and infrastructure of Microsoft SharePoint online and on premise solutions
• Migration from SharePoint 2010.

Implementation of Microsoft

• Design of architecture and infrastructure of Microsoft Lync 2013 on 35,000 clients
• Defining and configuring the Topology and design
• Setting up front end servers and front end pools
• Adding server roles
• Setting up Kerberos Authentication
• Installation of Lync Server monitoring role
• Installation of Persistent chat
• Adding back associated backup pool for resiliency
• Adding voice features, response groups and managers
• OneNote 2013 integration with Lync Server 2013
• Integration with Skype Federation.

Microsoft System Center 2010 R2 Implementation:

• Implementation of System Center Operations Manager
• Implementation of System Center Configuration Manager
• Implementation of System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• Implementation of System Center Orchestrator
• Implementation of System Center App Controller
• Implementation of System Center Service Manager
• Upgrade from Microsoft SCCM 2007

Microsoft Project Server 2010 architecture design and implementation:

• Survey of existing environment.
• Upgrade from legacy Clarity CA PPM to Project Server 2010
• Integration of MS modules with existing RFP and Business Intelligence modules
• ROI, project prioritization and cost effectiveness calculated

SAN Infrastructure consolidation and Cloud Computing:

• Implementation of VI3 enterprise edition for server consolidation for Email platform.
• Implementation of cloud computing with VMware and Microsoft technologies.
• Netapp FAS series utilized for SAN.
• Utilization of IBM Shark SAN technology.
• ESX servers running on IBM Blade technology with backed running on Shark.
• SMARTS and SNMP for server management.
• EMC and Clarion used with Legato for online backups.
• Creation of LUN's,
• HBA card configurations,
• Technologies used during this project were: Symmetrix, V-Max, TimeFinder, SRDF, NAS, CAS, Clustering, Volume Management, and Server Virtualization, Emulex/Qlogic Fibre HBA's. Fiber Channel Technology, Cisco, McData and Brocade Switches

Microsoft Project Server 2013 / 2010 Implementation:

• Installation of MS Project Server 2013 and upgrade of 2010 existing Project Server to Project Server Pro and PWA, Project server web access.
• Migration of previous databases and portfolio management solutions on OPX2 to Project Server.

Exchange 2010 migration / upgrade Business Productivity Online Standard Suite:

• Implementation of Azure cloud.
• Implementation of Exchange 2010, Share Point and OCS on BPOS.
• Migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2010 physical and cloud based servers.
• Migration of clients from Exchange 2003 to 2010.

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Implementation:

• Upgrade from SMS 2003 to SP3 to Microsoft SCCM 2007.
• Architecture design and implementation to network infrastructure.
• Management vendors dealing with the hardware and software requirements and implementation for the integration efforts.
• Built new blade servers along with EMC SAN architecture to be utilized as site servers.
• Testing, QA, implementation phases managed and implemented as part of the upgrade.

Microsoft Active Directory Application Mode ADAM implementation:

• Infrastructure survey for current application and LDAP applications.
• Evaluation of existing NOS network operating systems for compatibility.
• Implementation of ADAM SP1

SCOM 2007 R2 upgrade / implementation::

• Lead architect, R D on System Center Operations manager 2007 R2.
• Helped business reduce cost of data center management across server operating systems and hypervisors through a single interface.
• HP OpenView and SMARTS integration.

Windows 7 64-bit / 32-bit desktop upgrade and deployment:

• Upgrade of hardware and software for desktops.
• Implementation of windows 7 64 and 32 bit platform
• Worked as a technical lead as well as PM on this project.
• Deployment using SCCM and Wise package installations.
• Use of MDT Microsoft deployment toolkit 2010 for XP to windows 7 migration.
• Financial and technical planning
• Dealing with vendors and external resources.
• IE ver 8 upgrade as well as internal software upgrades as part of package.

Blackberry Enterprise Server BES Implementation:

• Planning, engineering and designing the infrastructure for BES.
• Ensure performance and monitoring of BES and backup.
• Architecture and design of database including SQL and Oracle.
• Incorporation with other groups and with RIM International to monitor and maintain operations and to troubleshoot any operational issues that occur during implementation.

Active Directory and IBM middleware integration:

• Management vendors dealing with the hardware and software requirements and implementation for the integration efforts.
• IBM middleware products namely, webSphere, CICS, Tivoli, and Lotus have been integrated with on the baseline Microsoft Active directory infrastructure.