Skilled Cloud Solutions Architect with designing, testing and delivering infrastructure to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency. Work cross-team and communicate effectively with people from a variety of different backgrounds and different levels of technical ability.
VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, Microsoft AD, Cognito, NACL, Security Groups
Jenkins,Terraform
CloudWatch, Config, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, Splunk
MS Outlook, MS Project, MS-Excel, Power Pivot 2010, MS Visio
Work History
01/2016 to Current
Cloud ArchitectRtx – Beverly, MA,
Developed plans to safeguard data logs against modification, destruction or disclosure.
Customized in-development software to clients' current hardware environments, designing applications to span multiple systems.
Created migration strategies to bridge development gaps between existing software architecture and future updates.
Drafted visual representations of software architecture design for presentation to stakeholders.
Communicated software architecture strategies to senior leadership and third-party business leaders.
Developed application architecture strategy to specifically align with employer business goals.
Captured and shared best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect community.
Provisioned cloud infrastructure in an automated manner using tools like Terraform and CloudFomation.
Applied the continuous delivery (CI/CD) automation process from conception to implementation, and the integration of cloud-native services to create full functioning, cohesive delivery pipelines.
02/2013 to 12/2015
Cloud Architect /ConsultantCEDENT – City, STATE,
Lead architecture, design, and development of a next-generation solutions in the AWS cloud.
Work with functional leads and business leaders to ensure technical strategy is aligned with company and departmental vision.
Define and establish architecture best practices, standards, guidelines and patterns for end to end solutions in our AWS stack
Design and articulate the overall enterprise architecture both on-prem and how they’ll fit in the AWS cloud environment (right-sizing, cost optimization and performance improvement)
Define network routing, security and compliance configuration, and identity management solutions to work with our platforms on-premise and in the cloud.
Built and maintained our Cloud Computing environment using AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker.
Collaborate with Delivery & Support, DevOps Engineering, and our core software development team on strategies and plans to help exceed our customer expectations.
Partner with DevOps engineers to facilitate the deployment, operation and governing of cloud native services with a focus on CICD continuous integration, continuous delivery and automated testing.
Proven record of accomplishing designing, developing and maintaining dependable mission-critical build pipelines & products.
Analyze and detect data security violations using SIEM tool.
Improve efficiency and data integrity with Splunk.
Developed plans to safeguard data logs against modification, destruction or disclosure
03/2010 to 12/2013
IaaS Fillfillment /ConsultantZCorum – City, STATE,
Provide support for the efficient resolution of IT infrastructure related incidents, service requests and update service desk management systems accordingly.
Serve as a fulfillment engineer for an Infrastructure as a Service team to help my organization fully migrate to the cloud.
Use a combination of Jenkins, terraform, python and JSON to spin up resources for our internal customers in our AWS cloud.
Respond to customer requests and incidents which involve solving technical issues and resolving data/configuration issues
Collaborated with multiple internal teams across disparate groups to resolve client support escalations
Maintained Continuous/Integration and Continuous/Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and adhered to version control (GitHub) guidelines for code deployment
Enforced adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
Translated requirements into prioritized list of user stories and deliver per timelines
Worked with product line leaders and architects to develop Infrastructure plans and ensured that they modeled the well-architected frameworks
Drove excellent quality in the development and support of AWS cloud solutions
Established foundation for future implementations and automation requirements for cloud
Analyze machine data using Splunk tools to gain further operational insight to improve overall systems performance
Ingest and analyze application security logs in Splunk and create SPL logic to detect anomalies and mitigate threats.
Created Splunk dashboards, alerts, and reports from ingested data.
Ensured that applications and relevant systems it runs on have appropriate monitoring, logging and alert solutions.
08/2008 to 02/2010
Implementation Analyst /ConsultantExpedient – City, STATE,
Oversaw end-to-end system integration, user acceptance, and production testing of new designs to existing product platform including tracking design defects and monitoring defect resolution.
Proposed gap remediation strategy and increased buy-in for uncovered opportunities and new product designs.
Developed financial models and consumer experience strategy for client’s web portals and addressed new technology adoption issues.
Collaborated with Product Management and Engineering to review software improvements and provide design feedback
Collaborated with peers on complex projects as required (e.g. data center modifications, build-out for DR sites.)
Served as a liaison between infrastructure operations and the vendors to address performance issues or problem analysis and see them through to resolution
Coordinated performance analysis, recommendations, and improvements within the hosting infrastructure
Translated Business/Technical requirements into High level and Low Level Design documents.
Collected requirements in close cooperation with Product and other non-technical staff.
Reviewed, implemented and supported Enterprise Security solutions including Web Service Security, SSL Mutual Authentication.
Education
Expected in 12/2008
Associate of Science: Computer And Information Sciences Kennesaw State University - Kennesaw, GA GPA:
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