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SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT - CLOUD
Summary
As an enterprise technologist with 16 years of experience responsible for successfully partnering with customers to translate business needs into tailored technical solutions. I focus on aligning technology to a customer's line of business needs and designing solutions that are scalable, reliable, secure, and manageable. Work with Customers on both pre-sale and post-sale assignments featuring Public/Private & Hybrid Cloud/HCI/CI and Storage/Backup Technologies. Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate with both business and technical resources at all level
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Experience
Solutions Architect - Cloud, Dlt Solutions, Inc., May 2019-October 2020King Of Prussia , PA
- Driven all technical design and execution activities for moving existing on-premise infrastructure, server workloads, data and applications to the cloud IaaS and PaaS.
- Develop, architect and implement Microsoft Azure Stack Solutions, including Azure Active Directory, Network Setup, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Azure IaaS services, Storage, Backup, File Storage, Azure SQL, Cloud Networking, Security Concepts.
- Experience with all aspects of ADO including project creation, Boards, Pipelines, Artifacts, ARM Templates, Key Vault, etc.
- Worked with large scale cloud and datacenter design and migration patterns including network, compute/mainframe, virtualization, storage, security, and identity.
- Have experience in Azure DevOps implementation using ADO (VSTS), TFS, .Net, SQL, SQL BI, Ansible, performance assessment.
- Experience in architecting, sizing, and costing cloud solutions.
- Experience with Enterprise virtualization technologies and technical architecture and sales engineering.
- Partnered with the Account Executive to achieve territory revenue and other financial metrics.
- Work with Customers to design cloud solutions based on the company's IT requirements.
- Qualify a sale opportunity based on the technical fit between a customer's requirements and the standard capabilities of the Dell Technology Platform.
- Have design and manage Proof of Concepts (POC) in conjunction with the Dell Professional Services Team.
- Have built a strongtechnical relationship with the customer and lead all technical efforts to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Present Dell Tech value proposition, technologies, strategy, and product roadmaps to all levels at their customer including executives, technical management, and technical engineers.
- Have knowledge and experience in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software-Defined Storage (SDS), Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI), Infrastructure as a Service K (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or infrastructure security and expertise in enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of Application Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Networking, Storage, and Platform Performance/Sizing.
- Worked on Containers Orchestration and Cloud Platforms / PaaS /Kubernetes Can communicate, both oral and written, on complex technical and sales issues to a variety of audiences, including executive-level technical decision-makers.
Senior Solution Architect - Data Center & Cloud , American Express, August 2015-May 2019Phoenix , AZ
- Provided end-to-end solutions for data center and cloud technologies to customers, includes traditional on-premise (server, storage, hypervisor, and backup) and hybrid technologies combined with an on-premise and cloud solution.
- Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability in Azure Cloud.
- Experience with various Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) such as Jenkins, Source Code Repo (Git, BitBucket, etc.) and configuration management tools (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible), technologies and best practices.
- Implemented migrations from existing DevOps tools/processes to the ADO platform
- Implement provided architectural solutions/designs in ADO
- Worked on ADO (VSTS) / TFS concepts on security control, backlog management, branching, merging and code reversal.
- Driven all technical design and execution activities for moving existing on-premise infrastructure, server workloads, data and applications to the cloud IaaS and PaaS.
- Architect and develop highly scalable enterprise applications on Azure platform leveraging the latest of Azure services in the areas of Compute, Storage, and Application Integration.
- Lead technical discussions with senior customer executives that drive decisions and implementation approaches on Data Center & Cloud.
- Design architectures with Microsoft Azure to meet our clients' technical, security, and business needs
- Develop, architect and implement Microsoft Azure Solutions, including Azure Active Directory, Network Setup, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage and more. Azure IaaS services, Storage, Backup, File Storage, Azure SQL, Cloud Networking, Security Concepts.
- Experience with scripting languages (PowerShell / CLI) for deployment and management on Azure
- Experience with Azure Resource Manager, Resource Groups, Virtual Networks, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Blob Storage, PowerShell DSC, Azure Automation, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Site Recovery
- Demonstrated strong written, oral, and presentation skills with the ability to discuss highly technical concepts to a variety of audiences, including executive-level technical decision-makers.
- Excellent written and verbal skills; confidently and professionally interact with external clients and internal
Cloud Engineer, Getty Images Inc., February 2014-August 2015City , STATE
- Design, Deploy, and Support Getty Images Infrastructure on both on-perm and cloud globally.
- Plan, design, deploy, and operate new infrastructure and iterate over existing infrastructure.
- Worked on virtualization solutions for both Public and Private Clouds, such as Azure, Hyper-V, VMWare, and AWS.
- Design continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) systems and methodologies on the Azure platform
- Perform analysis of the current practices and design and implement best practices and emerging concepts in CICD landscape
- Experience in automating Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Agile practices for a highly scalable system
- Worked on high availability and disaster recovery strategies guiding the organization with multi-region and multi-cloud deployments.
- Build, deploy and manage CI/CD workflows which leverage GitHub practices
- Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability in Azure Cloud
- Experience with various Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) such as Jenkins, Source Code Repo (Git, BitBucket, etc.) and configuration management tools (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible), technologies and best practices.
- Create secure hybrid deployments of virtual machines, networks, and PaaS solutions in Azure
- Creation of platform specific Azure Resource Manager template to deploy the platform service type in alignment with defined use case(s) and implementation guidelines
- Worked on Azure Resource Manager, Resource Groups, Virtual Networks, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Blob Storage, PowerShell DSC, Azure Automation, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Site Recovery.
Principal Engineer - Data Center, EMC DATA STORAGE INDIA PVT LTD, November 2008-December 2013City , STATE
- Principal Engineer for the team responsible for managing Global Customer for EMC Connectrix Switch ( Brocade, Mcdata , Cisco) and VPLEX issues.
- Mentored the support team in charge of troubleshooting issues related to SAN connectivity (Brocade, Mcdata, Cisco) and Fabric.
- Worked as an Escalation Engineer and sent Technical and Management updates to Customer and Internal EMC.
- Expert Knowledge on all EMC Connectrix, Storage Products and VPLEX.
- Support field engineer to perform Vplex storage virtualization and handled escalation calls and management issues and support implementation engineer who perform data mobility migrations from DMX to VMAX2, VMAX2 to VMAX3 from within the VPLEX.
- Provide recommendations and EMC best practices from a technical and operational level, and support daily VPLEX environment operational tasks including monitoring, policy management, incident and problem management, and change implementation for the in-scope VPLEX environment.
- Provide recommendations and EMC best practices from a technical and operational level on VPLEX Local Administration, Code Upgrade, Design, Health Check, Implementation, Performance Analysis, Solution Support and Troubleshooting.
- Product Range – SAN – Brocade, Cisco & McData; Storage – Symmentrix, Clarrion; NAS – Celerra.
- Resolved and worked on FCIP, iSCSI, FCOE Issues. • Provided End to End support for SAN Connectivity Issue
- Knowledgeable in Cisco FCIP, IVR and Advanced Troubleshooting.
- Experienced in setup, configuration and maintenance of fiber channel fabrics
Education and Training
Master of ScienceComputer Application , , BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY , , CityJuly 2005
Certifications
- Dell-EMC Cloud Infrastructure and Services Associate (DCA-CIS) certification Certified EMC Information Management & Storage Professional
- Certified EMC Implementation Specialist (VNX, Isilon and XtremeIO)
- Microsoft Certified Professional
- ITIL V3 Certified • Brocade Certified Fabric Professional
- VMWare Certified Professional (VCP 5.5)
- Azure Fundamentals
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