• Designed and developed hybrid/Azure data and AI solutions for clients using Python and GPUs in containers.• Implemented a Large language model Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline using AgenticAI.• Developed decision tree analysis for financial services.• Successfully deployed models on Azure AI using containers and provided business recommendations through EDA.

• Led initiatives with global system integrators (GSI) partners for IBM Cloud, hybrid cloud computing, AI, and DevOps.• Designed client solutions aligning with business needs, resulting in successful technical outcomes.• Collaborated on mainframe app modernization, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, storage, security, and GitOps.

Provide solution architecture for clients in IBM’s Client Engineering team which accelerates client transformation in hands-on activities using Enterprise Design Thinking on Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes, hybrid cloud, Cloud Pak for Data, Cloud Pak for Integration, AI Apps, and professional services.The Solution Architect:- Leads co-creation and joint development between clients and IBM co-creating PoC, MVPs, and architecture reviews.- Mentors and facilitates essential business, industry, technology, and competitive knowledge in Kubernetes, Docker, Container Security and Red Hat technologies (Open Shift, Ansible, RHEL, etc.)- Expands partnerships at all levels of the client organization- Champions an entrepreneurial mindset and delivers unique value to accelerate clients’ success- Connect client pain points and opportunities to full suite of IBM technology and services in a client context

• Designed and implemented reference hybrid architecture for helicopter maintenance sub-system using Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with Kubernetes manifests.• Deployed laptop and IoT solutions using MicroK8s and minikube, and cloud deployment on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) with governance for security.• Developed roadmap for supporting DoD IL 2 through DoD IL 6 in Azure.

Designed and implemented production Azure cloud infrastructure for social media customer securing employee PII data. Created repeatable infrastructure-as-code using ARM Templates, PowerShell, and Bash scripts for deployments in dev, stage, and prod environments, which supported best practices from Cloud Adoption Framework, NIST and ISO-27001. Defined, implemented, and deployed infrastructure into production with Application Gateway, virtual networks and subnets, Network Security Groups, App Service Environment hosting Linux containers, Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), CosmosDB, SQL database, Security Center, Azure Blueprints for policy and role-based access control, Data Science Virtual Machines for machine learning, a simple Data Factory process to receive employee data, Azure Container Instance, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory combining MFA B2C and Premium P2, Azure Storage, Monitor, Log Analytics.Provided expert guidance and scripts to customer regarding subscription governance, identity management for multiple teams, contractors, and users. Mentored others in best practices.Migrated infrastructure for brownfield application for Microsoft Office from Azure App Services to AKS into production.

Designed and implemented Azure cloud infrastructure for health, financial services, and employment services customers with best practice guidance for HIPPA and PCI compliance. Provided expert guidance to customers, driving solution architecture, and ensuring solution technology is aligned with business requirements. Conducted cloud migration assessments using Cloud Physics and reviewed results with stakeholders. Designed and documented virtual networks, network routing, peering, network security groups, virtual machines, web applications, and Kubernetes clusters for high availability applications across multiple subscriptions (dev and QA through production). Designed, implemented, and deployed i Azure Application Gateway, Kubernetes, ingress controller supporting RBAC using Azure CLI, Helm, and ARM templates into hub-spoke architecture. Scoped, designed, and deployed Azure policies and subscription governance using Azure Blueprints.Provided pre-sales materials, rate cards, detailed project plans, and work breakdown structures for migration, backup, storage, networking for Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions. Mentor other team with their professional development and certification instruction

Designed, implemented, and trained others to administer Azure infrastructure including access control, cost controls, governance, and monitoring for researchers across multiple subscriptions in research laboratories worldwide. Administered on-premises and cloud machine learning clusters for more than 500 researchers. Led migration of research using GPUs to Azure Machine Learning services (Azure ML). Worked directly with Azure ML product team to define scenarios and features for research labs to administer compute clusters Nvidia GPU at scale. Published guidance on GitHub.Systems included state of the art on-prem and Azure ML, Azure Batch AI, big data storage (HDFS and Gluster FS, Azure Data Lake Storage), Docker container-based GPU and CUDA compute Docker container images in Docker Hub and Azure Container Registry (ACR), Azure Resource Manager, Azure Policy, Role-Based Access Control, Microsoft Identity, Data Science Virtual Machines (DSVM) on Bash, Powershell, Azure CLI, Windows command prompt, and Python, PyTorch distributed learning using hyperparameter sweeps.

Presidio’s national practice lead for Microsoft Cloud within 3000-person, $3 billion/year sales organization. Recruited, led, and enabled team of senior and principal cloud architect consultants, which grew from two persons to seven in six-month period based on net new consulting sales for delivering consulting services and implementation on Azure, Office 365, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Operations Management Suite, Microsoft Cloud data solutions, Azure Stack. Trained highly skilled professionals by adding Azure Cloud architecture leading them to Azure platform certifications and delivery at customer sites.Prepared statements of work, pricing, and development and deployment of proof of concept and production cloud implementations. Identified key cloud products, target markets, sales positioning for cloud product line, in particular: high availability/disaster recovery, security and governance, networking, app migration, big data, hybrid solutions. Lead, plan, develop, prepare, and deliver cloud consulting products, including half-day workshops, week-long accelerators, and large consulting for customers in retail ecommerce, manufacturing, health, and government.Provide guidance for Presidio’s relationship with Microsoft, including building relationships with DX (Developer Experience) Inside Sales teams, Global Black Belt team, Partner Development Units (PDU), and IaaS Cloud enablement team. Led consulting team on Azure Stack coordination with Dell, Cisco, Microsoft. Developed technical sales strategy as System Integrator (SI) through Azure Stack Airlift, Azure Stack Hackathon, and other targeted events.Developed cloud broker proof of concept portal in ASP.NET Core with Azure Fluent API in C# to demonstrate Azure security and governance, access control for enterprise IT departments and hosting partners.

Provide technical enablement for Microsoft clients developing application on Microsoft Azure. Advise customers on the right combinations of cloud technology, how to set up development environments, migrate solutions to the Microsoft Cloud.Lead team of nine cloud architects, IT Pros, and licensing specialists across the US who advise CTOs, IT Pros, and Developers in enterprises and ISVs of all sizes. Provide concretes steps on cloud migration, disaster recovery, media services, network design, identity and security, client desktop integration, database, mobile integration, information worker strategies and implementations. My team also provide deep technical concierge-level support escalation for certain cloud issues, including Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, and Microsoft Azure. Led Developer Experience team of 3 technical evangelists in recruiting more than 100 Microsoft ISV partners to Azure. Engagements included technical deep dives, cloud architecture reviews, advising on next steps, and providing guidance in data center migrations.My team engages customers at scale touching hundreds of companies each month.My IT Pro team support hundreds of desktops and networking issues for internally.

Customer-facing senior technologist provides best-fit architectural solutions for one or more projects; provides technology consultation; assists in defining scope and sizing of work; anchor Proof of Concept developments and supports opportunity identification and pursuit processes and evangelize Infosys brand.

Trustworthy ComputingDesign and implement user experience, services for Trustworthy Computing -- Reliability application to inject faults into cloud applications testing vulnerabilities related to reliability. This cloud app tests code across multiple types of cloud services in unexpected ways helping developers at Microsoft find and build more resilient cloud applications. Design, build, develop, and test fault injection services, user experience, and reporting using ASP.NET MVC 5, C#, Web API 2 cloud services, OpenID Connect, Windows Identity Foundation, Azure Management API, GIT, Azure Active Directory, Owin, Katana, Azure Storage, Azure Service Bus, HTML5, JavaScript, Test Driven Development (TDD), jQuery, Knockout, RequireJS, single page apps.Identity Validation ServiceDesigned internal tool for Microsoft deployed on Azure services that validate customer identities using Web API, API Management, and Traffic Manager.Designed, developed, integrated, and tested C# project with asynchronous REST calls, dependency injection using SimpleInjector for test driven development using Moq, Team Foundation Service.

Designed, built, and deployed website at http://www.nextechu.com on Windows Azure using the following stack:• ASP.NET MVC 4 hosted on Windows Azure and SQL Database.• Web Services using C# ASP.NET Web API (REST) on top of Entity Framework code-first on SQL Database, JSON files. Developing courseware and Website focusing on developing single page applications for Web and mobile devices using responsive Web techniques with HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3. Curriculum includes written tutorials, blog posts, and sample source code for:• Responsive HTML5 single page application including WebSocket, Web Worker, Storage API, semantic markup, jQuery, Canvas, SVG using Inkscape and by hand.• Modern object oriented JavaScript with libraries: jQuery, SammyJS and EmberJS, Bootstrap, AMD using RequireJS, asynchronous app using JavaScript promises using Q, LoDash/Underscore, Amplify for storage and messaging, templates using Mustache and LoDash, Knockout, page control using Sammy and EmberJS, page layout using Bootstrap and jQuery UI.• Demos of WebSockets on server on ASP.NET and SignalR. Client using HTML5 WebSocket API and Modernizr with backward compatibility using polling.Hosted blog http://nextechpress.nextechu.com on Azure Websites using WordPress.

Represented Microsoft to a named-list of CTOs of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) in Western US. Number of ISVs varied by year 150 in 2006 to deeper relationship with 7 in 2012. Advised Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), solution architects, and developer team leads on specific technology initiatives prior to product launch to secure the future Microsoft platforms. Assisted architects in both new product design and ways to incorporate new product features for their strategic advantage. Conducted technology training and community engagement. This position brings together a unique combination of roles from engineering, program management, writing, public relations, social media, and technical strategy. Key companies across many verticals such as financial services, publishing, health, manufacturing, information technologies included Fiserv, NewsGator, Quark, Attachmate, K2, Henry Schein, Vertafore, Riverbed, WebTrends. 2009: US ISV Evangelist of the Year

Documented customization, installation and deployment features in Microsoft Business Framework (MBF) for Visual Studio 2005 using DocStudio. Topics included conceptual, orientations, how-tos, walkthroughs, including illustrations and C# code examples. Was among the fastest, most accurate writers on the team completing the first draft of 20 code-intensive plug-in topic areas in the first month. Coordinated 100-page layperson spec among 13 writers for publication on MSDN online. Writing complied with Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications (MSTP) and developer division user education (DevDiv UE) style guide. Created document specifications from program manager interviews and technical specifications. Mentored new hires to the documentation process. Created XSLT that transfers developer comments into WordML as API Reference topics.

Designed and developed parameter-driven user interface for the Global Accounts Receivable project using ASP.NET, UML and Visual Basic.NET. The project’s goal is to bring together 21 separate accounts receivable systems into a single web-based application. Designed a way to build the UI and tie it with the database in a minimum amount of custom code.

Wrote test plan, designed and implemented XML-driven automated test harness, called Stingray, for the high-profile Microsoft Communities’ web services back-end. Stingray simulated messages arriving in real time from the NNTP cloud. It was built in C# using Agile Software Development techniques; incorporated design patterns, SQL, ADO.NET, SQLXML, XSD, XSLT, XPath. Stingray performed automated BVT, performance, and stress tests on clustered servers with several million records. Stingray was adopted by the CDDG dev team and by the MS Office test team. Provided user documentation and conducted technical presentations to other groups and management.

Instructed eight students for four sections of the C# MCSD.NET track. Courses included C# basics, ASP.NET, XML, Windows applications and Windows and Web Services. Recommended training material and evaluated books. Developed example code, wrote test questions, graded homework. Course included C#, JavaScript, HTML, and SQL.

Design, build, construct, test and deploy an interactive graphic problem solver. The solver employs C#, SQL, XML, XSLT and certain .NET technologies for both a web-based application and web services. A patent is pending on certain aspects of the graphical solver. Each module is grown using agile programming techniques including design documents, source control and project management and unit test code.

Modified and enhanced the user interface of Prospect, a product used to assist cellular network administrators in assessing system changes. Integrated changes and new features with an existing user interface written in classic Visual Basic business objects and events in more than 100 integrated dynamic libraries and OCX’s. Added user interface portion for software-configurable alarms that generated $3 million in first year revenue. Embedded SQL queries to interface with Oracle database. Conducted classes on XSLT, XML, HTML and C# for company employees. Supervised one.

Designed, built, tested and deployed dynamically configurable n-tier web-page construction kit reducing development time for many tasks from months to hours. The kit configured personalized web page forms and database entries using Self Describing Data Objects. These are created “on the fly” and incorporated XML, XSLT, n-tier Visual Basic COM+ components, SQL, XHTML, ASP, JavaScript, SOAP from user requests. They dynamically connect to Microsoft .Net Servers providing scalable and user configurable solutions in Internet-development-time periods. Wrote requirements and specifications, business plans, product justification. Presented software architecture to upper management. Under contract with Everest Consultants. Supervised two.

Design user interface, write specifications, documentation and coordinate development for infrastructure software which packages executable data and data bases updates for sending across a network, then automatically processing it at the destination. The platform is Windows NT Server's Management Console using Visual Basic. Built prototype with Active X Controls and conducted user testing using Visual Basic. Under contract with Maxim Group.

Programmer, customer support, testing and maintenance of cross platform graphical interface framework in C++, Amulet for Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Amulet includes many features specifically designed to make the creation of constraint-based, highly-interactive, graphical, direct manipulation user interfaces significantly easier. Assisted in releases for Windows 95, Windows NT, SunOS, UP/UX and MacOS. Primary focus is on adding certain GUI features supporting multiple simultaneous users through TCP/IP networking and support of Palm Pilot as an input device. Researchers developed applications for Programming By Demonstration and Natural Programming; used many commercial applications.