Offering consultation services in the design and implementation of cloud migration anddeployment.

• Offered custom designed solutions to meet customers’ application performance and cloud service management needs. Established ICAM Live Demo with 37 agents to demonstrate ICAM functions.• Optimized operational efficiency and consistency by streamlining DevOps deployment process. • Investigated and Improved Kafka performance by tuning configurations based on operational objectives.• Designed and developed DR Test Offering (DTO) from ground up as a successful emulator of Disaster Recovery Orchestration (DRO) for Cloud Management Service (CMS) clients.• Provide solution designs for cloud computing services in response to RFP/RFI/RFQ from federal agencies with special focus on networking.

• Designed and implemented cloud based services for NC Education Cloud Program as part of the NC Race To The Top Initiative. • Designed application performance monitoring framework to provide tools to K-12 community for issue identification and remediation.• Conducted desktop virtualization feasibility study as a potential K-12 cloud service. • Authored BYOD Best Practice white paper as recommendations to school districts' BYOD initiatives.

• Contributed to the architectural design of IPv6 OpenWay system - a joint venture with Cisco Connected Grid Business Unit. Authored System Security chapter in the Architecture Document.• Served as the Itron lead engineer in Cisco partnership for system integration and verification. Coordinated with Cisco engineers in designing and implementing IPv6 Solution Testbed.• Designed OpenWay load balancer network to provide high availability in a production environment.

• Conducted research in data center management and virtualization, SmartFlow traffic management, and cloud computing architectures for design options. • Served as the lead architect in charge of establishing R&D Center in WuXi, China. Coordinated with local General Manager in operation planning.

I was a Senior Software Architect in charge of the BladeCenter Advanced Management Module IPv6 Development Project:• Provided technical leadership in designing the IPV6 Functional Specification for BladeCenter Advanced Management Module firmware development.• Architected and set up a realistic IPV6 testbed for verifying design points.• Led and participated in the design and development of IPV6 networking related work tasks.

I was a Senior Certified IT Architect with IBM eBusiness Hosting Network Architecture team:• Designed, certified, and supported two suites of load balancing solutions based on Cisco CSS and Nortel Alteon product lines to meet client’s business requirements. Improved test efficiency by more than 40% labor reduction between certification iterations.• Founded and chaired Load Balancer Birds of a Feather (LB BoF) Forum for exchanging information and fostering collaboration across IBM load balancing community globally.• Provided consultative services to enhance clients’ network designs/technology selections

I was a Senior Consulting IT Architect with IBM Global Service serving AT&T Account:• Performed as the lead performance analyst in successfully benchmarking AT&T’s EUAM application and projecting system capacity. Achieved high customer satisfaction/appraisal.• Conducted capacity planning as the technical lead for AT&T’s COARS application to project its system requirements for meeting business goals.• Provided consultative services in Server Consolidation and Virtualization to enhance clients’ network operation efficiency.

I was a Senior Engineer with IBM Microelectronics Network Processor Performance team:• Led a performance team to analyze and project network processor (NP) performance in order to optimize the best possible design trade-offs and return on investment.• Conducted competitive analysis on major competitors' NP designs to assist management in understanding the strength and weakness of IBM's NP products.

I was an Adjunct Assistant Professor with Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. at NCSU:• Taught a graduate level course in Computer Networks (ECE 570).

I was a Network Research Engineer with MCNC Advanced Network Research team:• Served as the Principal Investigator for a three-year DARPA (research arm of DoD) funded project "Scalable Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for Protecting the Emerging Network Infrastructure" to design and prototype an intrusion detection system for preventing attacks and protecting the operation of network routing infrastructure.- Managed the project to completion on time and within the budget of $1.1M.- Led the technical team in defining the IDS system architecture.- Designed and implemented the "Statistical Analysis Module" in the above IDS.- Directed the final system integration and testing, and conducted a successful system demonstration which featured attack prevention and intrusion detection.• Conducted research and contributed to NSA and DARPA sponsored projects in the areas of secure communication, security architecture, and intrusion tolerant system.