Web, public cloud, on-premise cloud Infrastructure Design at mastercard

• Developing a cloud strategy from business context and workload determination to fitness for purpose cloud service and delivery models.• Developed an agile architecture framework encompassing in-take, business validation, requirements, final solution, and handover to downstream teams.• Developed ITOA/BSM/APM tools’ strategy and vendor product evaluation criterion, aiming for consolidation, BSM, & integration with SNOW. Developed backup, archiving, & DR strategies.

• High impact cutting edge agile solution delivery to further global capital and commodity markets including requirements, sizing, cost, configuration, planning and Day 1 support.• Major technology touch points: AWS (VPC, EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, ELB, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch), IIS 8.5, Win 2012, SQL 2008/2012 HA/AAG, WebLogic 11.x, Apache HTTPD, RHEL 6.x, Oracle RAC 11.x, & Delphix.Some notable projects:• Converged Infrastructure: VCE converged infrastructure design and sizing.• Dell Credant Upgrade: Prod and DR solution to upgrade Dell Credant from v 7.x to v 8.5. Solution artifacts included Windows 2008 R2, SQL 2008, and automatic F/O using F-5 GLB.• MHFI Platts Application Upgrade: Target state included 3-tier application migration, Windows 2012 servers, MS SQL 2012 F/O, and workload distribution across AWS and on-premises services.• Migration: Cloud lift & shift, migration and refresh projects.

Architecture and delivery of about 80 - 90 infrastructure projects in 18 months.Some major projects included:• Open Storage Solution for IBM zOS and CM8 ($450 K/month savings): Architecture of an open storage solution using EMC Isilon S200 & NetApp FAS6290 for IBM CM8 Content Management system running on IBM zOS and IBM DB2.  PM’ing and sourcing over 30 stake holders across the board – Department heads, engineering & support organizations, vendors, budgeting, ARB, and financial approval.• Digital Signage & Content Delivery: Led and guided LoB management for digital signage content delivery. Technology stack included Windows 2008R2, MS SQL Server 2008 R2 cluster, and 3rd party products – Scala Content Manager/Designer/Upload, NewsJet Content Service, Adobe, and Tomcat. • IBM WAS VE architecture for online Banking: Business required implementation of technology aimed at platform resiliency in support of increased traffic associated with online Banking. Core solution comprised IBM WVE, RHEL VM’s, Web/portal/app servers, and ODR for self-healing. Potential Business benefits included: 46% reduction in downtime resulting in annual savings of up to $3M.• Refresh/Organic Growth: Several refresh, migration, re-platform and organic growth projects.

• Administration of VMware infrastructures comprising over 4000 VMs. Maintained VMware vSphere hosts, clusters and data stores, configured CA SiteMinder r6.0 SP6 Policy Server, domains, realms and rules.• Consolidated several legacy Market Data desktops to a single image achieving 80% economies in delivery time and operational costs in desktop delivery.• Tech Lead in the deployment/support of various trading workstations on Win7 physical/virtual platforms.

• Managed VSphere environment; hosts and clusters. Migrated IIS serves to VMware – Rebuilds, P2V, V2V.• Researched and certified vSphere performance monitoring tools and authored Exchange 2010 off-premise/on-premise business case study.

• Probed architectural, project management and QoS skills to impact life sciences industry projects including workload sizing and architecture, SLA, deployment and operation of clinical trial SaaS private cloud delivery following FDA CFR Part 11, European Medicines Agency (EMA), PFSB Japan, and MHRA UK regulatory standards. • SaaS utility provisioning of RAVE clinical trial application including sizing and deployment.• SaaS and PaaS cloud delivery of RAVE product suite. PaaS components included MS SQL, IIS/ASP.NET, Tomcat, BOXI, JReview, SAS, Adobe PDF, and Crystal Reports.• Client and vendor negotiations, issue resolution, and account management.

Secured a leadership role to streamline and manage data center migration, systems and trading floor help desk. Major systems touch points included: • Led legacy Windows, Exchange, and Citrix migration to BNY Mellon data center.• Management of AD, Exchange, BES, and various financial applications.• Architecture, engineering and delivery of common and trading floor desktops.

• Architecture, certification and engineering of storage systems - NetApp, DFS, and NuView FLM.• Led NetWare migration of NA segment to global AD. Engineered MSMQ upgrade and integration with AD.

Management and support of MLIM datacenters including server builds, tools, application deployment, upgrades, and change management.

Demonstrated total success as Lead Infrastructure Migration Consultant at Barnes & Noble College Book Stores, New York. This highly visible role was critically important as Barnes & Noble undertook migration of its whole IT infrastructure to new facilities. Following key deliverables were achieved and completed within scheduled project time frame:• Storage Architecture: Determined requirements for highly resilient storage, application migration and application high availability. Supervised EMC engineers to deploy EMC2 CLARiiON CX400/CX600 SAN per architecture principles.• Active Directory & System Migration: Planned, managed and executed migration of legacy Windows NT systems to Windows 2000 Active Directory.• Database Migration & HA Solution: Architected and deployed Microsoft Windows and SQL failover clusters. Planned and executed migration of HR, accounting and financial applications from non-redundant systems to failover cluster systems.