Kamlesh Patel Email & Phone Number

Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States

*Cloud Management/Document Migration: Played crucial role in developing and executing cloud-based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution strategy; migrated $2.5 billion documents into Filenet/P8 SaaS solution without impacting system availability; improved performance and stability of ECM platform; reduced on-prem data center spending by several million dollars. *Azure/Data Center Evacuation: Designed and implemented Azure Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) cloud migration of Managed File Transfer (MFT), MoveIt infrastructure; removed on-prem footprint of dozens of Windows servers; resulted in several thousand dollars in annual savings; increased infrastructure agility, scalability, and availability to 99.999%; improved operational efficiency by increasing throughput.*Strategic Vision/Cost Saving/AI/ML: Drove and defined unified ECM platform strategy for all business documents; fully implemented under single repository; projected to save 6+ million annually and provide single view of data for AI/ML processing. *Vendor Contracts/Budget Management/Negotiation: Executed and managed large, complex contracts; developed sizeable budget, tracked expenses, and managed variances; negotiated multimillion dollars savings with Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) execution; hard negotiated Filenet/P8 SaaS contract, resulting in $1+ million savings. *Architecture/Automation/Cost Saving: Modernized cloud-native platform architecture and retired mainframe; saved $100+ million annually; propelled business growth and new features.

Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States

*Enterprise Architecture/Speed: Developed Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), enterprise messaging strategy, and system architecture; designed/implemented MuleSoft ESB and RabbitMQ solution, which handles millions of events per minute; empowered applications to communicate without tight point-to-point integration.*Storage Performance/Disaster Recovery: Implemented Spectrum Scale Storage and Cloud Object Storage (iCOS) with multiple storage solutions; drastically improved Filenet/P8 storage performance using On-prem Spectrum Scale and S3 cloud object storage, increasing storage availability to 100%.*Mentorship/Succession Planning/Solutions: Mentored next generation of leaders on strategic solutions, budget, and vendor management; resulted in 4 Senior Engineer promotions to manager; helped develop team chemistry and positive communication.

Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States

*Mission Critical Systems Management: Designed and implemented Linux/Jboss-based middleware systems for mission-critical applications; improved stability, availability, and implemented automation, reducing human configurations and deployment errors; improved efficiency in systems operations.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

*Budget/Vision/Mission Alignment: Set department goals and budget aligned with vision and mission, determining IT project priorities; aligned individual with corporate goals, prioritizing outcomes to meet company goals; grew department and company with strategic alignment. *Leadership/Training: Managed multiple functional teams at geographically diverse locations; cross-trained associates to support various functional areas; provided 24/7 support and opportunities in different places, improving staff satisfaction and morale.*Regulatory Compliance/Revenue Growth/Data Security: Implemented PCI, SOX, and other industry standards, improving regulatory compliance; empowered company to perform business and credit card transactions; increased bottom line and secured systems and customer data.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

As a senior systems engineer, I was responsible for entire middleware platform which supports mission critical, high availability business applications. I was responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of JBOSS Application servers. I was also responsible for design and implementation of J2EE platform including interface with vendors (for credit card, e-check processing, credit scope and insurance score processing). I lead a team who over saw about 200 Linux Servers and about 25 windows VMware servers. I work with network, server, security, dba, storage and IOC (Integrated operation center) teams to make mission critical application available 99.998% or more. * I defined standardize setup for all JBOSS environment and implemented it via various configurations.* I automated various deployments on Linux and Windows servers.* With the help from Jconsole, I monitor JVM fine tuned heap size and Garbage collection.* I helped define performance and load testing strategy.* I worked with network team to configure CSS (Cisco load balancer) and F5 (LTM, local traffic Manager).* I worked with server team to provide support for server patching and trouble shoot hardware and/or VMware issues.* I worked with security team to configure middleware environment to the highest security standards including PCI compliance.* I provided short and long term planning for infrastructure needs of our organization based on business growth forecast.

I designed, developed and maintained e-commerce software in JBOSS, OC4J, J2EE, EJB, Servlet, Struts and JSP. I installed, configured and provided support maintaining Apache, tomcat and JBOSS servers. * I designed membership renewals, new member, E-retail E-learning and E-certification applications using OO techniques and UML (Rational Rose). * I implemented e-commerce applications using open-source development tools such as J2EE, Apache, JBOSS, Ant build scripts, XML and Tomcat servers. I utilized my Java skills, Struts and JSP to implement these E-commerce applications, which does real time Credit Card processing. I used Junit and Cactus for testing of all e-commerce applications.* I developed and supported many PERL based web and intranet applications. * I developed several portles to make visitors experience personalized on web site’s member only area.* I helped in design and implementation of online certification preparation courses.* I helped Implement RSS feed for various web site content in XML format. * I installed Apache Web server, JBOSS and OC4J servers. I am responsible to configuring these servers, applying upgrades as well as security patches.* I worked as a system administrator for an Oracle Universal Content Management system (CMS). I acted as a technical lead for design of architect, implementation and deployment. I worked with business unit to provide personalization and customizations. Design and implemented Web content management (WCM). * I implemented integration of CMS with LDAP based Active directory to provide single sign on capabilities to web site users.* I provided architect and design of enterprise wide search engine functionality. * As a system architect, I was responsible for making recommendation for software and hardware accusations necessary to support various web applications as well as internal work environment. I was also responsible for providing 3-5 years planning for Web projects to Senior Management.

Designed, developed and maintained back end software for online banking applications in object-oriented Perl, C++ and Java.* I designed and implemented NACHA (National Automatic Clearing House Association) Import project, which allows commercial customer of online banking system to import NACHA formatted files into FundsXpress system.* I worked on existing cash-management software that allows user to scheduled Internet payment and deposit. I rewrote the entire code to query the Oracle database and Perl.* I developed error-handling software, an object-oriented module developed in PERL and virtually all other modules inherited from this module so that all of them can handle errors in consistent manner. This is a classics example of Inheritance in OO software development.* I worked on Savings Bonds project, which allows user to buy savings bonds on Internet. I also used OO perl for this project. I worked on ACH sub system that includes origination of PPD and EFTPS batches.* Working as a team member, I used CVS (Concurrent Version System) to prevent loss of codes and more importantly, to prevent over writing other members works.

Education record

Education record

B.S., Computer Science