Muhammad Masood Email & Phone Number

Reston, Va, Us

• Leads efforts at SAIC on behalf of ITO Cyber Security & Enterprise Architecture Teams to successfully migrate on-prem services to Azure\AWS secure Gov. cloud (IL 4-5) and commercial zones in a multi cloud\hybrid env.• Spearheads IT architecture requirements review & implementations while coordination with IT project management, Cloud Engineering, GRC, DevSecOps, CAB team to build consensus in office of OCIO. • Designs and implements end-to-end cloud-based business solutions (SaaS, PaaS or laaS) for a full lifecycle, using SABSA, ToGAF, COBIT frame works and drives alignment to these standards to promote governance.• Founding member and Cyber team representative at CCoE (Cloud Center of Excellence). Promotes cloud-first culture, review and approval of complex or critical changes while using SAFe Agile methods. • Provides technical oversight & validation for vendor solutions. Lean Business Review (LBC) team member.• Works across architecture teams to promote consistent design approach and Infrastructure as Code (IaaC)• Manages and conducts system-wide impact reviews to assess the architecture impact of significant service or application changes. Voting member on Engineering Review Board (ERB) and Cyber Review Board (CRB). • Mentors Solution Architects (SA) to ensure consistency and quality in deliverables, designs artifacts (CARB).• Creates and maintains the policies and frameworks to guide technology decisions for the business teams.• Identifies opportunities to improve ITO systems to support business processes, utilize emerging technologies.• Coordinates and conducts governance and portfolio management activities associated with ensuring compliance with the business objectives for security; auditing the security architecture of information.• Promotes use of automation tools like Terraform, AWS CF templates, Azure Blue Prints and Policy Initiatives.

Morgan City, La, Us

• Advocates for and promotes the adopt modern cloud technologies, leading to development of a high availability, globally accessible cloud solution.• Leads development team and coaches executive management on technologies and risks.• Partners with IT teams, including cybersecurity, to implement cloud strategy utilizing security expertise.• Ensures requirements are reflected in cloud solution designs through capture reports and change reviews.• Assesses, plans, builds, and migrates applications and services to public cloud.• Monitors datacenter performance, and create workflows automation for incident response• Maintains compliance with FedRAMP, Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, and mandated security requirements.• Leverages automation to enforce standards, build repeatable processes, and optimize cloud spend.• Manages complex virtual private network containers both in the cloud and on front end security gateways.• Developed and applied infrastructure-as-code practices that meet standards and align with best practices.• Lead SME in the development of an $8 Billion project for Lockheed Martin for FMS program.• Moved all datacenter hosting services off-site, resulting in improved performance, uptime, and disaster recovery.• Analyzed key gaps in the IT operations process and introduced new incident management system with change management and discovery. Service level agreements were improved over 50% and tickets increased 10-fold.• Used templates and configuration management principles to improve operational efficiencies by over 35%.• Led modernization efforts, resulting in over $1.5M dollars in saving over 3 years.• Pioneered autonomous systems, leading to first large contract with the U.S Navy for a program worth $20M.• Created a center of excellence approach to increase productivity, adding 5 new LCU-35M class ships to the existing pipeline at a value of $9M each.

Fairfax, Va, Us

• Led operations of entire IT department in support of contracts for U.S. Government systems, partnering with executive business and customer technology owners to plan and implement architectural initiatives.• Delivered risky, highly visible, and time-constrained business solutions.• Upgraded to modern vCenter implementation and hardware platform.• Built Salesforce pilot for field data point collection and integration with finance functions in ERP, resulting in an increase in operational efficiency by over 75%; developed proof of concept to demonstrate solution.• Architected key systems components for all computer, storage, and virtual desktop infrastructure (3,000 VDI environment) for large-scale project worth over $600M.• Served as lead designer for compute and storage requirements and network bandwidth. Set up complex software-defined network for a whole medical city, using a DWDM-based fiber ring, $50M of Cisco managed routers and switches, and spine and leaf architecture. Integrated with a completed access layer that included 26 other ICT packets to provide services for a 99,000-patient hospital. • Defined VMware hardware management appliance network requirements and tailored security policies. • Consulted as Senior Virtualization Engineer at MCIS Data Center Consolidation, Military Health Service: Advocated for the adoption of a hybrid cloud model, leading to a $27M U.S. Army contract. Created standardized ITIL 3.0 approach, resulting in the saving of thousands of hours in deployment time.• While serving as a Solutions Architect at the Federal Aviation Administration:  Led a large team of cross-functional stakeholders and technical subject matter experts to deliver solution. Established security parameters between data center and headquarters and MDM integration with O365.• As Senior Cloud Migration Engineer at Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Regional Customer Service Center

M.S, Telecommunications

B.S, Computer Science