Nick Patel Email & Phone Number

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Tampa, Florida, United States

Cloud Transformation team architect/manager, reporting to VP of Engineering, leading a team of DevOps and Cloud Engineers in implementation of Television Audience Measurement solutions on AWS. Responsible for creation of solution architectures, roadmaps for development, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipeline development, high-availability, site-resiliency and cost management. Hands-on technical support for troubleshooting workloads running on cloud infrastructure – VPC, EKS, EMR, Lambda… Show more Cloud Transformation team architect/manager, reporting to VP of Engineering, leading a team of DevOps and Cloud Engineers in implementation of Television Audience Measurement solutions on AWS. Responsible for creation of solution architectures, roadmaps for development, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipeline development, high-availability, site-resiliency and cost management. Hands-on technical support for troubleshooting workloads running on cloud infrastructure – VPC, EKS, EMR, Lambda, EC2, Route53, AWS Cost Management Tools and other managed services. Evaluation and POC for open-source alternatives to commercial tools such as Datadog and Rancher. Show less

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Infrastructure Automation team responsible for delivering self-service capability for IaaS, IPaaS & XaaS catalog items using VMWare vRealize Business Suite.• vRealize Automation (vRA)/vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)• vRealize Log Insight (vRLI)• vRealize Operations (vROPS)• vRealize Business (vRB)• Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud deploymentEvaluation of DevOps toolsets to select best-in-class options for consistent, reliable, secure VM templates-GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible… Show more Infrastructure Automation team responsible for delivering self-service capability for IaaS, IPaaS & XaaS catalog items using VMWare vRealize Business Suite.• vRealize Automation (vRA)/vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)• vRealize Log Insight (vRLI)• vRealize Operations (vROPS)• vRealize Business (vRB)• Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud deploymentEvaluation of DevOps toolsets to select best-in-class options for consistent, reliable, secure VM templates-GitLab, Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, Security agents Qualys+Tanium. Collaborate with organizational leaders in product and technology to understanding requirements and adapt to evolutionary changes. Show less

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Digital Transformation Architecture team lead and change-agent responsible for review, evaluating and recommending emerging technologies next generation infrastructure solution for adoption in private, public and hybrid cloud journey in collaboration with organizational stakeholders and end-user community. • Platform-as-a-Service (OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry)• Database-as-a-Service (Oracle, AWS RDS)• Data Protection Solutions (Data Domain, DDBoost)• DevOps, CI/CD enablement… Show more Digital Transformation Architecture team lead and change-agent responsible for review, evaluating and recommending emerging technologies next generation infrastructure solution for adoption in private, public and hybrid cloud journey in collaboration with organizational stakeholders and end-user community. • Platform-as-a-Service (OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry)• Database-as-a-Service (Oracle, AWS RDS)• Data Protection Solutions (Data Domain, DDBoost)• DevOps, CI/CD enablement for Infrastructure-as-Code initiative• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (VxRail, Nutanix) Show less

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Large Scale Data Center Migration• Manage team of DBA, SysAdmins and SAN Administrators • Process driven approach:discovery, analysis, planning, validation, execution• Migrate complex client server applications and databases on disparate hardware platforms• Large scale Oracle Visualization with 20 host and 120+ guest domains between data centers• Innovative use of EMC Data Domain, EMC Isilon and Recovery Point technologies • Ensure superior performance in target data… Show more Large Scale Data Center Migration• Manage team of DBA, SysAdmins and SAN Administrators • Process driven approach:discovery, analysis, planning, validation, execution• Migrate complex client server applications and databases on disparate hardware platforms• Large scale Oracle Visualization with 20 host and 120+ guest domains between data centers• Innovative use of EMC Data Domain, EMC Isilon and Recovery Point technologies • Ensure superior performance in target data centers with XtremIO SAN storage• Near live migrations to minimize customer impactApplication Operations Manager• Manage global team of application operations engineers• Data warehouse/ETL systems, Fraud detection systems, Roaming and Clearing Reporting systems• 24x7 support managing SLA driven customer facing systems Show less

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

DBA – Roaming, Clearing & Settlement LOBManage team of DBA’s and System Administrators supporting mission critical systems serving Tier-1 telecommunications customers. Lead implementation of transformative technologies in alignments of company’s strategic initiatives. I built the group to become one of the most highly regarded enterprise grade teams at Syniverse by instilling core values of the company and ensuring we were aligning with strategic objectives and embracing change. Through… Show more DBA – Roaming, Clearing & Settlement LOBManage team of DBA’s and System Administrators supporting mission critical systems serving Tier-1 telecommunications customers. Lead implementation of transformative technologies in alignments of company’s strategic initiatives. I built the group to become one of the most highly regarded enterprise grade teams at Syniverse by instilling core values of the company and ensuring we were aligning with strategic objectives and embracing change. Through leadership and development initiatives for each member of my team, we were able to develop future leaders at Syniverse.Environment:• Team of up to 10 DBA’s (onsite, remote & off-shore) 24x7 Ops Support• Oracle 10g/11gR2 RAC on Solaris/Linux• 70+ Production, 30+ UAT, 128 QA and 150 Development/Integration environments• DB Size ranges 1GB to 35+ TB• Development, System Test, UAT, Production & DR services for 20+ products & solutionsKey Responsibilities• Provide hands-on Oracle DBA support for all life-cycle stages • Continuously align departmental strategy with short-term, mid-term and long-term strategic vision, goals and direction of the company• Drive architecture decisions in relation to database technologies• Promote growth and leadership• Align resource skills, capabilities and personal growth objectives with organizational needs• Production/DR DBA team, platform delivery team, performance team• Generate DBA LOE & ROM for projects requiring DBA support• Enforce Strict change control policy implementation • Manage implementation of strategic projects• Large scale database platform migrations (Unix to Linux)• Disaster recovery plan development & implementation• Conduct Bi-annual Capacity Planning exercises• Support compliance, audit processes and implement remediation’s-SOX, SAS70 Show less

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Senior Advisory Systems Engineer Oracle DBA Serving as a senior DBA and technical lead for the DBA group, I had additional responsibilities of mentoring junior DBA’s, undertaking complex projects from initiation to implementation, and providing timely updates to management. I was responsible for interfacing with functional areas related to application database support, including System Administration, Networking, Storage, Product Management, Project Management, Operations Management and… Show more Senior Advisory Systems Engineer Oracle DBA Serving as a senior DBA and technical lead for the DBA group, I had additional responsibilities of mentoring junior DBA’s, undertaking complex projects from initiation to implementation, and providing timely updates to management. I was responsible for interfacing with functional areas related to application database support, including System Administration, Networking, Storage, Product Management, Project Management, Operations Management and Product Support management. Supported continuous improvement initiatives and researching new technologies for operational efficiencies of DBA group. I was also directly responsible for providing full life cycle Oracle DBA support for multiple databases supporting critical customer facing applications:• Mobile Number Portability (MNP) solution• Multiple 20+ TB data warehouses for Tier 1 processing hundreds of millions of call-detail-records (CDRs) overnight via ETL. SLA to deliver glass reports & ad-hoc reporting by 08:00 AMI was also responsible for developing the DBA Group disaster recovery policies and procedures for all production databases. In cooperation with the Unix System Administration team, I meet the challenge by personally developing and implementing a solution all components of the solution to take it from concept to successfully tested implementation. Show less

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Advisory Systems Engineer Oracle DBAJoined GTE TSI, a subsidiary of Verizon (formerly GTE), in 1999 as and founding member of the DBA Homeroom at GTE TSI. Over the years, I had the opportunity to work on many projects and product lines provided hands-on DBA support for large scale development and operations databases. I played an integral role in establishing DBA Homeroom guidelines, co-publishing documents covering standards, policies, procedures and environment documentation. I was… Show more Advisory Systems Engineer Oracle DBAJoined GTE TSI, a subsidiary of Verizon (formerly GTE), in 1999 as and founding member of the DBA Homeroom at GTE TSI. Over the years, I had the opportunity to work on many projects and product lines provided hands-on DBA support for large scale development and operations databases. I played an integral role in establishing DBA Homeroom guidelines, co-publishing documents covering standards, policies, procedures and environment documentation. I was responsible for providing full life cycle Oracle DBA support for top-revenue generating products-Mobile Data Roaming (MDR) and Access Revenue Management System (ARMS). Show less

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Support migration of Pre-Paid wireless call processing database between GTE data centers in Dallas and Tampa. Platform was successfully migrated with minimal downtime. Upon completion, I was offered to join GTE as a full-time employee. Core technologies: Oracle 7 EE RDBMS, HP-UX

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Provide full lifecycle DBA support for Informix Online databases which served as a back-end to Lucent Technologies proprietary network Trouble Ticket management application (DMOS). In parallel, was also responsible for supporting database port from Informix to Oracle. Core technologies: Oracle 8/8i, HP-UX, C/C++

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

 (09/97 – 04/98) Contract Database Technical Lead, GTE Wholesale Markets I was responsible for implementing a QA & production environment for a web based Access Service Request order collector system from an external vendor. Core technologies: Oracle 7.3.3, HP-UX, C/C++, Netscape (03/96 – 08/97) Contract Database Developer at GTE Wholesale MarketsI was a member of the development team responsible for developing custom applications to automate processing of provisioning and… Show more  (09/97 – 04/98) Contract Database Technical Lead, GTE Wholesale Markets I was responsible for implementing a QA & production environment for a web based Access Service Request order collector system from an external vendor. Core technologies: Oracle 7.3.3, HP-UX, C/C++, Netscape (03/96 – 08/97) Contract Database Developer at GTE Wholesale MarketsI was a member of the development team responsible for developing custom applications to automate processing of provisioning and implementation of change records for GTE legacy billing and order processing systems. These custom applications saved thousands of man hours. Core assignment technologies: Visual Basic, MS Access, Attachmate, Crystal Reports.I continued with GTE as a consultant for the Data Management Team for a large-scale billing application project (CABS II). I was responsible for reverse engineering existing reports from legacy systems and developing those reports on the new billing system. Core technologies: Informatica, Informix Online, HTML (10/95 – 02/96) Contract Database Developer at GE Capital Services: Member of design, development and support team for insurance policy illustration software. Core technologies: Visual Basic, SQL, Sybase, Oracle, MS Access, Crystal Reports. (04/95 – 10/95) Contract Production Support Engineer at GTE Data ServicesStarting as a database developer for a customer notification/correspondence distribution system (CDS), and later transitioned to 24x7 production support role for the same application. Core technologies: Informix Online, C/C++, X-Windows/Motif, HP-UX Show less

Mba, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

MBA Entrepreneurship

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: International Students Association Journal of the ACM Student Chapter Masters in Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science