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Bangalore Area, India

Lead the end-to-end software development lifecycle, right from PTx, product testing, managing the JIRAs, and developing strategy to implement post-release on IBM Power Platform/AIX.Managed multiple delivery teams of 20 professionals, ensuring governance at top management level, conducting project meetings, and identifying successful and unsuccessful project factors and gaps. Worked closely with multi-disciplined teams to drive estimates, delivery plans, and retrospectives, identified and managed engagement risks, and flagged major issues early.Led a team of developers, testers, and project managers to ensure successful product releases.Managed budgets, resource allocation, and timelines for projects.Hired and managed contract resources, Operations and Build teams for specific projects.Provided technical leadership in coordination with stakeholders and vendor teams. Manage and improve the integrated build pipeline, including all development, testing, acceptance, and staging environmentsDeveloped, tested and implemented new microservices; Configured and maintained pipeline framework, tested all components.Diagnosed, investigated and resolved all IT incidents and system overloads; Planned, Managed technical budgets.Led the installation and configuration of HMC & NIM System, PowerHA and GPFS cluster, including DLPAR, MPIO and VIOS setup, configuration and allocations.Provide automated solutionsCreated alerts and monitoring dashboards using Splunk and Grafana.Execute risk assessment and system performance tests to verify and configure security settings & OS hardening. Review organizational policies, all security standards and perform security control assessment to resolve security and vulnerability issues. Work with Auditors and security team to provide them with RFI data, develop and update security assessment plan.Collaborated with different teams on the integration of new internal security controls

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

• Spearheaded projects by regulating invoices, contracts and creating charters, as well as assigning roles and responsibilities.• Drove work capacity, system design, sizing and capacity planning for the upcoming upgrades.• Identified the core team at every stage, including Statement of Work preparation (SOW) and Cost Model (CM) preparation, and Solution Delivery; advised the PM on resource engagement.• Managed budgets, resource allocation, and timelines for projects.• Managed Operations & Build teams of 12 professionals with focus on creating culturally diverse environment by displaying a strong work ethic.• Led the installation and configuration of HMC & NIM System, PowerHA and GPFS cluster, including DLPAR, MPIO and VIOS setup, configuration and allocations.• Steered server consolidation, virtualization and installation.• Involved in project meetings organized by the PM on project development, along with pre-sales meetings with clients.• Chaired engagement from E2E concept to delivery and provide technical guidance/clarifications to the core team throughout the solution design and delivery lifecycle.• Obtained technical approvals, delivery approvals, QA approvals and customer acceptance of the SOW and CM artifacts using SRMS workflow.• Provided inputs for Project Change Request, Project Closure Request and process deviation form when requested by the PM.• Monitored the CPU utilization, memory profiles, disk utilization and network connectivity.• Administered security management in coordination with internal/external auditors.

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Worked on an JPMC Infrastructure Project Supporting pSeries 520 , 550 , 560 , EMC Storage Server Environment: AIX 5.3 , Pseries , HACMP , VIO DB : Oracle , Sybase , SQL• Piloted server consolidation and virtualization, along with the installation of IBM pSeries servers.• Provide end-to-end support for server consolidation projects while completing the migration.• Accountable for capacity planning, performance tuning and shell scripting.• Led the installation and configuration of HMC & NIM System, including DLPAR, MPIO and VIOS setup, configuration and allocations.• Communicated with DBAs for Data Migration and database-related issues.

Worked on an IBM Project Supporting Regata ( pseries 690 , 650 , 610 ) , DS8300 Storage Server , SAN Switch , 9 SP Tall frame with High Nodes , Wide Nodes. Stand alone RS6000 Servers : F50 , R50 , 59H Environment : AIX 5.X , PSSP 3.2 ,HACMP ,ADSM , CSM Application : Hyperion Essbase , DB2 , SQL

Client : Telco , Bajaj , Kirloskar Oil Engines , Income Tax Working on an IBM Project Supporting 2 SP Tall frame with Wide Nodes , Thin Nodes and S70 RS6000 Servers : R24 , 390 , C20 , G40 , E20 , 43P , F50 . Raid Arrays : 7135 , 7137 , SSA D40 and T40 Environment : AIX 4.3.X , PSSP 3.2 ,HACMP ,ADSM