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Seattle, Wa, Us

As a Principal Cloud Architect at Slalom, I bring many years of experience in technology, data center builds/migrations, co-located data center and on-premises migrations to multiple cloud services. Facilitated large-scale Cloud transformation projects.Perform application rationalizations and TCO analysis with anticipation on migrating to the cloud. Recommend, design and implement highly resilient, scalable and agile solutions for enterprise level infrastructure by leveraging cloud based methodologies such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, VMC on AWS within and across multiple cloud providers.Demonstrate ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges. Team leader across multi areas of technology. Train and knowledge transfer to other SMEs while building a Cloud Center of Excellence (COE).. Extensive experience with Multi Cloud initiatives. Cloud Migration Assessments (Azure, AWS and Google Cloud). Cloud Management, Automation & Orchestration. Experience with public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and multi cloud. Requirements gathering with business and technical teams. Roadmaps and project executions. Expertise with all AWS security services. Azure Sentinel, Lighthouse, Defender for Cloud. Lift and Shift migrations. Integrate 6 R's of cloud migrations. Resource forecasting project resources, timelines and budgets. Vendor management of 3rd party services. Executive presentation skills. High Level and Detail Level Design documentation. Application evaluations to decouple apps for cloud adoption. Presentations and scope definitions with Director and C-level decision makers. Cloudformation and Terraform Infrastructure as code

Westport, Ct, Us

I am a Senior Cloud Architect with Eastern Computer Exchange a global enterprise solution provider. Facilitate large-scale Cloud transformation projects.Recommend, design and implement highly resilient, scalable and agile solutions for enterprise level infrastructure by leveraging cloud based methodologies such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, VMC on AWS within and across multiple cloud providers.Ensure that client applications and infrastructure are designed and implemented with highest security standards thus maintaining and enhancing customer trustDemonstrate ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges. . Cloud Migration Assessments. Executive presentation skills. Cloud Management, Automation & Orchestration. Experience with public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and multi cloud. Requirements gathering with business and technical teams. Roadmaps and project executions. Lift and Shift migrations and transformations of virtualized and on-premise platforms to AWS Cloud and Azure and VMC on AWS. Resource forecasting project resources, timelines and budgets. Vendor management of 3rd party services. High Level and Detail Level Design documentation. Application evaluations to decouple apps for cloud adoption. Presentations and scope definitions with Director and C-level decision makers. Cloudformation and Terraform Infrastructure as code

Iselin, Nj, Us

I am a Cloud Architect with CloudView Partners, a rapidly-growing, Cloud-focused professional-services startup specialized in facilitating large-scale Cloud transformation projects.Recommend, design and implement highly resilient, scalable and agile solutions for enterprise level infrastructure by leveraging cloud based methodologies such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS within and across multiple cloud providers.Ensure that client applications and infrastructure are designed and implemented to the highest security standards thus maintaining and enhancing customer trustDemonstrate ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges. Build Hybrid Cloud designs and integrations. Requirements gathering with business and technical teams. Roadmaps and project executions. Lift and Shift migrations and transformations of virtualized and on-premise platforms to AWS Cloud and Azure. Resource forecasting project resources, timelines and budgets. Vendor management of 3rd party services. High Level and Detail Level Design documentation. Application evaluations to decouple apps for cloud adoption. Presentations and scope definitions with Director and C-level decision makers. Cloudformation and Terraform Infrastructure as code

Seattle, Wa, Us

Infrastructure/AWS Cloud Architect with more 5 years of experience in Infrastructure Architecting and Cloud Computing, design, development and implementation of highly scalable, highly available, highly secured, distributed infrastructure, client/server and web based software applications with an earned reputation for meeting deadlines and delivering mission critical solutions. Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects.Developed a deep expertise in AWS technologies.A subject matter expert and taking on a consultative role as it pertains to cloud adoption.Ensure that client applications and infrastructure are designed and implemented to the highest security standards thus maintaining and enhancing customer trustPromote knowledge sharing within 2nd Watch and educate customers so that they may be able to prepare for their migration into AWS cloud.Demonstrate ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challengesRecommend, design and implement highly resilient, scalable and agile solutions for enterprise level infrastructure by leveraging cloud based methodologies such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.Architectural design, build and deployment of highly available, multi-region architectures utilizing AWS services. Built many Hybrid Cloud designs and integrations. Requirements gathering with business and technical teams. Lift and Shift migrations and transformations of virtualized and on-premise platforms to AWS Cloud. Resource forecasting project resources, timelines and budgets. Vendor management of 3rd party services. High Level and Detail Level Design documentation. Presentations and scope definitions with Director and C-level decision makers. Client list includes AIG, Coca-Cola, CNBC, Advance Publications, Motorola, IAC Publishing, Covanta, ProSight Insurance, WebMD, Artisan Partners, Cardinal and Nike to name a few. Cloudformation and Terraform Infrastructure as code

• Administered over 800 servers including Windows 2003-2008, 2012, UNIX (RHELvers. 4-5 Linux/Solaris, Ubuntu, CentOS).• Senior Engineer for cloud initiatives on Amazon AWS and Rackspace.• Managed deployments/upgrades for all servers running various applicationssuch as Apache, IIS, Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat, Mysql, ASP, Sun OneWebserver.• Implemented Hybrid Cloud Solutions for On-Premise to AWS Cloud.• Recommend, Plan and implement AWS cloud strategies.• Instrumental in migration/lift and shift and re-deployments into AWS.• Supported .NET applications on IIS which integrate with Oracle DBs• Setup cloud servers & migrated many client servers/applications/workloads to AWS cloud.• Provided 24 hr support for data center and remote offices• Server Administration, including installation, configuration, deployment ofnew applications, troubleshooting and production support• Webmaster for All Technology client websites – 225 sites• Installed and configured firewall rules and load balancing services on Ciscoand Palo Alto and Sonic Wall routers.• Setup Salesforce, Infusionsoft and SugarCRM installations. MIgrated leaddata.• Troubleshoot servers, applications, load balancers and firewalls usingvarious testing tools and web/app server and system logs analysis.• Monitored using SiteScope, Nagios and Tivoli, CloudWatch, Dome 9.

• Administered over 400 servers including Windows 2003, Unix (RHEL vers 4-5/Solaris).• Managed deployments/upgrades for all servers running various applications such as Apache, IIS, Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat, JBoss, ASP, Coldfusion, Interwoven, Vignette, JRUN, Sun One Webserver, Netscape LDAP, SiteMinder for SSO – single sign on.• Provided 24hour support for several data centers.• Implemented cloning/workload management on NT, Solaris, Linux and AIX Websphere installations. Implemented server groups/cloning on Websphere 4.0/5.0./5.1/6.0• Involved with all software development phases ie. R&D, Dev., QA, Test, Stress Test, Disaster Recovery, Test Production and Production• Managed projects involving code deployments, hardware upgrades/installations and user acceptance testing.• Evaluated firewall and load balancing requirements and submitted requests to appropriate departments.• Managed Large Web/Server Clusters & provided automatic failover.

• Setup Workload Management in a Solaris environment using Websphere 5.0.2.• Provided full web server, Clustering, WLM and Websphere applications setup, installation/configuration documentation.• Upgraded 4.0 to 5.0.2 then a final upgrade to the latest 5.1.• I introduced organization to an enterprise wide J2EE development initiative that would allow 4 countries to share a single cvs repository as well as provide a web based (read only) access to cvs. Setup cvs replication so all 4 sites would have a secondary automatic failover to a duplicate of their current production cvs repositories.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

• Built/Administered Websphere & Weblogic environment 3.5, 4.0 and 5.0, included design, development, test, QA and production.• Setup & administered LDAP, IBM CICS Transaction Gateway, IBM Txseries and IBM UDB/DB2..• Performed migrations from 3.5 & 4.0 to 5.0 of Websphere on AIX, some Solaris and Windows 2000.• Managed team of 10 internal programmers and infrastructure members.• Managed QA team & had hands on involvement in the procedures and setup of regression and load testing.• Migrated OS390 DB2 data to a Linux clustered environment using UDB 8.1 on Linux. Saved company about $14million per year.

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