Project Manager Information Technology

Rana is a Tech Project Manager having **+ years of experience in Information Technology who is a motivated individual and willing to learn, adapt and organize the teams seeking a dynamic and fast paced growing work environment that involve application developments

Linked In: linkedin.com/in/rana-alexander-rajamedison-079ba351

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

Has solid communicative, presentational, analytical and problem solving skills, demonstrated proficiency in leading the teams.

He has worked on various areas such as planning, scheduled and test-driven development, DevOps and testing automation, integration, performance analysis, deployment and maintenance.

Has the ability to create a cadence centered synchronized environment involving deep work ethics

Has complete understanding of business flow and technologies underneath various Amex domains such as Acquisitions, Digital Partnerships, Global Infrastructure and Customer communications in which he has worked earlier.

Has directly overseen and manage PMs and driven migration projects to successful completion

Strong capability in J2EE Technology's (Servlets, Java, JDBC, JSP, JSF, Struts, JNDI, JMS, EJB, Spring, GWT) and JDK.

Expertise in Core Java involving concepts like Collections, Multithreading, Data Structures, Algorithms, Exception Handling and Polymorphism.

Proficiency in creating Web services like SOAP, UDDI, WSDL and RESTful using open source frameworks like Apache Axis, JAX-RS, JERSEY.

Followed Java & J2EE design patterns and the coding guidelines to design and develop the application.

Developed Splunk infrastructure and related solutions as per automation toolsets.

Installed, tested and deployed monitoring solutions with Splunk services.

Provided technical services to projects, user requests and data queries.

Implemented forwarder configuration, search heads and indexing.

Maintained and managed assigned systems, Splunk related issues and administrators.

Experienced with container technology of Docker, Docker compose, Docker Swarm and its best practices

Expert-level knowledge of Amazon EC2, S3, Simple DB, RDS, Elastic Load Balancing, SQS, and other services in the AWS cloud infrastructure such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS

Team-oriented engineer with four years' experience in system and network administration, managing server infrastructures and datacenter operations across multiple platforms (Unix, Linux, Windows).

Configured AWS IAM and Security Group in Public and Private Subnets in VPC. Architected, Designed and Developed the Backup and Archiving, Disaster Recovery in AWS Cloud.

Demonstrate the capacity to deploy complex infrastructure using AWS CLI.

Expertise in version control system tools like GIT.

Experience with Jenkins/Maven deployment and build management system.

Theoretical knowledge in configuration management (CM) using Chef automation

Experience in puppet server client installation, configuration and troubleshooting.

Experience in code version control using GIT and configuration integration using Jenkins.

Highly knowledgeable of core services (S3, EC2, ELB, EBS, Route 53, VPC etc.) and deployment services (Elastic Beanstalk, OpsWorks and Cloud Formation) and security practices (IAM usage, Cloud watch and cloud trail).

Expertize in using elastic load balancer (ELB) and auto scaling for elasticity.

Experienced in web app monitoring (Splunk) and AWS monitoring (cloud watch logs, events and dashboards).

Experience with BASH/shell scripting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: RHEL 7.x little endian, Amazon linux

OS and Cloud technologies: RHEL (LINUX), UNIX, Windows, AWS.

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server

Monitoring Tools : Splunk, Cloud Watch

Automation and build Tools : Chef, Maven & Docker

Version controls : GIT, SVN

Basic programming : JAVA, J2EE, Servlets, Spring, AngularJS, EJB, HTML, CSS, COBOL, CICS, JCL

Scrum Agile : JIRA, Rally

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

Oracle Certified Associate Java Programmer (OCAJP) SE8

AWS certified solutions architect (CSA) associate

AWS certified SysOps Administrator (CSOA) associate

AWS certified Developer (ADEV) Associate

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified Scaled Agilist (SA 4.0)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

American Express Phoenix, AZ Systems Admin/Tech PM Sep 14 – Present as a DevOps Tech PM my Responsibilities included, but not limited to

Good understanding of ELB, security groups, NACL, NAT, firewall and Route 53.

Involved in maintenance and performance of Amazon EC2 instances.

Involved in designing and developing Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon SQS, and other services of the AWS infrastructure.

Created users and groups using IAM and assigned individual policies to each group.

Created SNS notifications and assigned ARN to S3 for object loss notifications.

Created load balancers (ELB) and used Route53 with failover and latency options for high availability and fault tolerance.

Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.

Created S3 backups using versioning enable and moved objects to Amazon Glacier for archiving purpose.

Worked with different types of EC2 instances based on the requirement.

Creating new and upgrading existing EC2 instances using EBS snapshot feature.

Created read replicas and used them for disaster recovery, RDS instance upgrade purposes.

Cost optimization done by monitoring unused resources using cloud watch alarms.

Provisioning and monitoring of highly available applications using multi-availability zone (AZ) deployments.

Making use of consolidated billing to administer multiple accounts billing and Cloudwatch billing alerts to keep cost under threshold.

Prepared, arranged and tested Splunk search strings and operational strings.

Created and configured management reports and dashboards.

Developed, evaluated and documented specific metrics for management purpose.

Trained Splunk security team members for complex search strings and ES modules.

Analyzed security based events, risks and reporting instances.

Managed and maintained use cases into correlation systems.

Designed, developed and implemented system engineering plans and technical support services.

Executed systems programming activities and supported data center activity

Involved in designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing almost focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.

Implemented Security groups for Inbound/Outbound access.

Support JIRA Project Administration involving custom, complex projects, workflows, security schemes, custom fields etc.

Experience working with Monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch and Splunk

Created AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for instance RDP/SSH logon, worked with teams to lock down security groups.

AWS data backup (snapshot, AMI creation) techniques, along with data-at-rest security within AWS.

Did application testing on Docker containers before deployment onto EC2 instances.

Did blue/green deployments between different stacks created by versioned cloud formation templates using weighted based Route53 DNS failover.

Administered users and resources based on IAM roles and monitored activity through cloud trail logs.

Act as a liaison between product owners and leadership to manage list of technical requirements

Implementation, Integration, Problem Resolution, Root Cause Analysis, Quality Assurance, Disaster Recovery, Audits, Hardware/Software OS & Application Maintenance, Performance Tuning, Upgrades, OS Backups, Migrations, User Account Maintenance, Storage Management and all other daily system administration functions.

Strong capability in J2EE Technology's (Servlets, Java, JDBC, JSP, JSF, Struts, JNDI, JMS, EJB, Spring, GWT) and JDK.

Expertise in Core Java involving concepts like Collections, Multithreading, Data Structures, Algorithms, Exception Handling and Polymorphism.

Proficiency in creating Web services like SOAP and RESTful using open source frameworks like Apache Axis, JAX-RS, JERSEY.

Followed Java & J2EE design patterns and the coding guidelines to design and develop the application.

Working with GitHub private repositories.

Strong knowledge leading Agile Development Methodologies & Continuous Integration using DevOps Model in the deployment.

American Express Phoenix, AZ System Analyst/Tech Lead May 10 – Sep 14

As a Systems Analyst/Technical Manager my responsibilities included,

Worked on Implementing an Infrastructure upgrades to handle the rapid growth of the customers providing high availability (HA) environments

Conduct team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress and for upcoming changes in environment.

Convinced business partners with solutions that are more robust and simpler to implement and while satisfying the functional requirements from the business perspective.

Worked on some of the Proof Of Concepts on Splunk DB connect, Splunk Maps and Data Models

Facilitate the development of a Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA)

Deployed and tested patch bundles for RHEL before release and distribution of the bundles in to the organization.

Increasing EBS backed volume storage capacity when the root volume is full using AWS EBS Volume feature.

American Express Bangalore, India Systems/Programmer Analyst Jun 06 – May 10

Implementation, Integration, Problem Resolution, Root Cause Analysis, Quality Assurance, Disaster Recovery, Audits, Hardware/Software OS & Application Maintenance, Performance Tuning, Upgrades, OS Backups, Migrations, User Account Maintenance, Storage Management and all other daily system administration functions.

Have resolved lot of Severity 1 production issues within the 1-hour SLA and ensuring minimal impact to the system availability.

Experienced with gathering business requirements from business partners, vendors and other stakeholders in joint development sessions and translating them to developers.

End-to-end experience in software development life cycle (SDLC) and rational unified process (RUP).

Responsible for deployment, installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, application support, and maintenance of computer networks and systems.

Responsible for Zero-defect delivery of the project

Worked in VSS as the version control tool, responsible for base lining the code for frequent production releases

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