Infrastructure Architect

Vic K umar

(Sr. Solution Principal/Architect/Manager)

SUMMARY:

** ***** ** ********** ** full lifecycle IT application and infrastructure architecture management, focused on IT solution offerings, strategy, resource management, managed IT services, security, project management, infrastructure architecture planning, transformational roadmaps, risk management, data centers consolidation/optimization programs, client management, engagement management with technical leadership, and governance.

Extensive experience in Pre and Post-sales support, business development, RFP/RFI, SOW and manage infrastructure practice and P&L goals.

PaaS/SaaS/IaaS models, cloud services, design IT strategy, infrastructure architecture planning, transformational roadmaps, risk management, governance, large scale systems implementation and infrastructure and data centers consolidation.

Experience with enterprise architecture strategies, IT service management processes and standards to ensure end-to-end architecture across all architecture domains.

Experience in IT optimization at all stacks including server, storage, network, desktop and application virtualization technologies and management tools.

Act as trusted strategic technology advisor with clients, and work across teams to achieve most comprehensive, end-to-end business and IT services to address their business challenges and build strong client relationships.

Experience in Disaster Recovery strategies, plans and solutions using advanced availability solutions and Cloud offerings considering security and regulatory compliance. Experience in messaging and collaboration solutions, network architecture, voice and data networks (WAN), considering security, redundancy and reliability.

Strong architectural knowledge of all components of applications and infrastructure systems including object and component based development environments; web services, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) for applications and infrastructure, Mainframe and Distributed Computing architectures, communications technologies including Messaging (MQ), middleware applications such as (Weblogic, WebSphere 6.0/7.0, WebMethods) and ERP systems such as Oracle Applications and SAP; and multiple backend database technologies (Oracle, DB2, Cassandra, Mango DB, SQL) on UNIX and Windows platform

Technical Skill set

Skills:

Enterprise Cloud Management, Cloud based server, storage provisioning, Optimization, and Automation, Cloud Migration, Managed Hosting, Dynamic and on-Demand Resource Management, Co-location, Cloud Security, Data Center Migration and Consolidation, Data Center Optimization, Server Consolidation, Virtualization (vmware, Hyper-V, Xen and etc),, Server Tech Refresh Strategy, Disaster Recovery Strategy, Storage Transformation (Dell, EMC, Hitachi, Brocade, NetApps and etc), SAN Migration, Storage Virtualization, Storage Multi-Tiering, End User Computing Citrix Xen Desktop (XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer, Edgesite, and Provisioning Server), Backup (Netbackup), Recovery and De-duplication, Network Optimization, Management, Unified Networking, System Configuration Management (Puppet, Chef, Ruby), Storage and Interconnect Consolidation, IPv6, Infiniband, FCoE, iSCSI technologies, Security (Firewalls, Load balancers, SSL, VPN, Anti-spam, Anti-Virus, and etc), Directory services (Windows 2012/2008/2003, Iplanet, e-directory and etc), Cloud Technologies (Azure, AWS, Verizon, Century Link, and etc.), Core Infrastructure Services (DNS, DHCP, and WINS), Compute platforms (Wintel, Linux and Oracle), Network (LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, VOIP), Messaging systems (Exchange 2010/2007/2003, Lotus Notes, Blackberry), Monitoring tools (SCOM, Quest, BMC-Patrol, NetIQ and etc.), Patch Management solutions (LANDesk, WSUS, Solarwind and etc), Application Suits (.NET, Java, BEA Weblogic 5.0, IBM WebSphere 5.3/6.0, MSMQ, JDK 1.2.2, J2EE),Document Management (Sharepoint, Documentum), DevOps, Atlassian Tools (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo), Automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Powershell and etc), Agile, Scrum, Integration tools (Jenkins, ANT, ETL, and etc.) Databases (Oracle, SQL, DB2, MySQL, Mango DB, Cassandra and etc.)

Operating System

Windows, Sun Solaris 10/9.0/8.0, Novell Netware 6.x/5.x/4.x, Citrix Metaframe Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6/5 server & Advanced Platform Server

Certifications:

MCP, MCSA, MCSE+ I + Messaging, Certificate in “Principles of Architecture”, ITIL v3, CCSK

Other:

IaaS/PaaS/SaaS models, SDLC, TOGAF, MSF, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, 21 CFR Part 11and etc

Client Management, Engagement Management, Business Development, Practice Development & Eminence, People Development and etc.

EXPERIENCE:

Verizon Business Services, Chicago, IL Sr. Solution Architect / Manager 06/10 to Present

Key Projects: Walgreens Boots Alliance, Cummins Engine, Becton Dickenson, AstraZeneca, McDonalds, ITW, Penske, Motorola Solutions & etc.

Deliverables: Pre and Post Sales, Practice Management, Project Delivery, Resource Management, Infrastructure Strategy, Infrastructure architecture, Mergers and Acquisitions, Security, Estimates, RFI/RFP, SOW, Enterprise Cloud Strategy, Co-location, Enterprise Managed Cloud, Managed Hosting, Migration Strategy, charge back, risk analysis, capacity planning, disaster recovery, IT governance, vendor management, infrastructure optimization, management consulting, Budget Planning and management.

Performed business and solution development, and provided innovative cost effective solutions to the business challenges and business cost justification plans (TCO and ROI) and provided tangible savings up to 30%.

Developed the Statement of work (SOW) and level of effort estimate for the proposals to meet the business objective

Presented the solution to the customer (external and internal) teams and maintained the client relationship.

Involved in the operational processes and delivery issues on the account and collaborate with operations to remediate the issues in timely manner.

Acted as the management consultant to the state advisory board and deliver the improved business performance.

Heavily involved in the pre-sales activities and business development, lead the RFP/RFI proposals presented to client and won few RFP/RFIs for worth about $10M deal. Developed the repository for internal intellectual assets. Participate in development of solution offerings, training activities for practice, develop presentations, white papers and etc for conferences and for customer facing.

Created the enterprise cloud strategy (Private, Public or Hybrid) and migration path for the applications and infrastructure. Also provided dynamic and on-demand resource pool based computing environment solution.

Directly interact with customer to identify, validate their requirements (functional or non-functional) and provide the appropriate solution.

Created the application and system architecture standards, cloud computing framework and methodologies and aligned with the business strategy for the enterprise.

Lead the POC for Century Link cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and etc and defined the cloud architecture. Experience in designing the cloud solution using AWS, Azure, Century Link and Verizon Cloud. Experience with the automation tools such as Chef, Puppet, Powershell. Involved in DevOps process, and Atlassian tools such as Bit bucket, Bamboo and JIRA for process improvement.

Define, adopt and adhere to enterprise architecture strategies, processes and standards and provided technology assistance and direction to other teams and ensure end-to-end architecture across all architecture domains.

Designing solutions to satisfy the non-functional (sizing, availability, and performance) requirements for business applications within the environment. Identified the risk, created the risk mitigation plans to the standardization across the platform and applications portfolio.

Created the application and infrastructure technology refresh strategy and roadmap and defined the project map and involved in delivery of it. Defined the challenges, risks, risk mitigation, issues logs and etc for the product delivery.

Maintained relationships with vendors, and OEMs partnerships. Provided training career counseling and mentoring of Infrastructure practice members.

Created the enterprise cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment strategy (Private, Public or Hybrid), migration path for the applications and infrastructure. Also provided dynamic and on-demand resource pool based computing environment solution.

Designed secure computing environment through the implementation of security standards for systems and applications, as well as security policies and guidelines. Defined security at all levels in the solution architecture including single sign on, data leak prevention, data classification, application classification, data protection, encryption.

Defined the cost effective solution for the Co-location strategy for the customer owned assets and defined power, cooling and space requirements

Defined the Disaster Recovery, data protection, storage optimization and replication for an application environment.

Facilitated meetings for requirements (business, technical, operational) gathering and architectural/design reviews with vendors, application and engineering team.

Experience with encryption, multi-factor authentication, SIEM, Web application firewalls, Intrusion detection and protection, host based controls, Data security, SSO, Federation Services and Identity Management.

Ensured all the regulatory compliance such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI compliances are met and auditing is in place.

Tata Consulting Services, Chicago, IL Sr. Solution Manager 09/07 to 05/10

Key Projects: United Airlines, Bank of America, Nielsen, CVS, Allstate Insurance, and etc.

Deliverables: Pre and Post Sales, Practice Management, Project Delivery, Infrastructure Strategy, Infrastructure architecture, Mergers and Acquisitions, Security, Estimates, RFI/RFP, Proposals, SOW, Infrastructure strategy, infrastructure architecture, risk analysis, capacity planning, estimate charge back, disaster recovery, IT governance, project and resource management, onshore-offshore model, vendor management, infrastructure optimization, end user computing (virtual desktop), server consolidation, environments design, management consulting, managed IT services, cloud computing services, managed application solution, security and storage.

Involved in creating the application and system architecture standards, cloud computing framework and methodologies and aligned with the business strategy for the enterprise

The projects involve designing solutions to satisfy the non-functional (sizing, availability, and performance) requirements for business applications within the environment. Defined the infrastructure optimization and migration

Identified the risk, created the risk mitigation plans to the standardization across the platform and applications portfolio

Performed business and solution development, and provided innovative cost effective solutions to the business challenges and business cost justification plans (TCO and ROI) and provided tangible savings up to 30%.

Defined and designed the phased migration approach for the mid range server environment, operational readiness process area matrix, and defined the complete IT solution offering using third party tools for the POC.

Define, adopt and adhere to enterprise architecture strategies, processes and standards and provided technology assistance and direction to other teams and ensure end-to-end architecture across all architecture domains.

Created the application and system architecture standards, cloud computing framework and methodologies and aligned with the business strategy for the enterprise.

Design and create the network execution architectures for all the environments and execution flows based on the application solution and integration architecture. Ensure the architectures adhere to guiding policies as per defined standards. Created high level availability architectures for application and ensure the integrity, availability, scalability, maintainability and efficiency of the solutions from hardware and software perspective. Performed gap analysis between the current state and future state architecture. Presented the solution to the architecture and Operation board

Created the enterprise wide application lifecycle matrix and aligned with the business strategy and roadmap.

Strategize and designed the enterprise cloud strategy for the web based application environment, also defined the virtual Disaster Recovery strategy for the application. Also defined the migration strategy to cloud.

Facilitated meetings for requirements (business, technical, operational) gathering and architectural/design reviews with vendors, application and engineering team.

Used the reference architecture model and design patterns to architect and defined the web infrastructure solutions for .NET, SAP Portal, and Websphere (6.x/7.x) application environment, MQ and etc.

Worked with technical and business leads on the service design, delivery and communicate architecture design and implementation details for all server, network, storage and software components.

Designed the web application multi-tier application (Java and .NET) infrastructure solutions utilizing the technologies such as web servers (Apache, IHS, IIS), App-DB layer (WAS 6.x/7.x or custom application), backend databases (Oracle, SQL, Oracle RAC) considering network (F5 Content switches, Firewall, Load balance), security (https, ports and etc.) and storage (EMC, NetApp, or Hitachi), batch or real time processing solutions using (Autosys, CA7 or etc).

Developed infrastructure roadmaps and product lifecycles for the enterprise from Platform, Network, Storage, and Operations domain and refresh standards and frameworks.

Defined the transformation / migration framework and delivery structure. Conducted the workshop sessions for technical architecture (network/ systems hardware, software, storage (EMC SAN), custom applications, security). Defined the overall infrastructure transformation plan that includes capacity plans, and performance plan.

Acted as the management consultant to the state advisory board and deliver the improved business performance.

Ensured all the regulatory compliance such as Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI compliances are met and auditing is in place.

Created the architecture solution and provisioning artifacts to build the environments (Dev, Test, Perf, Stage, and Prod) considering the size and capacity of infrastructure components such as (servers, network, applications and etc.) in a managed IT services and applications model.

Defined and strategize the Business continuity functions and disaster recovery strategy, to utilize the high availability plan using SunGard availability services and De-duplication (Data Domain) and VTL and Hitachi Data Replication solution (USPV) solutions. Used Data Domain De-duplication technologies to eliminate the tape restores and improve RTO and RPO. Worked with vendors and 3rd party suppliers.

Unisys, Chicago, IL Technical Manager 12/06 to 09/07

Key Deliverables: Project Management, Infrastructure strategy, functional test planning, patch management, application releases, vendor management, server virtualization, application performance benchmark, software licensing, compliance.

SunGard Financial Network, IL

Created the high level project plan objectives for multiple projects (Funds workstation, securities and etc) and defined the milestones, timelines, and resources. Collaborated with engineers, developers and provided the leadership.

Strategize and designed the solution on virtual infrastructure (VMware–VI3), physical-to-virtual server. Coordinate with cross functional teams (network, systems, databases, application, & operations) & maintained the strong communication across the teams. Created the managed application environment and services model (SaaS) for the SunGard customers and provide the cost benefit analysis. Designed and deployed the highly available and scalable infrastructure for different trading applications (products) environment such as development, QA, UAT and production.

Involved in evaluation of the production processes and operations run guides for monitoring the applications and infrastructure and provide recommendations for the proactive monitoring of the newly deployed environment.

Accenture, Chicago, IL Sr. Infrastructure Architect 11/03 to 12/06

Key Deliverables: Infrastructure Strategy, Project Management, IT solution offering, infrastructure architecture, requirement gathering, network assessment, product evaluation, storage requirements, conducted workshops, vendor management, capacity planning, risk analysis, migration strategy, virtualization, security, data center consolidation, security, communication plan, internal practice intellectual contributions (go-to markets), managed applications, managed IT services, management consulting, storage, business continuity and disaster recovery.

Defined and created the high level conceptual solution on virtual technologies based on the strategic business vision.

Created and presented the business cost justification plan and captured the challenges associated with managing dispersed technologies and evolving business processes, maintain consistent application performance.

Delivered the improved business performance and managed the operational cost and risk by providing the managed IT services model and presenting the improved effective and efficient operations.

Facilitated the regular meetings with the cross functional team to maintain strong communication within the program

Managed the multiple architect leads (AD, messaging, storage, network and virtualization streams) in the program.

Certified the infrastructure design plans for Active Directory, Exchange, storage and virtualization tracks and the migration plan for the three data center.

Created the data center move strategy, detailed plan to Omaha data center including servers, applications, storage and assess the risk and impact of such move. Tight coordination between the cross functional teams (network, application, engineering, database and operations)

Satisfied the business needs through Accenture broad portfolio and leveraged the existing vendor relationships.

Created the project plan, set objectives, milestones, and timelines. Managed four (4) engineers and provided leadership. Managed the multiple architect leads (AD, exchange, storage, desktop refresh and virtualization).

Certify the technology architectures for authentication environment--AD (Windows 2003), messaging (Exchange 2003), storage (EMC –Clarion), desktop refresh (WinXP). Performed the risk analysis and mitigation plans, maintained issues and risk logs, and delegated the closure of issues (technical or business) for appropriate resolution.

Facilitated the cross functional team meetings in order to maintain healthy communication across the program.

Defined, designed and deployed a highly available, scalable and recoverable file and print design utilizing EMC SAN technology (Power Path) as storage for file services.

Strategize, and designed the server virtualization environment using (VMware (Prod) and Virtual server 2005 (lab).

Coordinated with different departments and provided guidance for proactive monitoring for all aspects of the production environment. Involved in creating guidelines, and security policies in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley

Sharp Interfaces, Chicago IL Infrastructure Architect 1/02 to 11/03

Key Deliverables – Infrastructure architecture, Directory services architecture, Messaging services architecture, Migration approach, Third Party tools (Quest Migrator, NetIQ Migrator) Server consolidation, Storage (EMC), & Upgrade.

Involved in project planning of new windows authentication system (Active Directory 2003) and migration approach.

Evaluated and certified the infrastructure migration process from legacy windows architecture in the test environment

Designed and deployed network infrastructure services in the enterprise, and created co-existence strategy for the name resolution till decommissioning of legacy systems.

Involved in the data center consolidation. Defined the server operating system upgrade process, operation guidelines.

ProSoft Technology Group, Chicago, IL Infrastructure Engineer 6/97 to 1/02

Designed windows authentication system and the migration approach on Windows 2000 directory structure.

Defined, designed and migrated the core network infrastructure services / utility services (DHCP, DNS, and WINS)

Designed the data migration plan from legacy windows systems to new storage system NAS unit (NetApp 800 series)

Led and provided guidance to distributed operations and ensured 99.99% systems availability.

Network Architecture and documentation. Deployed server build process, security policies and monitoring.

Hewlett Packard (India) Ltd., India Systems Support Engineer 02/94 to 04/97

Established, maintained and supported LAN, WAN environment. Server hardware upgrade and support.

Weston Electronics Limited, India Systems Support Engineer 02/93 to 01/94

Desktop support, hardware and software upgrade.

EDUCATION

Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

Master’s degree in Management Information Systems 09/94 to 01/96

Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering 08/87 to 06/91

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