Paresh Patel, MBA, CKA, AWS-ASA, ASOA, ADEV

Irving, TX (972) 841 - 1727 ad4jar@r.postjobfree.com CLOUD SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Hands-on, results-driven senior IT system design & capacity planning professional and key decision maker in Mission-Critical System Development Lifecycle initiatives. Combine experience with highly coveted blend of business savvy and technical proficiency with a focus on availability and escalation management. Highly passionate about developing and launching new system improvements from the ground up to drive differentiations and growth in fiercely competitive markets. Proven ability to mentor and lend expertise to high-performance teams. Well-versed in value delivered to customers in enterprise and consumer segments. Skilled at analyzing requirements and translating corporate business needs into comprehensive strategy, road map, and implementation plans. Stellar reputation for tackling steep learning curves and emerging successfully as a subject matter expert. CORE COMPETENCIES

Analytical Skills Application Architecture Automation Budgeting Contracts Internal & External Hosting Infrastructure Operations Lean Six Sigma Office 365, Orchestration Security Architecture Cloud cybersecurity Verbal & Written Communication Strategic Planning Project Management Process Improvement Design & Implementation Cross-Functional Collaboration Leadership

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• Maintain relentless desire to take on endeavors of increasing complexity.

• Consistently embed the voice of the customer in the value proposition process.

• Robust history in delivering sophisticated products to be on-time and within schedule despite shifting priorities, and demanding expectations.

• Strong leadership in inspiring onshore and offshore teams in embracing a singular vision and oneness of purpose; lauded for making staff training and mentoring a high priority.

• Proven capacity to clearly and effectively communicate to audiences from a variety of educational, economic, and cultural backgrounds. Oftentimes making complex issues readily understood by all.

• Hands on experience in AWS provisioning and good knowledge of AWS services like EC2, ECS, Fargate, EKS, S3, Glacier, ELB, RDS, Redshift, IAM, Route 53, VPC, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation/Terraform (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), Security Groups.

• Strong experience in working with configuration management tool Ansible and CI/CD tool AWS Code pipeline, Jenkins and build serverless web application and backends using AWS Lambda, Apigee Edge, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB to handle web, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Department of Veterans Affairs (AMPL GUI Project) Irving, TX July 2019 - Present Senior Technical Lead / AWS Cloud Solution Architect (SME)

• Collaborated with stakeholders to identify operational requirements, applying technical expertise to develop and execute cloud- based solutions, primarily on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Led the design and automation of cloud environments with a focus on DevSecOps, ensuring efficient infrastructure management aligned with business needs.

• Expertly designed and architected AWS Organizations for multi-account management, integrating centralized IAM, auditing, and security systems, including AWS Security Hub, Macie, and Guard Duty, Cloud trail.

• Implemented and managed comprehensive AWS network security solutions using CloudFront, WAF, Shield, along with Application and Network Load Balancers (ALB & NLB).

• Managed weekly deployment of high-performance microservices for AMPL applications using Docker and AWS ECS, covering various environments from development to production.

• Oversaw information security, conducting FISMA scans and implementing measures to meet government compliance, with a special focus on Authorization to Operate (ATO) standards.

• Maintained strong security within microservices architectures, especially in Gov-East & Gov-West Regions, through vigilant patch management.

• Addressed vulnerabilities from BIGFIX scans, bolstering system security and compliance. Coordinated WASA scan requests for ongoing ATO compliance.

• Handled the management and renewal of SSL/TLS Certificates, ensuring secure data transmission.

• Guaranteed AWS Cloud security and integrity via regular backups and verifications. Contributed to the MSR process, enhancing monitoring services for system reliability.

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• Monitored and optimized cloud infrastructure using AWS CloudWatch, OpenSearch and Dynatrace focusing on microservices along with overall systems performance.

• Support Nessus findings in ICAMP, contributing to enhanced network security and performance.

• Demonstrated expertise in various AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, EKS, ECS, ECR, and more, to optimize solution performance.

• Worked closely with teams, effectively communicating architectural designs, and maintaining detailed documentation.

• Conducted weekly SCRUM meetings to synchronize project scope and deliverables across teams. Department of Veterans Affairs (VDIF Platform Project), Irving, TX December 2018 - July 2019 Senior Technical Lead / AWS Cloud Solution Architect (SME)

• Led the AWS cloud integration migration process to support the Veterans Data Integration and Federation (VDIF) by facilitating the addition of 80+ servers within in one month.

• Consistently utilized AWS services expertise in EC2, S3, Glacier, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route 53, VPC, Autoscaling, Cloud Front/Watch/Trail, Cloud Formation/Terraform, and Security Groups

• Identified issues and prevented the escalation of critical issues; successfully resolved.

• Collaborated with three cross-functional teams; communicated project risks, conflicts, progress, launches, and retrospectives across all stakeholders and team members consistently and transparently. VERIZON, Irving, TX August 2002 – December 2018

Sr. Technical Lead/ Senior AWS Cloud Architect/Security Engineer/DevOps Engineer – Digital Engagement & Service Assurance Actively and hands on involved in the migration in AWS to creation, implementation, and delivery of private and hybrid cloud-based solutions for my customers.

• Monitor AWS cost trends through cloud health technology dashboard and partnering with VDSI team to support AWS-related activities to include start and stop instances.

• Deployed via Jenkins and Git, automated and semi-automated deployments with Thought works GO/CI.

• Support and assist developers with DevOps technologies.

• Technologies: Chef, thought works GO, AWS, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Perl, Tomcat, Git, SVN, AWS, Mongo, GitHub.

• Installed & Configured Jenkins CI/CD tool for Monitoring and automate the build process from version control tool into testing and production environment.

• Creating Lambda function to automate snapshot back up on AWS and set up the scheduled backup.

• Used AWS Lambda to manage the servers and run the code in the AWS. Provide senior-level direction for production support teams working on the DSL and FTTP Ordering systems, Verizon.com, Verizon Voice Portal, Retail Billing system (ARBOR). Worked on various projects as the infrastructure team representative to coordinate and cooperate with the development groups. Responsible for crisis management, Availability management, Troubleshoot all the Production outages. Execute Disaster Recovery planning, implementation, and coordination. Coordinate the day-to-day release, code, and change management with the testing and development team; partner with downstream and upstream application teams to implement all code and database changes. Responsible for Automation of monitoring and maintenance activities using WLST and Perl Scripts. Monitor the applications and event logs for applications and servers’ issues in the Unix environment.

• Maintain system availability at 99.99%.

• Chosen for the highly coveted Information Systems Orientation Leadership program out of a very competitive field.

• Installed and configured Tibco Managed File Transfer Platform Server software on ADX and SSP servers helping to establish connectivity with mainframes.

• Supported Java, Spring, angular js development running on Linux/tomcat.

• Oversaw deployment of code and systems for an International b2b marketplace.

• Monitored and improved chef recipes, deployment of code, servers and other.

• Develop complex tools and processes in the support of continuity management.

• Led a team responsible for WebLogic & MQ Administration across over hundreds of WebLogic instances and 24 queue managers spanning over 250 UNIX boxes over 5 Data Centers in 4 environments.

• Designed the Traffic flow onto servers for better load balancing.

• Created and executed capacity and demand plan on the servers based on business needs,

• Manage system performance, resource planning and coordination for 24 x 7 Support.

• Responsible for Availability Management, Escalation Management as well as helping in budgeting for the projects.

• Led the Application Support teams and Configuration, Change and Release Management & DevOps teams in projects comprising the FiOS and ordering systems on a 24 x 7 capacity. Paresh Patel, MBA, AWS-ASA, ASOA, ADEV ad4jar@r.postjobfree.com Page 3 ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Systems Engineer and Analyst – Production Support (November 2002 – April 2007) Provided Level two support for all application and system related issues. Performed Application Deployments and troubleshooting deployment issues in various environments like Production, Staging and Testing. Monitored the application servers with the help of BMC, Site scope and home-grown scripts. Performed Tuning of Execute Thread Counts, Heap and JDBC Connection Pools. Configured and maintained the WebLogic load balancing clusters. Coordinated with Development Teams for Application Architecture changes with respect to WebLogic, MQ Series configurations. Achieved ‘Team Excellence’ recognition for a DSL and FiOS system. EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA) United States University, San Diego, CA LICENSES AND ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATIONS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Security - Specialty AWS Certification program, TX. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (Certificate ID Number is LF-5a5rmsrixk) Linux Foundation. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect (AWS-ASA-3399) AWS Certification program, TX. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified SysOps Administrator (AWS-ASOA-807) AWS Certification program, TX. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Developer (AWS-ADEV-11388) AWS Certification program, TX. Linux Administration Certification (ID: 2674691) Brain bench TX. Microsoft Certified SQL Server Administration (MCSE)&(MCDBA) Microsoft, TX. Certifications From Southern Methodist University (SMU), Plano TX Certification of Ethical Hacker Program

Certificate for Information System Security Professionals(CISSP) Certification of Network+, A+, Security+ CompTIA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Services: AWS, Microsoft Azure - Gov and Public Web Servers: Tomcat, APACHE, Web Logic (8/9/10) & Web Sphere Operating Systems: Linux, Sun, Red Hat, Centos, Windows, Amazon Linux, HP-UX Web servers: Amazon Lightsail, Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Elastic Cloud Computing (Amazon EC2) Iplanet and IIS, Amazon EC2, Lambda.

Storage Technologies: AWS Snowball, Glacier, Storage Gateway, S3, SAN, NAS Databases: Oracle, SQLServer, MySQL, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS Redshift, DynamoDB (NoSQL database) Build/SDKs & Web Toolkits: MAVEN, Hudson, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, AWS SDK for Python, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Node.js, JSP, XML/XSL, Servlets, JavaScript

Configuration Management/ Runtime & IaC tools Ansible, Terraform, API Gateway, Apigee, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Auth0, CloudFormation,

Languages/Scripts: Java, Shell, Python, HTML, CSS, PowerShell, bash Lifecycle(CI/CD)/Version Control Systems: Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, ECR, Sub Version, AWS Code Pipeline, Code Commit. Containerization tools: Docker, AWS ECS, AWS EKS,

System Monitoring Tools: Dynatrace, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, ScienceLogic, AppDynamics, Amazon CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk, Datadog.

Security Tools: Nessus, BigFix, Netskope

Repositories: Nexus, Artifactory

Ticketing Tools: ServiceNow, JIRA.

Methodologies: Agile, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certification of Advanced Cisco Voice Over IP Professionals (CCVP, CCNP) Certificate of WebLogic Administration.

Certificate of Project Management Institute (PMI)

Leadership Development for Technical Professionals. Certification of Sun Solaris 8 Administrator.

Certification of Oracle 9i Database Administrator (OCP) Introduction to Intersystem Products and Technologies Utilizing Client Technologies' Services

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Setting VA’s Technology Standards with Enterprise Design Patterns (EDP) Generative AI at VA

Security of Apps on iOS Devices

STATUS

United States citizen by naturalization.

T2S security clearance as of 03/30/2020 (OPM CASE # 192*******)

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