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AKIM TOURE CLOUD ENGINEER
**********@*****.*** 301-***-**** linkedin.com/in/akim-toure-49866016b EDUCATION
Bowie State University
BS Computer Technology
GPA: 3.34/4.0
Certification: PCEP Python Programmer; Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Professional; Amazon AWS Solution Architect ; CompTIA A+ Certification EMPLOYMENT
Medstar, Cloud Engineer, Silver Spring, MD Dec. 2018 - Current
• Deployed and managed solutions efficiently on the private or public cloud and ensure they meet established SLAs
• Analyzed and monitored performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance
• Implemented and managed continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
• Developed and maintain storage platform life cycle management methodology, inclusive if creating and updating storage and backup platform documentation
• Developed continuous delivery pipeline in cloud environment.
• Used tools such as Cloudwatch and Cloudtrail to monitor Cpu metric and Api calls made in the console.
• Created and managed Vpc environments in order to gain full security capabilities for resources inside the cloud.
• Configured Route53 to support web servers worldwide.
• Maintained and provision Linux and windows servers.
• Backed up data through Cerner for the tc51 project.
• Plan, design and implement network management systems to monitor, diagnose, control and measure the performance of IaaS, National Gallery of Art (NGA), AWS Cloud Architect/Consultant, Washington, DC June 2016 - Oct. 2018
• Established and actively managed executive-level relationships with key customer stakeholders (LOB and IT)
• Developed deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates
•Applied technical knowledge to architect solutions to meet business and IT needs •Created Data Platform, AA/AI roadmaps, and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key analytics and AI technologies where appropriate
• Develop guidelines and procedures for LAN/WAN management including process and efficiency improvement
• Involved in designing and deploying a multitude application utilizing almost all the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling
• Created VPC to host database and web server with private & public subnets, network access control list, routing tables, and bastion host
• Performed functions to support, performance analysis, troubleshooting and capacity planning
• Provision Cloud Formation template to trigger lambda function in order to support auto scaling groups to replace instances that failed health checks
• Ran bootstrap scripts on Linux servers to automate AWS EC2 deployments for our application server WWSC, Hardware Technician, Laurel, Md Aug. 2015 - May 2016
• Installed proprietary drive images and completed compatibility testing
• Configured and networked over 100 PCs and laptops
• Repaired basic and advanced PC issues such as program errors, viruses, malware, spyware, security, OS issues and hardware malfunctions
• Re-imaged over 1000 computers.
• Fixed and installed networks, transferred information, created and customized computers from scratch depending on the needs of the customer and budget.
• Created tickets and assigned them to correct groups for troubleshooting.
• Provided assistance with asset management.
• Identified PC hardware and software issues and applied troubleshooting skills to resolve.
• Troubleshooted and configured network settings, CMOS, system start-up and log-on problems
• Created and deployed images onto networked clients or virtual workstations. Operating System: Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Red hat, Unix), Windows, MacOS, Cloud Platforms: AWS, Oracle, OpenStack, Azure, Version Control: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, Database Systems: SQL Server, MySQL, SQL Server, NoSQL, Mongo DB, Cassandra, CI and Build Tools: Jenkins, ANT, Maven Aws Services: Route53, CloudFront, CloudFormation, lambda, ELB, EBS, S3, VPC, EC2, RDS, IAM, SQS, SNS, Serverless architecture. Testing and ticketing tools: SonarQube, JIRA, ServiceNow, Application/Web Apache application Server, IoT, Containerization Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Languages/Scripting: Python, Bash, Powershell, HTML5, CSS, SKILLS