RAMANI AKILESWARAN

Ashburn, VA adk6ox@r.postjobfree.com Mobile 540-***-****

CAREER SUMMARY

Goals-driven senior IT professional with over 15 years of experience in successfully delivering cloud solutions in information technology and business projects across varied business organizations. Seeking a management role to deliver measurable results aligned with organizational/client expectations.

KEY SKILLS AND STRENGTHS

Cloud Architect – clear understanding of AWS architecture and services, basic AWS architecture best practices

Evaluate database structural requirements by analyzing current systems and DB operations with the client.

Maintain database performance by proactively identifying application development and production issues, and bring about a successful resolution to those issues.

Leadership - Goals-driven leader adept at leading/managing cross-functional programs in a broad range of business and technology project initiatives.

Knowledge base - Strong understanding of data analytics, cloud architecture, application development and project / business management methodologies.

Organizational and multitasking skills - Able to lead teams, plan, prioritize and direct multiple projects simultaneously to meet organizational goals.

Service orientation - Demonstrated ability to communicate and work with teams across business, technology and external business partners.

IT SKILLS / TOOLS

AWS Cloud Solutions – manage AWS platforms and services

DBMS- Oracle, MySQL, Netezza, Redbrick, Cassandra

BI - Business Objects, Cognos

Languages - SQL, PL/SQL, PHP, Perl, UNIX shell scripts

Data Modeling - ER Studio, ERWin, Visio, SQL Developer

ETL Tools - Ab Initio, Informatica, Data Stage

Project Management – Scrum, Agile framework, JIRA, MS Project, Microsoft Office suite, SharePoint

Certifications – AWS SysOps Administrator (2021), AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2019), AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2019), Certified Scrum Master (CSM- 2018), Oracle Certified Professional (DBA)

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Dataonez LLC. – DOL, Technical Lead 11/2017 – Current

Implemented AWS services like VPC creation, EC2, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudTrail in the LCA Data Warehouse and reporting systems migration to the AWS.

Designed and implemented the Cloud Architecture and Cloud services according to the client Infrastructure and software needs.

Designed and implemented security model with NAT gateways and bastion hosts.

Configured and implemented scalable High availability and fault tolerant system.

Designed and implemented AWS storage requirements with life-cycle policies for a reporting data application.

Managed IAM for access policies for user groups, user roles, MFA to provide additional security.

Worked with several third-party vendors to support our overall cloud initiative.

Implemented the monitoring and alerts of production and corporate servers using Cloud Watch service.

Created EBS volumes for storing application files for use with EC2 instances whenever they are mounted to them.

Created RDS instances to serve database management tasks such as migration, and responding to client data requests.

Created snapshots to take backups of the volumes and also images to store launch configurations of the EC2 instances.

Cyber Solutions Inc. - GCE, Inc., Project Manager 04/2013 – 11/2017

Develop business and technology management framework to on-board new clients to provide accounting and financial services to small businesses.

Provide customized technology solutions to small business clients by deploying financial accounting software as a service and roll out newer versions seamlessly.

Conducted daily scrum meetings to manage and track project status to achieve project goals and objectives. Reported project status to senior management via weekly status reports, and a sprint demo at the end of each sprint.

Conducted Retrospective meetings at pre-defined checkpoints and at the end of each sprint cycle, and used the feedback to make improvements in upcoming sprints.

CT Solutions, Inc, Project Manager 10/2011 – 03/2013

Managed the development, integration, testing and implementation of technology solutions for our clients, supported by a diverse technology team, utilizing quantitative and qualitative data analysis.

Worked with the data engineering, quality assurance, user interface, design, and marketing teams to define project goals, write statement of work (SOW) and implementation methodologies.

Led risk assessment sessions with stakeholders to develop risk mitigation plans and maintain the course of the project. This resulted in reduction of process interruptions by 50 percent.

SAIC, Data Warehouse Consultant 05/2010- 09/2011

Performed business analysis, reporting and fine-tuned the data mining and migration processes for SAIC’s federal clients.

Defined and developed systems requirements, including development and delivery of system requirements specifications (SRS) documents, and requirements traceability matrix (RTM) documents. Co-ordinated the task of translating project requirements into key performance indications (KPI).

Conducted review of the highly visible United States Marine Corps strength reporting project and proposed solutions to enhance the data mining and reporting capabilities.

Improved the data migration from the legacy system to an Oracle database. Identified and implemented steps to reduce processing time by half, which resulted in enhanced system performance and reduced nightly system downtime by 30 percent.

AOL Inc., Senior Systems Analyst 02/2004- 01/2010

Led the Enterprise Data Warehouse data reporting efforts for search, advertising, and member management applications. Collaborated with various teams in the design, implementation and optimization of the online analytical processing (OLAP) of advertising data; extraction, transformation & loading (ETL); database optimization.

Managed the daily Adtech feed loading into the Enterprise Data warehouse and reporting to all the stakeholders. Coordinated multiple reporting SLAs for the projects.

Coordinated with development and infrastructure support teams to review system issues, metrics, software releases, regulatory compliance assessments and remediation.

Communicated regularly with senior management and business owners regarding system status, outages, and risk mitigation efforts.

Keane, Inc., Boston, MA, Senior Consultant 04/2001- 04/2002

Provided database development, testing, and operational support to underwriting, claims and reinsurance business units

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA), George Washington University, Washington, DC

Master of Science (MS), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Bachelor of Science (BS), University of Mumbai, India

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