Ram R. Addanki.

Sr IT Director - Cloud Services/Enterprise Architecture

Professional Summary

Over 27+ years’ experience as Senior Director/CTO/Sr Cloud Architect in practicing of Software Development; Infrastructure; Cloud Migration; Modernization of legacy application; Enterprise Architecture; Governance; Data Analytics; Requirement Analysis in Information Technology.

Experience with Federal Government, Commercial – Health Care, Retail, Insurance, Telecommunication, Network Management, B2B/B2C Supply Chain Management, and Financial industries

Over 15+ years experience as an Architect to manage and develop a team that encompasses software development, technology infrastructure as service, Cloud infrastructure, data centers, and enterprise IT architecture with a focus on process improvement and flow of business value.

Attained 25% growth in revenue and customers over the ten years by analyzing business needs, collaborating with stakeholders and designing a new & transform middleware technology, cloud infrastructure, and data warehouse/ analytics initiatives that reduced operating costs and created customized programming options

Leadership/Communication:

Over 20+ experience in leading, coaching, mentoring, and managing a high performing team of IT professionals with a proven ability to influence in a matrix environment.

Excellent negotiation, vendor management, hiring and management skills.

Experience in making administrative/procedural decisions and provide guidance and leadership to professional personnel.

Strong customer service skills and staff management experience.

Strong team building skills that provide leadership and structure a group of high-performing technology professionals.

Excellent written and oral communication abilities as well as presentation skills, to articulate vision and translate complex issues into comprehensible ideas and concepts across organizational boundaries.

Highly motivated energy driven, multi-tasking, and results-oriented individual.

Cloud Transformation/ Infrastructure / Operations/Security:

Over 15+ experience in overseeing the entire technical infrastructure, to ensure acceptable quality and responsive services through management and delivery of IT infrastructure solutions, preventative maintenance, assessment, and proactive monitoring.

Engage as Strategic Partnerships Development Manager in building relationship with Amazon Web Services Partner, Partner Sales. Managers. (PSM). Sales Account. Managers. Partner Solution to leverage business and operation needs.

Practice AWS Solution architecture - EC2, S3, VPC, CloudFront CDN, Snowball, RDS, IAM, SQS, Lambda and Cloud Watch; IoT; AWS Cloud data platforms using Kafka, kinesis; Apache Spark, Ranger, Kubernetes

Create a business plan and establish goals; validate the need to solve customer problems

Practice AWS, Azure Cloud architecture to enable cloud migration programs, analyze existing application and IT services portfolios, develop assets migration, transformation and automation approach, craft implementation roadmaps.

Practice in design, prototype and deliver cloud native solutions, leverage platform rich services offering.

Design, prototype and deliver cloud agnostic Microservices architecture leveraging Kubernetes, Pivotal and other PaaS platforms

Practice in architecting the base AWS account strategy, landing zone and hybrid connectivity

Build and Practice hybrid cloud and access management model

Build and Practice scalable performance solutions, high availability, disaster recovery, single point of failures, and cluster management

Build and Practice in mission critical infrastructure services requiring stability, reliability, and performance optimization.

Build and Practice Enterprise Applications, Middleware architecture, performance analysis, and configuration, middleware products, Business Process Management, TIBCO, JBOSS, Weblogic, Websphere, WCS, MQSERIES, Solaris /Linux.

Build and Practice application infrastructure tuning for optimal performance, availability and utilization of resources

Software Development/Integration:

Over 20+ experiences lead and practice Software development, mentorship and support using J2EE/.NET Architecture, Microservices, WebServices, Salesforce CRM, Spring Boot, XML, REST, and SOAP, JMS, JBOSS, Websphere, MuleSoft, WSRR, MQ, SingleSignOn (SSO) Architecture

Expertise in hybrid integration standards and patterns; design and development of Service Oriented solution logic as web services.

Build and Practice with 12 Factor applications, Microservices

Experience with SDLC, Software Development practices, CMMI process & lifecycles, ELC (Enterprise Life Cycle), Object-Oriented design, analysis, & Programming.

Experience in design and development of business work flow, process management and content management on multiple projects.

Experience in designing effective solutions for complex programming and program debugging

Experience working with multiple database Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Aurora, MySQL, DynomoDB

Over 12+ experience in defining the EA policy, procedure, and architecture review processes. Integrate the processes related to business and IT planning and governance processes.

Experience in sizing and detailed estimates for all integration project requests.

Experience in using Zachman, ITIL, TOGAF architectural Framework; network security requirements FISMA and FedRAMP

Education

M.S, Computer Science

M.BA, Information Technology

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Virginia Tech, Pamplin School of Business

B.Tech., Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai

Professional Experience

05/11-Present Cloud Federations, DC

Clients include - Florida Blue, Intellisoft, Department of Treasury

Sr. IT Director- Cloud Transformation/Application Modernization/ Operations

As a Sr IT Director/CTO of Software Development and Cloud Transformation supported organizational changes in regard to capability development, communicated technical decisions to non-technical audiences and build consensus around them, articulated the value of foundational technology approaches to business executives, built strong stakeholder relationships and foster interaction at different levels, and estimate the financial impact of EA alternatives. Worked with wide variety of sources as well as work directly with executive stakeholders across the enterprise as well as with other partners and outside institutions. Responsible include following areas:

Software Projects (35%)

Global Lead, practice AWS Cloud architecture Solutions Migrating applications, containerization with- EC2, S3, VPC, CloudFront CDN, Snowball, RDS, IAM, SQS, Lambda and Cloud Watch; IoT; data integration/migration using Kafka, Kinesis; Apache Spark, Ranger, Kubernetes

Provide technical expertise and guidance Cloud application migration, bigdata integration, project management, and serve as an escalation resource for all technical needs.

Practice AWS services such as Lambda server less function, S3, dynamo DB, API gateway, SQS, Elastic search, IAM and other services.

Pre-Sales, re-architect the existing environment to accommodate the new AWS cloud architecture for migrating the data from on-premises to AWS cloud.

Practice and Build AWS EC2 instance, Server and network Configurations, Teradata database build, AWS Redshift database build.

Provide recommendations to improve the effectiveness of Big Data systems, descriptive analytics systems, and prescriptive analytics systems. Integrate new tools and develop technology frameworks/prototypes to accelerate the data integration process and empower the deployment of predictive analytics using Hive, Pig and Hadoop

Operations/Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture and Strategy (35%)

Lead, evolving Operations/ Application/ Infrastructure/ Amazon Web Services practice to meet customer's needs, develop best practices that add value to organization, make transition to cloud in growing existing workloads.

Provided infrastructure consolidation, transformation, and optimization for Amazon Web Services environments.

Manage, lead complex technical infrastructure projects and systems implementations, involving multiple groups and infrastructure.

Create a business plan and establish goals; validate the need to solve customer problems

Establish priorities to plan and effectively implement ongoing improvements, to include ensuring the integrity of the mission critical data infrastructure.

Direct the definition and use of standards and specifications, for all data center and IT infrastructure.

Oversee the maintenance and support of data center operations, server, infrastructure hardware, software, and applications.

Participate in the design, development, and maintenance of business resumption plans for IT Data Centers and Operations.

Develop, maintain and promote standardized enterprise IT solutions to meet complex technical requirements.

Design and document large-scale, complex enterprise IT systems and solutions.

Create technical solutions that adequately anticipate and plan for rapid and large-scale growth in equipment and costs.

Develop models for understanding and assessing unit and systems costs, as spread over a complex and multi-tiered set of technology layers and components.

Leadership, Operations, and Communications (30%)

Pre-Sales, Lead managers in developing technology road-maps, including effectively evaluating buy/build/lease decisions for on premise IT infrastructure and cloud hosted solutions.

Provide guideline and direction to technology staff, engaged in activities analyzing, installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting data center infrastructure systems, and software, in support of enterprise-wide systems, IT, and operational programs.

Manage managers and team leaders in the planning and design of high availability 24x7 data centers, and the development of procedures to ensure optimal data center practices.

Provide budget estimates and forecasts for operational use to management.

Oversee the develop and document system outage procedures for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes

Oversee the development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all business continuity and disaster recovery functions.

Lead, organize and positively influence a team of information professionals, which include Assistant Directors, Managers, Technical Professionals and others, to meet the needs of the customer community.

Make hiring decisions and recommendations for separations, reclassification recommendations, salary adjustment recommendations, handle complaints and grievances as well as generally planning, assigning and approving the work of these positions. Conduct performance evaluations and measuring on a regular basis, and other standard practices, consistent with all IT teams.

02/09-04/11 IBM/DHS, DC

Chief Architect / Director - Engineering

USCIS Transformation

Led defining application transformation and infrastructure architecture efforts for USCIS Transformation

Provided overall technical leadership across business application, infrastructure and partner with Business Management, Process Leaders, Product Architects, and Solution Delivery teams to define business and product strategy that fully leverages scalable solutions for short- and long-term business objectives.

Provided scalable performance solutions, Integration approaches and HA solutions.

Provided network security, IAM, and enabling the creation of Web Services gateways and legacy system inter-op with web applications

Oversaw scalable performance solutions, Integration approaches and HA solutions.

Managed Middleware administration for business process re-engineering and transformation of existing business architecture.

02/07-02/09 Avenion/IRS DC

Software Development Director/ Lead Software Architect

IRS Case Creation Nonfiler Identification Process

Led and Delivered solutions to modernize Nonfiler Identification Process through intelligent business scoring methods; modernize technical infrastructure and service oriented architecture methods to integrate applications.

Led, developed effort of SOA initiative to integrate core, main applications and data sources with internal and external partners with middleware products - IBM WebSphere, DataPower, WMQ, WMB. Involved in implementing system architecture for High Availability of Production systems.

Led Infrastructure modernization, System Admin, Websphere/MQ Admin for Nonfiler Identification applications; EAIB Broker application integration

Delivering status reports, projects artifacts and deliverables as per the contract

Maintained communication with the customer to manage expectations and to proactively identify potential HA issues and risks

02/02-02/07, IBM, MD

Software Architect/ Senior Development Manager

Modernized e-File (MeF) for Corporate Tax Returns

Led Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), WebServices, and middleware infrastructure efforts of for MeF (Modernized Electronic Filing) and Internet Tax Return Filing Application.

Led J2EE Application Development, Administration and Deployment of backend and portal applications for MeF, AMS, ExFirs, and Internet Filing Applications.

Involved in HA, DR solutions; configuration changes; migration of infrastructure and applications; debugging and analysis infrastructure.

02/95 to 02/02 Sun Microsystems Netscape Professional Services

Senior Tech Consultant / Software Development Lead

AOL BuyerXpert

Responsible for development of BuyerXpert, an e-procurement product which provided automated procurement and service purchases.

Responsibilities include integration, customization of requisition and order management of direct and indirect goods, ecommerce and supply chain integration, which includes integration of supplier catalogs through XML, OBI, EDI.

Architected, and integrated with LDAP servers, and customized the daily updates. Designed, and developed search engine capabilities.

iPlanet Application Server 6.0, WebMethods, Corporate Express, NES 4.0, iPlanet LDAP 4.2, SOLARIS, J2EE/JAVA/SERVLET/JSP/EJB/XML, ORACLE/DB2

Vanguard Security Services

Redesigned the Vanguard Security Services (VSS) from NAS 2.1 platform to NAS 4.0/6.0 platform.

Architect and developed security infrastructure for all vanguard internet based applications.

Designed, developed, and architected the new Vanguard Security Services using J2EE technologies on Netscape AppServer 4.0/6.0, with security plugin’s using NSAPI on Netscape WebServer,

Designed LDAP directory schema, and Entity beans

CitiBank Bill Payment

Involved in customization of iPlanet BuyerXpert/SellerXpert with Payment module.

Architect, design, and implement Payment module for CITI-commerce.

Architect API interface for Bill pay module using TIBCO MessageBroker.

Architect the Single Sign On interface for buyers, and sellers using Siteminder.

Provided the XML data interface, and mapping for EDI interface in XML.

WebMD Online Health Services

Architect, Ported, and re-designed the Online Health service application from BEA WebLogics application server to Netscape Application Server.

Implemented Cluster Services with multiple application servers/enterprise servers, and Load balancing; analyzed, and configured performance tuning.

Addressed and configured for high availability and distributed architectures.

Architected and developed Online Health Services to provide healthcare information infrastructure.

American Express Online Billing System

Involved in design, architecture of the Application Logging for American express credit card users.

Addressed and implemented performance monitoring and tuning of the Billing system to handle large number of transactions during the peak hours in clustered server environment.

Written customized adopters using NSAPI for logging functionality.

Apple Computer, Mountain View, CA

Internet Service Provider

Involved in customization, and deployment of the Enterprise Server, LDAP Server, FTP Server, and Netscape Messaging Server.

Configured, and automated 30,000 POP3, and IMAP user mailboxes. Customized the authentication to provide inactive flag for the user LDAP record.

Involved in designing extranet directory service, including definition of a schema; and architecture that can support it.

Configured the user authentication for MAIL servers, HTTP servers and FTP servers.

[C, LDAP, Oracle, Unix, X-Windows, TCP/IP]

Geico, Online Rate Quote

Responsibilities include design and development Online Rate Quote system for Geico Direct Vehicle Insurance group.

Developed application which facilitates the users to get an online insurance quote and administers them to enroll into the selected program.

[JAVA, XML, Kiva App Server(NAS), LDAP, NES, DB2/Oracle, NT/Solaris]

09/92 to 02/95 Convergys, OH Senior Tech Consultant

09/91 to 08/92 AmSoft Systems, Madrid Sr Software Engineer

05/89 to 09/91 Fujitsu, Singapore Software Engineer

Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - 2019

IBM Certified Software Integration Specialist - 2005

IBM Certified WebSphere Architect - 2002

Agile Scrum Master -2012

Technology Skills

Languages: J2EE/JAVA, Scala, Python, Angular JS, Javascript, JSP, Spring Boot, HTML, CSS, XML, C++, C, PROC*C, SQL, PL/SQL, PERL, Unix KSH/CSH, AWK, SMALLTALK, PASCAL, ASSEMBLY, C#, VC++, VISUAL BASIC, TK/TCL, Terraform, Ansible, Node.js, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot

Cloud/AWS: EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CLI, Lambda, CloudFront, SQS, AWS migration hub

Streaming/Bigdata: Apache Sparc, Kubernetes, Kafka, Hadoop, Cloudera, Apache Mesos, Kinesis, HBASE, HDFS, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig, Netflix OSS

Middleware: Websphere, Weblogics, Webmethods, JBOSS, Mule ESB, TIBCO, MQSERIES, TXSERIES CICS, BEA TUXEDO, ORBIX, SAP R/3, TopLink, iPlanet APPSERVER

Operating Sys: LINUX, Windows, MacOS, iOS, Andriod, z/OS, SOLARIS, AIX, HP-UX, AS/400

Security Tools: IBM Tivoli Identity Manager (ITIM), IBM Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), SAML, Sun One Directory Server

Infrastructure: AWS, VMWare, Azure, SUN E10K, HP 9000, IBM S/390, IBM RS/6000, IBM 370, WINDOWS SERVER

Management Tools: Office 365, ServiceNow, Jenkins, Gira, Bitbucket, Github Remedy, BMC SMARTS, Tivoli

Software: Maven, Sales Force, CRM, SVN, GIT, JUnit,, CLEARCASE, CLEARQUEST, ERWIN, MERCURY LOAD RUNNER, TeamQuest, Agile, Waterfall methodologies

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