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YVES NJONKOU

Adamstown, MD 240-***-**** adwan0@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/yves-njonkou-389168265/ AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Outstandingly self-motivated and responsible AWS Solutions Architect with a strong work ethic and reliability. Significant hands-on experience in Cloud Architecture and Implementation with emphasis on building highly scalable, available and fault tolerance environments. Very skillful in Cost Optimization and Database Migration. Can efficiently perform in team or individually and can handle multiple projects and activities simultaneously.

SKILLS

• Knowledgeable in the selection of appropriate cloud services necessary for the design and deployment of application based on geven requirements

• Proficient in creating and executing the strategy to build mindshare and broad use of AWS with a wide range of customers and partners

• Experienced in designing and implementing public and private facing websites on AWS Cloud

• Skilled in designing, deploying and maintaining enterprise class secuirty, network and system management applications within an AWS environment

• Abilities to establish and maintain a system to ensure adherence to applicable regulatory requirements

• Fluent in French; Beginner level of Spanish

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

New York Life New York NY, Oct 2021 - Present

Cloud Solutions Architect

• Monitored existing infrastructure and architectural frameworks for performance and made changes and updates when necessary

• Served as Services Solution Architect responsible for translating client business requirements into specific systems, applications, or process designs with interlocked financial modeling for very large complex technical solutions

• Interpreted cloudwatch monitoring results and cost explorer recommendations on size to right size instances for cost optimization purposes

• Partnered with application development team to identify best of breef software and hardware solutions to implement on time and meet enterprise performance, security, disaster recovery, governance, and support requirements

• Created assessments that include cloud deployment types, cloud tier, databases, cloud services, application dependencies, disaster resilience requirements

• Designed both technical compliant and secured cloud solutions, as well as value-based, on-demand services to facilitate the effective translation and migration of projects and programs into unique and adaptive cloud environments

• Migrated customers to the latest virtual server and storage technologies to improve performance, provide highly available systems, lower total cost of ownership, and increase scalability and manageability

• Identified, evaluated, and presented technologies and services that accelerated applications delivery to the business, improved operational efficiencies, and leveraged cloud solutions to address shadow IT challenges 2

• VPC build with Private and Public Subnet couple with VPNs setup back to on premise datacenter and corporate offices

• Migration of high availability web servers and databases to AWS EC2 and RDS with minimum or no downtime

• Developed and documented security guardrails for AWS Cloud environments

• Developed and leveraged baseline and custom guardrails, policies, centralized policy enforcement, tagging policies and a well architected multi account environment Fannie Mae Washington DC DC, Sep 2020 - Oct 2021

Cloud Solutions Architect

• Kept up-to-date performance with latest industry knowledge and news to maintain and improve enterprise and business platforms

• Engaged with business stakeholders from variety of companies to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions

• Worked with business units to develop IT strategies and to improve current IT implementations

• Built and maintained relationships with key technology partners and the technical community

• Designed, built, deployed, and maintained business applications and critical infrastructure inside the AWS cloud

• Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection and changing of EC2 instance types based on resource need, S3 storage classes and S3 lifecycle policies, leveraging Auto Scaling etc

• Monitored end-to-end infrastructure using CloudWatch and SNS for notification

• Used AWS system manager to automate operational tasks across AWS resources

• Configured CloudWatch alarm rules for operational and performance metrics for our AWS resources and applications

• Performed applications installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, maintenance, and monitoring Linux servers

• Architect high availability environment with auto scaling & Elastic Load Balancer

• Perform security setup, networking, system backup and patching for both AWS, and on-premise environments

• Applied Service Control Policies to manage permissions within the organization

• Implemented Amazon Inspector as a security measure to constantly scan AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure

Edwards Lifesciences Irvine CA, Jun 2019 - Aug 2020 Cloud Solutions Architect Support

• Created and maintained a roadmap of customer enhancements according to customer decisions and directions

• Implemented IAM best practices and role-based access control

• Helped plan, develop, and deploy applications for use with Amazon Web Services cloud computing systems

• Build and configured Linux servers from scratch with type one hypervisors for virtualization and network components

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• Indentified areas where IT can support business needs and goals

• Communicated target architectural plans and company roadmaps across multiple departments

• Designed and edited enterprise architectural blueprints, along with descriptive documentations for stakeholders according to demands

• Worked with business units to develop IT strategies and to improve current IT implementations

• Developed and tweaked global AWS infrastructure, including nodes in 12 regions and 52 sub-regions Senseonics Inc Germantown MD, Dec 2017 - Jun 2019

Process QA Engineer II and Chemistry Lab Manager

• Investigated and developed processes of screening test in accordance with the FDA requirements to determine if an analyte has an interfering effect on sensor glucose measurements

• Leading continuous improvement activities in various manufacturing processes

• Participating in metrics trending activities to share with specified shareholders

• Investigating non conformances observed during R&D, design transfer and manufacturing

• Develop novel polymer hydrogel chemistries and formulations and manufacturing processes of making thereof, for increasing in vivo longevity of implantable biosensors and medical devices

• Investigated and developed processes of entrapping antioxidants, radical scavengers, and metal chelators inside glucose indicating polymer hydrogels for mitigating in vivo degradation

• Implement pre-clinical evaluation of medical devices through design of experiments, in vitro testing, device functionality testing, guinea pig studies, shelf-life studies

• Transfer and deploy technologies to external Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs) in US and UK after verification from the Pilot Line Lab at Senseonics and coordination with production facilities

• Leading Process Line Validation (OQ/PQ) and Manufacturing scale-up by co-authoring work instructions, validation plans, training and auditing technicians

• Responsible for supporting Audit process (internal & external), and develop SOPs, work instructions, batch records for Chemistry Lab

• Assisting with CAPA activities

• Lead Chemistry & Instrument Lab operation with daily calibration and troubleshooting of equipment

• Acted as document control person as needed to ensure that training where conducted on time and SOPs where properly obsoleted when needed

• Acted as Supplier Managemnt Team Member to consolidate requirements for external services and supplies Materials Modification Inc Fairfax VA, May 2017 – Dec 2017 Chemist

• Researched coating formulations with flame retardancy and durability properties

• Prepared polyelectrolyte solutions from different solvents for polymer synthesis

• Analyzed the parameters that dictate the viscous behavior of polyelectrolyte solutions

• Applied models from literature to understand the viscosity regimes of polyelectrolyte solutions

• Prepared coating solutions, padded, and cured fabrics

• Performed tests to ensure flame retardancy and durability properties of coated fabrics

• Participate in lab operation and daily calibration and troubleshooting of lab equipment 4

The University of Maryland, Chemical Engineering Laboratory College Park MD, Sep 2016 - Apr 2017 Researcher

• Exploited a dual template to develop a hybrid MFI/MOR zeolite catalyst for high separation power with acid and thermal stability combination

• Performed Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) to evaluate the efficiency of a surfactant

• Utilized Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) technique to ensure adequate morphology of catalysts

• Interpreted X-Ray Diffraction spectra for products characterization ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

JJTech Academy, Bowie, MD DevOps & Cloud Engineering Expected June 2023 JJTech Academy, Bowie, MD Cloud Solutions Architect 2019 The University of Maryland-College Park, MD B.S. Chemical Engineering 2016 Montgomery College, Rockville MD A.S. Chemical Engineering 2014 The University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon M.S. Organic Chemistry 2006 The University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon B.S. Chemistry 2004 Higher Teacher Training College, Yaoundé, Cameroon Secondary School Teacher’s Diploma 2004 CERTIFICATIONS

1Z0-067 Upgrade Oracle9i/10g/11g OCA to Oracle Database 12c Issued: Nov 11, 2020 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Issued: Mar 25, 2023 PUBLICATION

• Psorantin, a unique methylene linked dimer of vismin and kenganthranol E, two anthranoid derivatives from the fruits of Psorospermum aurantiacum (Hypericaceae), Article. Dec. 2010, Phytochemistry Letters HONORS AND AWARDS

• MC/UMD Student Summer Research Fellowship Jun 2013 - Jul 2013

• Dr. Harry Harden, Jr. Student Academic Excellence Award May 2013 & 2014

• Phi Theta Kappa, Inducted Nov 2012

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