KN

                                                           nbnkumar@gmail.com

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SUMMARY:

·                     Over Twenty years of IT experience in different verticals of Industries like Telecom, Financial, Mortgage, Auto, Transportation, Manufacturing, Insurance, Educational and Healthcare.

·                     Experience in solution technical design for solution hardware and software, hardware and software configurations, product extensions, interfaces, etc.

·                     Participate in development and maintenance of Systems Architecture and Systems Infrastructure plans.

·                     Conduct systems architecture and business information flow studies with business analysts and users.

·                     Provided integrated systems planning and in depth consultation for different enterprise applications.

·                     Recommended and documented standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics for applications

·                     Strong leadership and management of all the Infrastructure team (DBA, Network Admin, OS Admin, WAS admin) support teams for managing and configuring mission critical business applications on 24X7

·                     Coordinated teams both with Managed Services Provider/offshore application development teams.

·                     Extensive experience in optimization of enterprise applications using IBM WebSphere Application Server 4.x/5/x/6.x/7.x/8, BEA Weblogic Application server 10g/9/8, Apache, SUNONE, iPlanet and HIS WebServers,SUNONE LDAP, Oracle 10g/9ii under Windows, Solaris, AIX, Linux and ZOS environment

·                     Communicated and documented all project issues related to system architecture design, application design, development, testing, and deployment and worked with concern teams to resolve the issues.

·                     Proficient in MS Visio for creation of Infrastructure, system architecture for POC and Prod systems.

·                     Involved in thorough solution testing and deployment, including System Test, User Acceptance Test, Functional Test, Integration Test and Performance Test

·                     Worked with both application and infrastructure teams on any potential go-live issues or risks for apps.

·                     Strong Knowledge in development and implementing of common enterprise systems wide Infrastructure

·                     Strong Knowledge and experience in J2EE applications MVC Architecture and other design patterns.

·                     Define and implement infrastructure standards and educate engineers on standards, processes, tools.

·                 Partner with the application owners to develop and update comprehensive DR strategy across the LOB

·               Work with Production teams to develop specific Disaster Recovery plans that meet the overall strategy

·               Recommend specific tools strategies, and solutions for DR solutions

·               Provide technical assistance with the most challenging issues that span multiple systems, or show recurring trends that have not been successfully resolved.

·               Strong technical documentation experience as involved in documenting production environment.

·               Worked with both internal and external customers in the development, testing of enterprise applications

·               Hands on experience in product implementation expertise including system architecture design, application functionality and design, development, testing, and deployment

·               Worked with both application and infrastructure teams on any potential go-live issues or risks for apps.

·               Participate in development and maintenance of Systems Architecture and Systems Infrastructure plans.

·               Conduct systems architecture and business information flow studies with business analysts and users.

·               Provided integrated systems planning and in depth consultation for different enterprise applications.

·               Recommended and documented standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics for applications.

·                     Knowledge of Architecture UNIX servers from different vendors AIX, Solaris 9/10 and Linux Participated in early Beta Programs with IBM on WebSphere WebSphere Portal, Process and IHS

·                     Experienced in database programming (SQL, PL/SQL, Packages, Stored procedures and Triggers) and hands of experience installing, troubleshooting DB2/UDB, Oracle, Sybase and SQLServer databases.

·                     Conversant with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and RUP.

·   Hand on experience with SSO Security components like Siteminder, Oracle Identity and IBM TAM

·                     Hands on experience with .NET platform and administration of Internet Information Server (IIS) server.

·                     Good and experience with Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services implementation.

·                     Adaptive to team environment and also has the capability of completing complex tasks independently.

·                     Experience in process design, technical documentation, coordinating skills with customer groups.

·                     Strong creative/organizational vision for the Web and a strong understanding of information design

·                     Problem Determination through the log files and rectified the problems interacting with vendor support.

·                     Strong problem investigation and resolving skills in Production (got award for this from Management).

 

EDUCATION:            BS (Computer Science & Engg.), INDIA.

 

 

AWARDS:            Chrysler Bravo Certificate for Dealer Connect (B2D) Production Migration.

                                Chrysler Applause Certificate for system integration for B2B test environment.   

  Good and better performance appraisals from Chrysler Managers every year 4.5, 4.6 and 4.9/5.0 ratings

 

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: LINUX (Red Hat, SUSE), AIX, Solaris, HP-Unix, Windows

Languages:C, C++, JAVA, JavaScript, HTML, XML, UML, VC++, VB.

Java Skills:JDBC, JSP, Servlets, Java Beans, AWT/SWING, RMI, EJB, JMS, Socket (TCP/IP), Java Mail, CORBA.

Other Technologies:SUNONE LDAP Server, Siteminder Policy Server/agent, MQ Series, Tivoli Access Manager/WebSeal

Performance Tools:        Wily, JProbe, BMC, Tivoli Performance Manager, HPV

IDE:Eclipse/Rational, J-Builder, Visual Studio 

Database Systems:Oracle 11/10/9/8, SQL Server 2012/2008, DB2, Sybase

Design Tools:Rational Architect, Together Soft.

Web Servers:IHS, Apache, IIS, SUNONE, iPlanet, Tomcat, JRUN.

Application Servers:Web Logic, IBM Web Sphere 4/5.x/6.x/7/8, JBOSS.

Methodologies:ITIL, TOGAF,

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Sept ’12 – Present

Client :         CITI GROUP

Project             :       CITI GCG and ICG Business Applications

Role:       Senior Solutions Architect (Infrastructure, Datacentre and Cloud Solutions)

 

My Roles as Solution Architect for Infrastructure in both Datacentre and CITI Enterprise Cloud is the design and modification of complex, multi-system environments. In this role, the architect will identify and analyse business requirements to integrate hardware, storage, operating systems, and connectivity solutions. The role also involves creating and maintaining standards and patterns development used within the Consumer infrastructure technology space. The architect will partner with business leaders, developers, engineers, and production support teams to provide design guidelines, impart knowledge on technical trends and serve as a Subject Matter Expert on systems configuration and integration, capacity planning, performance analysis and optimization.

 

Responsibilities:

·               Develop comprehensive high level infrastructure solutions that incorporate strategic target state architecture and standards to maximize performance, capacity, and TCO

·               Support cloud computing strategy and road map development from a technical perspective, including identification of potential-obstacles and solutions regarding the use of cloud-computing in a client environment.

·               Define and lead technical proof-of-concepts and pilots to support the use of cloud computing in CITI.

·               Lead detailed analysis and planning of existing data center resources for use by cloud management solutions and cloud migration of application..

·               Establish technical architecture for client's cloud environment that addresses security, reliability, availability, capacity, latency, and other non-functional concerns.

·               Effectively develop and communicate technical solutions to unique client issues.

·               Define and plan integrations between cloud solutions, cloud tools, and client's existing infrastructure.

·               Lead implementation of cloud infrastructure, subsequent consumption and integrations.

·               Identify opportunities for new business and current client applications migration to cloud environment.

·               Consult on data security, scalability, and taking advantage of new features/releases

·               Worked with other Architects to influence and shape the strategic infrastructure target state architecture for area of influence.

·               Proactively advise tenants on proper cloud application architecture as well as application-level HA.

·               Facilitated the process of tenant onboarding, from a technical perspective, as well as ongoing migration efforts.

·               Responsible for understanding exactly what the current tenant application architecture looks like on the source platform, and translating that into an architecture that will lay across CITI Cloud environment in the most reliable and scalable fashion.

·               Design, coordinate and execute pilots to modernize customers’ Tier-1 mission-critical solutions for performance, scalability, latency, reliability.

·               Execute technical proposals for optimizing and modernizing identified workloads

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·               Ensured that the tenant understands the strengths and limitations of the platform, and work with the tenant to build out applications within the capabilities of the platform.

·               Define and implement infrastructure standards and educate engineers on standards, processes, and tools

·               Partner with the application owners to develop and update comprehensive DR strategy across the LOB

·               Work with Production teams to develop specific Disaster Recovery plans that meet the overall strategy

·               Recommend specific tools strategies, and solutions for DR solutions

·               Provide technical assistance with the most challenging issues that span multiple systems, or show recurring trends that have not been successfully resolved.

·               Strong technical documentation experience as involved in documenting production environment.

·               Worked with both internal and external customers in the development, testing of enterprise applications

·               Hands on experience in product implementation expertise including system architecture design, application functionality and design, development, testing, and deployment

·               Worked with both application and infrastructure teams on any potential go-live issues or risks for apps.

·               Participate in development and maintenance of Systems Architecture and Systems Infrastructure plans.

·               Conduct systems architecture and business information flow studies with business analysts and users.

·               Provided integrated systems planning and in depth consultation for different enterprise applications.

·               Recommended and documented standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics for applications.

·               Hands on experience in administering AIX /Linux/SUN Solaris and WINTEL servers in Data Centers.

·               Strong Knowledge in development and implementing of common enterprise systems wide Infrastructure.

·               Worked with both application and infrastructure teams on any potential go-live issues or risks for apps.

·               Configured Workload Management (WLM) using Clusters (Horizontal, Vertical) for High availability (HA).

·               Hands on experience in product implementation expertise including system architecture design, application functionality and design, development, testing, and deployment

·               Communicated and documented all project issues related to system architecture design, application design, development, testing, and deployment and worked with concern teams to resolve the issues.

·               Extensive experience in optimization of enterprise applications using IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.x/7.x,Apache, SUNONE, iPlanet and IHS WebServers, Oracle 11g/10g on Solaris, AIX, Linux environment

·               Involved in ensuring consistency of tools, standards & metrics across project teams in the company.

·               Strong creative/organizational vision for the Web and a strong understanding of information design

·               Have Strong organizational, analytical, communication, writing, presentation and prototyping skills.

·               Defined strategy level architectures and Subject Matter Expertise – business domain target and capability architectures

·               Providing technical leadership and guidance to the teams for project level architectures and design work

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oct ’10 – Sept ’12

Client :          Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company Novato, CA.

Project              :         Everest Cargo HUB applications

Role:         Senior Solutions Architect (Remote)

 

Responsibilities:

·               Strong Knowledge in development and implementing of common enterprise systems wide Infrastructure.

·               Involved in ensuring consistency of tools, standards & metrics across project teams in the company.

·               Strong Knowledge in development and implementing of common enterprise systems wide Infrastructure.

·               Worked with both application and infrastructure teams on any potential go-live issues or risks for apps.

·               Participate in development and maintenance of Systems Architecture and Systems Infrastructure plans.

·               Conduct systems architecture and business information flow studies with business analysts and users.

·               Provided integrated systems planning and in depth consultation for different enterprise applications.

·               Recommended and documented standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics for applications.

·               Hands on experience in product implementation expertise including system architecture design, application functionality and design, development, testing, and deployment

·               Technical lead and subject matter expert for the specific technology domain expertise listed prior. Responsible for design and hands-on implementation for these specific technologies.

·               Defining strategy level architectures and Subject Matter Expertise – business domain target and capability architectures

·               Providing technical leadership and guidance to the teams for project level architectures and design work

·               Ensure customer and architecture related processes and standards are followed and adhered

·               Creating architectural and technology roadmaps that result in stronger alignment with customer requirements

·               Defines the responsibilities of parties involved in the project including customers, management, project team, vendors and others affected by the project.

·               Maintains effective communication and working relationships with customers and project team members.

·               Identifies the technical approach to be used on a given project and manages implementation including development of a strategic plan, systems analysis, technical design, testing and acceptance of a system and/or application.

·               Develops system review schedules, audits and acceptance tests for each phase of a project.

·               Identifies system design alternatives, researches existing systems in the marketplace and recommends viable solutions.

·               Identifies and documents opportunities to integrate systems and resources to fulfill project requirements.

·               Prepares and presents oral and/or written technical reports and project presentations

·               Communicated and documented all project issues related to system architecture design, application design, development, testing, and deployment and worked with concern teams to resolve the issues.

·               Proficient in Visio for creation of site maps, flow diagrams, and UI specification blueprints

·               Strong creative/organizational vision for the Web and a strong understanding of information design

·               Have Strong organizational, analytical, communication, writing, presentation and prototyping skills.

 

Jan ’08 –   Sept ‘10

Client :         PepsiCo, Plano, TX.

Project              :         Geographic Enterprise Solution (GES)/VM Web Farm Solution Design

Role:         Senior Solutions Architect (Infrastructure and Datacentre)

Responsibilities:

·               Participated in POC for VM Linux environment to replace the old HP-UX infrastructure in field sites.

·               Involved in the development, specification and communication of the GES technology architecture plan, the infrastructure components required to support it, and in the integration of technology and business area architectures. 

·               Defined, executed proofs of concept testing key risk areas with applications and databases (Oracle, DB2 32 bit and Db2 64 bit) executing in a VMWare distributed environment.

·               Defined a repeatable porting process including steps and considerations for applications porting to Linux or Windows on a VMWare environment.  

·               Defined a deployment platform for shared applications and business application components packaged into a Windows or Linux build on VMWare, down to the patch and version level of each component and supporting software (i.e. Java, JRE) on Weblogic Application Server 9.

·               Delivered a work breakdown structure of the applications porting steps and strategy to the App teams.

·               Worked with the PMO office project management to define, drive and track work streams of the project.

·               Defined, assisted the porting of applications from HP-UX to SLE 10 LINUX Virtual VM environment.

·               Worked with various teams (VM, Intel, UNIX, Database) to define and execute initial testing..

·               Validate the sizing of the architecture based on the GES roadmap for both infrastructure and apps.

·               Define scope and for GES applications from HP-UX to VM Linux environment.

·               Defined the porting strategy for all GES in scope applications for moving from HP-UX to VM Linux.

·               Good understanding of virtualization concepts and VMWare infrastructure for both Linux and Windows.

·               Provided integrated systems planning and in depth consultation for different enterprise applications.

·               Worked with both application and infrastructure teams on any potential POC issues or risks for apps.

·               Proficient in Visio for creation of site maps, flow diagrams, and UI specification blueprints

·               Have strong technical experience with field Infrastructure in Frito-Lay Distribution Centers Environment.

·               Strong coordination skills as worked and coordinated with all Infrastructure engineering teams (Unix Admin’s, DBA team, Network Admin, Windows/VM Admin, Middleware admin) to setup and configure POC, and DEV/Test environments for GES applications migration from HP-UX to VM Linux/Windows.

·               Good understanding of the standards and process followed in Infrastructure teams in PBSG services.

·               Solution engineered the entire VM Web Farm in intranet for high availability/failover and performance.

·               Implemented and documented solution for the end to end for Web and SSO standard on VM Web Farm.

·               Created and documented standard build, configuration, capacity planning and best practices for Apache web server and SSO login web server instances on SLE 10 on VM Web Farm for both intranet and DMZ

·               Worked with ISG team for installation, configuration and documenting CA Site Minder Webagent, Login server, Web Options pack and Servlet Exec in VM guests in both intranet and extranet (DMZ) networks.

·               Worked with VMWare team to setup VM guests in both Plano and Winston datacenters for Web Farm.

·               Worked with networking team to configure Virtual IP’s for apache instances to test them from DMZ.

·               Have Strong organizational, analytical, communication, writing, presentation and prototyping skills.

 

Jan ’02 – Dec ‘07

Client :          Daimler Chrysler Corp, Auburn Hills, MI.

Project              :          B2B/B2C/B2D/B2E and other applications

Role:          Solutions Architect (Infrastructure and Datacentre)

Responsibilities:

·               Involved in the development, specification and communication of the Chrysler’s technology architecture plan, the infrastructure components required to support it, and in the integration of corporate and business area architectures.

·               Participate in development and maintenance of Systems Architecture and Systems Infrastructure plans.

·               Conduct systems architecture and business information flow studies with business analysts and users.

·               Provided integrated systems planning and in depth consultation for different enterprise applications.

·               Recommended and documented standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics for applications.

·               Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.

·               Debugging of the application problems while developing the application

·               Hands on experience in product implementation expertise including system architecture design, application functionality and design, development, testing, and deployment

·               Communicated and documented all project issues related to system architecture design, application design, development, testing, and deployment and worked with concern teams to resolve the issues.

·               Hands on experience with IBM Rational Architect, Modeler and Application Developer software’s.

·               Installed, configured and maintained Websphere appserver in Dev, Test, Stage and Prod environment.

·               Hands on experience with Tivoli Access Manager and Tivoli webseal for authentication and security.

·               Worked with both application and infrastructure teams on any potential go-live issues or risks for apps.

·               Configured Workload Management (WLM) using Clusters (Horizontal, Vertical) for High availability (HA).

·               Hands on experience with WebServers Apache, SUNONE, iPlanet and IBM HTTP Server

·               Worked with both application and infrastructure teams on any potential go-live issues or risks for apps.

·               Strong Knowledge in development and implementing of common enterprise systems wide Infrastructure.

·               Worked with both internal and external customers in the development, testing of enterprise applications.

·               Hands on experience in administering AIX /Linux/SUN Solaris and WINTEL servers in Data Centers.

·               Have strong technical experience in Middleware Infrastructure in Chrylser Data Center Environments

·               Published and Implemented Security policy and hardening rules and features for WebSphere App server.

·               Provide architecture review for client's applications, documents and install processes.

·               Provide clients with recommendation and systems best practices documents.

·               Have Strong organizational, analytical, communication, writing, presentation and prototyping skills.

 

Jan ’00 – Dec ‘01

Clients:     AT&T, Oakton, VA. & Fannie Mae Corporation, Herndon, VA.

Role:       Web Administrator

 

July ‘97 – Dec ’99
Client: Quant Systems Inc, Charleston, SC.

Role: Senior Programmer/Analyst