Rajesh Kumar                                

 

 

ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS / TECHNOLOGIES   Business Solutions: Human Services Sector Case management system Financial Sector Retails Business system ReAccounting system Policy admin system Petroleum Sector Personnel Mgmt. system Maint & Inspection info system Contract Management system COTS Salespage - CRM Oracle Financials – GL/ AP/ AR   Technologies: Cloud:  Amazon (AWS) / Rackspace / Azure / Office 365 / Salesforce / Google Apps. Virtualization: VMware / Xenserver/ OVM / Hyper V, Private Open Cloud, Linux; VDI: vmware view / XenDesktop; Remote Access: Xenapp/ view. Audit/Security: DMZ, VPN, NAT, Pentest, NetMon, Wireshark, Backtrack/Kali Linux; Network: Firewall, vLAN, SubNet, DHCP, NIS, Secure FTP. RDBMS: Oracle DB, Oracle RAC Storage Management: Tintri, EMC VNX, Clairion CX500 SAN & HP, MSA SAN RAID Config, Backup Mgt.: EMC Networker, CA’s Arc Serve, Backup Exac; Messaging Systems: MS Exchange Server, Outlook Web Access, Fore Front, EMC Archiving. BB servers. MS Technology: Biztalk, TFS , SQL Servers, SharePoint, Project server;   EDUCATION: BS Electrical Engineering, PMP, TOGAF,ITIL, VCP, RHCSA, OCP

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY Expert in steering enterprise technology direction, Transform technology landscape, technology selections; Design & build - secure scalable, resilient, highly available IT infrastructures (at-premises, co-location or in-cloud) for  Enterprise solutions  & Business apps, Enterprise architecture integration, Hands-on with leading projects like building two infrastructures from ground up, lead migration of two IT infrastructures for Clarendon Insurance, NY & Allianz Global, NY. Upgrade & migrate enterprise applications/ databases. Highly motivated in understanding & contributing to overall business strategies, aligning IT infrastructure & transforming enterprise technology architectures. Believe in leadership by Influence, interpersonal relations, team work & individual recognition.   SKILLS INVENTORY •  Business Strategy, IT strategy, building, identifying bottlenecks, optimizing technology architectures, Business processes analysis, solution development, system Integration, benefit analysis. •  Execute project management lifecycle Change management, migration planning and Operation management. •  Application development tools, Software development lifecycle. •  Providing security by design and following best practices, conform to statutory regulations like HIPPA, HITECH,  Sarbanes–Oxley act, Periodic  Third party penetration testing , Black box testing, white box testing, Application security assess by Open Web Application Security Project. •  Document current technology architecture state, Identify bottlenecks, performance monitoring of enterprise wide applications, supervise security assessment, HIPPA readiness assessment, enterprise security policy and venerability remedial plan. •  Perform role as Infrastructure Engineer, Oracle Apps & Core DBA, sysadmin.     EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS •   Building best in class, agile infrastructure at Allegheny County, Identifying infrastructure bottlenecks, formulating DR Plan, technology solutions for growing client expectations within budgets & timelines. •   As the Sr. Infrastructure Engineer at Allianz Global, Prepare and execute migration plan IT application Infrastructure, validate infrastructure by performing consistency and reliability tests, Prepare fall-out strategy. •   Lead a project  - IT strategy, building new infrastructure, virtualization, VDI, Remote access, apps migrations, Infrastructure migrations, segregating IT services, preparing business recovery strategies and plans in disaster scenario, IT services for extension office. Properly and effectively led in planning, designing, and implementing in each phase of the project. •  Highly trained and certified in a wide variety of technical environments including PMP from PMI, TOGAF from Open Group, ITIL, VMware Certified Professional, RedHat Certified System Admin, an Oracle Certified Professional and a certified MCITP: Enterprise Administrator.

 

CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

 

Infrastructure Architect 

Allegheny County, Aug 2012 to present

 

Main system:  KIDS (Key Information and Demographics System) application is a fully integrated child welfare case management application that supports the records management process from the initial reporting of allegations of child abuse or neglect through the delivery and payment of services, Integrated with Courts & Jail systems. .NET based solution is using Oracle database in background, Cognos for BI, dashboard & reporting, Datastage for ETL, Biztalk for application orchestration (EAI)

 

·   Enterprise Capacity, Identifying bottlenecks for computing, networks, storage and applications resources.

·   Transform existing Database infrastructure to Oracle 10g to 11g (64 Bit), OEM 12c,  Config validation by Oracle

·   Building enterprise monitoring framework to capture more scientific.

·   Manage application performance expectations by implementing scientific approach to measure performance.

·   Making enterprise application more scalable by adding additional app servers, state servers and AppFabric servers.

·   Build redundancy for Disaster scenarios, Disaster plan.

·   Cloud initiatives – Use of S3 for public documents, EC2 for external monitoring.

·   Securing Web applications – OWASP assessment & conducted remedial actions discussions with developers.

·   Optimize solution TFS, Build process & deployment process.

·   Application Infrastructure improvements by implementing AppFabric cache server.

·   POC Design, test & implement Load balancer for applications.

·   Monitoring & capacity planning.

·   Infrastructure design, support, troubleshooting.  

·   Implement monitoring tools – vFoglight, Solarwinds, Ignite for Oracle.

·   Planning Disaster recovery philosophy & detail plan.

·   Project management.

 

Sr. Infrastructure Consultant

Allianz Global Investors, Jan 2012 to Aug2012

 

Main Business system: Customized Salespage solution is used for CRM; SAP BI for Reporting, PERL based ETL & application orchestration between different partners. Front end is extended for field executives on Blackberry, IPad using Pyxis mobile platform.

 

·         I had opportunity to identify infrastructure dependencies, inter connections main business system, and  provide  one-go migration project plan for  on-premises Datacenter to Co-location datacenter, validate performance of newly prepared datacenter, suggest system improvements, lead efforts within Retail business group &  co-ordinate with other  agencies & execute project plan model.

·         Root cause analysis for performance bottleneck affecting business of AGI & PIMCO, testing feasibility of using Apache as load balancer.

·         Segregating Business systems of AGI & PIMCO, Building completely new business systems for PIMCO. 

 

 

 

Infrastructure Engineer

Clarendon Insurance Group, Jan 2007 to Jan 2012

 

Clarendon Insurance Group, New York was subsidiary of Hannover Re, Germany, maintaining business for casualty, specialty reinsurance.  At Clarendon, I was given responsibilities for building & to steer IT strategy for entire IT infrastructure, IT services, disaster recovery center & Office extension.

 

·   Decision deliberation In-house vs. co-location datacenter. 

·   Prepared project plan for migration of in-house datacenter to co-location.

·   Risk Identifications and prepare strategies to mitigate risks. Prepare Impact plan for each IT services.

·   Identified requirements at co-lo facility. Prepare co-lo facility, identify infrastructure and apps dependencies, segregation of essential components, complete virtualization using vsphere viz. DMZ components, upgrade vsphere 4 to 5, Decommission not-in use components.

·   Prepared plan for IT facilities for new office, buildup new domain controllers, servers etc.

·   Prepared project plan for implementing of new datacenter, Office migration.

·   Networked convergence with New Parent Company, Domain Trust.

·   Provided Project Documentation and handing over.

·   Prepared and executed project for segregating IT services, detail engineering for Intel IT infrastructure.

·   Prepared comparative reports for vendor, technology/hardware selections.

·   Prepared projected IT budget plan, periodic analysis of actual vs. planned expenditure.

·   Built Human resource – recruitment, training need identifications, yearly evaluations.  

·   Planned, designed, and implemented DR center and extension office in Orlando, Fl.

·   Planned, Designed, and Implemented remote access solution using Citrix/XenApp.

·   Prepared, designed, and implemented server consolidation plan using vmware.

·   Plan, Design & Implement remote access solution using citrix. Prepare new servers, publish apps, citrix WI, Citrix access gateway cluster, apply SSL certificate, Integrate with RSA secureID

·   Build infrastructure for Server consolidation using VMware’s ESX /ESXi /vSphere,  Upgrade from 4.0 to 5.0 / patching, HA Cluster, resource sharing, storage configuration,P2V or V2V conversion; configure data recovery appliance for VMs backup, distributed virtual switch; Setup test environments using VMware, Linux Xen, Xenserver, Hyper-V, OVS.

·   Installed & configure vmware infrastructure tools like vmware Management Assistant, vmware studio, configure virtual appliances like vyatta, openfiler, freenas, web load balancer etc.

·   Proficient in vmware CLI, vmware powerCLI, vmware workstation, player, vmware server, setup successfully vmware SRM in test environments.

·   Build, maintain & Upgrade VDI using vmware 4.0 View connection servers, Transfer server, Security Servers.

·   Configure vcenter, config of systools, composer, view server, standby view server, Transfer server, Security Server, Configure RSA SecureID. Build GOLD Images.

·   Configure desktop provisioning, upgrade vmware VDI infrastructure from 4.0 to 4.5.

·   Tested VDI with wyse/hp thin client.

·   Prepare Remote Access plan for building Citrix HA Farm for production & business continuity center.

·   Design remote access solution using  - Citrix presentation servers & XenApp.

·   Configure MS terminal server, Create Group Policy for managing terminal server licenses.

·   Installation of Citrix presentation server/ Xenapp, Citrix Access Gateway, Upgrade Citrix to XenApp 6.0, Configure citrix receiver for enabling devices like iphone, ipad, android phone/ tablets.

·   Terminal server troubleshooting, Citrix troubleshooting, aligning citrix policies per business needs. Adding RSA SecureID to citrix interface.  Tested with thin clients.

·   Implemented pilot deployment of XenDesktop.

·   Prepared Disaster recovery plan, periodic testing of DR.

·   Collected requirements from user base, and coordinate with accounting.

·   Procurement – Prepare bill of material, scope of work, monitor progress, expedite, problem resolutions, follow up with service providers viz. Cogent, Verizon, Cable vision, pas solutions.

·   Conducted weekly progress meetings with vendors and accounting.  

·   Provided Infrastructure on project by project basis. Provided Risk Identifications and prepare strategies to manage / mitigate risks. Updated management on progress of projects and activities. Coordinated with developers for software release / patch.

·   Interfaced ISP and other outsourced service providers.

 

Systems Manager

IndianOil, May2000 to Dec2006

 

·   Maintained / deployed and administered in house systems and applications on Oracle Databases / Forms / Reports. Sysadmin roles on Windows/Linux platform.

·   Contract management – Define scope of work, Invited vendors for Request for Offers, Offer evaluations, Comparison, Issue of Work orders, contract monitoring, closing. 

·   Installed, Configured, and provided Maintenance and administration of Oracle RAC Database server (10.2) on for in-house Web based application - PMS (Personnel Management system).

·   Managed teams for 2 - 8 members’ mix of veterans and fresh graduates.

·   Configured of OEM 10g, Configured Data Guard - Standby Physical database for Business continuity center.

·   Planned contingencies, security, risk assessment, patch upgrades.

·   Coordinated with the team and Oracle Support for troubleshooting the database bugs/issues.

·   Tested database refresh from production databases for development environment.

·   Managed Oracle database administration function involving resolution of database start-up problems; managed disk space, user profile creation and user rights management.

·   Implemented of backup and recovery, monitoring procedures, on-going support and tuning.

·   Migration of databases from Solaris to Windows.

·   Engaged to enhance and create this oracle based application driving the employee performance ratings and credential for compensation/bonus processes and also for their future promotional growth.

·   Upgrade database from Oracle database from 8i to Oracle 9i.

·   Created new databases and users, setup RMAN backups, Export and other monitoring scripts.

·   Defragmentation of tables and indexes for improved performance and effective space management.

·   Managed database security by Creating and assigning appropriate roles and privileges to users depending on the user activity, Application tuning, maintaining documentation and capacity planning.

·   Developed oracle backup and recovery strategy and scripts.

 

Project Engineer

IndianOil Petroleum Refinery, Jan 1996 to May 2000

 

·   Offered services as the Project Engineer for installation of 2x20MW Electric gas turbine for power plant.

·   Provided electrical engineering services for in-house projects, Drawings using AutoCAD.

·   Provided Project supervision for building Office Building for Project and training department. 

·   Setup Project planning Cell for petroleum refinery construction projects like secondary processing units, hydro-cracking units, hydrogen unit, sulfur recovery units.

·   Administered Project Management, Contract management using Primavera software, dbase, MS access. 

·   Project Engineer for installation of HVAC for control room, on-line UPS.

·   Post project refinery-wide Power/ Steam LOAD shedding plan, electrical fault study.

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