KISHORE KAKANI – PMP, ITIL, MBA

23100 Birch Mead Road, Clarksburg, MD 20871

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

 

·               Accomplished technology driven professional and IT leader with experience of over twenty one years - spanning architecting cloud solutions including data architecture, system infrastructure, network, configuration in cloud and leading related managed services

·               Handled large to medium size program/projects with budgets over $5-$18Million and established new processes during the course of project to facilitate smooth execution. Generate ideas to create tools and techniques to increase productivity. Establish process capability baselines to measure project success

·               Experienced leader in designing and managing infrastructure and enterprise computing strategic solutions related to virtualization and cloud solutions (database/application engineering solutions for mid-range, IFL, and Amazon AWS– IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS based solutions)

·               Executed strategies to realize cost savings for managed services for various projects between $4-$9Million

·               Executive MBA candidate at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University)

 

COMPETENCIES

 

Cloud Infrastructure Architecture/Portfolio Management

Cloud-Compute-Network-Database-Infrastructure-LAMP Expert. Managed Scope, Schedule, budget for various cloud execution projects. Experienced leader in development projects for both waterfall and agile methodologies. Ability to examine functional needs, oversee requirements planning/analysis, resource planning, providing technical architecture, and project management.

 

Strategy and Process Improvement

Create and communicate program vision and strategy that aligns to the IT and business goals. Improve operational processes to enhance productivity and efficiency of the systems and personnel by demonstrating commitment to Excellence

 

Business Solutions (Business Architecture, Process Management, Modeling and Integration)

Drive large business process changes; translate business concepts to viable Systems Approaches, Systems and Functional Analysis, Systems Integration & Management and Process Improvements.

Team Leadership and Mentoring

Strong at initiating and managing change, Visionary and good at conceptualizing and collaborating on new ideas, Determine and manage work and project commitments, create a “work as one team” environment, articulate priorities and help facilitate the growth of each team member

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Amtrak, Washington, DC2011 - Present

Senior Principal, Sr. Enterprise Cloud Architect

·   Continuously research new cloud technology services and solutions that could drive business strategy, enhance business capabilities, create new business models, and drive business innovation

·   Built and configured a virtual data center in the Amazon Web Services public cloud and developed an Enterprise-wide, unified, strategy for transitioning Enterprise IT services to cloud-hosted services. Oversee, manage, and administer Cloud computing initiatives

·   Developed cloud resource provisioning and management standards, processes and procedures

·   Coordinated work streams with the technical and security teams to develop and implement best-practices for securely operating Enterprise IT resources in the cloud

·   Technical lead to design, plan, negotiate, and execute enterprise level applications/databases from traditional data centers to cloud infrastructure, including implementing hybrid cloud solutions

·   Lead the effort of Database Replication on “oracle golden gate” platform to replicate database from on premise at Amtrak to virtual data center at AWS. This was done as part of DR strategy solution

·    Install and configure Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module to encrypt and send Oracle RMAN backup files directly to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for database backup files storage and retention 

·   Undertaken various POC requirements to deploy database platform on Open shift, Amazon EC2, and created optimized cloud solutions

·   Designed cloud infrastructure solutions on Amazon AWS-EC2, VPC, and Virtualization, and VMware ESx server Infrastructure to design/build DEVOPS solutions 

·   Developed strategy through technical assessments and cost-benefit models.  Devised and implemented cloud based infrastructure solutions to improve managed service delivery process and reduce costs

 

Hewlett Packard, Washington, DC                                                                  1998 - 2011

Senior Consultant, Operations Team Leader

·   Worked on a global project for a client to implement and support optimized operational model with a budget of $5 million

·   Design, monitor and report KPI’s on database and server availability to platform services. Plan, manage, and coordinate work activities between application teams, business teams, and datacenter support personnel

·   Facilitate troubleshooting and maintaining via OEM Grid Control 10g,11g and 12c in a Solaris cluster database environment and Linux HA cluster environment

·   Coordinate and lead disaster recovery testing exercises to guarantee business continuity

·   Developed testing and implementation plans to implement “Zero-downtime” bi-directional replication for data center migration and 11GR2 upgrade projects

·   Directed enterprise-wide Division under Centralized Shared Managed Services with budget of $8M+.  Led a team of 50+ personnel including in-house, onshore and offshore teams

 

Tata Consultancy Service (TCS), India                                                                 1994 - 1998

Information Specialist

Product Support

·   Led project to implement a new RDBMS system for Bell Atlantic. Led in creation and maintenance of oracle databases, installation and integration of custom 3^rd party application packages

·   Provided customer Support, Product Support, after sales support, customer interaction and solving user’s problems. Assisted in Oracle database support, performance tuning, CAD/CAM support of UNIGRAPHICS (product), bench marking the product, implementation of product at the client place and customizing the product to users’ requirements

 

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL

 

·   Executive MBA, KELLOGG School of Management, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

·   MBA, CHANCELLOR UNIVERSITY, Jack Welch Management Institute, Cleveland, OH

·   Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BS), SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY, India

·   AWS Cloud Certified Associate Architect

·   PMP: Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute

·   LEAN: Lean training complete with the Shingo Prize

·   ITIL V3: Information Technology Infrastructure Library foundation certificate in IT service management

·   HP Excellence Award: Given for demonstrated value provided to two Fortune 50 clients