Aman Mohindru

311 Ridgemont Ave, Rockville, MD 20850

Ph: (301) 675-8396 (Cell); (301) 947-5352 (Home)

e-mail: amohindru@hotmail.com

 

Skills Summary

Mr. Mohindru is a CLOUD technology evangelist working as a Senior Cloud Advisor for the global cloud initiatives and strategic arm of IBM. Mr. Mohindru has over 17 years of IT architecture and consulting management experience; majority of which is with the US Federal Public sector. As a trusted advisor and consultant, he has worked for various federal and state government agencies to help the IT branch chiefs and CIOs strategize their IT modernization & strategic roadmaps, tactical plans and be successful on their cloud embracement & enablement efforts. Mr. Mohindru is a thought leader with international experience in the development and execution of integrated growth and operations transformation strategies around cloud adoption and transition. In his current role, he is a results-focused executive with a proven track record for identifying and executing on large complex deal structures and assist with new business creation in both commercial and federal sector.

 

Government Clearances Held:

·               DoD Top Secret (granted on May 28, 2015)

·               DoD Secret Clearance (granted in January 2011)

·               US Government Public Trust clearance with civilian agencies

·               DHS Suitability Clearance

 

Professional Experience

Senior Cloud Advisor – IBM Cloud World Wide             06/2015 – Till Date

(IBM Corporation)

The Cloud Advisor is a foundational element of a new brand-agnostic, globally integrated cloud engagement practice within IBM, and represents an essential component of our company’s strategy to lead the industry in enterprise cloud.  IBM Cloud Advisors have the strategic mission to:   

·   Help our clients adopt and transition to the cloud

·   Catalyze widespread adoption of IBM Cloud in the market

·   Elevate the cloud acumen of other IBMers, with a focus on those in client engagement roles 

·   Grow IBM Cloud revenue

·   Maintain CXO level presence and build relationships across organizations to evangelize cloud concepts and technologies, provide strategic roadmap for cloud adoption and help in establishing a governance framework on their cloud adoption.

 

I am Working as collaborator with client executives and technical pre-sales executives within our sales teams, helping to navigate and simplify the technology and business implications of cloud for clients; and as IBM cloud representatives to ISVs, business partners, SIs and open source communities, just to name a few.

 

Cloud Architect @ US State Department             02/2015 – 05/2015

(A&T Systems, Inc.)

·   Cloud Architect at the State Department IRM/BMP/OCA division responsible for providing architectural compliance and advisory services for the projects embarking AWS GovCloud.

·   Architected various project environments within AWS GovCloud for the State Department that include VPCs, EC2, S3, Cloudchkr, EBS, ELB, RDS, VPN, ACL configurations and Security Groups.

·   Architected Service Now tool integration with AWS for automated cloud provisioning.

·   Using CloudChkr, architected and deployed charge back model for various business groups that have applications in AWS cloud environment.

·   Architected security controls for AWS Cloud environment using Splunk as SEIM along with firewalls and other security tools at the State Department.

 

Sr. Enterprise Solutions Architect / Chief Architect @ Office of Planning & Mgmt.07/2014 – 02/2015

(Imperatis Corporation)

·               Chief Architect on a project responsible for designing new network infrastructure for OPM that would be built upon the concepts of Cloud Computing, Virtual Datacenters, VMWare platform and plug into AWS GovCloud.

·               Designed new IT infrastructure for OPM that involves the consolidation of services from 5 to 2 datacenters; building virtualized IaaS offering across these 2 datacenters (Hot-Hot config.) along with leveraging the IaaS offerings from Amazon Web Services in the GovCloud environment. This entire architecture of hybrid cloud environments is built upon the concept of software defined data centers (SDDC).

·               Leveraged frameworks such as NIST SP-800, FIPS standards, FEDRAMP for Cloud Computing, DHS CDM, DHS Einstein, SDDC (Software Defined Datacenters) as a part of datacenter consolidation and IaaS.

·               Architected the migration of development and test environments from OPM on-prem to AWS GovCloud which are FIPS moderate (constraint of AWS Gov Cloud)

·               Re-architected data archiving and backup solution by replacing the tape backups with storage based backups on AWS S3 and Glacier platforms using encrypted AWS Direct Connect between on-prem and AWS regions.

·               Created security architecture for this new infrastructure with multiple layers of defense and vulnerability assessments using industry leading tools and technologies such as Forescout counter edge, Xceedium (Privilege access control), PaloAlto FW & IDPS, Gigamon TAPS, QRadar (SIEM), Rapid7, Symantec SDC (Agentless AV), Bigfix and encrypted DLP solutions from IBM.

 

Sr. Enterprise Architect/SMEII @ Department of Energy (Germantown)                        12/2013 – 04/2014

(eGlobalTech)

·               Consulted Department of Energy (OCFO) on iManage contract regarding enterprise architecture and IT strategy initiatives.

·               Consulted with Government managers to ensure agreement on tactical and strategic objectives for systems

·               Provided architectural roadmap services and assessments on existing IT infrastructure

·               Creating a migration plan for IT transformation initiatives and governance structure around IT PMO.

·               Provided business subject matter expertise on enterprise architecture for CFO applications along with HR systems using SDLC approach. This involved assisting the software development and architecture teams in the planning, initiation, design, development, testing and implementation phases of their project lifecycle.

·               Formulated and defined systems scope and objectives through independent research.

·               Project ended late April 2014 due to budget cuts and lack of work in the OCFO at DOE.

 

Principal Consultant   06/2011 – 9/2013

NTT Data Federal Services (Formerly Keane Inc.)                                                             

·               Architected sensor framework for DHS CBP (Custom and Border Patrol) OTIA (Office of Technology, Innovation and Acquisition) to integrate different surveillance tools and technologies using one unified and common approach.

·               Consulted with Government managers at NASA and it’s various centers to ensure agreement on tactical and strategic objectives for systems and related enterprise architecture.

·               Provided Process improvement and re-engineering, Enterprise Architecture and IT management (strategy) support to the Office of End User Services at DHS USCIS (US Citizenship and Immigration Services) Office of IT under the SATS (Systems Assurance and Testing Services) contract.

·               Assisted with ICAM Enterprise Architecture at USCIS which was an effort in collaboration with overall DHS ICAM initiative.

·               Delivered and executed the tasks on USCIS projects based on Agile and CMMI Level 3 for Services standards.

·               Participated in new business development at NTT Data Federal by acting as a technical liaison to the sales/relationship teams and assisting them with proposal response and capture management.

·               Architected the high level technical solutions in proposal response to the RFP as released by the federal government agencies.

·               Supported NASA HQ Office of CIO/Chief Architect to define and develop IT Strategy, Roadmaps and Enterprise Architecture.

·               Was trusted advisor and consultant to NASA Chief Enterprise Architect at HQ, Washington DC.

·               Was responsible for envisioning, defining and creating enterprise architecture and related artifacts for the office of NASA CIO and its strategic architectural initiatives.

·               Guided a team of senior architects and IT specialists at NASA HQ and its various centers to develop IT Enterprise Architecture and related artifacts in the areas of Security, Application Management, Hosting, End User Computing and Communications.

·               Socialized the concepts for Cloud computing, IT security in the cloud environment, BYOD concepts and remote working capabilities at NASA.

·               Projects/engagements ended at NTT Data Federal Services due to budget cuts at the federal clients and lack of work on systems engineering and management consulting engagements with NTT Data.

 

Associate 06/2010 – 06/2011

Booz Allen Hamilton

·               Worked as an IT Strategy and management consultant for the civilian federal agencies and Department of Defense.

·               Provided IT strategic guidance and consultation to “C level” executives in the Federal Government

·               Lead IT solution development for chasing new business opportunities along with the capture managers and business development teams by providing white papers, market research and writing technical volumes of proposal development efforts.

·               Conducted analysis, interviews and work sessions with senior leadership to provide them with Technology Strategy Documents, Risk Management Plans and Technology Strategy Roadmaps and dashboards for effective decision-making.

·               Lead the technology work stream on GSA HR LOB (HR Line of Business) project to create IT Strategy and Risk Mitigation Plan for Chief People Officer at GSA. Led the team and contributed towards creating the IT architecture to support HRLOB that is in line with the SDLC approach for the systems development and enhancement of the supporting applications.

·               Contributed towards creating the governance structure and BMO (Business Management Office) for managing the HR services provided by GSA to other federal agencies

·               Created As-Is and To-Be technical and enterprise architectures of IT systems involved in supporting HRLOB at GSA.

·               Guided and mentored less-experienced Business Systems Analysts

·               Analyzed business and user needs, document requirements, and revise existing system logic as necessary

·               Assisted in creating IT Capital Investment Plan for FY 2011 – FY 2114 to support GSA HRLOB IT systems (including their modernization, enhancements and upgrades).

·               Analyzed GSA HRLOB’s existing incomplete Enterprise Architecture artifacts and provided consultation on its further enhancement and justification towards the completion of artifacts with proper IT system mappings to the business processes.

 

Systems Architect Staff Senior 01/2010 – 06/2010

Lockheed Martin Corporation

·               Joined Lockheed Martin as an incumbent to the GSA-FAME contract when Unisys lost this contract to Lockheed Martin during the re-bid.

·               Major role included being a lead Infrastructure Architect on GSA FAS ECMS & FASeSOA projects.

·               Contributed towards the Project Management activities on FASeSOA project.

 

Senior Manager 09/2007 – 01/2010

Unisys Corporation

·               Was responsible for Project Management and Technical Operations activities on FASeSOA project at GSA FAS (General Services Administration – Federal Acquisition Services)

·               Led new architecture and IT initiatives based on SDLC approach with emphasis on the planning, analysis, testing, integration, documentation, and implementation of the new tools and technologies with custom software development.

·               Architected SOA backplane for GSA FAS at the enterprise level using SOA governance & policy management tools, Red Hat ESB and Savvion BPM (business process management system).

·               Designed and implemented COOP and DRP measures for SOA environment.

·               Architected, managed and maintained It systems built on Oracle databases, RedHat middleware and JAVA/J2EE technologies.

·               Architected Documentum 6.0 as a content management solution for General Services Administration

·               Was Technical Lead/Infrastructure Manager on implementing Documentum 6.0 at the GSA central level along with branch office caching setups at 11 regional levels.

·               Architected, managed and implemented Documentum infrastructure including document repository, FAST indexing, RPS, IRM, BOCS, Brava, Captiva and Documentum Application server.

·               Architected and tested COOP/DRP for Documentum based on application & infrastructure level failover scenarios across multiple locations.

·               Developed, documented, and revise system design procedures, functional and technical requirements, and test plans.

·               Defined the requirements of systems and created flowcharts and diagrams describing the stages, actions, and roles associated with the business processes.

·               Prepared materials for and conduct user training on new and existing systems.

 

Manager, Critical Infrastructure Protection (Unisys)                              

·               Actively involved in creating business and technical CONOPS (Concept of Operations) for new business opportunities in the area of situation management related to physical security, border security and critical infrastructure protection.

·               Architected security convergence and corelation solution related to physical and IT security for a leading financial institution in Europe (Netherlands) using Orsus Situator as a Command and Control tool, Verint Nextiva as a Video Management solution, Air Patrol as WiFi/Cell signal detector and deterant and Ccure9000 as access control system.

·               Architected and demonstrated various Video Management Solutions using IP cameras from Pelco, Axis and Verint and control softwares from Cisco (formerly Broadware), Verint, Orsus, Proximex and OnSSI.

·               Provided support to the Business Development team on chasing new opportunities as a technical liaison w.r.t. Security and Surveillance opportunities (both domestic and international). This involved pre-sales activities including working with security vendors (Cisco/Broadware, Verint, OnSSI, Orsus, Proximex and others), responding to RFPs and educating potential customers on security trends and analysis and marketing efforts.

·               Defined the requirements of systems and created flowcharts and diagrams describing the stages, actions, and roles associated with the business processes.

·               Prepared materials for and conduct user training on new and existing system.

·               Provided consultation on security convergence and correlation, video surveillance and related IT infrastructure to other Unisys practices overseas and potential customers.

·               Architected enterprise energy management solutions for new business opportunities in the area of facilities management and energy conservation.

 

Technical Services Manager                   06/2001 -08/2007

Client Network Services Inc. (CNSI)

·               Mentored and managed a team of over 33 technical professionals in the Maryland state agenceis such as SHA (State Highway Administration), OOTS (Office of Traffic Saftey), MPA (Maryland Port Administration), MAA (Maryland Airport Administration), MSRA (Maryland State Retirement Agency) and DHMH (Department of Mental Health and Hygine). These professionals include database administrators, software developers, network engineers and helpdesk professionals.

·               Architected new IT solutions and related infrastructure for above mentioned clients using industry best practices such as ITIL, Six Sigma, CMM and PMI standards.

·               Led the software development teams by practicing Agile and SDLC methodologies of software development that further led to the CMMI level 2 certification of the entire practice.

·               Lead the windows network environment feasibility studies in terms of capacity and performance planning and tunning.

·               Provided support to the Business Development team as a Technical Liaison for generating new business in the state of Maryland and earlier in the Federal agencies such as Dept of Commerce, US Census Bureau, USDA, DHS, FAA, ARNG and Amtrak. This involves chasing new business opportunities along with Business Development team by providing technical presenations and showcasing new technologies and proposed solution to the propsective clients.

·               Was activley involved in writing technical responses to the State and Federal Govt. IT project RFPs. This included  architecting, planning and proposing the network and systems architecture, integration of different technologies to propose one complete solution, providing inputs in the creation of WBS (Work breakdown Structure) and  active interaction with other contractors, sub contractors and technology partners / vendors.

 

Projects Involvement at CNSI:

CNSI Corporate Network, Rockville, MD

·               Oversaw the health of a Windows Active Directory Domain with approximately 60 Servers and over 400+ Windows 2000/XP clients.

·               Architected, implemented, managed and maintained Windows 2000/2003/2008 Active Directory infrastructure for CNSI corporate network.

·               Architected and implemented Vmware virtualization tools and technologies to host various windows 2003/20098 servers, IISv6/v7 servers for .Net applications deployments.

·               Assisted with deployment of storage area networks using brocade fiber channel switches.

·               Created, maintained and periodically updated the Disaster Recovery Plans and Backup Contigency Plans for CNSI as well as State and Federal government agencies.

·               Implemented Microsoft Sharepoint as a document management system for the internal business processes at CNSI.

·               Deploy and managed multiple nodes in a VMWare vSphere 5.0 cluster

·               Supervised backup and system administration activities on  production and development servers.

·               Controlled virus threat detection and fix, Firewall monitoring and configurations, MS Exchange e-mail servers administration, Web server control and management.

·               Initiated and managed vendor partnership programs such as Microsoft Certified Partner program, SUN I Force (State and Federal Govt) partner program and others.

 

Economic Development Administration, Department of Commerce, Washington DC

·               Implemented and maintained EDA website for the Department of Commerce, US Govt. at CNSI Rockville hosting facility .

·               Architected and configured the content management portal and website using  Expressroom Content Management System with IIS as the Web server.

·               Configured Nortel Ace Director 3 switch for web traffic load balance.

 

Office of Executive Secretariat, United States Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), Washington DC

·               Provided network and system integration support to the OES in relation to their existing infrastructure.

·               Migrated Windows NT4.0 domain to Windows 2003 alongwith the mail, database and web servers.

·               Maintained the legacy based document mangement system hosted on Novell platform with Oracle database on SUN Sparc system.

·               Installed and configured automated faxing solution using Relay Fax server on Microsoft platforms.

·               Introduced the concept of Virtual Infrastructure and server consolidation by setting up VMware software. This helped in supporting mmultiple applications and operating systems within a single physical system.

·               Evaluated various document and content management systems for the agency including Albert, Industrial Medium Expressroom, Microsoft Sharepoint and Knowledge tree.

·               Designed and implemented an automated backup and storage solution using SCSI based external HP storage drive systems and tape autoloaders.

·               Provided system and network consultation to OES for their upcoming projects and new requirements.

 

NH Vital Records, Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Concord, New Hampshire

·               Prepared system/network design and implementation strategy for New Hampshire Vital Records Information Network (NHVRIN) for the State of New Hampshire.

·               Designed and architected the infrastructure for the vital records application using MS IIS as web servers, MS SQL 2000 as database servers, Win 2000 Adv server load balancer and CISCO PIX firewall in state’s DMZ.

·               Conducted the security and penetration analysis for NHVRIN application along with writing security plans and implementation strategy.

 

Legislative Management System, Boston, MA

·               Designed and implemented the system / network architecture for LMS currently being used in the State house and hosted at ITD, Boston. It involved design and implementation of three web servers, one application server and 2 database servers in network load balancing configuration.

 

USDA-AMS (Agricultural and Marketing Services), Washington DC

·               Lead the implementation effort of first .NET application developed by CNSI with its successful deployment in production environment.

·               Architected and implemented SSL certificates and PKI on the Web and application servers using the services from Verisign.

 

USAID-OIG (Office of Inspector General), Washington DC

·               Designed and implemented server migration from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 along with its successful integration into the Active Directory structure of entire USAID Windows 2000 domain forest.

·               Planned and implemented the migration of MS Exchange 5.5 server to MS Exchange 2000 in a test environment.

·               Implemented Symantec Antivirus Corp Edition suite for OIG along with the new automated backup strategy using Veritas products.

·               Contributed towards the creation and updating of  Disaster Recovery Action Plan for OIG

 

Sr. Systems Engineer 07/2000 - 06/2001

GE Capital International Services (GECIS)

·               Network & Systems Engineer responsible for implementing technology to support Business Outsourced Processes in India from GE companies in Europe and North America.

·               Interacted with customers, identified and analyzed their business needs and prepared the technology transition plans to migrate their existing processes from overseas to India.

·               Worked a team player in setting up the call center and transition processing units for GE outsourced insurance underwriting processes.

·               Designed and implemented Citrix based solutions along with the imaging transfer solutions and workflow from FileNet. Worked on and provided solutions using Mainframe emulators.

·               Created simulated environments for testing different solutions before their final implementation in the transition of outsourced processes and further support.

·               Successfully completed the IT transition of various outsourced processes of GE Finance & Assurance (Richmond & San Rafael), GE Commercial Real Estate (Dallas & Houston), GE Vendor Financial Services, GCF U.K. (Leeds & Whitehall), EEF France (Paris), GE FLEET U.K. (Manchester), GE Card Services (Atlanta) and GE Appliances.

·               Attended a 7 days workshop / training on DMAIC (Design Measure Analyze Improve Control) Wave I & Wave III as a part of Green Belt Program of 6 Sigma Quality Standards. Performed technology transitions for the above-mentioned GE businesses on the scale of 5 to 6 Sigma.

·               Facilitated lectures and trainings on various tools such as DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan), BCP (Business Contingency Plans), FMEA (Failure Mode Effect Analysis) & BPM (Business Process Management).

 

Information Systems Administrator 02/1999 - 06/2000

Woodward Governor India Pvt. Ltd.

·               Maintained, supported and administered computer network, databases, data backup, LAN, WAN and VPN.

·               Successfully installed MS Proxy Server 2.0, MS SMS Server, MS Exchange Server 5.5, MS Windows NT 4.0 along with the company’s inventory database in MS Access 97 and 2000 & FoxPro.

·               Interacted with different vendors for purchasing network equipments and software licenses.

·               Implemented the VPN tunnel between India operations office and the corporate headquarters in Rockford, IL.

·               Designed and developed the Woodward-India website using HTML, DHTML and MS Access.

·               Created an internal operations database using MS SQL server 7.0 and supported it.

 

Key Skills & Knowledge:

Domain Expertise & SolutionsCloud computing evangelism and strategy building, IT Strategy & Roadmap development and consultation, IT Systems Architecture & Project Management, IT Security Architecture. IT Infrastructure Integration & Operations, Physical Security Architecture (Video Surveillance, Situation Management and Security Card Management Systems)

Cloud ComputingIBM SoftLayer IaaS, IBM Bluemix PaaS, IBM Bluebox, Amazon Web Services, FEDRAMP understanding; AWS Cloud tools: EC2, S3, Glacier, Direct Connect, RDS, Elastic Load Balancing, AWS IAM, AWS Cloud Watch; IBM Cloud tools: IBM Cloud Orchestrator, Gravitant (Cloud Matrix)

Open source tools and technologies – Open Stack, Cloud Foundry,

Enterprise ArchitectureFEA, DoDAF 2.0, TOGAF, Zachman Framework, As-Is and To-Be analysis, Gap analysis, AoA (Alternative of Analysis)

MethodologiesSDLC based on Waterfall and Agile methodologies

Video Management SystemsCisco Video Surveillance Manager 5.0, Verint Nextiva Video Management 5.0.2, On SSI Video Management System

Video AnalyticsAgent Vi 5.0, Object Video, Verint Nextiva Intelliflow

Physical Security Mgmt. SystemsOrsus Situator 5.0, 5.1, Proximex Surevillant

Secure Card Management SystemsANDiS SCMS 5.0

IT Security Management FISMA, FIPS and NIST standards, SEIM Solutions, DLP, NG Firewalls, Encryption, Data Forensic analysis

Network, Communications & MgmtHP Openview, VMWare Infrastructure, Microsoft Active Directory, Citrix, IBM BigFix, LanDesk, Solar Winds

Content Management SystemsMicrosoft Sharepoint Server 2003, Industrial Medium Expressroom Content Management System, Knowledge Tree, Wordpress

Imaging SystemsDocumentum 6.0, FileNet, Gigabyte Server, Connect Direct Server

Energy Management SystemsJohnson Controls Metasys NAE (Network Automation Engines)

 

 

Education:

1998 – 1999 PG Diploma in Adv. Software Design & Dev., New Delhi, India 

1994 – 1998Bachelor of Electronics Engineering, Pune University, India (US equivalent: BS Electrical Engineering)

 

Professional Certifications:

June 2015IBM Certified Cloud Solutions Advisor (Cloud Computing Reference Architecture V4)

April 2008Verint Nextiva 5.0.2 Certified Professional

March 2008Orsus Situator 5.1 Certified Professional

February 2008ANDiS Secure Card Management System Certified Professional

February 2006ITIL Certification – Foundation Level

November 2004SUN iForce Competency Certifications – Sales Foundation and Premier

April 2003Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCP ID 2931237)

 

Professional Trainings:

2015Galvanize boot camp on IBM Bluemix

2016IBM Design Thinking

2010Strategic Architecture Bootcamp on DoDAF 2.0

2008Architecting EMC Documentum Systems

2008                 Proximex Surveillint Situation Management System     

2008Orsus Situator 5.0 & 5.1 Situation Management System

2008     Verint Nextiva Video Management System 5.0.2 & 5.1

2008                     ANDiS Secure Card Management System 5.0

2008                      LEAP (Leadership Excellence Accelerated Program), Unisys

2008                      Target Account Selling (TAS) from the TAS Group, Unisys

2007                      Cisco Video Surveillance Management System 5.0

2004 - 2006           Microsoft Workshops and trainings on new Microsoft Technologies (as a part of Microsoft Certified Partner at CNSI)

1999                     DMAIC Six Sigma Training at GE Capital International Services