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FAIZA KHAN 

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faizakhan.architect@gmail.com
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Resume Headline: FAIZA KHAN - Technical Architect-Manager

Resume Value: pqfcne4k4gqfzgrv   

  

 

FAIZA KHAN

 

Middleware, Infrastructure & DevOps Administrator/Architect   |    Current Location: Dallas, TX

Mobile: 214-683-7846      |    Email: faizakhan.architect@gmail.com

 

Track Record

 

·   Over 8+ years of diverse domain expertise in IT Industry

·   3+ years of experience as Architect and Technical Manger– Implementation, Integration & Technical Architecture for Application, Database and Infrastructure

·   4+ years of FMW Apps Administrator & System Integration expertise on Weblogic Server, Oracle SOA suite, OSB, AIA, B2B, BAM, and HTTP Server platforms over cluster env

·   1+ years of Oracle Applications/Core/RAC-ASM DBA expertise in large prod clustered env

·   Experience in full-cycle implementation, upgrades, configuration, administration & troubleshooting of Oracle 10g iAS, Oracle 10g/11g SOA Suite, Oracle 11g Weblogic server, Oracle AIA 11g and Oracle Service Bus 11g over cluster environment; Oracle Database – 9i,10g,11g; Oracle Applications 11i & R12 over multimode; Oracle EM Grid Control 11g, SQL Server 2012

·   Implementation of Continuous Integration (CI) tool for build, deployment and testing automation using various CI DevOps tools: Octopus, BuildForge,TeamCity etc

·   Setup and configuration of Linux/Windows Apps/DB/WebServers over Azure and AWS

·   Managed 2 data center migration, consolidation and standardization projects

·   Business Domain knowledge in MRDL, Hospitality, Telecom

·   As Project Lead, successfully managed large geographically disbursed teams & projects for mid to large size organizations and completed variety of BI engagements ranging from Development, Maintenance, Enhancements, POCs, Migrations, Upgrades, Reverse Engineering, Environment Assessment and Tool Evaluations

·   Managed multiple concurrent projects ranging from $100k to $3M in budget. Guided stakeholders in gathering technical project requirements from business owners, writing project charter, estimating preliminary budgets, scope & timeline, functional specifications, vendor management including, but not limited to, invoice & budget management, resource roles & responsibilities, Task allocation & Delegation between onsite - offshore & project forecasting

·   Proficient on Agile, Scrum and Waterfall Project Frameworks/Methodologies and managed & executed FMW projects with both methodologies

·   Extensive experience on defining IT standard processes like ITIL, ISO 20022 for Incident, Problem, Change Managements and governance models

 

Technical Strengths

 

Scripting Languages

HTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, Shell Scripts, ANT, WLST, WSDL

Database Servers

Oracle Database Release 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g, Microsoft SQL Server 2012/2014, Mainframe, Microsoft Access

Operating Systems

RHEL AS 3, AS 4 & AS 5, Solaris 10, HP-TRU64, AIX, Windows NT, XP, AS400,Windows Server 2012 DC

ERP Suite

Oracle Application Release 11i & R12

Application Server

Oracle iAS 10g, Oracle 10g/11g SOA Suite, Oracle Service Bus 11g, Oracle AIA 11g, Oracle B2B 11g, IIS, TIBCO

Development/SCM/Continuous Integration Tools/Reporting tool

PL/SQL Developer, JDeveloper, Oracle BPEL, Cast Iron IDE, OTPC, Subversion, SCM, Tortoise SVN, IBM ClearCase, IBM Rational Build Forge, Hudson, Jenkins, BitBucket, TFS, Octopus, TeamCity, Puppet, Chef, JIRA, GIT, SSIS, SSRS

High Availability

Oracle 11g RAC, Weblogic software clusters, HP Service guard

Web Application Servers

Apache WebServer, Oracle HTTP Server, IIS, Oracle Weblogic Server

Cloud Computing

Amazon AWS, Elastic Cloud Compute, Microsoft Azure

Administration tools

SQL*plus, OAM, Toad, Putty, X-Manager, OEM 11g Grid control, FTP, Telnet, Winscp, Xshell, Appworx, SFTP, Vncviewer, JMeter, NewRelic

Network/Load Balancer

Cisco Load balancer, F5 Load balancer, Oracle HTTP software load balancer, VMware server/environment, AWS Elastic Load Balancer

Collaboration Tools

Remedy, Service desk, Support central, IBM Same time, MS Lync, Communicator, Slack, Microsoft Project Planner (MPP) & Visio

Infrastructure Storage

Infrastructure design in Data-centers, SAN, NAS 

Professional Experience and Projects

 

Cyber Group Inc. Various client locations, Texas

Technical Project Manager                  Oct 2015 – Till date

 

Clients – North American Power, Houston; Hudson Energy, Irving – Oct 2015 to till date

§ Working as Technical Project Manager for DevOps and Infrastructure

§ Perform Infrastructure and Integration Landscape assessment and recommendation

§ Recommend and document strategy and approach for Application and Data migration

§ Recommend DevOps configurations around monitoring, logging and deployment framework

§ Act as a point of escalation with customer and ensuring smooth resolution of all issues and concerns.

§ Worked with Business Teams, Program Manager, Architects, Vendors, Infrastructure teams on various aspects of the project such as scope, Hardware and Technical resources availability, business requirements on application availabilities and timelines of other on-going projects

§ Recommend and Implement Cloud based Infrastructure solution through Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS

§ Recommend and Implement Continuous Integration solutions for multiple customers using tools such as IBM Rational Build Forge, Octopus, TeamCity, TFS, Jenkins, SVN, BitBucket, Chef, JIRA

§ Work with team in providing support and maintenance for Web Applications and Databases like SQL server

§ Conducted workshops with Business Users to understand the business requirements, IT foot print, challenges and limitations and Identify improvements in the current landscape

§ Provide overall directions, guidance on migration strategy, oversee developments for new architecture projects within DevOps and Cloud space

§ Preparing detailed project plans–effort, schedule & costing and maintain those throughout the project

§ Suggest strategies for addressing technical challenges

 

 

HCL America Inc.                    Various client locations, USA

Sr. Technical Lead, Integration/Data Architect, Technical Delivery Manager          Nov 2013 – Oct 2015

 

Clientele – Ryder Systems Inc, Miami, FL – Jan 2015 to Oct 2015:

§ Worked as Integration/Data Architect for multiple migration projects

§ Perform Data and Integration Landscape Assessment

§ Assess and document the AS-IS process and data model

§ Review existing Process Flows & interfaces with Purchase Order and interfacing Systems

§ Perform detailed analysis on Requirements Gathering for Purchase Order

§ Perform analysis on current data and document CRUD and Data residency

§ Design and document TO-BE data model, CRUD and data residency

§ Review current business rules related to PO and if impacts Database

§ Recommend and document strategy and approach for Data migration

§ Identify improvements in the current landscape and suggest strategies for addressing technical challenges

§ Creating reports using SSRS and integration packages using SSIS tool

§ Responsible for designing Data Model and creating SQL server databases

§ Gather and document requirements for enhancement projects

§ Conduct workshop and reviews with business SMEs

 

Clientele – T-Mobile, Atlanta GA – May 2014 to Jan 2015:

§ Worked as Technical Delivery Manager, responsible for end to end delivery of multiple Migration project

§ Acted as a point of escalation with customer and ensuring smooth resolution of all issues and concerns. Build long lasting relationship with customer and be a trusted advisor

§ Worked with Business Teams, Program Manager, Architects, Vendors, Infrastructure teams on various aspects of the project such as scope, Hardware and Technical resources availability, business requirements on application availabilities and timelines of other on-going projects

§ Provide overall directions, guidance on migration strategy, oversee developments for new architecture projects within FMW space

§ Preparing detailed project plans–effort, schedule & costing and maintain those throughout the project

§ Resource management – Resource planning, work allocation and delegation between onsite and offshore teams and Agile Scrum master for daily standup meetings

§ Preparing monthly billing reports, reviewing with customer and publishing to Program managers. Ensuring on-time effort entries to cost tracking systems of customer

§ Preparing quarterly operations reviews and presenting to CIO staff and IT directors. Get customer’s feedback on project deliverables and focus on areas of improvement

§ SLAs recording, monitoring and management and ensuring that team should adhere to Problems and incidents management processes and should maintain the data in Service desk application.

§ People management – Mentoring, grooming high performers, Performance recording for all team members and conducting feedback sessions

 

Clientele– InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Atlanta GA – Mar 2014 to May 2014:

§ Worked as Sr. Integration consultant for assessment and recommendation project

§ Perform Integration Landscape Assessment and Identify improvements in the current landscape

§ Review existing interfaces with Holidex Reservation Systems and IHG’s migration sequence to ESB architecture

§ ESB tool evaluation for migration

§ Suggest strategies for addressing technical challenges

§ Review IHG’s infrastructure needs for the ESB environment

§ Support for Server capacity planning

§ Assessment to meet required NFRs (based on availability, scalability, performance)

§ Recommend best practices for SOA and ESB enablement and validate end-state

§ Recommend multiple migration strategy approach and Data migration approach

§ Create Run Books for Standards, templates and best practice 

§ Prepare Assessment and Recommendation Reports post review

§ Propose Gartner’s recommended model for SOA CoE-ICC for Shared service model

§ Provide recommendation for SOA Governance & operational model with project plan/timescales

§ Recommend DevOps configs around monitoring, logging and deployment framework

 

Clientele – Cummins Inc., Columbus IN – Nov 2013 to Feb 2014:

§ Worked as Senior Deployment Lead on implementation of Continuous Integration(CI) for Fusion Middleware 11g stack

§ Performed multiple workshop with Customer and business team to understand the requirement

§ Designed, documented, implementation and testing of automating build and deployment process for various products of Fusion Middleware 11g

§ Integration of Build tool Rational Build Forge with version control tool ClearCase and Middleware 11g servers

§ Worked on enhancements and integration of testing framework/tool as part of the automated CI

§ Presented and demonstrated the working model of Continuous Integration for Fusion Middleware and nominated the project for Six Sigma

 

 

iGATE Technologies Inc. Dallas, TX

Senior FMW-SOA & WebLogic Admin Lead/Architect, Apps DBA  Aug 2009 – Nov 2013

 

Clientele – Rexel Holdings USA/IESC/Gexpro – Dallas TX:

§ Architected, designed, implemented & administrator Application infrastructure for Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Weblogic Server 11g, Oracle Service Bus 11g, Oracle AIA 11g over Cluster

§ 5 Full cycle implementation & Administration of  Weblogic Server 11g with SOA Suite 11g  , AIA 11g & OSB 11g on Clustered env, ADF 11g on Windows 2003/Linux

§ 5 Full cycle upgrade of WLS from 10.3.2 -10.3.6, SOA Suite 11.1.1.2-11.1.1.6, AIA 11g & OSB 11g on Cluster under single domain and multiple domain

§ Architected, designed, implemented & administrator the Database infrastructure for Oracle Database 11g with Dataguard over ASM along with Disaster Recovery setup

§ Lead the implementation/testing of re-architecture to have SAN storage NFS service replaced with Veritas CFS service for HA & scalability for SOA servers

§ Administration of Oracle Applications R11i (11.5.10.2), R12 (12.0.4) on various platforms like Red Hat Linux AS 4.0, HP-UX, Solaris for Production/DEV

§ Responsible for providing estimates for new projects and presenting it to the ADT

§ Prepared estimates, build books, presentaion, detailed project plan & timelines for various projects like SOA Migration, SOA Upgrade, AIA implmentation etc.

§ Lead and migrated SOA Apps servers during Data centre migration. Closely worked with data center team in furnishing estimates required for server build

§ Requirement specs documented for server hardware, workbooks, Storage Class and size, memory, OS services, Filesystem layout, DNS info, Firewalls, Virtual IPs & ports listing

§ Prepared excellent project execution plan & adhere to timelines in delivering activity tasks

§ Responsible for specs & testing required to configure Cisco network load balancer for SOA/AIA/OSB components for HA

§ Configured Apps level clustering with auto migration feature for SOA/AIA/OSB cluster service

§ Configured services such as datasources, JMS servers & JMS modules, connection factory, JMS queues, subdeployments etc

§ Configured RDBMS based security on Weblogic Apps server to sync up with LDAP on database

§ Responsible for hosting triage call, coordinate with vendors and prepare RCA with problem ticket

§ Perform failover & migration of SOA/AIA/OSB/Apache services with various test cases involving Apps & network teams

§ Perform Load testing with tools like JMeter, Grinder for Apps server w.r.t storage SAN vs NAS

§ Implemented BPEL instance purging for transactions logs and Database purging for BOLBs generated for instance using attachment in SOA code and Reference in AIA codes

§ Designed and developed numerous processes with various endpoints to SAAS, Oracle E-business, FTP, email. Win AD, SQL/Oracle DB, Webservices, JMS, Oracle AQ etc

§ Experience with Weblogic Integration Controls like DB, EJB, Custom, JMS

§ Lead deployments of BPEL codes, ADF apps, OSB projects, configure SMTP for OSB, adapters like DB Adapter, File Adapter, JMS Adapter etc.

§ Configure Continuous Integration through OTPC & JDEV or with ANTs over CI tools like SCM, Hudson etc with the environment to help FMW components with build, test, compile, configure, deploy codes/interfaces/adaptors etc and automating the code deployment process

§ Strong knowledge on WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST); Ant Scripts for deployments

§ Possess knowledge in frameworks like ADF, XML technology with XSD, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, XML DB and gateways

§ SOA projects endpoints include Oracle Apps API’s/Interfaces, JMS, Oracle AQ, MS SQL, FTP, SAAS integrations like salesforce.com, service-now.com

§ Good Unix administration knowledge to look at Server statistics CPU, Memory, I/O, Disk usage (read/write), High CPU utilization, swap, top consumption

§ Installation and configuration of Tomcat Apache Web Server and sync it with SOA

§ Configuring Apache load balancer for Active/Passive mode

§ Configuration of Security/SSL, Single Sign On (SSO) for Oracle Applications with WebLogic

§ Enabling and scheduling the backup policies and procedures with various tools

§ Performed Oracle 11i Application & Database Patch Analysis & Patch Application

§ Cloning of Oracle Applications R11i & Database, DB Refreshes/upgrades

§ Performance tuning/monitoring of Oracle Database & Apps

§ Expertise in troubleshooting various Database and Application bugs

§ Excellent work on all weekend support activities - well managed, coordinated and communicated

 

 

Zamil Information Technology Global     Pune, India

System Engineer, SOA Admin/ Architect, DBA        Jan 2008 – Aug 2009

 

§ Architected, designed, implemented & administered the Application infrastructure for Oracle 10g iAS, SOA Suite 10g, Oracle HTTP Server, Oracle Reports over Cluster

§ 3 Full cycle implementation & Configuration of Oracle 10g Internet Application Server (10.2.0.1)

§ 3 Full cycle implementation, upgrade and administration of Oracle SOA Suite 10g (10.1.3.4.0)

§ Configuring Oracle 10g iAS for J2EE, deployment of Oracle Forms and Reports applications with SSO feature

§ Troubleshooting & Tune Oracle Application Server 10g report performance.

§ Cloning of Oracle 10g iAS  and Weblogic Server on Linux and Windows

§ Architected, designed, implemented & administrator the Database infrastructure for Oracle Database 9i, 10g with Dataguard over ASM along with Disaster Recovery setup

§ Installation, Configuration, Upgrade & administration of Oracle Applications R11i (11.5.10.2), R12 (12.0.4) on various platforms like Red Hat Linux AS 4.0, HP-UX

§ Multi-node Installation of Oracle Applications 11i with Load balancer on Linux

§ Worked on System Integration projects involving SOA implementation, admin & process deployment using Oracle SOA and Cast Iron IDE

§ Designed and developed numerous processes with various endpoints to SAAS, Oracle E-business, FTP, email. Win AD, SQL/Oracle DB, Webservices, JMS, Oracle AQ etc

§ Possess knowledge in frameworks like ADF, XML technology with XSD, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, XML DB and gateways

§ SOA projects endpoints include Oracle Apps API’s/Interfaces, JMS, Oracle AQ, MS SQL, FTP, SAAS integrations like salesforce.com, service-now.com

§ Experience in System administration and performance tuning for JVM, GC parameters, Optimizing the resource usage, Server statistics CPU, I/O Disk usage, Memory leaks

§ Experience with SOA Suite components like Mediator, BPEL, Human Workflow, Rules Engine and Adapters like DB Adapter, File Adapter, JMS Adapter

§ Experience with Web Service technologies - SOAP, WSDL and XML technology with XSLT, XQuery and XPath expressions

§ Installed and Configured Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications OBIEE (10.1.3.4) & ODI (10.1.3.5.0) and  Database (10.2.0.3) on Linux/Windows for Production/DEV/UAT

§ Performed Database upgrade from 9.2.0.4 to 9.2.0.7, 10.1.0.1 to 10.2.0.3 – 10.2.0.4 & 11g DB

§ Performed Oracle Applications Upgrades: 11.5.9 - 11.5.10 - 11.5.10.2 & R11i to R12

§ Installation and configuration of RHEL AS 4.0/Sun Solaris

§ Installed and configured Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control on Linux for Production Server and Deploy Agents on Target Nodes

§ Conversant with Oracle 10g RAC – Installation and configuration of 10g RAC on Linux

§ Worked on RMAN setup and configuration, RMAN Backup, Duplicating database using RMAN

§ Planning and Maintaining Database Backups : Cold Backup, Hot Backup and Logical Backup

§ Installation of VMware infrastructure on Standalone machine

§ Initialization of allocated SAN storage on Linux

§ Performed Oracle 11i Application Patch Analysis, Patch Application, Upgrades, Refreshes

§ Cloning and Upgrades of Oracle Applications R11i/R12 & Databases

§ Administrator for Code management with SCM for Version control, code check-in and check-out

§ Expertise in troubleshooting various Database and Application bugs

 

Technical Certifications & Awards

 

Certifications:

§ GNIIT Classic certified from NIIT

§ Oracle 10g Certified Professional (OCP)

§ Oracle 10g Certified Associate (OCA)

§ Oracle 11i Install, Patch and Maintain Applications Certified

§ Oracle Database 10g RAC Administrator Certified Expert (OCE)

§ ITIL V3 Foundation Awareness Trained & certified by iGATE

§ Six Sigma Training

§ Microsoft Azure certification

Awards:

§ iGATE Quarterly Awards for “Valuable Contribution towards Performance Award (VCA)”

§ iGATE Pat on Back (POB) Awards

§ iGATE Dream Team Award in 2010, 2011 & 2012

§ 5 Star rating “Certification of Appreciation” from Rexel Holdings - Client through 2010-2013

§ Contribution towards Value Innovations (VI) Ideas

§ Awarded as Operational Ideapreneur 2014 for Assessment Module

 

Qualifications

 

§ Master of Computer Applications, University of Pune, India, 2004-2007

§ Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Mumbai, India, 2001-2004

 

Strengths

 

·   Sustained upgrading of technical and professional skills

·   Willingness to take on challenges

·   Hard working - "do what it takes" attitude

·   Level headed and analytical frame of mind, when facing crisis situations

·   Ability to manage changing priorities and manages time effectively

 

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Experience

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Job Title

Company

Experience

Technical Manager - Infrastructure & DevOps

CyberGroup Inc

- Present

 

Additional Info

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Current Career Level:

Manager (Manager/Supervisor of Staff)

Date of Availability:

Within 2 weeks

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

None

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Middleware, Infrastructure & DevOps Administrator/Architect/Manager

Desired Job Type:

Employee
Temporary/Contract/Project

Desired Status:

Full-Time

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Occupation:

IT/Software Development

·         IT Project Management

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-TX-Austin
US-TX-Dallas

Relocate:

Yes

Willingness to travel:

Up to 100%

 

Languages:

Languages

Proficiency Level

English

Fluent

Hindi

Fluent