Experience
Lead
Technology
Consultant
Aquilent
U.S.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) / Office of Data &
Technology (ODT)
December
2014-Present
Responsibilities
·
Amazon Cloud Infrastructure Architect, responsible for
design, verification and deployment of new and migration of existing
customer's systems into AWS GovCloud environment while implementing
redundant/high availability infrastructures with FISMA moderate and low
grade cybersecurity compliance.
·
System Administrator for Windows 2008 AD environment
·
Web Developer for Oracle/Stellent UCM content
management system
·
Database Administrator MS SQL 2003, 2008 and 2014
·
Technical Team Leader
Accomplishments
·
Awarded Aquilent’s Annual Award of Excellence, Captain’s Award, for leading a team that restored client’s trust and successfully migrated two highly visible
projects over to AWS environment, Aquilent’s first in GovCloud region
·
Successfully migrated Oracle UCM 10gr3 environment from
Windows 2003 local environment to Windows 2008 AWS environment with zero
downtime and no impact to the customers publishing and serving ability
Information
Technology Services Manager, Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
(NEES@Buffalo) / Structural and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL).
University at Buffalo
August
2007-December 2014
Responsibilities
·
Engineering,
software and system program management
·
Domain
network administrator, Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012; Red Hat Linux 4
and 6
·
Member
of SEESL Executive Committee, involved in all management and strategic
decisions regarding laboratory operations
·
Deputy
Quality Manager, in charge of maintaining laboratory calibration and
inventory data for IAS-17025 and NQA certification
·
Experiment-project
data acquisition, storage, archiving and sharing
·
Video
teleconferencing and tele-presence systems
·
Coordination
of IT requirements for research and commercial projects
·
Lead
the development and project planning of new IT software and hardware tools
for use at both local laboratory and NEES community using Agile/SCRUM and
Waterfall methodologies
·
NEES@Buffalo
liaison to NEEScomm headquarters and National Science Foundation
·
Supervision
of IT specialists & student assistants
·
Development
of tools and technology to automate the collection of forensic data in
large-size laboratories
· Teaching graduate students
video, data and image acquisition and processing, principles of software
engineering, testing and implementation, meta-data and big data, effective
use of cloud and parallel computing.
Accomplishments
·
Developed
and implemented a contactless crack measuring system for concrete walls,
iCrack
·
Co-authored
manuscript titled, "AUTOMATED DETECTION AND
MEASUREMENT OF CRACKS IN REINFORCED CONCRETE COMPONENTS," published in
American Concrete Institute (ACI) Journal[g1]
·
Member
of SEESL Executive Committee, involved in all management and strategic
decisions regarding laboratory operations
·
Deputy
Quality Manager, in charge of maintaining laboratory calibration and
inventory data for IAS-17025 and NQA certification
·
Initiated
the formation of and Chair of the NEES IT Managers forum (14 university
earthquake engineering consortium)
·
Member
of Requirements Analysis and Assessment Subcommittee (RAAS) of Project
Advisory Committee to Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
(NEES)
·
Developed,
implemented and supported laboratory, Near Field Communication (NFC) based
inventory and calibration system
·
Awarded
Outstanding Service to Researchers Awards by NEES Consortium in 2009 and
2013
Skills
Used
·
Cybersecurity
best practices
·
Software
development, requirements specification, incremental methods, software
project management
·
Project
management and time tracking using Gantt charts and critical path
·
Network
communications/topology LAN, WAN or WLAN, VPN, VLAN, TCP/IP, Router
configuration, firewall management, server virtualization
Information
Technology Specialist, NEES@Buffalo/SEESL. University at Buffalo
August
2003-July 2007
Responsibilities
·
Planning,
implementation and administration of local AD domain
·
Webmaster
and developer of laboratory website
·
Project
CAD support
·
Video
acquisition, editing, storage and sharing
·
IT
support to end users both local and remote
Accomplishments
·
Developed
High Definition Video multicast system for remote observation of
laboratory experiments in real time
·
Implemented
network DVR systems with automatic triggering and synchronization with
the rest of laboratory data acquisition equipment
·
Designed
and implemented a smart classroom with tele-presence capabilities
·
Designed
and implemented project time tracking software that tracks staff and resource
time on each project
·
Award
for Excellent Project Support by NEES Consortium in 2007
Skills
Used
·
Network
security management/ efficiency monitoring
·
Network
communications/topology LAN, WAN or WLAN, VPN, VLAN, TCP/IP, Router
configuration, firewall management
·
Wireless
networking experience, wireless devices (netbooks, tablets, laptops)
·
A/V
Equipment (projectors, conference phones, teleconference video
equipment)
·
Data
Backup/Restore
·
Windows
and Linux Network Administration
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