CHUCK CHEKURI

24640 Los Adornos, Yorba Linda, CA 92887

(562)753-1618 ※ chuckchekuri@gmail.com

ARCHITECTURE * INFRASTRUCTURE * DATABASES

Global Expertise ※ Strategic Planning ※ Hands on Execution ※ Result Oriented

Senior Solution Architect / Technical Project Manager with more than 20 years in delivering IT

solutions and 7 Infrastructure project experience. Infrastructure, Cloud, BigData, SaaS, CRM,

Web Development and migrations from legacy software. Communicate effectively with

developers and executive management and a Certified Scrum Master.

  Ø Expert in Data Center and Distribution Center build outs. ERP Integration with warehouse

management systems.

  Ø Over 20 plus years of management and technology experience in supporting 24/7 large-scale,

fast paced Operations and delivery of complex solutions in Financial and Supply Chain fields.

  Ø Collaborate with business partners to analyze, understand business problem/need and then

propose business solutions along with project vision and scope.

  Ø Expert ITIL, SDLC and Agile project management methodologies. Involved in scope definition,

budget, business requirements and analysis, resource planning/staffing, risk assessment and

mitigation, testing, deployment and Operations Support.

  Ø An effective communicator specializing in bringing disparate groups to work towards common yet

challenging goals.

  Ø Experienced in matrix management, collaboration and partnering with Business, IT and vendor

resources in preparing charters, business cases, project profile, gathering and analyzing

business requirements, planning, developing, testing and implementing complex/multi-phase

projects utilizing various project management methodologies.

  Ø Proven success in leading programs ($500K - $20M) while maintaining the integrity of budgets

and time lines by utilizing strong ability to intuitively anticipate problems, and attitude to pro

actively drive remediation strategies.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

SR . ANALYST / SOLUT I ON ARCH I TECT

BMS I NC (MAY 2014 – PRESENT) – A leader in case management software and banking

services for US Bankruptcy Trustees with development centers in Irvine and Poland.

I worked on setting up DR in Amazon AWS. Improvements to banking and reporting modules of BMS's

flagship product for Bankruptcy Case Management, Case Link Web, which is a SaaS product for

Bankruptcy Trustees.

Collaborated with banking operations, account managers, support teams and product managers to

learn the business and worked with delivery and QA leads in releasing high quality software. The

improvements reduced support costs significantly.

SOLUT I ON ARCH I TECT / PROJECT MANAGER

INGRAMMICRO (SEPT 2012 – APR 2014) – A fortune 100 Company with operations in 33 countries

doing 44 Billion dollars in revenues with a 180M of yearly IS spend.

  · Build Application servers in VMWare to support Enterprise ERP

  · Define the capacity for Pricing servers

CHUCK CHEKURI

24640 Los Adornos, Yorba Linda, CA 92887

(562)753-1618 ※ chuckchekuri@gmail.com

  · Identify process using Cloudera to build server images

  · Salesforce.com integration with internal sales application to send orders out for licensing products.

  · Call center upgrade from Avaya to Cisco UC/UCC to improve agent experience and reporting

  · Integrate the call center agent desktop to the back end transaction system.

  · E-commerce enhancements to integrate with back end application for sales teams ( Intellitrak )

  · Cisco Video Infrastructure implementation to communicate with external partners

  · Architect the Data Migration solution for moving SAP ERP data from Dallas to Chicago.

  · Incident data analysis to Improve SLA’s of Web support process

  · Architected the Oracle Database Monitoring solution for over a 100production DBs

  · Migrated Non-Prod servers to Amazon AWS and EBS to connect with internal storage fabric.

D I RECTOR , I NFORMAT I ON TECHNOLOGY

BIRCHSTREET SYSTEMS (MAR 2010 – JAN 2011) – A SoCal based SaaS company with

applications specifically designed for hospitality and food service organizations to give control

over the supply chain and back-office operations.

Improved the overall service levels of IT organization. Streamlined the call center performance by

implemented of back office solutions. Managed day to day operations within two offices (Newport Beach,

CA and Dallas, TX) and the two data centers where a SaaS application is hosted (Irvine, CA and Phoenix,

AZ). Upgraded many corporate applications using open source products like Asterisk, VTiger, SugarCRM,

Talend and MySQL.

  · SugarCRM and Vtiger CRM to improve technical support processes.

  · Talend ETL solution to integrate VTiger CRM and production transaction data.

  · Migrated data and process from Salesforce.com to VTiger CRM

  · Implemented comprehensive monitoring of production hardware

  · Introduced tools like Jprobe to monitor SaaS Application

CONSULTANT (May 2005 – Jan 2010)

WESTERN ASSET MANAGEMENT - CINGULAR WIRELESS - DREAMWORKS INC

Some notable assignments:

  · Performance management of applications EAGLE PACE, CHARLES RIVER.

  · Master Data Management for Securities Data and SOW applications

  · Migrating applications due to merger.

  · Data migration strategy to from legacy system to a web application\\

  · Delivered database and ETL solutions

  · Migrate 16TB Database from one data center to another.

  · Upgrade a 36 TB database to Oracle 10g.

  · Python scripts operational reports and space management within Oracle DB

DB MANAGER

CHUCK CHEKURI

24640 Los Adornos, Yorba Linda, CA 92887

(562)753-1618 ※ chuckchekuri@gmail.com

AMERIQUEST MORTGAGE (MAY 2004 - APR 2005)

Effectively built and managed a team of Systems DBAs. Solved performance problems associated with

SANs and a large enterprise data warehouse database (4TB).

  · Setting up management infrastructure for 200+ databases

  · SOX compliance of Databases

  · Manage the day to day workings of the team.

DB MANAGER

VIZIONAL TECHNOLOGIES (NOV 2002 - JAN 2004)

Delivered a for the multi-billion dollar supply chain logistics application for Maersk. Successfully

transitioned the 3.5 TB database to the customer. Hands on involvement in handling the fast growing data

volumes.

  · Delivered OLTP and DW databases projects

  · Delivered 3 types of custom ETL processes

  · Production controls, and performance monitoring

  · Change management to support weekly releases and 25 developers

  · Backup and disaster recovery solutions for VLDB

  · Data Cleansing, Indexing and searching (1 TB of XML documents)

DB ARCH I TECT / TECHN I CAL PROJECT MANAGER

GUIDANCE SOLUTIONS (AUG 2000 - OCT 2002)

Successfully completed 3 Oracle and 1 SQL server projects from start to finish and helped out on many

other projects. Significant contributor in all aspects of the software product life cycle.

  · Logical and Physical DB design for e-commerce applications

  · Production environment setup and interface with hosting vendors.

  · Backup/Recovery strategy for production Databases.

  · DB Administration and Performance Problem resolution.

  · Mentor junior members of team.

TECHN I CAL PROJ ECT MANAGER

SOURCE WORKS, INC (MAY 1995 – AUG 2000)

Lead teams of developers as a hands-on Project Manager/Architect on all projects at client locations.

Successfully delivered more than 10 different projects for various customers.

  · Customer/Account Management

  · Business Analysis

  · Project Management

  · DB Architecture

CHUCK CHEKURI

24640 Los Adornos, Yorba Linda, CA 92887

(562)753-1618 ※ chuckchekuri@gmail.com

  · Application Architecture

  · Mentoring/Managing developers

SYSTEMS CONSULT I NG

OPENVISION (MAY 1994– MAY 1995)

Responsible for pre and post sales consulting assignments and revenue generation. Worked with many

Fortune 100 to Fortune 500 companies on High Availability setups, Backup and recovery, event monitoring

and reporting of production IT infrastructure.

  · Customer Engagement

  · IT operations requirements

  · Project Management

  · Data retention and recovery options

  · Mentoring/Coaching client system administrators on best administration practices

DATABASE CONSULT I NG

ASK/INGRES (MAR 1992– APR 1993)

Responsible for pre and post sales consulting assignments and revenue generation. Worked with many

Fortune 100 to Fortune 500 companies on DB setup, benchmarking, performance tuning and trainings on

many software development projects.

  · Customer Engagement

  · Business Analysis

  · Project Management

  · DB Architecture

  · DB performance

  · Mentoring/Coaching client developers on SQL and optimal DB setups.

DEVELOPER , C+ + / C /Wi ndows 4GL

AT&T BELL LABS, Indian Hill (JAN 1991 – JAN 1992)

As a software developer, on a $100M project federal project for air traffic controlling system, I built user

interfaces

for

air

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

MS Computer Science

MS Engineering

BE Civil Engineering

CERTIFICATIONS

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  ü PM I C e r t i f i e d H e a l t h c a r e P r o j e c t Ma n a g e r ( PM I - OC )

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University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois

IIT Roorkee, India

Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

CHUCK CHEKURI

24640 Los Adornos, Yorba Linda, CA 92887

(562)753-1618 ※ chuckchekuri@gmail.com

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