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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE * 16 years of experience with an exceptional academic background in Converged Data Center infrastructure solutions' implementation within the context of contemporary MDM & big data analytics' methods, cloud computing and ERP solutions integration. * Exceptional expertise in consulting and managing Data Center infrastructures' transformation to cloud models (Public, Private, Hybrid & Community) and Cloud solutions (IaaS, PaaS & SaaS) migrations using industry best practices. * Specialize in architecting global systems migrations and transitions of Shared Data Systems, Relational Databases & ERP (SAP) systems migrations from legacy source data centers to new generation Converged data centers and successfully executed over 55 global data center consolidation and transition project from LAC, EMEA & APAC regions. * Expertise in successfully architecting Converged infrastructures (EMC Vmax, VNX & V-block for Cloud, NetApp NAS, Virtualization, & HP Storage Area Network (SAN), HP Data Protector & HP D2D, development and integration strategies including end-to-end backup & recovery systems of EMC Avamar, Data Domain, and EMC's ECC Storage-Scope, Unisphere & SMI infrastructure resource management systems. * Specializes in strategizing and validating Enterprise Service Architecture (ESA) & Service Level Architecture including 2, 3 and 4 tiers environments to ensure successful integrations of SAN, Blade Servers, and Load Balancers, Core Network infrastructures including the application, presentation and session layers. * Successful in providing best practices and methods to architect effective Failover and Replication solutions of NetApp SnapVault replicator for data migration, EMC's Recovery-Points & Mirror-View replication technologies to ensure systems availability of the following environments: Applications, Blade Servers, storage, VMware, Network and DR facility power grids. * Exceptional skills in Agile Scrum/Sprint Project Management practices, Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Process Improvement methods (CMMI, ITIL, Six Sigma & Lean), SAP full life cycle development implementation methods best practices. * Utilization of QA/QC & IV&V expertise to ensures the quality, development and deployment/implementation of Data Center & Disaster Recovery Infrastructures - so that the projects milestones are met & delivered on time and within the budget. * Successful in building project teams, providing team leadership, coaching and training various areas of the hardware and software life cycle analysis, design, development, integration, test and maintenance. Project Management Expertise * Expertise in Agile Scrum/Sprint methods to manage over 55 global data center migrations projects from LAC, EMEA & APAC regions to Converged and Cloud based data centers. * Successful in managing and coordinating global project teams from LAC, EMEA & APAC to execute data center consolidation and transition to converged infrastructures (EMC's V-block, Cloud, Virtualization, Avamar, HP SAN EVA StorageWorks, Blade Servers & Cisco LAN/WAN) and ERP driven applications (SAP, Oracle Financials & PeopleSoft HR) directing over 10 team members at a time. * Specialize in Program Management practice, Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) specific practices (e.g., Project Planning, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Project Tracking & Oversight, Measurement & Analysis and Corrective Actions, Issue & Action Item Tracking, Risk Management, Feasibility & Impact Analysis and Base of Estimates), IT Business Development (e.g., SOW, RFP, Proposal, ITIL driven strategy development based processes, procedures, charters & policy standardization), Organizational Change Management, Project Management specific practice and Six Sigma quality driven team management. * Expert in tailoring EMC's Storage Networking Life Cycle framework (Initiation, Planning, Implementation & Closure) to design, configure, test and implement EMC SAN, V-block & VNX for Converged and Cloud and Data Center infrastructures. * Successful in tailoring and implementing Enterprise Architect (EA) methodology to successfully analyze, design, customize and deploy Data Center & Disaster Recovery infrastructures, as per requirements specification. * Effective in preparing information technology oriented organizations for high level CMM/CMMI & ITIL certifications so that they successfully achieve their overall project objectives, efficiently. ANALYTICAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS MDM, Big Data, SAP & ERP Enterprise Solution Integrations * MDM & Big Data pattern analysis using unobtrusive (exiting data) research methods: causations, validity, sampling, linear regression, metric-coefficient, conceptualizing entities & attributes, developing logical & physical enterprise data architect based on analytics results. * SAP Exchange Infrastructure (SAP XI): to be able to implement cross-system and applications business processes, to connect to different external vendors systems (non-SAP and SAP) in different versions and implemented in different programming languages (Java, ABAP, and so on) to each other. * Software development methodologies: Top-Bottom, Bottom-Up, Linear, Prototypes, Evolutionary, Incremental-Prototypes, and Rapid Application Development to support SAP Modules. Structured Analysis and Design methodologies and tools: Data Flow Diagrams (DFD): Logical, Physical and Child Diagrams using Visio and Flowchart mechanisms. Object Oriented Diagrams (OOD): UML, RUP, Class/Object and Sequences Diagrams. * Relational Database methodologies: Oracle PL/SQL, Standard SQL, Logical Data Modeling (ERD), physical architect, referential integrity, functional dependencies and data dictionary methods. Hardware Infrastructure & Software Business/Systems Requirements Development * Tailoring EMC's SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realizable & Traceable) best practice framework to develop an effective requirements and provide measure business justifications for infrastructure projects. * Performing gap analysis on As-IS hardware infrastructure to determine To-Be hardware requirements for a successful Data Center & Disaster Recovery infrastructural development: SAN, Array, Backup & recovery, Replications, Networks, Servers, Network Load Balancer, Web-presentation tier, Application tier, Database tier and Storage tier requirements are developed, accurately. Risk Management, Feasibility, QA, QC and Testing * QA/QC management practices: IV&V charters, processes, procedures, policy based on Six Sigma, Lean and CMMI industry best required practice guidelines to ensure the quality of SAP, Oracle Financials, Database and Web Based Applications * Test practices: Management, Plan, Procedures, Scenarios and Cases development * Test functions: Functional, Component, Regression, Integration, Stress, Manual (Block Box) and Automated (White Box) tests are conducted using RUP and Mercury Suites to test: Web Based Application, Prototypes, Porters, SAP Modules, Oracle ERP, Database and Web Based Applications
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