Candidates About

 

Wen Yu

 

Cloud Solutions Architect with 20+ years of professional experience in information technology and Cloud architecture. Expert and highly familiar with a wide variety of security, engineering, networking, infrastructure, cloud, and operating system. Possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.

 

CAREER SUMMARY

 

·         Technical/Functional leader in information technology services with solid analysis and enterprise architecture experience along with innovative problem-solving skills.

·         Strong communication and inter-personal skills, accustomed to work in a team environment.

·         Experience with Agile methodology.

·         Evaluating current systems, identifying improvements and innovations, transforming legacy technologies as well as defining new solutions.

·         Strong aptitude for learning and understanding business process and needs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Microsoft Azure API Architect

IDC Technologies Inc. – Los Angeles, CA                                          02/2018 – present

Summary:

Experienced with Azure API Management, Solutions Integration, and RESTful API Design & Architecture. Drive technical engagement and engineering support for complex Azure API management implementation and security best practices for on-premises to on-premises, Sass to on-premises, and SaaS to SaaS APIs integration. Design and architect the Azure Application Gateway with WAF and API Management service architecture including Vnet, subnets, NSGs, ExpressRoute, Azure Vnet-to-Vnet, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Key Vault. Develop Azure API Management Security and Audit Guidelines, to address API Security Governance, Identity and Access Management, API Threat Modeling, Policies, and securing Azure API with Vnet. Utilizing the Azure Security Center to provide a central view of the security status of resources in the subscriptions and provide recommendations that help prevent compromised resources. Also enable more granular policies (for example, applying policies to specific resource groups that allow the enterprise to tailor their posture to the risk they are addressing. Monitoring the following resources: Virtual machines (VM’s) including cloud services, Azure Virtual Networks, Azure SQL service, Partner Solutions integrated with our Azure subscription such as a web application firewall on VMs.

Responsibilities:

·         Design and build platforms using APIs, real-time data flows, process orchestration and micro-services, API Management and security best practice.

·         Implement DevOps principles to automate and control platforms. Implement Automation leveraging PowerShell and ARM templates.

·         Collaborate with clients to define their solution requirements.

·         Work within a team to design and develop Microsoft Azure API Management solutions using a variety of technologies across a broad set of industries.

·         Learn and advise clients on cross-cutting concerns such as platform performance, availability, security and operations.

 

Solutions Architect

Iconmobile, Inc. – Santa Monica, CA                                                10/2016 – 08/2017

Summary:

Iconmobile Inc. offers mobile marketing solutions. The company operates as a design and technology agency for mobility industry.

Responsibilities:

·         Communicate the vision of enterprise architecture to peers, engineers, and business stakeholders. 

·         Assist engineers in developing software solutions based on defined architecture. 

·         Built continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines within a Jenkins.

·         Developed version controls and API solutions using Git and GitHub

·         Led architecture discussions and designing solutions interactively with other team members and clients. 

·         Contribute to best practice with written documentation and stand ups, both internally and with clients. 

·         Design flexible, scalable and stable solutions. Define clear integration strategies that identify risks, opportunities and exceed requirements. 

·         Architect Borrow Hertz API technical mobility solutions for Ford Motor Company.

·         Led project team of 6 people and support EU partner. This involved developing Restful API endpoint within the CSL based on business need, application reviews, setting priorities for team members based on business needs, balancing work load of team members, and breaking down requirements into deliverable action items.

·         Develop company strategy for integrating with FordPass using both SOAP (WSDL) and RESTful APIs. Utilize DocumentDB(MongoDB) as data store and using Redis as cache. Reduced the manual effort and provides timely delivery of company data to development teams out of EU, as well as provides better reporting for management on data housed in Pivotal Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

·         Architect and develop integration solution, Borrow Hertz, for FordPass. This solution provides direct visibility into the EU market for CarSharing feature; allowing user registration, payment, login, search, quote, reserve, modify and cancellation in the FordPass mobile application.

 

Solutions Architect / Systems Engineer                                      

BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama – Birmingham, AL                   03/2013 – 10/2016

Summary:

BCBS (BlueCross Blue Shield) is one of the largest healthcare companies in USA. BCBS provides various HealthCare Policies. BCBS offering large networks of the region's best Physicians, specialists and hospitals. Providing programs and information to help and manage chronic health conditions. Offering related services including dental coverage, health insurance and pharmacy benefits management.

Responsibilities:

·         Create viable solutions that allow business units to meet company goals and objectives. Maintains contact with vendors, industry peers, and professional organizations to keep informed of existing and evolving industry standards and technologies.

·         Provide oversight for new technology implementation and design. Provide proof of concept system documentation and architecture diagrams.

·         Configure, deploy, and troubleshoot of servers within the Windows Server 2008/2012 R2 clustered HA environment.

Configure, troubleshoot, and maintain of the Active Directory, the SAN, the Hyper-V, and the VMware environment (ESXi, vCenter, vSphere).

·         Perform application migration to AWS with AWS Direct Connect to establish a dedicated network connection between company network and one of the AWS Direct Connect locations. Using industry standard 802.1q VLANs to allow the same connection to access public resources such as objects stored in Amazon S3 using public IP address space, and private resources such as Amazon EC2 instances running within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using private IP space, while maintaining network separation between the public and private environments.

·         Assist in managing service requests and resolving them in a timely manner. Assist in rollout of Office 365.

·         Manage and monitor the server farm and server performance using company sponsored tools.

·         Manage and create corporate Application Lifecycle Management with EOL/EOS/GA processes.

·         Architect solutions that articulate the business context, conceptual design, and component-level logical design.

·         Recommend new technologies based upon business value drivers and return on investment; drives new technologies towards implementation and exploitation.

·         Establish overall system architecture vision and ensure specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged; contributes to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture.

·         Define architecture standards and anticipate areas where architecture standards may need to be developed that are in-line with customer, IT and industry standards.

·         Direct the construction of architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture).

·         Work with business units to translate business strategy into discrete requirements compatible with current technical architectures.

·         Define systems, technical, and application architectures for new strategic initiatives; develops and maintains an architectural blueprint and evolutionary roadmap that defines and communicates the strategic direction for these architectures in support of business and technical strategies.

·         Explain how the roadmap maintains and delivers cost effectiveness, business value, and competitiveness.

·         Manage merging business processes with IT infrastructure to create an integrated set of solutions to meet business needs into the future.

·         Conduct DevOPs gap analysis, Distributed SCM POC, Big Data with Hadoop and AWS Cloud.

·         Led a team of 12 people in automation, continuous integration (CI), and continuous delivery efforts. 

·         Used Chef, Puppet, and Ansible to automate continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines.

·         Automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines using Docker.

·         Conduct the Emerging Technology Workgroup and tool minutes and perform the Emerging Technology research and communicated Emerging Technology Updated to IT Management.

·         Document the architecture of Citrix XenDesktop, Private Cloud (Blue Cloud), FileNet, TeaLeaf, CA Spectrum, CA Performance Center, IBM Sterling File Gateway, and Lifeway Sales Portal

·         Excellent understanding of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), its transaction codes, Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and 5010 and ICD 10 conversion strategies and business impacts involved in implementation.

 

Lead Programmer Analyst                                                              

BBVA Compass Bank – Birmingham, AL                                        03/2012 – 02/2013

Summary:

Compass Bank is one of the leader among regional banking organizations, serving a broad range of consumer, commercial, corporate and institutional clients. The application developed by AmSouth, provides information about credit, debit and balance, date opened, interest paid and other information of the customers. I was responsible for Commercial Billing Service to test, deploy, upgrade, maintain application and operation support.

Responsibilities:

·         Review design documents and business requirements to learn the function and scope of the application.

·         Use SQL Plus to connect to Oracle Database.

·         Work with data process analysis tools and methodologies, database/data warehouse technologies, in a matrix engagement as a part of large cross functional project in order to improve current processes.

·         Participate in ETL requirements process during data transition from source systems to target systems.

·         Involve in Data Analysis & Mapping to track all data elements used in the application from the user interface through different interfaces to the target databases in which they are stored.

·         Develop tables, Views, Stored Procedures and Triggers using SQL Scripting.

·         Establish Inner Join, Outer Join and created Indexes whenever necessary.

·         Write Complex SQL queries and optimizing SQL Queries( DDL,DML)

·         Write complex SQL queries to extract and validate the data from the database.

·         Interact effectively with internal and external parties and worked closely with project manager in handling the whole and project.

 

Technical Engineer II                                                                        

SunGard Data System – Birmingham, AL                                       09/2011 – 02/2012

Summary:

SunGard Data Systems Inc. offers software and technology services worldwide. The company’s Financial Systems segment provides solutions that automate the business processes associated with trading, managing investment portfolios, and accounting for investment assets; and address the processing requirements of various users. It also offers technology services that focus on application implementation and integration, custom software development, and application management. I serve as a member of Web team in ASP group to implement, maintain and support of mission critical Omni Web solutions.   

Responsibilities:

·         Resolve technical operational issue and problem resolution on IIS, Apache Tomcat and JBoss web servers.

·         Manage and maintain of the secure data transfer process such as SSH, FTP, SFTP etc.

·         Manage and create automation of voice prompt process, file compression and Windows server

·         Developed and maintained complex SQL queries for MS SQL Server and MS Visual SourceSafe for extensive back end testing purposes.

·         Document requirements using Use Case (UC) analysis and User Experience (UX) GUI design

·         Interact with clients providing excellent customer service on a daily basis with on-site support. Maintain network system topology. Perform preventive maintenance on all supported equipment. Maintained accurate inventory on new & used equipment annually.

·         Prepare meeting note & update project schedules and distribute to Management. Follow up on submittal logs & other miscellaneous duties relating to active projects. Diagnose and troubleshoot hardware or software problems on company computer systems.

 

Director of IT                              

Birmingham City Schools - Birmingham, AL                                 08/2005 – 09/2011

Summary:

Serves as the System Wide Information Management Services Director to plan, develop, implement, evaluate and maintain an enterprise first class information services for the district. Provide leadership & the ability to articulate a 21st century information management vision. Plan, organize, implement & evaluate the overall activities of central server systems, such as, personnel, finance, fixed asset & inventory warehousing. Plan, organize, implement & evaluate the overall activities of all-electronic data processing, Database Management (DBMS), system analysis, programming, computer operations, e-mail, firewall, Intranet, web server, Internet, wide area network, & administrative networks. Develop annual goals, objectives, & operating budget. Supervise & evaluate all Information Management Staff. Provide consultation & develop bid proposals for the District Virtualization Infrastructure RFP. Responsible for managing and administering district Data Center Operation, including production application, mission-critical database (Oracle, MSSQL, and DB2), Centralized automated anti-virus Security, automated reporting application, highly-available backup and recovery systems and storage area networks.

Responsibilities:

·         Create and develop an ASP.NET IT Asset Tracking application, Web based e-Documentation site with Visio, Microsoft SharePoint 2007/2010 portal and mission-critical system processes workflow.

·         Design and implement Birmingham City Schools District Data Center Virtual Infrastructure to provide Enterprise class Storage, Virtualization, Backup & Disaster Recovery. 

·         Manage 15+ SQL Server database systems and enterprise applications in a mixed of SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2008R2 and Oracle 10/11G running on virtualized environment.

·         Manage the day-to-day support of servers, applications and desktop virtualization. Support MS Hyper-V, ESX and Citrix virtualization technologies with Dell EMC, EqualLogic and Compellent SAN in Data center.

·         Implement Disaster Recovery in remote location with Compellent Remote Instant Replay. Participate in DR tests and planning. Support operations of multi-site, multi-vendor environments.

·         Design enterprise server systems including technical architecture, stability, and platforms.

·         Perform System performance tuning, monitoring and provide technical support across the District.

·         Architect system configurations to match application and recovery requirements. Analyze system logs and identifying potential issues. Apply operating system updates, patches and configuration changes.

·         Support, Build and Maintain new McAleer Nextgen Financial System for District wide RDP implementation include user profile and print function optimization for 300 end-user.

·         Conduct a Capacity Assessment of BCS Data Center to provide guidance in making an investment in VMWare virtual infrastructure for District.

·         Design and implement SmaxInterface .Net program for data transformation between various applications with Student Information System.

·         Implement and configure Symantec End Point Protection with Symantec AntiVirus for Centralized & Automated Anti-Virus Administration for Data Center Security operation.

·         Design and implement Business Objects Crystal Reports XI reporting application with Client-Server Scheduling Automation capabilities to meet HR, Finance, and other department needs.

·         Implement and manage Dell EqualLogic, Compellent, EMC CX500 Storage Area Network, MS System Center, CommVault Galaxy Backup System, Altiris Server Management and Dell Management Console.

·         Design, implement, and manage highly-available reports with DB2, MSSQL and Oracle data sources by DataDirect Connect ODBC driver in MS Access and Crystal Report XI.

·         Provide District wide (60 schools, 30,000 students and 4,000 employees) technical support.

 

Senior Tech II                                                                               

Earth Tech Inc.

A Tyco International LTD. Company - Birmingham, AL               02/2004 – 08/2005

Summary:

Responsible for technical support operations in an engineering consulting environment, including coordination of technical issues involving network, hardware, and operating systems. Oversee network connectivity, implementation, integration, and troubleshooting for servers, desktop PCs, laptop Notebooks, remote access, storage devices, printers, scanners and production applications (Bentley MicroStation).

Responsibilities:

·         Manage and support LAN, successfully upgrading all user nodes to Windows XP SP-2 with Spybot and Ad-aware Anti-Spam technologies.

·         Design and develop Project Journal Databases to achieve department goals and objectives.

·         Implementing testing environment for upgrading Bentley products to meet client’s requirement in area of design engineering and services.

 

IT Analyst                                                             

McPherson Oil Company – Birmingham, AL                                  08/2003 – 02/2004

Summary:

Recruited to establish and manage enterprise-wide information technology systems. Oversee companywide efforts to identify and evaluate all critical systems. Design and implement security processes and procedures, and perform cost benefit analysis on all recommended strategies. Wholly responsible for operation support and administration in a high-volume, 24x7 oil distribution environment, including working as a team member with a dedication to problem-solving attitude.

Responsibilities:

·         Architected and administer, 200+ node LAN/WAN, successfully migrate NT Domain to Windows Server 2003 Active Directory (connecting Windows 98/2000/XP workstations, printers, and terminals with remote access).

·         Build and manage a cost-effective Linux e-mail system with Spam filter ability and a Web-based Merchant Site Candidate Database in MS Access Form to meet all management, employee, and customer needs.    

·         Earned a reputation for on-time, on-budget completion of high-profile projects involving Linux E-mail Server, Windows 2003 server and domain migration and Linux-based Fax server.

 

Information System Specialist

School of Public Health                     

University of Alabama at Birmingham – Birmingham, AL            09/2001 – 02/2002

Summary:

Integral Information Service team member providing network support and security administration for 800+ students and faculties, including daily backups; user accounts/permissions maintenance; network virus inoculation strategies; Exchange/SQL/file/print server and workstation performance monitoring, repair, and configuration; and troubleshooting connectivity issues for local and remote networks.                                                                                         

Responsibilities:

·         Evaluate and Implement Group Policy in Active Directory. Configure, install, secure and maintain Windows Domain (PDC, member server, IIS, Exchange servers).

·         Design and Implement an ePolicy Orchestrator Anti-Virus Server. Develop an Access Database for monitoring network systems resources.

 

Network Administrator                                                          

Molton, Allen & Williams LLC – Birmingham, AL                         09/2000 – 08/2001

Summary:

Solution-oriented IT team member providing Mortgage & Banking network and systems support and application administration for 300+ multi-company users.

Responsibilities:

·         Achieved improved traffic performance by executing a complete restructure of network, separating different departments into their own domains and implementing a layer-two segmentation of the LAN with VLANs through Cisco router and switches.

·         Praised by department heads for significantly improving file access speed and for completing entire restructure in just two months. Reconfigured router/servers for DHCP (dynamic host configuration) client and enabled other remote users to access server via Internet or Frame Relay.

·         Implement network address translations and establishment of static routes with Cisco routers ensured problem-free for all applications. Maintain Cisco PIX firewall to provide network security.

·         Design and implement Windows terminal server in a Citrix MetaFrame environment for insurance, mortgage and banking departments. Use Perfmon tool for SQL Database performance tuning and troubleshooting.

·         Identify and resolve TCP/IP networking issues through Publish Applications, Server Farms, and Load Balancing. Deliver improvements from 25% to 200%. Perform the Mortgage Originator (TMO) Database performance tuning, backup and recovery such as Microsoft Windows NT Performance Monitor log or a SQL Profiler log.

 

 

Systems Administrator                                                         

Young & Vann Supply Company – Birmingham, AL                      01/1997 – 08/2000

Summary:

Manage and administer Industry Supply system operation network in high-volume environment. Design, implement and support cost effective technical solutions, which provide value for business functions.

Responsibilities:

·         Design and install cabling systems for new and existing facilities. Provide client training in network operations and remote access.

·         Develop Frame-relay WAN and Ethernet LAN for corporate offices. Obtained in-depth on-the-job and higher education technical training.

·         Build Batch/Shell program in Windows/Unix to automate day-to-day system operation.

·         Performance Tuning: Ensured that assigned systems were engineered, configured and optimized for maximum functionality and availability. Implemented solutions that reduced single points of failure and improved system uptime to 99.9% availability (up from previous high of 97.5%).

·         Project Management: Led enterprise wide hardware/software installations; oversaw major server upgrade/expansion project that improved network access protection (NAP), terminal services and network performance; and integrated new technologies into existing data-center environments.

·         Security: Strengthened system/network security and business-continuity planning as a member of company’s security incident response team.

·         Troubleshooting: Rectified many issues by instituting best practices in system log analysis, backups, network operating center security, user account/permissions management and systems/software auditing.

 

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

 

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 2000

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM – BIRMINGHAM, AL