Candidates About

 

Durgesh Manohar

 

Highlights:

·         15+ years of broad enterprise experience across diverse Domains and software platforms.

·         Extensive experience collaborating with Senior Leadership Team in strategic solution led planning, IT Service Management and Relationship Management.

·         Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure Services with over 4 years working extensively as a Microsoft Cloud Architect.

·         Strong leadership, management, mentoring and communication skills.

·         Stellar critical thinking abilities in solving extremely complex, multi-faceted problems within constraints.

·         Veteran in strategic identification and alignment of services to meet client needs and maximize ROI.

·         Extensive experience in working closely with sales teams to land engagements, grow and retain clients.

·         Highly skilled in Program Management using SCRUM based Agile methodologies.

·         Solid architecting expertise in Hybrid IT platforms - on premises and Azure/AWS.

·         Proficient in architecting virtualization environments using Hyper-V / VMware and Docker.

·         Trained and certified ITIL  Foundation SME with proven proficiency in IT Service Management

·         Expert level troubleshooting skills from both User and technology perspectives.

·         Solid understanding of Enterprise level network components such as firewalls, load balancing and WAN optimization.

·         Well-versed in automation using Power Shell and python.

·         Comfortable working independently, in teams and leading teams.

·         Worked with internal leadership on forecasting, account planning and strategic account growth

·         Take ownership of the platform completely and take complete responsibility for Implementation, platform upgrades, Performance, maintenance, system administration, workflow development and all other work in the environment.

·         Managed infrastructure development that will enhance the scalability of the organization, allowing the proper systems and processes to be integrated with the business’ best practices ensuring consistency and stability.

·         Research and help test emerging technological trends to assist the business with strategic path forward in the content management sphere.

·         Deliver product, technology and/or solution presentations to technical and business decision makers and engage interactively.

·         Excellent knowledge in Object Oriented Programming & Design, GUI, Client Server Architecture (n-tier).

·         Flexibility to adopt new technologies and zeal to learn new technologies.

·         Good team player with strong work ethics, desire and ability to quickly learn new technologies and work in fast ever-changing environment.

 

Technical Areas Of Expertise

·         Microservices and Cloud solutions (IBM Bluemix, AWS, Red Hat, Azure)

·         Cloud architectures (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

·         API Management (IBM API Connect, AWS API Gateway, Mulesoft Anypoint Platform)

·         Application Servers (WebSphere)

·         Business Process Management (IBM BPM, JBoss jBPM)

·         Decision Management (IBM ODM, Drools)

·         Cognitive Computing

 

Professional Work Experience Summary:

 

Eclat Inc.                                                                                                        July’ 2016 – Till date

Senior Azure Cloud Architect: San Ramon, CA

 

Responsibilities 

·         Engaged with various customers in SMB space and drove solution led selling focused on Cloud.

·         Designed Hybrid IT solutions that spanned multiple Microsoft technologies with a strong focus on Azure, Enterprise Mobility and Security and Office 365

·         Responsible for the overall Architect, design and implementation of custom web development projects.

·         Working Closely with Business Users to get the requirements and providing technical Inputs.

·         Led Proof of Concept (POC) and Demo sessions with customers to showcase the technical functionality.

·         Worked with internal leadership on forecasting, account planning and strategic account growth.

·         Developed and maintained relationships with more than 50 vendor partners and clients.

·         Managed projects against schedule, budget, and scope objectives. Maintained daily status report and database. Drove timelines, anticipate delays, and address concerns of stakeholders before they occur.

·         Drove new Cloud Hybrid solutions opportunities to grow the professional services business and meet targets.

·         Created an architecture, operations, and security framework for extending the company’s professional services infrastructure to include cloud management on the AWS and Azure platforms. 

·         Designed the Role Based Access Control(RBAC) to securing Azure subscriptions, to configure Azure active directory roles and assigning RBAC, and Designed custom RBAC roles.

·         Configured and implemented storage blobs and Azure files - Created Storage accounts, Configured the Content Delivery Network(CDN), custom domain, Managing access and storage access keys

·         Designed and implemented ARM templates from a deployment deployed the template using the portal, PowerShell, and using Azure quick start templates.

·         Work with the sales team to deliver quotes for AWS application migration and interviewing clients technical staff and mapping dependencies.

·         Worked with the Project Management and Engineering teams to ensure the services are implemented and delivered as scoped.

·         Thorough understanding of Azure cloud service offering (covering Azure Compute, Storage and Network and PaaS services including App Services, Web Role/Worker Role, SQL Azure Database among others).

·         Strong knowledge of Cloud security standards and principles including Identity and Access management in Azure.

·         Ability to analyze applications for Azure suitability and propose right target state on Azure considering cost, performance, and security

 

Young’s Market.                                                                                             May 2014 – June 2016

Azure Cloud Solutions Architect: Pleasanton, CA

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Led medium to large agile projects from planning, executing to monitoring and controlling for improving operational and financial performance in a fast paced environment.

·         Responsible for the overall Architect, design and implementation of web development projects.

·         Working Closely with Business Users to get the requirements and providing technical Inputs.

·         Deployed (ACI and VMware NSX) SDN Cloud infrastructure for IBM Cloud services.

·         Managing a team of Analyst, developers and external vendors to implement enterprise web projects.

·         Established engineering best practices and processes with various technical teams.

·         Streamlined production operations, managed onsite teams to support various applications and consistently met service level agreements (SLA) and managed performance against those SLAs.

·         Experience implementing/architecting cloud-based Active Directory solutions for Azure and AWS

·         Led and streamlined change management initiative with key Stake Holders.

·         Worked with cross functional teams to train them on various workflows and collaborate effectively using Agile tools and technologies.

·          Helped implementing Agile/Scrum methodology using TFS and Git.

·         Drove quality initiative and improved product quality through streamlining quality guidelines, resulting in drastic improvement in product(s) quality and sales.

·         Developed and designed migration strategies to deploy applications from on-premise to Azure.

·         Interfaced with top Microsoft vendors to quickly find viable solutions.

·         Interacted with Microsoft Premier Service’s team to resolve production issues.

 

Young’s Market.                                                                                             Apr 2011 – Apr’ 2014

Manager/Lead: Union City, CA

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Involved in gathering business/functional requirements and translating them to technical requirements.

·         Working with the Development team to achieve project deadlines.

·         Migrating an On-premises virtual machine to Azure Resource Manager Subscription with Azure Site Recovery.

·         Analyzed and documented steps required to establish single sign-on across applications and systems powered by Active Directory for 3000+ employees.

·         Supporting Finance, Sales Ops, HR and Customer Service teams with analytical  reporting solutions both on premise and off premise  platforms.

·         Work with the sales team to deliver quotes for AWS application migration and interviewing clients technical staff and mapping dependencies.

·         Improved applications performance by analyzing and eliminating bottles necks.

·         Designed and developed several Stored Procedures, Functions, Triggers, and Views for various projects

·         Followed agile methodologies like Scrum.

·         Developed various reports like tabular reports, matrix reports, and parameterized reports using SSRS.

·         Used versioning tools Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) for version controlling of the Application.

·         Providing maintenance support and enhancement support for the application.

 

 

 Billingsley                                                                                                      Sep’ 2009 – Mar’ 2011

 Team Lead: Plano, TX

 

·         Responsible for the overall Architect, design and implementation online Portal

·         Responsible of Architect and implementation of HR on boarding Process.

·         Designed and developed various self service reports according to the business needs.

·         Migrate the existing software applications to Asp.net.

·         Resolve the Issues faced by the Customers.

·         Responsible in getting the requirement from the customers, writing the requirement document for the development team, involved all the phases of development life cycle and deliver the finished product

 

 

E&Y                                                                                                                 Mar’ 2005 – Aug’ 2009

Sr Software Engineer: Rutherford, NJ

 

·         Responsible for managing offshore and Onsite team and deliver the work to the client.

·         Implement regular patches released from Microsoft.

·         Business layers are written in C# languages and at the Stored Procedure level

·         Creation and maintenance of SQL scripts, complex load, backup, and restore procedures.

·         Maintained data integrity and improving performance and tuning.

·         Designed, documented and developed various Components, Procedures, Functions, Code Modules and Classes for user interface, security and back-end functionality.

·         Various modules and DTSs are written to download the data from Mainframe machine and to upload in SQL server database.

 

TMCAZ/Cap Gemini                                                                                        Mar’ 2004 – Feb’ 2005

Sr. Software Engineer: Tucson, AZ

·         Architected the Reporting System in .NET, C# for report development.

·         Developed n-tiered client-server applications

·         Drill down reports developed in C# & Reporting services.

·         Business layers are written in C# languages and at the Stored Procedure level

·         Creation and maintenance of SQL scripts, complex load, backup, and restore procedures.

·         Maintained data integrity and improving performance and tuning.

·         Designed, documented and developed various Components, Procedures, Functions, Code Modules and Classes for user interface, security and back-end functionality.

·         Developed the Web Services and implemented all common functionality that is needed for Wells Fargo use.

·         Implemented Web trends 7.0 to generate the website statistic reports

·         Various modules and DTSs are written to download the data from Mainframe machine and to upload in SQL server database.

·         Worked on T-SQL, stored procedures and triggers, queries, schema migration on live databases.

·         Various third party controls from Distinct, Infragistics, and ChartFx have been used to give a better look and functionality.

·         Developed various SSIS packaged to pull data from Peoplesoft.

·         Involved in testing the website to check the Implemented functionality meets the requirements.

 

 

Directv, Inc                                                                                         Jan’ 2002 – Dec’2002

Senior Software Engineer: Santa Clara, CA

 

Education:

Bachelors in. Engineering Computer Science