Dhruval Soni - Cloud Architecture - Green Card - 15+ years Exp

Dhruval Soni  - Cloud Architecture     - Green Card - 15+ years Exp    He is looking for only direct client requirment OR rate must be around $120/hr on C2C[Rate will be Negotiable] Consultant's Details:  Consultant Name: Dhruval Soni  Visa: Green Card   Employer Details: Employer:Nextgen Technologies Inc Contact Person:Kushal Email:kushal@nextgentechinc.com Note: Please call between 09:30 AM PST to 06:00 PM PST Phone: 4134240484 Resume   Accomplished IT Professional having 15+ Years of strong Technical Experience in IT, Cloud Infrastructure, Software development, DevOps and Client Success specialized in Healthcare, Aerospace, and Finance Domain. EDUCATION Master’s Degree - Masters of Computer Applications MCA, Year 2003 – 2006, Grade: Distinction A+ Bachelor’s Degree - Bachelor of Computer Science B.SC. Year 2000 – 2003, Grade: Distinction A+ ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS Won Innovation Challenge organized by MEDECISION presenting and architected innovated cloud patient engagement AWS based INCIRCLE App for the Year 2017 Awarded Best Team of the quarter at MEDECISION – December 2015 Awarded best employee of the month at CHEMTECH Consulting – July 2008 Professional Certifications AWS Certified Solution Architect AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner  Microsoft Azure Foundation Certified Enterprise Architect Digital Transformation   TECHNICAL SKILLS Cloud and Web and Technologies AWS -Amazon Web Services - EC2, S3, Lambda, Cloud Front, Snowball, Storage Gateway, RDS, Amazon Batch, EBS, Dynamo DB, Red Shift, Aurora, ELB, IAM, Amazon Inspector, Azure, GCP, ASP.NET, ASP, XML, HTML, DHTML, Web Services, VBScript, Ajax, JavaScript, IIS, CSS, Azure, VMWare, HCI, Hypervisor, SAN, NAS, DASD, Fiber Channel, VMWare Database: MS SQL Server, T-SQL, MY SQL, Oracle, PL-SQL, MONGO DB, ETL, Data Warehousing, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Access, Simple DB, and Cloud Database Services Languages C#.NET, VB.NET, C, C++, Core JAVA, VB 6, JAVA, LINUX, SOA, Python Operating Systems MAC OS, IOS, Windows Server 2014/2012/2008/2003/2000 DOS, Linux, CentOS Tools: Visual Studio.Net, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Source Safe, Visio, Expression blend. Splunk, New Relic, SolarWinds, Ops Gennie Dynatrace, SRM, SAP Business Objects, SharePoint, IIS Project Management Microsoft Project, VISIO, XMIND, SDLC, SCRUM   PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE   UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – USC -ITS Sr. Staff Server Administrator / Cloud Architecture      ITS – Platform Services                        September 2019 - Current   Responsible for conceptualizing the next generation platform cloud architecture by identifying business requirements, creating designs and prototypes, leading testing activities, and conducting training and adoption working with researchers, students and professors. Develop overall multi cloud platform standards, guidelines, leading edge practices, and approved techniques and approaches for maintenance and upgrades. Perform modeling and planning of servers and storage. Responsible for Developing rigorous testing and implementation strategies to ensure stability of servers, databases, and storage platforms and Identify operational opportunities and gaps. Implement solutions that solve platform challenges while meeting business Helping with onboarding new customers to ITS infrastructure by architecting the solution that fits best to Its infrastructure. Assisting in the development of strategic platform technology roadmaps like hyper convergent HCI (VxRail, Nutanix), VMware Cloud Foundation, Cloud Managed Provider as part of Cloud Smart initiative. Participating in disaster recovery planning, development, exercises, testing, and actual disaster or emergency events working in collaboration with security and other teams to create and maintain a secure infrastructure Responsible for managing and collaborating across the organization, including with vendor partners, to ensure the delivery of high-quality server administration services. Oversee the planning and implementation of server updates, maintenance, and configuration. Making sure that operations are consistent with university processes and policies. Identify ways to improve existing procedures. Responsible for creating and supporting procedures for prioritizing and addressing support issues escalated by the Customer Experience team. Serving as a technical expert for highly complex issues. Communicates clearly with stakeholder teams and maintains a knowledgebase of articles, tutorials, and training resources to support internal team operations. Responsible for Facilitating innovation and continuous improvement by leveraging the latest industry knowledge. Advises and guides the server administration team on emerging technologies. Responsible for ongoing process improvement efforts within the team and overseeing the integrity of networks, platform services, and related hardware by providing direction and technical expertise to the configuration and maintenance of server platforms. Responsible for implementing best practices to support decision-making processes and effectively solve problems and Presenting opportunities for improvement and measures success factors when implementing change. Responsible for Contributing an inclusive environment that values differences by building and maintaining collaborative relationships with team members, peers, and ITS leaders. Actively embodies ITS values and behaviors including accountability, strong ethics, and best-in-class customer service.   MEDECISION Inc / Blue Cross BlueShield IL. Unlimited Innovations Inc was acquired by Medecision in Year January 2013 Sr. Member of Technical Staff/ Cloud Platform Architect IT Infrastructure                  August 2011 to September 2019   Designed secured, cost optimized, highly available and fault tolerant infrastructures in AWS. Managed provisioning of AWS infrastructures using CloudFormation. Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, role-based permissions, enforced strong password policy, configured security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs etc. Delegated access across AWS accounts using IAM cross account roles. Leveraged EC2 Lifecycle Manager to create snapshots of EBS volumes on scheduled intervals for backup and define and a retention period as a cost saving measure. Leveraged STS to generate and provide temporal credentials to users. Configured CloudWatch alarms rules for operational and performance metrics with SNS notifications for end to end monitoring of our AWS resources. Deployed and configured infrastructure using Ansible. Architect a static website to host a one-time event or in a disaster recovery scenario by leveraging Route 53. Established communication between VPCs using VPC Peering and Transit Gateway. Configured lifecycle configuration rules on S3 buckets to move data between storage classes for easy accessibility, archiving and or cost optimization. Tagged AWS resources and developed a methodological standard for tagging resources for audit, tracking and cost analysis. Optimized cost through reserved instances, selection and changing of EC2 types based on resource need, Auto Scaling etc. Designed a highly performing infrastructure for elasticity and scalability using Elastic Cache to cache common queries on a database, CloudFront - Edge Locations and read replicas for read queries. Architected infrastructures to mitigate DDOS attacks. Used Jira to plan, track, support and close requests, tickets and incidents. Documented architecture designs in a Solutions Definition Document and a Low-Level Design Document. Responsible for Providing data engineering solution for nationwide cloud platform production environment supporting over 150+ business entities, with over 100,000 providers and close to 5+ million patient lives in customer data hub platform 24x7x365. Implemented new design principle and design standard with cutting edge could computing technologies using ASW and related technologies to comply with internal HIPPA and High Trust, SOC Type 2 compliance to meet data security, privacy requirements. Implemented data management and data integration using various cloud-based data engineering platforms like AWS - S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, AURORA, Redshift, Azure etc. As Infrastructure Lead, I managed Co-Location and Private Cloud Infrastructure which was capable of supporting disaster recovery and active replication of web servers and database servers. Delivered a yearlong transition of to Co-Location Data Centers to Hosting.com Private Cloud and then from Hosting.Com to state of art new generation Rackspace Data Centers to scale existing production system.   Environment and Tools: Amazon Web Services, EC2, S3, VPC, EC2 Instances, Cost Explorer, Lambda, Cloud Front, Snowball, Storage Gateway, RDS,  Dynamo DB, Availability Zone, ELB, ALB, SQL Server Databases, ETL, Data warehousing, BI reporting, Crystal Reports, ADO.Net, ETL and Batch Processes, , ADO.Net, T-SQL, MS SQL Server,  Windows Server , Windows 7, Agile Process, Unit Testing and Regression Testing, Release Management.   NEXTGEN Technologies Inc, San Jose, CA Programmer Analyst                                                                                           February 2009 - July 2011 (2 years 6 months) As a Programmer analyst my responsibilities were Gathering detail software requirements collaborating with by working with the internal and external Aerospace, Healthcare, Financial Industry customers. Formulating requirements into it into business workflows and developing as software using SDLC methodology. Including testing and Release management  During the life cycle of the project I was responsible for implementing software development life-cycle as part of rapid application development team. It required continues engagement with Project Manager, Program Manager and CEO which gave me life lasting Leadership and Management experience. Provided complex solutions thinking out the box innovative solutions to manage projects within budget and timeline. Environment and Tools: ASP.Net, C#.Net, ADO.Net, HTML, CSS, T-SQL, MS SQL Server 2005, C, C++, JAVA, Python, JavaScript, Net framework 3.5, Visual Studio.Net, Visual Source Safe, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, Agile Process, Unit Testing and Regression Testing, Release Management Tool My Grate   CHEMTECH Consulting, Ahmedabad, India Software Engineer                                                                                               August 2007 - August 2008 (1-year 1 month)   Executed full software development life cycle, produced software design specifications and determine operational feasibility. Integrated software components into a fully functional software system Developed software verification plans and quality assurance procedures, Documented and maintained software functionality, Tailored and deployed software tools, processes and metrics Served as a subject matter expert, Complied with project plans and industry standards Trained Junior Software engineers and managed high-level project activities Developed multi-user data access component by implanting data Modeling, Designing, Normalization and Data Integrity into RDBMS. Wrote Stored Procedures, Functions, Joins, and Views using MS SQL Server Implemented Agile Process in application for rapid application development   Environment and Tools: ASP.Net, C#.Net, ADO.Net, HTML, CSS, T-SQL, MS SQL Server 2005, JavaScript, Net framework 2.0,3.0, Visual Studio 2005, Windows 2003/XP, SSIS, WCF, Crystal Reports, Agile Process, Unit Testing.   ViSiON Computers, Anand, India Software Engineer                                                                                                           July 2006 - July 2007 (1-year 1 month)   Designed and implemented a Health Care Product Doctors on Net early web-based adoption in the local market in India by using Relational database with a web interface. Involved in all stages of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle). Developed Web Pages and user interface using Master Pages, CSS and implemented input validation using the Validation Controls. Involved in Data Modeling, Designing, Normalization and Data Integrity of tables. Involved in writing Stored Procedures, Functions, Joins, and Views in SQL Server Used ADO.NET and data objects such as Data Adapter, Data Reader, Data Set, Data Table for consistent access to SQL data sources. Environment and Tools: ASP.Net 2.0, C#.Net, ADO.Net, HTML, CSS, T-SQL, SQL Server 2005 and SSRS, JavaScript, Net framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Source Safe (VSS), Windows 2000/2003/XP.   Kushal  | 1735 N 1St ST., Suite 308 |San Jose, CA 95112 NextGen Technologies Inc Email: kushal@nextgentechinc.com. Website: www.nextgentechinc.com | 4134240484 / 4087692596 Ext. 1007|

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