Prasanna M.

Prasanna M.

Cloud Solutions Evangelist, Architect & Cloud Strategist

Texas City , United States

Experience: 13 Years

Prasanna

Texas City , United States

Cloud Solutions Evangelist, Architect & Cloud Strategist

288000 USD / Year

  • Immediate: Available

13 Years

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About Me

This is Prasanna Manikonda, having 13+ experience in the IT industry. Worked for top tier-1 companies throughout my career and supported fortune 100 reputed customers.

Has proven experience in handling multimillion-dollar engagements, mult...

Has proven experience in handling multimillion-dollar engagements, multiple parallel projects and delivered customer requirements with utmost customer satisfaction.

Has experience working on public/private cloud end to end implementations using Amazon web services(AWS) / Azure / GCP / IBM clouds.

Has experience in implementing cloud reference architectures, governance policies, security models, and best practices.

Has experience in Cloud Pre-sales, Cloud Adoption framework, Cloud Migration framework, DevOps & Delivery.

Has domain knowledge in Utilities, infrastructure & Cloud platforms Domains.

I have completed below external certifications

  • Amazon web services cloud solution architect Professional
  • Amazon web services cloud solution architect associate
  • Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions expert (70-534)
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
  • IBM Cloud Platform Application Development V1(C5050-285-ENU)
  • ITIL certification (Information technology infrastructure library) in ITIL Version 3 Foundation course.
  • SUN certification in SCJP (Sun certified java programmer) in Version 1.4. 
  • PMP mandatory learning hours of training in Project Management.

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Skills

Portfolio Projects

Description

P2 Energy Solutions is US based company that provides financial and accounting management software, geospatial data, land asset management tools, asset lifecycle management solutions, environmental, health & safety solutions and outsourcing services to both the upstream and mid-stream oil and gas sectors as well as the alternative energy sector.

Currently P2 is hosting their products in OnX Datacenter - third party hosting service, the requirement is to migrate applications hosted in OnX DC to AWS Cloud in order to improve application performances, Go to market, RTO and RPO.

Contribution :

  • As a cloud solution architect, and along with the client solution architects contributed to the cloud strategy, cloud migration framework and adopting the cloud strategy to the business.
  • Responsible for leading the team for doing application assessments, risk assessments in identifying right candidates for migration & preparing the migration plan to the AWS cloud.
  • Responsible for capturing the datacenter infrastructure assets, identifying the right candidates for the migration.
  • Responsible for creating AWS vpn/direct connect access to existing datacenter and obsolescence requirements.
  • Introduced and Implemented Devops automation for the new builds using CI/CD tools(Jenkins/Ansible), CMP tool(Cloudaware), Patch Management(WSUS/Pulp) and reduced the build times significantly and helped to onboard the customers efficiently.
  • Able to improve overall application performance significantly and also able to enable high availability architecture’s for the critical applications using AWS managed services (R53, ELB, Directory services, Cloud front)
  • Realized the key objective of improving the RTO & RPO to the end customer from 7 days to 1 day.
  • Provided MS Remote Desktop gateway, third party WAF(Barracuda) for Application security and access
  • Able to reduce the overall time in onboarding a new customer complex environments from days to few hours with the help of cloud adaption & usage of automation tools
  • Achieved TCO savings with an average 20% to 30% by optimizing the resources utilization by adapting to AWS cloud managed services & best practices.

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Description

GE Energy part of the big GE conglomerate, order to cut costs and improve utilization of resources, would like to take the lead from the other GE business and want to implement the global strategy and migrate applications from existing datacenter to new AWS public cloud.

Contribution :

  • As a cloud solution architect, and along with the client solution architects contributed to the cloud strategy, cloud migration framework and adopting the cloud strategy to the business.
  • Established the Cloud framework based on the best practices and responsible for application assessments, identifying right candidates for migration & plan the migrations to the AWS cloud.
  • As part of this engagement, successfully migrated the targeted applications from existing datacenter to AWS cloud.
  • Responsible for capturing the datacenter infrastructure assets, identifying the right candidates for the migration.
  • Responsible for creating AWS vpn/direct connect access to existing datacenter and obsolescence requirements.
  • Implemented Devops & automated the deployment for migrations using CI/CD tools(Jenkins/chef), CMP tool(SCALR) and developed chef recipes and automated application builds & releases.
  • Implemented and Integrated AWS managed services like EC2, ELB, VPC, Directory service, Route 53, RDS, S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, Lambda, WAF, EMR, SNS, SQS, SES & custom automations using SDK’s (SCALR, AWS) across the infrastructure and application landscapes, also implemented centralized logging and analyzing tools using Splunk etc
  • Realized savings and also improved and optimized utilization of resources tremendously to that of on-premise infrastructure.
  • Adopted and followed the ITIL processes for the release and change management

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Description

GE Aviation is one of the leading supplier of aircraft engines to the commercial aircraft companies, part of its global infrastructure strategy would like to adopt to the cloud and to migrate applications from existing datacenter to new AWS public cloud and refactor the code for the legacy applications migration to the AWS public cloud.

Contribution :

  • As a cloud solution architect, and along with the client solution architects contributed to the cloud strategy, cloud migration framework and adopting the cloud strategy to the business.
  • Responsible for doing the application assessments, identifying right candidates for migration & preparing the migration plan to the AWS cloud.
  • Successfully migrated the targeted applications from existing datacenter to AWS cloud and integration of several AWS services S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, Lambda, WAF, EMR, SNS, SQS, SES etc
  • Responsible for doing applications technology standardization and code refactoring web applications the legacy applications.
  • Responsible for developing custom reusable components using AWS SDK & SCALR SDK using Java/J2ee (Restful web services)technology and integrations to existing CMDB (service now), cloudability for billing reports/cost analytics.
  • Designed backup strategies for the database and application requirements.
  • Delivered multiple cloud awareness and technical trainings to customer teams

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Description

Role : Senior Software Engineer

Description :

Enterprise Manager (EM)10g, 11g and 12C :Support, Maintenance and Development.

Enterprise Manager Grid Control is a system management software that delivers centralized monitoring, administration, and life cycle management functionality for the complete IT infrastructure, including systems running Oracle and non-Oracle technologies.

Contribution :

  • Handled L3/L4 product support for the Enterprise Manager (EM)10g, 11g and 12C.
  • Worked in the Maintenance and Development of the Enterprise Manager 11g/12C Grid Control
  • As a senior member, created several internal product master / solution documents, to resolve the complex customer problems and issues
  • Responsible for development of tracing and logging mechanism in Grid Console and migrating Grid Console repository across different platforms.
  • Responsible for enhancement and Bug resolution of Grid Control components (OMR, OMS, MA)
  • Responsible for handling troubleshooting target discovery and removal issues, targets by monitoring the alerts generated in the Grid Console.
  • Responsible for Managing Metrics, Creating Metrics, and Changing threshold values.
  • As a senior member, responsible for creating product training material & deliver trainings to customers, products teams etc

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Description

In order to safeguard and protect the customer information, Our customer “Thames Water” has to build a solution to be in compliant with the DPA (Data protection Act). and to be in compliance as per PCI_DSS (PCI compliance).

Contribution :

  • Responsible for doing business engagement in gathering the Requirements as part of BDA, preparing business documents like BRS, design document TS (HLD, LLD).
  • Single point of contact from the Client side and offshore counterparts, responsible for end to end vendor coordination.
  • Responsible for Design, Build and Deploy the solution using Java/J2EE, web services, spring & hibernate
  • Co-ordinated and drove the build and testing teams with unit testing, user acceptance testing & delivery.
  • Responsible for handling all ITIL processes like change management, release management.

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Description

Merlin is a Thames water customer care (CRM) application, allows customer to pay his utility bills, enquires and register complaints, require to develop continuous enhancements providing offers and features and also to support & maintenance the application.

Contribution :

  • Developed application using Java/J2EE, web services, spring & hibernate, IBM mainframes
  • Integration with legacy system like mainframe via Integration layer thru CICS transaction gateway and many third party applications like CCM (Customer cash Management), Service Contact (Manual Job related queries).
  • Responsible for handling Major & minor enhancements.
  • Conducted unit testing, integration testing and performance testing for the enhancements
  • Responsible for application support & maintenance

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