Augustine Koffi
King Of Prussia,PA
Summary
Excellent communication skills and extensive experience working with clients and partners. Innovative Solutions Architect actively seeking a Solutions Architect opportunity to add an invaluable new facet to your company team. Bringing an in-depth understanding of software deployment and system design illustrated over 6 years of experience in similar roles. Strategic Solution Architect aiming to leverage a skill for process analysis and business solution development illustrated over 6 years of industry success. Ambitious and diligent with a drive for perpetuating the Company mission and values. Resourceful Solution Architect offering 6 years of customer relationship management and implementation support to add value to a Solutions Architect opportunity. Highly skilled in managing database performance and upgrades to ensure ongoing efficiency and achievement of Company corporate objectives.
Resourceful Solution Architect bringing 6 years of client rapport building and solution implementation support illustrated across multiple years of industry contribution. Well-versed in evaluating database and process performance and developing actionable solutions for improvement.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
1
1
Certification
1
1
Certification
Work History
Enterprise Architect
PNC Bank
05.2022 - Current
- Developed network and system architecture according to business needs.
- Collaborated with clients to determine project specifications and scope.
- Set up secure databases and networks.
- Applied hardware engineering and software design theories to develop appropriate interfaces.
- Provided current best practices and third-party solution alternatives when necessary for functional design documentation.
- Provided technical leadership to team members during system design.
- Reviewed clients' overall app and infrastructure estate, business priorities and success criteria to design transformation plans.
- Developed diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.
- Offered input for complex documents to support client-ready final versions.
- Troubleshot incidents reported by end-users to schedule system changes and identify permanent solutions.
- Performed internal system acceptance to deliver well-tested enhancements and meet business requirements.
- Oversaw document development across project workstreams to create internal control statements per compliance and regulatory standards.
- Communicated and explained business requirements to team members to understand and implement functional demands.
- Enhanced project management skills by defining and presenting system solutions and timelines for business needs or technical problems.
- Analyzed existing systems and databases and recommended enhancements to solve business needs
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend and holiday shifts.
- Collaborated closely with upper management to drive strategy through development and implementation of new processes.
- Applied knowledge of application components in conjunction with query tools to achieve business objectives.
- Developed flowcharts and diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.
- Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
- Carried out day-day-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
- Performed duties in accordance with applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment.
- Maintained energy and enthusiasm in fast-paced environment.
- Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.
- Provided architectural leadership and guidance to technical teams to deliver robust, highly scalable and cost-effective solutions.
- Provided solution designs to meet system strategies, capabilities and technologies and to respond to current and future business requirements.
- Researched and understood emerging technologies and end-user needs.
- Recommended design changes to production systems in response to changing business process, capacity, risks and performance requirements.
- Maintained compliance with cybersecurity regulations and measures and tracked, assessed, integrated and reported on modernization and migration processes.
- Worked closely with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders to determine planning, implementation and integration of system-oriented projects.
- Partnered closely with technical stakeholders to implement security, operational, compliance and privacy-related controls as part of cloud blueprints.
- Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing.
- Worked with developers and engineers to realize technological solutions
- Maintained current and in-depth understanding of business processes, needs and objectives
- Contributed heavily to product development lifecycle of both back-end and customer-facing solutions
Cloud Architect
Intel Solutions Technologies
11.2016 - 04.2022
- Managed and delivered advanced customization and configuration for compute solutions
- Worked with clients post-implementation on user testing, debugging, support and maintenance
- Created and implemented innovative business solutions to support corporate objectives
- Managed project scope, schedule, status and documentation
- Supervised deployments and provided troubleshooting and user support
- Presented roadmap and technology infrastructure to customers, demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security and integration capabilities
- Worked closely with product teams to define and prioritize partner feature requests
- Communicated with partners and clients to update product and implementation status at technical or functional level
- Provided support during customer implementations and applied industry best practices to ensure success
- Guided and influenced existing partners on recommended upgrades and enhancements to integrated solutions
- Executed application database upgrades, backups and restore duties
- Installed, integrated and deployed Software product in client environments
- Designed networks supporting end users with security products, including firewalls, two-factor authentication and antivirus software
- Designed and delivered mission-critical network infrastructure to maintain consistent availability and performance
- Developed and supported implementation of company-wide business solutions
- Monitored database performance and developed actionable improvements for underperformance
- Analyzed requirements and implemented systems to deliver comprehensive system development life cycle solutions
- Handled troubleshooting tasks related to components for Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks and voice systems
- Application development platforms on public clouds and/or Azure in development languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C#, Node.JS targeting Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, public clouds or Azure.
- Scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (e.g. AKS, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, Pivotal Cloud Foundry etc.), microservices, etc. •
- Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, GitHub). •
- Experience and understanding of large-scale application portfolios in enterprise-wide environments) •
- Experience using integrated development environments (e.g. Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, XCode, WebSphere).
- Deploying web application using ECS.
- Create and manage a nonrelational Database using AWS DynamoDB.
- Building an Automated Business Process using Managed Services on a Public Cloud.
- Team communication Solution .
- Created migration strategies to bridge development gaps between existing software architecture and future updates.
- Architecting, building, and maintaining cost-efficient, scalable cloud environments for the organization.
- Understanding business objectives of the company and creating cloud-based solutions to facilitate those objectives.
- Keeping cloud environments secure and preventing downtime or security breaches.
- Transferring data and internal processes to the cloud architecture.
- Keeping data leakage and downtime to an absolute minimum.
- In depth knowledge of key AWS services like EC2, IAM, S3.
- Experience assessing clients workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and cloud adoption roadmap.
- In-depth knowledge of AWS platform and tools .
- Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive project from architecture standpoint .
- Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall industry to provide thought leadership ( seminars, whitepapers ) and mentor team to build necessary competency Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness with key stakeholders in client organization.
- Experience provisioning and managing AWS services .
- Experience to build scalable architectural patterns (n-tier architecture , microservices hosting , data-lake hosting.
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
- Migrate complex , multi-tier applications to public cloud .
- Design, optimize and document the operational aspects of the Cloud platform.
- Work closely with customers to develop robust and reusable configuration management components.
- Enable Public Cloud Migration of systems supported by the Transactional Squad.
- Provision landing zones for stakeholders to deploy Azure services.
- Onboarding configuration and automation of cloud services through Infrastructure as Code .
- Experience with architecting and maintaining high availability production system .
- Sound knowledge of server infrastructure, virtualization , and cloud computing .
- Sound experience with Infrastructure as Code ( e.g Terraform, Ansible, Cloudformation etc.)
- Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing
- Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions
- Identified and remediated single points of failure and security risks
- Recommended design changes to production systems in response to changing business process, capacity, risks and performance requirements
- Researched and understood emerging technologies and end-user needs
- Interfaced directly with customers, stakeholders and end-users regarding capability architectures, requirements use cases and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications
- Developed specifications, drawings and engineering artifacts and reports
- Collaborated with development and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules
Linux System Administrator
Global Solutions Pittsburgh
07.2013 - 05.2016
- Resolved vulnerabilities by making improvements to network security
- Configured and maintained web servers with several end users
- Ensured business continuity by designing disaster recovery systems
- Installed, configured, and maintained Linux systems using Red Hat, Ubuntu
- Standardized job tasks and trained junior team members on industry best practices and standards
- Enhanced availability of infrastructure through enterprise-wide planning, thorough testing, implementation and comprehensive support
- Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service
- Implemented, developed and tested installation and update of file servers, print servers and application servers in all departments
Auditor ( Inventory Control)
Dorman Products
08.2001 - 10.2012
- Devoted special emphasis to punctuality and worked to maintain outstanding attendance record, consistently arriving to work ready to start immediately
- Negotiated agreements between employees to clarify misunderstood directions and resolve conflicts affecting performance
- Prepared relevant SRM documents in conformance with Safety Management System (SMS) order
- Managed quality assurance program including on site evaluations, internal audits and customer surveys
- Worked with Various department to resolve accuracy problems, improve operations and provide exceptional customer service
- Saved $55,000 by researching and implementing new cost-saving initiatives and creating fresh new approaches to long-standing problems
Education
Advanced Cybersecurity Certificate - Advanced Cybersecurity Program
Stanford University
Stanford, CA06.2022
Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing - Cloud Computing
University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX03.2022
Bachelor of Science - Bsc. Accounting
University of Ghana
Ghana2001
Skills
- Systems design
- Database performance
- Process analysis
- RDM databases
- DynamoDB databases
- Cloud services
- Firewalls, VPNs and security products
- Network security
- Storage virtualization
- Network infrastructure administration
- Creating launch configuration using EC2 Instance
- Changing launch configuration for Auto scaling group
- Launching Auto Scaling instances in VPC
- Network and content delivery
- Compute , Storage , Management and Governance and security, identity ,and compliance services
Certification
- Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect
- Linux Professional Institute Certification
- TOGAF
Timeline
Enterprise Architect
PNC Bank
05.2022 - Current
Cloud Architect
Intel Solutions Technologies
11.2016 - 04.2022
Linux System Administrator
Global Solutions Pittsburgh
07.2013 - 05.2016
Auditor ( Inventory Control)
Dorman Products
08.2001 - 10.2012
Advanced Cybersecurity Certificate - Advanced Cybersecurity Program
Stanford University
Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing - Cloud Computing
University of Texas At Austin
Bachelor of Science - Bsc. Accounting
University of Ghana