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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

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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, CA
06.2022

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing - Cloud Computing

University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX
03.2022

Bachelor of Science - Bsc. Accounting

University of Ghana
Ghana
2001

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
Augustine Koffi