GODFREY MENEZES
Louisville,KY
Summary
Technology Architect with 20 years of experience ensuring IT roadmaps meet business objectives and cloud initiatives. IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals like Securities Market, Banking, Supply Chain, Hospitality, Insurance, Telecom, Healthcare and Retail. Engage with customers to understand their business drivers, assess application portfolios, design reliable and cost-effective architecture In-depth experience establishing best practices and guidelines for selecting, developing, and implementing information systems within enterprise. Help customers rapidly get products and services to market through continuous delivery of solutions, building highly scalable applications, and architecting large-scale micro-services solutions.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
LEAD CLOUD ARCHITECT
HUMANA INC
07.2020 - Current
- Led Application Migration to Cloud using Azure 15 applications.
- Deployed Kubernetes workloads for Greenfield applications
- Breaking down Monolithic Applications to Containers for Brownfield Applications.
- Executed PoC/PoT, Created execution plan and Reference Architecture for implementation applications to be ReHosted to Cloud.
- Enabled current DC workloads for Cloud Migration with regards to ReHost/RePlatform/ReArchitecture.
Splunk CoE Lead
Humana
03.2019 - 06.2020
- Created Splunk roadmap for wider adoption and value in Humana, managing 8TB of daily data ingestion.
- Completed Humana's feasibility study to move current onPrem Splunk Infrastructure to Cloud.
- Executed and Completed PoC to deploy Splunk architecture in Google Cloud automating using Terraform.
- Automated Splunk deployment using Azure DevOps.
Enterprise Architect
Humana
07.2014 - 03.2019
- Led Center of Excellence for Service and API development in Enterprise Architecture providing Subject Matter Expertise IBM stack of products.
- Executed PoC for CI/CD using Jenkins and implementing Test Drive Development(TDD) using Maven and JUnit.
- Completed technology evaluation of 3 Cloud Service Provider, recording findings and recommendations for adoption.
- Created ArchType, Executed development for implementation of REST based 3 Services.
- Architect, Designed and delivered Publish/Subscribe messaging framework.
ESB Architect
CARTER’S INC
06.2013 - 07.2014
- Implemented CI/CD solution using Jenkins for automated deployment across environment, removing manual effort and cutting down on cost.
- Delivered Enterprise Order Management system in 8 months, successfully cutting over from and sunset Legacy system.
- Built Enterprise Application for testing and monitoring Middleware application.
- Implemented Multichannel solution assisting with e-Commerce.
Senior Consultant
PROLIFICS INC
08.2011 - 06.2013
- Setup Center of Excellence for Retail client in Boston,MA
- Executed Order Management System for Tire Company in Florida.
- Completed PoC and developed spec solution for Healthcare Company for HL7 Data exchange in Boston,MA that achieved win for division.
- Built and developed prototype for automated testing framework for HL7 messaging for clients.
- Successfully implemented Middleware solution for Music Industry client in Nashville,TN
Solution Lead
ULTRAMATICS INC
02.2011 - 08.2011
- Lead and Mentored team of 5 in developing their skills.
- Delivered Integration solution for Healthcare solution within budget and on time in 6 months.
Advisory IT Specialist
IBM INDIA LTD
11.2004 - 02.2011
- Developed Integration solutions for Automotive client based in Holland,MI
- Executed PoC for hospitality client for adoption of Integration solution.
- Architect, Designed and Implemented 3 Integration interfaces in Production for Property Insurance client based in Novato, CA
- Designed 10 interfaces and Executed Banking solution for Major bank based in Amsterdam, Nederland.
- Lead creation of Integration CoE for telecom provider in India. Execute and document PoC/PoT show casing adoption of Integration products.
- Developed Banking solution for major bank in Australia using Maven, Jenkins, JUnit and Ant for TDD and CI/CD.
- Designed integration banking solutions for major Bank in UK.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
University Of Mumbai
Mumbai, India 06.1995 - 06.2000
Skills
Containers - Docker, Kubernetes, Google Container Registry
Cloud Services - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Azure Well Architected FrameworkCI/CD - Jenkins, ANT, Maven, TFS, JUnit, Terraform
Web Services/API - XML, WebServices, REST, JSON, HTTP
Log Analytics - Splunk
Database - DB2, Oracle, MS SQL,MySQL, MongoDB, SQL, RDBMS, NoSQL
Messaging Standards - HL7, SWIFT, OAGIS, ACCORDDevelopment - Java
Integration Tools - IBM Integration Bus, WebSphere ESB, WebSphere ODM, Datapower, MuleSoft
Certification
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Timeline
LEAD CLOUD ARCHITECT
HUMANA INC
07.2020 - Current
Splunk CoE Lead
Humana
03.2019 - 06.2020
Enterprise Architect
Humana
07.2014 - 03.2019
ESB Architect
CARTER’S INC
06.2013 - 07.2014
Senior Consultant
PROLIFICS INC
08.2011 - 06.2013
Solution Lead
ULTRAMATICS INC
02.2011 - 08.2011
Advisory IT Specialist
IBM INDIA LTD
11.2004 - 02.2011
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
University Of Mumbai
06.1995 - 06.2000