NAVEEN KUMAR CHANDRASEKARAN
Lexington,MA
Summary
Cloud Governance, Management & Operations | Migration Excellence | Security & Compliance | Middleware & Infrastructure Management | Vendor & SaaS Management | Service Delivery Dynamic and results-driven IT leader with 25 years of experience in IT service delivery, Cloud operations, Cloud infrastructure management, Middleware administration, Application security, Vendor management, and Software procurement. Proven record of aligning technology strategies with business objectives, optimizing ITIL-based processes, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver secure, high-performing, and cost-effective IT solutions. Adept at managing hybrid IT environments, negotiating with vendors to secure favorable contracts, and driving initiatives that enhance service quality, security posture, and operational efficiency.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Service Lead / Cloud Operations Supervisor
Executive Office of Health and Human Services
03.2014 - Current
- Lead Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) Practice, driving cloud strategy, governance, DevOps, FinOps, and SecOps implementation across multiple AWS accounts.
- Directed IT service delivery for enterprise systems supporting agencies including DPH, DMH, DCF, and DDS, ensuring 99.9% uptime, ITIL-based service quality, and SLA compliance for mission-critical applications.
- Oversaw AWS cloud infrastructure of 200+ EC2 and RDS instances hosting ~40 enterprise applications and 20+ supporting tools and shared services.
- Managed AWS Cloud migration projects, transitioning 100% of workloads from on-premises data centers and virtual private cloud to AWS, improving high availability, scalability, and resilience.
- Managed AWS accounts supporting AI initiatives across EOHHS agencies.
- Managed Virtual Gateway Portal and Virtual Gateway applications serving ~1 million users from 18,000+ organizations, including healthcare, food assistance, veterans, and disability/community services.
- Cloud Management & Operations
- Middleware & Application Management
- Application Security & Compliance
- Vendor, SaaS & Professional Services Management
Release Manager and Weblogic Administrator
Software Technology International Corporation
05.2005 - 03.2014
- Manage Build Releases to QA and Production environment.
- Manage Upgrades or Patches to QA and Production.
- Implement process for the timely release of code to QA and Production environment.
- Ensure builds, upgrades and appropriate release documents are provided to clients for Implementation on time.
- Managing CVS and SVN versioning systems including its configuration and maintenance for the application builds and upgrades.
- Using CVS and SVN tools like Tortoise CVS, Tortoise SVN & WinCVS for Check-in and Checkout of files
- Installation and configuration of Weblogic Server 8.1 on Red hat and Suse linux Enterprise
- Installation and configuration of Weblogic Server 9.2 on Suse linux Enterprise
- Installation, configuration and maintenance of Suse Linux 8.1 and 9.2.
- Upgrading maintenance packs on Weblogic Server 9.2
- Upgrading service packs on Weblogic Server 8.1.
- Building and Deploying application EAR and WAR files on Weblogic Server 8.1
- Setting up weblogic clusters for failover and load balancing mechanism.
- Setting up Apache proxies for weblogic clusters
- Contracting for Executive Office of Health and Human services (State of MA)
Weblogic Administrator
Synaptris Decisions
02.2003 - 04.2005
- Performance tuning, load testing and problem analysis of the Enterprise J2EE applications configured on WebLogic Server 7.1 and 8.1
- Provide Engineering, administration and support of the Web/J2EE application Infrastructure
- Installing and configuration of Weblogic Server 7.1 and 8.1 on Solaris (Spark), Solaris 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Configuration & Deployment of .war and .ear files.
- Implemented Clustering in UAT environment on WebLogic Application Server 7.0
- Responsible for Release management using Visual Source Safe.
- Upgrading J2EE applications from WebLogic 7.0 to WebLogic 8.1 in Development, Staging and Production environment
- Assisting software Development team in code deployment on application servers in Test/QA environment
- Analyzing System problem and troubleshoot root cause of the problem.
- Built and Maintained the development and testing environments.
- Performed Disaster Recovery of Trading application between two Data Centers.
Application Engineer
Cybernet Software Systems
10.2001 - 01.2003
- WebSDK is a In-house Reporting Solution implemented using J2EE technology and patterns, which works as a Plug-in for Technomind (Rome). His end customer is TIM (A Huge Mobile Company in Italy). The project was developed using Java1.4, JDBC, Oracle, JSP, Servlet, RMI, javascript, Weblogic 7.1 and IntelliVIEW Reports, Solaris 8.0.
- Developed a J2EE Reporting solution using JSP, Servlet, javascript and IntelliVIEW Reports.
- Developed a web-based solution to suit clustered environment.
- Developed a multithreaded application using java/RMI program to create and stream multiple reports.
- Configuration & Deployment of .war files in Weblogic 7.1 in testing and production environment.
- Configured JDBC Connection pooling for Oracle in Weblogic.
- Applied the MVC, DAO and Session Façade patterns.
- Deployment in the SUN Solaris 8.0 Platform
Education
Master of Computer Applications - Information Technology
Gandhigram Rural University
Dindigul, TamilNaduBachelor of Physics - Physics
GTN College of Arts & Science
Dindigul, TamilNaduSkills
- Establishing & Governing CCoE to Drive Agency Cloud Strategy
- IT Service Management (ITIL, ITSM)
- Cloud Operations (AWS)
- Cloud Infrastructure Management & Optimization
- Middleware Platforms (WebLogic, Apache, OHS, Oracle OAM/OIM)
- Application Security & Vulnerability Management
- Incident, Problem & Change Management
- COOP & High Availability Design
- Vendor Management & Contract Negotiation
- Software Procurement & Licensing Compliance
- Infrastructure Automation & Monitoring
- Risk Assessment & Regulatory Compliance (FedRAMP, NIST)
- Budgeting & Resource Allocation
- Team Leadership & Staff Development
Certification
- Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing (AWS) with the McCombs School of Business
- Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate Training program from Great Lakes Executive Learning
- Sun Certified Java Developer
- BEA Certified Administrator: System Administration
Timeline
IT Service Lead / Cloud Operations Supervisor
Executive Office of Health and Human Services
03.2014 - Current
Release Manager and Weblogic Administrator
Software Technology International Corporation
05.2005 - 03.2014
Weblogic Administrator
Synaptris Decisions
02.2003 - 04.2005
Application Engineer
Cybernet Software Systems
10.2001 - 01.2003
Master of Computer Applications - Information Technology
Gandhigram Rural University
Bachelor of Physics - Physics
GTN College of Arts & Science
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