Rick Roy
Richmond,VA
Summary
Seasoned Cloud Architect with 16 years of expertise in cloud product architecture spanning various environments. Adept at managing multifaceted projects simultaneously, I bring a rich technical prowess to address intricate challenges. My strong communication, analysis, and presentation abilities have been pivotal in bolstering enterprise architecture across diverse business sectors. Demonstrated success in shaping both short and long-term architectural strategies, offering cost-efficient solutions, and establishing architectural principles and standards. A result-oriented innovator dedicated to surpassing expectations.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Architect (Senior Manager
Altria Client Services, Altria Group, Inc, Morris, Morris Capital Corporation
08.2020 - Current
- Companies, Inc.) is an American corporation and one of the world's largest producers and marketers of tobacco, cigarettes and related products
- Altria is the parent company of Philip Morris USA (producer of Marlboro cigarettes), John Middleton, Inc., U.S
- Smokeless Tobacco Company, Inc., and Philip, Developed a comprehensive cloud strategy and roadmap for the next three years
- Designed, architected, and built the Azure Greenfield Environment
- Assisted in migrating applications from the data center to the cloud and contributed to application modernization efforts by converting SQL servers to PaaS SQL Managed Instances and containerizing applications
- Contributed to setting up the Azure VMware Solution for migrating legacy servers to Azure
- Established and implemented architectural standards for new applications
- Participated in evaluating Managed Services Providers and provided scoring and feedback
- Set up the DMZ environment in the cloud and designed a secondary region for Azure
- Contributed to developing a containerization strategy for Altria and successfully tested and deployed a Kubernetes platform in the cloud
- Designed architectures for AWS and GCP Cloud as part of the Multi-cloud strategy
- Set up Terraform as an Enterprise Infrastructure as Code tool
- Established architectural standards for new application builds and created a library of architectural templates
- Designed a solution for moving offsite backups to the cloud and is currently preparing a long-term strategy for compute and storage for on-premises.
Sr Azure Cloud Engineer
Diversey Inc
04.2018 - 07.2020
- Diversey, Inc
- Is a provider of cleaning and hygiene products serving customers in the hospitality, healthcare, food and beverage, food service, retail and facility management sectors
- It integrates chemicals, floor care machines, tools and equipment, with a wide range of technology based value-added services, food safety services and water and energy management
- Roles & Responsibilities:
- Migrated servers from On-Premises and AWS to Azure Environment
- Managed complex SAP workloads and over 800 IaaS servers in the Azure environment
- Set up Disaster Recovery environment for the cloud
- Migrated 2003 servers and Non-SAP servers to Azure using Double take and Zerto respectively
- Designed and implemented applications with high availability using Availability Sets, Availability Zones, and PaaS technologies
- Reduced costs of the environment by up to 50% through right-sizing, moving applications to PaaS, and designing cost-effective storage, backups, and Azure reservations
- Configuring Network, Security, and Storage and Azure extensions for Virtual machines.
Sr Azure Cloud Consultant
HCL Technologies, USAA Bank
11.2016 - 04.2018
Azure Cloud Consultant
Yash Technologies INC, Cooper Tires
01.2016 - 10.2016
- Cooper Tire & Rubber Company is an American company that specializes in the design, manufacture, marketing and sales of replacement automobile and truck tires, and subsidiaries that specialize in medium truck, motorcycle and racing tires
- With headquarters in Findlay, Ohio, Cooper Tire has 60 manufacturing, sales, distribution, technical and design facilities within its worldwide family of subsidiary companies
- In July 1960, the company became a publicly held corporation and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange
- Roles & Responsibilities:
- Designed and deployed secure Azure Virtual Networks (VNets) with subnets, network settings, DHCP blocks, DNS settings, and routing
- Configured and controlled App Service Plans scaling while migrating on-premises databases and applications to Azure
- Configured Azure Active Directory as Identity Management for Business to Customer Applications (AAD-B2C)
- Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances with Azure Internal Load Balancer
- Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access and setup Virtual Appliances to meet security requirements.
IBM
08.2010 - 01.2016
- IBM is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 171 countries
- Roles & Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate expertise in Azure cloud services and the cloud ecosystem
- Collaborate with business units, developers, and security to design and deploy Azure applications and services
- Monitor, manage, and troubleshoot cloud-hosted systems and services, while providing issue resolution as needed
- Contribute to the development of cloud data solutions as part of a team
- Implement backup and disaster recovery protocols and follow Software Development Lifecycle and IT Service Management practices.
Business Objects Administrator
Ciber, Philips
07.2009 - 07.2010
- Philips-Philips is a Dutch multinational engineering and electronics conglomerate headquartered in Amsterdam
- Gerard Philips and his father Frederik founded it in Eindhoven in 1891
- It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world and employs around 122,000 people across more than 60 countries
- Roles & Responsibilities:
- Installation, Configuration and Test/Validation of Business Objects Enterprise (BOE) Server Products in a clustered environment
- Installed and Configured BOBJ, Service Packs, Hot Fixes, Productive Pack etc
- On Engineering servers to extensively test the impact before installing them in Dev, QA, and Prod
- Configuration of BOE with LDAP Security (LDAP)
- Created Universe using SAP Info cube from Operational data sources
- Created, maintained users and user groups to use within multiple Global projects for both application and data level security
- Management of all CMC content
- Migrated the BO Environment from XI R2 to XI R3.1 using Import Wizard/Migration tool.
Business Objects Administrator
Boart Longyear
03.2008 - 03.2009
- Boart Longyear– Boart Longyear is a global mineral exploration company founded in 1888
- It is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- The company provides mineral exploration services and drilling products for the global mining industry and also has a presence in drilling water exploration, environmental sampling, energy, and oil sands exploration
- Roles & Responsibilities:
- Demonstrated several demos to business owner and user community to have a strong understanding about Business Objects application that we developed and product features
- Analyzing business requirements converted business requirements in business/technical requirement documents
- Developing a scope of the application and following up the business requirements time to time
- Installing and configure Business Objects XI R2 on both Windows
- Installed and Configured Business Objects on Both Client and Server Installations
- Converting business requirements in to technical requirements with BO technical team
- Worked in the Team closely with Functional Architect, DBA and Analysts to get a clear understanding on the Application.
Business Objects Administrator
Aflac Insurance
08.2007 - 02.2008
- Aflac Insurance – Aflac Incorporated is the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States, founded in 1955 and based in Columbus, Georgia
- In the United States, Aflac underwrites a wide range of insurance policies, but is perhaps more known for its payroll deduction insurance coverage, which pays cash benefits when a policyholder has a covered accident or illness
- Roles & Responsibilities:
- Demonstrated several demos to business owner and user community to have a strong understanding about Business Objects application that we developed and product features
- Analyzing business requirements converted business requirements in business/technical requirement documents
- Developing a scope of the application and following up the business requirements time to time
- Installing and configure Business Objects XI R2 on both Windows
- Installed and Configured Business Objects on Both Client and Server Installations
- Involved in CMS configuration, CCM Maintenance, CMC security set-up
- Worked in the Team closely with Functional Architect, DBA and Analysts to get a clear understanding on the Application.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) -
UNC Kenan Flagler business school
Chapel Hill, NC2024
Master of Information Technology - Information Technology
Federation University
Sydney, Australia08.2006
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
JNT University
Hyderabad India04.2003
Skills
- TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Cloud Platform
- Microsoft Azure, AW, Google Cloud
- Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, & Mac OS
- Databases : Oracle, SQL Server, SAP HANA, DB2, Teradata, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL
- Networking: Virtual Networks, Security Groups, Express Route, S2S VPN, Palo Alto Firewalls
- Virtualization: VMware ESX/ESXi & Microsoft Hyper-V
- Front-end Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, AngularJS
- Language / Scripting: NET, Python, Bash, Microsoft Windows PowerShell, ARM (JSON) Templates, PowerShell DSC
- Other Tools: PowerShell, Microsoft Visual Studio, SharePoint, DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Service Now
Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
Timeline
Cloud Architect (Senior Manager
Altria Client Services, Altria Group, Inc, Morris, Morris Capital Corporation
08.2020 - Current
Sr Azure Cloud Engineer
Diversey Inc
04.2018 - 07.2020
Sr Azure Cloud Consultant
HCL Technologies, USAA Bank
11.2016 - 04.2018
Azure Cloud Consultant
Yash Technologies INC, Cooper Tires
01.2016 - 10.2016
IBM
08.2010 - 01.2016
Business Objects Administrator
Ciber, Philips
07.2009 - 07.2010
Business Objects Administrator
Boart Longyear
03.2008 - 03.2009
Business Objects Administrator
Aflac Insurance
08.2007 - 02.2008
Master of Business Administration (MBA) -
UNC Kenan Flagler business school
Master of Information Technology - Information Technology
Federation University
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
JNT University
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
Google Cloud Digital Leader Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
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