Abhay Annaswamy

Telecom/IT professional with 6 years of Work Experience actively seeking full time job
opportunities in the Telecom, Cloud and IT Application support areas

Dallas, TX - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/Abhay-Annaswamy/ee4f547b140261a4

Graduated from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas in May 2014 with a Masters in
Telecommunications degree.

I'm currently looking for full time opportunities in AWS Cloud space.

I am currently on H1-B visa and would need a transfer.

Attached is my resume. Please contact me via email at abhayrangarajan@gmail.com or call at []

WORK EXPERIENCE

AWS devops Engineer

KR Mroads - Hyderabad, Telangana - May 2017 to Present

Part of a 3 member team managing the AWS Infrastructure on which the Panna
software was deployed on.
Brought up and down EC2 instances as per demand and spike in incoming traffic and
managed the load balancing using AWSs ELB offering
Have used and configured Route 53, S3, Amazon RDS and Cloudwatch offerings of
AWS.
Configured Zabbix and Nagios monitoring tools to monitor the health and vital
parameters of the EC2 instance which support our Software
Comfortable with the AWS Architecture and looking to become an AWS Certified Professional Architect
with further experience

System Test Engineer

Nokia Solutions and Networks through Simarn Solutions - Irving, TX - May 2015 to December 2016
Part of a 10 member team responsible for delivery of Customization Requests from Verizon for their IMS
architecture, specifically for CSCF and HSS Network Elements.
Knowledge of writing a Method of Procedure (MOP) and technical documents
Preparing Test scenarios and test plan using IPSL scripts for unit testing of different CSCF functionalities
Responsible for testing various SIP calls like SIP Registrations, Basic SIP call flow, Call Transfer, Call
Forwarding, Call Hold, SIP to PSTN Interworking and 911 calls
Analyze various SIP call flows using Wireshark and tcpdump commands
Involved in various project activities- Pre-Network Integration, Network Integration, ATP including Sanity &
Upgrade Network element for new software release includes configuration changes & various kind of system
integration & functional testing
Visit Verizon customer lab to deploy the technical solutions in their lab and help them in doing the functionality
and end to end testing

Operations Engineer
Gemalto - Irving, TX - July 2014 to May 2015
Responsibilities
Tasks included
Part of a 15 member team responsible for Delivery and Operations of Softcard TSM platform hosted at
Gemaltos secure datacenter.
Ensure 5 Nine SLA (99.999% uptime) of the platform through participation in Incident and Change
management processes and regular maintenance of Hardware and Software.
Understand the architecture and functioning of a secure Datacenter which needed to comply with stringent
VISA, Mastercard and AMEX requirements.
Interfacing with Gemaltos Database, Firewall and Network Operation teams to quickly resolve incidents and
communicate resolution to the customer.

Skills Used
Linux Terminal, Shell scripting, log analysis, Datacenter Operations

Summer Analyst Intern

CitiGroup - CATE - Irving, TX - June 2013 to August 2013
Project - Citrix Cloud Architecture Implementation
Currently working on
Understanding the Citrix Cloud Gateway Architecture - Citrix Receiver, Netscaler Access Gateway, XenApp,
XenDesktop, Storefront and App Controller
Implementing the Remote Access Services provided by Citrix on Citi systems
Optimizing the load balancer, web interface and other parameters essential for robust design of the
architecture

Consultant/Software Engineer
Capgemini India - Bangalore, Karnataka - August 2010 to July 2012
Position : Java Developer and Web Application Management Consultant
Tasks included
Working in a 5 member team as a Java Developer and in Web Application Management
Coding and Debugging(MERs and Break/fixes) in Java
Working with Oracle Database/RDBMS, PL/SQL queries
Release Management creating builds, uploading on Web Server and managing the server instances ,
deployment, thorough testing (Smoke, Unit and Regression) with User Acceptance testing and Performance
testing with LoadRunner
Incident and Problem Management resolving tickets ranging from Red, Alpha, Severity 1 to Severity 4 and
Problem tickets, RCA Analysis, conforming to SLA standards
Analysis of log files through Webwerks by HP to find discrepancies in the log files and use them to solve
the incidents reported by the clients

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Telecommunications

Southern Methodist University - Dallas, TX
2012 to 2014

Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunication

Bangalore Institute of Technology - Bangalore, Karnataka
2006 to 2010
SKILLS

4G LTE, GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, 2G, 3G, WLAN, Multiple Access, Bluetooth, Subnetting LTE RACH,
Channels, Mobility, HARQ, OFDM; WiFi 11n, Powersave, Ranging; Incident Management(tickets, severity
1,2,3,4,Red,Alpha), Release Management(build, deploy, server management), performance and regression
testing, Cloud Gateway architecture

LINKS

http://in.linkedin.com/pub/abhay-m-a/1a/451/71a/

CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES

ITIL V3 Foundation Certification

February 2011 to February 2014
Knowledge on Incident Management(tickets, severity 1,2,3,4,Red,Alpha), Problem Management

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

IEEE member, Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society member, interested in racquetball, cricket
and quizzing