OBJECTIVE:

• To obtain a senior level role in an organization that provides a strong platform to leverage my gamut of Enterprise Architecture, Technology, Presales and Management skills, along with cross - functional engagements with technical and business teams for self-advancement as well as that of the organization.

SUMMARY:

• An Enterprise Cloud Architect with over 13.9 years’ experience in Information Technology and Telecommunication industry. An experienced and motivated professional, Gaurav has worked extensively in Enterprise Cloud & Virtualization technologies and presales across multiple industries. An Astute Consultant responsible for overall solution ownership for Proposal/RFP/Bid Responses, as an advisory expertise with a proven history to interact with customers at all levels and drive high value deals by preparing high quality proposal responses involving integration and rollouts, technical workshops, solution integration, commercials etc.
• Provide innovative solution engineering-cloud (Private, Public & Hybrid), virtualization & DC technologies, oversee commercials and provide guidance, milestone completion, cultivate proactive and effective team performance. Looking to combine strong leadership, excellent communication skills along with an innovative work approach to succeed in a fast paced and challenging ecosystem.
• An Enterprise Architect and presales consultant, specialise into cloud computing (7+ years and) virtualization (11+ years). Delivered complex solution for IaaS, PaaS, Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud, VMWare, AWS, VDI, Big Data - Cloudera, Red Hat etc, and virtualization consulting solutions. Provide active response to Bid, RFP/RFIs, technical workshops & presentations, preparing SOWs and guide team members.
• Lead team of Solution Architect, System Engineers and presales specialist. Possess excellent interpersonal, cross cultural, influencing and negotiation skills
• Extensive experience in enterprise solution engineering, Cloud Transformation, IT Strategy, presales, bid management and solution engineering\architect, presales activities, migrations, supporting Sales teams and business development across multiple regions like US, UK, India, Australia, Hong Kong, Middle East - UAE etc
• Executing process improvement initiatives. Able to multitask and operate effectively within a complex, fast paced environment
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to encourage and inspire others to excel
• Worked with Fortune 500 enterprises like Confidential, EMC, Confidential (Etihad-Etisalat), DELL EMC and lead virtualization and cloud teams
• Commitment to support core business applications and delivering industry best practices
• Have vast global experience across Verticals and cultures:
• Financial Services
• Aerospace & Military Defense
• Service Providers & Telecommunications
• Energy: Utilities, Oil & Gas
• Government (Central & Local) & - Universities
• Medical & Insurance

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Public cloud: - Architecture, Designing (Physical, Network& Storage), validate solution design and implementation of Verizon CaaS, DELLEMC Virtustream, AWS and GCP.AWS Cloud Platform-: Designing, migration and implementation on AWS cloud address needs of both Enterprise and SMB customers. Impart to team members incl Solution architects on AWS.

Private and Hybrid Cloud: - VMware Cloud Platform, PCF, Microsoft Azure Platform, DELLEMC Virtustream & Red Hat. Validate design and scope opportunities.

DevOps: - Chef Infrastructure Automation & Puppet. Infrastructure as a code.

VMware platform architecture: - Consulting services(TCO/ROI computation, Capacity planners, Infrastructure Assessment, SWAT Analysis, GAP analysis), Design Services(Physical, Network & Storage), validate solution design, VI design, ESX/ESXi, vCenter, virtualized network- NSX, Shared Storage, vSphere HA & vSphere Metro Stretch Clustering(vMSC) Implementation, DRS, Load Balancers, vMotion, vRealize suite.

Application Virtualization: VMware and AppZero. Disaster Recovery using VMware SRM and Automation.

Microsoft platform architecture: Design(Physical, Network & Storage), VI design, Hyper-V, System centre, Azure Site Recovery Manager, virtualized network, security, HA etc

Servers & Storage: DELLEMC Hyper converged servers, DELLEMC Blade and Rack servers, DELLEMC Converged Solution, Nutanix, DELLEMC V-Xrail, FC, iSCSI, liv-mirroring, stretch clustering, VPLEX, VNX, HP ProLiant, HP EVA, DELL EMC compellent SC series.

Databases: SQL & Oracle. Others Recover point, data guard etc

Big Data: Cloudera and Red Hat Platform using Hadoop, Cassandra, oracle, Pig, Hive, Yarn, MapReduce, HDFS, Hue, Solr and Zookeeper.

Project Management: Project/Business planning and execution, planning milestones, Service delivery, resource planning and management, Service delivery partner management, Vertical and Horizontal stakeholder management and People management (Recruit, Retain, Grow).

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)-: Architect, Designing (Physical, Network & Storage) and Implementation of VMware, Citrix and Microsoft Solution VDI solution.

Sales Support: Sales Support to Sales Directors and Account managers, Business Development, customer meetings, Tech conference participation and review status meetings.

Migration: Migration to and fro on premise and cloud, Physical to Virtual, Virtual to Physical, virtual to virtual using VMware Converter, Double Take and Microsoft Converter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal Consultant/ Enterprise Cloud Architect and Presales

Responsibilities:

• Managed effectively complex deals involving Datacentre transformation, Cloud adoption virtualization, migration, VDI solution, and disaster recovery and business continuity
• Successfully manage major deal worth USD 9M and USD 2.8M professional services, where all three datacentres were required to work as Active-Active sites. Proposed new infrastructure incl. racks, servers, storage, network with enabling storage level replication with live-mirroring, vMSC (Stretch clustering), NSX for live migration, VMware SRM with power shell and high availability and load balancers & End-to-End DR testing. Also, proposed consulting services from Data centre readiness assessment to capacity planning, network assessment, SWOT analysis, business impact analysis, risk assessment and readiness to laydown industry best.
• Proposed data integration and data management solution to one of the biggest Pharmaceuticals Company and showcase cost of savings about 73% for one integration scenario using Dell Boomi integration platform. The first phase of the project delivered overall cost savings of around 30% with a 50% reduction in server capacity requirements. Reduced the development time for new interfaces to two to three weeks. Allowing deployment of twice the number of interfaces and processes in a sixth of the time than what was possible earlier. Using Dell Boomi AtomSphere, migrated 34 integration processes.
• VDI opportunities and various platforms Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. Major deals worth USD 5M+ for VDI requirement up to 4,000 clients along with data protection solution. Solution on Microsoft Azure Cloud and VMware Cloud Suite including NSX and vRealize and Automation
• Received appreciation from the clients for excellent proposal built with detailing and quality.
• Suggested couple of changes in bid-management and proposal generation process. The changes implemented resulted in positive feedback with a more motivated, objective driven and focused team.

Confidential

Sr Cloud Solution Architect and Pre-Sales Manager

Responsibilities:

• Won cloud transformation deal involving cloud design and implementation worth USD12M and USD4.6M services for one of the semi-public broadcasting company. Carried out customer presentation, prepare proposal response, SOW, sizing & scoping etc
• Using AWS public cloud platform, designed & deployed, marketplace AppSouk project worth $75m+ involving Big Data, Security, Hadoop, NoSQL, Oracle Cassandra, JBoss and software development. Enhance user experience by speedy and efficient deployment, ease in software purchase, consolidated billing. The Cloud Marketplace enables customer to quickly procure Cloud Services and save time on configuration, deployment and fine tuning, deploying directly into Cloud with the applications needed, when customer need them in order to drive their business.
• Involved in major SAP HANA on cloud platform deal worth USD 18M spread over 5years.Primarily worked on sizing and proposal build and conduct technical workshops.
• Guide team members by imparting cloud and on the job support to Sales Managers, solution Architects and Presales Specialists.
• Extended support to senior presales specialists to close the business and perform QC on their deliverables.

Confidential

Sr Consultant - Presales & Solution Engineering

Responsibilities:

• SCMP Cloud transformation and adoption program worth $8M+.Consolidation of servers and Migration of 187 servers to Verizon cloud in HKG. Proposed consulting engagement assessment, Cloud design and service catalogue, migration strategy. Migration planning & implementation and testing.
• Datacentre consolidation project in Sydney, Australia. Develop Cloud Road Map & VMware Server Consolidation Project, ITIL and Network Assessment for Japanese Client for their Datacentres across Australia and New Zealand. Objective was to undertake virtualization server consolidation assessment, ITIL assessment and Security assessment.
• VMware Private Cloud Deployment Consulting along with SpringSource Platform for HKG Government. Objective was to successfully demonstrate the scalability at IaaS and PaaS using vCloud and SpringSource as well as Application Load balancing using ERS using the underlying VMware vCloud Infrastructure for IaaS and Oracle Exadata.

Confidential

Sr. Practice Consultant and Virtualization Lead

Responsibilities:

• Create collaterals and refine delivery methodology to enrich specific domains under EMC Consulting practice (Virtualization Migration, Virtualization Transformation and Consolidation, Virtualization Infrastructure Assessments and Cost Optimization)
• Lead project included performing a Virtualization Assessment engagement with a customer (JohnDeere) in Australia. The assessment was carried out on two sites of client’s infrastructure - Primary site and DR sites. There were about 324 servers on which the assessment was carried out.
• Successfully led Virtualization migration remediation project involving 500+ servers. Contributed towards effort analysis, proposal development and preparing the end-deliverables.
• The project was to migrate from DMX3 to DMX4, leveraging SRDF. For their VMware environment, they are considered the use of Storage VMotion to migrate data in the background from the DMX3 to DMX4.
• Perform P2V Migration of 450 servers for a US and UK based clients. Part of project management team, took part in project plan design, formulating migration strategy, ITIL process, LOE and coordination with application owners.
• VMware vCloud beta Testing. Setting up private cloud within EMC and testing VMware vCloud solution for VMware and its components including vCloud Director, Chargeback etc.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Consultant (VMware Implementation) and member of the platform design team responsible for the design and migration of servers using VMware based virtualization technologies. Also, part of migration strategy & planning activities.
• Carried out design and implementation of true production virtualization platform consisting of 50 VMware ESX 3.5 hosts and VirtualCenter 2.5. Platform implemented as part of a server consolidation project which used Platespin PowerConvert tools and DoubleTake - Recovery Manager for P2V migrations.

Confidential

Infrastructure Management Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Network Assessment and design review
• Storage Assessment
• Backup Assessment
• Server Assessment
• Security Assessment
• There were about 864 servers on which the assessment was carried out.
• Task performed to deliver following services for this engagement were: -
• Deploying VMware Capacity Planner
• Present Virtualization Assessment Interim Report
• Present Virtualization Assessment Final Report
• VMware TCO/ROI report
• Provide subject matter recommendations to the client. The migration project was completed successfully

Confidential

Technical Manager and Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide consulting for setting up the entire vCloud Infrastructure i.e. Network, Storage, Serverscomponents etc and formulate a high - level design document. Spring Source vFabric - tc Server Installation and provide all documentation
• Spring Source vFabric - Hyperic Server and Agent Installation and provide all documentation
• Spring Source vFabric - Enterprise Server (ERS) Installation and provide all documentation
• VMware vShield Best practices.Application Load Balancing and SpringSource Application Scalability and provide all documentation
• Application Load Balancing and SpringSource Application Scalability Performance Testing and Document Report
• Application Load Balancing and SpringSource Application Scalability Final Customer Presentation
• Demonstrate Application Load Balancing and SpringSource Application Scalability Proof-of-Concept using VMware Environment.
• Coordinate with the customer and VMware in resolving issues.
• Prepare documents related to vSphere run books for Hong Kong and Singapore clients as well as assist in providing security hardening for ESX in VI3 & VI4 environment.
• Design migration strategy, planning and implementation. Final testing.

Confidential

Technical lead

Responsibilities:

• Deploying VMware Capacity Planner 2.7 Present Virtualization Assessment Interim Report
• Present Virtualization Assessment Final Report
• VMware TCO/ROI report
• Provide subject matter recommendations to the client. The migration project was completed successfully