SUMMARY:

Fifteen plus years of Technology Leadership experience dealing with Network Architecture, Cloud technologies, Information Security and IT Operations. Managing annual $ 10 M CAPEX.I have worked at Vendor, Service Provider, Enterprise, Healthcare and Startup environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud: AWS, Terradata, Skytap

Firewall & VPN: Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, PAN

Load Balancer: Citrix MPX, VPX, SDX

Wireless: Aruba Controllers, ClearPass

Telecom: Avaya

Remote VPN: Juniper MAG

Virtualization: VMware ESXi

Storage: IBM, Cisco MDS, Brocade

Compute: Cisco UCS, Dell

Tools: Jira, HipChat, Confluence, Smart PDUs

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Gatos, CA

Senior Manager, IT Infrastructure (Network | Cloud | Info Security | Data Center)

Responsibilities:

• Lead Network & Cloud infrastructure, Information Security, Telecom & Data center services sustainability strategy and execution.
• Responsible for providing all aspects of Production data centers Infrastructure builds & services including Network engineering,
• AWS Hybrid Cloud solutions, LAN/WAN connectivity, Information Security technologies, Telecom, Network management tools, VPN, Wireless, Load Balancers VIPs, Remote site connectivity, and Web engineering and System engineering design.
• Set clear vision, targets, and long - term objectives aligned with business goals, feasibility, and potential for impact.
• Set team goals, drive outcomes and track progress results and oversee deployment of large-scale projects across sites.
• Manage collaboration with cross-functional Engineering teams to streamline and improve adoption of IT services.
• Influence and establish best engineering practices through solid decisions, project management skills, processes and tools.
• Develop 6 to 12 months Technology Roadmap. Participate in Netflix Cloud Operations strategy development.
• Managing 24X7 operations leveraging globally distributed teams.
• Investigates security incidences and breaches, and risk management assessments.
• Project management & resource alignment, vendor management, competitive solution analysis, contract negotiation and renewals.
• Good technology Knowledge dealing with SDN, SDDC, NFV, OpenStack, IOT, Big Data, and SD-WAN.
• New IPV4 space /22 from ARIN, new ASN, new ISP providers, HLD and LLD infrastructure strategy & executioi
• Saved $ 1 M OPEX per annum, Site selection, Sizing, Capacity planning, WAN/LAN infrastructure HLD/LLD,
• Workloads & services migration strategy & execution, Vendor selection, Project management & resource planning, documentation and ri books for NOC team.
• Saved $ 600 K per annum OPEX by consolidating IP transit data center into new data center space.
• Built architecture and workload migration strategy & execution.
• Saved $ 400 K per annum OPEX by upgrading to new circuits.
• Site built for the business continuity and DR (RTO, RPO).
• Company wide production rollout.
• Company wide production rollout.
• Built SDN environment for the DevOps.
• Solarwind and Extrahop tools production rollout.
• Citrix Load Balancer h/w refresh and all VIP migration.
• F5 WAF production rollout.
• Hardware refresh.
• Certificate authority, HSM, End point security, Network security, and STM.
• Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Layer2/3, BGP)

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Director of Data Center Services & Cloud

Responsibilities:

• Provided Technology Scope Management, Strategic Planning and Business Development covering Data Center Professional Services including Network and Cloud technologies, Info Security, Virtualization, Converged solutions, Storage and Compute. Created the overall go to market Professional Services sales strategy to maximize the Cloud & Data Center Services offering, and prepared forecasts, growing sales pipeline, negotiating customer services pricing, maximize profit and client satisfaction. Directed Pre/Post sales, Project management, implementation and solution architecture teams.
• Presented product and services offerings to customers to determine business and technical requirements.
• Reviewed customer's SOW, HLD, LLD, and BOM documentation.
• Trained cross-functional teams and built knowledge base articles.
• Built Cloud Professional Services offerings for the Converged stack, Reference architecture & Hyper-converged systems.
• Vblock, Flexpod, Hitachi UCP, SmartStack, HyperFlex.
• Self-service catalog, orchestration and automation services.
• Led the design, development, vendor selection, and distribution of the Professional Services outbound marketing projects. Designed and sized Cloud solutions, and assisted in proposal creation and solution competitive analysis discussions.
• Engaged in Customer POC and EBC technology roadmap discussions.
• Created strong relationships with vendors and vendor distribution resources.
• . Targeted Professional Services to SMB, Startups, Healthcare, Banking, Education, Enterprises, and ISPs.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided Sales and Channel enablement, proof-of-concept, Field trials (EFT) and Demos.
• Participated in EBCs, Customer seminars and Technical solution marketing campaigns.
• Developed solution content for best practices and system design guides (Solution Reference Network Design Guides, SRND). Transferred system design knowledge to Sales Engineers, Partners, and Customers through webinars, VoD, and Trainings. Provided solutions level design guidance to customers for Network, Security, and Server Virtualization on CB 500 platform including Sizing, Redundancy, Virtual Networking, QoS and SAN (Storage Area Networking).
• Presented Hitachi UCP converged stack value proposition to the customers.
• Supported sales and Account teams in technical discussions with customers and solution proposals.