SUMMARY:

• Over 16+ years' experience in Architecting design, planningCloud, Data center consolidations/ Migrations, Storage, Backup &Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity, IOT solutions.
• Experience spans across Pre - sales, consulting and Business development, Managing Customer relationships, Strategic planning, Go to market offerings, Consulting, and Vendor negotiations on Storage and HPC, Cloud solutions and IT Operations spanning Global Fortune 100 clients.
• Creating Architecture Document (Business Context diagram, Activity diagrams, Sequence Diagram, Process Flow, Views - Solution, Data, Interfaces, Infra, Security) and present to Architecture Board for approval. Well-versed in implementing enterprise architectural models, methodologies, best practices,and patterns.
• Extensive experience in designing solutions for legacy applications to migrate to cloud enabled architecture - AzureandAWS,it involves defining migration plans and leading migration integration with other applications.
• Datacenter services and consolidation - servers, storage, backup, archive, cloud environments (private, public, hybrid)
• Experience in Growing, Leading and Mentoring an elite team of Solutions Architects
• Expertise in Cloud, IoT, DR/BC, Storage, Virtualization and Server technologies
• Experience in working with various SI partners such as DXC,Accenture, Confidential, TCS,HCL, CTS, Confidential, TechMahindra,Infosys etc. to position products and solutions.
• Architected and delivered various Cloud Transformation Reference architectures (SOA) for multiple Global SI Partners.
• Key speaker on Cloud at various global summits and workshops.
• Delivered complex Infrastructure and Application solutions by collaborating with various groups across global teams in multiple locations
• Extensive experience with current state, future state and conducted gap analysis, roadmaps, reference architecture, solution designs and all phases of DC/Cloud enabled data center life Cycle.
• Provide solution architecture, develop migration and deployment plans, and execute those plans for customers moving their on-premise or competitive cloud solution into Azure.
• Articulate the possibilities of Microsoft Cloud data platform with an emphasis on architecting cloud and hybrid infrastructure design, deployment strategies, identity management and security frameworks, operational and change management.
• Prepared capacity and architecture plan to create the Azure Cloud environment to host migrated IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases.
• Identify the prospective issues in the azure migration and suggest feasible solutions to clients valuate application, infrastructure and cloud decisions in the context of both high-level strategy and tactical solutions
• Guide business and technical decision makers on creating business value through Architecture Design Sessions, Workshops, and Proof of Concepts.
• Responsible to make large prospects and customers successful on the hybridCloud,Big data solutions with strong technical angle.
• Demonstrate an exceptional expertise of business continuity / disaster recovery concepts and best practices / lessons learned, knowledge transfer, & mentoring.
• Architected various storage and converged and Hyper converge VBlock, Scale IO, VXrack, VX Rail and FlexPod using Cisco UCS B200 M3/4 blades with backend Netapp FAS80xx and Confidential VMAX/ VNX .
• Architect and design ed storage /Backup infrastructure for Enterprise customers on EMCVMAX, VNX, XTremIO, RecoverPoint&VPLEX using ViPR Controller, Avamar, data domain, VCE Vblock/Vxblocks, isilion, ECSetc.
• Architected and executedglobal projects on Privateand Public cloud solution atCoca-Cola, Citibank, Canada post, Pitney Bowes, Sony pictures Vodafone, British telecom, GE, Philips, Smart Telecom, Globe Telecom, Sun Cellular, PLDT, MTN, Movistar,STARHUB, Singtel,VNPT,DTAC.
• Proven experience using PCF in architecting PaaS solutions, Complete understanding of PCF Architecture (Diego Architecture), CF components and their functionalities
• Envisioned and deployed Core Infrastructure & Data Center consolidation/ migration, DR, and Collaboration technologies for organizations such asCoca-Cola, Rackspace,Kimberly-ClarkTulip, Confidential, GE,Titan, Turk Telecom, Srilankan Telecom, Reserve Bank of Iran, TTSL, TCL, Airtel,British Telecom, China Mobile.
• Delivery - Engagements include short on-site projects proving the use of Cloud (AZURE, AWS, Virtustream) services to support new distributed computing solutions that often span private cloud and public cloud services. Engagements will include migration of existing applications and development of new applications using various cloud services.
• Architect and design AWS services - S3 / EFS / EBS / IAM /CloudWatch /CloudTrail / Inspector / Trusted Advisor / Route 53 / RDS /SNS /LAMBDA / CloudFormation
• Architected and delivered various MS-SQL consolidation assignmentsfor Birla group on EFS cluster gateway.
• Responsible toarchitect, design and plan storage and related software for 150,000+ users on Microsoft Exchange 2007 with DR at M/s Confidential Technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS platforms: Windows NT, Windows 2000, 2003,2008,2012 16, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux.

Cloud: Microsoft Azure, AWS,Google Cloud, Confidential EHC, Confidential Virtustream, Huawei, VMware, Cloud Foundry(PCF).

Database: SQL, Oracle, MS-Access, Greenplum. SAP.

Virtualization: VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix xensource, storage virtualization, FC, Microsoft Directory Services, IIS, Microsoft Messaging Services Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007.

Storage: Confidential Vmax, DMX-3000/4000, Symmetrix, Clariion, VNX,data domain, VCE Vblock/Vxblocks, isilion, ECS, XtreamIO, ScaleIO, HP XP, EVA, MSA, P7000, IBMDS 8300/8700/4700/8000 & V7000, Hitachi VSP, USP, AMS, Netapp FAS series arrays, Symantec storage models, scality.

SRM Tools: ECC, HP Storage Essentials, HP-OV, NetIQ, BMC, Confidential ViPR.

Archiving: Confidential SourceOne, Symantec Enterprise vault.

Data De-duplication: Confidential Avamar, data domain, Symantec pure Disk.

Backup: Symantec Netbackup, HP Data protector, Confidential Networker.

FC: Brocadesilkworm 3900 and 4900,5000,12000, AP7420 and directory Switches,DMM, DMC Migration Tools, Brocade FAN Technologies.

BC/HA& DR: HP CA, Confidential SRDF,Mirror View, RecoveryPoint, Hitachi True copy,IBM Global Mirror, HPOVM, Huawei VIS6000.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to provide Cloud life cycle management and platform solutions. provide Automated provisioning of multi-tier cloud services; Unified management across all platforms, Intelligent Service Placement, Autoscaling of resources based on defined policies.
• Work with various Global SI partners and enterprise customer on digital workload automation solutions.
• Collaborated with customers and stakeholders to architect digital automation and software defined data center and cloud-based solutions of systems and infrastructures
• Leading 3M+ Corporate Strategic Enterprise Plan on digital automation/ modernization for Azure/ AWS based Transformations.
• Responsible for Confidential (Go to market solutions) cloud and digital automation solutions.
• Works in conjunction with the area Solution Architects leveraging technical knowledge and positioning Confidential as a champion against competitors.
• DevOps Transformation engagements for the clients

Products &Technologies: Confidential Cloud cost control (AWS, Azurecloud), Cloud life cycle management, control-M, Blade Logic, Sec-ops.

Sr. Enterprise Solutions Architect

Confidential, Hopkinton, MA

Responsibilities:

• Leading Confidential Solutions Architecture team.
• Develop and present Confidential, Virtustreamsolutions and technical proposals to prospects and customers
• Responsible for growing and leading an elite team of Solutions Architects, coaching and Managing the team - resulting into 100% on time delivery and doubling of financial margins
• Work with various Global sales teams on Various vertical solutions on the Confidential front - resulted into Sales revenue increase of 76% and profitability of 28% for the Partners
• Architecting new set of solutions or leverage the existing ones to optimally run in a cloud-based environment (proper use of VMs and containers withservices-oriented architectures, etc)
• Cloud Transformation around Application Workload Discovery, Application Modernization Planning, Intelligent Portfolio Management, Application & Database Porting, Application & Database Conversion. Application Data Transformation. Application Workload Discovery, Data Center Relocation & Consolidation. Application Virtualization & Consolidation, Application Software Upgrade, Application Data Storage Migration, Cloud Rapid Assessment, Application Migration to Cloud.
• Architect and design large multi-petabyte enterprise storage environment including Confidential VMAX, VNX and NetApp FAS 3xxx,6xxxx, 80xx.
• Oversee Architectural Review processes and perform architectural design reviews on Cloud and DC Transformations&overall business solution is positioned, deployed and supported during its end-to-end lifecycle
• Align customer requirements and Confidential service portfolio to win new business engagements byleading infrastructure solutions development for various technologies within the technical service area - resulted into 38% growth in the revenues of several Confidential Partner Accounts.
• Responsible to make large prospects and customers successful on Confidential Cloud and Enterprise DC solutions with strong technical angle, including both hands-onand higher-level architecture.
• Develop/capture/document architectural best practices for building systems on Big data (High performance computing) and cloud & Devops.
• Engaged and Collaborated with industry technical experts, various Confidential Engineer Organizations and CTO office to strategize on how emerging technologies can be incorporated into Confidential Products to grow the company’s product portfolio.
• Architected and developed innovative solutions to transform Symmetrix VMAX Traditional storage arrays to fully functional converged and hyperconverged platform.
• Architected and delivered Cloud based backup and archiving solutions using Confidential Cloud Array with Confidential elastic cloud storage, Microsoft AZURE, and Amazon S3.
• Architected and design, executed various Data center infra & Apps into multiple cloud environment which includes Virtustream, AWS, Azure.
• Architect and migrate to Cloud Management Platforms from Cloud Switch, Cloud Stack, OpenStack, VMware vCloud Automation Suite (vCloud Director, vCloud Connector, vCenter Operations Manager), Xstream Advisor.

Products &Technologies: Confidential Hybrid cloud, Confidential Virtustream, Confidential Enterprise storage arrays, Backup, High availability solutions. Pivotal cloud foundry, VMware, VCE converged infrastructure products.

Sr. Global Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Leading a team for Cloud transformation around Amazon AWS- DatacenterTransformation.
• Azure Reference Architecture for Cloud adoption, Private/Public/Hybrid Model/ SP managed Cloud Transformation which includes IaaS, App Services, Service Fabric, Azure container Service, Azure Function FaaS, Azure Batch, Cloud Services - PaaS.
• Responsible for creating Well-Architected Application on AWS using Autoscaling, Lambda, SQS, SNS, ELB, Caching and database layer as necessary.
• Lead teams in performing multiple data center re-locations & consolidations, Migrations. Cloud Solutions and Data center solutions portfolio.
• Engaged with migration tools for Cloud Migration P2P, P2V, V2V etc. like Doubletake, Platspin, Cirrus, AppZero etc.
• Perform all engagements on-site with the highest degree of professionalism, delivery, customer service and quality.
• Opportunity qualification and lead generation
• Developed strategy for cloud/virtualization migration and implementation best practices
• Interaction with customer decision makers towards understating requirements.
• Guide the gathering of architecture, design, and presentation of solutions to meet the customer's needs through workshops and other activities
• Partner with sales specialists within a designated territory and act as the technical point of contact for customer opportunities.
• Focuses on strategic direction- understands the overall company/BU strategic direction and portfolio, and can assist sales teams in customizing solutions based on client needs.

Products &Technologies: AWS, Azure, Confidential Virtustream, Confidential /HP/Hitachi/Netapp Enterprise storage arrays, Backup, High availability solutions. Pivotal cloud foundry, VMware, VCE converged infrastructure products.

Sr. Global Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Global Presales Solution Architect in charge of Cloud Solutions, Data center solutions, Huawei Symantec storage portfolio.
• Responsible for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Confidential countries- supporting business development and execution of large complex engagements across Data center which includes cloud and storage,Backup,Archiving, DR & BCP,Consolidation solutions.
• Partner with Corporate and Tech Ops DR/BCP programs for a consistent, aligned, and leveraged approach to business recovery.
• Negotiate solutions and resolve requirements’ conflicts with business and IT executives.
• Develop and document the long-term IT DR program test plan and governance requirements
• Prepare and present program status periodically to executive steering committee.
• Responsible for understanding customer requirements, envisioning, scoping, and delivery of extremely complex IT solutions involving multiple technologies for various industryverticals.
• Executed various global workshops on cloud and data center BC& A solutions.
• Work closely with product development team on product enhancements, roadmap.
• Work with various channel partners and ISV’s on Business enablement.
• Assisting customers in the selection and tailoring ofapproaches, methods and tools to support Cloud platform adoption
• Create to be Cloud solution architecture for hosting dev, test/staging and production workloads

Products &Technologies: AWS, Huawei Enterprise storage arrays, servers, Backup, High availability solutions. Pivotal cloud foundry, VMware.

Sr. Architect & Technical sales Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership for internal initiatives, including development of Technical Collateral, Field Workshops, Partner Training, and best practices development and product roadmap.
• Understand client’s overall business and strategic IT plans, and effectively position storage& virtualization Products and Services to ensure a successful implementation of LSI storage products and technologies.
• Head IBM Indian storage & software business from LSI which includes LSI storage and DC portfolio.
• Enabling channel/OEM partners and ISV programs.
• Focusing on MRD and PRD, product development and features enhancement.
• Work with Product Managers and Core Engineering Teams,
• Conducting workshops for Global OEM partners on LSI storage offerings
• Architecting external storage virtualization management solutions

Products &Technologies: LSI Enterprise storage arrays, servers RAID, Virtualization.

Presales Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Solution Architect & Solution center’s head for the Subsidiary(SAARC)
• Manage ATC consulting services for the Infrastructure& Microsoft Applications practice.
• Demonstrating Confidential products/Application IntegrationSolutions to Enterprise customers.
• Opportunity qualification and lead generation
• Interaction with customer decision makers towards understating requirements
• Oversight of response compiled for complex bids and RFP’s by pre-sales team
• Participates on competitive positioning of products & solutions.

Products &Technologies: Confidential Enterprise storage arrays, Backup, High availability solutions. VMware

Presales Technical Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and delivering the Storage Consolidation and migration Projects. The solution is referred to as a Testimonial of the capacity to deliver to meet customer expectations.
• Responsible for large Microsoft applications and database projects consolidation on StoragePlatforms.
• Managed Storage consulting services for the Infrastructure practice.
• Taking care of HP Confidential portfolio which includes HP storage and server and software.
• Responsible for complex HA & DR/Replication technology projects.
• Train Sales, Pre-sales and Partners on Storage Products and Technologies.

Products &Technologies: HP Enterprise storage arrays, Servers Backup, High availability solutions. VMware.

Senior Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing frameworks for consulting engagements andOperational transfer for offshore delivery management.
• Participated in various Global Consulting Services Bidding assignments.
• Designed and Delivered Heterogeneous storage migrations using Brocade Technologies.
• Architected and delivered forWipro Technologies the largest Messaging consolidation and IT Management project with around 50,000 mailboxeson Microsoft technologies.
• Executed Microsoft Active Directory consolidation, Microsoft Exchange migration projects.

Products &Technologies: Storage, Server, Backup, High availability solutions from major vendors.

System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Microsoft windows server, clusters and Microsoft Exchange system administration, implementation, planning.

Products &Technologies: Storage, Windows servers, Microsoft Exchange.