SUMMARY:

• 22 years of experience spearheading all phases of technology projects for a diverse client base. Kalyan has significant experience with data center migrations, consolidations, and upgrades. Conceptualize, plan and execute multimillion - dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive bottom-line gains. Leverage technical and business acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.
• Planning, organizing directing and controlling projects from concept stage through post-implementation warranty period from a project perspective.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Designed and implemented detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures (WBS), Project Management methodologies (PMBOK).
• Experience managing technical resources Systems and Network Engineering, System and Data Center - Migrations, Integrations, Upgrades, and Consolidations, developing/upgrading RDBMS, Enterprise wide Implementations.
• Mitigate risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data coupled with a hands-on approach.
• Effectively anticipated and managed change in rapidly evolving business environments
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Purchasing, Operations, Accounting and Finance teams to gather requirements, estimate project efforts, and deliver tested/proven systems and delivery processes.
• Developed RFP for numerous projects and clients.
• Developing and managing cost/profit center budgets and finances, including forecasting.
• Requirements Analysis, ROI Analysis, Costing & Budgeting, Scheduling, Testing/QA/Rollout/Support, Vendor Management, Cross Functional Supervision
• New Datacenter Installs, Datacenter Consolidation, Migrations, DR, Datacenter Relocation/ Moves, Decommissioning of Datacenters
• MS Projects, Workfront, Visio, SharePoint, Remedy, Aries, Clarity, SAP

EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Provided project management, planning & implementation for the IT Server Storage Transformation Program. This allows for Crowley IT to Simplify the Portfolio by standardizing and upgrading our server, storage and network platforms. I have upgraded the Jacksonville, Seattle and Portland datacenters and Anchorage with minimal disruption to the business and other IT projects. I also created TCO/Business cases for Data Center Co-Location and DR hardware. I have supported this objective by leading the effort to deliver Four new data centers to host all of Crowley’s servers and business critical applications (1000+ Servers & 360 Applications). This effort standardized the server, network, and storage architecture Crowley uses for hosting and delivering data to users. This upgrade had immediate, positive performance impacts on many of our key business applications including Lawson, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Sterling Integrator, Exactus, Auto CAD, MQ Brokers, TMW, Pegasus, EEIR, and Ship Constructor etc. ($12 M Transformation project).
• 100+ Location Voice and Data Network refresh Transformation Project.
• Lead and motivate teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focus teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project scope, quality, and budget goals were exceeded or met.
• Mitigate risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data coupled with a hands-on approach.
• Effectively anticipated and managed change in rapidly evolving business environments.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Designed and implemented detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures (WBS).
• Provide solutions Design of Experiments, PoC to solve complex technology challenges.

Technical : Migrations, Packaged Software Deployment Upgrades, Virtualization, Backup, Storage, Application Integrations, New Datacenter Installs, Datacenter Consolidation, Migrations, DR, Relocation/ Moves, Decommissioning of Datacenters (Wintel, Windows, Hyper V, Vmware, Unix, PARISC, TRU64, AIX, LINUX, SAN, SCCM, Networks, SAP, Citrix, Oracle, SQL, Mainframe)

Senior Infrastructure Project Manager

Confidential, Trumbull, CT

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded infrastructure projects for North America, South America, and Europe and Asia.
• Provided project management, planning & implementation for the Datacenter Consolidation, Co-Locations, and Upgrades across North America, South America working with the teams across the globe.
• Lead and motivate teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Focus teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project scope, quality, and budget goals were exceeded or met.
• Mitigate risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data coupled with a hands-on approach.
• Effectively anticipated and managed change in rapidly evolving business environments.
• Defined processes and tools best suited to each project. Designed and implemented detailed project road maps, plans, schedules and work breakdown structures (WBS).
• Provide solutions Design of Experiments, PoC to solve complex technology challenges.

Technical : Migrations, Upgrades, Virtualization, Backup, Storage, Application Integrations, New Datacenter Installs, Datacenter Consolidation, DR, Relocation/ Moves, Decommissioning of Datacenters ( Wintel, Windows, Hyper V, Vmware, Unix, PARISC, TRU64, AIX, LINUX, SAN, SCCM, Networks, SAP, Citrix, Oracle, SQL, Mainframe)

Sr. Project Manager

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple Datacenter projects, decommissioning and merging server functions/applications.
• Datacenter Implementation, Network Infrastructure, Virtualization solutions, Security Management Systems.
• Responsible for development and management of budgets, determining project scope, liaising between clients and staff throughout project lifecycle, and ensuring objectives were met.
• Responsible for planning, coordinating, and supervising all activities related to the design, development and implementation of organizational information systems as well as responsible for maintaining, supporting, and upgrading existing systems and applications.
• Oversaw servers across multiple data centers and locations across the country.
• Responsible for implementing bulk server rollouts to data centers and Desktop rollouts.
• Responsible for ensuring 99.999% uptime on all websites and applications and designing procedures for monitoring for failures and repair.
• Plan, Evaluate, Prepare and integrate newly acquired hospital sites IT infrastructure, subsystems, Domains and Network.
• Budget Presentations, Purchase, Documentation of Networks, Training Materials & Training users & staff,, Manage Vendors. Write RFPs
• Servers (Wintel,Windows 2008, 2003, MOM, SCCM, IIS, DNS, WSUS Hardware, Confidential, Confidential ).Install, configure, upgrade, monitor & support Desktops,
• Laptops. (Includes Windows 7, Vista, XP workstations, Confidential, Confidential, IBM Hardware, and RAID.
• Deployment of Desktops over the network using Ghost Server 2.5 and Ghost cast servers.
• ( ASA CISCO 5505, Watch guard firewalls ( x550e,x22e,x55e,x20e,x15) with High Availability.
• Install, configure, upgrade & support watch guard 550E Firewalls, 2 Cisco ASA 5505 Firewalls. All the 20 locations are interconnected with Cisco2800 Routers (T1, Frame relay, MPLS).Install, configure, upgrade & support VPN with Cisco ASA 5505, PIX 550, Sonic wall 4200 SSL . Switches 2950,2960,3500,4400.
• VMware 4.0/4.1 ESXI Server with VCenter Server, VMotion, Disaster Recovery, VCB, VMware HA, VMware converter, update manager (Host Servers & Virtual Machines). Use also Veeam Backup to replicate and backup virtual environment.
• Exchange 2007 Server with Mailboxes. Install, configure, upgrade, monitor & support Blackberry Enterprise server, Terminal Server 2008. Install, configure, upgrade, monitor & support Microsoft DFS.
• Healthcare Applications (MDI, MDS 3.0, Computrition, Electronic Chart System, RFMS, IVANS, Smarlinx, and ADP Pay force. Install, configure, upgrade, monitor & support SharePoint Services 3.0, Office 2010.
• Trend Micro/ Symantec Encryption software for Mobile systems, Mail Encryption software and gateways.
• Databases (SQL 2008/2005, Oracle 11g)
• Symantec backup exec, EMC retrospect’s for daily and weekly backup. Disaster recovery setup configured with Confidential systems.

IT Director

Confidential, Atlanta

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple Datacenter projects, decommissioning and merging server functions/applications.
• Datacenter Implementation, Network Infrastructure, Virtualization solutions, Security Management Systems.
• Information Technology: Overhauled technology infrastructure, migrated information technology infrastructure successfully from external source to in-house.
• Responsible for development and management of budgets, determining project scope, liaising between clients and staff throughout project lifecycle, and ensuring objectives were met.
• Configuration Management, Incident Management & Changes to information system.
• Complete Disaster recovery plan was made and executed.
• Implemented and administered Enterprise medical billing and recruiting software (BOND, gaming software application and development servers, Great Plains financials ERP applications, IT staffing solutions (PC Recruiter), Great Plains ERP for Professional Billing, Game Machine application software. (Silent Partner), payphone application software application (MIST).
• Implemented administered and troubleshoot domain controllers, Mail Servers, Application servers, Data Servers, Web servers, DNS servers, DHCP servers, Active Directory services in Windows 2008/2003/2000 servers,, SCCM, WSUS, IIS, and Windows 7 Vista/ XP/2000 workstations throughout the network for the entire group. Provided enterprise and support solutions 100s server volume. Active Directory configuration and maintenance.
• Implemented network infrastructure
• Implemented and provided VMWARE 4ESXi solutions
• Implementation of Information Security Management Systems.
• Maintaining control of changes to hardware, software, and security mechanisms. Incident Management & Changes to information system specifications prepared and reviewed.
• Complete Disaster recovery plan was made and executed.
• Implemented and administered Enterprise telephone solutions for multiple offices.
• Implemented and administered Enterprise medical billing and recruiting software (BOND, gaming software application and development servers, Great Plains financials ERP applications, IT Staffing solutions (PC Recruiter), Great Plains ERP for Professional Billing, Game Machine application software. (Silent Partner), payphone application software application (MIST)
• Managed multiple Datacenter projects, decommissioning and merging server functions/applications.
• Hired and Trained support staff

Network Engineer

Confidential, Atlanta

Responsibilities:

• Provide solution to clients to implement LAN/WAN.
• Maintain and support client’s Local area network and wide area network with annual maintenance contract.
• Provided solutions, customer service to many business clients.
• Manage a manufacturing unit of Servers, Workstations, and Laptops with 40 production staff.
• Manage and rotate support a staff around the clock for 24 hour support line.
• Network deployment at client sites.
• Work account managers on Presales and post sales calls