SUMMARY:

• Over 14 years experience in IT industry includes Program Management, Project Manager, Project Lead Solution Design, IT Infrastructure Architect Technical Lead, Tech - Project lead, Infrastructure Project management, Infrastructure IT Consultant, IT Engineering Design, Infrastructure Costing Specialist and IT Technical Support engineer.
• Proficient in field of the Program Management, Infrastructure Engineering and support services in Wintel, VMware, Microsoft Products Excellent on-time on-budget delivery of IT infrastructure projects, using geographically dispersed teams to deliver exceptional business value and financial benefits.
• Worked and well versed with different clients located in different geographies such as USA, EMEA and APAC. Knowledge of Solution Design, Infrastructure IT Architect, IT Technical Lead, project management in IT Infrastructure
• Rich experience in Project execution using multivendor IT service providers.
• Working across USA, Europe and India for various different customers projects across USA, EMEA and APAC sites
• Presently Working in IT Service Industry fortune 100 company Tech and deputed in USA major client projects 1. worked with AstraZeneca client as IT Architect 2. IT Infrastructure Architect and Project Manager in Program Management office and IT Engineering Pitney Bowes USA, Honeywell Europe-USA Honeywell Customer as a Infrastructure Architect, Technical lead, Technical Consultant for Windows 2003/2008 AD, MS Exchange, OCS 2007 and Lync 2010.
• Rich experience working in High availability Cluster, DR Setup, Cloud Computing, Data center Migrations, VMware 3.5, 4.1version, MS Exchange 2003 / 2007, OCS 2007 and Lync 2010, Quest Migration and Quest Recovery products, Migration Projects like AD Resource domain consolidation, VMware Virtualization.
• During the Project Implementation and Business work visited onsite France, Italy, Brussels, Austria and UK.
• Excellent Knowledge gained in IT infrastructure planning, forecasting, budget and costing, Implementing and administration of enterprise class of Projects. Specialized in Wintel, Microsoft, VMware, System Integration projects, PMO and Engineering Projects
• Proficient in field of the infrastructure support services, onsite & offshore delivery model, customer relationship management and handling escalation. Worked and well versed with different clients located in different geographies such as USA, Germany, UK and APAC geo sites.
• Knowledge of project management in IT Infrastructure
• Good team management and leadership skills.
• Project execution using multivendor service providers
• Change configuration management.
• Excellent team building, motivational and interpersonal skills
• In the past supporting Microsoft and VMware Products Implementation, Windows and VMware administration, production support (IT Operations), change configuration management, problem management, incident management and team management.
• Remote infrastructure setup and onsite and offshore delivery model
• Excellent inter-cultural competency, communication, technical and management skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Shelton, CT

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involve from the project commission discussion and suggest technical inputs and providing solution for Pitney Bowes
• Responsible for Solution design, Costing, Presenting the Solution, Architect and implementing new project in Microsoft Wintel and VMware technologies.
• Responsible for post implementation of Projects and Setting up the Infrastructure like Active Directory, OCS 2007 / Lync 2010, Windows File Servers and High availability cluster, DR Setup and VMware ESX environment
• Responsible for virtualization design reviews.
• Responsible for Acquisition and Active Directory Domain and DNS Migrations
• Responsible for handover the projects to support group ensuring all device met all prerequisites.
• Interact with Pitney Bowes clients on new requirements and provide various solution designs to IT Business.
• Co-ordinate with Firewall/Network team in reviewing network requirements to the Projects
• Interact with vendor on hardware requirement for the new design.
• Responsible for evaluating the new tools and provide recommendations to the business.
• Expert in System and OS Performance tuning in Windows and VMware environment.
• Provide total Infrastructure Solution cost like Hardware, Software, Implementation, and Support costing for all the IT Infrastructure Projects.
• Responsible to the design and evaluating tools for the Datacenter and Cloud Migrations.
• Worked on Major projects like Active Directory upgrade, VMware ESX Server Upgrade, Datacenter Migrations, Acquisition Integration,
• OCS 2007 Implementation, Setting up the SharePoint Infrastructure, Domain Migration, DNS & DHCP Migration, Setting up Quest Active Directory Recovery, Quest Migration Manager, Windows Cluster Implementation, Web Server Implementation Projects.
• Take part in project and vendor meetings. Testing the new tools required for Infrastructure.
• Evaluation of new technology, tools and new Hardware Servers like Dell and HP
• Providing solutions for Business continuity, high availability of applications and Disaster Recovery Solutions
• Provided solutions for Tier 2 and Tier 3 applications
• Very good fuctional understanding of Hardware appliance like F5 load balancers, Infoblox DNS, Firewalls Switches layer 2/3, Routers, Mazu Cascade, WAN Optimizers, Global load balancer, SRDF and SRM Replication tools.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Honeywell is having distributed domain architecture. Honeywell intends to consolidate local Resource domain to central Global Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain.
• Project Scope is Server Migration to Global domain, resource domain collapse, All resources, service accounts are migrating to Global domain Benefits: Reduced cost due to centralized Management and Support. Simplify the Environment by reducing number of Resource Domains and complex trust relationships.
• Enhanced Collaboration and Resource Sharing Prerequisite for Enterprise Directory consolidation project
• Enables implementation of corporate wide security policies
• The tools used are Quest, Dame Ware, and Microsoft in built tools. Domain consolidation, Servers and workstation migration, Resource domain decommission in EMEA region 40 Domain Controllers decommissioned. These Domains and Sites spanning across multiple EMEA countries

Module Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Global MS Exchange Migration and EMEA Mailbox Migration Total of One lack users and EMEA are 26,000 users With Blackberry Server 7 Node Cluster SAN Technology
• Migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 using Quest Aleta tools
• There was around 26,000 mailboxes migrated from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 and decommission of old Exchange 5.5 servers. There was about 100+ exchange 5.5 servers decommissioned and migrated to single 7 node cluster.
• Honeywell’s Messaging System comprises of primarily two organizations namely allied and Honeywell. Both are two Exchange Organizations interconnected. There are 25 sites in Allied org and 73 sites in Honeywell org. After switching over to Exchange 2003 Honeywell
• Migrated to mail.org single site for all 1 lack plus mailboxes.
• IIMB Data Centre Servers are running on Windows 2000 and NT 4 Domain. There are 20 Servers IIS, SAP, ORACLE, EXCHANGE, DISTANCE EDUCATION APPLICATIONS, WEB SERVER, PROXY, CA Enterprise & FIREWALL SERVER AND APPLICATION SERVERS. On the New design was VM Ware with Enterprise operating systems with SUN, SOLARIS and IRIX UNIX Operating Systems.
• Studied complete data centre setup and understand the existing architecture, Planned and Designed for smooth migration without disturbing the production migrated all the Servers including applications. Complete Domain Migration from Design, Planning, Implementation and Post Support. Systems and Server Administration. Interacting with IS Chairperson and Faculty members, Sigma Members understanding their requirements.
• Tools used are Enterprise CA Management With Security, Server Management, Backup Management, Helpdesk Software and Antivirus Gateway Servers

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware/ System: Dell - Intel Zeon, R910, 810, 710, 2950, 2850, 6850 Power edge Series, ML350, HP and IBM Servers, Cisco, F5 load balancer, Firewalls and UCS Hardware

Operating System: Windows 2008, Windows 2003 server all flavor, VMware 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, Windows 2008 / 2003 Cluster, Windows 2000 Prof, / Server Windows NT Server / Workstation, Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/XP/Vista/Windows7

Special Software/Tools: Quest Migration tools, Proxy server, Dameware, Norton’s PCANYWHERE V 8.0, OCS 2007, Lync, VMWARE, MS Exchange, 2003-2007 Backup Exec and other Microsoft Products, VMware V2V and P2V migration tools, Double take replication tools, Quest Recovery for Active Directory.