SUMMARY:

Highly technical, detail oriented professional with a 22-year career dedicated to IT Infrastructure Engineering. Specialized in Performance Engineering, Resource Optimization, Capacity Planning, Enterprise Application Integration and IT Service Management. Excellent leadership, teamwork and interpersonal skills demonstrated as a functional head in a leading financial organization. Venu brings in additional expertise in financial planning, project management, executive reporting and handling audits, backed by a full-time MBA from HULT Among global top-100 business schools , PMP certification and ITIL Manager certificate.

KEY SKILLS:

Executive Reporting, Technology Management, Data Center Management, Data Center Facilities Management, Budgeting Planning, Incident Management, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery, Performance Engineering, Project Management, IT Service Management ITSM , Application Integration, IT Capacity Planning, IT Resource Optimization, Audit Assessments

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES:

• Infrastructure Project Management in a state-of-the-art IT Infrastructure environment
• Implemented VMware Cloud Automation Center vCAC in a Data Center Transformation Project
• Played a central role in the establishment of a new Data Center at Germany, EU
• Handled entire Infrastructure Testing for a newly built Data Center
• Technical Support to Tier-3 Data-Center with Enterprise-class SunFire 25K servers
• Design, Implement and Support technological initiatives towards Availability/Quality/Reliability
• Capacity Management of Servers, Network and Storage Area Networks with PetaByte storage
• Data Center Facility Management UPS, Power Generation, Cooling, Humidity Fire
• Active Directory Management and Support, Server Virtualization and Consolidation
• Windows Active Directory Trusted Domains, TCP, IP, HTTP, DNS and Load-Balancers F5, Big-IP
• Well-versed in Oracle Solaris, with specialization in high-end programming and internal diagnosis
• Performance tuning optimization of Oracle and Sybase databases
• Expert-level in managing J2EE App-servers and JVM tuning
• Specialized in black-box investigations of third-party applications on J2EE environments
• Strong knowledge in middleware technologies Tuxedo, WebLogic, MQSeries Tibco
• Specialized in custom middleware, Systems Integration, OLTP and e-Commerce STP transactions
• Performance Engineering Enterprise Storage Management of SAN, iSCSI, DAS and NAS
• Operation Support of SAN and Disaster Recovery Implementation with Real-time replication
• Implementation Operation of Systems Management tools HP OpenView
• Capacity Management, Performance Tuning, Design Implementation of Storage Area Networks
• Performance/Availability/Stability improvement of J2EE Servers Oracle WebLogic
• Proficient on Oracle DBMS and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise Sybase ASE
• Design Implementation of DR Initiatives ensuring High-Availability Resilience
• Sybase Replication Server with warm-standby, multi-site MSA capabilities ORACLE dataguard
• Multi-node, multi-site, multi-cluster, active-active BEA WebLogic domains
• Design/Implementation/Support of highly-available SUN Cluster environments
• PCI Compliance implementation for infrastructure and applications
• Data Loss Prevention, Identity Management, Access control implementation and audit
• Develop/Enhance/Support various Security Solutions across UNIX, Sybase, Client-Server,
• Planning, tasking, scheduling, monitoring, assessing, evaluating, motivating, mentoring training
• Strong analytical, decision making, problem solving, visualizing, adaptive, presentation, communication and interpersonal skills

An automobile giant and a legendary organization based out of Detroit. Committed to innovation excellence, GM is leading the connected consumer initiative with their OnStar product that puts the customer in control of their wide range of vehicles.

• resources from the build sustain teams focus on their technical responsibilities. Run tactical and strategic projects that help achieve the objectives of the Hosting the OnStar organization
• Eliminated overprovisioning of datastores in the VMware environment, by moving around 20 TB of data without impacting any services and incurring any downtime

• Implemented state-of-the-art VMware Cloud Automation Center vCAC to reduce the turn-around time of VM provisioning from 2-days to 10-mins

• Coordinated Infrastructure testing across Storage, Compute Network disciplines in a newly built data center to identify and eliminate any issues related to configuration

• Member of a team that is responsible for rolling out a brand new data center at Russelsheim, Germany

Underwent rigorous management education in the most practical way and gained the prestigious MBA degree from HULT, The World's Most International Business School that ranks consistently in the top 1 of business schools by the Financial Times.

A leading financial institution, 2.4b capital, 3000 full-time employees, headquartered in Saudi with operations in 5 countries. Winner of several awards, including Best Bank in Saudi Arabia.

• Responsible for end-to-end availability of business services, Incident and Problem management, Root-cause analysis and executive reporting.
• Increased service availability of critical services several folds by establishing proactive monitoring and automated trip-wire alerting systems.
• Helped eliminate recurring critical service outages by identifying underlying problems and working with teams to implement practical solutions and workarounds.
• Specialized in black-box investigations of vendor solutions and investigations of complex shared-hosting application-server environments.
• As the deputy head of the division, efficiently managed executive reporting, budgeting, audit, Monthly scorecards, Risk management and compensations.

• Ensured the healthy upkeep of Information Systems, i.e., Hardware, Operating Systems, Software with periodic and regular patching and upgrades.
• Helped maximize the ROI by right-sizing the infrastructure elements for new projects and diligent periodic capacity planning for existing services.

• Facilitated Business Continuity by provisioning cost-justified DR facilities, periodic testing of the same.

AGM, Production Optimization, Infrastructure Support Engineering Division

• Optimized overloaded critical production systems and saved the organization more than 8m in expensive upgrades and simultaneous improved service response times by identifying inefficient components and implementing solutions that helped reduce system utilization from 95 to 60 .
• Provided consultancy to application support teams to deliver efficient modules that optimized the use of available resources while improving service levels.
• Improved service availability and performance and reduced outages by establishing automated proactive monitoring and threshold-driven alerts and triggers.

Confidential

• Designed developed a robust web-authentication infrastructure for securing the online banking, online trading, corporate banking, investment banking and the payment gateway
• Designed developed a very efficient and easy-to-use web-enabled legacy infrastructure that facilitated deployment of legacy COBOL screens on the web platforms without any coding.
• Designed developed a full-blown Transaction Processing monitor as a replacement for Cool:Gen, saving millions of dollars in the licensing costs for the runtime environment.
• Designed developed middleware Tuxedo servers, that facilitated easy deployment of legacy COBOL business logic modules in the Tuxedo environment with negligible code changes
• Provided technical support for the main country data center and the alternate data center on servers, storage, middleware and databases

Project Manager, Confidential

• Enhanced the in-house, legacy application security infrastructure to be able to scale up to the needs of Client Server computing, thereby reducing time-to-market and significant savings on software costs
• Implemented AutoSecure as the Platform Security tool and developed several extensions that bridged the missing functionality that was desired to address the compliance requirements from the regulators
• Designed developed a highly-secure, foolproof mechanism for business applications to get the database passwords that is able to withstand several audits assessments till date

Software Design Development, System Administration, Network Administration of in-house systems