SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a professional who guides Organization in defining their technology strategy, product roadmap and development plans. With strong relations with several development partners worldwide, he enables companies of all sizes build appropriate development partnerships.
• He generally works in an Advisor or Consulting CTO capacity, and serves actively in the Project Management and Technical Architect functions. He's core strengths are in architecting solutions and driving delivery using Softlayer, Amazon, Azure, VMware, Netapp, IBM Spectrum, Software defined, Open Source, Big Data, SOA, SaaS and Cloud technologies/platforms.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Datacenter & Cloud: All Tracks, Cloud Assessment, Amazon Web services architecting, IBM Softlayer architecting, VPC, EC2, Microsoft Azure Architecting, AI and Machine learning on Azure, Netapp C - DOT, Sync mirror, Metro cluster, SNAP mirror, EMC VNX, Virtualization - VMware, ESX, ESXi, VMware SRM, Citrix, Xenapps, Xen servers, HyperV, SUSE Open stack, Chef / Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes, Software Testing, SQL, Oracle EBS, IoT, SAS, SPSS, Basic R, SAP One, HANA with Amazon web service/Azure, Oracle RAC setup, IBM Aix, IBM DB2, Racemi, Zerto, Appzero, Brocade Vyatta, Nutanix, Simplivity, Hadoop, Spark, Apache Yarn, EMR, EMRFS, Kinesis, IBM Spectrum scale, IBM symphony, IBM Conductor, ToGAF, Service oriented architecture Strategy, Project Management, Team Building, Humility to learn, SPSS, SQL, Software Testing, QA, QA scripts, Testing plans, Visio, Jira, HP QC11, MS project Datacentre automation, TOGAF, COBIT, ITIL, PMI-PMP - doing training from Simplilearn, ToGAF training done in February 2017

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Manager Advisory Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working on Infrastructure assessment for one of the major retail customer in India
• Work on proposals for IT strategy, IT operating model, governance and cloud strategy

Senior Advisory Consultant Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed RfP on behalf of client, developed functional & technical specifications, evaluated vendor responses
• Engaged with an Oil & Gas industry for designing cloud strategy through cloud assessment, migration approaches, application profiling, application prioritization, and cloud deployment plan and cloud roadmap. In addition, providing selection criteria for CSP and MSP. Preparing scenarios for TCO analysis, viz. backup on cloud, application migration on cloud etc. Helping identifying right ROI, Payback period through various research papers and some adjustments to the current setup and analysis depending on time of engagement and degree of accuracy customer needs.
• Designed Hadoop architecture and planned deployment for big data on Azure cloud for a petrochemical client
• Designed Big data solution with AWS for a petroleum company in India
• Evangelizing cost reduction through economies of scale, optimization, efficiency, automation and by standardization
• Architecting Big data and machine learning solution on Azure cloud
• Experience in designing Business Architecture, Information Architecture and Technology Architecture for organizations inline with industry standards like TOGAF
• Development of cloud Strategy, cloud migration strategy, Roadmap and Enterprise Architecture for organizations including assessment of current state and future state definition
• Preparing deployment plan for AWS, IBM Softlayer and Azure migration and green field deployment
• Working with ipv6 migration from ipv4 for a financial organization

Senior Manager Product Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architecting solution for IBM Softlayer Public Cloud
• Evangelising and architecting AWS and AZURE cloud to EN clients for migrations and architecting hybrid architecture
• Solution Selling - Approaches selling from a business solution perspective to ensure that the company products and services accurately address the client's true business need in terms of type, scope, level
• Working with RFP Responsible for bringing EN and NN opportunity from existing and new clients for Datacenter.
• Pre-sales roles for clients, also helps with solution along with cost upto $10m
• Working as a Practice evangelist for cloud, virtualization, storage and backups. Helping build Next generation datacentre products with the help of HCL’s native tools and different vendors such as Microsoft, Netapp, EMC, VMware, hyperconverged, Nutanix, simplivity, Cloudspace etc. Working with products such as Recovernxt, Backupnxt etc. Work closely with product managers and R&D managers to define a solution roadmap.
• Help customer to move from on-premise to public cloud, from public to public, from public to private and hybrid clouds. Disaster recovery solution through Netapp SNAP mirror and Sync mirror, and through zerto for VMware to Vmware and to cloud
• Partner cross-functionally with key stakeholders to understand business issues, identify key metrics, develop analytical plans, provide timely insights and execute on delivering results.
• Maintained competitive edge by rapidly determining product and market penetration rates and thoroughly communicating through detailed business plans and business cases.
• Performing and arranging successful product demonstrations for customers.Briefing the press and analysts, press releases and going on press campaigns.
• Market research & developing the core positioning and messaging for the product. Researching, reviewing & reporting on competitors & rival products.
• Performing sales, trend, and profitability analysis. Developing content for product and company collateral.
• Perform HCL Gold standard (best practices) for steady state projects, infra assessment for VMware, Cisco UCS, Storage - IBM, EMC, Netapps, EMC Vblock, Backup - TSM, Symantec netbackup, Commvault and EMC Avamar.
• Market research & developing the core positioning and messaging for the product. Researching, reviewing & reporting on competitors & rival products.
• Developing content for product and company collateral. Articulating the company’s distinctive competence & the product’s uniqueness.
• Performing sales, trend, and forecasting and profitability analysis. Preparing customer to be ready for the coming disruptions and help innovate
• Architect and develop re-usable components and operational strategies to support scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup and restore
• Worked for XXX contract renewal with PMG and sales team. Assisted with v-Transform and help reducing operational cost by 25% ~ in talks.
• Embarking with new opportunity for EN business up to $10m. Currently engaged with XXX for AD migration from Windows R2 - proposed 4 plans with various pros and cons considering efforts and budget needed to go forward.
• In a different proposition proposing Nutanix - hyper converged solution for EOL servers. Responsible for driving POC and presenting POC plans.
• At XXX we are also embarking for Cloudera support, currently working for Big data delivery model.
• Another opportunity being 400+ EOSL windows server, working on POC with Appzero to cater unsupported application to new 64bit Windows 2012R2. Planning to involved Application packaging team from HCL, and a joint team for App modernization for changing codes for the application
• Engaged with Rockwell audit, working with Fishbone diagrams for RCA, working with Gold standard for VMware, Windows and Backup track
• Currently working on some pre-defined solutions like mycloud, MCOD, RecoverNXT, BackupNXT, Zerto DR solutions, Appzero etc at HCL for solutioning vTransform presentation to XXX (energy), YYY (recruiting) and ZZZ (education institution) clients.

Consultant Softlayer Cloud

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled a part of the project for setting up public cloud with a total of 3000 Xen servers, Bare metal servers, whole cloud setup, FCR, BCR. Offering Firewall feasibility through Vyatta, iscci storage, Block storage, EMC VNX, NAS, SAS, SATA II - 14000 rpm, SATA - 7200 rpm feasibility, customize VLANs, Backup through Evault and so on
• Architect and deploy IBM public/private cloud platforms (IaaS, PaaS & SaaS) across Private/Softlayer cloud services, Openstack and CloudStack.
• Strong Ability to associate with Technical Architecture team & Orchestrate hybrid and on-premise cloud solutions, Cost / Benefit modeling and creating compelling business cases for migration, Identify and implement cloud optimization strategies.
• Workflow creation for two level approvals, for auto approvals for certain requests, and auto automating IBM private cloud with Tivoli softwares
• Worked for Idera integration with IBM softlayer cloud for certain clients
• Proving presentation with TCO reduction, and supporting business case for cloud with significant ROI
• Experience with OpenStack (Nova, Swift, Glance, Keystone, Neutron, cinder, Crowbar, Heat, Ceilometer, Admin, controller, Rabbit MQ), XenServer, Xenapps, KVM and VMware.
• Proficiency with Softlayer & bluemix, in depth knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, Cloud computing, ITIL processes, Data center infrastructure and topics to effectively communicate and guide teams of deeper domain specialists.
• Ability to manage Cloud POC, exploratory projects to identify, evaluate and eventually adopt most suitable Cloud Computing (Public & Private Clouds, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) model for the customer with respect to the customer’s business context.
• IT infra Management in complex scenario across US, EMEA, and APJ region
• Managed Infra projects for all phases of ( Procurement, mount, Build, Post Build, Hardware Activation, Application enablement, maintenance, steady state support ) for Storage, Server, Network, Active Directory, Database, OS, storage & backup solutions, networking & security solutions like routing, switching, Firewalls etc.
• Ability to collaborate with cloud computing colleagues inside and outside the industry to define Cloud Computing adoption models, best practices, use cases, guidance documents etc

Consultant Level E

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Represented a team of 18 members for Implementation/migration project. Completed around 3000 migrations of Aix, Red hat Linux and Microsoft - virtual (VMware) as well as bare metal servers across datacenters
• System Integrations/Migrations: Project-managed large-scale initiatives involving the transition of programs to new platforms and migration due to change in datacenter locations, and due to obsoleteness.
• Results: Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to client customers, accomplished with no unscheduled downtime and delivered as per the customer requirement within budget.

Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• A highly competent product and services organization with a great working culture and corporate values.
• Server Consolidation: Consolidating the existing physical servers to virtual machines, virtual to virtual, Cloning virtual machines, taking snapshots of virtual machines and creating Templates.
• Manages project budget - Determines appropriate revenue recognition, ensures timely and accurate invoicing, and monitors receivables for project
• Follows up with clients, when necessary, regarding unpaid invoices. - Analyzes project profitability, revenue, margins, bill rates and utilization.
• Worked closely with project managers, business users to formalize a business idea and define requirements.
• Creates and implements project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for one or more medium sized projects of low to moderate complexity
• Interacted with the business users and division supervisors to gather the requirements.
• Gathered requirements for building a current business process that hosted day-to-day trading activities of various commercial recordings divisions.
• Created Requirement Traceability Matrix to make sure the current project requirements are being met
• Provided recommendations to the higher management in the process change and gaps when found
• Scheduling of team at the time of migration window effectively