Ganesh Kumar M

Experience

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  Chennai Software Solutions

  Feb 2001 - Nov 2004

  System administrator

  operational roles &responsibilitiesmigrated windows / ad servers from windows 2000 to windows 2003.was involved in implementation and administration of exchange 2000 servers in distributed modelprovided support for windows services like dhcp, dns, ras, & iis patched windows servers using windows sustrouble shoot issues on ibm compatible hardware

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  HCL Infosystems Ltd.

  Nov 2004 - Aug 2005

  System administrator

  operational roles &responsibilitiesinvolved in planning and migration of windows 2000 ad and exchange 2000 to windows 2003 & exchange 2003 involved in installation, configuration and administration of windows servers & microsoft exchange servers in central and branch officesprovided support for dhcp, dns, ras, iis, wus & isa serverprovided support for lotus domino r5 & r6 during installation, configuration and administration

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  Wipro

  Aug 2005 - Jul 2006

  Server analyst

  roles &responsibilitiesprovided support for more than 3600 windows / ad servers located in europe data center and also in different branch officesparticipated in windows / ad server builds and also in widows / ad server dr teststroubleshooting all the issues related to windows os / ad / dns / dhcp / wins / dfs / frs etc.worked in installation and trouble shooting of microsoft windows clusters.was involved in installation, configuration and trouble shooting of hp / ibm / dell server hardwareprovided 1st level support for citrix meta frame issues, tsm & also veritas backup clienthelped team members to resolve escalated & critical issues show less

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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Jul 2006 - Jan 2017

  Solution architect

  roles &responsibilitieswork closely with project managers / customer for gathering requirements for infrastructure designcreating statement of work(sow) / rom/ bomcreating low/high level design document (lld & hld), technical design document and implementation guideimplementing the design solution, infrastructure health checkparticipate in knowledge transfer for new accounts / projects.managing and mentoring a team of infrastructure specialists comprising of active directory specialists, systems and server professionalsengaging closely with existing and new customers to consult, design and develop solutions to address based on customer needstranslate the customer needs in technical requirements in line with proposed solutionsreview and sign off the technical proposals of all potential customer projectsbased on customer business needs will drive with best solutions and implement the same on support operations, project transitions and expansionshealth check: have participated microsoft cluster health check camp at customer premises (csrap), offshore ad health check (adrap). planned & implementation of remediation.prepare & participate itsm process (iso 20k & 27k) internal and external audits.participated in vmware and ad dr testscreate & execution of service improvement plansensuring compliances of iso 20k, 27k audit documents and ensuring no non-compliances in internal & external iso, map audits.transitioning account from onshore to off-shore (knowledge transfer) show less

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  Cognizant

  Jan 2017 - Nov 2018

  Cloud architect, sr. manager

  design and deploying on-premise & cloud-based solutionseffectively integrated public cloud to traditional hosted on-premises data centers assessment, design, and migration of on-premises applications to cloud. recommending migration approach to lift and shift the workloads to awsarchitecting a green field deployment in aws.deploying poc environment before implementing the critical production migration. highly skilled in reviewing statement of work (sow), proposals, managing projects, providing estimates and recommending the best solutions.worked in converged infrastructure solution– vxblock.working with corporate security and guiding implementation team to implement the security controls.reduced overall aws cloud opex cost through rds and ec2 workload optimization, rightsizing (ri) activities and redesign backup solution activities without affecting application performance. show less

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  Capiteq

  Nov 2018 - Nov 2021

  Lead infrastructure analyst

  experienced in creating rfps, solutioning, and deploying on premise, cloud based solutions using microsoft azure, project management, presales and product road mapshighly skilled in reviewing statement of work (sow), proposals, managing projects, providing estimates and recommending the best solutions in microsoft practices.solution design (hld, lld) and deploy azure cloud and hybrid solutions for hedge fund clients in singapore & hong kong.o365 tenant setup, account migration and managementintune and azure ad, azure conditional access implementation & policy enforcementad account sso with azure adassessment, design, and migration of on-premises applications to cloudmanaging 10+ team members for project managementcitrix cloud implementationvmware infrastructure design & implementation show less

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  Accenture Southeast Asia

  Nov 2021 - now

  Business & integration arch manager

  document the solution designs clearly and with enough details so delivery and execution teams can size the effort. perform proof of concept to evaluate new and emerging technologies, design patterns, and proposed solutions.closely work with customers to ensure their cloud architecture is successfully implemented by assisting them in building their applications and services on the azure cloud platform.solution design & deployment for azure vmware solution (avs), hcx migration (including hands-on)experience in data migration by using storagex datadynamics and azcopy. show less