Sajith Balachandran

Experience

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  Business in IT Field

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2004

  Entrepreneur

  Retailing Servers , desktops, peripherals and accessoriesSales and marketingRequirement assessment of customers and pre sales consultancySales of Assembled PCs, Peripherals ,Networking equipment and AccessoriesImplementation of LAN and installing OS, AD, Exchange and other Applications as per customer requirement.AMC of PCs , Servers and other equipmentsProviding after sales support to customers Working on server, desktop, peripherals, software and network related issues.Procurement and vendor managementAssembling servers and desktops Show less

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  INDUS BUSINESS ACADEMY - IBA, BANGALORE

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

  IT in Charge

  IT in-charge of IBA IT infrastructure design and implementationManaged an IT team Vendor management and procurement managementIt infrastructure and operations managementIT policy implementationSwitching and routingAD, DNS, DHCP Group policy implementation and management.Contract negotiation managementPerforming backup activities using Windows NT backup utilityMaintaining SQUID-Proxy and IPCOP firewallProvide technical support to more than 500 usersIT staff recruitment, training and performance reviews.Maintaining Trend micro neat suit antivirus. Show less

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  Financial Technologies (India) Ltd

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2010

  Sr. Server Engineer

  Member of Managed Services team taking care of data centers of FT Group spot and future exchanges.Details of the Datacenters handled 1. MCX 2 MCX-SX 3. NSEL 4. SNX.Managed MS cluster for SQL 2000,2005 DB servers.Manage Backup and restoration of Database, FTP and other application data.Various reports generation from SQL Database as per the management requirement.Weekly Database archivingDB replication monitoring to DR sites.Conducting monthly mock run at DR siteManaging IBM storage boxesManagement of complete IT infrastructure that includes servers like IBM series, IBM Blades, Stratus 4600, IBM storage boxes, backup solutions. Show less

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  Euronet Worldwide

  May 2010 - Jan 2018

  Technical leader Server support team

  Provided support to Data centers and LCOs in EMEA region.Responsibilities include• Implemented and managed VMware based virtual datacenters• Managed storage and backup solutions of 3Par, Netapp, Backup exec• Patch management using SCCM and Spacewalk.• Managed various security monitoring tools.• Cross boarder team management • Staff training and other performance improvement planning• Using ITIL best practices• Compliance management• Participated in various internal and external auditing. Worked on fixing the NCs found.• Addressed all escalations and resolved them within the specified TAT• Security management. Worked in coordination with security team to hardening the systems network etc and fixed the vulnerabilities detected. Show less

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  Maiwand Technologix

  Jan 2018 - Aug 2018

  Senior IT Manager at Maiwand Technologix ltd

  Acted as Global IT Head of Al Bashir Group of CompaniesResponsible for:• overseeing the infrastructure of technical operations, tracking the technology itself as well as the IT team in order to achieve goals, meet quotas, eliminate security risks, increase user satisfaction, and maintaining operations and systems• Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals• Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage• Help departments use technology profitably• Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency• Developing and overseeing smart metrics for hardware, software, and storage• Ensuring strategic capacity planning• Overseeing departmental finances, including budgeting and forecasting• Tracking KPIs and KRAs continuously to ensure progress towards achieving business objectives• Analysis of performance and manpower thoroughly and take strategic decisions on manpower increase, etc• Build quality assurance and data protection processes Show less

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  Manappuram Insurance Brokers Limited

  Sept 2018 - Dec 2019

  Chief Technology Officer

  Head of IT Department.Roles and responsibilities:• • Provide top level management for all IT employees, vendors and contractors.• Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.• Ensure that the technological resources meet the company’s short and long-tern needs• Managing budget and time frames• Manage and set priorities across the Technology programs and operations within budget and completion targets.• Provide training and mentoring to all direct reports and other managers.• Schedule periodic security audits.• Communicate recommended improvements, best practices and risks to all parts of the business outside IT.• Optimize all corporate IT operations, including sales support, financials, HR and customer service and support;• Ensure a complete security plan is in place which protects the availability, integrity and privacy of the IT infrastructure and the data stored .• Ensure that disaster recovery and business continuity plans are in place and tested. Show less

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  Self-employed

  Jan 2020 - now

  Information Technology Consultant