Experience

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  Sakaal media group

  May 2006 - Jul 2008

  Sr executive - it dept

  Sakal is one of the leading news paper in Maharashtra for Marathi & English edition. Sakal Paper having their unit offices throughout in Maharashtra, out of which I was responsible for Aurangabad Unit Office including eight Regional offices to manage their IT support requirement and Data Center Management.Server Administration:Administration of Windows Server 2003 & 2008 for Active Directory, system administration tasks such as creating user ids and groups, group policy implementation, backup administration, log monitoring and end user support for around 250 computers. Administration of File, Print and WSUS 3.0 server for above mentioned setup. Computer administration for Trend Micro antivirus updates. Show less

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  Skoda india

  Jul 2008 - Mar 2010

  Asst manager ­ it

  Was responsibility to provide technical support to more than 65 dealerships, which were located throughout in India, for user creation, and administration, application access assignment, taking care of software updating at all the location, and was coordinating with 3rd party for technical support of VPN related issues. Responsible for local server administration where Windows 2000, 2003 server were there for active directory, file server, print server SCCM-2007 and MacAfee antivirus 4.0 ePO and Exchange 2003. Also providing technical support for VAS (Vehicle Audit System) device (which was using for diagnostician the technical problems of Skoda Cars). Responsible for support of entire IT infrastructure including planning, procurement, installation & maintenance of servers, computers, laptops,Internet data cards, RSA Cards, peripherals, communication systems, Devices and connectivity solutions.Implemented Broad Band IPSec VPN at all dealerships with SSG 5 Juniper (Firewall cum Router), with the help of Orange Service Pvt Ltd-Pune. Here I am responsible to keep up all the dealers with connectivity and if any problem will occur at dealership. Show less

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  Tech mahindra

  Apr 2010 - Mar 2011

  Sr administrator - (wintel & vmware system administrator)

  Server Build and ORT (VMware) In the project (Server Build and ORT) we were around 22 resource team responsible to perform the end to end server build activity on Windows 2000, 2003 & 2008 for both physical and virtual servers. Server Build Activity (Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 only), Storage & network configuration on ESX for new VM & VM creation and OS deployment through ISO image. In post build activity; there were around 42 activities which we have to perform on each server, following activities are the few of them.Installation and configuration of NBU Net Backup, MaCfee ePO agent, RSA and ILA. WSUS Server configuration and settings for update, Required route addition, Promoting server to DC and adding rest server to domain, changes in services & Installation of required other software like SQL, etc.Project – 1 Managed Services (Wintel) - In the project (Managed Services) we were around 62 resources, who were responsible to provide the L-2 technical support to around 23000 windows server out of which around 11000 server were virtual and rest are physical, following activity we were doing in support. • Most of the servers are belongs to HP, Dell and IBM & we were supporting remotely using HP SIM, Dell Open Manage Administration and IBM Director for checking the server physical health. Also Remotely resolving the problem of servers e.g. hardware troubleshooting, OS validation, monitoring server OS, server health and services, We were using Patrol agent service for day to day monitoring• Were taking care of technical issue of the print servers, file servers, network printers & were working on Vantive and AOTS BMC-Remedy ticketing system. Installation of Hot fixes on the servers as per the Microsoft recommendations using SCCM. Troubleshooting on RAID and exposure on ClusteringMulti Site coordination, remote administration Assistance Show less

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  Mphasis limited

  Mar 2011 - Jul 2012

  Lead infrastructure engineer

  Windows & VMware Project - HP-GHS-Wintel (Transitioning, Server Build & Wintel Operation); Here in Mphasis, Initially I was in Transitioning Team where we have taken over around 10000 + Windows Server from IBM into HP support. and later associated with Server Build Team. Where, we were around 25 resources who were responsible for new windows server build (both physical and virtual), rebuild OS, application deployment, Network Teaming, Cluster configuration & deployment of different types of windows service. Additionally was responsible for following issues.1) Windows server administration for 2003, 2008 & IIS 6.0 & 7.02) TIER 3 on call support & Providing TIER 3, L2 & L3 issues only, 3) Responsibility to handle only escalated issues & Specialization to handle cluster issue4) Managing more than 1000 + Servers across globe, which includes US/UK major data centers (EMDC (European Mega Data Centers & AMDC (American Mega Data Centers).Strictly following the Process Management, Meeting the SLA standards & IIL standards24x7 on call support on weekends Show less

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  Saba software

  Aug 2012 - Nov 2015

  Associate lead – cloud infrastructure

  Responsible for Designing & Implementation of Virtual Data Centers across globe which includes Installation, Configuration & Management of VMware Infrastructure, Designing and Implementation of SRM 5.8 as DR solution.1) VMware best practices implementation in existing setup to further fine tuning and getting best uptime out of it. 2) Upgrading vSphere environments from 5.1 Update 3 to 5.5 Update 2 using Update Manager Across all the DCs 3) Designing & Implementation of SRM 5.8 & 5.1 as DR Solution between DCs/Sites1) vCenter installation and configuration, ESXi Installation & Configuration, 2) Distributed Switch and standard vSwitch Configuration3) ESXi Upgradation and Patching using Update Manager, 4) Capacity Management for ESXi Servers of version 5.1 & 4.1. 5) VM Provisioning both (Windows & Linux) in Production environment.6) Storage Configuration (iSCSI (Nimble) and NFS (NetApp) to create Datastore & Datastore cluster,7) Active Directory Management, AD Extension both (DC & RODC), User ID Management, Microsoft WSUS (3.0) & AV (SEPM 12.1 RU4) server management.Successfully completed following End to End data center build outs & projects.1) New Virutal Datacenter implementation in different countries2) ESXi upgradation from 4.1 to 5.1 & 5.1 to 5.1 Update 33) vDistributed Switch implementation4) Chassis Upgradation (Dell - M1000E)5) Data Center Migration/Consolidation6) Designing and Implementation of SRM 5.8 as DR solutionHardware: HP (DL380p-Gen8), Dell (Chassis-PowerEdge-M1000e with PowerEdge M710HD blades), Dell PowerEdge R720, R710, R510Software/OS: VMware vSphere 5.5 , 5.1, SRM 5.8 & 5.1, Update Manager 5.x, P2V using vCenter converter, vSphere, Storage Nimble (iSCSI), NetApp (NFS), Microsoft Windows 2008-R2 & Red Hat Linux 6.0 AdministrationTools: HP – iLO, IBM-RSA, Dell-iDRAC, Dell Open Manage, HP-SIM, BMC Remedy, Nagios, JIRA, Salesforce, Dell-Open Manager, Newrelic,etc. Show less

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  Sungard availability services, india

  Nov 2015 - Sept 2022

  1. Led team of solution architects responsible for designing and managing recovery solutions of 150+ clients for different public cloud providers i.e. Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and SunGard Private Cloud, 2. Setup the team of solution architects by hiring, onboarding, and developing them to design, manage customer solutions. 3. Driven upsell/cross-sell opportunities across customer base for public cloud solutions, DR Solutions, Backup and Recovery and Private Cloud 4. Worked and coordinated various client engagement initiatives that helped achieve highest customer satisfactory experience and long term partnership from service delivery standpoint 5. Designed and implemented managed recovery framework for disaster recovery solution that helped clients to achieve 95% + DR test success compared to industry standards 6. Led technology transformation on AWS, Azure, CCL BIPs, SRM, Zerto, Actifio, Veeam and a variety of Infrastructure and Virtualization technologies. 7. Guided for solution designs and operational efficiencies on various enterprise combinations of EMC/Netapp/IBM/Storages, Avamar/EMC backup solutions, Windows/VMware server platforms, Cloud Technologies, and Virtualization. Show less Responsible for managing and leading all the Solution Architects for INDIA region. Responsibilities are as below:1) Supporting 100 + Recovery customer's across the globe which consists of AWS, Zerto, VMware and Azure.2) Managing and helping an Architects in their Customer and Technical Escalation.3) Streamlining the process and look for improvement scope to achieve customer sanctification4) Responsible for Architects success and making sure that all the defined Organization's goals and targets are achieved Show less Was performing roles in infrastructure management, design & architect infrastructure solutions for disaster recovery. Providing Solution for disaster recovery using VMware SRM & Microsoft Server Replication (Inmage).Responsibilities Include: > Coordinating with per-sales support to provide technical solutions for new customer/implementation.> Conducting requirement workshops to capture customer requirements and evaluation / analysis of their data and applying domain expertise and innovative ideas to architect/design solutions.> Respond to prepare solution documentation and presentations & design detailed delivery model for the run services> Build & propose the Infrastructure Transformation Plan including the costing details> Present the solution to the customer during workshops, oral sessions and manage & mitigate the risks associated with the proposed solution Show less

  • Senior Manager - Solution Architect Cloud Recovery

    Sept 2021 - Sept 2022

  • Manager - Solution Architect Cloud Recovery

    Jan 2019 - Aug 2021

  • Lead - Solution Architect (Cloud Recovery)

    Apr 2017 - Dec 2018

  • Solution Architect - VMware, Windows & Disaster Recovery

    Nov 2015 - Mar 2017
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  Intaleq

  Aug 2022 - Feb 2023

  Manager - solution architect

  Was associated with INTALEQ Technology Consulting and Services at Doha, Qatar as Manager, Solution Architect, In INTALEQ also part of Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy supporting FIFA World CUP 2022 and responsible to setup Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Practice to handle actual disaster if any and Azure DR Setup for their primary production site.Responsibilities were:• Worked with Microsoft Azure consultant to plan, implement and complete DR Site configuration for Microsoft Azure Primary Site in Europe Region• Planned and completed DR Drill for identified DR scenarios to be well prepared for the disaster. • Planned and configured VMware vSAN Stretch Cluster as DR Solution for all the 8 Stadiums which will be used for World Cup matches.• Finalized disaster scenarios in coordination with function leads and prepared the tracker for each scenario & create mitigation plan document for each scenario• Created documents like End-to-end DR Disaster Recovery Process (RPD), Communication (Initial, Update & Closer) template, DDA, etc.,• Planned and completed the disaster recovery DR Drill for critical scenarios to be DR ready and Fine-tune process and updated the documents accordingly. Show less

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  Tmf group

  Jun 2023 - now

  Senior manager - global technology engineering