Prabhakaran P

Experience

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  Network Solutions Pvt. Ltd. - An IBM Company

  Oct 2006 - Feb 2012

  Project Engineer

  I conduct site surveys and share the details with management.I conduct testing and commissioning of copper and fiber optic cablingI design the cabling infrastructure for network rooms.I have independently managed structured network cabling projects.I managed a team of 17 cable vendors.

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  Sigma-byte Computers Pvt Ltd

  Apr 2012 - Aug 2015

  Project Engineer

  I design structured cabling systems and create bill of materials (BOMs) with both abstract and detailed estimates.I collaborated effectively with vendors and internal stakeholders.I simultaneously design, present, and implement multiple major structured network cabling projects.I led two supervisors, 25 technicians, and 30 cabling vendors.

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  NextExpert Technologies Pvt Ltd

  Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

  Project Lead

  Responsibilities include leading projects by managing third-party vendors, preparing Bills of Quantity, creating pre-sales proposals, overseeing project implementation, ensuring projects are completed on time, following up with customers after project completion, and ensuring timely billing.Other responsibilities include hiring engineers, managing administration, procurement, acting as a single point of contact for customers, making trustworthy commitments to customers, and reporting directly to the Managing Director. Show less

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  Flipkart

  Dec 2015 - now

  I plan, design, and deliver physical infrastructure projects to bring business benefits and value to the organization. I evaluate current and emerging optical/Ethernet technologies, estimate costs, level of effort, timelines, dependencies, and alternatives.I optimize and restructure copper and optical fiber infrastructure cabling, testing, documentation, and implementation from inside out. I estimate the total capacity required and deploy it based on business requirements.I am responsible for lifting and installing network and server equipment, troubleshooting layer 1 network issues, driving root cause analyses and service improvements, managing inventory, and maintaining optimized cold airflow within the hot/cold aisle containment. I am responsible for recruiting, training, and mentoring team members. I build positive and collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.I lead SLA discussions with relevant stakeholders and ensure that the SLAs are met according to the agreement, while also possessing the ability to manage escalations.I am responsible for ensuring high availability, business continuity, and performance tuning of the data center. I participate in data center audits and ensure that data center processes comply with relevant standards.I create KPIs and dashboards and maintain them by measuring PUE, temperature, humidity, IT load power consumption, layer 1 network issues, and ISP metrics for the data centers. I also monitor these metrics and set up alerting mechanisms as necessary. Show less Leading the medium and Large Projects individually. Project Planning, organising internal kick off meeting, briefing the project to the stake holders and the team. Evaluating the products/tools for the projects, Evaluating the third party vendor, organising the External kick off meeting, briefing the project to the external stake holders. Project Scheduling, resource allocation, assigning roles/tasks to the resources, clearing the concerns from the resources, Initiate the Financial budget and Approvals, Project Implementation, Project updates, Material tracker, Clearing the blockers/dependencies, creates the team collaboration, Mentoring to the team members, Time management, Risk Management, Keeping the safe work environment for the team, Follow up to the given task, Completes the project as per the schedule. Keen to place better improvements for the completed projects in Software /Hardware Tools, Information and Communication technology equipments, power usage effectiveness , cooling, BMS.Maintain the Datacenter as per the best practices followed up globally.Roles and responsibility of operations :ISP: Maintain the Internet link alive always by monitoring and if any link down immediately address the issue, testing the Fiber optic cables/SFP and resolve it on priority.Server: Maintain the Hardwares working condition by Monitoring , troubleshooting the issues through Linux OS, If HW fails raise the case, do the RMA and handover the machines to the Production.Network : Maintain the proper structured network architecture with proper labelling and optimised bandwidth. Keeps the spares availability to reduce the production downtime.Electrical :- Conducting Preventive Maintenance of Transformers, LT/HT Panel, UPS, PDU, Batteries, Earth Pits, Diesel Generators, all the distribution Boxes.Cooling : Monitoring and Maintaining the temperature in Hot/Aisle.BMS:- Maintain Vesda,FAS,CCTV, WLD, FSS. Show less

  • Data Center Engineer III., Certified Data Center Specialist.

    Apr 2019 - now

  • Data Center Engineer II

    Dec 2015 - Mar 2019