Raj Krishnasamy

Raj Krishnasamy

Backup Analyst

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Co-CEO & Co-Founder at KitchenCo - Cloud Kitchen & Jom Makan by KCO

  • Education

    • Bukit Bintang Boys Secondary School

      1996 - 2000
      0' Levels (SPM)
    • Staffordshire University

      2000 - 2004
      Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology First Class
  • Experience

    • HP

      Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
      Backup Analyst
    • Dell Technologies

      Jan 2008 - Jan 2009
      Backup & Storage Administrator
    • GSK

      Jan 2010 - Jan 2020

      My role as Infrastructure Service Manager is to ensure that the overall IT infrastructure for several GSK’s critical systems is fit for purpose and provided in accordance with Service Level Agreements. I also act as the escalation point for operational service issues (covering all technologies, procedures and support teams), and project delivery approval (to ensure new services are built, tested and smoothly transitioned to live service). • Ownership – Responsible for end to end infrastructure services • Leadership – Engage, influence and negotiate with senior customers and stakeholders, including leadership of SWAT calls and After-Action Reviews (AAR). Represent entire infrastructure department at Customer Comm Cells and Service Reviews. • Standardization – Implement and execute standard, optimized infrastructure service management activities, including:• Availability – Responsible for end-to-end service infrastructure availability, including management of incidents, problems and change (inc. LIN management).• Backup – Responsible for ensuring complete confidence in ability to restore data at any time and recover business capability in event of disaster (IT Continuity Planning)• Capacity – Responsible for reducing system outages due to lack of capacity and saving money by optimizing capacity and by not deploying capacity too early.• Lifecycle – Responsible for reducing risk through elimination of single points of failures or data integrity risks as a result of fit for purpose reviews. Acts as approver for release into service. Responsible for lifecycle planning. • Cost – Responsible for showing how service costs change over time. • Knowledge – Responsible for knowledge share with customers and stakeholders, including monthly reporting. Build trust and credibility with customers and stakeholders. Tunjukkan kurang Administering Storage systems, managing the systems installation (hardware, software), restoring systems after failure, activities related to remote administration of computer systems. Involves interaction with local markets and with global teams of administrators. • Implementation of strategy for the Technical Centre, aligning to general goals of the organization, processes and task plans and assuring their effective realization. • Implementing the process of the knowledge transfer and skills in the area of IT services • Managing the Storage Infrastructure • Management of Storage Devices Lifecycles. • Introduction of future enhancements, working with SDCS Engineering and external vendors to provide support services for GSK. • Providing support for projects and programs within GSK • Escalation and Communication of issues to senior management • Technical Review of SDCS procedures and technical documentation. Tunjukkan kurang

      • CyberArk Consultant

        Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
      • Infrastructure Service Manager

        Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
      • Senior Storage Consultant

        Jan 2010 - Jan 2017
    • KitchenCo - Cloud Kitchen

      Jan 2020 - now
      Co-CEO & Co-Founder
    • Jom Makan By KCO

      Jan 2023 - now
      Co-CEO & Co-Founder
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • KEPNER-TREGOE FOUNDATION

      Conlea
      Sept 2018
    • Introduction to CyberArk Privileged Access Security

      CyberArk
      Jun 2019
    • Lean Competency 1b

      Cardiff University Professional Development Unit
      Jan 2015
    • Cyberark Certified Trustee

      CyberArk
      Jun 2019
    • Performance Analysis on Clustered Data ONTAP

      NetApp
      Jun 2016
    • ITIL Foundation Version 3

      ITIL Certified
      Jan 2009
    • Clustered data ONTAP Administration

      NetApp
      Jan 2014
    • VFQ Foundation

      Emergn
      Jun 2019
    • CLARiion Host Integration & Management with Snap & MirrorView and SAN copy

      EMC
      Jan 2009
    • Responding to Conflicts

      Dunville International
      Jan 2009
    • Data ONTAP SAN Implementation

      NetApp
      Sept 2015
    • NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator

      NetApp
      Jan 2014
    • Lean competency 1a

      Cardiff University Professional Development Unit
      Jun 2015
    • Project Management Fundamentals

      Dunville International
      Jan 2009
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Raj Krishnasamy
      Gold Impact Award GSK 2018 Improve Accessibility, Accuracy of Critical Application info for International Hub. (Top3 Gold Award winner)• Accurate information on Critical Application• (Service Matrix, Triage & Application Description Document)• Standardised format implemented• Unwanted & unusable links removed.• No duplication data, information are consolidated.• Faster access to critical application information via Swatportal• Updated International Hub LIN with the new process.GSK… Tunjukkan lagi Improve Accessibility, Accuracy of Critical Application info for International Hub. (Top3 Gold Award winner)• Accurate information on Critical Application• (Service Matrix, Triage & Application Description Document)• Standardised format implemented• Unwanted & unusable links removed.• No duplication data, information are consolidated.• Faster access to critical application information via Swatportal• Updated International Hub LIN with the new process.GSK Business Value:• Increase customer confidence in incidents related to infrastructure of apps in scope of CAISM.• increase International Hub confidence & efficiency dealing with critical situations Tunjukkan kurang
    • Awarded to Raj Krishnasamy
      Silver Impact Award GSK 2017 Reducing Business risk through greater Awareness of Change request (Silver award winner)• From an AAR investigation carried out on 29 Outages & Degradation caused by Change from Jan 2016 – Jun 2017 which impacted critical applications, we noticed that there were 6 instances of Human Error (Deviation from Change) & 7 cases of insufficient work plan & test plan.• Worked with Pandora reporting team to generate a daily report to GHO KL Managers, which shows them changes submitted for… Tunjukkan lagi Reducing Business risk through greater Awareness of Change request (Silver award winner)• From an AAR investigation carried out on 29 Outages & Degradation caused by Change from Jan 2016 – Jun 2017 which impacted critical applications, we noticed that there were 6 instances of Human Error (Deviation from Change) & 7 cases of insufficient work plan & test plan.• Worked with Pandora reporting team to generate a daily report to GHO KL Managers, which shows them changes submitted for approval in the last 24 hours. (Each Tower receives their own customised report)• I Piloted the report with KL Storage team, the manager receives this report daily at 10 am before their daily comcel. Storage team started to have a daily discussion on what changes are transpiring within the team.• Upon receiving positive feedback from storage team, the report was then shared to Unix team & followed by Maciej & Greg for an even more high-level view of all GHO Towers change controls.GSK Business Value:• Managers have visibility of changes that are submitted for approval on a daily basis.• They can get the right experienced people to work on changes or ask seniors to shadow the juniors on change controls.• It gives an opportunity to start a conversation with analyst and ask if they were comfortable with implementing change controls or need some help.• Managers are able to manage workload on an analyst if there is to much change under one name.• Managers can instruct change approvers to double check on changes that might be critical to the business. Tunjukkan kurang
    • Awarded to Raj Krishnasamy
      Silver Impact Award GSK 2017 ITCP Test ITHS KL Involvement – Critical Apps ITCP involvement (Top3 Silver award winner)• It has been identified that ITHS KL has no involvement of Critical Application ITCP Test Planning & Physical Test.• Infrastructure Service Manager (Raj) performed an investigation and met with ITCP Consultant to understand why was KL not used today.• Developed & Agreed on new process for ITHS KL involvement for ITCP Testing.• ISM implemented the solution by educating KL team on… Tunjukkan lagi ITCP Test ITHS KL Involvement – Critical Apps ITCP involvement (Top3 Silver award winner)• It has been identified that ITHS KL has no involvement of Critical Application ITCP Test Planning & Physical Test.• Infrastructure Service Manager (Raj) performed an investigation and met with ITCP Consultant to understand why was KL not used today.• Developed & Agreed on new process for ITHS KL involvement for ITCP Testing.• ISM implemented the solution by educating KL team on Critical Application, Trained all those involved on new ITCP process and continued to help provide consultation and guidance• ISM continued to build capabilities in ITHS KL.GSK Business Value:• Gain customer confidence on Infrastructure support globally• Alignment with all UK, US, Poznan, Costa Rica & KL ITHS teams.• More resources globally available during disaster.• Build better teamwork among centers & capabilities.• More visibility of KL which leads to more opportunities. Tunjukkan kurang