SUMMARY:

• An accomplished, results - oriented Project Manager/ Infrastructure Solution Architect with10 years of experience directing complex, large scale projects.
• Exemplary track record of success in the resource management and mentoring of team members that consistently produce and high stress environments.
• Accountable for developing and maintaining technical and capability roadmaps crossing multiple technology domains and disciplines for distributed server, hypervisor, client and server operating systems, ensuring consistent strategy with network, voice, infrastructure software, collaboration and database domains.
• Worked on integration, Cloud designs (AWS, Azure, Openstack), project management
• Managed scope,time and tools& techniques in complex project
• Developed internal IT products and services, built and presented business cases and demonstrated/sold concepts to executive IT management and LOB stakeholders
• Experience in Analysis, Design, and Planning and Deployment of Data Center solutions for enterprise level Infrastructure environments.
• Expertise, experience in Setup, Configuration, and administration of enterprise level virtual/physical blade/rack server solutions (Cisco UCS, HP, IBM Blade Center H/E/S,Citrix)
• Expertise, experience in WAN, LAN Routing and Switching (MPLS, Point-Point, IPsec VPN, BGP, EIGRP, Spanning Tree, RIP, QoS for VOIP, Traffic Prioritization and Shapping)
• Experience working in large scale Data Centers (2000+ servers) enterprise production environments.
• Experience in Configuring and migration,Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Lync, SysLogs, SCCM in Physical and Virtual Data Centers.
• Strong Administration experience in VMware, AWS, Storage, Networking and Windows Server Platforms with extensive implementation & troubleshooting experience under Client Server Systems.
• Expertise, experience in NetAPP, EMC VNX, HP,VMAX SANbox and other Storage Foundations.
• Experience with installs, configuration, patches, upgrades, and performance tuning.
• Experience Datacenter Operations, including hardware, software setup, monitoring, troubleshooting on a 24 x 7 basis with Remedy ticketing Systems.
• Experience with High Availability systems with data replication, business persistence, failover, failback, DevelopedDisaster Recovery, Incident Response and Change Management Process.
• Experience in Network Storage Solutions like NAS,SAN Administration.
• Experience in installation and fine tuning Database and Application servers on Windows and UNIX Servers.
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting the deployment and other application problems, applying Critical Patches, Service Packs, and used to work closely with Production and Development Teams in solving issues.
• Experience in Configuring and administering the Cisco Pix/ASA 5000, Juniper, watch-guard, Fortinet, SSG, Sonicwall Firewalls and setting up the access rules DMZ zone and IPsec VPN.
• Experience inwaterfall,Spiral, Rapid Prototyping, Scrum/Agile methodologies.
• Developed and maintained the client hardware, thin client and server based computing standards for theorganizationand the ongoing and maintenance of the detailed technical standards for a large number of desktop and laptop PCs and Citrix users
• Actively mentored, guided and developed base engineering staff - actively developing four lead engineers as promotional candidates in the areas of cloud computing, client, mobility and virtualization domains
• Actively involved with Microsoft, Confidential - Confidential, Dell and VM ware on numerous evaluation, beta and early adopter programs through customer advisory boards and product team relationships

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: HP C-Class, BL, DL and ML Servers, HP Virtual Connect, Dell PowerEdge Servers, IBM X-Series Servers, NEC FT Servers, Unisys platforms

Distributed Server Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Novell Netware and OES, SuSE Enterprise 10/11, Red Hat 4,5 and 6.x

Client Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8.1

Client Hardware Platforms: HP, Dell and Lenovo - Desktop, Laptop, Transformable and Tablet platforms

Virtualization Platforms: VMware, Citrix XenServer, Xeon, AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStck

Infrastructure Software: Microsoft Active Directory, DNS/DHCP, System Center Data Protection Manager, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, System Center Operations Manager, Microsoft SQL Server, Citrix XenApp / Xen-Deskop / Xen-Mobile, Microsoft Lync 2010/2013, Microsoft Exchange 2013

Networking Platforms: HP Procure Switches, Cisco Routers, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Nexus, Cisco IPICS, Cisco Call Manager Express, Digium, Asterisk, Watch-guard SSL VPN, Watch-guard Edge and Core VPN, Cisco WLAN, Aruba WLAN

VoIP Platforms: Cisco Call Manager Express, Digium, Asterisk, Microsoft Lync 2010/2013

Storage Platforms: HP MSA2000, HP EVA, Cisco 9513, HP 3Par, EMC VNX

Service Oriented Infrastructure / Automated Provisioning: HP Rapid Deployment Pack, HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager, Cisco V-Frame, HP Matrix Operating Environment, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012/2012 SP1/2012 R2, Microsoft Orchestrator

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chesterbrook-, PA

Infrastructure Project Manager/Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Accomplice with business partners, stakeholders to assessment and understand business requirements.
• Responsible for SOW, budgeting and migration approach strategy planning and designing.
• Leading the technical team to accommodate new changes in environment.
• Responsible for vendor management and evaluation.
• Designed for the various reporting requirements.
• Wave group planning and exesucution strategy, designing and planning.
• Responsible for Lift and shift and live migration planning.
• Lead a team of engineers responsible for the design, build, delivery, and support of infrastructure both internally and on our Cloud Computing platform. (AWS and microsoft azure)
• High lavel and low lavel designing for hybrite cloud infrastructure.

Technical Environment: Windows 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint 2013, Cognos, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), MS Project, Visio

Confidential, Norwood-Boston, MA

Project Manager / Infrastructure SoulitionArchitect

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for the design, build, delivery, and support of infrastructure both internally and on our Cloud Computing platform.
• Developing efficient and functional frameworks, strategies, policies, processes, and technology blueprints for infrastructure.
• Driving IT infrastructure initiatives that are based on business requirements, technically and financially sound, communicated to key stakeholders, and refreshed as technologies and business needs change.
• Define strategies with IT and business partners, SME’s and operation teams to ensure roadmaps are aligned.
• Work with other IT team management to enable knowledge sharing and alignment of standards.
• Research, identify, test, and certify technology products required for infrastructure solutions. Participate in selection of infrastructure technologies and products.
• Define Infrastructure standards for production and non-production environments with both large and very large enterprise footprints.
• Architect fault-tolerant, high-availability, and Disaster Recovery solutions for 24x7 system uptime. Define backup / recovery strategies to ensure system recoverability.
• Worked as Singal point of contact (SOPC) for all technical and design requirements to align as per project scope.
• Document, maintain and improve standards, processes, and best practices - infrastructure architectures, design and implementation management. Project management standards and process deployment. Enforce infrastructure design, security, and deployment standards and procedures.
• Display confidence and provide outstanding service. Mentor Service Desk and infrastructure Administration staff. Provide advanced troubleshooting and consulting services as needed.

Technical Environment: Windows 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint 2013, Cognos, Rational Requisite Pro, MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), MS Project, Visio

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Project Manager /Sr. Infrastructure Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Define project scope, objectives, staffing, resources and deliverables, creating a project schedule
• Design strategy, portfolio, action plan for multiple project and team management
• Develop project (work) plans that identify key issues, approaches and performance metrics
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones and ensure compliance with Service Level Agreement (SLA) obligations (Documentation)
• Formulate risk management plans &budget planning, and coordinating logistical issues
• Maintain communication with project stakeholders and manage expectations evaluate projects and assess results
• Deployed business continuity plan (including CLOD and HOT site), asset discovery and management
• Plans future enhancements and directions for the enterprise technology infrastructure.
• Develops standards for data center computing systems to include standards for file servers, disk storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Provides planning, leadership, direction, and advanced technical expertise regarding data center computing for local and remote data centers; serves as a high-level technical expert in regards to data center computing and associated issues. Participates in long-range planning and project management.
• Oversee and assist with the implementation of major technology upgrades.
• Plan data structuring data sizing and data managing (DR and backup)
• Analyzes and determines budget requirements for current datacenter computing systems technology, and available vendor offerings to establish optimum technology solutions.
• Deliver infrastructure change, migration, and up-gradation (Database and Application)
• Experience using Scrum/Agile methodologies in Software Development Projects effectively complete software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Deployed and migrate system in the new location
• Large Scale Agile Transformation
• Involved in different team review meetings.
• Conducted Design discussions and meetings to come out with the appropriate outcome.
• Designed for the various reporting requirements.
• Organized User Acceptance Testing (UAT), conducted presentations and provided support for Business users to get familiarized
• Done SQL Server configuration database size estimation, database creation logins & user’s creation, granting object level permission, estimation of indexes on tables.

Technical Environment: Installation and Implementation of AD, DHCP, Domain, LDAP, web server, data based server, application server, firewall, switches, and routers. (DMZ port configuration), Build hybrid infrastructure, environment by configuring Linux, Microsoft windows server and Solaris operating system.Experience in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (Foundation 2010, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), and Windows SharePoint Services)Implement (VID) Virtual Desktopinfrastructure and VMware.Responsibly controlled Network, System, Helpdesk support and software development team management with 40+ members

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage vendor relationships, including negotiating and controlling contracts with cost effectiveness
• Track, maintain project deliverables and monitor quality assurance measures (quality impact)
• Control project variances through root cause analysis and correction
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions manage and control project budgets
• Develop and present reports on project progress
• Project Portfolio, action plan, and work breakdown panning
• Document management and SOP, procedure writing for IT department with PMI and ISO standard
• Business strategy planning (Blue print), marketing and eCommerce site development by participating with advertising vendors, PR team, product development team.
• Ensuring all key stakeholder communication on timely and detailed manner.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Worked in close co-ordination with Business People, Developers, Testers and other Managers and also at times reported to the higher leadership.

Technical Environment: VMware deployment and cloud (amazon - AWS) hybrid infrastructure deployment for metro system, Successfully complete SAP and INFOR ERP software development life cycle (SAP Modules

Confidential, Plano, TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Handled multiple complex infrastructure projectsin parallel within a company for different business lines, continually interaction with multiple client and stakeholders (oversees) for project communication
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones, formulate risk management plans, ensure cross functionality
• Assemble and coordinate multi-disciplinary project teams, lead and mentor up to 50+ project staff
• Manage vendor relationships, including negotiating and controlling contracts, Understand and influence decision making processes.
• Track project deliverables, monitor quality assurance measures
• Control project variances through root cause analysis and correction
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions, manage and control project budgets, work with cross functionalteam for continuing integration and deployment.
• Worked with SME’s and other stakeholders to determine the requirements to identify Entities and Attributes to build Conceptual, Logical and Physical data Models.
• Maintain communication with project stakeholders and manage expectations
• Build and manage Infrastructure Engineering team
• Developed Data Mapping Document.

Technical Environment:Network infrastructure configuration including hardware selection and POC testing (Cisco network designing), Web server (Linux, IIS) configuration and e-commerce web site deployment, ERP (SAP) Implementation PM, MM, FI, CO, CRM, BI module implementation, Windows 200, 2003, 2008, Win NT VMware configuration (Data center configuration and implementation), Database structuring and management (SQL, MY SQL, NO SQL, Oracle, access), Backup and DR site configuration (SAN), Staffing website and software development life cycle implementation (including server, Hardware sizing and software licensing), Emil exchange, lotus note implementation

Confidential, Mountain View CA

Sr. Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for data center designing and planning
• Responsible in data storage (SAN and NAS)facility management services
• Responsible for networking setup and connectivity
• System configuration and up-gradation
• Network & security planning and configuration

Confidential, Miami, FL

Sr. Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Datacenter project planning, migration
• Network designing, configuration and installation
• Datacenter power and environment planning
• Coordinate LAN/WAN network implementation projects: maintain the project control plan: and report project progress to management.
• Perform and coordinate cable installations.
• Coordinate projects with vendors, telecommunication companies, customers, another division of the information service department and other entities as required.
• Worked on Routers and Switches, migration
• Perform and coordinate fiber optic cable installations.
• Terminate various types of cable for connectivity of various types of electronic equipment: and install wireless network equipment
• Develop and track project activity by using agile technology’s

Confidential

Sr. Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Data center setup across India
• Network connectivity planning and designing
• Network Equipment and selection
• Perform and coordination and define parameters for installation and testing of LAN/WAN, hubs, routers, switches, controllers, multiplexers and other related networking equipment. Use computers, monitoring and testing equipment to determine LAN/WAN networking, network component performance; take corrective action to improve network performance; and prepare equipment procurement specifications.