• A technocrat with over 25 years of experience in India and Middle east in Enterprise IT Management, Systems Administration, Technical Support and IT Infrastructure deployment, Audit compliance.
• Extensive experience in managing & delivering projects, conducting business analysis to determine requirements and planning for systems implementation at the enterprise scale
• Demonstrated success in leading, motivating and mentoring cross-functional teams in order to maximize levels of productivity
• Possesses strong leadership, communication, planning, people management and negotiation skills
• Managed Budget of $ 3 M - $ 4 M; of which 2M $ is Opex, and $ 2 M is Capex/Growth oriented
• Successfully achieved 100% license compliance for Dodsal Group, Dubai, UAE
• Participated in Internal Audit, Policies & Procedure for Information management system
• Responsible for preparing RFPs, evaluation of bid proposals, contracts, scope of work reports and other documentation for infrastructure projects and associated efforts
• Entrusted with the responsibility of managing all aspects of IT Infrastructure Operation to ensure integrity, confidentiality, scalability and 24/7 availability of IT services
• Accountable to lead the team to design and implement short & long term strategic plans to ensure infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements.
• Lead in design, deployment, support and capacity planning for all infrastructure systems including Blade / Rack Servers, SAN / NAS Storage, LANs, WANs, Unified Communication, Internet, intranet, security, wireless, and other core IT Infrastructure services
• Providing regular written and in-person communications with the organization's executives, decision-makers, department heads, and end users regarding pertinent infrastructure activities
• Hands-on experience in installation, administration & migration of Windows 2003 to windows 20012 Active Directory in different forest, Additional dc creation
• Experienced in configuring and managing Microsoft Exchange 2K3/2K7/2K10 Servers,
• Experienced in configuring and managing G-Suite for business
• Server Consolidation using Virtualization-Hyper V 2012,P2V conversion
• Evaluating, testing & building POC (Proof-of-Concept) on numerous new technologies that could be applicable in our company's environment and building business cases for presentation to the Management.
• Restoring normal service as soon as possible based on customer perspective and within defined SLA
• Gained exposure in interfacing with key business units including Finance, Operations, Estimation, Human Resources and Engineering with proficiency in coordinating with vendors for various IT projects and local ISPs for communication
NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS ACROSS THE TENURES
• Looked after overall completion of over a dozen IT & Infrastructure Projects in various technology
• Independently led migration of Exchange 2010 with DAG and Active Directory to Windows 2012
• Led implementation of Barracuda Email Archiver, Blackberry BES 5.2 Migration and EMC VNX 5100 Unified Storage
• Played a major role in estimating project budget and effectively managing Cost forvarious Technology Projects
• Successfully implemented Enterprise Document Management System across the projects
• Holds the distinction of developing and implementing network monitoring system
• Independently looked after migration of Exchange 2010 with DAG, Migration Active directory to windows 2012 with exposure in implementing Barracuda Email Archiver, Blackberry BES 5.2 migration & EMC VNX 5100 unified Storage
