Lead a team of domain experts in Infrastructure, Application, Data and AI/ML to drive adoption of cloud at some of the world's largest Financial institutions.

Lead Sales Engineer for a wide range of Financial institutions helping drive awareness and adoption of Nuage's portfolio of SDN and SD-WAN services.Help architect solutions for customers through deep dives and whiteboardingsessionsShow Nuage integration with Openstack, VMware, Mesos, Kubernetesand other partner solutionsExplain routing options between underlay and overlay to minimizedisruption to brownfield environments.Show stateful security options to better handle east-west workloads anddynamic micro-services architecture.Overcome customer objections, inertia and silo-based org structures bydemonstrating effectiveness of Nuage’s solution to virtualize and manage DC andSD-WAN networks through a single pane of glass.Enable POC engagements for initial workload and build on the success to gainattention of other departments/workloadsAct as customer champion and work closely with the Product, Engineering andPost-Sales team to ensure successful deployment of solutions beyond the sale.

Charged with designing cost-effective, secure and optimal solutions for customers from our broad portfolio of Cloud, Hosting, DR and Security services.Follow a consultative approach with customers through a combination of whiteboard sessions, deep dives with the technical staff and discussion of business objectives with executives before proposing a solution that meets their business and IT needs.Perform demonstrations of our Cloud portal tailored to meet customers' stated use cases.Solid grasp of a broad range of technologies which allows me to design custom multi-tower solutions that meets customers' unique requirements.

Dedicated Technical Account Manager for the largest customers of Syncsort's Enterprise Data Protection Software. Frequently tasked with stabilizing critical customer accounts by marshalling internal and external resources and getting them focused on a set of common objectives.Key contributions:Single point of contact for large accounts regarding all technical issues.Account lifecycle management: establish and maintain relationships with large customers that go beyond resolving technical issues; play an active role in retention and growth of accounts.Proactively suggest best practices and make on-site visits to ensure customer satisfaction and system reliability.Consult and guide customers on software capacity planning and architectural design as it relates to our software.

Managed and led a team of as many as 7 people responsible for 24x7 uptime of the corporate and production infrastructure in multiple data centers consisting of Solaris/Linux application servers, Oracle databases, Veritas Cluster & Veritas Volume Manager, Cisco network fabric, Netapp/Brocade SAN. Also conducted employee reviews and performed career counseling.Key contributions:Proposed, led and played a significant part in implementation of database server consolidation project, resulting in savings for the company from reduced Oracle and Veritas licenses and support as well as smaller hardware footprint.Managed and negotiated all contracts, including replacing Sun support with reliable 3rd-party support that resulted in considerable savings; procured bandwidth providers at distant locations for network robustness.Persuaded management to introduce industry-standard practices and move to scheduled maintenance windows to improve customer experience and system stability.Improvised offsite backup strategy in face of tight budget constraints. Implemented a firewire/IDE disk-based option that provided an offsite copy of a reasonably recent snapshot of all databases and produced over 60% in savings over traditional solutions.

Part of 24x7 sysadmin team responsible for entire production infrastructure spread across multiple colocation facilities. Also planned and implemented major software releases in production, mentored and trained junior operations personnel.Key contributions:Proposed and led project to migrate critical databases that were not clustered to redundant Sun servers using HA Oracle edition of Veritas (VCS) cluster.Played a major part in successful 3 data center moves of the entire production infrastructure - about 15 racks of gear. In all instances downtime was less than 24 hours.Reduced software release time by over 80% by moving from a centralized push system to simultaneous release of software across all servers.

Installed, configured and maintained the UNIX development environment.Key contributions:Configured and implemented Solaris DiskSuite 4.1 on Sun E450 servers.Patched dialogic telephony cards & various OSes for Y2K compliance in accordancewith the strict demands of clients comprising large phone companies.Wrote shell scripts to automate systems administration tasks.

Part of a team that supported 18,000 internal users across a large Unix & mainframe based client-server environment.Key contributions:Led the Production Support team in implementation of AT&T's Bundled Billing Systems requiring coordination with different systems and user groups. Project was completed in 2 months. Received special certificate & award from the executive office.Played a major part in consolidation of AT&T data centers by merging complex Tuxedo middleware functionality in the center of the architecture.Managed and implemented new software releases on a weekly basis into the production environment.Resolved 8-10 trouble tickets on a daily basis in addition to implementing releases, writing shell scripts, and mentoring junior colleagues.