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A well-rounded, experienced and seasoned IT professional.
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MassMutual Ascend
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A well-rounded, experienced and seasoned IT professional.
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Mason, Ohio, United States
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Nik D. is listed as A well-rounded, experienced and seasoned IT professional. at MassMutual Ascend, a with 440 employees, based in Mason, Ohio, United States. AeroLeads shows phone signal with area code 800, 973 and a matched LinkedIn profile for Nik D..
Nik D. previously worked as Senior Infrastructure Architect at Massmutual Ascend and Systems Consultant at Massmutual Ascend (Formerly Great American Life Insurance Company). Nik D. holds B.Sc., Physics/Electronics from Ruparel College.
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● Seasoned leader with a successful track record of over 20 years in IT.● Motivate and mentor resources to develop and foster, diverse successful teams.● Effective communicator with Executive Leadership, peers and technical teams.● Strategic thinker with strong technical background and entrepreneurial acumen.● Customer focused and, security conscious, with vision and adaptability to change.● Initiator and implementer of creative, on time and on budget solutions.
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Massmutual Ascend
15 roles · 42 years
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Senior Infrastructure Architect
Current
Nov 2023 - Present
Systems Consultant
Massmutual Ascend (Formerly Great American Life Insurance Company)
Jun 2021 - Nov 2023
Lead Middleware Engineer
● Divisional representative to the Corporate IT Security Council.● Provide leadership and drive resolution of cross functional high priority issues.● Implement SolarWinds/AppInsight monitoring and BigIP optimization.● Manage PKI CA servers and SHA1-SHA2 migration.● Provide operational expertise and drive implementation of new applications.● Work with Development, Security, and other teams to evaluate upcoming technical needs and projects.● Application platform capacity planning and enhancements.
Nov 2018 - May 2021
Sr. Cloud Devops Consultant
● Posted at Great American Insurance Co.- Annuities Division.● Provide leadership to facilitate and drive resolution of complex high priority issues and problems.● Engage with multiple teams to evaluate upcoming technical needs and projects.● Operational expertise to automate functions, manual support tasks, and improve operations support.● Escalation point for technical resources.
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Sr. Manager, Performance Engineering (Devops)
● Saved over $5M in 3 years, through cost avoidance, product selection, vendor negotiations, andoptimization.● Mentor and leadership of Load Testing, Monitoring and Performance Engineering teams.● Migrated load testing platform from LoadRunner to NeoLoad.● Increased testing capacity and capabilities with lowered recurring costs.● Effective bridge between Infrastructure and Development teams.● Devised zero-downtime A/B application deployment strategies.● CI/CD Platform strategy and maintenance.● Moved from Waterfall to Agile and Hybrid methodologies.● 100% track record of on time delivery of tested solutions.● Non-disruptive Storage Migrations (Oracle Databases and VMs) to SSD storage.● Enabled database 'snapshots' and cloning for instant recovery and test copies.● Middleware platform and Network capacity planning and upgrades.● Disaster Recovery Datacenter planning and implementation.● DNS migration from Linux BIND to Infoblox Grid.● Seamless transition from SSLv3/TLS1 to TLS 1.1/1.2● Helped support corporate Active Directory, NAS, MS Exchange and Telecom infrastructure.
Nov 2014 - Nov 2017
Infrastructure Architect (Devops)
● Designed scalable Application Infrastructure for existing and new products.● Designed Multi-Master/Multi-Slave LDAP environments.● Evaluate and design implementation of Centralized Logging (Splunk, ELK, syslog etc).● Test and evaluating new Server Hardware.● Designed secure application connectivity solutions using BigIP F5 & Viprion platforms.● Reduced server footprint in DMZ.● Implemented Solar Winds and Nagios monitoring solutions.● Customized Oracle Weblogic Training for support and development teams.
Feb 2012 - Nov 2014
Applications Engineer/Administrator
● Improved performance, stability and availability of JVM (Weblogic/JBoss) and .Net application Servers.● Detect and work with Development team to reduce fatal application exceptions.● Installation and management of RightFax and MS SQL Servers.● Application Server and OS bottleneck tuning.● JVM benchmarking for load-based server sizing.● Lean Six Sigma Green Belt project to increase capacity without additional CPU licenses.● Reduced deployment downtime for our flagship product from 8-10 hours to 30 minutes.● Key player in roll-out of new Application Platforms.
Jul 2009 - Feb 2012
Functional Manager/Enterprise Network Engineer
● Responsible for 24x7 global support for OwensCorning, Siemens Communications and Nokia Siemens Networks.● Managed L1 & L2 out-sourced providers in Manila, Mumbai, UK etc● Designed and implemented back-end Infrastructure Servers (AD DCs, Exchange, DNS, DHCP & WINS)● Centralized monitoring, administration, and backups of servers for different customers.● Project Management and Customer Management.● Lead Engineer on IT Infrastructure “Carve-Out” operation project for 2 Siemens group companies.
Oct 2000 - Aug 2009
Project Engineer
Design Synergy Corporation
● Worked on a project carried out for a multi-national Auto-ancillary company as a Team Lead.● Installed and configured Microsoft SMS servers and deployed agents to approx 500 client workstations, spread across 5 WAN locations.● Successfully completed project in 5 weeks.
Aug 2000 - Sep 2000
Systems Engineer
Internet Development Corp (New York, Ny)
● Install and configure Apache, DNS, Email, FTP, and MySQL on Linux based web servers running on Intel x86 and Cobalt Raq2 platforms.● Install and configure MS Win NT 4.0 servers for DHCP, DNS caching, Exchange Server 5.x, Proxy Server and SQL Server for various corporate clients.● Maintain and troubleshoot LAN and WAN networks for various corporate clients.● Designed and implemented WAN to enable Internet access for number of clients using Cisco Routers.● Create simple websites using MS FrontPage.
Sep 1999 - Jul 2000
Project Engineer
Micropower Business Solutions (New York, Ny)
● Design & install LANs including CAT 5 cabling, install & configure Hubs/Switches, Win9x/NT 4.0 wrkstns, NT 4.0 and Novell Netware 3.x/4.x servers.● Maintain & troubleshoot standalone/network Workstations & Servers for multiple clients. ● Install & configure NT 4.0 Servers on various hardware - HP, Compaq, Dell & IBM.● Rollout workstations using Norton Ghost.● Integrate NT & NetWare, with Windows95/98 & NT clients.● Connect Win9x/NT clients to IBM AS400 servers.● Install & configure Network Printers.● Troubleshoot LAN/WAN issues: IP conflicts, DHCP problems, Hardware failures, server errors and e-mail problems etc.● Manage Phone Systems (Company’s internal and for 2 other Clients).● ArcServe tape backups for NT & Netware servers.● Configure CISCO routers, CSU/DSU and set up DNS for caching.● User training.● Manage short & long term projects. Supervise groups.● Create proposals, estimates & SOWs for clients.
Mar 1998 - Aug 1999
Director, Technical Operations
Marvel Electrical Equipment
● Designed and Installed PA System and independent Communication System between Two Ends of Train for 70 Trains of 8 coaches each. ● Designed, manufactured, Installed and Commissioned Four-Wire Communication with DTMF calling at 18 Railroad Stations on Konkan Railway. Total length of installation: 125 miles.● Presented a paper at National Meet of Railway Signal & Telecommunication Engineers on using GPS and Cellular Technology for Tracking Train Movements.
1995 - 1997
~2 yrs
Proprietor
Cube-X Company (Bombay, India)
● Handled various projects for Central Railway as part of Modernization Drive.● Designed and installed PC based Fault Analyzer for Route Relay Interlocking Cabins.● Designed and installed PC based Announcement System, making announcements in 3 languages on the PA System & operation of Information Display Boards at over 25 railroad stations.● Designed and installed Computer controlled Master and Slave Clock System for Central Railway Office Complex at Bombay VT.● Designed and developed an Electro-Magnetic Display Device for use in Outdoor Display Systems.
1985 - 1997
~12 yrs
R & D Engineer
Shanti Instruments Pvt. Ltd
Design and testing of battery operated Insulation Testers.
Jun 1983 - May 1985
2 education records
Nik D. education
B.Sc., Physics/Electronics
Ruparel College
Certificate Course., Digital Electronics And Microprocessors & Peripherals.
St Xavier'S Tech. Institute
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Nik D. works for MassMutual Ascend.
What is Nik D.'s role at MassMutual Ascend?
Nik D. is listed as A well-rounded, experienced and seasoned IT professional. at MassMutual Ascend.
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Nik D. is based in Mason, Ohio, United States while working with MassMutual Ascend.
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Nik D. has worked for Massmutual Ascend, Massmutual Ascend (Formerly Great American Life Insurance Company), Great American Insurance Group, Cbts, and Quest Diagnostics.
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Nik D. holds B.Sc., Physics/Electronics from Ruparel College.
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