Harcharan Singh Email & Phone Number

Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Noida Area, India

Responsible for the product portfolio management and solutions on Backup & Disaster Recovery.

Okhla, New Delhi

New Delhi Area, India

Responsible for IT enhancements, proper budgeting and generating revenues from IT as a Service (in planning phase)Virtualization – VMWare (Red Hat) & Xen (CentOS) – density of 2.5Automation of application deployments by using shell scripts – 80% reduction in time takenImplementation of Untangle (Open Source Firewall) – cost saving of nearly 5lacs in phase 1 itself Provided improved ROI for the ISP links by switching over to more reliable ISP at 20% lesser costEstablished ISP level redundancy by having another backup ISP link & setting up automatic failoverEffective utilization of multiple links by bandwidth aggregation (in process)Amazon EC2 (Cloud Computing) and S3 (Storage) for highly available and reliable application & database instances Managing 24x7 Support Operations

While in USA, managed US and India Operations bothCrucial role in understanding and implementing Change Control processHead of Change Control Board (US & India)Implementation of high QoS MPLS circuit for VoIP & Video ConferencePlanning for corporate backup Infrastructure based on Microsoft VSS, Veritas Backup & EMC StorageVirtualization – VMWare (Red Hat) & Xen (CentOS) – density of 3.5Managing 24x7 Data Center Operations (from US and India)

Scale infrastructure from 150 head count to 1000 people – complete planning & execution for this siteSetup a branch office at Pune (120 people) – complete planning & execution for this siteManage Microsoft License Compliance across International offices (India, Netherlands, US, Singapore, UK)Setup Mail Solution on MS Exchange 2003 – in house, saving hosting & other costs – 2.5lacs per yearImplementation of Cisco PIX 515E in failover mode – high availability for firewallUnified threat management solution – Fortigate 300A (Gateway level) and Symantec End Point Protection at Desktop Level – No virus attacks in 2yrsAnti-Spam solution integration with MS Exchange – Symantec BrightmailIP SAN Solution (IBM N3700 A2 / Cluster Solution) evaluation for centralized storageManaging 24x7 Support Operations

Head of the following divisions / groups:• Shared High End Server Resources• EPABX and VoIP• VPN Connectivity• Backup• Desktop Support• PSSP – Persistent Systems Software Processes Coordinator

• Cost Optimization And ROI Justification• VoIP Setup And Implementation• Inventory Control – India and US• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan• Security – Internet Servers• Purchase and Import Coordination from US• Backup of identified Clients and Servers• Uptime Monitoring & Management• Intranet Messaging and Collaboration

• Email Administration – MS Exchange 2000• Web Server Administration – IIS 5.0• ADS Maintenance and Administration – Windows 2000• Installation of Software – Windows 2000• QA Software Testing – Load Runner, WinRunner, Astra Load Test• Citrix Meta-Frame

• Uptime Monitoring • Security – Internet Servers• Email Server Administration – Sendmail• Antivirus and its integration on Mail Server• Bandwidth Management• Squid Proxy Setup

• Trained 23 Systems Consultants on Sun Solaris 2.6 and 7• Management of company’s web site. • Develop portal www.unixminds.com – Perl 5/Apache 1.3.12/MySQL/QMail• Network management - LAN, Intranet, VPN circuits• Security Setup for site www.ekaynet.com – shares and stocks based company Kaynet Capital, Pune• Implemented secured web sites and corporate data centers.• Developed policies and procedures for securing web sites and corporate data centers by installing Firewalls/VPN Solutions and by implementing authentication and encryption algorithms.

Linux Based Mailing Solutions – Sendmail, Fetchmail, QMail, POP, IMAP, Web interface for emails - Squirrelmail, Endymion and SqWebMailCorporate Setups• Holiday Inn Hotel, Pune – Sendmail, Fetchmail• Automotive Wiring Systems – ISDN TA Adapter Setup on Linux, Multidrop Mailbox Solution • Deepak Nitrate Ltd – Sendmail, Fetchmail integration with Lotus Notes• Thermax Fuji Ltd – Sendmail, Fetchmail, Multidrop Solution, LDAP server integration• Piaggio Ltd – Sendmail, POP, IMAP Solution, Sub domains for Pune and Baramati offices• Mahindra Sintered Ltd – Sendmail and Multidrop Mailbox Solution

Global Certificate In Data Science And Artificial Intelligence

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Computer Science, Sem 3 Over - 8.32 Sgpa

B.E., Electronics

Activities and Societies: Poetry, Internet SecurityB.E. (Electronics)

Be, Electronics

Hsc, Pcmbe

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