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Hyderabad

People Leader, who has successfully led and motivated teams in cross cultural environment towards growth and success in the organization.➤ KEY HIGHLIGHTS• Cultivated strong vendor relationships to manage CLSA network infrastructure effectively. • Implemented datacentre design changes proactively, minimizing outages. • Led various projects as technical lead, ensuring successful outcomes. • Optimized network performance and minimized downtime through strategic implementation. • Fostered positive teamwork and a conducive work environment. • Managed seamless communication with vendors as client manager. • Key role in successful audits by stock exchanges, promptly addressing raised issues. • Coordinated and ensured compliance during audits as technical lead. • Collaborated with security team to maintain a secure network infrastructure. • Spearheaded security initiatives as technical lead.➤Specialties: Design & Implementation, Infrastructure Management, Network Security, Network Trouble Shooting, Technical Analysis, Team Management.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Evinced in-depth knowledge in ITIL methodologies, adhering to best practices for change management, incident management, and problem resolution.➤ KEY HIGHLIGHTS• Successfully led Datacentre migration as technical lead, ensuring a seamless transition. • Oversaw global load balancing consolidation with GTM as technical lead, driving project completion. • Orchestrated migration of F5 LTM to Viprion chassis, showcasing technical expertise. • Led migration from Checkpoint to Cisco ASA, serving as technical lead and project manager. • Received spot awards for timely project delivery and meeting deliverables. • Achieved PCI compliance for network and security infrastructure through successful audits. • Established vertical teams for improved workflow efficiency and project execution.➤Specialties: Network Infrastructure, Routing & Switching, LAN/WAN, Virtual Private Network, Firewall Management, Risk Management, Cloud Infrastructure, Project Management.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Expertise in designing and implementing strategies to organize the team to ensure maximum output.➤ KEY HIGHLIGHTS• Successfully managed Onsite to offshore transition for projects like Ingredion and Levis, ensuring efficiency. • Served as F5 Subject Matter Expert (SME) for global clients, guiding complex issue resolutions. • Led Disaster Recovery (DR) for Ingredion onsite, ensuring seamless business continuity. • Recognized with multiple client awards for on-time project delivery and high-quality results. • Conducted internal F5 trainings at Wipro LTD locations, fostering professional growth.➤Specialties: Data Center Management, Incident Management, Change Management, Operations Management, Contract Management, Vendor Management, and People Management.

Pune Area, India

 Maintaining and improvising the geographically dispersed FICO’s Legacy and Cloud datacenters. Implementing and troubleshooting complex application issues on the F5 LTM/GTMs. Working on LTM, iRule and L1 level knowledge on ASM.  Working with Application team for their Ad-hoc request on LTM and GTM such as creating new Custom Monitor, ideal timeout changes for VIP, iRule etc. Worked with Application team and successfully migrated the internal and external application from one DC to another on F5. Took part in F5 Viprion chasis upgrade and successfully implemented project. Upgraded the hotfix from 11.5.1 to 11.5.4 for LTM’s across the Fico datacenters. Maintaining and improvising the geographically dispersed Data Centers which consisted of Cisco ASA, Cisco routers and switches, F5 load balancers and Dell blade switches. Supported FICO's newly built Data Centers on a daily basis, which consisted of Check Point 12200 series firewall (Recently migrated to ASA), F5 Viprion 2000 series load balancer, Cisco Nexus 5548/2248, ASR1001, ASA 5515x firewall, and Dell Force10 blade switches. Configuring and Managing Nexus – 9k, 7k , 5K and 2k Switch . Working on Wireless technologies WLC, Cisco Prime  Working closely with the network engineering team in building new cradles/CCS across different location around the world.  Carrying out DR tests and ensuring the network is resilient between different data centers and if not, plan for appropriate measures for resiliency and failover. The work also involves liaising with Directors of different work groups to ensure the application go-live date is met and the infrastructure is stable. Serving as an escalation point within the team for any operational or technical issues in the network. Datacenter implementation, migration and operations. Load balancers- BIG IP-F5, Firewalls- Cisco ASA, Checkpoint. IPsec and GRE VPN implementations.

Bangalore

 Worked as L2 Network Administrator for TCS. Job Responsibilities: (Client: PwC – Price Water house Cooper) Configuring and Managing Nexus – 7k , 5K and 2k Switch  Working on CISCO ACE – Configuring and Basic troubleshooting Working on Server deployment and decommission as per the project requirement Troubleshooting T1, Multilink Troubleshooting IPSEC GRE tunnel Working on DMVPN Working on routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF and BGP(Basic Level) Configuring and Managing 6509, 6513, 4500 series switches Configuring and Managing ASR 1600, 3845, 3745 series routers Working on Wireless technologies WLC,WCS Working with CISCO TAC for P1 issue Working with vendors for hardware RMA if any hardware faulty Working on QIP tool for DNS DC Migration (Application migration from TDC to GDC) Experience in NNM, Cisco Works and WCS (Wireless Control System)Job Responsibilities (Client: Artilium & Tata Sky) Working on 6506, 6504 and 6509 series IOS based switch. Worked on VSS Switching technology. Configuration of L2 and L3 Switches. HSRP, VTP, VLAN Configure L2 and L3 ether channel. Coordinating with Service Provider (BT & TCL) for any WAN related issue.