Khalid Patel Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, Us

* Building and leading team for applications migration and modernization journey to cloud (Azure and GCP)* Setting objectives and strategies for Cloud Operations* Planning & implementation of cloud solution along with cloud suitability assessment for applications* Improving performance, availability and reliability of applications* Planning, Testing, Deployment of cloud Services such as VNets, Subnets, Virtual Machines Resource Groups, Recovery Vaults, Virtual Machines etc. (Google and Azure) and new or revised services (Availability Set, Azure Load balancers etc.)* Review & Prepare technical documentations & process as a part of Azure and Google cloud implementation * Optimising cloud hosting cost with multiple cost saving initiatives and projects* Enhancing Security and protection of Infrastructure and Data in Cloud* Mentor new joiner for cloud service offerings and technology landscape along with other people management tasks.

Houston, Texas, Us

* Building and leading IT team to manage processing centres, Data Centres and Petro Technical IT Infrastructure in Middle East and Asia.* Planning Capex & Opex for Petro Technical Services* Modernization & Optimization of Petro Technical IT Infrastructure* Initiated Cloud Computing for Petro Technical Experts* Strong architectural background in Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud platforms* Identify cloud ecosystem components across a variety of vendors that align with business objectives and meet technical design requirements.* Identified resource and equipment requirements, efficient capacity planning and manage software and hardware availability

Houston, Texas, Us

* Information gathering of technical & functional Requirements from application users* Setting objectives and strategies for Petro Technical IT support* Integration of different IT teams to One IT * IT Services Management to improve Service Delivery* Deployment of HP OMI for Monitoring & alerts for early notification of events to reduce downtime* Standardization & Optimization of Petro Technical IT infrastructure * Designed career road-map and T&D program to develop for IT professionals * Perform and/or ensure completion of quality review check on outgoing work within immediate teams

Houston, Texas, Us

* Building and developing team of IT professionals to manage and support IT infrastructure, processing centers* Engagement with operations to plan Capex and Opex for IT* collocated multiple processing centers to one location* Carried out IT audits at various Schlumberger and client facilities in India* Adaption of new technologies (Solaris to Linux migration; Virtualization of Desktop environments)* Designed and deployed an Integrated Archival system for long terms data retention* Prepared and implemented DR-BC plan* IT hardware procurement – Setting hardware specs, inviting quotes and price negotiation with vendors and suppliers

Houston, Texas, Us

* Deployed High Availability features to improve the reliability & uptime and deployed scheduled backup to protect data* Adaption of new Technologies (Migration from Standalone systems & terminal servers to client – Server architecture; migration from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) VAX/VMS minicomputer to Sun Sparc platform with Solaris operating systems)* Engaged with Sales and marketing team to submit Oil Cos tenders * Established processing centers and dedicated client centers at Schlumberger and client offices* hardware procurement – Setting hardware specs, inviting quotes and price negotiation with vendors and suppliers

* started career as a Trainee Systems Engineer and promoted to Systems Specialist in PCS Industries Limited (also known as Patni Computer Systems Ltd, acquired by iGate and now part of Capgemini)* Installation, Maintenance and Support of Data General’s (DG) Mainframe (Eclipse MV Series) and Super mini computers (AViiON series) and CLARiiON (High Availability Disk Array HADA). BEST, BMC, ICI, PIL, RCF were some of the customers.* In my role as a Systems Specialist, I was handling computerization projects of banks (BOB, SBI, UBI, IOB etc) and financial institutes (ICICI and ILF&S) and leading a team of Systems Engineers.

B.E, Electronics And Computer Science

B. E (Hons), Electronics & Computer Engineering