Kumaravel Arumugam Email & Phone Number

Greater Bengaluru Area

• Setting up VMware Practice and cater infrastructure services to our esteemed clients.• Provide oversight to the operational activities of the business, ensuring a highly productive workforce.• Capability development of offshore Remote Professional Services, enhancing the expertise and effectiveness of the team.• Formulate business strategies and designed policies to drive growth and success.• P&L management

Greater Bengaluru Area

• Spearheading the successful delivery of IT infrastructure engagements across multiple accounts, ensuring on-time delivery and effective resolution of existing challenges.• Driving Data Center to AWS Cloud migration projects, overseeing seamless transitions and operational excellence.• Managing a dedicated team responsible for the delivery of Azure Enterprise Platform - Big Data Foundation, ensuring high-quality outcomes.• Demonstrating adeptness in P&L management, overseeing a portfolio worth 21 million dollars.

Greater Bengaluru Area

• Orchestrating budget modeling, SDC capability development, and deriving roadmaps for IT infrastructure initiatives.• Collaborating with Riverbed vendors to strategically insource services and executing plans from the SDC in Bangalore.• Ensuring high uptime, security, and scalability through IT infrastructure service delivery, prioritizing customer satisfaction.• Leading implementation efforts, driving automation, cost savings, and service quality enhancements.• Proactively identifying and resolving critical issues while streamlining IT operations and processes.• Enabling technology roadmaps, conducting assessments, and rationalizing/modernizing application portfolios.• Maintaining robust business relations, achieving delivery and service quality norms, and fostering high customer satisfaction.• Recommending technology-based solutions to improve efficiency and drive business excellence.

Greater Bengaluru Area

• Pioneered the Establishment of Dell EMC Converged & Hyper-Converged Infrastructure LB Team in India COE: Built the team from scratch in 2011, growing it into a high-performance unit with 100+ FTEs.• Revenue Growth and Cost Optimization: Designed and implemented cost-effective delivery models from the COE, resulting in multi-million dollar revenue generation. Increased COE content from 12% to an impressive 70% within three years.• Accelerated Growth through Customer Relationships: Fostered strong customer relationships to drive growth, prioritizing client needs with a customer-centric approach. Achieved client delight and high compliance scores.

Greater Bengaluru Area

• Spearheading a Data Center transformation project for a US-based client.• Conducting comprehensive environment studies, assessments, and technical solution designs to ensure a smooth transformation process.• Managing a server consolidation engagement, leveraging his expertise as a Virtualization Architect (VMware).• Overseeing the data center's virtual infrastructure, ensuring its optimal functioning and performance.• Providing daily operational support, promptly addressing, and resolving client issues across the USA and Latin America.• Defining migration methodologies and identifying suitable tools for seamless migration while effectively planning the virtual environment's capacity.• My contributions played a vital role in the successful implementation of the Data Center transformation, meeting the client's objectives and delivering exceptional results.

Overland Park, Kansas & Austin, Texas - United States | Greater Bengaluru Area

• Played a significant role within IBM Global Business Services - Enterprise Application Modernization practice, specializing in Data Center transformation and modernization projects. He served as a Virtualization (VMware) & Server Consolidation architect for large enterprises. His key involvements included:• Conducting inventory verification, analysis, and application assessments, while also designing technical solutions and determining environment sizing.• Collaborating with client architects to develop architectural decisions that align with project objectives.• Engaging with various client groups to provide effective solutions for their challenges.• Managing both onsite and offshore team deliveries, providing effort estimations, overseeing wave designs, and facilitating workload migrations.• Furthermore, I also worked as a Developer, successfully executing complex enterprise-level projects within specified timelines and budgetary constraints. His exceptional performance garnered recognition from customers as well as IBM leadership.• Over the course of 6 years spent in the US, he demonstrated technical leadership in leading Enterprise Application Modernization teams while adeptly managing customer relationships to ensure a positive experience.

Played a crucial role in the successful execution of web-based projects for international clients, establishing a reputation as a Subject Matter Expert for key projects and cutting-edge technologies.

Chennai, Coimbatore

• Operated an independent ITES (Information Technology Enabled Services) business.• Delivered web solutions and training services to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

Executive Leadership Program

B.E, Computer Science & Engineering