Prasenjit Ray Email & Phone Number

India

Responsible for all Application Modernization deals/opportunity coming through to ensure proposed solutions meet customer stipulate, repeatable models which are competitive in the market place.Continuing vendor partnership relationship & quantify customer ROI, effort estimates, SOW of implementation projects.The core areas that I focus on include Enterprise Application/Data Storage capability for Containerized platform, Architecture Refactoring, decoupling monoliths towards a microservices, API framework and platform strategy.

India

• His role covers build PoC/PoT, Cloud strategy development, deal qualification, workload assessment and migration planning, Cloud Solution design and services delivery impact.• I am part of the offering team that designs and develops the next generation Enterprise Storage capability for Containerized, automation required to deliver business demand for our Clients Hybrid Cloud environments.• Drive better time to value for customers’ investments.

London, United Kingdom

• Ray is working as a Cloud Consulting Architect based out of London, In his role he is responsible for working with UK/Europe client engagement teams to provide guidance on Hybrid Cloud solutions.• In this role I work with our customers on their Cloud Adoption, journey to a Cognitive Enterprise and overall Digital pathway. • The core areas that I focus on include Enterprise Storage capability for Containerized, Architecture including application migration to Cloud technologies, decoupling monoliths towards a microservices and API framework and platform strategy.

London Area, United Kingdom

• Global Technical Solution Lead for one of the largest Global Open Source Vendors (RedHat)/IBM/Net-Gen-OEM's/Hybrid-Cloud Infra. • He's responsible for joint GO-TO-MARKET business (sell-with & sell-through) strategy, business planning & enablement, demand generation, Sell-Through & Sell-To, building new solutions & standard offerings and overall execution of the business plan with help of a highly experienced Sales, Pre-sales and Solutions.• His role covers Drive better time to Value for Partner/Customers’ investments.

India

• Responsible for all deals coming through to ensure proposed solutions meet customer stipulate, repeatable models which are competitive in the market place.• Lead of Hitachi CoE.• Continuing vendor partnership relationship & quantify customer ROI, effort estimates, SOW of implementation projects. • Working as a Hitachi Data System Solution Architect and Hybrid Cloud integration solution expert & involved in acquisition planning for locating & defining the metrics to be collected prior to configuring and sizing storage systems for performance. • Mitigate disaster risks by replication data locally & to geographically dispersed remote site by using 3DC multi-target Data Center model.

Emea.

• Closely with various stake holder (Customer/ Implementation Team/ Project Management) to define scope of work, project deliverable, effort estimates and schedules.• As a part of responsibility I have deeply involved in acquisition planning for locating and de-fining the metrics to be collected prior to configuring and sizing storage systems for performance.

India/Europe

• As a part of role and responsibility I have deeply involved in acquisition planning for locating and defining the metrics to be collected prior to configuring and sizing storage systems for performance.• Revaluation of Virtualization configuration for matching performance requirements and executed customer business data Migration (NDM) task from Cross vendor's Array to Hitachi Raid system. • Analyzing all the production Array performance (HITACHI/IBM) issues, standard Queue Depth value and improving by using HITACHI Tuning Manager /IBM tools / SAN fabric monitoring (DCFM) tool.

India

• Interoperability Testing of HITACHI and SAN production configuration prevailing in the Lab for HDS Global customers, prepare Interoperability Test Report and send it to HITACHI field engineer for consulting and implementation,• Initiated and made an IBM HBA virtualization (NPIV) environment on POWER server in Lab,• Initiated and implemented an IBM i5/OS testing as a VIOS-Client in pSeries system with HITACHI Array's - AMS, USP-V/VM. • Tested and reported bugs to IBM Lab in SAN Boot environment for a specific IBM AIX OS version before it’s GA,• Designed, configured and automated HITACHI internal Interoperability setup with various vendors HBA Cards / Host Multipath Soft. (HDLM,MPIO,VxVM) / FC switch’s (Brocade, Cisco, QLogic, McData) / HDS Enterprise (VSP,USP-V/VM,9xxx) and Modular (DF600,DF700,AMS) Array’s with IBM OS (VIOS/AIX/i5OS). Also configured and Tested Linux (SUSE/RedHat) along with various QLogic/Emulex HBA Card in high speed (2,4,8Gbps) FC environment,• Configured (apprised by IBM Lab.) in an IBM OS Synchronization activity with heterogeneous HDS, (Generated confidential interoperability tested report for IBM OS before it’s GA),• As per the Test procedure, upgrade different vendors HBA Driver/Microcode, FC Switch’s firmware (automated). Performed online Replacement of HITACHI controllers, upgrade HDS Mi-crocode to the desired label while I/O are running, create zone (Through CLI), creating cas-cade(ISL), monitor switch I/O load & log activity,• Configuring HITACHI External storages (UVM features) with USP-V/VM as initiator and IBM XIV/DS storage, 9900, AMS 2000 as target,• Testing & properly measure the behavior of IBM OS through Point to Point and Direct con-nectivity (in SAN Boot Environment) with various HDS storage,

India

• Designed, implemented, and maintenance of Retail & ERP Data center (3-Tier Architecture), • Configured virtualized Oracle 11i Apps, Oracle Retails production server setup by using HDS and IBM virtualized technologies in SAN environment.• Maintain fault tolerant, high performance; smooth functioning of SAN and its adjunct IBM Storage Subsystems DS48K with additionally in charge of AIX/TSM admin.• Implemented appropriate zoning policy into dual SAN32B-2 (2005-B32) FC switch for error free and high availability SAN environments, • Analyzed and improve the SAN Performance using Storage/Switch monitoring tool.• Defined Storage partitioning, LUN mapping to the host, Configured cache (write back mode) on Logical Volume, Flash Copy (2 per Base Vol.), Volume Copy (1 per source) and DR side,• Utilized DCE,DVE features of DS4800 and dynamically change stripe size as per the applica-tion, • monitoring performance(I/O), cache (write back mode) and diagnostics storage/ drive through Recovery Guru, RSL on DS8300 Storage,.

India

• Being a team member I have been involved designed, implemented and maintained of En-terprise server and SAN (EMC Clariion Array) environment with cluster environment,• Installed and configured EMC-Clarion (EX-300) Array and performed the daily basis admin-istration task, • In charge of 3-Tier Oracle11i E-Business application performance tuning task, have maintained OS up gradation, production data backup and archiving activity. Preserve the OS level cluster environment.

Master In Computer Application (M.C.A), Computer Science

Bachelor In Computer Application (B.C.A)

Class Xii (Science)

Class X