• Leading a team of highly skilled professionals managing on Premise and Cloud DC• Consultation for application team for building and maintaining cost and performance optimized infrastructure • Developing procedures and strategies for sustainable IT Infrastructure• Infrastructure budget preparation and management.• Business Case preparation and approval for new and ongoing projects.• Managing and optimizing usage of Microsoft Licenses bringing cost saving on every renewal• Resolving technical problems as needed Peers: Support Desk manager, Application team manager and Service Delivery managerKey Achievementso Zero downtime move to remote working during pandemic - COVID19o Over 5M USD saving – Assess critically and opportunities to reuse IT assets which have surpassed End-of-Support dates.o Achieved Microsoft OS license savings via planned successful virtualization of application servers.• Recent Projectso Migration of applications from Azure to AWSo Migration of 500+ users from on Premise exchange to Office 365o Planning and migration of data center of over 400 server and Network assets. Completed within 48 hours of downtime.o Migration from Citrix to Microsoft RDS – Cost saving projectso Firewall and Proxy upgradeo Migration of Backup from NetBackup to CommVault

Capture and model the existing as-Is Architecture Design the To-Be Architecture for systems and create models to perform gap analysis and improve the IT infrastructure Maintain 3 year lifecycle document which is a highly useful document to determine the budget needs and estimation of IT spends over a period of 3 years. Engage with Business to understand the IT needs and design feasible and cost effective solution Perform Risk-Assessments (RA) on IT elements within a business case Perform Change Impact Analysis (CIA) on major changes to IT applications and Infrastructure Define the baseline standards for the ANG IT Architecture Build and maintain application Portfolio. Manage the CMDB and keep it up-to-date and thereby manage application and system lifecycle Manage Microsoft Enterprise Agreement---------Understand and advise IT on the Microsoft EA licensing methods and pricing.---------License consolidation---------SAM Audit to manage and maintain legal compliance of the Enterprise Agreement---------Vendor and LAR management for renewal EA on time and negotiate for the lowest possible price. ITIL roles handled---------CMDB Manager---------CAB member for change management---------Technical Advisor - Problem Management---------Member of Process management team Generate SCOM reports for system capacity and incident management Trusted technical advisor and troubleshooter

• Delegating tasks to the Infrastructure engineers and overseeing the day to day activities.• Providing expertise to convert business ideas to highly efficient technical design.• Administration of Citrix farm of 48 Servers with 750 Citrix users. Administration of complete Data center with more than 170 servers catering for 1000 users.• Implemented Citrix Single sign on solutions through Citrix Password Manager 4.5 thereby increasing application security for password-protected application delivered through Presentation Server. • Lead Engineer for ARIS IT Architect project to identify and design all elements needed to build and manage enterprise-wide IT environments and synchronize them with business processes.• Maximized IT investment by implementing Appsense Management suite thereby enabling application and user environments which were dynamically optimized to ensure maximum hardware utilization with an optimal, consistent quality of service.• Well experienced in designing, installing, configuring, administering and fine-tuning Windows 2008/2003/2000 Servers with AD, Scripting, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, IIS 6.0 and TMG for a user base of more than 1000 clients. • Exchange server administration - Maintenance and management of Public Folders, Mailboxes, performance optimization and capacity planning. Implemented OWA, OMA, Form based authentication, SSL and RPC over Http.• Successfully migrated 40TB of data from EMC CX700 Storage to Netapps FAS3140.• Responsible for maintenance and administering of AntiSpam and Antivirus solutions controlled through 3 levels of scanning. Message flow is through Microsoft FOPE.• Managing technical support team which is responsible for infrastructure services on Microsoft Windows technology.• Negotiating contracts and service level agreements, vendor qualification, and vendor management.

• Quickly promoted to Senior Network Executive based on exceptional ability to administer and support multiple flavors of Unix O.S.• Collaborated with customers, partners, and internal constituencies to ensure successful implementation of solutions.• Unix Shell programming for automating daily routine tasks.• Developed and implemented FAX acknowledgement sub-routines to send acknowledgement for Email to Fax solution.• Provided training for internal and external customers• Developed the intranet solution which was used by customers to display new features and customer account details.