Ravi Rajan Email & Phone Number

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

MultiCloud Solutions Architect• Leading the solution architecture for MultiCloud engagements. This provides ability to provision resources and manage security, costs and assets across public and private clouds. Grew revenue for Cloud engagements by 10%• Delivering solutions for managing customers’ Cloud landscape, migrating existing applications or deploying modernized applications to the Cloud by partnering with sales, delivery and product teams• Led the effort to define best practices and capture knowledge base into solution artifacts, to improve the efficiency of the global solutioning team. This led to a 20% reduction in time spent on the engagement process• Acting as the primary SME on MultiCloud solutioning, organizing education sessions for worldwide technical sales

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Solutions Architect for DevOps Analytics• Led the strategy to create analytics around DevOps on MultiCloud platforms. It uses Machine Learning to provide early warning to development teams on areas of concern within their development lifecycle, recommend more focused code reviews and testing, to minimize post-deployment risks. This reduced production incidents by 20%• Promoted the adoption of IBM DevOps Insights by engaging with both internal and external clients and sales teams through demos, POCs and hands-on interactions with development leads and executives. Resulted in a 25% increase in the customer base on a quarterly basis. Fed requirements from customers to offering and development teams• Provided operational support for the IBM Cloud Kubernetes and the ELK infrastructures

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Led the creation of the delivery architecture and deployment strategy for cloud solutions including CMS and Cloud application offerings for SAP and Oracle. Provided customers with an architecture and a timeline for deployment• Led the delivery architecture, requirements definition, prioritization, and user acceptance for the first release of the IBM Cloud AMM offering – Provides automated infrastructure management for customers to reduce costs • Led the operational design for monitoring, patching, security compliance modules by ensuring DevOps principles were incorporated earlier on during the deployment pipeline

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Leading customer engagements, proof-of-concept, demos, briefings and creating unique architecture solutions• As Chief Architect, led the architecture, development and delivery of the first Smarter Building software solution - IBM Tririga Energy Optimization (Smarter Planet). Led a cross-divisional team of technical leaders to create this solution that was a key IBM CEO initiative. - Delivered capability for energy cost savings, operational productivity improvements, asset performance optimization, asset lifecycle extension and portfolio level views for the facilities organizations. - Realized value proposition by collecting real time data from building systems and applying analytics to detect energy wastage patterns and operational inefficiencies. Notifications were generated to operational staff for proactive issues management. - Implemented this solution across IBM spanning 30 Million square feet, 2000 assets and 25 sites, resulting in 15% energy savings. Also resulted in significant operational savings: reduced reactive maintenance by 16%, hours per work order by 38% and total number of work order hours by 49%. - Led implementations at customer sites with significant results: 12% energy savings at a global manufacturing company; improved visibility for operations / created automated alerts at a manufacturing company in India, 8% energy cost reduction at a facility for a Building Automation partner. - Partnered with Johnson Controls, Schneider Electric, Siemens Building Technologies, Tridium, Eaton, Philips etc. to create an integrated architecture to expand the marketing reach of the solution.• Led the integration of Tivoli architecture components into the IBM Software Group Industry Framework for the Retail, Telecom and Petroleum & Chemical Industries. These frameworks, a key part of IBM assets, solved specific business problems in those industry verticals, resulting in over $2M worth of Tivoli revenue.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led tool development and architecture transformation initiatives across IBM• Led a team of cross-divisional technical leaders as a part of a GDRD (Global Delivery - Research and Development) Program to create the architecture for a Service Delivery Portal. It established a “single control point” for the Systems Administrators (SA). - This integrated solution has been deployed at over 100 customers resulting in productivity savings of 25% for delivery teams and enabled cost competitiveness and delivery differentiation.• Led the development architecture of an IBM strategic hosting initiative, to provide a dynamic infrastructure to host customers on a managed platform. This involved dynamically provisioning / de-provisioning of servers, network, storage and applications, monitoring for load and generating billing artifacts.• Led the solution development and architecture implementation of Tivoli software to manage and monitor critical customer applications as part of the Service Delivery Center’s (SDC) key outsourcing initiatives - Led the first shared Tivoli infrastructure for customer implementation. This enhanced the time-to-value by providing a platform for expedient boarding of customers and reduced deployment costs. - Designed and implemented Tivoli solutions including Monitoring, Software Distribution, Inventory, Remote Control and application monitoring modules like Lotus Notes, MQSeries and SAP. - Designed, developed and deployed automation tools which increased the productivity of different delivery towers within the South SDC - Asset Management, Storage Management, Server Services

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Provided technical leadership and work directions for the team on Network Management implementations.• Designed and implemented a network management strategy involving NetView for AIX and other Network management add-ons to monitor remote customer networks devices from a centralized location. This solution was extended to monitor system and application resources and provide performance reports and provide automation such as notification to support groups.• Developed add-on tools using NetView for AIX API’s displaying the status of the customer applications in a NetView map.• TCP/IP administration including IP address allocation, Domain Name Server(DNS), Email, Firewall, Usenet News Admin. And trouble shooting. Developed a PERL script for automating IP address allocation and name server updating.

Master'S Of Engineering, Electrical

Bachelor Of Science, Physics

Higher Secondary School, Science And Math