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Denver, Colorado, Us

Lead a team of six professionals in the United States & Israel. Supervise service desk staff in India. Oversaw Service Desk operations supporting a global user base of over 1000 individuals.● Administered capital expenditures exceeding $1M and annual recurring expenses exceeding $1M.● Orchestrated the migration from Microsoft Office365 to Google Workspace for email systems post M&A..● Handled infrastructure independently with limited staff as an individual contributor.● Administered OKTA for Single Sign-On (SSO), managing more than 90 applications across the enterprise.● Serve as the point of contact for the Information Security (InfoSec) team during SOX and FedRamp audits.● Managed various cloud platforms, including Google Workspace, Microsoft Office365, AWS, Azure, and GCP.● Assisted in migrating systems from Joyent to the AWS cloud.● Oversaw the ETL process, facilitating data transfers from Postgresql to SalesForce.

Tackled day-to-day tasks related to MySQL instances for a duration of 18 months until the DBA joined the team. Supervised an overseas team responsible for monitoring and alerting. Led a local team consisting of three members, ensuring effective coordination and performance.● Assumed responsibility for negotiating pricing and terms for all contracts related to network feeds and colocation facilities. Transitioned from AWS to on-premises infrastructure to control costs that had exceeded $2M per month.● Configured BGP routing parameters within the facilities.● Administered diverse hardware solutions such as Arista, Force10 (DELL), Juniper and Brocade, for switching and routing infrastructure, and managed F5 Networks load balancer operations.● Managed databases like MySQL and Vertica while employing SumoLogic and NewRelic for monitoring purposes.

El Segundo, Ca, Us

Managed a team of 4 in this SAAS provider for Public sector.Primary exposure: Windows servers, Coldfusion application platform, Brocade and Cisco hardware.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Built new datacenter facility in Santa Ana to support business growth along with day to day support of existing servers and telephony equipment. New facility increased capacity 4X.Primary exposure: LAMP stack, F5 Networks, Force10Networks, Cisco, HP SIP Telephony hardware.

Playa Vista, Ca, Us

Headed a local team consisting of three members and supervised an overseas team responsible for monitoring and alerting. Facilitated the global expansion of capacity and geo-locations, including the setup of data centers in LAX, PHX, SJC, Ashburn and Amsterdam. Spearheaded the management of ad-server capacity growth, scaling it from 100K ads per day to an impressive 2B+ per day within the first two years. The infrastructure was built from the ground up by myself.● Managed the entire process from equipment/hardware procurement to shipments, racking, stacking, and setup.● Oversaw load-balancers, including F5, Crescendo, and Netscaler, ensuring efficient traffic distribution.● Governed network infrastructure, including Cisco and Arista, for switching and routing.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Migrate legacy dMarc application services to Google datacenter. This project involved extensive international travel.

Us

Build new datacenter infrastructure to support new business model from scratch. Manage infrastructure in three offices and a small IT team of two.Primary exposure: Microsoft SQL Server, .NET platform, Sharepoint Server, Blackberry Enterprise Server.

Brea, California, Us

Maintained and upgraded network infrastructure across all company office premises and campuses. Managed a team of 8 engineers. Took part in extensive negotiations with VOIP platform vendors like Seimens and Cisco.Primary exposure: Nortel Networks and Cisco hardware.

Built corporate and production datacenter infrastructure from scratch, hired and managed IT team. Worked on Veritas cluster and Oracle server. Negotiated first major contracts worth $1M and higher.Primary exposure: Microsoft platforms including Exchange and Domain management.

Install, maintain and configure SGI and HP servers for ad serving, performed extensive work on Sybase servers supporting day to day operations.

Datacenter Operations on HP-UX platform and INFORMIX RDBMS, also supported JCL on legacy HP platform

Datacenter Operations on various platforms including PRIMOS, VAX VMS and SOLARIS

Education record

Mba

B.E, Eee