As a director of the Web Hosting Division at Vtrio, I fully manage these 6 flagship brands: GigaPros, Aspiration Hosting, Real Web Host, Bharat Web Host, A2Z, GetLark.com See the Vtrio brands here -- https://www.vtrio.com/allied-companiesHere's what I do+++++++++++- Server infrastructure management- Tech support team management- Interviewing & hiring the tech guys- Digital marketing management (see more details below)- Product & service innovations- Vendor negotiation & management- Customer acquisition, nurturing & retention- Customer support & billing management- Defining KPI markers & monitoring them- Tech staff training & continuous re-skilling- Managing business portal websites- Financial planning & ROI optimization (revenue / expense / taxation & more)My Technical Expertise+++++++++++++++- See the FULL list under "GigaPros" (my previous position)Digital Marketing++++++++++++- Creating SEO strategy, measuring impact and optimizing ROI- Leading SEO projects from the inception to the implementation in production - Tuning the website to make it SEO ready and using LiteSpeed caching & CDN to speed it up- Performing comprehensive keywords research and mapping them with the website pages- Performing competitor research to remain at-par (or better) with the service offerings and pricing models- Analyzing the google backlink profiles of competitors to dig out the potential locations of their advertisements- Using Google Analytics & Tag Manager to define goals, monitor traffic and calculate ROI- Using Google Ads to display paid ads on search pages and partner sites- Using Facebook Localized Ads & Google Local Service Ads to deliver regional/language specific service offerings- Using Google Search Console to monitor the website issues with crawling, indexing, error reporting, mobile optimization and top keyword rankings- Planning and collaboration with the stakeholders to stay within budget and maximize ROI across all digital assets

Founder and owner of GigaPros Networks, a profitable and zero-debt web hosting company.As a stakeholder CEO, my primary task was to manage the brand end-to-end for revenue generation purpose. Here's the overall list of my responsibilities:++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- Same as shown in my latest company "Vtrio". Not shown here due to LinkedIn's word-count restriction.Digital marketing efforts+++++++++++++++++- Same as shown in my next company "Vtrio". Not shown here due to word-count restriction.Hands-on Technical Skills+++++++++++++++++- Worked hands-on as a Level-3 Linux Server Administrator for 13 years- Guiding in solving technical issues which cannot be resolved by level 1 & level 2 techs- Excellent knowledge of production quality Linux systems- AWS LightSail, EC2, EBS- Installation, configuration, managing & troubleshooting linux servers- Building & managing production servers for Web Hosting purpose- Excellent knowledge of configuring servers like Apache, DNS, Sendmail, FTP etc- Domain registration via ResellerClub, Enom, Godaddy, Namecheap- Managing Linux firewall thru IPtables rules & CSF tool- Managing customer websites on the server via control panels like thru cPanel, Plesk etc- Local & remote administering of servers using SSH- Auditing the overloading sites on a shared hosting server & migrating to another server- Being a part of core web hosting support team- Linux shell scripting (advanced)- Security: IPTABLES, CSF, CXS, Chkrootkit, Immunify, Intrusion Detection, DOS Attack- Control panels: WHM, CPanel, Plesk, Webmin, DirectAdmin, Webuzo, CentOS Web Panel, Virtuozzo, Parallels Virtualization, HyperVM- VMs: OpenVZ, KVM, Docker, VirtualBox, Hyper-V (windows)- Support & Billing system: WHMCS, Kayako, Vbulletin, MediaWiki, Wordpress- Resolve technical problem faced by hosting resellers (WHM/CPanel) via tickets & chats- Monitoring of Servers for High Load, High disk space, Spamming, Intrusion Detection & DDOS attacks

Planning, developing and executing automated QA infrastructure using SeleniumFramework. Migrated old WinRunner test drivers to new Selenium.

At Toyota Financial’s Quality Assurance Division, I have been testing a wide range of financial applications with the most stringent quality requirements. I have been coordinating the testing efforts with different teams (onsite + offshore) to complete the testing process on time. Here are some of the most prominent testing projects that I have worked on at Toyota Financial…- RouteOne: This system is used to automate & streamline the entire process of vehicle loans. All Toyota dealers access RouteOne system to submit credit applications for their customers. These credit applications go to multiple Finance Sources (like Toyota Financial, Lexus Financial & other affiliated external lenders), which get auto-decisioned based on credit bureau reports.- E-Contracts: This system was designed to replace the paper-work based manual contracts for vehicle loans. Toyota customers can now sign their contracts electronically. The dealers can now work on their credit worksheets on-the-fly & submit it to the lenders.- GVP Call Routing: This project was for replacing the existing Avaya platform to the new Genesis Voice Portal (GVP). The entire IVR system was migrated to the new platform as part of this project.- Laptop Encryption: This was an enterprise-wide project to encrypt thousands of official laptops of Toyota employees to protect sensitive data if the laptops get stolen. The encryption shall work transparently in the background, without any user interference. The authentication should be based on Windows Active Directory as well as locally cached. As part of this project, we developed about 350 test cases & evaluated many vendors based on those stringent criteria. Finally, we decided to go for SafeBoot and tested it rigorously on multiple machines & network configurations. - Environment: Quality Center-9.x, Visual Basic-6, MS Access, SQL Server-2K, MS Access, Crystal Reports-8, Windows Server-2K, UNIX.

This is an online banking system for Citibank, US. This assignment requires developing a variety of tools & simulators for the test-environment and also demands most stringent QA activities to test all the banking functionalities for Citibank’s online banking site at http://www.myciti.com .- Developed the internal tools & simulators using VB-6, which were required to run the various large-scale banking modules in development & test environment.- Created a variety of internal MIS reports using Crystal Reports-8 from the SQL Server & MS Access databases, as required by the various management teams.- Prepared test plans, test cases, test reports and developed WinRunner test-scripts.- Performing manual & automated testing, tracking the defects to closure and certifying the releases after testing.- Constructed keyword/data driven automated test scripts thru EMOS Automation Framework. This helps in separating the test-scripts from the test-data.- Responsible for Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Integration testing and System testing.- Involved in testing the application manually in the initial stages and then developed the automated test-scripts in the later stages.- Developed and executed complex SQL statements to verify the data integrity under simulated banking environment.- Responsible for raising the bugs, analyzing them in detail, coordinating with onsite & offshore development teams for tracking the defects to closure and thorough regression tests.- Responsible for submitting Bug Reports on weekly basis. Used Excel spread sheets to list problems for different modules.- Regularly followed up with the development teams (onsite & offshore) to discuss the defects identified during project lifecycle and the ways to prevent such occurrences in the future.- Environment: WinRunner-7.5, Visual Basic-6, SQL Server-2K, MS Access, Crystal Reports-8, Windows Server-2K, UNIX

This project was built for online currency exchange & FX trading system for Crossmar Inc. (USA)- Prepared program specifications, coding, unit testing and reviewing.- Performed version control & repository management thru Visual SourceSafe (VSS).- Designed & developed the abstract DAL components (Data Access Layer for business abstraction).- Designed the documents for unit testing. - Unit-tested the DAL components (DLLs) thru dummy stubs.- Environment: Visual Basic-6, Visual SourceSafe, SQL Server-6.5, MS Access, Windows-NT

Client: Primo Pick N. Pack Ltd, INDIAProject: Management of Inventory, Production, Finance, Taxation, Quality & MISRole: Programmer & Analyst- Primo Pick N. Pack is one of the leading manufacturers of plastic bags.- Performed requirement studies at client’s site & manufacturing units.- Performed GUI development, coding, testing, implementation & user training.- Designed the databases for inventory, production & taxation modules.- Developed inventory, taxation & quality control modules including GUI, coding & testing.- Designed & developed the object-classes for the core business rules and distributed them among the developers for easy development.- Extensively used ADO to build a solid & reliable business-rules server & wrappers.- Developed the reports in Crystal Reports-8.- Designed the project documentation in HTML & compiled them using HTML Help Workshop.- Environment: Visual Basic-6, Oracle-8i, Crystal Reports-8.0, MTS-2, Windows-NT+++++++++++++++++++++++Client: Nematology Research Division of Agricultural College, INDIAProject: Software for Nematode Survey AnalysisRole: Programmer & AnalystThe term “Nematode” refers to various kinds of weeds (good & bad) that are found in agricultural lands. This was a statistical project to analyze more than 25,000 multi-hierarchy records from the field surveys. - Extensively used Turbo Pascal Units (TPUs) for modular programming.- Use of object oriented & event-driven programming in Turbo Pascal. - Extensively used dynamic linked-lists for the manipulation of more than 25,000 multi-hierarchy records.- Designed custom classes for easy manipulation of text-file database.- Developed custom classes to display graphs & charts in a presentable format.- Built Solid error handling & validation routines to tackle all the user errors & most of the system errors.- Environment: Turbo Pascal-7 with graphical interface, Text file database, DOS-6.22