Varinder Dhupar Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Drawing from my expertise to execute the evaluation of Cloud Technologies and Infrastructure encompassing Azure, AWS and many others. Build long-term vision for Infrastructure Platforms and Competencies. Monitor Technology Towers including Cloud, Storage, Backups, Virtualization, UC, and Networks. Regulate Data Centre Operations and Remote Infrastructure Management Support activities. Establish and lead a strong multi-skilled team across various Infrastructure Technologies. Partner with productive cross-functional teams utilizing interactive and motivational leadership to generate excellent results. Manage complex architectural changes by influencing stakeholders and communicating in a simplistic manner, meticulous planning, and the alignment of skillsets with appropriate vendors.

New York, Ny, Us

I was promoted to provide strategic direction and leadership to large technical teams in the design, integration and deployment of various initiatives including Datacenter, Cloud, and third-party for proprietary platforms. Held accountable for annual operating and capital expenditure budget across the U.S. Technology organization ensuring compliance with strategic objectives. Provide technical and functional expertise to clients during the implementation process. Performed pre-acquisition due diligence of the target company’s technology and intellectual property. Prepared assessment report highlighting factors associated with IT Risk management. Oversaw budget and integration efforts from IT perspective. Prepared multiyear technology strategy based on business demands and market trends. Reviewed strategies of modern technologies from industry forums and market research to recommend business cases and proof-of-concept including backup and DR migration to AWS Cloud, SDDC etc. Validated and submitted RFI/RFP proposals, SOW etc. addressing complete requirements and work scopes. • Conceptualized and delivered Cloud first technology strategy. • Championed the design of secure AWS VPC platform for developer consumption and other AWS services by executing custom scripts or third-party solution on VPC, S3, IAM, encryption etc.• Developed initiatives to save $1M in annual IT costs by negotiating/re-architecture, and vendor/supplier contracts. • Delivered monthly infrastructure and application dashboards providing KPIs related to system availability, capacity, performance, and security. • Selected to represent technology department in number of client pre-sales engagements contributing to organization winning the business due to its technology capabilities.

New York, Ny, Us

I leveraged an opportunity to manage distributed data centers with 2K+ Windows/Linux-based servers and PBs of storage. Led the delivery of infrastructure services on a 24 X 7 basis. Managed the performance of a t team consisting of 20 engineers executing continuous engineering initiatives across datacenters, servers and storage platforms to meet business demands while improving performance and effectively monitoring expenses. Cultivated and sustained IT partnership with businesses to successfully completed projects and commitments on schedule and within budget. Assessed and secured new technologies, tracked trends, reviewed metrics, and consistently delivered on 99.95% uptime.• Seamless migration of enterprise domain and e-mail systems for two of the acquired companies. • Built and executed new $10M private Cloud environment merging three data centers hosting domain platforms for Life, Health and P& C as SaaS offerings. • Strategically hired, trained, and led remote infrastructure team and transitioned 10 FTEs workload to offshore contributing % saving in G&A.• Designed and implemented fully automated Disaster Recovery solution for primary US datacenter with near real time RPO resulting in 100% success in annual DR test exercises. • Successfully planned, tested, and upgraded Active Directory to 2012 supporting 250+ applications configured for AD authentication and authorization without any major impact to business availability.• Eliminated legacy operating systems and connected apps from Win 2003 and moved to supported environments on Win 2008 R2/2012 decreasing platform security vulnerabilities by 75% to comply with ISO and SOC regulations. • Implemented Data @ Rest encryption on storage arrays across the enterprise to comply with client contractual requirements.

• Lead the Center of Excellence (CoE) for systems domain for the client• Manage IT staff for monitoring & end to end management of business critical infrastructure• Resource scheduling, allocating task & coordination with onsite teams• Enhance resilience & robustness in Technology architecture & design; restructuring of EXL support structure to provide more focused & quality IT services• Ensuring technical excellence in service delivery to ensure customer satisfaction & minimal downtime• Drive compliance to various Information Security controls from Network Security & operations standpoint• Manage datacenter infrastructure across various platforms & services• Active role in planning & implementation of DR Drill for organization datacenter services & applications• Troubleshooting infrastructure technical issues, maintaining systems, inventory and implementing technology upgrades• Inputs to budget process, IT budget management & financial tracking

• Re-engineered company’s systems setup, establishing automated server generation routines, optimizing system performance, installing upgrades/patches, establishing system monitoring and maintaining security protocols.• Ensured that all server hardware, operating systems, software and procedures aligned with organizational standards and strategic business plan• Acted as escalation point for troubleshooting advanced network/systems issues; Root Cause analysis on technical issues• Rectified many issues by instituting best practices in system log analysis, backups, network operating center security, user account/permissions management and systems/software auditing

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