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Houston, Texas, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

· Lead a highly skilled team of IT Infra and security specialists to maintain andenhance organizational IT deliverables.· Work with development teams to integrate security into the Development Lifecycle(SDLC).· Collaborate with prospective clients to gather requirements and designinfrastructure architecture based on their needs.· Responsible for developing and updating IT security policies, controls, and thecyber incident response plan.· Initiating and leading IT infrastructure and security projects to enhance internalsystems and safeguard the organization against malicious cyber threats.· Work with regional management to get all the IT specific policies enforced.· Lead recruitment, hiring, and onboarding activities, train new hires in operationalprocesses, and conduct probationary performance reviews.Major Projects:· Established an enclave environment pivotal for managing support operations for EUclients, ensuring GDPR compliance and implementing robust data loss prevention(DLP) measures.· Achieved OSP certification for the organization from the Department ofTelecommunications, Government of India.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

• Managing delivery and operations of a large-scale Infra team for a Fortune 500 health care services client. Responsible for maintaining the revenue of $10 million/year for the account.• Engaging at various levels with client hierarchy to maintain and increase revenue for the account.• Managing teams that includes 100+ FTE & contractors from IDAM, Networks, Servers, Storage & Backup, Citrix, Messaging, WAS and DBA towers.• Developing strategic plans for Infrastructure support with the senior client IT executives.• Making sure that all the reporting teams maintain the SLAs as per the SOW.• Maintaining Infrastructure stability by updating the systems and policies following stringent change management processes.• Keeping the delivery standards high and the COD low by resource rotation and training.• Continuous improvement of People, Process and Tools.

Menomonee Falls, Wi, Us

• Lead a team of network engineers in maintaining and designing the Global network setup.• Worked on getting the company SOX and PCI compliant• Working with senior management and business heads on IT expenditure. • Managing Global Network for Actuant as the top level escalation for all Network and security issue.• Managing M&A from the Network and Security perspective.• Management and capacity planning of the datacenter for the company.• Network commissioning from scratch for newly built sites.• Vendor management and implementing service SLAs.• Set up monitoring system for the NoC to monitor global network infrastructure. Also, setting up work flow and training NoC on incident and vendor management.

Singapore, Sg

• Key member in designing the Network Infrastructure for Data centers (India,US,Japan) and primary contact person for 4 global datacenters around the globe for all network related issues.• Setup open source network management tools for the datacenters like TACACS+, RANCID, Syslog.• Work on escalated issues on internal company LAN setup.• Configuring, setting up and administration of network environment with multivendor Firewalls, loadbalancers & Switches.• Active member of organizations Information Security Team and Internal Security Auditing Team

• Support for Managed enterprise network of multiple customers spread over multiple countries interconnecting using MPLS cloud with BGP and OSPF at distribution and access level.• Change implementation. Preparing the plan & configs need to be applied as a part of change.• Troubleshooting on Escalated issues• Troubleshooting on severity 1 and 2 issues with customers• Voice support on Gateway Gatekeeper setup.

Worked in Accenture as Tech support troubleshooting Broadband Routers (Dlink, Linksys, Netgear, and Belkin router) and troubleshooting LAN problems. Configuring TCP/IP and Windows firewall settings and Multiple Vendor-firewalls on systems.

Executive Program In Management, Business Administration And Management, General

Post Graduate Program In Cloud Computing (Pgpcc)

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be