Venugopal J D Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru Area, India

As an Associate Director I was responsible for planning, organizing, and engineering the internal IT infrastructure projects through the management of technical evaluation/solution finalization for Datacenter, Network, Voice & Endpoint services. I formulated the IT road map of the company to align with business requirements and provided change management for datacenter, network and voice operations. I conducted and prioritized goal setting, reviews and compensation for Vendor Management and IT Procurement. I successfully liaised with stakeholders and implementation teams; evaluating short and long- term strategies. I managed the technical and process based aspects with customers and discussed the resolution of critical issues in order to address customer grievances and their needs. I was successful in designing a new 550 seater facility with passive cabling for 13 NOC’s, Common core network infrastructure, Voice infrastructure and Wi-Fi infrastructure. I managed migration of voice infrastructure from Call Manager 5.1 to Call Manager 10 on BE6000 platform and efficiently provided design and solution finalization for Datacenter Compute & Network Refresh, Contact Center Voice Infrastructure Refresh.

Bengaluru Area, India

I performed duties of an Associate Director. I successfully gathered requirements and served as primary technical contact for Network and Network Security for RFP’s. I designed, developed and implemented solution theme, service delivery models, resource & effort estimations, costing models for large and complex infrastructure outsourcing solutions for Network and Network Security. I liaised with Bid Management for Network & Security solutions.

Bangalore

I oversaw all phases of project execution; approved design changes, troubleshoot and resolved complex technical problems. I reviewed project plans and documents along with senior consultants I led the Ethical Hacking Practice (September 2010 onwards) and the Networks, Security and VOIP professional services team (Oct 2012 onwards)

Bengaluru Area, India

During my role as a Group Consultant I successfully provided escalation support for the shared and dedicated NOC’s for firewalls, proxies, IDS. I performed duties as a Network Security architect, design & deployment of Microland’s shared lab environment and Microland’s shared NOC. I setup and ran the service improvement programs for the shared NOC for Network Security and an onsite SOC team doing database access monitoring for a leading European bank.

Bengaluru Area, India

During my role as a Senior Consultant I successfully provided escalation support for Network Security for the shared and dedicated NOC's

Bengaluru Area, India

During my role as Consultant i provided escalation support for the Shared and Dedicated NOC's. Designed the network security architecture for the shared NOC.

Bengaluru Area, India

Lead the L3 team from Microland for Network Security managing Checkpoint Firewalls, Nortel Contivity VPN Concentrators, Bluecoat & Squid Webcaches, Netscape Proxies, FWTK proxies, Gauntlet firewall and proxies, F5 and Cisco Load balancers for a Fortune 5 company

Bengaluru Area, India

Was the Technical Specialist and SME for Microland team supporting the firewalls, web caches and VPN concentrators in the APAC region for a Fortune 5 Company. Developed a squid based appliance for web caching which was used as a global template

Bengaluru Area, India

Was part of the team which started of the messaging engagement with a Fortune 5 company. In December 2000 moved to a different team which was started to provide firewall management services in the APAC region for a Fortune 5 company.

Bangalore Area, India

Bengaluru Area, India

Be, Telecommunication Engineering

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1st and 2nd PU In KGF

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High School in Mudennahalli