A Solutions Architect with expertise in designing IT infrastructure and hosting solutions, I play a critical role in shaping the technological landscape for SMEs and Enterprises.- I work with teams from different functions to create and deploy IT infrastructure solutions that can scale up and protect the data and transactions- I conduct architecture assessments, identifying areas for optimization and risk mitigation- I develop high-level designs, including network architecture, data storage, and disaster recovery strategies on managed cloud and public clouds.- I also act as an advisor on best practices for securing cloud-based applications and services along with the policies for secure access of such resourcesI assist sales team to achieve their targets in selling different solutions pertaining to various types of hosting, network, security and cloud and achieve organization-wide sales target. My day to day role involves getting into conversation with potential and existing customers, understand their needs and provide the most appropriate solutions by explaining technical features addressing any potential roadblocks.

• A Technical Sales employee of the company responsible for addressing Technical aspect of a sales transaction• Assist sales team to achieve their targets in selling different solutions pertaining to various types of hosting, network, security and cloud• Get into conversation with potential and existing customers, understand their needs and provide the most appropriate solutions by explaining technical features addressing any potential roadblocks.• Conduct demonstrations of products and services which includes next-gen network products like SD-WAN, cloud services as well as private cloud based on VMware virtualization• Attend various networking conferences and represent the organization at global level• Liaison with internal teams including Product engineering, product management, Service and delivery and billing to satisfy all the customer concerns and maintain high customer satisfaction• Key Achievementso Retained outgoing customers by making their journey to cloud simple and interesting. The customer moved from a dedicated self-managed hardware infrastructure to a hybrid of PaaS and IaaS on Azureo Assisted a customer to scale 4 times their current size into PCI hosting on a large vmware private cloud

- Sales/Pre-sales focused on Microsoft Azure services (IaaS and backup services) as well as Oracle Database products, Oracle cloud solutions (backup and DBaaS)- Sales/ Pre-sales of virtualization solutions from vmWare and Oracle along with backup solutions from veeam- BoM generation and consulting the clients on Enterprise full-fledged cloud solutions or hybrid solutions- Designing and architect-ing IT solutions combining various technologies- Consulting customers on best-practices for IT implementations (SMEs and Large corporates)- Customer Relationship Management- Co-ordinating with internal technical implementation teams and client- Maintaining harmony in and between solution delivery team and client

- Sales/Pre-sales of IT products like Oracle database, Servers, Middleware, OS, Applications and cloud services- Farming and maturing the leads for the IT products and solutions- Designing and architect-ing IT solutions combining various technologies- Consulting customers on best-practices for IT implementations (SMEs and Large corporates)- Mapping Oracle products with IT solutions at customer premises- Customer Relationship Management- Co-ordinating with internal technical teams and client- Maintaining harmony in and between solution delivery team and client

General responsibility:- Marketing and pre-sales of IT services provided by the organization- Managing and solutioning/architechting services and products for the customers- Co-ordinating Internal and external procurement for the projects- Customer Relationship Management- Co-ordinating with internal software development teams and clientProjects:1. BRTS, Ahmedabad- Third party auditing of ITMS involved in BRTS, Ahmedabad- System integration and Implementation support for ITMS for BRTS, Ahmedabad- OEMs involved in the project-HP, IBM, Oracle, Forbes Technosys, Mobitec 2. Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad- Pre-sales and system integration of CCTV surveillance system at Police stations of Ahmedabad- Third party auditing of the system installed- OEMs involved-Honeywell, HP, Dell3. Vadodara City Surveillance- Pre-sales and system integration of CCTV surveillance system at various locations of Vadodara- Third party auditing of the system installed- OEMs to be finalized4. Vadodara Municipal Corporation ERP- Requirement gathering and analysis of client requirement- Designing the RFP to be floated- Finalizing the modules and solutions of ERP

- Have been an integral part of teams developing web applications based on ASP.Net and C#.net for various Govt. Based Organizations e.g. MIS, online employee and resource management etc.- Have been part of Development teams for Integrated Management Systems in the organization.- Worked on BRTS project in Ahmedabad as a Third Party inspector for IT and ITES implementation.- Have also been a part of BRTS software development and implementation team and have been managing all the client side activities and on-field implementation of the project.

- Have been responsible for the marketing of mechanical and electrical division of softwares of Autodesk among the major industries and corporates.- Have marketed various Printing, editing and publishing tools from different companies like corel, adobe, microsoft etc.