Description

A Seaonal acclaimed IT professional with progressive architectural, consulting and hands-on expertise in planning, analysis, design and delivery of complex IT solutions for leading organizations, across

multiple industries and sectors. Next generation technology professional who stays on top of trends and delivers best-of-breed solutions. Holds in-depth knowledge of both infrastructure and application development disciplines. Provides full design, operations, and support management for geographically diverse data centers.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Kannada
Native or bilingual
Tamil
Fluent
Hindi
Fluent
Telugu
Conversational

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Dell Technologies
Regional Consulting Solution Architect
TECH
May 2024 - Today (2 years and 1 month)
United Arab Emirates
• • Accountable to drive and grow Consulting business in GULF Region - UAE, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait
• • Partially accountable for Profit and Loss (PnL) and Revenue delivery. Managing Risk, driving services, Delivery Teams – Internal, Partners and Customer teams.
• • Deliver Consulting Services across business streams- DCM, BCDR, VMware, AVS, VMware on AWS,GCVE Migrations, Redhat, Multi-cloud - On- prem/ Public, Hybrid, Sovereign, Operational Strategy, VDI, Data Lakes, Cyber Security and AI
• • Collaborate with GTM and Services team to build strategic accounts and resources to transform their Digital Journey
• • Manage team and partners to support the business requirement
• • Drive strategic & complex accounts - Program/ Portfolio management with key stakeholders, partners, practice, engineering, and delivery teams to drive value proposition and customer success.
• • Lead the Program Management of Multi-functional and large Multi Cloud Professional Services Projects.
• • Strategically planned with customer success, professional service business unit, pre-sales, support, and the customer to build out a delivery roadmap.
• • Engage in solution design, scope documents and build on factoring right LOE for the services
• • Participating in sales and pre-sales activities globally include sales meetings, SOW, POC, RFP, RFI Solution Design on As-IS, To-Be and Gap Analysis.
• • Developed an Enterprise Cloud Strategy for Architecture, Design, Develop, and manage robust, secure, scalable, highly available, and dynamic solutions to drive business objectives.
• • Due Diligence at Onsite Customer location and Knowledge transfer to the offshore delivery team.
• • Engage with Technical Presales and work on RFP and SOW with end customer.
• • Plan and lead Multi Cloud & Private Cloud accelerator engagements, implementations, rollouts, and migrations, including hands-on implementation.
VMware Software India Pvt Ltd,
Consulting Architect, Strategic Accounts Portfolio
November 2020 - March 2023 (2 years and 4 months)
India
• • Manage & Governance of Account transformation to build and cater for a business model and value proposition to customers.
• • Drive the success of the program delivery, P&L for GTM (Sales/ Pre-Sales) – core, services, Delivery Teams – Inter- nal, Partners and Customer teams.
• • Develop Strategy and provide solution offerings which strategically align with customer's business requirements.
• • Executive (CxO) reporting and escalation
• • Build services solutions (SOW) for VDI, BCDR, Cloud – NSX, Compute –VMware and Storage & Backup solutions technology and participate in solution review, approval, milestone building and pricing.
• • Drive half-yearly services bookings, customer accounts enhancements and delivery margins.
• • Migration of ±5000+ workloads solution and robust services.
• • Program manage to architect legacy infrastructure to virtualize and implement solutions on the cloud
• • Management of internal and external 3rd party teams of 50+ resources
• • Vendor & Partners management of external companies supplying hardware, software, facility and professional services
• • Serve as a principal technology advisor, providing guidance and analysis of technologies required in an unmanned facility
• • As a Trusted Advisor, Consulting provided solutions and recommendations to other peer customer accounts
• • Serve as a principal technology advisor, providing guidance and analysis of technologies required in
Microland Ltd
Assoc Principal Architect
October 2015 - November 2020 (5 years and 1 month)
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• • Strategically planned with customer success, professional service business unit, pre-sales, support, and the customer to build out a delivery roadmap.
• • Engage with Technical Presales and work on RFP and SOW with end customer.
• • Create deliverables, RFP responses and SOW based on Microland Services offers according to the Solution needs.
• • Migration Lead tasked with assessing, designing, and deploying end-to- end VMware-based virtualization solutions for enterprise, medium, and small businesses in the North America, South America, EMEA and APAC, as part of the Professional Services Organization (PSO).
• • Led team to plan, design, and implement IT Infrastructure and applications and collaborated with developers, application owners and technical support teams to define project requirements and specifications.
• • Serve as Implementation Lead and provide technical guidance on Microsoft Azure design, governance, performance, cost, security aspects.
• • Develop and implement robust Disaster Recovery strategy for critical systems. and infrastructure.
• • Projects typically include design, implementation, migration, and delivery of VMware-based solutions for corporates in SDDC environments.
• • Subject matter expert on virtualization technologies including Server Virtualization Platforms, Server Migration Tools, disaster recovery/business continuity, capacity planning, and performance & scalability testing.
• • Experience in creation & development of customer SOP's, Run Book and SOW's.
• • Managing email deployment strategy that best fits the business and security requirements.
• • Discovery, Assessment, Planning & Analysis of Customer environment at Onsite.
• • Due Diligence at Onsite Customer location and Knowledge transfer to the offshore delivery team.