Jun 2016 – Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• In the current role of VMware SDDC and Cloud Solution Architect, assisting customer and Partner's with VMware's SDDC Stack including VSphere's, vRealize Suite, VSAN & VMware NSX.
• Help customers with design Architecture to upgrade & migrate from previous versions, also help them to move from Traditional Virtualized Datacenter to a Cloud Solution.
• Responsible for understanding the Customer requirement and proposing solutions, integrating with various other technologies like AWS, Microsoft and others.
• Building VMware Cloud Infrastructure Practice for customers with VMware Best Practice Engineering guidance & Solution Accelerators on VMware Products.
• Guiding VMware Field and Account Team for VMware Cloud consumption, Self-ware reduction and building Engineering guided practices at Customer Datacenter.
• Architecting IT (infrastructure and application) solutions for wide-ranging business problems for major Telecommunication, S.I’s Banks and Financial customers in APAC, N.A & UK Region
• Working very closely with the VMware COE-customer success team to build the global best practice solution design and product line architecture for upgrade, migrate and new implementation.
• Integrating Amazon web Services with VMware vRealize Products such as VRA, VMC and provide a True Hybrid Cloud Platform for the Customer.
• Predominantly Architecting Hybrid Cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS, also designing various features like VPC, Elastic Load Balancer, DNS, S3 etc from AWS into VMware Hybrid Solution.
• Provide architectural guidance for the integration of VMware management products with third-party products within the customer’s IT environment.
• Mostly work independently or as part of a team on engagements with customers, often in a technical leadership role to ensure customer retention and to drive customer value realization.
• Participate and partner with product development to help refine products to address customer needs in the field

Feb 2011 – May 2016 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As a Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Solution Consultant, assisting Partners Worldwide on Designing, Architecture, Pre-sales and Technical Consulting on Microsoft Azure and Datacenter Technologies including Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper V 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, VDI& StorSimple. Being partner advocate and strategist help them wining more deals and increase Microsoft market share. Avid Speaker & Evangelist in Microsoft and Partner community delivering live and online events on Microsoft Infrastructure Technologies.
• Some of the Key Focus areas and accomplishments in the Role are:
• Providing Technical Advisory, Solution, Consulting and Pre-Sales assistance to Microsoft Partner Network in UK & EMEA region on Private, Public & Hybrid Cloud solution including Azure IaaS & StorSimple.
• Partner Recruitment
• Partner Onboarding
• YOY consumption of Microsoft Technologies
• Partner Enablement and Evangelism: 1:1 & 1: M workshops, Training and Readiness
• Presented Breakout Sessions in TechReady U.S on compete Technology, covering Microsoft Network Virtualization and VMware NSX
• Delivered Live Partner events such as JumpStart, Boot Camp & Partner Practice Enablement (PPE) on Private, Public & Hybrid Cloud globally in New-Zealand, Singapore & India.
• Global IP Creation, Partner offerings and content development for Partners worldwide
• Manage the Worldwide StorSimple consultant Team and working along with StorSimple Business Group.
• Helping Partner organization in building Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Practice.
• Assisting Partners during full project life cycle on risk estimation, risk management, effort estimation and capacity & Sizing details.
• Assisting Microsoft Partner on RFPs / RFIs, BOM, Resource Estimation, Project Plan, SOW.
• Documents Creation, Assistance & Proofing – HLD & LLD, Case studies, Whitepapers for Partners.
• Providing readiness to Microsoft consultants & partners on Microsoft & Compete Technologies such as VMware and AWS.

Aug 2010 – Jan 2011 · 5 mos · Pune Area, India

• Creating new Datacenter & Virtualization solutions for the clients & evaluate third party tools which can augment the solutions.
• Ability to understand customer’s business requirements and provide necessary strategy and vision.
• Ability to understand customer business strategies and their relation to IT architecture.
• Facilitate synergy between teams across business units to achieve standardizing infrastructure.
• Ensure alignment of all critical systems to corporate security policy’s and standards
• Providing technical assistance and guidance to the hands and feet / field Engineers working onsite with the customer.

Apr 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Administering and building Windows & VMware ESX and VCenter Server’s located in different Data Centers across North America using remote support using RDP, VNC, etc.
• Maintaining & building servers from Bare Metal using HP-ILO, IBM-RSA & DELL-DRAC
• Patch servers using CITI’s patching tool SPAC
• Upgrade experience of vCenter4.0 , vSphere client, ESX Nodes, and Virtual machines from 3.5 Infrastructure to vSphere 4.0 & 4.1
• Administering vCenter 2.5 with Creating Virtual Machines, Cloning Virtual Machines, VMotion, DRS, HA. Resource Management using DRS and Resource Pools
• Fiber Channel and iSCSI SAN as Storage of VM's and Snapshots. Storage management with EMC Power Path for ESX / ESXi Cluster.
• Managing and Monitoring Windows 2003 Cluster with WFSC & Veritas Volume Manager
• Disaster Recovery test for Production and COB server for both VMware and physical server.
• Regular Back Up and restoration of data on servers through VERITAS NetBackup 6.5 tool.
• Vendor Co-ordination i.e. Microsoft, Symantec, HP, Dell, IBM & others for troubleshooting and Break-Fix cases with solution and RCA in timely fashion.

Jul 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Managing Datacenter Environment consisting of Windows 2000/2003 Servers for 2000+ servers and 1100+ Users. Managing & coordinating PAN India locations from central Datacenter.
• Worked on DELL Power Edge Servers (2950, 6950, R200 Series, R300, R900 and R905 Series), HP Proliant Sever (DL120 G5, DL160 G5p, DL165 G5, DL320 G5p, DL585 G5).
• Domain administration using Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy etc.
• Configuring VMware Infrastructure 3.0 and 3.5
• Maintaining Different Sites of Company in relation to Links & Applications.
• Managing Citrix Presentation Server4.0/ 4.5 including Application Publishing, Desktop and Content Publishing.
• Server Hardening, Patching, Security policies, port security, and login restrictions.
• Backup management of servers using Veritas NetBackup TM 5.0 & IBM Storage Tech L20 Media Library with Ultrium 1&2 Media. Performing Backups in Tape Drives.
• Managing Security Compliance and help conducting yearly Auditing for Datacenter.