Head
EMC
Total years of experience :36 years, 5 Months
Expert (Infrastructure Engineering). After merging Platform and Storage
teams and highlighting the need to improve the Infrastructure Delivery and Engineering process and
control to senior management, I was given the lead role to manage Infrastructure Risks, Infrastructure
product Lifecycle Management (LCM), Infrastructure architecture designing, Identify data quality
issues within CMDB (Assets Management) and recommendations to the
Platform Team. Managing a team of 7 VMWare, Unix, Linux and
Windows Server and AD Administrators, responsible for Servers, Operating Systems, Active
Directory administration and maintain users credentials and privileges.
Key Achievements:
o Introduced Virtualization and migrated all physical servers to VMs.
o Planned and migrate complete Data Center from old location to new location without
interrupting the business.
o Provide consultancy to application owners for environment sizing to ensure and deliver
required servers and Operating Systems as per current standard (Buy Products).
o Balancing BAU and project work to ensure application critical milestones were achieved
as per agreed SLA.
o Design and implement Cluster within and across sites and develop application and Database
interfaces to ensure all application components are available in case of Server/Site failover.
o Migrated all servers from Solaris Operating Systems to RHEL and decommissioned/
retire Solaris.
o Manage DR sites (in region and out of region) and lead DR teams across IT during DR
Drill and testing and achieved agreed OLA and SLA.
o Worked with (and without) Hardware and Software vendors to discuss implementing OS,
Security controls to ensure compliance with regulations controls as per the guidelines of
financial organizations.
o Establish relationship with vendors to achieve at great success and reduce cost on
Products, Licensing and maintenance.
o Active member to introduced and successfully implemented DCAB (Deployment
Change Authority Board) to collaborate and minimize impact of any change within
Infrastructure and across IT. Chaired DCAB for couple of years and also deputy
chairman of DCAB during the absence of DCAB chairman.
Operations. Managing a team of 8 OpenVMS, UNIX, Linux,
Windows and AD Administrators.
Key Achievements:
o Migrated PDP 11/750 to Alpha 4100 and VAX/VMS to OpenVMS.
o Automated all VMS operations using DCL (Digital Command Language) to achieve all
business requirements including tic data, batch processing, reporting and updates.
o Migrated all applications from legacy (OpenVMS) to SunOS and Windows Server.
o All legacy backups migrated from OpenVMS to Enterprise Netbackup. Developed and
automated backup vault (before
Education,