Anirban Sam

Responsible for managing IT Infrastructure, Helpdesk, technology consulting & Internet related Projects, cloud services. Providing managed Web services to 75 group companies. Vendor and outsourcing management. Providing support to marketing and presales for new technology products & solutions. Active member of ITSM SMO. Responsible for IT Security, Business Continuity planning, Capacity, Availability, Incident, Problem & Contract management. Documents custodian for ITSM.

Achievements: Established Automated Helpdesk system for Managed services delivery & customer satisfaction. Implemented latest security products like RSA, Goldkey & QTrust in massive setups delivering Managed Services. ITSM implementation for ISO 20000-1: 2005.

Job Profile: Under the general direction of the Chief Technology Officer, this role is responsible for the
technical operations, Start-up Projects, IT Infrastructure & Communications function for 10 ETV & 3 News18 News channels PAN India. This includes data center infrastructure (servers, storage, broadcast facilities, networking & appliances), Data Archival systems, data center applications (SAP, ERP, Citrix, VPN and other messaging services), Live video streaming, Video transcoding, UDP file transfer, network QoS & security administration, network engineering, client environment engineering, vendor and service management.

Job Profile: Managing IT Infrastructure and projects for a huge content delivery network consisting of 2000 end users spread all over India with an average data transaction of 2+ TB per day with a team of 60 System/Network/Database Administrators & Software Developers. Providing strategic planning and operational guidance to the IT team and serves as a member of the organization's policymaking team. I do manage IT budget, complete lifecycle of multiple projects, Server & storage refresh. I am responsible for conducting orientation workshops and crash courses for all staff in order to implement new technologies & to enhance productivity. Consulting for IT infrastructure, cloud and outsourcing requirements & troubleshooting of 35 group companies. Implemented CDN & Hot DR sites for data center.

Achievements: As a founder member of the ETV IT automation team, successfully completed many IT infrastructure projects to support smooth operation of huge & complex ETV Network, planning and executing its further expansion requirements from time to time. Complete Automation of News Gathering; Newsroom, Production and Broadcasting setup is integrated in an IT based multi-tier system. RKC E-Media functions as a huge visual archive with web based retrieval interface consisting of 200 TB of storage. Content gathered from all over India is made available to 400+ NLE systems for production and supporting services for monitoring and automated billing. Given operational training to 3000+ staff from all levels. Created complete technical documentation for ETV Network.

Job Profile: Implementation of IT infrastructure in plant and city office. ISDN based Telecommunication System, & VOIP support to 100+ users LAN. Internet security, database backups, archive and restoring as required. Troubleshooting IT and communication related problems. Providing operational training to staff.
Achievements: Established seamless network and MIS system in 3 Coke plants and connecting to Coke HQ in India. Provided IT operational training to 100+ employees during implementation.