Giri KR, Infrastructure Analyst

Giri KR

Infrastructure Analyst

UST Global

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer
Experience
23 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :23 years, 3 Months

Infrastructure Analyst at UST Global
  • India
  • My current job since August 2013

Responsible for ensuring technical excellence for a major client project (Banking and Financial Service). The role mainly focusing in, architecture, implementation and technical support of virtual infrastructure environments. I am a technical enabler, evangelist, and member to UST-global outstanding team. Following list are some of my technical expertise at UST-Global.
• Management of an operational and technical assessment of virtualized infrastructure and delivery processes
• Managing client virtual infrastructure
• Remote Server Management
• Provisioning of new changes when needed for the client
• Troubleshooting and remediation for the infrastructure issues
• Providing day-to-day support
• Ensuring the whole infrastructure up time
• High information availability

Infrastructure Specialist at Speridian Technologies, Technopark, TVM
  • Other
  • December 2012 to August 2013

Responsible for ensuring technical excellence in total infrastructure especially in design, architecture and implementation of virtual/Physical infrastructure environments using advanced technologies. I am a technical enabler, evangelist, and member to Speridian outstanding team.
• Performed hands-on technical implementation, troubleshooting, and remediation on complex client projects requiring high-touch or strategic vision
• VMware / vSphere 5.1 architecture and virtualization expertise
• Remote Server Management in various Windows and Linux versions
• Management of an operational and technical assessment of virtualized infrastructure and delivery
processes
• Study and technical supervision of network optimization project for virtualization
• Management of virtualization projects for several internal entities
• Mange SAN storage environment for the virtualization
• Implementing New Technologies
• Ensuring HA, DRS of the virtualization environment
• Interacted with various hardware vendors
• Securing corporate data from unauthorized access using firewall and IPS/IDS technologies

Datacenter Administrator at Asianet Satellite Communications Ltd
  • India
  • January 2005 to January 2012

Datacenter Administrator - Asianet Satellite Communications Ltd, TVM 2005 - 2012


While Datacenter Administrator at Asianet Satellite Communications Ltd, I architected, implemented and maintained a Datacenter, 100% virtualized environment supporting mixed Microsoft and open source
products.


• Virtualized the datacenter there by Reduced the company's server hardware footprint by 60%
leading to savings in power and cooling.
• Leveraged highly available VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment to improve server
availability and reduce workload.
• Provided day-to-day support, training, and technology implementation
• Management of virtualization projects for various customers.
• Storage implementation and maintenance
• High Information availability.
• Interacted with various hardware vendors
• Providing input to the policies and procedures related to equipment purchase, use, support,
monitoring, security, and backup
• Ensuring corporate data safety, security and data integrity
• Provisioned LUNs to application & database servers.
• Environment supported hundreds of servers running various Microsoft and Linux products.
• Securing corporate data from unauthorized access using firewall and IPS/IDS technologies

Lead- Technical Customer Support at Vikas Microchip Technologies
  • India
  • May 2000 to April 2005

Vikas Group comprising of Vikas Global Solutions Ltd., Vikas Microchip Technologies has 15 years of background. The group has diversified into various activities as a leading technology solution provider in the areas of software Development, internet and Intranet based solutions, IT enabled services, GPS solutions, Bio Metric Solutions, IT enabled services, GPS solutions, Bio Metric Solutions, and Technology based products distribution and corporate Education services. The group has also significant presence in Biotechnology, Agriculture and Energy sector.

Lead-Technical Support
• Managed team of help desk technicians and network engineers to meet needs of customers
• Drafted technical documentation on projects, specifications, solutions and problems
• Handled service Support, liaising with different companies and Government departments.
• Provided day-to-day support, training as well as long-term project management for small to medium sized corporate networks
• Conceptualized and implemented systems upgrades.
• Worked with clients to analyze current network needs and identify areas in need of improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer
  • at Government Polytechnic College
  • September 2000
Bachelor's degree,
  • at Goverment Polytechnic
  • September 2000

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Windows
VMware Infrastructure
Linux Server
VMware ESX
COOLING
DATA INTEGRITY
DATABASE
FIREWALL
MAINTENANCE
OPEN SOURCE
TRAINING
Server Administration
Windows 2003,2008,2012
Server VIrtualisatiion
VMware Virtualization

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

ITIL Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2013
Valid Until:
December 2013
VCP-4 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2010
Valid Until:
November 2010

Hobbies

  • Playing Games
  • Playing cricket and football