pramod salian

- February 2022
• Responsible for SAP Cloud Transformation & Migration deals to AWS and Azure.
• Create SAP S/4 HANA migration strategy to public cloud and SAP PCE.
• RFP responses and presentations to new and exsisting clients.
• Gather insights on upcoming portfolio and services changes within existing clients.
• Increase practice depth by creating specific portfolio services and solutions
documents, communication packs and update https://www.lntinfotech.com/sap
• Product roadmap evangelization and solution documents within existing accounts
and global prospects and gain knowledge of upcoming market trends.
• Develop new portfolios with custom and tailored soutions for smart and quick
delivery approach leveraging Cloud native tools and LTI accelerators.

As part of the global senior leadership team, I was responsible for end-to-end
management of the Global Business Units and Global Delivery Centers for
Engineering/Transition&Transformation practice under Datacenter Hosting.
• Responsible for Architecting & Designing solutions for Cloud and Datacenter
transformation, platform refresh and re-platforming.
• As Global Head of CoE Workload migrations, I was resposible to create and
execute end-to-end migration roadmap, design, methodologies, turnkey
solutions, framework and porfolio communicatin packs for migrating workloads to
Atos Digitial Hybrid Cloud, AWS & Azure
• Tech-Refresh portfolio for Hyper-converged infrastructure like Nutanix & VxRail
• Strategic planning for larger global engagements along with program
management teams thereby enabling skill enagagements, trainings, timelines,
steerco, financials, risk assessments etc.
• Initated the DAC (Document as Code) project which won the innovation award.
• Actively participate in bids, RFPs, team sizing, effort estimations, skill
requirements and cost-effective global delivery centers etc. with the strategy to
Win and Deliver.
• Define strategic product partnerships & alliances, new technology and related
services with turnkey solutions to find growth opportunities.
• Assess and implement automation scope for projects and team set targets.
• Manage and communicate effectively with remote teams, service business lines,
business consultants and clients.
• Review on-going transformation and fertilization projects with the view of Move
To Offshore (MTO) strategy with sustainable cost savings.
• Review exsisting processes in the accounts, determine the pain areas and propose
improvised process.
• Indepth involvment during the major incidents and crisis sitution.
• Responsible to build & lead the Technical Architects, SMEs, SAP Basis, DBA,
Microsoft Competenct Center, ServiceNow & Automation development team in
India under the Engineering Service Offerings tower part of IDM Business Unit
• Managed a team size of 1000+ employees in my global portfolio.
• Produce (HLD) High Level Design Documents and Solution Documents.
• Active member of the India leadership team for employee engagement programs,
process improvements, onward planning, innovations etc.
TRAININGS
Amazon Web Services
- Essentials
- Architecting
VMworld 2009 in Europe - Cannes
VMware
- VI3
- vSphere 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
- vCenter Life Cycle Manager
Miscrosoft Small Buisness Server in
Oman - Muscat
CLIENTEXPOSURE
§ International Airports & Port
§ Free Zone
§ Media
§ Defence
§ Manufacturing
§ Banking & Insurance
CORETECHNOLOGY
§ Datacenters
§ Virtualization
§ Hyper Converged Infrastructure
§ Cloud
- SDDC
- VPDC : Savvis Public Cloud
- AWS
- Azure
Associate Director - Cloud Architecture & Strategy ( AWS - Azure - SAP )

Evaluate Cloud Platforms and Datacenter hosting platforms for global customers
based on existing infrastructure and target landing zones.
• SDDC (Software Defined Datacenter) design and Implementation solutions.
• Create end-to-end migration solution to public cloud, virtual datacenter and
hyper-converged infrastructure etc.
• Develop and manage end-to-end new portfolio services, solution documents and
communication packs including service offerings under IMS practice for Cloud and
Virtual datacenter.
• Define adoption strategy for new technologies and related service support with
skill enhancement trainings / programs for the team.
• Produce High Level Design and Solution Documents.
• Writing Technical Whitepapers and Technology Direction Documents.
• Creating CXO level presentations for Service offerings and Practice Capability.
• Closely work with Global Business Development & Sales Team on customer
engagements and RFP’s.
• Assess new technolgy market trends and create incubation programs and trainings
for technology readiness.
• Played a key role in migrating production workloads to AWS for US media
conglomerate.
• Driving and closing partnership sign up with VMWare (CIPP) & AWS.
• Client presentation and proposal walk through.
• Resource management, Training and Career development plans.
• Cross skilling technical specialists across multiple technology disciplines

Leadership in starting Cloud Operations & Solutions team for Savvis in India
• Handled VPDC (Virtual Private DataCenter - A Public Cloud offering), Open
and Dedicated Cloud Operations hosted on Savvis Tier IV datacenters.
• Handled several public cloud migration projects for customers successfully.
• Played a key role in G-Cloud deployment for Singapore Government.
• Worked on Cloud releases with Integration of Infrastructure, Automation,
Orchestration workflow and Middleware Engineering solutions.
• Closely work with Vendors for Cloud Infrastructure solutions - Cisco (UCS),
VMware, HP and Reflex securities.
• Handle issues related Cisco Nexus 1000v, Nexus Core Switches, Cisco ACE.
• Closely work with Global Cloud product team.
• Customer meetings & presentations at CXO levels for VPDC Solutions.
• Writing Technical whitepapers & KB articles for Internal reference

in starting Global operations for EF in India.
• Handled Global Virtual Infrastructure - Design, Implementation & Upgrade of
VMware platform for EF Worldwide.
• Handling 400+ ESX Hosts and 2500+ Virtual Machines worldwide for EF.
• Implementation & Upgrade of ESX 3.X.X, vCenter 2.X & vSphere4.
• Implemented vCenter Life Cycle Manager & VCB solutions.
• Testing and Implementation of power backup APC solutions.
• Implementation of SQUID - Proxy & Security solution.
• Successfully vStorage migrations from EMC to NetApp.
• Testing and implementation of Zmanda backup solution on Ubuntu 9.10.
• Virtual Infrastructure Capacity management using VMWare Capacity IQ.
• Reports updates & deployments using scripting tools - Power GUI & AutoIT3.
• Configured Solar Winds - Orion Monitoring & Maps for Virtual Systems.
• Implemented end to end process for Virtual Infrastructure.
• Advisor to the decision makers ( CTO & VP) for Infrastructure Solutions.

Data Center Design & Implementation.
• Specialised in deployment of HP Blade servers (C & P class), Rack & Tower
Servers (ML & DL Series).
• Implementation of Virtual Infrastructure - VMWare VI3 & Virtual Center.
• Migration of Physical systems into Virtual Infrastructure (P2V).
• Presales on HP server’s VMware & Microsoft - Licenses.
• Independently work on Projects and Documentations.
• Customer Meetings, Presentations & Responses to RFP / RFI.
• Vendor and Channel partner engagements.
• Heading the Salalah Branch operations.
Pramod P Salian