Pravin Desai

- Technology (Data Center, Cloud, Network & Cyber Security Operation)
Progression Path
 Responsible for rendering Intelligent Cloud and IT Infrastructure Services, ensuring 100% SLAs adherence
Accountable for service quality and meeting or exceeding business expectations while maintaining profitability.
 Leading IT Operations for the wide-ranging internal corporate IT Infrastructure Services and projects, ITIL
Defined processes and reporting with an objective of implementing result-focused service
 Managed successful DC migration of critical production and contingency servers with no impact to business.
 Successfully headed effective management of various Information Security operations spanning Firewalls
(Checkpoint, Paloalto, Cisco), Anti APT HX, NX (FireEye), WAF (Clouflare), Cyber Security Operations.
 Lead DC Migration Project with vendor negotiation, Funding Note, DC & Cloud Designing & Project Planning.
 Lead DC Operations for the wide-ranging internal corporate IT Infrastructure Services and projects,
administering delivery Governance, ITIL defined processes & reporting with an objective of implementing
result-focused service delivery solutions; training/supporting staff, for meeting of KPIs and compliance.
 Liaising with multiple vendors for DC Infra, Security Product for Technical Rating & services scoring.
 Infrastructure Support for Core application like Finnone, IC4, CRM Next, Oracle GL, BRE, WSO2, Mobile App.
 Slashed 15% IT infrastructure Cost during covid pandemic impact for MSP & AMC renewal.
 Setup the In-house Disaster Recovery Site with conducting successfully DR Drills.
 Setup of monitoring, tools like APM-AppDynamics, AIOps-Splunk and also ITSM, ITAM
 Implemented Software Asset Management tools - Snow Software with license compliance reporting.
 Secure Work from Home enabled for users during the pandemic situation with latest Nutnanix HCI
stack, Citrix, workspace one options, Cisco ASA VPN.
 Migration of Digital Workload from OnPrem to AWS Cloud.
 Steered SDWAN setup for 640 branches. Ensured WiFi enablement for Central, State and Regional Offices.
 Adoption of automation tool like Ansible, lambda, Powershell, bash script for auto restart & temp cleanup.
 Lead outsource vendor’s information security teams in tasks such as Firewall, WAF and log management.
 Migration of ITSM, ITAM, TCO tool Sapphire to Symphony Summit.
 Migration of Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016, O365 and Qmail to IceWarp Cloud for HFC.
 Migration of Active Directory from Windows 2008R2 to Windows 2016.
 Migration of Citrix 5.0 HSD setup to 7.15 to Hyper converge infrastructure.
 Standardization of O/S, DB Migration from Windows 2008 to Windows 2016, RHEL 7.3, Microsoft SQL
2008R2 to Microsoft SQL 2017.
 Performance Optimization, Consolidation of Oracle database licensing to19C Oracle Exadata stack.
 Maintained Patch compliance and addressing VAPT - Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing

- IT Infrastructure (Data Center & Cloud)
Progression Path
 Design and implement short and long-term strategic plans to ensure infrastructure capacity meets existing
and future requirements with standard hardware and software’s to grow the Bank.
 Responsible for Assessment TCO/ROI, Planning and Migration of application to Cloud (IaaS, SaaS M365)
 Managing 2, 400+ Physical Servers (Cisco, IBM, Dell, HP) and 6vCenters with 4, 500+ VMware VMs
 Software Licensing Management (Compliance, Audit, remediation, IT Process Automation and Tool)
 RFP, POC, On boarding, DC Automation, IT Operation Analytics, Machine Learning. (Splunk, Elastic Search)
 Cost saving of INR 4.5 Cr from 256 VM’s deletion & consolidation of licenses (47 TB space, 2.5TB Memory,
Oracle MS-SQL database and IBM Webserver core license release for capacity augmentation)
 Design Cloud Framework & Migrated existing workload to cloud (Azure, Storsimple, Microsoft O365)
 Responsible for Designing and Maintaining IT Infrastructure uptime of Critical Banking application like CRM
RTGS, NDS, Digital Banking, Accosa, SAP, CTS, IDEA, LMS, KYC, NEFT, NSDL, SWIFT, Mfund etc.
 Reduced IT Infra Cost by INR 1.5 Cr with datacenter resizing of servers rack space, power saving with
migration and disposal of 163 EOSL rack mount servers.
 Designed and implemented the Core Banking, e-Net, Credit card system migration to PCI DSS network
 Program management for PCI DSS project. (SIEM integration, Patching, SGVE Integration at VM level)
 Vendor SLA management and Managing Infra Budget (Capex, Opex, Professional Services, AMC)
 Implemented Converged VMware Infrastructure on Hitachi UCP & Migration of 200+ production servers
 Implemented Cisco Smart Net and IBM BigFix Inventory rollout for Hardware and Software Asset
Discovery, Asset Life Cycle Management, Patch Management.
 Design and Implemented Private Cloud VMware vCAC 6.0 migrating 2K+ UAT and DR environment
 Right size of 50+ application VMs with the help of vCops overprovision saving of 4 ESXi node cost.
 Migration of 200+ ESXi host server 4, 5 to 5.5 with VDPA and Avamar Backup solution for VMs
Hanu Software

Design technical solution for RFP, RFI, POC on-prem to Cloud (IaaS, SaaS)
 Implemented and Migrated Storsimple Cloud Storage and Azure Backup Vault, Veeam
 Responsible for Security assessment, TSR (Third party security review) and Infrastructure Projects
 Designed Hybrid Cloud Architecture on premise Data Center DR on cloud (ADS, Apache, MySQL, Oracle)
 Cloud Migration from AWS AMI Linux to Oracle Linux on Azure Cloud
 Designed, Migrated Physical Server and VMware windows and Linux environment to Cloud
 Designed, Migrated Hybrid Exchange 2k7-2013-Office 365, ADS, DIRSYNC, ADFS, Proxy on Microsoft Cloud
 Performed hands-on technical implementation, troubleshooting on Windows Azure (Oracle, VM, VPN, ADFS

Production Systems IT (Data Center)
Progression Path
 Responsible for Data Center & IT Infra operations related activities (cooling, power, UPS, DG, BMS etc.)
 Project Plan for Acquisition & Migration rollout of Nokia Money IT Infrastructure with FINO (Alpha).
 Running Datacenter infrastructure including sizing, configuration, bandwidth estimation, network
management, load balancing, etc. set-up with the Bank partners for Payment gateway services.
 Responsible for Data Center & Production System uptime (Payment Gateway, Core Banking, SAP ERP)
 Production & Migration rollout (Application like SAP, RSBY, EDPS, TDPS, CBS, M-Banking, B2C, B2B etc.)
 Migration reorganized and managed Data Center & DR project (Network, Firewall, Server, Storage, DB.)
 Vendors Management for procurement Software, Hardware, Network equipment and services. (Cisco, IBM)
 Set-up KRA/Goal Sheets, Manage Team Performance, Trainings Team members, Drafting JD’s.
 Developed and maintained IT policies and procedures manuals (ISO 27001 & PAS 99 IT Security Audit)
 Project Plan for Email Migration from M-Daemon to Exchange 2013.
 Reduce IT Infrastructure Cost with open source technology, automation, consolidation & Virtualization.
 Upgraded VMware Vsphere5 to 5.1 & migrate to HP Blade & IBM Pure Flex System with V7000 storage.
 Initiative, Design, Implemented & Managing VMware Vsphere5.1 Virtualized Architecture(HA, DRS, FT, DPM)
 Integration VMware vShield with Symantec Endpoint protection appliance (SVA).
 Design private cloud on VMware platform vCloud Director 5.1, Site Recovery Manager 5.1 & vCOPS 5.6
 Implemented Mobile Financial Gateway Services on RHEL 5.8 Cluster with MYSQL DB & HSM.
 Implemented HA Proxy (Network Load Balancer) & VSFTP, Tomcat Apache web server for KYC enrolment.
 Project Plan for Migration of Financial Transaction System from SQL2k8 to SQL 2012 Cluster environment.
 Implemented IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager 8.2 (Lifecycle Management, Patching, Security, Compliance)
 Managing EMC AX4/5 DAE & IBM DS3950, V7000 SAN (RAID, LUN allocation, Zoning, snapshot, clone etc.)
 Implemented Share point

Progression Path
 12000 sq. ft. IDBI Data Center is very sophisticated and highly secure Data Center consisting of Multi-
Platform 300+ Enterprise class Production Servers Environment. Where I am responsible for Designing,
Capacity planning, Implementation, Administration & POC for new technology products for DC.
 Key Member to study and formulate the Infrastructure requirements for projects handled by IDBI Intech.
 Manage a team that consistently meets deadlines for new projects. Plan and schedule the daily, weekly &
monthly activities of the datacenter projects.
 Software Licensing Management (Oracle, Microsoft, Red Hat, Symantec etc.)
 Vendor management for FMS, AMC and Warranty issues with Partners.
 Maintain Roster & Co-ordination with out-sourced facility for cooling services, power, BMS etc.
 Actively participated for DC- DR Drill & Migration Internet Banking - Corporate, Retail, NRI and SMS etc.
 Installation and maintenance of Critical Banking application like RTGS, PDONDS, CFMS, Kondor+,
messaging system etc. Executing DR Drill of RBI & CCIL application.
 Configured and maintained Solaris Zones, Flash, SVM, NFS File systems.
 Successfully planned and Implemented & migrated Infrastructure needs for various key projects for IDBI
Bank like Cheque Truncation System (NCR-RBI), Anti Money Laundering, Swift System to name a few.
 Installation and maintenance, DR Drill of RBI & CCIL application NDS, RTGS etc. on Servers.
 Implemented Infosys Loan Oriented System (CRM) on win2k & 2k SQL clustering.
 Configure EMC clarion CX4-240 & CX3-10. (RAID, LUN allocation, flash & snapshot etc.)
 Implemented Logica QPH (payment hub) on Win2k3, MQ cluster & Oracle10g RAC.
 Involved in migration of IBM DS8700 140TB SAN
 Design, Plan Windows 2008R2 Active Directory Services for 14k+ users for IDBI Bank.
 Migration win2k domain to win2k3 for idbigilts.com
• Project Lead: Infrastructure Setup for IDBI Fortis Life Insurance & IDBI Asset Management. (Virtualized)
Tasks involved:
 Vendors Management for procurement of Hardware & Software licensing. (Microsoft, Dell etc.)
 Design & Implemented, Information Technology Procedures (Data Centre)
 Implemented IBM DS4700 SAN setup with Zoning of SAN Switch
 Implemented of AIX & Windows server for Elixir Enterprise Insurance application
 Hardening of O/S UNIX & Windows server
 Implementation of Call Centre Application, Acknowledgement system, Mutual Fund Servers
 Design & implemented standardized server Health Status report for UNIX, Windows servers
 Implementation of Win2k3 with Active Directory (DC’s) & DNS server, Squid proxy server etc.
 Implementation of Exchange Server2007 with 2K+ mailbox, CAS & Hub transport Server
 Configuration, Troubleshooting & Recovery of Mailbox’s & NDR message troubleshooting
 Configure SSL Certificates to Use Multiple Client Access Servers (OWA) & Active Sync.
 Configure Public folder database & recovery process for MS Exchange 2k7SP1
 Exchange server database maintenance & backups, Health checks on daily basis Mail Queue etc.
 Implementation of Office Share point server 2k7 with SQL2k8 Database
 Plan, Design, Implemented & Managing Virtualized Redundant Architecture for DC & DR site for win2k8R2
ADS & Exchange Server2010 server roles, oracle DB, Symantec antivirus etc. on VMS for IDBI Mutual Fund
 Installation, configure VMware for Vsphere4 & vCenter Infrastructure for VMS (Windows/Linux)
 Design & Implemented Exchange Server2010 DAG mailbox, CAS & Hub transport Server. Roles on VMS
 Implemented & Integrated BlackBerry5.1 & Citrix XenApp Server on VMware Site Recovery Manger
 Design Symantec licensing Backup & retrieval process for VMware, AD, Exchange, Oracle DB etc