PRAVIN D. DESAI                                                                                      Email:desaipravin29@gmail.com

 

Ü     A technology driven professional with 10 years of rich experience in the areas of IT Infrastructure System Administration / Technical Support.

Ü     Involved in Planning, development & implementation IT Infrastructure requirements for various projects

Ü     Adept in developing & documenting ITIL processes (Incident Management, Change Management etc.) and their implementation.

Ü     Strong communication, collaboration & team building skills with depthness in training and supporting end users as well as developing technical staff to achieve performance objectives.

 

 

 

Ü       PMP4 Fast Track Certification Training (Project Management Professional by Astrowix)

Ü       Troubleshooting Exchange Server 2007 Core Roles Workshop (Microsoft Corporation)

Ü       VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage Lab (G T Technologies)

Ü       Infosys Finacle 10 Technical Architecture Training (Installation FDM, SSO, C-24, BOD & EOD Process)

Ü       Sun Solaris 10 part I & II course covering Sun OS Basic & Advance administration.

Ü       M.C.S.E. Course on Win2K3 Track Covering Implementation, Administration Active Directory and Network infrastructure of Win2k3 server, Exchange 2k3.

Ü       Win2k3, Ms-Visio, System & Network Administration (Data & Voice), visual fox pro8, Linux, C, C++

 

 

Infrastructure Management

Ü       Analysing business needs and spearheading business process restructuring initiatives regarding establishment of IT infrastructure including procurement of hardware and software.

Ü       Undertaking Project Management related activities for any Infrastructure requirements. This involves Manpower management, Hardware procurement and implementation.

 

System Administration / Technical Support

Ü       Managing the installation and configuration activities.

Ü       Designing Backup Strategy for the sites & ensuring scheduled/ unscheduled backups as per the plan.

Ü       Troubleshooting problems pertaining to System Performance, Network Administration, and Applications.

Ü       Providing technical subject matter expertise, training, advisory & consultation on System specification, evaluation, selection, configuration, integration, installation & testing of new systems.

 

People Management & Operations Management

Ü       Directing, leading & motivating workforce. Coach & mentor direct reports for skills enhancements to improve operational effectiveness/efficiency of the team.

Ü       Capacity Planning/ Forecasting. Planning & strategizing operations

Ü       Master of Business Administration in Information Technology from Sikkim Manipal University.

Ü       Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Mumbai University.

Ü       HSC from Mumbai University & SSC from CBSE Board.

 

 

Hanu Software [June’13-Till Date]                                                                                   

Post: Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Progression Path

I engage with Microsoft customers to understand business needs and how Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) can help meet those needs. Set up demonstrations of Microsoft Azure & Cloud Storage (Storsimple) and deliver these to customers.

Ü       Designing, Migration of Physical and VMware windows & Linux environment to Azure Cloud.

 

FINO Pay Tech Ltd. [Oct’11-June’2013]

Post: Manager – Production Systems IT

Progression Path

Ü       Responsible for Data Center & IT Infra operations related activities (cooling, power, UPS, DG, BMS etc.)

Ü       Project Plan for Acquisition & Migration rollout of Nokia Money India IT Infrastructure with FINO (Alpha).

Ü       Running Data center infrastructure including sizing, configuration, bandwidth estimation, network management, load balancing, etc. set-up with the Bank partners for Payment gateway services. (PCI-DSS)  

Ü       Responsible for Data Center & Production System uptime (Payment Gateway, Core Banking, SAP ERP)

Ü       Production & Migration rollout (Application like SAP, RSBY, EDPS, TDPS, CBS, M-Banking, B2C, B2B etc) 

Ü       Migration reorganized and managed Data Center & DR project (Network, Firewall, Server, Storage, DB etc)

Ü       Vendors Management for procurement Software, Hardware, Network equipment and services. (Cisco, IBM)

Ü       Set-up KRA/Goal Sheets, Manage Team Performance, Trainings Team members, Drafting JD’s.

Ü       Developed and maintained IT policies and procedures manuals (ISO 27001 & PAS 99 IT Security Audit)

Ü       Project Plan for Email Migration from M-Daemon to Exchange 2013.

Ü       Reduce IT Infrastructure Cost with open source technology, automation, consolidation & Virtualization.

Ü       Upgraded VMware Vsphere5 to 5.1 & migrate to HP Blade & IBM Pure Flex System with V7000 storage.

Ü       Initiative, Design, Implemented & Managing VMware Vsphere5.1 Virtualized Architecture(HA,DRS, FT,DPM)

Ü       Integration VMware VShield with Symantec Endpoint protection appliance (SVA).

Ü       Design private cloud on VMware platform vCloud Director 5.1, Site Recovery Manager 5.1 & vCOPS 5.6

Ü       Implemented Mobile Financial Gateway Services on RHEL 5.8 Cluster with MYSQL DB & HSM.

Ü       Implemented HA Proxy (Network Load Balancer) & VSFTP, Tomcat Apache web server for KYC enrolment.

Ü       Project Plan for Migration of Financial Transaction System from SQL2k8 to SQL 2012 Cluster environment.  

Ü       Implemented IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager 8.2 (Lifecycle Management ,Patching, Security, Compliance)

Ü       Managing EMC AX4/5 DAE & IBM DS3950, V7000 SAN (RAID, LUN allocation, Zoning, snapshot, clone etc.)

Ü       Implemented Share point 2010 and Manage Engine for Change Request & Service Desk.

Ü       Implemented SARENA Business Manager, Request Centre, and Release Control.

Ü       Migration of Win2k3 to Win2K8R2 to Win2k12 Active Directory Services and SQL2k5 Ent to SQL2k8 Std. 

Ü       Migration Symantec Endpoint Protection v11 - v12.2 & Ms-office to Open office for Pan India rollout.

 

Microsoft [Jan’11 – Oct’11]                                                        

Post: SE (MSCIS Infrastructure Lead - India)

Progression Path

Ü       Lead for India IT Infra projects for Microsoft Ieb, mfg & supply chain, information solutions.

Ü       Manage, Monitor, develop and support a team of SME to ensure effective delivery and professional service to internal customers with in line OLA & SLA’s. 

Ü       Lead the Tier 3 Vendor Team (Accenture) for escalation. (Azure, EMC Storage, Network, Security, Backup)

Ü       Managed EMC Storage & 2000+ servers across the Geographical Data centre.

Ü       Project Management activities viz., planning, scheduling, budgeting, resource management.

Ü       Prepare monthly IT Infra offshore services/ Projects status reports.

 

HSBC Invest Direct Ltd [Aug’10 – Dec10]

Post: Manager - Data Center, Servers and Email Infrastructure. 

Progression Path

Ü       Managed the day-to-day activities across the Organisation.

Ü       Managing vendor relationships and responsibilities

Ü       Reduce IT Cost by 15% with Data Center resizing of server, racks, power and cooling. 

Ü       Deign and capacity planning with VMware Virtualized infrastructure for consolidation of 240 Physical Servers to 36 Servers. (Windows, Solaris and Linux.)

Ü       Manage Team for DC/DR Operations, Infrastructure support.

Ü       100% uptime for Data Center.

Ü       HP Eva 8100 SAN configuration for Virtualization

Ü       Closing the ITO gaps of acquisition and integration with Hong Kong Team.

Ü       Preparing Project Plan, System document for Data Center Audit and Integration rollout.

Ü       Reporting and Communication with APAC Regional Data Center Managers and ITO Head

 

 

 

IDBI Intech Ltd [Nov’06 - Aug10]

Client: IDBI Bank, IDBI Federal Life Insurance, IDBI Gilts, IDBI Home Finance, IDBI Mutual Fund.

Post: Project Leader - Infrastructure (Data Center)

Progression Path

Ü       12000 sq ft. IDBI Data Center is very sophisticated and highly secure Data Center consisting of Multi-Platform 300+ Enterprise class Production Servers Environment. Were I am responsible for Designing, Capacity planning, Implementation, Administration & POC for new technology products for DC.

Ü       Key Member to study and formulate the Infrastructure requirements for projects handled by IDBI Intech.

Ü       Manage a team that consistently meets deadlines for new projects. Plan and schedule the daily, weekly & monthly activities of the data center projects.

Ü       Software Licensing Management (Oracle, Microsoft, Red Hat, Symantec etc.)

Ü       Vendor management for FMS, AMC and Warranty issues with Partners.

Ü       Maintain Roster & Co-ordination with out-sourced facility for cooling services, power, BMS etc.

Ü       Actively participated for DC- DR Drill & Migration Internet Banking – Corporate, Retail, NRI and SMS etc.

Ü       Installation and maintenance of Critical Banking application like RTGS, PDONDS, CFMS, Kondor+, messaging system etc. Executing DR Drill of RBI & CCIL application.

Ü       Configured and maintained Solaris Zones, Flash, SVM, NFS File systems.

Ü       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.

Ü       Installation and maintenance, DR Drill of RBI & CCIL application NDS, RTGS etc on Servers.

Ü       Implemented Infosys Loan Oriented System (CRM) on win2k & 2k SQL clustering.

Ü       Configure EMC clarion CX4-240 & CX3-10. (RAID, LUN allocation, flash & snapshot etc.)

Ü       Implemented Logica QPH (payment hub) on Win2k3, MQ cluster & Oracle10g RAC.

Ü       Involved in migration of IBM DS8700 140TB SAN.

Ü       Design, Plan Windows 2008R2 Active Directory Services for 14k+ users for IDBI Bank.

Ü       Migration win2k domain to win2k3 for idbigilts.com

 

v     Project Lead: Infrastructure Setup for IDBI Fortis Life Insurance & IDBI Asset Management. (Virtualized)

 

Tasks involved:

Ü       Vendors Management for procurement of Hardware & Software licensing. (Microsoft, Dell etc)

Ü       Design & Implemented, Information Technology Procedures (Data Centre)

Ü       Implemented IBM DS4700 SAN setup with Zoning of SAN Switch.

Ü       Implemented of AIX & Windows server for Elixir Enterprise Insurance application.

Ü       Hardening of O/S UNIX & Windows server.

Ü       Implementation of Call Centre Application, Acknowledgement system, Mutual Fund Servers.

Ü       Design & implemented standardized server Health Status report for UNIX, Windows servers

Ü       Implementation of Win2k3 with Active Directory (DC’s) & DNS server, Squid proxy server etc.

Ü       Implementation of Exchange Server2007 (approx 2K+ mailbox), CAS & Hub transport Server.

Ü       Configuration, Troubleshooting & Recovery of Mailbox’s & NDR message troubleshooting.

Ü       Configure SSL Certificates to Use Multiple Client Access Servers (OWA) & Active Sync.

Ü       Configure Public folder database & recovery process for Ms Exchange 2k7SP1.

Ü       Exchange server database maintenance & backups, Health checks on daily basis Mail Queue etc

Ü       Implementation of Office Share point server 2k7 with SQL2k8 Database.

Ü       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.

Ü       Installation, configure VMware for Vsphere4 & VCenter Infrastructure for VMS (Windows/Linux)

Ü       Design & Implemented Exchange Server2010 DAG mailbox, CAS & Hub transport Server. Roles on VMS.

Ü       Implemented & Integrated BlackBerry5.1 & Citrix XenApp Server on VMware Site Recovery Manger.

Ü       Design Symantec licensing Backup & retrieval process for VMware, AD, Exchange, Oracle DB etc.

 

Period	Designation	Company	Client
Feb’05 – June’06	Systems Engineer	Dixit InfoTech Pvt. Ltd	Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
Apr’02 – Jan’05	Support Executive	Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt Ltd.

 

 

Date of Birth                 : 29^th November 1982

Address                  : 2430, 160^th AVE, NE, Bellevue, Washington - 98008

References                 : References furnished on request.

PMI ID                               : 1790040