Anandakumar Kumaravelu
Greater Chicago Area,IL
Summary
As an enterprise technologist with 19 years of experience responsible for successfully partnering with customers to translate business needs into tailored technical solutions. I focus on aligning technology to a customer's line of business needs and designing solutions that are scalable, reliable, secure, and manageable. Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate with both business and technical resources at all levels.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr Customer Engineer - Presales
SADA Systems
Chicago, IL
12.2021 - Current
- As a Presales engineer, engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements, and present practical and useful solutions on Google Cloud.
- Designed and delivered mission-critical infrastructure to maintain consistent availability and performance.
- Recommended improvements to customers and demonstrated potential cost reductions and technical improvements in GCP.
- Supported customer implementations and confirmed success through identification and application of repeatable best practices.
- Experience in Infrastructure Modernization: migrating n-tiered workloads from on-prem and other clouds to GCP
System Engineer - Presales DataCenter & Cloud
Dell Technologies
Chicago, IL
05.2019 - 09.2020
- As a Core Presales Engineer help Customer draw up requirements and select the correct products and services on all Dell Technologies lines of business
- Worked with large scale cloud and datacenter design and migration patterns including network, compute/mainframe, virtualization, storage, security, and identity
- Expert in cloud platforms such as AWS, GCE, Azure and help Customers to build MultiCloud Strategy
- Experience in architecting, sizing, and costing cloud solutions
- Experience with Enterprise virtualization technologies and technical architecture and sales engineering
- Have design and manage Proof of Concepts (POC) in conjunction with the Dell Professional Services Team
- Present Dell Tech value proposition, technologies, strategy, and product roadmaps to all levels at their customer including executives, technical management, and technical engineers
System Architect
Logicalis, Inc
Seattle, WA
08.2015 - 05.2020
- IT Infrastructure (HCI & Cloud), Provided pre-sales technical expertise to sales staff as subject matter expert
- Responsibilities Assesses, plans, designs, implements, validates, and supports storage solutions that satisfy client needs using best practices
- Working with pre-sales and account team to prepare strategies on bidding new upcoming EMC/HP products and services
- Provide designs for datacenter migrations and infrastructure refreshes
- Experience participating in solution configurations and the creation of PoCs to meet customer requirements
- Work on implementing end to end data center work from Server, Network and Storage
Sr. Storage Engineer
9dots Technology Client:Getty Images
Seattle, WA
02.2014 - 08.2015
- Design, Deploy and Support for SAN and NAS environment globally
- Resolution, analysis, and root cause analysis for storage-based issues within all production and non-production environments
- Provides storage capacity analysis, planning and forecasting information, including storage utilization, usage, and allocation along with assisting with forecasting and planning for short- and long-term needs
- Worked on storage deployment, configuration, monitoring and maintenance technologies and their deployment
- Supported a wide range of technology solutions in large scale production environments spanning multiple storage solutions.
Principal Engineer - Data Storage
EMC DATA STORAGE INDIA PVT LTD
Bangalore, India
11.2008 - 12.2013
- Created conceptual, logical and physical data models for use in different business areas.
- Promoted high customer satisfaction by resolving problems with knowledgeable and friendly service.
- Developed redundant systems and procedures for disaster recovery and archiving to maintain data protection.
Technical Solutions Consultant
HEWLETT-PACKARD GLOBAL PVT LTD
Bangalore, India
12.2004 - 11.2008
- Handling Network storage issues for HP’s Mission Critical customers (Europe)
- Troubleshoot issues related to SAN connectivity (Brocade, Mcdata, Cisco) and troubleshoot issues related to NAS boxes,
- Issues related to disk arrays and storage controllers that they are connected to
- Analyzing logs from san (switch), tape libraries, NAS boxes, storage controllers to diagnose issues
- Work on a 4 hour resolution deadline and work as the next level of escalation for onsite SAN Administrators
Education
No Code AI And Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston, MA2024
Master of Computer Application (MCA) -
BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
01.2005
Bachelor of Computer Science -
BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
Tamil Nadu, INDIA01.2002
Skills
- Infrastructure Modernization
- Application Modernization
- Google Cloud Architecture & Design
- Cloud Network and Security
- Data Analytics & AI/ML
- Cloud FinOps
- Leadership
- Customer Engineering & Relationship
- Solution Selling
- Sales Support
Certification
- Dell-EMC Cloud Infrastructure and Services Associate (DCA-CIS) certification
- Certified EMC Implementation Specialist (VNX, Isilon and XtremeIO)
- Microsoft Certified Professional
- ITIL V3 Certified
- Brocade Certified Fabric Professional
- VMWare Certified Professional (VCP 5.5)
- Microsoft Azure AZ-900 Certified
- Google Cloud Engineer - Associate
Timeline
Sr Customer Engineer - Presales
SADA Systems
12.2021 - Current
System Engineer - Presales DataCenter & Cloud
Dell Technologies
05.2019 - 09.2020
System Architect
Logicalis, Inc
08.2015 - 05.2020
Sr. Storage Engineer
9dots Technology Client:Getty Images
02.2014 - 08.2015
Principal Engineer - Data Storage
EMC DATA STORAGE INDIA PVT LTD
11.2008 - 12.2013
Technical Solutions Consultant
HEWLETT-PACKARD GLOBAL PVT LTD
12.2004 - 11.2008
No Code AI And Machine Learning: Building Data Science Solutions -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Computer Application (MCA) -
BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Computer Science -
BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY