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Vipul Joshi

Princeton,NJ

Summary

Results-focused, professional with several years of proven success in developing and leading cross-functional technical teams to execute and deliver major technology initiatives. Demonstrates expertise cloud and infrastructure technologies. Highly-effective communication facilitator and contributor to key partnerships, projects and collective team objectives across internal Banking customers, governance and vendor management to achieve positive impact on all business outcomes.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Product Owner / Engineering Leader: VICE President

Barclays
Whippany, NJ
02.2023 - Current
  • As a Product Owner, I am responsible for the following duties, such as 1. Define the product vision and roadmap 2. Define, evaluate, and approve the cost/budget associated with my platform. 3. Assign, evaluate, and approve the work delivered by product developers and engineers. Initiates procurement request via the procurement team. 5. People resource management, which includes hiring new resources by conducting interviews, providing periodic feedback, and exercising the firing process if needed. 6. Review: Vendor proposals, solutions, and associated cost. Provide approval for procurement for product onboarding. 7. Own the Engineering standard Document framework for my technology.
  • Architecture Owner: Manages the architecture and technical decisions for the team, and facilitates the creation and evolution of the overall solution design. Provide approval and review architecture vision for the storage products.

Senior File Storage Engineer

Barclays Global Service Centre Pivate Limited
PUNE
04.2019 - 02.2023
  • Managing multiple small teams, vendor resources, and projects with vendor partners to meet specific business objectives.
  • Controlling project budget, managing the vendor resources' performance throughout the project: managing project progress, resources' deliveries, and ensuring that they meet the project timelines and quality standards. Provide approvals on milestone completions at the said intervals. In addition, drive the process for issue resolution. Provide feedback at regular intervals and be responsible for project completion. Sign off.
  • Hiring and Onboarding of New Talent, Responsible for hiring key talent for File Storage Projects. Conducting interviews for technical and values round and providing approval for further HR discussions.
  • Certify Controls and Access for Team Members: Managing key control processes for File storage platform, i.e. Identity and Access Management (IAM) through which access to critical resources are periodically validated for appropriateness against the User’s Organizational role. Handling ownership of resource management, specifically Team's access to critical business applications and infrastructure.
  • File Storage, MTP planning, and participation in budget planning every year. Evaluate the requirements and propose the budget requirement for file storage requirements for next year.
  • Work Allocation and Work Standardization: Provide approval for customer work order requests landing in our team's queue, assign escalated requests to technical delivery team members for urgent allocations. Managed ad hoc work allocation to a pool of resources based on business priorities. Create and Manage Standard Operating Procedures. Drive the execution with the resources.
  • · Escalation Management: Managing highest level of Technical Support and delivery function (L3). Driving Major Incident escalation call, providing guidance to technical resources during major incidents. Responsibility includes effective management control for all customer escalations for File Storage Products. Leading customer communication during escalation call. Managing the procurement function for the File storage Infrastructure. Request and review quotes from the vendors, ensure budget alignment with the cost. Manage procurement of the infrastructure with the Procurement Team's resources.
  • Approve Customer's Infrastructure Demands: Managing Procurement Capacity and Budget allocations and Approvals. This duty includes reviewing new demands for storage infrastructure requirements. Providing approvals to new internal procurement requests after a review.

Senior Principal Engineer

Dell Technologies
Pune
07.2017 - 04.2019
  • Worked as Isilon Product SME , Supported new builds , migrations , POC and other storage related projects.

Lead Analyst

Eaton Corporation
PUNE
04.2012 - 07.2017
  • Important projects :
  • Isilon Upgrade , configuration and Maintenance
  • Virtualization of windows and Unix servers - Vmware 5.1 /5.5
  • VBlock Migration project
  • Celerra to Isilon NAS Migration
  • VNX installation and Migration
  • Data Center Migrations / Consolidation ( EMC RPA and Double Take )
  • Avamar Installation, configuration and patching
  • SAN configuration for HA clusters ( UNIX & WINDOWS)
  • Windows server installation, configuration and migrations
  • Database Migrations
  • ESX installation and migration
  • EMC DPA configuration
  • VMAX Refreshes & VMAX to VPLEX migrations
  • Storage Consolidation
  • Other activities :
  • SAN storage commissioning/decommissioning
  • SAN/NAS Arrays & SAN switch administration
  • Performance Monitoring and tuning
  • SAN switch & SAN/NAS arrays patching
  • Remote and Local replication configuration
  • Backup Installation, configuration and Trouble-Shooting
  • Life Cycle Management - Servers, Storage and Backup devices.

Senior Storage Administrator

SecurView Systems
PUNE
02.2011 - 03.2012
  • Providing support to Logicalis which is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration data centre and cloud services and managed services
  • Handling Administration of NAS , SAN and Backup Products for Number of customers in AMER regions.

Engineer Storage

CSC India Pvt Ltd
Noida
01.2010 - 02.2011
  • In sourced by CSC for their Prestigious clients like TDC and SAS (Denmark) Handling Administration of NAS , SAN and Backup Products for Number of customers in NORDIC region

Senior Analyst Storage

HCL TECHNOLGIES
NOIDA
08.2007 - 02.2010
  • Worked for HCL " a leading service provider in India
  • Support SAN , NAS and BACKUP products for their clients - Exide technologies, Cummins etc.

Education

MBA(PGDBA) in IT -

Symbiosis School of Distance Learning
PUNE, PUNE
03.2016

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science -

JECRC College Jaipur
Jaipur, Jaipur
07.2007

Skills

  • Budget control and approvals
  • People Management
  • Infrastructure Architecture
  • Product Ownership
  • Escalation Management
  • Solution Designing
  • Agile methodologies
  • Automation Platform

Technicalcertifications

  • Scripting Languages - Python, PowerShell
  • Capacity Management
  • ITIL
  • Cloud Services
  • Sun Solaris UNIX administration(10) (2007)
  • Storage Networking Industry Association(2009)
  • Tivoli Storage manager 5.4 (2008)
  • EMC Connetrix with Brocade and Cisco(2010)
  • VMware Vpshere - 5.1 (2013)
  • EMC Avamar 6.0 (2012)
  • EMC Isilon (2014)
  • EMC Vplex (2014)
  • EMC Big Data (2016)
  • EMC Isilon Advance (2018)
  • EMC Isilon Advance (2021)
  • EMC Elastic Cloud Admin (2022)

Personal Information

  • Place of Birth: Kota, Rajasthan
  • Date of Birth: 07/01/84
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital Status: Married

Hobbies and Interests

  • Running
  • Cycling
  • Travelling

Timeline

Product Owner / Engineering Leader: VICE President

Barclays
02.2023 - Current

Senior File Storage Engineer

Barclays Global Service Centre Pivate Limited
04.2019 - 02.2023

Senior Principal Engineer

Dell Technologies
07.2017 - 04.2019

Lead Analyst

Eaton Corporation
04.2012 - 07.2017

Senior Storage Administrator

SecurView Systems
02.2011 - 03.2012

Engineer Storage

CSC India Pvt Ltd
01.2010 - 02.2011

Senior Analyst Storage

HCL TECHNOLGIES
08.2007 - 02.2010

MBA(PGDBA) in IT -

Symbiosis School of Distance Learning

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science -

JECRC College Jaipur
Vipul Joshi