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.