Togaf9.1 certified seasoned itProfessional

M. Krishnakumar

Mobile Phone: +971 528552068,

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Objective

To join in a technology divisionwheremy ITskills & experience will contribute to mutual growth and value, also to develop an outstanding career in long run.

Summary ofprofile

  • Strategic, methodical and reliable with over 15+ years of pure IT experience
  • Ambitious, motivated and excellent interpersonal skills well-suited to handle senior IT architectural positions in IT division of industry verticals such as ITES, Aviation, Govt, BFSI, Retail, Oil & Gas, Utility, Mining, Telecom and Media
  • Confidently taking accountability, responsibility & ownershipof driving architectures, design & technical solutionsof any cloud & mobility projects
  • Proven expertise in defining standards, processes, procedures, frameworks, architectural patterns, security assessment datasheet and guidelines for ITdivision
  • Well experienced in writing commercial and technical proposals, effort estimations, setting up the team & designing the architecture to multiple business/technical/project teams and deliver presentation to higher management & key stakeholders
  • Solution architecting for cross-platform technologies to extend product offering on mobile platforms predominantly on iOS & Android including Windows & Blackberry
  • Reliable, Proactive, thorough and well-organized & also working experiencewith multiple cultural and ethnic backgrounds across the world
  • Solution architect for application e-store and Mobile Device Management & Mobile Application Management strategy for Enterprise Mobility
  • Always keep abreast with technology which yields repetitive business from current clientsalso convert new any business requirement to solution.
  • All presentation deliverables are demonstrated with industry’s best framework which includes the latest framework “Well-Architected”

ACADEMIA

  • Master of Science in Information Technologywith 74.31%

-World Education Equivalency: Four years’ bachelor’s degree

Certifications

  • TOGAF 9.1 Certified – Enterprise Architect Certification
  • ITIL V3 Foundations Certification Since Version1
  • Microsoft Certifications in various disciplines since late 90’s
  • Security Certifications such as BS7799, ISO 27001, CCSA etc.,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DigitalStreebo FZ LLC, UAE

April 3rd 2016 to till date
Position: /

Practice Lead – Cloud & Mobility

Accountabilities: / Currently managing “Etihad Airlines” account technically with the following Projects
-SPOC for Cloud (Office 365)and Mobility Projects
-Driving architectures, design & technical resolutions
-End to end Mobile solutioning responsibility
-Mobile Security Assessment & mitigating the same
-Solution governance and approval reviews.
-Interfaces with various boards such as ARB, EDB and interact with IBM / Etihad’s Enterprise Architects
-Solution architecting for cross-platform technologies to extend product offering on different mobile platforms including iOS, Android, Windows & Blackberry
-Writing technical proposals, effort estimations, setting up the team & designing the architecture and deliver presentation to higher management & key stakeholders & IBM / Etihad Architects
Deliverables: / -Architectural documents such as HLD, LLD etc.,
-Business Case, Vision & Scope documents
-Business Requirement Documents (BRD)
-Non-Function requirements documents (NFRs)
-Managed IT documents such as
  • Service Architecture document
  • Transition & Transformation
  • Operations Handover documents
-Project Plan document for Cloud, Infrastructure and Managed Support Project documents
-Solutions documents, PowerPoint decks and efforts spreadsheets to customers and Streebo
-Progress, Performance Reports & status decks
-Pre-Sales documents for Streebo such as
  • RFP, RFQ, RFI documents
  • Customer Presentations PowerPoint Deck
  • Technical blog writing, Technical writing
  • Market analysis document

Reason for leaving / -For finding better & challenging roles

CAPITA it ENTERPRISE sERVICES, India

June 15th 2015 to December 15th 2015
Position: / Senior Product Manager – Technology
-Cloud, Mobility, VDi and Datacentre Services
Accountabilities / As a part of CTO Organisation, I’m accountable for enterprise cloud Portfolio, Productdevelopment, New Service offeringsand overseeing the project development.
-Portfolio Development – Cloud / Datacentre / Mobility / VDi
  • Private Cloud development – CPC
  • Public Cloud development
  • Hybrid Cloud based Services development
  • Software as Services (CPH)
  • Cloud Orchestration & Automation
-Product Development –as-a-service products
  • As-a-service products such as
  • Managed Infrastructure (Hosting)
  • vBlock 720 series based
  • HyperV 2012 based
  • Storage as a Service (Ongoing project)
  • EMC ECS 3PB Rack – Object, HDS
  • EMC VNX, VMAX, XtremeIO
  • Backup as a Service (Ongoing project)
  • EMC’s Avamar, Data domain, Cloud Array, SRM DPA, ViPR etc.,
  • Software as a Service (Ongoing project)
  • Archive as a Service (Roadmap 2016)
  • Capita Virtual Workplace Services (CVW)
  • Capita Cloud Hosting Services (CCH)

Deliverables: /
  • Market Analysis & business case document
  • Investment Paper document along with cost model
  • Product & Business Requirement document (PRD & BRD)
  • Vision & Scope documents
  • Service Definition & Description documents
  • Non-Function requirements documents
  • Service Transition Handover Document
  • Service Level Agreement documents
  • Business Impact Analysis documents
  • Preparing & reviewing the architectural documents such as HLD, LLD and CTM, LTM and PTM

Reasons for Leaving: Resigned due to personal emergency reasons

Wipro Limited - india, United kingdom

October 12th 2011 to 10th June 2015
Position: / Senior Technology Manager(Sr.Manager for Architects)
-Offshore – GNOC Solutions Head
-Onsite – Enterprise Architect – 16/03/2013 – 16/04/2015
Completed Projects in onsite(UK):
- BP upstream portfolio –Account SPOC andan enterprise architect for cloud projects for ROO
  • Accountable for cloud based business continuity projects for British Petroleum & their backend organisation ROO located in Basra, Iraq
  • Handling customer’s leadership business team in one side andWipro’s technical team in the other side
  • Responsible for end to end technical delivery as well
-EMR Project – Solution design & delivery lead
  • Private Cloud based deployment
  • CRM 2013, SharePoint 2013, ADFS, SQL 2012, Exchange 2013, 2-Factor Authentication etc.,
  • .Net coding to collab between CRM and SharePoint
-S&M Project – Mobile Solution design & delivery lead for cloud infrastructure
  • Cloud based mobile enablement for orgwide field workers on iPad mini using on demand VPN

Accountabilities in India role / Completed Projects in Wipro India in my Solution Architect leadership role:
-Messaging & Collaboration upgrade project, over 100,000 mailboxes moved to Exchange 2010 within a month
-Datacentre Consolidation
-IDM solution for contract employees – using OAM
-Deployed Citrix based virtual workplace infrastructure for Wipro using Citrix Xen –
-Deployed Direct Access, RMS for Leadership Team
-Virtualisation Augmentation projects on vBlock, UCS, VCE environment with the capacity of 1000 virtual machines which includes VDI clients (Workplace clients)
-Initiated SCOM 2012 deployment for organization, POC completed
-SAP based portal mywipro.wipro.com – Platform migration from Solaris to HP UX, but my role is limited (Only resourcing)

AVANADE ASIA PRIVATE LIMITED, singapore

April 12th 2010 to Aug 31st 2011

Position: / Manager, Solution Architect IT (Manager for Architects)
Accountabilities: /
  • Microsoft based Technology Infrastructure solutions delivery & Pre-sales & Enterprise Architecture
  • Managing a technical team of five and assigning projects for them & tracking their performance technically & their career management as well
  • Microsoft Solutions & offering manager for Technology Infrastructure service line Portfolio:
  • Desktop & Workplace Infrastructure (VDi)
  • Desktop Transformation – Delivered one project
  • Datacentre Migration
  • Microsoft based Security Solutions using
  • PKI with HSM Modules & CLM
  • 802.1X solutions using NAP
  • Business Productivity Online Suite
  • Messaging (Cloud)
  • Office 365 suite (Cloud)

HP Enterprise Services, Singapore

May 18th 2009 to April 9th 2010
Position: / GIMS Engineering Tower Lead (Tech Consultant IV)
(Billion Dollar Project)
Accountabilities: /
  • Responsible for delivering Infrastructure Design of Central Services for one of the largest Government IT services programs in South East Asia – Singapore Government
  • Tower Lead of GIMS project team of eight consultants and partner consultants to deliver end to end solutions
  • Track dependencies across multiple projects to ensure timely delivery

Deliverables: /
  • AD Domain Services in 64 bit of Windows 2008
  • DNS Infrastructure (AD, WAN & DMZ)
  • PKI Infrastructure with HSM Module & CLM
  • AD RMS Deployment for Mail & File Services
  • QARS for RBAC and QRMAD for Online backup/Restore
  • AD LDS for Remote Access & Application Integration
  • Virtualization (GIMS Lite)Virtual workplace (VDi)
All services commissioned on date and on time including documentation with 20 engineers by July 30th 2009 which is within three months from my engagement date.

Microsoft Global Consultancy SERVICES, INDIA

October 2008 to May 2009
Position: / Consultant – AD, Exchange, Virtualization
Accountabilities: /
  • Design & delivering a secure Microsoft Active Directory Services for the enterprises
  • Program/Project management part of each consultation
  • Design & deploy Enterprise Messaging & Voice Systems (OCS 2007)
  • Design & deploy virtual Workplace (MDOP)
  • Design & deploy Highly Available and Scalable Microsoft Environment for the enterprise on Windows & Exchange clustering services and SAN
  • Design and deploy Microsoft Securitysolutions using PKI (Certificate Authority) & 802.1x tools (NAP)
  • Designing & implementation of DR and BCP
  • Designing on acquisitions infrastructure projects
  • Migration & Co-existence on Windows operating systems & Messaging & Support systems like LCS/OCS
  • Lead virtual project teams to deliver infrastructure projects across globe.
  • Mentor a team of associate infrastructure consultants

Accomplishments /
  • Completed 7 projects in AD DS, Exchange 2007, HyperV, DPM, CLM (ILM 2007), OCS 2007 for the following customers
  • London Borrow of Newham
  • Govt of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Geometric Software Limited
  • Noble Group Limited
  • Ministry of Justice, Romania
  • Customer escalations on technical grounds (Architect, Design, Implementation & troubleshooting)
  • Contributed for offshore ODC setup using virtualization
  • Contributed for IAG setup for ODC
  • Contributed to analyze traffic using WAN simulators

Wipro Limited, India

July 2007 to October 2008
Position: / Solution Architect
Accomplishments: /
  • Wipro placed me in Goldman Sachs for a year as an architect in their technology infrastructure team and completed couple of projects in AD and Exchange.
  • Completed 4 large complicated fully outsourcing projects in the following organizations – end to end (pre-sales to delivery), they are
  • Aircel Limited – Fully Outsourcing
  • Maxis – Malaysia – Enterprise Network / Telecom related project
  • NTS – Indonesia - Enterprise Network / Telecom related project
  • Future Group - Fully Outsourcing
  • Responsible of customer escalations on technical issues for the above projects
  • Awarded for my successful completion of Aircel Project, Future Group.
  • Formed a central powerful escalation technical team in Wipro named TSG
  • Initiated new practice on Emerging technologies with minimal budget for the following technologies - (Now each heading mentioned below became a huge domain inside Wipro)
  • Virtualization
  • Server Virtualization
  • Application Virtualization
  • Desktop Virtualization (Workplace)
  • Unified communications
  • Microsoft Infrastructure with Voice
  • Office Communication 2007
  • Service Bundle (AD, Ex07, OCS, Conferencing (A&V) & Live meeting)
  • Identity Management
  • Identity Management (Zero touch provisioning system)
  • Identity & Access Management (SSO, Web SSO, Password Sync etc.,)

Microsoft R&D India Limited, India
July 2005 to July 2007
Position: / Technical Lead / Support Engineer
Accountabilities: /
  • Technical Lead role on Domains for EMEA customers
  • Managed 12 Engineers technically & handled their escalations & co-ordinate with product teams if the issue needs a patch or code change
  • Handled DCR (Design Change Requests) from various customers
  • Written some KB articles published globally
  • Mentor to various engineers across team for collaboration support issues

Accomplishments: /
  • Some customer needed support for design projects with a advisory support tickets, for these requests I contributed well as it was my favourite job, around 25 projects (Domain Renaming, Migration & consolidation)
  • Implementation of Distributed File system and DFS root Consolidation from the existing file server without any impact to the end users.
  • Advisory and document review on Active Directory sites and DC placement.
  • Designed and deploy complete setup for a new company in a new domain tree in an existing forest.
  • Integration of AD with exchange. Integration of SQL with exchange. Integration of Certificate services with AD.
  • Integration of DNS with AD.
  • Configured the entire DNS setup for a high profile company. Writing of Custom ADM templates for Group policy.
  • Implemented EFS recovery policy through the forest.
  • Custom schema extension with Lightweight Directory services for schema oriented applications.
  • Implemented Disaster recovery plan in lot of companies. Have worked with maximum of 500 sites and 600 Domain controllers.
  • Well versed Authentication protocols Kerberos, SSL, NTLM V2, NTLM, Digest.

Scandent Solutions LimiTed, INDIA
July 2002 to July 2005
Position: / System Administrator
Accountabilities: /
  • Managed the Datacentre of Scandent Solutions
  • Management of infrastructure end to end which comprises Active Directory domain controllers, application servers, backup servers, filers, Centric services like DHCP, DNS, RRAS, EPO, Log Servers, VPN servers & LAN WAN Equipments such as switches, routers & various appliances
  • Created proposals for various new projects from EMEA regions (Presales activities)
  • Represented & contributed for various application / Infrastructure projects from system team
  • Support team Lead of 17 support engineers & escalation point always.
  • Project management for IBM for off shore resources
  • Automated the hot fix deployment package using Group policy.
  • Maintenance of Windows 2000 Domain Controllers and implemented disaster recovery plan

Accomplishments: / Done projects in Liberty Mutual, DHLand IBM Japan etc.,
(Done around 60 small scale projectson various tools of Infrastructure across globe)
DSQ Software Limited, India
Feb 2000 to April 2002
Position: / Programmer / System Analyst
Reason for leaving / Never resigned, Scandent took over DSQ Software Limited
Accountabilities: / System Engineer & managing systems (Domain, DNS, DHCP, Proxy and so on)
Accomplishments: / End to End support activities also done support related projects around 20 projects in infrastructure like Y2k projects, DNS / DHCP or NT Domain deployments, Network wall jack projects and VLAN projects, IDS and so on.

Primary Technical Skills– currently used

  • Enterprise Architecture – Thought leadership, Processes, Cost model, Performance metrics, Continuous improvement, Architectural tools, Capability management etc.,
  • Mobility Strategies: Enterprise mobility, Consumer application
  • Mobility Architecture – MobileFirst, Android and iOS. Mobile app Architecture
  • Cloud Architecture –AWS, Azure, Blue Mix, Softlayer, Custom Private Cloudsetc.,
  • Virtualization Architecture – Predominantly on vSphere, Hyper-V, KVM etc.,
  • Microsoft TechnologiesArchitecture – Expert in Microsoft solutions & its delivery
  • VDI / DaaS infrastructure – VMware (View/Horizon), Citrix & Microsoft
  • Messaging & Collaboration– Exchange (Both On premise & Cloud), Skype for Business & SharePoint (both inhouse and online)
  • Storage Products & Solutions (STaaS/BaaS/ARaaS)- EMC, HP & Dell in Block, Object & File which includes cloud based storage solutions as well
  • Backup Solutions: EMC Avamar, DD, Net Backup (Cloud based solutions too)
  • MDM & MAM Solutions: Air Watch, Mobile Iron, Citrix XMS, Afaria, etc.,
  • Security – Mobile Security, PKI, Cloud HSM, KMS, 802.1x & EBS Encryption
  • Database Solutions (Clustering, Mirroring, Log shipping & Peer-Peer Solutions)
  • File services solutions:DFSR, Storage based File Servers, migrations and so on
  • Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows Platforms, Android, IOS etc.,
  • Fundamentals: Very Strong & sound coding background since C, C++

Other Technical SKILLS – Recently used

  • Mobility Automation Tools: IBM MobileFirst Architecture
  • SCCM & SCOM - Architecting & Design & deployment skills of both
  • Desktop Transformation – Windows XP to Windows 7, 8,10 using SCCM
  • Cloud Automation Tools: Maven, Ansible, NPM, Bower, Jenkinsetc.,
  • DevOps Tools - Chef, Puppet, Docker, Vagrant, Git, Rest API etc.,
  • Container clustering & orchestration: Kubernetes,Terraform etc.,
  • Identity Management solutions: Architecting & building IDM Solutions on IT Infra
  • Forensic tools: Good exposure in ethical hacking & PEN testing. (On personal interest)
  • Cloud based DBs: Mongo DB, NoSQL, SQL on Hadoop etc., (On personal interest)
  • CRM – Microsoft Dynamics CRM 20xx (Only Infrastructure delivery)
  • Bigdata solutions using AWS & Azure HDInsight (On personal interest)

managerial skills – used all time

  • Thought Leadership:Capable of providing the best and deepest answers, to our customers’ biggest questions in the formats our audience likes to consume
  • Communication:Efficient in communicating according to the needs
  • NegotiationArticulation:Strong in the subject so articulation / negotiation comes naturally if I understand our customer’s business well
  • Customer Facing:I had huge experience in the past & met various customers across the globe& closed many businesses with a higher closing ratio comparatively
  • Management:Handled maximum of 1200+ people on a 150 thousandpeople organisation in India for a $ 1.2 Billion business
  • Presentation: Good exposure and delivering things by presenting the technical or business contents appropriately according to the audience & region.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

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  1. Enterprise Desktop Administrator 7

  1. Server Administrator 2008 R2

  1. Enterprise Administrator 2008 R2

  1. Virtualization Administrator 2008 R2

  1. Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2007/10

  1. Microsoft Lync Server Administrator 2010

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  1. Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

  1. Microsoft Desktop Virtualization 2008 R2

  1. Data Protection Manager 2007

  1. Server Virtualization Windows 2008 R2

  1. Applications Infrastructure 2008

  1. Network Infrastructure 2008

  1. Microsoft Active Directory 2008

  1. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

  1. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2008

  1. Windows 7 and Office 2010 Deployment

  1. Designing DB Solution using SQL 2008 R2

  1. Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Configuring

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  1. TOGAF 9 Certified – Enterprise Architect

  1. All Versions of ITIL (V1, V2 & V3)

  1. ISO27001 Lead Auditor Certification

  1. Checkpoint Certified Security Admin

  1. Cisco Certified Network Associate

  1. Principle of Architecture (1 & 2)

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References
Name* / Role, Company & Location / Contact Details / Profile*
Sanjay Prabhu / GM, Avanade, United States / +1 2148434479 / Click here
Aidan Hancock / Tech Head, BP, United Kingdom / +44 7979891735 / Click here
Sean Nicholson / Chief Architect, Australia / +61 9654 7804 / Click here
Fabien Maillet / GM, Avanade, France / +33 96278064 / Click here
Deepak Sharma / Sr.TAM, Microsoft India / +91 9833308224 / Click here
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