• Possessing over 13 years of extensive experience in IT Infrastructure Management and Project Planning & Execution across various industries and relevant 5 years of experience in IT Windows Server and Data Center admin.
• Currently spearheading IT Operations at YAPP India Automotive Systems Pvt. Ltd., Overseeing data centers and IT infrastructure at multiple plant locations.
• Supporting and monitoring the existing infrastructure, supervising preventative maintenance and backup as well as performed other regular support activities to ensure effectiveness.
• Excellence in managing end-to-end project planning & implementation from scope management to activity sequencing effort & cost estimation, risk analysis to quality management in line with the guidelines & norms.
• Providing Incident/Problem/Change Management support and performing investigative analysis while providing accurate, thorough answers in a timely manner to customer inquiries.
• Architecting, designing & developing Enterprise solutions while maintaining scalability, performance, availability and quality of all platforms.
• Impressive success in planning & implementing information security systems addressing governance risk & compliance, security information, application security, logical security, access control, change management, service level agreement, data security, endpoint protection & disaster recovery management.
• Experience in analysing information system needs, evaluating end-user requirements, custom designing solutions, and troubleshooting for complex networking/ information systems management.
• Expertise in maintaining a multi-platform IT Infrastructure, including Network, ERP 7 IT Systems, ensuring 24x7 critical business operations.
• Recently accomplished successful execution of Greenfield Projects, showcasing adaptability & strategic planning abilities
• Skilled in deploying and managing Virtual Machines on Azure Portal, Azure network experience, and Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Excellence in examining network performance and ensuring its maximum availability & reliability employing oversight with respect to network security for timely situational incident analysis and remediation
• Ensuring compliance with industry best practices to integrate new hardware, software, and network; evaluating network & providing technical inputs on system acquisitions to senior management
• Performing maintenance, backups and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes & resolved security configuration issues raised by clients.
• Coordinating the maintenance of servers and network including file servers, VPN gateways and intrusion detection systems as well as desktop computers, routers and switches.
• Supervising asset management to provide high availability with low inventory holdings.
• Proficient in managing & leading teams for running successful process operations & experience in developing procedures and service standards for business excellence.