BRIGHT JAMES
Senior Consultant
Chennai
Summary
Seeking a challenging and rewarding opportunity in the field of Cloud Technical Manager role where I can prove myself for the growth of the Organization as well as my career.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior Consultant
MICROSOFT
Bangalore
10.2019 - Current
- Engages with customer stakeholders to develop partnerships, leveraging broad technical expertise
- Manages escalations or ensures resolution of escalations with customer stakeholders through tailored corrective action (e.g., education) and overcomes ambiguous situations as needed
- Taking ownership of critical customer (AT&T, Walmart, Adobe, Nuance, Shell & SAP) and solving B2B issues
- Strong analytical skills including thinking strategically, performing research to drive data-driven decision making at a team and organizational level, applying technical depth to business problems
- Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT on technical and business issues
- Experience in (TCO) of a company’s IT infrastructure Due Diligence inventory assessment, Risk assessment and Migration
- Providing Cost Analysis to customer for effectively utilize Azure Environment
- Provide broad, scalable alternatives designed to move clients constantly forward on their Cloud journey
- Suggesting best practice, performance improvement and security solution through DevOps Practice (IaC)
- Work closely with TAM, ACE, Product Group and Architect team to resolve Mission Critical customer issue.
Cloud Solution Architect
DXC TECHNOLGY
Bangalore
05.2019 - 10.2019
- Delivering strong advisory services for clients to simplify, modernize, and secure their IT estate to enable a smooth Digital Transformation journey
- Support partners to accelerate their sales cycle by helping them design, develop and deploy customer solutions based on Microsoft technologies and methodologies
- Providing them with the Architecture, Consultation, Compliance and Solution Documents and facilitating the delivery of consultative services and technical relationship management
- Validating Design Document of Azure & AWS and responsible for RACI chart preparation
- Involved in Enterprises Benefit Digital Transformation from DXC Technology Acquiring Luxoft
- Lead and drive cloud digital transformation and Portfolio assessments
- Working with Microsoft Partners and Customers on RFI, RFP, Pre-Sales Deals and Engagements.
Technical Service Engineering Expert
FUJITSU CONSULTING INDIA
Chennai
05.2018 - 04.2019
- Handled a team of 6 people and successfully delivering Migration Project
- Worked with Fujitsu M4 Server, AWS and vCloud Director for the multiple customers from Sydney
- Specifying and analysing requirements, designing, deployment and Change Management
- Implemented Cloud Protection Manager (CPM) Backup tool and handover to client for DB Backup
- Recognized for designing cloud deployment strategies that migrate risk while meeting infrastructure, migration planning, Cloud operating model design, Business case development and budgetary needs
- Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and applying the same to the real-world problems and opportunities
- Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills, ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders.
Cloud Advisory Consultant
IBM GBS
Bangalore
06.2017 - 04.2018
- Led a team across several releases ensuring successful implementation of critical projects
- Worked on Project assessment and recommending the right cloud and service for their environment
- Identifying, assessing, and solving complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
- Proven ability to be trusted advisor to customers on Business development and Architectural decisions
- Hands on experience on migrating servers through with third party tools Double take, Plate Spin, Actifio
- Reducing the cost by Migrating the Physical and Virtual Machine to Cloud
- Coordinating with Global Delivery Manager through call and giving technical sales solution.
IT Analyst
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
Bangalore
06.2016 - 06.2017
- Involved in the Project transition, knowledge accusation for migrating the on-premise server to AWS Cloud
- Led a team across several releases ensuring successful implementation of critical projects
- Worked on the project activity like Microsoft Dynamic Navision, Physical Site Migration to AWS, Google IPS
- Working on Cloudberry Software to restore files and folder from Amazon S3 and Glacier Storage
- Meeting with onsite and offshore SDM for improving the process and involving in the change activity
- Worked on Cloud Computing services like Amazon EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, ELB, VPC, Lambda, Cloud Front
- Maintaining Failover Cluster, Active Directory Domain Services, OU and GPO, DFS Namespace
- Migration of Share Folder, Application, Decommissioning the server and knowledge on Jenkins, Terraform
- Implementing Patch Management for server OS using WSUS Server, and knowledge on Mcafee Antivirus.
Technical Consultant
CAPGEMINI INDIA PVT LTD
Bangalore
01.2016 - 05.2016
- Administrating and managing virtual infrastructure of more than 200 Physical Servers and 3500 VM
- Managing and support guest OS enterprise virtual environment for Tier 3 Support
- Provide the root cause analysis on the major incidents/problems in the VMware Environment
- Deploy and build a new server and configure the IP address and adding in the domain
- Participating in major planned activities like complete power shutdown and preventive maintenance
- Preparing document for troubleshooting L3 related issue and save it in the repository
- Coordinating with different team to know the on-going activity through email and telephone.
Engineer 1st Level Assurance
ERICSSON INDIA GLOBAL SERVICE PVT LTD
Noida
08.2014 - 01.2016
- Leading the shift and reporting the Server Status to the Manager
- Managing and Monitoring the Performance of the Windows Servers 2003, 2008R2 and Heartbeat alert
- Managing the HP and Dell servers BL485 G5, Dell385 G6, Dell385 G7 through remote console
- Virtualization of Servers using VMware and installation, administration, migrations of virtual machines
- Configuration on Cluster, DRS, DPM, vMotion, SvMotion, High Availability, Fault Tolerance
- Configure and manage vSphere infrastructure with VMware vSphere Client and vSphere Web Client
- Installation and upgrade of VMware Tools and ESXi 5.0, 5.1, 5.5
- Servers build consolidation & migration of P2V
- Knowledge on Standard Switching and Distributed Switching.
Telecom Engineer
HCL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Noida
08.2012 - 08.2014
- Hands on Experience in IT Operations infrastructure services, monitoring and end user support
- Monitoring and support for various servers through ITSM, BPPM tools
- Adding new user in the Active Directory, group policies, DNS and DHCP Servers
- Worked on vCentre Server for managing all the Cluster and Host in the Data Centre
- Knowledge of Enterprise servers (HP & DELL).
Engineer
ERICSSON INDIA GLOBAL SERVICE PVT LTD
Noida
08.2011 - 07.2012
- Engineer across diverse Digital Modernization, IT Transformation, and IT Roadmaps in various Organization
- Worked on Scrum and Agile Methodology for transitioning workload from Accenture to DXC Cloud
- 6 years in Cloud Advisory & Strategy, 5 Years of experience with VMware Build & Migration.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Kalasalingam University
06.2007 - 05.2011
Skills
Tech Skills: AWS & Azure Cloud, Portfolio Assessment, Cloud Advisory and Solution
Process & Methods Skills: Migration Factory, Design Thinking, Cloud Innovate, RFP, ITIL
Tools: Cloud TCO, Azure Migrate, Platespin, Double Take, VMconvertor, Splunk, Azure Migrate, Nagios, Service Now, ITSM BMC Remedy, Cloudberry BackupAdditional Information
- Won First Prize in High Jump conducted by Department of Physical Education.
- Achieved Top Performer Award of April 2015 in Ericsson.
- Achieved Outstanding award in TCS for clearing Major P1 issue.
- Won Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021 for the project “Case Data Condenser”
Certification
TOGAF 9.2
Timeline
Senior Consultant
MICROSOFT
10.2019 - Current
Cloud Solution Architect
DXC TECHNOLGY
05.2019 - 10.2019
Technical Service Engineering Expert
FUJITSU CONSULTING INDIA
05.2018 - 04.2019
Cloud Advisory Consultant
IBM GBS
06.2017 - 04.2018
IT Analyst
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
06.2016 - 06.2017
Technical Consultant
CAPGEMINI INDIA PVT LTD
01.2016 - 05.2016
Engineer 1st Level Assurance
ERICSSON INDIA GLOBAL SERVICE PVT LTD
08.2014 - 01.2016
Telecom Engineer
HCL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
08.2012 - 08.2014
Engineer
ERICSSON INDIA GLOBAL SERVICE PVT LTD
08.2011 - 07.2012
Bachelor of Engineering Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering
Kalasalingam University
06.2007 - 05.2011