GOVIND KULKARNI

• Managing team of 50 technical experts with their daily shifts, their leaves, temporary replacement for 1 to 15 days
• Vendor coordination
• Involved in transitioning 5-6 projects to Operations per month

• Managed team of 50+ technical staff
• Vendor coordination
• IT project Transition to operations (average 7-10 projects per month)
• Mentoring 8-10 buddies.
• Conducted 2 training session which included 10 sessions of 1 to 1.5 hours each for new joiners to understand client environment, processes and procedures

• Worked on SOX internal audit. Scope grew from 30 server to 200 servers in 2 years.
• Managed OS patching activities where All Unix servers were for 1st time in companies history. Taking this baseline it became routine job then onward.
• Led team of 10 server build SAs. I developed model due to which we could commit number of servers being delivered to client per week. on average, we were able to build 50 servers /week.

Supported Data centre services for more than 4000+ servers and VMs.

Coordinated with Network and facility management teams for supporting IT infra in Labs

Supported Redzone labs where live viruses were being tested

Movement of servers in data centre was done multiple times. Sometimes we even moved entire data centre to another location.

After moving to new location 80% of servers were brought up in 1st week which was appreciated by application team management.

• Supported business objectives by seeking out new customers and networking at key events.

• Proposed technical feasibility solutions for new system designs and suggested options for performance improvement of technical components.
• Suggested and implemented new servers, storages and tape library systems, continuously checking for accuracy and functionality during changes.
• Provided system acceptance reviews for installed systems, verifying compliance with applicable performance metrics and compatibility expectations.
• Installed Server hardware by Sun Microsystems, Hitachi /HP/Sun Storages, completed software updates and assessed security patches for optimized computer use.
• Managed Annual AMC renewal of about INR 1.5 Crore.

• Identified computer hardware and network system issues, performing troubleshooting techniques for remediation.
• Worked closely with management teams to plan, develop, coordinate and execute technical strategies aligned to client's vision, mission and purpose.
• Oversaw daily operations to ensure high levels of productivity.
• Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
• Managed team of 15 employees, overseeing hiring, training, and professional growth of employees.
• Managed yearly AMC collection of close to 50 lakhs.