JUDE VIVIN RICHARD R
CHENNAI
Summary
Technical Consultant with extensive experience exceeding 18 years in delivering effective technical solutions for business requirements. Currently focused on integrating Agentic AI into Infrastructure Operations, optimizing Self-Healing Infrastructure and Virtual Agent Service Fulfillment. Proven ability to collaborate with sales and account teams, driving revenue growth through strategic advisory and tailored Hybrid Cloud solutions.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Consultant
TATA Consultancy Services
01.2024 - Current
- Technical consultant for Datacentre platform supporting 160+ customers within Consumer Business Group(Retail, Travel, Tourism, Hospitality & Consumer Products)
- Provide technical advisory for CBG customer w.r.t to Data Center consolidation, Hybrid Cloud approach and Modernization
- Support Pre-sales team w.r.t to technical advisory & modernization roadmap
- Lead the VMware navigator offerings for CBG customers.
- Present solution to Operational to CxO level
- Participate in workshop for due diligence
- Lead the end -2 -end consulting journey for 3 customers with respect to VMware Exit and along with modernization and cost optimization with TCV of >10M USD
Solution Architect
TATA Consultancy Services
02.2023 - 12.2023
- Support RFP for providing solution and work with team for successful implementation
- Evaluate emerging technologies, develop strategies, road map, build reference architecture, commercials
- Solution for Private cloud infrastructure for x86 workload
Infrastructure Architect
Kyndryl India Pvt Ltd
09.2021 - 02.2023
- Company Overview: (spin- off of IBM Infrastructure business)
- Develop offerings for hybrid cloud and private cloud
- Evaluate new products, perform POC, create reference architecture, solutionpac and commercials
- Support Private cloud storage delivery team
- (spin- off of IBM Infrastructure business)
- Contributed towards D4PCI cloud offering with Azure Stack HCI
- Lead the implementation effort of SAT-HCaaS globally
- Dell Powerstore offerings for Private Cloud Storage offerings
- Migration of Kyndryl Lab from IBM DC
Infrastructure Architect
IBM India Pvt Ltd
05.2019 - 08.2021
- I was member of Technology Innovation & Automation team for Storage.
- Evaluate new storage products, perform POC, and create reference architecture, solution pac and commercials.
- To assess and provide action plan for storage accounts in RED
- Contributed as a storage architect for IBM Satellite IS R.1
- Pure storage 3 site replication
- RedHat Ceph for Object storage solution
- SDS using Nutanix
Migration SME – Cloud Migration team
IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Discovery, assessment, planning, migration of workloads from DC or Cloud
- Migration of AIX servers of Belgium based bank of IBM DC
Storage – Lead
IBM India Pvt Ltd
06.2012 - 12.2017
- Ensure SLA & KPIs are met
- Lead MI from Storage end
- Team management – Shift roaster, upskill training
- Participate in weekly status with customer, Architect for account review , projects, capacity review
- Audit
- Storage capacity billing
- Oversee the tech refresh, new build projects
- Storage provision lead time from 10 days to 1 day
- Maintained 97% of currency at recommended level
- Automated health check for 700+ devices
Storage – SME
IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2009 - 05.2012
- Participate in MI
- Storage refresh
- Microcode upgrades on Storage and SAN switches
- Break fix
- BAU activities like storage provision, zoning, health check, replication
Sr. Storage – SME
IBM India Pvt Ltd
05.2007 - 12.2008
- Participate in MI
- BAU activities like storage provision, zoning, health check
- Break fix
Storage Administrator
Maples India Pvt. Ltd
09.2006 - 05.2007
- BAU activities like storage provision, zoning, health check
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Jerusalem College of Engineering
01.2004
Skills
- Virtualization technologies
- Data center consolidation
- Hybrid cloud architecture
- Cloud migration strategies
- IT infrastructure planning
- Emerging technology evaluation
- Solution design
- Technical presentation
- Consultative selling
- Reference architecture development
Key Strengths
Skilled in understanding client pain points and translating business requirements into actionable, technical proposals., Present and negotiate solutions with customer, Expertise in crafting customized demos and proof-of-concept models that align with the client’s goals and technology roadmap., Ensure assumptions documented and validated, Perform due diligence on the discovered data, Create solution cost model to commercial management standards, Partner with sales, operations, finance and product teams to develop compelling narratives solutions, Partner with vendors partner for solution and commercials, Strong knowledge in Infrastructure areas like virtualizations, server hardware, storage, data protection, networks, service management and disaster recovery, Present the solutions during orals/solution defence to C-level executives and decision-makers
Affiliations
- Carpentry
Certification
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate
- Open Group Certified Architect
- IBM Cloud Private Infrastructure and Architecture
- Architectural Thinking
- Enterprise IT Transformation Advisor Level 4
Timeline
Technical Consultant
TATA Consultancy Services
01.2024 - Current
Solution Architect
TATA Consultancy Services
02.2023 - 12.2023
Infrastructure Architect
Kyndryl India Pvt Ltd
09.2021 - 02.2023
Infrastructure Architect
IBM India Pvt Ltd
05.2019 - 08.2021
Migration SME – Cloud Migration team
IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2018 - 01.2019
Storage – Lead
IBM India Pvt Ltd
06.2012 - 12.2017
Storage – SME
IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2009 - 05.2012
Sr. Storage – SME
IBM India Pvt Ltd
05.2007 - 12.2008
Storage Administrator
Maples India Pvt. Ltd
09.2006 - 05.2007
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Jerusalem College of Engineering
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