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ROHIT VERMANI

ROHIT VERMANI

Infrastructure Specialist
Bangalore

Summary

A dynamic professional with total of 17+ years of experience in IT. Seeking a promising career that provides an opportunity to apply and enhance current skills, acquire new skills, and contribute to the organization in the field of Cloud Computing, Automation, Infrastructure Design, Build and Implement, etc.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
12
12
Certifications

Work History

SENIOR PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE (I9)

DELL INTERNATIONAL SERVICES (PREVIOUSLY EMC SOFTWARE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED)
Bengaluru
12.2020 - Current
  • Drive projects that improve support-related processes and our customers' technical support experience
  • Help Enterprises define IT and business processes that work well with cloud deployments
  • Analyze the environment and improve service delivery.
  • Creating a collaboration framework which includes defining processes to mitigate risks of deploying changes/improvements.
  • Creating Technical SOPs for L3, L2 and Service Desk.
  • Streamlined internal workflows by automating manual tasks, leading to reduced errors and increased efficiency.
  • Determines Infrastructure and operational requirements by analyzing client operations, applications, and programming, reviewing objectives with clients, and evaluating current systems.
  • Mentored junior team members, fostering their professional growth and supporting the development of future organizational leaders.
  • Design, create, deliver, and support the deployment of automation within Datacenter operations, and within DTMS
  • Work with Technical leadership in the following competency areas - Datacenter operations, all type of OS platforms, Storage, Hyperconverged technology, Backup, AD, Citrix and automation, scripting languages
  • Lead PoC/Trial proposals, including definition of trial scope, architecture, use cases and drive necessary management approvals involving different vendors and support team.

Awards and Recognition:

  • Dell Game Changer Award - Single handedly Deploying and on boarding customers for the Password Vaulting and management solution.
  • Dell Inspire Award - Hardening the Windows and Linux Infrastructure using Automation and GPO(Windows Only). Integrating Linux machines to AD.

ADVISORY TECHNICAL SERVICES SPECIALIST

IBM [VODAFONE IBM JOINT VENTURE]
Bengaluru
05.2019 - 11.2020
  • Work closely with the Solution Architects and study HLD and DLD before the project moves to the build stage
  • Assist in Design/Architecture of AWS and Hybrid cloud solutions
  • Help the Enterprise to define and refine processes to improve deployments
  • Handling escalations/urgent requirements outside the business hours
  • Installation, Configuration and Managing Windows & Linux Server deployed on VMware Virtualization platform
  • Providing managerial and technical consulting in complex and critical projects like Upgrading the Infrastructure firmware and VMware vSphere suite consisting of vBlock 540 - Cisco UCS, Nexus Switches, Blade Server
  • Upgrading Software VC, ESXi, vRA, NSX, etc
  • Providing Level 3 Support for any break fix issues
  • Smoothly transitioned work from onshore team to offshore team (Transitioned work from Germany to India)
  • Providing RCA on critical issues and remediating them
  • Works service and solution owners and internal and customer project teams
  • Information gathering and direct dealing with the customer to fulfill customized infrastructure needs.

MANAGER

VODAFONE INDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD.
Bengaluru
12.2014 - 04.2019
  • Work closely with the Solution Architects and study HLD and DLD before the project moves to the build stage
  • Assist in Design/Architecture of AWS and Hybrid cloud solutions
  • Help the Enterprise to define and refine processes to improve deployments
  • Handling escalations/urgent requirements outside the business hours
  • Installation, Configuration and Managing Windows & Linux Server deployed on VMware Virtualization platform
  • Providing managerial and technical consulting in complex and critical projects like Upgrading the Infrastructure firmware and VMware vSphere suite consisting of vBlock 540 - Cisco UCS, Nexus Switches, Blade Server
  • Upgrading Software VC, ESXi, vRA, NSX, etc
  • Providing Level 3 Support for any break fix issues
  • Smoothly transitioned work from onshore team to offshore team (Transitioned work from Germany to India)
  • Providing RCA on critical issues and remediating them
  • Works service and solution owners and internal and customer project teams
  • Information gathering and direct dealing with the customer to fulfill customized infrastructure needs.

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR SR. ADVISOR

DELL SERVICES (EARLIER PEROT SYSTEMS)
Bengaluru
03.2011 - 12.2014
  • Working on Designing/deploying VMware VDI infrastructure using VMware View 5.0
  • Administrating the Windows infrastructure
  • Migrating Legacy infrastructure to Private Cloud
  • Managing VMware Private Cloud consisting of 3000 servers
  • Recommending Upgrade and preparing Assessment Plans
  • Handling high severity & escalated incidents and requests with Service Level Agreement adherence
  • Screening profiles and interview candidates for senior technical roles
  • Remediating recurring issues in the infrastructure by finding the RCA and thereby reducing the incident counts.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT ENGINEER

VMWARE SOFTWARE INDIA PVT. LTD.
Bengaluru
11.2009 - 02.2011
  • Handle Technical Escalations
  • Provide floor support for VMware VDI (View 3.x and 4.x)
  • Replicating Issues in Lab Environment
  • Write Technical knowledge base articles both Public and Internal.

SENIOR SUPPORT ENGINEER

CONVERGYS INDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD.
NCR
04.2008 - 11.2009
  • Handle Technical Escalations for Windows Server 2000/2003/2008
  • Provide floor support to other team members
  • Replicating Issues in Lab Environment
  • Write Technical knowledge base articles both Public and Internal.

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

PARAGON PRINTERS
New Delhi
02.2006 - 07.2007
  • Software Installations
  • Hardware Installations including Printers
  • Troubleshooting Hardware and Software issues
  • Solving all network issues.

Education

MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATION -

SIKKIM MANIPAL UNIVERSITY
New Delhi
11.2008 - 05.2011

B.COM PASS -

DELHI UNIVERSITY
New Delhi
06.2004 - 05.2007

Skills

VMware ESXi/VC Suite

Certification

VCP6.5 - DCV (Data Center Virtualization)

Timeline

SENIOR PRINCIPAL ENGINEER, SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE (I9)

DELL INTERNATIONAL SERVICES (PREVIOUSLY EMC SOFTWARE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED)
12.2020 - Current

ADVISORY TECHNICAL SERVICES SPECIALIST

IBM [VODAFONE IBM JOINT VENTURE]
05.2019 - 11.2020

MANAGER

VODAFONE INDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD.
12.2014 - 04.2019

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR SR. ADVISOR

DELL SERVICES (EARLIER PEROT SYSTEMS)
03.2011 - 12.2014

TECHNICAL SUPPORT ENGINEER

VMWARE SOFTWARE INDIA PVT. LTD.
11.2009 - 02.2011

MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATION -

SIKKIM MANIPAL UNIVERSITY
11.2008 - 05.2011

SENIOR SUPPORT ENGINEER

CONVERGYS INDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD.
04.2008 - 11.2009

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

PARAGON PRINTERS
02.2006 - 07.2007

B.COM PASS -

DELHI UNIVERSITY
06.2004 - 05.2007
VCP6.5 - DCV (Data Center Virtualization)
Prince Foundation and Practioner
VCP6-CMA (VMware vRealize Automation)
VCP6-NV (VMware NSX)
VCP55D (VMware Certified Professional 5.5 Delta)
VCP 5 (VMware certified professional VI5 products)
VCP 4 (VMware certified professional VI4 products)
VCP 3 (VMware certified professional VI3 products)
MCP (Win XP)
Trained on Microsoft Official Curriculum for Windows Server 2008/2003 and Vista/XP
ICND1 (Inter Connecting Cisco Network Devices - 1) Certified
CCNA Trained
ROHIT VERMANIInfrastructure Specialist