SUDHINDRA PARAKI

• Design and build enterprise level technical solutions, using., PaaS, and IaaS across IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure and GCP
• Contribute to cloud roadmaps, risk assessments, timeline development, describing value and developing KPIs
• Co-Wrote Financial Management solutions to maximize client value
• Created, participated and delivered client presentations for Executive level.
• Provided core technical solutions and proposals for multiple complex, enterprise-wide Cloud Migration projects, with revenues over $25 million in 2 years
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications, software and services for Cloud Infrastructure
• Support “on-premise to cloud” migrations or IT transformations, Cloud Assessments, Application Portfolio Rationalization and Management services

• Applied dynamic technical & functional leadership thereby conceiving and designing Business model for African Entrepreneurial Groups a platform for coaching and nurturing for success in the global exposure
• An innovation platform for students and bachelors from the West African region to associate and build their business ideas and solve various African continental problems and opportunities
• Expanded the footprints of more than 35 entrepreneurs to build their business models for African Continent

• Conceived and develop business model for Aahar Vihitatva, a comprehensive dietary food partner for Hospitals and individuals

In one year, achievements include:

• Innovative Patient dietary food business model first of its kind in India
• Achieved turnover of Rs 5 Crores
• 365 days, 24x7 operational Kitchen and services
• Created employment opportunity for 130 people
• Operational in 8 major hospitals in Bangalore
• Served more than 45000 patients’ days
• Prescription Diet food served at door step for first-time in India
• Got acquired by food chain and making successful exit.

• Joined HP BCS (Business critical Systems) group focused on program and product management of I/O Solution on HP-UX and Open VMS operating systems
• Enabled development of I/O strategy for HP-UX operating system
• Developed 3-year road map for Storage and Networking I/O cards
• Developed organizational Product development process
• Customer interface contact for BCS group for I/O h/w and Drivers
• Completed market study on HP-UX market in APAC region and EMEA region and interfaced with Marketing team for NPI for BCS Servers
• Driven Change management in organization though structured change management process/program

• Managing Engineering team focused on Storage Resource Management Solutions in its IONIX Division (team size: 20 engineers)
• Held “Product owner” responsibilities which include acting as single point of contact for product manager and engineering
• Convert customer use cases into engineering requirements and derive product road maps
• Driving customer engagements providing presentations and demos EMC road shows
• People management including hiring, training, mentoring team members, goal setting and tracking
• Leading organization effort in adopting to agile methodology in product life cycle with result-oriented SCRUM

• Managing SAN Infrastructure solutions Engineering Team (team size: 15 engineers) focusing on project planning, scheduling, estimation and tracking activities for HP StorageWorks Performance Advisor product
• People management including hiring, training, mentoring team members, goal setting and performance management
• Represented R & D group in HP storage ambassador’s program and lead customer champion role
• Focused on product ownership and successfully owned product roadmap, development and testing within STSD division in Bangalore
• Interfacing with various teams within HP Storage Division such as SAN Infrastructure, array firmware, disaster recovery solutions, Level3 support to ensure complete co-ordination between various teams
• Responsible for Quality metrics definition and metrics data collection and analysis and reporting to senior management
• Responsible for quarterly budgeting, planning and h/w procurement and forecasting growth needs of test h/w
• Participated in Culture Works Program, HP internal organizational workforce culture assessment and development program
• Built competitive intelligence of storage arrays and provided product ideas which were included in product road map.

• Started working with, -ISO in its Storage Labs under Systems Technology &Software Division (STSD) at Bangalore
• Primary area of work involved in testing of high-availability, high performance storage software products for HP storage arrays in SAN environments, on HP-UX Operating environment
• Involved in Idea Conception to Release to Market phase following solutions
• Lead team of 10 test engineers focusing on testing above mentioned SAN infrastructure-based solutions
• Involved in product requirements review, test strategy development, test planning, test design, test execution in different phases of test
• Build test rings for integration & System testing comprising of multi-vendor fabrics
• Verify test reports from all test partners before entering release engineering
• Verify completeness for product quality from release check list & Document any known issues in user manuals or Release Notes before sign off for Release
• Participation in presentation and product demos on Storage products for customer visits, as part of field engagement
• Worked with Pre-sales team in providing technical guidance in datacenter solution requirements from various customers.
• Coordinated sampling and analysis tasks to verify quality of finished products

• Started working with, HP-ISO in its Storage Labs under Systems Technology &Software Division (STSD) at Bangalore
• Primary area of work involved in testing of I/O multi-pathing solutions for HP EVA and XP disk arrays in SAN environments, on HP-UX and Linux Operating environment
• Involved in product requirements review, test planning, test design, test execution in different phases of test
• Build test rings for integration & System testing comprising of comprising of interoperability test rings for SAN Infrastructure, array firmware, DR solutions
• Involved in tracking defects & monitor them till closure with the help of defect tracking tool
• Re-production of customer issues and resolution for released products.

• In their Compaq Development Center at Bangalore
• Primary area of work involved the testing of device drivers on Compaq servers on SCO UNIX & Banyan Vines Operating System
• Was involved in Test planning, test design, test execution in different phases of test
• Interaction with Compaq QA team for problem analysis and interaction with developer for Bug fixes