Vivek Hooda
Senior Consultant - Network Transformation And Transition
Gurgaon,Haryana
Summary
To pursue a challenging and rewarding position which would utilize and further enhance my technical skills and innovative potential, by the means of working in team synergy and with brilliant minds of similar vision, for the purpose of making significant contributions to the growth of the organization.
Overview
3
3
Certifications
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Consultant
HCL technologies
- Network transformation and transition in,.
- Worked as Tech Lead - Datacentre Network in COLT Technologies Ltd.
- Worked as Team Lead - Network & Security in WIPRO INFOTECH Ltd.
- On multiple projects.
- Worked with Hewitt Associates as Setup configuration Analyst on multiple global projects.
- Have excellent team leading skills.
- Managing the team as well as customer handling.
- 12 years of total experience including transition, transformation, and network operations.
- CCIE # 52900 Datacentre certified.
- Professional Strengths.
- Comprehensive knowledge of Network & Security technologies and protocols.
- Skilled in designing, planning and implementing LAN/WAN solutions.
- Proficient in technical and non-technical communication, both in oral and written.
- Good leadership skills and has the ability to guide and provide technical direction and supervision for a given project.
- Excellent problem solving, analytical and logical thinking skills.
- Has exposure to project transition of various industry verticals like Banking, Energy, Retail, Media & Telecom.
Senior Consultant
HCL, Nokia and R & Co
Designation
- Datacentre Networks Transformation Synopsis : Working on transformation and design of Nokia and Rothschild & Co datacentres and office networks.
- Creating the design for the FMO environments for customer network and planning the cutovers to implement those designs from network and security perspective.
Tech Lead
Colt Technologies
- Location : Gurgaon Client : Colt Internal - London Designation :, - Datacentre Networks Synopsis : Worked on Data Centre migration project from Legacy hardware to Nexus 9K ACI Infra.
- Wireless Infra upgrade project to Cisco Meraki cloud based Wireless solution Implementation.
- All office location network hardware upgrade project.
- Cisco ACE to F5 LB upgrade project.
Senior Network Engineer
Wipro Infotech, Unitech Wireless Ltd
- Synopsis : Uninor is a joint venture of Unitech Wireless & Telenor.
- Telenor is one of the leading Telecommunication companies across world.
- Uninor NOC is located at the head quarter Greater Noida from where all network related services are managed and supported.
- All IT Infrastructures are being handled by Wipro across India.
- Our team deals with daily Network issues.
HCL Technologies Ltd
06.2019 - Current
- IPSEC, Remote Access, Site to site VPN Roles and Responsibilities.
- Participating in Boot Camp and Transition Planning.
- Participating in creating SOW (Statement of Work).
- Leading the team of 7 members.
- Monitoring performance of the team and addressing challenges.
- Contributing to the learning of the team and enhancing the quality of transition.
- Network equipment hardening as per company policy & preparing hardening document in line with application requirements.
- Identifying risks in the infrastructure & mitigation during Knowledge Acquisition.
- User access management.
- Execute change & update the CMDB.
- Perform capacity monitoring, analysis, and tuning activities.
- Technical transition & transformation of existing and new projects and ensuring smooth handover to sustenance after proper documentation, performance tuning, risk mitigations/hardening and streamline.
- Reviewing Network & Security device configuration.
- Study the existing Network Architecture.
- Prepare SOP & Technical documents.
- Risk Identification and Mitigation.
- Defining service standards and guidelines as per global best-practices, infrastructure management & documentation that serve as benchmarks for excellent service.
- Looking after the business proposals, by the clients and handling resource planning, technical direction, effort estimation, tracking, risk management & mentoring, analysing user requirements and statistics for the execution of Plans.
- Incident problem & change management followed as per process for all network related changes.
- Vendor coordination.
- Active participation on all network related incidents & activities.
- Periodic inventory maintenance and configuration backups for all active devices.
- Acceptance Testing of Equipment’s.
- Project : Datacentre transformation and designing.
COLT Technologies Ltd
11.2016 - 05.2019
- Project : Datacentre migration and transformation.
WIPRO INFOTECH
10.2010 - 11.2016
- Project 1 : Cairn India Limited Company : Wipro Infotech Location : Gurgaon Client : Cairn energy Designation : Team Lead – Network & Security Synopsis : Handled Cairn datacentres and the office location networks and lead a team of 10 engineers and built technically strong team.
- Wipro Infotech Location : Gurgaon Client : Airtel Bharti Designation : Network - L3 Synopsis : Bharti CCT facilitate Airtel mobile users TDM traffic, using very high bandwidth to IP traffic at very high compression rates, which will reduce the bandwidth cost in between GMSC to HUB (for IVR) and OSCC locations.
Setup Configuration Analyst II
Hewitt Associates, Hewitt Associates Ltd
10.2008 - 10.2009
- Worked with Hewitt Associates Setup configuration Analyst on multiple global projects.
- Worked for the different client projects like HSBC, National grid, Astra Zeneca, RBS.
Trainee
Wipro InfoTech Ltd
01.2008 - 09.2008
- Worked as a Trainee in Bharti Project.
- This project was based on IT Infrastructure, Operations Bharti Ltd.
- Throughout India and which is completely handled by Wipro Ltd.
- Worked with the Wipro team at Airtel site for understanding the data flow and worked on the work assignments given to me.
Education
MCA -
Vaish College of Engineering
B.Sc. - Computers
XII - undefined
Shiksha Bharti Sr. Sec. School
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Shiksha Bharti Sr. Sec. School
Skills
Datacentre Technologies - VPC, VDC, Fabric Path, FEX, OTV, VXLAN, Spine-leaf architecture, UCS
Switching - STP, RSTP, MST, VTP, HSRP VRRP
Routing - BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
Wireless - Cisco Meraki, Wireless controller
Load Balancer - BIG IP F5 with LTM, Cisco ACE, and Citrix Net scaler
Routers & Switches - CISCO 7200, 2900, 3500, 3600, 4500, 4800, 3750, 6500, 7600, Nexus 2k, 5k, 7k, 9k, HP switches, Omni Switches, Nokia routers, HP routers
Certification
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Timeline
HCL Technologies Ltd
06.2019 - Current
COLT Technologies Ltd
11.2016 - 05.2019
WIPRO INFOTECH
10.2010 - 11.2016
Setup Configuration Analyst II
Hewitt Associates, Hewitt Associates Ltd
10.2008 - 10.2009
Trainee
Wipro InfoTech Ltd
01.2008 - 09.2008
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Shiksha Bharti Sr. Sec. School
XII - undefined
Shiksha Bharti Sr. Sec. School
B.Sc. - Computers
MCA -
Vaish College of Engineering
Senior Network Engineer
Wipro Infotech, Unitech Wireless Ltd
Tech Lead
Colt Technologies
Senior Consultant
HCL, Nokia and R & Co
Designation
Senior Consultant
HCL technologies