Vishwanath B

A competent professional having 2 decades of experience in Information technology in product based startup echo systems. - IT Infrastructure Management - IT Infra Operations - Team Management - Project Management - Data center operations - Escalation Management - Email collaboration & Productivity * Managing multiple co-locations and data center operations that are spread across in strategic locations. * Managing Compute IT infrastructure that includes server farm, storage and hypervisors and day to day IT management * Infrastructure capacity planning, budgeting implementation of core compute services. * Experience with comprehensive disaster recovery architecture and operations, including storage area network and redundant, highly-available server and network architectures * Evaluating technology landscape limitations and developing strategies for adoption of new technologies, standards, processes, and models to increase business values, reduce cost and enable continuous growth * Having experience with merger/acquisition of companies to migrate their infra to company standard infrastructure design and environment. * Good exposure and experience in implementing, managing Cyber Security solutions & operations. * Good negotiation and vendor management skills * Flexible, adaptable with the demonstrated ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment * Employee performance and career development plans for each associate, Supervise staff and perform managerial duties such as hiring, goal setting, mentoring, performance reviews, and compensation planning. * Experience in negotiating terms and conditions of software agreements with vendors and a good understanding of software licensing that includes Microsoft, Oracle, Vmware, Nutanix products and various SaaS cloud offerings * Oversee and manage annual Opex and Capex budget. * Proficient in leading IT teams for day-to-day requirements. * Demonstrated abilities in executing project plans within preset budgets & deadlines and managing requirement gathering, system analysis & finalisation of technical / functional specifications Managing the manager's skill, delegating the work and getting the work done in a timely manner. * Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions * Build v/s Buy and hosting recommendations * Managing GWS email collaboration and productivity tool