Chetan Sonar

Background

About Chetan Sonar

I've been working in the IT industry exclusively since 2005. I am a strategic thinker with strong analytical, problem solving, negotiation and leadership skills. Over 16 years of IT industry experience with roles in all phases of Management, administration & IT service delivery including infrastructure, virtualization and cloud specialist, subject matter expert, systems engineer, project lead. I am a GCP Professional Architect, VCAP4-DCA#795, VCP 4/5#74755, VCP-Cloud#74755, CCSK 3.0, CompTIA Cloud Essentials, EMC Cloud Infrastructure and Service Associates, ITIL V3, CCNA, CCNP-Routing, RHCE 3/4, RHCT 3 certified- An effective leader with proven abilities in leading larger teams during the project phase and guiding team members and enabling knowledge sharing among the team- IT as a service design and public/private Cloud Implementations - Implementing and Managing AWS, Google Cloud, complete VMware Clusters, including P2V, V2V migrations - Planning and implementing Security Solutions for public/private Cloud, Linux/Windows Servers and virtual machines - Determining server specifications and infrastructure requirements (such as storage, networks and security) for SMB and Enterprise environment - Designing complex virtualized infrastructures focusing on Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Large Scale Data Centre- Participated in Data Centre Architecture, Design and Implementation- Worked on various virtualization technologies - VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, OpenVZ, Virtual-Iron, 3tera Applogic, Citrix, Parallels Virtuozzo etc- Good technical Presentation Skills. Gave a few trainings on VMware, Cloud, Linux Security, IT Industry and future in companies and in College as a Guest Lecturer- Good experience in solution designing including project scoping, estimation, planning, risk management, finalization of technical and functional specifications- I love writing technical blogs on various technical forums and on Onlyvmware.com