Shankar K.

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About Shankar K.

Highly accomplished and results-driven IT leader with Master's in IT Systems and 20 years of overall experience in IT Infrastructure and Data Center support, migration, and management. Proven expertise in IT Operations (Global), Transition, and Transformation, with a strong focus on strategic initiatives like Cloud-first models (Public, Private, and Hybrid) and consolidation of Infra as part of Green DC. Expert in designing and implementing robust Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) and High Availability (HA) solutions.Successfully managed large-scale IT infrastructure programs for a diverse portfolio of global clients like KMD, DSB, Microsoft, Telenor, DuPont, Caterpillar, Airbus, Boeing, Citibank, GE & Volvo. Good experience in Manufacturing, Aviation, Heavy engineering, Transportation, Telecom, Financial services and Pharmacy/ Health care / Life Sciences industries.Expertise-IT Infrastructure ManagementOperations Team managementService Delivery ManagerManaging Azure Public & Private CloudMajor Incident Management, Problem Management, Asset Management, Change Management, Vendor management & Capacity Management. Handling IT Operations, Transition and Transformation.Supported & managed large IT Infrastructure Services programs across globe for KMD & DSB (Denmark), Microsoft (US, India and Singapore), Telenor (Denmark), Dupont (US), Caterpillar (US and India), Airbus (US and Germany), CSC (India & Australia), Citi bank (US, UK & Dubai), GE (US & India), Daimler & Volvo (Germany & Sweden).Major Achievements-Designed Planned & migrated 2346 Virtual machines without any downtime from one SCVMM environment to another SCVMM environment as part of Azure to Cisco Cloud migration, achieved 100% success, and made 14.8 Million DKK Savings.Planned & migrated 981 VMs to another parallel Hyper-V failover cluster without any downtime and decommissioned existing virtual hosts, storage and network and saved huge revenue (5.2 Million DKK) for the project. Planned & Migrated Physical servers to Virtual in Hyper-V environment in Microsoft as part of Infrastructure & DC consolidation project, and saved 3.6 Million Dollars by re-using the servers, storage, DC Space, and network for other Projects.Planned and Contributed a significant savings of 12 Million Dollars by migrating the File servers from On-premises to Cloud (SPP).Planned and Contributed a significant savings of 2.8 Million Dollars by Automating our Application activities.