My role has strong leadership skills and the ability to professionally represent Organization in challenging environments are required. Understanding of competitive technologies to properly assess feasibility solutions hosted on, non-Microsoft platforms. As a O365 Solution Architect I offer a variety of responsibility, from being hands on with our clients at their sites to working with other technical experts and company leadership on developing innovative solutions.

Key Skills

M365
Azure
Windows

Professional Experience

Apr 2015
Present
Lead Solutions Architect
Capgemini Pvt LTD Mumbai, IN

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Understands and assists with enhancing IT customer communication and collaboration migrations in accordance with agreed upon service agreements.
  • Designs, plans and performs Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 migrations.
  • Proven design, planning and implementation experience with Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013 and Active Directory
  • Design, planning and implementation experience with Windows Server technologies
  • Experience in other messaging solutions such as anti-virus/anti-spam appliances and or applications, archiving solutions, mobility solutions or real-time collaboration solutions a plus
  • Responsible for leadership and delivery of project based assignments that encompass system architecture, proof-of-concept and deployment services
  • Perform system reviews of client telephony environments and prepare findings documents outlining short and long-term strategies
  • Facilitate and lead client configuration planning meetings and articulate pros & cons of design/architecture decision across a wide spectrum of factors - e.g. latency, storage, startup/shutdown
  • Strong customer relationship skills and willingness to lead customers through successful challenging projects which includes estimating, scoping, and writing effective statements of work that clearly set expectations and limit risk.
  • Establish reputation as subject matter expert in assigned technology area.
  • Handle all the RFP within M365 Tower.
Dec 2013
Dec 2014
Senior System Administrator
Larsen & Toubro Mumbai, IN
 PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

  • Migration of 2007 Environment to Exchange 2013 for 20000 users
  • Create data on detailed requirements
  • Create POC
  •  Analyze the current environment and provide solution for seamless migration.
  • Configuring Blackberry Server, Enterprise vault, Symantec Mail security, Net Backup, Good for Exchange, Edge Servers.
  • Attend daily status calls & track daily status
  • Handle team of 6 members, assigning tasks to the team, prioritizing the requirements before assigning
  •  Creating Lab Environments and testing before putting it into production
  •  Conduct Feasibility study
  • Education the current IT team about the new features and training them on usage of the application
  • Preparing documents for reference and updating it to SharePoint
  • Taking approvals of necessary downtime.
Feb 2013
Dec 2013
Systems Administrator
Katalyst Partners Pvt Ltd. Mumbai, IN
Apps4Rent is a leading provider of hosted software applications for business, serving over 10,000 clients in more than 50 countries.
 PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

  • Troubleshooting MS Exchange 2007, 2010,2013 issues which cannot be handled by the L1 And L2 team.
  • Responsible for patching and upgradation of all Exchange servers in the environment.
  • Constantly Monitoring the Health of all Exchange Servers by a Monitoring Tool (Nagios).
  • Handling the Spam filter servers for addition, removal and troubleshooting of new or existing customers.
  •  Handling 3 Dedicated exchange servers and deliver weekly health report and analysis to Clients apart from the hosted Exchange.
  • Planning the Monthly Exchange Server maintenance Schedule keeping the clients informed about the unavailability of resource or application during the downtime.
  • Migration of the users from 2007 or 2010 to 2013 environment.
  •  Attending Weekly client calls and updating them with the current status of the Exchange Server.
Jun 2005
Mar 2013
Technical Consultant
Wipro Ltd Mumbai, IN
 PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

  • Troubleshooting MS Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010 installation issues.
  • Setting up and troubleshooting migration issues from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 and 2013,2010 servers.
  • Performing Disaster recovery.
  •  Performing backup and restoration procedures for MS Exchange 2003, 2007 & 2010 servers.
  • Setting up Recovery Storage Groups in Exchange 2003, 2007 & 2010 servers.
  •  Troubleshooting of Public folder replication issues.
  •  Configuring and troubleshooting Recipient policies and Recipient update services.
  • Troubleshooting issues related to Exchange services (System Attendant and Information store)
  • Configuring system policies and mailbox storage limits.
  • Troubleshooting MS Exchange server permissions.
  • Adding and Removing servers from or to the MS Exchange organization.
  • Exposure of Exchange tools such as Admodify, PFDAVadmin, MfcMAPI, ExFolder, Exmerge Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT)

Education

May 1999
Jun 2003
Diploma in Indutsrial electronics in Terna Polytechnic
MSBTE

Certifications

2016
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (70-342)
MIcrosoft
2019
Microsoft 365 Administration (Exam 70-346)
MIcrosoft
2020
Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies (AZ- 303)
MIcrosoft
2020
Microsoft Azure Architect Design (AZ 304)
MIcrosoft

Hobbies & Interests

  • Cross Fit
  • Travelling
  • Playing Cricket

Languages

English
(Fluent)
Hindi
(Fluent)
Marathi
(Fluent)

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