Over 24 plus years of industry experience in designing, deploying and maintaining business solutions using information technology in a variety of corporate, small business and academic environments.Having good exposure in designing, implementing and configuring a wide variety of cloud hosting and systems solutions; with proven experience in managing multiple large-scale infrastructure projects across matrix environments, and multi-phased, complex migration programmes that address technology, people/organization and process change. Lead pre-sales discovery workshops to understand customer requirements, challenges and pain points and recommend suitable technology solutions to address those. Own all related technical pre-sales activities including assessing customer’s current environment through various capacity planning & assessments activities, solution sizing activities, producing complex solution designs in line with vendor best practises, producing solution configurations / Bill of materials, scoping professional services engagements, implementing POC deployments, producing presales documentations such as solution proposals & Statements of Works. 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 : Develop, maintain, and execute the cloud computing strategy to achieve the broader technology and business strategies / plans. Design and deliver architectural standards, reference architectures, and designs. 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 : Keep abreast of cloud technology futures and the competitive landscape to inform the technology strategy of the direction to achieve our corporate aims. Provide thought leadership across IT and the business to drive effective and efficient adoption of cloud computing. Operate as the go-to expert for blue-sky thinking, innovation, and development, working and communicating effectively with the business to ensure cloud adoption maximizes our business proposition whilst minimizing operational costs and risk. 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 : Manage cloud adoption and supporting policies, processes, operating models, and cultural changes across the organization. Work with sourcing and cloud partners to ensure appropriate cloud sourcing strategies and commercials are in place. Support the execution of effective change across the business, using agile, and iterative ways of working. 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 :: Establish and chair a cloud center of excellence (CCoE) to guide and govern our approach to cloud adoption. Actively promote and participate in other governance forums to ensure we deliver innovative secure-by-design solutions. 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 : Build strong and influential relationships with technology and business stakeholders, communicating effectively to technical and senior non-technical audiences. Collaborate meaningfully to influence and build consensus for cloud adoption across technology and the broader business. Specialties: = Devops Automation in Linux Infrastructure using Ansible. = Open stack/AWS Cloud analysis and Re-Engineering = Cloud/Devops - Pre-Sales = Data Center - Server Virtualization,Consolidation,Optimization,Migration = Desktop Management / End User Services through Redhat Satellite = Establish Trusting Partnerships with C-Level Decision Makers = Understand and Navigate Full-IT infrastructure Life-cycle = IT Deployments & Migrations = Solutions Designing & Execution = Define the process to help smooth transition from implementation team to operation team. = Help team to create valuable technical assets as part of any data center initiative. = Help teams to understand RTO/RPO and plan for necessary backup infrastructure Reachable -- bvijaycom@gmail.com