Francis Ruben Kumar
Senior Solution Architect
Singapore
Summary
Results-driven Solution Architect with 17 years of experience based in Singapore, specializing in business development, advisory, and professional services for enterprise technology solutions. Proven ability to accelerate business outcomes by unlocking data insights from the edge to the core and into the cloud. Expertise includes delivering innovative as-a-service models and comprehensive use case solutions tailored for private and hybrid cloud services, with a focus on Data Storage, Data Protection, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Big Data Platforms, Container Platforms, Security, and Compliance. Extensive industry knowledge spans the Telecom, Healthcare, Banking and Financial Services, Government sectors.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
11
11
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Solution Architect
Hewlett Packard
07.2020 - Current
- Responsible for project proposal solution and implementation.
- To Participate in tender Request for Quotation (RFQ)&Request for Proposal (RFP).
- Closely work with sales teams to provide solution proposal and pre-sales technical support, negotiations, and deal closings.
- Identify the client’s requirements and design a commercially viable IT Infrastructure solution from within the company’s product portfolio.
- Creating solution design customer Scope of work (SOW) for desired projects and programs, including detailed integration design, including estimations, and participating in RFP Tenders.
- Develop pursuit plans, build, and manage the storage sales pipeline.
- Closely work with customers to help develop and deliver on a migration strategy to support organizations as they transition to HPE offering as-a-service model.
- Collaborated with business analysts, developers, and technical support teams to define project requirements and specifications.
- Conduct proper handover of details of solution offerings to the Delivery team upon winning an opportunity.
- Evaluate third-party technologies/solutions, negotiate, and make recommendations to bid team for inclusion in proposal.
- Scope and own each customer engagement, with attention towards clear and well- defined objectives and success criteria.
- Ensure customer business objectives are achieved with strong partnership and infrastructure solutions that meet customer’s needs.
- Negotiate profitable deals so that the company can expand opportunities based on the existing business and increase the company's footprint and revenue.
- Provide technical training for SEA sales team and technical team.
- Create and present solution architecture designs to C-level/senior personnel.
Senior Storage Consultant
Invo Systems
07.2016 - 07.2020
- Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the development of storage & cloud infrastructure solutions which includes multi/ hybrid cloud design and implementation.
- Assess the System, storage, and backup solutions in use within the core Managed Services Infrastructure.
- Responsible for project proposal solution and implementation.
- Project tracking and resource allocation.
- Responsible for implementation and management of backups on Azure.
- Linux, Windows, and VMware environments.
- Major migration from On Prem Backup to Cloud Backup (backup as a service)
- Active participation as a Lead in DR drill activities where mission critical PROD system must be restored in DR server which involved backup and restore of OS and Database files.
- Evaluate any identified challenges and future needs of these applications and systems to recommend and architect needed remediation’s and potential new storage and backup systems.
- Actively involved in Storage Implementation post sales solutions.
- Responsible for Monitoring, trouble shooting and configuring Azure Cloud Account for STORSIMPLE.
- Evaluate new and existing architecture and design solutions that address business issues (scalability, reliability, and availability)
- Creating STORSIMPLE service on the Azure cloud and then configure the appliance.
- Scheduling backup policies on Azure cloud.
- Scheduling Access Control Records and templates on Azure cloud for the appliance.
- Checking performance issues on the appliance and the cloud Accounts.
Technical Lead
Brillio
01.2016 - 06.2016
- Hands on experience of various type of tools for azure management and implementation such as MAT Azure data center migration tool 1.0, Map 9.1, Azure cost estimator tool, Active directory sync tool Azure Storage Explorer, Microsoft Migration accelerator tool.
- Responsible for Monitoring, troubleshooting, and configuring Azure Cloud Account for STORSIMPLE.
- Evaluate new and existing architecture and design solutions that address business issues (scalability, reliability, and availability)
- Subscribing the azure subscription and setting up azure for organization.
- Migrating physical infrastructure with application in the Azure cloud.
- Migrating live application in the Azure cloud.
- Configuring Backup in Azure for taking backup of VM and application on that.
- Creating the virtual network.
- Creating cloud service.
- Creating a Virtual machine from azure gallery also using VHD imported from Hyper-V.
- Creating storage account with Blob, Table, and queue.
- Managing Azure VM from automation service and scheduler services.
- Configuring LUN’s (ISCSI) and assigning them to the Hyper V Host.
- Setting up STORSIMPLE for development and testing needs.
- Installing and upgrading firmware for STORSIMPLE Controller Nodes.
- Creating STORSIMPLE service on the Azure cloud and then configure the appliance.
- Registering the STORSIMPLE with the cloud Account for automatic Data Tiering.
- Scheduling backup policies on Azure cloud.
- Scheduling Access Control Records and templates on Azure cloud for the appliance.
- Checking performance issues on the appliance and the cloud Accounts.
- Providing required technical sessions for the team and make effective use of assigned lab time.
Technical Consultant
Hewlett Packard
11.2006 - 01.2016
- Support customer through different Mission Critical Support portfolios and best practices both proactive and reactive that help customers operate their HPE infrastructure more efficiently.
- Designing and Implementing Complex IT Infrastructure/Cloud projects for customers in Telecommunications, Banking, and Government sectors. Expertise technical knowledge on Storage Data Migration, replication, cloud computing and hyper converged infrastructure.
- Hands on experience in implementation and management of - HPE 3par, HPE SimpliVity, HPE Nimble, EMC VNX, HP Data protector, Commvault and EMC Avamar.
- Configuration and Management of fiber channel switches (Brocade, Cisco) tasks include creation of device alias, zones adding zones to zone set and activating zone set.
- Manage Commvault Simpana backup system with remote media agents and offsite backups with full disaster recovery testing and offsite warm hardware and data to reconstruct 400+ servers.
- Lead consultative engagements with customers through demos, proof of concepts and workshops to develop solutions and offerings products like 3par/Msa/left-hand/software defined storage.
- Responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving routine issues like one path-down, host not seeing storage zoning/masking /storage allocation and performance issues.
- Managing storage including storage provisioning, performance tuning, adding volumes assigning ports, data migration maintenance of servers and storage and troubleshooting problems in environment.
- Installing & upgrading the firmware of various Storage components like SCSI HBA, FC HBA & ISCSI HBA.
- Hands on experience on storage components (SAS, SATA, SCSI, ISCSI, HBA, Fiber Channel& FCOE)
- Managing and troubleshooting Windows 2012 Server/AD Directory services, IIS, DNS, DHCP and RIS.
- Manage and troubleshoot VMware ESXi Clustering, VMware Troubleshooting, Configuration, VM Templates, cloning, DRS, HA, VMware vMotion, Storage vMotion.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com) - Commerce
Madras University
India01.2005
Skills
Storage & Backup
BC & Disaster Recovery
dHCI/Hyper Converged Infrastructure/Virtualization
IT environment design and implementation
Cloud infrastructure/Cloud Transformation
VMware/Hyper-V
Storage & Backup Administration
Cloud Migration
Cloud Mobility
Enterprise architecture design
Cloud computing expertise
Infrastructure design
Certification
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect
Disclaimer
I hereby assure that the above stated details are true to best of my knowledge and belief. Name: Francis Ruben Kumar Place: Singapore Signature
Timeline
Senior Solution Architect
Hewlett Packard
07.2020 - Current
Senior Storage Consultant
Invo Systems
07.2016 - 07.2020
Technical Lead
Brillio
01.2016 - 06.2016
Technical Consultant
Hewlett Packard
11.2006 - 01.2016
Bachelor of Commerce (B. Com) - Commerce
Madras University
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