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Prashaant Sadeeza

Prashaant Sadeeza

Summary

I am a performance-driven technology leader, who loves to create value business through effective IT solutions. Strong believer of collaboration and effective communication. I have 15+ years of experience in Service provider and Enterprise Infrastructure technologies worked in Internet Service Providers,


Technically accomplished professional over 17 years of experience in Technical leadership, Network Design Architecture, Core Service Provider Network Designing and end to end Solution Designing, Network Management & Maintenance and Project management with leading organisations in Enterprise / Service Provider segment. Strategic planning for technical Infrastructure roadmap of the company to align with business requirements and company’s key targets. Acknowledged for leading transformational projects to migrate and upgrade legacy network design/ environments. Credited for thinking “outside the box” and working on complex technical and commercial issues. Collaborative player for pre-sales and post sales project phases with excellent analytical, organizational and interpersonal skills. Ability to work in high visibility, time bound and volatile environments. Reputed for exceptional ethical behavior, strategic thinking and work with remote teams.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

VP,IT Infrastructure

Lazada Group
11.2017 - Current
  • Defining roadmap of Lazada Corp Infrastructure for all Lazada SEA countries
  • Translating business requirements and Lazada’s key targets defined by CTO, Chief Logistics officer and CISO to the Technical roadmap of Corporate and Logistics infrastructure.
  • Solution design for multi cloud solution (Azure and Alicloud) for Lazada Fintech environment which include multi region deployment and it contains Azure landing Zone, Azure AD, NSG, AZ FW, VPN GW, Express route, Application load balancer e.t.c. and Integration with Alicloud environment.
  • Lead Technical transformations, Improvement plans to resolve key-business related to LAN/WAN/Systems/Multi cloud (Azure and Alicloud)/SASE/NAC/SD-WAN/Automation to achieve business and cost efficiency.
  • Capex and Opex Budget planning for the IT-Infrastructure department
  • Owns Regular survey of IT, review and prepare the action plans for multiple departments to improve user experience
  • Regular Interaction with CISO, CLO and CTO to understand business pain points and identify area of problems possible to solve from IT-INFRA space
  • Spearheaded cross-functional initiatives across departments (Security Arch, Cyber Security, Vul management team, Projects managers and Other technical and business leaders) to achieve business goals for bottom-line profits.
  • Demonstrated proficient leadership skills to motivate employees and build competent Infrastructure team of 10 Network/System and Endpoint SME.
  • Active involvement in merger and acquisition from the IT-Infrastructure point of view.
  • Closely working with vendors and outsourcing partner to define SLAs, commitments with regular measurable data.

Lead Consultant

British Telecom. Ltd
02.2015 - 11.2017
  • Technical leadership/Coaching/Mentoring team of 9 Technical designers related to LAN/WAN/WLAN/Telephony/Multi cloud (AliCloud and Azure ) for E2E solution design and implementation.
  • Monthly KPI review meeting with CTO and Customer
  • HLD/LLD for BT Radianz financial extranet and enterprise customers.
  • Translating customer business/technical requirements into functional design and detailed design
  • Designing & owning solution for complex customer requirements, primarily in the area of Data networking: Datacenter, LAN/WAN, IPVPN, MPLS, Multicast, QoS
  • Prepared project lifecycle documentation and project management plans.
  • Providing support to Lead solution Architect/ Technical Sales team in both pre/post sales phase
  • Supporting implementation & troubleshooting in post-sales/implementation phase
  • Ownership of designs throughout its lifecycle (Design, test, build and production)
  • Knowledge sharing of Solutions with team which are completely new to BT
  • Developed custom solutions based upon clients' strict requirements.

Senior Technical Lead

Colt technologies Pvt. Ltd
10.2012 - 02.2015
  • Ensuring the optimized, in-time & cost effective customer solution & infrastructure network design
  • Ownership of designs throughout its lifecycle (Design, test, build and production)
  • Leading proof of concepts testing of customer solution & infrastructure network designs
  • Owning the technical design on Managed Networking value proposition involving below technology domains:
  • Layer-2 / Layer-3 technologies (LAN/WAN/MAN)
  • IPVPN, MPLS, Internet, Routing, Switching, multicast, IPv6 etc
  • HW selection to support required features
  • Translating customer business/technical requirements into functional design and detailed design
  • Representing Colt as a senior technical expert in discussions with 3rd party suppliers, partners, vendors
  • Providing cost models for bids/design in pre-sale stage
  • Proposal of Hardware after analyzing the customer requirements

Senior Network/Telecom Analyst

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd
12.2010 - 10.2012
  • Provide L3 support for Oracle DCs operational issues
  • Prepare Migration plan for infrastructure related projects
  • Responsible for implementation in datacenter network is case of any requirement
  • Troubleshooting on escalated Datacenter related issues which occur on during operation in terms of Corporate, ON demand and development environment
  • Providing inputs to improve our services to reduce day to day issues and some new implementation
  • Intermediate knowledge of F5 LTM
  • Basic knowledge of GTM
  • Responsible to implement new technologies and new services which is designed by service design team
  • Analyze the traffic through NIKSUN, Ethereal in case of any major issue
  • Involvement on Oracle standardization (Design) for acquired companies by Oracle

Senior Specialist

HCL Comnet ltd
11.2009 - 12.2010
  • Managing ISP’s Core Network and remote site connectivity to the data centers
  • Identified areas in need of critical improvement and implemented strategies to improve Network Uptime from 99.90 to 99.95%.
  • Working on client network’s devices like high end routers and switches and protocols like MPLS/VPN, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, RSTP,HSRP,VRRP and UDLD
  • Offered coaching and resources to help program participants (Customers and Junior colleagues) maintain progress and achieve goals.
  • Implementation of technical solutions to complex networks infrastructure problems
  • Analysis on ongoing issues or previous issue and provide training to team members
  • Supporting on Alcatel (7750) and Cisco Devices (2600’s, 2800’s, 3500’s, 3700’s, 6500’s, 7200’s)


Senior Network Engineer

Tech Mahindra Ltd
08.2009 - 10.2009
  • Provided Network support for a U.S
  • Based service provider
  • This includes troubleshooting in
  • MPLS/IP VPN,BGP and OSPF
  • Configuration and troubleshooting on Cisco Routers and Switches
  • New implementation with the co-ordination of change management team.

Network Engineer

Tulip Telecom Ltd
10.2005 - 07.2009


  • Functional escalation of Service Assurance/Service Delivery/Infrastructure Support and Services on national level thereby helping customers to achieve satisfaction
  • Developed end to end MPLS backbone to serve domestic and international customer related to enterprise and financial business.
  • Closely integrating with the Planning/Designing team for understanding of the implementation of the plan made by the SMEs
  • Established robust infrastructure and data capacity for new applications.
  • Provided complete end-to-end engineering and implementation of IP network solutions related to IPVPN/MPLS VPN technologies.
  • Pioneer of known error database for P1/P2 issues.
  • Performed troubleshooting for Juniper, Cisco and Huawei and packet analysis.
  • Provided detailed network diagrams and procedural guidelines.
  • Configuration of new client’s based on MPLS/IP VPN and provide with redundancy mode
  • Troubleshot complex multi-vendor network service provider issues.

System support Engineer

Sysnet Global Technologies
05.2004 - 09.2005
  • On behalf of my organization, I was offering my services as a System support Engineer for one of our client (ISO 9001-2000 company) and its associate companies
  • Provide Desktop, Laptop and server support
  • Provide LAN and WAN support
  • Maintaining Norton enterprise antivirus and client systems to make network free from any types of virus attacks
  • Troubleshooting related to Peripheral devices like Printer, Scanners and DSL Connectivity.

Education

Bachelor of Commerce -

C.S.J.M (Kanpur University)
2004

Advanced Diploma - Hardware and Networking

SET pvt. Ltd
2004

Skills

Management Skills

  • Ability to see the bigger picture
  • Technical Leadership
  • Strategy Planning & Agile Execution
  • Talent Management
  • Operational Excellence

Technical Skills

  • Pre/Post sales for Infra Solutions
  • IT-INFRA Operations
  • Cloud (Alicloud and Azure)
  • Routing/Switching/MPLS/QOS/Multicast
  • Hardware experience : Network (Cisco, Juniper,Huawei, Alcatel and Ruckus), Server (Dell and HP)
  • SD-WAN (Fortinet and Cisco Viptela)
  • Security : SASE offerings, Fortinet FW, NAC (Aruba Clear Pass)
  • End Point Management : MEDC and Intune
  • ITSM : Service Now, End to End ITSM process design and rollout
  • Monitoring Tools: SolarWinds, Prometheus and Grafana

Affiliations

CCIE Service Provider (#40464) CCIP Cisco DevNet Associate CCNA (CSCO11113974) MCP (MCP ID 3312001)

Timeline

VP,IT Infrastructure

Lazada Group
11.2017 - Current

Lead Consultant

British Telecom. Ltd
02.2015 - 11.2017

Senior Technical Lead

Colt technologies Pvt. Ltd
10.2012 - 02.2015

Senior Network/Telecom Analyst

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd
12.2010 - 10.2012

Senior Specialist

HCL Comnet ltd
11.2009 - 12.2010

Senior Network Engineer

Tech Mahindra Ltd
08.2009 - 10.2009

Network Engineer

Tulip Telecom Ltd
10.2005 - 07.2009

System support Engineer

Sysnet Global Technologies
05.2004 - 09.2005

Bachelor of Commerce -

C.S.J.M (Kanpur University)

Advanced Diploma - Hardware and Networking

SET pvt. Ltd

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