Information Technology Management

RAJESH KATHURIA

A/**, Abhishek, Lokhandwalla Complex,

Andheri (W), Mumbai 53.

Call :022-****-****/ 91-987*******, Email: ***************@**********.***

SUMMARY OF WORK EXPERIENCE

Well-rounded background of infrastructure management and software management with over 20 years in IT including 17 years of management experience. Sound Understanding of the business requirements, the deliverables involved and timelines, Handling cost/spends/budgets have been key result areas. System setup, Project Management, Product Quality Assurance job done in addition to managing SOX compliance activity at Rediff.com – one of the premier worldwide online providers of news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping services form part of my current activity. New gadgets evaluation and implementations, negotiations with IT vendors and IT infrastructure operations are other key areas.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Associate Director, System and Network

Manage IT operations for Rediff Enterprise and its subsidiary for data, use of laptop /desktop/servers/storage /networking equipment. and manage a network of more than 600 workstations

Administer and ownership of mail server/intranet/Domain/application servers/Network access control/Antivirus/Firewall/WIFI as a service

Provide testbed platform for Rediff product and services like Rediffmail, Rediffbol, Ishare improving customer experience

Handle compliance for Audit needs and in specific SOX related governance for IT and other software suppliers like MS.

Identifying resources to meet IT needs of Organization

Alliance formed with Pctools for world no1 anti spyware doctor

Alliance formed with Fsecure for AV on demand for Rediffmail

Managing CRM and correlating with consumer complaints.

Managed infrastructure growth in systems and network area since inception

Setup and management of satellite office associated with rediff.com

Created a Disaster planning and recovery mechanism to reduce down-time

Bandwidth Management

Security compliance

Manages the Enterprise Infrastructure and works closely with business, vendors and suppliers.

Evaluate or recommend purchase of computers, network hardware, peripheral equipment and software

Perform and/or oversee software and application installation and upgrade, maintain site licenses

Periodically reviews appropriateness of technologies used and recommends modifications and/or upgrades when necessary to keep systems operating according to defined service level agreements and operating level agreements.

Prepares operating and capital budget recommendations for infrastructure area and each specific system components

Analytics providing a platform for self service BI in ecom. operations for customer insights .

Information Technology Manager, IT operations

Major contribution in orchestrating the technology direction for the entire group of Rediff companies in various verticals (Advertising, data warehousing, online medium, Public Relations).

Broad knowledge of data communications and data warehousing concepts.

Established and managed the Information Technology division on an all-India basis

Value creation by developing extranets for key clients like Maruti, BPL, Colgate

IT budgeting and deliverables against it

MIS creation

Vendor management and outsourcing

Standardization of hardware and software across sister companies. This included ISDN and X.25 implementation, RAS, storage implementation, digital warehousing, proxy setup, applications like accounts, timesheets, library management systems

Relocation of site with no downtime

Involved in IT setup of rediff.com,wcj other Ajit Balakrishnan’s company

Worked as an EDP officer. Key responsibilities included:

EDP and CAD operations in an engineering environment under ISO9000 framework

Networking using Banyan system

Programming

Techno/Commercial Bids

Leased line implementations

Extensive Training of autocad,msofice, primavera imparted in production environment across company employees.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems

Windows, Linux, Mac

Networking

LAN configurations, Banyan Vines, Cisco routers, VPN, Windows NT, Novell, IBM servers, ISDN, X.25, GPRS, ADSL, lease lines, Sonicwall

Storage

HP DAS, Emc SAN, NetApp NAS

Configuration Management

In-house software

Project Management Tools

Microsoft Project, Primavera

Business Applications

Microsoft Word, Excel, Power point, Access, Autocad, Tally, SPSS, Talisma, MS Project

Languages

C, Cobol

Packages

Lotus, Dbase, FoxPro, Access

Databases

Ms SQL, Oracle

Utilities

Norton, Becker

Assorted tools

Acronis, Nagios, Sniffer, Netscan, Viewpoint, Solar Winds

Virtualisation

Vmware Wks and Server

Brand exposure

Cisco, Sonicwall, Netscreen, 3com,Intel,Dlink, HP, IBM .DELL

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

B.Com, Mumbai University, 1988.

One year part-time diploma in computer science at Datapro Information Technology in Dec 1990.

Basic programming course at Datamatics in 1985.

Ms SQL certification 2005.

Talisma CRM administration 2006.

Web content delivery network workshop by Akamai in 2006.

Certified software manager from SIAA 2006.

Advanced Project Management course, PMI 2007.

Defending Phishing Attacks workshop by CERT 2009

Online course R, Powerpivot, Sql 2012

Otrs 2013

PERSONAL DETAILS

D.O.B : 01/12/67

Status: Married

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