ABHAY SALP EKAR

Cell: 650-***-**** email: aczdie@r.postjobfree.com

ENGINEERING & OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE

DEVOPS & CLOUD STRATEGY IT INFRASTRUCTURE IT BUSINESS STRATEGY TRANSFORMATIONAL PRODUCT/PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT ACROSS TECHNOLOGY STACK Astute Information Technology executive, expert in building strategic customer and technical relationships by negotiating win-win departmental and corporate outcomes and goals while creating success between tomorrow’s technology with today’s research & technology trends. Technology-savvy leader who leverages his education and his extensive accomplishment-filled background in the industry in Software Development, Information Technology, Enterprise Applications, Information Security, Product Management to integrate people, processes and technologies to develop & drive compelling strategies. VALUES OFFERED

Competitive Industry Analysis

High Impact Executive

Leadership

Consultative Approach

Effective Negotiations

Strategic Alliance and Building

Customer-Focused Services

Vast Software Specializations

Relationship building with “C”

level

Product Positioning

Effective Budgeting, Financial

& Resource Planning

Information Security Posture &

compliance alignment

VAST CERTIFICATIONS: PMP; ITIL – ITSM Foundation certified; COBIT certified; SCPM - Stanford University; ITLP

- Santa Clara University; Business Process Development – AMA; Certified Kaplan Norton Strategy Management Professional (Balanced Score Card)

EMPLOYMENT NARRATIVES

SYMANTEC CORPORATION/VERITAS TECHNOLOGIES

Sr. Director, IS Engg. & Ops (DevOps & Cloud Engineering) Mountain View, CA 4/2011 - Present Managing geographically dispersed global Product Engineering and Operations groups, including DevOps,Cloud Enginnering

(IaaS, PaaS,SaaS), data center, server operations, database, data backup/DR, ITIL & CMMI processes/compliance management teams. Developed long and short term infrastructure & organizational security roadmap. Deployed ITIL processes for enhancing maturity of service delivery groups, and for measurable cost of services to the business. DevOps & Cloud Engineering:

Oversaw design, development & deployment of devops tool sets (IaC - Infrastructure As Code), by using Puppet, Ansible, Vagarant and other tools, for CI/CD (Continuous Integration & Delivery/Deployment for cloud apps), and automated one/zero touch test/QA & release management processes required for agile product development.

Oversaw design & deployment of heterogeneous IaaS cloud for Symantec/Veritas R&D/product development. The heterogeneous cloud management software was home grown to allow multi-platform support – VMWARE, AIX, Solaris, HP, X86 hardware & storage pooling and provisioning of need based virtual infrastructure and platform deployments with usage metering, monitoring, compliance policy adherence & chargeback

Oversaw and delivered successfully transformational initiatives of moving applications' environments to cloud with Docker containers/Kubernetes and redesigning for Microservices for greater consistency between testing and production environments and for portability and modularity.

Built hybrid IaaS, PaaS, SaaS cloud with OPENSTACK & VMWARE. Oversaw designs and deployment of public & private cloud interconnects for internal and external consumption along with DRaaS (Disaster

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Recovery As a Service) deployment for mission critical production information systems. The hybrid cloud was designed to move workload from private cloud to public cloud (AWS) as needed during peak load times. Security & Datacenter Management:

Oversaw design, development & deployment of BigData based on Hadoop environment for centralized infrastructure equipment logs data gathering from 23 datacenters and R&D labs with in-house developed predictive analytics engine for proactive and self-healing response for infrastructure components’ and service failures.

Oversaw and delivered successfully an initiative for improving security posture of DevOps build environments by deploying IDPS (Intrusion Detection & Protection System) by using Palo Alto Network devices and Zscaler solutions.

Oversaw design, deployment of multi-petabyte Lustre based HPC “ObjectStore” storage solution for production data storage and for R&D scale-out storage performance testing.

Directed globally dispersed procurement, vendor management, internal engineering, architecture & operations teams in Symantec.

Delivery Processes’ Optimization & Quality Management:

Effectively built new Information Systems organization, renegotiated support contracts with vendors for optimizing and reducing overall services' costs. Effectively executed ITIL initiative, instilled adherence to ITIL processes in corporate IT & product groups.

Developed transformational integrated infrastructure & application strategy for reducing costs of offered IS services while improving overall reliability, security and availability. Developed roadmap in line with infrastructure strategy by using newer information systems' architectures, cloud, virtualization technologies and co-hosting of databases and business applications.

Efficiency development: Identified effective operational activities, aligned them with business strategy, packaged them in services form for ITIL deployment. Established and managed SLA processes. Defined SLAs with business groups, developed performance metrics collection processes and self-service compliance report production processes for business groups. Led CMMI assessment and efforts to take the organization to the targeted CMMI level 4.

Notable Contributions

Instilled high Information Security awareness in Global IS & product development teams and customers, drove security assessments/remediation effort across all business systems to meet internal & external audit recommendations, delivered highly responsive infrastructure with over 99.95% availability.

Managing group’s strategy using “K& P Balanced Scorecard” methodology. Drove strategic roadmap for each managed functional area, identified KPIs, deployed tools to collect measurable KPI data, established process for technology asset lifecycle management from procurement to disposal. Led implementation of disaster recovery & business continuity services’ performance measures, including planning, setup, and implementation of fail-over location.

Management and Executions: Successfully directed key enterprise wide initiatives, including ITIL & Green IT initiative, CMMI for Services & Development. Developed and executed cloud based infrastructure strategy. Directed annual operating budget of managed groups (CAPEX $25 Mil/year and OPEX $15 Mil/year). Managed all compliance and security audits, both internal and external. Developed policies and procedures to ensure ongoing security and regulatory compliance. Ensured staff performance objectives were clearly set and consistently managed. ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE (EPRI)

Head Of Global Information Systems Engineering & Operations Palo Alto, CA 07/2009 - 03/2011 Reporting to CIO, provided leadership and management oversight, including setting priorities; monitoring accomplishments and challenges of the major global transformational information technology (i.e. Enterprise IT business services) programs while working with other business unit heads. Managed large federal govt. funded technology research projects e.g. trans north America electric grid security project, BigData Analytics for HVAC lines’ operational status data for HVAC grid etc.

Worked with senior executive management for determining strategy and tactics appropriate for near term IT Outsourcing benefits realization and long term growth. Abhay Salpekar 3/4

Overhauled entire IS Infrastructure & application architecture that was built on legacy technologies to reduce overall operating costs & increase operating efficiency with latest market proven technologies. Consolidated enterprise databases - from multivendor database solutions (Oracle, Sybase).

Led cloud engineering and operations, network, telecom, data center, messaging, ITIL & security compliance and PMO functions globally. Effectively built and led specialist teams to capture multi-year IT services engagements and complex IT outsourcing pursuits.

Directed support operations of the Oracle ERP & eBusiness suite integrated with Identity management & SOA, hosted on a multi-node enterprise database architecture. Scaled several other business critical systems like customer portals, BI, knowledgebase, CRM and web properties as demanded by business growth. Notable Contributions

Managed federal funded ($1B for 5 years) power grid Information security project and delivered technology solutions leading to acceptance for deployment.

Restructured the organization for agile delivery necessitated by demanding, dynamic business needs and for resilient information systems with a cloud delivery model. Reduced the overall cost of service delivery by 30% and increased customer satisfaction by 50%. Restructured technology services’ delivery in line with ITIL. Successfully led and managed large transition programs by conducting operational assessments and negotiating contracts with downstream service providers leading to 20% operations cost savings. Management and Executions: Transformed the infrastructure group that suffered from low customer satisfaction and inability to support the needs of a rapidly changing business demands. Restructured the organization for agile delivery to demanding, dynamic business needs and resiliency with a cloud delivery model. Reduced the overall cost of service delivery by 30% and increased customer satisfaction by 50%. EARLY CAREER

BEANISH SOFT SOLUTIONS

CTO & VP, IT Engineering and Strategy San Jose, CA 11/2008 - 06/2009 Managed multimillion dollars IT Outsourcing engagements on behalf of Beanish Soft. Worked with senior executive management of outsourcing service providers for determining strategy and tactics appropriate for near term IT Outsourcing benefits realization and long term growth.

SYMANTEC/VERITAS GLOBAL SOFTWARE

Sr. Manager Global Enterprise Information Systems Mountain View, CA 12/2002 – 10/2008 Managed various globally diversified IT functional groups supporting enterprise systems environment 24x7 with thousands of servers hosting revenue generating business critical applications including internal facing ERP / eHR / CRM / EIH / Databases / Data Warehousing/SaaS and home grown external facing marketing applications developed using Weblogic and Websphere middleware with measurable systems performances. Developed and prepared the services offering of the groups for outsourcing the IT services to meet transformational goals of the enterprise.

Feasibility study of various products and solution to make various IT services more efficient and reliable. Tactically deployed many solutions demonstrating quantifiable tangible cost savings.

Successfully lead IT programs/projects that had enterprise wide impact. Successfully led and executed major platform change program for EBIZ operations of VERITAS from SUN/Solaris to IBM Blade Center/Linux with IBM Websphere. Implemented IT department’s Linux strategy by using IBM blade center and other IBM xSeries servers.

Developed Information Systems to interface business process and automated operations processes via programming by managing full software development life cycles (SDLC). Successfully engaged and contributed in the development and implementation of ITIL initiative.

Executed virtualization strategy by using VMWARE and Solaris containers. Responsible for developing strategies to deploy extensively Symantec/VERITAS products on internal servers as part of “Use Our Own Product” initiative.

Managed SOA and WebServices deployment initiatives. Successfully managed corporate “Regulatory Compliance” initiative by developing and defining controls and implementation through SOX, PCI policies. Abhay Salpekar 4/4

Management and Executions: Focused on cost optimization through aggressive contract negotiations, personnel optimization and expense management. Experienced in regulatory compliance (SOX/PCI) implementations and development of internal regulatory compliance policies. Experienced in developing effective IT organization structures and governance processes. Proven experience in aligning IT with business strategy and IT investment management. XPHERIX CORPORATION

Director, Product Engineering & Operations (e-commerce business) Sunnyvale, CA 06/2001 – 12/2002 Managed product development teams, QA teams, product support teams for ASP service delivery. Ensured maximum uptime and SLA compliance of the e-commerce systems and service offerings. Vendor development and relationship management. FUJITSU CONSULTING

Advisory Management Consultant - IT Strategy Pittsburgh, PA 02/1996 – 06/2001 Strategic Management Consulting in Fujitsu Consulting engagements with fortune 100 clientele. Assisted fortune 100 clients in developing transformational IT strategy(BPR/ERP) for success with measurable outcomes, products, technologies selections

& developments, and turnkey implementations of corporate initiatives. EDUCATION

University of Durham, United Kingdom

M.B.A.

National Institute of Technology, India,

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Stanford University, USA

SCPM

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