Project Manager It
Resume:
VIRAJ RAUT
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Experience
Innovator and problem solver for creative real-time collaboration solutions for businesses. Traditionally handled complex enterprise solutions and provided a simple customer facing outcome. Technically sound and strives to meet customer business objectives.
Director (Astereae LLC) 11/21 - Present
Leading the company in consulting and system integration segments for real-time collaboration solutions for growth centric organizations. Company provides solutions to scale technical deployments and operations. A complete product life cycle is supported as part of business practice from concept, ideation to product design, deployment and commissioning. Competence to provide system integration solutions and automation. Additional competence in providing NOC centric operations for AWS/Azure/GCP based deployments for serverless deployments, IP voice, Video solutions and SD-Wan solution deployments. Ability to manage security and Infosec operations and compliance based on security advisories. Provided consulting services for managing collaboration voice and video and global long-distance network for local handoff. Provided operational support for SD-Wan orchestrators and gateway deployments. Co-Founder (Doktorup) 09/19 – 4/23
Developed a clinical automation solution for small family practice Doctors so their patients could easily book appointments with a single click and do check-in with 3 clicks with full real-time integration with EHR. The solution was web and mobile for patients. Doctors office also had a office check0-in application on tablet. Director (Parzee) 05/15 – 10/21
Provided consultancy and system integration for real-time collaboration solutions to leading service provider. Built a solution to deploy Cisco application servers into the customer hosted datacenter servers. This solution reduced deployment time by 1/3 saving costs and resources. Designed Developed cloud services for verification using voice for financial customers. Solutions can determine risk profiles using voice and provide analysis. This benefited customers by identifying various levels of risks and providing better due-diligence. Developed solution for notification using voice technologies for compliance markets. Notification solution used voice for compliance and security scenarios. This solution provided a highly versatile and flexible framework that was customizable per customer notifications. Solution has made more than 4 million notifications in last 5 years.
Director (Abe Cloud Systems) 03/14 – 10/21
Provided consultancy and system integration for real-time collaboration solutions to AT&T labs. Designed and commissioned large deployments and projects. Implemented the HCS solution in AT&T for their business IP telephony offer. Instrumental in connectivity and redundancy planning for US, EMEA and APAC datacenters. Provided the scale and capacity monitoring solution and integration with solar winds. Provided internal tools for capacity forecasting. Design of Internal tooling solution for load balancing and redundancy. Provided design guides and process documentations. Provided the backup solution for Application servers, Application data and tooling servers. Provided the integration for Cisco HCMF and related infrastructure. Designed and deployed the docker proxy solution for common network services. Provided the privileged admin solution using Beyond trust and RDP proxy.
Cisco Systems, Technical Marketing Engineer 07/01-03/14 Technical Marketing and solutions
Provided solution to Fortune 500 corporations for TelePresence, Unified communication and Video. This enabled them to deploy Cisco solutions globally and improve efficiency. Provided channels and partners simplified ways to deploy and upgrade UC systems. This enabled partners to reduce deployment time and increase sales. Authored best practices for video deployments through design guides, whitepapers and Solution Reference Network Design (SRND) guides. Subject matter expert in UC on UCS and Datacenter deployments. Contributed to UC applications information on UC on UCS servers on the Cisco docwiki site. Presented at Cisco Live, internal trainings and Customer EBCs. Novasoft Information Technology (U.K.), Senior Network Engineer 03/00-06/01 Operations and program management
Responsible for business operations and providing consultancy services. Provided system designs, completed deployments and managed network operations and contact center applications. Performed network and wan monitoring and management for the entire European operation for connecting different locations. Provided instant support for ensuring the helpdesk operation performed uninterrupted so there was business continuity. Key contributions were that that value added services provided, improved profitability of the organization.
Microland Limited (India), Services Manager 12/98-03/00 Business process and practices
Responsible for Managed services offering at numerous large global organizations. Provided technology insight and solutions to optimize cost and operations. Managed the day to day network operations for the largest cellphone provided in Mumbai. Improved the compliance and real-time application updates for Financial applications. Provided a support ticketing solution with embedded email forms. Provided disaster recovery solution for financial and services sector customers. Key contributions were to signup multiple global financial customers for managed services and help achieve disaster recovery process compliance.
Johnson & Johnson (India), Senior Network Systems Engineer 11/96-12/98 Responsible for the operation of the network and application services such ERP applications, collaboration applications and internal business applications. Connected all offices and manufacturing locations with Wan and satellite links. Implemented Lotus notes throughout the organization with customization for every region. Implemented video conference solution with rest of the J&J network and India operations. Responsible for the SAP application database connectivity for manufacturing and logistics applications. Key contributions were implementing nationwide WAN network and commissioning video conferencing facilities, while improving the IT services to users. Various organizations in India: Senior Network Systems Engineer 08/92-11/96 Multitech Software Systems, Cirrus Electronic Systems, Edit Systems and Siemens. Primary responsibilities were increase sales, grow company presence and provide customer support for products and solutions. Subject matter expert for wan solutions for airline customers. Demonstrated and implemented solution for newspaper industry and financial agencies to ensure real-time network connectivity and business connectivity for operations and transactions. Performed maintenance task for various government and commercial institutions for medical instruments and systems.
Education
MBA Marketing Management (M.M.M.) JBIMS, University of Mumbai, India (1999) Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) VJTI, University of Mumbai, India (1992) Diploma in Electronics and Radio Engineering (D.E.R.E.) Maharashtra State Board, India (1989) Certificate course in Project Management San Jose State University (2005) Certificate course in Marketing Strategies Cornell University (2013)
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