Project Manager Desktop Support
Resume:
Atul J. Pimple
Iselin, NJ *****
***********@*****.***
SUMMARY
Senior Technology management professional with Masters in Telecommunications and 10+ years of total experience in the area of Computer Networking with global teams.
Currently working as a Network Datacenter Project Manager for financial client
Experienced with Project Budgeting, Service Provider contract negotiations, Equipment ordering, Network architecture for ISP, Change Management process, Data collection and evaluation process.
Experience on managing projects involving Cisco routers/switches, Cisco Nexus platform, Juniper routers/switches, firewalls, load balancers, Web proxies
Excellent Leadership qualities, work ethic, global team engagement & Interpersonal skills to work with a technical as well as non-technical team.
EDUCATION
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Master of Science, Telecommunications Management
THADOMAL SHAHANI ENGINEERING COLLEGE (TSEC)
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics
CERTIFICATIONS:
CCNP – 2008
PMP – 2010
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Datacenter Project Manager (Consultant) Jun 2014 – Current
Working as a consultant on datacenter projects. The projects involve diverse teams all over the globe to design, implement and support infrastructure for corporate functions. The job duties include but not limited to building Bill of Materials, project timelines, represent network changes to business, coordinate onsite resources and engineers.
Projects:
Diversify wireless controller paths to achieve maximum redundancy and reduce dependency on multiple datacenters
Manage IDF upgrade for user floors with Cisco and Juniper hardware.
Upgrade campus access and distribution infrastructure
Datacenter move of WAN and LAN infrastructure along with other aspects of network such server farms, remote access, circuit moves and disconnects
Associate Director: Network Engineering Apr 2013 – Jun 2014
St. John’s University, NY
Worked as an Associate Director for Network Engineering of St. John’s University. St John’s University spans over 100 Acre campus with about 20,000 users and over 30 campus buildings with campus wide wireless implementation.
Projects:
Upgraded core network and server infrastructure to Nexus based architecture.
Network Access and distribution upgrades for MDFs and IDFs in campus buildings using Cisco devices.
Firewall upgrade to accommodate more bandwidth and session requirements.
Migration project from legacy IP scheme to new IP scheme.
Wireless upgrade to new cisco 8500 controller and prime infrastructure
Manage network using Solarwinds and Infoblox.
Technical Project manager / Consultant Aug 2007 – Apr 2013
Client: Deutsche Bank, NJ
Worked in the datacenter network deployment group. The group is responsible for managing network infrastructure projects for all the new services going into the North America datacenters and branches for Deutsche Bank.
Key contributions:
Routine tasks:
Evaluate the business need for network infrastructure and work with engineering team to shape the project.
Once the design is finalized, build the proposal and present to the business for financial approvals
Once financially approved, build project implementation plan and work with network engineers to implement the network
Projects:
Build Server farms for core connectivity with upto 10G access to the servers and connectivity to the corporate network through distribution routers.
Build Secure Server Farms for restricted access to sensitive servers with upto 1G access. The design includes switches/routers along with Juniper firewalls.
Build Extranet silos for external client connectivity. These silos are used to communicate with external clients and get feeds from exchanges.
Network Provisioning/Implementation Engineer Mar 2006 – Aug 2007
Client: AT&T, NJ 08854
Worked on network provisioning and implementation for AT&T.
Key contributions:
Primary role includes collection and analysis of customer data for the identification, and implementation of business solutions.
Plan, design, configure, implement, and support enterprise class IP based networks using variety of routing protocols including RIP, BGP, IGRP/EIGRP, HSRP, MPLS, and OSPF from the AT&T Global IP Network Backbone.
Senior Technical Member of AT&T Managed Services provisioning team who designs and provisions network solutions to AT&T Enterprise customers including configure, troubleshoot, and maintain AT&T Managed Cisco routers on Private Line and Frame Relay/ATM with bandwidths from fractional/full T1, T3 to OC-3 and OC-12 over copper and optical facilities.
Infrastructure Engineer Dec 2004 – Mar 2006
Professional Access, NY-10004. (www.professionalaccess.com)
The company is based in New York with branch offices in USA as well as offshore consisting of more than 500 employees with a turnover of 40 million dollars per year.
Key contributions:
Gather project related network infrastructure requirements from project managers.
Propose infrastructure upgrades and software purchases for individual clients.
Maintain budget and inventory for infrastructure department.
Implement and upgrade network with Cisco routers/switches, VPN routers, and firewalls, Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Points in Windows environment.
Desktop support for windows and Linux machines, including OS/software/antivirus installation and network connectivity.
Manage Exchange 2003 mail server, Windows System Update (SUS) server, Symantec Antivirus enterprise server, DHCP, DNS, IIS, FTP and WEB servers and Active directory in Windows 2003 server environment.
Manage VPN network with Nortel Contivity VPN router and Sonicwall/ checkpoint VPN-1 firewalls.
Implemented Infrastructure Security and network Upgrade project
Implemented Data storage and Disaster Recovery Planning project
Implemented Project 3: Active directory Implementation project
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