ANAND ASHOK GADVE
Contact: +91-982*******, E-Mail: ************@*****.***
Targeting senior level assignment in IT Infrastructure Management, Global IT Operations, Project Management and Incident Management with an reputed organization
Location Preference: India/Overseas
PROFILE SUMMARY
Key Skills:
Site Manager
Windows 10 Migration
SCCM/DHCP/DNS/Active Directory
Team Leader
Wintel Technologies
Project Management
Change Management
Incident Management
Vendor Management
Data Center Management
Experienced professional with over 15 years of experience in the areas of process excellence and management for global IT infrastructure operations, Incident, Change, Problem, Project, People and Vendor Management
Experience in managing Office 365, Windows servers, Domain Controllers, Active directory, File/Print Servers, RSA, VPN and AW/Intune consoles
Capabilities in assessing & mapping requirements and translating them into functional specifications, custom designing solutions and troubleshooting for complex information system management
Resourceful in providing timely & effective response/RCA to clients on logged requests and updating requests records to reflect steps taken forward resolution
Strategic planner with skills in dealing with clients/end-users for requirements gathering, risk assessment, finalization of technical architects and discussions for effort/costs/time estimation and client co-ordination and reporting
Developed excellence in managing deployments, configuration, administration and troubleshooting complex infrastructure configurations
Travelled Australia and Singapore for managing onsite projects.
An excellent team player and communicator with exceptional interpersonal and problem solving skill with friendly and respectful attitude
WORK EXPERIENCE
March 2010 - May 2020 ADP Pvt. Ltd. as a Project Lead (IT Operations)
Role:
At ADP, my job responsibility was a blend of people management and Individual contributor. I was leading IT operations team in Pune location which managed complete IT operations/Infrastructure of the company and provided support to end-users across the location.
Handled Incident/Changes/SLA/Infrastructure, Team/People management
Technical Responsibilities
Strong knowledge and experience in Virtualization Technologies like VMWare, Azure
Managing Windows server infrastructure with various roles of windows server 2008/2012/2016.
Managing and troubleshooting Active Directory, User and group management and NTFS Permissions.
Managed user accounts using Active Directory 2008/2012 to create new domain accounts, provide controlled access to existing network resources.
Worked as an escalation point for the entire delivery team in Pune, Singapore and Australia region for all technical issues. It included providing highest level of support on issues related to office 365, Active directory, E-mail, Mobile devices, File/Print Server, Hardware & Workstation Builds (Migrations)
Handled and provided support to team members on all types of tickets from P1 to P5 till there closure
On-call availability to address any critical outages, infrastructure maintenance and hardware related issues
Keeping systems and all other IT related devices up to date with latest patches, firmware, OS & hardware
Managed IT Infrastructure of the company which comprised of physical and virtual servers, printers, network devices, MUX rooms, Hub rooms & Data center devices(switches, storage, voice appliances)
Real time monitoring and proactive approach for the alerts ensuring maximum availability
Single point of contact for domain migrations, OS builds migrations and device upgrades (Includes Singapore and Australia regions)
Troubleshooting all issues related to IT hardware, dual identity accounts, multi domain issues, voice/network appliance support, support for storage devices
Created and Maintained up to date documents for Data Center hardware, application software (licensing) and IT hardware inventory
Operational Responsibilities
Hiring and staffing candidates for Technical Positions
Assigning KRA/KPIs to team and perform annual assessments for appraisal ratings
Managed and Handled P1 incidents bridge calls
Random internal audits in the team on compliance and governance framework
Mentored and provided trainings to new team members for their up skilling
New Joiners IT inductions
Decision making for IT budget, both Capex and Opex
Vendor management & decisions on partnership renewals
Managing shift schedules and leave management
Onboarding and off boarding associates from IT perspective
DR-BCP management committee SPoC, ISO/ISMS audit coordinator
Hardware asset cycle decision committee member
Handled Data center annual shutdown maintenance
PROJECT SUMMARY
Domain migrations for 80+ associates in Singapore Location (Worked Onsite)
Domain migrations for 400+ associates in Australia (Worked Onsite)
End of life (asset debonding) and tech refresh for workstations, servers and mobility devices as part of compliance and asset life cycle
Rolled out and migrated all the systems to Win 10 OS and patch deployment to v1903 for 3500+ associates without any production impact
Virtual Tech Café setup : India’s first Virtual Tech Café project implemented to handle Incident based queries with NPS of 90%
AV/VC upgrades from Polycom to Cisco WebEx units and conducted trainings for all the associates
Single Identity Project – Single domain consolidation across all global locations
Implemented MPS solution for effective and secured print solution
Aug 2004 - Feb 2010 Indira Group of Institutes Pune, as System Administrator
Managing Team of 10+ associates for level 1 support, directly reporting to IT Director
Single point of contact for 5 branch offices
Successfully migrated Windows 98 OS to Win XP and Win 7
Data Center design and implementation
Infrastructure designing of UPS Load and backup, raceway and fiber backbone
Configure and Maintaining Servers in Data Center
Handling annual ISO and NAC audit
Administration, Installing and configuring of Antivirus software
Setup of computer practical Labs for different streams as per the requirement
Managing field/floor support for desktop/network related issues
Management of Print Server
Vendor Management – Coordination with various Vendor like ISP, UPS, Projector, Hardware and Software to run the business uninterruptedly
EDUCATION
Master’s in computer management from Pune University in 2003
BSc (Physics) from Pune University in 2001
Trainings and Certification
Completed training and Certification in VCP510-VMware Certified Professional 5 [V5.1] Registration # 264538431
Completed training and ITIL foundation in IT Service Management certification. (Certificate Number 5793786.20576858)
Completed Azure Training.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth : October 04th 1978
Languages Known: Marathi, Hindi and English
Address: Privia 9, Flat # 903, Floor 9th, PCNTDA, Moshi Pradhikaran, Sector # 6, Pune,Pin 412105