Vice President Technology

• Apr 2019 - Present

Assitant Vice President - Technology

• Oct 2015 - Mar 2019

Responsible for deployment and management of mission critical initiatives. * Data center management * IT Procurement management. * IT Infrastructure and Operations Management. * IT Process Development and implementation. * Vendor Management. * IT policy Implementation * IT infrastructure design and implementation * Project Management * Team Management * Change Management * Capacity and Performance Management * Managing Trading Environment for Exchange Responsible for deployment and management of mission critical initiatives. * Data center management * IT Procurement management. * IT Infrastructure and Operations Management. * IT Process Development and implementation. * Vendor Management. * IT policy Implementation * IT infrastructure design and implementation * Project Management * Team Management * Change Management * Capacity and Performance Management * Managing Trading Environment for Exchange

Assitant Vice President -Managed Services Networking

• Apr 2011 - Sep 2015

Responsibilities:* Responsible for deployment and management of mission critical initiatives like Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (www.mcxindia.com), MCX-Stock Exchange (Currency Derivative, Equity, Equity Derivative & Debt Segment)(www.mcx-sx.com), National Spot Exchange Ltd. (www.nationalspotexchange.com) and Financial Technology Communication Limited ( Class A - ISP )* Proximity Trading: Co-location facility to provide ultra low latency and high density switching environment.* Class A ISP: FTCL is implemented to serve internal group companies. FTCL is connected to 3 upstream service providers with active DR facility. FTCL has its own AS and IP pool.* Data center management* IT Procurement management.* IT Infrastructure and Operations Management.* IT Process Development and implementation.* Vendor Management.* IT policy Implementation* IT infrastructure design and implementation * Project Management* Team Management* Change Management* Capacity and Performance Management* Managing Trading Environment for Exchanges Show less

Sr. Manager

• Apr 2008 - Mar 2012

Responsibilities:* Responsible for deployment and management of mission critical initiatives like Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (www.mcxindia.com), MCX-Stock Exchange (www.mcx-sx.com), National Spot Exchange Ltd. (www.nationalspotexchange.com) and Financial Technology Communication Limited ( Class A - ISP )* Responsible for the IT Infrastructure for Primary Site, Near Site (NS) & Disaster Recovery Site (DR) Data Center.* HUB and SPOKE: Hub and Spoke is a high performance, resilient network with Primary DC and Disaster Recovery Site along with 10 POP locations across India. Carrier class routers are used with high speed links along with APS facility. Dynamic Protocols are used for backbone connectivity and between POP and Members connectivity. Out of Band Management with 24 * 7 monitoring. Show less

Manager

• May 2007 - Mar 2008

Responsibilities:Responsible for deployment and management of mission critical initiatives like Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (www.mcxindia.com), MCX-Stock Exchange (www.mcx-sx.com), National Spot Exchange Ltd. (www.nationalspotexchange.com) and Financial Technology Communication Limited ( Class A - ISP )* Routing Protocols - EIGRP, OSPF, RIP and BGP.* Switching – STP, RSTP, MSTP.* Preparing Low Level and High level Document (LLD and HLD), NIP, NRFU.* Preparing Bill of Material for Network equipment’s (BOM)* Routers / Switches / Firewall - Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, 3Com etc.* CISCO Nexus platform 3K, 5K and 7K.* Managing and Implementation of various mode of connectivity for client - VSAT, Point to point lease circuits, MPLS (BSNL, Airtel and TCL).* Defining SLA with third party vendors.* POC, Negotiation and finalization of new technical solutions, products and commercials* Implementation of process and policies to acquire ISO 9001 - 2000 and BS 7799 (ISO 27001) security certifications.* Implementation of centralized fault and performance management system from CA. Migration of all business units to Centralized CA NMS system.* Conducting periodic mock from Disaster Recovery Site (DR) as per regulatory (SEBI & FMC). Show less

Manager

• Aug 2004 - Apr 2007

Responsibilities: * Managing Trading environment of Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) * Responsible for the Trading Infrastructure, Application of Primary Site & DR Site. * Database Backup & application Maintenance / Management. * Coordinate with Help desk or any department of the organization to resolve issues pertaining to Trading applications. * Ensuring proper implementation of new software release in test & subsequently in trading environment after successfully testing. * Planned & drafted company IT policy & procedures. * Successful Shifting of entire production environment from existing premises to Exchange Square. * Successfully coordinated for ISO 27001 Audit and certification. Show less

Assistant Manager

• Jan 2002 - Aug 2004

Responsibilities: * Role as a Technical Leader for maintaining LAN, WAN and Trading Systems with 12 Engineers reporting. * Implementation and management of IT infrastructure and WAN network using VSAT connectivity from trading clients. * Administration & Support of Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Mdaemon Server (Email), Microsoft Proxy server, WINS, FTP, Web and DNS servers. * Providing technical support to clients (all over India) for issues such as trouble shooting & administration of WAN connectivity, NT servers & RAS clients. * Monitor VSAT link such as SCPC and KU band. * Managing and creating polices with Checkpoint NG FP 3FW integrated with Real Secure IDS. * Administration and configuration of Web Sites hosted on IIS 5.0 and 4.0 * Back up using Arc Server for Servers. * Installation and administration of DNS, IntraScan virus wall Servers and other various internal servers. * Documentation projects for BCP and CSIRT. * Monitoring of ISDN and Leased line connectivity in Mumbai. * Configuring Cisco router 2610/1750 for IP connectivity. * Installation and configuration of RAS; installation of ORION (Trading Software) on the remote client. * Change Management * Policy and Procedures. Show less

Systems and Network Executive

• May 1997 - Jun 2001

Responsibilities: * Responsible for maintaining LAN, WAN and Systems. * Co-ordinate with the business partner network engineer for configuring the route. Testing business partner's network connectivity by checking the Central Router for X25 svc connection for that particular business partner. * Assist business partner in establishing Dialup connectivity (PSTN/ISDN), in case of VSAT link failure. Task involved allocating a free ISDN number from the dialup pool and guiding the business partner to configure their modem for synchronous dialup connectivity. * Providing technical support to more than 300 NSDL business partners (all over India) for issues such as troubleshooting and administration of X.25 WAN connectivity, NT servers & Microsoft exchange clients. * Monitoring of X.25, IP and leased line connectivity of NSDL in Mumbai. * Was a team member for planning and carrying out production changes to DRS in case of disaster at production site? Assisted in implementing fiber optic Gigabit Ethernet backbone connecting 2 buildings. * Administration and support of Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Microsoft Exchange & Microsoft Proxy Sever. * Daily backup & verification of primary exchange server & daily restoration of primary Exchange server back to the backup (off-line) Microsoft Exchange server. * Formulated and implemented Slandered Operating procedure for Windows NT Security & Desktop PC's. * Responsible for co-ordination and liaison with hardware vendors and network service providers VSNL, MTNL and HCL Comnet. * Relationship management: Liaise with telecom authorities VIZ. MTNL on all regulatory / approval issues, commissioning and maintenances of leased lines. Show less