Saravanan Balakrishnan
Presales Solutions Consultant (Infrastructure Systems, Storage, Backup, Virtualization and Cloud) at AsiaPac Technology Pte Ltd (from M1)- Claim this Profile
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Tamil Native or bilingual proficiency
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Credentials
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Jan, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
VMware Certified Professional 6.5 - Data Center Virtualization
VMwareJun, 2018- Sep, 2024 -
VMware Certified Professional 6 Data Center Virtualization
VMwareJun, 2016- Sep, 2024 -
Implementation Engineer, Isilon Solutions Specialist
Dell EMCMay, 2016- Sep, 2024 -
NetApp Certified Data Administrator,
NetAppApr, 2016- Sep, 2024 -
XtremIO 3.x Flash Storage Solutions
EMCSep, 2015- Sep, 2024 -
Implementation Engineer, RecoverPoint Specialist
EMCAug, 2015- Sep, 2024 -
NTS-2001-I: Nimble Introduction and Administration
Nimble StorageJul, 2015- Sep, 2024 -
Implementation Engineer, Avamar Specialist
Dell EMCJun, 2014- Sep, 2024 -
VMware Certified Professional 5 Data Center Virtualization
VMwareJun, 2014- Sep, 2024 -
Implementation Engineer, VNX Solutions Specialist
EMCApr, 2014- Sep, 2024 -
Implementation Engineer, Backup Recovery - NetWorker Specialist
EMCMay, 2013- Sep, 2024 -
Information Storage Associate (EMCISA)
Dell EMCApr, 2012- Sep, 2024 -
VMware Certified Professional 4 Data Center Virtualization
VMwareFeb, 2012- Sep, 2024 -
Project Management Professional (PMP)®
Project Management InstituteNov, 2022- Sep, 2024 -
NetApp Accredited Installation Professional 2 (Clustered Data ONTAP)
NetApp
Experience
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AsiaPac Technology Pte Ltd (from M1)
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Singapore
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Information Technology & Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Presales Solutions Consultant (Infrastructure Systems, Storage, Backup, Virtualization and Cloud)
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Dec 2021 - Present
• Design and develop cost effective, resilient, innovative, and reliable Enterprise solutions for customers Infrastructures (Systems, Storage, Backup, Virtualization, Network, Security and Cloud). • Prepare and deliver the business value solutions for customers including proposal writing, presentation, scope of work, man effort sizing and bill of materials. • Participate in customer projects tender, RFP, RFQ process and submit required proposals in line with customer requirements to win deals. • Conduct Proof-of-Concept if required to showcase the solution technical feasibility • Explore every potential opportunity to develop current business and increase sales for the division • work closely with sales team, partners, and vendors to ensure optimum systems and solutions are provided to the customer • Actively participate in the business development lifecycle. Identify opportunities, generate proposals, and support other sales efforts • Work with Partners (Principals, System Integrators and Distributors) to deliver end-to-end solutions for customers Show less
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Infosys Compaz Pte Ltd
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Singapore
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Infrastructure Consultant - Systems, Storage, Backup, Virtualization and Cloud
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Nov 2016 - Dec 2021
• Manage Temasek Holdings and its subsidiary companies enterprise Infrastructure systems. • Evaluate emerging storage, backup, archive, and DR technologies and translate into solutions that solve customer business problems. • Lead the design, development, maintenance, and enhancements related to the storage and backup infrastructure and solutions including SAN, NAS, WAN acceleration, Backup, Archive, storage replication, DR, Cloud storage. • Participate in datacenter transformation projects and RFP process with vendors • Work as Subject Matter Expert in storage and backup infrastructure systems. • Manage enterprise storage, backup, VMware, and Azure infrastructure systems. • Develop and recommend storage, backup, archive and DR solutions and strategies, based on the analysis of customer business goals, objectives, needs, and existing storage, backup, archival and DR infrastructure. • Technical lead for junior team members in storage and backup technologies. • Support design, operation, workflow and issue resolution for the Storage/ Backup/ Archival/VMware projects and BAU tasks. • Support audit and compliance activities. • Execute Azure AD changes based on user requirements. • Execute effective plans and strategies for business continuance and disaster recovery based on customer needs. Evaluate tech refresh solutions with storage vendors. • Administrate Azure AD, VMware, EMC VMAX, VNX, XtremIO, Recoverpoint, Centera, VPLEX, ECS storages and EMC Avamar, Networker, Data Domain, Tape Library, SAN switches Asigra Cloud Backup, Veeam, Rubrik Backup systems. • Implement procedures for configuration, layout and performance tuning of storage, backup and VMware infrastructure components. Show less
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PTC System (S) Pte Ltd
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Singapore
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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System Engineer (Professional Services - Storage, Backup and Virtualization)
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Mar 2014 - Nov 2016
• Storage, Backup and VMware infrastructure systems implementation and support solutions design, project management. • Design, implement and support Storage and Backup infrastructure solutions ( EMC, NetApp, Symantec NetBackup) including integration with third party software and hardware. • Planning and administrating major portions of storage implementation which include designing, architect solutions, scope and write detailed technical documents such as Statement of Work, solution documentation, project implementation plan. • EMC SAN/NAS Implementation and administration- XtremIO, VNX, VNX2, VNXe, ISILON, CLARiiON, Recover Point, VPLEX. • NetApp SAN/NAS Implementation and administration – 7 Mode and Cluster mode Storage systems. • SAN switch installation and administration • Backup Implementation and support – EMC Networker, Symantec NetBackup, Commvalut • Data Migration from third party array to EMC array or within EMC arrays (Storage based migration and Host based migration). • Data Migration from NetApp 7 mode systems to Cluster mode system • Data Replication using Recover point and Mirror View, snap mirror • EMC Storage Data In Place conversion, NetApp Storage head swap • Responsible for storage system management, storage operation testing • VMware 5.x, 6.x Installation, Storage vMotion • Storage and backup products hardware/ software upgrade, replacements • Perform customer datacenter relocation services Show less
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HCL INFOSYSTEM LTD
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India
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Information Technology & Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Customer Engineer (Storage, Backup and VMware)
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Aug 2006 - Feb 2014
• Team lead of 18 member’s team and assign daily tickets & project tasks to team members and follow-up to closure. • Support presales and sales team for storage, backup infrastructure systems solution design, RFP process. • Support storage, backup infrastructure systems renewals and AMC contracts. • Specialist on storage, backup implementations, administration and support. • Performed Installation, administration and support for EMC Storages system like Clariion, Celerra, VNX, Recoverpoint and NetApp FAS Storage systems based on customer requirements. • Performed Implementation and migration of EMC networker backup systems. • Performed complex large scale storage and backup systems from old infrastructure to new infrastructure. • Project update to Management, customer, Sales and pre sales team. • Conduct design workshop (POC) for complex designs to meet customer business and technical objectives • Reporting and documentation for customer Storage and backup systems • Handled escalations and prepared Root cause analysis for critical storage and backup issues • Advisor to the team members on the storage and backup solutions • Implement storage and backup projects, attend break fix calls on various customer places. Show less
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Education
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2007 - 2009
Annamalai University
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science -
2003 - 2006
State Board of Technical Education and Training
Diploma in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering
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