Manager

• May 2022 - Present

IT Consultant (Change and Asset Management)

• Oct 2021 - May 2022

In-charge of IT service change management. I setup and run the IT CAB ( Change Advisory Board ) meetings for business critical applications and infrastructure. Defined and implemented Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Incharge of setup and management of IT Asset management process. Asset tagging, evaluating and implementing asset management software, Defined SOP in coordination with quality. Managed service desk team for client services and infrastructure. Managed a team of five engineers to support desktop, laptop, printers, network, manufacturing and office applications. Show less

Yoga therapist

• Aug 2018 - Apr 2022

Teaching Yoga online to India and USA students. Innovatively create content, demonstrate, guide students online to heal themselves and feel energetic. Teach them pranayama, kriyas and meditation to calm them down. Create different content for different days. Interact , make asanas easy for optimal stretching. Focus on breath and erect spine before working on the perfection of an Asana. Guide students on health, food using nature cure techniques and ayurvedic practices. Teach kriyas like Vamana dhauti, Jalaneti, Sutraneti offline to students for different ailments. Show less

• Jan 2017 - Aug 2018

Business development manager, Construction project manager.1) Building, setting up office space from scratch . As a project manager, managed quotations, vendors, carpenters, construction contractors, interior space designers. Took decisions procured materials like wood, lighting, glass, electronics likes ACs and furniture personally and through vendors.Managed the project within budget and a comfortable aesthetically designed office.2) Developing Business in the southern region of India for Advisory and Learning solutions to improve business performance using industry good practices for companies and industries.Met future multinational customers in hosur, setup meetings with directors to close deals on trainings and consulting services.3) Interviewed trainers and setup meetings with director operations for trainings and consultancy.4) Planned arranged for travel and stay of trainers , setup trainings in conference halls at 5- star hotels. Made sure trainings went smoothly.5) Managed a team of 2 employees, for ISO20000 documentation and for creating and managing the website. 6) Did marketing using newspaper channel with brochures and word of mouth. Show less

• Mar 2011 - Dec 2016

1) Conducting ITIL Foundation Trainings for corporates at Mumbai.2) Updating of ITIL service Design, Strategy, Transition, Operations and Continual Service Improvement documents and PMP Courseware updation.3) Managing and updating Moodle for quizzes and videos for ITIL, COBIT, PMP for users.4) Conducting trainings for Microsoft Excel, powerpoint and word for corporate employees in Dubai.

Sr Software Engineer

• Aug 2001 - May 2002

Sun Solaris UNIX administrator: 1) Went onsite for transitioning services of an online application for an USA telecom client as an Unix administrator and build manager. 2) Managing Sun Solaris UNIX test, development servers present in the client place USA. Disaster recovery sites, HA pairs 3) Build manager: Working closely with the development team, DBA, testing team in bundling builds, creating build installation documents with roll back plan and timely system updates. Testing the build document for the lowest downtime and success of the release deployment on test and development servers. Part of review CAB meetings with client and team. 4) Liasing with the service engineers at client side ,during release going online and incase of any server issues. Debugging any issues with the support of the system engineers online. 5) Working at scaling the servers for the increase in traffic and customers. Show less

Programmer, Analyst programmer, System Administrator

• Mar 2000 - Aug 2001

Analyst Programmer (DSQ acknowledged and appreciated my contribution for the Organisation's growth and promoted me on 12th October 2000 from Programmer). Received 2 pay raises in 10 months due to good performance. Administration of - Sun Servers used for Development/Training of Element Managers for CISCO components. - Linux servers for development,Automation of regular tasks. Automated FTP of packages to Atlantech using shell scripts and NCFTP with email notification to the required personel once the FTP was done with the byte size and checksum verification. Scripting support and UNIX related support to programmers in the group. Sendmail configuration with rule re-write to automate mailing systems. Set-up NIS (Network Information Service) server with Autofs on Red Hat Linux 7.0 and Sun Solaris 2.6 alongwith automout on LINUX and Sun Solaris. International project experience: 1) Project Lead: Travelled to Singapore and setup the 3-tier architecture on five Linux servers for Singapore based streaming music web startup. Installation & configuration of Linux servers with Oracle8i, applications Weblogic & Apache. 2) Team Member: Travelled to Glasgow, Scotland and worked with networking company to do functional and performance testing for the product Cisco Element Manager. Helped identify bugs and filed bug reports. Other achievements: 1) Internal mailing system for 200 programmers Designed and setup Sendmail integrating it with LDAP on a LINUX server, for project groups to communicate internally within themselves creating virtual domains Integrated the same with Apache web server with IMAP4 and PostgreSQL mail frontend called IMP (HORDE.org) to access their mail across LAN using web interface. 2) Conducted UNIX training across Bangalore and Chennai office, onsite. Show less

Network Engineer

• Mar 1998 - Feb 2000

System and Network Administration 1. Global EFS (Enhanced Fax Services) Global EFS is a TCP/IP network spread across 10 cities, providing FAX store and forward services. It consists of ATLAS FAX software on various UNIX platforms with a distributed Oracle database. Customer base: 20000. Administration of - ATLAS FAX messaging server on Sequent Symmetry SE20 with Dynix/PTX UNIX. The ATLAS software switch uses an Oracle database to store and forward the FAX messages. - Oracle 6.0 database on Dynix/PTX. Includes backup and restore procedures, database monitoring etc. - Sun Solaris workstations with X-Windows database front-end for day to day intercept operations. - RFEs (Remote Front Ends) on SCO UNIX, which accept/deliver in-bound/out-bound FAX messages (using Brooktrout FAX PC I/O cards) processed by the messaging server. 24x7 technical support to 10 cities. Oracle PL/SQL, Shell programming for MIS reports. Billing for EFS customers. 2. GlobalMail (X.400 Mailing system) Global mail is a TCP/IP network of ISOCOR X.400 mail systems spread across ten cities providing corporate mailing services. It consists of ISOPLEX X.400 MTA on HP-UX platform. Customer base: above 20000. Configuration, Administration and maintenance of - HP9000 system. - X.25, APS, ISOPLEX Async & TCP/IP RFC 1006 protocol stack for access to message transfer agent (MTA), backup and restore, process and disk management etc. - ISOCOR MTA, users. - E-mail systems: MSMail, Lotus CC: Mail, ISOPLEX X400 on Windows NT servers and desktops - Gateways for integrating these mail systems with standard X400 formats and X400 messging with fascimile systems. UNIX shell scripting for administration and MIS reports. 3. MS Exchange (SMTP mail) Installation, configuration and management of MS Exchange 5.5, Windows NT 4.0 servers, DNS configuration. 4. Integrated EDI with SMTP bridge service using Sendmail as MTA. 5. Installed OpenBSD firewall between internal network and the Internet. Show less