J Anil Kumar
Dubai, UAE – +971502755459 – anilkumar.itpro@gmail.com
– www.linkedin.com/in/anilkumaritpro/
IT
Manager Profile
IT
Services & Operations - IT Project Management – IT Infrastructure
Management
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IT Strategy
Formulation
Stakeholder
/Vendor Relationship
IT Budgeting
& Cost Optimisation
Disaster & Recovery
Planning
Network/System
Administration
Application
Design & Development
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Dynamic IT
leader with broad experience in managing IT hardware and network
infrastructure, ensuring data security and overseeing software development
processes.
Proven
success in leading high-profile projects by aligning business goals with
technology solutions to drive process improvements and bottom-line gains.
Resourceful manager with robust expertise in IT service management, disaster recovery planning, systems implementation,
and post-deployment support.
Accelerated career track in developing, implementing, and evaluating
systems aimed to elevate quality and efficiency of organisational IT
operations.
Adept at
quickly responding to ever changing environments and situations along with
competency to achieve goals within critical project deadline.
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CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
· Achieved 100%
ROI within one year during implementation process of UTMs. Sized the Internet
connection bandwidth according to the users and requirement in each branch. The
ISP provided a discounted costing as the connections were taken under one
entity. Both the exercise helped in achieving ROI within a year.
· Introduced and
implemented cost effective and highly reliable approaches that reduced remote
application delivery cost by 10 times by implementing Parallels Application
Delivery instead of Upgrading an existing Citrix farm.
· Improved
efficiency of overall IT operations and organisational growth while ensuring
99% up-time of infrastructure asset, including (hardware, software, network,
and communication). This was achieved by regular monitoring and fine tuning.
· Designed and
implemented an N-tier architecture mail solution with Google Postini and
on-premise mail server to get SPAM mails which constituted to 98% of mail traffic
to 1000 users across 30 domains and 15 locations and 6 countries.
· Designed and
implemented infrastructure for N-tier application for New India
Assurance including application servers, web servers (MS IIS 6, asp.net)
and database servers (Oracle 11g database on Linux OS).
· Spearheaded all
aspects of technical operations of 32 Group companies, provided exceptional IT
support to the 600+ users.
· Monitored &
maintained the functioning of 25 Servers, 60+ active devices including
switches, UTMs and routers.
· Designed
application infrastructure with production and DR with VPN connectivity across
four different countries.
Professional Experience
RAIS HASSAN SAADI GROUP ¾ Dubai, UAE 2004-Present
Network
Administrator / Assistant Manager - Networking
· Optimise
effectiveness of network and systems by resolving support issues for satellite
offices within U.A.E. Remote support for emails to offices in India, Bahrain,
Pakistan, Tanzania, and Kenya.
· Designed and
developed with support from development team to integrate faxing solution
according to business application.
· Secure and
maintain organisation’s financial database while establishing disaster recovery
plans for RHS Group in Oracle database.
· Led the
development of B2G software project from inception to completion for Group
Company Trident Freight and Dubai Customs regarding customs declaration
complementing the latter’s DubaiTrade online portal with a cost saving of 80%.
· Headed
cross-functional teams of support engineers and helpdesk system to accomplish
assigned tasks in an efficient manner as well as maximised performance of Cisco
routers and PIX firewall.
· Completed
auditing process and procedures while playing an essential role of internal
auditor for ISO across group companies.
· Rewrote all ISO
documentation of Group IT to reflect ISO:9001-2015.
· Implemented NOD32
secure enterprise antivirus solution throughout the RHS Group Companies one
company at a time.
· Disaster
Recovery - Recovered Oracle financial database deleted by developer while doing
year ending closing and recovery of Oracle database from formatted server hard
disk of one the group company.
COMPUDYNE WINFOSYSTEMS ¾ Bangalore, India 2003-2004
Consultant -
Systems
Worked as IT
Consultant with management of the IT Infrastructure team named as OMG
(Operations Maintenance Group)
COMPUDYNE WINFOSYSTEMS ¾ Adoor, India 1994-2003
Consultant -
Systems
An IT hardware
sales and service organisation which was the pioneer in the district at that
time. Had a software development division also.
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
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Server OS:
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Windows NT to
Windows 2016, Linux (RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu)
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Desktop OS:
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Windows 3.1
to Windows 10, Ubuntu to Linux Mint
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Tools:
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Visio, DIa,
Creatly Project
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Development
Tools:
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Visual
Studio.NET
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Network Tools:
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ME NetFlow
Analyser, Nagios, Zabbix, SpiceWorks, Pandora FMS, OpenNMS, OTRS Helpdesk,
OPNSense, PFSense, ServiceNOW, ITOP
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Education and Certifications
UNIVERSITY OF KERALA, Kollam, India
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
Certifications
ITIL V3 Foundation
Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA)
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Cisco Certified Network
Associate (CCNA)
Honors Diploma in Systems Management (NIIT)
Certificate Course in Systems Analysis and Design and Office Automation