VIJAYACHANDRAN R

An innovative and adaptable IT professional with over eighteen years

of hands-on global business and information technology leadership
experience seeks a challenging IT leadership position with a dynamic
organization.

Career Highlights

A technocrat with over 19 years experience in IT

Infrastructure, Data Center Management, HPC Systems &
Application Administration.
Managed multiple teams of talented professionals, managers,
architects, project managers to successfully scale and improve
companies' business.
Contact Information
Global thinker with strong hands-on management,
Flat No C2-704
Applications, Infrastructure, Data Centers.
Sriram White House
Adept in analyzing information system needs, evaluating end- 15th Cross, 6th Main R.T.Nagar, 2nd
user requirements, custom designing solutions, troubleshooting Block Bangalore-560032
for complex information systems management.
Extensive experience in Architecting IT Systems Solutions, and Phone: +91 96868 41781
providing end-to-end business solutions based on convergence Email: vijaychandran@yahoo.com
technologies. Linked-in:
Expert in RFP Responses, IT Proposals and Bid Management. http://in.linkedin.com/in/vijayacha
Developed comprehensive IT roadmaps and delivered ndranr
applications & infrastructure projects. Areas of Expertise
Managed Web Application hosting and sizing solutions
Application Infrastructure Migration Strategies based on Global Infrastructure, Operations,
application dependency analysis. Hosting, Data Centers
Strategic IT Management
Private cloud migration, Operations
Title Company Year IT Operations & Service Delivery
Sr Manager IT Capgemini May11 - Hosting Solution Design
Principal Engineer AOL Online India Dec05 Apr11 Scalable IT solution design
Network Engineer Akamai Technologies Mar04 Nov05 Program/Project Management
System Administrator Integra Micro Systems Jun00 Mar04 Formulation of IT Budgets and
Network Engineer Lampo Computers Feb99 May00 Road Maps
Support Engineer South Soft Exports Jun97 Jan99 Migration & Transition of Data
Centers.
Data Center Consolidation
Optimization of IT
IT Infrastructure Migrations
Application Infrastructure
Migrations
Education

Diploma Information Systems Management from Aptech Computer Education in 1997

Diploma Mechanical Engineering from Board Of Technical Education, Kerala State in 1994
Pre-Degree (10+2) - Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics from University Of Kerala in 1991
Career Snapshot

Capgemini (formerly AXA Technology Services) Senior Manager 05/2011 - Present

Manages service delivery of Core Infrastructure support sized more than 70 Million Euros for Asia,
Europe and North America Regions at group operation Co.
Responsible for creating and maintaining an environment with intense focus on customer satisfaction
and professional customer support balanced with consistent achievement of standard business
objectives
Maintains and improves operations by monitoring system performance; identifying and resolving
problems; preparing and completing action plans
Technical Solutions & Management of Server Consolidations, Applications hosting, Data Center
Migrations and Technology refresh etc for operating group companies.
IT Operations Management including Resource & people management for the delivery unit. Manages 60+
resources.
Act as a backup of Head of Distributed Systems Global Services division

AOL Online India Principal System Administrator 12/2005 05/2011

Functioned as Tech Lead and Solution architect with AOL India, Web Hosting Infrastructure Solutions
worth more than 50 Million USD
Technical Leadership of offshore delivery of DevOps unit which manage more than 500 web application
infrastructure including DNS, Network Load balancers, web servers, middleware servers, database
servers and hardware.
Solution design, sizing and migration of application infrastructure from 7 DCs spread over Asia, Europe
and North America to private cloud.
Responsible for performance, availability and scalability of the infrastructure.

Akamai Technologies Network Engineer 3/2004 - 11/2005

Functioned as system and application administrator managing the Akamai CDN and Streaming Networks
Responsible to work on resolving technical issues related to Akamais products and infrastructure as
reported by the customers' technical staff
Worked as a technical resource on engineering bridges on complex issues

Integra Micro Systems System Administrator 6/2000 - 03/2004

Functioned as System Administrator Role managing Organizations IT infrastructure

Responsible for managing the development servers, MIS servers, Internet gateway, internal & external
mail servers and local datacenter.
Maintained Integras IT inventory of Onsite and Offshore Project Locations

Lampo Computers Network Engineer 02/1999 05/2000

Functioned as System administrator consultant doing installation and configuration of servers and
Windows networks for different clients

South Soft Exports Support Engineer 06/1997 01/1999

Functioned as Support Engineer for System installation and maintenance for various clients