Praveen Kumar T

Designed VCF 9 architecture for 5-10 strategic enterprises, translating business requirements into solutions with 100% on-time delivery. Engaged CIOs and infrastructure leads to validate designs and led workload migrations from on-premises to VCF 9 private and hybrid cloud.

Led a 10-engineer team on VCF transition and migration projects, cutting project timelines 20% for strategic APJ customers. Delivered zero-downtime VCF 3.x-to-4.x migrations and VMC-on-Dell transitions, sustaining customer satisfaction above benchmarks.

Resolved escalated Customer Affecting Problem (CAP) cases across VxBlock, FlexPod, VMware and HyperFlex, improving SLA compliance. Partnered with engineering to document root causes and fix product defects, closing multiple defects.

Delivered proof-of-concept engagements and data center implementations for 2 enterprise clients. Designed and integrated VCF, vSAN and VxRail solutions to meet customer business and technical requirements.

Deployed VxRail clusters and VCF environments on VxRack SDDC for enterprise customers across APJ. Served as sole APJ-timezone escalation contact for VxRack SDDC/FLEX, coordinating with global teams on multi-vendor issues.

Configured VMware environments, deployed guest VMs and installed bare-metal ESXi hypervisors. Resolved infrastructure issues through root cause analysis and documentation, sustaining availability of systems.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bengaluru, India, from 2008 to 2012.