Ravi Kumar

Experienced Data Center Architect with around 19+ years of total IT experience & with a demonstrated history of working in the following areas:
- Data Center Design.
- Data Center Management.
- Data Center Operations.
- Colo Data center design & implementation.
- POD & POP data center design and implementation.
- AWS infra Administration.
- Enterprise Filer deployments.
- Excellent management and negotiation skills with third party vendors & contractors.
- Troubleshooting hardware issues related to network devices, servers, filers, and initiate RMA. 
- process with the vendors in case of a hardware failure.
- Provide support to in-house network engineering and development teams related to Data Center uptime.
- Good experience in structured cabling (copper and fiber).
- Skilled in large scale Servers deployments/management, data Centre floor designing with power/cooling planning. 
- Copper and Fiber cabling design & implementation.
- Designing of a DR.
- CMDB/DCIM management.
- Data Center migration project.
- Managing and monitoring Corp and Production servers/network devices for hardware and OS related issues.
- Handling SA related tasks like deploying SNMP server, DHCP servers, DNS servers on Linux platform.

Have 20 years of experience in IT ranging from linux system adminstator to data center architect with 11 years in Yahoo India!

University Diploma in Computer Science.