Summary
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Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Hobbies and Interests
Languages
Supported causes
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Vikas Kapani

Vikas Kapani

Adelaide,Australia

Summary

Accomplished Project Consultant with expertise in Microsoft Azure and Hybrid Cloud Management, recognized for enhancing VMWare infrastructure and successfully leading complex migrations. Proven analytical and problem-solving skills drive optimized project delivery through ITIL principles, resulting in robust and scalable solutions.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Consultant

Brennan IT
Adelaide, Australia
07.2023 - Current

Company Overview: Brennan known for delivering scalable, enterprise-grade products and services

  • Enhanced VMWare infrastructure for optimal performance.
  • Successfully executed migration of AD and OS to latest version.
  • Complete MS Azure Site Recovery setup
  • Refreshed VEEAM Backup for on-prem environments and M365.
  • Conducted migration of AD, DNS, and Group Policy to MS 365/Intune.
  • Evaluated compute, networking, storage, load-balancer, backups and network security groups (NSG) for migration scope.
  • Executed Nutanix system upgrades.
  • Executed lift and shift operations for on-premises workloads.
  • Migrated on-premise Active Directory to Azure using Azure AD Connect.
  • Design, manage, and optimize cloud environments while overseeing external service providers for data centre, storage, networking, and cloud services

Principal Consultant

Allstate India (P) Ltd
Pune, India
09.2020 - 07.2023

Company Overview: Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company

  • Design, implement and support of vCenter, SDDC, VCF, VSAN, VROPS
  • Automation of repetitive tasks using Jenkins and powershell
  • Sizing Capacity planning of existing environment, Recommending solutions accordingly on Storage and Compute
  • Migration / Lift and Shift of workloads from On-premises to cloud

VMWARE SME

Wipro Technologies
Pune, India
07.2018 - 09.2020

Company Overview: Wipro offers a diverse range of solutions in IT infrastructure management services.

  • Responsible for managing and deploying VMWARE and Cloud project
  • Worked as VMWARE SME for complex VMWARE infrastructure and Cloud delivery team

Consultant

HCL Technologies Ltd
Noida, India
01.2014 - 05.2018

Company Overview: HCL offers a diverse range of solutions in IT infrastructure management services, digital process operations, cloud-native services

  • Part of Wintel Team and handling Windows and VMWare environment

Consultant - Wintel

Vertex Customer Services (P) Ltd.
Gurgaon, India
08.2006 - 12.2013

Company Overview: Vertex provides Customer Management Outsourcing and IT Services

  • Oversee infrastructure operations, maintenance, and rapid issue resolution for critical platforms
  • Responsible for supporting complex Infrastructure for Windows and VMWare environment

Education

MCA - Computerur

IGNOU
Delhi
12.2006

BCA - Computer

IGNOU
Delhi
12.2003

Skills

  • Microsoft Azure Expertise
  • AWS Platform Proficiency
  • Hybrid Cloud Management
  • Private Cloud Solutions
  • VMware Infrastructure Management
  • Nutanix Expertise
  • VEEAM Backup Management
  • AvePoint Proficiency
  • HCI
  • VMware VSAN Expertise
  • Storage
  • VCF
  • Azure Active Directory
  • ITIL
  • Service Now
  • HCX

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Level, 2020
  • Microsoft Azure Administrator (AZ-104), 2022
  • Microsoft Azure Infrastructure solutions (AZ-305), 2023

Hobbies and Interests

  • Cricket
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

Languages

  • English, 100/100
  • Hindi, 100/100

Supported causes

Volunteering RSSB Organization on Weekend

Timeline

Project Consultant

Brennan IT
07.2023 - Current

Principal Consultant

Allstate India (P) Ltd
09.2020 - 07.2023

VMWARE SME

Wipro Technologies
07.2018 - 09.2020

Consultant

HCL Technologies Ltd
01.2014 - 05.2018

Consultant - Wintel

Vertex Customer Services (P) Ltd.
08.2006 - 12.2013

MCA - Computerur

IGNOU

BCA - Computer

IGNOU
Vikas Kapani