Arvind S.

I have more than 20 years of excellent technical experience in cloud and virtualization, cloud security, large-scale distributed systems and networks, software solutions and tools, quality control, and customer support, which includes more than 15 years of project/program management, hiring and direct management of technical staff, and coordinating various cross-functional initiatives. KEY WORK SKILLS Program/Project/Product/Process/Team Leading & Management: • Experience with industry-standard operational practices such as change management, incident management, problem management, and vendor management. Ability to set up, facilitate, and Led service improvement sessions with a range of business stakeholders (incl. experience in process/value stream mapping). Technologies/Technical Skills and Hands-on: • Drive growth in NFV and SDN for Cisco UCS Servers and Cisco Networking business lines with service providers. Currently focusing on the development of key initiatives around NFV/SDN, IP, and Mobility solutions (ETSI Standards) • Evangelize Cisco Datacenter Networking, Network Virtualization, NFV, and SDN solutions and defend the benefits in front of customers and partners • Focusing on Operationalizing NFV by introducing best practices into the telco domain: DevOps, agile, continuous delivery • Strong knowledge of virtualization technologies and converged infrastructure stack across server, storage, and networking, including containers • Hands-on experience in architecting/building highly scalable, secure, and available systems on cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware, OpenStack, etc.) • Domain expertise in VMware technologies, including vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, K8S, and VIO • Strong Understanding of networking stack and routing/switching is preferred, including TCP/IP, MPLS, L2, L3, SD-WAN, VXLAN, etc. • Domain expertise in mobile and fixed networks, services, topologies, and architectures including 5G, 4G, RAN, and physical networks • Hands-on experience in Network Virtualization, Datacenter Networking (Overlay/Underlay), NFV, SDN, SD-WAN, and Whitebox solutions • Hands-on experience in various test frameworks and automation using Python, Java, and Shell scripts