Venkataramanan Lalgudi

PROFILE Infrastructure Architect with over twenty five years’ experience
Experience across the IT spectrum – delivering Business Intelligence Solutions through to planning Data Centers.

SKILLS Capacity sizing Infra Project Management
Storage & Backup Strategy Technology Evaluation
Vendor Evaluation

EXPERIENCE For a Midwest Utility company led:

- Backup, Storage & Virtualization
- Linux, Solaris & Windows Server Administration and Patching (BladeLogic)
- VDI, VCE vBlock
- Microsoft SCCM & SCOM
- Bluecoat Proxy Administration
- Vendor Management, Roadmaps
- F5 Administration, NetScout
- Technical Project Management
- SharePoint architecture and implementation
- Windows Server administrator
- Integration of third-party products
- Management of the Internet, Intranet and .NET infrastructure
- Development of Investment Proposals for projects
- Development of Energy Trading Solutions
- Product Evaluation/Recommendation of Reporting tools
- SAP Basis team

Over ten years’ experience delivering reporting and business solutions to Financial and Utility companies in three geographies. Design & Development of Sophisticated Data Driven applications on Microsoft platforms.

Early participant in the development of FlexCube, a core banking product, now part of Oracle.

EDUCATION BS, Mysore University, India
MBA, IGNOU, India
PMP, Project Management Institute