﻿                                            ABHISHEK RATHAUR
Mobile: 9873242109 E-Mail: abhishek19rathaur@gmail.com
Professional Overview
A competent PMP, Prince2 certified, CSM certified professional with over 14+ years of quality experience in Project Planning, Management and Customer Relationship Management.
Currently associated with VMWare Software India Pvt Ltd. as Project Manager and managing projects for PSUs and Private sector companies.   
Notable highlights across the tenure
Awarded as Outstanding Performer for year 2010-11
Awarded as the Best Quality Performer for making North Region win among all India Regions 
Core Competencies
Establish project delivery plan, track progress and milestones.
Manage project dependencies; Represent project in various cross-project forums.
Producing project plans on Microsoft Project.
Holding technical discussions with designers to produce the design.
Raising, submitting and tracking changes on Service now tool for CAB approval.   
Understanding customer needs and based on their specific requirements/designs, putting up Customized and innovative Solutions.
Working on proposals / quotations. 
Managing IT infrastructure international projects and large-scale global programs
Coordinating with Hardware procurement team, MPLS &amp; ISP provisioning team for end-to-end delivery of the circuits.
Responsible for all types of Delivery within committed SLA/TAT, including planning and procurement. 
Interacting with sales, solution team, backend, field operations. 
Ensure that all projects are delivered within scope, time, budget and with agreed quality. 
Planning project activities, viz., scoping, estimation, tracking, change management, delivery management &amp; post implementation support; following best practices for project support and documentation.
Lead the planning and implementation of project, facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables and define project tasks and resource requirements.
Develop full scale project plans, assemble and coordinate project staff, manage project budget and project resource allocation.
Implement and manage project changes 
Project Kick off Meeting with the Team Leaders / Managers / Teams of Network, Security, ITSM and customers for smooth implementation of the deliveries thereby meeting the customer’s expectations.
Managed transitions and transformation projects. 
Types of Projects Handled
Enhancement of network security
Creation and expansion of Network Infrastructure
Migration of SAP data to new hardware 
Setup of Telephone exchange
Setup of IT Infra for DC and DR
Setting up New Branches for Bank which include circuit deliveries, hardware delivery and installation. 
Shifting complete IT infrastructure of branch/ office from one location to another 
Decommissioning all IT infrastructure in order to close the office. 
IOS upgrade and Bandwidth regrading of multiple sites. 
Commissioning and migration of IT infrastructure like routers, switches, firewalls at Data Centres.
Low/Medium/High Risk changes at Data Centres.  
Application platform setup and migration
Servers OS upgrade
Data Migration to cloud
Career Record



Feb’22 till date as Project Manager with VMware Software India Pvt Ltd, Delhi 
June’19 – Jan’22 as Senior Project Manager with HCL Technologies Ltd, Noida
Oct’13 – May’19 as Project Manager-2 with British Telecom, Gurgaon
July’08 - Oct’13 as Deputy Manager with HCL Technologies Ltd, Noida
Feb’22 – till date as Project Manager with VMware Software India Pvt Ltd
Design and deployment of vRealize Automation and Migration from NSX V to T   (For VMware)for IT companyProject 1: Design and Deployment of NSX V to T migration, vRealize Automation for US based IT company
Design and deployment of Cloud 3.0  (For VMware)for telecom companyProject 2: Design and Deployment of various VMware products like VCF, vRA, Tanzu, SRM, Saltstack, NSX, TAC, TBS, TMC, TSM, TO, Custom workflows, Optimization and migration of existing VMs, creation of new automation use cases- K8saas, FWaaS etc for Indian telecom giant 
June’19 – Jan’22 as Senior Project Manager with HCL Technologies Ltd for Paper Mill based in Finland
Hardening of Firewall rules  (For HCL)Project 1: Hardening of approximately 1300 firewall rules across 2 data centres to make customers IT ecosystem more secured. Various applications were accessed by many 3rd parties. Detailed analysis of logs was carried out to ensure there is no impact to users when firewall rules are hardened. 
Migration of Citrix applications from Xenapp 6.5 to Xenapp 7.15 version  (For HCL)Project 2: Migration of approximately 400 applications from Xenapp 6.5 to Xenapp 7.15 upgraded version  
Highlight: New Servers created, new AD groups created, old servers decommissioned and old AD groups deleted. Once app installed and published in new environment it was successfully tested. Migrated all app users to new environment. 
AIX TL Upgrade (For HCL)Project 3: TL Upgradation of AIX Servers
Highlight: OS of 60 virtual servers upgraded from TL3 to TL4 with OS hardening. 
DC Power down (For HCL)Project 4: Data Centre Power down for maintenance
Highlight: Managed multiple power down activities for maintenance work. 
Oct’13 – May’19 as Project Manager-2 with British Telecom, Gurgaon for UK Bank
Making branches polymer ready 
Project 1: Rolling out TCR VLAN’s and associated ACLs to restrict access and provide DHCP connectivity for all end clients, reservation of access ports and configure description on ports at 950 sites.
Highlight: As UK government was launching polymer notes across UK, all branches of bank had to be polymer ready. To make them polymer ready we had to ensure that all switches at all sites support TCR (Teller Cash Recycler) so ATMs could support polymer notes. Any delay could hamper operation of the branches. New switches WS2960 48 FPS were ordered and installed where ports were not available for TCR devices. 
Removing EOL devices 
Project 2: Removing all End-of-Life devices at all branches across UK before any device goes down and become out of support. 
Highlight: All cisco devices like Cisco 3560 48P which had gone End of Life or were soon going to be end of life were replaced on war foot basis with 2960 48 P as it was BT’s SLA with bank to keep only in life devices in bank’s network. 
 Migration to new checkpoint firewalls 
Project 3: Migration of Checkpoint firewalls from old to new hardware to enhance information security. 
Highlight: Old checkpoint firewalls were replaced with new checkpoint firewalls as old firewalls were End of Life. Three clusters of checkpoint firewalls – IP2450, IP690, and IP1287 were going to be end of life. To replace them, new 13800 checkpoint firewalls were commissioned.   
Re tier site from Tier 2 to Tier 3 
Project 4: New circuits and new hardware were ordered for re tier.
Highlight: As the traffic at sites was not much, bank wanted to reduce the annual recurring cost. Cisco ASR 1002 routers were replaced with Cisco 2951 routers. Higher Bandwidth circuits were replaced with lower bandwidth circuits. 
Circuits delivery at various locations 
Project 5: New circuits were delivered at several locations for various bank branches to establish new Tier 3 and Tier 4 branches. 
Bandwidth upgradation at 1600 Tier 4 branches 
Project 6: Delivered bandwidth upgradation project which involved 1600 bank branches. 
July’08 till Oct’13 as Deputy Manager with HCL Technologies Ltd (Infrastructure Division) Noida
Securing Network of State Electricity Board 
Project 1: To augment / enhance the Computer &amp; Information Security of CSEB by deploying Anti-Virus Management solution, Patch Management Solution, URL Filtering Solution, Reporting Tool, NAC Solution, SSL VPN solution with 2 factors Authentication, Datacenter Proxy Appliance, Hardware systems, Managed Security Services through HCL’s SOC.
Highlight: Supply of all the Software components / licenses required for Antivirus Management solution, Patch Management Solution, URL Filtering Solution, Reporting Interface Tool etc. Supply of all the Appliance &amp; Hardware components required for Network Admission Control, SSL VPN Solution &amp; Device for two factors Authentication, Data Center Proxy Appliance, Hardware Systems &amp; Accessories. 
Installation of Anti-Virus agents, Big Fix Patch management agent, Cisco NAC agents were done on 1500 machines with Domain Joining of each user machine was done within 10 weeks.  27 rack servers were installed in Data Center to run all agents. Team of 23 engineers was deployed to complete this task in 12 weeks in 8 circles.
Creation and Expansion of Network for State Power Distribution company 
Project 2: Augmentation and Remodeling of the Computer Network by connecting all 130 locations across the state for Data, Voice and Video of Electricity Board.  
Highlight: Restructuring existing WAN/LAN, deploy reliable back up media, so as to ensure high uptime of the network, deploy WAN accelerators to optimize the bandwidth and response time for the on-line applications, deploy unified communication solution, deploy MLLN/MPLS VPN technology. Commissioning of information security devices was also part of this project. 
Migration of SAP data to new hardware for an Oil Extracting Company (For HCL)
Project 3: Migration of Existing SAP data from Old hardware to new hardware in minimum downtime so as not to affect the working of users. 
Highlight: SAP Modules like ECC-Production, EP-Production, BI-Production, Development and QA Migration were done from old servers to new servers.  
Setup of Telephone Exchange for Indian Defence 
Project 4: Setup of 4 Telephone Exchanges for Army with outside calling facilities. Setup of private/dedicated secured network of Army which could be accessed by Army only. 
Highlight: EPABX with 256 Analog Phones, 96 Digital Phones, 16 IP Phones, 8 Dect Phones were installed at each set up. The hardware included Nortel CS1000, Nortel MSS7480, STM-1 Optimux System.  
Setup of IT infrastructure for DC and DR of Public Sector Company 
Project 5: Setting up complete IT Infrastructure of Data Center and Disaster Recovery Center to run their internal applications. 
Highlight: As new financial organization, they needed new servers and new storage as the no of users and applications data was increasing day by day. BOQ like 3 Database servers, 2 Blade Chassis, 3 Application server, 2 Storage, 4 SAN Switches, 3 Core Switches, 2 KVM Switches, 2 Tape Library, 2 Storage Replication Software, 3 servers were installed to ready DC and DR setup.
Setup of Data Center for Public Sector Company 
Project 6: Setup of Data Center including Civil plus IT work. 
Highlight: Worked on erection of Data Center for PSU where all civil work including IT infrastructure. Scope included installation of PAC, HVAC, WLD, RRS, Furniture, LT Panel, UPS with Batteries, Insulation etc. for Non-IT and complete setup for IT Infrastructure like Servers, Storage, Switches. PSU did not have any ERP applications running. To bring in ERP applications on SAP, PSU extended their Data Center.  
Scholastics
Master of Business Administration with Dual specialization in Marketing &amp; IT from Amity Business School, Amity University, Noida in 2008.
B.Tech. (Electronics &amp; Communication) from U.P. Technical University, FET Agra College, Agra in 2005.
Personal Dossier
Date of Birth: 19th January 1984
Languages Known: English and Hindi
Address for communication   : House No 49, Bank Enclave, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi -110092       


