A well motivated infrastructure Architect with skills across most industries using a wide variety of technologies. • Design, develop and architect IG group’s global trading infrastructure platforms. (Puredeal, Metatrader, Replication, disaster recovery, Virtualization and platform operating systems. • Design and implement Chicago based trading infrastructure on UCS Blades. • Reduce data centre storage footprint with Nimblestorage deployment. • Supporting and delivering revenue generating mission critical architectures. • Working with C level management. • Define best of breed technologies to support highly available systems with near 100% Uptime via internal private cloud (two data centre’s). • Definition of platform disaster recovery processes, procedures and DR testing. • Provide last level support, escalation and project delivery for IG groups various trading system infrastructure components. • Delivering technology projects within tight deadlines and budget. • Working with key stakeholders in the business for service and project definition and delivery. • Mentoring the infrastructure team and providing assistance and guidance when required. • Leveraging 3rd party vendors when required for support and project delivery. • Evangelizing and providing technology workshops for business users. • Deep platform experience Windows, Linux, database, virtualization and storage. • Working with software developers across dev, test, uat, prod1 and prod2 environments and facilitating/supporting these environments.

Solution Architect @ From January 2015 to Present (1 year) London, United KingdomInfrastructure Architect @ (Storage) IG Group Holdings plc is a world leader in financial derivatives trading and sports betting. The IG Group has over 100,000 clients worldwide, making more than four million transactions per month. The group is geographically dispersed globally with offices in Japan, Singapore Australia and London. . Design and implementation of global virtualized environment for heterogeneous operating systems over VSphere with Netapp NFS and EMC SAN Arrays. (Full DR Capable spanning 3 Sites). . Upgrade of Backend Server Infrastructure to 10GBe to Cisco Nexus (Servers and Netapp Storage). . Global ESXI VSphere upgrade from ESXI 3.5 to ESXI 4. (VSphere). . Global Netapp upgrade to Ontap 7.34 and day to day administration, snapmirror, vfiler (multistore), aggregate management. . Legacy servers removed and virtualized. . Placement, tuning of multi tier application servers on VMWARE including back office infrastructure and trading systems. . Global upgrade of remote access systems to Server 2008 64 Bit Remote App with RD Gateway. . Design and implementation of global security system Cyberark on VMWARE. . Installation of full dr environment incorporating VSphere and Netapp storage with Snapmirror technology. . Performance tuning and monitoring of storage and virtual environment. (IOP and latency management). . HP C7000 Blades setup and deployed with bl 460, bl490 and bl620 half and full height blades. Deployment of Cisco UCS Blades (integrated with Netapp and VMware). . Windows Server Building using SCCM and Altiris via pxe. All flavours of Windows. . Powershell scripts for ESXI and Windows Management. . Day to administration of the company's global data centres. From September 2009 to January 2015 (5 years 5 months) Senior Infrastructure Architect @ Netapp, VMware, EMC SAN, Citrix. From September 2005 to August 2008 (3 years) Infrastructure Architect @ Warner Music International previously owned by Time Warner AOL is the 4th largest music company worldwide currently operating in over 50 countries globally. This position involved architecting, designing, installing and supporting the various global system architecture(s) built around their London and US offices which are tightly networked and integrated with the affiliate sites geographically dispersed in 50 sites globally. From September 2005 to June 2008 (2 years 10 months) Integrated Communications Platform Senior Network Engineer / IT Systems Manager @ NTL Broadcast division is one of the largest suppliers of emergency service equipment in the United Kingdom. This role involved working on the ICP platform for the Metropolitan Police and various in house systems architecture duties. Two positions held at NTL one of network engineer and the other as IT systems manager. . From October 2004 to September 2005 (1 year) Senior Infrastructure Engineer @ From January 2002 to September 2005 (3 years 9 months) Senior Infrastructure Engineer @ Build and design server and storage networks, based on Netapp, VMware and Cisco equipment. From 2004 to 2005 (1 year) Technical Consultant @ SSI computer services is a network consultancy partitioned into two main areas: Support and Project Development. Working at SSI has exposed me to multiple technologies and skills. From January 2002 to October 2004 (2 years 10 months) Technical Support Analyst @ The main emphasis on this position was to respond and ensure resolution to customer service issues efficiently and professionally. Providing IT support and training in MS Office, AS400 and diagnosis of hardware and software failures, providing remedial actions as and when required by the end users. Was also responsible for supervision and management of the technical support team. Maintain and support all servers in house including Windows NT PDC and multiple BDC's. Maintain and support all in house messaging systems including Exchange server 5.5. Provide 1st through to 3rd line support for all desktop and server related issues. Installation of all in house server operating systems and software. Plan and deploy various disaster recovery scenarios. Played key role in migrating servers to Windows 2000 based architecture. From January 1997 to January 2001 (4 years 1 month)

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Engineering, 2:2 @ Harris CTC From 1998 to 2001 BSc, Business Information Technology @ Computer Training CentreHarris City Technology CollegeBTEC HND, Business Information Technology @ South Bank UniversitySouth Bank University Paul Ramkumar is skilled in: NetApp, VMware, Powershell, NAS, SAN, Fibre Channel Protocol, iSCSI, Windows, Linux, Windows Server, vSphere, DHCP, VMware ESX, Virtualization, ITIL