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BHAVESH AMIN
Email: aminbhavesh@hotmail.com
Mobile: 07920453846
Visa Status: British Citizen
Current Location Wokingham Berkshire
PERSONAL SUMMERY
A competent and experienced Datacenter Manager, with over 14 years’ experience in Project Management &
DC Operations, managing and implementing varying sizes and complex colocation customer & internal network
projects. Has the ability to build strong relationships with all stakeholders and to turn proposals into reality.
Especially successful in management roles that demand rigor, a high level of drive and dedication and a focus on
delivering business outcomes through the use of methodologies.
Has experience of Project Management, Prince 2 Experience, Infrastructure Management, Planning, Risk
management, Stakeholder Management, Service Delivery, Quality Assurance, Data Centre migrations, Business
Case, Client facing experience, Project Documentation, IT Change & Transformation, Design, Support &
Maintenance of IT Systems. He has good knowledge of the controls for ISO/IEC 270001 & ISO/IEC 20000-1 (ITSM
& ISMS) and PCI standards and the associated Documentation.
EDUCATION
Bachelor Degree in Industrial Relation & Personal Management, 1995
CERTIFICATIONS (ORDERED FROM MOST RECENT TO PAST)
PRINCE2 Prince2 foundation
ITIL V3.0 Certified in ITIL V3.0 Foundations
CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate
WORK EXPERIENCE
Data Centre Manager, Tata Communications UK Ltd. March 2010 to date
Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. The Tata Global Network
includes one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity
to more than 200 countries across 400 PoPs, and nearly 1 million square feet of data centre and colocation
space worldwide.
Expert in End to End Data Centre operations, manage environmental resources, power distribution,
safety, security, physical layout, cabling, racking and monitoring of data centre equipment
Ensuring continuous improvement
Vendor management, enquiring and receiving quotes from Vendors for Racks, Power cabling and
socket installations, Ethernet, Fibre structured cabling, etc., calculating gross margins and
providing Clients with options and costs involved
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Responsible for the project management throughout the project lifecycle, including, project
delivery, business liaison / stakeholder management, post implementation review and project
close out / handover.
Design and Capacity planning for new Customer Infrastructure Layout including Space, Networking,
Storage and Data Backup services.
Ensuring Incident Management process is followed and incidents are resolved within SLA, OLA;
Changes are handled according to Change Management process
Risk Management, Analysis and Treatment Plan with periodic reviews
Maintaining Datacenter Security by controlling access to site using strict Access Management
process
Knowledge of Datacenter Mechanical & Electrical Infrastructure Generators, UPS, HVAC, PDU,
Static Switch
Ensuring CMDB maintenance along with the relationships between CIs
Attending CAB meetings to discuss and implement RFCs after approval
Good knowledge of Prince2: Principles, Themes, Processes, Roles and Responsibilities,
Management Products, etc.
Good knowledge of ITIL, ISMS and ITIMS guidelines; Controls for ISO27001 certification.
Project Management Tools, MS Project, Excel, word, PowerPoint, Windows, Cisco Switches,
Routers, F5 Load Balancer.
Project Coordinator, VSNL International. December 2006 – Feb 2010
Worked as a project co-ordinator for Global Managed Service team & rolled out managed hosting platform in
differed (VSNL) data centres across UK.
Coordinate the development, and build-out of the Data Centre, managed the rolled out of new data centre
infrastructure, network POP, managed hosting & cloud platform in the new DC.
Led and developed full scale project plans and executions.
Identified resources required, assigned responsibilities and coordinated project staff directly and
indirectly to ensure successful completion of the project.
Tracked project deliveries using project management tools.
Designed project documents to monitor project performance and ease of data retrieval.
Reported on project progress and communicated relevant information to superiors.
Tracked and resolved critical issues to minimize project risk factors.
Migrated to UK from India – Short term roles January 2006
Worked with Reed employment on a contract, worked for Budget rent a Car from March 2006 till
Dec 2006
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Project Coordinator, Wipro Infotech Ltd. April 2000 – Dec 2005
Responsible for the Coordination of the project for South Gujarat region. Coordinating and supervising
implementation of various Cisco technologies and products i.e. switching, routing, VOIP. Network
security etc. projects.
Planning and integration / implementation of large Campus Area Network, Small LAN. This
includes coordination of designing, project management cabling and integration of switches on the
LAN, preparing VLAN strategies and implementation of inter-VLAN communication.
Facilitating the design team in Planning and integration of large WAN projects. This includes
configuration and project management for WAN network for Lease line connectivity, PSTN DDR
and ISDN DDR i.e. is coordinating with the local Telephone Exchange for approval and installation
of the lines.
Product & technologies used, Cisco Catalyst 1924, 29xx, 4000 series switches, D-Link 3624
Switches, DES 6000, DES 6300 Switches and Lucent, Amp & D-Link structured cabling products and
Fibre Laying and Terminations.
OTHER INFORMATION
Full UK Driving Licence