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Senior Consultant Open Networking, Dell Ent SONIC, GEN AI Strategy, GEN AI Solution Design and deployment of GPU Fabric w RoCEv2, AI/ML , LLM, Pre-trg, Fine-tuning, RAG, Embeddings/VectorDb, Inferencing AI Apps

About

Mr. Mehra has more than twenty years of proven success in Enterprise Digital Transformation/Multi-Cloud, Telco Cloud, SDN/NSX-T, Velo-Cloud/SASE/Edge, IoT and 5G Strategy, Network Security, Virtualization, Orchestration, Automation, Private LTE, Smart Factories, Kubernetes, TKG, PKS, Cloud-native, V-RAN/O-RAN. Has worked with Major Enterprises like Time Warner, VCE, HP, FedEx, VMware, EMC, DELL, in diverse roles from individual contributor /Team Lead, Advisory /Lead Cloud /Architect/ etc. Has broad and deep technical experience in working with Senior business and IT Executives to carve a Digital /Cloud Transformation Strategy for Enterprises. Core Competencies: Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture, Network Architecture, Multi-Cloud Architecture, Digital Transformation Strategy Planning, SDDC, IOT Architecture DataCenter Modernisation, Convereged and Hyper Converged Infrastructure (CI/HCI) VxBlock, VxRail, VxRack CISCO UCS , Nexus 1KV, 2k, 5K, 7K, 9K, HP Blades, CISCO ACI/APIC Storage - EMC Storage VNXe, VNX, VMAX, NetApp, HP 3Par, VSAN, MSA, Datacore, EMC ViPR vCloud suite, vRealize Automation suite, NSX, NSX-T, VRO,VROPS, VMware, (SRM), Log Insight, VRB (vRealize Business) Amazon AWS, EC2, S3, Route 53, ELB, VPC, Cloud trail, IAM, AWS Config, cloudwatch, Lambda. VMware on AWS. Azure Stack, Powercli, Ansible, Puppet SDN- NSX, NSX-T, CISCO ACI vRealize Network Insight Load Balancer NSX, F5 Cloud /Multi-cloud Strategy, Adoption, Roadmaps, Cloud M&O, Governance & Cloud Security. Cloud Migration, Monitoring. Digital Transformation (DX), IOT, Networking - Routing Protocols, VRF, Hierarchical and Spine Leaf DC Architecture, Distributed Logical Router/Firewalls , L2,L3 Network Switches, Microsegmentation, Security - Endpoint, IDS/IPS Service offerings and service assets Development and Delivery -Customer Facing Consulting Cloud-Native /Containers/Micro-services - Pivotal (PCF, PAS, PKS) architecture/design. Experienced in C level communication, Executive Consulting, IT Strategy advisory

Location

Clarksburg

Work experience

Senior Consultant Multi-Cloud, SDN, NSX-T, Pivotal, AVI, IOT at Self-Employed, Jan 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 6 mos, Washington D.C. Metro Area

Consultant Multi-cloud, SDN, NSX-T, PCF/PKS at Experis at Self-Employed, Apr 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 3 mos, Round Rock, Texas

Consultant Solutions Architect, Cloud & Infrasatructure Transformation at Self-Employed, Aug 2016 - Jan 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, Advisory Consultant Digital/Hybrid & Private Cloud, Software Defined Data Center and SDN (NSX)

Digital Multi-Cloud, SDDC, SDN, IoT Consultant at Simtek Resources Inc., Jun 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 1 mo, Washington DC-Baltimore Area

Consulting Architect, VMware Professional Services at VMware, Jul 2014 - Dec 2014 · 6 mos, us east, Sr Consulting Architect responsible for delivering VCAC accelerator Custom Service. Perform following phases Pre-engagement call, Pre-requisites checklist, Solution Overview and requirements and Design workshop, Install, Configure, Deploy, Extensibility work , custom workflows, Integrations, Validation, Knowledge Transfer , etc. vCloud Automation Center Architect - Part of team of architects responsible for vCAC Architecture/Design/Install(simple & distributed install), Configuration work (config workbook). VCAC 6.0.1.1.

Cloud Solutions Architect - Global Cloud Practice at VCE, Aug 2013 - Jun 2014 · 11 mos, Vblock, Cisco , VMWare , EMC Cloud Solutions, Strategy, Architecture and Service Delivery. AMP, HA-AMP, CAS-STACK, CAS FOUNDATION, VCD 5.1, VCAC 5.2/6.1, NEXUS 1000v, UCS Manager, Unisphere, VCE VISION, VCOPS Management Suite, VCO, ITBM, Participated in the Architecture /desgin of Private Cloud Solution for very large Cloud Service Provider in UK. Completed Implementation from factory build to customer handover phase for the entire Cloud Infrastructure. Created collateral content for Customer Workshops on VCOPs, Hyperic and VCD. Delivered workshop on vCloud Director and VCOPS.

VMWARE/ CLOUD ARCHITECT Consultant at Simtek Resources Inc, Sep 2011 - Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo, US EAST, VCP CLOUD 510, VCP 510, VCP 410, VCE-CIA, ITIL , MCSE VMWare/.CLOUD Architect

Education

Bachelor's degree, Science, Maths, Delhi University

Post Graduate in Computer Applications, Computer Programming, Computer Applications, RDBMS, Algorithms and Assembly etc, Delhi Board Of Technical Education