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Rohit Kasture

Enabling Organizations Embrace Multi-Cloud
With a decade of extensive experience in Private, Public & Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure like Microsoft Azure, VMware vCloud, VMware Cloud Foundation, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC), Citrix Xenapp and Xendesktop. I am a seasoned sales professional experienced with Consulting, Solution Design, Solution Architecture and well versed with the completed cycle of a deal. I am also passionate about AI and ML and love to solve real problems with these emerging technologies In the past I have also lead multiple private and public cloud migration projects for various customers successfully. I started my career as an Analyst troubleshooting and managing the Datacenter and moved on to Infrastructure Life-cycle Management which touched many of the technologies including Hyper-converged Infrastructure. I have primarily worked on Microsoft, EMC, Cisco, VMware, Citirx technologies. I am a certified professional in OCI, Azure, MCP, VCP, MCITP, EMC ISMv2, VCE-CIA and ITILv3 foundation also a Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunication and a Masters in Business Administration with IT as the specialization. I possess excellent communication with exceptional interpersonal, problem solving, team-building & presentation skills. I am self-motivated and a person with high accountability and also an agile learner who has high drive for results. I strongly believe in #PeopleMakeItHappen
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VMware
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RWTH Aachen University
Pune, Maharashtra, India

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Employed
  • Profession
  • Fields
  • Work experience
    10-15 years relevant
  • Management
  • Highest level of education

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Not interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    Senior System Engineer
  • Desired work locations
  • Freelance

Work Experience

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PreSales Solutions Engineer - Strategic Accounts Tata Group

Nov 2021 - Present
Pune, Maharashtra, India
I am part of the Solution Engineering team, which is engaged in an initial and most creative phase of finding and designing the best solution to address a client’s business needs and support them in their way towards digital transformation. My goal is to help businesses transform by adopting the leading-edge technology from the vast VMware portfolio including modern DevOps and application modernization solutions, best-in-class virtualization (compute, storage, network) solutions, groundbreaking security, and endpoint management solutions. In my current role, I am responsible for selling the complete VMware solution, products, and services within a list of key commercial accounts in Maharashtra and Goa. I get to work with a diversified set of customers spanning across BFSI, IT/ITes, Public Sector, manufacturing, education, and new age start-ups I am primarily focused on promoting VMware DC solutions, VMware cloud solutions, end point security solutions, end point computing solutions like MDM/ VDI, SDWAN etc. I try to evangelize by presenting and demonstrating VMware multi-cloud solutions and application modernization solutions to customer representatives at the management, operations, or developer level with confidence, helping them make their strategic vision a reality I am good at mapping and maintaining relationships at all levels within the complete accounts echo system viz IT Heads, policymakers, consultants, advisers, partners, and other key decision makers and influencers. I have built strong customer-facing and relationship-building skills, coupled with my listening and questions-based selling skills, with the exposure I have received in this role.
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Senior Solutions Consultant

Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
5 mos
Pune, Maharashtra, India
I was responsible for supporting the sales team in working on medium to large-sized IT Infrastructure deals, putting together viable solutions based on private, public, hybrid or multi-cloud. I collaborated with the sales managers in creating proposals for customers while responding to RFx’s to produce high-quality and timely proposals and also ensured the solution is in compliance with the customer requirement. I ensured that all cost elements are considered when building the case & challenged cost elements when needed, to drive the best cost alternatives. I also delivered the value proposition for the customer for IT infrastructure proposals we delivered which covered not only the Cloud Infra but managed services like AIOps, CaaS etc. I also created use cases, user stories and demos as part of the business development activities for increase the consumption of the VCF platform at TietoEVRY.
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Senior Technical Sales Consultant

Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
9 mos
Pune, Maharashtra, India
In my current role I am responsible to understand customer requirements and enlighten them how T-Systems can solve their business problems with the various offerings we have in the area of Cloud Transformation and Migrations and related market services. I act as a bridge between the business and the product teams to translate their problems into our product features or solutions. I also actively handle the customer workshops, doing proof of concepts for them and also enabling them while they onboard onto T-Systems Cloud Platforms and other market services. "I am T - Count on me" is what I demonstrate everyday in this role
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Solutions Architect - Managed Infrastructure Services- Private and Public Cloud

Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
1 yr 5 mos
Pune, Maharashtra, India
I am accountable for the Solution Architecture, Design & Costing of multiple technologies for various customers, in context of T-Systems portfolio, standards and principles. In my current role I analyze business requirements and provide most appropriate and best-fit solution design to meet the business requirements. I work on Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Transformations to these clouds is what I am most passionate about. Along-with this I also work on providing solutions for Manged Infrastructure Services in either of the Clouds. I respond to RFP's, RFI's, tenders for customers all across the globe. I, as a Solution Designer, own the architectural design through the initial phases of the design (request, concept and high level), and handing over the design after customer order for detailed phases of the design to delivery management. I have been highly adaptable, changing my approach and methods to meet differing circumstances and audiences. I am recognized as an authority within T-Systems for Solution Management and leadership across multiple areas of technology. I come with good communication, negotiation and influencing skills at differing levels particularly with Lead DSMs, Enterprise Architects and Production locally and internationally within T-Systems, customers and suppliers. I am crowned the “trusted business advisor” status for the multiple technology areas , with the customer, while fostering strong internal relationships with Production and Sales. I am able to identify where delegation is required in order to meet those deliverables on time and have the skill to manage and influence the delegates to ensure that they deliver to the required quality and on time.
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Lead - Cloud Migrations

Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
1 yr 3 mos
Pune, Maharashtra, India
In my current role I am leading a team of VMware and Azure, AWS engineers who are part of the Migration Factory at T-Systems Pune. We are helping customers in their cloud journey and making it easy to move from on-premise to the customers preferred Cloud. I am also working closely with the Presales team to respond to RFP's and prepare effort estimations for various cloud migration and Disaster Recovery solutions in Azure and AWS. I have experience to provide solutions for hybrid and public clouds which includes Microsoft Azure, vCloud, VMware on AWS.
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Migration Engineer

Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
1 yr 6 mos
Pune, Maharashtra, India
· Migrating servers from VMware cloud to Azure Cloud · Migrating servers from VMware cloud to VMware Cloud · Participate in effort estimation for various RFP's · Configuring DR using Azure Site Recovery · Building servers for both DCS and physical environment · Perform installation activities remotely on equipment after physical installation onsite · Understand physical installation and advise engineers onsite of the requirements and design · Configure storage device according to engineering standards · Perform logical decommissioning for all equipment and data migration · Provide details of complex problems to the engineering team for further resolution · Assist others with onboarding activities as and when required · Collect data from customer and clarify customer inquiries with regards to the build and configuration · Communicate build, installation and configuration of equipment to the customer · Update all records accordingly in TSAM, DFM and other tools regularly and as required · Provide advice on onboarding projects technical requirements · Develop and maintain technical documentation for the team
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Senior Systems Engineer- Enterprise Cloud Services

Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
1 yr 0 mos
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Works on Providing customer support and technical expertise including administration and support for operating systems, virtualization platforms, tape backup, and disk storage. Experienced in Cisco UCS Deployment and troubleshooting. Familiar with Nexus 1000v, 2K, 5K and 7K switches. Provides technical support to all SunGard internal customers during systems outages. Manage and execute all tier 1 and tier 2 troubleshooting procedures for managed services. Utilize skills, education and training to provide timely restoration of services. Strong working knowledge in administrating and troubleshooting multiple operating systems, and managed storage (tape and disk). Strong systems and network troubleshooting skills. Strong working knowledge of Windows, Linux, and VMWare (operating systems) and Citrix. Works on EMC storage. Works on Netbackup for virtualized cloud environment.
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Analyst- IT Enterprise Platform Lifecycle Management

Jul 2015 - Nov 2015
5 mos
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Patching 4000+ Windows server using SCCM 2007. Discovering Cisco devices in Smartnet 2.0 Upgrading and Patching ESXi 5.X Hosts.
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Analyst- IT Enterprise Platform Support Services

Jul 2011 - Jun 2015
4 yrs 0 mos
Pune, Maharashtra, India
VMware & Windows Infrastructure Analyst with MCITP, VCE-CIA, VCP, ISMv2 and ITILv3 certifications Around 4 years of extensive experience in Windows environment as Associate Analyst for Windows Servers. Best at handling Severity 2, Severity 3 and Severity 4 issues related to Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, Active Directory, ESX and ESXi Servers and the complete VMware environment. Proficiently handled backup issues in VERITAS Netbackup 6.5 and 7.5, Symantec Backup Exec 11d, 12.5, 2010, 2010 R2, 2010 R3, 2012 and Avamar. Also handles Citrix Presentation server 4.5 and Citrix Xenapp issues and publishing applications and desktops via the same. Possess excellent communication with exceptional interpersonal, problem solving, leadership, team-building & presentation skills.

Education

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Information Technology
2021 - 2022
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Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Information Technology
2014 - 2016
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Electronics & Telecommunication
2007 - 2011
Electronics
2007 - 2009
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Mechanical
1992 - 2005

Licenses & Certifications

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VMware
Issued Feb 2023
No Expiration Date
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VMware Cloud: Design, Configure, Manage

VMware
Issued Aug 2022
No Expiration Date

Google Sales Credentials

Google
Issued Apr 2021
No Expiration Date

Future Cloud Infrastructure- Business

T-Systems International
Issued Apr 2021
No Expiration Date
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Microsoft
Issued Jan 2021
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VMware Technical Sales Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware
Issued Oct 2020
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VMware Sales Professional - Cloud Foundation

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
Issued Oct 2020
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 Certified Associate

Oracle
Issued Jul 2020
No Expiration Date
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Architect Associate

Oracle
Issued Jul 2020
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Sun x86 Systems Solution Engineer Specialist

Oracle
Issued Apr 2020
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Oracle Sun x86 Systems Sales Specialist

Oracle
Issued Apr 2020
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Converged Infrastructure Associate VCE-CIA

VCE
Credential ID: VCE-CIA0005800
Issued Feb 2015
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Information Storage and Management v2

EMC
Credential ID: EXN4629159
Issued Sep 2014
No Expiration Date
Dell EMC
Issued Sep 2014
No Expiration Date
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Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist :Windows Server 2008

Microsoft
Issued Apr 2014
No Expiration Date
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VMware Certified Professional – Datacenter Virtualization 5.0

VMware
Issued May 2013
No Expiration Date
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Microsoft
Credential ID: 9420148
Issued Apr 2013
No Expiration Date
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Microsoft
Credential ID: 9420148
Issued Feb 2013
No Expiration Date
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Microsoft
Credential ID: 9420148
Issued Dec 2012
No Expiration Date