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Ashwini Thokal

Tokyo

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Targeting a challenging position to utilize my technical and management skills for growth of the organization, as well as to enhance my knowledge on new and emerging technologies

13+ years of experience in designing solution to telecom, enterprise customer, peering between service providers, managing network operation and engineering team also part of managing virtualization and automation projects. Currently acting as Chief Architect for Rakuten Mobile in Japan. Plan strategies, and design datacenter migration from CVIM to Rakuten Cloud Platform (based on Kubernates Platform). Leading Network Engineering and Operation team responsible for designing and troubleshooting complex solutions for customers, to provide with automation and digitally ready initiatives. Versatile Chief Architect successfully manages operations and implements effective solutions to dynamic problems. Decisive leader with excellent communication and conflict resolutions skills. Offering [Number] years of experience and forward-thinking mindset to make positive impact on long-term company operations. Dedicated Architect specializing in [Area of expertise]. Advanced knowledge of sustainable design elements and LEED green building standards. Career focused on commercial and industrial design of facilities exceeding [Number] thousand square feet for the [Industry] industry.

Overview

9
Certifications
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Fujitsu Consulting

Principal Consultant

Job overview

  • Leading team of Network Engineering and Operation who design and troubleshoot complex solution for customer hosted at Fujitsu datacenter and drive client with automation and digitally ready initiatives
  • Provides Private Hosted Cloud solution of various Americas Enterprises as per requirement
  • Provides detailed HLD and LLD solution for on boarding new tenant on Private Hosted Cloud
  • Core Infra Deployed Cisco ASR 1k- 4K, 9K in Regional DC’s and Nexus N7k, N5K, N9K, with ACI FEX-2248 to 9K VPC for server farm also built IP fabric spine/leaf architecture
  • Provides auto failure solution on premises over Azure cloud
  • Design, deployed and migrated API integration in Azure infrastructure
  • Migration of Tier datacenter architecture to application centric infrastructure Spine and leaf model
  • Migration strategies plan design from private cloud to public cloud infrastructure
  • Evaluate identify and advise possible disaster recovery, business resiliency and business continuity scenarios and ongoing plan
  • Prepare and design and execute the change for all network related configuration and review it with cross region SME team and represent the change to business head and get it approved and then execute without any impact/incident
  • Deployed standard network protocols in BPG/OSPF/MPLS between Regional DCs
  • Deployed security DDoS solution for Enterprise customer to avoid threads
  • Deployed the route-maps and access-list/prefix list/NAT for route-filters, security and traffic manipulation
  • Providing RCA to customer in case on major incident
  • Managed End to End Penetration Network Audit and provided RAD solution to vulnerable devices
  • Provide automation solution using Ansible and Python programming language
  • Achievements
  • Appreciated with Fujitsu APEX CEO 2019 award as “Best Business Achiever”
  • Received “Innovator 2018 – Runner up” applause for providing solution on existing Fujitsu retail customer using blockchain technology and IoT
  • Received CTO appreciation “PAT-on-the-Back” applause for representing Fujitsu Americas with Cisco gold partnership for year 2017-18
  • In 2018-19, achieved “Outstanding score” for customer satisfaction
  • Optimized cost for e-Health tool, by creating a script through automation on Core, Spine, leaf and MPLS, Internet devices.

Tata Communications Ltd.

Solution Architect

Job overview

  • Identifying new opportunities, capitalizing identified opportunities and business development to achieve assigned targets
  • Helping client to formulate the RFP/RFI and to make it favorable to win
  • Selling Tata Communications services to achieve sales target
  • Maintaining relationship with clients from managerial to CXO level
  • Educating customers about upcoming technology, and its advantages to generate new revenue stream
  • Understanding customer’s technical requirements, and proposing viable solution to fulfill those requirements
  • Understanding drawbacks of existing services and re-engineering the solution to fix the recurring issues
  • Proof of concept (POC) to sell the new services/products
  • Resolve all technical challenges at pre-sales and post-sales stages and ensure the solution is as per customer satisfaction
  • Designing and developing documents for overall architecture of solution, including hardware and software
  • Documenting proposed solution in high-level design & low-level design document in order to transform high- level network solutions into detailed implementation designs
  • Producing full network design document i.e
  • HLD and LLD with detailed network configurations which will allow the build team to successfully implement your solution
  • Preparing acceptance test plan and work with customer to perform acceptance test to verify network connectivity
  • Documentation of project like Presentations, low-level Designs, Visio Diagrams, Network details, IP details
  • Designing and Implementing network infrastructure to deliver products & services i.e
  • Managed Security, Voice, MPLS, Internet, Ethernet and Optimizing solution
  • Achievements
  • Received “Bravo award” as an applause from the customer
  • Received an award for “Designing solution for NSE to achieve latency about
  • Received an award for “Deploying DDOS solution to BSE and protect them through public thread”.

Dell International Services

Sr. Analyst

Job overview

  • Managing deployment and global operations support organizations for enterprise class large global networks, including LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, and capacity management, problem and incident resolution
  • Dealing with networking technologies across multivendor platforms, specializing in Cisco, and comfortable with Dell Switches, Force10 and other networking platforms
  • WAN/LAN management, including traffic management using COS technologies, network optimization, IP telephony, wireless, unified communications, vendor management, cost management, technology roadmap planning
  • Configuration, Maintenance, Troubleshooting, IOS upgrades, hardware replacement and testing.

HCL Comnet Pvt. Ltd

Specialist

Job overview

  • Handling Day to Day Network Operations of ICICI NOC
  • Currently Handling Migration of Bank of Rajasthan.

Reliance Communicatons Ltd. (RCOM)

Deputy Manager

Job overview

  • Design and implementation of Reliance Data Network (RDN), which is a nationwide IP/MPLS network consisting of Juniper and Cisco routers
  • Mapping of the service requirements and user projections from the business teams into Network designs and Architectures
  • Capacity planning of the equipment’s and bandwidths for the user and services scalability.

Ultramax Training Institute

Trainer

Job overview

  • Providing training to students for CCNA course.

Rakuten Mobile Inc

Chief Architect Datacenter
03.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Designed Edge Datacenter across pan Japan for 4G, 5G and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)
  • Designing Edge futuristic datacenter by providing cost effective solution which includes dimensioning of Network, servers and RAN products
  • Responsible for optimizing existing datacenter into ZET Zero(Carbon Netural datacenter project)
  • Designing Group datacenter, Central datacenter and Regional datacenter in PAN JAPAN
  • Handling architecture design for Regional and Group datacenter, MEC Platform, vRAN, cRAN, UPF, CDN
  • Designed the complete Edge Datacenter with 4G and 5G front-haul for Rakuten Virtual RAN network, fabric design, SDN design, GPU design
  • Designed server and compute planning for OpenRAN (ORAN) network for 4G and 5G in Edge Datacenters
  • Designed DR solution for OpenRAN on Edge Datacenter which is carrying 4G (Macro,RIUD,Indoor SmallCell, outdoor smallcell) 5G ( Sub6, mmW, 1.7 Ghz)
  • Redesigning existing edge infra computes CPU Skylake and Casadelake with new Infra GPU, FPGAs to DPUs and SmartNICs
  • Designing new solutions for 5G NSA, SA Core, OSS/BSS, IPTx, Cloud Infra, storage and Applications
  • Working on planning and designing the SDN architecture using CVIM/ Robin.IO (Kubernetes) orchestration
  • Designing hybrid-cloud for Public and Regional data center, network slicing for 5G, SD-WAN
  • Automation workflow designing for Regional datacenter, VNF, CNF, network nodes deployment for Day0, Day 1 and Day 2 payloads, rolling upgrade, maintenance and operation flow
  • Detailed level of experience in cloud computing technologies such as OpenStack Cloud Native designing
  • Working on Altiostar vRAN/cRAN, Airspan vDU, Dasan FH, ACI, Cisco SDN, Cisco MBH, Cisco CVIM, cloud
  • Robin.io cloud Native, Zadara storage solution
  • Responsible for evaluating vendors for Edge computing and Regional Data centers
  • Responsible for migrating TAC and vCU from GC, CDC to RDC
  • Responsible to achieve low latency hop by hop for entire Rakuten Mobile Network
  • Weekly discussing technical Architecture review with multiple vendors, technology partners and service providers
  • Strategic Planning & Business Development
  • Formulating business strategies and strategic utilization and deployment of available resources to achieve business objective
  • Service virtualization and customization for OPEX optimization
  • Deployed automation for entire RDC process to be safe from human errors thus saving human hours involved during operational activities
  • Analyze machine-to-machine traffic, and resolving delays between datacenter network fabric
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Maintaining relations with vendors to sustain profitability and increased referrals
  • Enabling customers in their transformative journey into 4G & 5G
  • Planning for technology, product platform and negotiating price points with vendors
  • Monthly dashboard discussion with multiple vendors, technology partners and service providers
  • Achievements
  • Designed a total no of 44 Edge datacenters, pan JAPAN for 4G, 5G and Edge Computing
  • Currently designing Open Compute Project (OCP) datacenters in Japan
  • Design computes planning for 44 RDC from 2022-2030 based on Traffic forecast
  • Part of my assignment is to design end-to-end ORAN,CORE, SDN, IPTx for new upcoming telco providers in Germany
  • Achieved Datacenter cost optimization saving to organization in CAPEX and OPEX manner
  • Wrote whitepaper on Carbon Neutral for datacenter optimization.

Education

University Overview

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunication – (Jun – 2007) – Achieved Distinction

Skills

An effective people leader with ability to energize and fuel alternative thinking for delivering business effectiveness – Achieved 100% ESAT with

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Certification

HPC Quanta and Intel servers(SKU, RSG+ and Cascade and Icelake family servers)

References

To be available upon request

Timeline

Chief Architect Datacenter

Rakuten Mobile Inc
03.2020 - Current

Principal Consultant

Fujitsu Consulting

Solution Architect

Tata Communications Ltd.

Sr. Analyst

Dell International Services

Specialist

HCL Comnet Pvt. Ltd

Deputy Manager

Reliance Communicatons Ltd. (RCOM)

Trainer

Ultramax Training Institute

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