Education
- Master's Degree in Computer Science - 2006, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE), Mysore, Karnataka, India
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, 1999 - 2002, Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India
Product Development Experience
Product Experience
Project: MF OpsB Product Implementation and maintenance
Client: NBC Universal
Duration: From Dec 2017 - Dec 2019
Skill Set: MF OMi 10.x,BSM 9.x , NNMI 9.x , SiS 11.x, OA 12
Responsibilities:
OMi 10.x
SIS 11.x
UCMD & UD
Project: MF C&A Product Implementation
Client: T-Systems
Role : Developer and Lead
Duration : From Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
Skill Set: MICRO FOCUS CSA, MICRO FOCUS OO, MICRO FOCUS DMA, MICRO FOCUS SA
Responsibilities:
Project: BTO Software Implementation and maintenance
Client: NBCU, NJ, USA
Role: Technology Consultant and off shore lead
Duration: From Sep-2012 Till Nov-2013
Skill Set: MICRO FOCUS OM, MICRO FOCUS OM Smart Plugins, Scripting – Shell and Perl on UNIX, VB Scripting and Power shell on Windows
Responsibilities:
Products: MF SAP, WEB and Tibco SPIs for MF Operation Manager on UNIX and Windows
Role: CPE Lead, Product Developer and Team Lead
Duration: From 5-June-2006 – 31-Aug-2012
Skill Set: MICRO FOCUS OM, MICRO FOCUS OM Smart Plugins, C/C++, Java Programming, Scripting – Shell
and Perl on UNIX, Linux and Solaris. SAP ABAP Programming
Responsibilities:
- Working in Micro Focus since June 2006 and have overall 15+ Years of experience in product development, Designing and Implementing product solutions for various HP Software Products like HP OM/Omi/BSM, HP SiteScope, HP Smart- Plug-ins, Cloud Service Automation, HCM and Vertica
- Worked on various projects spanning industries from Hotel to Banks to telecommunications with implementation of OpsB and enterprise monitoring solutions.
- Worked as a Lead for SMS NBC Universal customer client for delivering services to implement and maintain MF OM/OMI and BSM Products.
- Worked as Lead to deliver customized solutions to the NBC Universal customer like MongoDB monitoring solution (Perl and shell), MySQL monitoring solution (Perl and Shell), solution to dynamic thresholding (Web application jscripts, HTML, Java) etc.
- Worked as CPE Lead and Developer Lead in Product R&D to deliver product (MF OM Smart-plugins for SAP, Oracle, WAS) versions, patches and hotfixes.
- Worked as developer in Product R&D to develop the product features and hotfixes using wide technologies like C/C++/Java/ABAP/Perl/Shell/Python.
- Provided trainings on the Enterprise Management Software : MF Operations Manager on Windows and Smart Plugins to MF R&D Smart plug-in developers
- An effective communicator with excellent relationship building & interpersonal skills. Possess a flexible & detail oriented attitude.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities
- Breadth knowledge in various Micro Focus Software Products
- ITOM Products - MF OM/OMi, MF Agents, MF BSM, MF SiteScope, MF Smart- Plug-ins, MF App Manager
- Big Data Product - MF Vertica,
- C & A Products – MF CSA, MF SA, MF OO and HCM (Hybrid Cloud Management)
- Scripting Skills – Python, Perl and Shell
- Data Science Skills – Python, Pandas, matplotlip, seaborn, scikit learn and Machine learning algorithms in Python and Vertica
- Time Series Modeling in Python, R and EViews (ARIMA and SARIMA)
- Research Area – Machine Learning
- Blogger - https://medium.com/@pralhad2481
Product Experience
Project: MF OpsB Product Implementation and maintenance
Client: NBC Universal
Duration: From Dec 2017 - Dec 2019
Skill Set: MF OMi 10.x,BSM 9.x , NNMI 9.x , SiS 11.x, OA 12
Responsibilities:
OMi 10.x
- Implemented OMi 10 for Server and Application Monitoring with MA (Monitoring Automation) from scratch
- Worked on API using Java and groovy scripting to create Downtime
- Integrated with APM and make all views and pages for management prospective
- Upgraded OM to OMi with less downtime and created lot of automation with help of Java Code
- Implemented Custom Dashboard Components in JSP as per customer
- Define policies with variables and give proper naming convention as same as SIS Templates
- OMi-SCOM integration (Event, Topology, Metric) with help of OMi Connector
- OMi Connector installation and integrated with NNMi to take Event in OMi
- Implemented DR Site of OMi with 5 different averment and automate with help of JAVA Code
SIS 11.x
- Working on SIS 11.3x on Linux with Failover mode
- Create template for Linux and windows server monitoring as Infra Level
- Create template for Event integration with OMi and SNMP Trap
- Integrated with OMI as event & topology
- Fully utilized of tagging with each monitor for OMi Integration
- Installing new SIS environment with latest SIS version and follow the Security guideless and modify the SIS configuration accordingly
UCMD & UD
- Installing and configuring HP UCMDB v10 and data probes
- Configuring UD Jobs to discover and populate custom CI types
- Executing and troubleshooting UD jobs
- Adding custom CI types as per customer specific needs
- Integrate UCMDB with BSM and HPSM.
Project: MF C&A Product Implementation
Client: T-Systems
Role : Developer and Lead
Duration : From Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
Skill Set: MICRO FOCUS CSA, MICRO FOCUS OO, MICRO FOCUS DMA, MICRO FOCUS SA
Responsibilities:
- Design Low Level Detailed Solution Architecture for Implementation of MICRO FOCUSCSA Solutions.
- Configuration and installation of MICRO FOCUSCSA Software Solution
- Configure the Automated Provisioning of all Aspects of Cloud Platform as AD Integration, Virtual Servers (Hyper-V and VMWare), Storage, Replication of Data, Load Balancing and Snapshots for Backup purpose.
- Configure and Manage the Self Service Portal, Create Subscriptions and Security/operational Policies.
- Configure and Implement Compliance and Security Component of CSA.
- Demonstrating “User Acceptance Tests” for Provisioning and Reporting of Infrastructure layer including Compute, Storage, Database, AD, DR, Security and Load Balancing.
- Generating Reports using CSA portal.
- POC and Lab/Dev Environment Setup on cloud and automation solution for TSystem.
- Installation and configuration of MICRO FOCUS Cloud service Automation.
- Installation, configuration of MICRO FOCUS Server Automation and MICRO FOCUS Operation Orchestration.
- Usage of various CSA and OO content packs.
- Creating CSA Service Design and defining life cycle actions.
- Integration of CSA with MICRO FOCUS OO with the help of PDT.
- Deployment of the VM on Vcenter with MICRO FOCUS OO flow.
- Create CSA Service offerings, publish and managing.
- Analyze Use cases (requirement) given by customer (T-SYSTEMS).
- Decomposing use cases, further to develop solutions with OO and various other tool.
- Implementation of complete end to end SAP oracle upgrade through OO.
- Implementation of complete end to end SAP oracle patching through OO.
- Compliance and patching solution MICRO FOCUS SA
Project: BTO Software Implementation and maintenance
Client: NBCU, NJ, USA
Role: Technology Consultant and off shore lead
Duration: From Sep-2012 Till Nov-2013
Skill Set: MICRO FOCUS OM, MICRO FOCUS OM Smart Plugins, Scripting – Shell and Perl on UNIX, VB Scripting and Power shell on Windows
Responsibilities:
- Review MF Products implementation and Solution Design with architects
- Developing custom solution like MySQL Monitoring, MongoDB Monitoring, migration Solutions developed in Shell to Perl.
- Client interfacing, Requirement Gathering
- Process review and improvisation
- Interacting with Internal and Application leaders.
- Investigate and address product defects as reported by stakeholders.
- Identifying and assessing business and user needs, procedures, and problems of the PMS to
- Assembling, evaluating and classifying business requirements to implement maintain and improve
- Reviewing, analyzing, and documenting detail description of business requirements
Products: MF SAP, WEB and Tibco SPIs for MF Operation Manager on UNIX and Windows
Role: CPE Lead, Product Developer and Team Lead
Duration: From 5-June-2006 – 31-Aug-2012
Skill Set: MICRO FOCUS OM, MICRO FOCUS OM Smart Plugins, C/C++, Java Programming, Scripting – Shell
and Perl on UNIX, Linux and Solaris. SAP ABAP Programming
Responsibilities:
- Estimation, analysis and design on the product enhancements and maintenance requests.
- Interaction with business team to understand and analyze the requirements.
- Responsible for creating and executing development plans.
- Research, answer and track support cases for clients (phone and web)
- Provide detailed documentation of all technical issues if required by the customers.
- Collaborates with quality assurance and development teams on understanding of issues and steps needed to resolve them.
- Contributes to the product solution’s technical knowledge base that is used by customers, partners, and internal employees on a regular basis.
- Responsible for leading Smart Plug-in CPE and RD activities which include monitoring of Smart Plugin scorecard and ensuring zero slippage, adopt and share best practices and increase automation in regular engineering activities.