Sujitkumar
Shirkar
VP- Information Technology
/ Infrastructure Director/
Director-IT / Head of
Technology / Director Strategy & Governance
PROFILE
Entrepreneurial-spirited technologist, collaborate closely with multiple
locations, functions and stakeholders within the global organization to build and
maintain a scalable, reliable IT infrastructure and manage IT operations. 20+ years
of experience as a Technology Leader with extensive Infrastructure and
Engineering experience having worked in IT, VFX, Animation, 3D, Film &
Video Post-Production Studios in Media & Entertainment Industry.
A research-oriented technology professional with MBA in Information
Technology and International Business. Positive, friendly, helpful attitude,
enjoy working with people and a Strategic & Solution-focused Technologist.
SPECIALITIES
· Strategic and Business Planning with
C-Level and Global Executive Management.
·
Complete
Infrastructure Project Management, starting from designing, constructions,
space and power planning, datacenter design and execution.
·
IT
and Systems Infrastructure management and capacity planning.
·
Planning,
Designing, Implementing and maintaining dependable and secure infrastructure.
· Designing, Implementing and Managing cost
effective global IT infrastructure and operations.
·
Managing
multiple projects, develop/manage budgets and oversee the purchasing of
infrastructure technology
·
Information
Technology and Security Strategy & road map.
·
Implementing
IT Governance and Policies.
· Budget Management (Capex/Opex), planning, execution
and documentation .
· Strategic Direction to cross functions teams
and Leadership support.
· Built two Tier-3 Datacenter with design,
build and Management.
· Resources, Capacity and Capability Planning
and Management.
· Cost reduction with Workflow Optimization
by introducing new technologies.
· Building, Leading and Managing Global
Service Support Team.
· Leading Information Security (IS),
Compliance Assessments, Audits and System Security Planning as per MPAA, ISO27001 standard and Auditing Vendors as a
Senior IT Auditor.
· Cross Platform Integrations with hands on experience
with System Architecture, VMware, Linux, OSX, SGI, OneFS, EMC, Isilon, Splunk,
Signiant, AR, VR, Stereo, Symantec, Commvault, Autodesk and SAN & NAS
Storage technologies.
· Licensing and Compliance management.
· Physical security systems Access, CCTV,
VESDA, PAC, Fire suppression systems oversight.
· Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and
Risk Management.
· Well-versed with SEZ, STPI Technology Park
Rules, Regulations and outsource business challenges.
ACHIEVEMENTS
· CIO 1000 APAC Award
2021 and 1st winner of CIO-News “TECH NERDS”.
· Leading COVID-19
Pandemic Task force team to drive significant cost savings on Infrastructure operational
cost and ensuring zero-day downtime for mission critical global support teams.
· Ssuccessfully
established global support for Data IO, Render and L2/L3
IT support.
· Strategically
redesigned and deployed network connectivity strategy for Deluxe India
Operations to gain cost and bandwidth advantage.
· Successfully
passed Security Audits from Disney (Tier0+Tier1), CDSA, Paramount, Fox, Marvel,
GRC.
· Experience of 15+ Client Studio Audits as
senior Auditor for Deluxe Entertainment Studios.
· Led complete Infrastructure buildout at
EyeQube Studios and Deluxe Entertainment.
· Implemented Linux based Computer
Grid Cluster Render Farm at EyeQube Studios.
· Implemented hybrid storage solution for EFX and Pixion’s DI setup.
TRAININGS/COURSE/EVENTS
2021: MBA in Information Technology and International Business with
A+ Grade.
2017: ITIL Foundation V3 Certification.
2015: Siggraph 2015 Conference – LA (US), CIO Summit 2015 -Sri
Lanka, GTC-2013 San Jose.
2011: Stereo 3D film production workshop by Sony India.
2008: ISILON cluster storage management training and attended
IBC2008 Broadcast Conf. at Amsterdam.
2007: Application support training from DaVinci on Resolve and Revival
and BrightSAN administration training.
EXPERIENCE
1st Oct 2012 to till Date (9+ Years): VP -
Information Technology at Company3 Method India Pvt ltd (Formerly known as
Deluxe Entertainment Services India Pvt. Ltd.) www.company3.com
Company3 Method India is the biggest
Stereo Conversion, VFX and Animation facility of Company3 with growing team of 1500+ employees. The infrastructure
is virtualized with VMware and equipped with 1000+ HP/Dell Workstations, 2PB+
of Isilon Clustered Storage, Render Farm, FortiGate, Arista and Cisco switching
with Nexus 9K, Quantel Pablo etc. Production pipeline is 100% digitized and is
running on Foundry Nuke and Silhouette with our own state of art pipeline
management system.
·
An integrated and
strategically focused to provide support for executive decision making.
·
Planned,
Designed, Implemented and maintaining IT infrastructure for VFX, Animation,
Conversion BUs.
·
Infrastructure
space, capacity planning, designing, implementing and execution.
·
Lead the strategic
direction of the company to ensure its development, sustainability and growth.
·
Handled
multiple company locations, mergers, de-merger and IT consolidations
·
Led
COVID-19 Taskforce and WFH initiatives.
·
Manage
infrastructure team, focusing on uptime, scalability and security.
·
Provide subject
matter expertise and high level leadership support for the senior department
heads.
·
Handled
SDWAN Deployment and compliance with IRINN.
·
Handled
large scale technology rollout while extending operations in new facility.
·
Capex
and Opex budgeting, planning and executions.
·
Completed
designing and setting up IT Infrastructure expansion projects at Company3.
·
Started
with 8 members IT team in 2012 and over the 9 years successfully established
centralized global support for Data Transmission, Render Support and L2/L3 IT
Support for all StereoD and Company3 operations across globe, currently
managing 100 Tech members in the Team.
·
Managing
Global connectivity over ILL and IPsec VPN Tunnels and SD WAN.
·
Realized
Vision of agile VDI infrastructure using Vmware, HP Thin Client, with 300+
users.
·
Auditing
Third Party Vendor for Deluxe Group of Companies with Deluxe Security Team.
·
Led
Site Security Group and Technology Audit. Passed Audits with zero remediation
in last 9 years.
·
Vendor
Management, Resource and capacity planning.
·
Executed
IT Strategy to build and manage Two Tier-3 Datacenters, 100% Virtualize Servers
Infrastructure, Network Design and 2PB Data management.
·
Signiant
based automated data transmission system integrated with proprietary asset
management.
2nd Jan 2008 to 30th Aug 2012 – (4Years, 8 Months): -
IT Manager - EyeQube Studios Pvt Ltd (A division of Eros International) (www.eyeqube.com / www.erosintl.com )
EyeQube
is known for high end VFX work and had a team of 180+ artists. EyeQube is
equipped with 200+ Workstations, ISILON NAS Clustered Storage, Dell Near Line
Storage, FCPs, Assimilator Scratch System, 640 CPU render farm, Tape library
etc.
·
Completely
built EyeQube studios Infrastructure, starting from construction, fit out,
power, space, cooling, Datacenter, IT Infrastructure, Network operation,
Access, CCTV etc.
·
Designed
and Implemented 300 CPU Supercomputing Grid Cluster for render farm. Key
advantages are two times fast render, parallel rendering, resource sharing and
programmable render submission.
·
Responsible
for designing, implementing, running and securing IT, Data, Surveillance System
and power infrastructure of EyeQube Studios.
·
Worked
for parent company Eros Multimedia for evaluating, planning and budgeting Media
Asset Management system for their Digital deliveries.
·
Vendor
management and negotiation and maintaining servers and resources uptime.
·
Managing Support team and ensuring SLA’s
are mate.
1st May 2005 to 30th Dec 2007 – (2 Years, 8 Months): IT &
DATA Manager, Century Communication Ltd (Pixion). Mumbai (www.pixion.tv )
Pixion is a post-production studio
equipped with DaVinci 2K Plus, Resolve, Revival, Autodesk Smoke, Flame,
Backdraft, Lustre, Quantel IQ, eQ and editbox, Sprit 4k Telecine, Northlight
scanner, Arrilaser, FCP, Avid, and 150
Seats VFX workstation
·
Responsible
for designing, implementing and running IT infrastructure of all Century
Communication Ltd (CCL) expansions in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai, which includes
their VFX, Commercials, Online/Offline, Theatrical, Business/Brand promotions
team, DI.
·
Establishing
DI workflow and DATA workflow for DI division
·
Responsible
for providing support for Online, Offline, Film Scanner, DI Systems, Film
Recorder, Render farm and CG/VFX System running on Mac and windows.
·
Maintaining
36TB BrightSAN, Discreet Stone shared SAN (20TB) with CXFS and centralize NAS
(4TB) for CG Station and 80TB of fully self-designed near line storage.
20th March 2003 to 24th April 2005 – (2Years, 2Month): Systems
Administrator, Prasad Corporation Pvt Ltd. (EFX). (www.efxmagic.com / http://www.prasadcorp.com)
EFX (A division of Prasad
Corporation) is post production studio known for DI and commercials. EFX is
equipped with Autodesk Smoke, Flame, Sprit 4K, Cintel Telecine with DaVinci 2K,
Arrilaser, Oxberry scanner.
·
Responsible
for the Installation, Administration, Backup and Security of all the system
running with Microsoft Windows, SGI’s IRIX and Linux Operating Systems
·
Designed
hybrid storage solution, which is mix of SAN, NAS and DAS storage
·
Maintaining
SGI systems (O2, Octane, Octen-2 & Tezro)
·
Maintaining
DI & Online Systems Nucoda, Luster, Arrilaser and VFX Systems.
·
IT
Servers, email and backup management
Jan 2000 to Oct 2002: As a System Engineer with Siddhi Computers and
Anjneya Computers.
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Attending
& Managing Service Calls and designing IT solutions for client in salse and
service industry.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
2021 : Master of Business Administration
(MBA) in Information Technology and International Business, from Bharat Vidyapeeth with A+ Grade
2017 : ITIL-Foundation
V3 Certification.
2017 : Bachelor
of Computer Science Information Technology (BSc-IT) from Sikkim Manipal
University.
2004 : RedHat
Linux Administration course from LanSmart Institute, Mumbai
2003 : Microsoft
Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).
2000 : Advanced Diploma in Computer
Hardware and Networking Form Jetking Pune with Honor Grade.
1999 : H.S.C.
Science from Kolhapur Board Maharashtra – India
1997 : 1st in 10th Board Exam in Technical
Subject, March - 1997
Other
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Computer
Basics form Acharya Computer Services Mumbai
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Passed
Intermediate and elementary examinations in Painting and Hindi language with
Honor
Painting: Various District and State level
certificates in Painting
PERSONAL SUMMARY
·
Full
Name : Sujitkumar Ganpat Shirkar
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Date
of Birth : 16th September 1981
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Nationality : Indian
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Language : English, Hindi and Marathi
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VISA : US - B1/B2 till 2030
CONTACT DETAILS
Residential Address :-
D-2103, Panchshil Towers.
Near EON IT Park Phase II, Kharadi, Pune - 411014 Maharashtra-
India
Mobile :
+91 9820857508
Email : sujitkumar_shirkar@hotmail.com
& sujit@shirkar.com
LinkedIn
Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujitkumarshirkar/
Skype : Sujitkumar.Shirkar
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Juergen
Kantenwein Head of Technical Marketing @ Codex, (Ref. LinkedIn
Profile)
“I
got to know Sujit at Pixion Mumbai- Film and Video Postproduction House where I
was asked to do technical Design and Implementation.
Sujit
joined the company and shortly after he took over full responsibility as IT
Manager. His fast and clear orientation on the job, the prompt utilization of
his skills got the whole organization smoothly into the next level of IT
structure and Workflow orientated Data handling.
His
interpersonal skills are on a very high level. The communication and teamwork
with Sujit was -especially for me as an International Consultant - highly
motivating. Sujit is a straight, solution orientated IT Professional with high
motivation for his Team´s efforts.
I
wish him all the best for his future!
Juergen
Kantenwein”