Prasad Talapaneni

Infrastructure Technical Lead and Subject Matter Expert with 19 years of IT experience, including 15+ years delivering enterprise Windows, Azure, Microsoft Entra ID, VMware, Microsoft 365, Cisco UCS, observability, and hybrid cloud solutions. Proven record leading architecture, modernization, cloud migration, identity, virtualization, endpoint management, disaster recovery, and major-incident resolution for 2,000+ servers across the United States and Europe. Experienced as an onsite SPOC, L3 escalation lead, and offshore-team mentor, using infrastructure telemetry, health dashboards, capacity trends, and event correlation to identify risk, prioritize corrective action, and verify service recovery.

Documented success executing zero-downtime migrations and generating nearly $1 million in annual infrastructure savings. Strong partner to business stakeholders, security teams, and strategic vendors including Microsoft, VMware, Cisco, Dell, and HP. Consistently recognized as an Outstanding Performer for delivering secure, scalable, and customer-focused enterprise infrastructure solutions.

Technical Specialist / Infrastructure Technical Lead at LTM (Formerly LTIMindtree) (2015-04 – Present)

Client: Catalina Marketing Corporation. Lead architecture, modernization, lifecycle management, and cloud transformation for enterprise Windows, Azure, VMware, Microsoft 365, Cisco UCS, AVD, and hybrid cloud platforms.

• Cisco UCS X-Series and VMware migration with zero downtime - Used infrastructure observability, capacity data, and platform health indicators to guide the deployment of a new Cisco UCS X-Series platform with VMware vCenter and ESXi. Migrated 1,000+ virtual machines with zero production downtime.
• Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Migration with $60,000 annual license savings – Analyzed VDI utilization, performance, and user experience signals to guide the replacement of the legacy VMware Horizon platform. Designed and implemented AVD with Nerdio Manager and migrated end users to AVD.
• Data center consolidation with $600,000 in annual operating savings - Used power, capacity, utilization, and infrastructure health data to support consolidation decisions and migration planning. Led the relocation of racks, servers, storage, and network infrastructure to a new colocation facility, reducing footprint.
• Disaster recovery modernization with $329,000 annual savings / $1 million over 3 years - Evaluated recovery readiness, infrastructure utilization, and cloud cost trends to identify optimization opportunities. Architected a Cisco UCS, VMware, and Zerto DR solution and later moved workloads from Azure to on-premises infrastructure.
• Exchange Online Migration for 3000+ Mailboxes - Monitored migration health, service availability, and exception trends throughout the transition and took corrective actions to minimize disruption. Led the migration of mailboxes and public folders from on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online.
• Microsoft 365 tenant separation for 800+ users - Used migration dashboards, service-health data, and issue tracking to identify failures, coordinate remediation, and verify completion during a tenant-to-tenant user migration across Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, and collaboration services.
• Independent Corporate Infrastructure Setup - Established monitoring, alerting, and operational health checks as part of a new independent environment. Designed and deployed Active Directory, domain controllers, Certificate Services, and VMware Horizon VDI to enable a seamless business transition.
• Execute Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online migrations, VMware upgrades, Windows Server modernization, and data center initiatives.
• Design and administer Active Directory, ADFS, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure application registrations, enterprise applications, Conditional Access policies, SSO, Certificate Services, Azure DNS, storage accounts, SCCM, Intune, WSUS, endpoint security, and enterprise patching solutions.
• Provide L3 technical leadership for critical production outages, using alerts, logs, telemetry, dashboards, and event correlation to determine impact, isolate probable causes, coordinate corrective actions, verify recovery, and lead root cause analysis and problem management.
• Develop PowerShell automation that reduces manual effort, standardizes administration, and improves operational efficiency and platform reliability.
• Drive observability, vulnerability remediation, operating-system and firmware lifecycle upgrades, PCI DSS and security compliance, capacity planning, performance tuning, and high-availability improvements using ScienceLogic, SolarWinds Orion, vRealize Operations, ServiceNow, and platform-native monitoring capabilities.
• Partner with application owners, security teams, business leaders, offshore engineers, and vendors to deliver global infrastructure programs; create architecture diagrams, standards, runbooks, and knowledge articles and mentor junior engineers.

Senior Engineer at LTM (Formerly LTIMindtree) (2011-06 – 2015-03)

Client: Getronics Services UK Ltd.

Supported

Booker, Subsea 7, Acergy, and Sit-Up TV environments.

• Managed priority incidents, technical escalations, on-call support, change coordination, and cross-functional recovery activities to maintain production stability, availability, and performance.
• Administered and troubleshot Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS, IIS, Group Policy, Windows Clustering, Network Load Balancing, and ISA Server 2006 while mentoring junior engineers and improving operational processes.

Administrator - Wintel at Microland Limited (2007-05 – 2011-03)

Environment: Windows Server 2003/2008 R2, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, WSUS, ISA Server 2006, Trend Micro, HP OpenView, and HP/Dell/IBM infrastructure.

• Administered Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, disk quotas, permissions, file/print and Exchange services, and Windows Server environments.
• Performed event monitoring and daily health checks, resolved server and application issues, coordinated preventive maintenance, and prepared operational reports and logical-flow documentation.
• Installed Windows Server and RAID configurations; managed backups, restores, inventories, HP OpenView requests, Trend Micro antivirus, endpoint encryption, hardware, and email clients.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – Bangalore University