Divyesh Patel

About Divyesh Patel

Enthusiastic, detail oriented, and accountable leader with 20 years of IT infrastructure, data-domain-device security, operational management, disaster recovery and business continuity plan. Seeking to leverage my non- technical and technical problem solving, strategic thinking, vendor negotiation and coaching skills to bring collaborative engineering teams together to achieve business, user and IT needs.

Experience

1. Senior IT Manager, Network Architecture

   Reynolds Consumer Products

   Jan 2022 — Present · Lake Forest, IL, US

   Design, coordinate and manage the organization’s architecture models to help it perform more effectively and enhance technology processes.• Network architecture, System architecture, Security architecture, Technology life cycle management, Cloud computing and cloud operations, IaaS (public and private cloud), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), Networking, Storage infrastructure and technology-based security practices, Application and infrastructure monitoring, Virtualization, Database and data center technology, business continuity, Disaster recovery, High-availability, Scalability, Unified communications, Information security.• Lead the MSP that manages network, security, cloud and voice systems of RCP.• Prepare long term and short term plans to determine the current and future system information requirements.• Initiate and implement new technologies, methodologies, process and procedures to support long-term and short-term goals.• Built foundation to secure IT, OT & IoT network towards Purdue model for control system (ICS) security, concerning physical processes, sensors, supervisory controls, operations, and logistics.• Establishes and nurtures relationship with other BUs. Work with other business units, including manufacturing units to build IT infrastructure architecture for any new plants, offices or warehouses.• Part of IFP (Intelligent Factory Program) to recommend and implement technology and infrastructure needed.• Manage all related vendor support contracts for hardware, software, connectivity.• Coordinate and execute upon approved adjustments and changes that increase performance and availability.• IT policies and standards development. Establish, maintain and execute operational procedures that leverage efficiencies and best practices.• Network, security, voice and collaboration hardware lifecycle management.• Oversee cybersecurity protections on all IT infrastructure resources according to policies and standards established by the CISO.

Education

• Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Information Systems Management

  2015 — 2019

• Sardar Patel University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1994 — 1999