Ashwin Kini

Current

Regional Chairman - APAC at Culminis
Technical Consultant CNC at SYSTIME
President at Mumbai IT Professionals User Group

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Past

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional: Windows Server - Customer Experience at Microsoft Corporation
IT Incharge at Freightwings and Travels Pvt. Ltd.
Systems Incharge at Prabha Engineering Pvt. Ltd.

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Education

Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai Kamaraj University
Karnatak University

Our Lady of Remedy High School

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Ashwin Kini’s Summary

Ashwin is an IT Professional from Mumbai and passionate about Networking technologies. Works as Technical Consultant CNC on JD Edwards / PeopleSoft ERP with M/s Systime Computer Systems Ltd., Mumbai; a division of CMS Ltd. He holds Masters in Computer Applications, Bachelors in Computer Applications, and Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Awarded as 2008 Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Windows Server Customer Experience: Networking.

He is an active member of IT Professionals communities and volunteers as Regional Chairman APAC (Asia-Pacific) for Culminis, an international not-for-profit organization devoted to the development and growth of the IT community world-wide, President of Mumbai IT Professionals User Group (MumbaiITPro) in Mumbai, India, panel member of Microsoft Online User Group Advisors, and Microsoft User Group Support Services steering committee.

His expertise is the areas of Windows Networking and Virtualization and freelances as “Subject Matter Expert” (SME) for Windows client, server, and virtualization solutions. When in leisure, he enjoys listening to music, watching sports and interests in photography. Ashwin blogs at http://www.ashwinkini.com/blog

Ashwin Kini’s Specialties:

General Consulting Skills
Managing Technical events and sessions
Network Maintenance
ERP Implementation
Training
Vendor Relationships
Presentation Skills

Ashwin Kini’s Experience

Regional Chairman - APAC

Culminis

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Culminis is an international volunteer organization initiated to serve the interests and needs of member IT Professional User groups, IT Associations/Societies, IT student groups, and organizations that have an interest in Microsoft technology products and solutions. It facilitates and promotes the development and maintenance of a partnership between IT Professionals and Microsoft.
I represent the regional Culminis members both within the regional board and to the global board.
Collaborating on and approving the strategic direction of Culminis
http://www.culminis.com/
http://www.culminis.com/BOD
Technical Consultant CNC

SYSTIME

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

Training on project related activities
Responsible for All CNC Activities
Project Go-Live in Carlsbad, California; Bangalore
Up gradation to Itanium processors
Building Foundation, Update & Full Package on the Server
Update’s, Applying JD ESU
Environment Creation, Installation
Various CNC and Enterprise 8.11 System Administration tasks
Build the packages for the deployment, Troubleshooting
Package management, OMW Project Advancing, Web Generation
Installation of JD Edwards Enterprise 8.12 on Windows Server 2003
Installed Pre-requisites on DS and ES
Installed EnterpriseOne 8.12 on DS
Applied service pack H1 client on DS with planner and baseline ESU
Installed platform pack CD’s on ES and applied service pack
Installation of WebSphere with Java Application Server
Created Installation plan and released workbench
Post-installation activities done
Installation of WebSphere with FixPak
EnterpriseOne 8.12 JAS installation and configuration
Customizing Security, Tasks
President

Mumbai IT Professionals User Group

(Computer Networking industry)

September 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

Leading the MumbaiITPro user group responsibilities include all community activities that includes conducting monthly community conferences and events, presentations, technical discussion meetings, etc...

MumbaiITPro User Group is a non-profit online technical community initiative for the IT Professionals. We are supported by Culminis Inc., USA and Microsoft India. We provide a variety of ways to get answers to questions, solutions to problems, and share your own expertise. We promote every product that are technology related and support information by providing Online Help, Publishing Documents, Online Chats and Conduct Technical debates and exciting events for building technology awareness and support. MumbaiITPro does not only believe in sharing knowledge but also tries to make it exciting and conducts such fun activities. We are also listed in http://technet.microsoft.com/hi-in/default.aspx under communities in India.
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional: Windows Server - Customer Experience

Microsoft Corporation

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — December 2008 (1 year )

Microsoft presents the MVP Award to thank Ashwin for his exceptional contributions to technical communities worldwide. When a community participant sees an MVP in a technical community, whether in a newsgroup, as a user group host, a conference speaker, or a respondent in forums, that community participant can be confident that the information shared by the MVP will be of the highest caliber and will help every user make the most of the technology.
He also serves as a freelance consultant - Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Microsoft Technologies in ITPro front.
Ashwin specializes in Windows Server, Virtualization, Active Directory, System Administration, Windows Desktop Operating Systems, JD Edwards / PeopleSoft ERP CNC practice
Find more information about the MVP Program here: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
IT Incharge

Freightwings and Travels Pvt. Ltd.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Package/Freight Delivery industry)

August 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 1 month)

IT in-charge for branches all over INDIA
Core Team member for ISO 9001:2000 implementation
Training users on information management, virus management, backup systems management & security management
Administer Mail Sever, Instant Messaging Server, File Server, Fax Server
Implement VPN
Prepare Quality Manual related to IT for ISO 9001:2000

Projects:

Planning and developing website: http://www.freightwings.com
Implementing MS Windows Exchange Server 2000
Implemented ISO 9001:2000 system and documentations related to IT
Installation, Configuring, and Administering Active Directory in MS Windows 2000 Server with MS Windows 98 and MS Windows XP as client Operating System
Installation and implementation of Mail Server with VPN, IDS, Proxy Server, Instant Messaging Server, Bandwidth Management, HTTP Scanning

Audited and configured network setup for Freightwings & Travels Pvt. Ltd., Chennai and New Delhi

Information Systems Auditing
Network configuration
Systems Incharge

Prabha Engineering Pvt. Ltd.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Automotive industry)

April 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 5 months)

Lead coordinator for implementing ERP which includes responsibilities like coordinating & training the staff for usage and administrating
Maintain computing environment by identifying system requirements, installing upgrades, monitoring system performance
Establish ERP system specifications by conferring with users, analyzing workflow, access, information, and security requirements
Establish ERP system by planning and executing the selection, installation, configuration, and testing of PC and server hardware, software, LAN networks
Assisting Senior Engineering Manager in all Design Activities and up gradation of ISO certification
Assisting Management Representative in up gradation of ISO/TS 16949:2002
Sole authority for approving any modifications in network architecture
Negotiating and finalizing IT requirements for medium scale budget
Administer Mail Server

Projects:

Implemented ERP in H.R., Payroll, PPC, Materials Management & Administering