Dilanth is a seasoned IT leader with deep expertise in enterprise technology management. He began his career as an IT Operations Analyst in the healthcare sector before advancing into network engineering, where he played a pivotal role in designing and deploying complex multi-site networks and datacenters. Building on this technical foundation, Dilanth transitioned into technology leadership and has since directed end-to-end IT operations across multiple organizations. His industry experience spans healthcare, entertainment, retail, distribution, and manufacturing, giving him a broad understanding of diverse business environments. Recognized for his ability to quickly grasp operational needs, he has reengineered and optimized numerous processes to enhance efficiency, reliability, and performance. Dilanth excels at developing technology strategies that align with organizational goals, ensuring that IT investments deliver measurable business value and long term impact.
- As a leader, he avoids micromanaging, but understands that there are situations where closer oversight is necessary. - Hire for fit, intelligence and curiosity; job skills can be learned in time. - Help build skills and give employees opportunities to gain new experiences. - He understands that fairness does not always mean treating everyone the same, but treating people according to what they need to succeed.
Administration: Managing technology expectations and visions of C-level executives, develop technology strategies that align with business objectives, technology roadmaps, technology budgets and budget management, recruitment of tech talent and building effective technology teams, effective vender management Operations: Experiences in data center and technology helpdesk operations. Expertise in operating midrange platforms. Disaster Recovery planning and testing. Infrastructure: Implementing advance infrastructure in data centers. From servers, switches, routers, firewalls, hypervisors, SANs, LANs and WANs etc. Application Development: Managing application development teams. Designing enterprise applications. Services oriented architecture, standalone multi-tier application architecture, containers and micro-services, application testing methodologies. Project Management: Planning to delivery of projects up to $1 million dollars. Trained and certified in project management methodologies. ERP/MRP: ERP systems management in retail, distribution and manufacturing enterprises. Expert level, funtional understanding of Accounting, Inventory management, Warehousing, Sales, Purchasing, MRP and CRM modules. Integration of applications to ERP systems. Technology Security: Technology security practitioner with more than 10 plus years of experience. IT security contorl program development, Security governance. Security frameworks NIST, ISO 27001 and ISO 27002, HIPPA. PEN testing and security audits.
- Currently learning AI technology
- Has operated Midrange IBM AS400s systems for large enterprise
- Certified Network Engineer (CCNP, CCDP) and A Microsoft MCSE Certifications:Expired. But no skills lost.
- Experiences in data center operations
- Likes to code using open-source tools and languages
- ERP systems setup and integration
- Accounting knowledge: Chart Of Accounts, GL, AR, AP, P&L, Balance Sheet, Income Statements
- Familiar with cloud platforms: Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azsure
- Fortigate is his go to firewall solution. But has experiences with Cisco firewalls. Started on Cisco Pix firewalls
- Experiences in data warehousing and BI reporting
