Kalyan Kompella

Windows Administrator/ Systems Administrator

King Of Prussia - PA

Email: acs88l@r.postjobfree.com

Ph: 484-***-****

A leader in my discipline to serve my organization through dedicated hard work to achieve a challenging career with outstanding performance is my Objective. While my profile being spanned 10+ years of diverse technical experience in Windows Server Administration, VMware (Virtualization), Storage Administration.

Professional Summary

Over 10+ years of experience as Windows Server Administrator with Citrix and VMware System Administration

Expertise in Windows AD, MS Clusters, VMware vSphere 5.5 administration, Citrix XenApp 6.5 Administration, EMC Clarrion SAN Administration, Office 365, BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server), Exchange 2003 Administration, CommVault Simpana Administration.

Design, configure, implement, integrate and support Citrix products and Virtualization (VMware, Microsoft and Citrix) and other technologies, including Active Directory, Exchange Server, Windows servers/clusters, High Availability and Terminal Server

Lead technical team in IT infrastructure management, including system, disaster recovery and business continuation, system administration, and technical support in 24x7 environments. Craft and execute strategies to enhance IT systems and services. Direct architecture design, development, and implementation. Prepare project plans complete with scope, milestones, and deliverables. Analyze business requirements and define technical project specifications

Lead engineer / technical manager responsible for the new product testing of the Citrix Presentation Server product. Provided technical management for a team of 5 engineers and software developers in test (SDETs).This position required expertise in the design, installation, and configuration of Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server (MPS) including: MPS Windows 2003 32bit and Windows 2003 X64 server platforms, multi-server MPS farms with high-volume IMA load balancing, Citrix Web Interface in high-volume load

Rich work experience in supporting Customers ensuring customer delight and Satisfaction.

Performed many Administration tasks according to standards to obtain an optimal solution and was an active member in Client/User meetings.

Attitude towards learning and exploring new things made me to learn and implement various tasks in the Datacenter environment

Dedicated, valuable, trustworthy, reliable, enthusiastic self-motivated team professional possessing strong analytical, technical, and communication skills

Multi-cultured Team Player with complete flexibility to work independently as well as in a team and have quick grasping capabilities to work with the newly emerging technologies

Primary contact person for any issues related to technical Problem Management

Certifications

Vmware

VCA-DCV - VCAD510

Microsoft

MCP/MCTS/MCSA

647,646: Windows server 2008 Enterprise Admin, Server Admin

290,291: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure

270: Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional.

Office 365

Technical Skills

Systems Administration

Windows 2008R2/2012 Server Administration, Active Directory, DNS, WSUS/DHCP Administration.

Operating Systems

Server OS: Windows Server 2012, 2008R2, 2008 and 2003.

Client OS: Windows 8/7.

Mail Server Technologies

Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010, Office 365, BES

Virtualization Technologies

Vmware ESxi, Citrix Metaframe 4,4.5 XenApp 6.5, Cisco UCS

Backup Technologies

Veritas Backup exec, Commvault Simpana

Storage Technologies

EMC Clarrion Administration

Tools & Utilities

Helpstar, WSUS, Shavlik, Whatsup Gold, Perfmon, Dameware, DELL OMSA, DELL DRAC, MBSA.

LiveMeeting, my AT&T (VShare) and RDP

Hardware

Servers: Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Proliant Servers

Desktops: Dell, HP & IBM PC’s.

Laptops: Dell, HP, IBM ThinkPad’s, Toshiba.

Printers: HP Laser jet Printers, Canon MFP, Scanners

Work Experience

Client: Chiltern International, Pennsylvania, USA

Role: System Administrator III Feb 2009 – Present

Theorem's mission is to provide precise execution of complex combination trials for the biopharmaceutical, device and diagnostics industries to accelerate the delivery of personalized medicine to patients around the world. Theorem is a Clinical Research Organization with thousands of customers around the world.

Responsibilities: (Analysis, Design, Install, Implement, Support and Documentation)

Played lead System Admin role in analyzing business and technical requirements

Worked on the Infrastructure Support issues for all the IT projects in Theorem.

Involved in supporting Windows 2012/2008 Server environment on 800+ servers

Performed new server builds windows and ESX

Responsible for monitoring the critical server alerts and reducing the risk of having any downtime impact to users

Participated in disaster recovery

Involved in EMC Clariion Storage Administration, expanding LUN, creating LUN, attaching storage to the windows hosts

Worked on installing and migrating from Citrix Metaframe 4.0 to Citrix XenApp 6.5

Played KeyRole in Exchange 2003 to office 365 Migration.

Established and maintained communication with other development teams and software engineering groups.

Involved in all the conference calls during requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing & deployment.

Areas of expertise and hands-on experience include

oVirtualization of servers with VMware. Creation of Virtual machines, hardening as per the check list and allocating for the projects.

oPerform regular maintenance of servers through installation of software upgrades, patches through WSUS and SCCM.

oTesting the Microsoft Server Patches in the Test Environment, generating the reports and getting the necessary approval for installing in production.

oMonthly generating the MBSA report of all internal and project servers and getting them reviewed as per the process.

oFile server management, including Shared folder creation, quota management, and access restriction through Security groups.

oPrint Server management, including configuring printers, scanners, access restriction through Security groups.

oDHCP Management, which includes Creation of Scopes, Reservation of IP’s, Reconciliation of IP’s and Backup of DHCP database .

oConfiguring RAID in Physical Servers. Installation and administration of various Server Operating Systems like Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2008 and Windows 2003.

oConfiguring and troubleshooting DHCP, File and Print Servers, FTP, Clustering, WDS, WSUS, Domain Controllers and also Network Printers issues.

oDesigning Backup Strategy & ensuring scheduled / unscheduled backups as per the backup plan using Backup Software’s like CA Arc serve Enterprise Backup.

oActed as a SPOC for all Onsite locations Technical Problem Management.

Environment

Hardware: DELL Power Edge servers, HP Proliant Servers, Cisco UCS, Storage: EMC SAN.

Software: Server 2008 R2/ 2008/2003, Citrix XenApp, Metaframe, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS, BES

Project 1:- Consolidation and Virtualization of Servers

Environment VMware VSphere 5.5/Cisco UCS

Consolidation and Virtualization of Servers: The goal of this project was to consolidation and Virtualization of the existing physical servers to move them to UCS, Virtualize and Increase server utilization by consolidating them.

Responsibilities: (Design, Implement, Test)

Configuring VMWare Vsphere 5.5

Configuring HA, DRS

eneration of Utilization reports of Physical machines using SolarWinds and Virtual Machines from VMWare.

P2V Conversions using VMWare

Reducing number of physical servers through consolidation by identifying underutilized servers.

Effectively managing physical and virtual entities is critical to improving efficiency of time, cost, and resources.

Project 2:- Exchange Migration

Environment: Exchange server 2003 & 2010 Administration, Office 365

Software: Operating system: Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2

Focus on helping organizations manage, expand, and optimize their Microsoft infrastructure. Primarily assist organizations in upgrading to the current Active Directory and Exchange versions; allowing them to reduce cost and complexity in their environment while providing improved authentication and messaging services to their user and applications. Manage all aspects of projects, including project plans, scheduling, and task management from the planning and design stages to the documentation, training, and transition stages.

Responsibilities: (Design, Implement, Test)

Creation and deletion of user mailboxes.

User mailbox movement to different store groups.

Providing/restricting access to send mails to public domains based on the approvals.

Good knowledge on understanding the mail related issues and troubleshooting includes bounce back mails to the users, mail tracking on exchange and MacAfee email gateway servers.

Monitoring mail queues on exchange transport servers, clearing the spaces in exchange, domain controller.

Mailbox creations, deletions, reconnections, mailbox quota size increase, enabling auto forwarding from exchange server as per the policies.

Creation of DL’s, Security Groups and managing DL restrictions and providing access to send mails to the DL’s based on the approvals.

Enabling ActiveSync, OWA Access, managing message size restrictions.

Managing delegate and full access on the mailboxes.

Recovering mail deleted Items from the mailboxes.

Creating users in blackberry server and configuring the email accounts in blackberry phones.

Enabling active sync access and configuring email account in various smart phones like Iphone, Ipad, Samsung and HTC devices.

Project 3:- Exchange 2003- 2010 Migration

Environment: Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010

Exchange 2003 to Office 365 Migration:

Design and consolidation of two Active Directory forests and Exchange 2003 organizations to a single Active Directory and Exchange 2010 organization of 475 mailboxes and 480 GB of data for a manufacturing company. Target environment included a cross site DAG, archiving, and retention policies deployed on VMware virtual machines and EMC SAN.

Responsibilities: (Design, Implement, Test)

Exchange 2003 to 2010 migration and consolidation of 400 mailboxes and 500GB of data. Environment included the implementation of DAG on VMware virtual machines and EMC SAN.

Guided project teams from formation to project competition

Created business requirements, project plans, and additional deliverables

Designed lab infrastructure, created testing plans and test cases

Managed project plans, schedule, deliverables, SharePoint sites, budget planning, system and software requisitions

Coordinated with team members and vendors from around the world

Disable, delete, or archive users, OUs, mailboxes, Public Folders, and SharePoint libraries and sites.

Make lists of what content needs to move, and what you can ignore.

Lists of e-mail and related servers and network components.

Project 3:- Upgrade AD 2003 to AD 2008

Environment: Exchange 2003, Exchange 2010

LiquidHub India Private Limited: The goal of this project was to Implement Active Directory 2008 R2, Design and Deployment of Active directory, Configuration of DNS, DHCP, WSUS, WDS and Group policies.

Software: Configuration of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WDS, WSUS and Group Policy Implementation. Operating system: Windows server 2008 R2

Responsibilities: (Design and Deployment of Active directory, Configuration of DNS, DHCP, WSUS, WDS and Group policies, Post deployment support & Documentation)

Analyzed the Old Portal, its functionalities and developed DR for critical functionalities.

Designing the Active directory Structure for client requirement.

Installation of new Domain Controller and configuring the DNS.

Trust establishment between New Domain and Client domain.

Verification of Accessing the Client network resources after the trust establishment.

Administration of Active Directory, Creation, Deletion and managing the Users, Groups and OUs.

Configuring the DHCP, WSUS roles as per the client requirement.

Building the client image for deploying to desktops using WDS.

Delegation of administration tasks to the role base IDs.

Creation and administration of sites and site links and troubleshooting the replication issues.

Responsible for requirement gathering and implementing a POC for the project

Client: Spectrum Power Generation, Kakinada, India

Role: Senior System Administrator Feb 2007 to Feb 2009

Spectrum Power Generation Limited (SPGL) is one of the eight fast track private sector power projects approved by the Government of India. The company was formed and incorporated on October 26, 1992 to develop, construct, own and operate a dual fuel fired combined cycle power plant using Gas and Naphtha. The installed capacity of the plant is 208MW with a configuration of three Gas Turbines and one Steam Turbine. The project is located near Kakinada, a port city in Andhra Pradesh. SPGL has already implemented the project without a Govt. of India Guarantee and the Combined Cycle Commercial Operation for the plant commenced from April 19, 1998 and it presently operating at its full capacity.

The project has been implemented at a cost of Rs. 972.60 Crores. The power generated from the station is being supplied to AP DISCOMS under Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) mechanism.

Responsibilities: (Design, Implement, Test)

Responsible for disaster recovery of servers and making the environment stable

Involved in supporting Windows 2000/2003 Server environment on 15+ servers

Participated in implementing and managing VMware Server 2.0 environment reducing the Hardware

Worked on migrating physical to virtual using P2V tools

Responsible for maintaining backups using NTBACKUP tool with tapes

Involved in monitoring critical server alerts and reducing the risk of downtime impact to users

Worked on disaster recovery

Participated in maintaining hardware inventory with a proprietary application

Responsible for installing and configuring Windows 2000/2003 servers and Windows XP Home/Pro Operating Systems

Worked on configuring Windows 2000 and 2003 Active directory, DHCP and DNS

Involved in configuring users and computers in Active Directory

Participated in managing IT assets, and handling IT support issues

Responsible for planning and implementing data and mail backup

Worked on installing and configuring Sophos antivirus on desktops and anti-virus checking

Involved in installing software like Visual Studio 6.0, SQL Server, Visual Studio .Net 2003, web designing and Oracle tools

Participated in image handling, and resolving UPS problems

Participated in system related issues

Environment:

Hardware: DELL Power Edge servers Software: Server 2008 R2/ 2008/2003

Client: Arete Technologies, Hyderabad, India

Role: System Administrator Feb 2005 to Feb 2007

Responsibilities:

Building Desktops

Working on printer issues

Working on HelpDesk tickets

Education

Post-graduation Diploma in Cyber Law from Osmania University Law campus, Hyderabad, India.

Graduation from Kalinga University, Raipur, India.

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