VENKATA KRISHNA

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FishKill,NY,**524. Ph # 347-***-****

abhsma@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

o 8 years of total experience in IT industry.

o VMware certified Professional 4 (VCP410)

o Microsoft certified Technology specialist -MCTS 2008

o Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE 2003)

o 5 years in the area of Virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESX 4

and 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server.

o Experience in EMC Clarion SAN Storage, Netapps NAS storage

environment and IBM DS4800 SAN storage

o Worked on different VMware products like VMware ESXI server, Lab

Manager, VMware workstation and VMware player.

o Extensive knowledge on cloud computing experience, SaaS / PaaS and

VMware automation with VMware life cycle manager.

o Experience in SAN switch zoning on Mc-Data Switches and Brocade

Switches

o Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting

up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots

o Build and troubleshooting experience With ESX hosts and Virtual

Center Server.

o Extensive experience with Windows 2008 clustering services.

o Sound knowledge on resource management framework like creation

resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.

o P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter and PlateSpin

o Extensive background in working with the VMware vMotion technology

o Strong experience with the VMware HA and VMware DRS.

o Experience with Netapps NAS/SAN storage

o Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of

vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN

Problem management on VMware ESX 3.X and Virtual Center and

vMotion.

o Basic knowledge on Symantec backup exec and vRanger Pro Backup

tools

o Basic knowledge on Microsoft Hyper V.

o Documentation knowledge with Microsoft Office Visio.

1 TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware vSphere, VMware ESX 3, 3.5 and 4.1/4.0

Virtual center server 2.5 and 4.0

VMware converter enterprise, VMware Update

Manager

HA, DRS, DPM, vMotion and SVMotion

VMware ESXI server, SRM, Thinapp, Lab Manager

Operating System Linux, Windows 9x, 2000, XP and VISTA

Serves OS / Hardware Windows NT,2000,2003 servers, HP Blade C7000,

/Storage HP Blade C3000, Netapps NAS and IBM SAN

Backup Software's Symantec backup exec and vRanger Pro. Veeam

tools

Applications MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio

Third party VMware PlateSpin power convert, Vizion core, Vcharter

Applications Pro

PlateSpin PowerRecon, Solar winds

2 EDUCATION

. Master of Science in Computer Science.

. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

3 CERTIFICATION

. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

. VMware Certified Professional VCP4

. Microsoft certified Systems Engineer MCSE

. ITIL V3 Foundation Certificated

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

4

UBS Investment Bank, NY

[06/2008 - 01/2011]

Technical Consultant (VMware/Windows)

Environment: VMware infrastructure 4.0,vCcenter Server, Windows 2008/2003

Server, HP Blade C7000, HP Blade C3000, HP VC Flex 10, Dell PowerEdge

Servers, Citrix, Symantec Antivirus 10.x, Symentac Netbackup, SQL and

Oracle

. Design, implementation and troubleshooting VMware ESX 4.0/3.5 Hosts,

VMware vSphere virtual center.

. Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP C7000 blade

servers.

. Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster

Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

. Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual

Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update

manager and manual upgrades

. Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000

server, Professional, Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers on Virtual

Machines .

. Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server

installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities

. Experience with vSphere Host Profiles/Distributed Switches setup

. Experience in administration on Netapps NAS and IBM SAN storage.

. LUN creation and storage mapping administration

. Administration on zonining/LUN masking on mc-data and brocade SAN

switches

. VMware SRM testing on NAS storage with storage replication

. Hands on experience installing, configuring & administering Network

services like DHCP and DNS services.

. Installed and Implemented Vmware ESXi 4.0 host servers with vSphere

Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.

. Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows

Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance

. Administration of HP Blade series C3000, C700

. Administration of SCCM for package deployment.

. Performed system administration activities, security policies and

monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels

. Exceptional troubleshooting, organizational, interpersonal, written

and verbal communication skills.

. Strong interpersonal communication and technical skills in software,

hardware and networking which help me to quickly identify and resolve

issues.

. Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing

usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software

within established standards and guidelines.

. Technical Support to other groups in the company

. Setting up bulk tests using the equipment to test voice, video and

data applications for the DUT

. Bug tracking, reproducing, reporting

. Setting up Regression Network in the lab to include all the products

and features by Occam to create virtual NOC to test the latest builds

. Updating the internal wiki with notes

Bank of America, NY Sept 2006 to July

2008

Windows/VMware Engineer

Environment - Vmware infrastructure 3.0/3.5, vCenter Sever 2.5, Windows

server 2003/2008, Dell servers, HP Proliant Servers, DNS, IIS, DHCP, Fiber

Channel, ISCSI SAN, VSS, FTP, Symantec/Veritas backup, Symantec corporate

10.2.

Job Responsibilities:

. Design, Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of ESX servers

3.5.

. Administrating Vmware infrastructure 3.5 using vCenter 2.5

. Installation and implementation of vCentre server to administrate the

ESX servers which include licensing, HA/DRS clustering, managing the

Fiber channel/ISCSI SAN storage configuration.

. Configured and managed VMware ESX Server 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5.

. Designed and implemented a 45 node ESX environment using multiple

clusters.

. Converted 150 plus physical to Virtual conversions for datacenter

consolidation project.

. Management and administration of Windows 2003 Active directory.

. Installation and configuration of VM's using templates and cloning and

managed using resource pools.

. Experience with SCOM/MOM2005 servers.

. Design, configuration and troubleshooting of TCP/IP and Networking.

. Upgrading VM's from windows server 2003 to Windows servers 2008.

. Installation and configuration of new domains including DNS, WINS,

Group policies and Design and implementation of Tier1 applications for

larger clients.

. Citrix Presentation Manager Management and troubleshooting.

. Hands on experience with HP Proliant Servers and Dell Power Edge rack

mount servers.

. WSUS. Responsible for the enterprise Group Policy management

. EMC CLariion SAN storage Implementation and administration of SAN

Switches with Brocad, Mc-data and Cisco SAN switches

. Build a Visual Source Safe (VSS) Sever for our internal IDM documents

management.

. Build a new FTP server on Windows 2008 Server as the previous server

on Windows 2003 got crashed and also migrate all FTP accounts from old

server to the new one.

. Configuring and Managing DHCP and IIS, Load balancing,

troubleshooting.

. Responsible for designing and deploying Remote Access solutions.

. Managed Active Directory services. (Created Accounts, Reset Passwords,

and Allowed Access to different Directories using NTFS permissions).

. Provided server and client support for all issues such as logon

failures, account lockout, network connectivity and authentication

issues.

. Performed all forms of backups using Windows server backups, wbadmin

and NTDSutil.

. Installing and updating security patches and Antivirus on clients

using Symantec corporate 10.2.

. Documented the entire architecture of the ESX nodes and window servers

that are created.

Simon&Schuster, NY September 2005

to August 2006

Systems Engineer

Environment - Datacenter Administration, Windows server 2000/2003,

ActiveDirectory, DNS, IIS and SAN storage.

Administrating windows servers; including Windows Clustering in datacenter

and containing 350 windows servers, IBM SAN storage, Linux and AIX servers

.

Responsibilities:

. Administrating and managing windows servers including configuration

and troubleshooting of Active directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS.

. Administration of Datacenter with Windows/Linux server and IBM SAN

storage

. Created and managed user and group accounts which includes configuring

password policies, user rights, domain and local user accounts and

setting profiles for multiple accounts.

. Design, installed and configured domain controllers at different sites

and implemented replication by configuring trusts and subnets.

. Created and modified security policies and updated the template to

multiple computers.

. Installation, configuration and Administration of IIS web servers.

. Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.

. Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs.

. Responsible for upgrading entire enterprise from windows server 2003

running in mixed mode to windows server 2003.

. Implementing security and update patches for servers and clients.

. Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and

implementation of trusts.

HSBC Data Processing India Pvt Ltd (INDIA)

April 2002 to July 2005

Systems Administrator

. Assembled, configured, installed, tested and repaired computer

hardware and software.

. Management of Active directory and windows server infrastructure.

. Provided technical support for the users and resolving

software/hardware issues.

. Performed hands-on administration and monitoring of Local Area network

(LAN).

. Experience with solar winds monitoring tools for servers and network

devices .

. Resolved Microsoft desktop applications (Word, Excel, Power Point and

Outlook) issues.

. Managed the installation and configuration of Windows 2003

Server/Workstations.

. Created user and computer accounts on the Active directory users and

computers.

. Configured servers for DHCP, WINS and DNS services.

. Installation, configuration and Administration of IIS web servers.

. Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.

. Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs.

. Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and

implementation of trusts.

. Troubleshot and resolve computer problems; built and upgrade systems;

install software and perform general troubleshooting.

. Handled multiple tasks to meet project deadlines.

. Develop and update the required network/system administration

documentation.

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