Management Server
Resume:
Dasarath Kunapaneni
*************@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
. Over Ten plus Years of IT experience involving System and Network
(LAN/WAN) Administration in multi-platform Systems/Network
architecture, Implementation, Integration and IT-security.
. Experience with System administration of Windows 2003/Linux (ESX)/Unix
Server Systems in Production & Development (24x7) environment.
. Experience in VMWare 2.5/3.01/3.5.vSphere 4, TSM and IIS 4.0/5.0/6.0,
SQL Server 7.0/2000, WebSphere Application Server V 5.1/V 5.0, SMS
2003, SCOM.
. Experience with Planning and migration of sites to VM environment
using P to V, V to V using different tools like VM Converter,
Symantec BESR 7.1, Plate spin 5.2.
. Expert-level Windows 2003/2000/NT Admin experience in Active
Directory, Group Policy, File systems, Win2K Clustering, Replication,
and Load Balancing.
. Good understanding on disk storage administration using NFS, NAS, SAN
and RAID.
. Experienced in handling all the IT service Management roles from
Service desk, Incident, Problem, Configuration, Change and Release
Management with advanced knowledge of incident investigation, risk
assessment and recovery techniques.
. Remote administration using Terminal services, w2k3 Remote
Administration tools,
F-secure, VMWare ESX Server 2.x, Symantec pcANYWERE, Telnet.
. Knowledge of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
practices. And implemented these practices in Fortune 500 companies.
. Management experience in handling Technical Support Specialists team
in Networking and OS levels.
. Superior management style and excellent interpersonal/communication
skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Hardware : HP Netserver Series &Compaq Proliant, DL580/380series
IBMNetfinity range of servers and compatibles, Sun
SPARC.
Operating Systems : Windows 2003/2000/NT/XP/98/95, ESX 3.5/3.0/2.5/
vSphere 4, Linux, Solaris (Unix), Windows3.x, OS/2 Wrap
Server.
Languages : COBOL, JCL, Java, C, C++, Unix Shell scripting, VBscript
Databases : Oracle, MS SQL7.0, MYSQL
Scripts/Tools : IIS, MTS Site server, Visual Source safe, MS Exchange
server 5.5, Java web Server, Web logic Apache,
Lotus Notes, MS/Netscape proxy, Check point
firewall,TSM. WebSphere Application Server V 5.1/V 5.0,
SAN,VMWARE.,SMTP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, VBScript, Java
script, Services - DNS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, SLIP, PPP, PPTP
Protocols, VPN.
Networking: Line Devices-RAD, routers CISCO, ACC, Modems Hubs (HP, D-
Link, 3 Com), Bridges.
EDUCATION/IT Certifications
. MS Computer Science from University of Illinois at Springfield.
. Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Software (PGDCS) JNTU.
. Bachelor of Science (MPC) from Osmania University.
Achievements: MCP Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator on Windows 2000
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Windows NT
Attended Authorized Websphere5.1 Administration Training.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Client NAVISTAR International Corporation. Warrenville IL.
Role Windows server Infrastructure support
Duration April 2008 to Till date
Environment Microsoft Windows 2003/ 2008, Linux ESX 3.5/3.01/2.5
servers, vSphere 4 &XP Professional Clients, SCCM, SCOM,
EMC NAS, SAN solutions, IIS/IBM Web Sphere, Magic, Manage
Now, VM Converter, Symantec BESR, Plate spin
Project Description:
Navistar International is a truck manufacturing corporation having 16,000
employees and more than 40 major locations across the world, Navistar has a
complex network and Infrastructure environment to support the business
needs and operates in three tier environment DEV/TEST/PROD.
Role and Responsibilities:
. Implemented, Administered and Managed Windows 2003 Active Directory
Infrastructure and services: Users and Groups, Group Policies,
Profiles, Kerberos, FSMO roles, Certificate Services.
. Implementing, Management and Maintenance of Windows Server 2003
Domain Controllers and administration of Active Directory, DNS,WINS
and File/Print Services, And worked Federation services to integrate
new sites.
. Experience in Administrating VMWare ESX 3.5/3.01/2.5, vSphere 4
Infrastructure and Cluster solutions.
. Proposed VM solution strategy to Medium/Small sites and migrated sites
to VM environment using P to V, V to V using different tools like VM
Converter, Symantec BESR, Plate spin.
. Expertise in troubleshooting VMware migration issues using third party
tolls using Symantec BESR 7.1/7.2/8.0, Plate spin 5.2.
. Part of Processes implementation and change management team,
responsible for Understanding of IT service delivery & ITIL best
practices.
. Implemented the Ciberarc Password vault as part of attaining CISSP
Operations security domain policy.
. Expertise in MS SQL 2005 Cluster server installation, configuration
of load balance and troubleshooting, Involved in supporting Teradata
Infrastructure cluster and Management nodes.
. Implemented the cost effective EMC NAS Storage, Backup solution across
the enterprise to replace the fileservers with SAN.
. Involved in installing the WebSphere Application Server 5.1/6.0 and
deployed applications using the admin console and through automated
scripts.
. Involved in Windows server 2003 and ESX server builds, and coordinate
with application teams and Conducts performance tuning, ensures the
availability of systems and performs capacity planning for server and
storage resources.
. Implemented SCOM for server/Service and application monitoring and
alert generation.
. Involved in evaluating new technologies & tools, testing &
installation of new Windows Server systems hardware & software, and
assists with establishing and maintaining technical standards,
policies & procedures.
. Responsible for implementing, develop and manage the key IT Service
Management processes within IT & Operations. Focused on the Problem,
Change, Configuration & Release Management processes.
Project Name Windows server Remote Support and VMWare Remote Support
Client State Farm Insurance Companies, Bloomington, IL, USA
Role Technical Analyst (Team size: 20)
Organization CIBER Inc
Duration 08/2003 - April 2008
Environment O/S: Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Servers, Linux ESX
3.01/2.5 servers &/XP Professional Clients, SAN
solutions, IIS/IBM Web Sphere.
Project Description
State Farm Insurance is one of the world's leading financial institutions
with 80,000 employees and more than 21,000 agents servicing in United
States and Canada. State Farm established the world's largest IT
infrastructures with advanced and powerful technologies.
Windows network is organized as Production, Simulated production and
Development environments with 28,000 servers and around 50 Domains in each
environment.
Responsibilities:
As a member of Windows and VMWare Remote support team, is responsible for
regular Environment & platform Security analysis activities and delivery of
various services within the stipulated time periods. Day-to-day job profile
includes Central point of contact for complex technological issues like
cross functional and vendor integration for the VMWare team. .
. Involved in reviewing requirements and recommendations for Windows
2003 server provisioning and other support gaps in the Windows Server
environment.
. Developed, recommended VMWare team related documents, such as
policies, procedures, strategies, guidelines, and standards as it
relates to Windows Server Virtualization.
. Administration of DNS and WINS in an Active Directory environment.
. Experience in Administrating VMWare ESX 3.01/2.5, MS Hyper-V
Infrastructure.
. Implementing domain and local policies, implementing GPOs.
. Successfully implemented VMWare P2V migration tool on Dell poweredge
servers (1650, 1750, and 1850).
. Involved in MS SQL Cluster server installation, configuration of load
balance and troubleshooting.
. Performed ongoing hardware and software maintenance of Windows server
environment, including VMWare ESX Server and virtual machines.
. Central point of contact for VMWare ESX Server and VirtualCenter
management and responsible for maintaining the master image servers
using VMWare virtual center.
. Involved in designing, installing and supporting SAN solutions.
Actively involved in solving SAN related problems switch
administrating and disk array administration.
. Responsible for creating and maintaining the Master image server upto
date using SAN clones.
. Mainly responsible for troubleshooting service calls and creating
Knowledge Item, monitoring, and other related documentation specific
to the process.
. Formulated the internal processes in regards to servers,
Change/Problem Management.
. Provided project support for environment maintenance; Assisted with
issuance installation failure analysis and provided requested data or
logs for incident resolution.
. Actively participating in designing/developing of State Farm
Technology Architecture, Security guidelines.
. Involved in SAN boot cloning of master images of the WEBFARM servers
for the on demand customer needs and high availability.
. Used Microsoft Office suite/Outlook 2000 to organize all of this
information, improve communications.
. Provided 24x7 on-call support by pager & cell phone.
. Configuring HP/Compaq Proliant 6500, DL380, ML570 series Servers with
dual and quad processors including assembling the server hardware
Project Name Test Center Server Hands on.
Client State Farm Insurance Companies, Bloomington, IL, USA
Role Technical Analyst - Client/Server Environment(Team size:
15)
Organization SCB Computer Technologies Inc
Duration 08/2001- 08/2003
Environment Microsoft Windows 2000/NT Enterprise Servers
&WindowsNT4.0/XP Professional Clients,SMS2.0,IIS, WEB
Sphere, Lotus Notes
Role and Responsibilities:
. Involved in Provide technical expertise to business partners in
regards to testing environments in the Test Center (e.g. new hardware,
enterprise software, networking )
. Actively involved n building the Environments for the different test
effort projects which includes WIN NT and WIN2K OS and web
infrastructure builds.
. Built the WEBFARM and performance farms for the test efforts and
involved in day to day maintenance of the WEBFARM environment.
. Involved in configuring the Web server/Webfarm infrastructure
environment for the Production and Test center.
. Implemented SMS software distribution work flow request templates in
Lotus Notes for the test environments.
. Used Lotus Notes for filling up work sheets for the H/w and S/w
requirements for the projects.
. Attended the SAN (Storage Area Network) boot/cloning training
sessions, and Involved in designing, installing and supporting SAN
solutions. Actively involved in solving SAN related problems switch
administrating and disk array administration.
. Responsible for creating and maintaining the Master image server up to
date using SAN clones.
. Used Outlook 2000 for time management skills and organize the
schedules for maximum efficiency.
. Used HP Service desk tool for the Service management process, managed
the work load using the problem tickets, incident records, work orders
in HP service desk.
. Configuration, administration, Implementation and management of Active
Directory, Trusts and Replication between domains located at multiple
sites, Managing of Containers, Trees/forest and Site configuration.
. Implemented the Server imaging using TSM Backup.
. Apply Patches and hot fixes, Upgrade Software on Clients using SMS
silent push.
. Migrated Users, Groups, Data Policies & Profiles from Windows NT 4.0
Domain to Windows 2000 AD Domain, Managed implementation of domain
trust security model and roaming profiles.
. Configuring HP Net server series and Compaq Proliant 6500, DL380,
ML570 series Servers with dual and quad processors including
assembling the server hardware.
Enternet Business Systems Inc.,
Intel Corp.,Santa Clara, CA.: WebServer Admin Jan '01-Aug
'01
Environment: H/W IBM Netfinity5500, Dell Poweredge6300,PCs
S/w: Windows NT4.0/2000,Linux6.2,IIS,Webtrends3.6, Oracle8i, MS SQL7.0,
Check point
. Installation and Configuration of WIN NT/2000, Linux Servers with
RAID5 implementation.
. Configuration of Web servers like IIS, IBM websphear and Database
Servers like Oracle and MS SQL7.0 and integration with web
applications.
. Implementation of Enterprise wide Security policy using Windows2000
Active Directory.
. Used WebTrends3.6 for web Log analysis and gathered many statistical
data for fine tuning of website .
. Configured RADWARE for Round robin and Fail over Load balancing of
websites.
. Installed and Configured Linux6.2 with kernel 2.2.17 and different
services and Configured Oracle8i for Linux.
. Configured DHCP, DNS, WINS, TCPIP services for Network connectivity
and Integration.
. Security management of all Servers and Network security using
Checkpoint firewall,created different policies for opening ports and
accessing the resources inside the firewall from outside world.
. Actively involved in solving OS boot, TCP/IP, ODBC connectivity and
Network connectivity problems.
. Prepared and maintained the Backup procedures, implemented the
Version control management using VSS.
. Configuration and Administration of MS Exchange server5.5 as Internet
mail server, Managing Information store, Public and Private
Folders and managing PST files.
. Responsible for diagnosing and troubleshooting the communication
errors in LAN and WAN.
Intelsoft Inc.,
IBM Corp., Poughkeepsie, NY : Systems Analyst
August 2000-Jan 2001
Environment: H/w: IBM Netfinity4500/7000 server, Myricom2000 OS: Windows NT
4.0/2000, Red Hat Linux 6.2
. Involved in Creating Test and Production environments involving
testing tools Win Runner, Load Runner and web servers IIS, databases
MS SQL 7.0, Oracle.
. Created backup procedures and Version control using MS Visual Source
safe.
. Implementation of DHCP, DNS, WINS etc.
. Actively involved in solving OS boot, TCP/IP, ODBC connectivity and
Network connectivity problems.
. Assisted Test and production teams for achieving high-level of
performance and providing a reliable and integrated working
environment. Responsible for installing, configuring and testing of
proprietary S/W and some outside vendor S/W packages.
. Installation and Configuration Red Hat Linux6.2 with kernel 2.2.15 on
the nodes and services like NFS, NIS, SAMBA etc. and Configured X
windows
. Installed Myricom Myrinet scalable interconnect and configured GM s/w
for Myrinet.
. Installed and configured Portland Group Compilers -C, C++, fortran77,
90 and Etnus Total View debugger.
. Upgrading and fine-tuning kernel configuration setting tunable
parameters, Activating Kernel Options.
. Backing up the system software and regular backups of the user file
system.
. Performed Patch Administration to maintain network performance,
security and Y2K Compliancy
RAASI Enterprise Solutions Limited.
May '99 -July '2000
Team Lead -Network/DBA.
Environment: LINUX, Win NT, IIS4.0, SQL server7.0, Oracle8.x
1. Actively involved in Design, implementation and maintenance of LAN/WAN
at their software development center. Involved in Installation,
configuration of Database servers, Designing & creation and fine-tuning
of large database environments.
2. Implementing and administration of RedHat LINUX 6.0 with Xwindows & Send
Mail, DHCP, DNS implementation. Configuration of Databases MYSQL, Oracle
8.0 for Perl5.0, Java Linux as Domain (Office) server for MS Windows
connectivity with Linux using SMB or SAMBA configuration and windows
system using TKSMB
3. Responsible for managing a team of six, and efficiently distributed work
load among the team members, Escalate issues that cannot be resolved by
the team.
4. Provide team leadership and Training
5. Serve as meeting manager, providing agendas ahead of time, and reviewing
action items before dismissing.
Seek approval of appropriate supervisor for staff resources from
outside
Identify any additional staff or material resources needed for project
success.
8. Configuration and Administration of Apache web server for Linux.
9. Implementing Proxy server for multi-domain environment with high level
of security.
10. Installation and configured Sun Solaris 8.0 with NFS and NIS services
for Java Development teams.
11. Implementation of VPN among Networks using PPTP and different
Authentication and Security methods.
VisualSoft (India) Limited. : Systems Engg. July '1998 -
April'99
Environment: Win NT, LINUX6.x, IIS4.0, MTS Site server, Oracle7.x, SQL
server 6.5
. Mainly responsible for NT and Database Administration. As a Systems
Administrator, responsible for Installation of Database software,
testing, debugging, preparing back-up procedures/loading, etc.
12. Actively involved in planning, design, execution and setting up various
Networks, computer systems, installation and administration of various
server software including NT Server 4.0/3.51, BSD/OS, LINUX, OS/2 Wrap
Server, and desktop OS like Win 95, WFW, NT Ws 4.0/3.51, and implementing
and administrating Client/Server software like Oracle, VB 5.0/4.0, VC++
5.0/4.0, Delphi 2.0, Power Builder 5.0/4.0, etc.
13. Activities include supporting various activities of the software
development teams by providing a reliable and integrated working
environment. Provided 24/7 on-site support for development labs company
wide.
14. Also responsible for User and Resource management regular backups and
replication in consultation with various development teams, TCP/IP
configurations (DHCP, WINS, SNMP). System monitoring and fine tuning etc,
hardware and software configurations etc.
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