Professional Summary
Experienced IT professional having 12+ years of experience with comprehensive technical talent in IT Infrastructure, Cloud & Datacenter Services. Currently working with one of the leading Canadian based Retail & Financial projects.
Infrastructure Capacity Planning - Streamlined the physical Capacity expansion procedural in PR & DR environment
Application Transformation - Transform the physical Windows Clustering on VMware environment that paves the way for future growth by lowering total cost of ownership and improving application capabilities
Infrastructure Testing - Fine-tuned Infra Governance, Servers, Storage, Network and Disaster Recovery (Site to Site) testing
Assisted in resolving infrastructure performance issues for a critical health care KROLL application affecting direct patient care
Involved in Citrix XenApp 6.5 builds and expansion
Created and Executed PowerShell scripts as part of build activities
Performed PCI QualyScan for server builds and remediated the vulnerabilities and patches
Performed Disaster Recovery validations on all the platform builds
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems : Windows Server 2008 & 2012, VMware ESX 5.x & 6.x, RedHat & SUSE Linux
Hardware : Large Capacity servers – HP, DELL, IBM Servers, iSCSI Storage devices, SAN
Applications : vCloud Director 5.x, ThinApp 4.x-5.x, Horizon View 5.x
Backup : Veritas NetBackup, HP Data Protector
Monitoring : Nagios
CERTIFICATIONS
VMware VCP 3.5 & VCP-DCV 5.x
ITIL v3 Foundation
CAREER EXPERIENCE
Loblaw Companies Limited - CANADA July 2015 – May 2017
Retail & Financial Corporation
Senior Systems Administrator
Closely worked with Infrastructure Manager and executed project to ensure a smooth signoff to ITTO
Responsible for the design, deployment and maintenance for a broad range of systems and applications, including Linux, Windows & VMware
Overall, delivered 200+ projects & 1500+ Platform Servers for large & Complex projects
Understand project requirements (via workshops, meetings etc.,) and translating those needs to document the Blueprint, High Level design & Runbook standards
Carried out workshops and define migration standard on Datacenter environments
Responsible for End-to-end Production Readiness Assessment (PRA) to check if the environment is built as per the Design Standards, Security vulnerability and Risk assessment
Responsible for Operational Readiness Testing (ORT) to ensure the functions as stated in the design, Governance, DR site-to site and in-site failover on Pre-Production environment
Responsible for developing standard SOP for Windows, ESX and appliances platform build
SD LAW CANADA Jul 2014 – July 2015
Law Professional Corporation
Systems Administrator
Responsible for implementation of Virtual infrastructure based on VMware ESX 5.x
Install and configure VMware View 5.x to roll out virtual desktops
Install, configure and troubleshoot Windows 2008 servers as per project requirements
Configure Active Directory Objects, administrative templates, scripts and folder redirection
Perform weekly and monthly maintenance on servers such as installing Windows updates
Install, Configure and Manage Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 &Lync Server 2010
Schedule a P2V migration and troubleshoot any issues that arise during the P2V migration
MAX-I PRO TECH - INDIA Aug 2012–Jul 2014
IT Desktop and Enterprise Solutions
IT Consultant
Provided optimized solutions for enterprise clients through VMware vSphere 5.x
Deployed around 4500 virtual servers, across multiple datacenters
Managed and supported more than 200 Host servers running VMware ESX Server
Managed VMware View VDI infrastructure of more than 1000 desktops
Consolidation of over 300 servers across data centers at various client locations
Build virtual applications using VMware ThinApp for View Desktop deployments.
Setup vSphere features on ESX host clusters such as vMotion, High Availability, configure dvSwitches across clusters
Deployed migration of physical servers to Virtual environment using VMware Converter
Performed the full backup of ESX host & Check the host compliance in Update Manager
Installation & Configuration of Microsoft Exchange Server & Lync Server 2010 in virtual environments
VMWARE SOFTWARE - INDIA Nov 2009 – Aug 2012
Global Support Services Division
Technical Support Engineer
Supported VMware Platinum customers on end to end technologies (VMware vSphere, View, vCloud Director, ThinApp & vCenter Operations Manager products)
Assisted clients on migration of Physical to Virtual environment using VMware Converter
Provided remote assistance on issues related to ESX / ESXi server and other issues related to vMotion, DRS and HA
Used VMware Update Manager to install & troubleshoot updates on ESX and VMs
Provided on call support for clients with installation & configuration of VMware View
Installed, configured and troubleshot VMware vCloud Director
Worked closely with the TAM’s and PSO on VMware View &vCloud Director
Worked with developers in code fixing, bug tracking and patch releases during major bugs
HEWLETT-PACKARD - INDIA Oct 2005 – Nov 2009
Global Solutions Center Division
Technical Solutions Consultant - II
Installed, configured& troubleshoot all types of HP Proliant Servers (DL, ML & Blade Servers)
Configured and Diagnose issues on Blade Server & Rack solutions through OA
Managed HP Server datacenter through HP SIM & RDP software
Assisted clients on installing and configuring HP Modular Storage Arrays
Installed, configured and managed customer environments using DPX backup software
SLASH SUPPORT - INDIA Sep 2004 – Oct 2005
Enterprise Mailing Division
Application Consultant
Installed, configured & troubleshoot Microsoft Exchange Server & Lotus Domino Server R6.5
Provided remote assistance on Lotus Notes client & MS outlook client to the users
User Mailbox & Distribution Group creation for users and groups upon request from admins
Worked on recovery of emails deleted accidently, restoring it to user mailbox
Performed White list and Black list of Domains, IP address, IP spoofing and email address
EDUCATION
B.E. - Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics) –University of Madras – India.
M.B.A - Master of Business Administration (HRD) – University of Madras – India.