Engineer Project

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A technology leader with * years of hands-on experience in data centre

consolidation, VMware virtualization, storage design, Microsoft and Linux

technologies and information technology process. I am analytical, solutions-

focused and accomplished engineer, with a successful career in all facets

of the IT infrastructure, migration, change management and other critical

processes.

Experience Summary

V Experienced in design and implementation of all Data Centre Consolidation

activities.

V Experienced in Data mining, Data Governance, Data integration and Open

Stack / Cloud Stack.

V Capability of mentoring clients with multiple consolidation approaches

per application constraints and non-flexible/regulatory requirements.

V Expertise in managing, monitoring, configuring ESX and ESXi

2.x/3.x/4.x/5.x Servers using Virtual Centre Server 2.x/3.x/4.x and

vBlock.

V Extensive knowledge of Plate Spin Power Recon 3.x, Plate Spin Migrate

7.x/8.x/9.x, VMware converter 5.0, Double take 6.0

V Designed and implemented Branch in the Box (BIB) solutions for sites with

specific requirements using Net App 2040/2240 filer, Cisco 4948 switches

and Fujitsu RX 300 S6 servers.

V Collaborated with the storage team to configure SAN add LUN's to the

virtual environment and develop a plan to deploy VM's based on their disk

size.

V Experienced in planning and configuring Resource Pools, HA and DRS for

the virtual environment.

V Experienced in using HP tools such as HP Orchestration, HP Open Manage

and HP UCMDB in maintaining and managing the Data Centre Operations.

V Well rounded knowledge of Systems Administration skills like Active

Directory, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, IIS, GPMC tool, MOM 2005 tool, patching and

deployment of Windows Server 2008\2003.

V First class performer in satisfying Service Level agreement (SLA) and

experience in leading the triage meetings for critical issues.

Professional Experience

ATOS, Iselin, NJ (Feb 2009 - Till

Date)

Project: Data Centre Consolidation & Service Delivery

Senior VMware Engineer

ATOS is a global engineering company and is expanding its business in the

areas of power generation and distribution, industrial automation and water

technologies. The goal of the project is to consolidate ATOS Business

environment and provide support for the virtual environment. I performed

following roles and responsibilities during my tenure in ATOS.

> Designed, implemented and maintained Branch in the Box (BIB) solutions

for sites with specific requirements using Net App 2040 filer, Cisco 4948

switches and Fujitsu RX 300 S6 servers.

> Designed and implemented virtual environment using VMware ESXi 5.0 and

4.1 along with virtual centre 4.1 and 2.5 on Fujitsu servers and created

clusters for high availability (HA) and distribute resource scheduling

(DRS).

> Used Cisco system UCS Manager to monitor and manage the vBlock.

> Deployed virtual machines from templates and configured Windows 2003,

2008 and Linux 5.x and 6.x on them as per the co-operate guidelines.

> Created users and groups and performed their modification based on the

requirements for Linux servers.

> Monitored the system performance and tuned the kernel to enhance system

performance.

> Managed disk file systems and added/removed disk partition and file

access permissions.

> Used VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts

and virtual machine's.

> Created resource pools and distributed virtual servers among the pools

based on their utilization.

> Configured security hardening and monitoring of virtual machines and ESX

servers (CPU, memory, disk, network utilization) for security compliance.

> Upgraded Windows and Linux virtual machines running on ESX 2.5, 3.0 to

ESX 5.0.

> Used Plate Spin Power Recon 3.7.3 to monitor and generate reports for the

scheduled servers and recommend virtualization of servers using

consolidation scenarios.

> Performed physical to virtual migration using Plate Spin Portability

Suite 9.1 and resolved issues occurring during the migration.

> Used Double Take software 6.0 for (P-2-P) migrations and VMware converter

5.0 for (P-2-V) migrations, for unresolved Plate Spin issues during the

migration window.

AXA Technologies, Leonia, NJ (April 2008 - Dec 2008)

Project: Data Centre Consolidation and Service Delivery

VMware Engineer

AXA Technology is a leading financial service provider. To achieve a single

point of control over a geographically distributed infrastructure, AXA

decided to consolidate and merge all the data centres into one.

> Installed and Configured ESX 3.5 host servers and virtual centre 2.5 on

IBM 3950 servers, in the new data centre and created farms as per the

requirement.

> Created vSwitch and configured vNetwork, vMotion, Resource Pools, HA and

DRS for the virtual environment.

> Deployed Linux and Windows virtual machined from templates and cloned an

existing VM as per the client request through the change management

process.

> Installed patches and packages on Windows and Linux servers.

> Configured and managed network interfaces for Linux servers.

> Reconfigured the old virtual environment by adding resources (virtual

disk, memory and CPU) to the virtual machines that had reached the

threshold.

> Monitored the performance of the virtual environment using the virtual

centre for Windows and Linux servers.

> Manually migrated VM's from one data store to the other to resolve the

capacity issue.

> Performed P2P (physical to physical) conversion and P2V (physical to

virtual) conversion using Plate Spin 7.0.

> Migrated file servers using Secure Copy 4.07 and synchronized them during

the cutover period.

> Resolved issues occurring during the migration and provide support for

the migrated servers.

CNA Insurance, Aurora, IL (Oct 2007 - Feb 2008)

Project: Data Centre Consolidation

VMware Engineer

CNA Insurance is one of the largest commercial insurance providers. The

goal was to migrate\consolidate 800 plus servers from an old data centre

into new data centre. It included virtualizing the physical servers, moving

the storage arrays and the legacy physical servers.

> Installed and configured ESX 3.0 on Dell 6850 and 2850 servers in the new

data centre.

> Racked and stacked the servers and configured RSA for the IBM servers.

> Created resource pools and enabled v-motion on ESX host servers.

> Captured images of physical machines (P2I) and deployed them on to the

servers (I2P) configured on test VLAN.

> Converted P2P (physical to physical) and P2V (physical to virtual) using

plate spin power converter version 6.8, during migration.

> Performed backup of virtual machines using TSM software.

> Installed and configured windows 2003 on the servers as per the

guidelines.

> Configured Microsoft cluster for applications and monitored the health of

the cluster.

> Resolved issues occurring during the migration and provided support for

migrated servers.

Johnson Diversey, Sturtevant, WI (Nov 2006 - Sep 2007)

Project: Data Centre Consolidation and Support

VMware \ Windows Engineer

Johnson Diversey, a global solution powerhouse for in healthcare market.

The first phase of the project was to consolidate 300 physical servers in

the USA data centre. The second phase of the project was to

migrate\consolidate more than 500 servers from the data centre in UK to

USA.

> Racked and Stacked HP Proliant DL series servers and configured ILO and

secured the servers.

> Installed and Configured ESX 3.0 and virtual centre 2.0 on HP Proliant DL

series servers.

> Monitored the servers using HP Open Manage tool and generated resource

utilization reports.

> Created virtual switches and configured network connections using virtual

centre server.

> Created templates with standard OS and deployed VM's from these

templates.

> Gathered information for the servers in UK and USA, like their disk space

used, IP addresses, SAN attached drives, shared drives, print and file

services, installed programs, databases and other applications installed

on the server.

> Converted physical machines to virtual (P2V) and physical to physical

(P2P) using Plate Spin Power Converter version 6.0.

> Converted Physical machines to Virtual (P2V) by using VMware Converter

3.0 for servers that we encountered an issue with Plate Spin power

converter.

> Virtualized the application and development servers and resolved issues

occurring with them. Monitored their performances and scheduled the

production servers for migration based on the application owner's

feedback.

> Worked with other team members on configuring DNS and DHCP servers.

> Deployed WSUS servers and worked with other team members on patching the

servers.

> Monitored the virtual environment and resolved performance and bottleneck

issues.

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (July 2006 - Oct

2006)

Project: Maintaining and Managing the IT Infrastructure with IPv6.

Windows System Administrator

Microsoft Corporation, an IT giant gave me a perfect platform to elevate my

career where I worked as a windows system administrator with the Microsoft

IT team to implement and maintain internet protocol version 6 in Microsoft

Corporation's IT infrastructure. During this project I performed the

following duties:

> Installed and configured windows Vista OS (RC and RTM builds) and windows

2008 (RC and RTM builds) on different desktops and servers and checked

the OS functionalities for various services such as DNS, DHCP, shares and

security, user accounts and policies.

> Tracked bugs and worked with concerned teams to resolve them and

documented the solution to prepare knowledge base article.

> Created reports related to IPv4 and IPv6 usage on desktops and servers.

> Interacted with different teams like exchange, MOM, office, windows

mobile on performance issues while using IPv6 and resolved them along

with other senior team members.

Harleysville Insurance, Harleysville, PA (April 2006 - June

2006)

Project: Maintaining and Managing Windows Infrastructure Environment

Windows System Administrator

Harleysville Insurance is a mid-size insurance organisation. The day-to-day

activities included, installing and configuring of new DELL servers,

deploying security patches and resolving issues in the windows environment.

I performed the following tasks in this project:

> Installed and configured DELL Power Edge and Blade servers with Windows

2003 Standard and Enterprise Editions.

> Managed Active Directory and configured security policies using GPMC

tool.

> Managed and maintained DNS and DHCP servers and resolved issues related

to them.

> Used WSUS Server to deploy patches on workstations and servers in the

environment.

> Monitored the server performance by using MOM tool and escalated

application specific issues to the concerned team.

Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL (Aug 2004 - Aug 2005)

Project: Remodelling the Server Centre.

Internship (plus graduate assistant)

I worked as an Intern along with the Senior System Administrator in the IT

Department of the Roosevelt University, for remodelling the Server Centre

of Roosevelt University. First three semesters I was a graduate assistant

during my active schooling.

> Prepared and inventory of all the old hardware used.

> Monitored the performance of the old computer systems and than discarded

the systems after removal of the hardware components.

> Racked and cabled the new servers and installed the required operating

system as per the Universities Guidelines.

> Installed and configured windows 2003 on Dell servers.

> Deployed OS images on desktop machine by using Altiris software.

> Managed procurement of new desktops and hardware needed in the computer

science department.

> Trained new students in creating users, groups, managing security

policies and setting up a LAN network.

Educational Qualifications:

V M.S. in Electronics and Telecommunication - Roosevelt University (USA)

(Dec-2005).

V B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication - Mumbai University (India)

(June-2002).

Industry Based Accreditations:

V Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP).

V Certified in Information Technology Infrastructure Library Version 3

(ITIL V3).

V Trained on Plate Spin Workload Management Administration (Course 8008).

V Trained on Project Management Body of Knowledge-4th edition (PMI).

Awards and Recognition:

V Employee Recognition Award - Siemens IT Solution - 2010.

V Exceeding Expectation Award - AXA Technologies - 2008.

V Employee of the Month - Harleysville Insurance - 2006.

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