Engineer System Administrator
Resume:
Kunal Tembhurne
Jersey City, NJ 07306
PHONE: 732-***-**** Email: ********@*****.***
Microsoft Certified (MCSA/MCSE) & ITIL Certified V3
SUMMARY
Over 8.9 years of Strong IT Experience on Windows, Citrix & VMware Servers.
Over 8.9 years of experience as an System Administrator working on Windows 2003, windows 2008, Windows Xp, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Over 5 years of experience in Citrix (Xenapp 6.5 & XenServer 6.5).
Over 5 years of experience in VMware (V Sphere 4, VSphere 5).
Working as Consultant for a Hedge Fund Client (Davidson Kempner Capital Management LLC) handling all kind of hardware & Software Solutions.
Environment consists of around 200 Windows and 50 Citrix Servers, 50 VM servers. The tasks are to attend day to day OS related problems in servers and desktops, printers, scanners etc.Via Jira Ticketing System, emails and calls.
Support different Trading application hosted on Windows Servers.
Good Experience in Data Center Migration Activities.
Excellent Troubleshooting Skills and Time Management Skills.
Excellent communication and client facing skills with presentation knack.
Technical Skills:
Windows 2003, Windows 2008/2008R2,Active Directory Server, IIS Server, Xenapp5/6.5,
VMware Sphere 4/5,Xen Server 6.0/6.5,SCOM 2007, Solwarwinds, Symantec endpoint Protection, Symantec Altiris Server, Avaya voice system, Web sense security, BIT 9, Carbon Black, Bromium, Blackberry Enterprise Server.
Support Trading Applications:
Bloomberg, Geneva, Charles River, Openstaars Electra, Document Management System, Autonomy Imanage, Thomson Reuters, Intex Calc
Professional Experience:
1. Sr. System Administrator Newyork, NY Oct 2011 – Till date
Client: Davidson Kempner Capital Management LLC (Hedge Fund)
Role: Sr. System Engineer
Organization: Synechron INC.
Designation: Lead- IT Operations
As Senior System Engineer, responsible for defining the infrastructure plan, scenarios, preparing test case documents, defining the performance environment requirements, specifying report templates, benchmarking and interpretation of results. Extreme work pressure and quick resolution environment. Provide quick resolution to the traders on the floor.
Key Responsibilities
Participated in the full project lifecycle with particular emphasis on creation, maintenance and execution of test to ensure the capability of the systems being built.
Test, Maintain and Perform regular windows update on Servers monthly.
Preparing plan for migration activities, testing and implementing them.
Perform VM migration activies from Vmware to Xen environment.
Perform P2V Migration for Physical Servers.
Worked closely with developers and application owners to test applications and publish, deploy them in production environment (publishing application on Citrix.)
Monitored server performance metrics on all critical Production environments.
Handle user Setup for Users and Configure new Access rights for users.
Worked with solutions architects and DBAs to identify and resolve bottlenecks on Servers.
Performing Root cause analysis on the issue occurred in the environment.
Handle Altiris Package creation and deploying them in the infra environment.
Created an disaster recovery Boston site and tested failover from NY to BOS.
Work on new projects and tasks assigned by Client.
Reviewing monthly Altiris and WSUS report in order to keep the infrastructure up to date.
Co-ordinate and negotiate with Vendor in order to Procure infrastructure products
Alerts Setting /monitoring via Solarwinds and SCOM 2007.
Monitoring alerts Setup and performs as the kind of alerts received.
Work over weekend and implement the RFC (change requests).
Assign tasks to offshore and co-ordinate in order to complete the assigned task and projects.
Co-ordinate with Traders/ users and provide solution/support for the trading application.
2.Project Lead Pune, India May 2010 – Oct 2011
Client: IMPAC
Role: Project Lead
Organization: Synechron Inc
Interact with client, Co-ordinate, Plan and perform tasks as per client requirement.
Reviewing all the weekly, monthly report and provide solutions in improving the client support. Conducting internal meetings and discussing issues related to Project and
Support Tickets.
Key Responsibilities
Worked as Team lead for IMPAC RIM Team/Process Co-ordinate Supporting windows Servers and Citrix Servers.
Worked as Process co-coordinator for IMPAC RIM team right from initial Setup of the project till Providing smooth Support to Impac Client
Provided Technical and Process trainings to the new joiner’s for the IMPAC RIM Project.
3.System Administrator Pune, India Oct 2009 – May 2010
Client: Nvidia
Role: Project Lead
Organization: Nvidia
Key Responsibilities
2000/2003 servers and user desktops.
Create workstation, Avaya Setup (Softphone/Ip phone ) for new hire
Procurement Analysis and Inventory Solutions.
Perform VM migration activies from Vmware to Xen environment.
Create RSA token/VPN keys for users.
Assign and Configure the BES for users Handles incidents of Servers and desktops related issues on windows Server
4.Infrastructure Engineer Pune, India Sep 2007 – Oct 2009
Client: Embarq (Telecom client)
Role: Infrastructure Engineer / Windows Server Administrator
Organisation: EDS an HP company
Key Responsibilities
Handle Incidents of Servers and citrix Network related issues for Windows 2000 & 2003 server.
Install citrix, Join servers to citrix farm, Troubleshoot citrix, publishing applications using IIS, Nfuse
Perform Monthly Change Management of Patching, Password Changes for Windows 2000 & 2003 servers.
Assistance in migration
Perform Monthly Change Management of Patching, Password Changes for Windows 2000 & 2003 servers. Analyze, interpret, and summarize meaningful and relevant results in a complete test environment and Production environment.
Assign and work on the tickets that are opened in the SC. Work on tickets in much improved way to maintain the SLA.
Join the MML for Sev1 and 2 issues and try and work on the issues.
Assist with the handling of major incidents and identifying the root cause i.e. for Sev1 and Sev2. Performs in-depth analysis to isolate points of failure in the application
Maintain the proper documentation for each server which includes pre-build surveys and certificates
Making sure if all the scripts are running properly to prevent the application failure.
Updating ADMS with all the necessary server data, protocols, Rack location etc.
5.System Administrator Pune, India Jan 2007 – Sep 2007
Client: CMS
Role: Windows Server Administrator
Organisation: CMS
Key Responsibilities:
All kind of System admin activities with Server and desktop Support
Build Machine with standard Organization software
Install and Support Printers and Scanners.
Install and Support required Software applications for the users.
6.Tech Support Engineer Pune, India July 2006 – Nov 2006
Client: Linksys
Role: Tech Support Engineer
Organisation: VCustomer
Key Responsibilities:
Install and Troubleshoot Wireless SOHO.
Networks issues related to Linksys
Configure and troubleshoot Routers, Switches, Network Related problems
Education
Bachelor of Telecommunications Engineering, University of Pune, India (2006 Batch).
Certified MCSA/MCSE
Certified ITIL V3
Awards:
Won Cookie Award on Excellent Client Implementation Work, January, 2009.
Center of Excellence Award for successfully migrating P2V, Oct 2009.
Davidson Kempner Client appreciation for Office migration, May 2015.
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