Windows vmware system engineer

KATHIRAVAN T.K

************@*****.*** Skype:kat**155 www.linkedin.com/in/Kathiravan-tk/ 1

Qualifications Summary

Amazon Cloud Certified associate with 10 years’ experience Managing and troubleshooting small and large Windows infrastructure.

Earned reputation for delivering excellent knowledge and support during migration process as well customer support.

Windows Active Directory Domain Administration, Managing and troubleshooting windows server 2000 through 2012 R2.Pursuing 2016

Strong Technical Skills and analytical skills in problem solving and process improvements.

Demonstrated ability to work well with a wide variety of people at various levels, foster co- operation and collaboration among individuals in the work unit, help team resolve conflicts constructively, ability and willingness to communicate when help is needed.

Trying to get my hands dirty on the Cloud platform. Education and Certifications:

Bachelor of Computer Application

AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Developer associate Microsoft certified Systems Administrator (2003)

ITIL V3 Foundation certified

Technical Skills

Operating Systems Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 Cloud Tools Microsoft O365, AWS IAM,S3, EC2, VPC networking, Direct Connect, Cloud Front Scripting Languages PowerShell Scripting, Beginner Level JSON, AWS CLI Tools Active Directory, ADSI, IIS, FTP, DFS, DNS, DHCP, CA, KMS, McAfee ePo, ADFS, Symantec, Microsoft Communicator/Lync, O365, Okta Single sign on. Backup Tools NT Backup and CommVault

Patching Tools WSUS, BladeLogic and SCCM 2012

Hardware IBM and HP Rack Blade servers

Networking LAN technologies, NAT, Port Forwarding, Basic Routing and switching knowledge, VLAN concepts, VPN, Load Balancers

Database SQL server and Basic WQL query knowledge

Virtualization VMware VSphere 5.5, VCenter, Hyper-V, Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop Migration Tools Binary Tree

AWS Skillsets:

As an AWS certified associate I have strong knowledge of S3, EC2, VPC, RDS and other basic services of AWS.

Hands on training for the certification have given me great knowledge of configuring, managing and troubleshooting the AWS cloud at an associate level.

Test build experimented different vpc’s with window and Linux hosts and vpc peering. Professional Experience

KATHIRAVAN T.K

************@*****.*** Skype:kat12155 www.linkedin.com/in/Kathiravan-tk/ 2 Ensono (Formerly Acxiom Corporation) – From Jan 2016 – Mar 31

1 year and 3 months as Senior System Engineer

Key responsibilities:

Plan, assist and migrate windows servers, Active directory and Desktops during the separation and merger from old Company Acxiom to Ensono.

Migrated over 500 servers and 900 Desktops including 500+ over Remote VPN, Using tools and scripts.

As part Binary Tree of the Migration architecture team, planning and implementing infrastructure Servers across the new Network.

Plan, design and Build AD domain controllers on different sites and subnets.

Deploying DNS servers for name resolution on DMZ and tools zones.

Built the Domain Environment and deployed CA, KMS, DHCP servers on different network segments and Managing.

Build and troubleshoot vm’s on VMware 5.5 environment.

Build and managed the Bit Locker Environment for the network

Suggested and built a replica of the prod domain to test GPO, other software’s and scripts before Production Deployment.

Apart from Project scopes, is taking care of the new, Managing/troubleshooting exchange and Skype for Business. O365 Identities

Supporting the Single Sign on Application named Okta.

Self-trained and supporting Citrix XenApp and XenDesktops.

Intermediate PowerShell scripting, automation of Reports and recurring process.

Supporting Ensono AD Domain network along with client environments includes Dun & Bradstreet, Harte-Hanks for AD and DNS.

Manage External DNS server which runs on AWS RT53.

Plan and design GPO’s for the new Windows 10 images.

Managing McAfee ePolicy orchestrator

Tata Consultancy Services – From 2008 – Dec 2015

Client – The Northern Trust Bank, Chicago Il.

7 years supporting The Northern Trust bank at various levels, different projects and support as per requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Extensive Operations support for around 4500 windows servers both Physical and Virtual.

Managed a team of 15 across two different Locations and supporting the Operational support for Northern Trust Windows servers.

Application support includes Ftp, IIS, DFS, Active directory, DNS, GPO. Supported SCOM and SCCM.

Server Hardening, Lifecycle management, Security Patch deployments, Antivirus Management.

Scripting for repeatable tasks, process changes based on environment changes, document processes.

SQL Server Service Pack Upgrade

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Involved and completed a SQL server upgrade project in 3 months SQL upgrade project to upgrade SQL servers running 2000, 2005 and 2008 to latest service pack versions

SCCM 2012 – Patching Windows servers

Planned and Installed 4000 + Windows servers with SCCM 2012 agents globally across different domains.

Setup Software Updates Deployment on SCCM server, Setup the infra ready for patch deployment through SCCM2012.

Deploy Patches across all server environments using SCCM 2012.

Owned and improved the process of Planning, configuring and deployment of security patches Level 2 and 3 Support @Northern Trust

Incident management, Vulnerability management.

On call support on rotation basis. Off Business Hours Support.

Plan, test and deploy Group Policy to the domain.

Troubleshoot Hardware issues, on HP ProLiant DL and BL series. Co-ordinate with HP resolving hardware issues. HW management, Vendor Co-ordination for HW replacement, Upgrade HP HW iLO’s.

Assisted with migration of McAfee antivirus enterprise from 8.7 to 8.8. Managed McAfee deployments to servers, defined policies and Packages in McAfee for different applications requirements as per company needs.

Automation by writing PowerShell Scripts and Batch scripts.

Resolving vulnerabilities identified and deploy fixes using SCCM

Managing virtual machines running on ESX 5.5 using VMware Virtual center, vSphere client and vSphere web client.

Familiar with VMware clustering, vmotion, HA technologies.

Work with multiple application teams, troubleshoot server side and app side issues. Outline Systems India Pvt Ltd, Chandigarh – From November 2007 to November 2008 as Senior Windows administrator

Day to day activities managing the LAN and AD Domain of the corporate office. Key responsibilities

Implemented & Managed ADS, DNS, and DHCP servers.

Designed Microsoft Live Communication Server 2005 for Internal Chat.

Implemented Microsoft WSUS 3.0 for windows Patch management

Installed & configured Microsoft Groove in the Domain.

Implemented Cerberus FTP server & Tomcat web server

Implemented Symantec End Point Manager server

Installing Windows Virtual servers & managing. Implementation of backup system with disaster plans

Providing Proper solutions & precautions for Network Security Related Issues through MBSA

& SysInternal Tools.

Remote management of THE USA office network and assisting clients in the US office with Network, laptop and software issues.

Vendor Co-ordination and procurement.

KATHIRAVAN T.K

************@*****.*** Skype:kat12155 www.linkedin.com/in/Kathiravan-tk/ 4 Irus Software Applications Pvt Ltd, Pune – from October 2006 to November 2007 as Windows/Network Administrator

Built and Managed LAN of 100 clients and 25 servers.

Install configure and Manage Windows applications like Windows Communicator, instant messaging, WSUS for patching and SharePoint 2007 farm for application development.

Managed LAN servers, AD, DNS, DHCP, Backup and RIS.

Built Windows Virtual servers and deployed application servers for testing and production.

D’zine Garage Pvt Ltd, Chennai - from Jan 2006 to September 2006 as Windwos server Administrator

Upgraded the LAN from Workgroup Model to Windows server 2000 Domain Model and Supported AD and DNS, Backups. Assist with day to day infrastructure issues.

Install, configure, troubleshoot Windows servers and client machines for application and hw issues. Manage LAN switches and Routers, Vendor Co ordination Array InfoTech Pvt Ltd, Chennai – from August 2003 to Dec 2005 as Service Support Engineer

Day to day procurement of systems, printers and servers for home and office customers, building pc’s.

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