Project Lead It Architect

RAJESH KOOTTALA. Bachelor in Science (Computer Science)

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Technical Expert with experience working as a Technical Lead at Microsoft. Experience in working as an IT architect and leading teams in IT infrastructure as per client’s requirements. Had worked as a Disaster Recovery Architect for PWC and MERCK during a real-time disaster. GAP Analysis and finding robust solutions under budget is the major attraction for all the clients. Ability to tap and design process, procedure and tools to improve business and also cut cost in projects and existing expenditures.

Employer: Kyndryl/IBM Oct 2020 – Till Date

Designation: Delivery Project Lead/Delivery Architect Location: Bangalore, India

Performing Dual role as an IT Architect and a IT Project lead.

Managing 8+ clients across US and Europe with VMware, Windows, AVD and Citrix technologies.

Design Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Citrix XenApp and Citrix Cloud infrastructure for the clients.

Design and implementing Citrix Cloud infrastructure with Azure, Google Cloud, AWS and IBM Cloud.

Managed the installation, configuration, and maintenance of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop systems.

Maintain secure Citrix systems in addressing vulnerabilities using Group Policy (Citrix &Windows).

Design IAM, MFA & SSO solutions for the clients with POC including PAM with Azure and Sailpoint.

Strong experience in JML operations tools like Workday and HCM.

Developed and implemented automated tasks and scripting to improve overall system performance.

Managing Active Directory, Azure AD(Entra ID) and Entra AD Connect along with Group Policies.

Create PowerShell scripts and WMI Scripts for automation and Windows AD/Infra management.

Work with the Networking team to manage the Infoblox, NetScaler and DNS.

Design and implement Cloud PCs/AVD and M365 as per clients requirements.

Design Disaster Recovery for clients based on the clients requirements.

Designing Cloud and Hybrid Cloud solutions using AZURE, GCP, IBM Cloud and AWS.

Design and Implement Access gateway, GSLB, SSL Offload, Director and Command Center on NetScaler.

Perform a GAP analysis on all the client environments on a yearly basis.

Perform Auditing on AD group policies and Citrix policies on a yearly/adhoc basis.

Work with the security and Compliance team in keeping the Infra Secure and Compliant

Career Break: Sep 2018 – Sep 2020

Employer: GVA InfoTech. Nov 2017 – May 2019

Designation: Sr. Systems Engineer Location: Ashburn, VA

Project: One Point Health Services. Nov 2017 – Aug 2018

Role: Sr. Solutions Architect Location: Dallas, TX

Design new infrastructure and cloud Strategies, Process and policies (Azure, AWS & GCP)

Did a GAP analysis and re-designed IT infrastructure along with Security and Compliance.

Analyzed business processes and developed performance metrics and implemented solutions as required.

Designed all IT and Business solutions considering the company growth for the next 10 years.

Implemented Salesforce CRM for Business Development across the departments.

Implemented Access gateway, GSLB, SSL Offload, EdgeSight and Command Center on NetScaler.

Integrated Citrix AppDNA and App-V for XenDesktop and XenApp with Citrix Logic monitor.

Implemented Citrix XenApp 5.x, 6.x and 7.x farm.

Implemented Hyper-V for Active Directory server, Citrix and application workloads.

Designed Microsoft Azure and AWS IAAS & PAAS and POC on VMware SDDC on AWS

Designed and Implemented Windows Active Directory 2016 with Windows 2008 child domains.

Designed and implemented SCCM 2016 and implemented Windows 10 upgrade.

Designed and Set-up the OpenStack (Newton) infrastructure on Suse Linux deployed as IaaS.

POC on Archer for PCI & HIPAA Compliance, Risk and Audit Management.

Employer: Resources Inc. July 2013 – Sep 2017

Designation: Systems Architect Location: Ellicott city, MD

Project: MERCK/CTS - July 2017 to Sep 2017

Role: Disaster Recovery Engineer. - Location: Charlotte, NC

Project: American Airlines - June 2016 to May 2017

Role: Solutions Architect - Location: Dallas, TX

Project: Grainger/TCS - September 2015 - January 2016

Role: Sr. Citrix Engineer - Location: Lake Forest, IL

Project: ONCOR Electric/HCL - October 2012 - August 2015

Role: On-Site Team Lead (Citrix/Wintel) - Location: Dallas, TX

Design new High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents.

Design and implement new Infrastructure and Cloud Strategies, Process and policies (AWS, Azure & GCP)

Designed and Implement Monitoring tools like SolarWinds, EdgeSight, Zenoss and Dynatrace.

Managed the installation, configuration, and maintenance of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop systems.

Deployed and configured Microsoft Networking Technologies such as Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.

Utilized Citrix Cloud Services to optimize the virtualization infrastructure.

Developed and implemented automated tasks and scripting to improve overall system performance.

Designed Automation of patching and configurations push using SCCM 2012 and vCM.

Perform GAP analysis on the entire IT Infrastructure and provided a remediation plan.

Re-designed the Windows 2012 Active Directory infrastructure and hardened the Active Directory and servers.

Designed converged and hyper-converged technologies using VBlock and NUTANIX.

Designed the capacity planning for enterprise applications servers

Implemented Hyper-V for Active Directory server, Citrix and application workloads.

Design Access gateway, GSLB, SSL Offload, HTTP compression, EdgeSight and Command Center on NetScaler.

Implemented vRealize business 7.x, VROPS 6.x and vRA 6.2.x & 7.x.

Design Splunk and IBM QRadar infrastructure.

Designed and Set-up the OpenStack(Newton) infrastructure on Suse Linux deployed as IaaS.

Designed and implemented the Upgraded VMware 4.X to 5.1 and to 5.5 & 6.

Designed and implemented Infra security solutions using Splunk, QRadar, IronPort, Bluecoat and ArcSight.

Designed Identity Access Manager (IAM) and Privilege Access Management (PAM) using IBM and SailPoint.

Implement Security using SAML, SSO, WS-Federation, or OpenID Connect for On-boarding applications.

Designing Disaster Recovery (DR) and business continuity (BCP)

Designed and Implemented Citrix XenApp 5.x, 6.x and 7.x farm.

Design the patching strategy for Windows, CITRIX, Linux and ESX servers using SCCM and vCM.

Designing Automation using vRA, Chef and Puppet.

Implement NetScaler, F5 BIG-IP and IBM DataPower for Load Balancing Internet/Internet application.

Employer: InfoTech valley Nov 2010 - June 2013

Designation: Systems Engineer Location: Bethlehem, PA

Project: Wealth Touch - July 2012 - Aug 2012

Role: Lead Technology Consultant (Wintel) - Denver, CO

Project: VISA/CSC - Jan 2012 - July 2012

Role: Infrastructure Consultant (Wintel/VMware)- Location: Ashburn, VA

Project: Goldman Sachs - Nov 2010 - Dec 2011

Role: Senior Technology Analyst (Wintel Team Lead)/SPOC - Location: Jersey City, NJ

Project Lead and Technical Liaison for Windows, VMware and Citrix escalation Team.

Liaison for BCP and Crisis management.

Designed the Escalation/Policing metrics based on ITIL.

Designed the Windows Active directory infrastructure and hardened the Active Directory and Windows servers.

Involved in the Design of Capacity Planning of the entire physical and virtual servers.

Implemented vRealize Business and vROPS

Experienced in configuration of EMC Clarion and NetApp Filers through VMware

Designed the Runbook for the Installation of VMware servers and handed over the Server installation Group.

Level 4 Escalation engineer and an SME on performance analysis and monitoring on windows-based servers.

Implementation of VMware infrastructure and HP VCEM. Was a part of implementation of VBlock/UCS.

Designed converged and hyper-converged technologies using VBlock and NUTANIX.

Performed the print server migration from windows 2000 to 2003 and to 2008.

Implementing XenDesktop/XenServers and Active Directory consolidation project of 3 different forests.

Designed and implemented load balancing/Firewall using Citrix NetScaler and Two Factor Authentication.

Designed monitoring of apps using SolarWinds Orion and NAGIOS on all windows and Unix servers.

Employer: Computer Science Corporation Jan 2010 – Nov 2010

Designation: Systems Administrator Leader. Location: Falls Church, VA

Project: VISA Inc

Role: Infrastructure Consultant - Location: Ashburn, VA

Project: PriceWaterHouseCoopers (PWC)/Hannaford

Role: IT Infrastructure Architect (Disaster Recovery) - Location: Portland, ME

Re-designed the Windows Active directory infrastructure and hardened the Active Directory and its servers.

Implemented security solutions on Windows servers and Implemented Capacity Planning Performance Management strategies.

Migrate the users and servers to the new active directory structure.

Employer: Synergic Solutions Inc Oct 2008 – Jan 2010

Designation: Programmer Analyst Location: Chelmsford - MA

Project: VISA Inc

Role: Infrastructure Consultant - Location: Ashburn, VA

Project: Synergic Solutions Inc.

Role: Lead Engineer - Location: Chelmsford, MA

Infrastructure analysis of the software Optility on the client’s infrastructure and compatibility checking of the software on Citrix.

Windows consultant for performance related issues on servers and applications.

Performance analysis on Linux, AIX and Solaris server.

Analyzing the performance of VMware servers, capacity planning, P2V migrations using VRanger and vConverter.

Employer: Goldman Sachs June 2007 – September 2008

Designation: Senior Technology Analyst (Team Lead) Location: Bangalore – India

Perform GAP analysis on the entire IT Infrastructure and provided a remediation plan.

Design new High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents templates.

Re-designed the Windows Active directory infrastructure and hardened the Active Directory and servers.

Designed the capacity planning for enterprise applications servers

Design Access gateway, GSLB, SSL Offload, HTTP compression, EdgeSight and Command Center on NetScaler.

Designed Archer for compliance and Risk management.

Designed and implemented the VMware 4.X

Designing Disaster Recovery (DR) and business continuity (BCP)

Designed and Implemented Citrix XenApp 5.x and 6.x farm.

Employer: Microsoft R&D, India. September 2004 – June 2007

Designation: Support Engineer Location: Bangalore – India

Handling escalated calls and Critsit (Critical Situation)

SPOC for the collaboration from teams like SMS, MOM, Exchange, SQL, IIS, Networking and Active Directory.

SME for Windows Memory Dump Analysis on Server Hang/ Crash

Analyze the performance issues of the Application and provide the RCA.

Windows Cluster, Cluster printing and network Printing, Terminal server, DCOM, WMI & MSI,

Created more than 250 Solution objects for the knowledge base (KB) for Support Engineers.

Employer: Softenger India July 2003 – September 2004

Designation: Systems Administrator (Team Lead) Location: Chennai - India

Project: Citibank N.A,

Responsible for the migration of System administration activities from datacenters of different location (US and Europe) to India and implementing security solutions for Windows servers.

Employer: Byzan Systems May 2000 – July 2003

Designation: Systems Administrator (Team Leader) Location: Chennai - India

Project: Citibank N.A,

Was responsible for Installing and Administering the internal Firewall of Citibank (Security Gateway) across EMEA, and USA.

This Project was to establish CISCO Network WAN connectivity of CITIBANK to 6 different companies.

Configure and maintain Linux, HP, AIX and Solaris server.

Employer: FRONTEND Technologies. June 1997 - May 2000

Designation: Customer Support Engineer Location: Bangalore, India

Responsible for the migration of System administration activities from datacenters of different customers and implementing security solutions for Windows servers.

Certifications (Please click link to verify):

Citrix: CCA-V

Microsoft: AZ-140

Google: Google Cloud Digital Leader

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