Administrator Associate Support Specialist

Curriculum Vitae

HARI G

Mobile No: +1-351-***-****

Email: ****.**@*******.***

OBJECTIVE:

Over 16+ years of IT experience in IT infrastructure Services, Virtual Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecting IT Infra services, Which includes Cloud and Cloud Migrations, Automation and Transformations. Projects for Migrations & Transition.

Synopsis:

Cloud Migration and Modernization – Good exposure in handling technical teams & projects. Well-versed in handling Data Centre/Cloud Migrations and Transformations

Successfully executed 8+ Migration and Transformation projects as a Cloud Migration & Modernization Architect

As a Migration and Discovery SME/Architect have very good knowledge on Discovery, Assessment and Migration and Transformations.

Good knowledge on Compute and Networking for making Source DC to target DC Architectures and ease flow of IT infrastructure Migration Projects.

Worked with migrations tools like Zerto, Carbonite, VMware vCenter Converter, Rackware, PlateSpin, HCX, SRM and Double Take.

Virtualization Administration (VMWare & Hyper-V) Kyndryl-Project:

Deployed the discovery tool (Cloudscape) infrastructure in the Elevance Health Sites (St Louis, Richmond, Harrisonburg, Virginia Beach, Cerritos and Healthcore )

Discovered 20000+ servers using Cloudscape and 500+ servers manual discover.

Managing the Cloudscape assessments (Licenses/Issues/Access)

Deployed Zerto on 16 vCenters (source and target vc’s), Managing and maintaining Zerto, upgrading to match our environment.

Managing the ZVM’s and VRA’s.

Deployed Migration tool Carbonite on (St Louis, Richmond, Harrisonburg, Virginia Beach, Cerritos, Healthcore, IBM Private and Dedicated sites )

Involved in Zerto DR deployment with Project teams.

Deployed and managing SDMM in Elevance Health.

Managing Kyndryl servers deployed in Elevance Health for Migration tools.

Managing the Discovery and Migration team members.

Resolving the discovery issues for the servers planned for migration event, generating the reports.

Working with the vendors to fix issues (Flexera/Zerto/Carbonite)

Requesting the Firewall rules for the migration events and tools.

Working with the Leads (Windows/Linux/AIX/Vmware) with respective to the Migration events (Pre and Post)

Managing the CMDB for the Kyndryl servers.

Pre-migration issues

Working with PM’s, Architects for the complex migration.

Migrated 3000+ servers with Team.

Technical Skill set:

Virtulization & Cloud Migrations

Vmware Vspire 4.0, 5.0 & 6.0, 6.5 (Compute)

Vmware NSX(Network)

Cloud Migrations Any to Any.

AWS, Azure and IBM Clouds

Data Centre migration Discovery, Design,planning & migrations.

Hardware capacity planning & migrations.

Virtualization capacity planning, & implementations.

VMware ESX and Microsoft virtual server administration.

O/S Deployments & Migrations

Resource utilization analysis & management

Double take, Zerto, Vmware Native tools, Plate spin etc.

Discovery and planning tools Transition Manager, Cloud Scape RVtools. Server Operating systems:

Windows 2016, Windows 2012 Windows 2008, Windows 2003 server, Windows 2000 server, Windows NT and VMWare ESX/ESXi Server 3.5, 4, 5, 5.5 & 6. Migration and Discovery Tools

Zerto (V2V)

Carbonite (V2V, V2P, P2P, P2V)

HCX (vmware)

Rackware

Cloudscape (Flexara Risc Networks)

Transition Manager

Process:

PMP

ITIL Process.

Maximo, Service Center, Remedy etc.

Professional Experience: -

1. IBM India Pvt. Ltd ( Kyndryl )

May 2018 – March 2023

Currently working as Technical Services Professional, for Internal and External Clients on Discovery, Planning, and Design of Cloud Migrations. Job Profile:

Providing cloud solutions based on client requirements such as Discovery and Migrating workloads to Any to Any I.e local to cloud, Cloud to Cloud, Physical to virtual, Virtual to Virtual.

Cloud solutions and cloud migration solutions based on type of workloads which includes AWS, Azure and IBM etc and tools Carbonite, Zerto, Plate spin, or Vmware HCX .

Creating and working on documentation: HLD, LLD, run books and other technical documents.

2. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) – DXC Technology Designation: ITO Svc Delivery Consultant

April 2011 – May 2018

Job Profile:

Part of Migration team, which provides technical solutions and migrations to Clouds.

Handling team of 30 resources (Migration and Discovery SMEs)

Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.

Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software based appliance functions

Managing the C7000 Blade Enclosures

VMware Infrastructure ESX/ESXi 3,4,5,6 /vSphere and vCenter Installation, Configuration and Administration

Configuring and management of ESX Cluster. (HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion)

Planning and Designing VMware vSphere and VMware VirtualCenter)

Installation, Configuration and maintenance of Hosted VMware products.

Design, Implementation, Testing and Deployment of VMware Infrastructure and Administration

Virtual Networking(Virtual Switches, VM Kernel Ports) and Virtual Storage (Access Control and VMFS Datastores)

Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.

High availability, Clustering, VMotion, Storage Vmotion.

Server Consolidation with VMware Converter (P2P and P2V Conversions)

Snapshot manager and restoring a snapshot.

Responsible for installing configuring and troubleshooting on 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016 servers using enterprise standards.

Distributed File System Management.

Supporting Connected Data Protector application Servers

Migrating/new build of Virtual Machines on Hyper-V.

Microsoft Security Patch Management: Installing patches through HPSA and SCCM on windows servers

Windows Cluster Administration

Creating Problem Records and implementing changes and successfully closing Problem records.

3. IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Designation: Operational Lead Specialist

February 2008 – April 2011

Job Profile:

Handling Severity issues, creating RCA

Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Server OS, networking TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, and DHCP

Working as a L3 Server Support Specialist for Intel boxes and handling problem and change management Tickets based on severity levels

Managing 2000+ servers located at different locations worldwide over the WAN using Citrix Environment, Remote Desktop, Dameware and Reach Out applications.

Troubleshooting Hardware problems.

Managing Server compliance task on Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Servers & Citrix, Security health checks, Antivirus status & Security Patch deployment.

Incident, Change and Problem Management.

Ticketing tool – Remedy, Manage Now, Service Center and Maximo

Cluster Administration

Handling responsibility of Backup through TSM and Netbackup. Implemented schedule backup plan.

Working on Group policy implementations, & user profile creations.

Managing the Antivirus server.

Technical Assurance for Servers.

Documentation and change required on servers for BAU.

Server commissioning / decommissioning

CITRIX Administration - User Login issues

Strictly following the Escalation Matrix defined. Ensuring the Problem and Change closure within the SLA norms.

Experience administering VMware virtual server host systems administration and support in a large scale, highly available 24/7 environment. On call support and disaster recovery planning and support is required.

Managing VMware infrastructure

4. iGATE IMS Ltd.

Designation: System Administrator

December 2005 – January 2007

Job Profile:

Worked as Field Server Support Engineer.

Worked as Resident Engineer\System administrator.

Administration of Windows 2000 server & Active Directory.

Installation of Operating Systems & Application

Scheduling & monitoring backup Windows 2000 server.

Administering DHCP Server

Trouble shooting of Hardware & software problems. Perform the required repair activity.

Maintenance of Fault tolerated servers by using GHOST Software. Educational Background:

Academic Qualification: -

• Diploma in Computer Science, from CPC (Govt) Polytechnic, Mysore.

• Bachelor of Science in – Information Technology (BScIT) from Sikkim Manipal University

• Master of Science in – Information Technology (MScIT) from Sikkim Manipal University

Technical:-

Professional Certification:

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) 2003.

Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA) 2003. Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate – Windows Server 2012. VMware ESX Server 3.5.

Azure Administrator Associate,

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Personal Details:

Date of birth: 19th August 1979

Father’s Name: Gangappa

Languages known: English.

Marital Status: Married

Address: 6112, Avalon Drive, Acton, MA 01720

Passport: Yes

Visa: L2 Visa (US), I-94

Hobbies and Interests:

Reading Inspirational Books, playing Chess & Listening to Music. Qualities:

Adaptive, Interactive team player, Flexibility

Declaration:

I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is true to best of my knowledge.

Thanking You,

Place: Acton

HARI G

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