Senior IT Virtualization & Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Resume:
MILIND NAGRALE
SENIOR IT PROFESSIONAL
Targeting assignments in Citrix & Horizon, VMware Administration/ Building blocks of VDI / IT Infrastructure Management/ Cloud Security with an organization of repute
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Technocrat offering over 15 years in Citrix, VMware, Windows and Storage technologies with Banking and Financial IT infrastructure
Success in leveraging skills as Technical Resource in identifying customer’s needs and provide the hardware and software design to transform customers to a Virtual environment for their servers and desktops as well as DR solutions.
Designed and implemented server and workstation virtualization using VMware vSphere ESX Server and Citrix Xenserver and Citrix XenDesktop to dramatically improve the efficiency and availability of resources and applications
Expert in Windows server 2000/2003/2008 / R2/2012/2016/2019/2022 Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Group Policy deployment to ensure standard computer settings, software distribution and security policy enforcement, Active Directory management from Windows 2003 to current. Administer AD Forest, Sites and Services, Domain Trusts, OU’s
Expertise in leading the charge for Datacenter Workload Migration, new Public / Private Cloud Solution using VMware Identity Management Solutions (IDM) technical delivery implementation
Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts)
Technical expertise in implementing VDI solutions using VMware Horizon View Composer, Appvolume, UEM, Citrix Xenapp, XenDesktop, PVS, VMware, Hyper-V, ESXi Server, and Microsoft Azure Cloud
A project planner with expertise in mapping requirements of clients as well as the different stakeholders, suppliers, service providers, vendors; customizing asset / hardware upgrades and process as well as offering comprehensive & innovative solutions in line with guidelines specified by client
Rich experience in designing, implementing, testing and deployment of the virtual desktop infrastructure Build effective application delivery Model’s using VMware Appvolume Manager, ThinApp’s Interacting with business to understand requirements and engaging stakeholders in architecting the VDI solution and ensuring the platform meets the consume requirements
Effective in monitoring the systems for performance and load issues; applying system patches as appropriate; executing application patches and ensuring that the rollback strategy are in place
Acted as an escalation point for Incident Managers and ensured their bridging, including initiation of any necessary escalations and business impacting issues
Possess excellent interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills with proven track record of utilizing process-oriented approach towards the accomplishment of cost, profit, service and organizational goals
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CORE COMPETENCIES
Citrix Cloud Architect
Horizon Cloud Architect
Azure Cloud Architect
VDI Consulting
VMWare Administration
Darktrace-AI Monitoring
Infrastructure Management
Continuous Process Improvement
Client Interaction
Cloud Adoption
Cloud Migration & Deployment
Cloud Security
IT Operations
It Governance
Database Administration
Stakeholder Management
Troubleshooting & Debugging
Installation & Configuration
B.Sc. (Bachelor of Science). From, Amravati University, Maharashtra in 1996
Citrix XenApp & XenDesktop & VMware ESXi Server, Vsphere, VCenter, Xenserver, Horizon View,
MCP - Microsoft Certified Engineer.
Microsoft Azure System Administrator & Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)-Credential ID-993198086
VCP 7.0 (Data Center Virtualization)-Credential ID-VMW-02646028N-02607546
ITIL Foundation-V3 Certified-Credential ID-GR750335493MN
CISSP, CCSP, Darktrace Cyber AI monitoring.
RHEL- Red Hat 5 Certification at CMS Pune.
Lakeside Systrack cloud infra monitoring tool.
Windows Server 2000, 2003R2,2008R2, 2012R2,2016,2019, 2021, Red Hat Linux, SQL Server, MS Azure, Office 365
VMware 4.1, ESXi 5.0> 5.5>6>6.5>6.7>7>8, VMware, VROPs, IDM, UAG, VSAN, Dell VxRail HCI. HPE Green lake HCI.
Citrix (XenApp 6.0 & 6.5, 7.x, Xendesktop 5 & 7.x), PVS 5.6/7.x VMware Horizon View 7/8
Networker, Dell Data Domain, Power scale, Cohesity, Zerto.
HP Storage Area Network (HP SAN EVA 4100), HP Blade, Cisco UCSBlade-B200M4, Netapp AFF300/FAS8020,
Lakeside Systrack virtual infrastructure monitoring tool
Service Now - incident management tool and Nagios monitoring tool.
Data Center migration, Disaster Recovery (DR) and Operation.
Darktrace AI cyber security monitoring tool.
Success in:
oInstalling, Configuring & managing VMware ESXi 5.1, 6 and 6.5, 6.7, 7.0, 8.0VCenter, Vsphere,
oCreating, Managing and updating the Virtual machines.
oCreating Standard Switches & Distributed Switches & implemented VLAN'S in virtual Environment.
oNIC teaming ESX/ESXi Servers, Creating clones templates
oMigrating the Virtual Machines from one host to anther host by using V Motion technique
oConfiguring Resource Pool, Alerts, and Alarms
Implemented and designed experience in VDI and Citrix Xendesktop; identified Pre-Installation Requirements.
Led the configuration of XenDesktop5 & XenDesktop 7.x Environment.
Created Vdisks from the VMs running from ESXi Server, XenCenter, Hyper-V.
Led the installation of Azure compute instances, Azure Backup, Azure Storage Monitor, snapshot, Azure Storage
Led the installation of AWS compute instances, AWS Backup, AWS Storage Monitor, snapshot, AWS Storage.
Working with Azure Governance including Blueprints, policies, tagging, cost management
Leveraged skills as system administration of Windows server-side infrastructure, virtual machines, Dell VxRail HCI, Data Domain, Networker, HPE VSAN Cohesity, Zerto and associated technologies on physical servers
Performed the troubleshooting of Azure Site Recovery, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), and automation of deployment using PowerShell and/or JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Terminal servers (RDS), Windows Clustering, NLB, DFS, Internal PKI, and Hyper-V. PowerShell cmdlet and scripting
Administered cloud infrastructure in a production environment to ensure high availability and reliability
Implemented cloud technologies, such as IaaS, PaaS, Software-defined networks (SDN), another emerging technologies, Multi-site load balancing, High Availability and Disaster Recovery, DNS,VPN, IPSEC, SSL, PowerShell, Python Scripting knowledge
Worked with Azure Infrastructure as a Service (VM’s, vnet, Subnets, NSG’s, Resource Groups) deployment
Maintained Cisco UCS Hardware – Fabric Interconnect configurations – Add new Physical server / New VLAN
Performed the diagnosis of VDI, application access related incidents and problems; created VDI blocks, Managing Horizon View VDI pool with VMware ESXi 6.5>6.7
Administered Horizon EUM user profiles; led the configuration of VMware IDM and on boarding user in IDM for desktop delivery, Appvolune, Horizon client, Horizon agent
Assist in capacity planning and management, configuration management, change management and release management
Managed System Administrator related solutions for VDI operation and operational needs
Creating / Publishing, Updating Appstacks for different applications along with specified user group
Creating / Publishing, Updating Desktop VDI pool static and random for different desktop owner groups along with specified VLAN id
Perform daily system monitoring, creating morning health check report for VDI infra verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes
Installation of Thinapp and configuring Thinapp application for old applications to run on Windows 10
Apply Windows OS patches on desktop pools (master image), VDI servers and upgrades on a regular basis and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary as per IT Security
Performing daily health checks for Horizon VDI infra. Checking alert and Event database logs
Creating an optimized master image for latest windows 10 version
Performing system Upgrade and configure system software that supports infrastructure applications or to ask Asset Management applications as per project or operational needs
Perform ongoing infrastructure performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configuring CPU, memory, and disk partitions for VDI as required
Performing Windows patching activities for all Horizon VDI servers under change request window.
Performing schedule daily, weekly reboot of Citrix servers and VDI with power cycle management
To Maintain VDI data center environmental and monitoring equipment
Apply security standards on cloud infrastructure.
To work with the major VDI incident raised by customer to get resolved under SLA
Providing solution for all kind of printing issues on virtualization infrastructure
Performing VMotion, Creating Port groups, Managing VLAN ids of VMs
Implementing the solutions and documenting the comprehensive plan for changes
Creating KB article for the major issues and sharing on office intranet location
Monitoring servers in virtualization infrastructure including Esxi, Vcenter, and Windows.
Managing HPE HCI and Dell VxRail HCI.
Since Nov’22: Msheireb Properties-IT, Doha, Qatar as Specialist- VM & Cloud
Key Result Areas:
Managing on premises data center and virtual infrastructure.
Preparing data center migration road map for the existing data center, finding bottlenecks, calculating workloads.
Engaging stake owners, application owners to collect data, challenges to run smooth migration process.
Developing plan to migrate web application running on DMZ clusters.
Making and planning roll back options in case any application or server fails during migration.
Implementation of backup tool, data domain and networker.
Migration of old HPE VSAN HCI datacenter to new Dell VSAN VxRail HCI datacenter.
Managing backup, restoration and troubleshooting with Dell Data Domain using Networker.
Implementation of CRS, Disaster Recovery solution with HPE Green Lake, Cohesity & Zerto solution for Ransomware with Airgap technology.
Decommissioning of old datacenter after successful migration of servers and application workloads.
Performing P2V and V2V conversion of VM to migrate it to new data center.
Deploying data protection solutions -DPS, Power scale NAS with new data center.
Installation, configuration and administration of VMware and Windows servers.
Installation, configuration and administration of Citrix and Horizon View VDI environment.
Patch management on Windows, VMware, Citrix and VDI infrastructure.
Working with Windows GPO, Office 365 and Azure AD.
Migration of on premises exchange to office 365, configuring MDM, MAM.
End point device management, MDM with Microsoft azure for compliance.
Threat, virus controlling using Darktrace-AI cyber security tools.
Working with critical alerts, incidents, providing RCA to management.
Vendor follow-ups for third party support and services.
Performing proactive action, Optimizing data center services to zero downtown.
Feb’19-Oct’22 Doha Bank, as VMware / VDI Consultant
Key Result Areas:
Managing the new Horizon7 Windows 10 VDI project implementation with Doha Bank Qatar
Performing the installation and configuration of Windows Servers 2016 for Horizon VDI
Administering Groups, Users, Service and Computer Accounts, Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, and DHCP, DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation, DFS link, Web servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting, WINS, and DNS and managing user and group accounts Administration for VDI users
Steering efforts in installation & configuration of Connection Servers, UEM(DEM), Appvolume Manager, VROPS
Creating, updating Appstacks and assigning application to user
Ensuring effective creation of VDI desktop pools for Citrix and Horizon view, publishing applications
Leading the management, maintenance, optimization, group policies and recovery of the Microsoft Active Directory environment
Controlling administration of Horizon & Citrix VDI systems (Windows and Virtual environment) to ensure uninterrupted availability to support Bank’s functions
Implementing patches and drivers using update manager and from CLI
Controlling Protogroups and network Policy as per the project design
Conducting the installation of new / rebuild existing VDI desktop pools and configure hardware, services, and settings, directories in accordance with standards and project /operational requirements along with virtual infrastructure & Thinapp
Developing Segments, Preparing ESXi host, VXLAN for NSX; configuring shared drive access for all users
Assessing ESXi hosts and VMs using VRealize Operations Manager; implementing VM resources as per vRops recommendations
Optimizing VMware environment using vRops analysis; preparing installation and configuration procedures. Creating dashboard and report for each project
Establishing and maintaining service levels, monitor vSphere, and Horizon View infrastructure, and manage vSphere alarms
Resolving vSphere and Horizon View issues related to VM availability, Horizon View connectivity.
Maintaining VDI golden images, installing client applications, Managing Appstaks.
Performing day-to-day Horizon-Citrix VDI administration tasks including maintenance hotfixes, patches, upgrades, and security configurations
Creating an optimized VDI master image, Desktop pools; evaluating the performance and monitor event alerts and take appropriate action
Performing daily VDI administration, maintenance and upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations
Collaborating with business/operations to maintain client advocacy and enhance client relationship
Leading the integration of applications and services with network management tools
Administering and supporting high availability mission critical applications and systems
Securing network system by establishing and enforcing policies; defining and monitoring access.
Integration of VDI environment with ARCON- PAM (privilege access management)
Resolving issues regarding Information System / Software and extending support to the clients including maintenance of hardware / software support
Maintaining detailed documentation for current hardware & software configurations as well as for proposed future installations, testing & modifications to the current environment
Administering full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments
Working closely with architect and engineers to design networks, systems, storage environment that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements
Managing a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies
Feb’17-Sept’18: Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd., Mumbai as Senior Consultant (Citrix/ VMware)
Highlights:
Administered virtual infra having more than 5000 VDIs and 350 Servers with Hyper-V and VMware Esxi Clusters for UK based Nationwide Building Society (NBS) banking & financial company, Hyper-V, VMware Clusters separately for Citrix VDI
Led the installation of Windows 2008/ 2012 servers, connecting to domain and configuring servers for Citrix components
Managed vCenter HA, vSphere HA, DRS, SRM, FT, Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2008, and 2012 from VMware and Hardware
Engaged in creating golden (mater) image for Xendesktop, creating PVS Disk, updating desktops
Carried out implementation, administration and migration of XenApp, Xendesktop, PVS
Created VM from clone, templates. Taking, managing snapshot &Citrix user profile using AppSense, resetting user profile if needed
Worked with AppSense Environment Manager to move users from one system to another
Configured Citrix Secure Gateway / NetScaler, Configuring SSL in Citrix Web interface using Certificate Services; installed NetScaler VPX, MPX, configured load balancing for GSLB
Ensured NetScaler firmware upgrading, updating licenses. Configuring RSA secure login for NetScaler login
Migrated VMs from one cluster to another cluster
Diagnosed ICA latency, slowness issues in cloud infra; monitored Citrix certificates for its license expiry and renewal
Created PVS VDISK and performed Pilot in and Pilot out with UAT before promoting to production
Nov’13-Jan’17: Ness Technologies Ltd., Hyderabad as Citrix/ VMware Administrator (L3)
Highlights:
Administered groups, Users, Service and Computer Accounts, Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP
Ensured effective implementation of Citrix XenApp, Xendesktop & PVS for Application delivery and Desktop delivery
Pivotally configured Desktop Studio, Desktop Director, Storefront, PVS Console and later administration for the same
Created an optimized golden image, creating desktop pools, publishing application
Led the modification of DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation, DFS link, Web servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting and WINS and DNS and managing user and group accounts Administration
Implemented VSphere, users and groups management, VSphere Vcenter Server to monitor virtual machine resource usage
Initiated patches to virtual machines and also Virtual Private Networking (VPN) tools and techniques to maintain these VM’s
Participated in P2V, V2V Migration as per client Requirement; installed Vcenter Servers
Performed regular backup of Vcenter Server machine
Feb’08-Oct’13: Hewlett Packard, Pune as Team Leader (Sr. Network Support Engineer)
Highlights:
Exhibited leadership skills in managing a team of 10 Engineers onsite plus 50 engineers at remote locations in all aspects to provide support for Control office automation Train Application Software used by Indian Railway, HP-Storage, HP Servers, HP Desktop calls, Application calls, Database calls.
Resolved escalations, while, managing onsite technical support to Engineers, providing technical solutions for the customers query, providing technical training to Engineers, providing technical solution for online APC UPS related problem
Obtained permission for scheduled activity like changes in software, hardware, database as per ITIL
Implemented XenApp, Xendesktop, VMware ESXi. Vsphere, VCenter server; managed Web Interface & Secure gateway
Steered efforts in migrating Railway Centers across DRM- Divisional Railway Manager in different states of India
Sept’07-Feb’08: CMS Computers Ltd. Pune as Sr. System Engineer
Highlights:
Extended support over L1and L2 with Xenapp, Presentation server, VMware ESXi, Vsphere
Created Remote desktop sharing via VNC Viewer for solving problems in software, printer sharing desktop computers & Laptops
Managed the Import & Export of outlook express, Microsoft outlook backup & address book
July’04-Aug’07: DCM Data System Ltd. Nagpur as System Engineer
Highlights:
Involved in providing:
oEnd to end compressive support for servers, desktops and printers installed at State bank of India branches
oSupport for Novel 4.2, later migration of banks to Windows 2003 servers for core banking
oManaged Windows OS patching for servers and clients
Date of Birth:13th June 1972
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Marathi,
Address: Ezdan, EB-03, M4- B1, Flat No, 909 M 9th Floor, Mushrib, Doha, Qatar State
Role: Team Leader (From Feb-2008 to Oct-2013)
Project Name: HP-CRIS-Center for Railway Information Systems, COA 24x7 Real Time Live Projects- Data Center installation & Migration.
Highlights:
Led the installation of Mount Rack/Blade Server HP Proliant -DL-385 G2, Jack Panel, Cisco L2-L3 Switches, TFT with KVM switch, Brocade SAN switch, HP SAN -EVA-4100 /4400, Disk Controller, Connection of Patch cords, and Fiber channels HBA. Configured redundant PDU for all above equipment
Created Remote location server Installation by using HP-ILO for HP Server & using DRAC for Dell Servers
Installed HP Smart Center, Emulex, Command View, Windows 2003 R2/ 2008R2 Server for Raid-1. on HP Proliant -DL-385 G2 Server
Managed the implementation of DNS, DHCP, Active directory on windows Server 2003R2 and 2008R2/2012R2
Conducted the configuration of NLB (Network Load Balancing) in both Application servers to work with single common ip, Oracle 10g server and client 10g on DB and Console pc, 2 manageable Switches Cisco catalyst 2950&Cisco catalyst 3750&Storage Area Network (SAN) HP-EVA 4100/ 4400 with 146GB*10Nos Disk Array & Brocade 4x8 SAN switch
Other Projects:
Dell VMware VSAN VxRail deployment, data center Migration from HPE VSAN HCI to VxRail HCI at Msheireb Properties Doha.
Citrix Xenapp and Xendesktop Implementation Nationwide Business Society (NBS) Banking client UK.
Installation and implementation of VMware Horizon View VDIs for Doha Bank Qatar.
Installation and implementation of VMware VxRail HCI for Msheireb Properties Doha.
Migration of old HPE HCI to Dell VxRail HCI for Msheireb Properties Doha.
Installation and configuration of Lakeside Systrack virtual infra monitoring tool.
VMware ESXi Server and View Implementation
Installation of HP Rack Servers with HP SAN EVA-4100/4400 at Indian Railways
Installation of HP Rack Servers with HP SAN MSA at LIC
Installation of IBM SAN MSA 235 Servers with Unix Operating System at all UCO Banks
Migration of Novell 4.2 users with Windows 2003 at State Bank of India branches
Migration of State Bank of India from Novel 4.2>Windows 2003 > windows 2008R2 for Core Banking
Since 2022: Msheireb Properties-IT, Doha
2017-2018: Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd., Mumbai
2019-2022: Doha Bank, Doha Qatar
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