Engineer Manager

VIKRAM J SURVE

A/* Bhaktisudha, Vakola, Datta mandir road, Santacruz (E). Mumbai – 400 055.

Tel. 26680088. Email: ***********@*****.*** Mobile: +91-961*******.

Summary :

Over 6 years of experience in IT. Currently employed with Capgemini.

Managing Virtualized environment for its client (Total - France). Working as a part of Infrastructure Management Team. Hands-on experience in installing, maintaining maximum uptime of virtual systems and troubleshooting of the same. As deploying new virtual servers and carrying out physical to virtual conversion process.

Current Status

Working as VMware Consultant for Capgemini.

Professional Qualifications:

• Web Developer (ASP, JAVA Scripts for web development) from EDIT.

• VMware Certified Professional. (VI 310)

• VMware Certified Professional. (VI 410)

• ITIL v3 Foundation.

Educational Qualification:

Bachelor of Commerce from, University of Mumbai.

Skills:

• Operating systems : RHEL 5, Centos 5, Novell Netware 5, SCO UNIX 5,

Windows 2000 Advanced Server / Windows 2003 R2 Std.,

• Virtualization : VMware ESX 3.0.1, 3.5 U4, vSphere4, Virtual Center 2.5 /4.

• Backup Management : Arc serve IT, Linux Tar Backup, VM ware Consolidated

Backup.

• Web & Graphics : Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, Adobe Photoshop.

• Web server : Apache 2.2.4.

• Database : Mysql 5.

• Monitoring and Reporting : Zabbix, Nagios (open source).

Hardware : IBM X226, 236, HP Proliant ML 350 G4, IBM Netfinity 5500

M10/M20, Supermicro Servers, Intel Multiflex Blade Servers,

IBM Blade Centre, Fox-co Servers, Citrix Netscaler 8.0.

Trainings Attended:

• VMware ESX 3 (Installation and Configuration) at VMware Bangalore, Kalyani Magnum.

• VMware ESX 3 (Deploy, Secure, Analyze) at VMware Bangalore, Kalyani Magnum.

• Storage Troubleshooting at VMware Bangalore, Kalyani Magnum.

• vSphere 4 Delta Class at VMware Bangalore , Kalyani Magnum.

Projects:

1 Deployed 200 Linux servers for www.moneycontrol.com and 352 Servers for

www.in.com at web18 data-centre Mumbai. Awarded – WOW by web18.

2 Website developed for EDIT Institute. Awarded Best project Developer

For www.editinstitute.com

3 Developed MSCB’s official website www.mscbank.com and configured web-servers

for the same.

Professional Experiences:

Company : Capgemini

Location : Mumbai

Duration : Since 11-Jan-10 to till date.

Profile : VMware Consultant.

Working as VMware consultant in IM (infrastructure management team).

Deploying maintaining virtualized environment of client (Total – Oil and gas giant in France).

Also proactively participating in maintenance of virtual machine running on windows and Linux.

Scheduling and initiating P2V in given time frame based on raised Incidents, changes & task.

Proficiently using ticketing tool (ITSM) for managing user based issues.

Leading a VMware team of 10 members.

Successfully performed capacity planning of virtualization projects for Germany and France Location Using Novell Recon.

Also Migrated 300 servers from physical to virtual using Novell PlateSpin Migrate.

Major part of the day to day activities involves Planning and designing new environments and creating architectural concepts for virtualizing several datacenters across the globe.

Continuously co-coordinating with front office for scheduling changes and implementations to deliver within time boundaries.

- A highly accomplished, confident and success oriented professional with extensive experience in all aspects of IT Architecture & Administration and Business Continuity. Demonstrated abilities to support organizations and operations.

- Demonstrated skills to troubleshoot systems and servers. Demonstrated drive and intelligence to solve the most complex matters with amazing innovation and futuristic deliberation.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

- Architected and deployed key VMware ESX technologies, expertise with HA/DRS, P2V. ESX migrations from 3.01 to 3.5 to Vsphere 4.0. Deployment of business critical technologies –VDI and Vmware SRM (Site Recovery Manager).

- Designed and Implemented Data Center/ Server room requirements, including power requirements with battery/generator fail-over, & redundancy, multiple points of entry to create communication redundancy.

- Awarded for best performance 2010.

Company : KPIT Cummins GBS/ESS. (VMware)

Location : Bangalore, Whitefield.

Duration : Since 10-05-09 to 8 Jan 2010.

Profile : Engineer

Working as Engineer in GBS/ESS Team. Deploying, Maintaining & Troubleshooting Virtual Environment for VMware Clients World-wide. Ensuring maximum uptime of Linux, windows and various virtual machines in datacenters.

1 Installation and deployment of ESX 3, vSphere4 & vCenter 2.5 & 4.

2 Upgradation of VI3 to vSphere using host update utility.

3 Patch management on VMware environment using update manager and esxupdate.

4 Administering business critical Virtual Machines on VI3/vSphere.

5 Monitoring system and network environment of VMware using performance data and alert in vCenter.

6 Analyzing ESX logs to find out exact cause of failure and resolving the issue in minimum downtime.

7 Managing and configuring various storages for VMware.(FC SAN,NAS,iSCSI)

8 Configuring, and maintaining virtual network using Virtual Center (vswitch,vlan,portgroups,nic teaming).

9 Configuring, maintaining & troubleshooting HA/DRS/FT/Vmotion/SVmotion in VMware environment for business continuity.

10 Tuning ESX for various guest os.

11 Configuring and maintaining load balancing on VMware network for SAN and Distributed network.

12 Setting up Roles and permissions for datacenter/clusters in Virtual Center.

13 Creating different Clusters in Virtual Infrastructure for various purposes .

14 Troubleshooting Various SAN related issue for EMC clarion, Netapp, etc.

15 Analyzing physical environment to determine the ability to deploy virtual machines.

Company : Web 18 Software Services ltd. (A CNBC Network 18 Venture)

Location : Mumbai Head Office

Duration : Since 08-04-08 to 08-05-09

Profile : System Administrator

Worked in Technology & infrastructure team, leading a team of 15 members. Making sure 100% up time for all sites (www.moneycontrol.com and www.in.com ). Server management is a primary responsibility and is responsible for installing, maintaining and upgrading servers. Also ensuring the servers are backed up and that the server data is secure from unauthorized access to providing quick recovery with minimum downtime leading to full fledge business continuity.

1 Architecting and implementing multi-tiered web-based app running Apache, Mysql.

2 Patching the OS, LAMP stack, and associated libraries as needed. Managing the backup and restoration of production servers and services.

3 Optimizing the configuration settings for PHP, Apache and Mysql.

4 Administering Zabbix and other monitoring/reporting tools.

5 Monitoring system and network environment 24 X 7 using Zabbix and Nagios (open source monitoring tools).

6 Installing IT hardware when required and perform minor repairs as needed.

7 Managing organization, storage, retrieval, security, and integrity of data on Unix/Linux/Network servers and clients.

8 Installing, configuring, and maintaining Unix/Linux/Network environment operating system and commercial off the shelf (COTS) software to current versions and security levels.

9 Configuring and maintaining Unix/Linux/Network accounts and access rights and permissions.

10 Performing Unix/Linux server backups and restores.

11 Configuring and troubleshooting Anti spamming solution (Iron port).

12 Managing Sub-domains and DNS Servers.

13 Load balancing web servers using citrix Netscaler.

14 Load balancing database servers using HA-Proxy.

15 Configuring Network bonding and Bandwidth Throttling.

16 Configuring VPN server.

17 Configuring and managing NFS shares and cluster file systems.

18 Installation, deployment & maintenance of ESX 3 environment.

Company : The Maharashtra State Co-op Bank ltd.

Location : Mumbai Head Office

Duration : Since 01-01-2005 to 08-04-08

Profile : L.S.G

This is the central IT center for all Maharashtra operations of MSC Bank providing links to various branches across state providing a support to branch locations.

• Installation & Administration of Windows Domain & Member servers

• Installation & Administration of RHEL systems.

• Storage management on RHEL using LVM.

• Configuration & Management of Squid proxy 2.5

• Job scheduling using cron & anacron.

• Performance monitoring for RHEL & Windows systems.

• Backup Administration using ArcServe IT.

• Configuring Samba Server.

Personal Details:

DOB: 21.01.1985

Languages Known: English, Hindi, and Marathi.

Dated: 20-1-2011 (Vikram J. Surve)

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