Highlights:A dynamic professional with 12+ plus years of rich experience in managing global information technology functions (Infrastructure) encompassing complex corporate systems and enterprise wise large infrastructure & networks. Responsible for end to end deliveries on VMware, vCloud Director, Amazon Cloud,Storage and Wintel Platform for the client globally. Baseline, new projects, new solutions , migrations , capacity planning, Strategic & Operational deliveries, SLA management, Service Improvement Plans, ITIL alignment , Mentoring and Coaching Conflict Management, Succession planning and career progression of team members. Communication on internal & external levels stakeholders and Vendor management

Skills:Vmare 5.x.4.x,3.x and windows 2008/2003, Storage Hp 3 Par's, IBM Storwize, EMC, Cloud Products-vcloud Director, Amazon, Openstac

Goal:Objective is to seek assignments in a senior role involving Service Delivery/Solution Architect, Operations in IT/ITES growth orientated company to support and implement in various domains; Cloud, Virtualization,storage and WINTEL platform where I can fully utilize my diversified technical and project related experience.

Membership:• Aug 2014 - Till Date with IBM India Ltd, Hyderabad as Senior Infrastructure Specialist • Jan 2013 - May 2014 with UST Global, Chennai as Infrastructure Specialist • Nov 2011 – Jan 2013 with HCL Technologies Ltd, Chennai as Associate Consultant • July 2007- with Nov 2011 CSC India Pvt Ltd, Chennai as Senior Lead Engineer • March 2006-July 2007 Sella Synergy India Pvt Ltd, Chennai as System IT Administrator. • Sep 2004 -Feb 2006 Ileaap Pvt Ltd, Chennai as System IT Administrator. • June 2002 to Sep 2004 The Times of India, Chennai as Technical Support Engineer.

Certification:RHEL – Open Stack Cloud – Linux Nov 2014 VCD – Vmware Cloud Director 5.x Jun 2014 EMC – Information Storage and Management Apr 2014 VCAP5-VMware Datacenter Design - Participant member Feb 2014 VCP5-DT VMware Certified Professional –Desktop May 2013 VCP5-DCV: VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data center Virtualization February ,2012 VCP: VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4 (VCP4). December, 2009. VCP: VMware Certified Professional on v3.5 (VCP3.5). October, 2009. ITIL:V3 Foundation November, 2010. MCITP: Server Administrator 2008. November, 2009. MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration. November, 2009. MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration. November, 2009. CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate. November, 2006. MCP: Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2000. March, 2002. MCSA: Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator Administrator. June, 2002. Basic Level I – Spanish Language July, 2011

Honor:Accolades: ? Awarded consistently one of the best resources in (Cloud, Storage < VMware, & WINTEL). ? CSC Accolades Award received consistently from the higher management ? Certificate of Achievement to deliver the projects ontime in CSC Zurich Management ? Transition and Transformation Showcase Award for new projects (leading Banking Client) ? Received certificate of Excellence from the Director of Australian Management, CSC for continued outstanding support for the client in NSW region. ? Received certificate of achievement Runner in CSC cricket tournament during IS Summer fest ‘11 test. ? Vmware Training on vSphere, VCloud, Storage, VCOPS and VCAP - DCD from HP global services. ? Provided training for my Teams on VMware Virtualization Technologies ? Advanced Networking Engineer CCNA– Accel IT Academy - Chennai - India

Senior Infrastrucuture Specialist 08/2014 - current
IBM India, Chennai, Tamilnadu India
Industry: IT & ITES service provider
A dynamic professional with 12+ plus years of rich experience in managing global information technology functions (Infrastructure) encompassing complex corporate systems and enterprise wise large infrastructure & networks. Responsible for end to end deliveries on VMware, vCloud Director, Amazon Cloud,Storage and Wintel Platform for the client globally. Baseline, new projects, new solutions , migrations , capacity planning, Strategic & Operational deliveries, SLA management, Service Improvement Plans, ITIL alignment, Succession planning and career progression of team members.
Job Accountabilities: IBM India Ltd, Hyderabad as a senior Infrastructure Specialist Responsibilities in Virtualization and Cloud Platforms:- ? Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware’s product from the vCloud Suite to meet the technical and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals. ? Working on Cloud Infrastructure for client’s Public Cloud for our customers and provide on demand Infrastructure to Support client world class Workforce and Hiring Solution Products. ? Installation, Deploying, Configuration and Implementation of AMAZON Instances of EC2 (M3, M1, C3), Auto scaling, VPC, ELB, S3/EBS, API’s and other product which based on the client requirement. ? Handling multiple instances or vm’s move to private to public or vice versa, with using VM Import/Export, API’s and Amazon EC2 CLi ? Engage with stakeholders to manage and implement vapps/instance in the private and public cloud through Vcloud director, AWS and Openstack ? Design /Implementation/Administration of VSphere Infrastructure ? Storage Administration mainly on EMC Clarion, IBM Store Wise V7000, HP VSA, HP 3 Par T400,F400 ,7400 ? Working on Disaster Recovery Technologies like SRM , vReplication , Storage Replication ? Successful data center migrations of the clients Hardware, both production and disaster recovery, and Providers business. ? Both moves required infrastructure and network builds, assessment, procurement, planning and execution. Responsible for multiple teams including infrastructure, network, Servers, Backup gears and storage. ? Performed hands-on technical implementation, troubleshooting, and remediation on complex client projects requiring high-touch or strategic vision in cloud and virtualization technologies ? Infrastructure Lead Primarily focusing on multiple cloud products, VSphere Infrastructure and Storage Technologies ? Responsibilities include designing and developing new back-end services, maintaining and expanding our AWS infrastructure, Vcloud Director and open stack clouds ? Responsible for provisioning, maintaining and improving upon server infrastructure, split between physical data centers and virtual Datacenter such as AWS, VCD & Openstack--
Infrastrucuture Specialist 01/2013 - 05/2014
UST Global, Chennai, Tamilnadu India
Industry: IT/ITES
Job Accountabilities: UST Global (formerly known as US Technologies Limited) from Jan 2013 till May 2014 as Infrastructure Specialist Client: Second largest Retailers chain in North America and located in Western and Central United States.
? Designed and installed multiple VMware vSphere and vCloud environments for internal Organization service providers and customers for pre-production, and production ? Designed a virtualization environment to provide a consolidation platform for two hundred physical servers for internal and external clients. ? Upgrade legacy vSphere 4 to vSphere 5, vCloud Director 5.x to 5.x, ? Implemented the Vcloud Director with IAAS platform and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)configuration in production and DR site, Managing entire VMware farm through vCenter Operations Manager and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI) ? Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data ? Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V and legacy hardware through VMware Converter Enterprise Service & PlateSpin ? Virtual capacity planning and provisioning the Prod/Test/Dev vm’s based on the client requirements ? EMC Clariion (CX, CX3, and CX4) SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware ? Analyze and troubleshoot on an advanced level, performance of SAN-backed VMware ESXi infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs ? Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware’s product in vSphere, vCloud Director 5.0, View 5.0 – Desktop, Site Recovery Manager 5.0. Vmware Automation Center, and Capacity planning ? Collaborative with stakeholders to consolidate the legacy hardware with help of Vmware ROI TCO calculator and application to analyze the specification for implementation and migrations Responsibilities in Storage:- ? Hands on Experience in Storage infrastructure that includes EMC Symmetrix VMAX, CLARiiON CX4 ? Initializing the Storage. Creating and configuring Storage Groups, Creating and configuring Storage pool. Creating LUN`s and META LUN`s. Unisphere SW. ? Assigning Host to Storage Group. Registering the Host HBA`s. ? Acquire good knowledge in SAN,NAS,DAS, LUN masking and Zoning, SRDF, BCV and Fabric ? Work closely with the EMC Config team to install, upgrade and implement new and existing boxes--
Associate Consultant 11/2011 - 01/2013
HCL Technologies, Chennai, Tamilnadu India
Industry: IT/ITES
Previous Job Accountabilities: HCL Technologies Ltd from Nov 2011 till Jan 2013 as Associate Consultant. Client: UK is one of the world’s leading independent providers of solution for long-term savings, investment and various financial needs and security.
VMware vSphere architecture, implementation and support for clients utilizing best practices for availability, reliability, and performance of compute, network, and storage. ? Design & Implementation, configuration of VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 4 and 5 environments with Virtual Center management, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). ? Upgrade/installation of vsphere 5, Vcenter, Certificates and SRM 5.0 ? Design and implementation a fully utilizing available automation tools from various vendors: VMware stack (vSphere, vCloud Director, View, SRM, Capacity planning IQ) ? Utilizing best practices for availability, reliability and performance of compute, network and storage resources to achieve virtualization ratio’s while maintaining SLA’s and DR RTO/RPO’s. ? Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of 2000, 2003, & 2008 & Linux ? MSCS 2K/2K3 implementation, configuration and Migrated to the virtual environment ? Led enterprise-wide virtualization effort, overseeing and personally completing vendor/hardware qualifications, architecture/design, installation, configuration, migration and documentation. ? Documentation of technical procedures and disaster recovery practices--
Senior Engineer 07/2007 - 11/2011
CSC India, Chennai, Tamilnadu India
Industry: IT & ITES service provider
Previous Job Accountabilities and Roles: CSC formerly known as Computer Science Corporation, from July 2007 till Nov 2011 as Technical Lead\Senior Engineer. Client: Health Care Client from Zurich & Travel Company from Norway. Platform Services (Account) – Banking client from Zurich, Bank from Zurich, Client Zurich.
Technical & Project Roles • Designed and administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware vSphere and vCenter. Drafted the strategy document, designed and administrated the environment. The environment has grown to over 1000+ ESX and ESXi hosts and 7500+ Virtual machines production environment. Also designed the performance monitoring processes and improved disaster recovery processes to utilize virtualization benefits. Being an instrumental to setting best practice process and procedures, and utilized PowerCli and PowerShell scripting to maximize administrative efforts and automation. • Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization • Designed and implemented enterprise file, print, and directory services migration from windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2. This project involved replacing/refreshing the site DC’s and remote office file servers and file permissions to Windows file servers, migrating the Active Directory-published printers. Projects Implementation: Virtualization Projects (Build, Implementation, Server Consolidation and Virtualization using Vmware) ? Installation and Configuring ESX/ESXi ? Implementation, Configuration and Administration of Vmware vCenter Server and Database. ? Analyzed Physical Servers using vCenter Guided Consolidation and provided recommendations for consolidation. ? Deployment of Virtual Machines using Templates, Cloning Methods. ? Configuring VMFS Datastore with iSCSI, SAN & NAS storage. ? Migration of Virtual Machines using Vmotion to different Hosts, Storage Vmotion for Datastore. ? Configuring HA, DRS, VMotion across ESX servers and virtual networking. ? Patch maintenance on all virtual and physical servers. ? Handled challenging project’s with new technology implementation. ? Escalating cross functional issues to HP/DELL and coordinating with them to resolve the issues. ? Disaster recovery planning and assistance. WINTEL Projects ? High availability using Microsoft Clusters Services (MSCS) & NLB on Win2k3 Servers. ? Up gradation of McAfee Antivirus from 8.0 to 8.5i on 1000 Wintel Servers. ? Played a vital role in consolidating file & print servers at multiple locations.--
System Administrator 03/2006 - 07/2007
Sella Synergy, Chennai, Tamilnadu India
Industry: Financial Services
Skills Summary OS Windows NT ,Windows 2000, Windows2003,Windows 2008 Virtualization VMware ESX/ESXi 3.x/4.x/5.x, vcenter 5.x/4.x, SRM 5.0, VDI 5.0, HYPER-V, VMware Automation center, Cloud Director and Operation Manager Email & Collaboration Suites Zimbra, MS Exchange 2003 Hardware & Server HP Servers BL 440, DL 580 G8 and C7000, Cisco UCS C220 and 240, IBM Blade Center HX5, HS23 Networking Cisco switches 2950, 3550, 3750 series. Cisco 2800 Router, Juniper SA 2000, Bluecoat ProxySG.
Roles & Responsibilities: VMware • Installing Configuring and maintaining ESX3.x/ESXi 3.5 Server, Virtual Center 2.5 Server. • Migrated VMware farm with 20 servers from VI3 to vSphere 4 • Creating and cloning virtual machines & templates. • Provisioning of virtual Machines according to the Business Requirements. • Configuring HA, DRS, vMotion across ESX servers and virtual networking. • Adding New FC & NFS datastores on the ESX Servers. • Configuring RAID for different performance requirements. • Virtual and physical server migration (P2V and V2V). • Configuring SNMP and SYSLOG. • Configuring ILO for remote management of HP Servers. • Monitoring & Troubleshooting performance related issues. • Patch maintenance on ESX Hosts using VMware Update manager. • Hardware used, HP BL480 G1, DL 585 G5, ML 350 G6. Windows • Install, configure, patch, upgrade and maintenance of different windows operating systems. • Install, upgrade and maintenance of server hardware components as per requirement. • Antivirus installation, service pack deployment and firmware/driver upgrade on all physical and virtual servers. • Adding new FC LUNs to various windows file clusters for varying needs. • Monitoring the Memory, CPU, disk utilization & other statistics of all these servers using NETIQ monitoring Systems and Email Alerts. • Working with Site support persons for any remote site Server maintenance or recovery activity using ILO. • Working on DNS/DHCP Servers for creating new host records and IP reservations. • Configuring DFS structure, creating DFS roots, DFS links. • Modifying & maintaining NTFS permissions. • Working with HP for any server hardware issues or failures. • Configuring RAID for different performance requirements. • Configuring ILO for remote management of HP Servers. • Hardware used, HP Proliant DL 380 G5, ML 350 G6, DL 385 G6, DL 165 G6. • Networking • Network Bandwidth Monitoring & Coordinate with ISP for changes & issues.--

Univerisy of Madras 06/1999 - 06/2002
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Computer Application
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