SUMMARY

Over Eight years of expertise experience in the Various IT Engineering Firms playing a Key role for IT Infrastructure which includes Maintaining, Managing, Deploying, Designing, Trouble shooting, Planning and Implementing of Servers Tower, Rack Mount Blade Chassis , Switches Core, Aggregation and Access Layer , Firewalls, NAS, SAN, Tape Drives, Routers Edge and Gateway , Plotters, Structured Cable Design LAN SAN , Wireless Networks, Access Control Systems , SCADA Applications, Virtualized Environments, Load-Balancers, WAN Optimizers , PBX Systems, IP Telephony and delivering 24/7 support for customer's across the Globe.

OBJECTIVE

Looking forward to a role with a potential for exciting career growth. Where in utilizing past experiences in IT Infrastructure Planning, Problem and Incident Management, Vendor Relations management, Contract Negotiations, Design, Deployment, Architecture, Data Center Power, Temperature Bandwidth Consolidations. Special areas of interests include Network Security Administration, Cloud Automation, Converged Infrastructure, Data Center Virtualization and Administration.

TECHNICIAL SKILLS

• HARDWARE: Data Center Designing, Building and Specification, Preventive maintenance, Installation, Configuration, diagnostics and repair of all type of Equipment, RAID level 0, 1 5 on IBM, Cisco, Dell HP Servers Storage. Analyzing the design and procuring suitable Blades, Servers, Chassis, Transceivers, Cables, Modules, Slots and Line Cards.
• SERVERS OS: Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008 2012, RHEL 5 6, CentOS.
• WORKSTATIONS: Windows- 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian and Mac OSX Tiger, Leopard Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, vmware workstation and vmware fusion desktop hypervisors.
• NETWORK PROTOCOLS: TCP/IP V4 V6, FC, FCOE, IPV6, WINS, DHCP, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, RIP- V1 V2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, STP, MST, RPVST, VSS, VDC, OSPF, PPP, HDLC, VTP, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, RSTP, OTV, FTP, TFTP, VPC, VFC, VPN, GRE, Fabric Path, Zoning, ARP, WEP, WPA, NAT, VRF, MD5, SHA, IGP, EGP, FHRP, ICMP, PIM, LISP, IS-IS, SPAN, ERSPAN, RDP, Netflow, TRILL, PAGP, LACP, Static Route, ACL's.
• CISCO OS: Cisco IOS, Catalyst IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NX-OS.
• APPLICATION TOOLS: Microsoft Office 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 2013 product suite, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Focus 6.0, Putty, CALQUAN, Lync, Ebiome Admin Console, Weigh Bridge Manager, Open Filer, Outlook express, MS Outlook, Windows live mail, Thunder Bird, Microsoft Exchange, Backup4all, Acronics True Image, Aconex, Norton Ghost, Abacus Work Space Power Suite, Crystal Reports, Rufus, Cisco Webex, Jabber, GNS3, Interactive Intelligence Agent, Ontrack Easy Recovery Professional, Auto Cad, Symantec Backup Exec 2010, perfmon, iometer, Hyper Terminal, Power Shell, UCSM, iLO2, Veeam Backup Replication Suite, DC, IVY Office, Tally 9.0 Erp, Open Office, Celoxis, Secure CRT, Forti Client, DCNM Data Center Network Manager , ASDM Adaptive Security Appliance Device Manager , CLM, ITSM, Remedy, vSphere Client, vCenter Server, Nagios, CIMC Centralized Integrated Management Console , VNMC Virtual Network Management Console , UCSM Unified Computing System Manager , VSM Virtual Supervisory Module , VEM Virtual Ethernet Module , VSG Virtual Security Gateway, Citrix Netscaler VLB Virtual Load Balancer .
• VENDORS: Cisco, IBM, HP, Cyberoam, Dell, Netgear, D-Link, Panasonic, Polycom, VMware, EMC2, Netapp, Hitachi, Sonic, iOMEGA, Intel, AMD, Nvidea, Radeon, Broadcom, Q-Logic, Emulex, Apple, Avaya, Red hat, Microsoft, Canon, Xerox, Lenovo, Toshiba, Magic vision, Hik Vision, Sony, Solar Winds, Brocade, Quantum, 3COM, Linksys, Veeam, Fortinet, APC, Juniper, Emersion, Check-point, Citrix, Quantum, Sangfor, Ricoh, BMC, River Bed, F5, Blue Coats, Huawei.
• CLOUD SERVICES: Dedicated Hosting, Utility Hosting, IAAS, SAAS, PAAS, Private Cloud, Public Cloud and Hybrid Clouds.

INDUSTRIAL DOMAINS

• Civil Engineering Construction.
• Electrical Engineering and MEP.
• IT Solutions and Outsourcing.
• Travel and Tourism Management.
• Cloud Services IAAS Public Private Cloud.
• Professional and Managed Cloud Services.
• Banking and Financial Institutions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CHRONICLE

Network Architect

Confidential

Co-partnered by Intel and Cisco, CloudFx is the IT Transformation and Cloud Services Enablement firm Providing Strategic Advisory, Managed and Professional Services across 8 Countries.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:

• Designed, Deployed, Implemented, Tested and Validated Advanced Cloud Data Center facility for Synergy Cloud POD-E with VMDC 2.3 Architecture Virtualized Multi Services Data Center a Cisco reference and validated design for Organization's building Private Cloud and Service providers building Public Cloud Infrastructures for multi-tenant virtual machines and workloads with three types of Containers.
• Attended meeting with Customers and gathered the requirement. Analyzed and suggested best suitable Architectural Design within the released budget constraint.
• Drafting detailed SOW Statement of work which includes in scope and out of scope tasks to be performed during the project phase.
• Calculated the required Licenses, type and required units of Equipment and Prepared BOM Bill of material and raised a PO Purchase order to the concerned vendors.
• Submitting HLD High level Design Document , a consolidated document containing all the project scopes Storage, Compute, Network, CLM, ITSM and getting Signoff by the customer.
• Submitting LLD Low level Design Document Containing all the exact configurations, Design Topology and Specifications along with project phase completion and time lines.
• Designed, Drafted and presented the topology diagrams using Microsoft Visio Application with Cisco validated and authorized Icons and Stencils.
• Dividing the whole infrastructure logically with the layers WAN, Core, Aggregation, Access, Routing, Switching, Virtual Networking, Security, Virtual Appliances, containers
• Physical inspection of the devices after the shipment, Verification of all the material as per the BOM.
• Build the Infrastructure with ASR 1006 as DC WAN EDGE router facing towards the ISP Cloud , Nexus 7009 at Core Switching, Nexus 7004 at aggregation layer switching, ASA 5585-X with SSP IPS Modules for Security, Catalyst 3750-X IP Base for Management, Nexus 1110 as a Virtual services Appliance, Netscaler 1000 as a virtual machine load balancer, VSG as a Compute Firewall, Nexus 1000 VSM for managing VEM's on ESXi Hosts, UCS 5108 Chassis with B200M3 Blades and Fabric Interconnect 6248 for Computing, C220M3 for Management Servers, Netapp FAS 6250 for storage.
• Initial Configuration of all the devices, HSRP Configurations on Catalyst Switches, WWPN Zoning on MDS SAN Switches, OSPF and BGP routing on ASR Routers in a separate VRF Contexts, Configuring FEX.
• As a part of Machine level Redundancy - Configured VPC at Core and aggregation switching, VSS for Management Switching, Active-Active Context Mode on Firewalls, Active - Standby Mode of virtual blades on VSA, Active - Standby Mode on UCS Fabric Interconnects
• Installing and Configuring DCNM LAN SAN , ASDM, VNMC.
• Written and coded scripts and configured in CLM Cloud Life cycle Management for auto provisioning the resources to the Customer Containers.
• Done Security Assessment as per the Industry Standards for all the Physical devices and Virtual Machines in the Environment.
• Documenting Performing UAT User Acceptancy Tests before releasing the setup to Live.
• Documenting SOP Standard Operating Procedure and explained to the customers for daily activities and troubleshooting steps.

MANAGED SERVICES:

• Working under the Infrastructure Operations Group directing to support, implement, administer manage the corporate System Infrastructures. Responsible for maintaining the availability reliability of the infrastructure operations, including data center infrastructure providing technical assistance advice to internal external support entities and assisting in providing infrastructure operations aspects for project implementation.
• Working as a Head of Malaysian Technical unit by leading a team of 10 L2 Engineers and 3 L3 Engineers.
• Providing assistance for L3 Support Engineers for the tickets Raised for all the sub domains in DC - Compute, Virtualization, Network, Storage, CLM, ITSM.
• Working as per the Standard operating Procedures and responding to the generated tickets in a timely manner and adhering the Service level Agreement SLA , Main focus is not to breach the SLA.
• Provisioning Containers for the customers through CLM, And Generating and Handling Tickets over ITSM Remedy Tool.
• Manage all installations, breakdowns, troubleshooting, re-connectivity and moves.
• Operation activities which includes SOD/EOD checks, Hardware physical inspection, email status report.
• Contacting Cisco TAC, BMC and Netapp for any further technical assistance, maintaining the support logs.
• Analyzing and Detecting the Hardware failure and raising the Concern and Logging a case with the Cisco TAC for RMA.
• Regular monitoring and execution of Back up process of VHD's to Quantum Tape drives using Symantec Net Backup.

Sr. System Network Engineer

Confidential

REPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensuring infrastructure network and system availability, reliability, proper access and security controls are in place. Perform regular infrastructure network and system capacity, maintenance and performance tuning activities. Administering the backup and recovery process.
• T-shoot and resolve infrastructure network system related incidents, performing root cause analysis.
• Maintaining Kaspersky Security Center Server Kaspersky Administration Kit on Windows 2008 R2 for Monitoring updating antivirus Data bases, running on demand scanning for PC's secured with Kaspersky work space security Ver 8.x 6.x with Network Agent 9.x.
• Regular Monitoring Maintaining the functioning of HP Storage Works P4500 G2 SAN with the help of HP P4000 Centralized Management Console CMC .
• Testing, prototyping certifying the complex solutions within the test Lab environment before execution
• Configured different Arrays and LUNs using Raid 0, 1, 5 or 6 depending on the requirement of the hosted VM Required Disk Speed Redundancy on Dell EqualLogic PS6210 SAN.
• Backing up the VM's in all the branches using Veeam Backup and replication Suite in a centralized location.

DEPLOYMENTS:

• Deployed HP Procurve Campus Network with MSM 410 Access Points HP MSM 760 AP Controller for secured wireless access to clients.
• Deployed Sangfor Wan Optimizer for Link, App Data Traffic optimization reducing WAN Traffic.
• Configured Intel AMT for remote KVM Access for Laptops enabled with Intel Pro Processors.
• Actively involved in a team deployed bare metal installation of vMware esxi 5.1 on HP ProLiant BL460 G7 Blades mounted on HP Blade System c7000 Enclosure. Accessing Server Blades with iLO2.
• Done a POC proof of concept for migrating the whole infrastructure running on HP 7000 Series to Cisco UCS C Series Chassis.

Instructor Faculty

Confidential

PRIMARY ROLE:

Teaching and training the students with the latest and emerging technologies and concepts From Cisco and vMware in the Domains of Compute, Virtualization and Unified Networking.

COMPUTE VIRTUALIZATION:

• Implementing ESXi 5.0 5.5 infrastructure virtualization for a Cloud Computing Facility.
• Installing ESXi 5.5 on Cisco UCS B-series B200 M3 blade servers and UCS C-series C220 M3 Rack Mount Servers. And Configuring CNA Converged Network Adapter like VIC 1225, VIC 1280, Palo, and Menlo.
• Deploying ESXi 5.5 hypervisor on the bare-metal by using VMware vSphere Auto Deploy feature.
• Configuring the vCenter Server VC , VMware update manager VUM , Auto Deploy Server, Snapshot, Clone Template of Virtual Machines
• Installing Windows SQL Server 2012 for database configuring DNS server on Windows Server 2012 R2.
• Creating different Ports, Port Groups, Switches VSS, VDS, 1000 configuration on ESXi hosts for different traffic flows Control, Management, Packet
• Initial configuration of Fabric Interconnects in both Standalone and Active Standby Modes.
• Pool and Policies configuration, Fixed and Expansion module Server, Ethernet and FC port configuration, LAN and SAN configuration, Admin configuration, Service Profile configuration, Backup and restoration of XML configuration on Cisco UCSM.
• Implementing boot from SAN and configuring boot policies with UCS manager.
• Creating Service Profiles, vNIC and vHBA templates on UCS manager.
• Creating VMFS Data stores by using the LUNs assigned by SAN.

UNIFIED NETWORKING:

• Initial Configuration of Cisco Unified Switching Devices like Nexus 2k FEX, Nexus 5010, Nexus 5548UP, 7004, 7009, 7010 and Fiber Channel SAN Switches like MDS 9148,
• End to end configuration of Cisco Nexus 1000 from fresh Deployment to adding, removing, creating VMware port group profiles and troubleshooting.
• Deploying UCS Fabric Interconnect in both End Host Mode and also in NX-OS Mode.
• Theoretical Knowledge transfer and practical implementations on Data Center Layer Switching Protocols like Port Channel, Trunking, Fabric Path, OTV, vPC, vFC on Cisco Nexus Switches. WWPN Zoning, WWNN Zoning, Flogi Databases on MDS Switches

System Administrator

Confidential

PRIMARY ROLE:

• Ensure appropriate documentation including procedures for the Operations Services and Pre-Production departments.
• Suggest operational improvements based on industry best practices and new technology, working with the design team to incorporate this into the next implementation maintenance.
• Analyzing and Designing the Storage Server Infrastructure with physical equipment's like type of Disks SSD, SCSI, SAS , Suitable Processors Memory as per the Virtual Machine Work Loads Mobility.
• Obtaining requirement from corporate teams on data-center requirement, Calculate design the required rack count, power consumption, cooling, rails, network panels, etc., and manage with Facilities Team on design and construction.

ACTIVITIES:

• Report on administration and project progress to the Infrastructure Architecture Group management.
• Act as a point of contact for, ordering new infrastructure components, decommissioning existing ones. Obtain all hardware equipment to be decommissioned disposed as per the regular guidelines.
• Handling activities like Thin Provisioning, Migration, Performance Monitoring, Capacity Monitoring, etc.
• Prepare and maintain the necessary documentation and ensure compliance to IT infrastructure policies, procedures and IT security policies are adhered.
• Implementation of fixes, work-rounds, patches and Upgrading as per the design team documentation.
• Working with design teams to correct any faults and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Monitoring Regular automatic Backup of all VM's, vHD's, File Servers, Storage in vSphere Hyper- Hypervisors using VEEAM Backup Replication Application.

VMWARE VSPHERE ADMINISTRATION:

• Expertise in the installation, configuration and administration of vMware vSphere 5.x/4.x, virtualization suite. Good Knowledge over Snapshot, Clone Template of Virtual Machines.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability HA , Fault Tolerance FT and Distributed Resource Scheduling DRS periodically checking if Migration of Virtual Machines is happening with vMotion or not.
• Creating and managing Windows server 2003/2008 Linux Virtual Machines and Templates.
• Installation Configuration of VSS, VDS Cisco Nexus 1000 Distributed Switch on Esxi 5.1.0
• Pushed the Patches and Updates through Update Manager in vCenter Server.
• Server migration physical to Virtual Vice Versa using Hot and cold cloning technology.
• Install, Configure Management of vCenter server with both vSphere Client vSphere web-Client.

MICROSOFT HYPER- ADMINISTRATION:

• Install, Configure and manage Hyper- in Full Server Core Modes in 2K8 2K12 Server Environments.
• Managing Virtual Disk Network Settings of Server Core Virtual Machines with Hyper- Manager.
• Importing Exporting of VM's in between Two Different Physical Machines.
• Migrating Virtual Machines using both Shared Nothing Live Migration Storage Migration.
• Enabled added NIC Teaming Configured Port ACL's for VM's.
• Performed an in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2008 R2 X64 to Windows Server 2012.

ERP PACKAGES:

• Deploying Configuring DC a customized ERP application installed at server for all the client machines for generating material tracking records and Delivery Challans. Using MS-ACCESS as a Data-Base. Generating reporting the records with Crystal Reports.
• Installing, maintaining and rectifying problems with IVY Office a customized ERP application hosted at server for all the client machines for maintaining contacts and information and project status.

STORAGE BACKUP:

• Configuring iOMEGA Stor Center iX 4-200d a cloud enabled NAS Device and binding to the Windows Active Directory. Bridging the Network Interfaces for Load Balancing and unexpected Network Failure.
• Creation of Shares and mapping to the Users Profiles imported from Active Directory and Assigning user level Permissions.
• Customizing automatic unattended Backup with Symantec Backup Exec 2010 software, Configuring the Network Drives From an external Storage and assigning the path and checking periodically whether backup runs and restore works as planned. Confirmation with an Automated Application generated mail.

NETWORK SECURITY:

• Configuring Cyberoam cr35ia as a Gateway to the External Network with two different ISP's for Load Balancing and minimal Downtime. Creation of Users with admin defined specified Roles.
• Configuration of Objects, Policies, Groups, Firewall, LAN WAN, Application Web Filtering Rules.
• Generating Report using Cyberoam iVIEW periodically and configuring the Web and Mail policies based on new categorized sites. Creation of VPN Tunnel for Branch Remote Secured connectivity.
• Configuring V-LAN enabling Inter V-LAN Routing, Trunking VTP on Cisco Catalyst 2950 Switches.
• Deployed Configured Fortinet Ascen Link Wan Optimizer for Wan Link Optimization, Increasing Bandwidth Reducing wan Traffic. Configured automatic generated mail in case of link failure.

IT Engineer Confidential

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION:

• Installing and maintaining Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure. Integrating Active Directory with Microsoft Exchange for Automatic mail configuration for users on Client PC's.
• Creating new user accounts, shares, and disabling/deleting old accounts, managing account policies.
• Configuring DNS, creation of scopes for DHCP at the initial stage for hassle free connectivity for the clients.

VIDEO SURVEILLANCE:

• Erection of Magic Vision IP Based Cameras and assigning configuring the device to the local network.
• Configuring Server for recording the captured video with 1 or 6 Months backup with High Low Pixel clarity based on the Location Importance of the Camera.

VOICE COMMUNICATIONS:

• Integration of PRI Voice line Trunk Line into Panasonic EPBAX Machine, Creation of DID's Extensions and assigning password protection for outgoing calls for both Digital Analog extensions.
• Monitoring both outgoing and Incoming Voice calls with Acqu View application based on user Dept. level. Generating Tariff report for a month or fortnight, Using Acqu Report application with predefined values tariff, price, duration for a single user, Dept., All Calls.

ERP PACKAGE:

• Primary role is to ensure that all systems got connected with Focus Application Server located at Corporate Office over internet using a static IP Address via a secured VPN Tunnel.
• Editing, deleting and creating new accounts for users using Focus software stores, purchase, administration and HR, accounts, machinery and transport departments .Trouble shooting the network connectivity errors.

CIVIL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS:

• Extracting Documentation of the data from LEICA camera device for Surveying Dept.
• Deployment and maintenance of CALQUAN network licensed server for Technical department production, planning, designing, quantity surveying, billing, contract, rate analyzing .
• Generating reports and logs, Monitoring and Controlling weigh bridge at Crusher and Quarry with weigh bridge manager application. Installing, maintaining and fixing Errors with CTM Scada device.

IMAGING PRINTING:

• Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting different HP, Toshiba Canon NETWORK Printers and plotters which includes P3005N, K7000, P5200N, P500/800, Design Jet 1050C Plus, Color Laser Jet 4650dn, Canon ir3035, Xerox Work Center 123. Fax and all in ones like HP 3050, HP 1536 DNF MFP and Canon MF4450.
• Updating firmware and Device drivers. Configuring wire-less e-Printing for Tablets and Smart Phones.
• Binding the print devices with Active Directory for Easy Monitoring Generating user wise reports.
• System Engineer Confidential

GENERAL ACTIVITIES:

• Analyzed equipment performance record in order to determine the need of repair and replacement.
• Regular collaboration with executive management and department leaders to assess network capacity needs.
• Maintained logs related to network functions, as well as maintenance and repair records.
• Maintaining warranty Records, Service agreements documentation. Extending or Renewal the AMC for necessary equipment's. Interacting with the Customer support, liasioning with the vendors, suppliers Contractors for troubleshooting fixing the errors.

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION:

• Installing and maintaining Windows Server 2003 on IBM e SERVER X Series Machine for Active Directory and File Server. Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 as client systems.
• Generating Submitting Report on the internet usage to the Higher Management Using Microsoft - ISA Server.
• Creating logical volumes and arrays with IBM SAS Hard Disk using Raid Level 1 and 5 technologies with IBM Serve Raid Management Console for creation of different arrays as part of preventive maintenance in case of Physical Disk corruption or error.
• Configuring Modems Routers from varied manufacturers into Bridge, Route and PPPOE Modes depending on the connection type and integrating into Local Network.
• Configuring Wireless Access Points from various Manufacturers in to LAN with WEP WPA Encryptions for wireless Data Sharing and Printing.