SUMMARY

• Amar has been working in IT industry for past 14 years and has experience in enterprise architecture, virtualization, cloud computing, datacenter migration, business continuity and disaster recovery.
• He has worked with technology leaders like Calsoft, Wipro, VMware to name a few.
• Amar has experience with all aspects of a product lifecycle from its inception to go-live to sustenance
• Amar has helped many clients with his technical guidance on various complex customer engagements.

SKILLS

Virtualization : VMware vSphere 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, vCenter Server 4.x, 5.x, P2v/Converter, vMotion, HA/DRS, vCenter Operations Suite, VMware vCloud Director, VMware Infrastructure Navigator, VMware Chargeback.

Cloud : vCloud Director, vCloud Networking and Security

Desktop : VMware View.

Business continuity : VMware Fault tolerance, Site Recovery Manager, VMware Heartbeat. VMware HA

Operating Systems : Windows 2008/2012, XP, 7, Solaris, RHEL, SLES, Centos, Ubuntu.

Hardware Platforms : HP Blades, C7000 chassis, Virtual Connect.

Backup Software : Veritas Backupexec, Veritas Netbackup, EMC Legato Networker, Brightstor ARCServe.

Scripting Languages : Powershell, VMware PowerCLI, Shell Scripts.

Languages : C, C .

Environment : Sles and Redhat PXE.

EXPERIENCE

Confidential is a leading institution of higher education. The university's colleges and schools serve more than Confidential majors, minors, concentrations and certificate programs.

• Involved in planning, architecting, vSphere infrastructure for 3 different ERP environments for MSU.
• Involved in ironing out storage, network and hardware issues in the vSphere environment.
• Planning, implementation upgrade vSphere 4.x to 5.5
• Automation using PowerCLI.
• Confidential is the leading provider of cloud customer engagement software.

Amar worked as a Virtualization consultant.

• Helped review entire vSphere environment with regards to performance bottlenecks.
• Involved in planning and upgrade hardware/storage and vSphere platform.
• Helped consolidate and upgrade of vSphere licensing.
• Automation using PowerCLI

Confidential ,the industry-leading virtualization software company, empowers organizations to innovate and thrive by streamlining IT operations. By virtualizing infrastructure from the data center to the cloud to mobile devices VMware enables IT to deliver services from any device, anytime, anywhere.

• Amar worked as a Technical Account Manager.
• Helped VMware customers implement vsphere infrastructure as per best practice.
• Helped VMware customers implement vCloud Director as per best practice.
• Ran VMware health check to make sure their implementation was as per best practices.
• Involved in consultative review of review of architecture, process, and organizational plans of clients VMware base.
• Helped managing escalations and issues of clients.
• Recurring meetings with the clients.
• Updates on the VMware strategic road map, including insight on future projects and direction.

Confidential is the Cloud Security Automation CSA company. HyTrust delivers the essential real-time control, security, administrative account monitoring, logging and compliance assurance necessary to enable the benefits of cloud adoption and virtualization of critical workloads.

Following were part of Amar's roles and responsibilities.

• Confidential is a large international banking and financial services company. From its headquarters in Edinburgh, the Group serves over 30 million customers in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia
• Confidential a global information technology, consulting and outsourcing company with 145,000 employees serving over 900 clients in 57 countries. Wipro helps customers to do business better leveraging our industry-wide experience, deep technology expertise, comprehensive portfolio of services and a vertically aligned business model.
• Automation using PowerCLI to deploy VMs, BAU activities.
• Performance troubleshooting for Virtual infrastructure.
• Planning, designing of upgrades from VI3 to vSphere 4.1
• vCenter, ESX and ESXi server installation, management.
• Handled escalation on Linux, windows and virtual environments.

Confidential the parent company for Severn Trent Water. As a private company, Severn Trent Water invested heavily in replacing and repairing its assets and infrastructure. STW had subcontracted their IT management to Wipro, Amar was a part of the team that managed the IT and his responsibilities were as below.

• Designed multiple, redundant vSphere/ HP BladeSystem c7000 Infrastructures to support mission critical applications.
• 6 C7000 Infrastructures, 20 hosts, 400 VM's
• VI 3 ESX 3.5 : 3 Clusters - 400 VMs
• Multi-Site management and Disaster Recovery Plan
• Planned and initiated the process of upgrading the environment from 3.5 to 4U1.
• DR automation for VMware environment for rapid recovery.
• Vendor management for various hardware and storage failures.

Confidential, is the only end-to-end IT Infrastructure Management solution company that offers large and mid-market customers an Enterprise Delivery Model to expertly manage the burden of vital daily operations. Amar was a team member that managed all the infrastructure for various clients.

• Complete upgrading virtual center servers, hosts and virtual machines
• Installation and configuration vSphere 4
• Configuring ESX hosts in cluster to enable HA, DRS, FT, DPM and VMotion for business continuity.
• Configuring of FC, iSCSI and NFS datastores.
• Creating and configuring vDistributed switches and vSwitches for service console, vmkernel and virtual machines.
• Creating host profiles, which can be used as standard hosts configurations for unified hosts across clusters.
• Firewall management for ESX servers.
• Supporting 2000 VMs across over 200 different ESX clusters for different customers.
• Configure alerts and optimize the performance of virtual machines by tweaking and implementing best practices.

vMware Software

the industry-leading virtualization software company, empowers organizations to innovate and thrive by streamlining IT operations. By virtualizing infrastructure from the data center to the cloud to mobile devices VMware enables IT to deliver services from any device, anytime, anywhere.

• Release of One Patrol.
• Creating, executing testcases and reporting defects.
• Documentation review.
• Release of Patrol Express.
• Reviewing Function, design specifications, user manuals, technical bulletins and provide feedback.
• Ensuring availability of servers for each platform for testing from the global pool of servers.
• Creating test beds.
• Executing testcases.
• Release of Patrol Web Console.
• Creating testcases for PWC products.
• Executing testcases, logging results and defects.
• Performance, Scalability and Reliability testing.
• Release of Virtual Infrastructure 3.0
• As a part of System Testing team Amar was quick in learning virtualization technology.
• Release of Virtual Infrastructure 3.5
• Installation of Guest Operating System on VMware ESX servers not limiting to following versions of x86 operating systems.
• Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP, 2008, 7.
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, 9, 10 and 11.
• Novell Netware 5.x, 6.x,
• Performance testing.
• Performance testing using Microsoft Hardware Compatibility Tool.
• Performance testing using IOmeter, DB Hammer.
• VMware Consolidated Backup testing with various backup vendors.
• Installation of VMware tools testing.
• Testing installation wizard.
• Testing VMware guest drivers on all supported OS'es.
• Release of vSphere 4.0
• Testing of VMware Flagship feature Fault Tolerance.
• Creating testcases for Fault Tolerance testing.
• Executing testcases.
• Performance testing for Fault Tolerance.
• Projects Amar was involved product releases during his tenure.
• Installation, configuration of Backup software to work with ESX 3.0
• is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective.
• Projects Amar was a part of during his tenure.
• Support.