Raghavendra.BMobile: 96869 18877E-Mail: raghav0775@gmail.com

Seeking senior level positions in Virtualisation Project Management/IT Infrastructure Management with an organisation of repute

Technical Expertise in Windows and VMware Platform

An Overview VMware & RHCSA Certified Professional with 12.5 years of rich

experience in effective management of IT Infrastructure Project for new facilities, Data Center Upgradation of Hardware & Software, Microsoft Technologies, VMware Virtualization and Linux

Demonstrated excellence in leading enterprise-wide virtualisation effort with accountability of overseeing vendor / hardware qualification, architecture / design, installation, configuration, migration & documentation. 

Expertise in Business Continuity; delivered maximum business value for Infrastructure, Data Centre Technologies, Large Scale Systems and Networks.

Proficiency in installation & troubleshooting of Blade Server, Rack Servers, etc. viz. HP, IBM and Cisco UCS.

Adept at maintaining complete IT infrastructure including Server Hardware, VMware Environment, all Microsoft Technologies.

Strong Customer Centric Approach with excellent analytical, coordination, presentation and leadership skills; skilled in grasping the big picture and conceptualising solutions.

Certifications VMware Certifications:

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 310 and 410. TOGAF 8.0 Certified Enterprise Architect RHCSA

Career RecordSince July ’2010 working with Cisco Systems Pvt Ltd.

Growth PathSince Jul`10 Cisco Systems as System Administrator (BU: ECS/ GIS-IT Team: EHS-WIN, Vitual-OPS, GIS-IT)Oct`09-Jun`10 Cognizant Technology Solutions as Assistant Associate Operation ManagerDec`04-Oct`09 IBM Global Services Limited as Technical Service Professional/ VMware Subject Matter Expert

SKILL SETVirtualisation Environment Management

EXCELLENCE SPHEREVMWare Administration

Power cliPower shell

Design and Maintenance Windows 2008/2003/ 2000

OS Administration

Linux Administration

Cloud technologies (Openstack, Microsoft

Azure) Data Center Consolidation

Project ManagementService DeliveryITIL FrameworkSLA Adherence

Process ImprovementCost Reduction

Managing VMware Virtualization infrastructure in APAC region datacentres (Large scale Infrastructure with the 25000 ESXi servers and 45000 VM’s with complete accountability of planning, designing and implementation of new virtual environment.

Involving in Automating the tasks and Monitoring the environment with VMTurbo Provided complete L4 support for VMware virtual infrastructures.

IT Cloud Infrastructure Recommending IT infrastructure requirements and upgrading to ensure acceptable levels of Security, Disaster

Management and Data Recovery plans; establishing and running Data Centre infrastructure including Server Racking, Cable Laying, Tagging and Documentation, etc.

Supervising the provisioning, installation and maintenance of Linux and Windows servers from Private Cloud

Windows Systems Administration Provisioning new servers, imaging; handling other daily routines; leading new deployments from systems

perspective by coordinating internal resources; performing systems backups and restore procedures. Handling the complete installation, configuration & maintenance of Microsoft Windows Servers; designing the

Backup Strategy for sites and ensuring scheduled/unscheduled Backups as per backup plan and restoration; managing Server, Domain, AD, User Rights, etc.

Conducting proactive checks with regards to Windows and Antivirus.

Linux Administration Providing L2 Support for LINUX servers Deploying Linux VM’, Bare metal servers and supporting the infrastructure Patching the servers with REDHAT Satellite sever Learning Puppet to write Puppet modules for Linux servers

Incident Management / Problem Management / Change Management Ensuring that the goals of the Incident Management process are achieved; restoring normal service as soon as

possible based on customer perspective and within defined SLA; detecting, logging, categorising and prioritising incidents; providing initial Incident Support.

Closing incidents after verification from users; defining and planning separate procedures for major incidents; ensuring adherence to SLA and priority based management.

Resolving problems & issues within set timelines thereby developing the Knowledge Base; ensuring that the issue does not happen again.

SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS Holds the distinction of enhancing efficiency & customer satisfaction through complex restructuring geographically

diverse IT groups into a Global Team; rebuilt the team from ground-up including hiring & equipping personnel for a rapidly growing infrastructure and meeting increasing demands from multiple business units.

Played a stellar role in increasing uptime and security by standardising network management and monitoring tools thereby providing real-time alerting leading.

Conceptualised, drafted and implemented policies & procedures on network equipment and maintenance. Excellent track record of reducing Infrastructure costs by technical solutions like unutilized servers , backups, and

reducing the virtual hard ware from the VM’s Successfully improved server availability, reduced workload for IT staff and automated server deployment for

various business units by leveraging on a highly available VMware Virtual Infrastructure (VI5.5) environment supporting both production and development environments.

Instrumental in managing complete configuration and installation of: VMware ESX (5.5), ESXi, and vSphere 5 & 6 environments with Virtual Centre Management with

Power cli and power shell Backup Tools : Symantec Net Backup, Symantec Backup Exec version 8,9,10,11,12

Led complete Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000 & 2003 Servers.

Resolved all issues related with performance of SAN backed VMware ESX Infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.

Managed the entire gamut of tasks associated with Network Infrastructure Design and Maintenance including: Data Center Expansion including procurement, implementation and rollout of new physical plant. Server Performance Analysis and Performance Tuning including Linux Server workloads. Design, deployment, and maintenance of a broad range of Microsoft Technologies including:

Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008 and RHEL 4, 5.5, 6.20 and RHEL7.0 Proficient in end-to-end infrastructure planning and implementation from scope management, to activity

sequencing, effort & cost estimation to quality management in adherence to guidelines and norms. Adept in analyzing information system needs, evaluating end-user requirements, custom designing solutions,

troubleshooting for complex information systems management. Skilled in: Enterprise Architecture with the help of TOGAF and Proact BOST certifications. Cloud platforms-VMware, Hyper-V, Openstack on VMware & Redhat KVM.

Cloud automation tools - Puppet, PowerShell Ability to run projects alone Working on private cloud IAAS, PAAS, DAAS, MTAAS and Monitoring Cloud capacity for the entire virtual

infrastructure. Involved in Planning, design and implementation of infrastructure. Managing heterogeneous infrastructure

Expertise in building new solutions, designing, analysis and testing for modules while structuring customized hardware and networking solutions to meet customer’s specific needs.

Driven alone Data centre consolidations, OS upgrades, build and release management projects alone

Scholastics MBA from Madurai Kamaraj University in 2008.

Trainings and Certifications

Technical Trainings Preparing for BOST Enterprise Architect certification AIX 6.1 Level 1 and Level 2 Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 ITIL V3 BIGDATA & Hadoop Admin Openstack deployment trainings RHCE Puppet Microsoft Azure Amazon AWS Administration

Previous Employment

May`04-Dec`04 Wipro Limited Senior System Engineer-Data Center

Apr`03-May`04 Customer First Services Private Limited System Administrator

Mar`99-Apr`03 Alps Innovative Solutions Customer Support Engineer