1Sunil Sadanand Patil VCP4.0, VCP-510, VMware, Linux, Microsoft

Email: sunilspatil1978@gmail.com Phone: US: +1-(434)321-4532

India: +91-(974)203-9045Objective: A professional with over 15+ Years of Enterprise IT experience, Identify Standardization, Optimization & Process Improvement in Existing Infra, Provide Infra Support, Work on Enhancement requests & New Projects, Excellent Service, Communication & Presentation Skills, Ability to Work on Multiple Projects & Multiple DeadLines, Project Management Skills, Technical Abilities appropriate to responsibilities, seeks to become a key member of IT team and help Organization Grow and Stay Competitive with my Ideas and Skills as a Sr. System Engineer, IT Consultant, and Virtualization/Engineer/Tech Lead/Assistant Manager/IT Manager_________________________________________________________________________________________

Professional Experience:

Ministry of Interiors – Abu Dhabi - Dubai, (UAE) 01/2011 – 01/2015

IT Consultant

Serving as a IT Consultant in a complex enterprise, highly redundant and available Linux, VMware/Active Directory, MS Windows environment, implements, manage and support secure, user/customer facing, cloudbased, Compliant hosted gateway solutions.

Plan, coordinate and administer issues related to systems and storage (Production & Development) Investigate, troubleshoot and resolve hardware and software problems associated with user/customer

facing hosted cloud payment processing solutions Design, implement solutions to complex technical problems, Event, Incident & Service Request

Management using Remedy VMware Virtualization (ESXi, vSphere) build, deploy & migrate, Datacenter & apps migration Analyze, troubleshoot and resolve highly technical networking, OS, Clustering and Virtualization issues VMware Virtualization management using VMware vSphere Client, vCenter, P2V & V2V Conversions VMware Virtualization Clustering (HA/FT/DRS), performance monitoring, tuning & auditing & security VMware Virtualization virtual networking (VLANs, NIC Teaming, HP VirutalConnect, NFS, LUNS, RDMs) VMware virtual storage provisioning & management (LUN provisioning, masking, VMFS, Datastores) VMware Patch Management Using VMware Update Manager, Upgrades, Ensured VMFS & VMDK Backups

are performed & validated by frequent restore tests VMware Virtualization Creation of Clones & Templates of VMs, Deployment of VMs using OVF Templates VMware vSphere Data Protection (Planning, deployment, configuration and management) VMware Virtual Machines Recovery using GRT – Granular Recovery Install & Upgrade Linux OS viz…CentOS, Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, FreeBsd, LinuxMint, etc Repository Management: Install/Update/Upgrade/Remove/RollBack Remi, EPEL Rpmforge Install & Configure DHCP Server, Manage DNS Server, Create & Configure Xfs, Btrfs, Ext4, File Systems User & Group Management: Add/Del/Modify Users & Groups, Grant Access to User & Group Membership Strong SHELL & PERL Scripting Language Knowledge to Minimize Time & Continual Process &

Procedure Improvements, Intermediate of Python Scripting Language Software Package Management Install/Update/Upgrade/Remove/RollBack using RPM & YUM Commands Disk Management: Create/Modify/Extend/Delete/Resize Physical Volume, Volume Groups & Logical Vol Job Management & Schedule of Tasks to Run Commands, Shell, Perl & Pyhton Scripts using Crontab Network Management: Configure Network, Block Unwanted IP, Using NetworkManager & Nmcli Install and Configure Network Bonding, WireShark, OpenNMS, OSSIM-Open Source Security Information

Management Manage Services: Systemctl, Process Management using Cmds & Text Processing Tools & Utilities. Install & Configure VirtualBox to Create & Run 32 & x64 Bit Guest OS Virtual Machines. Deploy Multiple Virtual Machines using Network Install, viz…Http, FTP & NFS Setup HA Load Balancer with HAProxy to control Web Server Traffic. Backup, Restore and Troubleshooting, Secure Server with SELinux & Secure SSH Server. Install & Configure Password Less Login using Public-Private Keys for SSH Remote Login. Install & Configure Zenoss, Munin & Zabbix for Centralized Monitoring & Network Monitoring Install & Configure Nmon & Monitorix Lightweight System & Network Monitoring Install & Configure Collectctl Advanced Sys Monitoring Tool for Monitoring System Resources Install & Configure Icinga to Monitor Servers & Services

Setup and Configure Bmon for Real-Time Bandwidth Monitoring, built-in Commands & Command Line Tools for Performance Monitoring using VI Editors

Install, Configure & Monitoring using Nagios: Install using Yum & Rpm, Auto Install using Script, Email Alerting, Adding Clients, Add Win Hosts to Nagios Monitoring Server, Install NRPE Client, Monitor Linux Servers using NRPE Agent, Add Host using NRPE Plugin.

Configure & Manage Firewall using Firewalld & IPTables: Add/Remove Ports & Services , Block Incoming & Outgoing Packets, Masquerading IP Address, Block & Enable ICMP, Lockdown Rules, Add/Block IP

Install Tools & Utilities viz...Nginx, PhpMyAdmin, WordPress, VMware Tools, Webmin, XFCE 4.12, LMD-Linux Malware Detect Antivirus Engine.

Install, Configure & Manage Syslog Server with Rsyslog, Monitor Log File using Logwatch, OpenVPN. Network and Remote Systems monitoring using Nagios, Icinga, Cacti, Zabbix, Tripwire, etc... Install, Configure, Manage, Maintain & Migrate Backup Exec 2010 R3 & 2014 Server & Agents Intermediate & Extensive Knowledge of PureDisk Deduplication: Backup, Restore, Storage Pool using

Deduplication Technology Microsoft Active Directory(2003 & 2008 R2)plan, design, build, manage and support MS Active Directory Group Policy deployment and management, Domains & Trusts management MS SQL 2008 & 2012 Failover Cluster Intermediate & Extensive Knowledge of Hosting, Install & Configure Hyper-V & Install Guest/Client OS Storage Area Network (SAN) management & support, SAN Array & virtual infrastructure migrations Brocade Fibre Channel Switch (300) management (zoning, troubleshooting, monitoring, etc.) Install, Configure, Manage & Maintain McAfee VirusScan Enterprise: Scan Engine v32-Bit & v64-Bit Technical documentation of IT Systems, and using Visio diagrams, Change Procedure Documents Hardware: Dell PowerEdge & HP ProLiant 460 & 490C Blade Servers, Chassis Enclosure: HP C7000 Experience dealing with critical incidents, support. documents, categorize & prioritize as they occur

ThomsonReuters - NY/St. Louis/Hazelwood (USA), Blr (Ind) 09/2008 - 08/2010Senior System Engineer

Served in a network and systems engineering leadership role in a fast paced environment, managing Aurora & Hybrid Virtual datacenters to expand physical production datacenters to Virtualization of complex enterprise IT infrastructure, and support using Linux, Microsoft and VMware virtualization technology in TCP/IP Network:

Manage (24/7 on call)enterprise IT, LAN, WANand datacenter operations Enterprise IT - Responsible for the coordinated management of IT projects directed toward strategic

business and other organizational objectives. Manage enterprise IT product selection, inventory and deployment Worked with senior management team to ensure the objectives are fulfilled to highest IT standards Identify opportunities to drive more value through technology strategies in targeted areas, including

technology infrastructure and technology architecture SAN info storage & management, VMware backups using disk based solution and Robotic Tape Library Research, acquire, implement enterprise SAN and unified NAS solutions & disk based backups Virtualization manage and support virtual infrastructure (VMware ESX/ESXi/vSphere 4.0, 4.1, 5.1) VMware Virtualization - spearheaded enterprise virtualization initiative, Design, Deploy & Migration VMware Virtualization management using VMware, vSphere, vCenter, Clustering (HA/FT/DRS) VMware Virtualization Data Recovery, backup and data protection using Veeam, Backup Exec VMware Virtualization security, auditing, performance monitoring, tuning & troubleshooting VMware Virtualization virtual networking (VLANs, NIC Teaming, vDS and vSS) VMware virtual storage provisioning & management (VMFS, Datastores, iSCSI, NFS, LUNS) VMware Virtualization Auto Deploy and Host Profiles configuration and management VMware Update Manager management to patch & upgrade hosts, VAs & VMs, P2V & V2V Conversions VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) deployment and management Install & Configure Hyper-V Hosts, Cluster, Create Virtual Machines & Install Guest OSes Installation of Linux Operating System using Kick Start & Linux-Ask Methods, distributions

viz...CentOS, Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, CoreOS, Freebsd, LinuxMint Repository Management: Setup/Install/Upgrade/Remove/Rollback EPEL, Additional, Remi, RPMForge &

IUS Repositories, Network Repository for Client & Glibc Ghost Vulnerability Install & Configure DHCP Server, Create & Manage Btrfs, Xfs, Ext4, Ext3 & other File Systems Setup Primary Master & Secondary Slave DNS Server, KVM Install using Kickstart File, Linux Upgrade User & Group Management: Add/Del/Modify user account & password reset, add/remove/modify users to

primary and supplementary group File & Directory Management: Basic, Optimal & Special Permissions at User & Group Level Job Schedule & Run Tasks with Commands, SHELL, Perl and Python Scripts using Crontab Software Packages Management using YUM & RPM Cmd Line: Install/Update/Remove/Listing/Searching/ Disk Management: Create/Modify/Extend/Grouping/Remove/Backup/Recovery of Volumes using Logical

Volume Management & Migration of Logical Volumes, Quota Management-User & Group Install & Configure Password Less Login using Public-Private Keys for SSH Remote Login. Install & Configure Network including Block Unwanted IP, Assign Multiple IP to Single NIC

Install & Configure Network Bonding, WireShark, OpenNMS, OSSIM-Information Management Install & Configure Applications Oracle Database 12c, Java, Http Secure Web Server Install & Setup Secure NFSv3 & NFSv4 with Kerberos, Install & Configure Local NTP Server & Clients Install & Configure Authentication Server viz...Open LDAP Administration & Directory Server Install & Upgrade Kernel in the Respective Linux Distributions Install & Configure SAMBA & Integrate Active Directory Users with Samba Install, Configure & Maintain File Servers: Samba, NFS, Ftp, Http and Web Servers: Apache Install, Configure, Upgrade & Migration of Mysql, MongoDB & MariaDB, LAMP stack (Apache

MariaDBMySQL & PHP) Configure & Manage Firewall using Firewalld & IPTables: Add/Remove Ports & Services Install & Configure Applications Oracle Database, Java, Http Secure Web Server Manage & Maintain Hardware Failures & Warnings with a Minimal Time Incident & Service Request Management using Remedy MS Exchange 2003 front end & back end servers, AD, DHCP DNS, SCOM 2K7 Implement & Deploy MS Active Directory(2003& 2008 R2) Architect, management and support MS Active Directory Group Policy, Sites, Service, Permissions implementation and management MS Internet Information Services (IIS) and FTP Web Servers setup and management MS IIS/Webserver and SSL Certificate management and support MS SQL Failover clustering deployment, management and support (physical and virtual) MS SQL 2005, 2008 & 2012 failover clustering, MS SQL virtualization, cluster virtualization Troubleshoot T1 circuit line issues, submit trouble tickets to the service provider IP Addressing, IT Auditing, Enterprise WAN and LAN, DNS management Experience dealing with critical incidents, Research and development Ensures that incident routing does not meet bottlenecks and that appropriate resources have been

engaged to effectively investigate and diagnose critical incidents Provides detailed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documentation to Problem Management and attends RCA

meetings, primary ownership of any resulting action Documentation of Incident Management process, IT Documentation, user guides, creating extensive

network Visio diagrams SHELL & PERL Scripting Language Knowledge to Improve the Process & Procedures, Research

remote hosting and collocation for enterpriseIT infrastructure Train peers on storage, VMware, MS AD, etc. and interview potential new hires

Cisco WebEx – San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Jose (USA), Blr (Ind), Shanghai (China) 02/2006 - 09/2008

Windows Exchange Administrator / Sr. Windows Exchange Administrator

Served as a Sr. Win Exchange Administrator and Win Exchange Administrator in a large enterprise, the networking company, it provides overall networking products and solutions to make connectivity across the infra, WebEx India infra build, the audio & video conference technology. WAN / LAN Operations and Support – using Windows Platforms, Exchange 2K3, Symantec Endpoint, ML6000 Tape Library Technologies.

MS Active Directory management and support MS Active Directory Group Policy implementation and management MS Active Directory Sites and Services management MS Active Directory Permissions implementation and management MS Exchange Server management, Clustering , implementation and support MS Internet Information Services (IIS) and FTP Web Servers setup and management Storage Area Network (SAN), management and support, SAN information storage and management Virtualization: Design, implementation and support of virtual environments for VMware

ESX/Server/Workstation Hardware and software deployment and support Research and development / Test and evaluate software and hardware Server Builds, deployment, Server management, Audit and daily checklists Data Backup and Disaster Recovery Symantec Endpoint Protection Anti-Virus for enterprise setup, deployment & management IT Documentation and user guides for various software and hardware, etc. as well as creation / editing of

extensive network Visio diagrams for upper management and IT department Remote support and remote troubleshooting of issues related to VPN, Citrix, remote desktop, FTP, etc.

Unisys Global Services – Bangalore, India 02/2005 - 02/2006System Analyst

Standardized systems setup / installation Deployment support

TCP/IP based LAN/WAN support Hardware & Software migration Hardware build and deployment Support for end user applications Fedora Linux and MS Windows 2000, 2003 setup / Active Directory support Data Backups and Disaster Recovery Administrative tasks, project planning/completion, Equipment Inventory

Network Solutions Ltd – Bangalore, India 05/2004 - 02/2005Consultant - Network Support/Tech

End user PC & Network Support User Security and Policy assignment TCP/IP Network Troubleshooting Linux and MS Windows OS, Application Software and Hardware support Server Setup and deployment Router Configuration, DHCP / DNS Windows Active Directory Support

Toyo Denki Power Systems Private Ltd – Bangalore, India 01/2003 – 05/2004Network Engineer

Windows & Linux Server Administration User & Group Management: Add/Delete/Modify user account & password reset Network Troubleshooting and deployment Application support Point of contact for network / IT related issues.

Creative InfoTech - Bangalore, India 11/1998 – 12/2002

Network Support/Computer Technician PC Repair PC Troubleshooting and Diagnosis (Hardware & Software) Component Installation / Upgrades Software Installation / Upgrades Build Computers / Servers TCP/IP Network Support / Troubleshooting

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Education:

Certifications:

VMware Certified Professional 4.0 (VCP v4) # VCP068755 VMware Certified Professional 5 (VCP 510) # 215470986 Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP – 4 Papers) # 3468507

Bachelor Degree

B-Tech in Computer Science KSO University-Correspondence (Final Result by May 2015) Diploma in Electronics & Communications Engineering, Board of Technical Educations,

Bangalore, 1997

Training:

Completion of training on VMware ESX/ESXI Installation and Configuration. Completion of training on Red Hat Linux 6.0 Completion of training on Cisco Certified Network Administrator

Software: VMware ESX/ESXI, vSphere, vCenter, VMware Converter, CentOS6x/7x, Fedora17/18/19/20/21, Redhat 6x/7x, Ubuntu12x/13x/14x, OpenSuse, CoreOS, Freebsd, LinuxMint, Korora, DNS, DHCP, KVM, WireShark, OpenNMS, OSSIM-Open Source Security Information Management, NFS, VirtualBox, Mysql,

MongoDB & MariaDB, PHP, Oracle, JAVA, Samba, Apache, NFS, VNC-Server, Firewalld, Zenoss, Zabbix, Nmon, Monitorix, CollectCtl, Icinga, Bmon, VI & VIM Editors, NAGIOS, NRPE, Wordpress, Nginx, Malware Detect AV, OpenVPN, PureDisk Deduplication Backup & Restore, Veeam, Hyper-V 2012, Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, Exchange 2003 & 2010, SCOM 2007, SHELL, PERL, Windows 7, Vista, XP, MS Office 2013, 2010, 2003, 2000, McaFee VirusScan Enterprise & Symantec Endpoint Protection AV, Remote Desktop, Device monitoring, VPN, Dell Open Manage, MAS90, WinFax, Visio 2010, Windows 3.1/95/98, NT 4.0, cc: Mail, Excel, Word, Internet, Email, IIS 4.0, Backup Exec 2010 & 2014 HP Onboard Admin, Windows 2000/XP, MS Office, MS Visio, HP Service Center Client, Remedy 6.0, 6.3 & 7.0, WSUS, Firefox, Netscape, and various other applications.

Hardware: HP C7000 Chassis, HP ProLiant Series, HP 460 & 490C Blade Servers, Servers (Dell, HP), RAID, RAID cards Dell Blades, Dell computers, KVM and IP-KVM switches, FirewallsF-5 Load Balancer, Fiber Switches, fiber cables, Wireless Networking devices and Access Points, Printers (HP, Dell, Ricoh, Minolta), Motherboards, Network cards, CPU, Monitors, Hard Drives, Memory, Modems, HP blade servers, HP Computers, RX-2600, RILO-I/II, Server cabinets.

Personal Details:

Date of Birth: 1st July 1978 Languages Known: English, Hindi, Kannada and Marwari Reference Available on Request