PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced IT Infrastructure & Cloud Architect with 19+ years of expertise in Virtualization, Cloud Migrations,
Datacenter Consolidation, Backup Solutions, and Automation. Proven leadership in managing global projects, delivering
hybrid/multi-cloud solutions using VMware, Nutanix, Azure, AWS, and more. Strong consulting background across
various industries including Manufacturing, Finance, Healthcare, Defense, and Telecom.

CORE COMPETENCIES
- Cloud & Virtualization: Nutanix, VMware, VCF, VMC on AWS/AVS/GCP
- Cloud Platforms: Azure, Azure Local, AzureStackHCI
- Backup Solutions: Veritas NetBackup, Cohesity, Commvault
- OS Expertise: Windows, RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu
- Migration Tools: HCX, Nutanix Move, Carbonite, Zerto, RP4VM, ASR, Azure Migrate, Star Wind, MTV (OpenShift),
vSphere Replication

CERTIFICATIONS
- Nutanix Certified Professional – NCP-MCI 6.5
- VMware VCP & VCAP – Data Center Virtualization
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- EMC Cloud Infrastructure and Services (EMCCIS)
- Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 Lead and participate in the delivery of large and complex Virtualization, Cloud & Backup Projects.
 Composed (SOW and LOE’s) for Pre-Sales team especially for VCF & Workload Migration Projects VMware and
Nutanix.
 Design and implement the infrastructure to migrate VM’s from VMware to Nutanix to different hardware.
 Planning and Design Workshop on Nutanix Environments.
 Install, Configure, Manage Nutanix Deployments.
 Involved on Nutanix In-place Conversion (VMware to Nutanix).
 Operationalized Nutanix services through Prism Central.
 Configured and managed multiple Nutanix servers using Prism Element and Prism Central.
 Performed Nutanix Software and Firmware Upgrades using LCM.
 Deployed and managed NKP cluster.
 Co-ordinating with Nutanix/VMware Business Critical support in times of critical incidents and providing all needed
information from the environment to get the issue resolved with minimum downtime for customers.
 Deploy VMware Aria Suite Components using different deployment methods i.e., Life Cycle Manager (vRLCM), SDDC
Manager.
 Deploy, VMware SRM, Aria Suite of products (Aria Operations for Logs).
 Design & Deploy VMware NSX-V/T.
 Managing and troubleshooting Hyper Converged Infrastructure Solutions (VxRail, VxFlex, VxRack SDDC).
 Design and Deploy vCloud Foundation (VCF) referencing VVD design guide.
 Worked on VMC on AVS/AWS/GCP.
 Design & Implement Datacenter migration.
 Involved in DC Migration which includes P2V2V2C, P2P from and to VMware, Hyper-V & Nutanix environment,
used varies of tools like HCX, RP4VM, Nutanix Move, VMware Converter, Plate spin, Carbonite Move (Double-
Take), vSphere Replication, MTV (OpenShift), Zerto, Star Wind, Commvault, ASR and Azure Migrate etc.,
 Deployed New VM’s on On-Prem/Azure.
 Deploy and configure Arc enabled services.
 Apply inventory tagging per Customer requirements.
 Operating System updates via Azure Automation for virtual machines.
 Deployed AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services) in Azure & Azure Stack HCI Environments.
 Azure monitoring agent extension deployment.
 Configured and managed Veritas/Cohesity NetBackup clients across various platforms, ensuring seamless backup
operations.
 Conducted regular Veritas/Cohesity upgrades and applied patches to maintain system integrity and security.
 Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define and implement backup strategies and disaster recovery plans.

 Lead and participate in the delivery of large and complex Virtualization & Cloud Projects.
 Taken Lead Role for delivery of Parexel, General Motors, Norton Rose and 10+ critical projects in different technical
streams.
 Composed (SOW and LOE’s) for Pre-Sales team especially for Workload Migration Projects and AzureStackHCI.
 Design and implemented the infrastructure to migrate 1000+ VM from Nutanix\Virtual to VxRail.
 Managing and troubleshooting Hyper Converged Infrastructure Solutions (VxRail, VxFlex, VxRack SDDC).
 Assist in the pre-sales phase to evaluate client business, process, systems, technology requirements; and to
determine the feasibility of a proposal or to develop scope and efforts estimates to deliver the service.
 Design & Implement Datacenter migration
 Involved in DC Migration which includes P2V2V2C, P2P from and to VMware & Hyper-V environment, used
varies of tools like Nutanix Move, HCX, VMware Converter, Plate spin, Carbonite Move (Double-Take), RP4VM,
vSphere Replication, Zerto, Star Wind, Commvault and Azure Migrate etc.,
 Deploy vRealize Suite Components using different deployment methods i.e., Life Cycle Manager (vRLCM), SDDC
Manager.
 Design and Deploy vCloud Foundation (VCF) referencing VVD design guide.
 Design and Deploy HCX integration.
 Deploy VMware Cloud on AWS/AVS/GCP.
 Azure Stack HCI cloud management (Arc enabled Infrastructure and Services).
 Deployed New VM’s on Azure Stack HCI.
 Deploy and configure Arc enabled services.
 Apply inventory tagging per Customer requirements.
 Operating System updates via Azure Automation for virtual machines.
 Azure monitoring agent extension deployment.
 Configure Azure Monitoring of Azure Stack HCI for VMs.
 Configure Azure Monitoring via Windows Admin Center.
 Verify creation of Azure Log Analytics workspace.
 Verify installation and configuration of Microsoft Monitoring Agent on all nodes of the cluster.
 VM’s Migrated from On-prem to AzureStackHCI using Carbonite.
 Knowledge on Azure Netapp files storage.
 Superior experience on all phases of Project management life cycle – Initiation, Planning, Execution and Closure.
Reviewed, evaluated, formulated and executed project plans, schedules and budgets for small to large-size IT and
organizational projects.
 Define and document Business requirement, process, project scope, objectives, staffing, resources and deliverables.
 Co-ordinating with VMware Business Critical support in times of critical incidents and providing all needed
information Taken Lead Role for delivery of Worley, Emerson, Medtronic and Pfizer and involved critical projects in
different technical streams.
 Involved in DC Migration which includes X2C.
 Design and implemented the infrastructure to migrate 1000+ VM from Nutanix\Virtual to VxRail.
 Perform X2V migrations using the RP4VM tool & Doubletake.
 Deploy vRealize Suite Components using different deployment methods i.e., Life Cycle Manager (vRLCM), SDDC
Manager.
 Design and Deploy vCloud Foundation (VCF) referencing VVD design guide.
 Implemented Private Cloud using VMware Validated Design (VVD) 6.0
 Install, Configure, Manage vSphere 4, 5, 6.x environments.
 Implement and Manage VMware Horizon 7 infrastructure.
 View connection, View Composer, App Volume Manger.
 Install, configure, Administration of Windows, RedHat, Ubuntu & SuSE Linux virtual Environment.
 Implement NSX.
 Having experience on vXRail.
 Design and Deploy HCX integration.
 migrate 1500+ VM from virtual to Public Cloud (i.e., vCloud Air).
 Involved in DC Migration which includes Conversion of Virtual to Cloud, Cloud – Cloud using vCloud Connector, HCM
& Physical to Virtual Servers using VMware Converter.
 Help the accounts team with presales on Datacenter Migration.
 Participation in customer meetings and weekly operations meetings with remote teams.
 SME for Migration and Cloud related issues and escalations.
 Created blogs for HCM, Doubletake& VMware to AWS Migration (My blog content has been converted to a EMC
Significant contributor and part of a skilled team responsible for providing remote offshore support in the form of
administration and problem troubleshooting to the entire Virtual Infrastructure comprising of around 600 ESXi hosts
and more than 5000 Virtual Machines running on them in datacenters based in SAP Labs Germany involving multi-
Client support.
 Also involved in installing/managing/administering physical and virtual Unix servers as part of project work for
customers wanting their servers to be consolidated in a mix of Virtual and Physical environments.
 Installation & configuration SUN Solaris 5.8, 5.9 & 5.10 & Jumpstart Installation
 Installation of HP-UX 11.11, 11.23 on PA & ITANIUM Server via Ignite & media
 Installation of IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3
 Installation of Linux Red Hat EL 3.4 $ SUSE 9 through FTP.
 User Administration, Creating, deleting and modifying user accounts
 Installation & configuration of NIS, NFS, Samba on Sun & Linux, HP-UX & Platform
 Installation of Various kinds of applications on all platforms
 Installation and administration of VERITAS Volume Manager
 Sun Enterprise Servers like ultra-5, ultra-10, E-250, E-450, Sun Blades 1000,1500,2500, Sun fire V210,240,440 & Sun
fire 3500,3800, sun V20Z & V40Z Server administration like NIS, NFS, DNS & Web server etc.
 HP 9000 series RX 1620, 2620, 4600 & RP 3410, 4340 & 7410 & Hp 9000 K class
 IBM E-series P-5, X-Series, RS 6000
 Installation of Windows 2003 Server.

CONSULTANT – CAPGEMINI CONSULTING INDIA PVT. LTD (NOVEMBER 2007 – JUNE 2010)

 Installation and configuration of ESX hosts at par with the Capgemini Outsourcing standards and use them in HA and
DRS enabled clusters with appropriate visibility to LUNs from SAN storage and Networks.
 Creation, Administration and Troubleshooting of DRS and HA enabled clusters involving multiple ESX hosts with
numerous Virtual Machines.
 Troubleshooting vCenter, ESX and VM related issues using the vCenter logs, ESX service console command line
utilities like esxcfg-**(esxcfg-mpath, esxcfg-info, vmware-cmd etc..) and by referring to vmkernel, hostd and
VMware logs.
 Co-ordinating with VMware Business Critical support in times of critical incidents and providing all needed
information from the environment to get the issue resolved with minimum downtime for customers.
 Planning and implementing version updates to the various components of Virtual Infrastructure like ESX, VC server,
Update Manager and VI Client with minimal or no downtime as may be the case.
 Creation and Deployment of new Virtual Machines from existing templates with various customization scripts
catering to individual requirements of multiple clients.
 Creation and addition of new datastores from Fibre channel LUNs on HP as well as EMC based SAN storage in the
backend. Datastores are categorized for VMs being used either as Virtual Desktops, Servers, or Business Critical
Servers.
 Usage of Storage VMotion for movement across datastores when in crunch for free space and when storage arrays
are brought down for maintenance.
 Use of VMware Update Manager to create baseline updates and to make sure the environment is up to date with
the latest release of Critical and Non-Critical patches from VMware.
 Patching of ESX hosts with the use of VMTN patch manager for ESX 3.0.1 and Update Manager for updates on ESX
3.5 based hosts.
 As part of the ITIL process implementation, all requests will be accepted and completed with appropriate updates in
the EARS (Extended Application request system i.e REMEDY tool) call created for tracking new deployments or
enhancements.
 Creating and accepting change requests for deployment of new VMs, ESX hosts, expansion of VMs with necessary
CPU, memory, disks.
 In case of abrupt crashes on ESX hosts, logging a call with VMware Support with appropriate snapshots and system
logs and tracking the call through to a logical resolution was a responsibility with our team.
 Creation, configuration, and addition of new Virtual LANs on Virtual Switches of different ESX hosts.
 Use of HP Altiris Rapid Deployment pack with automated scripts for easy and quick installation and setup of a new
ESX host.
 Maintaining documentation using Wiki pages for future reference.

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT – EMERIO (MALAYSIA) SND BHD (JULY 2006 – NOVEMBER 2007)

Client: Ericsson (North America, Europe, Brazil).

 System Administration in several UNIX Flavors (Sun Solaris, HP-UX & Linux)
 System administration, providing technical support and solutions for client’s UNIX boxes
 Installation and up gradation of packages and patches
 Administration of user management: Creating, Modifying and Deleting users and groups
 Administration of File Management: Creating files and directories, given user permissions on files and directories,
clean up threshold file system’s like find out largest files and kept hose- keeping, find out core files and removing
and zip or remove old log files.
 Administration of Processor Management checks CPU Utilizations, killing unnecessary running process
 Installation and administration of VERITAS Volume Manager
 Administration of disk Management Configuration of LVM, increase PV and LV. File system
 Creations, Mounting and un-mounting file systems
 Server administration like NIS, NFS, DNS &Web server, etc.
 Performing change management and incident management for UNIX issues
 Maintaining SLO/SLA objectives on a 24x7 command center environment
 Helping other engineers in critical situations.

FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ENGINEER – CMS COMPUTERS LTD

Clients: TCS/Veritas Technologies (JAN 2005 – July 2006)

 Installation, upgrading and configuration of clients Network with Windows-2000 & 2003.
 Workstation / windows 2000 professional / XP.
 Installation of Sun Solaris 9.0 on SUN Sparc
 Installation of HP-UX 11.11, 11.23 on PA & ITANIUM Server via Ignite & media
 Installation of IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3
 Deploying VMs for windows and Linux (Red Hat, SUSE)
 User Administration, Creating, deleting and modifying user accounts
 Mounting and Unmounting file systems
 Configuration of DNS, DHCP & NFS
 Configuring NIS
 Installation of 3rd party Software
 Local Area network Administration
 Reliable. Always striving to complete asking proficiently and in a timely manner

EDUCATION
MS in Information & Systems Management, SVU-2003

ONSITE EXPERIENCE
Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Malaysia, Qatar, Bangkok