Highlights:Creative and self-motivated individual with over 20+ years of diversified experience in Architecting Cloud IT Infrastructures Implementation, Operation, Support and Service Management for Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud, AWS, VMware, Windows, Linux.

Skills:aws, vmware, mcse, veeam, linux, active directory

Goal:Customer’s Success and Satisfaction. Seeking challenging assignments in Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud, AWS, VMware, Windows, Linux and Datacentre components Implementation and Optimization, Operation and Maintenance for a large-sized business where I can Architect, develop and deploy enterprise-level solutions across massive networks.

Certification:VCP AWS RHCE MCSE ITIL

Lead Virtualization Engineer 04/2017 - 05/2020
NetPulse Services India Pvt Ltd, Pune, Maharastra India
Industry: IT
Act as the ongoing interface between the clients and the Cloud system or application. Dedicated to quality, using exceptional communication and troubleshooting skills to keep our world class cloud systems running.
•Experience with VSphere Suite Implementing and managing vCloud Director for Service Provider private cloud environments, VMware ESXi and vCenter, vRealize Operations, Converter P2V migrations, Expert knowledge of vSphere components such as vCSA, PSC, and ESXi related technologies such as vMotion, HA, DRS/SDRS, VDS, Affinity rules, storage vMotion, vSphere Replication, iSCSI, NFS, Distributed Switch, vSAN Automation. •Configure backup policies in Veeam backup system for Application, OS and DB, Tape Management for Physical & Virtual Tape Libraries and Root cause Analysis of various backup and restore failures and performance issues. •Manage configuration and provision of enterprise applications, their load balancing, fault-tolerance and implement tools and technologies for normalized management and instrumentation of compute, network and storage resources.--
Architect Software Solution 02/2007 - 09/2007
Pentagon System and Service Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, Maharastra India
Industry: IT
Designing (Microsoft, VMware, IBM and Symantec) Software Solution for Customer.
•Working with Presales and Sales team for software product POC, implementation and licensing. •Actively participate in IT requirements gathering, discovery and assessment. •Regular follow-ups with customers with recommendations, updates and action plans. •Research and implement new technologies to improve the enterprise infrastructure. •Identify and resolve virtualization related system problems and performance issues.--
Lead Consultant - VMware and Windows/Linux 10/2007 - 05/2014
YASH Technologies Pvt Ltd, Pune, Maharastra India
Industry: IT
Maintain the Enterprise Microsoft Windows/Linux Servers and Enterprise VMware vSphere virtualization environment including Implementation, Troubleshooting, performance Monitoring, capacity, Load balancing, Backup and Disaster Recovery.
•Maintain the Enterprise VMware Horizon View VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure virtualization environment including Implementation, Troubleshooting, performance Monitoring, capacity, Load balancing. •Build/Commissioning & decommission (using established best practices) of Physical/Virtual Windows/Linux and VMware Servers, networking equipment including racking, powering, cabling, and labelling of all components. •Hands-on experience with Build/Commissioning & decommission Pools, Linked Clone VM, and Dedicated VMs. •Resolve Service Request, Change Request and incident management in Service Now and Remedy on Demand.--
Sr System Administrator 12/2001 - 02/2007
Zycus InfoTech Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, Maharastra India
Industry: IT
Onsite Windows Desktops, Linux Servers, Network and Datacenter support.
•Installation, configuration and maintain network on various platforms like Win98, WinXP, Win2k3 and Redhat Linux. Regular Corporate Antivirus and Windows Security updates. •Managing desktops and Laptops administration, MS Outlook, Eudora, Outlook Express. •File sharing, printer sharing and troubleshooting of MS office applications. •Deployment and Administration of Microsoft Windows 2003 Active Directory Services. •Performing Daily backups, maintaining of backup system, and verify that backups are working on all critical systems. •Co - ordination with IT Services Providers and Maintain all IT assets.--

Mod-Tech College of Engineering 05/1997 - 04/2001
Pune, Maharastra, India
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Computer
Degree in Computer Engineering (B.E.) Mod-Tech College of Engineering, (AEFT) First Class.

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