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Bhavana Kumbar

Windows Server Administrator
Bengaluru

Summary

Experienced IT professional with 8.6 years of expertise in Service Desk support and Windows Server Administration. Skilled in troubleshooting, user management, Active Directory, and system maintenance, ensuring high availability and smooth IT operations.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Consultant

LTIMindtree
09.2021 - Current

O356 Application Support:
Provided technical support and troubleshooting for Office 365-related issues, investigating, and resolving problems in a timely manner. Installing and Configuring Outlook, Microsoft teams, Microsoft Authenticator (Windows/Mac/Android/iOS)
Document configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps, ensuring knowledge transfer, and maintaining accurate system documentation.
Monitor and optimize the performance, availability, and security of the Office 365 environment.

O365 Migration Team:
Migration of on-premises Lotus notes mailboxes to M365 “Exchange” online
Microsoft ‘Teams’, 'OneDrive’, MFA’ Enablement and rollout
Migration of drop box to office 365 OneDrive
Onboarding both NA and EU store users into office 365 as a cloud only identity
Monitoring the migration activities
Adding the user to the right group in Azure AD
Provide the set of privileges /retention policy to mailbox from M365 Admin center
Expertise in handling mail routing and mail flow related issues

Windows/Wintel Administrator:
Creation of User accounts, Groups.
Creation of shared drives/folders.
Performed Tomcat service restarts, deployments, and log monitoring to ensure uptime and performance.
Cloning, deploying VM's and also decommissioning the EOL servers VAPT migration for OnPrem Windows Servers Prod and Dev/UAT manual servers Patching
Handling SOCO Alerts and
Handling Service request DNS entry Creation, IIS configuration, LAPS management, Application deployment.
Configuring DR servers Performing DR Drill.
Administration of Windows 2008 R2/2012/2016/2019 and 2022 servers.
Provide support to application teams on IIS configuration.
Implement & Support Guidelines as it applies to ITIL Practices with respect to Change, Incident Management
Installing and managing the Active directory and FSMO Roles transfer in active directory forest.

Administrator

Wipro
07.2019 - 09.2021

Service desk:
Delivering support for Northern Trust business clients.
Understanding and taking ownership of user’s issue logged on via call and chat.
Provided real-time support to everyday users on outlook, password, VPN, Remote connection issue, resetting the password for Network id
Follow the KB article.
Transferring tickets to tier-2 team for escalated cases.
Have good track of KPI.

Technical Process Specialist

Infosys BPM
03.2018 - 06.2019

Application Support:

Provided the technical support for cisco applications- Webex and Jabber for premium clients
Provided support on Outlook issues which is integrated with Cisco WebEx application
Provided product support which covers usability queries and technical issue troubleshooting for WebEx and Jabber Product (Meeting, Event and Training center services, Jabber, Webex Teams, SSO Integrations)
Analyzing the issue and collecting required logs to elevate the issue Expertise in case management, including documentation.
Helping clients in signing up for new accounts
Taking initiatives & ownership to solve the issues within the approved SLA

Analyst

HCL Tech
05.2017 - 03.2018

Service Desk:

Delivering L1 support for Iron Mountain business clients.
Understanding and taking ownership of user’s issue logged on ticketing tool.
Transferring tickets to tier-2 team for escalated cases or for tier-2 issues Provided real-time support to everyday users on outlook, password, VPN, Remote connection issue, resetting the password for Network id.

Education

High School Diploma -

Government Polytechnic Gadag
Gadag, India
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Aryabhata PU Science College
Gadag, India
04.2001 -

No Degree - School

Shri CDO Jain English Medium School, Gadag
Gadag, India
04.2001 -

Skills

Windows Server 2016/2019/2022

Azure AD / Active Directory

Exchange Admin Center

ITIL

GPO

O365 Admin Center

Certificates

  • Windows Server 2019 Administration Fundamentals.
  • Microsoft Intune Fundamentals.

Timeline

Senior Consultant

LTIMindtree
09.2021 - Current

Administrator

Wipro
07.2019 - 09.2021

Technical Process Specialist

Infosys BPM
03.2018 - 06.2019

Analyst

HCL Tech
05.2017 - 03.2018

High School Diploma -

Government Polytechnic Gadag
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Aryabhata PU Science College
04.2001 -

No Degree - School

Shri CDO Jain English Medium School, Gadag
04.2001 -
Bhavana KumbarWindows Server Administrator