KIRAN Taranath
IT professional
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
20 years of experience in the IT Industries with Data Center administering and Infrastructure Management. Effective Personnel with IT System Administration experience. Demonstrated ability to effectively improve processes, transform team dynamics, build highly motivated teams, build trust with client, identify strengths/weaknesses and implement policies, procedures. Responsible for Account Transformation and Process Excellence.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Senior subject matter expert
Kyndryl India PVT LTD
9 2021
- Working on vSphere, vRA and VRO Management
- Managing and troubleshooting the VMware Aria Automation, VRO and blueprint creation activity
- Troubleshoot the builds failures
- Managing the template with the latest patches
- Participated in the VRA migration activity from 6.x to 7.x and from 7.x to 8.x
- Managing the server inventory
- Responsible for deployment, configuration, maintenance and trouble-shooting customer’s VMware Infrastructure
- Provides support and consultation to remote locations or clients to identify requirements/issues and provide solutions
- Schedules and performs VMware installations, patching and upgrades and maintains them in accordance with established client’s SLA and procedures
- Troubleshoots problems, responds to escalation, actively perform investigation and implement the fix within SLA
- Develops and maintains all operational documentation
- Provide on call support as requested
- VMware ESX 6/7 or, at latest, completed one VMware project implementation (Full cycle)
- Experienced in VMware HA, VMotion configuration, DRS, Virtual server converting tool, server clustering
- Managing Microsoft 2016 /2019 /2022 server experiences
- Managed the PureFlex severs, SAN Storage capacity
- Creating/Managing the VLAN from vSphere and VRA
- Creating and Configuring Virtual Machine
- Populating Capacity Planner with Servers
- Creation of templates and managing the template
- Deploying the OVF templates.
Senior subject matter expert
IBM India PVT LTD
07.2011 - 09.2021
- Working on vRA and VRO Management
- Monitoring the build failure task
- Participated in installation and configuration of vRA 7.6
- Creation of Computer resources
- Creation and managing of computer reservations
- Creation and managing of network profile
- Creation managing the blueprints
- Managing the existing workflows
- Creation of templates and managing the template server
- Maintaining the backup through Tivoli
- Health checks performance every month for all the servers
- Capable of handling priority tickets
- Auditing check for the servers
- Firmware upgradation
- Patch installation on the servers
- Experience troubleshooting VMware environments running both Windows.
Operation Senior Lead Specialist
IBM India PVT LTD
07.2008 - 07.2010
- Total 321 windows servers we are managing on APMM client project
- Maintaining a Ticket flow through Denmark service center
- ILO, IBM Directory and NetOps connection for using for taking the server control
- Maintaining the stability, performance, and security of computer systems
- Configuring and troubleshooting network hardware and software
- Installing and configuring operating systems and applications
- Managing user accounts, permissions, and access rights
- Monitoring system performance and identifying potential issues
- Providing technical support to users.
System Administrator
TARGET CORPORATION INDIA PVT LTD
11.2007 - 07.2008
- Managing user accounts, user rights Updating of Antivirus
- Daily, Weekly & Monthly Backup of Application & Database backup using NT backup utility
- Updating of Antivirus and security Patches
- Documentation of Hardware/Software details has to be maintained
- Installed Branch Servers with RAID-5 Configuration
- Hosting intranet page on server for Drivers and latest updates of patches
- Creation and management of directory infrastructure
- Install and configure software, hardware and networks
- Ensure security and efficiency of IT infrastructure
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues
- Identify system requirements and install upgrades
- Maintains, secures and upgrades a web system.
Executive-IT
IGATE Global Solutions Ltd
11.2004 - 10.2007
- Account management
- Creation/deletion/management of objects, i.e
- Local user accounts, groups, workstations, servers, printers, etc
- In their OU hierarchy
- Regularly perform housekeeping duties to keep OU hierarchy clear of stale, unused, expired, and objects no longer needed
- Process requests for access control authorized by data owner
- Create new computer accounts and join to directory services
- Monitoring Disk Space Utilization on Servers
- Managing Users Disk space and share permissions in Servers
- Improve the Servers performance by Removing log files, temporary files
- Responsible for administration of 430 Branches across India
- Responsible for Technical upgradation, planning, analyzing of systems workflow and troubleshooting
- Implementing Windows NT 4.0, 2k & 2k3 Servers
- Managing Windows NT/ 2000/2003 Servers
- Installing and configuring DHCP Servers
- Managing backups using Win NT Backup Management Software
- Daily, weekly and monthly backups must be maintained
- Managing Users accounts and permissions and policies For Users
- Documentation of Hardware/Software details must be maintained
- Documentation of all department related information must be managed
- Given telephonic as well as online support for all kinds of software as well as hardware issues
- Installed Branch Servers with RAID-5 Configuration
- Hosting intranet page on server for Drivers and latest updates of patches
- Given telephonic as well as online support for all kinds of software as well as hardware issues.
Education
Skills
Operating System: Win2016, Win2019, Win2022, VMware 7x, vRA 8x
Managing the VRA, VRO and creating of blueprints
VRO workflow management
VMware L3 Support
Experience in P2V and V2V migration projects
Managing the VMWARE infrastructure, vSphere and handling Troubleshooting, Remote Administration & Monitoring the Server hardware
Certification
MCITP
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Taranath H.M.
- Date of Birth: 07/27/80
- Gender: Male
- Marital Status: Married
Languages
English, Kannada and Hindi
Projects
Participated in the VRA 6.x to 7.x and 7.x to 8.x Migration Project Participated in setting up a new VMware environment and upgradation of the VCenter project
Timeline
Senior subject matter expert
IBM India PVT LTD
07.2011 - 09.2021
Operation Senior Lead Specialist
IBM India PVT LTD
07.2008 - 07.2010
System Administrator
TARGET CORPORATION INDIA PVT LTD
11.2007 - 07.2008
Executive-IT
IGATE Global Solutions Ltd
11.2004 - 10.2007
Senior subject matter expert
Kyndryl India PVT LTD
9 2021
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