Viswanathan Natarajan
Adambakkam
Summary
Experienced professional seeking challenging career opportunity to utilize and develop technical and managerial skills. Passionate about tackling new challenges, providing innovative solutions, and contributing to team success. Committed to achieving excellence and making a positive impact in a dynamic, growth-focused work environment. Eager to leverage past experiences and skills to drive results and exceed expectations in a role with opportunities for advancement and career progression.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Associate Architect
IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2021 - Current
- Designed, deployed, and managed scalable Azure Virtual Desktop environments, ensuring secure and efficient access for remote employees.
- Configured AVD session hosts and customized virtual desktop configurations to align with organizational requirements, improving user experience and resource management.
- Knowledge on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and conditional access policies for secure user authentication and device management within AVD environments.
- Optimized AVD performance by monitoring session hosts, diagnosing performance issues, and implementing proactive resource scaling using Azure Monitor and Azure Automation.
- Integrated AVD with Active Directory (AD) to enforce group policies, manage user profiles, and ensure seamless authentication across virtual desktops.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement AVD solutions that support remote work and business continuity.
- Automated few routine maintenance tasks using PowerShell scripts.
- Leveraged Azure Security Center to implement security best practices for AVD infrastructure, including role-based access control (RBAC), network security groups (NSGs), and encryption.
- Monitored user activity and resource usage to ensure optimal performance, making necessary adjustments for capacity planning and cost management.
- Assisted in the integration of AVD with Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and other Office 365 apps, ensuring seamless collaboration and communication in virtual environment.
- Taking care of Monthly Base Image update after MS patches releases.
- Working on application deployments thought MSIX packaging tool to an App Attach.
- Working on publishing applications through App Masking.
- Deployed FSLogix for profile management, improving user login times and simplifying profile management across multiple AVD instances.
- Working on Storage account report and expansions.
Technical Lead
Wipro Technologies Pvt Ltd
02.2016 - 12.2020
- Support and Administration of Citrix Virtual App 6.0, 7.5 and 7.15 Server Farm and Virtual Desktop 7.15 VDI and components.
- Extensively worked in Virtual App Migration from 6.0 to 7.5 and from 7.5 to 7.15 LTSR.
- Manage Citrix Farms and Site with over 10000 users and around 300+ Citrix Servers.
- Installation, Configuration of Virtual App server 6.0, 7.5 and 7.5 & Citrix Client tools.
- Publishing Application as per client's requirement.
- Support and Administration of PVS 7.9 and 7.15 servers.
- Configuration of Citrix Provisioning Server for VDisk Streaming to VDI machine.
- Creating Base image out of standard Desktop image and converting it to VDisk for VDI machine.
- Configuration & updating of Vdisk in PVS.
- Configuration of MCS and performing image update.
- Configuration of Citrix server policies, load management and printer in the farm and Site.
- Installing and configuring Hyper-V, SCVMM, Failover cluster and cluster shared volume.
- Understand and work on basic power shell scripting.
- Installed and configured the prism central, prism element, cluster configuration on Nutanix Hypervisor.
- Worked on new cluster creation, cluster expansion and Nutanix components upgrade.
- Performed V2V migration of VDIs from Hyper-V to Nutanix Hypervisor through Move (Xtract).
- Assign, modifying application access to the users.
- Publishing application, deploying ICA client, Printer driver mapping, shadowing users, managing server load & CPU utilization.
- Publish application, Server Desktop and Content.
- Create and configure Virtual App administrator accounts and their permission.
Technology Analyst
Infosys Limited
05.2012 - 01.2016
- Administrating Citrix Virtual App 5.0,6.0 and 6.5 in windows 2008 R2 server.
- Monitoring Virtual App server.
- Creating User Accounts based on the request from account team.
- Involved in account auditing and ticket auditing.
- Installation and Configuration of Virtual App.
- Maintain Citrix Data Store, License Servers and Zone Data Collectors.
- Application Installation and Publishing in Citrix.
- Configuring Load Evaluators.
- Preparing Service Delivery Report to be presented to Customers monthly basis.
- Co-ordinate with other support teams and ensure change activities are closed on time.
- Creating Work Orders for the software to be installed on the servers.
- Health checks for all the servers and ensure servers are working from Citrix perspective.
Sr-Engineer Server Management
JDA Software India Pvt Ltd
09.2008 - 04.2012
- Company Overview: (As a Contract Employee)
- Administrating Citrix Virtual App 5.0,6.0 in windows 2008 R2 server.
- Creating User Accounts based on the request from account team.
- Involved in account auditing and ticket auditing.
- Installation and Configuration of Virtual App.
- Maintain Citrix Data Store, License Servers and Zone Data Collectors.
- Application Installation and Publishing in Citrix.
- Configuring Load Evaluators.
- Health checks for all the servers and ensure servers are working from Citrix perspective.
- Primary responsibility to maintain 500 Enterprise Class Servers (Dell Servers) for Managed Services Project as per the SLA and turnaround time of Systems availability to users.
- Managing High end production Web servers (64bit Windows Servers).
- Hands on experience with Windows Enterprise Server 2003, 2008 Domain Architecture Creating Forest, Additional Domain controllers and Child Domain Controllers.
- Good understanding of Active Directory, GPO Management implements the group policy that meets the organization rules. Backup and restore the Active Directory.
- Creating sites, configuring schedule replication between different Sites and Monitoring the replication, and Domain Controllers status through Active Directory Replication Monitor.
- Installing & Configuration of DNS, DHCP.
- Patch Management through Windows Update Service where all clients obtain their service packs and security patches from the WSUS server.
- Root Cause Analysis of servers for BSOD/Server Hung issue/unexpected reboot using crash dump analyzing tool.
- Managing VM servers through Virtual Center & Deploying VM’s on ESX servers.
- Implementing and managing GPOs and OU levels through GPMC.
- Scheduling and planning for server migrations and upgrades, as well as patch roll outs and hot fixes.
- Ensuring that all servers are free from virus infections as well as performing server hardening to ensure customer standard and policies.
- Manage security compliance for the server environment.
- Analyzing and Providing POC to the client, for the implementation of new technologies.
- Customer and user issues can be tracked through Altiris a ticketing tool.
- Installing and managing the Terminal server.
- Monitoring the Performance of the Servers through Performance monitor, process explorer and Pstools for Remote Management.
- Administering servers using DSView, DRAC, & Dell Open Manager ITA and Mstsc.
- Coordinating with Business owners and various teams for seamless and fast resolution.
- Working on Load balancer F5 LTM.
- Monitoring the Performance of the Servers through Performance monitor like perfmon, process explorer and Health checkup through System logs.
- Working on Symantec Altiris Job Scheduler & Monitoring tool like site scope.
- Providing technical advice to the client and application team.
- Maintaining up-to-date Asset information of Servers.
- Worked on Blade Logic tool to automate the tasks required in our project.
- (As a Contract Employee)
Network Engineer
Mindlogicx InfoTech Limited
10.2005 - 06.2008
- Maintaining the MS SQL Server 2000 and MS SQL Server 2005.
- Installed and configured Windows 2003 server for Active Directory.
- Configuring and Maintaining DNS and DHCP servers.
- Installing and configuring Antivirus server for Entire organization.
- Installing and configuring SUS server for the purpose of OS patch updating.
- Responsible for maintaining all the Desktop systems in our company.
- Assembling, Installing and configuring of all the system and other hardware.
- Diagnosing and troubleshooting all the Hardware and Software Problems.
- Crimping the cables and punching the IO points.
- Diagnosing and Troubleshooting LAN.
- Execution member of ISMS.
- Responsible for complete backup as per our company policy for both data and databases.
Hardware and Networking Engineer
Karesia computers pvt Ltd
08.2004 - 08.2005
- Responsible for Servicing Hardware Peripherals and computer Systems.
- Involved Diagnosis & Troubleshooting of Hardware Problems.
- Involved in Assembling, Installation and Configuration of systems with troubleshooting of Peripherals like Printers, Modems etc.
- Involved in problem solving in customer place Wipro printers LX, EX, FX series troubleshooting and Servicing.
Education
B.E - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Bharathidasan University
01.1999 - 01.2003
Skills
Implementation and Configuration of Azure Infrastructure
undefinedCertification
Microsoft certified Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty (AZ-140)
Interests
Listening to soft music
Drawing
Painting
Playing chess
Key Skills
Azure Virtual Desktop and Personal Desktop, Azure RemoteApp, Citrix Virtual App 5, 6 and 6.5, Citrix Virtual App/ Virtual desktop 7.5/7.15
Academic Chronicle
B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bharathidasan University, 1999-2003
Location
Chennai, 06/11/25
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that all the information provided above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Personal Information
- Citizenship: Indian
- Father's Name: Mr.A.V.Natarajan
- Date of Birth: 06/12/82
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Associate Architect
IBM India Pvt Ltd
01.2021 - Current
Technical Lead
Wipro Technologies Pvt Ltd
02.2016 - 12.2020
Technology Analyst
Infosys Limited
05.2012 - 01.2016
Sr-Engineer Server Management
JDA Software India Pvt Ltd
09.2008 - 04.2012
Network Engineer
Mindlogicx InfoTech Limited
10.2005 - 06.2008
Hardware and Networking Engineer
Karesia computers pvt Ltd
08.2004 - 08.2005
B.E - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Bharathidasan University
01.1999 - 01.2003
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