Balaji Ramachandran, Technical Support Engineer

Balaji Ramachandran

Technical Support Engineer

Total ABK

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, B.Tech (Information Technology)
Experience
17 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 8 Months

Technical Support Engineer at Total ABK
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since January 2013

 Ensuring IT Support & Administration for Users, Desktops and Servers as per ITIL Standard.
 Handling more than 750 Users, 500 Desktops & 60 Servers in 4 different Sites.
 Manning the desk of Incident Management and distributing the work to the team.
 System Administration-Managing Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.
 Administration of Windows 2008 & 2012, AD, DNS and DHCP, Group policy.
 Remote administration and management of Windows Servers through ILO & KVM console.
 Working with SCCM 2007 for the OS Deployment, Applications & Patch Management.
 Handling over 100 Applications including In-house & External Applications.
 Sustaining the high level of IT Security by keeping up-to-date policy updates in Antivirus.
 Handling the Vendor Management & Asset Management & Change Management.
 Smart Card Certification enrollment for System Login authentication.
 Configuring VPN access using Cisco Mobility service to 100 users in OPCO Companies.
 Configuring E-Mail Client certificate in iPhone, iPAD for Mobile users.
 Contingency checking of IT Stock items belongs to the department.
 Daily/Weekly SLA Report preparation and attending review meeting with client.
 Documenting the new process and keep updating the changes.
 Managing the Print servers for more than 20 MFP Printers.

Technical Support Engineer at Intertec Systems
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2009 to January 2013

Client Site: Dubai Health Authority - (Rashid Hospital)
Roles & Responsibilities:
* 2nd level Management of Dubai health authority in Desktop Technical support Operation.
* Provided Onsite IT support for Rashid Hospital in DHA Environment.
* Given Technical Support in an environment of merely 5000 users & 2500 IT Assets.
* Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows XP, Windows 7, Mail Client.
* Assigning and attending the ON calls created by Level 1 Helpdesk group.
* Targeting to achieve the SLA as per the client policy.
* Achieving the seamless SLA’s for different Call category under numerous workloads.
* Coordinating with Network Team to Resolve L - 2 Network Related problems.
* Coordinating with Vendors for Warranty and AMC Related Calls.
* IT Asset Audit to be done in every Half year.
* Daily, weekly, monthly Call reports to be taken as per Client policies.

Senior FMS Engineer at CMS Info Systems
  • India - Chennai
  • September 2006 to December 2009

Administration of Active Directory, Windows 2003, DNS and DHCP, Group policy

Creating and deploying OS Images through RIS, WDS

Maintaining File and print server

Creating, Managing User accounts, contacts, Groups in AD

Configuration and Administering DHCP Server

Providing & Maintaining Access Control for File Servers.

Managing patches and maintaining all servers up to date for anti-virus

Performing patch management activity for windows servers

Testing of patches/hot fixes in testing environment before implementing in production

Symantec Antivirus server administration

Troubleshooting escalated and unresolved incidents from Level1 Support

Managing all wintel server related issues like server hardware break fix.

Education

Bachelor's degree, B.Tech (Information Technology)
  • at KLN College of Engineering, Anna University
  • May 2005

Engineering in Information Technology

Diploma, Computer Technology
  • at Venkatesvara Polytechnic
  • May 2001

Studied Diploma in Computer Technology and passed out as Honors.

High school or equivalent, SSLC
  • at ER Higher secondary School
  • May 1998

Secondary School

Specialties & Skills

Active Directory
VMware ESX
IT Technical Support
Windows 7
Windows Server
IT Technical Support
Windows 7
Manage Engine
Vmware ESXi5.5
Windows Server 2012
AD, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy
BMC Remedy
Microsoft SCCM

Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Vmware VCP - DCA 5.5 (Training)
Training Institute:
KOENIG
ITIL 2011 Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
Valid Until:
January 2025
MCITP, MCTS (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2012
Valid Until:
March 2022

Hobbies

  • Reading Books