hakim bhungrawala

Role:

• Responsible for designing the infra related solutions for the bank
• Responsible for creating the RFP for any new infrastructure requirements.
• Facilitating IT infrastructure advisory, architecture & deployment expertise in Virtualization, OS Migration & Deployment, Directory Services and Automation.

Projects :

• Consolidated the datacenter by migrating 300 physical server to virtual.
• Installed and configured the redundant backup solution in offshore datacenter
• Enhanced the entire backup solution including NDMP, VMware, SQLDB, ORACLE & LINUX
• Migration of HyperV to VMware
• Upgraded the VMware 6.5 to 6.7.
• Migration of VMware from VNX to VPLEX.
• Upgraded the networker from 18.2 to 19.1
• Configured the VMware stretched cluster across the sites
• Configured the Recover point replication across the sites



• Architecting technical solutions required to address banking requirements, assessing needs and recommending solutions that optimized value for the bank.
• Driving the daily IT operations to ensure that the infrastructure are up & running fine

Driving the daily IT operations to ensure that the network & infrastructure are up & running; managing large multi-
workgroup network sites with multiple applications and controlling complete administration of business applications
Managing dept. involving recommending technical, functional & commercial expertise, promoting system usefulness,
imposing IT policies & procedures, providing customer support and troubleshooting hardware & network issues
Facilitating IT infrastructure advisory, architecture and deployment expertise in Virtualization, OS Migration &
Deployment, Directory Services and Automation
Assisting the organization to plan, design, pilot, migrate, implement and train IT staff on the following:
o Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange Server
o Server Virtualization with VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer
o Desktop Virtualization with Citrix XenDesktop & VMware View
o Back-up Product like Veeam, Symantec Backup Exec & EMC Networker
Advising clients on IT solutions; creating written reports on solutions offered
Highlight:
Suggested various cost-effective implementation methods
Jun’14-Sep’15 SSH International, Kuwait as

Evaluated & recommended various software & hardware requirements to increase overall IT services efficiency
Led overall IT systems & security with 1000+ clients, 100 servers and over 1000 user accounts with IT equipment
Created IT policies on IT usage, data back-up, e-mail system, web services, IT asset register and anti-virus systems
Contributed in hybrid integration of Office 365 Cloud with on premises E-Mail Systems
Managed the DR site to achieve the disaster recovery of current IT services
Enhanced the EMC storage utilization by organizing data LUNs & connections
Facilitated the cost-effective replacement of Old Clarion with VNX of SCSI based SAN Devices
Upgraded the helpdesk efficiency by implementing SCCM 2012 for remote support & deployment of desktop systems
Implemented Failsafe Policy with different mechanisms like Granular Restore Technology with Back-up Exec 2012.
Offered the specific expertise for each team member and built a supporting training series to address knowledge gaps
Initiated:
o Standard Operating System Policy for desktop / laptop by preparing a standard secure image with appropriate policies & authorized software
o Issues Management Process for critical tasks (adopted as departmental practice) to improve issue resolution times
Steered efforts for implementing Office 365 Hybrid Set-up, Veeam Backup & Replication and Azure Set-up

Contributed in up-gradation of:
ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.5 through VCenter Update Manager

IBM DS 3250 to EMC VNX 5300 through ISL & Robocopy

Exchange 2010 DAG Set-up

Successfully implemented Monitoring Tools like AD Audit, OPmanager and Firewall Analyzer

Led installation, configuration & administration of ESXi 5 & ESXi 5.5 Servers (using VSphere Client & VCenter Server)
Managed over 20 ESXi Servers and 50 Virtual Machines
Directed the migration of ESXi 5 server to ESXi 5.5 using Update Manager
Assessed the configuration of VMotion, Datastores, Virtual and Distributed Switch in VCenter Server
Contributed in physical to virtual migration of server using VConverter (P2V Conversion)
Assembled VSphere based replication between protected site and recovery site using SRM
Implemented complete sites with 100 Servers on Windows 2003 & 2008 platform
Drove the migration of Windows 2003 DC to Windows 2008 DC
Monitored & controlled:
o Dell Chassis PowerEdge M1000e & IBM Chassis HS21
o Dell Blade Server involving M600 & M610 using Dell System Management and Dell Server Administrator
o Reporting by SCOM 2007 R2 to check system health, availability and performance status
o Fiber Channel Switches (Brocade 4424) and Zoning
Improved the helpdesk efficiency by implementing SCCM 2007 for remote support & deployment of desktop systems
Utilized Lync Server 2010 for instant messaging, audio & video conferencing and online meetings
Revamped the back-up policies and executed Fail Safe Policy with different mechanisms like Granular Restore Technology & Deduplication (Back-up Exec 2010 R3)
Created the data and image back-up of Client Machine using Backup Exec System Recovery & DLO
Steered the installation and configuration of IBM Storage DS3400 & EMC VNX 5300
Administered EMC VNX 5300 and IBM Storage using EMC Unisphere & DS Storage Manager Client
Prepared RAID Group, LUN and Storage Group using EMC Unisphere
Established Auto Tiering and De-duplication on EMC VNX

Client Support.