Hari Balaji H  PMP ITIL, Windows & Messaging Administrator

Hari Balaji H PMP ITIL

Windows & Messaging Administrator

EQUATE Petrochemical Company

Location
Kuwait
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Applications
Experience
19 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 1 Months

Windows & Messaging Administrator at EQUATE Petrochemical Company
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • My current job since August 2012

• Managing IT projects and activities successfully by finishing the project or task that satisfy client deliverables within the schedule and cost baselines. Project management includes organization process assets and enterprises environmental factors within project life cycle stating from requirements collection, analysis, design, and implement, testing and go-live.
• Change Management planning & System of Window and Messaging systems to support the changes on analyzes the request and implement action accordingly in IT Infrastructure.

• Integration management of Window and Messaging systems to provide cost effective of sufficient delivery capacity to satisfy IT customers and achieve IT service level.

• Analyze and fine tune performance of Window and Messaging systems to provide cost effective of sufficient delivery performance to satisfy IT clients and achieve operational objectives.

• Design and implement disaster recovery solutions for business defined IT critical services. Prepare disaster recovery procedures to recover business defined critical IT services in case of disaster to ensure business continuity.

• Provide backup strategy for all MS windows servers, MS Exchange servers and prepare appropriate restore & recovery procedures to guarantee the availability of IT services using HP Data Protector 9. Also, prepare disaster recovery procedures to recover critical IT services in case of disaster to ensure business continuity.

• Secure and protect Window and Messaging systems and the relevant hardware like HP Blade servers and NetApp SAN Storages from unauthorized access for ensuring the availability, confidential integrity of data and information systems.

• Prepare a well-documented IT security policy to comply with IT security work process to assure the security of MS Window systems, and to carry out periodic security vulnerabilities assessment for MS Exchange system to assure the security of Email service and full compliance with IT security work process.


• Establish operation standards and procedures to control adequately MS Exchange system in order to resolve incidents and problems related to Email access as soon as possible.

• Establish standards for MS Exchange system structures, physical design, Email routing and security, troubleshooting, Integration to Hybrid environment like Exchange 2013 & O365 Enterprises.

• Risk Analysis & Communication Management on Window IT operators by setting up the operations standard, procedures and responding to operator’s queries to resolve incidents and problems related to IT operation using the SCCM, SCOM & McAfee ePO 5.1 Orchestrator.

• Implementation, configuration and troubleshooting virtualization datacenter environment like P2V, V2V, etc. on cross over platforms in IT Infrastructure for various projects in Microsoft and VMware virtualization. VMware Infrastructure 5.1/ 5.5 vSphere Installation & Configuration Planning and Designing VMware vCenter/vSphere /ESXi 4.1/ESXi5 /ESXi 5.1/ESXi5.5 and VMware Virtual Centers). Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, SCVMM 2012, Microsoft Private Cloud Fabric & Cluster Management to integrate the SAN drives, Connect hosting servers for migration and enhance the production cloud environment.

• Evaluate, test and deploy security patches using SCCM 2012 for all MS windows servers. HP SUM firmware & PSP update on HP enclosure using OA on blade servers and rack mounted servers.

• Evaluate new products and technologies to enhance IT services and functionalities offered to the business.

• Engage and enhance day-to-day operations with service desk on the escalated incident to windows team.

Senior Information Systems Engineer at IT Forces (SINGAPORE) Pte Ltd, NatSteel Holding Ltd.
  • Singapore
  • December 2011 to July 2012

• Leading the projects for exchange servers and domain Migrations, implementation & configuring active directory sites and services to various customers.
• Designing, Implementation, Configuration and Maintenance of the Microsoft products to the various customers
• Server in-house installation for HP, Dell & IBM Series in Data Center to the customers and installation, configuration and troubleshooting the Operating Systems.
• Handling the change management and incident management tickets from the customers and resolving the issues within the SLA.
• Project planning on Blackberry enterprise server products to customer from scope of work, implementation, migration and training for the Blackberry enterprise server and Blackberry professional Software’s. Configuration and troubleshooting the level 3 support for BES servers policies and users management.
• End-user support to the users for BES and BIS incidents and handling the incidents for mailbox and outlook migrations.

Systems Engineer E2 at UIC Asian Computers Pte Ltd
  • Singapore
  • June 2011 to December 2011

• Project Lead on exchange 2010 HA Setup, implementation, Configuration, maintaining and troubleshooting on various customers on domain controllers and exchange server 2003, 2007, 2010.

• Designing, Implementation, Configuration and Maintenance of the Microsoft products to the various customers

• Servers & Storages In-house installation for HP, Dell & IBM Series in Data Center to the customers and installation, configuration and troubleshooting the Operating Systems,

• Implementation, Configuration and Migrating the Virtualization Services on servers like VMware ESX, ESXi and Windows Hyper-V Type1 & Type2. Installing the VMware ESX, creating and configuring the instance, handling the VMware tools like vSphere, vCenter, VMware maintenance mode, VMware Infrastructure, etc. based on customer requirement.

• Project planning on Blackberry enterprise server products to customer from scope of work, implementation, migration and training for the Blackberry enterprise server and Blackberry professional Software’s. Configuration and troubleshooting the level 3 support for BES servers policies and users management.

Senior Information System Engineer at First Tel Pte Ltd
  • Singapore
  • April 2010 to May 2011

Responsibilities & Project Executions

• Project Lead on exchange 2010 HA Setup, implementation, Configuration, maintaining and troubleshooting on various customers on domain controllers and exchange server 2003, 2007, 2010.
• Designing, Implementation, Configuration and Maintenance of the Microsoft products to the various customers

• Assembling server components for HP, Dell & IBM Series in Data Center to the customers and installation, configuration and troubleshooting the Operating Systems,
• Implementation, Configuration and Migrating the Virtualization Services on servers like VMware ESX, ESXi and Windows Hyper-V Type1 & Type2. Installing the VMware ESX, creating and configuring the instance, handling the VMware tools like vSphere, vCenter, VMware maintenance mode, VMware Infrastructure, etc. based on customer requirement.

• Project planning on Blackberry enterprise server products to customer from scope of work, implementation, migration and training for the Blackberry enterprise server and Blackberry professional Software’s. Configuration and troubleshooting the level 3 support for BES servers policies and users management.
• Shadow Protect Server, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 and Backup Exec 2010 installation, configuration, backup strategy through NAS or tape library to the customers.

• Data Center Maintenance & Migration activity to the customer on their servers, network switches, UPS and LAN cabling.

Assistant Manager IT at TATA Communication Tranformations Services Limited ( TCTS)
  • India - Chennai
  • October 2007 to March 2010

• Leading IT Team, building process and report generation for weekly, monthly, and quarterly to management. Managing the team members for planning and implementing the change management, infrastructure and datacenter activities.

• Maintenance and Troubleshooting - Blackberry Enterprise Server and Messaging servers like Exchange 2007, 2003 and 2000, Ensuring 99.9 % Uptime of services and better messaging environment for a project called IMS to various customers.

• IT readiness for Process Transitioning - System/network testing for New Business Processes, Ensuring smooth Implementation and running of the process.

• Compliance -Customer Requirements - Preparation and coordinated for audit certifications like ISMS ISO-27001, DPA and Surveillance to confirm the compliance.

• Planning, Implementation and Maintenance of the switches, routers and firewall. Implementing and maintenance the routings, interfaces and access control list of the router. Designing, implementing and maintenance the DMZ, Access Control List of the ASA firewall and implementation and maintenance of MRTG, UNIX Open source network monitoring tool to monitor the performance, uptime of switches, routers and firewall.

• Designing, Planning, Implementation and Maintenance of Mcafee ePO application servers 3.6.1 and 4.0, NAC 3.0, HIPS 7.0, and Mcafee Virus scan 8.7, Antispyware to ensure the compliance of instruction prevention, security and virus update. Backup and Restoration procedure for the Mcafee server application and database with the documentations.

• Documenting the IT process and procedures then, co-ordination for Internal and external audits requirements to ensure the conformity.

System Engineer at HCL COMNET LTD
  • India - Chennai
  • March 2006 to October 2007

Responsibilities & Project Executions

• Implementation and maintenance of Active Directory servers, Windows Cluster servers, carried activities like addition domain controller implementation and DNS configuration on various network segment in DR Site.

• Data Center Network Infrastructure maintenance, troubleshooting and ensure service uptime of servers, switches, router and other network devices.

• Replication monitor of Active Directory service on BKC Site to DR Site.

• Replication monitors of data packets through VERITAS Volume Replicator and all the windows and Linux servers.

• Implementation and Maintenance of McAfee ePO application servers 3.6.1, McAfee Virus Scan 8.7, Antispyware to ensure the compliance of instruction prevention, security and virus update.

• Installing, Maintenance and configuring Operating Systems on all the Linux servers like RHEL3 and RHEL4 includes RAID controlling system.

• Maintaining Servers Inventory on all the servers includes teaming configuration inventory, networks connectivity on servers’ inventory and Raid configurations on entire servers.

• Planning, Implementing and configuration of VERITAS NetBackup 6.0 and Volume replication for backup and data replication on all the file servers.

o Server administrator in FBSC, FIT and carried various servers related activities.

• CDS ID Creation, GPO permission and privileges for OU and Groups.

• Access Control review for the entire group’s quarterly and event log report of the
Entire server’s monthly.

• Performance monitor and objects average value reports for the entire server’s.

• Security Compliance report against server policies and access control list monthly.

• Implementing and Maintenance of RAID, Virus updating, SDS report and capacity management on all the servers

System Administrator at Fourth Dimension Technologies Pvt Ltd
  • India - Chennai
  • April 2005 to March 2006

• Installing & configuring and maintaining servers, Switches, etc.

• Configuration of software’s and packages on Citrix servers.

• Configuring & Administering on Windows environment.

• Managing user accounts, user rights, GPO’s etc.

• Regular File server backup in DLT & SDLT on LTO cartridges using VERITAS Exec Ver10.

• Configuring MS Outlook, Outlook Express and Exchange Servers to clients.

• Updating of Antivirus and security Patches regularly on servers.

• Configuration and managing SUS server.

• Vendor management.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Applications
  • at Annamalai University, India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai
  • May 2016

Bachelor's Of Computer Applications

Diploma, Computer Technology
  • at AMS Polytechnic, Tamil Nadu Board of Technical Education
  • June 2002

Specialties & Skills

Cloud Computing
Microsoft Exchange 2003 2007 & 2010
Network Infrastructure
Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0
MS Exchange Messaging & Collabration
Private Cloud Computing
Cloud Platform & Infrastructure

Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Intermediate
Telugu
Intermediate
Hindi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2018
Valid Until:
March 2021
VMware Certified Associate 6 – Data Center Virtualization (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2017
Project Management Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
Green International, Kuwait
Date Attended:
August 2016
Duration:
40 hours
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, Server 2008 R2 Desktop Virtualization (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
CAST 616: Securing Windows Infrastructure (Training)
Training Institute:
InfoCenter, Kuwait
Date Attended:
September 2013
Duration:
40 hours
Microsoft Certified System Engineer with Messaging, 2000 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2006
Microsoft Certified System Administrator, 2003 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2007
Microsoft Certified System Engineer, 2003 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2007
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Cloud Platform & Infrastructure (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2016
HP Blade System Administration (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2013
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, Windows Server 2012 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2016
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Private Cloud (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2016
Microsoft Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2016
Microsoft Certified IT Professional, Virtualization Administrator on Server 2008 R2 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Microsoft Certified System Administrator,2000 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2004
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, Server 2008 R2 Server Virtualization (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
Microsoft Certified System Engineer, 2000 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2006
IT Service Management Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2008
MCP [Microsoft Certified Professional] (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2003