Freelance Information Technology Consultant
AEC
Total years of experience :24 years, 2 Months
• Work with other consultants and actively participate in the performance expectation process
• Actively build a professional network and affiliate network in the local community
• Assist in the development of recommendations and implementation plans
• Investigation and assessment of threats at all stages of the kill chain at both the network and the endpoint level with the mission of providing clients with concise detailed and well-written incident reports, root cause identification, and remediation recommendations
• Communicate and report project status to C-level executives and IT management, including budget, risks, issues, etc
• Knowledge of cloud technologies including enterprise or hosting provider services including SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions
• Documentation of technical best practices for reuse in other customer engagements, and contribution to the development of standard consulting service offerings
• Working knowledge of Azure Services IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and coming trends in the Cloud space.
• Strong foundation of knowledge around Azure and/or AWS cloud services and the cloud ecosystem.
• Work with business units, software developers, security, to design and build applications and services within AWS and/or other cloud providers
• Provide daily monitoring, management, troubleshooting and issue resolution to systems and services hosted on cloud resources
• Work as part of a team, to design and develop cloud data solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of JAMF Software Server Management and installation of MAC image from JSS
• Familiarity with Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Xserve server platform
• Ability to develop and maintain MAC support service
• VMware Virtual Distributed Switch and VMware Update Manager experience.
• Supported design & implemented VMware NSX 6.2 for logical L2 and L3 networks Firewall DLR, ESG
• Design and Implementation of View 4.5 with ThinApp 4.5 Integration
• Deployment of VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1 in multi Datacenter environment.
• Worked on Disaster Recovery projects using the VMWare SRM 4.0.
• Administration of 1200+ Virtual desktops in the view 4.5 environment.
• Perform inventory of existing server environment and gather server utilization statistics such as CPU, RAM, Memory and Network.
• Cisco UCS 5000 Chassis implementation with B200 M2 blades.
• Install and configure ESX servers on clustered environment using host profiles.
• Virtualization of 200 windows servers using Double-Take software from Dell datacenter to Accenture datacenter.
• Established POCs in test labs across migration scenarios such as P2P, V2V and P2Vs.
• Involve in design and implementation of P2V V2V and p2P server migrations using Platespin.
• Documentation of Double-Take Run books, Workbooks, Migration scripts and diagnostic procedures.
• Experience in EMC VNX 5300 SAN storage Administration.
• Installed configured and updated firmware on UCS C210 servers for physical migrations.
• Installation and configuration of Double-Take Availability.
• DNS change/Re-pointing validating activities as a part of the migration.
• Involved in the implementation of vCenter Heartbeat.
• Design and Implemented and configuring of new ESX servers for the P2V candidates
• Identified P2V candidates and prepared the infrastructure for the 1200+ P2V migrations.
• Involved in Installation, configuration and testing of Platespin Migrate and Power Recon.
• Consolidation and Capacity planning of Physical Servers using Power Recon.
• Architected scalability and sizing of servers for P2V migrations using performance traces and Platespin PowerRecon.
• Conducted process planning, knowledge transfer, and resource management to expedite migrations and reduce P2V failure rates.
• Thorough planning was done for downtime, knowing each server usage & there placement in Datacenter.
• Experience with VMware Convertor /Platespin and Double-Take convertor tools.
• Experience with Datacenter relocation projects and SAN Replication migrations.
• Execution of Platespin Portability Suite jobs as documented process.
• DNS change/Re-pointing validating activities as a part of the migration
• Migration of 300+ servers from different data centers were moved to Centralized Data Center using Platespin Portability Suite.
• Migration of Windows servers from VMware ESX3.5 to VMware ESX 4.0 Farms
• Refreshed the physical servers as part of P2P with Platespin Portability Suite.
• Preparation and validation of the migration workbooks before the migration job is setup.
• Technical documentation on the diagnostics procedure and process documentation on troubleshooting, configuration.
• Installation and administration of VMware ESX, ESXi Servers using vCenter Server
• Migration and consolidation of Physical and Virtual Servers from one data center to other datacenter using PlateSpin Migrate and VMware vCenter Converter.
• Planning and Upgraded 110 ESX hosts from ESX 3.5 to vSphere ESX 4.0
• Configuring High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Distributed Power Management (DPM) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS).
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Supported a list of high profile financial domain clients on Reuters trading & information platforms. Carried out many support & installation activities for strategically financial clients in the area of Reuters trading & information systems. Played pivotal role in the cost effective completion of the entire restructuring of Reuters data feed to the client's in Oman.
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