Muthu Kumar Raja
Offering over 14 years of experience in the IT Industry; targeting assignments in Administration & Management of Microsoft Azure & Office 365 Administration, VMWare, VX Rail, Dell Products, Cisco UCS & Windows with an organization of repute, preferably in any country Bahrain Valid International License
Contact Information
muthur85@gmail.com
+973-36114929(Bahrain)
+966-532849530(Saudi Arabia off)
+91-9742719599 (WhatsApp Per)
Area of Excellence
VMWare & Windows Administration
Project Execution
System Monitoring
Troubleshooting/
Incident Management
Virtualization
Back-up, Storage & Disaster Recovery
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Infra Project Execution
O365 IT Infrastructure
Management
O365 Installation,
Configuration &
Troubleshooting
Soft Skills
Motivator
Communicator
Change Agent
Collaborator
Innovator
Intuitive
Team Management
Timeline
Profile Summary
Complete IT Solutions Provider with a track record of working on various technologies and structures.
Experienced with day-to-day Microsoft Azure and Office 365 Administration, Exchange Migration to O365, Dell Server Installation and configuration operations with Different Customers OS & application installation, support, testing, and troubleshooting skills, deployment and configuration experience, and virtualization experience.
VMware Portfolio including vSphere ESXi, Vsan, & VxRail hyper-converged systems
Convergence and Hyper-convergence technical resource for Specializing in customer speaking engagements and designing solutions with VxRail product lines.
Enterprise IT project and consulting 14 plus years of experience in designing, implementing, and securing enterprise IT infrastructure and project management.
Expert in Configuring Microsoft O365,Modern Workplace Services VMware, Hype-V, office-365, Windows, AD, and Dell SAN/NAS.
Disaster Recovery Site planning, designing, and implementation.
Expert in VMware and Microsoft Cloud platforms.
Enterprise Servers/Storage/Hyper-converged systems (DellEMC systems) Implementation engineer for many petrochemical and ASU plants in Bahrain (ALBA, SNIC, Al-Helli, Eamco, NBK, MOI, NorthStar, RFC, YMH, Haji Hasaan, Al Abbas Stone, REEF Resort, LMRA Bahrain, EAMCO, Al Abbas Gallery, Bahrain Airport Company, CPIC, REEF Resort,).
Enterprise Servers/Storage/Hyper-converged systems (DellEMC systems) Implementation engineer for many petrochemical and ASU plants in Saudi Arabia (Aramco, EGIS-Alula, Estidamah, Farabi Petro Chemicals, Baker Hugs, BNOON, Abana, Air Products, Al Amthal Financing, Walaa Insurance, -Alsalam Hospital, Saudi Steel pipe, Saudi PPC, Air Product’s, JFC, AXA Insurance, Gascol, Farabi Petro Chemicals, JFC, CHUBB Insurance, AXA Insurance, Al Salam School, Al Rashed, Al Murjan, Al Mana College, Al Jabr Financing, Al Etihad, JGC, NBBBank, OMRANIA, Parsons, Procare Hospital, Rotana hotels, The RIG, Tyro care Hospital, UMTC, Waraq, Yokogawa).
Working as Principal implementation engineer with ALBA, Estidamah, Alsalam Hospital, etc.
Experience in Nutanix hyper-converged cloud implementation.
An effective communicator & team player with strong analytical, problem-solving & organizational capabilities
Education & Certifications
BCA from Annamalai University
Diploma (DCE) from Salem Polytechnic College, in 2005
Certifications:
Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)-2008.
VCP (VMware Certified Professional 6.0 & 6.5 – Data Center Virtualization).
ISM 3.0- EMC.
VxRail Certified – (Hyper-Converged & Converged)-VxRail Expert.
Azure Administrator Associate.
AWS sysops administrator-associate.
AWS Solution Architect Professional.
Vmware Horizon -8.0 Professional.
Azure Developers Associate.
Azure Data Scientist Associate.
Azure Solution Architect Expert.
Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Technologies: Microsoft Azure Administration, OFFICE-365 Administration, Microsoft Exchange, Azure ad federation services, VXRAIL, VSAN, ESXI, Windows, Linux, Virtualization, AWS, Azure, SAN/NAS.
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012(R2)/2008/2003 Windows 10/8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-SAP HANA
Servers: Dell EMC, Cisco, HP
SAN/NAS: Dell EMC VNX, Unity, VXRail, Power scale, Power Store.
Virtualization: VMware, Hyper-V.
Hyper-Converged: Vmware VSAN, VXRail
Public Cloud Technology: Vmware Cloud Air, Office 365, Microsoft Azure, AWS.
Microsoft Infrastructure: Active Directory, Teams, SharePoint Server, Exchange Server 2007/2010/2013/2016, System Center, SQL Clusters, Hyper-V, etc.
Disaster Recovery Solutions: DellEMC DD and Zerto Replication, EMC, VSphere Replication, RecoverPoint, VMware SRM, Microsoft Hyper-V replica, Veeam Backup, and Replication.
Backup: Dell IDPA, Dell EMC Data Domain, Veeam Backup, and Replication,
MAJOR PROJECTS SUMMARY
Implemented a massive data center project for Pot line 6 of Alba - Aluminum Bahrain, the largest single-site aluminum smelter in the world, being implemented by the Bechtel Corporation. Involving 36 VxRail nodes spread out across four VSAN Stretched Clusters and one single site VxRail cluster, with multiple networks and DMZ. Managed and implemented everything from Windows server, Active Directory, RDS, SQL, Symantec Endpoint, Symantec ATP, and many more Provides deep.
Storage migration for mission-critical systems Windows clusters.
Implementation of WSUS, SCCM, and SCOM
Migration Completed- Office 365, Exchange 2013-2016 Versions
Azure Ad Connect and Microsoft Entra Connect cloud sync
Exchange Migrations to Office 365 Using BitTitan
EMC storage with DR site administration for a major company having more than 2000 users.
Vmware Datacenter Implementation for multiple customers.
Implementation and management of Office 365
Dell Compellent storage and Blade server implementation.
Handling Service calls related to Vmware, VxRail Support, Hardware related issues.
Handling Service calls related to MS-Hyper-V, Clustering, Dell Servers & Storages
Mounting, Installation, and upgrading of Dell PowerEdge servers, Storages, and Brocade Fiber Switches.
Implemented in the VMware upgrade of the entire platform from 6.0 to 7.0 U3 & 6.5 to 7.0 U3
Migrated Active Directory from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2,2012 R2 to 2016
Work Experience
From Feb ’14-2019 – May ’31-2020 -Aug 1st, 2021 – Present with Hilal Computers, Bahrain & Saudi (Current Job)- Enterprise Engineer
Key Result Areas:
Recent Project for Tamimi Sauri Arabia:
? Migrations from Exchange 2016 to Microsoft 365 for the customer TAMIMI and Migrated Exchange public folders to Microsoft 365
? Support for DNS cutover, staged, and hybrid migration included archive mailboxes.
? Implemented Personal OneDrive for Business for all Office 365 users
? Departmental drive for SharePoint with protected data for document-level Permissions
? Implemented Microsoft Teams with chat, Project Management, and extensive integration with Office 365.
? Worked with customers for high-level features between Business Basic, Standard & M365 Business premium
? Services like: M365 Apps, Email & calendar, Meeting, calls & Chat, Social, Intranet & Storage, identity & access Management tools, endpoint & app Management, Information Governance, Information Protection, discovery & Audit & Windows, etc.
Responsibilities:
Designing and implementing enterprise projects within the Kingdom.
Microsoft 365 (Office 365) tenant-to-tenant migration Using BitTitan
Migrate from Exchange 2019, 2016, 2013, and 2010 to Microsoft 365 using BitTitan
Build modern business ad-in, apps, lead collation architecture approaches, integrations, and best practices for O365 & SharePoint 2010/2013/2016, Teams, one drive, project online, Microsoft Intune, PowerApps, Power BI connectors, and portal site architecture design
Administered O365 with all admin centers and modernization SharePoint online sites from classic to modern
Customization and configuration of O365 integration with SharePoint for documents
Integrating Apps, adding users, registering, and granting application access, creating policies, testing application sign-in
Integrated Microsoft teams with other applications to simplify ribbons and business workflows, tabs, and Bots to set quick actions,
Train users and provide knowledge management to desktop and service desk in O365 and project online services
Monitors analyze and report email and calendar health in O365
Managing and configuring information right management(IRM) applied to exchange & SharePoint files, list, and library
Administered and configured O365 OneDrive with Admin Centers and PowerShell.
Migrating email, calendars, contacts and Tasks Etc
Hyper-Converged Expert (VXRail)
Designing, Planning, and active directory infrastructure using Windows 2022/2019/2016/2012/R2 and 2008 R2.
Deploying new hardware, server backups & evaluating new software & security risks.
Convergence and Hyper-convergence technical resource for Specializing in customer speaking engagements and designing solutions with VxRail product lines.
Dell Power Edge Servers R320, R340, R640, R740 Racking, Installing and Configuration.
Implemented procedures for monitoring, upgrading, and troubleshooting EMC systems.
Dell Unity 450F Initialization and Build installation racking cabling and configuring.
DS6505 B Switch Installation racking cabling and switch config
Active Directory Migration FRS to DFRS Movement
DELL VRTX Racking and Implementation
Hyper-V Installation & Configuration
Designing, Planning, and active directory infrastructure using Windows 2022/2019/2016/2012/R2 and 2008 R2.
Hyper Converged Expert (VXRail, VSAN)
Designing, planning, and implementing Storage Area Networks, (EMC and DELL).
Creating, designing, and submitting Project Reports.
Since Aug ’03-2020 – Aug ’02-2021 with Wissen Infotech, Bengaluru, as VMware Architect
Design and implement Virtual infrastructure solutions using VMware as per business requirements.
Monitor availability and performance of all Virtual Infrastructure Enterprise Systems.
Level 3 escalation point of contact for Windows and Vmware Tier 1 infra support for issues related to individual virtual machines.
Migrated physical servers to virtual machines (P2V) and creating servers' templates.
Handled VMware solutions to support multiple Storage connectivity options such as Fiber Channel-SAN, ISCSI, NFS, NAS.
Provide support for the VMWARE ESX 5.0,5.5,6.0,6.5 and 6.7 environment in terms of creating and migrating servers and troubleshooting.
Since May ’14 – Jan ’19 with Accenture Solution Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, as Windows & VMware Administrator
Key Result Areas:
Managing daily activities for monitoring the growth & performance of the production database, with ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 Servers & vCenter
Troubleshooting issues related to HA, DRS, and Vmotion
Playing a key role in evaluating, establishing, and conducting proof of concepts of various products such as Datacenter Design,
Design NSX in Data Center, micro-segmentation, Load balancing
As a Virtualization Engineer, I provide technical support to both staff and customers who are working to implement the VMware NSX platform.
Respond to customer inquiries - via email and telephone and remote support.
Jan ’14 – May ’14 with Softtek, Bengaluru, as Windows and VMware Admin
Highlights:
Utilized the First Time Right (FTR) approach for resolving incident & change management tickets raised by users through Service Now; ensured all escalations were resolved within the stipulated SLAs.
Administered, installed & troubleshot Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 & 2008 Enterprise & Standard Server Editions
Extended support to the VM environment including 140 ESX hosts & 2800+ guest machines.
Sep ’12 – Nov ’13 with Data Core Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (deployed at Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd.), Bengaluru, as Windows Administrator
Highlights:
Administered, installed & troubleshot Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 & 2008 Enterprise & Standard Server Editions
Managed data center & shares and space quota file screening on File Servers
Involved with RAID administration and MS Windows Server Security
Apr ’10 – Sep ’11 & Jan ’12 – May ’12 with Scio Inspire Consulting (P) Ltd., Chennai, as Windows Admin
Highlights:
Provided remote support to 150+ servers across North America & India
Managed L2 issues & client-side escalation related to Windows server 2003 & 2008.
Dec ’08 – Apr ’10 with Accel Frontline Ltd., Chennai, as Desktop Engineer
Highlights:
Provided L2 Support for 50 Windows servers spread across South India
Personal Dossier
Date of Birth: 6th November 1985
Languages Known: Tamil, Malayalam, English, and Kannada
Driving License: Bahrain Valid International License