Punitha Veerasamy

Accomplished and performance-driven IT Infrastructure professional with 9 years of progressive experience in design, development, delivery & project management of successful cost-effective, detail-oriented Systems Engineer with strong problem solving skills. Technically sophisticated IT Team lead with a well-earned reputation for effective troubleshooting and administration of mission critical systems. Nine years work experience in IT Infrastructure Windows Administration and VMware.

Immediate

Joiner.

Lead Administrator (VMware, Wintel) - TCS

(2024-07 - 2025-05)

• Upgrading of ESXi host (6.0, 6.5 ,7.0, 7.3 to 8.3)
• Upgrade vCenter Upgrade 6.0 to 6.5 & 6.5 to 7.0.
• Supporting BAU activity.
• DHCP and DNS management.
• Windows Failover cluster management.
• Converting Physical machine to Virtual (P2V) using VMware standalone convertor.
• Responsible for new ESXi 8.3 builds and its configuration.
• Responsible for managing the day-to-day operational aspects of a project, and for providing guidance during the analysis, design, implementation, and post implementation phases.
• Manage and administrate vCenter infrastructures

Lead System Engineer - PCCW

(2023-02 - 2024-03)

• Responsible for new ESXi 7.5 builds and its configuration.
• Upgrading of ESXi host (6.0, 6.5 & 7.0 to 7.5)
• Upgrade vCenter Upgrade 6.0 to 6.5 & 6.5 to 7.0.
• Activity Directory Administration
• DHCP and DNS management.
• Windows Failover cluster management.
• Converting Physical machine to Virtual (P2V) using VMware standalone convertor.

System Engineer - NCS

(2022-01 - 2023-01)

• Managing and Administrator Server Enclosure Blades and Rack servers (IBM v7000, IBM Chassis, HP servers and Dell Server models.
• Configuring and managing Microsoft failover clustering for MS Virtual machines.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Doing Commvalut back up Daily basis and resolving the any back up issue in commvalut.
• Involving the DR activity in yearly basis and creating new test environment for DR activity.
• Doing Patching for Windows server in monthly basis.
• Took full responsibility for H/w and S/W tech refreshment.
• Involved in Cloud Azure mingation activity.
• Worked on VA finding fix and S/w upgrade also ( eg :symantec , java, .net)
• Preparing the monthly and yearly reports ( user access management, capacity report, AD report, Symantec report, VA finding fix report, monthly progress report).
• Configure the Network load balancer in Windows servers.
• Reconfiguration of existing Virtual Machines through Virtual Infrastructure (VMware 6.5) (E.g :Drive Expansions, Adding Additional NICs and Memory, etc...)
• Using VMware vCenter, created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters and implemented HA and DRS.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESXi servers and Virtual Machines.
• Maintenance tasks such as scheduling downtimes for weekend reboot of servers, installing hotfixes, Service pack, upgrading Firmware on all the HP servers.
• Performing the Quarterly Maintenance activity with Change management process, updating VMWARE Patches & Hot fixes using VMWARE Update Manager for ESXi Farm.
• Creating Templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources.
• Perform Disaster Recovery exercise as per the Application owner requirement (Bubble test and Recovery test)
• Creating and managing Users, Groups, OU's, Group Policy in DC, resetting Password, Unlock user account.
• Managing and creating records in DNS servers.
• IP reservation, creating and managing scope in DHCP server.
• Configuring and managing share folders and users in file server.
• Testing Patches in test environment before approve the patch to install
• Worked in VDI Horizon Tech refreshment.
• Worked for VDI Horizon end-user support.
• Managing Active Directory Domain services.
• Providing and restrict access control for users through group policy. Supporting for L2 and L3 Activities.
• Configuring and managing DNS & DHCP Servers
• Configuring and Maintain Group policy services.
• Involved in Migration of 2008 to 2016 for File & print servers.
• Hardware Refresh for Domain Controllers & File / Print Servers.
• Windows Server 2008 / 2012 Security Patches (Critical, High and Normal).

Senior Analysis - Accenture

(2021-08 - 2021-12)

• Managing Active Directory Domain services.
• Providing and restrict access control for users through group policy. Supporting for L2 and L3 Activities.
• Configuring and managing DNS & DHCP Servers
• Configuring and Maintain Group policy services.
• Involved in Migration of 2008 to 2016 for File & print servers.
• Hardware Refresh for Domain Controllers & File / Print Servers.
• Windows Server 2008 / 2012 Security Patches (Critical, High and Normal).

System Analysis - TCS

(2020-08 - 2021-08)

• Creating and managing Users, Groups, OU's, Group Policy in DC, resetting Password, Unlock user account.
• Managing and creating records in DNS servers.
• Configuring and managing DNS & DHCP Servers
• IP reservation, creating and managing scope in DHCP server
• Testing Patches in test environment before approve the patch to install
• Activity Directory Administration & LDAP service management.
• Windows Failover cluster management.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Creating and managing virtual machines & templates.

System Engineer - Wipro

(2015-05 - 2019-02)

• Creating and managing virtual machines
• WSUS Server Downloading updates and fetch to client computers.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Creating and managing virtual machines & templates.
• Build and administration of 2003, 2008 R2 and 2012 server.
• Upgraded VMware vSphere 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0.
• Proficient in the deployment, configuration, and optimization of VMware technologies including vCenter Server, ESXi, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion, High Availability (HA), virtual networking and Storage vMotion.
• Proficient in troubleshooting VMs and ESXi hosts and Physical windows servers.
• Configure Proficient in troubleshooting VMs and ESXi hosts and Physical windows servers.
• Upgraded th VMware exsi server and Vcenter.
• Hardware Vendor Management (HP, Hitachi) for parts replacement and issues.
• Creating SOP for new environment servers.
• Updating CMDB for new build servers.
• Managing Changes and CTasks of new build server changes.

Master of Computer Application - Computer Application - ANNA UNIVERSITY (2013 - 2015)

Bachelor of Computer Application - Computer Application - PERIYAR UNIVERSITY (2010 - 2013)