1. Raj Thambimuthu
•4Van Dyck Avenue, New Malden, Surrey KT3 -5NQ •07738 312811 • rthambim@hotmail.com
PROFILE
IT professional with over 20 years of experience in the Financeand bankingsector with extensive knowledge of Microsoft
Windows and the associated products. I am lookingfor a position to enhance my extensive experience in Exchange, Active
Directory Skype for Business with exposure to Office 365. I am integrity led, proactiveand ableto work accurately under
pressurewhilsthaving the determination and driveto see projects to a successful completion.
Technical Experience
 MicrosoftExchange 2010,2003, 2000
 Active Directory Enterprise Administrator
 Quest Active Roles Server & Quest recovery
Manager
 Devicelock Whitelisting.
 Secure Mail TransportTLS
 Cisco IronportMail Gateways & Proofpoint
 RightFax
 PowerShell
 Scan Mail for Exchange Servers
 Windows Servers 2012,2008 & 2003
 Enterprise Vault
 WINS, DNS, DHCP & TCP/IP
 ESX Servers
 Citrix presentation Server
 HP & Dell Hardware includingHP Blades
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Fidelity Worldwide Investments Technical Specialist 2005 – To Date
 Office365 migration testing stages in the lab and in Production environments
 Involved in Exchange 2000,2003 2010 upgrades. Global supportof Exchange 2010 configured as CAS, HUB and Mailbox
topology.
 Provide3rd Line supportincludingRollup updates,Hardwarerefresh and firmware updates as per Microsoft
recommendations.
 Restore of mailboxes for Intelligenceand Investigations purposes.
 DR Failover between two Datacentres for the purpose of BCP.
 Secure mail transfer setup(TLS) between clients and Fidelity domains atthe IronPort Gateway for the outbound and on
Proofpointfor inbound mails.
 Experience of ScanMail suitefor Exchange.
 Active Directory Enterprise Administrator of 6000 user Forest.
 Involved in Domain, Forest, Schema upgrades & Group Policy changes.
 Devicelock Whitelistimplementation.
 Assistcompliance& Audit with their requests.
 Upgraded Quest Active Roles Server from ver. 6.5 to 6.7.
 Performed Domain objects and forest recovery usingQuest recovery Manager.
 Upgraded RightFax Fax Infrastructureto ver.10.6 also provideon-goingsupport.
 Admin support & DR failover Blackberry EnterpriseServer ver.5 and GOOD mobilesuite.
 ESX Infrastructureskills.Setup and configuration of ESX OperatingSystem on HP ProliantServers and HP 7000c Blade
Servers.
 ESX Deployment on BL685c blades hosted on HP 7000 enclosureusingVLAN topology, SAN PXE boot and SAN storage.
 P to V conversions and security patch deployment on ESX Servers.
 Within virtualisation created templates, snapshots & VM trouble shooting.
 BuiltCitrix Presentation Servers Ver. 4.5 on BladeServers hosted on HP 7000c enclosurefor Citrix farm.
Lehman Brothers UK Server Engineer 1996 – 2005
 Provided support and ensured high availability for the Exchange InfrastructureacrossEurope. Consisted of 18 live
Exchange Servers, 7 additional Servers in DRsite. Seven Exchange sites in & European Countries. Approximately 4,500
mailboxes and their databases hosted on EMC SAN.
 Implemented K-Vault Mail Archivinginfrastructure,supportand ensured high availability of KVS EnterpriseVault.
 Provided strategic/architectural direction for the windows platform, Active Directory,AD clean-up and connector
deployment for Exchange. WINS and DHCP. Proactivesupport & Maintenanceof Active Directory and DRA in Europe.
Liaised with and maintained good relationship with AD and messagingteam based at the US head Office.

2.  Provided File& Printservers and application support.Environment consisted of over 400 Windows 2003,200 0 & NT4
OperatingSystems.
 EMEA branches BDC & NT4 Servers migrated from NT4 to Windows 2003 includingHRServer with local group
permissions.
 Hardware refresh of servers.Managed and implemented upgradingof hardware for production and mail servers in
European branches includingserver consolidation.
 Problem/Change Management and troubleshootingproduction related issues.
 Proactivemaintenance and monitoringusingCompaq insightManager,IBM Director and HPOV monitoringtools.
 Migration of data: From Novell3.12 to Windows 3.51. CC Mail to Exchange on all the European branches.
Digital Computer Services – UK Senior Site Engineer – Shell Mex House 1991 – 1996
Managed team of 4 hardwareengineers. Installation and maintenanceof Hardware & software connectivity Support. Setup of
computer peripherals on LAN network
Businessland Ltd – UK Senior Engineer 1989 – 1991
Customer supportInstallation and maintenanceof Hardware & software connectivity Support.
Education & Qualifications
Post Graduate Diploma in Microprocessor Technology
HND in Electrical & Electronics Engineering
OND in Technology (Engineering)
Training
 Office365 and Azure Training
 SecuringEmail with Cisco Email Security Appliance(SESA)
 Configuring,Managing & TroubleshootingMicrosoftExchange Servers
 UpgradingExchange 2003 2010
 Quest Active Roles Server
 Symantec Enterprise Vaultfor Exchange
 MicrosoftExchange 2000
 MicrosoftWindows 2000,NT4 & NT3,51 MCP
 Novell CNA 4.0 & Novell CNE 3.12
 HP & DELL Hardware
Interests
Sport Badminton, Gym and walking
Travel Travelled extensively throughout Western Europe, USA, Canada,Asia and Australia.I enjoy experiencing diverse
culture.