The document is a curriculum vitae for Sivaiah Yakkanti. It summarizes his professional experience as a server administrator and engineer with over 10 years of experience administrating Windows, Linux, and VMware servers. It details his technical skills and certifications in areas like Red Hat, VMware, Microsoft, AWS, and ITIL. It also provides summaries of his work history and roles at companies like Cognizant Technology Solutions, Brigade Corporation India, and St. Joseph's Degree & PG College.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Sivaiah Yakkanti
Contact NO. : +65 85958913
siva.yakkanti@gmail.com
Synopsis:
 Redhat, Vmware (VCP 5), Microsoft Certified Professional with 10+ years of experience in
Server Administration and Virtualization.
 Well versed in the administration of Wintel/Unix/ESXi servers and Storage concepts.
 Proven ability in interacting and maintaining relationship with customers & stakeholders,
understanding & translating business requirements.
 Self-directed, self-motivated with strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem skills.
Career Goals:
Enthusiastic and experienced server engineer with diverse knowledge of installing, configuring,
building and maintaining sever environment, exposed in areas of Virtualization and Cloud, willing
to utilize my skills and experience in a growth oriented organization.
Technical Exposure Areas:
 Server moves Inter/Intra DC
 P2V and V2V Migrations using Platespin tool and Vmware standalone converter
 DHCP Scopes creation and migrations
 Print Queue creations and migrations
 Server Hardware, OS upgrades and Rebuilds part of EOL
 HP CSA (Cloud Service Automation) Tool for IAAS provisioning
 Commissioning of Physical / Virtual and also de-commissioning of the servers.
 Enterprise VMware
 Red hat Enterprise Linux
 Windows Server 2003/2008/2012
 Win2K8 R2 Clusters
 Support of HP P/C-Class Hardware
 Support to DELL Power Edge machines
 Configuration of Rack mount and Blade Systems/Technologies
 Networking and Fiber Access
 RAID configurations
 VERITAS Storage Foundation
 Symantec Netbackup client and Commvault backup tool.
 Puppet tool
 Ticketing tool like ServiceNow, GRS and ITCM.
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2. Professional Certification and Trainings
 VMWare Vsphare 5.5 (VCP)
 Redhat Certified System Administrator
 Redhat Certified Engineer
 MCSA (Microsoft Certified System Administrator)
 Architecting on AWS (Amazon Web Services) Trained by Amazon
 AWS Technical Essentials Trained by Amazon
 ITIL 2011 Foundation.
Professional Experience Summary:
 10 Years’ of experience in IT infrastructure and Server Management and out of 4 years
working experience at client location “onsite” in Singapore.
 Working with Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd as a Senior Systems Executive /
Technical Lead from June 2010 to till date.
 Worked as IT Support Specialist from Feb 2009 to June 2010 with Brigade Corporation
India Pvt. Ltd.,
 Worked as System Administrator from Jan 2006 to Feb 2009 with St. Joseph’s Degree &
PG College.
Organization:
Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd, Singapore & India
Role: Senior Systems Executive, Technical Lead
Responsibilities:
 Providing day-to-day support and administration of the technology infrastructure.
 Installation and setup of new environments globally.
 Installation/ configuration/ hardening of various operating systems such as Red hat Linux,
Windows & ESX.
 Troubleshooting of hardware / OS / software.
 Part of Product life cycle project
 Managing, Maintaining and Troubleshooting Windows, Linux and ESXi
 Actively involved UAT/Prod cloud implementation.
 Exposure on HP CSA cloud automation.
 End of Life cycle remediation (OS and Hardware)
 V2V and P2V migration from Platespin tool and Standalone converter tool
 DHCP scope creation and also migrations from windows 2003 to 2008 Servers part of OS
EOL
 Print Queue migrations from Windows 2003 to 2008 server and further decommission of
legacy print Queues.
 DNS, WINS remediation and HP iLO 4 remediation
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3.  OS and Hardware upgrade for Physical and Virtual servers.
 Installing & Configuring secured/ DMZ zone servers.
 Windows Clusters installation and Configuration including Always on.
 Applying patches/updates for Prod, Dev and UAT servers.
 Handling Windows AD administration tasks.
 Analyzing problem and providing Root cause.
 Configuration of HP Rack mount and Blade Systems/Technologies
 Decommissioning of servers as a part of IT change management on customer demand.
 Interacting with all the required teams like data center (MVS) team, networking team,
patching team etc. for sorting out the issues.
 Monitor chat channel and hotline for requesters to contact us.
 Escalating the issues to vendor/ principal whenever required.
 Providing a 24*6 support for managing the servers
 Resolving issue trackers which are raised by team and assisting them when and they
struck up with issues.
 Successfully completed transitions for the team and trained the team members for newly
transitioned tasks.
 Checking the scope of automation and coordinating with Tools team to provide a tool with
the required enhancements.
 Created of standard and strategic documents’ for all the tasks in scope of the team and got
them approved from client.
 Mentoring new joiners as per the training plan and help them to get into production with
enough depth of understanding.
 Given Data Center & their components presentation session to the team members.
Brigade Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.,
Role: IT Support Specialist.
Key Responsibilities:
 Installing and configuring of Linux and Windows 2003/2008 servers, maintaining servers
with regular software updates and antivirus updates.
 Installed and configured an Active Directory Domain Controller.
 Installed, Configured and Administering DNS, DHCP, FTP and Web server.
 Installed, Configured and maintaining RIS server for deploying client machines via PXE
boot method.
 Creating Users, Groups, Organizational units and Applying Group Policies to users on the
server according to the requirement.
 Managing File servers and applying Disk quotas on File servers for employees in the
Organization depending on the privileges of the user.
 Installing, configuring and troubleshooting of Local and Network Printers.
 Updating OS patches through group policies on clients using WSUS server.
 Software installation and Configuration.
 Symantec antivirus Installation and updating definitions on regular basis.
 Installing and troubleshooting of blade and rack mount servers.
 Backup and recovering Windows AD and other data.
 Making sure that the ITIL standards & SLA driven process is followed while resolving issue.
St. Joseph’s Degree & PG College,
Role: System Administrator.
Key Responsibilities:
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4.  Installations of Windows 2000/2003 Server, Linux & Windows XP
 Creation and administration of user accounts with Active Directory Service and giving
permissions to user’s network access. Applying Group Policy on users as per
requirements.
 Implementing and Managing Access to Resources, Server Environment, IP Addressing,
Network Infrastructure, Network Security, Active Directory Infrastructure, Group policy and
Roaming profiles.
 Configuration of DNS, DHCP & FTP Servers in Windows 2000 and 2003.
 Managing Desktop Support team and Hardware related issues.
 Managing File servers and applying Disk quotas on File servers for Staff and Students in
the Organization depending on the privileges of the user.
 Deploying desktop’s using RIS Server and Symantec Ghost.
 Implementing, configuring and troubleshooting Websites and FTP sites, and performing
database backup.
 Implementing and configuring FTP and Samba servers in Linux.
 Providing login Linux console through telnet for students.
EDUCATION
Master of Compute Application (MCA ) from Osmania University
ACHIEVEMENTS
Awarded the “Techno Talent” certificate from Cognizant Technology Solutions
Twice awarded the “Associate of the Month” from Cognizant Technology Solutions
Extra Circular Activities
 Yoga
 Volunteering
 Social Service
Personal Details:
Name : YAKKANTI SIVAIAH
Father’s Name : Yakkanti Seshaiah
Languages known : English, Telugu, Hindi.
(YAKKANTI SIVAIAH)
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