1. CURRICULAM VITAE
Venkatesan Gopal
#04-851, Block 149,
Woodlands Street 13,
Singapore-730149.
Email : Gmvenkatesan@gmail.com
Mobile : +65-81480109.
Seeking assignments in VMware and Windows Server Administration.
Professional Synopsis
 Having 8 + years of progressive experience in IT infrastructure management in the area of System administration.
 Worked extensively in IT Infrastructure which includes planning, designing, procuring, implementing, leading, documenting and
delivering within quality standard
 Presently working in ST Electronics Info Systems,Singapore.
 An effective communicator with strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities.
Educational Qualification
 Bachelor of Science, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu.
 Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, SSP Polytechnic College, Puthur, Tamil Nadu.
 SSLC, S.S.D Boys High School, Thiruvengadu.
Certifications
 VMware Certified Professional 5 (VCP 550D)
 Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator in Windows 2003 Server (MCSA).
 Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in Windows 2008 Server (MCTS).
Skills Set
Virtualization : VMware vSphere 4.x, 5.x
Operating Systems : Windows Server 2003 & 2008, 2012
Server Hardwares : Extensive experience in Raid concepts & Configurations, Sufficient skill to handle HP & IBM servers.
Security : Symantec Endpoint protection 12.1.X
Ticketing Tools : Case Management System (CMS),Serina Bussiness Manager(SBM)
Professional Experience in Detail
Company 1 Designation Period
Company: ST Electronics Info
Systems,Singapore
Client:
Payroll From ITCAN
Infrastructure Technology Specialist Oct’2015- upto Mar’16(Contract to be
end)

2. Responsibilities:
 Provide daily support/administration to multiple hosted clients, which comprises of around 300 ESXi 5.5 hosts in various cluster
virtual farms.
 Working on day to day SR, Change Task and supporting Sev 1,Sev 2 & Sev 3 priority incidents for VMware ESXi and Windows.
 Creating Virtual Machines, Clones, snapshots and template in virtual environment.
 Performing VMotion,storage vmotion, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
 Creating and managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster.
 Performing day to day routine change task for VMware machine management for Migration, up gradation for disk, CPU, RAM as
per customer requirement.
 Using RV tools for exporting reports for using inventory and KPI report.
 Installed, Configured and administering ESXi5.5 IBM/HP Blade servers
 Hands on experience in power shell scripting.
 Configuring & administrating of SFTP sites troubleshoot access / authentication problems.
 Configuring and Managing of data stores in clustered environment with DRS configured.
 Working with HP Proliant,IBM servers/Blade servers, working with vendor to add/replace faulty peripherals, upgrading the driver
& firmware.
 Creating standard server build, updating servers with latest service packs, latest patches with hot fixes and Hardening as per the
client policy.
 Configuring MS Clustering for Windows servers with active and passive node.
 ESXi and Virtual Machine patch deployment using Update Manger & Big Fix.
 Installed, administered, and managed the support of Symantec Endpoint protection 12.1.X
 Migrated Symantec Endpoint protection from 12.1.4 to 12.1.6
Responsibilities:
 Responsible to manage and mentor the DC technology team and ensure compliance to the SLA for the systems domain.
 Primary responsibility is the management of server Operations in Global levels.
Company 2 Designation Period
Fidelity Information Service((FIS
global) -Chennai, India Senior System Engineer Sep’2013– Oct’2015

3.  Provide Incident and Change management, Problem Management support for Wintel servers.
 Troubleshooting escalations & maintaining Server availability for business critical resources.
 Maintained Microsoft Cluster 2003/2008.Managed Virtualization Environment using VMWare ESXi 4.x, 5.x, Virtual Center,
VSphere Client.
 Installation, Configuration, Administration and Trouble shooting of ESXi 4.x,5.x, Virtual Center, Sphere client
 Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates.
 Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS)/SDRS.
 Configured Resource Pool, Motion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP.
 Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter)
 Migrating of using VMotion Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
 Experience on configuring data store to ESXi server using iSCSI or SAN.
 Managing and administering the HPC7000 chassis, OA, virtual connect, ILO.
 Worked on with ESXi migration and patching activity.
 Having hands on experience on VERITAS volume Manager
 Worked on VVR disk expansion and VVR replication issues
 Attending to Server failures/crashes, investigating the issues through root-cause analysis and suggesting technical solutions.
 Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment ,
 Strong knowledge on win 2003/2008 Active Directory Administration.
 Experience in DNS, DHCP, group policy Management.
 Support and maintenance of Active Directory for the Enterprise
 Involved in Annual DR activities
Company 3 Designation Period
Foxconn India Pvt Ltd,
Chennai, Sriperumbudur.
India
System Administrator Jun’2008 – Aug’2013
Responsibilities:
 Designing, installing,configuring and administering VMware ESXi servers.
 Incident Management on all Severity Calls.
 Performing Physical to Virtual & Virtual to Virtual migrations.
 Enabling VMware features like SMotion, SVMotion, High Availability (HA) & Resource Scheduling (DRS).
 Creating snapshots & restoring the old state using snapshots based on Development & testing team’s requirement.
 Performing Daily Health checks and Performance monitoring & tuning of Virtual Centres, ESXi Hosts & Virtual Machines.
 Performing host upgrades/Patching using update manager.
 Perform Virtual Machine Configuration Upgrades/Downgrades like Memory, CPU & Disk Expansion.
 Monitoring Data store Utilization on the Virtual Environment.
 Creating monthly and weekly reports regarding storage, memory, CPU usage and summary of the VM’s.
 Make technical recommendations to management.
 Configuring and administering Windows Environment servers.
 Troubleshooting and coordinating for hardware related issues with Hardware Vendors.
 Applying Firmware and Hotfix for Hardware’s.
 Adding Host, Creating Vdisk and presenting LUN to Host from HP SAN Environment.

4.  Plan, Implement, Maintain Additional Domain Controllers, File Servers, Backup Servers, DHCP Servers, DNS Servers, WSUS
Server, Antivirus, Mail server CCTV Server, DB server and WEB Servers.
 Performing the server harden as per the standard checklist before bringing into Production.
 Active Directory Management.
 Implementing Group Policy and various software installations using internally developed Scripts for major rollouts.
 Implement and Manage the Access Control Lists for all the file servers and performing ACL restructure on demands.
 Configuring File screening, Disk Quota limit and Home folders for all Windows 2003 R2 based file servers.
 Involved in DR testing and responsible for monitoring, marinating and documenting DR plan.
 Performing BCP drill for all the Critical servers on Half-Yearly basis.
 Performing security related scans for all servers.
 Maintaining Antivirus compliance for all windows based servers and desktops.
 Maintaining Windows Patch Compliance and ensuring the servers and desktops are patched up-to date.
 Analysing the Event logs for all critical servers.
 Implementing & Configuring the DHCP, DNS & Printers for the new setups.
 Documenting and Root Cause analysis for all Technical issues.
 Troubleshooting WSUS related issues and maintaining 100% Patch compliance in all the Servers & Desktops.
 Implemented and managing Device lock Enterprise server for users to use a particular Hardware in defined host.
 Experienced in Global, Internal IT infrastructure audits ( ISO-14001, OHSAS & QEMS).
 Installing,configuring and managing Symantec Backup exec and Recovery for various Windows environments.
 Monitoring daily Backup/Job Failure /Disk Alerts and ensuring proper resolution
 Performing restores from Tapes and disk backups, SAN, NAS servers through Symantec Backup Exec 11d.
Company 4 Designation Period
HCL Info systems Ltd
Pondy.
India
Final Testing Engineer Jun’2005 – May’2006
Responsibilities:
 Checking the Functionality and Reliability of Assembled Computers & Notebooks by use of Testing Software’s.
 Preparing Audit Report.
 ESD Certificate Holder.
 Assembling and troubleshooting of Desktop and Notebooks.
 Software Installation and troubleshooting for Desktop and Notebooks.
Personal Details:
Date of Birth 15-06-1987
Nationality Indian
Father’s name Gopal. P
sex Male
Passport Number Z2717604
Passport Validity 23.12.2023

5. FIN (I/C) G3212555M
FIN (I/C) Validity 13.10.2017
Marital Status Single
Language Known Tamil, English
Permanent Address Kava Lambadi
K.S Puram(P.O),Sirkazi(T.K)
Nagai (D.T) -609106.
Tamilnadu.

6. FIN (I/C) G3212555M
FIN (I/C) Validity 13.10.2017
Marital Status Single
Language Known Tamil, English
Permanent Address Kava Lambadi
K.S Puram(P.O),Sirkazi(T.K)
Nagai (D.T) -609106.
Tamilnadu.