This document contains a resume for Karthik K. summarizing his professional experience and qualifications. He has over 6 years of experience as a System Engineer and Administrator working with technologies like Windows, Linux, VMware, Hyper-V, and Nagios. Currently employed as a Senior System Admin at Span Infotech in Bangalore, he has expertise in areas like virtualization, server administration, monitoring tools, and VDI implementations. He holds a Diploma in Computer Science and Microsoft certifications.

1. Karthik K
M: +91-9901061561 / 9980900200
Email: Karthik.kv.87@gmail.com
Address: Uttarahalli, Bangalore 560098
System Engineer / Support Engineer / System Admin
Aspiring for a challenging IT System Engineer / Support Engineer, one which will make best use of existing
skills and experience and also further my personal and professional developmentwith a progressive and
forward thinking organization.
Snapshot
Dynamic professional with around 6 years of experience in System Administration and Troubleshooting.
Presently a full time employee of Span Infotech, Bangalore as a Sr. System Admin.
Expert@: Windows 2012/ 2008 / 2003, Active Directory, VMWare, Hyper-V, Linux, Application Support
Core Competencies & Experience
 Enterprise ready skills with little or no training required on L1/L2 roles in any domain.
 Exclusive hands-on experience on Virtualization Technologies working with VMware ESXi and Hyper-V
platforms.
 Executed Live Migration, P-V and V-V migrations.
 Execution of Change Management activities.
 Setup and Management of Monitoring tool using Nagios Core.
 Installation, Configuration, Management of Windows Servers and Linux Redhat & CentOS Servers.
 Proficient and flexible to work in both Windows and Linux Platform.
 Planning, Deploying, Managing & Troubleshooting of VDI environment in VMware technology.
Projects Handled Individually
 Implementation and deployment of Talent Track Tool for Human Resource Department
 For internal IT department, Implementation and deployment of VMware VDI environment, and single
point of contact for any issue or concerns
 Implementation of Nagios monitoring tool for Servers, to get server warning alerts.
 Single point of contact for creative and providing serversVM’s for project specific.
Professional Experience
SPAN InfoTech India Private Ltd since 26-SEPT-2011
System administrator, Senior System admin
Role:
 Installation and troubleshooting of Operating systems Windows XP, Windows 7 and Redhat, Centos,
Fedora.
 Installing & Configuration of Windows server 2012, 2008, 2003 Server operating systems.
 Attending to escalated helpdesk tickets and addressing the issues within SLA.
 Users, Groups and Access rights managementof end users in windows AD.
 Managing project specific Windows & Linux servers in Test, QA & Production environment.
 Installation and Configuration of ESX4 to 6.0.
 Integration ESXi hosts to windows active directory for domain authentication.

2.  VMware Hypervisor administration and Virtual Servers setup for project specific requirements.
 Migrations of VM’s in VMware and Hyper-V between different hosts.
 VMware Converter to convert P2V and V2V.
 Creating and Managing the VM snapshots or checkpoints.
 Adding Linux server and ESXi hosts to NTP.
 Installation and Configuration of Hyper-V and VM’s on Windows 2012.
 Implementation and Administration of the version controllers like SVN.
 Configuration and Administration of MS SQL.
 Administration of FTP Site for file sharing.
 Yum and apt-get software package administration in Linux.
 Printer Server configuration and administration.
 Analysis of security testing reports and fixing security vulnerabilities for public servers/applications.
 Implementation and administration of Network monitoring tools like Nagios for high critical internal
and exposed servers.
 Execution of CR’s.
 Administration of TFS Server and providing access to particular project users in TFS.
 Implemented and deployed VMware VDI product servers for Trainee users.
 As per the requirement creating Dedicated or Floating pools for particular technology and providing
VMs to trainee users (40 users).
 Managing profile disks for VDI users.
 Operate and maintain the VMware software on virtual servers and hosts providing supportfor all
virtualized desktop services.
 Develop and implement business continuity practices related to the VDI environment for enterprise
applications and services.
 IBM DS storage implementation.
 Giving all time system support to users.
 Giving the Remote support to internal user, onsite users and other isolated Sites.
New Horizons India Ltd. Bangalore from JUNE 2008 to SEPT 2011
System administrator
Role:
 Installation and troubleshooting of Operating systems like Windows XP, Windows 7 and Redhat,
Centos, Fedora.
 Installing & Configuration of Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 server OS.
 Worked on ADS (Windows 2003 server), also joining client’s to domain.
 Creating user account & group, also adding user to different member.
 Maintaining and monitoring the server on a daily basis like HDD Utilization, memory utilization, check
the insight manager for any error reported, DHCP/DNS server up and running.
 Installation of oracle 9i and oracle 10g on windows.
 Installation of java and tomcat on windows. Also setting the environment variable.
 Worked on Norton ghost imaging server for restoring and dumping of image on desktop.
 Maintaining and monitoring antivirus server (Symantec Endpoint protection 11.0).
 Installation and configuration of print server.
 Installing and configuring of MS-Outlook clients.
 Knowledge on creating DNS, DHCP server on Windows 2003.
 Knowledge on IIS 6.0.
 Installation and configuration of Windows 2008 Hyper-V server with Virtualization.
 Installation and configuration of Virtual PC.
 Knowledge on VM-workstation 6.5.
 Supporting for prometric exam and TOFEL exams.

3.  Installing, configuration and troubleshooting of all of desktops, laptops.
 Maintenance & troubleshooting of all hardware, software and LAN problems.
 Configuration and Troubleshooting of RedHat, Centos 4 and 5.
 Installation and Configuring of squid server for sharing the Internet.
 Configuration windows system to access internet via proxy.
Microsoft Certifications
 Microsoft certified professional of windows XP.
Microsoft Certification ID: 7195592
Certification Number: C686-7427
Awards Received
Best performer award in New Horizons (2010)
Employee of the month award in SPAN month of April 2014.
Education
Diploma in computer science (3 years), Sahyadri polytechnic Thirthahalli (55%)
SSLC in SBDP high school Kamalashile (70%).
Personal Profile
Father’s Name: K Venkataramana Rao
DOB: 05- March -1987
Current/ Permanent Address: No 41, 2nd
Main, 3rd
Cross Sowrbama Nagar, Chikkalasandra
Bangalore.
Languages Known: English, Hindi and Kannada
Marital Status: Married
Declaration
I hereby declare that all the information provided above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Place: Bangalore
Date: (Karthik K )