Rajaram has 5 years of experience in enterprise datacenter virtualization and cloud technologies including VMware virtualization, Citrix Xen Servers, CloudStack, and OpenStack. He has strong technical skills in VMware virtualization and cloud orchestration software. He is currently a VMware/Cloud Administrator at Tata Communications where he is responsible for architecture, design, installation, and support of VMware environments. He has expertise in vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and other VMware products.

1. RAJARAM M Email: rajaram.deal@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-9944535244
A Passionate and seasoned Performer with 5 years of hands-on experience focused on enterprise
datacenter Virtualization and Cloud technologies. Key competencies include VMware virtualization,
Citrix Xen Servers and Orchestration layers using Cloud stack and OpenStack.
I bring an innovative and pragmatic approach to analyzing complex business needs, enabling me to
conceptualize, design and implement cutting edge solutions based on the latest virtualization, storage, and
cloud technologies
 Sound knowledge in VMware virtualization and cloud orchestrations.
 Experienced in Managing Cloud stack orchestration software’s (Open stack and Cloud Stack).
 Excellent hardware Bring-up, Debug and troubleshooting experience.
TECHNICAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
VMware/Cloud Administrator – Tata Communications Ltd Sep-2010 – Present
VMware vSphere architecture, implementation and support for Enterprise clients utilizing best practices
for availability and performance of compute, network, and storage resources to achieve dense
virtualization ratios while maintaining SLAs and surpassing disaster recovery RTO/RPO’s.
Specific experience includes:
 Architecture, design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere 4.x,5.x and vSphere 6.x
environments with Virtual Center management, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion, VSphere Replication
Appliance ,VMware Usage Meters.
 Creating, Managing and troubleshooting Virtual Machines, Virtual Switches (Standard & Distributed),
Templates and cloning.
 Experience with VMWare ESXi Clustering, VMware Troubleshooting, Configuration, VM Templates,
cloning, upgrades etc.
 Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-
Virtual (V2V) migration of Windows 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware
and Xen Platforms.
 Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.

2.  Experience with 3rd party solutions in VMware environments including Radware, F5 load balancers
and Fortinet Virtual Appliance
 Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel data stores.
 Responsible for mentoring L1 & L2 resources.
 Skills to architect and develop customer solutions based on current hands-on knowledge of the
VMware product
 Ownership of Infrastructure and responsible for service uptime / availability
 Working on Escalated/P1 issues and providing solution abiding the SLA.
 Hands on experience and ability to do Root cause analysis, Problem & Capacity Managements
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
MBA General Management (Distance)
Collage of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai
B.Tech. Information Technology
Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering, Krishnan Koil
VMware certifications and Trainings
 VMware Certified Professional – Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
 VMware Certified Associate – (VCA-DV) & (VCA-Cloud).
 VMware Sales Professional (VSP) - Server Virtualization 2015 & Cloud Provider.
 VOP-CP (Cloud Provider)
 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.1]
 Cloud Provider Technical Post-Sales Accreditation
Server and Storage Trainings:
 Introduction to HP ProLiant servers by HP
 SAN Technology Training – I & II by Sanfoundry
OpenStack Trainings
 OpenStack Boot camp I (OS100) by Mirantis
Amazon Web Services Training
 AWS Technical Essentials

3. AWARDS, ACCOLADES, & COMMUNITYINVOLVEMENT
 Awarded 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014 Blue Ribbon Award for going above and beyond to share
my technical expertise and communicate the value of VMware and virtualization to my colleagues
and community.
 Awarded ‘Extra Mile Award’ for consistently providing timely and innovative solutions to challenges
throughout the company.
 Maintaining VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) partner's membership for TCL by holding
VOP / VSP and VCP Certifications.
PUBLISHED WORKS & PUBLIC SPEAKING
 Blogger at TCL VMware User Group , sharing virtualization news, views, and lesson’s learned with
the Internal IT community. Consistently voted in top virtualization blogs on vSphere-Land.
 Presenter on TechTalk webinar ‘From Virtualization to Private Cloud: Using Open stack’ – Oct 2014.
 Presenter on TechTalk webinar for GET’s on Introduction to Virtualization and Cloud Technologies –
July 2015
PERSONAL PROFILE
Date of Birth : 05-12-1988
Father’s Name : Meenakshi Sundaram R
Languages known : English, Tamil
Permanent Address : 130, South Street, Ramachandrapuram-626126
Current address : S4, Karthik Towers, # 2 Nelson Manickam Road, Choolai medu
Chennai-94