Neelakandan Seshan

Accomplished professional with over 15 years of experience in designing, developing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting diverse technology infrastructures. Specializes in Cloud Integration and Deployment, Hyper-converged and Converged Storage Technologies, VMWARE, Nutanix AHV, Aix, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, and Microsoft Azure. Demonstrates extensive hands-on experience in planning, installing, configuring, fine-tuning, maintaining, and supporting various hardware types, operating systems, networks, and distributed systems across multiple system and application software platforms. Proficient in Backup and Restore Technologies. Excels in system and network capacity planning, integration, administration, support, technical documentation, and training.

• VMware Certified Professional DCV - 7.x
• Cisco Certified Network Associate Data Center
• EMC Proven Professional Certification (EMCISA)
• ITIL Foundation Certification v4
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE 2000) from Microsoft.
• Certified Novell Administrator (CNA) From Novell.

• Dell Inc, Austin, TX, 06/2012, 08/2024, Solutions Architect Principal Engineer, Design, develop and implement total systems solutions to enterprise-wide technical requirements of customers. Dell Certified Proven Professional for AI GEN Servers Foundation, Compellent SAN, VxRail Support the implementation, integration, and deployment of Enterprise class products within customer's Mission Critical environments. Responsible for on-site consulting, integration, installation, implementation, maintenance and repair of Dell Hyper Converged Infrastructure(VxRail,PowerFlex), Dell Storage(Powerstore,Compellent, Powervault), Dell PowerEdge solutions, Force10, Power Connect, Cisco, Brocade Switches and other Multi-Vendor Solutions. Design, Integration, installation, Implementation maintenance and support of Dell XC Nutanix AHV Virtualization infrastructure Design , Integration, Installation, Implementation, maintenance and Support of Microsoft Azure Virtualization infrastructure Responsible for the successful deployment of Enterprise hardware and software projects within the customer's environment. Subject Matter Expert across SAN, Networks, and Operating Systems. Design, Develop and Implement Backup and Restore Technologies using Commvault, Appassure, Symantec NetBackup. Provide assistance on scoping, solutioning, & implementation planning. Proactively identify potential risks and implement mitigation plans. Provide support for other delivery functions such as: SOW reviews and identify, define, and establish technical best practices Install, Configure and Break fix of Dell Compellent SAN integrating with Multiple Operating Systems like VMWARE ESXi , Microsoft Hyper-V 2008/2012, Linux, AIX, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows
• CSC (formerly Covansys), Overland Park, Kansas, 01/2008, 06/2012, System Administrator Senior Professional, Datacenter management Responsible for Capacity Planning includes storage allocation, software and Hardware redundancy and future expansion. Install & configure servers inside the Datacenter including Power & Rack Installations Handling day to day System Admin activities for UNIX, Windows and SAN Storage. Setup, configure & administer VMWARE VSphere Servers Configure and Administer VSphere VCenter 4.1 Server for managing VMWARE Servers. Configured & administered EMC Clariion SAN Storage for production and development servers and file sharing using NFS/CIFS Configured & administered EMC Data Domain for backup through Commvault Configured & Administered EMC Recover Point for replication between Production and DR Site. Setup, configure & Administer backup of production/development servers using Commvault. Install, configure & administer servers with operating system & application, work on Performance Tuning Parameters & prescribe to project as need occurs. Configure & administer Active Directory 2008 for production & development environments. Configure & administer of Microsoft Exchange 2003 server for production. Administration of Citrix Xen App 6.0 Environment Documentation of hardware & software configurations. Work with Auditors for SAS 70, PCI Compliance of servers. Work with Clients, Developers & Testers on day to day application related issues. Rotating On-call and work with a team of 24
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• CSC (formerly Covansys), Chennai, India, 05/2002, 12/2007, IT Specialist, Datacenter Management, Windows Servers, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Solaris, VMWARE ESX, Ubuntu, EMC Clariion, EMC DataDomain, EMC Onstor NAS, Commvault Backup, Citrix Xen App, IBM / HP Rack servers, Shavlik NetChk pro 7.0, Spectra Logic Tape Library, Manage Engine Op-manager, Solar winds Responsibilities: Datacenter management Responsible for Capacity Planning includes storage allocation, software and Hardware redundancy and future expansion. Install & configure servers inside the Datacenter including Power & Rack Installations Handling day to day System Admin activities for UNIX, Windows and SAN Storage. Setup, configure & administer VMWARE VSphere Servers Configure and Administer VSphere VCenter 4.1 Server for managing VMWARE Servers. Configured & administered EMC Clariion SAN Storage for production and development servers and file sharing using NFS/CIFS Configured & administered EMC Data Domain for backup through Commvault Configured & Administered EMC Recover Point for replication between Production and DR Site. Setup, configure & Administer backup of production/development servers using Commvault. Install, configure & administer servers with operating system & application, work on Performance Tuning Parameters & prescribe to project as need occurs. Configure & administer Active Directory 2008 for production & development environments. Configure & administer of Microsoft Exchange 2003 server for production. Administration of Citrix Xen App 6.0 Environment Documentation of hardware & software configurations. Work with Auditors for SAS 70, PCI Compliance of servers. Work with Clients, Developers & Testers on day to day application related issues. Rotating On-call and work with a team of 24
• Penta-Media Graphics Limited, Chennai, India, 11/1998, 05/2002, Senior System Administrator, IRIX 5.3/6.2/6.5, Windows 98/NT/2000, Open Step, Solaris 7, MAC 8/9, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux, SUN Sparc, SGI Infinitive Reality, Reality Engine and Challenger Server's, Storage Fibre Channel Disks, IBM Netfinity 5500, Windows NT 4.0, MS-Exchange 5.0/5.5, MS-Proxy Server 2.0, Kodak Film Scanner/Recorder Responsibilities: System requirement analysis, System programming, System design, Network design, Network testing, Trouble shooting and Testing Setting up the production environment 0f 3d, 2d and motion Capture Digital Media centre Has been a Team Leader for a branch office, Designed and deployed distributed systems architectures using Windows NT/2000, MAC, Solaris, OpenStep and IRIX technologies. Configured Sendmail / Qmail on Solaris and Linux for R&D Division. Shell scripts to automate routine administration duties System Performance tuning. Setup 2D Studio using NextStep/Openstep configuring NIS & NFS mount drives on distributed Network. Setup Motion Capture Studio with 10 camera setup using MIDAS Software. Setup 3D Studio & setting up connectivity & transfer methods of data between different servers/workstations using NFS on Unix, Ftp on Mac/Windows. Setup, Configure & Support 3D Inferno Software running on SGI Infinite Reality Server for Data storage to Fibretek Fire Wire storage directly & configuring storage with RAID5 Installation and configuration of Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux servers Backup and Recovery on Linux Server using tar and cpio Configuration and maintenance of DNS and DHCP service Support on Apache Web server, SSL, Operating Systems, SMTP, IIS, PCAnywhere, Webalizer Integrated Solaris Servers and Windows NT servers/clients using SAMBA package
• Asset International, Coimbatore, India, 09/1997, 10/1998, Faculty cum Network Engineer, Windows 95/98/NT, Novell Netware 3.11/4.11, SCO UNIX 4.0, Oracle, SQL Server 7.0 Responsibilities: Designed and deployed Windows NT Domain Topology, Novell Netware 3.11/4.11 Servers and LAN in all offices in the region. Installed, Configured and Trouble shoot Oracle 8.0 Database Server in NT 4.0 Server, Connecting Client (95 and NT) and Integrating VB 6.0 as front-end tool for Oracle 8.0 in all offices in the region. Installed, Configured and Troubleshoot Sco Unix Server 4.0 in all offices in the region. Installed & Configured Diskless Nodes for connectivity to Novell Netware & Client Connectivity to Novel Netware from Windows 3.11/95/98. Training Students for MCSE & CNE Certification Courses.
• Skytec Software, Madurai, India, 06/1995, 08/1997, Customer Support Engineer, Windows 3.1/95, Novel Netware 3.11, Microsoft Office, Desktop PC’s Responsibilities: Interface extensively with clients and assist with PC/Server operational problems Setup, configure and support all flavors of Microsoft Operating Systems in a domain and workgroup model. Provided support and solutions for Netware and Microsoft Operating systems. Configure and Troubleshoot Diskless Workstations in the IPX environment. Configure file servers, Workstations, printer services to client specifications Install and configure Network-based applications like MS Mail, MS Office etc Serviced all types of Desktop PC’s peripherals and hardware upgrades

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