Venkata RamanaMurthy Raju Dantuloori
Plano,TX
Summary
Dynamic VMware & Windows SME with extensive experience at Capgemini America, excelling in virtualization and cloud strategies. Proven track record in optimizing infrastructure performance and leading cross-functional teams. Skilled in PowerShell scripting and fostering stakeholder relationships, driving successful project outcomes while ensuring compliance and security standards.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
VMware & Windows SME
Capgemini America
02.2022 - Current
- Design & Architecture: Develop comprehensive blueprints for virtualized environments, cloud strategies, and infrastructure components (compute, storage, network). Active Directory, Group policies, Files servers’ access, Windows Clusters
- Implementation & Deployment: Lead the technical delivery from concept to live service, configuring VMs, storage, and networks, ensuring alignment with security and business needs. Group policies implementation as per the need.
- Performance & Optimization: Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and monitoring to ensure scalability, reliability, and adherence to SLAs.
- Security & Compliance: Implement security hardening, access controls, and disaster recovery/backup strategies within the VMware ecosystem.
- Collaboration & Leadership: Work with cross-functional teams (DevOps, Ops, Management), provide technical guidance, and mentor junior staff.
- Troubleshooting & Support: Act as a technical escalation point for complex issues, performing root cause analysis and ensuring system stability.
- Strategy & Road mapping: Shape future infrastructure roadmaps, evaluate new technologies, and support cloud modernization initiatives.
- Client: Farmers Insurance, USA
Technical Manager
Capgemini
Hyderabad, India
11.2015 - 02.2022
- Managing multiple large-scale projects including Infrastructure Projects, Cloud Deployments, Site IT Relocations, Software Rollouts, Data Center Migrations, Virtualization, Storage, Security & Disaster Recovery Solutions & Remote Project Management, Windows OS upgrades.
- Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership for Azure, AWS, VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and Windows Server environments.
- Ensure best practices in virtualization, server provisioning, patching, and performance tuning.
- Oversee Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and PowerShell automation initiatives.
- Building and maintaining an effective relationship. Proactively fostering communication between internal and external project stakeholders. Influencing key decisions across stakeholder group.
- Plans, staff, priorities and managing all phases of implementation for assigned projects.
- Provides technical assistance and guidance; directs the design, development, and implementation of new projects; establishes budgets and timelines to implement new enhanced equipment, systems, programs, or projects, monitors progress driving all project related tasks to completion.
- Initiate Proactive measures to avoid P1 / P2 incidents. RCA preparation.
- Vulnerability - As per the Vendor advisory we will install all vulnerability patches and configuration changes in the Wintel servers.
- Onboarding new clients.
- Managed and deployed comprehensive security solutions, including Symantec Antivirus, and monitored its effectiveness across various client environments.
- Acted as a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for internal and external audits, providing detailed explanations and artifacts to ensure compliance and security standards were met.
- Leads incident prevention strategies, including proactive measures to avoid P1/P2 incidents, and prepares detailed Root Cause Analyses (RCA).
- Clients: Keurig (Dr Pepper & Multi clients)
VMware & Windows Administrator
IMIMobile (Cisco Web Ex)
05.2005 - 08.2015
- As a Datacenter Engineer, Taking care of VMware, Physical servers AD, Backup, Storage, Load Balancer.
- Configure DMZ.
- Convert Physical servers to Virtual.
- Cost optimization.
- ONSITE experience – 6 months was in UK for Hosting ESXi servers / storage / Load balancers in the Datacenter.
- Managing Exchange servers, Active Directory, Version Controls.
- Acted as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to translate requirements into functional specifications for implementation.
- IIS Backup & restore by using web deploy tool.
- Client: Inhouse Support, Datacenter Migration (India, UK)
Education
Master of Science - Computer science
Andhra University
India01.2003
Skills
- Virtualization Platforms: ESX/ESXi 4x, ESXi 5x, ESXi 6, ESXi 7
- Server Infrastructure: Windows Servers 2003, 2008, 2012, 2019 and 2022
- Hardware Platforms: HP ProLiant Servers, Fujitsu Servers, IBM System X Servers
- Scripting Tools: PowerShell, vSphere PowerCLI
- Ticketing Tools: Remedy, Service Now
- Backup Tool: Installation, Configuration & Administration of Symantec
- Monitoring: Dynatrace
- Vulnerability Management
Certification
- CompTIA Security+
- VCP CERTIFICATION
- ITIL v3 CERTIFICATION
- AZURE CERTIFICATION
Training
- Endpoint Security
- Ethical Hacking
- Vulnerability Management
- CrowdStrike
- VMware Infrastructure VI5,6 &7
- Azure Architect
- Azure AD
- CISM (Certified Information Security Manager)
- Engagement Management program
Training And Development
- Responsible for Goal Setting (KRA allocation), Competency Management, and Performance Management for support resources including Skill Mapping, Training & Development, Career enhancements etc.
- Ensure necessary certifications & training are given to all the existing & new joiner across the locations & ensure that the skills and competencies of the team are on par with industry standards.
Timeline
VMware & Windows SME
Capgemini America
02.2022 - Current
Technical Manager
Capgemini
11.2015 - 02.2022
VMware & Windows Administrator
IMIMobile (Cisco Web Ex)
05.2005 - 08.2015
Master of Science - Computer science
Andhra University