Hari Balaji H

Windows And Messaging Administrator at EQUATE Petrochemical Company

Summary
• 12+ years of working experience as an IT Consultant in the field of Server Administration on designing,
implementation, maintenance and troubleshooting in Data Center environment. ITIL certified and PMP
Participant, an experienced in IT related project for Assessment, Designing and Implementation.

• Project Lead designing, implementation and configuration Exchange Server 2003, 2007, 2010 & 2013
including High Availability Configuration and windows servers like Domain Controllers. Domain Naming,
Hosting services and infrastructure.

• System Center 2012 R2 Private Cloud, SCOM, SCCM, Hyper-V, BES, McAfee ePO 5.1, VMware ESXi,
vCenter, implementation, configuration and migration of virtual instance, instance components configuration,
cloning the instance, vSwitch, etc.

• Expert in various Blackberry Enterprise Servers products and versions from preparing scope of work,
implementation, migration, configuration and troubleshooting.

• Having good experience in Network administration by configuring Cisco switches, configure and maintaining
Cisco router on WAN network and configuring ACL. Implementing and configuring ASA 5510 Firewall like
planning, designing and implementing DMZ’s on the various network segments. Experienced in monitoring
routers, switches and servers using MRTG monitoring service.

• Having good experience in Domain administration like ADS, Exchange, Windows Clustering, DNS, DHCP,
ISA, McAfee ePO 4.0 Server including NAC, HIPS, etc. used to prevent and secure the systems, servers from
virus, instruction, vulnerability, ACL, SQL Server2005, WSUS, MOM 2007, Server hardening, Access control
list, etc.

• Experienced in Vulnerability assessment preparation for network devices like routers, firewall and servers.

• Experienced on external and internal audits coordination for ISMS

• ISO-27001, DPA and Surveillance audits to confirm the compliance on

• Servers, network infrastructure and documentation for audits.

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Experience
Windows And Messaging Administrator at EQUATE Petrochemical Company
August 2012 - Present
Responsibilities & Project Executions

• Managing IT projects and activities successfully by finishing the project or task that satisfy client
deliverable within the schedule and cost baselines. Project management includes organization process assets
and enterprises environmental factors within project life cycle stating from requirements collection, analysis,
design, and implement, testing and go-live.

• Implementation, configuration and troubleshooting virtualization data center environment like P2V, V2V,
etc. on cross over platforms in IT Infrastructure for various projects in Microsoft and VMware virtualization.
VMware Infrastructure 5.1/ 5.5 vSphere Installation & Configuration Planning and Designing VMware
vCenter/vSphere /ESXi 4.1/ESXi5 /ESXi 5.1/ESXi5.5 and VMware Virtual Centers). Microsoft Hyper-V
2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, SCVMM 2012, Microsoft Private Cloud Fabric & Cluster Management to integrate
the SAN drives, Connect hosting servers for migration and enhance the cloud environment in production.

• Establish standards for MS Exchange system structures, physical design, Email routing and security,
troubleshooting, Integration to Hybrid environment like Exchange 2013 & O365 Enterprises.

• Perform regular day-to-day Systems Administration activities such as User Administrations, Disk
Management, Package Install, Patch Management, Storage Management, NFS Administration and disaster
recovery/fail-over coordination on business continuity operations.

• Provide backup strategy for all MS windows servers, MS Exchange servers and prepare appropriate restore
& recovery procedures to guarantee the availability of IT services using HP Data Protector 9. Also, prepare
disaster recovery procedures to recover critical IT services in case of disaster to ensure business continuity.

Senior Information System Engineer, In NatSteel Holdings Pte Ltd. at IT Force (Singapore) Pte Ltd
December 2011 - July 2012 (8 months)
Responsibilities & Project Executions

• Exchange servers and domain, implementation & configuring active directory sites.

• Designing, Implementation, Configuration and Maintenance of the Microsoft products to the various
customers.

• Server in-house installation for HP, Dell & IBM Series in Data Center to the customers and installation,
configuration and troubleshooting the Operating Systems.

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 • Handling the change management and incident management tickets from the customers and resolving the
issues within the SLA.

• Project planning on Blackberry enterprise server products to customer from scope of work, implementation,
migration and training for the Blackberry enterprise server and Blackberry professional Software’s.
Configuration and troubleshooting the level 3 support for BES servers policies and users management.

• End-user support to the users for BES and BIS incidents and handling the incidents for mailbox and outlook
migrations.

Sr System Engineer at UIC Asian Computer Services Pte Ltd

• Project Lead on exchange 2010 HA Setup, implementation, Configuration, maintaining and troubleshooting
on various customers on domain controllers and exchange server 2003, 2007, 2010.
• Designing, Implementation, Configuration and Maintenance of the Microsoft products to the various
customers

• Server house installation for HP, Dell & IBM Series in Data Center to the customers and installation,
configuration and troubleshooting the Operating Systems.

• Implementation, Configuration and Migrating the Virtualization Services on servers like VMware ESX,
ESXi and Windows Hyper-V Type1 & Type2. Installing the VMware ESX, creating and configuring
the instance, handling the VMware tools like vSphere, vCenter, VMware maintenance mode, VMware
Infrastructure, etc. based on customer requirement.

• Project planning on Blackberry enterprise server products to customer from scope of work, implementation,
migration and training for the Blackberry enterprise server and Blackberry professional Software’s.
Configuration and troubleshooting the level 3 support for BES servers policies and users management.

Sr, Information System Engineer

• Project Lead on exchange 2010 HA Setup, implementation, Configuration, maintaining and troubleshooting
on various customers on domain controllers and exchange server 2003, 2007, 2010.
• Designing, Implementation, Configuration and Maintenance of the Microsoft products to the various
customers

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 • Assembling server components for HP, Dell & IBM Series in Data Center to the customers and installation,
configuration and troubleshooting the Operating Systems,
• Implementation, Configuration and Migrating the Virtualization Services on servers like VMware ESX,
ESXi and Windows Hyper-V Type1 & Type2. Installing the VMware ESX, creating and configuring
the instance, handling the VMware tools like vSphere, vCenter, VMware maintenance mode, VMware
Infrastructure, etc. based on customer requirement.

• Project planning on Blackberry enterprise server products to customer from scope of work, implementation,
migration and training for the Blackberry enterprise server and Blackberry professional Software’s.
Configuration and troubleshooting the level 3 support for BES servers policies and users management.

• Shadow Protect Server, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 and Backup Exec 2010 installation, configuration,
backup strategy through NAS or tape library to the customers.

• Data Center Maintenance & Migration activity to the customer on their servers, network switches, UPS and
LAN cabling.

Assistant Manager at Tata Communications Transformation Services Limited (TCTS)

• Leading IT Team, building process and report generation for weekly, monthly, and quarterly to
management. Managing the team members for planning and implementing the change management,
infrastructure and datacenter activities.

• Maintenance and Troubleshooting – Blackberry Enterprise Server and Messaging servers like Exchange
2007, 2003 and 2000, Ensuring 99.9 % Uptime of services and better messaging environment for a project
called IMS to various customers.

• IT readiness for Process Transitioning - System/network testing for New Business Processes, Ensuring
smooth Implementation and running of the process.

• Compliance -Customer Requirements – Preparation and coordinated for audit certifications like ISMS
ISO-27001, DPA and Surveillance to confirm the compliance.

• Uptime and Service availability for DC - Achieving 99.99% Uptime, Maintenance of LAN Network, WAN
interfaces like, SIL, NPLC and MPLS by the coordination with Service Providers.

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 • Implementing and Maintenance of client DNS & DHCP Servers for DATA (Sun global desktop
connectivity for remote sessions) and VOICE (IP Phones connectivity). Installation and configuration of
Windows Cluster, Planning, implementing and maintaining the backup and restoration strategy of the DNS
and DHCP server and documentation of the same.

• Designing, Planning, Implementation and Maintenance of Mcafee ePO application servers 3.6.1 and
4.0, NAC 3.0, HIPS 7.0, and Mcafee Virus scan 8.7, Antispyware to ensure the compliance of instruction
prevention, security and virus update.

• Planning, Implementation and Maintenance of the ISA Firewall Server for intranet scope to block the
internet URL and content blocking and standby for ASA firewall.

• Documenting the IT process and procedures then, co-ordination for Internal and external audits
requirements to ensure the conformity.

System Engineer at HCL Comnet Limited

• Implementation and maintenance of Active Directory servers, Windows Cluster servers, carried activities
like addition domain controller implementation and DNS configuration on various network segment in DR
Site.

• Data Center Network Infrastructure maintenance, troubleshooting and ensure service uptime of servers,
switches, router and other network devices.

• Replication monitor of Active Directory service on BKC Site to DR Site.

• Replication monitors of data packets through Veritas Volume Replicator and all the windows and Linux
servers.

• Implementation and Maintenance of Mcafee ePO application servers 3.6.1, Mcafee Virus Scan 8.7,
Antispyware to ensure the compliance of instruction prevention, security and virus update.

• Installing, Maintenance and configuring Operating Systems on all the Linux servers like RHEL3 and
RHEL4 includes RAID controlling system.

• Maintaining Servers Inventory on all the servers includes teaming configuration inventory, networks
connectivity on servers’ inventory and Raid configurations on entire servers.

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 • Planning, Implementing and configuration of VERITAS NetBackup 6.0 and Volume replication for backup
and data replication on all the file servers.

• Server administrator in FBSC, FIT and carried various servers related activities.

• CDS ID Creation, GPO permission and privileges for OU and Groups.

• Access Control review for the entire group’s quarterly and event log report of the
Entire server’s monthly.

• Performance monitor and objects average value reports for the entire server’s.

• Security Compliance report against server policies and access control list monthly.

• Implementing and Maintenance of RAID, Virus updating, SDS report and capacity management on all the
servers.

System Administrator
April 2005 - March 2006 (1 year)
• Installing & configuring and maintaining IBM X Series servers, Switches, etc.

• Configuration of software’s and packages on Citrix servers.

• Configuring & Administering on Windows environment.

• Managing user accounts, user rights, GPO’s etc.

• Regular File server backup in DLT & SDLT on LTO cartridges using VERITAS Exec Ver10.

• Configuring MS Outlook, Outlook Express and Exchange Servers to clients.

• Updating of Antivirus and security Patches regularly on servers.

• Configuration and managing SUS server.

• Vendor management.

System Administrator, In TICEL BIO PARK, Chennai

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 • Design, Installation and Configuration Domain Controller, DNS and Domain Group Policy in
Windows 2003 Enterprises Servers

• Installation, Configuration and maintaining the data center.

• Installation, Configuration and Maintaining NAS 2.0 server and Trend Micro Antivirus server for servers
and desktops.

• Configuring NAS Users, policies and Permission on NAS Server

• Desktop and Network Infrastructure installation, configuration and maintenance.

• System integration on various vendor’s IT infrastructure and troubleshooting the incidents.

• Hardware’s like PC, Servers and printer assembling, configuration and troubleshooting to
vendor’s infrastructure.

Education
Annamalai University
Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA), Computer Science, 2015 - 2016
Aalim Muhammed Salegh Polytechnic College
Diploma In Computer Technology, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, 2000 - 2002
Muthialpet Higher Secondary School
Plus Two, Computer Science, 1994 - 2000

Honors and Awards

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Hari Balaji H
Windows And Messaging Administrator at EQUATE Petrochemical Company

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