RAKESH KUMAR PHONE: 404-870-7651

Cloud Architect /Virtualization Architect Mail: [email protected]

EXPERIENCE PROFILE
Accomplished 12 years IT Infrastructure, Project management cloud infrastructure consultant and
technologist focused in strategic thought leadership concentrated around next generation data
centre, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS)
and public cloud.

I have good experience on technologies like Cloud, Virtualization, Configuration management,

scripting, cloud integration and Hardware.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY
ACTIVE DIRECTORY CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY SERVICES CISCO UCS - UNIFIED COMPUTING SYSTEM
ACTIVE DIRECTORY RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SERVICES CISCO NEXUS 1000V
ACTIVE DIRECTORY VMWARE VSPHERE INFRASTRUCTURE 3.0 – 6.0
REMOTE DESKTOP SERVICES / TERMINAL SERVICES VMWARE VCENTER 3.0 – 6.0
WINDOWS SERVER (FROM 2K – 2K3)
HYPER-V SERVER
MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
REDHAT LINUX PUPPET
VENDOR HARDWARE JENKINS
CISCO UCS BLADES AND SERVERS STORAGE TECHNOLOGY
VCE VBLOCK EMC & NETAPP
HP PROLIANT VIRTUALIZATION BLADES AND SERVERS CLOUD COMPUTING
DELL POWEREDGE BLADES AND SERVERS OPENSTACK, AWS CLOUD, VMWARE VREALIZE
SCRIPTING VMWARE VCLOUD, MICROSOFT, VMWARE VCAC
JSON, BASH, POWERSHELL, SHELL SCRIPTING MICROSOFT ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING (MAP) TOOL

EDUCATION
• Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) – Computer Science & Engineering (1998 – 2002) from Agra
University.

CERTIFICATIONS
• DCUCI (Cisco Data Centre Unified Computing Implementation)
• MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional)

TECHNICAL EXAMS
• Exam 70–290: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
• Exam 70–291: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Network Infrastructure
• Exam 70-294: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Active Directory Infrastructure Exam 70-293: Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
• Exam 70-297: Designing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network
Infrastructure
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

CISCO SYSTEMS, SAN JOSE, CA Jan 2015 to Present

Cloud / Virtualization Architect

Responsibilities:
Cloud Experience:
• Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost-effective cloud
solutions.
• Developed strategy for cloud/virtualization migration and implementation best practices.
• Helped to develop backup and recovery strategy for applications and database on virtualization
platform.
• Set up the test servers on Amazon for Oracle E-Business Suite R12 and Oracle 10g databases
using AMIs.
• Provide expert pre-sales technical assistance and product education.
• Developing enterprise reference architecture, SOA & Cloud strategy in a SaaS driven enterprise
business model.
• Collaborate with customers learn and use AWS services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Simple DB/RDS databases, AWS Identity
and Access Management (IAM), etc.
• Extensive experience with designing/implementing vSphere and non-vSphere hybrid cloud
environments.
• Architecting hybrid AWS and on premise solutions for technology clusters and patterns.
• Implementation exp. on AWS VPC and VPN.
• Experience on AWS component (EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Beanstalk, Autoscalling etc).
• Experience on application and server migration to AWS.
• Develop suitable AWS-based and Hybrid solutions based on customer requirements
• Design, Install, configure, and test Openstack environment (Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron,
Horizon, Keystone & Glance).
• Experience in supporting large-scale multi-tenant infrastructure level services (load balancers,
firewalls, etc.).
• Good understanding of High-Availability (HA), Cluster architectures, deployments & Experienced
in HA solutions.
• Excellent understanding of data centre organization, including hardware configurations and
networking.
• Migrated the VMware Virtual machines in to Openstack cloud environment.
• Experience in Openstack cloud administrator.
• Good experience in cloud migration.
• I designed and implemented the logical and physical infrastructure for an Enterprise IaaS
solution featuring VMware vRA on and Cisco UCS hardware. Running as a self-contained "Cloud
in a Box", the deployment runs on vSphere 5.5 and also leverages VMware NSX for micro
segmentation purposes and outside service mapping.
• Implementation experience on VMWare vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), vOPS
• Extensive and implementation experience of the vRealize Suite.
• Experience on Puppet and packstack for automation deployment.
• Work experience on shell script, PowerShell, and bash.
• Experience writing the script using JSON.
• Experience on CI/CD using Jenkins on DevOps.
• ACI based design experience.
Engagement Delivery Experience:
Deliverable responsibilities include: The functional, operational and high availability validation and
enablement of the cloud infrastructure, Virtualization platform. Additional responsibilities include:
• Development of over 50 reference scenario based test cases for cloud infrastructure storage,
network, compute, and virtualization covering functionality, operations, high availability and
disaster continuity.
• Openstack Implementation for one of the leading telecom client.
• Creating and preparing the proposal for the clients.
• Development of multiple client facing gap analysis documents with conclusive results for
automation planning and testing
• Routine interaction with client senior leadership to manage expectations.
• Product review and recommendations as needed to enhance the client Cloud infrastructure.
• Executive presentations discussing cloud computing business development and strategy.
• Implemented the Openstack cloud for 2 major telecom clients.
• Delivery of Vblock 100 (3x) & 300 (24x) compute and storage infrastructure, and Vblock 700 (5x)
compute infrastructure.
• Configured and deployed over 30 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and
vCenter 5.
• Configured and deployed over 50 ESXi 5 clusters.
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5
infrastructure
• Implemented the Openstack Cloud and integrated with VMware vCloud.
• Executive presentations discussing cloud computing business development and strategy
• POC’s on AWS, Eucalyptus cloud and other vendor’s cloud apps.
• Support for VMware infrastructure from 3.0 to 5.5.
• Implemented VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.1

Environment: Cloud infrastructure (Openstack), AWS, VMWare vRealize, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise
Linux) cloud implementation, Openstack Cloud, Microsoft Windows, VMware vSphere 5
infrastructure: vCenter, ESX Virtualization, Cisco Unified Computing System and vBlock.

PwC, Tampa, FL July 2012 to Jan 2015

Implementation and support
Deliverable responsibilities include: The functional, operational and high availability validation and
enablement of the cloud infrastructure, Virtualization platform. Additional responsibilities include:
Responsibilities:
• Development of over 50 reference scenario based test cases for cloud infrastructure storage,
network, compute, and virtualization covering functionality, operations, high availability and
disaster continuity.
• Openstack Implementation for one of the leading telecom client.
• Creating and preparing the proposal for the clients.
• VMware vRealize implementation and support.
• Upgrading to vSphere 6.0
• Experience on VMware vRealize and Orchestration.
• Experience on VCAC.
• Development of multiple client facing gap analysis documents with conclusive results for
automation planning and testing
• Routine interaction with client senior leadership to manage expectations.
• Product review and recommendations as needed to enhance the client Cloud infrastructure.
• Executive presentations discussing cloud computing business development and strategy.
• Implemented the Openstack cloud for 2 major telecom clients.
• Delivery of Vblock 100 (3x) & 300 (24x) compute and storage infrastructure, and Vblock 700 (5x)
compute infrastructure.
• Configured and deployed over 30 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and
vCenter 5.
• Configured and deployed over 50 ESXi 5 clusters.
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5
infrastructure
• Implemented the Openstack Cloud and integrated with VMware vCloud.
• Executive presentations discussing cloud computing business development and strategy
• POC’s on AWS, Eucalyptus cloud and other vendor’s cloud apps.
• Support for VMware infrastructure from 3.0 to 5.5.
• Implemented VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.1
• Experience on AWS, ELB, S3, EC2, RDS and other AWS component.
• Experience on AWS data migration from third party applications.

Environment: Cloud infrastructure (Openstack), AWS, VMWare vCloud, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise
Linux) cloud implementation, Openstack Cloud, Microsoft Servers, VMware vSphere 5 infrastructure:
vCenter, ESX Virtualization, Cisco Unified Computing System and vBlock.

GM, Detroit, MI Sept 2010 to June 2012

Implementation and support

Deliverable responsibilities include: The functional, operational and high availability validation and
enablement of the cloud infrastructure, Virtualization platform. Additional responsibilities include:
Responsibilities:
• Development of over 50 reference scenario based test cases for cloud infrastructure storage,
network, compute, and virtualization covering functionality, operations, high availability and
disaster continuity.
• Creating and preparing the proposal for the clients.
• VMware vCloud implementation and support.
• Development of multiple client facing gap analysis documents with conclusive results for
automation planning and testing
• Routine interaction with client senior leadership to manage expectations.
• Product review and recommendations as needed to enhance the client Cloud infrastructure.
• Delivery of Vblock 100 (3x) & 300 (24x) compute and storage infrastructure, and Vblock 700
(5x) compute infrastructure.
• Configured and deployed over 30 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and
vCenter 5.
• Configured and deployed over 50 ESXi 5 clusters.
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere
5 infrastructure
• Executive presentations discussing cloud computing business development and strategy
• POC’s on AWS, Eucalyptus cloud and other vendor’s cloud apps.
• Support for VMware infrastructure from 3.0 to 5.5.
• Implemented VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.1
• Data Migration to AWS.
• AWS implementation and implementation of Security group, load balancer.
• AWS implementation with VPN IPsec.
Environment: AWS Cloud, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Microsoft Windows servers, VMware
vSphere infrastructure: vCenter, ESX Virtualization, VMWare SRM and vBlock.

INFINITE COMPUTER SOLUTIONS, BANGALORE, INDIA May 2010 to Sept 2010

Design & Implementation Engineer

Engagement Delivery Experience:

Deliverable responsibilities include: Implementation, configuration, testing and training on VMware
vSphere and compute technologies. Implementation of 2000 virtual machines. Additional
Responsibilities:
• Configured and deployed 15 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5.0 and vCenter
5.0.
• Configured and deployed over 25 ESXi 5 clusters.
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5
infrastructure
• Configured and deployed VMware SRM for Disaster Recovery/ Business Continuity
• Deployed VMware vCloud on Cisco UCS.
• Provided the training to the partners and internal teams.
• Prepared the Document of the project.
• vSphere infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Implement and Configure the Cisco UCS end to end.
• Implemented VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Environment: VMware vSphere, SAP Applications migration in virtual environment, Cloud
Infrastructure

SGS PVT LIMITED, CHENNAI, INDIA Jan 2007 to May 2010

Subject Matter Expert

Engagement Delivery Experience:

Deliverable responsibilities include: Implementation and Support on virtual infrastructure and Active
Directory technologies. Documentation deliverables include:

Responsibilities:

• Presentation to business units and executives demonstrating end user computing and VDI
technologies
• Topology, Line, and Component diagrams for multi-tenant and virtual infrastructure greenfield
technology implementation
• Detailed Design documentation for multi-tenant and virtual desktop infrastructure greenfield
technology implementation
• Designed and implemented multi-tenant vSphere – Active Directory infrastructure supporting
five separate directory domains
• Developed business use case and decision tree diagrams for virtual desktop infrastructure
implementation and support
• Windows 7 Business Desktop Engineering and Deployment
• Migration of Windows XP to Windows Vista.
• Support for VMware and Windows technologies.

Environment: VMware infrastructure: vCenter, SRM, ESX Virtualization and Active Directory
infrastructure technologies.
MILLINIUM COMPUTER, DELHI, INDIA Nov 2003 to Dec 2006
Sr. Hardware Engineer

Engagement Delivery Experience:

Responsibilities:
• Worked on LAN and WAN for Network Management.
• Advance troubleshooting In LAN and WAN.
• Installation of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 in a network using remote tools and
installation upgrade and maintain the web servers.
• Installation of application remotely in the network.
• Provided the onsite support for the Indian Banks and other corporate.
• Troubleshoot applications and operating system if any error occurs in the system.
• Provided the high end support for servers (IBM blade, HP).
• Worked on storage and tape for backup and restore.
• Troubleshooting on Storage devices.
• Implemented the servers.

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