Omkar Prasad Kharwar Email & Phone Number

Beverly Hills, California, US

US

• Responsible for planning, designing, managing, upgrading all VMware ESXi hosts across the infrastructure. Work directly with the business, IT associates, and outside various vendors to effectively choose, plan, deploy.
• Manage end to end delivery of IT project/activity rollouts, prepares the plan for scheduled maintenance activity following best practices recommended by vendors
• Work on day to day operations activities and issues with Nutanix (VMware) and AWS servers, storage (EMC), firewalls, network, and backup devices
• Perform patch updates, device upgrades and resolves technical issues also acts as subject matter experts on various production issues
• Manage corporate policies, procedures and ensures compliance is carried out across all IT infrastructure devices including firewalls(Checkpoint)
• Access and evaluate information management planning, design and solution implementation, to leverage and adopt new and emerging technologies for operations optimization

Stamford, Connecticut, US

• Managed over 200+ VMware ESXi hosts, 2000+ Virtual Servers (2003, 2008 R2 and 2012) Windows and Linux globally
• Configured VMware clusters, VMFS, VLAN’s, P2V, vMotion and data stores for projects/VMs that were being on boarded to VMware environment, Deployment of VM’s from OVF/OVA templates
• Designed, built, installed, and tested Windows, Linux and VMware servers based on requirements from design and architecture or established standards
• Planned and executed data center migration from one location to another with minimum impact to business and downtime
• Worked with partners during change control activities to ensure smooth migrations and implementations, including performing change tasks
• Configured proactive alerts on vCenter and vCenter operations manager for proactive monitoring of all critical application and database servers

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Installed, configured, managed, implemented and troubleshoot File, Print, AD, DHCP, DNS, SCCM and domain controllers across various sites and datacenters
• Administered Windows 2003/2008 R2/2012 servers globally also did inventory management of existing server environment and gather server utilization statistics such as CPU, disk usage and alerts
• Configured and troubleshot of ILO’s, onboard administrators for servers globally
• Administered Windows terminal server, group policy management, active directory environment, access privileges, and security groups as directed by development, application and audit team
• Ensured timely and effective delivery of hardware upgrades, patch upgrades and new configurations
• Implemented LDAP network sign-on for several business units allowing for windows sign-on to VMS lab servers and maintained security for the system

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Attended client meetings and assisted with the determination of project requirements, assisted PM in the drafting and issuance of project proposals, RFP’s, tenders, budgets, cash flows and preliminary schedules
• Prepared project organization and communication charts, chair site meetings and distribute minutes to all project team members
• Tracked the progress and quality of work being performed by design disciplines/trades, used project scheduling and control tools to monitor projects plans, work hours, budgets and expenditures
• Effectively and accurately communicated relevant project information to the client and project team also ensured clients’ needs are met in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Reviewed field inspection reports from Consultants throughout the lifecycle of the project, Issued Contracts, Letters of Intent, Purchase Orders, etc
• Maintained Contract Execution Tracking log, assisted the PM in the review of Contractor quotations to ensure that only fair and reasonable pricing is recommended for approval.