Sivakumar Dhanabalan

No: 2/157, Ashok Brindhavan Nagar,

2nd Main Road, 2nd Cross Street,
Iyyappanthangal, Chennai 600056.
Mobile:Email:- sivakumar.d@outlook.in

Windows System Administrator

Career Summary

Windows system administrator with over 10 years of hands-on and multitasking experience,
adept at handling multiple system operations, including installation, upgrade, configuration,
administration and maintenance of windows systems.

Technical Proficiency
Windows Server Administration (2003, 2008 R2 and 2012 R2)
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IIS 6.0/7.0 management

Active directory management
Group policy management
DHCP management
DNS management
Print management
DFS service management

Citrix Administration (Xen Server/XenApp)

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Xen Server 6.0

Pool creation
Citrix server policies
XenApp 5.0/6.5
Citrix client tools
XenApp farms
Load management
Citrix XenApp web interface administration
Citrix streaming profiles and publishing applications

Backup and Restore Administration (NT Backup and Bacula)

1. NTbackup management (Active Directory)
2. Bacula backup management
3. Database backup management

Professional Experience
Comodo Security Solutions
System Administrator

2012 (Feb) Present

Windows Active Directory Infrastructure Implementation and Migration 2003 to 2008 R2

Installation, Administration and managing Cluster services
Installation and configuration managing Active Directory,DNS and DHCP Servers
Installation and configuration weekly MS patches management

Managing Active Directory Users and other resource objects

Creation and managing country wise OU and Groups resources
Installation and configuration in DFS and FSMO services
Transfer FSMO roles from DC to ADC
Managing domain controller site replication
Installation and configuration Group policy structure
Installation and configuration Windows Deployment services
Managing IIS6 and II7 web servers and hosted web sites
Creating, deploying, renewing and import and export of the SSL certificates
Managing web server optimization and performance
Creating and managing FTP sites
Website content and application release management and creating virtual directories
Installation and configuration Xen Server 6.0
Managing node's storage size and memory
Create and configuration in Pool
Creating and configuration secondary node
Installation and configuration streaming profile and publishing application
Create and managing citrix server policies
Installation and configuration XenApps
Create new database in Mysql and SQL
Modified user access privilege in databases and tables
Create and managing secondary and third node database for replication purpose
Database access user permission in SQL
Windows NTBackup service managing (Active Directory Backup)
Backup and Restore in database managing daily and weekly (Incremental and Full)
Server hardware and software performance monitoring
Creating group and configuration in Virtual Lan
Reserve specific public IP address in grouped Virtual Lan
Installation and configuration COMOD Endpoint Management services
Setup policy in COMODO Endpoint management
Configuration and managing weekly scanning schedule in COMODO
Creating and managing DHCP Scope and reservation
Change and managing the domain controller IP address without zone change
Managing domain controller sites replication
Configuration and managing User Quotes
Installation and configuration RAID management (RAID 1 and RAID 5)
Configuration and managing SAN and NAS storage (Net gear box)
Kayako ticketing tool

Imperial Garments Factory India Pvt Ltd.

System Administrator

April 2010 Feb 2012

Installing and configuring and hardening of windows server 2003

Creating group policies and implementation as per standard procedures
RAID configurations and Disk management utilities tools
Perform security health check of windows server and other compliance related activities
Daily operating system alert handling and response

Quarterly and half yearly password maintenance and scheduling

Ticket status check and update
Incident escalation and progress monitoring
Monitoring DHCP scopes
Monitoring DNS resolution and zones
Maintenance of software licenses
Perform timely patch management as per schedule
Creating and update of technical documentation
Installed centralized Symantec End-point Protection Manager 11 Anti-virus
Managed all NTFS/Share's permissions
Managed all User's and Groups accounts in domain controller

Computer Factory India Pvt Ltd

Customer Support Engineer

April 2008 March 2010

Plan, develop and present training to increase overall capabilities of users of the installed
computer equipment
Providing hardware and software support in clients
Responsible for all backups of the company
Manages windows workgroup user's, computers and printers
Installing, configuring, managing and maintenance of all servers and workstations
RAID configuration and managing in client
Administration of print servers and file servers
Anti-virus software implementation (Mcafee, Symantec Norton, TrendMicro and Kaspersky

Tandem Info Tech Pvt Ltd.

System Administrator

Administration of Windows domain controller and Linux servers

Creating users, grant permission, applying new patches
Managing of anti-virus server and updating DAT
Managing the print server and file server
Managing the networks in LAN,WAN
Creating profiles and configuring the group policies
Maintaining the LAN and sharing the proxy server
RAID configuration and disk management

PC-Care Pvt Ltd.

Technical Support Engineer

Jan 2007 Jan 2008

June 2005 Dec 2006

Installing and configuring various type of computers and printers

Installation of new hardware device including network items
Provide technical support to the internet cafe, management and clients networks
Configuring, managing and troubleshooting of various servers
Provide technical support to dial-up clients on daily basis
Responsible for installing and updating of anti-virus
Setting up of conference facilities (Video and tele-conference), and providing technical
support
Provide daily reports on status of all hardware equipment's and assigned duties

Installing and configuring new equipment's and software on the network and for customers

Academic Background

Completed on Msc Information Technology at Annamalai University

Certification Course

Completed on MCSE
Completed on HDCA

Personal Information
Material Status
Date of Birth
Languages Known
Passport Number

: Single
: 05-05-1983
: English and Tamil
: 100383507761

Declaration
I hereby declare that the above information furnished is true to the best of my knowledge
and belief.

Sivakumar Dhanabalan