VENU MADHAV
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Summary:
IT Pro in ECM applications and IT Infrastructure with expertise in Infrastructure Management and solution
design. I believe in continuous process improvement and customer satisfaction. At the same time a mentor and
constant learner. I thrive for technology upward mobility and adoption.
Role and Responsibilities:
 Infra Architect – Sharepoint infrastructure Upgrade 2013/2010
 Design & Implement – VmWare Esx farm Build.
 Team Lead – group of sys. admins supporting Various Enterprise Applications.
 Project Lead – Managed Coca-Cola IT in 5 locations outsourced to Wipro.
 Lead System Admin – Managing serve farms, datacenter support, patching & upgrading
 Manager – Team of 6 sys admins reporting.
Qualifications
 12+ Years in IT in Expertise in Enterprise Applications and IT Infrastructure.
 7+ Years’ Experience as subject matter expert (SME) & Certified SharePoint IT Pro in architecture,
implementation, infrastructure, administration, development and Project Management.
 Diverse experience and knowledge in VMware (Virtualization), Datacenter setup, BMC Marimba,
Application Packaging, Blackberry, Project Server, Patching, upgrade and Imaging.
 Knowledge of various application, server and datacenter monitoring tools – SCOM, Nagios, SiteScope,
eHealth, Centauri, SOI etc.
 Clear communication, knowledge of Project and Team Management Skills
 Expert in Windows Server OS and good working knowledge in UNIX/LINUX/SOLARIS and Enterprise
Server hardware
CERTIFICATIONS
MCTS: Certified in Microsoft Windows SharePoint server 2013, 2010 and 2007: Configuration
MCSE: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
WORK EXPERIENCE
12 years of expertise in System administration, infrastructure and application architecture.
Working Currently with QUALCOMM since last 28 months. Worked with previously,
AMD, HCL, Synopsys, Wipro, and others.
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
Microsoft Technologies
 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013, 2010, Microsoft Sql Server 2012 & 2008
 Installation, Configuration, Upgrade, deployment, Customization, Site Templates, Site Definitions,
Search, InfoPath Services, Master Pages, Content Types, Features, Excel Services, CAML.
 SharePoint Designer 2010, InfoPath, Visio, Project, Active Directory, ADAM, Exchange, SSO, extranet
configuration for Sharepoint
 Windows server 2003/2008, NLB, hardware Load Balencers (F5, netscalar), Windows Cluster Services,
AD, DNS, DHCP, routing, and network topologies.
Programming
 .Net: ASP.Net, C#, VB.Net,
 HTML, CSS, XML, XSL, XSLT, JavaScript, AJAX, Silverlight
 Database: SQL Server 2012, 2008 & 2005.
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Applications and Tools
 Visual Studio 2012/10/08, PowerShell,
 Winshuttle, Docave, RSA Authentication Manager, RadEditor, CorasWorks, Nintex WF.
DataCeter
 Dell & HP server product line, Console management, Cyclades and power strip configuration and
management
WORK EXPERIENCE
Lead sys admin / architect
Oct 11 - Till date
Qualcomm Inc
Leading an Infrastructure admin team, managing multiple applications infrastructure and their life-cycle including
patching, upgrading, up time and On-call support.
• Managing Enterprise SharePoint 2010 and 2013 Infrastructure consists for multiple farms and 30 + SharePoint
development servers.
• Architect upgrading, deploying and managing SharePoint 2010 environment.
• Working with different teams located apart geographically like development, QA, analyst teams and Business
Users
• Enterprise Applications managed - include SharePoint, Eroom, Adobe LiveCycle etc.
• Custom solution design, architecting, good knowledge in testing types, and tools and best practices.
• Proof of Concept (POC’s) projects and third party tools/application integrating into line of business apps and
end to end deployments.
PROJECTS:
• SharePoint 2013 Upgrade and planning, server farm buildup.
• SharePoint New SQL DB cluster and DB migration
• SharePoint Search Re-architecture
• Sharepoint 2010 Kerberos Authentication Migration
• DocAve upgrade to version 6 and plan migrations.
• Office Web App 2013 setup
• Eroom to SharePoint Migration (Tzunami migrator)
• Eroom Upgrade to 7.4.4
• SharePoint Development farm design and cloning process.
• Claims migration
• Automated - Documentation and change tracking between farms
Recognition:
QualStar – for various success projects
Senior Specialist – Team Lead
2010 to 2011
AMD Semiconductors – Managed SharePoint end to end from offshore
Employed at: HCL (hcltech.com)
Project: fpp.amd.com.
Role: Infra project Lead Team Size: 4
 Project to build and operate SharePoint farms for Different projects, which includes Fpp.amd.com, shop
and compare, shop.amd.com
 Design and Implementation of SharePoint 2007 server farm for collaboration and Internet facing sites
 Ongoing development enhancements support for infrastructure in various phases, for fpp.amd.com
 Tools: SharePoint 2007, Rad Editor, RSA authentication Manager, SSO, SharePoint Learning Kit
 Mentor Team members and train them and write technical documentation on various components and
SharePoint Infrastructure Architecture Design and new solutions and enhancements deployed
 Defects tracking, Change management for the farms, enhancement testing and deployment.
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Client: AMD Semiconductors
Project: Integration of SharePoint with SAP using: Win shuttle
 Architected the deployment of Winshuttle
 Project to build and deploy Winshuttle which integrates SharePoint and SAP
 Design and Implementation of SharePoint Web application and Winshutlle, license
management and ldap configurations
2004 - 2010
Business Application Architect
Synopsys . (6+ years)
Managing large-scale applications and IT infrastructure. In the areas of collaboration, content and document
management, search, and collaborative communications and virtualization. Managed SharePoint, Vmware,
Blackberry Enterprise Farms. Application and server patch management, Application packaging with BMC
Marimba
Recognition:
Spike Award winner for “Excellent performance and contribution in Data Center migration”
SharePoint/MOSS (2003/2007):
Administer, configure and support SharePoint 2003 and 2007 and has migrated SharePoint from WSS 2.0 to
MOSS 2007, support SharePoint and worked with customers. Managed SP backups with Avepoint's DocAve.
Lead a team of IT admins for SharePoint support at L1 and L2, and an avid contributor for IT KB.
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Worked on Intranet facing portal synopsys.com
Lead custom design web 2.0 portal for knowledge management for a Business Unit with include
collaborative, custom search integrated and other tools and enhancements of a pure portal features
Technical documentation for End-user and KB articles
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Projects:
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Synopsys.com – on SharePoint
knowledgeshare.synopsys.com(internet, web 2.0 portal),
SharePoint upgrade from 2003 to MOSS 2007
Office Communications Server (OCS 2005 and 2007)
 Build the initial farms for OCS across 4 different geographical location. Manage Account administration.
Patch and version upgrades to OCS servers and Integration to SharePoint and Office applications
Exchange Email/Messaging/Calendaring
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Exchange server and resource administration
Handled issues related to Calendaring and syncing with Blackberry devices
Good exposure in deploying profiles and troubleshooting outlook issues for users
Password and group file administration in UNIX
Configuring Postini Email filtering Tool
VMWARE Virtual Infrastructure:
I also worked on VMWARE ESX Virtual Infrastructure, which used to manage around 8 VMWARE ESX hosts
and around 300 Virtual machines, I can:
Projects: VMWARE infrastructure upgrade to ESX 4.0
Other projects in different Technologies:
India Datacenter Consolidation, MS office custom application packaging, Blackberry Enterprise Server
5.0 deploy, upgrade and maintenance, OCS deployment, VMWARE virtualization farm setup and management.
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Senior Engineer (Site In charge), Hyderabad
Wipro InfoTech
Client: Coca-Cola
2003- 2004
Managed IT Infrastructure for Coca-Cola in Andhra Pradesh 6 offices with 7 engineers (report to me)
EndUser Help Desk Management, Virus Management, Vendor Management, Network Management, Desktop
Management and Asset Management
In charge for the IT outsourced service for Coca-Cola in 6 geographical locations across AP and 7
engineers each working in different locations used to report to me. Managed the following service deliveries
for the client.
Help Desk Management, Virus Management, Vendor Management, Network Management, Desktop
Management, Asset Management and hardware AMC
2001-2002
Sunrise Information Systems Pvt Ltd
Senior Administrator, Hyderabad
SISPL is an ITES company, with close to 100 users, I had the responsibility of managing
Servers/network/desktop and end user support, overall end to end IT infrastructure and support.
2001-2001
Brigade India Pvt Ltd
Technical Support Representative
Supported Compaq Customers with hardware as well as software issues (Operating Systems, Office
Applications and other software's provided with COMPAQ PC's). Won many awards and rewards for customer
satisfaction scores.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Computer Systems 2001 University of British Columbia
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------Recommendation from Previous Employers (from LinkedIn portal http://www.linkedin.com/in/countme)
Senior Consultant, AMD
Venu provided SharePoint services for our custom development projects. I found Venu to be sound technically, detailed in his
worked, and having a pleasant demeanor. Venu is tenacious in problem solving, not only helping identify issues but providing
permanent solutions. Venu was acknowledged by not only his peers but those of us in the Custom Development teams for the
quality of work he produced. He became known as a dependable source to helping accomplish our goals.” March 5, 2012
1 st Marty Martinez, Member of Technical Staff Systems Engineer at AMD, AMD
worked with Venu at AMD
Enterprise Applications Architect
Synopsys
“Venu is very knowledgeable various aspects of IT infrastructure and he is always exploring latest technologies. Plus he is very
passionate and sincere about whatever he does. I found him to be very friendly and open to solving IT related issues/challenges and find
creative solutions.” August 16, 2010
1 st Govind Krishnan, Senior Manager, Global Technical Services., Synopsys
Site Lead
Wipro Infotech
“Venu was the Site in charge for the IT outsourced service for Coca-Cola AP Region. It was the very first time we were outsourcing the
entire IT process and he could bring up his team to expected levels in a very short time. He is very reliable, had very good knowledge of
the work expected from him and could co-ordinate with the team efficiently. Month on month proper SLA's were met and could
drastically improve the process and service delivery. He had a very good rapport with all levels of internal associates. I had a great time
working with him and he proved that we didn't have to regret on our outsourcing decision. He is an excellent resource and an asset to any
organization he is part of.” November 26, 2010
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, High Integrity
Job Thomas Chief Information Technology Evangelist
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