PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Established track record with Core VMware virtualization, Hyper - V, and infrastructure management.
• In-depth knowledge and hands on expertise on VMware vSphere ESX 4.x and 5.x, VMware virtual center, vCloud director, Site Recovery Manager, Lifecycle Mgr., Lab Manager, VC Operations Manager, Vizoncorevfoglight and performance monitor.
• Extensive experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.0, ESXi 5.5 servers, vCenter server 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 and vCenter Converter.
• Manage and administer private clouds in Hyper-V infrastructure.
• Migration of production Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster to Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster
• Rebuilt Hyper-V environment and transitioned into a cluster, providing High Availability and Failover.
• Managed over 100+ VMware servers 2003, 2008 R2 & 2012 with VSphere client 5.1
• Supervised 35 VMservers for daily backups and de-duplications with Backup Exec 2010 R3, and 2012
• Managed VPN user and Active Directory by resetting passwords, unlocking accounts, adding users, and GP
• Archived, created and migrated mailboxes using PowerShell on Exchange 2010 in a cluster environment
• Participated on a 24/7 on-call helping clients using Windows 7 and Mac OS systems in a VM environment
• Experience in Migrating from VMware ESXi to Hyper-V 2012.
• Build and troubleshooting experience With VMWARE ESX and ESXi Servers and vCenter server.
• Proficient in Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012 server upgrade and Enterprise Level Active directory administration.
• Sound knowledge on Hyper-V, ESX and ESXI Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Worked with VMware Update Manger to update VM’s and hosts with the latest patch release.
• Extensive experience with the Active Directory tools.
• In-depth knowledge and hands on expertise with the HP blade c7000 enclosures, Flax/Fabric Blade System and the ML, DL, BL series servers.
• Knowledge and hands on with Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure, Dell servers & management tools.
• Experience in Avamar and Veritas NetBackup Snapshot Backup technology. Performed server’s backup and restore.
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version.
• Implemented VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW 4.5/4.6/5.O.
• Architecture, design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within, vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 environments with VirtualCenter management, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, ThinApp and VMware View Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).
• Deployment of business critical technologies - VMware SRM 4.0 and VMware View.
• Hands on Experience with implementing and supporting Microsoft Windows Live Communications Server 2003/ 2007/2010.
• Expertise in Thin provisioning, VMFS expansion, RAID technologies.
• Experience in working with the SCCM for managing the systems
• Created multiple task sequences for lite touch and capture of Windows 7
• Experience with Vmware vCloud suite 5.1 involving vCD, vShield, vChargeback, vCAC, VCOPs, etc. and Citrix Cloudstack.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, PlateSpin Power convert and vCenter Guided Consolidation
• Experience in Windows clustering Administration, troubleshooting and Microsoft failover clustering manager.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability),Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)and VMware Distributed Power Management
• Good hands on experience in diagnostics & troubleshooting of ESX server environment including ESX CLI, ESX patch management.
• Works with Risk/Vulnerability Management, Knowing that this field aids in providing a safer and more secure environment to work.
• Proficient with developing and using Power Shell scripts to manage/maintain the VMware ESX environment.
• Extensive experience with Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) tools.
• Proficient with Datacenter operations and administration.
• Proficiency in tools / concepts like - VMware vCenter, VMware VCD, VMware VUM, VMware SRM, VMware vChargeback, VMware VCOPS, VCM, CapIQ, VMware vCenter Converter, VMware Host Profiles, PowerShell, Quest/Vizoncorevfoglight, EMC PowerPath/VE, Dell Open Manage Server Administrator, Dell racadmin utility, Dell IT Assist/Open Manage Essentials, Dell DSET utility, Dell PSM portal, Dell diagnostics, APC InfrastrXure Central.
• Participate in regular VMware administration & provisioning activities on VMware environment.
• Guide and lead the team in VMware and datacenter management in line with the design documents, plan the activities of configuration and development with the PM, work with product vendors to resolve product issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware Tools: Vmware vSphere 4/5, Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3x,4x,5x VMware Virtual Center Server 2x and 3x, VMware DRS, HA and FT, UniDesk, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop, Infrastructure VDM 2.0, VMView, Thinstall, ThinApp and PlateSpin,Vcloud

Operating Systems: Win 98/2003/2007/ XP/Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2/2012, Windows 2003 SP1, Windows Server 2000, Linux RHEL 4/5/6

Server Services: Windows server 2012/ 2008/2003/2 k, SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Microsoft Active Directory 2003, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, DHCP, DNS and WINS Services, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, Java, C, C++, C#, Visual Basic

Email Clients: VBScript, JavaScript, Unix Shell Scripting, Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes

Designing Languages: SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, DB2, MS Access

Java skill: Red hat Linux, TCP/IP, Oracle, Enscribe, HP nonstop kernel, UNIX, SQL, JavaScript, JavaScript, PowerShell, PERL, PYTHON, JAVA, APACHE TOMCAT, Oracle, SQL, SQL/PL SQL, WebLogic, WebSphere, XML, Base-24 ATM, Sun Solaris, Linux RHEL 4/5/6.

Familiar: MS Access, Wire shark, Middleware, Workflow Engines, Orchestration toolsets.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lebanon, NH

VMware System

Responsibilities:

• In-depth knowledge and hands on expertise on VMware vSphere ESX 4 and 5, VMware virtual center, vCloud director, Site Recovery Manager, Lifecycle Mgr., Lab Manager, VC Operations Manager, Vizoncore vfoglight and performance monitor.
• Architected and designed VMware ESX server infrastructure for multi-site/multi datacenter environment
• One of the first companies to fully integrate ESX virtualization in the DMZ network, eliminating 75 hardware based IIS web portal Servers
• Consolidated over 300 End of life servers into ESX 3 HA and DRS clusters.
• Responsible for keeping all VMware ESX servers up to date with patches and updates with minimal downtime using vMotion for SAN attached VMs and Storage vMotion for Local storage VMs
• Install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machine using VMware Update manager
• Administered SRM (Site Recovery Manager) support for Failover from one site to the other
• Perform P2P conversions using PlateSpin from old HP & Dell Hardware to New HP Flex Fabric Blades.
• Perform P2V conversions for old severs which are out of support using VMware Converter to new vSphere 4 environment
• Sharp hands over Implementation/Managed Services, Project/Engagement Management, Education Services, Partner Management and Technical Account Management (TAM) Services.
• Proficiency in tools / concepts like - VMware vCenter, VMware VCD, VMware VUM, VMware SRM, VMware vChargeback, VMware VCOPS, VCM, CapIQ, VMware vCenter Converter, VMware Host Profiles, PowerShell, Quest/Vizoncore vfoglight, EMC PowerPath/VE, Dell Open Manage Server Administrator, Dell racadmin utility, Dell ITAssist/Open Manage Essentials, Dell DSET utility, Dell PSM portal, Dell diagnostics, APC InfrastrXure Central.
• Participate in regular VMware administration & provisioning activities on VMware environment
• Guide and lead the team in VMware and datacenter management in line with the design documents, plan the activities of configuration and development with the PM, work with product vendors to resolve product issues.
• Design, implementing and managing Active Directory(AD), Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)/System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Systems Management Server (SMS)/System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM)
• Responsible for production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, GPP, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Experience with SRM 4.5/5.0 deployment and implementation.
• Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.
• Experience with Microsoft Hyper-V POC environment
• Performed the day to day administration of Red hat Linux
• Created use cases for desktop design and implementation

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2R2/2012 Servers, Active Directory, NAS, IIS 4/5/6, Cisco routers and switches, HP DL & ML server series, IBM Xseries and System x servers, HP Insight Manager, IBM Director, Cisco Enterprise Network.

Confidential, Las Vegas, CA

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built new virtual servers required for the customer and managed the systems
• Installed Windows 2003/2008R2R2 in the created virtual machines and also installed the required software and tools
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008R2/2010
• Performed all levels of hardware and software systems support for 200 computers and 100 printers.
• Administer Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, and network security devices for 350 users
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions and System Policies
• Built the Wintel servers and worked on the QA of the servers
• Design, implementing and managing Active Directory(AD), Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)/System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Systems Management Server (SMS)/System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM)
• Responsible for production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, GPP, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Experience with SRM 4.5/5.0 deployment and implementation created VDI lab environment for IT architects using VMware View 4.6, 5.0 and vSphere 5.0 migrated (XP to win7 or win7 to win7) machines with PCT migration tool
• Windows 7 task sequencing, application and OS deployment using SCCM
• Deployed Windows 7 images by making use of SCCM
• Administrating Symantec Endpoint Antivirus console, managing 300+ antivirus client’s computers like definition updates, Exception policies, Scanning, reporting etc
• Administered the IIS application efficiently
• Installed VMware tools and upgraded the virtual hardware
• Requested IP addresses essential in the P2V process.
• Created new user accounts with username and password and proficiently managed the accounts
• Performed the DNS reverse and forward look up tasks
• Created pools of networks, servers and storages using the Vmware vCloud Suite 5.1
• Provided user access to the users for any required server based on the requirements
• Worked with the SCCM software and managed a large no of windows systems and additional features like software distribution and patching
• Migration of production Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster to Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster
• Rebuilt Hyper-V environment and transitioned into a cluster, providing High Availability and Failover
• Experience in implementation and deploying View 4.5(VDI) virtual desktops and ThinApp 4.5 Application packages with vSphere ESXi4.1 environment.
• Performed up gradation of ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0, vCenter 2.5 to 4.0
• Handled snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments.
• Responsible for Monitor and configure backup for Virtual machines.
• Worked on the virtualization using the Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp
• Install, configure and troubleshoot VMware Lab Manager
• Worked with off-shore team and provided required support
• Analyze existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner
• Performed datastore migration using VMware storage vMotion on NetApps NFS, dell ISCSI SAN Storage
• Worked with Microsoft share point for various applications
• Installed and managed the Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware Vconvertor
• Provide research into VMware ThinApp initiative for increasing server virtualization
• Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.
• Experience with Microsoft Hyper-V POC environment
• Performed the day to day administration of Red hat Linux
• Created use cases for desktop design and implementation
• Set up V-Motion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and related VMware products such as VM Workstation
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version
• Experience in updating/upgrading ESX/ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• Updating/upgrading the HP Onboard Administrator, Virtual connections.
• Installing and configuring Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Environment: Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008 Windows NT Server, Windows XP.

Confidential, Albany, NY

VMware System

Responsibilities:

• In-depth knowledge and hands on expertise on VMware vSphere ESX 4.0 and ESXi 4.1, 5.0, 5.5 VMware virtual center.
• Responsible for keeping all VMware ESX/ESXi more than 50 + hosts up to date with patches and updates with minimal downtime using vMotion for SAN attached VMs and Storage vMotion for Local storage VMs.
• Install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX/ ESXi hosts and virtual machine using VMware Update manager.
• Participate in regular VMware administration & provisioning activities on 5000+ virtual servers VMware environment.
• Actively participated on upgradation of ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0, vCenter 4.1 to 5.0
• Built new virtual servers required for the customer and managed the systems.
• Installed Windows 2003/2008R2R2 in the created virtual machines and also installed the required software and tools.
• Installed VMware tools and upgraded the virtual hardware.
• Responsible for Maintenance, Configuration and troubleshooting of HP & Dell Blades enclosures .
• Updating/upgrading the HP Onboard Administrator, Virtual connections.
• Responsible for production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, GPP, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Created new user accounts with username and password and proficiently managed the accounts.
• Performed the DNS reverse and forward look up tasks.
• Provided user access to the users for any required server based on the requirements.
• Responsible for solving ITSM (incident management) tickets for various issues related to VMware and Windows Servers.
• Daily Monitoring of VMs Backup performed by AVAMAR and Veritas NetBackup Client. And Remediate backup related issue.
• Responsible for add/remove of servers from backup client, set different backup policy as per servers backup requirements.
• Works on security\vulnerability patching of VMware\VSphere hosts and Virtual machines, including deployment and process documentation.
• Experience with VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW 5.O.
• Create virtual machines within Hyper-V.
• Manage and administer private clouds in Hyper-V infrastructure.
• Performed Server Restore as per need.
• Responsible for creating Power cell script for generating various repots
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• VMWare Admin, VM Windows and VMware Implementation VMware Policy implementation and Security Review Working with VMware management tools.
• Participate in regular administration & provisioning activities on 100+ virtual servers Microsoft Hyper-V environment.
• Collaborative in approach to working with a team.
• Highly creative approach to proactively developing solutions that prevent problems, as well as problem solving.

Environment: VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1 Server, VMware ESXi 5.0, 5.5 Server, vCenter, Windows 2003/2008R2R2/2012 Servers, SQL Server, Exchange Server, Microsoft WSUS, Active Directory, Cisco routers and switches, Cisco Enterprise Network., Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, HP ProLiant Blade Servers DL380/580/585 G2/G3/G4, BL280C G6, BL460C G8, BL465C G7 Series, HP Insight Manager, Dell PowerEdge 2850/2900/2950 series, Remote desktop services, Unix, EMC SAN, NAS, SRM, SCCM, ILO, HP SIM, SCOM, Symantec, Firewall, Cisco UCS.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Experience includes installation, configuration, administration and support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) versions 5.x and 6.x and to a lesser degree additional Linux distributions such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server servers
• Linux instances are installed as VMware vSphere hosted virtual machines or as bare metal installation on Intel based physical hardware.
• Linux administration includes regular patching of Linux software and other enterprise supporting components. VMware vCenter is used to perform virtual machine cloning, snapshots and vMotion.
• VMware - Extensive knowledge on install and Configure VMware infrastructure handling
• VMWare Admin, VM Windows and VMware Implementation VMware Policy implementation and Security Review Working with VMware management tools
• Review SMTD and EPD Documents and proposing the industrial Best practices
• Perform Health Check of VMware Servers Infrastructure Perform and access Security Audit Placement of ESXi/vSphere servers across Geos to accomplish business and DR requirements
• Perform Capacity planning using VMware capacity planner
• Prepare the capacity forecasting requirement of Hardware and Software requirement
• Contributed to the wider technology community in terms of POC and proven white papers.
• Converting business processes into operational service levels.
• Installing, configuring, upgrading and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers in an enterprise Data Center environment.
• Benchmarking, performance monitoring, debugging and tuning Linux systems for distributed projects deployed as multiple server instances.
• Create Power Shell scripts to manage/maintain the VMware ESX environment.
• Networking experience integrating, supporting and troubleshooting Linux systems in N-Tier firewalled, load balanced Data Center networks.
• Installing, optimizing and supporting Web related software applications on Linux servers.
• Installing, configuring, profiling, upgrading and supporting Linux servers running as VMware vSphere/ESX virtual machines.
• IT Service Management (project, service catalog, change and incident management) interaction with customers, other support teams and vendors on projects supporting 24x7 systems.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2 R2, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, vCenter, VMware Lab Manager. Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, HP ProLiant Blade Servers BL280C G6, BL460C and 620C Series, Dell PowerVault NAS, SonicWALL Firewall, Remote desktop services, Workflow Engines, Orchestration toolsets.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience supporting / troubleshooting distributed / client server / virtualized servers and applications in an enterprise environment >200 servers.
• Deep knowledge in virtualization technologies; including the following: VMware vSphere 5
• Experience on VMware performance, capacity planning, monitoring, virtualization analysis, and consolidation activities.
• Experienced with VMware enterprise features (DRS, HA, VMotion, VCB, SRM, Update Manager)
• Experience with security\vulnerability patching of VMWare\VSphere hosts and Virtual machines, including deployment and process documentation.
• Specialized in PowerShell, VBscript, PowerCLI & Windows batch scripting. Strong propensity to automate routine tasks via scripting. Ability to author scripts.
• Experience supporting MS Windows network infrastructure; including any of the following: ActiveDirectory, WINS, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Exchange.
• Solid experience in Storage and Networking concepts.
• Responsible for Maintenance, Configuration and troubleshooting of HP Blades enclosures .
• Reviewed supporting our MS Windows infrastructure and virtualization technologies
• Sharp hand in monitoring tools, assess and interprets the logical and physical requirements of systems and applications in relation to hardware, software and operational needs.
• Design, development and support of client and server technology infrastructure, hardware, software and office systems.
• Installs, configures, and maintains operating system workstations and servers, including web servers, in support of business processing requirements.
• Responsible solving L3 ITSM tickets.
• Functional knowledge of core protocols such as TCP/IP, SSH, SMTP, LDAP, NFS, DNS, activedirectory, SSL, apache, tomcat, IIS
• Experience with managing VMware/ESX in Production environments
• Demonstrated Project Management experience and prioritization skills.
• Collaborative in approach to working with a team
• Highly creative approach to proactively developing solutions that prevent problems, as well as problem solving.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, Windows Server 2008 SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server, vCenter and Workstation, Unix, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, NAS, SRM, SCCM, ILO, HP SIM, SolarWinds, SCOM, Symantec, Firewall, EMC, BL/DL G1/G2/G3/G5/G7 servers, Cisco UCS.

Confidential

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architected and designed VMware ESX server infrastructure for multi-site/multi datacenter environment
• One of the first companies to fully integrate ESX virtualization in the DMZ network, eliminating 75 hardware based IIS web portal Servers
• Consolidated over 300 End of life servers into ESX 3 HA and DRS clusters.
• Responsible for keeping all VMware ESX servers up to date with patches and updates with minimal downtime using vMotion for SAN attached VMs and Storage vMotion for Local storage VMs
• Performed desktop migration from Windows 95/NT4 to Windows 2000. Provided technical support for corporate client/server systems.
• Responsible for the management of servers and duties include regular and proactive monitoring of servers, responding the alerts
• Created User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups and implementing Group Policies
• Worked extensively in the active directory and the group policy
• Created a virtual desktop solution for over 2000 mobile and offshore user base ensuring company data stays in the company
• Worked and administered the Hyper V
• Deploying and managing Windows, Linux and Solaris Operating systems in the virtual environment
• Worked with off-shore team and provided required support
• Worked closely with MS SQL and Oracle DBA groups to determine best possible configuration for Storage LUN assignments and raid levels
• Install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machine using VMware Update manager
• Administered SRM (Site Recovery Manager) support for Failover from one site to the other
• Perform P2P conversions using PlateSpin from old HP & Dell Hardware to New G5 HP Blades
• Perform P2V conversions for old severs which are out of support using VMware Converter to new vSphere 4 environment.

Environment: Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008 Windows NT Server, Windows XP.