SUMMARY:

• Total 7+ Years of experience in Seasoned Infrastructure professional in the areas of Cloud/Virtualization/System Administrator Engineer. Technology savvy self - starter, adept at moving into new environment and extrapolate from existing experience to quickly adapt to new technologies fluently extensive experience in design, configuration, implementation, security, troubleshooting, maintenance and documentation of platform Windows server 2003/2008 2012. Demonstrated expertise in the installation, configuration, and administration of VMware ESXi 3.5/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5, VSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 products and extensive knowledge and experience on EMC products VPLEX, VNX/ VMAX related software like Recover Point SRM/VNX Replicator/Mirror View, VMware/Storage.
• Experience in Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Remote Desktop.
• Experience in installing and configuring the Windows server update services (WSUS).
• Active Directory Services and Windows Server 2003&2008, 2012 R2, Domains, DNS, DHCP, hands-on experience.
• Architect VMware/ visualization of Active Directory in Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2 Enterprise environment managing Active Directory issues such as Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc.
• Windows 2008/ 2012 Active Directory Upgrade and analysis.
• IBM Storage Area Network (SAN) implementation.
• Hands on Experience on Dell M710HD blades, Power Edge 2850 /HP BL460c G6/G7/G8, HPDL380 G6/G7/G8/G9 servers /Cisco UCS B200 M3 blades & Vblock System 300.
• Developed backup and recovery procedures for recovery from loss and destruction of data.
• Experience in recommending, scheduling and performing software and hardware improvements, upgrades, patches, reconfigurations and purchases.
• Hands on experience in designing Site Recovery Manager as a Disaster Recovery solution for all the Sites Required.
• Experienced in installing and managing production, test and development environments.
• Experienced in migrating from development to production environment.
• Experience in performing System Integration/Administration for Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server, Windows 98/XP/Vista/7, Red Hat Linux, and Ubuntu.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining the products like Info-Blox, Quest AD, Symantec BESR, Microsoft SCOM.
• Experience in deploying and supporting PKI infrastructure and certificate management in large organizations (EFS, SCEP and SSL certificates and personal certs for encryption).
• Experience in authentication mechanisms such as Kerberos, LDAP and NTLM and use of necessary tools to troubleshoot them.
• Good knowledge on OSD and hands on experience in deployment.
• Implemented the operations Management suite.
• Using SCCM I have monitored and managed the both hardware and software inventory.
• Worked on the SCCM for the software Updates and also the operating system deployment.
• Performed the client management tasks using SCCM.
• Managed the security using SCCM.
• Managed various devices using SCCM.
• Hands on experience on Windows WSUS, SCOM services.
• Worked intensively on Microsoft Deployment toolkit (MDT).
• Experience in Networking with TCP/IP, switches, router, IPSEC, SSL, and VLANs.
• Converting physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V) machines using Double-Take, VMware convertor/ Plate spin power converter and VCenter guided consolidation.
• Hands on experience in Deploying the windows 10 operating system.
• Deployed the software packages of windows 10 using SCCM.
• Subject matter expert in windows 10 (OSD) and also windows as a service.
• Experience with PowerShell, PowerCLI, VB.NET, Web application using ASP.NET, C# and Perl scripting.
• Experience in Implementation of VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW / Horizon 6.0 and in SRM.
• Managed the various devices using SCCM.
• Performed the client related management tasks using SCCM.
• Knowledge on assisting with administration and upgrading of ADMT for migrating Active Directory, and web server administration IIS 6.0/ IIS 7.5.
• Installed and Configured Exchange Server 2003, Assist in O365 migration from Exchange2007, Monitor all server logs on Domain Exchange and BES server.
• Expert in Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery.
• Knowledge of ITIL Processes.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in VMware, Microsoft Hyper-v, Windows Azure Cloud and virtualization technologies.
• Hands on experience in Hardware Load balancing, Datacenter Operation practices, Infrastructure build outs from scratch.
• Experience in monitoring/managing VMware ESX 3.5/4.0/5.0/5.1 /5.5 infrastructure.
• Expert in implementing and managing High Availability (HA) / Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) /clustering environments.
• Experienced in migrating the Physical environment into virtual environment (P2V), (V2V) using the tools like VMware / Double-Take/ Plate Spin.
• Experienced in managing NAS and SAN storage solutions.
• Implemented Citrix products XenApp 6.5 and Xen Desktop.
• Excellent team player with good communication and leadership skills.
• Experience in working as a part of a highly cross-functional and global team.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration VMware platespin p2v migration of Windows 2003, & 2008, 2008R2 and 2012 R2 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V and legacy hardware.
• Supporting of 5000+ servers in large environment which includes 3 Farms running 150 Citrix Servers
• Experience in Installing and configuring the Antivirus.
• Extensive Knowledge and experience with ITIL process, Infrastructure change management, Incident / problem management and Release management processes.
• Deployed and maintained vCOPS, VMware Log insight Manager, vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, vCAC, vCM. Created workflows using vCAC.
• Virtualized databases such as Mongo, SQL, Oracle & messaging application RabbitMQ, etc.
• Worked on Azure POC. Created VM’s, Active Directory.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization Software: VSphere 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0 /4.1/4.0, VMware ESXi server 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0, VCenter 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0, V Motion, Storage VMotion, VMware Update Manager, VMware Tools, VMware Converter, DRS, HA and FT, Load Balancers, DMZ Environment, VMware vCenter Operations manager, vFabric Hyperic, VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager, Cisco UCS Manager 2.1, vCloud Director 5.0, VCAC.Microsoft Hyper-V 2008/2012, Failover Cluster Manager, cluster shared volumes (CSV), Live Migration, Hype-v Manager, Power Shell.

3 rd Party Cloud Computing Platform: Windows Azure, Amazon AWS

Storage: NAS Filers, EMC SAN, Storage Replication and ISCSI.

Operating Systems: Windows - 9x, ME, XP, Vista, 7, NT, Server 2000, Server 2003, Server 2008. Hyper-V Linux - Ubuntu, Fedora, Red hat.

Scripting: Power Shell, Power CLI, Shell Scripting, MS DOS etc.

Tools: Veeam tools, Symantec Net Backup, Plate Spin, VM Converter, and RVTools.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL 380/385/785 G5/G6/G7, HP BL 460c/680c G5/G6 blade servers, Dell Power Edge 2850,2950,R710, C7000 HP Chassis.

Networking: LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, PCoIP, RDP, NSX, SAN, Switches, vSwitch/dvSwitch, HTTP, FTP, Fiber Channel, Iscsi.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Horsham,PA

Systems Installation Engineer

• Design and Implementation of Migration strategy for consolidating Data centers from around the US to new locations in US which involves numerous servers of windows and Linux servers.
• Design and implementation of the Datacenter Migration from Legacy Plano to new Plano Data center for about 5000 machines both physical and virtual.
• Extensive Knowledge and experience in working with Blade Server Chassis of HP, Dell and Cisco UCS. Worked on Cisco UCS B Series Blade servers, C series Rack servers and HP Proliant BL460C Blade Server as well.
• Hands on experience in design and Build of VRealize Automation 6.2/VRealize Operations Manager 6.0 as well as VRealize Log Insight 2.5.
• Migration of the AD Services, File and Print Servers, clean-up of the OUs and policies. Assessment of the current Active Directory.
• Plan and design a new Active Directory Infrastructure as well as File and Print Server on a Windows Server 2012 R2 platform.
• Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and also Active Directory Federation services (AD FS).
• Developed and deployed custom management consoles (mmc) for support staff and also Design and Implementation Disaster Recovery \ Business Continuity plan.
• Analyzed and resolved inter-domain Active Directory trust failures and also performed the troubleshooting of the corrupt Domain Controller objects.
• Assessed and performed Group Policy (GPO) and OU re-architecture along with Design and Implementation DHCP, DNS and WINS.
• Knowledge and experience on VMware NSX and VMware cloud networking and security VCNS products and implemented NSX-V Functional components, NSX-V Functional services, Logical Switching, Routing, Firewalling and load balancing.
• Building Vcenter5.5, ESXI5.5 and Clusters to maintain redundancy among the chassis as part of the new data center build out plan.
• Hands on experience in Installation and updating firmware on HP Rack and Blade Servers, HP chassis 7000 series and HP Switches and Virtual connect.
• Extensive knowledge and Hands on experience on Hyper-V 2012 and Windows 2012 Server .
• Worked intensively for deploying the web applications using Apache TOMCAT 8.47.
• Good knowledge in deploying applications using WebSphere.
• Performed installations for IIS on windows servers 2008,2012 etc.
• After the migration of VM’s removing the unnecessary hardware and hidden devices and assigned the tasks to the respective teams to bring the cloned VM’s in to complete “IN USE” mode where backing up and Monitoring of the VM’s Takes place.
• Performed a successful P2V, V2V and P2P migrations from existing ESX 4.1/5/1 environment in Old Plano to newly built ESXi 5.5 environment in New Plano and in Richardson by using Plate spin / VMware converter 5.5 and Double-Take tools.
• Providing the Production Support for the Migrated Prod/DEV/Test Machines in the new datacenter along with the migrations.
• Extensive Knowledge and Implementation of vSphere features like HA, DRS, vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Implemented the vCenter Operations Manager VCOPS which is now VROPS (vRealize Operations Manager) From scratch and designed the Standard and Custom Dashboard with super metrics.
• Hands on experience with VMware Orchestrator and developing the workflows as per the requirements and creating the Json objects and working with the plugins available form the different products of the vSphere suite.
• Copied the Files and Folders using ROBOCOPY form one shared server location to the new shared server location as part of the migration project.
• Knowledge and experience in deployment and working with VMware Vfrabric Suite Management.
• In-depth Knowledge and Hands on experience in design and implementation of Site Recovery Manager SRM 5.8 including creation of SRM database, SRM Authentication, Updating SRM, Creating SRM Place holders and Mappings along with designing the SRM to use along with a Shared recovery site.
• Racked and Stacked HP DL380c G6/G7/G8 Rack Servers and Dell Power Edge M710HD blade servers for the Infrastructure build outs.
• Design and Implemented a small-scale VMware Horizon 6.0 with about 150 Desktops to different application Users.
• Creating and deploying a VM in Virtual center / Deploying a Bare metal server for databases through Dell, IBM and HP Rack, Building Virtual Machines, Cloning & Migrating.
• Adding processors, RAM, NIC, disks to the VM.
• Implementation and configuring vCenter 5.1/ 5.5 Servers and Update Manager.

Environment: Center server5.5,VCAC, VMware View, vCenter Operations Manager 5.0/5.0.3/5.7 /5.8, (vC Ops), Power Shell, VMware Converter, Plate Spin, VMware Orchestrator, Windows 2003/2008/2012 server, DNS, DHCP, VMware ESX 4.1,5.1 & 5.5, HP ProLiant BL460C, Robocopy, Puppet Enterprise, Puppet Master - Passenger, Foreman Dashboard, Rhel6.

Confidential,Frisco,TX

Linux/Windows/VMware Admin

• Design and implementation of CISCO UCS Manager and creating the SAN/WAN pools, policies and service profiles required for the blades as per the Infrastructure needs.
• Deployed ESXi 5.1 and Windows 2012R2 on new HP ProLiant DL 380 G8 servers.
• Designed the SOP document for best practices of P2V, V2V and P2P.
• Played a key role in Datacenter Consolidation at Lake Forest by converting the Physicals to VM’s and decommiss ioning the old Physicals.
• Designed the SOP document for best practices of migration from ESX 3.5 environment to ESX 5.1 Environment.
• Performed the P2V, V2V and P2P for the Windows Machines using SCVMM 2012 in the Hyper-V Environment and from ESXi 5.1 Environment to Hyper-V Environment.
• Planned and executed the migration of VM’s from EMC Clarion to EMC VNX using the EMC recovery point.
• Knowledge on how the storage processors work (A and B), Connection of storage processors to the Drive Arrays, Zoning, Masking and MDS switches.
• Worked on implementation of Cisco Nexus 1000v in the virtual environment as a POC.
• Used SCCM 2012 to push the File, Print and SCEP anti-virus (Replaced MacAfee) on to 2000 user desktops. migration of Citrix 4.5 farm to XenApp 6.5, Installing and configuring the Citrix PS 4.5 component.
• Enabling Zone Data Collector & Web Interface server in Citrix Infrastructure Server.
• Enabling Web Interface Customization section (Timeout, Logo and Security banner).
• Install hotfixes on XenApp 6.5 Citrix Servers.
• Configuring the Citrix Farm for session to set Disconnect, Idle and active session limits.
• Creating and Working with RFC for the Client Request.
• Played a key role in design & implementation of the Cisco UCS B230 M2 /B200 M3 blades, in datacenter Infrastructure build outs of HP rack mount servers and Cisco UCS Blade Servers.
• Active role in Infrastructure build outs of HP DL460c G6/G7/G8 rack mount servers and Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Servers.
• Created Service Profiles, Policies for BIOS, Boot, Power control, vNIC/vHBA Placement & pools as per the design Using Cisco UCS Manager 2.0/2.1.
• Integration and automation of UCS management with UCS power tool in collaboration with Microsoft power shell.
• Designed the Custom Dashboards for monitoring the Data stores, ESX Hosts and virtual machines using different Widgets like Heat Maps, Metric graphs, Root Cause Ranking and also using Super metrics.
• Designing and executing the Phase by phase migration plans and performing upgrades from vCOps 5.0.3 to 5.7 with negligible downtime.
• Hands on experience in upgrading hosts from 4.1 to 5.1, Vcenter 4.1 to Vcenter 5.1 and the Single Sign On feature (SSO).
• Designed and implemented the vCenter Configuration Manager for the Control and Compliance Management of Cloud, PCI Environments.
• Designed and Implemented the VMware Site recovery Manager (SRM) 5.1 in the Datacenter as a team.
• Generated the ROI/TCO reports using the VMware ROI/TCO Calculator.
• Intensive working with Windows WSUS, Patch Management, and Windows/Linux OS build outs.
• Played an active role in the implementation of the vCloud Director 5.1 based on Allocation Pool (Allocation Pool/Pay- As-You-Go/Reservation Pool) for the Organization vDC.
• Participating in alternate change/Release Weekends.
• Extensive knowledge and work on Configuring the Vcenter Operations Operation Manager 5.0 which can manage the health of the Whole environment including Datacenters, ESX Hosts, Vm’s, data stores.
• Implementing and installing the Vmware View (VDI), creating a base image (replica) for desktops and spinning the number of required desktops for Users. Pushing the updates to the base image and rolling them to the existing desktops and also for the new desktops.
• Worked extensively on live migrations Using VMware Converter / Double Take by taking minimum downtime for P2V and V2V Migrations.
• Participated in patch Management and upgrades of the infrastructure.
• Migrated the VM’s using the SAN to SAN replication using Recovery point.
• Configuring the Windows clustering and SQL clustering in the VMware environment.
• Building the virtual machines in the DMZ zone with the Load Balancers that are Required depending on the applications that are accessed by the outside world from different places by different users.
• Expert in Backing up the Entire physical machine which has bad blocks or hardware issues and restoring the server on the new hardware and scheduling the regular backups for both physical and virtual machines using Symantec Backup Exec system recovery(BESR).

Environment: vCenter server5.1, vCenter Operations Manager 5.0/5.0.3/5.7, VMware vCenter Chargeback

Confidential

System Administrator

• Configuring and maintaining active directory, WINS and DNS servers.
• Managing employees VPN remote access.
• Was responsible for designing, building and deployments or new systems in the company.
• Interacted and coordinated with end users to solve their issues and help them in getting their system working.
• Was responsible for researching, evaluating, testing, recommending, communicating, and implementing new solutions available in the market.
• Scheduling and performing upgrades, patches, reconfigurations of the systems.
• Implementing and managing backup and restore solutions.
• Configuring and managing router/servers for DHCP (dynamic host configuration) and enabling other remote users to access server via Internet.
• Configuring Site to Site VPN using IPSec protocol.
• Achieved improved traffic performance by executing a complete restructure of network by separating different departments into their own domains and implementing a layer 2 segmentation of LAN with VLANs through Cisco switches.
• Performing Windows Server 2003 Administration.
• Managing IIS and Apache Server.
• Configuring, Implementing and managing Microsoft Exchange mail server.
• Was responsible for migrating Exchange server 2000 to Exchange server 2003.
• Providing day-to-day onsite support for networked systems, hardware and related infrastructure.
• Installed, configured and upgraded the drivers of HBA's (Emulex & Qlogic) on UNIX and Windows servers.
• Troubleshooting the above systems in case of issues.