PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior System Administrator with 9 years of experience with Windows Systems Administration
• Expert in Windows server 2000/2003/2008/ R2/2012, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Group Policy deployment to ensure standard computer settings, software distribution and security policy enforcement.
• Experienced with Windows, MSI, SCCM 2012/2007, Active Directory. Familiar with Windows Registry, WMI, Citrix, VMWare, Microsoft Office
• Understanding and working knowledge of Citrix infrastructure, XenApp/Xendesktop 6.5 and 7.x including Citrix Director, Citrix PVS & Citrix Storefront.
• Experienced with NetGIL.6.5 application published and providing access to users.
• Strong scripting skills in multiple common languages (e.g., powershell scripting)
• Experience with System Center Operations Manager.
• Good experience in Handling systems and network operations independently.
• Technical knowledge of current network hardware, protocols, and Internet standards, including TCP/IP, and DNS, DHCP, IIS, FTP, Terminal Services/Remote Desktop
• Good experience in Middleware Infrastructure services
• Good experience in installing, configuring and managing Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic.
• Strong experience in installing, configuring and managing IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.5
• Proven experience in installation of systems and application software
• Experienced in installing, configuring and managing MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2008 R2/2012.
• Capable of installing and maintaining Linux and Solaris operating systems
• SSL Certification Installation on both Windows and UNIX based web servers.
• Extensively involved in the ITIL change, incident, problem and capacity management activities
• Providing 24*7 on Call Production Support.
• Experience in Trouble shooting and implementing Performance tuning issues.
• Preparing reports and updating the same to client on weekly and monthly basis.
• Attending, scheduling, reporting status meetings on a day - 2-day or weekly basis based on the project.
• Co-coordinating with SA for understand the requirements with respect new project builds.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: HP, Compaq, Dell, Acer, IBM,D-Link, Cisco

Operating Systems: Windows 2008,2003, 2000, Windows NT, XP, Linux, Solaris

Database: MS SQL Server 2005/2008

Web: I.I.S, Cold, Tomcat, WebLogic,Apache

Messaging: MS-Exchange

Tools: Solarwinds, SCOM, Microsoft Azure cloud, BizTalk 2009/2013

Domain Knowledge: Infrastructure Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Windows / Citrix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for third-level support for all server related issues.
• SCOM management packs and added more servers to SCOM.
• SCOM monitoring issues fixes.
• Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management.
• Experienced designing and deploying application packaging, streaming and deployment into XenApp, XenDesktop or traditional desktop space adhering to standard release processes.
• Experienced with NetGIL.6.5 application published and providing access to users.
• Implemented security policy and virus protection.
• Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
• Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
• Configured Server Core; configured networking; security and system settings on Server Core.
• Added and removed server roles and features; configured AD Domain Services roles; configured network
• Infrastructure roles; configured file and print services; configured IIS7 on Server Core.
• Installation, Configuration and Migration of Rightangle Application Servers on windows in different environments.
• Troubleshoot application and server side issues.
• Monitoring the startup logs for any exceptions or errors. Performing regular health checks for the servers in the UAT and Production environments
• Installation and Configuration of Apache Web server.
• Installation and Configuration of IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.5.
• Providing access to user for Teamsite to deploy the content
• Checking and resolving the deployment issues for users
• Server Performance tuning and Troubleshoot the application and server side issues.
• SSL Certificate Installation
• Provided 24/7 on call Production Support
• Attending, scheduling, reporting status meetings on a day-2-day or weekly basis based on the project.
• Preparing report and updating the same to client on weekly basis
• Resolved Requests (Change, Problem) trouble tickets through by Remedy tool.
• Maintaining technical support for Infrastructure Services on Microsoft Windows technologies.
• Active Directory user’s and group management.
• Managing Users and User Profiles, User Rights and Creating Home Folders for the Users.
• Monitoring the CPU, Memory utilization and Disk Spaces on servers using Solarwinds
• Participate in analyst review meeting for New Servers ordering.
• Publishing Applications on Citrix Consoles and managing with security permissions.
• Manage Backup and Restore of the Database 2005/2008/2008 R2/2012.
• Configuring and installation of BizTalk 2009/2013 on windows server.
• Provide day-to-day administration, engineering, architecture, and support services in a Citrix and VMware vSphere hosted environment
• Supporting server infrastructure supporting 2,000+ employees, 39 locations, and 2 data centers across Australia
• Hands on experience in the areas of all data center, desktop and application virtualization including but not limited to VMware, Windows and Citrix products
• Experience in working with ESX/ESXi servers - Installation, configuration, management and maintenance
• Experience includes VMware vSphere 4/5, ESXi Server 4/5 and Virtual Center, vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Fault Tolerance (FT), Host Profiles,, vApp, VMware VCenter Converter
• Experience in implementing ESX/ESXi servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots.
• Hands on experience installing, configuring & administering of Citrix, XenApp 6.5,7 and XenDesktop 5, 7, Citrix Secure gateways, web interface, Netscalers, licensing and application packaging
• Installing, configuring and administering Windows 2003/2008 R2/2012 servers and perform Patch Management
• Handled Major incident, Change, Request management and Coordination with 3rd party application vendor for Vendor issues
• Resolved Active Directory, Print Server and Citrix Access issues, User account creations in Active Directory and providing permissions to Shared Project Drives, Creation of Roaming Profile Drives.
• Performed inventory of existing server environment and gather server utilization statistics such as CPU, disk usage and Alert Management
• As one of the Transition team member, responsible for Server migrations from old legacy environment to new environment for VMware ESX/Vsphere 5.x
• Provided daily, weekly and monthly health reports on existing Citrix Farm and suggesting up gradations of servers or license

Confidential, Chicago, IL

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Regular communication and collaboration with counterparts in the engineering teams.
• Monitoring ITIL environments such as change/ incident Management, Create and monitor RFC up to closure, Reviews all implemented changes to ensure that they have met their objectives; refers back any that have been backed out.
• Configured HA, Failover and DRS
• Configured memory, processors, switches etc. on for virtual Servers on ESXi host.
• VMWare Administration and managing Virtual center.
• Managing VMWare container and Virtual Machines, and Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
• Building VM and Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.
• Configuring and managing resource pool.
• Tacking VM Resources (CPU, Memory, Disk)
• HP Blade Hardware Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting
• Added SAN storage on a regular basis to clusters based on capacity requirements
• Creating and managing the VMware clusters
• Expand Disks upon Capacity Planning
• Configured and maintained new VM’s and Installed Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Servers
• Installing the VMware Tools on the VM
• Involved in analyzing and implementing OS patches and hot fixes as well as Antivirus management
• Designed and upgraded Windows 2000/2003 DC Active Directory Infrastructure to Windows 2008 DC Active Directory Infrastructure.
• Worked on a strict deadling by co-ordinating with Network, storage and Wintel teams to Recover Windows 2003 and 2008 Physical and Virtual servers into isolation.
• Installing, configuring and administering Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP and IIS
• Strong knowledge of Systems Hardware and Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS)
• Support, troubleshot and maintain hardware including servers, storage and related network devices and peripherals.
• Provide second/third-tier systems support to internal and external customers as necessary.
• Regular reviews of Firmware levels on servers
• Used PowerShell to execute scripts, VBScripts.
• Created User Accounts, Domain Accounts, and Distribution Groups with Active Directory

Environment: ESXi 4.0/5.1 Windows XP/7, Windows Server 2003/2008/R2, SQL 2008

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured kickstart server and updating/applying patches to the servers.
• Custom build of Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers which includes adding users, SAN, network configuration, installing application related packages, managing services.
• Responsible for maintenance of development tools and utilities and to maintain shell, Perl automation Scripts.
• Remote system administration using tools like SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin.
• Adding servers to domain and managing the groups and user in Active Directory, installing and configuring send mail.
• Responsible for the Database / Network operation with 8 server and 120 Desktops.
• File system Tuning and growing using VERITAS File System (VxFS), coordinated with SAN Team for storage allocation and Disk Dynamic Multi path.
• Managing SUN Solaris, HP-UX, Compaq and Linux workstations and servers
• Fine tuning of Servers and configuring networks for optimum performance.
• Setup Squid Proxy Server for Internet sharing and to block the unwanted sites.
• Maintained Samba File Server for user authentication, syslog domain, and file sharing.
• Setup Clustering for Linux servers.
• Fine tuning of Servers and configuring networks for optimum performance.
• Assisted the development team and reviewed the required maintenance tasks.
• Responsible for Connectivity issues among various Servers and various software components.
• Package and patch management on Sun servers.
• Used Puppet tool for managing system configurations.
• Installation, maintenance and administration of Oracle and Db2 Server on Sun Servers.
• Setting up network environments using TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP agents, DHCP and Proxy.
• Kernel tuning, Writing Shell scripts for system maintenance and file management.
• Worked on Solaris volume manager to create file systems as per user and database requirements.
• Trouble shooting the system and end user issues.
• Responsible for configuring real time backup of web servers.
• Log file was managed for troubleshooting and probable errors.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle, PowerBuilder, Toad, Windows 2003 Server, Java, Trend Micro Antivirus, Dell PowerEdge1300, 1500, Acer Server, Citrix, VOIP, WebEx, Puppet and Redhat Satellite server.