SUMMARY:

• Having over 8 years of experience in the field of VMware ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 , VMware vSphere 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 . Where Planning, Implementation, Administration and troubleshooting are involved with many platforms of OS like Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows 2008 and Windows 2012 R2.
• Proficient in IT environment over architect, implement, and Support VMware Virtualized computing and Microsoft Windows environments.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills, self - motivated and quick learner.
• Managed Virtualization Environment using VMware ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 , VMware vSphere 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 , Virtualcenter, VI Client, P2V
• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of VMware ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 , VMware vSphere 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 , Virtualcenter, VI Client
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS)
• Configured Resource Pool, V Motion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP
• Strong experience supporting IT infrastructure for manufacturing systems such as SCADA and MES application.
• Took an initiative to help the team get accustomed with VMware 6.5 version.
• Experience in Cisco UCS /HP C7000 blades administration and troubleshooting.
• Expertise with Windows Active Directory Administration, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP; experience managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 R2.
• Provide Technical Support on the following environments: SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017.
• Resolve SQL Server related issues for Premier clients. Offer guidance with Setup/Upgrade, troubleshooting security issues with SQL Server including Root Cause when needed.
• Provide elevated level of Technical Support for SQL Engine Performance, High Availability, AlwaysOn, Disaster Recovery, Mirroring, Replication and Cluster failover analysis.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations
• Creating Templates from VM’s, deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources
• Monitoring of Virtual Machine’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security.
• Converting P2V and V2V using VMware Standalone Converter.
• Installation of Team Foundation Server 2012 and Upgraded TFS 2008 to TFS 2012.
• Upgradation of TFS 2012 to TFS 2013.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
• Creation of Virtual Switches, Ports and Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks.
• Troubleshooting issues relating to v motion such as compatibility issues with help of event log.
• Moving VM’s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion.
• Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between Virtual Machines.
• Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting.
• Organize tasks, events and Configuring alarms.
• Experience in configuring vMotion, storage vMotion, virtual networking, cloning, deploying VM’s from templates and automating VMware environment
• Experience with VMware SRM 5.0/4.5, and VShield 5.0 setup in the production environment.
• Administration & Maintaining Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008 and Group Policies
• Experience in Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012R2 Server operating systems
• Experience on AD, DHCP, DNS, IIS, Exchange, Windows clustering and ODBC connections.
• Experience with implementation and administration. Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel protocols, Fiber Channel cabling, switching, and zoning. Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Performed cross platform audits of Active Directory (AD) objects and user permissions.
• Managed User Accounts on WindowsNT and UNIX Platform (Creation, Deletion, Permissions, and VPN Access).
• Developed organizational units in Active Directory (AD) and managed user security with group policies.
• Maintained and managed Domain Name Service (DNS) for AETC Active Directory (AD) enterprise
• Maintained user, group, and computer accounts for the AETC enterprise network
• Managed Group Policy Objects (GPOs) throughout the Active Directory (AD) enterprise
• Configured Group Policy Objects to create a secure Windows Infrastructure.
• Provided third level help desk support for problems relating to Active Directory.
• Created user ID's, roles, groups OU's etc.
• Created and implemented directory services on two Windows 2008 servers
• Implemented DNS for external name resolution
• Setup Managed service accounts for the domain
• Health check on VMware Infrastructure using VMware Health check tool and custom scripts
• Experience in storage protocols, SAN/NAS technologies like iSCSI, Fiber Channel and NFS
• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters. Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to manage the allocated Confidential SAN, Fiber and Networking Infrastructure.
• Performed SRM testing with SAN storage replication.
• Advanced troubleshooting and performance analysis of all aspects of the virtualized environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware: VMware ESXi 6.5/6.0, 5.5, 5.1, Vcenter, VDI VMware vSphere suite 6.5/6.0, VMware Automation Tools, SRM.

Operating Systems: Windows Server NT/ 2000/ 2003/ 2003 R2/ 2008/ 2008 R2/ 2012 R2/2016. Windows XP, Windows 7, LINUX (Ubuntu, Fedora, Red hat), VMware ESX

Directory services / Internet: Designing, Deploying and Migration of Windows Based Active Directory. Installation and Administration of IIS 8.0, DHCP & DNS servers

Hardware: HP Blade servers 685c G5/G7, HP ProLiant servers DL 380 G5, DL385 G5, C7000, c3000, DELL Power Edge servers 2850, 2950, 6950, Dell Laptops and Desktops, and Other HP hardware, Cisco & HP Switches, Confidential SAN, VMAX, DMX, Confidential Clarian, NetApp SAN and Dell EqualLogic

Backup: Symantec NetBackup and Veaam Backup &Replication, CA Arc Serve Backup, COMM vault Backup.

Applications: MS Office 2003, 2007, 2010,2013. Office 365 Pro Plus.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MA

Sr Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the engineering, planning, coordination, and installation of new or modified Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 Servers including Blade and SAN storage.
• Installed Windows Clustering Service on Windows Server 2016 and configured IIS Cluster 2016 and SQL Server 2016 cluster.
• VMware ESX 6.5 configuration and administration.
• Lead a project to remove all the windows 2003/2008 machines from environment. Successfully upgraded or decommissioned all the windows 2003/2008 machines.
• Installed and configured hyper-converged infrastructure in the environment as a part of migrating servers to newer environment.
• Used VMware vMotion to eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running virtual machines between hosts.
• Involved in performing VMotion and Storage administration for successful data migration.
• Installation Vcenter server and Configuring ESXi - hosts within the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Lead a project to Active Directory Redesign. I’ve reduced the domain controllers to 8 with new of active directory of 25 domain controllers.
• Implemented WSUS/SCCM integration and created a monthly phased patching process.
• Led the drive to upgrade from SMS to SCCM to take advantage of the advanced features that SCCM offered. Worked with Server Team to in corporate remote Sales Office sites into Active Directory which integrated PCs into SCCM for upgrading, inventorying, and patching.
• Deploy security updates using SCCM Software Update Point (SUP) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
• Improved levels of IT Security preparedness through the rapid standardized deployment of security updates via SMS and SCCM. Replaced Patchlink Updating with SMS/SCCM Patching to reduce licensing fees.
• Superior knowledge and demonstrated technical proficiency in Microsoft Systems Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 and 2012.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, and Xen and legacy hardware. Implement Confidential VNX, VMAX, Clarion (CX, CX3, and CX4) SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere and SAN-backed applications.
• Experience with implementation and administration. Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel protocols, Fiber Channel cabling, switching, and zoning. Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Planning, Deployment and Management of Enterprise scale VMware vSphere Virtual Infrastructure vSphere 6.0.
• Defining the thresholds for VMware vSphere environment.
• Created several Dashboards in SolarWinds monitoring environment.
• Monitored the whole infrastructure environment in SolarWinds. Generated reports for exchange environment, VMware Vcenter. Created polling events according to requirement to watch the health of the servers and all the live equipment in the datacentre.

Environment: windows 2003/20, Exchange Server 2010/2013, Windows 7/ Win 8/Win 10, VMware ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 , VMware vSphere 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 , ESX 4, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, SAN/NAS( Confidential VMAX, VNX, ISILON) HP BL/DL G1/G3/G9-360/380, DELL PowerEdge Servers(1950, 2950,R710).

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implemented vSphere upgrade 4.1 to 5.5/6.0 with VMware best practices.
• Windows Server OS migration from win and VMWare ESX 3.5/4.1 to 5.5/6.
• Took an initiative to help the team get accustomed with VMware 6.5 version.
• Provide Engineering guidance to EITS (Build, Run & DR), Data Architecture and Application Teams
• Create and Maintain Project related Infrastructure Engineering Documents.
• Work with Architect team to translate Infrastructure Documentation into engineering guides.
• Provide HP/cisco UCS Hardware Configurations and Quotes, when necessary.
• Installed HP Blades and Rack mount serves on new chassis and upgraded firmware.
• Installed and configured HP left-hand(VSA) storage on C7000 chassis in remote locations.
• Expertise in troubleshooting and resolving issues in enterprise Citrix environment, Including Web Interface, application enumeration and performance issues, Printing and provisioning issues, for internal and external clients.
• Administration of Citrix XenApp Farms.
• Expertise in creating Citrix Streaming Profiles and Publishing Applications to users in Citrix XenApp
• Troubleshooted various issues related to Citrix resource manager, Printers etc.
• Monitored Citrix server’s health by using Citrix Edge Sight.
• Performed Citrix Farm and server health checks on regular basis.
• Developed Virtual apps for in-house client server applications through Citrix Streaming profiler.
• Installed vRealize Automation and is responsible for ensuring its availability for other users. The System Administrator creates tenants and manages system-wide configuration such as system defaults for branding and notification providers. This role is also responsible for monitoring system logs. In a single-tenant deployment, the same person might also act as the Tenant Administrator.
• Managed cloud, virtual, networking, and storage infrastructure at the system level, creating and managing endpoints and credentials, and monitoring IaaS logs. IaaS administrators organize infrastructure into tenant-level fabric groups, appointing the fabric administrators who are responsible for allocating resources within each tenant through reservations and reservation, storage, and networking policies.
• Configured services for any workflows that we create in vRealize Orchestrator.
• Knowledge and preferably experience working with Powershell, HTML, SQL.
• Used the vRealize Automation SDK to provide software application interfaces. Planning and gathering the requirements for setting up TFS environments for environment based migration and up gradation.
• Setting up DEV and PRD environments.
• Setting up SQL server.
• Upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012
• Documenting the process followed for restoration based up gradation of TFS server.
• Configuring Microsoft SQL server with TFS server.
• Configuring SharePoint foundation services with TFS 2010.
• Creating site collections for each Team Project Collection TPC
• Configuring SharePoint sites with Team projects in TFS.
• Configure TFS environment such that SQL Reporting and SharePoint interact with each other.
• Built-in administrator credentials are specified when single sign-on is configured.
• Planned and implemented vSphere upgrade 4.1 to 5.5/6.0 with VMware best practices.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter)
• Designed and implemented vROps 6.2 on enterprise level with multiple nodes for remotes sites.
• Collaborate with Architectural team members to ensure that the design of physical and virtual solutions meet business and technology objectives, including Disaster Recovery requirements.
• Support the complete Design/Build/Run aspects of an outsourced managed services model for Open Systems services.
• Research and understand functional requirements for solutions, including performance criteria, target environments, existing and modern technologies and tools to ensure that solutions appropriately meets customer demands.
• Work closely with other technical towers to ensure proposed solutions meet minimum build, support and run requirements, including Network, Storage, Security, Data Center Hardware, Application, and Database Administration teams.

Environment: windows 2003/2008/2012 , Exchange Server 2010/2013, Windows 7/ Win 8/Win 10, VMware ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 , VMware vSphere 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 , ESX 4, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, SAN/NAS( Confidential VMAX, VNX, ISILON) HP BL\DL G9 380 DELL PowerEdge Servers.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr.System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded 1200 servers from Windows server 2003 to windows server 2008/2012.
• Migrated the data centre from one location to another location.
• Deployed more than 300 VM’s with windows server 2012 on it. They are successfully running in production.
• Prepared server artifacts and documentation for all the deployed VM’s and for the VM’s in production.
• Engineered and administered Hyper-V servers.
• Lead the efforts in the creation of Migration Process Flows from discovery of data center current state through design of future state.
• Working in collaboration with my peers in the Professional Services group, created process flows, swim lanes, and documentation for a total data /application migration methodology.
• Relocation of 500+ server data center to meet hosting requirements while cutting costs.
• Coordinated migration of about 100 application, web, and database servers with Data Migration Specialist, Application, and Support teams.
• Administration of environment running ESX/ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machines
• Managing backups for the whole Baker-environment which has CA ArcServe Backup Client
• Migrated Windows Server 2003 from test environment to the production environment.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles/Distributed Switches setup
• VMware SRM testing on NAS storage with storage replication
• Server day to day maintenance like taking backups, making server compliant.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtualcenter servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter
• Cisco UCS Deployment and Implementation for Virtual Environments
• Managed Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain Administration
• Worked on Windows Server 2008 clustering and worked on failover configuration on windows on Unscheduled and Scheduled Outages

Environment: VMware VSphere 5.5/6.0, ESX 5.5, VM Converter, Virtual Centre, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VReplicator, clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, VCenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery & Backup, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , Hyper-V server 2008/2012.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured over 100+ VMware VSphere 4.1/4.0 ESX/ESXi nodes.
• Administration of environment running ESX/ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machines.
• Manage Virtual Machines, Installing VMware Tools, Creating Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines using Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual Machines.
• Experience with VMware SRM and 4.1 environment.
• Creation of VMs and install different guest OS
• Hands on configuring HA, DRS, vMotion and installing VMware tools
• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters. Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to manage the allocated Confidential SAN, Fiber and Networking Infrastructure.
• Design, implementation and troubleshooting VMware ESX 4.0/3.5 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP C7000 and Cisco UCS 5100 Chassis.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtualcenter servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows XP, Professional, Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles/Distributed Switches setup
• VMware SRM testing on NAS storage with storage replication
• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 4.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Performed system administration activities, security policies and monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels

Environment: VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5, VM Converter, Virtual Centre, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VReplicator, clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, Vcenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery & Backup, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Administering VM’s across 4 Datacenters Running 1200 VM’s. Maintaining Performance lab machines in the datacenter and Project Management experience
• Migrated servers from multiple decentralized farms to a centralized global farm
• Installed ESXi5.1/5.0 in large environment on Cisco UCS on both protected and recovery sites
• Implementation Of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Implementation of VMware vSphere 5.0 with Enterprise Plus Features of Distributed Switches and Host Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 4.1 to vSphere 5.0 Update 2 including vCenter 5.0, ESaXi Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SVMotion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates.
• Cisco UCS Deployment and Implementation for Virtual Environments
• Managed Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain Administration
• Worked on Windows Server 2008 clustering and worked on failover configuration on windows on Unscheduled and Scheduled Outages
• 300+ P2V migration of windows and Linux servers.
• Expertise in providing support for Windows 2003/2008 servers and ADS.
• Experience with Server consolidation using VMware vSphere 4.1
• Upgraded ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 on servers using update manager.

Environment: Windows 2003/2008/2012 , Exchange Server 2010, Windows XP/ Win 7, VMware ESXi 4, VMware vSphere 4, ESX 4, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, SAN/NAS.

Confidential, Houston, TX

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Upgrading vCenter Servers /ESXi hosts from vSphere 4.x to 5.0.
• Implementation of VMware vSphere 5.0 with Enterprise Plus Features of distributed Switch and Host Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 4.0 to vSphere 5.0 and Update 1 including vCenter5.0, ESX Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools and H/W upgrade to vSphere 5.0.
• Upgraded VMs hardware components according vSphere requirement.
• Have good knowledge on desktop virtualization.
• Establish and implement ongoing monitoring procedures as indicated by establishing a baseline and appropriate metrics, generating a security monitoring procedure, implement scripts, and auditing/verifying the system as reported on a periodic basis and participate in security audits
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP c7000 blade administration.
• Have good working experience with VCE Vblock.
• Coordinated precise scheduling for all data center migration events
• Installing VMware Tools in a Linux virtual machine using RPM and Compiler.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM hardware versions and Datastores upgrade to VMFS 5.
• Was responsible for formulating disaster management techniques, and the course of action to be taken, in case of a network failure.
• Ensured that all the software and hardware components are upgraded properly, and also designed the company's networking policy.
• Co-ordination with network team for implementation and upgrade services CISCO MDS switches.
• Working experience on different planning migration strategies with SAN and NAS data.
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance and break/fix activities.
• Have good knowledge about Cisco MDS switches…
• Having good knowledge in Administration of VM clones, Templates and snapshots.
• Responsible for Virtual Environment maintain and well-organizing.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
• Was involved in building, configuring and hardware upgrades of Windows servers.
• Worked on Performance Analysis and Tuning/Optimization Operations, Virtual machine creation, cloning, configurations.
• Installed and configures software updates using Update manager using patches and created the baselines for the updates
• Creating Backup and restore of data by using windows backup and recovery utilities.

Environment: vSphere 4.0 and 5.0, ESXI 5.0, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Red hat Linux, Cisco UCS 5108, VCE V block, UCS manager, VNX, Confidential Unisphere, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, putty, Power shell and SQL.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing different flavours of windows servers.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting Active Directory.
• Assigning rights and privileges to users to access files and folders.
• Worked with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rackmount servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Installed and managed Symantec Endpoint Protection Antivirus on servers and clients.
• Responsible for Desktop, Laptop, Network and Outlook support & troubleshooting client’s issues.
• User Support - Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance, server & user related problems. Support users to resolve their day to day issues related to OS, Email, Account issues, hardware etc.
• Performed system administration activities, security policies and monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels
• Performed System monitoring about the servers status and also performed the crash recovery on the servers.

Environment: Windows server 2003/2008, windows xp, red hat servers, Linux operating systems (CentOS, Ubuntu), Jira.