PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 10+ years of IT experience as Microsoft Windows Systems Administrator supporting VMware\Citrix Environment for Implementation and Support of Windows 2012, Windows 2008 R2, 2008, 2003 and 2000 Servers on HP, Dell, IBM and Compaq Blade Servers. Over 4+ years of support in Application Administration as System Engineers II supporting Corporate Application maintaining three tier applications.
• Experienced in configuring hardware and software RAID under Windows NT / / 2008 servers. Installing, Configuring and Supporting Intel or AMD based HP Proliant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL460c, BL20p Blade Servers, and Dell Power Edge Servers includes Rack Servers, Blade Servers (M910/ M710HD/ M420)) and Server Enclosures (M1000e).
• Hands on Experience in Installing, Configuring & Troubleshooting VMware ESXi 5.5/5.0/5.1/4.1/4.0 , vSphere 5.5/5.0/4.0, vCenter servers and XenSever.
• Involved in upgrading the existing Servers with latest Service Packs, Security Patches, Application and Middleware patching.
• Configuring VM’s on ESX Server and installing hosts and Migrating Virtual Machines across various VMware ESX Server, Workstation and VMware servers.
• Extensive experience in migration of servers P2P, P2V and V2V by using VMware Converter, Platespin and Double take.
• Extensively worked on vMotion, Storage vMotion and Microsoft Active Directory.
• Experience with VMware vCenter Lab Manager for installing and maintaining the operating systems, deploying and managing the applications.
• Created Backup policies and scheduling backup Jobs using VERITAS Backup, NT Backup and Backup Exec.
• Knowledge on VMware ESX Server security tasks creating and applying Roles and Permission within Active Directory Users and Groups, Configuring vMotion, Resource Pool, and DRS, HA Cluster, cloning and migrating VM machines.
• Install and Deploy, Management, Troubleshoot and Administer Print Server with Microsoft Print Management on post script, Universal Print Driver.
• Experienced in Application Testing, Staging and Production deployment in WebSphere, WebLogic environment in Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux and AIX servers.
• Production support providing 24/7 expert technical support and consultation for various internal and Vendor Corporate Application as Application SME in WebSphere, WebLogic, Tom Cat, Apache and IIS environment.
• Driven the Application Deployment/Upgrade, Vulnerability Management and Tech Refresh Projects along with DR setup and testing.
• Performed root cause analysis and suggested tuning methods for Server problems like Server Crashes, Hangs and Out of Memory issues and High CPU utilization in Web, Application and DB servers (Oracle, DB2, SQL and MySQL).
• Expert in Handling Code Releases and Deploying applications in Production.
• Experienced in finding the Memory Leaks and adjusting the JVM Heap Sizes and GC Parameters.
• Experienced in working with LDAP, SSO, SiteMinder and Active Directory.
• SSL certification management and renewal and SSH configuration for SFTP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Vsphere Tools: VIClient, Web Client, VM Converter, VUM, IPAM.

Application: Application Servers Oracle WebLogic IBM WebSphere 7.x/6.xTomcat 4.x,5.x,6.x, JBoss Applications Oracle SOA 10g/11gPeopleSoft, UFO, Cognos. Web Servers Apache Tomcat 4.x/5.x, IISIBM Web Server(IHS).

Operating Systems: RedHat Linux, Solaris 8/9/10, SUSE Linux, AIX, Windows HP - UX.

Protocols: SSH, TLS, FTP, SFTP, Telnet, SOAP, LDAP, RMI/IIOP and TCP/IP.

Database Tools: Databases & DB Tools Oracle 10g/11g, TOAD, SQL Plus, SQL

Management Studio and MS Access. .:

General Tools: AppDynamics, Splunk, e-Health, JIRA, Share Point, Service DeskChange Request Team Track, Test-Track, Remedy, ConfluenceAppMap, E-Perform, CMDB, ServiceNow, File Zilla, WINSCPPowerCLI, Putty, BlueZone, Xterm, XMing, Xcopy, Robocopy, rSync,MS Project Std., MS Visio, MS Office tools, Lotus Note, CA Clarity, PPM, Remedy, SDC etc.

Remote/Network Tools: SCCM, DameWare, Opsware, Windows Desktop Manager, Windows,AD tools, Windows Deployment Services, Acronis, Venafi, Remote, Desktop, Networker, DHCP, DNS, WireShark, Fiddler etc.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Omaha, Nebraska

VMWare Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and deployment of VMware products such as VMware Workstation, VMware converter, VMware View, VCB and more in virtual environment
• Experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View Composer and View Connection Manager to make Virtual Desktop Infrastructure efficient and to simplify desktop administrative management tasks. Responsible for successfully upgrading all hosts and vCenter servers to vSphere 5.5
• Reconfigured all ESX network connectivity utilization including VLAN tagging and teaming and also the configuration ofmany dvSwitches with 802.1q VLAN tagging
• Good experience in using Cisco IOS commands and techniques to perform SAN zoning
• Experience of FC SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS (EMC (CX3), NetApp, Dell MD3000i, Dell MD1000) storage technology and work with SANs in VMware environments
• Good experience in migrating production VMs using Storage vMotion to new Datacenter with zero downtime
• Configured storage LUNs for VMFS and raw disk mappings (RDM’s) on an HP EVA 4400
• Good experience in configuration of iSCSI storage box with the help of Open filer
• Experience in troubleshooting SAN related issues and firmware up gradations of SANs in VMware and different environments
• Support Multiple (PSM and Core) VMware 3x and vSphere4 farm.
• Design and Plan Upgrade to vSphere5
• Involved in DR design and planning
• Actively involved in PSM VMware vSphere4/ESX4, Win2003/2008R2 Server deployment in DR environment
• Test and recommend Replication/Backup solutions for VMware, SAN and Disaster Recovery
• Carve LUN’s & Manage HP EVA4400 Fibre SAN and HP Lefthand P4500 Storage Solutions
• Provision VMware Datastore’s and configure storage for Virtual Machines
• Hands on experience with Windows 2k, XP, 7, 2003 and 2008R2 Server and MS Office

Confidential, Omaha, Nebraska

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and managing Virtual Infrastructure, ESX 3.5, VCenter, vSphere.
• VMware infrastructure 4.x, 5.0 / Vsphere installation and configuration
• Troubleshooting ESXi server and VCenter using command line.
• Apply patches to all the ESXi hosts in the environment whenever required.
• Configuring Resource pool and DPM.
• Hands on experience in VMware products Vsphere 5.0
• Server consolidation with VMware converter (P2V and V2V conversions).
• Creating Resource Pools and Setting limits on CPU and RAM.
• Configuring Virtual machines using Templates, Hot clone, Cold Clone and Cold Migration.
• Troubleshooting issues related to Virtual Machine, vMotion, snapshots, clone and template.
• Configuring VMware vSphere Cluster features like High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Created a Host Profile and configured multiple hosts from well-built Host.
• Installed and configured multiple ESX/ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy.
• 24/7 Production support on Internal/Vendor Corporate applications from various portfolios like Risk & Compliance, Audit, Legal, Finance and HR as Primary SME in Windows/Linux/AIX Server Environments. (Emptoris, Cognos, ACL, Corptax, Timelink, Teammate, Tracker, Archer, Clearwell, Atlas, Secretariat, AppWorx(Automic), Markview, BAWeb, BRMEdge, Uperform, Laser, Actimize, RMW, CARS, OFAC etc.)
• New Deployment, Tech Refresh and Version Upgrade projects as Primary and Secondary SME on applications Emptoris, ACL, Archer, Corptax, Timelink, Teammate, Tracker, Atlas, Secretariat, Markview, Appworx.
• Citrix Server Migration Project from Windows server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 for the applications Teammate, Tracker, BAweb, BRMEdge, Corptax and Appworx.
• Vulnerability management working with ASA team, Application Vendor, AppDev team for App Scan/pen test and remediate findings on the all supporting application to make compliance against the risks.
• Planning, coordinating, and executing Data-Center, Storage and Network consolidations, relocations, migrations and Patch Management.
• Demonstrated understanding of Data Center Operations (Production operations, Server, Storage, Network, Systems Management, Helpdesk, DR/Business recovery practices)
• Perform infrastructure discovery, assessment and recommendation working with Architecture, Active Directory, Network, Security and Capacity teams.
• SSL certificate management Create, renew, revoke on Internal Certificates and VeriSign certificates using Venafi application.
• Provide business reports and update records to fix issue in Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL and MySql DBs using Toad, SQL Management Studio and SQL Developer Tools.
• Setting up and Managing CIFS, NAS share with NTFS permission and automate with the Sync setup for DR environment via Robocopy and rSync.

Environment: VMWARE vRealize, vSphere 5.5, vCenter Server, Windows 2008, 2012 Servers, RHEL 6/7, Ubuntu 12/14, Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2012, Oracle 11g/12c Active Directory, IIS, Apache, TomCat, WebSphere, Weblogic, Cognos, Automic, CA7.

Citrix Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on project for upgrading XenApp 5.5/6.5 and XenDesktop 5.5 environment to XenApp/XenDesktop 7.1 configuring StoreFront, Delivery Controller, Studio, License Server and Director.
• Installation, Configuration of Xen App Server 5.5/6.0/6.5/7.1 , XenDesktop 5.5/7.1 & Citrix plug in/Web Client/Receiver for project and BAU support.
• Administer Citrix XenApp Farms using Delivery Service Console, XenApp Console and Citrix Studio.
• Configure application/Desktop and publish it for users based on client/application requirement.
• Manage and Configure Terminal License and Citrix licenses for XenApp Environments.
• Configure and Implementation of Policies related to servers and environment for Citrix including USB and Disk redirection working with KIX Scripts.
• Configure and Manage Printers, Printer policies and Print drivers along with the universal print driver.
• Worked on Citrix environment setup roaming/mandatory profile coordinating with AD Information Security team for Application and Desktop environment.
• User management on Citrix environment setting up, assigning and modifying role based implementation.
• Maintain the XenApp environment with applying periodic Citrix hotfix, maintaining vDisk, Complying OS updates and updating VDA.
• Maintain and setup of XenServer Environment, vSphere for Citrix environment setup and pilot testing.
• Troubleshoot system, performance, application, configuration and network issues using Citrix Edge sight and Desktop Director.
• Troubleshoot and support users on Citrix related issue using SCCM 2012 and shadow feature from the Citrix.
• Maintained Diagrams, Documents (Run Book, SOM, License Documents & troubleshooting Documents), training materials, Document repository and Account information kept up to date.

Confidential

Windows System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design, implementation, and maintenance of current large scale physical and virtual consolidated infrastructures as well as with the design, test and implementation of future technologies within virtual space.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 5.5/ 5.0, Virtual Center 5.5/4.0 Servers and also patching, management and troubleshooting of VMware, and ESX Servers.
• Worked on configuring the servers with Raid Configuration on HP Proliant DL585, DL380, C7000 Chassis Blade Servers.
• Participated in Installation and configuration of vCenter Server, and vSphere licensing.
• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers on HP and IBM Servers.
• Created User Accounts, Domain Accounts, and Distribution Groups with Active Directory.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Experience in the Installation of desktops using VDI environment.
• Migrated P2P, P2V and V2V Servers using VMware Converter.
• Performed P2V conversions using converter enterprise 4 and 5 and also P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Involved in the Backup and Recovery of the Database using Symantec Backup exec.
• Configured and maintained new VM’s and Installed Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers, managing VM’s and ESX servers by using VIC, Putty and Web Access and installing the VMware Tools on the VM.
• Supported ESX and VM storage issues and also coordinated with the Storage Admin Team.
• Involved in the maintenance and up gradation of DNS and DHCP servers.
• Supported data migration activities in Windows VMs using vMotion
• Patching Windows Servers using SCCM 2007.
• Used Remedy Tool for Incident Reports/Tickets, Change Management, and Request Management in Remedy by meeting the SLA requirements.
• Actively involved in planning the disaster recovery and responsible in understanding the BCP requirements and coordinating BCP (Business Continuity Planning) activities.