Sr. Engineering System Administrator Resume

SUMMARY:

ITIL Certified Windows Server Administration, VMware, Virtual System and Technical Support Professional possessing over 9+ years of hands - on, demonstrated, customer service driven experience.
Extensively experienced with Windows 2008/2003/2000/ NT servers at both single and multi-domain platforms. Skilled in Project Management, deployment, installation, administration, maintenance and troubleshooting of various Microsoft Operating Systems and Applications, Networks and Computers
Experienced with Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Servers, IIS (Web Server), IIS 51/60/7, FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server
Experienced with Virtualization technologies including installing, configuring and administering VMware ESX/ESXi and creating and managing VMs (Virtual Server), as well the maintenance of Virtual Server
Expertise in building Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, 2008, 2003, and 2000 Servers using HP Smart Start, Array configurations, diagnosing Servers, updating firmware and PSP, and application software under multi-platform environments, as well as the deployment and monitoring of physical Servers
Experience in managing multiple Windows systems with Microsoft SCCM 2007, providing patch management, remote control, software distribution and OS deployment
Worked with ESX and ESXi 3, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 and 5.1. Successfully upgraded between ESX versions 4.1 to ESXi 5.1
Worked on vCenter Server 4.1 and 5.1 for managing multiple ESXi Servers. Built and troubleshot ESX Servers and ESXi Servers, vSphere and vCenter Manager
Expertise in the area of Virtualization with vSphere 5.0/4x, VMware ESXi 5, 4 and 3x hosts, along with Virtual Center Server
Worked extensively on templates and clones and implemented and managed HA and DRS clusters. Experienced with ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up VM priorities and cloning and snapshots
Knowledgeable with iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concepts
Extensive understanding of networking concepts including IE network configuration, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Ports, Patch Panel virtual networking, wireless networks and Cloud computing concepts
Experienced with x86/x64 Intel, HP and Dell hardware such as rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktops, laptops and other peripherals
Responsible production support of Active Directory (AD), Group Policy (GPO), GPP, Domain users, Users and groups and gave appropriate permissions, shares and privileges to access LAN and Domain environments
Responsible for administrating, creating and modifying DNS records, DHCP scopes and reservations, DFS links, Web servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting and WINS and DNS and managing user and group accounts Administration
Strong knowledge and hands on experience with Data Center Migration.
Successfully migrated from Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server2003/2007
Handled Security and compliance tasks on Windows servers involved for PCI/SOX/PHI remediation
Worked and Working on Windows and Exchange PowerShell Scripting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware Platform Skills: Experience with VMware vSphere, creating VM Sessions for installing multiple

OS and applications: Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX 5.X, VMware V sphere 5.x, Virtual center 5.X and 6 Servers, Build new servers daily in legacy VMware from, and Hyper-V for applications, Creating and Patching the Templates, also built templates from ISO image files, Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources, Manage VM's using VMware virtual center and web access,Configurations of Virtual switched and network connections, Created VM images to be used for deployment through Microsoft's Automated Deployment Services for test network.

Microsoft Products and Tools: Office 365,SCCM,MS-Office, MS-Exchange, MS-Azure

Server Operating Systems: Windows 2003, 2008, 2010 and 2012

Desktop Operating Systems: Windows 2008, Windows 7 and 8, Windows Vista, Windows PowerShell

Management Tools: HPSM,Service-Now,Remedy, Team track,Hyena,Message Labs,VPN-Positive Networks.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Engineering System Administrator

Responsibilities:

To support the UMMS IT Hosted Services Department with the implementation of multiple Enterprise-level initiatives. Report to the IT Director of Hosted Service. Work in a team environment with other technical, consulting and operations staff in a deadline-oriented, fast-paced environment
Handling OS Installs/New build/OS Hardening Windows Server (2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016).
Good understanding of common protocols and services, including: DHCP, DNS, FTP(S), HTTP(S), LDAP, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, TCP, UDP, and the ability to support, troubleshoot and resolve issues related to these protocols.
Experience with Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
Experience with Active Directory
Working knowledge of Networks and strong understanding of TCP/IPVMWare vSphere &Vcenter 6.0 & 6.5
Creating Scripts using Windows PowerShell cmdlets for automation of manual tasks.
Involved in the implementation and maintenance of major subsystems
Acknowledge and resolve user service requests utilizing the service request management system
Frequently contributes to the development of new theories and methods
Develop resolutions to complex problems that require frequent use of creativity, use judgment within defined policies
Contribute to the development of organizational goals and objectives
Represent the organization as the principle customer contact
Perform other duties as required.