OBJECTIVE:

• Around 9 years of professional experience asVMware, Windows and Cloud Engineer and seeking a challenging position and professional environment that will utilize my technical skills and experience in the field of Computer Networking and Enterprise Infrastructure with emphasis on VMware Virtualization, vRA, vCAC, vRO, AWS, Azure, Windows 2008/2012/2016 Operating Systems, Storage and Cisco Network.

SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with a cross - platform experience in systems administration, including analyzing, designing, installing, maintaining, and repairing hardware, software, peripherals, and networks, and also exposed Amazon Web Services (Cloud Computing) and VMWare ESXi.
• Extensive experience and knowledge with designing, installing and implementingVCenter, VMware View, VMotion, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, SRM, VMware VCenter Converter
• Configure, build, implement, and administerESX/ESXi 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x,preparing VMs with different Guest OS - Windows Server 2008/2008R2/2012/2016, Windows 7 &Windows 8 and Windows 10
• Knowledge in design and Implementation virtualization solutions based on VMware VSphere 5 and VMware VSphere 6 with EMC VNX storage and Cisco UCS Blades
• Good Understanding and Knowledge of VMware vRealize suite including vRA/vRO.
• Knowledge and Experience working with Cloud environments - VMware, AWS and Azure
• Expertise in implementing ESX/ESXi servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots
• Experience and understanding on storage types including iSCSI, NAS and SAN, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS, NetApp SAN technologies such as LUN creation, LUN masking, zoning, LUN addressing and, storage management for SAN using iSCSI devicesand EMC Clariion CX3-20, CX3-40, EMC VNX5400, VNX5600, HP EVA6000, EVA6100 Storage Servers
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter and Platespin
• Hands on Experience in VMware networking implementation including creation of vSwitches, port groups, connection types, network traffic and, security policy setting by NIC Teaming, load balancing, beacon traffic, notification to switches for connectivity problems, VLAN problem management and, connectivity with storage using iSCSI, NAS and SAN storages
• Installed VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on Cisco UCS and HP blade servers(c3000/c7000)
• Installed, Configured and Supported Intel or AMD based HP ProLiant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL460c, BL20p Blade Servers, and Dell Power Edge Servers
• Strong experience in SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor tool for monitoring Fault, Performance, Availability and Latency
• Experience with HP Blade System C-class enclosure (3000/7000) using Onboard Administrator and Virtual Connect
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and strong analytical abilities, and can perform well both independently and as a team player

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Englewood, New Jersey

Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created and/or evaluated technical designs, build proof of concepts and participated in design reviews
• Worked with Cloud-based solutions like AWS for deploying on-demand Windows and Linux
• Played a key role in evaluating, establishing and conducting proof of concepts (POC) of various Cloud IAAS
• Provided installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting support for database application software both on premises and in the Cloud
• Worked closely with other infrastructure teams to deliver new environments and resolve problems related to existing infrastructure.
• Configured Tenants, Blueprints, Security Groups, End Points and Resource Pools in vRA Infrastructure
• Installed and Configured of vRA 7.3 appliance and IaaS servers for Sandbox environment in Lab
• Configured and managed Blueprints for Linux and Windows systems on Dev, QA and Prod environments
• Developed vRA/vRO customized blueprints for other teams
• Co-ordinate with Database team for installation and Clustering operations
• Deployed, configured and installed ESXi on Cisco UCS C-series and B-series and IBM Blades
• Configured and Managed VMware vRealize Automation 7.3(vRA), Catalog management, creating cloud server provisioning entitlements, creating and defining business groups, creating catalogue items, creating services for the catalog items, creating windows and Linux Red hat blueprints.
• Build and configured the VMs and Physical server as per the business and application requirements from the internal clients
• Used Service Now for ticketing for VM build request, resource increase, Storage, F5 request, Firewall request, Change Requests etc.

Environment: VMware vRealize suite 7.3, ESXi 5.0, 5.5, 6.5 and 6.0, Service Now (SNOW), PowerPath for VMware and Windows, AWS, Azure, Turbonomics, Cisco UCS Servers, HP servers, Windows Server OS 2008/2012/2016, RHEL 6.7

Confidential, Houston, TX

VMware/System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in End to End Datacenter relocation and Datacenter consolidation projects
• System implementer for Windows 2012/2008/2008 R2/2003/2003R2 and VMware ESX hosts customer installations, configuration, testing and troubleshooting based on documented customer requirements
• Experience in Virtual Center Upgrades from 5.1 to 5.5 & 5.5 to 6.0 including upgrading ESXi hosts and SRM
• Collaborated with Application/Database owners and NOC team to create application and database matrix documents for Data center migration
• Experience in deploying OVF/OVA files as a Virtual Machines
• Troubleshoot and monitored network using SNMP and SolarWinds network monitoring tools
• Monitored servers in SolarWinds and worked on alerts raised
• Provided and supported users with Virtual Private Network (VPN) connectivity
• Worked on Change Management, Request Management and Incident Tickets using BMC Track-it
• Configured the Avocent KVM 2035/8035 and connected KVM modules to all Windows server
• Configuring Network distributed switching and migrating the networks from network standard switches to network distributed switches
• Responsible for the McAfee anti-virus application and ensuring all endpoints are protected
• Building windows 2008 Servers and upgrading home windows 2003 R2 on both physical and virtual machines
• Experience in upgrading RAM and disk capacity on physical servers in data centers.
• Experience in building various versions of RHEL Linux VMs

Environment: ESXi 5.x/6.x, VCenter Server, Cloning, Snapshots, HA in Clusters, DRS, Windows Server OS 2003/2008/2012, Windows Client OS Win 7/Win 8/Win 8.1, VCAC, VDI, BMC Track-it, NetApp FC SAN/NAS storage, Avocent KVM, Cisco UCS servers, HP ProLiant G3,G5and G7 servers, HP Blade Servers on enclosure c3000 and c7000

Confidential, Malvern, PA

VMware/Windows Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creating and managing Virtual machines, data stores, clusters, hosts and useful resource pools
• Configured VMware HA, DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware infrastructure
• Creating and managing Virtual machines and templates as well as migration of virtual machines using VMotion
• Involved in the Backup and Recovery of the VMware VSphere using EMC Avamar backup
• Installed and configured Sophos Antivirus Software/agent for anti-virus protection of Servers and Workstations for Client
• Installed and Configured the Splunk Enterprise 6.1 for central logging system on Red Hat Server and forwarded logs of servers and workstations by installing universal forwarders
• Prepared the strategy and implemented ESXi Migration
• Involved in migrations of ESX servers from 3.5 to 4.0 and from 4.0 to ESXi 4.1
• Designed and implemented VSphere 5.0 Lab environment
• Involved in Data center migration more Than 40 ESX servers and large number of the windows physical servers
• Build and Configured RHEL 6.1 and Unix servers
• Write scripts shell/Perl/python to automate various system tasks such as performance and availability monitoring, user account monitoring and file system usage
• Worked with EMC VNX5300 and CX4-480 storage, involved in data migration using open migrator and open replicator
• Experience in HP c-class c7000 blade enclosure and onboard administrator configurations

Environment: VSphere 4.x/5.x, ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0, VMotion, VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters, VMware converter, VCenter update manager, HP ProLiant DL and Blade Servers, Clusters, SAN, NIC, EMC, Virtual Switches, TCP/IP, DNS, Windows Clustering, FTP, File and Printer Server,P2V, VMotion

Confidential, Santa Monica, CA

VMware/System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in up-gradation of the environment from VIserver3.5 to VSphere 4.1
• Involved in managing the network configurations including configuration of kernel ports, building management port into virtual switch
• Documented the different procedures involved in the up-gradation of environment, solution and troubleshooting of the issues
• Involved in a team to resolve tickets related to Exchange (2003/2007) involving local disks and network attached storage, Secure IMAP, Secure SMTP
• Helped test, implement and support VMware in the test and production environment. The focus was on the redundant internal support systems (DNS, Terminal Servers, Domain Controllers, etc.)
• Performed data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on Dell ISCSI SAN Storage
• Implemented VMware design, performing P2P, P2V, P2I, I2P, and V2P. Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter and Platespin
• Performed Hot Cloning, Cold Cloning, VMotion and Storage VMotion
• Windows 2000/2003 and 2008 Server Active Directory Administration
• Installed and configuredActive Directory, Global Policy, and Windows Authentication methods in an enterprise environment
• Anticipated obstacles and recommended solution options. Focused on client values and satisfaction while balancing corporate objectives, feasibility and scalability of solutions
• Ensured design fulfilled functional and technical requirements and consistently met service level agreements (SLAs.)

Environment: VMware ESX-ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1, VSphere 4.x, Windows Server,Exchange Server 2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, HP ProLiant DL and Blade Servers, SAN, AD, DNS, VMotion, P2V, V2V, Virtual Switch

Confidential

Associate System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in a network team to upgrading and updating router and switch IOS and Backup Cisco router Configuration through TFTP server
• Worked on troubleshooting customer related issues related to router Configuration, Layer 1/Layer 2 issues
• Configured Cisco Routers 2600 series using RIP, OSPF and EIGRP
• Configured Cisco Switches 2900
• Identified technical problems and debugged hardware and software related to LANs/ WANs
• Performed switching related tasks included implementing VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast - Ethernet channel between switches
• TroubleshootCisco hardware: Inspected devices, Read device LEDs, loose connections, interior IOS upgrade, switch port configuration, port monitoring
• User Support - Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance, server & user related problems
• Developed and implemented strategies to support the current and future needs of the company
• Strategies included operating systems, virus protection, mail systems and Internet services
• Updated the anti-virus, spam blockers, and other security software that the systems are always secured
• Resolved all computer related problems, monitored and maintained system functionality and reliability by identifying ways to prevent system failures

Environment: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP/Vista WAN, LAN, Cisco Routers and Switches, AD, DNS