SUMMARY:

• System Administrator Professional with more than 5+ years of experience.
• I have hands on experience including Windows Server 2008, 2012 and VMware Virtualization VMotion, P2V, V2V, VMware update Manager, VMware Workstation, Citrix Xen Desktop, Xen App, XEN Server.
• Installation, Configuration, Administration of VMware ESX/ESXi, Virtual Center.
• Create virtual machines, install Operating system inside VM’s and installing VM tools and configuring VM’s based on requirements.
• Possesses a B.A. in Computer Science.

SKILLS:

• Windows PowerShell
• System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating system: Windows Server 2008, 2012 and 2016, Windows 7, Windows 8, MAC OSX

Networking: LAN/ WAN Technologies, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Virtual LAN, VSwitch, Network Design and Troubleshooting, Active directories, DNS, DHCP, Web Servers.

Applications: Microsoft Office 2010/2013 (word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010.

Security: Operating System/Network Hardening, Access controls, AAA Firewall deployment.

VMware: infrastructure design, VMware fusion, VMware Horizon, VDI, Vpex, VMware Vsphere, VMware ESX, ESXi, and VCenter, VMware View with Thin App, VBlock private cloud, flexpod and VMware SPEX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered Installation, Configuration and deployment of VMware products such as VMware Workstation, VMware converter, VMware View, VCB and more in virtual environment.
• Performed installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View Composer and view connection Manager to make Virtual Desktop Infrastructure efficient and to simplify desktop administrative management tasks.
• Provided technical support to VDI users, solving connectivity problems.
• Performed Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware VSphere5.x, ESX 5.5, ESXi server & VMware View
• Worked on successfully upgrading all hosts and VCenter servers to vSphere5.5.
• Reconfigured all ESX network connectivity utilization including VLAN tagging and teaming also customized Virtual Networking (Virtual Switches, VM Kernel ports).
• Created, Managed and configured Virtual Machines, Clones and Templates. Deployed Virtual Machine using templates. Updated Template on timely manner.
• Worked in migrating production VMs using Storage vMotion to new Datacenter with Zero downtime.
• Worked on Troubleshooting issues related to ESX host, Virtual Center Server, VCB, High Availability, Distributed Resources Service, VMware - Vpxa, VMware update manager.

Confidential, Houston, TX

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Migration by performing P2V, V2V and V2P conversions using vConverter and PlateSpin.
• Worked to streamline the process of gathering and interconnecting machines, installing and maintaining operating systems, adding and updating application and resolving problems.
• Maintained Vcenter Server 4.1 and implemented View Desktop Infrastructure.
• Administrated VMware environment, evaluated and implemented new hardware and software solution that benefits architecture and operation. Implemented VMware SRM and troubleshoot performance issues.
• Customized layer 2 and layer 3 Networking between VMware, Networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance.
• Supported and Managed VMware ESX 3.5 and 4.0 infrastructure for production/non-production environments including HA/DRS Clustering.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drivers and Issues which occur during software upgrades.
• Provide support for system and application testing on the weekends by switching the production environment to QA and normalize the systems after testing.

Confidential, Houston, TX

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Virtual Center Server & License Server Installation and Configuration.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX 3.X, VMware Vsphere 4.X, Virtual center 4.X and 5.X Servers and Citrix XenApp.
• Cisco Confidential Deployment and Implementation for Virtual Environments.
• Installation and configuration of virtual machine in physical ESX server.
• Creating and managing Resource Pools and adding the VM’s into Resource pools Installing VM Tools into VM’s and allocating for end user and setting up priorities on CPU, Memory (RAM) and other resources.
• Configuration dedicated vmkernel & multiple service Console for better performance.
• Migrate and manage virtual machine and ensure high availability of applications.
• Implementation and after configuration maintenance of HA, DRS and Vmotion, VDI, Vpex and Resource pool.
• Configuration HA, DRS and Resource pool and manage the Cluster Level.
• VMware Connection Broker configured and managing the VM’s through connection Broker.
• Knowledge about the VMware Application software’s (ex. Thin stall, VDM, VMware Converter)
• Migrate physical server windows servers 2003/2008, Linux, SQL server, Cluster node servers to Virtual servers using Vmware vCenter converter and troubleshoot performance issue.
• Presenting FC SAN LUN’s, RDM’s iSCSI LUN’s and NFS mounts.

Confidential

Windows Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the file server, application and print server.
• Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on production servers.
• Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP.
• Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.
• Created objects like User Accounts, Computer Accounts and Auto logon accounts.
• Assigning folder permissions to the users by gathering approval from the group owners.
• Categorization of server in terms of complexity and effort required to complete the primary system access tasks.
• Worked on HP Open View Service Desk (OVSD) tickets.
• Performed technical expertise for windows systems environment on issues related to servers, local servers, data centers and server configuration.