SUMMARY:

• 10 years of hands on experience working in Windows administration, which includes experience in Cloud computing (AWS) and VMware administration.
• Implementation, Installing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of network and communication equipment.
• Certified AWS Sysops Admin
• Designing, configuring and managing public/private cloud infrastructures using Amazon Web Services (AWS) including but not limited to EC2, Elastic Load - balancers, Auto Scaling, Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers), S3, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFront, Elastic Filesystem, RDS, Glacier, VPC, Route53, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, IAM, EMR, ElasticSearch.
• Hands on Experience with AWS Snowball and Gateway stored volumes for migration of data from Data center to AWS
• Strong proficiency in supporting Production Cloud environments (AWS and VMware) as well as traditional managed hosted environments.
• Maintaining user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route 53, SES and SNS services in AWS cloud
• Practical work experience in Installing, Maintaining, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Managing Blade Center server and VMware ESX Server Administration.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 & 2012/2012R2 servers on HP ProLiant servers
• Good hands on experience in installing & configuring DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2003//2008R2 & 2012/2012R2 servers.
• Managing user, user profiles, user rights, creating home folders and applying disk quota’s for the users
• Applying group policies on organizational units in Active Directory
• Monitoring Schedule backups and Restore the data as per user requirement using EMC Networker tools
• Maintaining and managing Cisco unified call manager administration version 7.X
• Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Configuration of Cisco Switches 3750 series using VLAN, VTP and access list
• Managing antivirus security using Mcafee ePolicy Orchestrator(ePO)
• Experienced in creating Virtual Machine Templates, deploy virtual machines from templates, and allocate resources.
• Managing tape backups using Quantum tape library for disaster recovery
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server in Windows based server environment.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

EC: 2, ELB, VPC, RDS, IAM, Cloudformation, Route 53,S3, Cloudwatch, Cloud trial, SNS, SQS, SWF, EBS

VMware Tools: VSphere 6.2 / 6.0 /5.1 / 5. ESXi 5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0, VMware converter 4/3

Scripting: Python

Microsoft Products and tools: Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, WSUS server, SQL Server 2005, SQL server 2008, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM),IIS 6, IIS 7, DHCP, TCP/IP

Hardware: HP Proliant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers, Mcafee gateway servers, Cisco 3845 Router, Cisco 3750 Switches, Gigamon Switches

Operating System: Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2, LINUX, Windows XP/Vista/7,8,10

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cedar Rapids, IA

Sr AWS Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployed, managed, and operated scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
• Migrated existing on-premises application from HP ProLiant VMware Microsoft Servers to AWS
• Designed hybrid solution for Microsoft On-premise Domain with AWS Active Directory, Group Policies, Security solutions
• Selected the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements
• Hands on experience with various AWS services like S3, EC2, VPC, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, etc.
• Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using AWS CloudWatch.
• Implemented the AWS Gateway stored volumes for moving on premise data on the cloud
• Experience with AWS Snowball
• Created and monitored auto scaling policies with CloudWatch
• Experience in creating IAM policies, roles, groups and users.
• Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu) and Configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
• Experience with copying EC2 AMI’s to different regions and AZ’s
• Defined AWS Security Groups, which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic, allowing to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances.
• Working on Multiple AWS instances, set the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer and AMIs, Auto scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
• Configuring and created VPC’s.
• Implemented CloudFormation scripts to automate EC2 instances.
• Created CloudFormation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.
• Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.
• Creating CloudWatch alerts for instances and using them in Auto-scaling launch configurations.

Environment: EC-2, ELB, VPC, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, S3, CloudWatch, Cloud trial, SNS, SQS, SWF, EBS.

Confidential, Cedar Rapids, IA

AWS Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012 (Datacenter). Implement, administer and troubleshoot Microsoft Active Directory, Group Policy, etc. Scripting with PowerShell
• Hands on involvement with Designing, Implementation, Maintenance, and upgrades in a corporate IT environment with Windows desktops and servers (Physical/Virtualization).
• Managing user, user profiles, user rights, creating home folders and applying disk quota’s for the users
• Applying group policies on organizational units based on requirement
• Deployment of operating system, packages, drivers using SCCM and administering the deployment process when needed
• Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring launched instances with respect to specific applications.
• Providing technical support to Development teams who work on visual studio and Microsoft SQL server
• Providing SCCM coverage for all the clients to avoid instances of manual software installations and updates
• Deploying and hosting applications on IIS Server and Apache tomcat which are developed using Visual Studio and Java Eclipse
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Windows XP,7 and 10 Workstations
• Maintaining and managing Cisco unified call manager administration version 7.X
• Administering and managing SCCM for several tasks that include Package\collection management. Security updates distribution, troubleshooting SCCM distribution failures, Inventory collection
• Managing antivirus security using Mcafee ePolicy Orchestrator(ePO)
• Managing ESX servers for virtual servers using Vsphere client and hands on experience on VMware products like VMware workstation, VMware player, VMware converter
• Install, configure and troubleshoot Cisco 1841,2821,3845 routers
• Installation, configuration and administration of Linux (Red Hat/SUSE, Centos)
• Physical Servers installation in Datacenter and responsible for racking, cabling and SAN Allocation.

Environment: VSphere 6/5.5/5.0, Vcenter 6/5.5/5.0, Active Directory, EC2, IAM, Route 53,SAN, NAS, Power Shell, Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 7/XP,8, Active Directory, HP ProLiant DL and Blade Servers, Linux 6.x and 7.x.

Confidential

Systems/Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Hands on involvement with Designing, Implementation, Maintenance, and upgrades in a corporate IT environment with Windows desktops and servers (Physical/Virtualization).
• Providing high-level desktop support for executive level users on Windows 7/8/10.
• Involved in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2003 Servers, and VMware ESXi Servers
• Active Directory configuration and maintenance including GPO administration.
• Managing user, user profiles, user rights, creating home folders and applying disk quota’s for the users
• Deployment of operating system, packages, drivers using SCCM and administering the deployment process when needed
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Windows XP,7,Vista Workstations and Linux
• Configuration of user accounts in Office communications server
• Support user issues remotely through Microsoft office communicator 2007 and SCCM remote tools
• Resolving issues using BMC Remedy incident management system
• Configuration and troubleshooting email client Lotus notes 6.5, 8.5 versions
• Troubleshooting system and user issues
• Configure Cisco VPN using Cisco Call Manager

Environment: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008/2012, CUCM, VMware, Active Directory, GPO, AWS,, WSUS, SCCM, Lotus Notes 8.5, Citrix, Linux, Mcafee ePO

Confidential

Systems/Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Hands on involvement with Designing, Implementation, Maintenance, and upgrades in a corporate IT environment with Windows desktops and servers (Physical/Virtualization).
• Providing high-level desktop support for executive level users on Windows 7/8/10.
• Involved in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2003 Servers, and VMware ESXi Servers
• Active Directory configuration and maintenance including GPO administration.
• Managing user, user profiles, user rights, creating home folders and applying disk quota’s for the users
• Deployment of operating system, packages, drivers using SCCM and administering the deployment process when needed
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Windows XP,7,Vista Workstations and Linux
• Configuration of user accounts in Office communications server
• Support user issues remotely through Microsoft office communicator 2007 and SCCM remote tools
• Resolving issues using BMC Remedy incident management system
• Configuration and troubleshooting email client Lotus notes 6.5, 8.5 versions
• Troubleshooting system and user issues
• Configure Cisco VPN using Cisco Call Manager

Environment: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008/2012, CUCM, VMware, Active Directory, GPO, AWS,, WSUS, SCCM, Lotus Notes 8.5, Citrix, Linux, Mcafee ePO

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing Windows 2008 R2 also deploying server VM from Templates.
• Installing configuring knowledge of ADS, DNS & DHCP.
• Resolving issues with Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007
• Taking server backup and desktop imaging using Ghost backup utility.
• Adding computers into domain and Troubleshooting Operating System related issues.
• Configuration of FTP site
• Provide day-to-day support (troubleshooting & installing) for hardware, Network & software’s including Microsoft Visual studio, Microsoft SQL Server, team foundation server, Mail Client-Microsoft Outlook and other network related issues.
• Installing, Configuring DHCP Server in Windows environment to support dynamic IP addressing process for DHCP clients.
• Provide Remote Support and Administration on network for Internal and external clients using tools like Microsoft Remote desktop Connection, VNC, Goto Meeting and Team Viewer.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory, a directory service which contains information of all user accounts and which optimizes the network traffic.
• Responsible for monitoring the status of the servers.
• Configuring samba server to share files between windows and Linux machines
• Configuration & Maintaining internet wireless routers
• Packing of .Net application into MSI installer using Microsoft Visual studio and Install shied for windows applications
• Deployment of .Net applications in Internet Information Services(IIS) for web applications
• Testing the applications hosted on different platforms of windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 by using VMware player.
• Manage internet and virus security using Symantec endpoint protection

Environment: Windows 2008 R2, ADS, DNS, DHCP, Microsoft Outlook, Disk utility, Web Application Proxy, Linux, Visual Studio, MS SQL Server