SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in architecture, deploying and upgrading systems; including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers, and peripheral equipment.
• 2+ years of experience with VMware ESX 5.x/5.5.
• Experience with VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5; vSphere4.x/5.x/6, vCenter Server, View, vRealize Operations, SRM.
• Extensive experience with Windows Server 2012/2008/2003 OS’s.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, IIS (Web Server), WSUS, Microsoft Clustering.
• Experience in Application Packaging and Unattended Installations.
• Experience in installing, configuring, administering Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 familiar with Database Creation, Database Security, Database Replication/ Migration, Database Performance Monitoring, User Management, Database Backup/Restoration, Import/Export of SQL Database.
• Experience and Familiar with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi. Created, managed and maintained VMs.
• Installed and helped deploy, manage and maintain the new environments in the SDDC/SRM technology.
• Experience in Server monitoring, capacity planning, application monitoring.
• Experience in iSCSI, SAN, NAS/ NFS storage and RAID concepts.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (i.e. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks.)
• Experienced with Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio and Outlook.
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP hardware like rack - mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Migrate IaaS and PaaS instances between public and private clouds.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems / Networking: Microsoft Windows 2012/2008/2003 , Microsoft Active directory 2012/2008/2003

Virtualization tools: VI 3.x, vSphere 4.x, 5.x, 5.5, 6.0 vCenter, VMware Update Manager, FT, HA, DRS, DPM, vMotion and Storage vMotion, SCCM, SRM, Thinapp, VMware Workstation, P2V/ V2V Conversion, Hyper-V, Veritas Enterprise Vault, EPV (Enterprise Password Vault).

Remote Tools: RDP, DameWare, RADMIN, VNC, LogMeIn, Dameware, PCAnywhere, Team Viewer

Hardware: HP, Compaq, Dell desktops/laptops/servers, racking/cabling, network printers, Cisco Routers & Switches, 802.11x Wireless gateways, Access Points.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Windows System Admin

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Administration and configuration of Win 2008 R2 and Win 2012 R2 servers.
• Build and management of IaaS servers.
• Configuring IIS 7.5 & 8.5 and troubleshooting issues.
• Publishing applications in Citrix 6.5 environment.
• Experience in Group policy Configuration by configuring GPO user and computer settings and applying policies as per requirement.
• Configuring server monitoring alerts in Nimsoft.
• Migrating servers among different domains.
• Create and configure Load balancer requests.
• Involved in NAS to NAS migrations.
• Migrating servers from vCloud to OpenStack cloud.
• Supporting various applications hosted in IaaS environment.
• Patching windows servers through WSUS.
• Resolved DNS issues in Active Directory environment by using Management Console.
• Extensive Experience in Managing Multi Site / Multi Domain Active Directory Infrastructure
• Working on application deployments in E2 & E3 environments.
• Network Connectivity, TCP/IP configuration, upgrades, and Internet connectivity.
• Performed Monitoring VM'S & ESXi Servers using virtual center.
• Resolved DHCP issues using Event Viewer, DHCP Statistics and Audit Log.
• Maintaining the SCCM servers for alert configuration in Hotmail servers.
• Automated Nimsoft monitoring agent installation and configurations on Windows servers using PowerShell module.
• Created and configured windows monitoring scripts for Nimsoft monitoring.
• Installed, configured puppet agent on windows servers using PowerShell scripts and upgraded using puppet modules.
• Created various PowerShell Modules for Windows based applications installation, configuration and automation.
• Performed Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for infrastructure Server issues.

Windows/VMware System Admin

Confidential, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Excellent knowledge with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESX server5.0
• Setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, VMware virtual center, and related VMware products.
• Performed Physical to Virtual Migration by using VMware Convertor and Platespin.
• Completed multiple conversions simultaneously with a centralized management console.
• Enabling VMware features like vMotion, svMotion, High Availability (HA), Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Provided lab support to test and dev Team by using VMware Features Snapshots, Cloning.
• Performed Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Experienced with VM Workstation, VMware converter and VM Backup.
• Excellent Experience with VMware Update manager to install patches and updates.
• Performed, designed and implemented VMware backup and disaster recovery.
• Integrated of Virtual Machine backups into existing physical server backup.
• Installed and configured vSphere5 and VM Provisioning.
• Rebuild of Windows 2000/2003 Active Directory domain controllers integrated DNS & DHCP.
• Familiar with creating VM Templates.
• Implementation of Windows 2008 Application Publishing to provide remote users.
• Excellent Knowledge in Application Packaging and unattended Installations.
• Created User accounts by using Active Directory Users and Computers.
• Moved database transaction logs, restored deleted objects through Ntdsutil.
• Resolved DNS issues in Active Directory environment by using Management Console.
• Tested DNS by using DCDiag /Test:DNS; DNS connectivity with NetDiag and NSlookup.
• Troubleshot, viewed and manually created the replication topology by Repadmin..
• Configured and viewed DFSR replication by using Dfrsadmin.
• Created and viewed snapshots of data that is stored in Active Directory with Dsamain.
• Viewed audit policies by Auditpol; used wbadmin to backup data.
• Resolved DHCP issues using Event Viewer, Perf Monitor, DHCP Statistics and Audit Log.

VMware Admin

Confidential - Keene, NH

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Excellent knowledge with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESX server 4.1.
• Setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, VMware virtual center, and related VMware products.
• Performed Physical to Virtual Migration by using VMware Convertor and Platespin.
• Completed multiple conversions simultaneously with a centralized management console
• Installed, Configured & Trouble shoot of VMware ESXi Servers.
• Installed and configured vSphere5 and VM Provisioning.
• Performed Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Managing Windows servers across the globe Including Domain controllers, DNS, DHCP, IIS and application servers like SharePoint, .Net, PeopleSoft, Congo’s, FIM, SCOM, SCCM, RSA Archer.
• Performed Monitoring VM'S & ESXi Servers using virtual center
• Provided lab support to test and dev Team by using VMware Features Snapshots, Cloning
• Excellent experience with VMware updates manager to install patches and updates.
• Performed, designed and implemented VMware backup and disaster recovery.
• Configured and manage SQL database for Citrix Xenapp 6.5
• Upgraded more than 80 Citrix Xenapp 4.5 Servers into 6.5 in 4 months.
• Provisioning of VMware virtual machines using custom baseline templates
• Creating, managing and consolidation of virtual machine snapshots
• Configuring vSphere standard and distributed switches
• VMware vSphere administration involving provisioning virtual machines, creating templates, network and storage configuration, patching and maintenance of ESXi hosts
• Infrastructure Projects- Design, implementation & support(SCCM, SCOM, VMware).
• Deployed a two-tier PKI infrastructure using Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS)
• Performed NetBackup master and media server upgrades and applied maintenance release updates to 100 clients

Confidential

WINDOWS SERVER ADMIN

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Raised the functional level of forests and domains.
• Implementation of Windows 2008 Application Publishing to provide remote users.
• Created User accounts by using Active Directory Users and Computers
• Created trust relationships between domains.
• Created trusts between the forest; verified and revoked trusts.
• Identify the requirements for installing Active Directory.
• Created child domains; removed the child domain from Active Directory.
• Created and managed organizational units.
• Created and implemented password policies.
• Created and managed accounts using the (Lightweight Directory Interchange Format).
• Delegated administrative control.
• Used Configuration Manager zero touch installation (ZTI) to manage and report on enterprise client operating system deployments.
• Used Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to create and deploy images over the site.
• Performing Active Directory Migrations, Active Directory Metadata cleanup, Seizing FSMO Roles.
• Administration and Troubleshooting of Active Directory Domain Controllers issues and provide Technical Support.
• Team Lead for Win7 Deployment for 700 users.
• Created collections, packages and advertisements with SCCM 2007.
• Installed, Configured & Trouble shoot of VMware ESXi Servers.
• Architect and deploy Symantec public/private cloud platforms (IaaS & PaaS) across Amazon Web Services, Terremark, HP Cloud Services, DataPipe, Google Compute Engine, CloudStack and Rackspace.
• Migrate IaaS, PaaS and SaaS instances between public and private clouds.
• Performed Monitoring VM'S & ESXi Servers using virtual center
• Created, Managed Virtual Machines using Templates
• Created, configured and managed Group Policy for printer redirection

Confidential

Server Administrator

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Build, Managed, monitored, and troubleshoot over 500 of Windows servers.
• Participated actively with project managers in planning.
• Designed, organized and implemented Active Directory Plans, with strategies.
• Interpreted and wrote VBScript using varying and standard components.
• Configured and maintained domain controllers.
• User rights and permission, disabling and enabling accounts,
• Configured file and folder permissions and security templates as per need.
• Performed Window server 2003/2008 backup and restore.
• Configured group policies in OUs.
• Assisted in troubleshooting user problems relating to Operating System issues.
• Network Connectivity, TCP/IP configuration, upgrades, and Internet connectivity.
• Utilized Norton Ghost / ImageX imaging to automate installations and configurations.
• Raised the functional level of forests and domains.
• Created and managed accounts using the LDIF (Lightweight Directory Inte. Format).
• Delegated administrative control.
• Excluded IP range and defined lease duration.
• Configured DHCP Options; reserved IP address and defined MAC addresses.
• Created primary and secondary DNS zones.
• Used Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to create and deploy images over the site.