SUMMARY:

• 6+years of System Administration and IT experience in multiplatform VMware, Windows with hands - on expertise in networking and system integration.
• Accomplished systems administrator managing server infrastructures and data-center operations across multiple platforms ( Windows,vmware).
• Effectively plan, build,install, configure and optimize the IT infrastructure to consistently achieve high availability and performance.
• Extensive experience in design, configuration, implementation, security, troubleshooting, maintenance and documentation of windows servers, hardware products and VMware Product Services.
• Experience in installing and managing production, test and development environments.
• Experience in migrating from development to production environment.
• Experience in performing System Integration/Administration for Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019 Server,
• Hands on Experience in performing hardware analysis, installation, managing operating systems and end-user software.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts which includes Configuration of networks, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing .
• Administration of Active Directory in Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019 environment. Managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Group Policies, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc.
• Experience in working with systems and network administration running Windows Server with IIS 6/7/8.0
• Experienced in performing network and security audits.
• Experience in patching windows servers 2008/2012/2016 up-to-date.
• Experience in debugging and troubleshooting windows servers.
• Experience in recommending, scheduling and performing software and hardware improvements, upgrades, patches, reconfigurations and purchases.
• Expert in managing the Active Directory forest and domain environments including users, groups, printers, login scripts, etc
• Experience in Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery.
• Experienced in managing the server cluster environment including configuration, shares and permissions.
• Hands on Experience on Dell XC740XD, XC940XD, HP BL460c G6/G7/G8 servers & Cisco UCS B230 M2 /B200 M3 blades and C Series.
• Understanding of Nexus Products like Nexus 1000v, N2k, Nexus5k, Nexus7K, MDS Switches.
• Experience in VMware and Microsoft Hyper-v virtualization technologies.
• Experience in installing, configuring,monitoring/managing VMware ESX 3.5/4.0/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5 infrastructure.
• Experienced on VMware View (VDI) Implementation.
• Experience in implementing and managing High Availability (HA) / Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) /clustering environments.
• Experience in creating and managing VM snapshots, datastores.
• Knowledge and experience on Datacenter Virtualization resources like Compute, Network and Storage
• Experienced in managing NAS and SAN storage solutions.
• Experience in evaluating and architecting SAN policies and procedures to help customers improve their existing SAN infrastructure.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance DNS servers, Mail servers, FTP servers
• Implemented Citrix products XenApp and Xen Desktop.
• Developed backup and recovery procedures for recovery from loss and destruction of data.
• Proven skills in developing backup and disaster recovery protocol.
• Excellent team player with good communication and leadership skills.
• Experience in working as a part of a highly cross-functional and global team.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

Virtualization Software: VSphere 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0 , VMware ESXi server 5.1/5.0, VCenter 5.1/5.0, V Motion, Storage VMotion, VMware Update Manager, VMware Tools, Vcloud automation,VMware Converter, DRS, HA and FT, Load Balancers, DMZ Environment, VMware vCenter Operations manager,Vmware orchestrator, vFabric Hyperic,OVM,OEL, VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager, Cisco UCS Manager 2.1, vCloud Director 5.0, System centre operations manager(SCOM),System centre configuration manager(SCCM).

Storage: NAS Filers, VPLEX, SAN, Storage Replication and ISCSI, VMAX, VNX,Hitachi Storage

Operating Systems: Windows - XP, Vista, 7, NT, Server 2000, Server 2003, Server 2008,Server 2012,Server 2012 R2, windows 2016 r2, 2019,Hyper-V

Networking Protocols : TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS, VPN, DNS, NTP, WINS, FTP, SSH, WinSCP and Telnet.

Hardware Implementation: Cisco UCS B series, C SERIES, DELL XC740XD,XC940XD, HP Proliant gen7 /Gen8

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Greensboro, North carolina

Sr.VMWARE Admin /Windows System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience in building, configuring, troubleshooting, maintaining windows 2008/2012/2016 virtual as well as physical servers .
• Hands on experience in configuring 2- node MS SQL cluster on windows 2008/2012/2016 OS and on HP,Cisco, DELL physical servers.
• Deployed .net based and java based applications on windows 2008/2012/2016 servers and created app pools in IIS 6.5/7.0/8.0/9.0
• Installed SSL s for the web servers as well as load balancers..
• Building, maintaining and configuring cisco b200 m3, m4 blade server, C240 standalone server, HP proliant GEN 7, gen8, DELL XC740XD, XC940XD physical servers.
• Hands on experience in creating computer objects, service accounts, updating passwords to service accounts, unlocking service accounts in active directory.
• Hands on Expericence in creating group policy objects and providing permissions based on tthe requirement in quest tool as well as legacy tool.
• Experience in patching windows servers through WSUS and keep the servers uptodate on windows 2008/2012/2016 .
• Hands on Experience in building VMS through TAP TACO automation tool. hands on experience in adding space to VM, increasing CPU and MEMORY, adding hard disks to a VM, changing network adapters in the vsphere vcentre 5.0,5,5,6.0,6.5.
• Hands on experience in building, configuring Internet(DMZ) based windows servers hands on Experience in installing SQL 2012/2014/2016 , SSIS,SSAS, SSRS on windows servers and troubleshooted issues related to SQL.
• Hands on experience on monitoring databases in Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
• Hands on experience in creating disks, disk groups, volumes in veritas storage administrator .
• Experience in opening soft firewall as well as hard firewall for the application, database ports and verify the connectivity from app to database on windows servers.
• Experience in troubleshooting firewall, network as well as load balancer issues on windows 2008/2012/2016 servers.
• Hands on experience in adding storage to drives from veritas storage administrator on windows physical servers.
• Hands on Experience in installing symantec netbackup client 7.0/7,7 for the backups on windows 2008/2012/2016 servers.
• Experience in adding internal DNS to the servers as well as troubleshooting DNS issues on windows servers.
• Hands on experience taking snapshots through vcentre.
• Hands on experience in performing vmotion and storage vmotion on VMS.
• Hands on experience in P2V and V2V migration using vmware converter.
• Migrated around 600 VMS and 180 HP physical servers from windows 2008 OS to 2012 and .
• Migrated around 120 physical servers from EMC storage to AMEX storage .
• Configured Load balancers and GTM'S for windows web app, citrix and database servers.
• Experience in citrix xenapp 6.5,7.x
• Hands on Experience in installing and publishing SSMS, putty, winscp, RDP, as well as other ..net based applications on windows citrix server on citrix xenapp 6.5 and 7.x.
• Uplifted around 800 servers from citrix 4.5 to 6.5 and 6.5 to 7.x and published all the apps related to those servers.
• Provided 24*7 oncall support in the production data centre.
• Installed physical hard drives on cisco b200 m3, m4, c240, HP proliant GEN8, Dell XC740XD, DELLXC940XD servers.
• Installed memory modules, HBA’S, raid controllers on cisco b200 M3,B200 M4 cisco blade servers.
• Installed mellanox cards, DIMM modules,perc controllers, replaced power supplies on DELL XC740XD, DELL XC940XD servers.
• Maintained all the hardware related to our team in our production amex data centre on a day to day basis.
• Day to day experence in using service now tool to create and update incidents and tickets.

Environment: vCenter server 6.0/5.5/5.0, Power Shell, Windows/ 2003/2008/12/16/19 server, citrix server 6.5,7.x, DNS, DHCP, Active directory, Group policies, SQL 2014/2016,VCAC,VMware ESX 5.0,5.5,6.0,6.5 Cisco UCS B200 M3, Cisco B200 M4, C240, DELLXC 740XD, DELLXC 940XD,HP Proliant GEN7/GEN8

Confidential, Georgetown, KY

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and upgraded VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0/4.1 and 4.0 in a total of 200 ESX servers, 1000+ Servers.
• Coordinating with Offshore and responsible for Maintaining, configuring and Supporting VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which has above 80 ESXi 5.0 Hosts which are in Production and Non-Production environments connected to San storage with 1000 Vm’s running Windows & Linux and over 1000+ workstations running Windows XP.
• Implemented the datacenter upgradation and maintained virtual environment using VMware and provided technical guidance in Datacenter operations.
• Installing and configuring windows 2003 and windows 2008 server.
• Installing latest support packs releases and hot fixes from Microsoft by using WSUS.
• Installing and configuring Antivirus on all the servers.
• Experience on working with windows clustering which pro0vides single administrative interface and data consistency across all nodes.
• Installed IIS 6 using configured server wizard and verified that the requirements for installation have been met.
• Configured Dell Power edge M710HD blade serves / HP ProLiant DL 360/380 with ESX 4.0/4.1/5.0, where the redundancy is maintained all over the chassis by grouping blades form different chassis in to one cluster.
• Deployed the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system using a Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK).
• Designing and executing the Phase by phase migration plans and performing upgrades from VMware ESX 4.0, 4.1 to VSphere ESXi without Downtime.
• Hands on wide experience in Upgrading Vcenter 4.1 to including the Vcenter Update Manager (VUM) and 1configuring the same Version of Vcenters in the linked Mode.
• Troubleshooting the issues related to storage and networking.
• Performed troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory.
• Installing and configuring SQL 2008.
• 24/7 production support.
• Experience in enabling and disabling web views,importing and exporting packages using vmware orchestrator.
• Installing and configuring the VMware VSphere and creating clusters for High Availability (HA) and Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Experience in enabling scripting of vCloud Automation Center maintenance and administration tasks and supports multiple vCloud Automation Center instances simultaneously.
• Worked extensively on live migrations Using Double Take by taking minimum downtime for P2V and V2V Migrations.
• Was responsible for migrating Exchange server 2000 to Exchange server 2003.
• Configuring and Maintaining active directory, WINS and DNS servers.
• Was responsible for designing, building and deployments or new systems in the company.
• Interacted and coordinated with end users to solve their issues and help them in getting their system working.
• Was responsible for researching, evaluating, testing, recommending, communicating, and implementing new solutions available in the market.
• Scheduling and performing upgrades, patches, reconfigurations of the systems.
• Implementing and managing backup and restore solutions.
• Providing day-to-day onsite support for networked systems, hardware and related infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting the above systems in case of issues.