SUMMARY

• 12+ years of experience in Systems Administration, Networking and Virtualization technologies
• 7+ years of experience in Designing, Architecting, Implementing and Supporting IT infrastructure
• Hands on experience and engineering expertise in private cloud (VMware ESXi & Microsoft Hyper - V Cluster) and public cloud (AWS and MS Azure) infrastructures and approaches to address their unique management and security considerations
• Responsible for design, integration, troubleshooting and implementation of LAN/WAN, client/server environments on a global scale
• Cost/benefit modeling and creating compelling business case for migration to cloud
• Develop and document procedures and policies for infrastructure architecture, design, implementation and tracking
• Partner with application managers to develop capacity requirements for new projects as well as utilization thresholds for existing environments
• Concept, development, implementation, and management of Disaster recovery solution for organizations
• Deployment of data warehouse solutions for data mining
• Translate traditional IT infrastructures to global cloud deployments
• Strong strategic thinking, planning skills, and understands “Big Picture.”
• Excellent customer relationship skills with a strong ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing
• Seamlessly wear multiple hats with hands-on concept work, business development, coordinate and collaborate with internal partners and vendors
• Play an essential role in the Professional Services organization ensuring quality project implementations are delivered

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• VMware vSphere
• ESX/ESXi Server
• VMware Converter
• Horizon View vRealize Orchestrator vRealize Automation vRealize Operations
• SRM
• NSX
• Windows Server
• Hyper-V 2012 & 2008
• Microsoft Azure
• MS SQL
• SCCM 2012
• Red Hat
• Ubuntu
• KVM
• Openstack
• Openshift
• TCP/IPv4 and IPv6
• EIGRP, OSPF & BGP
• MPLS
• Multicast
• VPN Technologies
• Solar Winds
• Wireshark
• Nessus
• Python
• PowerShell
• JavaScript
• Hadoop
• Spark
• Scala
• Hive
• Kafka
• Pig
• Elastic Search
• MySql
• PostgreSQL
• MS SQL
• EC2/S3/Lambda
• CloudWatch
• CloudFormation
• ECS
• Kinesis
• DynamoDB
• Redshift
• Glue
• Athena
• EMR
• Git
• Docker
• Ansible
• Kubernetes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Technical Consultant

Confidential, MO

Responsibilities:

• Configured servers for physical & virtual environments (IBM x series, Cisco UCS, Dell M1000e blade, Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant, HP C3000)
• Configured Storage for physical & virtual environments (IBM Storewize, Dell Equallogic, HP LeftHand, Buffalo TerraStation, EMC VNX)
• Configured and troubleshot switches, routers and ASAs for physical & virtual environments (Cisco, Dell, HP, Palo Alto)
• Set up Infrastructure security, Site-to-Site, Sit-to-Cloud & Remote access VPN (Cisco 5525x, FirePower, ISE, PA-3200, SonicWALL) on multisite environments
• Set up Barracuda Backup devices, Veeam Backup system, Dell Tape Backup & Symantec Backup solution
• Designed and implemented Network infrastructure and troubleshoot connectivity issues, performed network audit and optimization
• Virtualized physical infrastructure with VMware converter, Provisioned Templates and deployed virtual machines
• Deployed, managed, monitored, troubleshot and migrated vSphere environments (ESXi server, vCenter Server, Storage, Networking & virtual machines)
• Automated vSphere workflow with VMware NSX 6.x, vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation
• Designed, implemented and supported VDI environments with VMware View, vApp and App Volume
• Implemented and supported Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure
• Upgraded, updated and restructured Active Directory Domain infrastructure
• Troubleshot and supported Windows server (2016, 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000) issues
• Migrated users, computer accounts, servers & mailboxes, used ADMT & WS2012 Migration tools
• Configured and troubleshot Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, DFS, Print, WSUS and Terminal Servers
• Deployed SQL servers (2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014), migrated, Backed up & restored databases
• Configured Exchange server 2010, upgraded from 2007 to 2010, migrated to Exchange Online
• Provisioned & deployed Thin clients (HP) and Zero Clients (Pano)
• Configured Azure virtual networks, networking services, DNS, DHCP and IP addressing
• Designed Azure virtual machines (VMs) and VM architecture for IaaS and PaaS
• Set up Azure virtual private network (VPN) and ExpressRoute
• Designed and built core platforms in AWS
• Automated deployments using CloudFormation
• Migrated key systems from on-prem to AWS
• Built and delivered Amazon machine images for Apache webservers
• Configured auto-scaling for website platform
• Monitoring via CloudWatch
• Involved in building security model, VPC, Elastic IP for databases on Cloud platform
• Deployed and maintained Red Hat Linux, CentOS and Ubuntu VMs
• Linux Patch management
• Automating task with bash script & Python
• Provisioned MySQL, Apache webserver and Elastic Bean Stack on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Monitoring Linux with Nagios and Zabbix
• Deployed Hadoop in Hortonworks & Cloudera platform
• Performed large scale data migration

Technical Consultant

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• Worked on virtualization projects in VMware vSphere 5.0 environment
• Performed Active directory domain migration
• Participated in customer IT infrastructure plan and design process
• Provided on and off site customer support
• Provided front end support for Microsoft Office and other productivity suites
• Help manage and maintain mobile devices
• Implemented VDI with VMware View 4.5 & 5.0
• Prepared thin clients for deployment with VDI
• Prepared Desktop and packaged Microsoft Office for VDI deployment
• Provisioned and deployed thin/zero clients (HP & PANO)
• Configured Cisco Switches (2960, 3650, 3750), Routers and ASAs
• Configured Dell PowerVault servers, HP Servers, HP & EMC storage

Network Engineer

Confidential, CT

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a L2 network upgrade project in Simsbury, CT
• Was responsible for racking-stacking and cabling Cisco switches
• Configured 50+ switches (Cisco 2960 & 6509) to integrate with the existing infrastructure
• Monitored, troubleshoot and, supported post migration phase
• Documented the entire project-work
• Collaborated with the team constantly

Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Implemented & Administered VMware environments with vSphere
• Built, deployed and, configured ESX and ESXi hosts
• Updated & patched existing hosts and vCenter Server
• Configured vCenter server, Virtual networks and Storage
• Implemented clusters, HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, FT
• Consolidated servers using P2V
• Built VMs and configured according to client requirements
• Set up Backup and recovery of virtual machines using VCB and VMware Data Recovery
• Worked on SAN environment with EMC Celerra and Clariion storage
• Provided remote tech support in network connectivity and desktop issues
• Managed & upgraded windows 2003 and 2008 domain infrastructures
• Provisioned and Configured Red Hat, Ubuntu servers and workstations
• Performed basic Linux activities