SUMMARY

• IT professional with 6+ Years of experience in progressive hands - on experience in the analysis, administration, management, and support of information management systems.
• Extensive experience in Windows, Virtualization technologies and Storage area network solutions. Windows/Wintel, VMware Systems deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral devices.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, HA and DRS including VMware Lab Manager.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with implementing and administering vBlock.
• Experience in P2V, V2V Migration using VMware Standalone Converter.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2012 R2/2012/2008 R2/2008/2003 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Worked on Microsoft Office365 and Migration of mailboxes from Exchange 2003 platform to Office365.
• Experience in Microsoft Office 365 solutions such as Exchange, Office, Lync, One Drive and SharePoint.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features like vMotion, Storage vMotion and Network/Storage IO Control.
• Excellent experience in working on configuring ESXi hosts and clusters with all advanced features like HA, DRS, DPM etc.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter and Plate Spin tools.
• Experience in working on Host Profiles, Resource pools, storage profiles, VMFS data store and templates for client VMs. Very good experience in creating DRS affinity, anti-affinity rules as required by business.
• Monitoring of VM’s & ESXi server components (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) and security hardening for Security Compliance. Extensive experience with Windows clustering on virtualized environments.
• Worked on PowerShell which is used for management of a system. Experience on PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). Experience with 2-factor authentication.
• Experience with HP, IBM and Dell hardware including rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Administered, maintained and supported SCOM Platform on 24/7 basis.
• Developed, upgraded and reviewed SCOM console and respond to issues immediately for quick resolution.
• Administering production servers/network infrastructure that includes Domain Controllers, Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012R2.
• Worked with Windows 2003, 2008r2, 2012, 2012 R2 Active Directory configurations in a single forest, multiple domains infrastructure.
• Good knowledge in SCOM 2007 and SCOM 2012 environments.
• Implementation and Designing of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Active Directory enabled applications. Implemented Patch management solution - WSUS for managing patches for windows servers.
• Implemented Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) for web services (IIS8.0) providing High Availability (HA) and failback for the business-critical web applications hosted. Worked on VRA/VRO, configuration to automate the deployments.
• Advanced knowledge of multi-user operating systems Installation and configuration.
• Maintaining the File Server and Print Server and cloning the Desktops on Network in Windows environment.
• Experience in disaster recovery in physical and virtual environments with vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
• Experience with static desktop and dynamic desktop supporting technologies such as Thin Cloning, Provisioning, Application Virtualization (App-V). Responsible for Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS.
• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client, workstation.
• Troubleshoot and Resolve configuration related VMware vblock issues.
• Experience in PowerShell and PowerCLI for automating VM build process.
• Implementation of View 5.0, View 4.5 Desktop Virtualization View 4.6, VDI on Cisco UCS.
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security. Experienced in installation, configuration, design and ongoing maintenance of Cisco router and switches.
• Experience with Datacenter Infrastructure involving work with maintenance on server hardware, storage devices, network devices and Power Distribution Units (PDUs).
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware vSphere 5.0/5.5/6.0, vCenter Server 5.0/5.5/6.0, ESX 5.0/5.5/6.0, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Converter, SRM PlateSpin Migrate, Double-take, VMware Capacity Planner, vCloud and Workspace Suite, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), VBlock, VMware Data Center Virtualization, VCOPS.

Windows Administration: Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 R2 - installation and configuration, installation and configuration of Active Directory creating users and groups, SCCM, setting user access controls, domains creation and setup.

Networking: OSI Reference Model, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts including vSwitches, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP stack for virtualization, configuration of printers and, scanners.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 G5/G6 Intel Xeon, HP ProLiant DL385 G6/G7 AMD Opteron, Dell PowerEdge 2850, 2950, R710, HP BL 460c G5/G6 blade servers, C7000 HP Chassis, Cisco UCS, NetApp Series, EMC, Hitachi, IBM.

Operating System Windows Server OS - 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012R2, Windows 7/XP/NT Wintel Servers, Hyper-V and RHEL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive knowledge and experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi 6.0,5.5,5.0, servers, vCenter server 5.5,5.0,4.1, vCenter Converter, VMware Orchestrator (vCO), VCenter Operations Manager and vSphere Replicator.
• Handled extensive P2V and V2V of production servers of windows 2003, 2008 as well as Linux 5.8 and 6.3
• Responsible for designing, administrating creating and documenting the new ACL policies enterprise LDAP.
• Administer Microsoft SCCM 2012 environment, including creating or editing security groups, application deployments (collections, advertisements, task sequences, and PowerShell scripts), patch management, general troubleshooting, log analysis, upgrade and recommendations on current infrastructure.
• Develop and migrate servers, relational databases (SQL) &websites to Microsoft azure cloud.
• Installing and configuring the windows server 2008R2 in production and development environment.
• Installing and upgrading the ESX/ESXi hosts and vCenters
• Upgrade the servers from 2003 to 2008R2 and 2012.
• Review and update SCOM console security, create monitoring rules, add/remove monitoring notifications, creating SCOM console views.
• Providing problem resolution/troubleshooting for SCOM components.
• Implementing changes/enhancements to SCOM components and creating custom Management
• Packs (MP) as needed. Architecture, design, install, configure VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Log Insight, vR Network Insight.
• Creating the Backup’s and restoring the data for servers on scheduled basis.
• Experience in decommissioned and rebuild the servers in Data Centers.
• Experience with Data Centers on small and large scale.
• Track the issues and document the development process for program references.
• Communicate with Subject Matter Experts/Users to resolve and clarify any issues that are raised during the development cycle. Supporting Disaster Recovery Planning and Activation. IIS Management.
• Scripting and automating tasks using VBScript and PowerShell.
• Manage access control within vRealize Operations Manager
• Designing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting of SCOM 2007 and SCOM 2012.
• Performing regular health checks and diagnostics of site servers, system, and database.
• Monitoring event logs, System performance, inboxes, disk space availability, File cleanup.
• Responsible for maintenance of enterprise SCOM 2007 and SCOM 2012 r2. This includes
• Deployment and performance guides for Virtual Networking
• Managing and monitoring the ESXi hosts and clusters in vCenter.
• Creating estimated reports, pro-active capacity requirements, tuning and alerts in VCOPS.
• Design and deploy ESXi and VCenter Servers.
• Creating and Managing Data Stores (Fiber Channel,NFS),HA/DRS,SDRS/vStandard Switch/vDS,PortGroups,NIC-Teaming,Portchannel in ESXi hosts
• Performing vMotion, Cloning, Snapshot, FT, Update Manger, Host Profile, Manage OS Templates and Multipathing
• Manage NSX network components such as controller,edgegateway and distributed routers
• Create and Manage VXLAN and Manage ESXi cluster in NSX
• Plan and applying ESXi patches, upgrades using VUM.
• Periodic Firmware/BIOS/device driver updates on Cisco UCS, HP blade servers.
• Working with Network/Security team to resolve Network/Security related issues and Coordinate with vendor to resolve hardware issues for servers and application issues
• Responsible for attending change management meetings and submitting reports to management and follow ITIL Process
• Troubleshooting ESXi host and VMs performance issues.
• Involved VMware / Windows servers / Application upgrade projects and create design / process (Run Book) documents
• Applying VMware best practices to ESXi/vCenter environment and MS best practices to Windows environment and Capacity planning for VMware / Windows Servers pools.
• Managing DFS shares and user permissions.
• Migrating/upgrading complex Windows application from 2003 to Windows 2008 and 2012.
• Manage deploy software using SCCM 2012 R2. Manage LAB environment for new products and software’s.
• Remedy for managing the IR/PM tickets. Provided 24/7 support.
• Documented the update process from vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 including host patches, OS level upgrades, virtual switch changes and VM version upgrades.
• Experience in combining Linux servers to Active Directory to enforce password policy uniformly and simplify dual factor authentication.
• Configure and troubleshoot issues with DNS, DHCP, services including Terminal Services, IIS, Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services and hardware virtualization utilizing Hyper-V
• Deploying Web Apps and Creating Web-Jobs Sync on premises Active Directory users to office 365 with ADCONNECT and ADFS to make easy to user moving.
• Worked with Network team to troubleshoot misconfigured network, VLANs etc.
• Experience in building configuring various Application Servers like Microsoft IIS 5.0/6.0, MS-Proxy Server 2.0, ISA, DNS, WINS, DHCP, File and Printer Servers, FTP and Citrix
• Implemented and supported backup software like VERITAS net backup for configuring VMware image level backups and also OS level backs.
• Designed and implemented software update services and antivirus system for various data centers using SUS 2.0 and Symantec antivirus 10.0.
• Involved in supporting RHEL 4.x/5.x/6.x running on HP, Dell & Cisco HW and involved in patching using Yum repository and Satellite servers and also build RHEL servers using kickstart.
• Very Strong Scripting background VB, WMI, ADSI Scripting, Shell scripting, Vsphere Scripting using PowerCLI
• Handled VMware infrastructure VCentre Servers 4.0.0, 4.1 and clients VMs.
• Experience in IBM Blade Centre H series Blades HS12, HS22. With Fiber SAN DS3400.
• Experience in deploying Virtual Machines (VM’s) through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) Machines using Platespin, Double take and VMware convertor.
• Build various version of LINUX/UNIX for infrastructure and troubleshoot them. Linux 4.X to 6.X
• Created and installed Infrastructure requirement application, E.g. SCCM, SCOM, Casper, SEP etc.
• Experience with enterprise backup systems & disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; solid understanding of vSphere 4 implementation with shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI, NFS / VMFS strategies for performance & optimization.
• Establish user accounts and group policies and also troubleshoot the existing GPOs
• Implemented VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW 4.5/4.6
• Expertise with Disaster Recovery tools SRM 5.0 & Double Take, deployment of business-critical technologies - VMware SRM 4.0 and VMware View.
• Managed Active Directory by creating new accounts, resetting passwords, unlocking accounts, adding users and GP.
• Provided 24/7 production support for Windows/Virtual Servers.

Environment: Windows 2019/2016/2012/2008 R2/2008 Servers, Hyper-V Storage Replication, Dell EMC, Active Directory services, WSUS, DHCP, DNS, RDP, IIS, FTP.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed 2008 and 2012 Windows VM's in Virtual Datacenter.
• Installed, configured and deployment of VMware products such as VMware vSphere 5.x/6.x ESXi servers, Virtual Center Server 5.x.
• Experience in installing, configuring and successfully upgrading all hosts and vCenter servers from ESXi 4.x to ESXi 5.x. IIS, DNS, DHCP setup on various 2008, 2012 servers.
• Hands on exposure on VMware Data Protection, vCenter Operation Manager, vSphere Multi-Hypervisor Manager, vSphere Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Cloning, deploying VM's to Template, Templates to VM's, VMotion, Storage VMotion etc.
• Configured the NTP server in ESX Server for the time synchronization between ESX and VM's.
• Generated report summary and performance for ESX Servers and VM's.
• Created snapshot's for the VM's and also created new folders, data centers, clusters and resource pools in the VC.
• Reconfigured all ESX network connectivity utilization including VLAN tagging and teaming and also the configuration of many dvSwitches, VLAN tagging. Migrating production VMs using Storage vMotion to new virtual datacenter with zero downtime.
• Configured storage LUNs for VMFS and raw disk mappings (RDM's) on an HP EVA 4400.
• Design and Plan the Upgrade to vSphere 5.x. Involved in DR design and planning.
• Installing, configuring & Managing Active Directory in Windows 2003. Active Directory Group policy management.
• Single-Forest and Multi-Domain Active directory administration for 5000+ USERS.
• Deploying, Configuring and Managing of Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
• Support and maintain VMware vSphere Server Virtualization Environment.
• Install configure and manage VM machines and templates.
• Converting physical machines to virtual machines. DNS & DHCP Management.
• Providing application virtualization solutions with APP-V, VMWare ThinApp.
• Coordination, support and troubleshooting of various IT Applications in Windows and Linux.
• Test and recommend Replication/Backup solutions for VMware, SAN and Disaster Recovery.
• Provision VMware Data store's and configure storage for Virtual Machines.
• Re -Designed Net Backup schedule and upgraded Oracle and SQL servers. Optimized system availability and equipped. Planning Backup/Restoration Strategy for 24x7 operation support.
• Suggesting patches/upgrades to maintain security level.
• Hands on experience with Windows 2000, 2003, 2008R2 and 2012R2 server.
• Involved in Installation and Configuration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/2003on HP Proliant Servers for Dev, Test and Production Instances. Interacts directly with executive level management for internal tasks and projects.
• Coordinated with external vendors to provide timely service and issue remediation.
• Provide On-site support, on call support UCS/ VMware (24X7), provides assistance in project related tasks, supporting the offshore team.