Career Summary:

Experienced Information Technology professional with 18 years' experience in managing server infrastructure and data-center operations. Effectively plan, design, install, configure and optimize the IT Infrastructure to consistently achieve high availability and performance.

Key Skills Summary:

Project Summary

Confidential

Role: Consulting Architect

• Tools: VMware vSphere 5.x, vCenter 5.x, vCloud Director, vCloud Automation Center
• 5.x, vSphere Storage Appliance, Nutanix Hardware

Responsibilities:

• Develop cloud solution and identify solution gaps
• Design cloud implementation using VMware products
• Design end-to-end functional architecture solution designs
• Install and configure the VMware cloud products
• Performance Analysis and troubleshoot VMware ESXi and VMs
• Create and maintain Project Documentation and User/Implementation/use case guides

Project Achievements:

• Implemented vCloud Director 5.5 with vCNS for a larger bank
• Completed Performance Analysis and provided best practices/recommendation for a federal aided insurance agency
• Implemented vCloud Automation Center 5.5 in simple installation method for a state government aided IT project
• Implemented vCloud Automation Center 5.5 with vCNS in Distributed method for a major IT player
• Implemented vSphere 5.5 with vCenter 5.5 for a hospital on Cisco UCS environment
• Implemented ServiceMesh Agility and integrated with NSX

Confidential

Role: VMware Consultant /Architect

• Tools: VMware vSphere 5.1/4.1, vCenter, vCloud Director, vSphere Storage Appliance,
• vSphere Replication, vSphere Data Protection, SolarWinds, Windows 2003/2008

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Assessment and Capacity Planning for Virtualizing the application/database/ web servers
• Develop upgrade road map and plans for new infrastructure
• Design vSphere implementation which includes Server Selection, workload analysis, storage provisioning, networking Layer1-Layer 4
• Prepare Bill of Material for new IT Infrastructure Projects
• Performance Analysis and troubleshoot VMware ESXi and VMs
• Supporting Windows servers
• Managing Active Directory, DNS, DHCP other IT infrastructure related systems
• Maintaining virtual appliances
• Work with network team to configure 10Gb, SAN, HBA and other network requirements
• IT audit remediation and compliance check
• Coordinate projects with Network Team, Application/Database Owners, Project/Program Management team and other stakeholders
• Create and maintain Project Documentation and User/Implementation guides
• Gather and analyze the user requirements and develop the solution based on requirements along with technical possibilities

Confidential

Role: VMware/Cloud Support Engineer

• Tools: VMware vSphere 4.0, vCenter, OVF Tools, Windows 2003/2008
• Completed assessment of existing servers and applications
• Assessed storage, network and security requirements in the Cloud environment
• Identified feasible solutions and impact for migrating servers and applications into the cloud.
• Conducted a proof of concept and identified the candidates applications that can be fitted into the cloud model
• Coordinated with Service Provider for setting up a private cloud and network access.

Confidential

Role: VMware Consultant

Tools: VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5, vCenter 2.5, vCloud Director Windows 2003/2008, Linux

Responsibilities:

• Gathered the inventory data and workload analysis using VMware Capacity Planner
• Designed and built virtualization/storage/network requirements for complete this project
• Recommend and implement the High availability and resource pool management for mission critical virtual systems such VMware HA, DRS
• Implemented Cloud Solution IAAS using vCloud Director
• Integrating the Virtual Environment with Backup solution and Shavlik Netchk Protect for Patching the systems
• Managing Windows 2003 and 2008 AD environments and Exchange servers

Confidential

Role: Project Lead

Tools: VMWare ESX/ESXi, VCC, VCB, NetBackup, MS-Exchange 2003, AD

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Virtualization environment/Server consolidation by using VMware ESX
• Hosted around 30 VMware ESX servers and 175 guests deployed
• Physical, Virtual system conversion by using VMWare Converter
• Using VCB/NetBackup for taking backup of the servers
• Managing Windows 2000/2003 server with Active Directory
• Administering MS-Exchange 2000/2003 server
• Designing and Managing Documents and Reports for SOX IT Audits

Confidential

Tools: VMWare ESX, VCC, IIS, Windows 2003, ArcGIS Server

Responsibilities:

• Implemented VMware ESX 3.5/3i Virtualization environment
• Deployed Windows Based systems in the VI Environment
• Monitored Mission critical application and services with HP-OpenView
• Utilized PERFMON and Memory Leakage Tools for Performance Monitoring/Tuning
• Configured MS IIS for ArcGIS server based products

Confidential

Tools: Windows 2000, Exchange 2000, VMWare Server, NT4.0

Responsibilities:

• Installed and managed AD and DNS servers
• Configured and Maintained Exchange, ISA and IIS servers
• Performed and scheduled backups of key systems
• Performed Root Cause Analysis and Maintained database for future reference

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

Tools: Windows 2000, Exchange 2000

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support for Windows NT and 2000 server
• Installed and Managed AD, DNS, WINS and DHCP Server for multiple sites
• Provided Facility Management service for In-House and Remote Operations

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

Tools: Windows NT, Windows 9x

Responsibilities:

• Provided Technical support for Windows NT and 2000 server
• Provided Technical support for Solaris Server

Troubleshoot Network Problems and Performed Backup on regular basis

Confidential

Role: System Engineer

Tools: Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows Workgroup

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support for client systems and servers
• Installed and configured Windows based systems
• Software Installation and Anti-Virus Support

Confidential

Role: System Engineer/Faculty

Responsibilities:

• Implemented new hardware for networking training center
• Installed and configured Windows based systems
• Supported Windows NT4.0 client/server issues