SUMMARY

• 6 + years of experience in Information Technologies with expertise in area of Windows Server Admin, Active Directory, VMware, Citrix virtualization technologies, Exchange Server, Office 365 and Unix/Linux Admin.
• Excellent knowledge of clustering & HA/DRS
• Experience in vSAN storage solution.
• Good knowledge of blade and blade enclosure systems
• Good knowledge of external Disk Arrays, RAID levels, NFS
• Knowledge of utilities and tools such as VMware Ops Center
• Excellent knowledge in switches and VLANs
• Support and maintain XenApp/XenDesktop production and test environments including troubleshooting issues from client to server
• Excellent knowledge handling Citrix management tool DirectoX/Studio and VDI
• Experience managing desktop and server virtualization technologies and solutions

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Windows Servers 2k16/2k12/2k8r2/2k3r2
• Active Directory
• Exchange Server 2K10
• PowerShell
• SCCM
• Office 365
• Outlook
• Excellent knowledge of networking TCP/IP, DNS and DHCP
• Linux/Ubuntu - Administrator
• Expertise in creating LVM
• Expertise creating cronjobs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

System Engineer

Confidential

Environment: VMware, Citrix & Windows 2008R2/2012 System Administrator.

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in upgrading ESXi 5.5 to 6.5 and vCenter server 5.5 to 6.5.
• Experience in deploying ESXi based servers (1000+) using HP ilo, Drac and IMM.
• Experience in storage vMotion from VSA to vSAN cluster.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines, installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning, Deploy virtual machines.
• Configured 4 node host clusters with features like HA, DRS, vSAN Datastore heart beating to detect isolation, affinity rules, anti-affinity rules, Fault Tolerance.
• Worked on physical to virtual migration(P2V).
• Performance tuning for VMware ESXi hosts and Virtual Machine, setting up their CPU affinity rules, allocating resources and fine tuning storage.
• Upgraded Emulex firmware, RAID firmware.
• Troubleshoot hardware issues like, RAM, HDD and CPU.
• Deployment of applications using Citrix Packager, and Windows Installation Manager.
• Application virtualization and supporting the users using Citrix XenApp.
• Provided engineering expertise in the update/creation of the Citrix XenDesktop and VDI solutions.
• Experience using VMware Horizon View
• Managed over 225,000 clients in more than 150 sites, three domains and four environments of Microsoft SCCM 2007 and System Center 2012.
• Deployed Windows workstation patches.
• Experience managing desktop and server virtualization technologies and solutions
• Successfully administered user accounts, exchange mailboxes, and security and distribution.
• Maintained optimal Exchange server health by using Quest server products such as Spotlight on Messaging for Exchange.
• Provided support and maintenance of Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access and Microsoft Office Outlook Email, Calendaring & Scheduling.
• Implementation and Maintenance of Group Policies and Active Directory Replication.
• Applied OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.

System Admin

Confidential - San Jose, CA

Environment: Windows 2008R2/2012, Linux &VMware ESX 5.5/6.0/6.5.

Responsibilities:

• Performed hardware and software maintenance of Windows Server environment including VMware ESX/ESXi Host, Clusters, Server and virtual Machines and Interfaced with different Vendors.
• Worked on VBrick Rev Cloud, upgraded 7.11 to 7.12 and Administered.
• Monitored Zabbix and PRTG.
• Configured local storage using partitions and logical volume LVM partitions in Linux 6.5.
• Worked on Zabbix agent installation for both Windows and Linux.
• Upgraded Server from 12.4 to 14.4 in Ubuntu.
• Worked on MongoDB installation, backup, mongochef backup.
• Created and scheduled cronjobs in Ubuntu 14.4.
• Performed Implementation and Maintenance of Group Policies and Active Directory Replication.
• Worked Performance tuning for VMware ESXi hosts and Virtual Machine, setting up their CPU affinity rules, allocating resources and fine tuning storage
• Applied OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
• Supported the user using Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop

System Admin

Confidential - San Diego, CA

Environment: Windows 2008R2/2012, Citrix, and VMWare ESX 4.0/5.0/5.5

Responsibilities:

• Performed Installation and support of VMWARE ESX/ESXi 5.5/ server which hosts the virtual servers for the test/dev/staging environment.
• Build and administered vCenter 5.0/5.5.x VMware cluster, HA, DRS, Snapshot and Clone.
• Performance tuning for VMware ESXi hosts and Virtual Machine, setting up their CPU affinity rules, allocating resources and fine tuning storage.
• Troubleshooting hardware issues like, RAM, HDD and CPU,
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
• Possess excellent Windows server skills in the areas of Active directory, Domain architecture, TCP/IP, DNS, Wins system, availability, scheduling, server capacity and performance.
• Installation and Administration of Web servers and FTP servers.
• Monitoring the servers using HP Systems Insight Manager to find any issues with the server’s hardware.
• Investigate & troubleshoot issues create, change, and delete user accounts per request.
• Troubleshoot and supported the user having issue in Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop.