SUMMARY

• Senior Windows/VMware/SCCM Systems Administrator with over 6.5 years of experience in Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi 6.0,5.5,5.0 servers, vCenter Converter, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop 6.X and 7.X, Citrix NetScaler and Secure Gateway and Windows 2003/2008R2/2012R2/2016.
• 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.
• Experience in ESX Architecture, Guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates & Snapshots.
• Working knowledge of all the following Citrix Applications: Presentation Server, XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer, NetScaler, Microsoft Application Virtualization, and related technologies.
• Experience in Writing/ Maintaining & troubleshooting scripts written both in MS Power Shell and/or VB script for build & operations environment to develop/test/implement automation tools.
• Worked on a multiple monitoring systems like Zabbix, Nagios, Grey Logs, Cacti, Splunk, Solarwinds
• Worked on EMC Data Domain 2200, 3300, NetApp, CommVault 10, 11 backup system and executed regular Disaster recovery plan for all the File, Application and SQL server.
• Manage application package creations, and deliveries through SCCM, Perform routine software updates to enhance functionalities and security
• Experience in basic Configurations and Management of Cisco Nexus 9K/7K/5K/3K Switches, IP sub-netting, VLANs, Big-IP F5 Load Balancing, & High Availability (HA) architectures

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• VBlock
• VMware vSphere 5.0/5.5/6.0
• VCenter Server
• 5.0/5.5/6.0
• ESX 5.0/5.5/6.0
• HA
• DRS
• FT
• VMotion
• Storage VMotion
• Horizon View
• Hyper-V
• Citrix XenApp
• Citrix XenDesktop 6.X and 7.X
• Citrix NetScaler and Secure Gateway
• Cisco ASA
• SonicWALL
• Juniper SRX
• Windows Firewall
• DHCP
• DNS
• Printers
• Scanners and Installation of VPN client
• ADUC
• SCCM
• SCOM SQL services
• Lync 2010/2013
• IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
• TCP/IP
• UDP
• Cisco Switches blade Servers
• C7000 HP Chassis. NetApp V6000 Series
• SSH
• Putty
• Extra Putty
• Cisco UCS
• Windows Server OS- 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012R2/2016
• Windows 10/7/XP/NT
• Exchange 2010
• 2013
• Office 365
• EMC Data Domain 2200
• 3300
• CommVault 10
• 11

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Create SCCM 2012 Application Deployments, Packages and also Patch management, Create custom SCCM reports with SCCM 2012and also examining and analyzing SQL Reports, Capture and Restore user data using RES and Microsoft USMT
• Create, Delete, Modify and Move SCCM collections, Deploy SCCM 2012 Client and RES agent on Windows 8.1 Machines via SCCM 2012 Console, SCCM 2012 Administration/Engineering
• Monitor and troubleshoot SCCM 2012 Deployments, Applications and Task Sequences
• Configured all the access rules for LAN, WAN and DMZ in SonicWALL Firewall, SSL VPN, and Set up the Secondary (Failover) SonicWALL device.
• Providing Tier III support of 20+ applications on Citrix XenApp 7.5 for all the 200 users and also deployment of on-demand virtual desktops and applications using Citrix XenDesktop 7.5
• Working closely with the Development/QA/Programming teams and managing Big-IP F5 production environment for over 100 websites, Managed IIS environment and SSL certificates for QC, Stage and Production servers.
• Worked and conquered on different projects like Set up EMC VNX 5300 SAN from the scratch and Administering 100 TB of a Data, Migrating Company’s phone system from Avaya to ShoreTel, ISP migration and Management of 100 websites.
• Worked on Server Consolidation project to reduce the server’s count from 150 to 110 which includes physical and virtual servers. Also, Managing the McAfee and Symantec anti-virus/Spyware from ePolicy orchestrator and the SEP Manager respectively for Workstations and servers.
• Migrated about 1000 Mailboxes from Exchange 2010 to office 365 environments, Managing their backup EMC Data Domain 2200 system, AWS EC2 and cloud backup environment

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

VMware/Citrix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Converged Infrastructure Operations Team with an Environment consisting of 4000+users, 4500 servers, Win2003 R2, Win2008R2, Win 2012R2, VCE vBlock, vSphere 5.5/6.0
• Worked on Windows server upgrade of over 400 servers from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 along with the migration data and the applications.
• Configure and manage Citrix server Policies, Profile Management and setup VLANs for guest VM’s
• Exposure to mid and large enterprise application and infrastructure deployment processes, change management, and incident management practices, Administering and Troubleshooting issues of end users from Citrix Director and Citrix Studio
• Design, implement and manage complex SCCM 2012 and Windows 8.1,10 Desktop solutions, Implement and Manage Enterprise Desktop and Data Center Transformation solutions
• Assist in the packaging software for teams which are onboarding to VDI, using VMware App Volumes or ThinApp. Also, Worked on VMWare Horizon View 6.0 to create and deploy Desktop resources.
• Expertise in creatingCitrix Streaming ProfilesandPublishing Applicationsto users inCitrix XenApp 6.0/6.5, Citrix XenApp Web Interface Administration Via IIS
• Using PowerShell scripts to automate processes pertaining to installing software’s on Windows Server 2012R2

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the US to new locations in US, which involves more than 1500 virtual machines.
• Responsible for Terminal server builds and Citrix XenApp server deployments in both Physical and Virtual environments. Worked on Citrix streamed services for servers and bare metal and physical targets
• Performed all monthly updates to Citrix Services including but not limited to the OS and all applications such as EPIC and Meditech, as well as over 100 hosted applications, and Virtual Desktops.
• Worked on SCCM 2007/2012 and WSUS for Windows OS deployment and Patch management.
• Utilized ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tools) to migrate 200 + Accounts, 400 + Groups, and 200 + Computers to the new forest design.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Windows 2003/2008R2/2012 in the created virtual machines and installed the required Roles, software and tools.
• Working knowledge of writing SQL queries. Administer Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions, System Policies and network security devices for the users.
• Create and maintain ACL's to allow only specific LAN computers to use squid, as well as utilizing access.log to test squid proxy.