SUMMARY

• 8 years of IT experience primarily in Virtual infrastructure resources specializing in VMware vCenter server 5.0, 5.5,6.0 and 6.5.
• Extensive experience in working with ESXi servers - configuration, Installation, management and maintenance.
• Experience in administrating and managing VMware ESXi environment with multiple clusters.
• Experience in implementing ESXi servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots.
• Knowledge of managing, maintaining, administering, troubleshooting high end network devices such as cisco routers, switches and ASA firewalls.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft server technologies, such as Microsoft server 2003/2008/2012/2016 , Exchange 2003/2007/2010 and office 365, Skype for business, Active Directory, Windows Update Server (WSUS), and Windows Deployment Server (WDS) and how they interact on the network.
• Advanced knowledge of backup server technologies such as Symantec Backup Exec versions 2012 and 2016.
• Proficient experience in AWS and Azure cloud services.
• Experienced in AWSCloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation,AWSConfig, Auto Scaling, Cloud Front, IAM, S3 and Route53.
• Experienced with deployments, maintenance and troubleshooting applications on MicrosoftAzure Cloud infrastructure.
• Working knowledge onAzurecloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
• Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission settings, roles and responsibility assignments and VM resource allocations on ESXi hosts.
• Experience in upgrading ESX/ESXi host, vCenter Servers from 5.0 to 5.5 to 6.0.
• Experience with VMware view 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1 and Virtual desktops deployments.
• Experience in configuration and support of VMware Horizon Suite, Workspace, Mirage, View and vROPs.
• Well experienced in Creating Templates, VDI Pool creations, VDI Provisioning, VM priorities, Roles and permissions, Resource pools, VM Cloning and Knowledge of Snapshots.
• Dell hardware, services, settings, directories, storage, etc., in accordance with standards and project requirements using VMware vSphere & vCenter related products.
• Hands on experience with HP Proliant Servers, IBM Blade HS20P Servers / and Dell Power Edge rack mount servers.
• Microsoft applications including DNS, DHCP, SQL, printing, Proxy, IIS, Active Directory and Domain Controllers.
• Experience with AD Group Policy, GPO, GPP, Users, Domain users and also handled permissions of users, Groups, File shares and Privilege to access LAN and Domain.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, with several types of port groups. Excellent understanding of Cisco USC manager.
• Experience about SAN, iSCSI, NAS Configuration and Implementation including attached storages, SAN Switches, HBA.VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment.
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion technology.
• Strong experience in configuring HA and DRS clusters, using EVC on as needed basis.
• Configured, Monitored and Maintained Virtual server farms consisting VMWARE, and Hyper V.
• Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vConverter.
• Expertise in Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager.
• Experience with DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations and Implementations.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT and Exchange Mail Server.
• Experience with HP Blade System C-class enclosure (7000) and IBM iSeries chassis using Onboard Administrator and virtual Connect.
• Planning, deploying, and managing System Center Configuration Manager 2007/2012 (SCCM) and SCOM.
• Experience in Windows Server 2008, 2008R2, 2012and 2016 server architecture and administration.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Visio and Outlook.
• Excellent leadership qualities, excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware, vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5 /6.0 , 6,5, vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5 , ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5 /6.0 /6.5, Horizon View VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation.

Windows Administration: Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016 - installation and configuration, installation and configuration of Active Directory creating users and groups, setting user access controls, domains creation and setup, Exchange Server 2010/2013, Office 365.

Operating Systems: Windows Server OS - 2003/2008/2008 R 2/2012/2016.

Windows OS- 10, 7/XP/NT.: Linux Server OS- AIX, Solaris.

Networking: OSI Reference Model, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and sub netting, 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: Cisco UCS, HP ProLiant DL380 G5/G6 Intel Xeon, HP EVA, HP ProLiant DL385 G6/G7 AMD Opteron, Dell PowerEdge 2850, 2950, R710, HP BL 460c G5/G6 blade servers, C7000 HP Chassis. NetApp V6000 Series.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Midland, Michigan

Sr. System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Onsite VMware Administrator and Windows Administrator - Provide Technical support services.
• Building the Virtual machines and Physical Servers with Windows 2008/R2, 2012 &2012/R2 and 2016 from scratch.
• Proficient Experience in installation and configuration ofVMware 5.5/6.0/6.5
• Restoring the VM’s Using the COMMVAULT.
• Server Hardening, ESXI installation on bare Metal (vSphere, Hyper - v).
• Heavy Windows patching, and trouble shooting.
• Hardening of various servers include running the anti-virus batch file manually, checking them from end to end, Domain changes and patching.
• Experience on wide Data center, where several thousand servers are managed.
• Working on datacenter issues on HP C7000, Cisco UCS5108 Chassis, Dell M100.,
• Configuring ILO and ID rack servers.
• Administered Windows 2008/2012 Active Directory, Sharepoint, Exchange, DNS, DHCP, WINS, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Configuring fault tolerance (FT) for critical VM’s Configured, and Managed VMware cluster with HA and DRS rules.
• Building Windows 2008 R2, 2012, 2016 Servers, Office 365, IIS, Lync, and upgrading Windows on both physical and virtual machines.Worked with ILIT, PCI, Security.
• Implemented SVCMM Microsoft System Center Configuration Manger R2 Cluster
• Deployed and updated services in n-tier architecture vcloud air environment.
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on vcloud air environment.
• Maintained awareness of business needs and changing technology landscape, relative to public cloud.
• CreatedAzureVMs and Storage accounts. Created ACS and integrated with applications, service bus to manage partner’s access to the APIs, managed storage in table and blob using explorer tools (IAAS)
• Created Multiple subscriptions for various departments to Mangeazuresubscription consumption
• Migrated servers to new team foundations TFS.
• Working on TPAM to generate the temporary passwords which helps to login servers.
• Maintaining the Physical servers using the iLO and ID rack Consoles.
• Designed and implemented SCCM 2012 /SCOM 2012/SCDPM 2012 infrastructure as a service in Azure to monitor, manage, backup & restore the Azure workloads.
• Replicated client setups using combinations of Azure and Hyper-V for testing purposes.
• Spent a lot of time setting up and testing varies Azure Products.
• Migrated SQL server Databases to new Azure cloud servers. Experience in Backup, Restoring and Moving of Databases; Configuring SQL Server Agent Jobs and designing Database Security.
• Worked on V Sphere, vCloud Suite /vRealize suite - vRealize Operations Manager (vRops), Log Insight, vRealize Orchestration(vRO), and vRealize Automation (vRA/ vCAC), VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN).
• Migrated from Windows 7 to Windows10, deployed Office 365 test
• Migrating the servers 2008/R2 and 2012/R2 using SCM.
• WrotePowerShellscripts, VB scripts for administrative tasks and management of the server infrastructure.
• Update patches on Servers Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc.
• Administered and maintained servers with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 -2012, SCCM.
• Managed 2008, 2012 R2 servers in the Citrix Farm environment.
• Worked with RMS, KMS, active directory, FTP, IIS, SCCM 2012, SCOM, WSUS.
• Provision Azure Active Directory Azure Management for all users
• Custom Azure Templates for quick deployments and advanced PowerShell scripting.
• Worked on AD, DNS, DHCP, File Server, IIS Web Server, FTP, Terminal Server, Windows Clustering, Exchange Mail administration.Expert in Decommissioning VM’s and Esxi and all Hardware with in Data Center.
• Experience in installing and configuring vSphereESXi’s on HP and Cisco bladeservers.
• Package distribution using SCCM server across all the desktops(imaging) and servers in the environment.
• Upgrading the ESXi 5.x to 6.x using VMware Update manager(VUM).
• Worked with vRealize Orchestrator (VRO) to run the Work flow for VRA for VM’s.
• Install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within VI3, vSphere 4, vSphere 5 and vSphere 6 environments with Virtual Center management, LabManager, vCloud Director.
• Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
• Installed VMware vSphere and ESX server 5.5, 6.x, running Virtual Servers.
• Increasing the Size of VM’s using Disk part, EXPART Partition Magic & other tools
• Up gradation of ESX server from 5.1 to 5.5 environments.
• Deploying VM's using PowerCli.
• Creating and managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations
• Creating templates from VM’s and deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources
• WrotePowershellscripts, for Login script, AD user creation, Windows registry check.
• ImplementedPowerShellscripts that automated creation of contacts from Active Directory users and updating of address books.
• Implemented several best performance settings and group policies on VDI infrastructure for better performance of VDI environment and better user experience.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT,2003, 2008,2012 and 2016 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and legacy hardware.

Confidential, Louisville, Kentucky

Windows/Wintel & VMware System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered the virtual infrastructure in the data center using VMware vSphere 5.x. Managed the change control procedures.
• Supported windows and VMware engineering operations, coordinated with the software license vendors and renewed the licenses of VMware and Microsoft products.
• Experience in implementing and deploying workloads on Azure VM. Experience in implementing images and disks.
• Responsible in building physical and virtual server’s on Windows, ESXi host, creating clusters, adding ESX hosts to clusters, and adding storage.
• Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of Windows Server environment, including VMware ESX/ESXi host, Clusters, Servers and Virtual Machines and Interfaced with different Venders.
• Migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services.
• Designed the data center rack elevations, racked and stacked new server& network and storage equipment.
• Gathered the requirements from the management and implemented windows and VMware solutions based on the requirements.
• Implemented VMware SRM for disaster recovery and windows SCCM for desktop deployment and patch management.
• Create custom report to measure performance of VM’s and ESX servers using Virtual Centre and vROPS.
• Worked on different applications such as Confluence, JIRA, MOM, SCOM, SCCM and VCOPS to improve the availability, performance, and ensure maximum uptime, worked with incident management and change management.
• Managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with ESXi 5.x Hypervisor and managed with vSphere vCenter 5.0.
• Wrote WindowsPowerShellscript to automate setting of user credentials and activation of Windows
• Planning, designing and developing Infrastructure Related Automation Solutions using vRealize Workflows.
• Migration of Inventory Management and QuickBooks software from on premise Windows server to Azure VM (IaaS).
• Experience in remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
• Taking care of capacity planning for new clusters, ESXi and VM storage issues.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters, FT for important VM’s.
• Capacity planning using Capacity planner and VMware guided consolidation for gathering the physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics.
• Install and configure of vRealize Automation, Application Services, vRealize Orchestrator.
• Integrate vRealize Automation with vRealize Operations 6.1 including EndPoint Operations (Hyperic) and vRealize Insight (Log Insight).
• Deployed new virtual machines from templates. Configured the network adapter settings for the newly commissioned windows servers.
• Deployed new Linux virtual machines to install the applications from vendors.
• Worked on vMotion, HA, DRS and other VMware technologies.
• Cloned the virtual machines, took the snapshots whenever required.
• Hands on management and implementation of Active Directory Schema, DNS, Sites, Services, GPO/OU, replication, FRS, Exchange, Lync, and all MS Services.
• Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory Services.
• Configured VEEAM backup for the virtual machines. Update VEEAM to the latest version.
• Administered the Hyper-V virtual infrastructure. Deployed new machines, extended hard disks, configured the network and provided support for the Hyper-V environment.
• Worked as an active directory domain administrator for windows servers 2008. Worked on DNS, MS terminal and DHCP servers in the active directory.
• Created vSwitches and different ports groups for different purposes.
• Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for redundancy.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.
• Installing windows server 2008/2012 R2 for different roles and patch management.
• Deploying GPO for user and computer objects.
• Post installation configurations.Creating host records on DNS for websites.
• Implemented SCCM for desktop image deployment.
• Worked with System Center Configuration ManagerSCCM for patch management, software updates, OS Deployment, software installation & inventory.
• Installed several applications from different vendors on the newly commissioned windows servers.
• Maintained an inventory of all the hardware and virtual machines in the data center.
• Designed the storage volume replication for SAN to SAN replications from primary to DR Datacenter.
• Upgraded the memory capacity of the Dell ESXI hosts.
• Created VSwitches for DMZ access of the windows servers and migrated the servers to the DMZ network.
• Monitored the network and servers using Solar Winds.
• Administered, managed and installed Symantec end point protection on all the windows assets in the infrastructure.

Confidential

Windows/Wintel & VMware System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and managed ESXi5.xVMware servers.
• Build VMs on demand using this client provisioning.
• Created templates for application servers such as Oracle and SQL.
• Create VMs for Disk sharing for Oracle and Windows clustering.
• Build and maintain HA and DRS clusters health.
• Installed ESXI hypervisor on dell hardware.
• Design and implement new Data Center VMware infrastructure.
• Assist users with slow and unresponsive VMs by troubleshooting issues with CPU and Memory.
• Migrate VMs according to load balance across different hosts.
• Creating Virtual switch and configuring Virtual switch settings and policies
• Involved in P2V, V2P Migration using Stand Alone VMware Converter Server and Plate Spin.
• Managing and implementing various projects with all phases of life cycle for virtualization.
• Configured ESXI 4.0 with SAN Attached storage (LUN Assignments, Data stores)
• Utilized VMware Converter for Physical to Virtual/Virtual to Virtual conversion/Physical to Physical conversion. Windows Server and Desktop administration
• Experienced with SDLC and TFS, MS test, SVCMM TEST LAB, SCOM administration duties with motoring an maintenance with project build and test case build.
• Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Responsible for supporting application which hosted onAzure
• Worked with deployments, VMware NSX, Maintenance, change management and troubleshooting applications on Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Azure.
• Installation IIS in Windows Servers and configured as per application requirements.
• Provided support for IIS related issues to different applications and acted as a point of contact for any deployment related issue in Productions deployments
• Image deployment thorugh sccm. Windows Server and Desktop administration
• Deployed about 200+ VDIS for users with windows 8 and windows 10 OS on them.
• Maintaining backups and restores of the Production and Development data.
• Network Attached Storage Implementations. Wokred with several applications .net, java, people soft, CRM..
• VM deployment, snapshot management using power shell.
• Installated SQL database on RedHat/Debian Servers. Worked on Apache and NGINX configuration and troubleshooting of web server related issues
• Installed ESX patches using Update manager.
• Experience in Cisco UCS /HP C7000 blades administration and troubleshooting,Writing PowerShell Scripts, vb and powercli scripts.Worked with VMware NSX.
• Creating and managing user accounts and the groups in Active Directory users and computers.
• Involved in daily Performance monitoring and Active Directory troubleshooting with the ability to analyze server performance and make recommendations for improvement.
• Experience writing both powershell and powercli scripts to automate virtual machine builds and dns entry configurations.
• Run reports from Virtual center for usage and health of ESX hosts and Datastore usage.
• Create & manage LUNs for Datastore on Compellent storage systems by mapping LUNs to HBAs.
• Troubleshoot issues with slow Datastore access.
• Added Raw Disk mappings to VMs from available storage.
• Perform health checks of the storage and SAN infrastructures.
• Upgrade and migration of VMs from 5.1 to 5.5.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support for Windows servers and VMware infrastructure.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with all related VMware issues including the regional ESXi servers refresh.
• Responsible for updating and patching all ESXi servers.
• Responsible for maintaining Virtual Center for the Test and Development environments.
• Monitoring and managing the performance and the load balance of the Servers.
• Working on deadline, multitasking, simultaneously working on multiple projects and coordinating with various vendors. Applying Securities Policies.
• Creating a test Environment in VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Working on Remedy tickets and prioritizing the work as per the SLAs.
• Publishing the Desktops and Individual Applications according to the Department requirements in the organization.
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Build Windows 2008/2003/2000 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers using CA unicenter software deployment.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented VMotion, DRS, HA. Virtualized Windows servers using VMwareConverter P2V and V2V.
• Upgraded VMware ESXI servers using p2v update manager.
• Installed and Configured Microsoft Clusters which include SQL 2005 on clustered environment.
• Monitored the servers using HP Sitescope and resolved the issues.
• Responsible for building and supporting nearly 800+ Workstations for testing teams.
• Deploy patches using Big Fix as requested or scheduled by Engineering & Release Mgmt.
• Coordinate/Facilitate all planned and unplanned power outages for all environments.
• Engage hardware and software vendors to assist in improvement of current VMware environment and research and evaluation of the latest technologies.
• Coordination/implementation of hardware and software installations and upgrades.
• Performance and capacity monitoring and management.
• Weekly server maintenance planning and coordination.
• Monitor and act on problem tickets.
• Created Process Documents and Standard Operating Procedures as per the ITIL standard and was reviewed by Managers.
• Introduced the procedure of template details and requirements captured from the Users for reference of all the Team and Managers.
• Updated the Managers with a weekly Status reports with the current status, issues and reasons for delays of the applications.