PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• VMware/Windows Admin with 9+ years of experience in building and implementing new systems as well as overseeing systems migrations/upgrades, develop and implement effective deployment strategies.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2000/2003/ 2008/2012/2016 Servers, Wintel Servers.
• Expertise in Virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESXi 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.0/4.1/4 and 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, WSUS.
• Extensive experience in SystemOperation Manager (SCOM) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
• Extensive experience with Internet Information Server (IIS) and Microsoft Cluster Server
• Experience and Familiar with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi. Created and managed VMs (virtual server) and involved in the maintenance of the virtual server.
• Implemented vSphere 5.0/5.5 for Proof of Concept &Supporting vCenter environment in large - scale production environment.
• Expertise in implementation and supporting VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1/4.0/5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 environment.
• Expertise in upgrading of ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 hosts, and 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, vCenter 4 to 5, as well as upgrading 2000+ VM’s from Virtual machine hardware.
• Extensive experience working with vCloud Automation Center vCAC.
• Extensively worked on VMotion, Storage VMotion and Microsoft Active Directory.
• Expertise in managing vRealize Operations Manager Infrastructure along with Upgrades of the Infrastructure, as needed.
• Knowledge on Infrastructure Related Automation Solutions using vRealize Workflows, vRA, vRO toolset, SDK, APIs, scripting.
• Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Experience with large number of P2Vand V2V migrations using VMware/Platespin and double take convertor tools.
• Sound knowledge on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Experience in installing, configuring windows /2003 and ESXi on HP C-7000 enclosures running BL460c, BL620c blades, Dell R-710/R-630/R-620/M-620/M-630 Servers and Cisco UCSB200’s and B250’s.
• Experience in configuring and upgrading Flex-10 shared Uplink Sets, SAN Fabrics, and Server Profiles on Virtual Connect Manager for BL460c, BL680c g6/g7/g8 on HP C7000 enclosures.
• Expertise in configuring HP DL 580’s, 380’s G5’s/6’s/7’s and upgrading servers using HP Smart update manager.
• Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows NT System Administration & support.
• Extensive background in working with the VMware vMotion technology.
• Extensive experience working on cloud & SaaS Platforms.
• Expertise in configuration of VEEAM and VCOPS for backup and monitoring the entire ESXi environment
• Experience in managing and configuring multipath based solution and well experienced in configuring NetApp, Brocades SAN based LUNs.
• Experience in transformation roles like transferring PDCEmulator, RID Master& Infrastructure Masters.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA and VMware DRS.
• Knowledge of installing HP Proliant Server Hardware, Microsoft, HP products, and Vista 7 configuration.
• Integrate and administer reporting services (SSRS) into the SharePoint environment including user groups, report publishing and data security.
• Hands on installation and Configuration of Storage Point (Blob Storage software), SharePoint 2010, VMWARE, SQL server 2008 R2, SSRS in clustered environment.
• Experience with Federation Services installs (ADFS & ADFSPRX), SSO & Office 365.
• Knowledge with NAS/SAN, VNX storage, Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010 and Solaris.
• Expertise in DHCP, WINS and DNS.EMC SRDF/A/S AND MSC and knowledge on SRDF Host component.
• Skilled on SYMMWIN (tool which use for EMC storage device operations).
• Provide 24/7 support in a 99.999 environment to maintain maximum uptime and ensure server reliability using monitoring products such as SCOM and MOM.Experience in creating protection groups, recovery plans, test DR plans, and SRA's in SRM 5.
• Expertise in Microsoft Windows NT, Windows Professional, Win XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, virtual networking, wireless networks &Cloud computing concepts.
• Experience in using VISIO, MS office.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization Products: Vsphere 3.x/4.x/5.x & 6.x (ESX/ESXi server 3.x/4.x/5.x & 6.x vCenter Server 3.x/4.x/5.x & 6.x), DRS, HA and FT. VMware update manager, VMware NSX, P2V vConverter, P2P Double Take Converter, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI) VMware view, VMware SRM 5.0, Microsoft Hyper v and Microsoft Virtual server 2005

Operation System: Windows Server NT 4.0/2000/2003/2003 R2/2008/2008R2/2012/2012R2/2016, Windows XP/Vista/7, Wintel, Linux, Unix

System Automation: System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2, SCCM, Scripting via Power shell, Power CLI, VB Script, HP SIM & Confidential Director

Application Servers: Microsoft Active Directory 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2016,DHCP, DNS, WINs, IIS 6.0/7.0, FTP, DFS, Double Take Replication, LDAP, Windows clustering 2003/2008

Hardware: HP Proliant Rack Mount 380/490/360 BL 460/480/490 G3/G4/G5/G6/G7 series, HP EVA 4400, HP HSA 300, HP MSA 1000, Confidential Blade Center S, Confidential 3690s series, Dell Power Edge Server, Dell Rack mount Servers, Cisco UCS B200’s B250’s M2’s M3’s, iSCSI/SATA/SAS hard disk drives, CD drives, ECC/non-ECC registered, Fabric HBA 4GB/6GB/8GB cards, Fabric switches and cable

Database: SQL Server 2008/2008 R2/2012R2

Programming Skills: Power shell, PowerCLI, VBScript, Batch Script

DR Tool: VMware SRM, Veeam and Zerto

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, Georg ia

VMware Wintel Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented ESX server infrastructure environment, Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks
• Worked with VMware Networking concepts like creation of Standard and Distributed vSwitch, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESXi 5.5/6.5.
• Creating/Managing Virtual Machines, creating clones and templates/images for deploying VMs, audit them for perfection and manage utilities and applications installed on those VMs
• Performed Virtual Machines backup, snapshots, cloning, P2V and V2V conversion usingVMware stand-alone convertor.
• Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites (Windows 2008/2012/2016 ) on VMware ESX server and Prepared the strategy and implemented ESXi Migration.
• Configured HA and DRS on ESX clusters in VCenter, securing vCenter with Roles and permissions.
• Install multiple Operating Systems in different VM's and configure VM tools on them to accelerate hardware functionality and also maintain and configure unattended VM's builds.
• Worked with team in upgrading VCenter and ESXi to 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 usingVMwareUpdate manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Created and managed operational dashboards, widgets, views and reports, property, metric and alert definitions, super metrics, capacity planning projects, operational policies, Groups and Applications within vRealize Operations Manager.
• Implement and manage vRealize Operations Manager solutions and management packs, End Point Operations Agents.
• Implemented the migrations of ESXi 5.5 to 6.0 and 6.5.
• Performed data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapp NFS, EMC CLARiiON, Brocade SAN Storage.
• Setup custom vApps and resource pools to individually manage specific groups of VMs and provide custom priorities.
• Performed necessary storage infrastructure maintenance in accordance with EMC and Customer change management policies.
• Hands on experience configuring Cisco UCS environment based on customer’s needs.
• Media based installs on several Cisco UCS B200 / B250 blades required for UAT/DRT/ETE and Production.
• Configured fault tolerance (FT) for mission critical Virtual Machines Configured and Managed VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Provide level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant BL460's/HP DL 580's/380's and Windows/Linux Virtual Servers.
• Supported design creation of data migration architectures.
• Integrate with enterprise SAN that included several Symmetrix V-Max arrays and CLARiiONs connected to several Windows & UNIX servers in the Data center.Involved with capacity planning and hardware procurements as perstandards.
• Federation Services implementations, with ADFS, ADFS-PRX and DirSync server installation and configuration2008R2 AD and 2012 Server Direct Access design and implementation.
• Involved in Data center migration more Than 500 ESX servers and large number of the windows physical servers
• Configured virtual networks and vShield to servicevCloud Director (VCD).
• Migrating Linux based machines and Power off Machines to virtual machines using VMware converter.
• Worked with NFS, DHCP, SAMBA, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, PXE BOOT and HP Service Center.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Configured and maintained MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Server) while utilizing VMware RDM feature.
• Operated as 24-hour on-call escalation point for all project-effecting problems related to all Migration efforts. Anticipated obstacles and recommended solution options.Knowledge on generating and analyzing custom reports in vCOps.
• Monitoring of VM’s &ESXi server components (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) and security hardening for Security Compliance.
• Building and Installing servers throughAzureResource Manager Templates orAzureportal.
• Maintain a disaster recovery plan by documenting current system configuration, identifying, analyzing, and evaluating critical data/hardware issues and documentation and testing plan. Worked on service requests from the client through service-now.
• Created documentation for the server andVMwaretrouble shooting procedures.
• Member of 24X7 on call shift rotation for server and Virtualization environment support.
• Configure and deploy new Microsoft windows using WSUS, SCCM and HP Opsware for patch management throughout the data center on the servers running windows operating system.
• Remote design, implementation and administration of multiple Citrix farms including Presentation Server 4.0 and 4.5, XenApp 6.0.
• Performance monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting of EMC SAN.
• EMC or Confidential enterprise class storage systems experience.
• Management, maintenance, and implementation of data storage solutions, utilizing EMC Symmetrix/DMX and Clariion arrays.

Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementing Server setup, configuration & administration for Windows 2008, Windows 2012Utilize applications such as MOM, SCOM, and VCOPS to improve the availability, performance, and ensure maximum uptime.
• Installation of ESXi 5/5.1/5.5 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM’sacrossDatacenters.
• Configured Initiator groups, Port groups, Storage groups and Masking views to allocate storage in a VNX environment.
• Work with application owners, Database owners to schedule downtimes, maintenance windows to schedule the migration efforts.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration ofVMwareESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5, VirtualCenter 5.0/5.1, 5.5, vCenterServers as well as upgrading to ESXi 5.5/Virtual Center 5.5.Deploy patches to your physical or virtual assets, including Microsoft Windows using shavlik console
• Applied RAID setup, BIOS configuration, OS installation for UCS 200 and UCS 400 serieshardware.
• Worked with IIS 7/8 installation, migrations and administration on Windows 2008, 2012.
• Deploy and manage Clustered File& Print servers, Microsoft DHCP servers for the organization.
• Racking and stacking servers, switches and SAN in the datacenter.
• Creation and management of Virtual Machines and Templates.
• Creation of clusters for (HA) High Availability, (DRS) Distributed Resource Scheduling and vMotion
• Manage and Configure PKI infrastructure, VPN and RRAS, TMG servers, IIS web servers, FTP servers SCCM Servers and WSUS Servers.
• Deploy security patches, updates as part of the patching cycle using WSUS and SCCM.
• Review PCI scans and remediate software distribution failures and toeliminate the problems causing vulnerabilities.
• Interacted with the global Wintel Engineering team regularly to understand and design solutions
• Plan, test and document Wintel Disaster Recovery processes.
• Involved in the installation, monitoring and support of Wintel based servers, firewalls, Cisco networks, perimeter security technologies, Internet technologies and remote office WAN/LAN.Installation, configuration and administration of Disaster recovery of VMs using SRM.
• Decommission of ESX &ESXi servers and Virtual Machine as per the process.
• Configuring and Troubleshooting HA/DRS Cluster related issues.
• Configuring vSphere Centralized Logging for ESXi servers to vMA server.
• Using Altiris, SCCM for Windows patch management.
• Managed user accounts, groups, print queues and controlling access rights using Active Directory and PowerShell scripting;
• Wrote Powercli script to determine snapshots associated with virtual machines in the environment.
• Performed DR drill using SRM and EMC replication adaptor.Provided RCA for incidents that caused production failures.
• Update and install the new software’s and OS patches on windows using SCCM.
• Troubleshooting any OS related issues like patches, services and performance issues.
• Installing, Configuring of VMware Syslog Collector for ESXi servers for centralized log Management.
• Administer all user/group permissions; NTFS share permissions, Terminal Services permissions, performance monitoring, troubleshooting level 2/3 issues, and group policy management.
• Create, maintain and transfer all packages to organized distribution points, as well as deploy all enterprise level monthly and bi-weekly security packages through SCCM.
• Provide level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant BL460’s/620’s/680’s/CISCO UCS B200’s B250’s and Windows/Linux Virtual Servers.Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's & ESX servers for Security Compliance.
• Experience in updating windows environment with latest patches, updates, rollups & service packs.
• Expert in implementing and designing high available Microsoft clusters.
• Working closely with application and Database team during testing and implementation phases.
• Responsible for capacity planning, design, install and configuration of newly provisioned HP-C7000 enclosures, build Linux, Windows and ESXi servers on BL 460’s and BL620’s.
• Creating templates, Cloning VMs, resource management and monitoring, configuring VMware HA, Clustering and P2V migrations
• Updating patches of VMware ESXi host using VMware update manager
• Allocating & creating data store to existing virtual environment
• Configure HP C7000 enclosure and blades leveraging Onboard Administrator, Virtual Connect Manager and ILO
• Creating standard process for advanced group policy deployment management as well as Active Directory users and group’s management.
• Expertise migrating 8000+ Windows Server 2003 servers to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 as part of large refresh/migration project.
• Provide 1st/2nd/3rd level support for Windows/ESXi servers running on a combination of HP/ Confidential /Cisco hardware.
• Configuring and Administering Exchange Servers, SMTP, Terminal Servers, DNS, DHCP, CIFS, SNMP, NTFS, FTP, SFTP, robocopy and LDAP on Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 server environment.
• Implemented and upgraded firmware for CISCO MDS switches - 9513, 9509, 9216i, 9148’s and 6120’s.
• Deploy, install and support custom build GIS infrastructure applications, asset management applications as part daily 24/7 operations support.Provide support across multiple datacenters as well as stack/rack of cabling and servers.

Confidential, Columbia, Missouri

Windows/VMware SystemsAdministrator

Responsibilities:

• Windows Server 2003/2008R2 OS build, IP Configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds and Support & Administration.
• Design, build, implement and maintain an enterprise wide patch management system for 500+ Windows 2008 Servers and 300+ Windows 2003 servers.
• Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware vSphere and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment.
• Supported VMware, specifically ESXi 5.5to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over servers.Configuration of vMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware vCenter.
• Performed Hot Cloning, Cold Cloning, Classic vMotion and Storage vMotion using capacity planner for Data Center Migration. In depth Knowledge in vMotion.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools various Server, Network and Storage related policies.Work with Network Team to make changes to the network involving the Cisco UCS.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Monitoring the resources and services on the servers using System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2, HP SIM& Confidential Director, worked as SCOM administrator.Performance monitoring and tuning for ESXi Servers, Virtual Center Server (vSphere) and Virtual machines.
• Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Windows Server/Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment utilizing power shell and powerCLI. Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESXi Servers, Virtual Center Server and Virtual machines
• Responsible for binding any new SAN LUNs and configuring storage groups using OnCommand Manager on NetApp FAS Solutions Platform and UNISPHERE on EMC VNX/VMAX. Develop, test, and maintain a Disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• VB SCRIPTS, PowerShell, Win Batch, PS tools and Windows command-line Scripting to automate the manual tasks on Servers and Client computers.
• Installation and configuration of Windows Active Directory Services. Setting up Domains and configuring DHCP, DNS servers, IIS Servers. Optimization and performance tuning as needed.
• Creating & managing user accounts, e-mail accounts, managing user rights and permissions. Configure mail clients. Managing User & Group accounts and their access control.In place upgrade of Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2008 R2 of physical and virtual machines.
• Monitoring server's performance using Performance Monitor (perfuming).
• Installation and maintenance of computer software & devices.
• Managing File and Folder permissions according to the business requirement.
• Configuring RAID using Array Configuration Utility (ACU) in HP servers.
• Creating Organization Units (OU) and working on new Group Policy (GPO) creation and implementation as per process.
• Planning and configuring new internal & external websites utilizing IIS 6.0/7.0.
• Deploying and troubleshoot .Net based Applications and Java based apps on IIS 6.0/7.0
• Create and Setup monitoring Power shell scripts to monitor system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
• Used NetBackup for backing up & restoration of file systems.
• Helped to configure and maintain IIS 6/7/7.5 webserver server clustering, failovers and load balancing.
• Active Directory (AD) user and security group creation, create shares and designate permissions, organizational units.
• Participate in the troubleshooting activities associated with daily operation works.
• Implement and support new and existing activities configuration.
• Provide 24/7 support to Middleware application servers (Weblogic, Tomcat, JBoss), Webservers (Apache, IIS, Oracle IPlanet) and Database servers (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL).

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Windows Server/Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Maintaining, Monitoring, Upgrading Windows Server 2008, Linux and VMware. Hands on exposure Skills such as DHCP, DNS, GPO, Tivoli Endpoint Manager, Bigfix. Building Images, Scripting, VPN, Lotus Notes, VIOP, Load Balancing.
• Provided Web Server Support Apache/Tomcat, IIS, JBOSS, and WebSphere.
• Managing Red Hat Linux and VMware ESX servers.Install and configure VMware ESXi 4.x, 5.x on servers in datacenter and DR site.
• Installed and maintained SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 clusters in physical and virtual environment.
• Installed configured vCenter with database configured on the external database instance in the SQL cluster.
• Configure HA and DRS for the VMware clusters agreed by the customer.
• Created Virtual Machines and InstalledVMwareTools.
• Provided physical to virtual migrations for servers utilizingVMwareConverter and platespin.
• ConfiguredDHCP.Managed &Troubleshooted Virtual Network issues
• Worked onVMwareclustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Troubleshooting high severity (Priority 1 & 2) incidents on 24 * 7 on-call basis
• Responsible for Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management
• Responsible for checking Net backup & Tivoli backup problems on the Wintel side
• Installed and configured various services like DNS, DHCP, NFS, Apache Web Server, Samba and SSH.
• Worked with system, network, security and storage teams to prepare and configure new servers for the environment.
• Setup, configured, and debugged network configurations for RedHat servers and workstations.
• Diagnosed and resolved hardware problems with Dell servers, workstations, and other hardware equipment.
• Provided assistance and documentation which allowed the 24/7 operations department to troubleshoot and correct problems without needing to page other employees.Having hands on exposure on scripting as per the need of the activities for performing tasks easier.
• Working on High Level Severity as per the ITIL Process. Good hands on exposure on handling Service Now, Elixir ticketing tool. Performing required activities in the location adhering the ITIL Process.
• Participated in 24/7 support roles for Windows Servers, to help maintain and troubleshoot both software and hardware.
• Provided Hardware support, troubleshooting and diagnosis.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assign permissions using Active Directory.
• Administered the Group Policy, to upgrade and repair software installations.
• Respond to and address any tickets/ work requests in the Remedy Queue.
• Provided Support for DNS/DHCP/WINS services.Configured the Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC for testing and development.
• Installed WSUS and configured for patch deployment.Backup scheduling and Restoring using Veritas Net Backup and NT Backup.
• Build Hard Drive images of various O.S using Norton Ghost.
• Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs.
• Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and implementation of trusts.
• Troubleshot and resolve computer problems; built and upgrade systems; install software and perform general troubleshooting.
• Handled multiple tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Develop and update the required network/system administration documentation.