SUMMARY

• 9+ years of IT Experience in System and Network Administration, 4 years in Virtual infrastructure specializing in VMware 4.1 and 5.1.
• Excellent knowledge in installing ESX and ESXi, and preparing VMs with different Guest OS including Windows 2003/2008 & Linux.
• Excellent knowledge on Windows 2003 & 2008 Active directory DNS, DHCP
• Excellent knowledge in implementing ESX servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots.
• Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission settings, roles and responsibility assignments and VM resource allocations on ESX hosts.
• Strong understanding of virtualization architectures for various hypervisor types; VMware networking implementation including creation of vSwitches, port groups, connection types, network traffic and security policy setting by NIC Teaming, load balancing, notification to switches for connectivity problems and, connectivity with storage using iSCSI, NAS and SAN storages.
• Excellent knowledge of implementing VMware virtual center and VCenter Server for centralized management of ESX hosts; setting up automated V - Motion, configuring HA and DRS clusters, using EVC on as needed basis
• Knowledge of VMware products such as VMware workstation and VMware converter.
• Good understanding on storage types including iSCSI, NAS and SAN, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS, NetApp SAN technologies such as LUN creation, LUN masking, zoning, LUN addressing and, storage management for SAN using SCSI devices.
• Good knowledge in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vConverter.
• Excellent experience with VMware updates manager for automated patch installation and upgrading ESX hosts.
• Excellent knowledge on Application virtualization tools - APP V, Thin App, Symantec workspace
• Excellent knowledge of Active Directory DNS/DFS/DHCP Standardizations and Implementations.
• Good Knowledge with HP Blade System management using ILO.
• Good knowledge of Windows Server 2003 and 2008 and Red Hat Linux server architecture and administration.
• Excellent documentation and presentation skills using Microsoft Office suite.
• Good Knowledge on VMware view-VDI and Horizon view 5.2

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware VSphere 4.0/4.1, VCenter Server 4.0/4.1, ESX 3.0/3.5/4.0/4.1 , VirtualCenter Server 2.5,VMware Converter Enterprise, VMware View, VMware ThinApp 4.6, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, VMotion, Storage VMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation

Windows Administration: Configuration of DHCP and DNS, Windows Server 2003, installation and configuration of Active Directory and Internet Information Service (IIS 5.0/6.0), creating users and groups, setting user access controls, domains creation and setup

Operating Systems: Windows Server OS - 2003/2008, Windows 7/XP/NT, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VMWare/Windows Admin

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring VMware VCenter Server, VCenter plug-ins.
• Performed storage migration for moving VMs from one data store to the other.
• Installing and configuring ESX 4.1/5.1 in large scale environment
• Create VMs on ESX hosts for installing, configuring and managing guest operating systems such as Windows server 2003 & Windows 2008 & RedHat Linux
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates
• Creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates and Cloning VMs
• Using Virtual center server for HA, DRS, and Vmotion
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS
• Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines
• Create virtual switches and port groups, configure virtualization networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs; configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Log analysis knowledge for monitoring performance (CPU, Memory, Disk, network Utilization) and virtual infrastructure alarms in VCenter servers.
• Create and maintain environment specific installation and configuration guides for P2V Conversions, ESX server and VCenter Server installation, VMware tools, Patch Upgrades and, third party applications
• Coordinating and supporting Virtual desktops in VMware Horizon view
• Packaging and publishing applications using Thinapp.
• Managing Active Directory, Group policy, DHCP and DNS management
• OS upgrade, patching on Windows & Linux Servers
• Manage and publish application via Citrix 4.5 and Citrix 6.5.
• Troubleshooting Windows applications and related Services
• Manage physical Server builds with HP ILO.
• Manage web applications and reporting applications in IIS, Tomcat
• Building DFS root and managing Share and security permission
• Tracking, monitoring, documenting and reporting all the project details.
• Working on release management, Incident management, Problem management and Change management according to ITIL process.
• Coordination, support and troubleshooting of various IT issues related to Windows Servers and respective applications
• Working on Incident management, Problem management and Change management according to ITIL process

Windows Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring & Managing Active Directory
• Active Directory Group policy management
• Deploying, Configuring and Managing of Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers
• Support and maintain VMware vSphere Server Virtualization Environment
• Install configure and manage VM machines and templates
• Converting physical machines to virtual machines
• DNS & DHCP Management
• Providing application virtualization solutions with APP-V, Symantec and Vmware Thinapp
• Coordination, support and troubleshooting of various Financial and IT Applications
• Implementation and management of Client end backup and Antivirus solutions
• Supporting Disaster Recovery Planning and Activation
• IIS Management
• Scripting and automating tasks using VBScript and PowerShell
• IT Confidential
• Automated software Delivery for IT infrastructure after successful application packaging and complete testing.
• Automated software and Hardware Inventory for all assets in IT infrastructure.
• License management which includes keeping track of license and authorized users.
• Automated Job scheduling for different systems in IT infrastructure.
• Periodically upgrade/ Migrate CA with the version approved by IT security.
• Report generation for all the different inventories.
• Application virtualization- App-v, Symantec and Thin app
• Application Assessment for Virtualization
• Complete application virtualization, testing and publishing it to authorized users.
• Application upgrades and maintenance
• Trouble shooting the virtualized application issues
• App-V & Symantec server setup with redundancy and disaster recovery
• APP-V application server Upgrade\Patching
• Understanding and assessment of various vulnerabilities.
• Tracking all systems for critical vulnerabilities.
• Taking appropriate steps to remove and control these vulnerabilities
• Complete testing of security patches and deployment of these patches on vulnerable system.
• Reporting and appropriate escalations of various vulnerabilities for corrective actions.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1, Windows server 2000/2003, DNS, IIS, DHCP, FTP, backup exec, Sophos, CA Unicenter 11, APP-V, Thin App, Symantec

Infrastructure lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design, install and configure Windows domain controllers.
• Designing and implementing Active directory according to meet the requirements of the organization.
• Configuring Active Directory User and FSMO roles.
• Creating the organizational Units and placing Users and groups in their respective OUs.
• Patching all Windows servers and workstations with Company standards.
• Configuring and administering Domain Naming Server (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Distributed File System (DFS), and Internet Information Service (IIS) for intranet applications.
• Managing Microsoft windows server disk storages, disks and volumes.
• Installation, configuration and management of Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers.

System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Windows NT 4 Servers and NT Workstations
• Managing WinProxy
• Supporting in-house and third party application
• Monitoring Internet connectivity
• Linux Server management

Environment: Windows server NT/2000/2003, Active directory, backup tools, DNS, DHCP, WINS.