SUMMARY

• Result driven consultant with 10+ years of Active Directory experience and operational support on Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 platforms.
• Over 8+Years of experience in VMware ESX/ESXi, VSphere VDI, VMware Vsphere, P2V Converter
• Collaborated for designing, planning, and building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
• Experience with installing and managing VDI terminal servers
• Experience with installing and configuring Vmware Hyperviser on bare metal IBM Servers.
• Worked on P2V and V2V conversions using Vmware converter enterprise.
• Building and troubleshooting experience with ESX servers and ESXi servers.
• Worked on Vcenter server for managing multiple ESX servers.
• Working knowledge experience managing MS Hyper - V infrastructure.
• Performance monitoring for Servers and VMs on vSphere platform
• Worked extensively on Templates and clones Expertise in creating Host and Client VM Templates, Cloning and managing Snapshots
• Experience in creating, analyzing and managing resource pools, virtual clusters, alert structures, security groups, permissions, virtual network.
• Responsible for setting up datacenter migration while moving the Datacenter from NH to NJ.
• Built a desktop pool using Linked clone and configure pool for required user group.
• Performed Refresh, Recompose and Rebalance operation using View Composer on Desktops.
• Sound knowledge on FC SAN, Iscsi SAN and NAS storage.
• Analyze network traffic for the VM hosts in collaboration with the Networking team
• Performed datastore migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS, dell Iscsi SAN Storage
• Responsible for setting up and using SCOM monitors for the servers in the environment.
• In depth knowledge of Installing and configuring HP, Compaq, Dell Servers. Configuring RAID, Disk Mirroring, SAN Volume Expansion, Raid, SCSI Controller Installation
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Experience on SAN Storage and Disaster recovery solution with VMware SRM
• Design, Implement and troubleshoot any issues related to VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling, Resource Pools, VMware High Availability, Enhanced VMotion (EVC), ESX Host Profiles, vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS), vCloud directory, vShield and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
• Extensively worked on Vmotion and Storage Vmotion.
• Hands on experience with vSwitches, port groups, and Cisco Routers & Switches, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, Ethernet port, and Wireless networks
• Implementing Microsoft Azure Conditional Access for Mobile Device Management.
• Implementing the Citrix Xenmobile MDM solution for 200+ android and iOS users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Vista/XP/7, Vista, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , LINUXMicrosoft SQL Server 2012/2014/2016

Servers: IBM XSeries, Dell PowerEdge Servers 2950, IBM HS 20/21/22 Blades

Languages: Powershell, SQL, VB script

Protocols: DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, IIS

Tools: RMAN, Active Directory, Microsoft System Center

VM Platforms: VMware Vsphere Infrastructure 6.0/5.5 (), VMware vCenter Converter, VMware Lab Manager, VMware SRM and VMware Virtual Desktop Manager.

Instant Messaging: Microsoft Lync

Email Clients: Outlook, Office 365

Application Server: Apache, Tomcat, Web logic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston, MA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Leading the Windows infrastructure project by building ESXi hosts and VMs to replace existing server hardware at the braches.
• Planning and implementating a smooth Active Directory cutover fore old and new sites in AD.
• Creating Templates and deploying VMs as per the customer requirement.
• Patching and Upgrading ESX and ESXi Hosts using Update Manager.
• Perform in place or fresh server upgrade to windows 2008 servers.
• Manage Active Directory and Domain policies
• Administrating DNS, DHCP servers. Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager.
• Implementing Microsoft Azure Conditional Access for Mobile Device Management.
• Implementing the Citrix Xenmobile MDM solution for 200+ android and iOS users.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planning and implementing the Microsoft System Center Upgrade from SCOM 2012 to SCOM 2016.
• Installing and configuring Management Packs for Citrix, Exchange & Cisco for more than 300 servers.
• Installing and configuring Gateway Servers for the SCOM monitoring in the DMZ Domain Controllers.
• Provided live support for the VMware supported production environment.
• Understanding and working knowledge of Citrix infrastructure, XenApp/Xendesktop 6.5 and 7.x including Citrix Director, Citrix PVS & Citrix Storefront.

Confidential, Rye,NY

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Lead the efforts for PCI Compliance for Windows servers in the environment.
• Implement the GPO settings for the identified PCI servers to make sure the servers are in compliance with PCI standard.
• Coordinate with application owners to identify the windows servers which can be decommissioned.
• Queue monitoring & Troubleshooting of event generated monitoring cases.
• Performing the Trend analysis about the incidents occurring on the Application servers and providing the proactive methods to avoid thebusiness outages.
• Patching the Windows servers in the environment through Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
• Perform troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, andVirtual Machine Farms as part of production support.
• Documentation includes PCI compliance requirements, PCI vulnerability management, remediation, audit evidence submission, user accessreview recommendations

Confidential, RI

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Leading the windows 2003 server refresh project with a team of 6 members, interact and coordinate with different teams to meet thedeadlines.
• Experience in architecting, building and maintaining systems on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Sharepoint
• Coordinate with application owners to identify the windows servers which can be decommissioned.
• Perform in place or fresh server upgrade to windows 2008ervers.
• Working on MS Batch management using Shavlick and BSA(Blade Logic Server Administrator).
• Patch Management which makes sure the servers are updated with the latest release security patches to adhere with company security policyusing Shavlik and BMC Tools.
• Perform troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, andVirtual Machine Farms as part of production support.
• Documentation includes PCI compliance requirements, PCI vulnerability management, remediation, audit evidence submission, user accessreview recommendations
• Installed ESX on Bare Metal, installed and upgraded drivers and BIOS Firmware for Qlogic CNA, configured networking (VSS), NIC teaming and software ISCSI adapters for SAN.
• Configured HA Cluster for ESX Hosts, configured Resource Pools to optimize the available hardware Resources, and enabled DRS for Load Balancing.
• Configured failover priority for Virtual Machines running Production applications and databases. Added rules to Cluster for further customization.
• Provided live support for the VMware supported production environment.
• Experience in implementation and deploying Ether channeling in vSphere ESXi5.0 environment.
• Performed up gradation of ESX 3.5/ESXi4.1 environment to vSphere 5.0 .
• Built and maintained Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 in ESX VMware, Hyper-V and CM test environments. Verified that all servers meet DISA STIG’s for DOD networks.
• Provided NETAPP, QLOGIC, and DELL SAN support to enterprise systems in test and production environments. Supported encrypted data networking from Host Bus Adapters (HBA) to SANs over FDDI, ISCSI and Ethernet.
• Installed and configured DRBD and set HA (HIGH AVAILABILTY), Heartbeat for Hbase servers to protect from hardware failure.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting for any OS & Hardware related issues and analyzed system logs to determine the root cause.
• Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Windows desktop and Remote desktop
• Implementation and administration of Active Directory in Windows 2000/2003 environment.
• Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and SVMotion.
• Experience in updating/upgrading ESX/ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Experience in updating/upgrading the HP Onboard Administrator, Virtual connects.
• Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for NLB and redundancy
• Physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager
• Responsible for setting up datacenter migration while moving the Datacenter from NH to NJ.
• Analyze network traffic for the VM hosts in collaboration with the Networking team
• Performed datastore migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS, dell Iscsi SAN Storage
• Responsible for setting up and using SCOM monitors for the servers in the environment.
• Experience in architecting, building and maintaining systems on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Sharepoint
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter
• Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.
• Experience with setting up new VMware clusters and integrating into the existing Environment.
• Created use cases for desktop design and implementation.
• Installation of VMware Tools and upgrade of ESX hosts .
• Worked on Exchange 2010 processes, such as Mailbox migration and Mailbox performance optimization.
• Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments
• Assessment, design and implementation of View 4.5 environment
• Creating and managing the VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Hardware expertise to replace Memory Module, CPUs and HBAs
• Storage VMotion according to the requirement
• Upgrade firmware, BIOS using IBM Update Express.
• P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 3 and 4
• Experience with installing and configuring Vmware Hyperviser on bare metal IBM Servers.
• P2V cold conversion using Vmware Converter Boot CD
• Installing VMs and deploying VMs from templates
• Installing and upgrading VMware Tools
• Installing and managed VDI terminal servers
• Provided isolated desktop environment via VDI
• Creating resource pools and adding the VM’s into the pools

Confidential, Long Island

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installing ESX and ESXi 3.5, 4.0 & 4.1 servers
• Providing support in Planning and designing VMWare infrastructure
• Expanding VMware Virtualization Environment as per client requirement
• Upgrading ESX servers from 3.5 to 4.0 and 4.1
• Installation of vCenter server and vCenter components.
• Upgrading vCenter Servers accordingly vSphere 4.0, 4.1
• Upgrade VMs hardware components according vSphere requirement
• Snapshots according to user’s requirement
• Configuring HA,DRS clusters
• Taking care of capacity planning for new clusters
• Configuring FT for important VM’s
• Taking care of ESX and VM storage issues
• Coordinating with the storage team
• Creating different ports groups for different purposes
• Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for NLB and redundancy
• Updating and upgrading ESX servers using Vcenter Update manager
• VMotion according to the requirement
• Worked on OS refresh Project
• Installing and troubleshoot different applications and tools like Neverfail, Sunsurfer, Powerpathetc
• Hardware expertise to replace Memory Module, CPUs and HBAs

Confidential, FL

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, administration and maintenance of Windows 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows NT4 operating system on HP Proliant \ Compaq Servers. Management \ monitoring of servers using various third party applications.
• Troubleshooting day to day server related issues on Windows 2000, Windows 2003, including file backup & restores.
• Installation, configuration & troubleshooting Windows 2000 & Windows 2003 guest virtual machines.
• Migration of Windows 2003 Server/ Active Directory Domain Infrastructure
• Security Administration of File Server, user accounts and security groups on a multiple Active directory and NT4 domains.
• Management \ monitoring of VMWare guest servers using VMWareVirtualCenter.
• Project: Successfully migrated 2 Node Windows 2000 Print Server Cluster with 800+ print queues to 4 node Windows 2003 server on VMware host.
• Installation, configuration and administration of print server / print queues.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX & Virtual Machines
• Creation of templates from VMs and deploying VMs from templates

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on production servers.
• Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP
• Worked extensively on 2500 + server environment and 200+ windows domains.
• Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.
• Worked elaborately on different windows environment which include Windows NT version 4.0, Work Station, Terminal, 2000 and 2003.
• Running VB Scripts to validate logins on 1000 + servers and check the server access on weekly basis.
• Strong Knowledge in creating various objects like User Accounts, Computer Accounts, and Auto logon accounts.
• Experience in Internet Information Services 4.0
• Publishing the Desktops and Individual Applications according to the Department requirements in the organization.
• Providing users with access rights and permission for accessing the applications
• Installing and updating the windows patches
• Assigning folder permissions to the users by gathering approval from the group owners. Identify and troubleshoot failing clients, return clients after troubleshooting to ensure proper remediation. Issue and track escalations to clients' system administrators.
• Understanding of tape pools, tape retention, backup levels (full, differential, incremental)
• Attending meetings on upcoming lab projects
• Using own technical skills to work as directed in labs.