SUMMARY

• 12 + Years of Systems Engineering & Virtualization wif operational and design experience focusing on VMware Virtualization Technologies for Enterprise Environment.
• Automated ESXi backups to reduce host builds and restore networking and storage properties using Esxcli.
• Configuration changes and upgrades on HP C7000 Enclosure connected wif HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric (VCEM)
• Extensive experience in Windows 2000/2003/2008/ R2/2012 Servers, Wintel Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Created migration plans,cordinated wif other teams on upgrading and merging vCenters and legacy applications from HP Proliant Environment to Cisco UCS environment.
• Storage migration NetApp 3250 to NetApp 8020 Environment.
• Capable to manage ESX/ESXi servers, Create, configure, and manage vNetwork standard Switches and vNetwork distributed switches network connections, and port groups.
• Supported VMWare environments utilized a wide range of hardware including Nutanix, HP Blades, Cisco UCS & VBlock 300 from 4.x.5 to 5.x & 6.x
• Planed and Supported large deployments VMware vCenter and VMware vCenter/vRealize Operations Manager
• Create and manage vSphere data stores. Worked on iSCSI, SAN, HBA, RAID levels, and NAS wif ESX Servers. Wif storage teams to share resources across multiple servers.
• Followed ITIL concepts and engaged wif client’s established incident, problem and Change Management process procedures.
• Excellent understanding of compliance wif IT controls requirements in HIPAA, PCI
• Monitor, troubleshot, and resolve issues involving operating systems in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6
• Create, manage and administer service security on Linux virtual servers.
• Performance management & Process Management from the CLI Linux, CentOS
• Expertise skills to create and manage VMs, Templates, Cloning, and managing Snapshots. Perform VMware vMotion migrations.
• Analyzed Virtual Machine using VMware Guided Consolidation.P2V& V2V, migration using VMware vCenter Converter and Plate Spin 6.8.x.
• Manage multiple vCenter Server inventories using VMware vCenter Linked Mode.
• Held several key roles, to Manage ESX/ESXi configuration compliance using Host Profiles, Resource Monitoring, Data Protection, and Scalability.
• Updating host and manage patching and patch compliance using vCenter Update Manager.
• Proficiency in advanced features of VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM), High Availability (HA), Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) and Fault Tolerance (FT).
• Knowledge in Data Center and server farm environment. Worked wif x86/x64 Intel, HP, IBM, Dell, CISCO hardware - Tower Servers, Rack-mounted Servers, Desktops, Laptops.
• Strong ability to bridge gaps between technical and business requirements and understand by regularly referring VMTN community to explore new topics of VMware Technology.
• Creating a test Environment in Citrix or VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Monitoring and Health Analysis of datacenters to foresight issues during migration of datacenters using VMware Health Analyzer 3.3, Quest vFoglight and vEssentials Bundle.
• Generated reports wif Health analyzer giving recommendations and resolving performance and tuning issues in the HA, DRS clusters and virtual Datacenters.
• Analysis of physical server those are eligible for Virtual Conversion Process using vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Configured Boot from San in Cisco UCS, Installed of UCS Fabric Interconnect and Created numerous policies in Cisco UCS
• Knowledge of UCS Director, UCS Central, ACI.
• Experience and noledge on Cisco USC Manager/Central wif designing, installing and implementing VMwareVSphere ESX/ ESXi 4.0/5.X,/ESXi 5.x VMware VCenter, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, VMware converter VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• In depth working noledge in HP Hardware and HP Management software.
• Have good Hands on Access Control & Autantication Server, Virtual Port Channel Technology.
• Documentation of new operational processes, in high-availability, Stranded Operation Procedures (SOP).
• Scripting & good communication and team management skills and the documentation, technical manuals, software guides and instructions, executive briefings and presentations.
• Excellent understanding of workflow creation wif Integrates wif current IT environment for minimal impact on procedures and tools (HPSA,HPOO and vCOPS)
• Self-motivated, quick learner, & hardworking making it easy to handle multiple demands & competing priorities. Interpersonal, organizational, and skills facilitating the ability to work independently as well as a part of a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization& Storage: VMware ESX/ESXi vSphere 3.x/4.x/5.0/5.5/6.5, VMware vCenter Server, Virtual Infrastructure. VMware vCD, vCAC vSphere, vCenter, ESX/ESXi, iSCSI and SAN storage, VMware vMotion, Guided consolidation, vCenter Converter, Upgrade Manager, Lab Manager, Site Recovery Manager, Distributed vSwitchs, MS Hyper V, nutanix

Scripting: VMware vSphere PowerCLI/ VMware vSphere CLI / Esxcli/ MS PowerShell 3.0, VB Script

Operating Systems: Windows server 2003/2008/2008 R2, Windows 2012 /Windows 2016,98/2000/XP/Vista/Windows7, Windows Exchanger Server 2007, SQL Server, Ubantu, Linux, Kali Linux, Linux servers &CentOS

Hardware: HP C7000 Enclosure, Cisco UCS 5108,Cisco UCS blades - B200/B230 series, VCE vBlock, HP ProLiant Blades G5,G6 & G8,DL380 G4/5, DL360 G3/4/5, ML350 G4, and DL580 G5, Raritan Dominion KX II, Cisco, Owl (OPDS-MP, Ironport,C160,C170,Dell Power Edge Servers, HP ProLiant BL465 C G7, BL465 C G8, DL380p Gen8

LAN/WAN Technology: Fast/Gigabit Ethernet, PPP, HDLC, DSL Modems, ISDN

Security Features: Firewall, IPSec, SSL, AAA, Access-lists, and Cryptographic Algorithms DES, AES.

Backup: Symantec NetBackup, Backup Exec and vRanger Pro.

Miscellaneous: Password recovery, Cisco IOS, TFTP, POP3, SMTP, ARP, NAT, PAT, Tivoli monitoring agent ITAMs 6.x, 7.1

Applications: MS Office and MS Visio, Ethereal, Solar Winds, Win SCP, HP iLO, HP SIM, HP Virtual Connect 4.10, HP UCMDB, HP VCEM,UCS Manager, Thycotic secret Server, Wire shark LAN analyzer & Nagios, TenableAppliance

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tarrytown, NY

Sr. Systems Engineer/ Transition SME

Responsibilities:

• Planning and responding to service outages and other problems, and being a Tier 3 escalation point for moderately complex server problems wif GxP guidelines.
• Owned the Major Incident and Problem Management process, prioritizing wif Confidential and UNISYS engagement to ensuring the most critical incidents are addressed.
• Created migration plans, cordinated wif other teams on upgrading and merging vCenters and legacy applications from HP Proliant Environment to Cisco UCS environment.
• Followed policies and procedures for change and incident management.
• Created upgrade plans for building ESX hosts / clusters on Cisco UCS Chassis HW
• Created roadmaps to rearrange VMware vSphere cluster rearrangement to mitigate the impact on CISCO UCS hardware.
• Ensures customer satisfaction by advising customers on preventative maintenance and configurations which may impact product performance.
• Takes responsibility for potential or desired follow-up services or problem escalation.
• Provide hands-on support and engineering work in the Windows 2008/2012 server environment, VMware 5.5 environment and Datacenter infrastructure.
• Configuration experience in through MS SCCM.
• Mainly administer the SCCM service, creating software packages and distributing software and patches to Windows devices across the environment.
• Provide hands-on support and engineering work in the VMware 5.5 /6 environment
• Deliver patches and updates to the VMware vSphere platform management systems including, but not limited to vSphere Hypervisor (ESXI), vCenter Management Toolset, and VMware Tools
• Coordinate implementation of VBlock patches by working wif 3rd Party vendors to ensure updates are current.
• Provides referrals and/or dispatches to other service providers to ensure dat Confidential Pharmaceuticals Inc’s service level and technical requirements are met.
• Provides alerts and situation status information to both Confidential Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Unisysmanagement.
• Coordinates critical Confidential Pharmaceuticals Inc. ’s issues as well as new product and/or system implementations.
• Responsible for supporting and maintaining the Microsoft Windows Server Operating system, Microsoft Active Directory, and the Virtualization technologies in the environment.

Confidential, Norfolk, VA

Sr. Systems Engineer-Power Generation Services

Responsibilities:

• Rebuild & updated ESXi Servers including (HP Update Bundle-using Esxcli), and in resolved associated system outages and other incidents for 10 Clusters, 64 ESXi hosts and 101 vLANs, 1100 VMs & in in vSphere 5.1 environment.
• System administration wif string hands-on tasks on VMWare Suite/UCS environment, including RCM upgrades
• Troubleshot UCS Performance and Connectivity issues., managed UCS VNIC Templates and Upgrade UCSM Firmware.
• Upgraded HP ProLiant firmware and Cisco UCSM Firmware
• Worked on Cisco UCS Manager, UCS Central to build server profile to host Historian database clusters
• Cisco UCS Infrastructure environment.
• Building ESX hosts / clusters on Cisco UCS Chassis HW.
• Created ESX host templates local & global for Cisco UCS environment
• Developed VMware vCenter and vROps reports for performance, troubleshooting and capacity planning.
• HP Systems Insight Manager & HP Version Control Repository Manager 7.3 Installation and integration.
• ESX host/cluster validation configurations such as V-motion correctly configured, console IP's on the same VLAN, guest VLAN's presented to all hosts, storage presented to all hosts, test of each function, each ESXi host.
• Rebuild/Upgrade Wintel & ESXi to 4.1.0 (260247) to ESXi 5.1 (799733) in clustered environment.
• Validated VLANs in M&D virtual environment using vSphere PowerCLI.
• Migrated storage VSAN to NetApp FAS 3250 environment
• Performance optimization in UCS,VMware Environment
• Intergraded third-party tools wif vRA,vRO,VERA(similar to hytrust ) and box.
• Resolved and root-cause analyzed by using Predictive Analytics for IT Operations Using VMware vRealiz Operations
• Installed /Configured and Supported Kali Linux 1.0.9 and CentOS as needed
• Converted Physical On-Site Monitor (OSM) to virtual OSMs (P2V) and resolved related issues wif virtualization.
• Worked wif M&D Engineering team to identify areas of improvement wif in the On-Site Monitor (OSM) to eliminate issues wif virtualization.
• Assisted, Managed Development team wif identifying and resolving issues on Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy Objects (GPO)
• Automated ESXi backups to reduce host builds and restores to include passwords, specialized networking and storage properties using Esxcli
• Assisted Development team wif identifying and resolving issues on Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy Objects (GPO)
• Experience in using Cloud Foundry (CF) CLI for deploying applications and other CF management activities
• Investigated system issues as reported by MSA team and assisted setting up Confidential Gas Turbines BHM( Blade Health Monitoring ) testing environments
• Resolved encryption and sync issues wif access controls, Vera for Box
• On Project Training & Workshops- Confidential Power Analytics AWS Cram Session
• Storage & Content Delivery
• AWS Managed Services & DB’s
• Deployment & Management
• Confidential Predix Analytics Platform Review
• AWS Analytics and ML Overview
• Real Time Analytics: Kinesis
• Big Data Analytics Design Patterns
• EMR,Atana,DynamoDB

Environment: - Hosts64/Cluster 26/Networks 54/Data Stores 101,VMs 1100 in vSphere 5.1,, Windows 2003/2008//2008 R2/2012,, HP SIM, HP VCRM, ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.1, Linux, CentOS, Kali Linux 1.0.9, Red hat Enterprise Linux 5/6 vCenter server 5, vSphere 5.1 Enterprise Plus, HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8, DL580G7, HP ProLiant DL360G7, BL465 CG7,NetApp FAS 3250,FAS 3140, Owl (OPDS-MP)

Confidential, Richfield, MN

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consulted and re-arranged ESXi clusters to mitigate the impact.
• Rebuild & updated and ESXi Servers including (HP Update Bundle-using Esxcli) patches and updates, and in resolving associated system outages and other incidents for 26 Clusters, 252 ESXi hosts and 268 vLANs environment for the Holiday Readiness Project.
• Automated Installation ESX and Linux guests wif kickstart.
• Created VLAN's for the Cisco UCS environment.
• Performing initial Cisco UCS cluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade servers
• Managed UCS VNIC Templates.
• Troubleshot UCS Performance and Connectivity issues.
• Installed UCS System and Host
• Upgrade UCSM Firmware
• HP CMDB and VMware vCenter integration.
• Upgraded HP Blade firmware in production environments
• Configured Network I/O Control (NIOC) for ESXi hosts running on Nutanix
• Performed Maintenance of ESXi Host Built in Nutanix Cluster
• Rebuild/Upgrade ESXi to 5.0 (639867)to ESXi 5.0 Update 2 (923238) in Nutanix Cluster
• Follow organization guidelines to DR plans
• Responsible for VCE vBlock management and maintenance including EMC VNX replication
• Interacted wif Linux Performance management & Process Management.
• Tested and Configured SNMP Traps for Production ESXi Servers using VMware vSphere CLI
• ESX host/cluster validation configurations such as V-motion correctly configured, console IP's on the same VLAN, guest VLAN's presented to all hosts, storage presented to all hosts, test of each function, each ESXi host.
• Rebuild/Upgrade ESXi to 5.0 (639867)to ESXi 5.0 Update 2 (923238)Updated
• VLAN validation ESX & standard name using vSphere PowerCLI
• Sever profile created and validated on HP Virtual Connect 4.10

Environment: - Hosts252/Cluster 26/Networks 268/Data Stores 718 in vSphere 5.0, Hyper-V, Windows 2003/2008//2008 R2/2012, Cisco UCS 5108, nutanix HP Blade C7000 and C3000, VCE vBlock HP SIM, HP CMDB, ESXi 5.0, Linux, CentOS,, Redhat Enterprise Linux 5/6 vCenter server 4.1, Citrix, HP Proliant DL580G7, HP Proliant DL360G7, BL465 CG7, BL465 C G8 Blades Servers

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Production & Operations-VMWare/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for transitional process (VMware, Citrix, Windows, and Storage & Backup).
• Configure, build, implement, administer ESX/ESXi Servers including patches updates, and assist in resolving system outages other incidents for 9 Clusters, 35 ESXi hosts and 623 VM’s Enterprise Plus Environment.
• Upgrade VMs, hardware components according vSphere requirement.
• Research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts, and recommend technologies dat will increase cost TEMPeffectiveness and systems flexibility. (Cost avoidance).
• Worked wif senior productions and Operations engineers and architectural team for capacity planning for New Employee On boarding Project
• Configured alarms for virtual environment.
• Implemented new VBlock 300 and Cisco UCS Blade Servers wif EMC VNX storage
• Monitor and troubleshoot Nagios running on CentOS
• Performance management & Process Management from SSH for Linux telco servers.
• Experience HP c7000 blade administration and configuration.
• Implementation and upgrade services for ECC.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM hardware versions and Datastores upgrade to VMFS 5.
• Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans using SRM 5.0 andVMwarebest practices.
• Testing of different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM’s.
• VM migration & supported for Wintel servers.
• Planed migration strategies, DR plans wif SAN and NAS data.
• Administration on VM clones and snapshots.
• Supported tickets in a timely manner wif a focus on customer satisfaction and SLAs
• Responsible for Virtual Environment maintain and well-organizing.
• Managed Windows 2008-2003 Active Directory Administration & configuration of DNS/DHCP services.
• Involved in building, configuring and hardware upgrades of Windows servers.
• Worked on Performance Analysis Tuning/Optimization Operations, VM creation, cloning, configurations.
• Involved in maintaining and managing servers on backup and restore systems as a part of the company’s disaster recovery plan.
• Worked on Windows Server 2008 and worked on failover configurations on windows Scheduled and unscheduled Outages.

Environment: -vSphere 5.0, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003/2008 R2, Cisco UCS 5108, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, VCE vBlock, HP SIM, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Citrix Xenapp and SQL.ESX 4.1,ESXi 5.1, VCenter server 4.1, Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 server, RHEl 4.8,5.5,5.6, Team Track, Tivoli Storage Manager 6.X, Net IQ 7.X, Linux, CentOS,Redhat Enterprise Linux 5/6, EMC Clarion, VNX, Symantec Endpoint, Citrix, HP Proliant DL580G7, HP Proliant DL360G7, BL465 CG7, BL465 C G8 Blades Servers

Confidential, NY

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Configuration of new server hardware
• Backup and restore systems, user data as a part of the Campus disaster recovery plan.
• UpgradedVMwareESX 3.5 servers to ESX 4.0
• Provided technical assistance to the faculty and to the staff
• Build Windows 2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design
• UpgradedVMwareESX 3.5 servers to ESX 4.0
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure dat includes Windows administration of Domain Controllers, DNS, DHCP, Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2010
• Working experience on Microsoft exchange 2010; configured and maintained server roles on the exchange 2010 environment.
• Coordinated and facilitated all planned and unplanned power outages for all environments.
• Maintained various infrastructure hardware platforms which included IBM Standard Servers and Blade Centers, HP/Compaq Servers and Dell servers including disaster recovery servers.
• Setup, installed, maintained and troubleshoot over 2,500 computers and printers campus wide
• Assessed the need for repairs of desktop and network printers.
• Managed and maintained faculty and staff computers and other related equipment
• Performed back up of users data to and from network drives, hard disk to hard disk.
• Maintained a log of any software or hardware problems detected
• Responded to questions from various client groups regarding the use of systems and networks.
• Assisted in the disposal of computer systems and removal from inventory.

Environment: VMwarevSphere 4, ESX server 3.5/4, ESXi 4/4.1,5.0 Windows 2008R2/2008/2003,SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, Open filer, Dell NAS, Zywall and SonicWal lFirewall, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, Citrix, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT Server, Windows XP.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Served in computer maintenance, performed all types of hardware, software maintenance and engineering in addition to systems selection, backup and technical support.
• Installing, configuring Windows 2003\Wintel servers of DHCP, FTP, WSUS, Web Server and SQL Database Server.
• Creating and managing the users, groups, GPO in the Active Directory.
• Implemented and managed Symantec Antivirus Enterprise edition and clients for LAN security
• Responsible & managing Online Trading applications, Servers & Connectivity wif stock exchanges, providing remote support to end clients and branch users.
• Build up backup and disaster recovery strategies (DR & BCP)
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless access point/router wif security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.)
• LAN Cabling, RJ-45crimping, Labelling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes and Rack set-up.
• Investigated user problems, determined possible solutions, oversaw software, installation and upgrades.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data centre on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Planned and coordinated wif major vendors like ISP and V-SATs service providers for installation/Down Calls of branches.

Environment: Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, Citrix, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT Server, Windows XP.