SUMMARY

• Building, configuring, upgrading and managing VMware vSphere 6.0,5.5,5.1,4.1 enterprise server environment.
• Experience working with enterprise servers on Cisco UCS Rack Mount servers and blade servers.
• Good experience on Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 6.5, 7.6 infrastructures in upgrading and supporting the VDI environment.
• Good experience in Windows 2016, 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000 servers and Windows XP, Windows 7 & 8 and involved in installing, configuring and troubleshooting MS Windows servers and services.
• Involved in several technology refresh projects including VMware vSphere version upgrades, HP to Cisco UCS servers, NS480 to VNX 5700 storage, Shared Disaster Recovery(DR) facility to setting up Standalone DR Datacenter.
• Gathering and True up the capacity projections across the VMware environment globally.
• Involved in implementation and managed Vblock™ 300 model GX (UCS 5108/VNX 5700/ Cisco 1000V/3560/NX 5548)
• Experience in P2V/V2V migration for 100+ servers using VMware Standalone Converter, which includes Planning, Executing and Testing.
• Experience working with Internal automated provisioning tool called Cloud Resource Management Portal.
• Possess hands on experience with the VMware ESXi Servers, VMware vCenter, Orchestrator, vRealize Log Insight, VMware HA, VMware DRS, Resource pools, vApp and managing Fault Tolerant(FT) machines, SRM, vROps.
• Worked on Citrix XenApp version and OS upgrade project from legacy Citrix and windows 2003 to XenApp/XenDesktop 7.6 version with Windows 2012 R2.
• Administrated HP servers using various HP System tools such as ILO management, Smart start, HP SIM
• Understanding of networking concepts such as vLANS, switches, load balancing, proxy and firewalls.
• Shared infrastructure support i.e. HP blade server, Cisco Blade (Cisco Unified Computing System) and vBlock Infrastructure (Cisco, EMC, VMWare) preferred.
• Experience working with Veeam Backup and Replication, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Backups.
• Involved in Control - M Enterprise Manager Administration.
• Experience working in Waterfall, Agile and Dojo project methodologies
• Work closely on issue resolution and coordinate to identify the root cause analysis
• Created scripts for automation using Powershell to save human efforts on routine.
• Ability to learn new technologies to support dynamic environment
• Coordinate with other infrastructure teams and line of Business to work on new requirements and upgrades.
• Good communication and Mentoring Team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2008 r2/2012, Novell Netware 6.5 OS, Red Hat Enterprise LinuxVMware Virtualization VMware vSphere 4.1/5.1/5.5/6.0 , vCenter, VMware vSphere ESXi, VMware Standalone Converter, SRM, Update Manager, vRealize Log Insight, vSphere Replication, VEEAM Backup & Replication, Orchestrator, VROps, Vmware View 7.0/4.0/4.5/4.6 , VMware Update Manager, VMware capacity planner.

Server Technologies: HP ProLiant Servers, HP Blades Chasse, HP System Insight Manager, HP ILO Management, HP Smart Start, HP Virtual Connect, Cisco UCS Rackmounts, Cisco UCS Manager, UCS KVM Manager, Cisco CIMC Management, UCS Central, VCE Vblock 300GX & 320GX Converged Infrastructure.

Citrix Virtualization: Citrix Desktop Delivery Controller, Citrix Director, Citrix Storefront, Citrix Studio, Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 6.5 & 7.6, PVS 7, Netscaler SDX / VDX, Citrix presentation server, License Server, Web Interface.

Technologies: WSUS, SCCM, IIS, Terminal services, Active Directory 2008 & 2012, Active Directory snap-ins (Users & Computers, Domains & Trusts, Schema Management, AD Object editor, GPO Management), PowerKeeper for password safe, Infoblox DNS and DHCP Appliance.

Application/Tools: Solarwinds Virtualization Manager (VEM) & Server and Application Manager (SAM), Cloud Resource Management web application for User Interface, Cloud Management Portal, Microsoft Lync, Norton Ghost, Control-M Enterprise Manager as a scheduler, ManageEngine - ADManager Plus and ADAudit Plus, Application manager for server monitoring, Shavlik NetProtect OS Patching.

Scripting Languages: Powershell, VMware PowerCLI, Selenium Webdriver.

Testing Tools: TRAC defect tool, TestLink for test cases, HP Quality Center.

Backup Technology: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager version7, Veeam Backup & Replication, Avamar Backup

Service Management: BMC Remedy, Cosima management system, ServiceNow, HP Service Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bloomington - IL

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Building, configuring, upgrading and managing VMware vSphere 6.0,5.5,5.1,4.1 enterprise server environment.
• Involved as a key member in setting up a DR datacenter setup by planning compute & storage requirements, racked and configured 2 UCS blade chassis, and built 24 VMware ESXi hosts, deployed VEEAM to configure replication jobs and for highly sensitive production Servers used VMware SRM and EMC Recover Point from vBlock 320 to NS960
• Experience working in Citrix Migration from XenApp/XenDesktop 6.5 to 7.6 by setting up Netscaler SDX, PVS servers, Directors, Storefronts and Delivery controllers with high availability and applied Citrix user policies to fine tune desktops, setting up of WAN and Master image optimization policies, created GPO’s, and migrated 27 line of business applications and 5000 users VDI environment.
• Installing, configuring and administering windows servers 2003/ 2008 / 2008 R2/ 2012 R2 and troubleshooting Print and File services, IIS and Windows Clustering.
• Involves in on-going maintenance on Windows and VMware environment including Windows server Patching, ESXi host updates, HP server’s firmware upgrades, Disaster Recovery tests, commissioning and decommissioning of the Windows servers.
• Support and Maintain the VM provisioning tool CRMT and responsible for the server workflow requests submitted in Cloud Resource Management Tool (CRMT)
• Installing and managing Cisco UCS Rack mounts & Blade servers and UCS manager administration.
• Involved in several Tech refresh activities (HP to Cisco UCS, NS480 to VNX 5700 storage, Windows OS upgrades)
• Analyzed the vCenter Alert definitions which are required for our infrastructure and defined alert parameters according to standards for monitoring to fine tune the health of VMs and ESX host and Datastores.
• Provides product support and infrastructure design for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to be used in Datacenter migrations.
• Virtual server and appliance governance to screen and determine proper configuration requirements.
• Installing and configuring software updates using Update manager for ESX patches and to create the baselines for the updates.
• Involve in troubleshooting tier 3 problem fix on the incidents escalated from tier 2 support team in VMware and Windows environment and document the root cause analysis.
• Partner with the technical teams to perform Proof Of concept of the solutions and submit the findings and results to the project management.
• Along with the lead, responsible for creating project schedules, development plans for all infrastructures projects including VMware environment upgrades, Windows server upgrades, XenApp upgrades, Cloud portal updates,
• Create scripts for automation using Powershell/PowerCLI to reduce the time on routines, major one includes deploying VM from VMware templates and customizing OS.
• Involved in windows 2008 Active directory operations tasks, such as creating a OU, enforcing a GPO, troubleshooting logon script errors, Scheduling GPO backups using VBscript, generating reports using AD Audit plus
• Practice infrastructure process, standards, best practices and procedures.

Confidential

Windows/VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Fine tuning VM’s configurations to achieve best performance/resource consumption depending on application characteristics and requirements.
• Manage all aspects of vSphere environments.
• Installing and configuring software updates using Update manager for patches and to create the baselines for the updates
• EMC Power Path installation and configuration for Storage Path load balancing.
• Planning & implementation of scheduled changes per change management policies.
• Installation of ESXi Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM's across
• Analyzing the move groups for DC consolidation and migration
• Analyzing the VMware environment and to provide the recommendations for more stable environment
• Responsible for commissioning and decommissioning the servers
• Analyzed the vCenter Alert definitions which are required for our infrastructure and defined alert parameters according to standards for monitoring to fine tune the health of VMs and ESX host and Datastores
• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client
• Managing vCenter and ESXi 5.1 environment with clusters running on HP Blade chassis and vBlock enclosure
• Responsible for performing the administration related activities including maintenance on VMware ESXi 5.1/5.0 environment
• Creating & Managing Clusters through vSphere including VMware HA, DRS, Resource pools, vApp
• Day to day administration of Virtual machines running on VMware vSphere infrastructure which includes Disk addition, Disk expansion, CPU, Memory increase, Cloning, V-motion & Storage V-motion, vCenter alerts management, Managing HA, DRS, Resource pools, vApp.

Confidential

Onsite - Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• DC migration project- Involved in assessing the risks and mitigation and migrating the servers to COLO facility.
• Server and Application Monitoring tool POC and setup - Evaluated and installed Solarwinds products to monitor and fine tune the VMware virtual server infrastructure across all the regions.
• Citrix Migration project - Responsible for setting up the new Citrix infrastructure and migrating the applications from the XenApp 6.0 to 7.5 environment.
• Converged infrastructure setup & upgrade - Involved in implementation and managed Vblock™ 300 model GX (UCS 5108/VNX 5700/ Cisco 1000V/3560/NX 5548) and migrated 80% of servers in infrastructure from HP chassis to vBlock 300.
• ESXi upgrade from 4.1 to 5.1 &5.1 to 5.5 - Performed upgrade in 20 ESXi hosts in branch location datacenter.
• Storage migration - Partnered with storage team in migrating the VMs from EMC storage to Tegile storage in VMware 5.5 environment.
• Managing VMware ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0 Infrastructure with over 200 ESXi & 1400 Virtual servers in Physical & Remote datacenters.
• Managing Citrix XenApp 6.5 infrastructure.
• Administrating vBlock infrastructure.
• Virtualized 92% of physical servers using VMware standalone convertor.
• Involved in several Tech refresh activities (HP to Cisco UCS, NS480 to VNX 5700 etc…)
• Creating Virtual machine template according to the standards, fine tune and manage for deploying virtual machines.
• Deploying Virtual machines, Migrating VMs to different storage arrays.
• Creating clusters with HA, DRS & Managing Fault Tolerant (FT) machines.
• Deploying Microsoft’s Security patches on windows servers through Shavlik on all the windows servers.
• Installing & administering InfoBlox Appliance (DNS & DHCP)
• Installing & configuring File and Print servers.
• Managing HP & Cisco UCS Rack mounts & Blade servers.
• Regular upgrade of firmware's on all infrastructure components.
• Installed & Configured Novell 6.5 Operating Systems & administered eDirectory 8.8.
• Evaluate new products by performing PoC & implement the solution in the Enterprise.
• Good Knowledge on McAfee Antivirus.
• Ensure project delivery as per ITIL standards.
• Coordinating with the Incident managers to solve critical incidents within SLA.
• Coordinating with Vendors for troubleshooting incidents.
• Process improvement planning.
• Risk assessments & remediation measures.
• Building team members.

Confidential

Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing IBM AIX Servers configured with Tivoli Storage Manager
• Installing, Configuring and Monitoring the backup nodes in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager using Control-M scheduler
• Deploying Control-M agents on backup nodes and monitoring the backup jobs
• Troubleshooting the various backup issues including backup tapes.
• Installing and configuring windows servers 2003/ 2008 / 2008 R2.
• Installing and troubleshooting Printer services, File services, FTP, IIS etc.
• Troubleshooting windows OS related issues and critical cases.
• Producing analysis, performance metrics and regular project status reports to customer
• Performance Monitoring in BMC Patrol
• Process Documentation and improvement planning.