PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 + years of total experience in IT industry.
• 5+ years in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere ESX 3.x, ESX4.x ESXi 5.x and vCenter 4.x and 5.x, vConverter, and Update - Manager.
• 5 + years Hands on Experience in Microsoft Server 2003, 2008, 2012 and RHEL 4.x, 5.x and 6.x.
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware workstation and VMware player, have good knowledge on VMware vCenter Operations Manager, vConverter, SRM concepts.
• Good knowledge on VMware virtual architecture and experience in upgrading ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.x
• Good experience on virtual machines provisioning, setting up VM priorities, affinity rules, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots
• Hands on experience on P2V and V2V Migrations by using VMware Standalone Converter, platespin
• Experience working with vMotion and Storage vMotion technology and strong Experience in vNetwork concepts on vSwitches and dvSwitch.
• Strong experience with VMware HA, Fault Tolerance, DRS and DPM.
• Patching of ESXi Hosts and VMs with VMware Update Manager.
• Experience in building physical servers trough ILO, IDRAC, & UCS Manager.
• Experience working on HP Proliant DL, BL, Dell Power Edge R510, R610 and Cisco UCSB-B200M3/M4 blade series server.
• Cisco UCS management and administration in vSphere environment.
• Experience is Linux/Windows physical and virtual build.
• Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/2012 Design, Implementation, Administration and Support.
• Experience on migration of windows server /2012.
• Hands on experience on Managing Active Directory and group Policy management.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Microsoft Failover Clusters, NLB.
• Hands on experience with windows patching
• Configuration and administration of SCVMM 2012R2
• Have good knowledge on Microsoft Exchange server 2007, MSCCM, MSCOM,
• Hands on experience on DNS, DHCP and TCP/IP protocols
• Experience on setting up NTFS permission across Files and Folders.
• Experience on storage resource allocation using storage solutions covering SAN and NAS.
• Configuring and troubleshooting IIS 6.0, 7.X, 8.0, FTP and terminal services (RDP).
• Experience with Linux administration
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communications skills and team oriented attitude.

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY:

VMware Technologies: ESX 4.X, ESXi 5.x,, vCenter 4.X, 4.1 and 5.X, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware VDI 4.5, HA,DRS,SDRS,DPM and FT, vMotion and svMotion, VMware converter 4 and 5, vCOPS 5.0

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, RHEL4.x, 5.x, 6.x, centOS, Ubuntu, Solaris 9, 10

Third-party Tools: Symantec backup exec, Commvault Systems, vRanger Pro and vFoglight, BMC remedy, TRS, RV Tools.

Web design tools: HTML, ASP.net, AJAX Control Toolkit, Visual Basic 2008

Database and Storage: Microsoft SQL 2005, 2008, basics on EMC VNX and VNXe, VMAX 10k.

Hardware: DELL Power Edge 2800,R510, R710, R900, R910 HP Proliant DL 380,580, 585 G5, G6, G7 and Cisco UCSB-B200M3/M4 Blade series servers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lexington, KY

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involve as a System Engineer for Datacenter migration effort and help the teams in mapping relevant Industry Sources/technologies, define new methodologies, and design complicated systems.
• Responsible for assisting client in setting up the Virtualization Environment, assisting the end user and vendors with their issues in connecting to the Virtualized machines.
• Gather information from client about Windows/VMware Environment in preparation of migration and transition and stabilization.
• Setup Datacenter from Scratch, duties involved setting up Cisco UCS, configure with VMware VSphere 5.5.
• Responsible for migration of Servers and applications across the Datacenters.
• Configure HA and DRS, setup VUM for the patching purpose, setup vCOPS
• Building virtual servers to include OS installation, applying security and corporate standards, backup configuration.
• Support Microsoft (Windows) Servers running 2003/2008/2012 hosting Enterprise applications.
• Allocation of SAN to the ESXi hosts whenever required.
• Implemented an internal project on P2V and V2V migrations.
• Setup, configure and troubleshoot SCVMM2012R for the HYPER-V hosts.
• Have lead windows and VMware team during the production Cutover from the parent client.
• Work hand in hand with the other Architecture teams like network, storage, security and provide input into the overall strategy.
• Experience in developing and maintaining documentation for policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Setup and configure citrix Presentation Server 4.5 and XenApp 6.0
• Configure and administer FTP and IIS sites
• Work with AD to create, administer new security groups, users, GPO, DNS, DHCP
• Configure Failover clusters and NLB.
• Work closely with application and testing teams to bring up their systems
• Excellent oral, written and communication skills.

Environment: vSphere 5.x,6.0 ESX/ESXi 4.x,5.x,vCenter 4.x,5.x,6.0, vCOPS 5.5,Avamar Backup, windows 2003,2008R2, 2012 servers, Cisco UCS Manger, VMware Update Manager(VUM), vConverter, iDRAC, vCOPS, vCAC, SQL 2005, 2008,SCVMM, FTP,IIS, citrix XenApp 6.0, presentation server 4.5,ADMT

Confidential, Mooresville, NC

Windows/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Monitoring, Operations and engineering services throughout the Lowes enterprise at L2 and L3 level for windows and VMware environments respectively.
• Experience with VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x
• Experience, troubleshooting and administering with windows 2003, 2008, 2012 physical and virtual servers.
• Monitoring and optimizing system performance using Task manager and Performance monitor.
• Interact with Network and storage teams for resolving issues.
• Experience in configuring and troubleshooting windows applications like IIS, Failover Clusters.
• Good knowledge in assigning folder Security permission in Windows 2003/2008/2012
• Creating and configuring virtual machines, installing VM Tools and allocations for end user.
• Create and Deploy Templates and Snapshots for Virtual Machines.
• Allocation of SAN to the ESXi hosts whenever required
• Implemented an internal project on p2v and v2v migrations.
• Hands on experience on Active directory 2008, 2012 to configure users, contacts and groups permission issues.
• Administer Commvault Simpana for backup and recovery.
• Monitor infrastructure through SCOM and make updates and run reports through SCCM.
• Run EMC Grab for collecting logs for troubleshooting and design aspects.
• Run reports on vCOPS for resource allocation, capacity planning and health of the systems.
• Hands on experience on migration of win, 2012 servers.
• Hands on Experience on HA, DRS, resource allocations.
• Working knowledge on DNS, DHCP, and RDP etc.
• Patching all Windows servers and workstations with enterprise standards
• Experience on HP DL, BL and ML series of servers.
• Basic SQL DBA administration
• Basic working knowledge on, iSCSI, SAN (EMC vnx, vmax) and NAS (Netapp).
• Provide basic support on networking.

Environment: vSphere 5.x, ESX/ESXi 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, vCenter 4.x,5.x, vCOPS 5.0, vshield, Commvault Simpana, Nlyte, windows 2003,2008R2, 2012, SCOM 2007 R2, BMC Remedy, BMC Impact explorer, BMC Patrol, BPPM, VMware Update Manager, vConverter, HP ILO 1,2 and 3, Solarwinds, Infoblox, Hughes vision, enterprise architecture, VCOPS, vCAC, SQL 2005, 2008

Confidential, CA

Virtualization Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing ESX and ESXi hosts.
• Upgrading from ESX 4.x to ESXi 5.0
• Configuring vCenter server and Update manager.
• Installing operating systems like Windows 2008, Red Hat Linux 5.5 and ESXi 4.1 and 5.0 on to physical servers across data centres.
• Basic Microsoft SQL administration
• Deal with hardware venders for fixing hardware issues.
• Migration of win2003 to win 2008servers.
• Troubleshooting and Administering Cisco UCS
• Performing Cisco UCS upgrades
• Coordinating with different infrastructure teams to troubleshoot and administer Cisco UCS
• Installing, configuring, migrating new virtual machine build as per EURC ticket.
• Adding Storage and converting storage LUN to VMFS data store.
• Creating a cluster with HA and DRS and passing rules on to HA and DRS.
• Validating and testing Cluster before moving into production.
• Looking after high priority incident tickets both on virtual machine and ESX host level.
• Server decommissions and IP decommissions as per company process.
• Monitoring virtual infrastructure and troubleshooting when required.
• Reconfiguring virtual machines (Increases and decreases virtual hardware) as per EURC ticket.
• Performance monitoring of the VM’s

Environment: ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 installation, configuration and troubleshooting, windows 2008R2, EMC, VMware Update Manager, vConverter, UCS Servers, VMware View, vCenter, FC-SAN, iSCSI.

Confidential, IL

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Installation, Configuration Management and Maintenance of windows Servers
• Responsible for setting up permissions and implementing security policy.
• Installation of the new applications software tools for the users and perform day to day administrating.
• Experience in providing day-to-day user administration like adding/deleting users.
• Developing and implementing user interface applications using vb.net as per the research requirement.
• Assists in the development of project proposals, recommendations, implementation plans, communication packages and performance measurement tools.
• Installing and maintaining MATLAB Ne Builder for the research work.
• Performing upgrades whenever necessary for the Project
• Working with the Web development tools for the interface of the applications.

Environment: ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.0, Configuration and troubleshooting, windows 2005, 2008, MatLab NE Builder, visual Studio 2008,ASP .NET, MATLAB, DNS, Active Directory

Confidential, Montvale, NJ

Virtualization consultant

Responsibilities:

• Attending new projects meeting, analysing project requirements and suggesting client with best practices.
• Monitoring virtual and physical infrastructure
• Upgrading VC Server and ESX Hosts
• Performed V2V on over 200 virtual machines to shrink instance and reclaim disk space.
• Converting new LUN’s to data stores and adding them to ESX hosts.
• Disabling, enabling and editing HA and DRS settings when required.
• Upgrading virtual hardware from version 4 to version 7
• Commission, decommission and rebuild of virtual machines.
• Reconfiguring virtual machine resources like CPU, Memory and Disk space.
• Performing storage migration and host migrations.
• Creating roles and assign permissions to individuals and groups on different levels.
• Understanding SLA and Ensuring that the change management process is followed for any changes to the environment.
• Troubleshooting Windows 2003
• Troubleshooting ESX3.5, 4.0, 4.1 and ESXi
• Physical to Virtual conversions of Windows and Linux servers.

Environment: ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 Configuration and troubleshooting, VMware View, VMware Thinapp, Converting LUNs, HP servers, windows 2003 and 2008, NAS backup, VMware ACE, Volumes, HA, DRS. vCenter Server, vConverter.

Confidential

Systems administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring ESX 3.X.
• Installing & Configured vCenter Server 3.5
• Creating and Configuration virtual machines, installing VM Tools into VM’s and allocating for end user.
• Creating and Deployed Templates and Snapshots for Virtual Machines.
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (vSwitch)
• Configuration different type of Port Groups Policies, Applying Security policy and Traffic Shaping.
• Configuration ISCSI LUN in virtual storage Have Knowledge in Fiber channel and ISCSI in SAN architecture.
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Performed Hot Cloning, Cold Cloning, Classic VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Configuration, Administration and Monitoring HA, and DRS Clusters in vCenter Server 2.5 users in best practices for efficient utility of resources.
• Installing and Configuring DNS Servers, DHCP Server and DFS Server.
• Managing Servers Remotely through Integrated Lights out.
• Ensuring that the change management process is followed for any changes to the environment.
• Installation RHEL 5.X Linux O/S and Sun Solaris 9, 10 Unix O/S

Environment: vCenter server 3.5, installing, configuring and troubleshooting ESX 3.x, VMware tools, iSCSI, FC-SANvConverter, DNS, AD, DHCP, RHEL 5.X

Confidential

Trainee /Junior System’s administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Windows NT, Server2003, Workstation, Proxy Server, Configuration, implementation and maintenance.
• Managing Domain Controllers and Additional domain controllers.
• Symantec antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.
• System Troubleshooting in case of a failure and maintain server uptime above 99.99%.
• Providing Capacity Planning review for all the servers.
• Customize the 2000/2003 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching, to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment configuring & administering Domain Naming Server (DNS),Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Distributed File System.(DFS),Internet Information Service.(IIS) and Remote Access Service(RAS)
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and on-going usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Work with vendor support contacts to resolve technical problems with desktop computing equipment and software.
• Train and orients staff on use of hardware and software
• Assist in maintaining LAN/WAN records and, as appropriate, telephone systems cable.

Environment: DNS, DHCP, windows 2003 servers, workstation, Symantec.