PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6+ years of experience in virtualization/windowsadministration.
• Expertise inWindows … server administration and active directory administration.
• Experience with Installation, Configuring, Deploying, Trouble shooting, administration and maintenance of .net applications hosted onWindowsServers,IIS, SQL and Azure
• Knowledge on developing various ASP.NET applications using Confidential .NET Framework, ASP.NET2.0, …
• Performed system administration activities, security policies and monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels.
• Worked in the area of Virtualization with VMware Vsphere 4.1 and 5.1e, ESXi 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, ESX 4.0 servers, vCenter server 2.5, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1
• Managing and AdministeringSCCM2012 &SCCM2007 Infrastructure & support.
• Worked withSCCM2007 to create collections, packages, deployments, and deployed software packages. Has automated software deployment inSCCM2007 using VB Script thereby reducing human time and error.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts
• Expertise in DHCP, WINS and DNS.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, virtual networking, wireless networks & Experience with enterprise backupsystemsand disaster recovery operation
• MessagingSystems, ( Confidential Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 Enterprise Vault 10.X, Symantec Backup Exec for Confidential Exchange. PowerShell 2.0
• Excellent Troubleshooting knowledge inWindows2003, 2008 and 2012 servers.
• Extensive experience in WindowsAD, DNS and DHCP.
• Reviewed DNS, DHCP, Active Directory Vulnerabilities.
• Expertise with IP sub - netting, VLANs, and High Availability (HA) architectures
• Performance monitoring, Error logging, Diagnostics, Fine-tuning and Backup management
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESX hosts.
• Managed VMware ESX 3.x and 4.x with Virtual Center server 2.5 and vCenter 4.0 for managing multiple ESX servers
• Executed technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads toWindowsAzure
• Leveraged "AzureAutomation" and PowerShell, Chef and Ansible to automate processes in theAzureCloud
• Worked on migration of on premise servers to Confidential Azure. Experience creating VM's, Cloud Services and SQL databases inWindowsAzure, deploying application and managing Storage using Azure Storage Explorer
• Experience writing PowerShell scripts to automate daily environment maintenance tasks and deploying applications.
• Managed and supported SCOM 2012 and Installed and configured SCOM 2007 Server and worked on configuring templates for TFS 2013 Release Manager
• Experience in working with SQL Server … like writing queries to retrieve data, checking error logs to fix connectivity issues, fixing SQL job issues, taking backups, restoring databases, deploying and executing SSIS packages
• Worked on both software (NLB) and hardware (F5-BigIP) load balancer and configuration according to environment requirements
• Effective and successful management of MicrosoftWindowsServer/Active Directory domain infrastructure.
• Operations engineering of Confidential SQL Azure-Office365 portals maintaining a 99.95% availability record.
• Experienced in ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Templates, and Snapshots
• Experienced in resource management framework, creating resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools
• Experience inWindowsclustering Administration and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Good knowledge of customizing Citrix Interface.
• Extensive experience with Confidential Server OS (2000, 2003, 2008R2, 2012).
• Expert in Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, and Configurations ofWindowsServers on VMware virtualized and Physical environments.
• Experience supporting Production, Development and QA environments.
• Excellent organization, prioritization skills as well as proactive and energetic approach. Participated in Data Center Migration Project actively.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Windows Systems Administrator

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• Worked in two Different Teams and managed around 25 projects simultaneously.
• Was part of Business Integration and lifecycle management teams building 100s of Virtual/physical servers and installing software/hardware and supporting 1000s of clients requirements.
• Achieved Outstanding Technical Resource s from different Project managers.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration, and Maintenance ofWindows 2003/2008/2012 R2 MS SQL 2008/2012 Servers.
• Experienced with deployments, maintenance and troubleshooting applications on MicrosoftAzureCloud infrastructure.
• Working knowledge onAzurecloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
• Completing one-off upgrades fromWindows7 toWindows10including user data migration and re-imaging machines.
• Assisted with Citrix XenApp 7.6 deployment. I.E VDI environment and streaming applications
• The builds include allocation of required SAN disk space, the build itself and detailed configurations involving Active Directory user and group access and the application of a security template to maintain the highest level of secure access possible.
• Perform Post-Build server activities such as application & utility installation and also patching servers to go into Production.
• Created deployments of applications using SCCM and customPowerShellinstall
• Provide 100% Support until the servers are in production and resolve issues when in production using Ticketing System (BMC Remedy Change management).
• Completed Security scans, patching and remediation of newsystemsbefore they were allowed to be placed within the enterprise.
• Experienced on creatingAzureVM, Cloud Services and Storages by usingAzurePower-Shell Script.
• Creating and managingAzureWeb-Apps and providing the access permission toAzureAD users
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Automated service account password rotation usingPowerShell.
• Migrated Exchange Public Folders from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013
• Maintained Confidential Exchange e-mail accounts and public folder access through Confidential Exchange System Manager
• Used SCOM to monitor the health and performance of hosts (windows) in multiple data centers.
• Monitor Disk Usage and status ofwindowsservers using SCOM 2012 client.
• Experience with Confidential SCCM 2007/2012 and SCOM 2007/2012 - update/Patching and Monitoring. Install/Repair SCCM Clients on servers.
• Software deployment with Confidential System Center Configuration Manager (2007, 2012).
• Distribution of software and MS Updates Deployment (Patching/ Compliance Reporting) using SCCM as a part of configuring servers.
• Installing SCOM agent/client manually on newly builtwindowsservers and also pushing through SCCM client.
• OS imaging using MDT 2013 (ZTI) and SCCM for provisioning server completely where OS images are manually created.
• Integrating MDT 2013 (LTI) with SCCM for effective Migrations (Data Center Migration) and Deployments.
• BasicSystemsScripting (Windowscommands, VBscripts, PowerShell).
• Worked onWindowsServers in Production/Development/QA environments among several Data Centers (7).
• Migrating applications fromIIS6.0 to 7.5 as well as II6.0 toIIS8.0.
• Configured Authentication methods inIIS6.0/7.5/ 8.0 to control access to the applications.
• Maintained scripts to ensure a secureIISadministration. Expertise in taking backup and restoring data using various technics.Net application support and integration withIIS.
• Working experience on configuring TCP/IP components like DNS, WINS, DHCP. Configured Multiple IP addresses for forward and dynamic routing
• Day today activities includes coordinating F5 Load balancer changes for the productionIISsetups
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS)
• Configured Resource Pool, Alerts, Alarms.
• Actively Participated in Data Center Migration Project in two different locations.
• Configuring and Administering Exchange Servers, SMTP, Terminal Servers, DNS, DHCP, NTFS, and LDAP onWindowsServer 2003/2008/2012 server environment.
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Responsible for keeping allWindowsservers up-to-date withWindowssecurity updates via WSUS and Shavlik: Created patching protocol during maintenancewindowsfor production critical servers

Windows Systems Administrator

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Assessing the possible scope for virtualization and planning the virtualization.
• Deploying Citrix clients with SCCM 2005 and GPO.
• Documenting the standard operational process for support groups.
• Managed the overall administration ofWindowsSystem applications.
• Engineering and Management of Active Directory through Active DirectoryAdministrator.
• Physical to Virtual Migration of the Print Server to two Virtual Print servers for better performance of the print environment. Installed Cortado's Virtual Printing Software THINPRINT on the two virtual Print Servers including all the necessary drivers required for the printers.
• Tier III support and mentor to helpdesk staff providing documentation and timely resolutions and solving all the issues related to the printers. Weekly Reboot and snapshots of all the servers including the Print servers for error free print environment.
• Configured and BuiltWindowsServer on remotely managed physical servers as well as on VMware "slices"
• Responsible for Desktop, Laptop, Network and Outlook support & troubleshooting client's issues.
• Used MDT 2012, For Deploying Client Operating System Images as a part of OS level troubleshooting.
• Performed various troubleshooting and maintenance operations inWindowsServer and desktop environments.
• Manually patching all the print servers and testing them in the print environment.
• Monitoring all the users through Desktop Authority version 8.12.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, server, and application to meet business needs.
• Worked on BMC Remedy for ITIL process regarding Incident Management, Problem Management. Extensively used remedy tool across all environment.
• Created manyPowerShellscripts to improve processes and efficiencies.
• Created automatedPowerShellemails reports that shows patching status of the domain.
• Worked on SCOMPowerShellscripts for suppressing. Also started working onwindowssecurity patching.
• CreatedPowerShellscripts to interact with Hyper V, WSUS,WindowsUpdate, Active Directory and Registry.
• Installed and configured .NET applications onIIS6.0 web server and 2003 server.
• Configured multiple ASP.NET websites inIIS6.0 using Virtual IPs.Configured Authentication methods inIIS6.0 to control access to the applications.
• Maintained scripts to ensure a secureIISadministration. Installed Equifax s inIISand configured security ports.
• Involved in maintaining and updating Active directory, GPOs, Global Groups and Resultant Set of Policy for authentication.
• Engineering and Management of the Franklin VMware environment ESX 3.5.
• Management of Patching of allWindowsServers residing in Franklin - SCCM 2007.
• Created reports of success and failure of patching endeavors for management metrics.
• Maintain a senior level through work ethic and job specific standards
• Analyzing Client's environment, existing infrastructure and proposing a solution.

Windows Systems Engineer

Confidential, Long Island, NY

Responsibilities:

• Configured new provisioning server farm in HA configuration using CIFS share for common storage.
• Installed VMware Hypervisor on Dell hardware to join to existing VM ware farm.
• Created templates forWindows2008 servers for standard build and documented process.
• Installed & configuredWindows2008 with Active Directory service.
• ManagedWindowsActive Directory Domain with over 2500 user ID's.
• Set standards for enterprise computing environment by participating in meetings, creating documents for use as standards of practice
• Deployment of new servers to data center.
• Implementation of VMware vSphere 5.0 with Enterprise Plus Features of vDistributed Switch and Update 1 including vCenter4.0, ESX 3.5,4.0 and 4.1 Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools and H/W upgrade to vSphere 5.
• Familiar with backup and restore of VMware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup
• Deployed Splunk security and widows patching agents towindowsserves in the different environments.
• Maintainedsystemshardware and software upgrades as needed or specified within the customer's Service Level Agreement.
• Determine the Version of VMware Tools and if the VMware Tools Service was running, Free Disk Space, OperatingSystems, Pending Reboots, System Uptime and log to a report.
• Managed OUs, worked on access issues and also on AD groups/users.
• Install / Upgrade all VMware Servers with the latest VMware Tools version loaded on our ESX Servers. (With Options: Reboot, or No Reboot)
• Installed monthly patches for allWindowsservers within the environment.
• Remotely supported users; performed needs analysis for file storage.
• MigratedWindowsServer 2003 servers toWindowsServer2008 andWindowsServer 2012 as part of large refresh/migration project.

Windows Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administering and supporting more than 450Windowsservers (2003/2008), which includes 7000+ user base and more than 800 plus applications.
• Installation and configuration of Provisioning server environment
• Creation and deployment of new images on PVS environment
• Load balancing and high availability configuration for PVS servers
• Provided support for varioussystemscomponents including; email, intranet/extranet hosting, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, DFS, Print Services, MS DFS Backup, onWindowsenvironment.
• Install, upgrade and maintain server hardware, operatingsystemssuch aswindowsserver 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as software as needed.
• Responsible for Terminal server builds deployments in both Physical and virtual environments.
• Certify home grown and third party applications to run inwindows2003/2008 Terminal server environment.
• Implementing Quarterly patches to the servers and images suggested by Confidential .
• Hands on experience on Virtualization technology- VMware Workstation, ESX Server, VMware view Client.
• Responsible for Administration of Active Directory and delegating control / permissions.
• Execute enterprise deployments of updates, releases, patches and fixes utilizing deployment tools.
• Installing Hot Fixes(Rollup Packs and Feature packs) released
• Proficiency in the development and administration of BMC CMDB, IT Service Management (ITSM) suite.
• Responsible for helpdesk support using BMC Remedy ticketing system, inventory and system reporting.
• Resolved various issues such asWindowsPolicies, Application licensing through BOMGAR, Remote Assistance, Lync Sharing and WebEx Sharing. Coordinating with Vendors regarding production issues & solving problems.

Windows Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for more then 250+ desktop and 15+ laptop having XP,windows2003 Server operating system.
• Assignment of NTFS and share permission to a folder or a particular user and group.
• Installation & trouble shooting in Active Directory Service.
• Administration of DNS, WINS, DHCP Servers.
• Working Knowledge on IIS server. Working Knowledge on File and Printer Servers.
• Assembling of computers, peripherals and troubleshoot various hardware problem.
• Installation of Operating System and different software for different application.
• Design and implement of TCP/IP base client server network infrastructure.
• Loading of antivirus software and configuring antivirus software.
• Taking daily back up and restoration. Provide hardware support for client and as well as serversystems.
• Troubleshooting issues on Mail server, Instant Messaging server, DHCP server, Man Link, FTP Server, antivirus server, Proxy server, Gateways. Daily Health checkup of Server.
• Troubleshooting all LAN Problems, troubleshooting application related to Citrix server background.
• Creation of new User ID and setting configuration for a new user.
• Vendor management (Escalating a call related to vendors), Asset inventory management.