SUMMARY:

• Diligent professional wif11+ years of experience and a proven noledge ofVMware,VDI, Windows, capacity planning, and Windows servers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Vmware/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed and Managed VMware Horizon View Infra 7.6 and 7.9
• VDI Provisioning (Linked Clone & Full Clone)
• Deployed multiple applications for end users using App volumes (Appstacks and WV)
• Creating, Entitled, and managing Writable Volumes as per customer requirements
• Deployed Full Cloned desktops in Horizon 7.6 and 7.9.
• Managed Golden Images, Applications, and patches
• Performed Recompose, Refresh and push image activity for respective Virtual desktop as per requirements
• Managed Horizon VDI Infrastructure components and patches.
• Performed Horizon Upgrade From version 7.6 to 7.9
• Performed UEM upgradation
• Performed App volumes upgrade
• Performed Security server to UAG appliance server migration
• Performed Composer server upgradation
• VDI base images Agent management (VMware Tool, Horizon Agent, UEM Agent and AppVol
• Worked on user Profile Management via UEM - Folder redirection, Client Drive redirection, Printer mapping etc
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly Huddle discussions wif customer on Operations
• Conduct Audit reports and prepare SLA reports to deliver clients
• Regular modifications of Servers Inventory and RUN Books
• Performed Root Cause Analysis on Critical issues and repeated incidents
• Documented all the Major Incidents and changes along wif their solutions, sharing
• Responsible for Handling Tickets (Incident, Change & Problem)
• Coordination wif internal teams (Storage, Backup, Security and Network)
• Adhere of Life Cycle of ITIL and Client Specific process
• Server consolidation wif VMware converter (P2V and V2V conversions).
• Managed Virtualization Environment using VM Ware ESX/ESXi, Virtual Center, VI Client, P2V
• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of ESX/ESXi Virtual Center, Vsphere client
• Moved VMs from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VMs & ESX/ESXi servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS)
• Configured Resource Pool, Alerts, Alarms, NTP
• Daily monitoring of server’s health status, Event Logs and disk spaces of critical servers to ensure availability.
• Troubleshooting issues related to network and Iscsi for backend storage
• Migrate Physical Server to Virtual Server using VMware Convertor (P2VConvertor)
• Maintained documentation for the VM’s in the environment
• Proficient in Configuration and managing of Permissions in VCenter Server

Confidential, Peoria, IL

Vmware/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained the virtual environment utilizing VMware Horizon View
• Define the Windows desktop images standards, deployment methods and use of supporting tools and technologies: Infrastructure - storage, networking, servers, load balancing, Anti-virus Profile management. Installing, configuring and managing ESX servers and virtual center
• Recompose the VDI Desktop Pools wif change request
• Created web application apps and publish the applications from workspace one Vmware to users
• Assisted in maintaining VDI master images and installing client applications
• Developed plans for deploying and administering virtual machines and images
• Configured and managed the virtual guests
• Troubleshoot and resolve Horizon VDI issues
• Create RDSH Farms and install the application in RDS farms and Pool Creation
• Performed daily VDI administration, maintenance and upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations
• Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability
• Implemented and administered Windows Server 2012 R2/2008 R2 Servers in the Dev, Test and Prod Environments
• Experience working on Active directory, DNS, DHCP, Forward lookup zones and reverse lookup zones, TCP/IP protocols
• Built new Windows Server 2012/2016 on Intel Server Platforms, Cisco/HP/Dell PowerEdge servers as per the company’s Windows build standards
• Provide 24/7 on call support for critical and production issues

Confidential, Boston, MA

Systems Admin

Responsibilities:

• Planned, and implemented the various solutions on windows server platform technologies and its components like Active directory, availability environment
• Managed, installed and troubleshooted Microsoft windows active directory, DNS, DHCP services on windows server 2003/2008 and 2012 platforms
• Installed and configured Active Directory Domain Services for objects management (users, groups, network printers, network guests' nodes) and Active Directory Lightweight Active Directory Services for deployment of applications
• Strong hands-on administration experience on Windows 2012 server-AD,DFS,DNS, WINS, DHCP, Group Policy, Distributionlists,Windows folder security, and IP filter
• Expertise in Active Directory design and support (Group Policy Object (GPO), Active Directory (AD) Schema, Organization Unit (OU), LDAP, Sites, Replication, etc.)
• Created and Linked Group policies for Windows Server in AD domain. Experience in Performing the Domain functional level from windows server
• Experienced in creating and maintain group policy objects for Windows servers host access
• Experienced in analyzing system issues to determine root cause, and work wif concerned teams in testing and implementing fix to resolve issues
• Identified opportunities to improve infrastructure dat effectively and efficiently utilizes the Microsoft Azure Windows server 2008/2012/R2, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows PowerShell, Cloud infrastructure
• Involved in the installation, monitoring and support of firewalls, Cisco networks, perimeter security technologies, Internet technologies and remote office WAN/ LAN connectivity
• Worked on SCCM focused on deploying, Packaging, administering, and troubleshooting an enterprise wide SCCM environment on large scale environment
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion

Confidential, Irving, TX

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, and administration of Windows Servers
• Created & maintained Sites, Organizational units, Users and Groups on Domain
• Configured and managed DHCP, DNS and Active Directory
• Worked on hardware issues like HP, Cisco, Dell & IBM servers
• Provide support to end users regarding Server Deployment, which include application installations, operating system updates and security patches
• Handled Desktop Management including Home Directory, Profiles, and Folder redirection
• Created and Managed User accounts
• Performed monthly patching activity, weekly reboot activity
• Troubleshoot CPU and Memory issue in physical and virtual servers
• Responding to users ticket like P1,P2
• Troubleshoot and repaired Hardware, software and network related problems wif different vendors (HP, Cisco, IBM, DELL)
• Troubleshooting and resolved server OS and standard software related issues
• Managed and maintained Server logs and monitoring server &, network Performance
• Configuring the various levels of RAID in Servers based on the business requirement