SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of experience in Infrastructure, Virtualization, Cloud, Storage, Backup, Windows & Linux platforms.
• Over 5 years of diverse experience in leading teams of IT professionals and business management, adept at coordinating major hardware, operating system, and software implementations, as well as coordinating movement of resources, highly familiar with directing personnel training, end - user support, and reporting functions.
• Leading contributor on large projects, a self-starter, and able to work and operate in a collaborative environment.
• Install configure test and maintain Windows operating systems, application software and system management tools
• Enterprise level experience in maintaining physical and virtual servers and hosts. Monitoring, managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting a Windows environment.
• Planning for and responding to service outages and other problems installing system upgrades managing system resources and optimizing system performance; performing system startup shutdown diagnostics file management user and group setups Deploys and configures DHCP and DNS services
• Planning execution and management of Enterprise data backup disaster recovery (DR) and continuity of operations (COOP) operations and support.
• Plan for capacity, storage planning, and database performance
• Install and upgrade computer components and software, manage virtual servers, and integrate automation processes.
• Virtualizing desktop applications for use in a VDI environment through VMware ThinApp and App Volumes. vMotion, Storage vMotion and Network/Storage IO Control.
• Implementation and administration VMware vSphere ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x, platform, vCenter 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x and vBlock 100/200/300/700 series.
• Working on Host Profiles, Resource Pools, Storage Profiles, VMFS data store and templates for client VMs.
• Configured EMC/Netapp/HP SAN/NAS storage as a datastore in VMWARE environment and as volumes in windows environment.
• Designs and implements SCCM solutions related to Windows server and/or desktop and laptop systems. Creates and distributes native Windows Installer (MSI) based application packages throughout a MS SCCM infrastructure spanning multiple sites and physical locations.
• Prepares, distributes, and deploys critical, security, and otherwise required patches of all managed libraries using tools such as Windows Server Update Services
• Coordinates with Project Management, Security, Asset Management, and Service Desk teams as necessary for problem support and resolution
• Modifies and manages Active Directory components for enterprise LAN/WAN users
• Plans network infrastructures services highly available network services server virtualization infrastructure and identity and access solutions
• Configures cloud integration including public and private clouds.
• Develops/maintains systems configurations and executes administration and operational duties on computer systems while maintaining data/information as required.
• Analyzes evaluates and tests software and hardware to provide issue/problem resolution.
• Install, plan, secure computer facilities, and organize training as required and appropriate.
• Backup operations and implement appropriate processes for data protection, disaster recovery, and failover procedures
• Lead desktop and helpdesk support efforts, making sure all desktop applications, workstations, and related equipment problems are resolved in a timely manner with limited disruptions

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud/Virtualization: VMware, Azure, AWS, Intel Hybrid Cloud, Google Cloud Platform. Design cloud migration, tests, performance comparison and execution. Migrate on-premises infrastructure to Cloud and support Hybrid solutions.

Backup: BackupExec, Commvault, Data Protector

Disaster Recover: Zerto, CommVault

Microsoft Server OS: Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 & 2016

Microsoft Desktop OS: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10

Office Suites: Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013/365, 2016/365, Open Office, Lotus Notes

Linux OS: Deploying, network configurations, updates, internal firewall, granting access, cron activities.

Messaging: Outlook, Lync, Lotus Notes, Podium & Live Chat

Database: Oracle RDBMS, IBM DB2, SQL 2005,2008,2012,2014,2016 and 2017, MySQL, PostGres

Data Management: Symantec Backup Exec, HP Data Protector, VERITAS 9, 10, 11, 12.5, CommVault Backup, Team Desk & Data science Studio

Imaging: Symantec Ghost, Acronis, Paragon & Easeus

IT Security: McAfee, Symantec, Kaspersky, Norton, Antispyware, Windows Defender, Firewall and anti-scripting

Scripting: Microsoft PowerShell, VB and PowerCLI

Web Browser: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera & Safari

Compression and Backup: WinZip, WinRAR, 7-Zip, Win Ace

Collaboration Software: Microsoft SharePoint, One hub, SmartSheet, Go to meeting and work front

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago

Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Server administration and management for virtual and physical servers. Services focus on building, documenting, operating, maintaining and sustaining.
• Design, installation, configuration, and implementation of the Windows infrastructure which includes Active Directory, DNS servers, and workstations.
• IT Automation: Automate infrastructure and application delivery with self-service capabilities to enable infrastructure as a service.
• Studying, testing and implementing Zerto features across the environment.
• Deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation Software/vSAN and integrate with Dell EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi Vantara & QCT. Configure VMware Cloud on AWS, IBM Cloud, Rackspace, Fujitsu K5, CenturyLink, OVH and NTT.
• Deploy and Manage Centralized platform vCenter Server for managing vSphere environments across hybrid cloud.
• Implements VMware vSphere (compute), VMware vSAN™ (storage), VMware NSX (networking and security), and VMware vRealize® Suite (cloud management). Leveraging the vRealize forecast reports worked along with application team for fine-tuning the Vmware resources.
• Design cloud migration of selective application and compare performance. Cloud operations and governance using best practices for the implementation and migration of critical applications from data center to public cloud with adherence to best infrastructure standards, providing support to applications developers, infrastructure and DevOps teams, and end-users.
• Design Security for network-level micro-segmentation, distributed firewalls and VPN, compute-level encryption for VM, hypervisor and vMotion, and storage-level encryption for data.
• Help with all aspects of SharePoint implementation - version selection & licensing, infrastructure planning, document management, workflows, system integration, dashboards, custom add-ins and web parts, training, and ongoing support.

Confidential

Infrastructure Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Server administration and management for DELL, HP and IBM physical servers, including blade enclosures. Virtual servers using VMWare and Hyper-V. Services focus on building, documenting, operating, maintaining and sustaining.
• Storage configurations on Dell Compellent/EqualLogic, using DELL Storage Manager.
• Design, installation, configuration, and implementation of the Windows infrastructure which includes Active Directory, DNS servers, DHCP Scopes, Group Policy Management and workstations.
• Deploying, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting many sort of third party applications and solutions using platforms and tools like Java, Tomcat, JBoss, NGinx, Apache, IIS and client-server.
• Deploy HPE Simplivity Hyperconvergence Solution, sizing, configuring, updating and maintaining.
• Install, configure and manage vSphere and ESXi standalone hosts. VMWare vCenter installation and configuration of datacenter, cluster, affinity rules, migration, datastores sharing and network settings.
• Implemented Vmware VRealize and reduced the Vmware resources that were underutilized.
• Implemented Vmware Replication for virtual machines that needed recovery with a relaxed RPO.
• Performed P2V and V2V conversions using VMWare Converter. Using and adjusting EVC Settings, changing disk types and establishing exclusive traffic network ports.
• Microsoft Exchange On Premises Administration on databases, accounts, domains and Failover Cluster.
• Redesign and consolidate several IIS applications to a redundant environment, exploring features like redirects and bindings, minimizing the utilization of public IP addresses.
• Install, configure and create objects like Devices, Sensors and Notifications for active environment monitoring, using PRTG.
• Deploy Linux Servers, sizing, configuring network and services, monitoring, granting access and managing cron activities.
• Print Server management, Microsoft and CUPS.
• Antispam Tools GFI MailEssentials and TrustWave MailMarshal deploying, configuring and maintaining rules, exceptions, domains and reports.
• OCS Inventory Professional tool, deploying server and agents and generating reports.
• Oracle Database basic administration, and developing low and medium complexity queries.
• Increased team productivity and automated repetitive tasks by using batch files, PowerShell, VBScript, PowerCLI and WMI.
• SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016 installation, configuring and maintaining: Creating databases, maintenance plans, shrink, statistics, log shipping configuration, backup and restore. Developing low and medium complexity queries.
• Windows Update Services multi-site deploying and maintaining.
• Citrix XenServers and XenApp delivery groups, machine catalogs and applications creating and maintaining.
• Design cloud migration of selective application and compare performance.
• Active participation on internal data center migration projects. All the company's data centers were located on internal buildings and have moved to new internal locations.
• The company has few cloud applications and services, managed by internal team. The two data centers were located in internal buildings. Huge datacenter migrations to new buildings were made, with active participation on planning and executing.

Confidential

Infrastructure Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design, installation, configuration, and implementation of the Windows infrastructure, which includes Active Directory (including a complete reorganization), DNS servers, DHCP Scopes, Group Policy Management and workstations.
• Server virtualization through Microsoft Hyper-V and Vmware. vRealize and Vmware replication implementations. PtoV migrations and configurations. Services focus on building, operating, maintaining and sustaining.
• Server administration and management for DELL and IBM physical servers, including blade enclosures.
• Install, configure and create objects like Dashboards, Devices, Sensors, Thresholds and Notifications for active environment monitoring, using OpMon.
• Increased team productivity and automated repetitive tasks by using batch files, PowerShell, VBScript, PowerCLI and WMI.
• Microsoft IIS two-layer application deploying and maintaining.
• Go Global metaframe creating servers, maintaining environment and publishing applications.
• Active participation in a huge data center migration project, moving from one colocation company to another in the same city, made on a weekend.
• Active participation in large projects, such as a wide authorization site used by all clients, doctors' offices and hospitals, and leadership of small and medium-sized projects.
• Barracuda Load Balancer configuration: adding services, weight balance, and maintenance.
• TrendMicro Antispam IMSVA configuration service, rules, and upgrading.
• A stable, monitored and reliable environment was obtained together with the other team members like DBAs and NW Admins.