SUMMARY:

• VMware EXSI, Linux ( Red Hat) (Centos), Unix ( Solaris), Apache, Python, Bash, Nagios, Splunk, Ansible, Puppet and Chef, LAMP, Solr, Remedy, Red Hat Satellite
• VMware converter, MySql, Drupal, Kickstarter and KVM, load balancing and clustering, Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas NetBackup, Tomcat, SAP, Softthinks, Deployment Suite (SDS), Microsoft Office Suite, Windows
• 7 years of cross - platform experience in systems administration, including analyzing, designing, installing, maintaining, and repairing hardware, software, peripherals, and networks.
• Superior troubleshooting and technical support abilities with migrations, network connectivity, and database applications.
• Develop exceptional relationships with co-workers, management and end users.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Windows, Macintosh; Dell/EMC SAN hardware, miscellaneous PC hardware, IDE hard drives, SCSI devices, Direct Attached Storage, Sparc, Dell Poweredge 2950

Software: Microsoft Office Suite, Veritas backup, SAP, Symantec Antivirus, 8.0, Softthinks Deployment Suite (SDS)

Operating Systems: Windows, DOS, UNIX, Linux

Networking: Ethernet 802.3, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS, FTP, Telnet, DSL/Cable, hubs, routers (Cisco IOS), cabling, SMTP, POP3, NAT, VPN, VLAN, RIP, Ethernet 802.11, LAN/WAN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

VMware/Network/System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and maintain multiple high visibility tools and applications to achieve99.9% uptime.
• Adept at troubleshooting across complex and interconnected systems, engaging peers and vendors as needed.
• Worked on migration from physical servers to virtual using VMware Converter
• Proposes and implements system enhancements (software and hardware updates) that will improve the performance and reliability of the system.
• Analyze metrics to identify trends in system behavior that require intervention.
• Coordinate necessary maintenance and installations across partners to ensure minimal impact for users.
• Respond to problem reports from users and partners promptly to isolate root cause and assist other team members as necessary to resolve.
• Create new VM Linux and Solaris machines. lnstall Linux Redhat and Unix Solaris OS .
• Partitioned and provisioned new Linux VM servers
• Virtual Machine administration on vSphere VMware.
• Create and manage user accounts including SUDO access
• Use Remedy for ticket traffic
• Mange file systems
• Documentation of process
• Participate in review meetings to resolve bug related issues with developers.
• Server Hardware support like Dell Power Edge. Sparc, Cisco etc
• Provided assistance with software and hardware issues
• Managed rebooting & part replacement lnstallation of patches, packages and RPMs
• DNS experience.
• Managed VCS for clustering purposes
• Installations, configurations and managed SAN
• Listserv software, customizing listserv program to use in house.
• F5 Big-IP GTM Administrators create and support customer Load Balancing.
• Email server administrator. Installing and set up SMTP mail servers. Set up users accounts, troubleshooting email problems, tracking messages
• Installations of VMware virtual servers
• Maintenance and Upgrade UNIX/LINUX server.
• Windows system administrator. Duties including configure Applications, Supporting
• Create process flows and guidelines for different scenarios.
• Involvement in the conceptual phase of multiple projects.
• Detail oriented and strong initiative for using latest technology
• Installations, configurations and managed Tomcat
• Installations, configurations and managed Apache
• Installations, configurations and managed Puppet
• Experience with Jboss
• Experience with MS SQL
• Experience with AWS
• Has strong knowledge of MySQL.
• Produces custom reports.
• Provides operation & maintenance support for the current versions of applications.
• Responds quickly to requests for operation & maintenance changes; performs routine data maintenance.
• Participates in meetings with the team to review the design/solution and make recommendations based on the current infrastructure.
• Installations, configurations Splunk

Confidential

Vmware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create and manage users account
• Install and configure Nagios
• Configure Sparc servers
• Install and configure solaris 10
• Ticket trafficking with REMEDY
• Installed Sun recommended patch cluster
• Performed hardware administration
• Monitored Linux servers and Linux scripts regularly and performed troubleshooting steps - Tested and installed the latest software on server for end-users.
• Maintained necessary back-up of the important files and documented Linux scripts for future . . Built and configured VM LINUX servers
• Virtual Machine administration on hypervisor OVM
• Virtual servers administration on VMware ESXI
• Set up mount points for MySQL Database
• Deployment of new applications on Linux servers
• Created Rsync scripts for backups
• Scheduled Automated Linux jobs with Crontab
• Wrote scripts using bash to alert if disk space got high
• Used bash scripts to update system at certain times.
• Provision VM servers for customers
• Maintain users accounts and permissions
• Administer file management and permissions lnstall and configure LAMP
• Configure Apache Tomcat seryers
• Setup Apache as proxy server
• Creating kickstart files to automate a red hat enterprise linux installation
• Installed, upgraded and patched Red Hat Linux, and Solarisservers
• Diagnosed and resolved problems associated with NFS, and Apache

  Supplied technical support for more than 200 internal and external network users, which helped keep good relationship with customers

• Work on and installed Blade Servers