SUMMARY

• 6+ years of working experience as VMware and Windows System Administrator.
• Have experience of managing Windows Server environment: Hyper - V, User provisioning in Active Directory (AD), automated patching tools such as Batch scripting, VBScript and PowerShell.
• Experience in GPOs, DNS, File & Print Server, Terminal Server, Microsoft Clustering.
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting MicrosoftWindows Server hardware, Software applications and clustered environment issues.
• Subject Matter Expert in VMware infrastructure: ESX/ ESXi technology, vSphere including vCenter, vMotion, VDI, NSX, HA architectures.
• Hands on experience in performing day to day operations on all ESXi and vCenter related components.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Windows and VMware servers on different platforms.
• Extensive experience in managing Data Center environment with administering, installing, and troubleshooting Microsoft Servers and Workstations.
• Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals and TCP/IP protocol suite, including enterprise DNS and DHCP, virtual networking and wireless networks.
• Making sure the MS Windows and VMware platform meet or exceed organization goals for availability, capacity, efficiency, scalability, and performance.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C, C++, PowerShell Scripting, PL/SQL, SQL.

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , Mac OS, Redhat, ESX/ESXi.

Networking: LAN/WAN routing, VLAN, VPN, IP Sub-netting, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP.

RDBMS: MySQL, Microsoft SQL server

Storage: Netapp, ISCSI SAN and NAS

Software/IDE: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project, Microsoft CRM, IT-360, office-365

Scripting Language: PowerShell, VBScript, Batch script

Hardware: HP Prolient, HP Blade Server, CISCO UCS 5108, Dell Power Edge, Cisco UCS Blade, HP Blade servers, HP Rack servers, Dell Servers, IBM H-series blade, & Wintel Servers.

Protocols: TCP/IP, IPsec, ARP, UDP, SMTP, POP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, Telnet, IIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Windows/ VMware Administrator

Confidential, Richardson, Tx

Responsibilities:

• Maintained datacenters and associated running systems.
• Involved with developing and implementing IT initiatives to increase productivity and efficiency while reducing management overhead.
• Configured and managed of AD, GPOs, LDAP,DHCP, DNS, FTP, WINS, File server, Print server, Windows Clustering.
• Deployed VM Manager framework, and automated provisioning of VMs.
• Patch Management using WSUS.
• Ensured optimal performance and capacity planning and capacity management for the Windows and VMware environment.
• Migration of VM's from Host to Host using vMotion and from one LUN to another LUN using storage vMotion.
• Managed Virtual machines through Snapshots, Templates, Hot clone, Cold Clone, P2V, V2P and V2V conversions.
• Monitored ESX/ESXi hosts and Resource pools using vCenter operations manager.
• Day-to-day activity involved storage expansion on Windows, NIC Teaming, Memory Upgrades, configuring shared LUN's.
• Handled multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Improved quality and promoted knowledge sharing by documenting processes and mentoring colleagues on best practices.
• Worked on ServiceNow ticketing system to resolve technical issues.

Environment: VMware vRealize suite, VMware vCenter, VMware Horizon View, SQL Server, ServiceNow, Batch script, PowerShell, Hyper-V, Windows 2008 R2/2012 Server, SCCM,SCOM, iLO Manager, VMkernel Port, vSphere ESXi 5.5,6.0, VMFS, VMware vSphere client.

Windows/ VMware System Administrator

Confidential, Little Rock, AR

Responsibilities:

• Ensured coordination/integration with Storage, Network, & Database systems specialists and Worked with IT management to plan and schedule system upgrades.
• Installation and administration of Windows Active Directory(AD), Group Policy Objects (GPOs), Hyper-V, Microsoft IIS servers, FTP, SQL Database Server, File server and Print servers.
• Created PowerShell scripts to interact with Hyper-V, WSUS, Windows Update, Active Directory (AD) and Registry.
• Worked with Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS.
• Performed Snapshots, Templates, Cloning and implemented Cold Migrations, Hot Migrations, P2V, V2P and V2V conversions.
• Configured and Managed VMware clusters with High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Configured and performed vMotion, Storage vMotion and fault tolerance (FT).
• Worked on vCenter Site Recovery Manager(vCenter SRM) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans.
• Was responsible for ESXi host server up gradation and documented the process for future references using best practices and procedures of all these upgrades.
• Ensured the network was up and running.
• Reduced system downtime and recurring expense to near zero.

Environment: VMware vRealize suite, Horizon View, vMA, VDI, SVCMM, SQL Server, VLAN, McAfee ePO, Symantec NetBackup, VBScript, PowerShell, VMFS, Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2008 R2,NFS, VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5, VMware vCenter Server, SCCM, SCOM, iSCSI SAN/NAS, VMware Update Manager, vCenter Lab Manager.

Windows System Admin

Confidential, Jackson, MS

Responsibilities:

• Administered Active Directory domain and core AD functionality (replication, sites and services)
• Audited, consolidated, and organized objects in active directory organizational units (OUs).
• Supported and maintained software configurations via Group Policy.
• Created and managed User Accounts & Groups in Active Directory and delegating control / permissions.
• Performed daily systems monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, reviewing system and application logs, disk management, patch management, backup and disaster recovery.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw technical execution for global deployment, resolved customer technical issues through diligent research, reproduction, and troubleshooting.
• Installed and administered Group Policy Objects (GPOs), MS Hyper-V, DNS, DHCP, IIS, LDAP, FTP, File and Print servers.
• Sharing Folders, planning and assigning NTFS permissions for files and folders and system Policies.
• Created & managed User & Group accounts, e-mail accounts, managing user rights and permissions.
• Created and configured VMs in the console, configured the Host profiles.
• Managed VMware HA (High Availability), Failover, Fault Tolerance (FT), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Enhanced systems performance by developing and modifying PowerShell scripts to automate system processes.
• Created Virtual Machines, templates from VMs and VMs from templates.
• Involved in the live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Provided daily, weekly and monthly reports on the existing Windows Servers and suggested up gradations of server licenses.

Environment: VMware Update Manager, Distributed Power Management (DPM), VDI, BMC Remedy, VDM, LAN, IT support, VMWare ESXi 4.1/5.0, VCenter server, HA, DRS, VPN, vMotion, Windows Xp, Windows Server 2003/2008, DNS, NIS, NFS, Remedy, CISCO UCS switches, SonicWALL firewall.

Technology Support Analyst-1

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed tasks and assignments in a timely manner to meet company deadlines and goals and ensured systems are operating as expected.
• Proactively managed operational problem tickets and quickly responded to current tickets to reduce future incidents.
• Maintained and ensured systems performance and tuning, Anti-Virus, break/fix, and disaster recovery.
• Ensured optimal performance of all system components by proactively conducting ongoing performance monitoring and by tuning/adjusting as necessary.
• Created and maintained computer imaging strategy.
• Performed 24x7 on-call responsibilities requiring off-hours support.
• Troubleshoot, analyzed and resolved a variety of technical issues regarding networks, server systems, hardware and software.

Environment: ScriptLogic Desktop Authority, Windows Server 2003,Windows Xp, VPN Gateways, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Mac OSX, Microsoft Deployment Tool Kit(MDTK),Remote desktop services (RDP).