SUMMARY:

• 9 years of experience as a Cloud /Virtualization /System Administrator Engineer.
• Accomplished IT professional with demonstrated success implementing strategic IT initiatives that improve business functionality with positive impacts on the bottom line.
• Technology savvy self - starter, adept at moving into new environment and extrapolate from existing experience to quickly adapt to new technologies fluently.
• Extensive experience in design, configuration, implementation, security, troubleshooting, maintenance and documentation of Linux/windows servers, VMware products, Microsoft Hyper-V, windows Azure, as well as Amazon AWS cloud computing platform.
• Expert in performing hardware analysis and installation.
• Expert in managing operating systems and end-user software.
• Experienced in performing network and security audits.
• Experience in recommending, scheduling and performing software and hardware improvements, upgrades, patches, reconfigurations and purchases.
• Expert in managing the Active Directory forest and domain environments including users, groups, printers, login scripts, etc.
• Experienced in managing the server cluster environment including configuration, shares and permissions.
• Hands on Experience on Dell M710HD blades, Power Edge 2850 /HP BL460c G6/G7/G8, HPDL380 G6/G7/G8 servers /Cisco UCS B200 M3 blades & Vblock System 300.
• Developed backup and recovery procedures for recovery from loss and destruction of data.
• Experienced in installing and managing production, test and development environments.
• Experienced in migrating from development to production environment.
• Experience in performing System Integration/Administration for Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server, Windows 98/XP/Vista/7, Red Hat Linux, and Ubuntu.
• Experience in Windows Administration - Win 2003, 2008, 2008R2SP1, 2012 servers, Active directory, DNS, DHCP, Failover Clustering, Network and load balancing Cluster.
• Hands on experience on Windows WSUS, SCOM services.
• Experience in Networking with TCP/IP, switches, router, IPSEC, SSL, VLANs.
• Expert in Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery. Virtualization/Cloud Consultancy Skills:
• Extensive knowledge and experience in VMware, Microsoft Hyper-v, Windows Azure Cloud and virtualization technologies.
• Experience in working with windows SCVMM 2008 and 2012 and migration of VM’s from VMware Infrastructure to the Microsoft Hyper-V Infrastructure.
• Hands on experience in Hardware Load balancing, Datacenter Operation practices, Infrastructure build outs from scratch.
• Experience in monitoring/managing VMware ESX 3.5/4.0/5.0/5.1 infrastructure.
• Experienced on VMware View (VDI) Implementation.
• Design and implementation of all vC Ops products like vCenter Infrastructure Navigator, vCenter chargeback Manager, vCenter Hyperic, vCenter configuration Manager.
• Expert in implementing and managing High Availability (HA) / Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) /clustering environments.
• Experienced in migrating the Physical environment into virtual environment (P2V), (V2V) using the tools like Vmware / Double-Take/ Plate Spin.
• Hands on experience and Knowledge on Microsoft Hyper-V 2008/2012, Failover Cluster Manager, Cluster shared volumes (CSV), Live Migration, Hype-v Manager, Power Shell
• Experienced in managing NAS and SAN storage solutions.
• Implemented Citrix products XenApp and Xen Desktop.
• Proven skills in developing backup and disaster recovery protocol.
• Excellent team player with good communication and leadership skills.
• Experience in working as a part of a highly cross-functional and global team.
• Extensive Knowledge and experience with ITIL process, Infrastructure change management, Incident / problem management and Release management processes.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

Virtualization Software: VSphere 5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0 , VMware ESXi server 5.1/5.0, VCenter 5.1/5.0, V Motion, Storage VMotion, VMware Update Manager, VMware Tools, VMware Converter, DRS, HA and FT, Load Balancers, DMZ Environment, VMware vCenter Operations manager, vFabric Hyperic, VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager, Cisco UCS Manager 2.1, vCloud Director 5.0, VCAC Microsoft Hyper-V 2008/2012, Failover Cluster Manager, cluster shared volumes (CSV), Live Migration, Hype-v Manager, Power Shell.

3rd Party Cloud Computing Platform: Windows Azure, Amazon AWS

Storage: NAS Filers, EMC SAN, Storage Replication and ISCSI.

Operating Systems: Windows - 9x, ME, XP, Vista, 7, NT, Server 2000, Server 2003, Server 2008. Hyper-V

Linux: Ubuntu, Fedora, Red hat.

Scripting: Power Shell, Power CLI, Shell Scripting.

Hardware Implementation: Vblock System 300,Cisco UCS B series, HP BL460C G6/G7/G8, Dell M710HD, Rack Servers

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Windows/Virtualization Engineer

Environment: VMWare Vsphere 5.5, Microsoft Hyper-V 2008/2012, SCVMM, SCOM, vCenter server5.5,VCAC, vCenter Operations Manager 5.0/5.0.3/5.7 /5.8 , (vC Ops), Power Shell, VMware Converter, Plate Spin, Windows 2003/2008/2012 server, DNS, DHCP, VMware ESX 4.1,5.1 & 5.5, Dell M710HD, M620, HP ProLiant BL460C, Robocopy.

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of VMware vSphere and Hyper-V 2012 environment at more than 70 remote locations of Confidential dairy plants like Alta Dena, Brown Dairy, Land-o-Lakes and Oak farms.
• Migration of all the Physical servers (File, Print, Lotus notes and backup servers) to Virtual machines (P2V) and (V2V) at 70 remote sites using migration tools like plate spin on to Hyper-v 2012 and VMware Vsphere 5.5 environment.
• Extensive knowledge and hands on experience with build, upgrade and configuration of DELL 1000E chassis, Fabrics A, B & C and M710HD, M620 blade servers.
• Installing new Dell M710HD, M620 Blade Servers in Dell 1000E chassis with Windows 2012 R2 and configuring Hyper-v role on the blade servers.
• Extensive knowledge and hands on experience in Updating the Dell 1000E chassis firm ware and upgrade of iDrac, Life Cycle Controller, Dell OS Deployment Package, Bios, Qlogic, Intel and Broad Com Drivers for the Fabric A and Fabric B on Dell M710HD and M620.
• Design & implementation of the Datacenter Migration using Hyper-V infrastructure from Broomfield Colorado to Thornton Colorado and to Dallas Primary DC for about 1100 machines (both Physical and Virtual).
• Design and Implementation of new Hyper-V infrastructure which includes upgrade form Hyper-V 2008 to 2012 and deploying SCVMM 2012.
• Validating hardware configuration for Creating a Failover Clustering, Manage the clusters, configuring the Quorum Disk and adding nodes to the clusters.
• Deploying Virtual machines on Hyper-v 2008 and 2012 environments through System Center Configuration Manager SCCM.
• Configuring all the Virtual machines and services under Services and Applications to utilize the maximum features of the Failover Cluster Manager.
• Performed the P2V, V2V and P2P for the Windows Machines using SCVMM 2012 in the Hyper-V Environment and from ESXi 5.5 Environment to Hyper-V Environment.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in selecting the required Hotfixes for the Hyper-V environment out of all the available updates and expert in testing and applying Microsoft security patches and applying them to the environment using WSUS.
• Hands on experience in creating CSV (Cluster Shared volumes) and direct path Lun’s to the VM’s on the Hyper - V environment.
• Expert in creating Networks like Cluster network, CSV Network, Live Migration network and Management Network.
• Extensive Knowledge and hands on experience with VMWare Vsphere 5.5 including HA, DRS, vMotion and Storage vMotion features.
• Experience in building the VCenter Server 5.5, vCops 5.7.1 and other tools from vmware.
• Experience in working with IBM impact and SNOW (Service Now) for creating CR’s and Tasks for the purpose of migration.
• Expert in handling the Windows and VMware Incident Queue and maintaining the SLA for the tickets.

Confidential, Coppell, TX

Senior VMware Consultant & DC Migration Specialist

Environment: vCenter server5.5,VCAC, vCenter Operations Manager 5.0/5.0.3/5.7 /5.8 , (vC Ops), Power Shell, VMware Converter, Plate Spin, Windows 2003/2008/2012 server, DNS, DHCP, VMware ESX 4.1,5.1 & 5.5, HP ProLiant BL460C, Robocopy.

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the US to new locations in US which involves numerous servers of Windows and Linux servers.
• Design & implementation of the Datacenter Migration from Westminster to Coppell and Lebanon for about 1100 machines (both Physical and Virtual).
• Building vCenter5.5, ESXi5.5 and Clusters to maintain redundancy among the chassis as part of the new datacenter build out plan.
• Created the CR’s and required tasks for the migration of VM’s from Westminster to Coppell and Lebanon.
• After the migration of VM’s removing the unnecessary hardware and hidden devices and assigned the tasks to the respective teams to bring the cloned VM’s in to complete “IN USE” mode where backing up and monitoring of the VM’s Takes place.
• Performed a successful P2V, V2V and P2P migrations from existing ESX 4.1/5/1 environment in Westminster to newly built ESXi 5.5 environment in Coppell and Lebanon by using Plate spin / VMware converter 5.5 and Double-Take tools.
• After the migration of VM’s removing the unnecessary hardware and hidden devices and assigned the tasks to the respective teams to bring the cloned VM’s in to complete “IN USE” mode where backing up and monitoring of the VM’s Takes place.
• Providing the Production Support for the Migrated Prod/DEV/Test Machines in the new datacenter along with the migrations.
• Performed the P2V, V2V and P2P for the Windows Machines using SCVMM 2012 in the Hyper-V Environment and from ESXi 5.5 Environment to Hyper-V Environment.
• Extensive Knowledge and Implementation of vSphere features like HA, DRS, vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Copied the Files and Folders using ROBOCOPY form one shared server location to the new shared server location as part of the Westminster migration project.
• Racked and Stacked HP DL380c G6/G7/G8 Rack Servers and Dell Power Edge M710HD blade servers for the Infrastructure build outs.
• Building vCenter5.5, ESXi5.5 and Clusters to maintain redundancy among the chassis as part of the new datacenter build out plan.
• Worked on Storage Array refreshes migrating data from END-OF-LIFE storage arrays to new ones.
• Worked with storage teams to monitor and improve performance of storage allocations to VMware Clusters.
• Documented all best practices implemented on P2V, V2V and P2P for future references.
• As part of the IT-Windows Team apart from migrations involved in troubleshooting the issues on windows servers in the free cycles available.
• Design and Implemented a small scale VMware Horizon 6.0 with about 150 Desktops to different application users.

Confidential, Lake Forest, IL

Senior Infrastructure Implementation Specialist

Environment: vCenter server5.1, vCenter Operations Manager 5.0/5.0.3/5.7 , (vC Ops), Power Shell, VMware Converter, Plate Spin, Windows 2000/2003/2008 server, DNS, DHCP, VMware ESX 3.5,4.1 & 5.0,5.1, EMC Grab, Vblock System 300,HP and Cisco UCS Servers

Responsibilities:

• Key role as a consultant in architecture-related and Implementation of the VMware products in a new DC build out and existing DC migrations.
• Design & implementation of the Datacenter Migration from Lake Forest to Norcross for about 900 machines (both Physical and Virtual).
• Worked with the EMC technician on the Vblock system 300 configuration in the environment.
• Racked and Stacked HP DL380c G6/G7/G8 rack mount servers for the Infrastructure build outs.
• Extensive knowledge and implementation of CISCO UCS B series (Blade Servers) and C series Servers (Rack Servers).
• Design and implementation of CISCO UCS Manager and creating the SAN/WAN pools, policies and service profiles required for the blades as per the Infrastructure needs.
• Deployed ESXi 5.1 and Windows 2012R2 on new HP ProLiant DL 380 G8 servers.
• Designed the SOP document for best practices of P2V, V2V and P2P.
• Played a key role in Datacenter Consolidation at Lake Forest by converting the Physicals to VM’s and decommissioning the old Physicals.
• Designed the SOP document for best practices of migration from ESX 3.5 environment to ESX 5.1 Environment
• Performed a successful P2V, V2V and P2P migrations from existing ESX 3.5 environment in Lake Forest to newly built ESXi 5.1 environment in NorCross by using plate spin /vmware converter 4.0/5.1.
• Performed the P2V, V2V and P2P for the Windows Machines using SCVMM 2012 in the Hyper-V Environment and from ESXi 5.1 Environment to Hyper-V Environment.
• Used VM analyzer tool which decides the right candidate to be a virtual machine while doing P2V.
• Planned and executed the migration of VM’s from EMC Clarion to EMC VNX using the EMC recovery point.
• Knowledge on how the storage processors work (A and B), Connection of storage processors to the Drive Arrays, Zoning, Masking and MDS switches.
• Worked on implementation of Cisco Nexus 1000v in the virtual environment as a POC.
• Ran a PowerShell script to collect the system information, installed windows roles, disk information, event reports/ errors, windows update history, and group membership from all the windows physical servers.
• Designed the Decommission of the Network waterfall models in the Lake Forest DC after consolidating the datacenter.
• Used SCCM 2012 to push the File, Print and SCEP anti-virus (Replaced MacAfee) on to 2000 user desktops.

Confidential, Northbrook, IL

Senior Admin / Consultant

Environment: vCenter server5.1, vCenter Operations Manager 5.0/5.0.3/5.7 , (vC Ops), VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager 2.5,vCenter Infrastructure Navigator, Power Shell, Plate Spin, Windows 2000/2003/2008 server, DNS, DHCP, VMware ESX 4.0/4.1 & 5.0, vCloud Director 5.0, Cisco UCS B200 M3 and Capacity planning using vC Ops. Windows Azure

Responsibilities:

• Key role as consultant in architecture-related and Implementation of the VMware products in a large Virtual Farm of 6000 machines.
• Played a key role in design & implementation of the Cisco UCS B230 M2 /B200 M3 blades, in datacenter. Infrastructure build outs of HP rack mount servers and Cisco UCS Blade Servers.
• Active role in Infrastructure build outs of HP DL460c G6/G7/G8 rack mount servers and Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Servers.
• Created Service Profiles, Policies for BIOS, Boot, Power control, vNIC/vHBA Placement & pools as per the design using Cisco UCS Manager 2.0/2.1.
• Integration and automation of UCS management with UCS power tool in collaboration with Microsoft power shell.
• Designed and Implemented the VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.0.3/5.6/5.7/5.7.1 to monitor the datacenters located in different locations with each having a Virtual farm of about 3000 Guest Machines & 600 Hosts.
• Implemented all the products in the vCenter Operations Manager Suite including the vCenter Chargeback Manager, vCenter Infrastructure Navigator, vCenter Hyperic, vCenter Configuration Manager.
• Designed the Custom Dashboards for monitoring the Data stores, ESX Hosts and virtual machines using different Widgets like Heat Maps, Metric graphs, Root Cause Ranking and also using Super metrics.
• Maintaining, Troubleshooting and backing up of the Analytics VM & UI VM’s of vC Ops vApp which counts up to 3TB in storage.
• Designed and implemented the integration of vFabric Hyperic 5.0 with the vC Ops.
• Designing and executing the Phase by phase migration plans and performing upgrades from vC Ops 5.0.3 to 5.7 with negligible downtime.
• Hands on experience in upgrading hosts from 4.1 to 5.1, Vcenter 4.1 to Vcenter 5.1 and the Single Sign On feature (SSO).
• Tracked and scheduled the reports on performance metrics of Datacenter Environment Using Vcenter Operations Manager 5.7 and provided capacity planning recommendations to maximize server virtualization rates and overall environment efficiency.
• Implemented P2V and V2V migrations with tools like vCenter Converter, Plate spin, Double Take from one Datacenter to another datacenter.
• Designed and implemented the vCenter Chargeback Manager with required Cost models, Billing policies, Base rates and Fixed costs to generate the reports which will evaluate the Resource costs of the complete Environment.
• Designed and implemented the vCenter Configuration Manager for the Control and Compliance Management of Cloud, PCI Environments.
• Created a Logical and Physical Layout diagrams of the Complete Environment and Expert in documenting all the implementations.
• Designed and Implemented the VMware Site recovery Manager (SRM) 5.1 in the Datacenter as a team.
• Generated the ROI/TCO reports using the VMware ROI/TCO Calculator.
• Implementing and Testing of Hyper-V with different resource load modules and implemented in the new environment.
• Intensive working with Windows WSUS, Patch Management, and Windows/Linux OS build outs.
• Played an active role in the implementation of the vCloud Director 5.1 based on Allocation Pool (Allocation Pool/Pay-As-You-Go/Reservation Pool) for the Organization vDC.
• Participating in Alternate Change/Release Weekends.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

VMWARE Admin / Technical Lead /System Admin

Environment: vSphere, vCenter server and vmware Converter, vCenter Operations Manager5.0, vmware View (VDI), Power CLI, Double take, Windows 2000/2003/2008 server, DNS, DHCP, VMware ESX 4.0/4.1 & 5.0, NetApp filers, Citrix server

Responsibilities:

• Key role in providing, technology- and architecture-related thought leadership, strategic direction, and long-term vision.
• Coordinating with Offshore and responsible for Maintaining, configuring and Supporting VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which has above 80 ESXi 5.0 Hosts which are in Production and Non-Production environments connected to San storage with 1000 Vm’s running Windows & Linux and over 1000+ workstations running Windows XP.
• Played a Major role in efficient usage of the Datacenter Space in Dallas to migrate the Physical and Virtual machines from San Diego Datacenter.
• Configured Dell Power edge M710HD blade serves / HP Proliant DL 360/380 with ESX 4.0/4.1/5.0, where the redundancy is maintained all over the chassis by grouping blades form different chassis in to one cluster.
• Designing and executing the Phase by phase migration plans and performing upgrades from VMware ESX 4.0, 4.1 to vSphere ESXi 5.0 without Downtime.
• Hands on wide experience in Upgrading Vcenter 4.0 to Vcenter 5.0 including the Vcenter Update Manager (VUM) and configuring the same Version of vCenters in the linked Mode.
• Installing and configuring the VMware VSphere and creating clusters for High Availability (HA) and Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Extensive knowledge and work on Configuring the Vcenter Operations Operation Manager 5.0 which can manage the health of the Whole environment including Datacenters, ESX Hosts, Vm’s, data stores.
• Implementing and installing the Vmware View (VDI), creating a base image (replica) for desktops with win 7 OS and spinning the number of required desktops for Users. Pushing the updates to the base image and rolling them to the existing desktops and also for the new desktops.
• Worked extensively on live migrations Using VMware Converter / Double Take by taking minimum downtime for P2V and V2V Migrations.
• Participated in patch Management and upgrades of the infrastructure.
• Migrated the VM’s using the SAN to SAN replication using Recovery point.
• Configuring the windows clustering and SQL clustering in the vmware environment.
• Building the virtual Machines in the DMZ zone with the Load Balancers that are required depending on the applications where the applications can be accessed by outside world from different places by different Users.
• Expert in Backing up the entire physical machine which has bad blocks or hardware issues and restoring the server on New Hardware and scheduling the regular backups for both Physical and virtual machines using Symantec Backup Exec system Recovery (BESR)

Confidential, Irving, TX

Senior System Administrator

Environment: vSphere, vCenter server and virtual center, workstation, Linux 4/5,Windows 2000/2003/2008 server, Red Hat Linux 4.5/4.6/5, Unix, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange 2003/ 2007,VMware ESX3.5/4, NetApp filers, Citrix server, SQL 2005/2008.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Confidential branding activities with our marketing partners. Establish brand awareness via speaking engagements, panel participation, authoring white papers, and publishing articles focused on solving business challenges with technology-based solutions and providing architecture solutions.
• Served as Virtualization Lead in Confidential responsible for setting up virtual environments consisting of 200+ virtual machines (Vm’s).
• Installed and configured the VMware view for VDI environment.
• Monitoring and maintaining the VDI environment.
• Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery (DR) solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and EMC Recovery Point, successfully recovering all client servers at backup site.
• Participate and lead proposal/bid response and business development activities as an enterprise solution/technology SME.
• Created migration plans and executed upgrade from VMware ESX 3.5 to vSphere (ESX 4.1).
• Developed scripts to perform weekend checkouts after reboot occurring every weekend.
• Extensive use of VI Editor for day-to-day system admin work.
• Worked extensively on installation, configuration, upgrade and maintenance of Red hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL AS 4.x/5.x) on HP Proliant DL 360/380, Dell PowerEdge 6950/2950.
• Maintaining appropriate file and system security, monitoring and controlling system access, changing permission, ownership of files and directories, maintaining passwords, assigning special privileges to selected users and controlling file access, monitoring status of process in order to increase the system efficiency.
• Support activities surrounding the VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which includes 60+ VMware ESX, which are SAN/NAS connected, in Production and Non-Production environments that host over 120+ servers running Windows & Linux variations and over 1100+ workstations running Windows XP. Lead all development, engineering, and support for the Virtual Center software.
• Hands-on wide experience in Project Management, Deployment, Installation, administration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of various Windows and Unix Operating Systems and application, Storage solutions.
• Converted Physical Windows and Linux servers to virtual using vConverter and PlateSpin migrate.