SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with over 6+ years of experience in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration, Administration, Support of Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012, VMware ESXi 4.1.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0, vCenter Server 4/5/5.1/5.5/6.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x.
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0, and vCenter Server 4/5/5.1/5.5/6.0.
• Expertise in creating service profile templates, service profiles, and performing firmware upgrades on Interconnects, FEX and Cisco UCS B Series blades leveraging Cisco UCS Manager
• Engineer, plan, design and consolidate the entire legacy EMC storage solutions and migrate the entire VMware/Windows/Linux environment to an EMC XtemeIO Based solution utilizing robocopy, Storage vMotion and Rsync.
• Experience working with PM’s, application teams, database teams to schedule server downtime/Migration/maintenance windows for all migrations from EMC VNX/VMAX to XtemeIO
• Expertise migrating ESXi hosts, Data stores and VM’s from EMC VNX/VMAX to XtremeIO as part storage refresh project.
• Experience utilizing storage vMotion, modifying BOOT FROM SAN policies on CISCO UCS to ensure smooth migration from VMAX to XtremeIO SAN Storage.
• Experience migrating 5000’s VM’s utilizing Storage vMotion from existing SAN Storage/Datastores (VMAX/VNX) to Datastore clusters on XtremeIO.
• Expertise in Administering and supporting Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 R2 Active Directory (AD), DNS, DHCP, WINS, Sharepoint, SCCM 2007/2012, SCOM, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010.
• Expertise in designing, implementing Active Directory (AD) roles, features and Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012
• Expertise web server Administration, installing and managing IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5/8.0 web servers and hosted internal web applications.
• Experience reviewing PCI scans and remediate software distribution failures and toeliminate any vulnerabilities.
• Experience setting up IT AUDIT controls, protecting information assets, to meet ITIL, PCI compliance standards.
• Experience administering all user/group permissions, NTFS share permissions, Terminal Services permissions, performance monitoring, troubleshooting level 2/3 issues, and group policy management.
• Expertise in day to day and firmware administration of EMC arrays VNX 5400’s, VNX 5200’s, and CX - Series with CISCO fabrics and Nexus switches for all Zoning and Masking.
• Experience writing both Power Shell and PowerCLI scripts to automate Virtual Machine builds and DNS entry configurations.
• Expertise working on HP Service manager/Service Center to create “Line Items”, “Incidents” to maintain all tickets queue’s as well as auditing procedures as well as BMC Remedy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft: Windows Server (2012, 2008 and 2003), MOM, SCCM, SCOM, WSUS.

VMware Products: Design and implement Virtual Infrastructure 4/5 with Virtual Center, ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x ESXi6.x vMotion, HA, DRS, Managing Resource pools, ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Converter, Virtual Center, ESXi Patch management.

Storage: iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC VMAX, VNX, NetApp 6240, 6040 FAS Solutions.

Hardware: Cisco UCS B200 s B250 s M2 s M3 s HP BL460C, C-7000, DL580 s.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

VMware Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation of ESXi 4.1/5/5.1/5.5/6. x Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM’sacross 10 Datacenters running 10000+ VM’s.
• Engineer, design, plan and consolidate the entire legacy EMC storage solutions and migrate the entire VMware/Windows/Linux environment to an EMC XtemeIO Based solution utilizing robocopy, Storage vMotion and Rsync.
• Consult and schedule with PM’s, application teams, database teams to schedule server downtime/Migration/maintenance windows for all migrations from EMC VNX/VMAX to XtemeIO
• Migrate 800+ ESXi hosts, 3000+ Data stores and 12000+ VM’s from EMC VNX/VMAX to XtremeIO as part storage refresh project.
• Modify BOOT FROM SAN policies on CISCO UCS to ensure smooth migration from VMAX to XtremeIO SAN Storage.
• Migrate 1200’s VM’s utilizing Storage vMotion from existing SAN Storage/Datastores (VMAX/VNX) to Datastore clusters on XtremeIO.
• Created Open Replicator Sessions using SMC to perform migration from Clariion CX 3-80 to VMAX to consolidate the entire Oracle ASM filesystems from CX to VMAX solution.
• Implemented and upgraded firmware for CISCO MDS switches - 9513, 9509, 9216i, 9148’s and 6120’s.
• Configured Initiator groups, Port groups, Storage groups and Masking views to allocate storage in a VNX environment.
• Work with application owners, Database owners to schedule downtimes, maintenance windows to schedule the migration efforts.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration ofVMwareESXi 5.0/5.1/ VirtualCenter 5.0/5.1, vCenterServers as well as upgrading to ESXi 5.5/Virtual Center 5.5.
• Manage and Configure PKI infrastructure, VPN and RRAS, TMG servers, IIS web servers, FTP servers SCCM Servers and WSUS Servers.
• Deploy security patches, updates as part of the patching cycle using WSUS and SCCM.
• Review PCI scans and remediate software distribution failures and toeliminate the problems causing vulnerabilities.
• Administer all user/group permissions; NTFS share permissions, Terminal Services permissions, performance monitoring, troubleshooting level 2/3 issues, and group policy management.
• Create, maintain and transfer all packages to organized distribution points, as well as deploy all enterprise level monthly and bi-weekly security packages through SCCM.
• Provide level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant BL460’s/620’s/680’s/CISCO UCS B200’s B250’s and Windows/Linux Virtual Servers.
• Responsible for capacity planning, design, install and configuration of newly provisioned HP-C7000 enclosures, build Linux, Windows and ESXi servers on BL 460’s and BL620’s.
• Configure HP C7000 enclosure and blades leveraging Onboard Administrator, Virtual Connect Manager and ILO
• Creating standard process for advanced group policy deployment management as well as Active Directory users and group’s management.
• Expertise migrating 8000+ Windows Server 2003 servers to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 as part of large refresh/migration project.
• Provide 1st/2nd/3rd level support for Windows/ESXi servers running on a combination of HP/IBM/Cisco hardware.
• Configuring and Administering Exchange Servers, SMTP, Terminal Servers, DNS, DHCP, CIFS, SNMP, NTFS, FTP, SFTP, robocopy and LDAP on Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 server environment.
• Deploy, install and support custom build GIS infrastructure applications, asset management applications as part daily 24/7 operations support.
• Provide hands/feet support across multiple datacenters as well as stack/rack of cabling and servers.

Confidential

VMware Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Windows Server 2003/2008R2 OS build, IP Configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds and Support & Administration.
• Design, build, implement and maintain an enterprise wide patch management system for 500+ Windows 2008 Servers and 300+ Windows 2003 servers.
• Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware vSphere and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESXi Servers, Virtual Center Server (vSphere) and Virtual machines
• Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Windows Server/Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment utilizing power shell and powerCLI.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESXi Servers, Virtual Center Server and Virtual machines
• Responsible for binding any new SAN LUNs and configuring storage groups using OnCommand Manager on NetApp FAS Solutions Platform and UNISPHERE on EMC VNX/VMAX.
• Develop, test, and maintain a Disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• VB SCRIPTS, PowerShell, Win Batch, PS tools and Windows command-line Scripting to automate the manual tasks on Servers and Client computers.
• Planning and configuring new internal & external websites utilizing IIS 6.0/7.0.
• Deploying and troubleshoot .Net based Applications and Java based apps on IIS 6.0/7.0
• Create and Setup monitoring Power shell scripts to monitor system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
• Used NetBackup for backing up & restoration of file systems.
• Helped to configure and maintain IIS 6/7/7.5 webserver server clustering, failovers and load balancing.
• Active Directory (AD) user and security group creation, create shares and designate permissions, organizational units.
• Participate in the troubleshooting activities associated with daily operation works.
• Implement and support new and existing activities configuration

Confidential, Allentown, PA

VMware Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Windows Server/Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and Templates and cloning Virtual Machines.
• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with servers and Desktops
• Maintaining backups and restores of the Production and Development data.
• Involve in the installation Windows Server 2008 user environment including on hardware and software.
• Experience in both hardware and software level RAID Configurations & troubleshooting
• Network Attached Storage Implementations.