SUMMARY

• Accomplished and energetic IT Infrastructure professional with 12+ years of overall experience in VMware Administration, Windows Administration, Data Center Management and Desktop support. Flexible, Adaptable, able to influence and work successfully with diverse groups at all levels of teh organisation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT/ 2000/ 2003/ 2008 R2, Red Hat Linux.

Virtualization: VSphere ESX/ESXi server, Virtual Center, VMotion, VMware High Availability, DRS, VShield, VMware Converter, View 4, vRangerPro

Monitoring Tools: Netcool / Omnibus 7.2.x, BMC Remedy, vCheck, IOMeter, vFoglight, VM Turbo Tool

Network: TCP/IP, NFS, Telnet, FTP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, SMTP, HTTP

Hardware: HP C7000 Enclosure, HP BL 460C and other Blade Servers, IBM, HP & DELL Rack Servers

Languages: C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, HTML, DHTML, Shell scripts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting VMware ESX / ESXi 4.x, 5.x
• Virtual vCenter 4.x / 5.x Installation and Configuration
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting over 40+ ESX / ESXi hosts and over 600+ Virtual Machines
• Managing HP C7000 Blade Enclosures and assisting in Onboard Administration configuration
• Creating Virtual Machines and Templates. Deploying VMs from Templates
• Taking Snapshots and Clones of VMs and Deleting Snapshots when not required
• P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter
• To check teh health of Hosts and VMs regularly to avoid performance issues
• Managing ESX servers patching using VMware update Manager
• Performing Hot and Cold Migrations of VMs between ESXi servers
• Configuring and Managing VM’s backup replication using vRanger
• To configure and maintain DRS and HA clusters
• Configured and maintained FT to business critical VM’s
• Antivirus Installation, Service Pack Deployment, Firmware/Driver Upgrade on all Physical and Virtual servers
• Coordinating with Storage, Networking team to effectively maintain teh VMware environment
• Updating VMware Tools regularly to has new driver and security enhancement that are critical for optimum performance
• Monitoring servers through remote tools like iLO,DRAC
• Coordinating with HP/DELL/IBM to resolve hardware issues
• Documentation and Reporting as per organization standards

Confidential, Denver, CO

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting VMware ESX / ESXi 3.x,4.x Servers
• Virtual vCenter 4.x Installation and Configuration
• Managing VMware environment with more TEMPthan 50+ hosts and over 650+ Virtual Machines
• Coordinating with Storage,Antivirus,Patch Management, Network teams for maintaining teh VMware environment
• Execution of migration and consolidations of legacy servers using physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V) conversions
• Creating Templates and Deploying VMs from Templates
• Performing vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Tuning teh performance of ESX & ESXi servers and virtual machines using vFoglight
• Performing snapshots using VDR
• Configured Resource Pool, Alerts, Alarms, NTP
• To check for Resource Bottlenecks in Storage, CPU, RAM and Network
• Escalating cross functional issues to HP/IBM/DELL and coordinating with them to resolve teh issues
• Used BMC Remedy for improved operational procedures and processes related to change management, problem,incident and release management
• Managing \Monitoring ESX Servers through VMClient
• Fine tuning of servers for optimum performance

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining Servers installed with Windows 2008/ 2003/2000/ NT servers
• Maintaining Active Directory infrastructure, with users, groups and OU management
• Check Event logs for errors/warnings related to objects, DNS name resolution
• Setting up User Rights and Privileges
• Maintaining Trend Micro Information Antivirus Server with automatic deployment of updates and patches to Windows 2003/2000/NT Server.
• Maintaining Windows File & Print servers.
• Installation and management of Printers remotely.
• Managing backups with Veritas Backup Exec on backup server and configuring Disk backup, Differential and Full backup.
• Installation and configuration of DNS, DHCP Server
• Installation, maintenance, scheduling and reviewing of Windows patches being updated
• Commission and Decommission Servers as per teh Datacenter standards and updated in a central repository.

Confidential

Sr. Desktop Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting HP/ IBM/ DELL brands of Desktops, Servers and Laptops
• Installation and Support of various softwares like MS OFFICE, VB, DBMS,JAVA, etc
• Installation and Support of Inkjet, Laserjet Printers of HP/ Lexmark/ Canon
• Installation and Support of Cisco Switches and Routers
• Experienced in Suite of Windows O/S (Win 2003 Server /Windows 2000 Prof./XP/98/MS DOS)
• Installed Symantec, McAfee and various other antivirus softwares
• Experienced in Disk Imaging tools like Norton Ghost,etc
• Handled numerous vendors for purchase of Hardware, Software and IT Services

Confidential

Field Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Computers and Related interfaces for Special Purpose Machines (SPM)
• Integeration of Computers into SPMs and interfacing through Data Acquisition Devices.
• Maintaining PCs under production line environment where downtime should be minimum
• Maintaining systems at various locations throughout India.