SUMMARY

• 7+ years of experience as a System Administrator / Virtualization Engineer.
• Accomplished systems administrator managing server infrastructures and data - center operations across multiple platforms (Linux, Unix, Windows).
• TEMPEffectively plan, install, configure and optimize the IT infrastructure to consistently achieve high availability and performance.
• Extensive experience in design, configuration, implementation, security, troubleshooting, maintenance and documentation of Linux/windows servers and VMware Product Services.
• 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 2003/2008/2012 Server, Red Hat Linux and UNIX.
• Hands on Experience in performing hardware analysis, installation, managing operating systems and end-user software.
• Administration of Active Directory in Windows 2003/2008 environment. Managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Group Policies, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc.
• Experience in working with systems and network administration running Windows Server with IIS6
• Experience in installing MS deploy on the destination IIS 7.0 web server.
• Experienced in performing network and security audits.
• Experience in recommending, scheduling and performing software and hardware improvements, upgrades, patches, reconfigurations and purchases.
• Experience on ITAR compliance which provides dedicated hosting services for microsoft productiviy solutions.
• Expert in managing the Active Directory forest and domain environments including users, groups, printers, login scripts, etc.
• Experience on working with VNX file and block.
• Experience in Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery.
• Experienced in managing the server cluster environment including configuration, shares and permissions.
• Hands on Experience on Dell M710HD blades /HP BL460c G6/G7/G8 servers & Cisco UCS B230 M2 /B200 M3 blades and C Series.
• Understanding of Nexus Products like Nexus 1000v, N2k, Nexus5k, Nexus7K, MDS Switches.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in VMware and Microsoft Hyper-v virtualization technologies.
• Experience in monitoring/managing VMware ESX 3.5/4.0/5.0/5.1 infrastructure.
• Experienced on VMware View (VDI) Implementation.
• Experience in implementing and managing High Availability (HA) / Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) /clustering environments.
• Knowledge and experience on Datacenter Virtualization resources like Compute, Network and Storage
• Experienced in managing NAS and SAN storage solutions.
• Experience in evaluating and architecting SAN policies and procedures to help customers improve their existing SAN infrastructure.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance DNS servers, Mail servers, FTP servers, NFS, NIS, NIS+, RPM and Samba Web servers on Sun Solaris, Linux platforms, AIX Server and IBM Tivoli for Load Balancing.
• Implemented Citrix products XenApp and Xen Desktop.
• Experience on Power Shell scripts for automating tasks and process for end to end automation using different embedded technologies like .net, WMI, different Adaptors.
• Developed backup and recovery procedures for recovery from loss and destruction of data.
• 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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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,IBM servers,System centre operations manager(SCOM),System centre configuration manager(SCCM)

3rd Party Cloud Computing Platform: Amazon AWS, Citrix.

Storage: NAS Filers, VPLEX, SAN, Storage Replication and ISCSI, VMAX, VNX.

Operating Systems: Windows - XP, Vista, 7, NT, Server 2000, Server 2003, Server 2008,Server 2012,Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V Linux - RHEL 5/6

Scripting: Power Shell, Power CLI, Shell Scripting.

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jackson, MS

SR.VMWARE Admin /Windows System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Key role as consultant in architecture-related and Implementation of the VMware products in a large Virtual Farm of over 4000 machines.
• 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).
• Experience in installing, configuring and maintaining Vmware ESX 5.1 and server migrations from physical to virtual using hot and cold cloning technology in vmware.
• Experience in migrating the Physical environment into virtual environment (P2V), (V2V) using the tools like VMware / Double-Take/ Plate Spin.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration ofVMwareVSphere4, ESX 3.5 and ESXi Server,VMwareView.
• Played a key role in design & implementation of the Cisco UCS B230 M2 /B200 M3 blades, in datacenter.
• Responsible for Booting servers from ISCSI storage and Fiber channel storage.
• Installing and configuring windows 2003, 2008 and windows 2012 server.
• Experience on Patching Windows server using SCCM.
• Experience on failover clustering in windows server 2012 R2 and windows server 2012 and provided high availability and scalability to many server workloads.
• Hands on Experience in Creating and managing host profiles for clusters.
• Creating and managing VMware Heartbeat manager.
• 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.
• Involving in maintaining and updating Active directory, GPOs, Global Groups and Resultant set of Policy for authentication.
• Experience in setting up IIS on windows server 2008/12.
• Created FAST cache on VNX and implemented FAST VP and data compression for LUNS.
• Responsible for Creating and managing IIS and SFTP server.
• Experience on working with active directory web service for windows 2008 using Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell and the Active Directory Administrative Center.
• Integration and automation of UCS management with UCS power tool in collaboration with Microsoft power shell.
• Creating and managing windows clustering and VMware clustering.
• 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 2500 Guest Machines & 500 Hosts.
• Experience in configuring, optimizing and troubleshooting of Linux/Unix servers and the Networking setups
• Hands-on wide experience in Project Management, Deployment, Installation, administration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of various Windows and Unix Operating Systems and application, Storage solutions.
• Participating in Alternate Change/Release Weekends.
• Hands on experience in troubleshooting windows performance related issues.

Environment: vCenter server5.1, vcenter Operations Manager 5.0/5.0.3/5.7 , (vC Ops), VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager 2.5, Power Shell, Plate Spin, Windows/ 2003/2008/12 server, citrix server, IBM x series, VNX 5100,DNS, DHCP, VMware ESX 4.0/4.1 & 5.0, vCloud Director 5.0, Cisco UCS B200 M3 and Capacity planning using vC Ops.

Confidential - Brooklyn, NY

VMWARE Admin / System Administrator

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.
• Implemented the datacenter up gradation and maintained virtual environment using VMware and provided technical guidance in Datacenter operations.
• Installing and configuring windows 2003 and windows 2008 server.
• Installing latest support packs releases and hot fixes from Microsoft by using WSUS.
• Installing and configuring Antivirus on all the servers.
• Experience on working with windows clustering which pro0vides single administrative interface and data consistency across all nodes.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication with the help of Endpoints and also VM Migrations from Transitional hosts.
• Installed IIS 6 using configured server wizard and verified that the requirements for installation has been met.
• 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.
• Deployed the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system using a Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK).
• Designing and executing the Phase by phase migration plans and performing upgrades from VMware ESX 4.0, 4.1 to VSphere ESXi without Downtime.
• Hands on wide experience in Upgrading Vcenter 4.1 to including the Vcenter Update Manager (VUM) and 1configuring the same Version of Vcenters in the linked Mode.
• Troubleshooting the issues related to storage and networking.
• Installing and configuring the apache tomcat web server.
• Installing and configuring SQL 2008.
• Experience in Footprint ticketing system.
• 24/7 production support
• Installing and configuring the VMware VSphere and creating clusters for High Availability (HA) and Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Worked extensively on live migrations Using Double Take by taking minimum downtime for P2V and V2V Migrations.
• Experience in adding the New Co-Admin and Managing the Co-Admins for all the Subscriptions in the Windows Azure Platform.
• 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)

Environment: Dell Power Edge /Cisco UCS C Series, vSphere, vCenter server and VMware Converter, vCenter Operations Manager5.0, VMware View (VDI), Power CLI, Double take, IIS 6,Windows 2000/2003/2008 server, DNS, DHCP, VMware ESX 4.0/4.1 & 5.0, NetAp0p filers, Citrix server

Confidential - Bloomington, IL

VMWARE Admin/ System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in monitoring insurance 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.
• Experience in Amazon Web Services EC2 and extended enterprise support, system design, hypervisors, storage and databases.
• 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 and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual Center Server for HA, DRS.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• 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.
• 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.
• Converted Physical Windows and Linux servers to virtual using vconverter and PlateSpin migrate.

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.

Confidential - Irving, TX

Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring & administering Windows 2003 Enterprise Server.
• Managing Domain Controllers and Additional Domain Controllers.
• Implementing Disaster Recovery in Windows 2003/2000 Domains.
• Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).
• Implementing Disaster Recovery by Optimizing FSMO roles Placement.
• Created User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups and implementing Group Policies.
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions and System Policies.
• Installation of Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003 etc.
• Configuration and Managing Remote Installation Service (RIS).
• Implementing user administration like adding, deleting and modifying user accounts.
• Responsible for operations and maintenance for TCP/IP.
• Routing via EIGRP, OSPF and BGP and network addressing.
• Provided looping for connectivity in case of major physical media breakdowns.
• Planning and scheduling the network down time for various upgrades and maintenance check.
• Involved in troubleshooting the physical layer issues.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003 Servers, Active Directory, Network Printers, Windows XP.

Confidential

System/Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuring and managing router/servers for DHCP (dynamic host configuration) and enabling other remote users to access server via Internet.
• Configuring Site to Site VPN using IPSec protocol.
• Achieved improved traffic performance by executing a complete restructure of network by separating different departments into their own domains and implementing a layer 2 segmentation of LAN with VLANs through Cisco switches.
• Performing Windows Server 2003 Administration.
• Managing IIS and Apache Server.
• Configuring, Implementing and managing Microsoft Exchange mail server.
• Was responsible for migrating Exchange server 2000 to Exchange server 2003.
• Configuring and Maintaining active directory, WINS and DNS servers.
• Managing employees VPN remote access.
• Was responsible for designing, building and deployments or new systems in the company.
• Interacted and coordinated with end users to solve their issues and help them in getting their system working.
• Was responsible for researching, evaluating, testing, recommending, communicating, and implementing new solutions available in the market.
• Scheduling and performing upgrades, patches, reconfigurations of the systems.
• Implementing and managing backup and restore solutions.
• Providing day-to-day onsite support for networked systems, hardware and related infrastructure.
• Installed, configured and upgraded the drivers of HBA's (Emulex & Qlogic) on UNIX and Windows servers.
• Troubleshooting the above systems in case of issues.