OBJECTIVE

• Intend to build a career with leading corporate of hi - tech environment with committed and dedicated. Which will help me to explore myself fully and realize my potential willing to work as key player in challenging and creative environment.

SUMMARY

• Established track record with more than 8 years of experience as an IT System Engineer of which 6 years as a VMware/Linux/Windows Administrator.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi5.5,5.0,4.1 servers, vCenter server 5.5,5.0,4.1, vCenter Converter, VMware Orchestrator (vCO), VCenter Operations Manager and vSphere Replicator, VMWare NSX
• Involved in supporting RHEL 4.x/5.x/6.x running on HP, Dell & Cisco HW and involved in patching using Yum repository and Satellite servers and also build RHEL servers using kickstart.
• Experience in deploying Virtual Machines (VM’s) through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) Machines using Platespin, Double take and VMware convertor.
• Experience with enterprise backup systems & disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; solid understanding of vSphere 4 implementation with shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI, NFS / VMFS strategies for performance & optimization.
• Proficient in Windows 2000/2003/2008 server upgrade, Wintel server and active directory administration
• Created the user accounts and provided access to the desired servers
• Experience in Writing/ Maintaining & troubleshooting scripts written both in MS Power Shell and/or VB script for build & operations environment to develop/test/implement automation tools.
• Establish user accounts and group policies and also troubleshoot the existing GPOs
• Implemented VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW 4.5/4.6
• Expertise with Disaster Recovery tools SRM 5.0 & Double Take, deployment of business critical technologies - VMware SRM 4.0 and VMware View
• Expertise with IP sub-netting, VLANs, Load Balancing, & High Availability (HA) architectures
• Performance monitoring, Error logging, Diagnostics, Fine-tuning & Backup management
• Experience in the V2V &P2V migration of Physical servers.
• Extensive knowledge about VMware server automation using scripting language Power shell, VB Script, Power CLI.
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates & Snapshots.
• Extensive experience in working with the VMotion & Storage VMotion technology Strong Experience in VNetwork concepts: VSwitches & DVSwitch.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Windows, Dell Tower Servers, HP C7000 Enclosure, Edge Server and Blade Server, Macintosh, DELL 710,610,810 servers, EMC SAN, HP C7000 Enclosure, DL 380/980, ProLiant BL/DL/ML Series, DELL PowerEdge.

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012,Windows7/Windows8/ ESX/ESXi, RHEL 4.x/5.x/6.x

Remote Management: SCCM Remote Tools, Remote Desktop, SMS Tools, HP iLO, KVM Tools

Software: Microsoft Office Suite, Exchange Server 2007/2010/5.5, Microsoft Share Point, Java, XML, Voice XML

Backup Software and Tools: Symantec Backup Exec (BESR), VM backup tools/ Scripting, ADMT.

Services/Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, SNMP, FTP, IIS, Internet Authentication, Certificate, Terminal Services.

Application Software: Microsoft Clustering, SQL Server 2005/2008, Exchange 2007/2010, Microsoft Office 2007/2010, Veeam, and Symantec Netback up.

Domain Services: Active Directory, Sites and Services, DNS, DHCP, IIS, System Center Suite (SCOM, SCCM, SCVMM).

Virtualization Technology: ESXI, ESX, vSphere 4.x to 5.x, VCenter, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMotion, Update Manager (VUM), VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

Migration Tools: Double Take Converter, Plate spin & VMware Converter.

Networking: Ethernet 802.3, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS, FTP, Telnet, routers, NAT, VPN, VLAN.

Monitoring tools: Veeam ONE, IBM Tivoli, vCenter Operations Manager (VCOPS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Maryland Heights, MO

Windows Engineer/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Patched VM’s and ESXi hosts using VMware vCenter Update Manager and host update utility
• Upgraded VMware Infrastructure 5.5 to vSphere 6.0 along with updating the vCenter, ESXi Hosts, vSphere client from 5.0 to 5.5 and Virtual machines tools upgrade to the latest versions.
• Involved in troubleshooting issues related to VM’s and ESXi and used vmss2core tool to debug the issues related to VM’s.
• Created Windows and Linux VM templates for deploying VM images and deployed Virtual machines from the templates
• Created patching groups of servers based on the functionality and patched workstations and VM’s using SCCM.
• Added servers, applications and transactions of applications to monitor in Solar Winds and scheduled restart of services if they go down.
• Experience in Assessing, Designing and Administration of Cloud Solutions (IaaS) based on VMware vRA/vCAC, vROps, JavaScript, PowerCLI in distributed environment.
• Responsible for troubleshooting and maintaining overall client and server health for entire SCCM infrastructure
• Experience is installing the updates to all windows 7 and windows 10 desktops through SCCM
• Performed P2V migrations of Production, QA and Development Servers and involved in the cut-over and decommissioning of the physical server after the P2V server
• Responsible for keeping all VMware ESX servers up to date with patches and updates with minimal downtime using vMotion for SAN attached VMs and Storage VMotion for Local storage VMs
• NAS Involved in build and deployment process of deploying to the web servers and done testing via Jenkins
• Automated the routine tasks and involved in Audits processes helping to pull the information via PowerShell scripts
• Hands on Experience in configuring LDAP, SSL, and Digital Signatures.
• Configured Environment for Network Virtualization
• Deployed VMware NSX Components
• Hands on experience in Troubleshooting Common NSX Installation/Configuration Issues, vSphere Networking Issues
• Hands on experience in performing tasks in VMWare NSX environment like administer logging, backup and recovery configuration
• Hands on experience in configuring Roles, Permissions, and Scopes in NSX
• Hands on experience in Deploying VMware NSX Components
• Responsible for Performance monitoring of VMs & ESXi Servers using vROps, vCenter and other monitoring tools.
• Expert level knowledge in troubleshooting Network Connectivity issues in Local Area Networks (LAN) using Packet Capturing Methods (Wire Shark). Superior troubleshooting and technical support abilities with migrations and network connectivity
• Installed and maintained HP NFS Clustered gateway NAS services supporting the HP Networking engineering community.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining the new LDAP OU, Groups, Schema, and attributes.
• Maintained Microsoft Exchange e-mail accounts and public folder access through Microsoft Exchange System Manager.
• Ensure that desktop/laptop equipment will function properly with Windows 10.
• Created and deployed custom scripts to be used in upgrade and deployment of software through GPO and SCCM
• Created search events, worked on Active directory, search and reporting modules, created dashboard in Splunk.
• Installation and configuration of vCenter server 6.0, ESXi6.0 host’s in large environment on HP BL 460C &Cisco UCS B series Blade servers on both protected and recovery sites
• Worked with Network Operations team in creating pools, TCP & ICMP monitors and monitored pool members in F5 BIG IP LTM.
• Project member for the migration of Windows XP to Windows 10. Process used the Dell Tool to create the image to be imported into the SCCM environment.
• Involved in SAN Knowledge Transfer sessions with new hired or existing transferred Employees.
• Administration of Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions, System Policies and network security devices for a large environment.
• Design and implement Azure AD, Azure Virtual AD FS, Virtual AD FS Proxy and Virtual Azure Domain Controller and set co-existence with on premise network.
• Responsible for designing, administrating creating and documenting the new ACL policies enterprise LDAP.
• Administer Microsoft SCCM 2012 environment, including creating or editing security groups, application deployments (collections, advertisements, task sequences, and PowerShell scripts), patch management, general troubleshooting, log analysis, upgrade and recommendations on current infrastructure.
• Documented the update process from vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 including host patches, OS level upgrades, virtual switch changes and VM version upgrades.
• Experience in combining Linux servers to Active Directory to enforce password policy uniformly and simplify dual factor authentication.
• Day to Day activity include with zoning the newly build servers to brocade (edge and core switches) and allocating SAN to the servers.
• Launched instances in AWS and created Windows and Linux AMI’s for launching instances in the environment for future.
• Security products and services throughout the network.
• Deployment of applications using Altiris, Citrix Packager, and Windows Installation Manager.
• Debugged windows issues using windbg and VM issues using vmss2core tool by converting snapshots to dump files.
• AD FS, AD FS Proxy & Azure AD Connect design, layout and implementation
• Implemented two factor authentication in Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 servers for windows AD accounts for better security of the environment.
• Created S3 backups using versioning enable and moved objects to Amazon Glacier for archiving purpose.
• Increasing EBS backed volume storage capacity when the root volume is full using AWS EBS Volume feature.
• Created users and groups using IAM and assigned individual policies to each group.
• Created SNS notifications and assigned ARN to S3 for object loss notifications.
• Experience working with Monitoring tools such as CloudWatch.
• Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis

Environment: VMware vSphere 6.0/5.5, ESXi 6.0/5.5/5.1/, Windows 2012/2008R2, SQL Server 2012/2008 R2, vCenter Operations Manager, HA, DRS, vMotion, P2V, V2V, vCenter update manager, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Double take, vRealize Operations, VMware Converter, Trend Virus,Splunk, Solar Winds, Wireshark, Site 24*7, Truesight, EMC Recover Point, DMZ Environment, Symantec NetBackup, PowerShell Scripting, AWS EC2, S3, CloudWatch & CloudTrail, IAM.

Confidential, GA

VMware/Window/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the US to new Locations in US, which involves more than 1500 Windows & RHEL virtual machines.
• Installation and configuration of vCenter server 5.5, ESXi5.5 host’s in large environment on HP BL 460C &Cisco UCS B series Blade servers on both protected and recovery sites.
• Involved in supporting RHEL 5.x/6.x environment performing activities like LVM, Networking, Kickstart and bonding.
• Create and test SCCM 2012 automated applications for SCCM 2012 deployment.
• Responsible for LDAP LOAD testing on SunOne Directory with 50K users, analyzing the bottlenecks and debugging the logs and performance tuning.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware and used Remedy Tool for ticketing (Change Management, Incident Management, and Request Management) and looking after high priority incident tickets both on virtual machine and ESX host level.
• Responsible for keeping the vRealize Operations appliance and its embedded services up and running
• Worked with EMC on planning and multiple site implementations of PACAF's SAN tech refresh project. This included massive amounts of data migration with minimal downtime to customers.
• Experience working on EMC SAN storage technologies in DR site and with Cisco UCS and HP C7000 Blades for ESXi hosts.
• Managed and worked on Office 365, Lync 2013, ADFS Active Directory Federation Services, FIM and SSO Single Sign On for more than 10000 users in company with end user support and expanding infrastructure with Failover and DR sites.
• Hands on experience in backing up and restoring the appliance, installing and supporting management packs in vROps.
• Analyzing and applying patches, service packs, and infrastructure updates to Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2, 2012 servers.
• Implementation of VMware vSphere 5.5 with Enterprise plus Features of vDistributed Switch and Host Profiles.
• Upgraded VMware Infrastructure 5.0 to vSphere 5.5 along with updating the vCenter, ESXi Hosts, vSphere client from 5.0 to 5.5 and Virtual machines tools upgrade to 8, 9 and 10.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, vMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates.
• Maintained and managed Windows 2003\2008R2 servers in Citrix farm
• Implements 2-Factor Authentication for various products within the RSA/EMC family.
• Increase efficiency and ROI of VMware hosts by cutting down on VMs memory usage closely matching recommended memory usage by vCenter Operations Manager.
• Worked closely with Network Ops team to configure Cisco Nexus 1000v VDS and VMware VDS and on network isolation of critical VMs using PVLANs.
• Patch management review via PowerShell script to discovered current patch status and deploy patches to effected systems, implemented Windows Update Services (WSUS) to schedule updates
• Worked on design and development of LDAP infrastructure for Rapid Deployment and SDLC projects
• Involved in troubleshooting the two factor authentication issues of RSA/Domain accounts.
• Configured and supported Microsoft clusters on VM's using RDM's and iSCSi storage.
• Hands on experience in packet filtering with Wireshark for security and audit purposes.
• Extensive Knowledge and experience in migration of the Virtual machines using tools like double take and VMware Converter.
• Hands on Experience in migrating the VM’s from one DC to DC using EMC Recover point which is a block level migration.
• Installed and configured SRM 5.0 and created Protection Groups and Recovery Plans using Site Recovery Manager 5.0 using VMware best practices.
• Testing of different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM’s and Expertise in providing support for Windows 2003/2008 servers and Active Directory's.
• Applied patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager and host update utility.
• Experience in combining Linux servers to Active Directory to enforce password policy uniformly and simplify dual factor authentication.
• Automated routine tasks using scripting languages such as PowerShell, Power cli.
• Documented the update process from vSphere 5.1 and 5.5 including host patches, OS level upgrades, virtual switch changes and VM version upgrades.
• Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

Environment: VMware vSphere 5.5/5.1/5.0, ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0, Windows 2012/2008R2, Trend Virus, SQL Server 2012/2008 R2, vCenter Operations Manager, HA, DRS, vMotion,P2V, V2V, vCenter update manager, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Double take, VMware Converter, EMC Recover Point, DMZ Environment, Symantec NetBackup, Shell Scripting.

Confidential, NJ

Windows / VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and Management of 1200+ virtual servers required for the customer.
• Installed Windows 2003/2008R2/2012 in the created virtual machines and also installed the required Roles, software and tools.
• Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2 installation, deployments, troubleshooting and automation.
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), MS SharePoint, MS Office 2007/2010, Exchange2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008.
• Administer Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions, System Policies and network security devices for 9000+ users
• Design, implementing and managing Active Directory(AD), Internet Information Server (IIS)
• Provide Active Directory, Group policy and user profile maintenance.
• Configured SLAMD clients to perform stress test on LDAP repository
• Design and implement PowerShell 3.0 scripts to automate wide variety of server/infrastructure tasks, strengthening departmental audit capabilities.
• Integration of 2 factor authentication for Citrix environment (RSA, and Symantec VIP).
• Daily tasks included working with Citrix end users and working with application teams to install, improve or deploy updates to their applications installed in Citrix.
• Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)/System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Systems
• Management Server (SMS)/System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), Forefront Identity
• Manager (FIM), Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP).
• Experience with SRM 4.5/5.0 deployment and implementation
• Experience with vSphere Replicator during Disaster Recovery.
• Helped build a new East Coast Disaster Recovery Data Center, including the roll out of a new server platform (Cisco UCS Blades) and a remote management model.
• Performed P2V migrations of Production, QA and Development Servers and involved in the cut-over and decommissioning of the physical server after the P2V server
• Hands on experience in management of vSphere HA, DRS, Snapshots, clones and templates.
• Provided firewall policy configuration and services with Juniper SRX 240 & 650 service gateways.
• Worked closely with the command center during the decommissioning process
• Migration of virtual machine from one enclosure to another within the same environment in different enclosure
• Rebuilt Hyper-V environment and transitioned into a cluster, providing High Availability and Failover.
• Maintaining Data in an offshore environment as a part of a Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Created SOPs and troubleshooting documentation for use by SAN Administrator team.
• Handling Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting.
• Understanding of networking concepts, configuration of networks, Router Configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port and Wireless Networks.
• Work with facilities and network teams in testing, planning and coordinating server placements, rack allocations and user relocations in different offices.

Environment: VMware vSphere 5.1/5.0, ESXi 5.1/5.0, Windows 2008R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, vCenter Operations Manager, HA, DRS, vMotion,P2V, V2V, vCenter update manager, Active Directory (AD), Internet Information Services (IIS), SCOM

Confidential, TX

VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Large scale Data Center build and migration across the two regions that include service transition.
• Involved in New builds and configuration of 2003/2008/2008 R2 servers, ESXi Host clusters and further setting up the datacenter.
• Performed and handled extensive P2V, V2V migrations for approximately 700 physical Windows 2000/2003 and 2008/2008R2 servers utilizing VMware Converter and SAN Replication method.
• Design, development and deployment of the LDAP repository.
• Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers, Exchange Mail Servers, WSUS Patching servers, Print Servers, System Management Servers (SMS), Terminal Servers, RAS and File Servers on Windows 2003 and Windows 2000 in the data center/server farm.
• Deployed HP virtual connect, physical servers, ESXi 5.0 and HP C7000 blade infrastructure on BL465G7 and BL685G7 blades and Hitachi SAN and brocade DCX 8510.
• Deployed, maintained and created virtual environment with VSphere 5.0 and ESXi 5.0 with 1000 virtual servers and 500 physical servers.
• Managed and created server profiles for ESXi Host and physical servers using VCEM.
• Configured Virtual Distributed Switch and VLAN configuration for production environment.
• Performed SAN replication in case of complex server migration using swing kit to virtualized SAN.
• Configured vMotion and Storage vMotion as per VMWARE’s best practices in large-scale enterprise environment.
• Built and migrated physical MS Cluster 2003/2008, VERITAS cluster into virtual environment.
• Performed backup and restored Virtual Machine with snapshot, and also involved in ESXi Host Patching from version 62 .
• Installed and configured VMware Update Manager for patching purpose.
• Configured HA and DRS, SDRS as per VMware best practices and applied on ESXi Cluster and Storage Cluster.
• Managed Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2008 R2 and provided Active Directory support.
• Deployed and configured VMWARE view 5.0 desktop infrastructure.

Environment: HP Chassis 7000, HP ProLiant, VMware vSphere 5.0, ESXi5.0, Windows 2008R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, vCenter Operations Manager, HA, DRS, vMotion, P2V, V2V, vCenter update manager, WSUS, Terminal Servers.

Confidential

VMware/Windows Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all major datacenter projects that involve SAN storage or virtualization
• Architected and designed VMware ESX server infrastructure for multi-site/multi datacenter environment
• One of the first companies to fully integrate ESX virtualization in the DMZ network, eliminating 75 hardware based IIS web portal Servers
• Consolidated over 300 End of life servers into ESX 3 HA and DRS clusters.
• Responsible for keeping all VMware ESX servers up to date with patches and updates with minimal downtime using vMotion for SAN attached VMs and Storage VMotion for Local storage VMs
• Performed desktop migration from Windows 95/NT4 to Windows 2000. Provided technical support for corporate client/server systems.
• Installed configured, upgrade and maintained Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008, MS Office 2003/2007, Exchange Server 2003/2007 Operating Systems.
• Planned and developed account migration process for a multi-domain e-mail migration from internal and external AD domains running Exchange 2003/2010 to Google Apps Mail. Migration scripts developed with Powershell.
• Responsible for the management of servers and duties include regular and proactive monitoring of servers, responding the alerts
• Created User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups and implementing Group Policies
• Worked extensively in the active directory and the group policy
• Created a virtual desktop solution for over 2000 mobile and offshore user base ensuring company data stays in the company

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1, ESXi 54.0/4.1, Windows 2008R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, vCenter Operations Manager, HA, DRS, vMotion, P2V, V2V, VMware converter.