PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• System Administrator dedicated to company success certified Microsoft, VMware and Cisco IT professional with developmental and analytical ability team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Key Skills
• VSphere 4.x, 5.x, ESXi servers
• Windows System Administration 2003/2008/2012
• RHEL Linux
• Tivoli Storage Manager client/ Netbackup
• Management of Network Infrastructure, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP
• High Availability solutions failover clusters, network load balancing
• IBM/HP/Dell Server and Blade Hardware configuration, troubleshooting
• DAS, SAN NetApp, DS3800
• Exchange 2003, 2007
• Scripting PowerShell/Perl
• Antivirus Symantec and McAfee
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Document skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implement virtualization products and systems that support virtualization including all server hardware, networking and hypervisors
• Advanced experience in implementation and troubleshooting of VSphere environments, Virtual Networking configurations, Hypervisor and Virtual Machine Storage
• Configure and support HA and DRS clusters
• Patch management using Update Manager, P2V and V2V migrations using VMware Converter
• Installation of supported vendor and IBM tools set
• Problem management resolution of issues and security compliance of systems for production readiness
• Server builds, upgrades and decommissioning
• Migration of physical and virtual machines to another datacenter
• Documentation of activities, server installations and decommissions

Accomplishments:

• Installed, configured and managed VMware ESXi 3.x, 4.x, 5.x hosts, vCenter, HA and DRS, Storage VMotion and VMware Update Manager, vCOP, Active Directory, DNS, DFS, Hyper-V capacity planning
• Installed and configured MS Windows cluster services on physical and virtual machines
• Installed Netbackup and TSM Client, troubleshot network/firewall problems and failings
• Installed, tested and troubleshot IBM Tools Bigfix, IBM Director, SRM, Parity, Monitoring Agent on over 300 servers
• Migrated and reconfigured more than 150 machines to IBM Datacenter
• Hardened over 100 virtual machines and physical servers in the staging process
• Created and deployed templates with MS windows servers 2003/2008/2012
• Built and implemented RHEL Linux
• Supported IBM xSystems and IBM PureFlex systems
• Migrated over 80 VMs, using SnapMirror
• Updated working instructions with regard to customer specifics
• Lead experience and skills

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administered, maintained and troubleshot more than 2000 Windows physical and virtual servers, more than 50 ESX servers of 20 customers supporting 24 x 7 server environment Environment size from 30 to thousands of servers with the following characteristics:
• ESX servers 2x, 3x, 4x, Virtual Center, installation, troubleshooting, migration, hardening HA, DRS, P2V, V2V
• Active Directory Services and Infrastructure Services W2K, W2K3, W2K8, IIS, LDAP, GPO
• High-availability solutions failover Microsoft clusters, network load balancing
• Network topologies and protocols - LAN/WAN, VLAN, VPN, IP, DNS, DHCP, TCP, UDP
• IBM/HP/Dell Server configured - firmware/BIOS/drivers
• RAID 1 and 5 configured, SAN NetApp and DS3800, RSA/ILO/DRAC
• Monitoring and maintenance toolsets MOM/SCOM, WSUS, TIVOLI Endpoint, DFS, ROBOCOPY, HP OpenView
• Antivirus Symantec and McAfee enterprise
• Backup and recovery user data, operating system troubleshot failed backups scheduled automated backups created management classes TSM, VERITAS

Accomplishments:

• Received recognition from 1st line Manager and Client Support Managers for commitment to problem-solving and good performance
• Prepared checklists for server installations to be in compliance with IBM activation procedure verified that the server state was ready for production
• Prepared working instructions for installation of Security Compliance Manager, which ensured automated security monitoring
• Recommended template for file permissions change request resulting in optimization of the short resolution time
• Found the root cause of SQL server hanging during backup, achieved server availability and customer satisfaction
• Analyzed the root cause of an outage of Exchange server cluster transaction logs filled a shared drive too quickly, resulting in unmounting of mailbox stores - as a result the customer decided to shorten the resolution time and pay more money to IBM
• Redesigned users' domain membership of System Operations group, Wintel and Exchange, so that it strictly adhered to the assigned roles found a solution needed after audit findings, resulting in high customer satisfaction and the extension of IBM's contract
• Found the root cause of voltage flip, indicating predictive failure by a sensor achieved stability of IBM Blade Center server
• Solely solved and documented problems with cluster failover restored high availability of 4 Exchange clusters, containing thousands of mailboxes
• ESX server, Virtual Center, virtual machines and templates creation, installation, troubleshooting, migration, hardening
• Evaluated as an above solid contributor and in top 5 out of a 30 person team, received promotion to a Focal Point