Summary:

Over 12 years of IT experience as windows System Administration, Citrix Administration and VMWare administration.In depth knowledge of Citrix administrative tools and utilities.Extensive experience on server configuration, Hands on experience on Windows servers, Citrix XenApp servers, VMWARE ESX servers, and EMC SAN.Experience in administering Windows 200/2008 Servers, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment.Installed and managed VMware servers. Installed and managed applications through Citrix.

Technical Proficiency:

• Operating Systems: VMware, UNIX, Citrix XenApp 4.5/5 and 6 Server, Windows2003/2008/XP /Win 7, Sun Solaris.
• Hard Ware: Compaq, HP and Dell servers
• Database: SQL 2000 /2005
• Office Tools: Ms Outlook,Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, MS project, Visio.
• Mail Server: MS Exchange 2000/2003
• Other Applications: Avamar, Networker, Trend Micro, Tivoli end point, Negios, WSUS.

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Presently working as a Citrix, VMware and Windows Administrator

• Supporting Citrix XenApp 6.5 and Xen Desktop 5.6 farm.
• Hands on experience on Xen servers.
• Extensive Knowledge on Citrix App Center Desktop director.
• Worked on VMware 5 farm, like building VM servers and trouble shooting.
• Migrated VM infrastructure from 4.5 to 5.1
• Working knowledge on VMware DRS, HA and Virtual center.
• Extensive knowledge on Worker groups, XenApp 6.5 policies, Data Zone Collectors and Access Gateway servers.
• Supported different forest users in Citrix and Vmware.
• Working knowledge on PVS servers.
• Expanded user capacity on the Citrix farms building new servers and adding to the farm.
• Manage Windows KMS servers.
• Build and trouble shoot Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Good working experience Microsoft group Policies in 2008.
• Worked on RSA servers.

Confidential

• Build and operate Citrix xenapp 6.5 farm.
• Configured Citrix storefront servers.
• Migrated Citrix xenapp 4.5 farm to 6.5.
• Extensive Knowledge on Citrix App Center Desktop director.
• Extensive knowledge on Worker groups, XenApp 6.5 policies, Data Zone Collectors and Access Gateway servers.
• Published shared desktops for IPAD and created custom printing policies for IPAD users.
• Build and configured Citrix License servers.
• Build and trouble shoot Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Good working experience Microsoft group Policies in 2008.
• Implemented IE Exceptions through GPO's
• Published and maintained apps through GPO's
• Build and managed servers on VMware ESX 5 platform
• Working knowledge on Cisco UCS
• Configured profiles in UCS for VM hosts.
• Migrated Systems from one VM platform to another.
• Managed recourses on VM farm.
• Experience with ITIL policies
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
• Creating documents for Servers builds and any trouble shooting issues.
• Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain Controller day-to-day administration and operational support.

Confidential

• Published Citrix Apps through locally and streamed type.
• Extensive Knowledge on Citrix Delivery Services Console.
• Extensive knowledge on Worker groups, XenApp 6 policies, Citrix web interface servers, Data Zone Collectors and Access Gateway servers.
• Working experience on Access gateway, applying SSL and modifying settings on CAG.
• Worked on Citrix License administration.
• Experience on Implementing Citrix servers rebooting polices through GPO's
• Build and trouble shoot Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Good working experience Microsoft group Policies in 2008.
• Implemented IE Exceptions through GPO's
• Published and maintained apps through GPO's
• Build and managed servers on VMware ESX 4 and ESX4i platform
• Migrated Systems from one VM platform to another.
• Good knowledge on VMware converter.
• Migrated servers from V2V and P2V.
• Managed recourses on VM farm.
• Experience with ITIL policies
• Experience on Exchange 2003, creating mailboxes, moving mail box from one exchange server to another.
• Experience with Public folders, shared mail boxes.
• Experience on file servers.
• Understating of Black berry services, worked on applying licenses etc.
• Deployed VMware ESX hosts, defined and Automated Company standards for configuration.
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
• Creating documents for Servers builds and any trouble shooting issues.
• Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain Controller day-to-day administration and operational support.
• Experience with trend Micro, configured server and installed clients.
• Worked Symantec Backup products, schedule jobs, restore data etc
• Experience on changing roles on DC's, Hands Experience on DNS and DHCP services.
• Experience on IIS6 and IIS7, creating SSL requests and applying SSL on the server.
• Installed and used Avamar and Symantec products for backup and restore of servers.
• Working experience with Microsoft SUS server.

Confidential

• Installed and published applications in Citrix Xenapp farm.
• Extensive Knowledge on Citrix Access Management console.
• Extensive knowledge on Citrix web interface servers, Data Zone Collectors and Access Gateway servers.
• Experience with management and configuration of RSA SecureID client on web interface.
• Experience on Roaming profile management.
• Experience on folder redirection.
• Designed and implemented application delivery to thin clients through Citrix.
• Build and trouble shoot Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Experience designing and applying Microsoft group Policies
• Applied latest service packs and hot fixes for window and Citrix servers.
• Trouble shooting the issues with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and WINS.
• Basic knowledge on SQL server trouble shooting.
• Design and implement of Windows and VMware solutions.
• Create and close the trouble tickets in service center related to Windows and VMware Servers.
• Used Compuware tools like ServerVantage to create server performance and availability reports.
• Deployed VMware ESX hosts, defined and Automated Company standards for configuration.
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
• Creating documents for Servers builds and any trouble shooting issues.
• Installed and configured VMware ESX 3 and 3.5 servers. Hands on Virtual center experience.
• Build and troubleshooting Clusters with HA and DRS.
• Experience on Configuring Switches on ESX servers and attaching them uplink ports
• Creating Service console and Kernel ports on ESX server.
• Used VMotion to move VM servers.
• Windows 2003 Active Directory Domain Controller day-to-day administration and operational support working knowledge of Active Directory GPOs and system accounts Active Directory auditing and monitoring.
• Patching ESX hosts and Virtual center server for latest fixes and security holes.
• Installed and used Avamar and Networker software for backup and restore of servers.
• Worked on Tivoli end point manager to push the patches to servers on weekly basis.
• Had experience on Tivoli end point SCM module for security and compliance.
• Hands on experience with EMC CLARiiON 500, 700 and CX series and Fiber Switches and Brocade Switches.
• Creating LUN's and attaching them to ESX servers.
• Expanding and Extending LUN's.
• Attached Windows, VMware and UNIX servers to the SAN Fabric and assigned storage. Configured Zoning, RAID Groups, Storage Groups and additional support applications such as PowerPath and NaviCLI for redundancy.
• Perform application software installation, upgrades, and troubleshooting, including Microsoft SQL Server, and vendor supplied software installation and configuration.
• Participate in planning, testing and execution of system and application level upgrades.
• Participation in an on-call rotation for after-hours coverage as needed provide independent judgment and discretion in analyzing and resolving complex infrastructure incidents..
• Networking experience including, IP addressing, basic routing functions, DHCP and LDAP.
• Experienced in Microsoft SharePoint Services, site administration and configuration

Confidential

• Installed and configured VMware ESX2.5 servers.
• Hands on Virtual center 2 experiences.
• Worked with EMC SANs and Fiber Switches, specifically CLARiiON Arrays and Brocade Switches.
• Experience on Zoning.
• Moving VM servers from one Host to another ESX Host.
• Used SAN copy to replicate LUNsto remote location.
• Creating LUN's and attaching to Servers.
• Converted Physical Servers to Virtual machines using PlateSpin P2V.
• Configured and maintained Windows 2000/2003 systems.
• Maintained systems running both Oracle and SQL databases.
• Installed Terminal server, clients and worked in remote administration mode.
• Strong knowledge in HP and Compact proliant servers.
• Troubleshooting Experience in Proliant DL 360,DL380 and DL 580 servers.
• Created and restored systems using Legato backup software.
• Designed, Configured and worked with Microsoft Clusters and Load balancing on Windows 2003.
• Experienced in the use of RAIDconfigurations for optimizing system performance.
• Configured and administered Web Servers on Windows 2000 using IIS 5.0 and 6.0
• Solved DNS and WINS issues.
• Experience on implementing and trouble shooting Domain controllers.
• Worked on Exchange 5.5 and 2000 servers.
• Administrated SharePoint Sites, added users to the sites.
• Installed and maintained anti-virus software's such as Etrust.
• Familiar with NetIQ and with the use ofEvent logs to quickly troubleshoot and resolve system issues.

Confidential

System and Network Administrator

• Configuration and maintenance of Windows 2000network.
• Installed, Configured Maintained DNS Server on Windows 2000 server.
• Installed Terminal server, clients and worked in remote administration mode
• Configured DHCP server and implemented scope.
• Strong knowledge in HP and Compact proliant servers.
• Troubleshooting Experience in Proliant 1850, 3135 and DL servers.
• Managed all IP addressing scheme static and DHCP
• Migrated active directory services from NT to 2000.
• Implemented Group policies.
• Planed and Managed Disk quotas.
• Handling networking for the setup using TCP/IP, DHCP, WINS, DNS, NFS, NIS and Cisco routers.
• Experienced in Sub netting networks.
• Good knowledge in TCP/IP and OSI reference model.
• Implementation of RAID for Disk Mirroring and Disk Striping.
• Identifying patches necessary for the system and down loading and applying them in servers.
• Adding external disk storage arrays and their maintenance.
• Configured and administered Web Server on Windows 2000 using IIS 5.0
• Installation and management of printers on Solaris, Linux and Windows environments.
• Automation of activities using VB Scripts.
• Installed anti-virus software's such as Norton, McAfee.
• Configuration of new equipment, maintaining redundant network designs, using network management
• Examined Event logs such as system, application and security logs.
• Management of user's database, creating user and service accounts with appropriate privilege assignment.
• Monitoring Servers and services, Network services and availability, Application services on SMTP, IMAP4 POP3, DNS, HTTP, SNMP and Backups
• Setting up of the Windows 2000 Domain WINS Servers Troubleshooting TCP/IP connection on Microsoft clients
• Installation, Configuration support for CISCO Products
• Experience on Proxies and knowledge in Configuration of PIX firewalls.