SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experience in building and implementing new systems as well as overseeing systems migrations/upgrades, develop and implement effective deployment strategies. Takes on additional responsibilities and meets new challenges as a result - focused team player making strong contributions to long-term business success.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2000/2003/2008 / R2/2012 Servers, Wintel Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Extensive experience as VMware Administrator.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, SNMP, DHCP, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, WSUS.
• Extensive experience in System Operation Manager (SCOM) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
• Extensive experience with Internet Information Server (IIS) and Microsoft Cluster Server
• Expertise in implementation and supporting VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1/4.0/5.0/5.5 , Vmware Thinapp, Vmware Workstation NSX environment.
• Extensive experience as administering MS Hyper-V.
• Extensive experience working with KVM, OVM, VDI and Virtual desktop deployments.
• Experience working with HP Blade System, Cisco UCS, Nutanix and Dell Poweredge
• Extensive experience working with vCloud Automation Center (VCAC).
• Worked on the virtualization using the Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp.
• Experience in installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting of RHEL and Suse
• Extensive experience working with Active directory, Exchange, office 365, sharepoint, Azure
• Experience performing primary administrative tasks for microsoft exchange 2007/2010 messaging system
• Maintenance level upgrades and software administration using RPM installation on linux
• Experience in installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting of RHEL and Suse
• Experience working with administration of public cloud providers like Microsoft Azure
• Experienced with deployments, management and troubleshooting application on Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure
• Extensive experience with Internet Information Server (IIS) and Microsoft Cluster Server
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter and Plate Spin.
• Extensive experience Cisco UCS manager, UCS central to build server profiles
• Experience with creation, configuration, deployment and management of IIS websites
• Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows NT System Administration & support.
• Experience in transformation roles like transferring the PDC Emulator, RID Master, and Infrastructure Masters.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA and VMware DRS.
• Knowledge of installing HP ProLiant Server Hardware, Microsoft, HP products, and Vista 7 configuration.
• Knowledge with NAS/SAN and VNX storage.
• Knowledge with Exchange Server 2003/20 .
• Knowledge with ADFS and ADFS proxy server Deployments
• Expertise in Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VSphere, VMware ESXI 3.5 and 4.1/4.0/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0 , VMware converter, VMware Update Manager, Horizon View 6.x, HA, DRS, DPM, vCenter Orchester (VCO) vCloud Automation, Hyper-V, Center 6.0 (VCAC), VMware API, vMotion and VMotion, PlateSpin power converter

Operating System: Windows Server NT 4.0/ 2000/2003/2008 / R2, WINTEL servers, Windows XP/Vista/7

Server Hardware: Dell PowerEdge, HP, VNX, IBM Servers, Nutanix, HPE 8000 3PAR Storage, HP P6500 EVA, EVA 6500

Networking Protocols/others: TCP/IP, WINS, DHCP, DNS, DDNS, SNMP, SMTP, Ethernet 10/100/1000,WAN/LAN Routing, Routers, Switches Microsoft Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, DNS, SNMP, LDAP, DHCP

Backup Software’s: Symantec backup exec and vRanger Pro. Veeam backup and replicator

Applications: MS Office 2000,2003, 2007 and MS Visio, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003,2007,2010, Altiris, SaaS, Office 365, Symantec Ghost

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hagerstown, MD

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planning and implementing Server setup, configuration & administration for Windows 2008, Windows 2003 & Windows 2000 Server and Active Directory Administration
• Active Directory AD integration with VCenter Server, vCAC, vCloud Director vCD, vRO.
• Create virtual machines using tools like HPSA, HP Operations Orchestration Central
• Built more than 100 ESXi Servers as well as 300 plus VM’s Windows servers mainly 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012 Servers.
• Install, configure and management of windows servers 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012.
• Develop one off PowerShell scripts for the customer's support teams to efficiently fix errors found through the Active Directory environment.
• Manage VMware Infrastructures using VSphere Client 5.0 and 5.5
• Integrated VCAC with Vcenter Server, VCloud Director vCD, vRealize Orcestrator vRO, VCenter Operations Manager vCops, vRealize Business vRB.
• Involved in thin app packages and publishing to thinapp environment
• XenApp and VDI Print Management
• Troubleshooting various issues related to Citrix as applications, resource manager, Printers etc.
• Monitored Citrix server's health by using Citrix Edge Sight 5.4.
• Implementing Citrix Profile Manager for optimizing User profiles.
• Deploying Web interface/Xenapp sites for thick, thin and mobile clients
• Provide project support by configuring DNS, DHCP, SNMP, GPOs and Active Directory changes and implementations as needed.
• Managing multiple floationg\linked-clone VDI environment using Horizon view admin and vcenter
• Deploy, install and configure windows physical servers using ILO
• Build ESXi host using onboard administrator and ILO.
• Update the patches of ESXi hosts using VMware Update Manager and also perform drivers and firware upgrades for ESXi hosts.
• Involved in operational support and maintenance of VDI environments
• Integration of Vmware NSX with Vmware’s suite of products ( vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations)
• Expeience in creation and managing security, user accounts, diskspace and process monitoring in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris
• Installation and troubleshooting on Vmware running linux ( RHEL 5/6)
• Implemented solutions across linux operating systems
• Create and manage azure web apps and provide access permission to AD users
• Installing 64-Bit OSs on ESX server which enhances the performance of guest operating system. Helping IPv6 compliance on VMware products like ESX, ESXi, VMOTION, DRS, HA & VDI
• Administration and management of f5 gtm load balancer- 6600/6800
• Deployed and administered web based applications using IIS
• Responsible for Terminal server builds and Citrix XenApp server deployments in both Physical and virtual environments.
• Designed roles and group using Azure Identity and Access management (IAM)
• Experience in creating and managing virtual machines in windows Azure
• Involved in application virtualization using thinapp
• Solving issues related to RDP of Azure Infrastructure
• Involved in Spotfire setup, installation and administration
• Managed IIS web servers and hosted websites
• Responsible for windows server, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP support
• Working on VDI environment using Horizon View Client

Environment: Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012, Exchange Server 2003/20, VMware ESXi 5.x and ESXi 4.x vSphere, iSCSI SAN/NAS, LAN/WAN, Horizon view 6.0, Active Directory, F5, SCCM 2012 iStore SAN, powercli, Powershell, Linux, Unix,Dell PowerEdge Servers, Linux, Citrix XenApp, Cisco Nexus 5k, 7k,Cisco ISE, Rack mounts, Cisco 6500 series switches, P2V-V2V conversation, Azure, Remote desktop services, HP Blade Servers, DNS, DHCP, IIS 7.0, VUM, Planview, HPSA. vCAC, vCloud Director,vCO.

Confidential, Long Island, NY

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing Windows and VMware.
• Installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting and maintenance ofVMwarevirtual infrastructure (ESX 3.x and ESXi 4.x vSphere) platforms.
• Creation and management of Virtual Machines and Templates.
• Resposnsible for cisco UCS infrastructure environment
• Creation of clusters for (HA) High Availability, (DRS) Distributed Resource Scheduling and vMotion.
• ManageVMwarevirtual infrastructure with Virtual Center Server (5.x).
• Conversion of physical servers to virtual environment using P2V andVMwareConverter.
• Deployed and imaged both used and new PC’s via Windows Deployment Services (WDS)
• Deployed azure IAAS virtual machines and clouds services into secure Vnets and subnets
• Perform responsibilities of implementing Windows XP and hardware applications.
• Administered, maintained and monitored Central site with several remote Primary sites based on Windows 2003 Servers in a Windows 2003 Domain.
• Configuring HA, fail over with Xen Motion and setting DR environment in backup site for primary Xenserver pool.
• Planning HA and DR for XenApp and Xendesktop.
• Involved in management of Microsoft certificate services
• Involved in the deployment of Office 365 and various other applications using SCCM
• Involved on configuration and support of Cisco UCS Chassis and UCS Blades
• Managing local administrator AD groups using vCAC.
• Design and deploy failover clustered Hyper-V environments
• Involved in installation and configuration of Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• Deployment/Installation/Up gradation of Exchange server 2003/2007/2010 .
• Configure and troubleshoot backup jobs, perform file and full server restores using Symantec’s Net back up.
• Experience working on Virtual Desktop environment including VMware Ace and VDI.
• Experience on design, implementation and troubleshooting of ADFS single sign on
• Experience on deployment and creation of SCCM applications and support.
• Experience with Cisco Routers, Cisco Firewalls, Cisco UCS and Cisco Switches

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 , P2V Exchange Server 2003/2010, WINTEL, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, KVM, VMware ESX 3.x and ESXi 4.x vSphere, Azure,Hp blade chassis Hp c7000, Hyper-V, Nutanix, CISCO ASA 5500-X series firewalls, OVM, iSCSI SAN/NAS, Powershell, Active Directory, SCCM, iStore SAN, SCVMM,Linux, SRM, LAN/WAN, SCCM 2007, EMC, SaaS, Planview, Dell PowerEdge Servers, P2V-V2V conversation, Remote desktop services

Confidential, Memphis, TN

Windows\ VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Provided application teams secure and patched systems within the proper OS and middleware software lifecycle standards
• Responsible for managing VMware environment, knowledge of implementing VMware HA, DRS
• Acquiring and Initializing LUN’s in clustered environments on UNIX servers
• Installation and configuration of Red Hat Enterprise linux, Solaris and Cent OS on new server builds and upgradation
• Performed P2V, V2V migrations using VM Convertor.
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware ESXI server, Lab Manager, VMware Workstation and VMware player.
• Experience with installation and upgrade of SCOM.
• Experience with Powershell Scripting and powercli on ESXi
• Installing and updating citrix patches on servers
• Experience on installation and configuration of SCCM 2007
• Experience working with Cisco Routers, Cisco Firewalls and Cisco Switches
• Working knowledge of Load Balancing, Vmotion, Storage Vmotion, HA, DRS & Memory Virtualization.
• Participated in IT systems Disaster Recovery and high availability planning for business clients.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 , P2V Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010 , Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, Mac OS, VMware ESXI server, Cisco ASA 5500-x, cisco firepower 4100, HP Blade Server, iSCSI SAN/NAS, TCP/IP, Windows Powershell, powercli, Active Directory, Linux Cisco, Citrix, Cisco Nexux 3000, SCOM, UNIX, SCCM, Stratus FT series, P2V, V2V migrations, VM Convertor

Confidential, PA

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Preparing the Project plan & VMware ESX setup Implementation plan.
• VMware ESX server Hardware setup in all sites with HA/DRS Clustering/Vmotion.
• Networking setup with the port group and VLAN trunking on the ESX server and Physical switches.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting vSphere performance: CPU, memory, disk/storage, and other issues.
• Performed ESX host 2.5 migration using VMware Converter and migratory to ESX 3.5
• Performed physical to virtual migration using vConverter.
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware SRM in datacenter environment.
• Deployment/Installation/Up gradation of VMware ESX server & VC server
• Configuration of VMware HA & DRS cluster along with VMware networking
• Creating VMware Lab setup as per Internal QA team’s requirement using VMware ESXi servers.
• Install and Configure Virtual Machines (VM), VM tools on ESX boxes from the GUI and console.
• Migrated Physical as well as virtual machines using Platespin Power converter, VMware convertor.
• Install multiple Operating Systems in different VM's and configure VM tools on them to accelerate hardware functionality and also maintain and configure unattended VM’s builds.
• Take VM backups with VM tools, snapshots, cloning, and VCB utilities and store them in VMLibrary
• Resolving customer issues related to VMware ESX server.
• Supporting Virtual Desktop environment including VDI, VMware Ace.
• Deploying features as SharePoint Solutions.

Environment: VMware ESX, ESX Servers, VMware API, Switches, Vmware SRM, Troubleshooting, Linux, Migration ESX2.5 To3.5 VLAN.