SUMMARY

• IT professional with over 8+ years of experience in Deploying, Administration, Maintaining and Supporting Enterprise Microsoft & VMware Platforms, customized business applications and Azure Cloud Administration
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical - to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of 2003, 2008, and 2012/2016/2019 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, and legacy hardware
• Established Operating System Deployment, images, and Task Sequences via SCCM
• Good knowledge on Active Directory Forest architecture, WDS, Data Protector, Windows PKI and experience in wintel operations in an onsite-off- shore model. Executed deployments, server migrations, Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions and upgrades as part of the IT team.
• Experience in VMware virtualization Planning, implementation, sand ongoing management with early and current versions of VMware solutions, vCenter Operations.
• Created, managed, and maintained VMware ThinApp, vROps, vRA, vRO, Cisco UCS, vRealize,VMWare AppVolume, VMWare vRealize, RDSH repositories/farms. Experience with 3rd party solutions in VMware environments including Veeam, Zerto, Symantec and TrendMicro.
• Hands on experience inAzureDevelopment, worked onAzureweb application, App services,AzureStorage,AzureSQL Database, Virtual machines,AzureAD,Azuresearch, and notification hub
• Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services AWS, VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V technologies implemented and incorporated in existing company infrastructure for Cloud Compute and PowerShell Scripting for QA/QC automation
• Experience in handling P2V and V2V migrations using VMware convertor in a large environment.
• Installed, configured, administered and maintained Sun One LDAP Directory server 7.0/11g on RedHat Linux 6.x/7.x
• Extensive knowledge on ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting Configure, monitor and upgrade of VMware Infrastructure.
• Knowledge of Networking concepts i.e. TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs and routing, VMware’s vROPS administration/installation experience.
• Experience with system monitoring tools such as EPIC’s System Pulse, Splunk and Dynatrace.Knowledge on AWS Elasticsearch
• Administrating, creating and modifying DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation. Experience in Wintel Windows clustering Administration and troubleshooting.
• Installing different types of roles and services as required in the environment like SCCM, SCOM, VROpS, GPO etc.
• Installed and configured IIS including administering SSL certificates like renewing and deploying SSL Certificates.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Wintel Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance
• Developed organizational units in Active Directory (AD) and managed user security with group policies.
• Developed strategy to migrate Dev/Test/Production from an enterprise VMware infrastructure to the IaaS Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud environment including runbook processes and procedures.
• Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management. Provide expertise in creating a MSI packaging model for delivering the applications using SCCM 2012 R2.
• Expertise in Active Directory Setup and troubleshooting for any deleted objects, AD Recycle Bin, andRemote Desktop Services(RDS)
• Hands on experience inData Center Migration, andVDIprovisioning/process/procedure implementation
• Experience inMicrosoft AzureandGoogle cloudand working knowledge inAmazonEC2instances,S3bucketsand someAWS services.
• Implemented Office 365 andAzureActive Directory for single sign-on, authentication, authorization, andAzure Role-based Access Control (RBAC).
• Experienced in performing Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performingDisaster Recovery(DR) using VMwareSite Recovery Manager (SRM)
• Successfully launchedVMware HorizonView Related Applications likeRDSH, Desktop pool, Application Pool,ThinApp,AppVolume, Workspace etc. Experience with Cloud technologies such as Azure
• Installed and configured instances ofVMware's vRealize Configuration Manager (VCM)for evaluation and initial implementation.
• Created, managed, and maintained VMWare ThinApp, VMWare AppVolume, VMWare vRealize,RDSHrepositories/farms.
• Experience achieving fault tolerance by creating different types of storage volumes like striped, spanned, mirrored, RAID - 1, RAID-0, RAID 10, RAID 5.Specialized on VMware ESX, ESXI, and vSphere 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0 environments with vCenter.
• Management, Consolidated Backup, VM Build, Migration, P2P, V2V, OVF Deployments, Build/Upgrade of ESXI hosts, Patching ESXI and Network/Storage configurations.
• Expertise in Datacenter Consolidation, Migration, Business Continuity, Backup, Storage, VMware administration, Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016, 2019 versions.
• Designed and Implemented virtualization solutions based onVMware vSphere ESXi 7.0/6.7/6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1 , ESX 4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 platform, vCenter 7.0/6.7/6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0/2.5 and vblock 100/200/300/700 series
• Provisioning and maintainingVMware VDIthe entire VDI environment in VMware Horizon View with 2,300+ Windows 7/10 virtual desktops.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) and cloud technologies to migrate over from their current datacenter and virtual environments.
• Knowledgeable in Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
• Highly recognized for SCCM documentation, network diagrams, and Troubleshooting flowcharts.
• Configure, manage, test, troubleshoot and deploy thin client devices for use with VMware View virtual desktops.
• Extensive experience of file level migration in multi domain environment.
• Sound knowledge of NetApp hardware architecture and its different tools from Worked on Change Management and Disaster Recovery management. Expertise in configuring AWS IAM and security Groups in Public and Subnets in VPC.
• Automate daily task in managingSCCMservers including generating reports and monitoring of SCCM infrastructure health.
• Hands on experience in System administration and troubleshooting in Windows 2003/2008/2012 servers, Active Directory services, LDAP services, WINS, IIS, RAS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, RDP, Windows failover clustering. Microsoft Clustering Services
• Developed PowerShell Scripts for Active Directory management of Users/Groups.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage: iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, NetApp 6240, 6040. Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware Update Manager, Plate spin migrator, Quest Vconvertor, vCloud director, vOPS, and vShield Edge.

VMware Products: Design and implement Virtual Infrastructure with Virtual Center, ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x, 6.x, 7.xvMotion, HA, DRS, Resource pools, VMware Converter, Virtual Center, ESXi Patch management (VUM) VMware Converter: Expert Level in Physical to Virtual migration of datacenter, Virtual to Virtual Migration, Physical to Physical Hardware refresh.

Microsoft: Windows Server (2019, 2016, 2012,2008 and 2003), ADDS, DNS, DHCP, Windows 7,8,10, Windows XP, SCCM, SCOM, WSUS.IIS, MSSQL 2008. Azure Cloud

Linux: Red Hat Linux, Cent OS, Ubuntu.

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge R710’s, Cisco UCS B200’s B250’s M1’s M2’s HP BL460C, C-7000, DL580’s.

Racks and Cabling: Installation of Hardware, Cable Management.

Network: Cisco Catalyst switches, L3 and L2 switches, Checkpoint, Net gear, HP Switches (Flex switches), NSX 6.1, Cisco switches GB, 710 1 GB, Cisco 2960 series.

AntiVirus: TrendMicro, Symantec,McAffe,Kaspersky Corporate Editions.

Servers: UCS cisco servers, Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant DL Series, ML Series, ACP Thin Clients, IBMservers, Air watch console, Dell Blades M1000e, Power Edge R610 blades, power edge M 620, Power EdgeR710, Power edge R730.

Backup Tools: Symantec Backup, VEEAM Backup, Commvault.

Methodologies: ITIL v3 framework, Agile

Remote Management: ILO/DRAC/IMM/RIB/OBA/ UCSM/vCenter/UniSphere

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Windows /VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Configuring vSphere vCenter (Creating Clusters, adding the ESXi hosts and configuring DRS/HA and networking).
• Manage the implementation, configuration, deployment and ongoing support of the VMware vSphere server infrastructure consisted of ESXi 5.5/6.0/6.1/6.5/6.7/7.0
• Set up Automation to create Virtual Machines through PowerShell Script andAzurePortal, Created and managed Storage Account and Affinity Group inAzurePortal.Created, cloned Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client 3.5 and migrating servers between ESX hosts.
• Administration of user and group accounts and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements.
• High understanding on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the Virtual Machines into resource pools, P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Sound knowledge on Hyper-V, ESX and ESXI Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Work experience in Azure App &Cloud Services, PaaS, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Power BI, Azure Blob Storage, Web API, VM creation, ARM Templates, PowerShell scripts, IaaS, Lift & Shift, storage, network and database.
• Worked on Red hat Linux Servers migration from Physical to Virtual, Physical to Physical and Virtual to Virtual.
• Upgraded Red hat Linux Servers hardware and performed migrations. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Storage Managements integration and utilization within this infrastructure and applications.
• Migration work, p2v, v2v and also day to day VMWare troubleshooting, performance and fault management. Identify and tag(label) Fibre connections on Cisco Fibre Channel Switch. Configured Wintel Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) for the distribution of updates & hot fixes in the domain. FTP access list editing and installing on clients in Linux and wintel Windows.
• Working on Disaster recovery of VMware ESXI and Windows Physical Servers. Working on HP iLO s Firmware upgrade and O/S installations.
• Deployment/Installation/Up gradation of VMware ESX server & VC server. Configuration of VMware HA & DRS cluster along with VMware networking.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented VMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager. Administration, VMware configuration and Administration, Network devices, Security devices for datacenter.
• Using VM converter converting Physical machines in VMware VMs.Migrating an On-premises virtual machine toAzureResource Manager subscription withAzureSite Recovery.Updating/patching Linux, Windows Virtual Machine in VMware clusters.
• Performance Reports, troubleshooting Performance Issue (Memory, CPU, Disk Space).Installation / Uninstallation, Firmware, Hotfix installation of VMs and Physical machines. Working Experience with VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 and the most recent 7.0.
• Creating and Configuration virtual machines, installing VM Tools into VMs and allocating for end user. Creating and Deployed Templates and Snapshots for Virtual Machines. Experience in working with resource and performance monitoring tools for VMs, Servers and VMware infrastructure.
• Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc.)
• Setup Active Directory environment using VMware virtual servers for testing Active Directory group policy prior to deployment in a production environment.
• Build the entire VDI Environment in Vmware horizon view by deploying Connection server; Security servers; Dedicated VCenter server and Transfer server and authenticating them in Horizon View Administration console
• Working on core VMware products vRelaize operations Manager to monitor the environment and take precautionary measures to keep the Virtual Infrastructure healthy and effective. Assisted in migrating the existing data center into theAzureenvironment.
• Following the ITIL process like change, incident, and problem management.
• Creation/Maintenance ofSCCMpackages, Applications and Task sequences is performed by solutions engineering team.
• Configured and administered Samba to provide file services, resolved various inter-operability issues between Wintel Windows NT and Solaris platforms. Added SAN Storage on a regular basis to clusters based on capacity requirements.
• Expertise in AWS cloud services of designing, administering, and migrating from on premises to AWS cloud infrastructure Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management.
• Installed and Configured VMware UEM and migrated all the existing user profiles from Profile Unity to User environment manger.
• Scripting, reporting, and automation using PowerShell / PowerCLI.
• Disaster recovery planning, implementation & recovering machines during crash or hardware failure.
• Created custom reports based on results of SCOM monitoring using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Coordinate with customers, application, database network, and hardware teams to support and troubleshoot problems and issues. Migrated servers such as File servers, Applications servers, Web servers and Database servers to new OS
• Took Escalations related to Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Firewall and Enterprise Server issues.
• Worked with VMware vSphere Update manager on the vcenter server as well as on an individual server component for a linked mode vcenter configuration.
• Support included voicemail, email, and phone, desktop and laptop. Worked with multiple vCenter servers and several data centers in an organization.
• Locally & remotely managing Microsoft Windows 2008/ 2012/2016/2019 Server issues fixing the same with in defined SLA.
• Configure and manage Symantec Enterprise Protection Manager to protect the Network from the tread attacks.
• Created a Virtual Network on Linux and WindowsAzureto connect all the servers.
• Experience with Configuration Management Tools likeChefand responsible for managing thechefclient nodes and upload the cookbooks tochef-server from workstation.Integrate Azure Active Directory with AWS Web Services.
• Performing tasks in Data Center (Servers, Storage, Networking Gear, Mainframe) and working on their interconnects and troubleshooting them.
• Pushed SCCM 2012 client to all end clients and debugged the faulty PC's.
• Installed OS, patches, and security policies through SCCM 2012 Admin Tools.
• Worked on moving machines to their respective OUs in active directory, adding users to their respective groups and giving permissions to the users to get to their shared drives and all other access. Installing, configuring and managing the wintel windows and Linux servers.
• Monitor and configure security systems, including but not limited to IPS, VPN, Commvault, SIEM and NetFlow, to protect the confidential network from malicious activity and to identify compromised staff, and vendor machines.
• Installed/Configured/ManagedPuppetMaster/Agent. Wrote custom Modules and Manifests, downloaded pre-written modules frompuppet-forge. Upgradation or Migration ofPuppetCommunity and Enterprise.
• New Server Build request, Decommission, Server Provision 2008R2,2012R2 and 2016.
• Working on Commvault Back up Recovery, and BMR.Working on Server O/S, Hardening and Antivirus.
• Working on adding new malware rules to McAfee antivirus.Test and recommend Replication/Backup solutions for VMware, SAN and Disaster Recovery. Provision VMware Datastore’s and configures storage for Virtual Machines.

Confidential - San Antonio, Texas

Sr. System Admin (Windows, VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and Troubleshooted windows server's windows 2008R2 and 2012 versions Creating disk spaces for windows servers.
• Monitored SCCM platform health and mitigated issues as needed. Documenting step-by-step process used for Repackaging and testing which includes Custom Action Scripts using VB Script, Wise Script, Auto IT, PowerShell.
• Performed installation, configuration and maintenance of 32-bit and 64-bit wintel Windows 2003/2008 servers and 64-bit Windows 2008 servers.
• Customized Windows Server 2012/2012R2/2016/2019 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment.
• Worked forDevOpsPlatform team responsible for specialization areas related toCheffor Cloud Automation. SetupChefServer, workstation, client and wrote scripts to deploy applications.Using ANT,Puppet/ChefScripts with Ivy to build the application and deploy.
• Packaging Citrix Applications using Rapid Deployment Tool and Citrix Install Manager. Deploy XenApp 6.5 to new and migrating servers.
• Used Azure to backup and store data in blobs. Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates. Deploying View Connection server in Replica mode for High Availability and Load Balancing.
• Extensive experience with maintenance of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Global Group Policy, Windows IIS, SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Clustering.
• Creation of PowerShell and VB Scripts to automate IT tasks and processes. Deployed and managed windows RDS environments (RDSH and RDVH), Terminal services.
• Deployed VMs in Microsoft Azure using both Redhat and Ubuntu servers. Experience in resolving issues after installation and testing Azure components after installation. Executing temp test cases.Installing and Maintaining Windows 2008, 2012 and Windows 2016 Servers.
• Excellent understanding modern cloud (compute, storage, networking) application architectures on Azure to ensure easy monitoring and high availability. created and managed new Users, roles and projects through Keystone.
• Responsible for the implementation of VMware View VDI upgrades, Change Management, Problem Management, and ITIL related process.
• Work in conjunction with VDI Project Teams in design, development and implementation of VDI-related operational procedures, standards and deliverables pertaining to new VDI projects. Integrate Azure Active Directory with AWS Web Services
• Excellent work experience on Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on creating and defining the object classes and attributes that relates to users, computers, printers and services in addition to the extension of the object interface by managing permissions, group policies and delegations. Plan and implement Active Directory migration from 2008R2 to 2012
• Analyze current infrastructure and provide recommendations on the design, deployment, and best practices of the SCCM environment.
• Provided 3rd level infrastructure support, and assisted in the maintenance and troubleshooting of SCCM, and client workstations; possess good understanding of the SCCM infrastructure including boundaries, site server roles, and parent/child relationships to troubleshoot SCCM related issues.Imaging laptops and desktops to Windows 10 (PXE, Boot Media and Hard drive methods)
• Worked on variety of Linux platforms Red Hat Linux which includes installation, configuration and maintenance of applications on this environment.
• Administration of VMWare vRealize Operations (VROPs) and vRealizeLoginSight.Develop and maintain O&S Standard Operating Procedures for VDI Environment.Virtualizing desktop applications for use in a VDI environment and application delivery through VM
• Involved in migrating core applications and many of web and application servers from on premise to the AWS cloud-based infrastructure.
• Experience in deploying and managingActive Directory Federation Services (ADFS).Provisioned and maintained VMwareVDIacross entire environment. Responsible for Terminal server builds and Citrix XenApp server deployments in both Physical and virtual environments.
• Generate daily reports to higher level management groups for Audits, Reviews and Authorizations.
• Used bash/shell scripting to do administrative automation tasks including, installing, configuring, managing files, users, and repositories, applications, debugging, and troubleshooting.
• Centralized distribution of packages usingSCCMcreating user groups, distribution packages and advertisements.
• Ran reports usingSCCMto determine successful pushes.
• Worked with AWS Code Pipeline and Creating Cloud formation JSON templates which are converted to Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Maintained SCOM, Software Assets including licenses and 3rd Party Vendor Interaction
• Worked on troubleshooting efforts on a day-to-day basis and resolved the issues, experience in writing Root Cause Analysis documents. (Involves log analysis to identify cause of failure, co-ordinate with VMware support etc.)
• Performing Virtualization tasks, NFS migration, disk alignment, etc.
• Create distinct types of desktop pools like manual pools, automated pools, linked clones’ pools, full clone pools and RDP pools in as per users’ requirements. Configured the DNS and DHCP servers.
• Used security groups, network ACLs, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure zone for organization in AWS public cloud.
• Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and implemented MFA to provide additional security to the AWS account and its resources.
• Created LUN’s and Volumes on EMC storage arrays and added them as data stores to the ESXi hosts.
• Implanted Citrix resource manager in order to better monitor and load balance the Citrixsystems
• Integrated CitrixMetaframe system for remote access and network management of Manulife systems.
• Packaged applications are managed by Group Policy and Deployed bySCCMTool.
• Hands on wide experience in Upgrading vCenter to including the vCenter Update Manager (VUM) and configuring the same Version of vCenter in the linked Mode.
• Built Windows 2003/ 2008/2012/2016 Wintel Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers.
• Migrated SQL Servers 2012/2014/2016 databases to Windows Azure SQL Database and updating the Connection Strings based on this
• Responsible for building Windows 2012 R2/2016 data center Servers in Dev., Prod, Testing, DR and UAT environments. VM creation in vCenters on the RTP IBM Network to include the new physical infrastructure clusters to support new platforms such as SQL clusters, VMware Clusters, IIS Web Farms using Server 2012 IIS 7/8.5/10 to include the integration into Active Directory
• Upgraded VMware Infrastructure 5.0/5.5/6.0 to vSphere 6.5 along with updating the vCenter, ESXi Hosts, vSphere client from 5.0/5.5/6.0 to 6.5 and Virtual machines tools upgrade to 8, 9 and 10.Applied patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager and host update utility.
• Worked on deploying and configuring shared recovery site, a many-to-one, or an N: 1 configuration inSite RecoveryManager(SRM) where we connect multiple protected sites to a single recovery site. Managed VMware vCenter and Update Manager.
• Installing and configuring the VMware VSphere and creating clusters for High Availability (HA) and Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Diagnose and troubleshoot system and application issues including server hardware, storage hardware, virtual servers, network connectivity, and system logs / alerts, as appropriate. Provide on-call support for server and network systems as necessary.
• Attending CAB meetings and weekly and Monthly team meeting for reviewing SCCM activities. Installing different types of roles and services as required in the environment like SCCM, SCOM, VROpS, GPO etc.
• Installing and Administering the various virtualization components likevCenter,vSphereetc.

Confidential - Maplewood, Minnesota

Windows/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to build, rebuild, configure, migrate, decommission, and troubleshoot Windows virtual machines.
• Responsible in building physical Windows, ESXi host, creating clusters, adding ESXi hosts to clusters, adding storage and performing QA at cluster level. Installing Windows, Linux Operating System.
• Firmware upgrade on HP OA, HP Virtual connect module, HP BL/DL, Dell PowerEdge M1000e, CISCO UCS chassis and servers.
• Installed and upgraded VMware vSphere ESXi 4.5/5.0/5.1/5.5. Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates and Creating, managing multiple snapshots. Build Windows 2012/2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion, DRS, HA.
• Performed P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise and also the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD. Building Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers on Dell R610, R710, R810 hardware. Built Windows 2008 domain controller and join to the existing domain.
• Administering domain trusts and changing the domain mode using Active Directory Domains and Trusts.
• Administering and Maintaining Active Directory group policies for the environment through Group policy editor.
• Implement two nodes clustering with windows 2003 STD R2 serves and windows 2008 Ent R2.
• Reconfigured all ESX network connectivity utilization VLAN tagging and teaming.
• Consolidated many smaller ESX clusters and hosts to provide optimum resource utilization.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory.
• Administered the Group Policy, also used group policy to automatically upgrade, repair software installation online.
• Deploy VMs using Templates as per requirements. Clone VMs and took snapshots of VMs.
• Responsible for well-organized and maintain Virtual Environment. Worked on Capacity Planning for the environment.
• Responsible for capacity planning and testing for the remote office's LAN/WAN environment.
• Server Hardware Troubleshooting Vendors:CISCO, IBM, HP, DELL.
• Monitor, analyze, troubleshoot, report and escalate server (OS/hardware), SAN storage and backup(NetBackup/tape library) issues/alerts, backup job and media management, SOX DTM and SEC controls and work with system admins, application owners and vendors to bring back the affected systems online as per SLA.Implement, Troubleshoot and Administer NFS, NIS based network. User & Network administration.
• Worked on Building the Virtual Servers in different environment according to the requirement.
• Created and maintained environmental specific installation and configuration guides for P2V conversions, ESX Server, vCenter Server, vSphere Clients, VMware Tools, Patch upgrades.
• Configuring, administering, maintaining & troubleshooting of windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2012Servers such as DC, DNS, IIS, DHCP, and Database servers.
• Installed, configured and administered windows Server 2008/2008R2/2012with various roles and features including AD DS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Web server and SQL database server.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012
• Upgraded Citrix servers to the newest release and fixed network glitches.
• Responsible for Citrix server installation, configuration management, security, monitoring and tuning, troubleshooting and related vendor interfacing
• Configured, administered and troubleshooted some platforms with ISA Server & TMG Forefront, VPN site-to-site for integration into a single domain and with a single Active Directory. Was troubleshooting of Active Directory, MS Exchange, AD, and IIS issues.
• Upgraded VMware ESXi servers 4.5/5.0/5.5 and updated patches for VSphere 5.0.
• Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion- migrations between ESX Servers.
• Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.
• Administered production servers/ network infrastructure that include Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S/FTP and SMTP), file and print servers and terminal servers on Windows 2008/2012/2016
• Installed, configured, migrated, and maintained enterprise solutions on Windows 2008, 2012, 2016 servers
• Installed and configured VMware Horizon VDI View Connection Servers (Standard & Replica).
• Performed backups, troubleshooting and problem resolution for servers associated with a VMware virtual infrastructure
• Maintained, upgrade, and implement improvements to the VMWare ESXi infrastructure
• Analyzed and Implemented OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool and also deploy patches using vCenter update manager. Assigning LUN's from storage array to ESX Server.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from vNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• Managing the Critical Server's CPU Performance using predefined utilities and Power shell scripting to ensure the production continuity Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows administration of Domain Controllers, DNS, DHCP, Exchange 2010/2007 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, and Terminal Servers on Windows 2013/2010/2008/2003.

Confidential, New York City, New York

Jr. System Admin & Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured domain controllers, DNS, DHCP as per the design.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates and Creating, managing multiple snapshots.
• Configured, administered and troubleshooted some platforms with ISA Server & TMG Forefront, VPN site-to-site for integration into a single domain and with a single Active Directory
• Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0 , ESX 3.5 on a Dell 2950 Power Edge M1000, VMware Infrastructure Client, VMware Virtual Center, License Server and VCB Setup.
• Installing and Configuring Terminal Server for Remote desktop.
• Updating Security patches for Operating system and all other Applications.
• Installing and Configured access rules on Kaspersky Antivirus Corporate edition.
• Creating Disk cloning for servers with help of Ghost software.
• Troubleshooting Windows time related issues.
• Configuring and managing Domain Naming System (DNS).
• Providing databases recommendations and database tuning for Dev Teams.
• Ensure that network devices and solutions were aligned with the company's global policy (i.e. network polices, Security policies etc.)
• Monitor, analyze, troubleshoot, report and escalate server (OS/hardware), SAN storage and backup (NetBackup/tape library) issues/alerts, backup job and media management, SOX DTM and SEC controls and work with system admins, application owners and vendors to bring back the affected systems online as per SLA.
• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining Windows and Citrix Servers which includes 10,000 user base and more than 100 plus applications.
• Provide configuration, implementation, and troubleshooting support for the Compute Infrastructure (Fabric Interconnect, UCS Blade Server Chassis, UCS I/O Module, and UCS Blade Server), Storage Infrastructure and VMware to ensure they perform as expected steady-state and correct any failure conditions
• Creating VMware Lab setup as per Internal QA team’s requirement using VMware ESXi servers.
• Build Windows 2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design.
• Was troubleshooting of Active Directory, MS Exchange, AD, and IIS issues.
• Tuning of the TCP/IP stack for troubleshooting application and OS issues.
• Used NetBackup for backing up & restoration of file systems.