SUMMARY

• Experienced professional with 8+ years of experience and a proven knowledge of advanced technology, benchmarking, and desktop technology.
• Aiming to leverage my skills to successfully fill the VMwareVDI Administrator role at your company.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago,IL

VMware Horizon Engineer

Responsibilities:

• VDI Technical SME responsible for defining SLAs, KPIs, scope of services, day to day operations,andescalations
• Responsible for VDI delivery, facilitating escalations, statements of work, reporting,etc.
• Performed the configuration in the vCenter, ESXi, Horizon View, SRM & SolarWinds Monitored infrastructure
• Support Horizon VDI environment and resolve issues raised by Technicalsupport.
• Responsible for analysis, administration, and support ofVMwareHorizon View VDI, thin clients, and other VDI - related technology
• Created, Tested, and maintained Group Policies used to configure the virtualdesktops.
• DeployedVMwareHorizon VDI Instances and creating over 6,000+ desktops by building an entirely new infrastructure of Horizon View 7.x also integrated with existingInfrastructure
• Actively involved and participated in the planning and design expansion of VDI for additional use cases while scaling infrastructure to maintain peakperformance
• Createdand maintainedprocesses, procedures, and documentation in support of Horizon VDI environment
• Creation and maintenance of VDIGolden Images
• Performed Administration andConfiguration ofDEM
• Creating app stacks and writable volumes based on application requirements and troubleshoot manager andAppStacksrelated issues
• Installed, Configured and Managed ESXiservers and vCenter
• Configured DRS in a Clusterand the DRS Automation LevelUsing DRS Affinity Rules
• PerformedVMwareHost updates and upgrades from 6 to 6 5 & 6.7 using update manager & CLI
• Created Cluster, resources pool, Template & Clone, Snapshot VM’s Backups
• Configured Virtual Switches and Port Groups,Edit Security Policyand Traffic Shaping Policy for a Virtual Switch
• Installedand Configuredfirewalls & switches, Configuration LAN.
• Configured and Implemented Windows services AD, DNS DHCP IIS
• Configured and Maintained Active Directory Services on Windows Server 2008, 2012,2012r2,& 2016
• Performed Windows Server Migration from 2012 to 2016
• Performed Backup of all windows servers and services system state backup AD backup
• Used SCCM for software updates and for every month patch updates
• Experience with PowerShell scripting for automating and routine administration tasks
• Used in PowerShell scripting (Automated tasks, Deployment, Active Directory)
• Created Applications, Packages, Deployment Types in SCCM
• Performed Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration using the SCCM Console

Confidential, Peoria,IL

VMware VDI Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated VMware vCenter and ESXi server infrastructure environments to 6.0 and 6.5
• Installed and configuration VMware tools and orchestration of guess OS that include Windows and Linux
• ESX Server Maintenance, ESX Server Deployment, ESX Server Upgrades, Virtual Center Maintenance, Operational Troubleshooting, Virtual Server Maintenance, Storage Migrations and Patching
• Managed and monitored auto deployed VMware horizon components like UAG'S and load balancer in azure platform
• Hands on experience with designing, deploying, Configuring and Maintaining compute on Azure Cloud
• Supported Windows and VMware engineering operations, coordinated with the software license vendors and renewed the licenses of VMware and Microsoft products
• Worked on including vMotion, DRS, storage DRS, VLANs, RDM disks and vmdk files
• Troubleshooted Cisco UCS critical and major faults like memory DIMM module errors and network card errors
• Installed, configured, and maintained theVMwareHorizon View 7.2Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment
• Provides day-to-day operational support forVMwareVDI, Includes virtual desktop performance, access issues, profile issues and generaltroubleshooting
• Implemented and administrate VDI deployment using non persistent (floating pool) andpersistent (dedicated pool) desktops
• Monitored and resolved all issues related to the Horizon View Environment (Including WindowsServers)==
• Proactively maintainedVMwareHorizon View platform, includingnotifying,and working with necessary infrastructure support teams
• PowerShell, Batch file Scripting as it relates to Horizon View Administration
• Performed troubleshooting on Cluster servers by upgrading firmware of NICs on cluster nodes, thereby stabilizing the cluster and preventing cluster failures
• Created and documented technical processes which could be followed by support teams

Confidential, Austin, TX

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implemented Server setup, configuration & administration for Windows2012, Windows 2008, and Windows 2003 & Windows 2000 server, WINTEL Servers
• Workedwith Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, and WINS servers
• Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirements. Used windows 2008 Enterprise, R2, and Standard editions. Upgraded the Firmware of servers. Participated in mounting, racking and cabling of theservers
• Workedwith vendors in the research,deployment,and implementation of server technologies.
• Workedwith vendors in the process of troubleshooting escalated incidents
• Worked onRAID Configuration
• Responsible for research and development project on new software,hardware,and configuration.
• Installed and configured Windows IIS and SQL server
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and application availability, reviewing systems and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups and FTP file transfer
• Installed and configured test/production Windows server 2008 environments utilizing a SQL 2008 database backend
• Mounting andInstallation of Dell server R 410/610/620/710 and IBM M3250/3650
• Managed and maintained of 320 PCs Win XP and Win7 with windows 2008R2 server and Windows server 2012
• MaintainedDaily Mail Server Health Check
• Support domain users remotely by using Remote tools RDP, net meeting, andTeamViewer
• Experience working on a 24/7 support structure Bachelors