SUMMARY

• Over 8+ years of experience as Systems Engineer/Administrator with focus on installs, configurations, administration and support of Various OS, such as Windows server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012,2019/ VMware 4.x/5.x/6.x and 7.
• Experience in deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment.
• VMware ESX 3.5/4.0, VMware ESXi 7.0, 6.7, 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.x, 3.x Serves, Expertise in advanced features of ESX 4/5, vMotion, storage VMotion, ha, drs, and update manager.
• Expertise with maintaining and updating the domain controllers and rodc in Windows server 2003/ 2008/2 .
• Experienced in Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting VMware ESXi, VS7, 6.7, 6.5, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, 4.0, vMotion and Virtual Center 7.0, 6.7, 6.5, 5.5, 5.1, 5.0, 4.1,4.0.
• Profound knowledge in installing, Patching, upgrading, and configuring RedHat, Linux 4.x, 5.x, 6.x and 7.x and 8x using RedHat Satellite Servers.
• Expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS), experience in implementing new AWS systems and migration of existing Linux and Windows - based systems to AWS. VMware to AWS migration experience.
• Experienced in managing applications by implementing AWS services which includes EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB (Elastic Load Balancing), AMI, SNS, RDS, IAM (Identity &Access Management), KMS, Route 53, Auto scaling, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, OPS Work, Security Groups.
• Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances.
• Expertise in Azure infrastructure management (Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, SQL Azure, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, Office365).
• Experience in building datacenters including DEV, TEST, Production and DR facilities on multiple locations with VMware, SRM, Redhat, HP Cluster Suites.
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2019 Wintel Servers.
• Experience in Designing, Installing, Configuring, Administrating and Troubleshooting VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Environment.
• Expertise in creating ad 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 accounts, file permissions, dns records administration.
• Expertise in assisting with the administration and upgrading from Windows 2 /2016 active directory and domains.
• Experience in RHEL/Windows server provisioning, upgrades, patching, configuration and performance tuning in Linux, and VMware environments.
• Expert in server builds, installs, upgrades, patches, configuration, and performance tuning in red hat Linux/Windows server 2003/2008 on VMware virtualized environments.
• Worked on V Sphere, vCloud Suite /vRealize suite - vRealize Operations Manager (vRops), Log Insight, vRealize Orchestration(vRO), and vRealize Automation (vRA/vCAC), VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN)
• Experience in Cisco UCS /HP C9000 blades administration and troubleshooting, Writing PowerShell Scripts, vb and PowerCLI scripts. Worked with VMware NSX.
• Administration and Architect of public and private cloud platforms.
• Experience in Azure Cloud Services (PaaS & IaaS), Storage, Web Apps, Active Directory, Azure Application Insights, Logic Apps, Data Factory, Service Bus, Traffic Manager, Azure Monitoring, AzureOMS, Key Vault, Cognitive Services (LUIS) and SQL Azure, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, Load Balancing, Application Gateways.
• Experience of VMware PowerCLI tool for automation of vSphere and vCenter administration. Good scripting skills with strong knowledge of VMware PowerCLI.
• Automate disaster recovery by automatically failing over a customer in VMWare ESX using 3PAR RM & vSphere Recovery Manager with the help of PowerCLI Scripts.
• Experience in Architecting multiple virtualization environments of Linux and Windows (RHEL, CENTOS, Windows) servers along with creating and implementing a cloud strategy on Amazon Web Services.
• Experience as Cloud solutions architect/Developer, Dev - Ops/Build and Release engineer, Unix/Linux based System Administration working on different environment including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (5, 6, 7, 8), Cent OS (4x, 5x & 6x), Ubuntu (6x, 7x, 8x, 9x), ESXi 4.5, and Windows platforms.
• Performed automation on vSphere and vCloud environment using VMware PowerCLI, experienced in creating VM for Linux, Windows and Solaris. LVM, ZFS and zone management.
• Experience in deploying several sets of Linux guest builds from VMware Templates and Migrated Physical Servers to Virtual Server and Virtual to virtual - using VMware Converter.
• Strong experience on administering applications on Operating Systems like Linux, UNIX, Windows.
• Proficient in Writing Terraform templates, Involved in Provisioning AWS Infrastructure using Terraform scripts from Jenkins.
• Experience in dealing with Windows Azure IaaS - Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Resource Groups, Express Route, Traffic Manager, VPN, Load Balancing, Application Gateways, Auto-Scaling.
• Configure Azure cloud service for end point deployment and Enable Open ID and Windows Live authentication in Azure cloud apps. Worked on creating Azure Blob for storing unstructured data in the cloud as blobs, and implementing a cloud strategy on Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in Designing Cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Involved in day-to-day support related to Data Center, documentation of run books, training, support, and coordination with offshore team for moving/relocating Windows/VMware/Applications/ Backup Support to offshore team.
• Deployment of VMware vCenter Orchestrator as the cloud orchestration engine for service delivery automation and operational process automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Windows 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 servers.

Virtualization: VMware 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 , Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, vApp, V2V, P2V, VDI, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, VMware vSphere Client, Events and Alerts, Capacity Planning, Plate-spin Power Convert, SV Motion, VMwareConverter, vRA, vCAC, vRealize operations manager (vROPs), VMware Horizon, VMware View, VMware Converter, SRM, VMware ThinApp, vCloud

Unix/Windows: NFS, DHCP, DNS, AD FTP, IIS

Database: Dynamo-DB, MS-SQL 2008/2012/2016 , MY SQL. Graph-DB(neo4j).

Azure Cloud Azure: AD, Azure cloud services, Azure DNS, Azure Traffic manager, Azure Virtual network, Azure Search, Azure Service bus, Azure Redis Cache, Azure Scheduler Jobs

Microsoft Products and tools: Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, AD Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, DNS, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, WSUS server, SQL Server 2005, SQL server 2008, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), IIS 6, IIS 7.

Hardware & Storage: Brocade SAN, Cisco UCS, HP ProLient, Dell PowerEdge, SCSI/RAID Controllers, EMC Clarrion CX, HP EVA, EMC Power Path, NetApp FAS array, Cisco MDS 9500 series, Cisco Fabric Interconnects 6100 and 6200 series, Nexus 5k switches, EMC VNX/VMAX

Cloud Technologies: Azure Cloud, AWS Cloud

Hardware: HP Proliant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers, Cisco UCS and Dell Power Edge Servers.

Network Protocols: SMTP, SNMP, DHCP, POP, SMB, NIS, NFS, DNS, FTP/SFTP, ARP/RARP, SSH, TCP/IP, NTP, TELNET, LDAP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

System Engineer (Windows & VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Installing, Configuring & Trouble shooting of the new ESXi 7.0, 6.7, 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.1 on Cisco UCS, HP, Dell servers and involved in P2V and V2V migrations for Windows/Linux Operating systems.
• Deploy VMware Operations Manager Suite for enterprise level monitoring, resource utilization and weekly and monthly reports. Worked with NSX on VMware.
• Implemented SRM on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment and working with SAN and NAS team to replicate storage across multiple datacenters.
• Involved in Conversion of physical machines to virtual machines (P2V migration) using VMware enterprise converter and PlateSpin. Worked with vRealize Orchestrator (VRO) to run the Workflow for VRA for VM's.
• Worked on different applications such as Confluence, JIRA, MOM, SCOM, SCCM and VCOPS to improve the availability, performance, and ensure maximum uptime, worked with incident management and change management.
• Installing and administering the various virtualization components like vCenter, vSphere etc.
• Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Created data store clusters and configured Storage vMotion as per requirements.
• Monitoring Hardware health/Availability status and event alarms for Incident.
• Build, and implement new ESXi hosts from the scratch and Performed migration of all the VMs from ESXi 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7, 7.0 with zero downtime.
• Build the entire VDI Environment (Windows 8, windows 10) in VMware horizon view 5.2 by deploying Connection server; Security servers; Dedicated VCenter server and Transfer server and authenticating them in Horizon View Administration console.
• Migrated SQL Server 2008/2012/2014/2016/2019 database to Windows Azure SQL Database and updating the Connection Strings based on this
• Calculation of RPO and RTO to implement VMware SRM in the environment. Implementation if VMware VDP for data protection of Virtual Machines.
• Install and configure of vRealize Automation, Application Services, vRealize Orchestrator.
• Integrate vRealize Automation with vRealize Operations 6.1 including Endpoint Operations (Hyperic) and vRealize Insight (Log Insight)
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage VMotion.
• Automated virtual machine builds using power shell, VB script and PowerCLI scripts.
• Responsible of web application deployments over cloud services on Azure, using VS and PowerShell.
• Good working experience in Azure Logic apps, Service Bus, Document DB and SQL Database.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates, and many more
• Building Windows 2008 R2, 2012, 2016 and 2019 Servers, Office 365, IIS, Lync, and upgrading Windows on both physical and virtual machines.
• Virtualized Windows server Migration using VMware Converter, PlateSpin Power Convert.
• Co-ordinated with the network team to plan the structure of network to be used for the new Esxi hosts like number of NICs, vLANs, subnets etc.
• Experience in deploying azure ad connects to synchronize Onprem active directory accounts to Azure AD.
• Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016, 2019 Virtual Machines in the Esxi host clusters.
• Administered Windows 2008/2012.2016 , 2019 Active Directory, SharePoint, Exchange, DNS, DHCP, WINS, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Configuring fault tolerance (FT) for critical VM's Configured and Managed VMware cluster with HA and DRS rules.
• Implemented SVCMM Microsoft System Center Configuration Manger R2 Cluster
• Deployed and updated services in n-tier architecture vCloud air environment.
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on vCloud air environment.
• Maintained awareness of business needs and changing technology landscape, relative to public cloud.
• Created Azure VMs and Storage accounts. Created ACS and integrated with applications, service bus to manage partner's access to the APIs, managed storage in table and blob using explorer tools (IAAS)
• Created Multiple subscriptions for various departments to Mange azure subscription consumption
• Migrated servers to new team foundations TFS.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Configuration of non-Profit Data center with OS images using Windows XP/7/8.1/10, Centos, Fedora and Debian Linux, wired and wireless network configuration.
• Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual
• Administered and maintained servers with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) SCCM.
• Managed 2008, 2012 R2, 2016 & 2019 servers in the Citrix Farm environment.
• Worked with Citrix end users and with application teams to install, improve or deploy updates to their applications installed in Citrix.
• Performed data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS, SAN & NAS Storage.
• Implementation of SRM on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment, vSphere Linked Mode and replicated storage, Configuring Sites Roles and Privileges, Alarms for monitoring the Site Status. Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites
• Proficient with RedHat Linux and Debian based operating systems, Installed Fuse to mount the keys on every Debian Production Server for password-less authentication.
• Huge Experience using VMware converter running different applications (.net, java), CRM, with Different Hardware. Worked with RMS, KMS, active directory, FTP, IIS, SCCM 2012, SCOM, WSUS.

Confidential -Indianapolis, Indiana

Windows/Wintel &VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Administration & Troubleshooting of Windows 2008R2/2012, 2016 (physical & virtual) domain controllers, sites, AD replication, DNS, WINS using, RDP/ILO (Compaq /HP), IMM on IBM HS22 blades.
• Installed and configured VMware infrastructure components, design implement and maintain VMware vSphere infrastructure.
• Created managed, modified, troubleshoot GPO’s using GPO Admin or GPMC.
• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client, workstation.
• Monitoring HPE Systems Insight Manager and reports or working directly with end users to reduce interruptions and server crashes.
• Resolved system-wide technical issues, mentored team members, and organized workflow and task assignments.
• Use PowerShell scripting to automate user processing and administration of system.
• Install, configure and maintain Windows Servers 2008 R2, 2012 R2, 2016 and troubleshoot server performance problems
• Health checks of the servers (dcdiag/netdiag/nltest/repadmin/replmonetc, VB scripts) and resolving directory & windows OS related issues.Worked onVMwareESX 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0 Installation and virtual machines setup using Virtual Infrastructure client.
• Manage & support a large client base Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2 in a multi domain/forest Active Directory of windows server on 24x7x365 basis in an enterprise infrastructure.
• Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Responsible for supporting application which hosted on Azure
• Worked with deployments, VMware NSX, Maintenance, change management and troubleshooting applications on Microsoft Cloud infrastructure Azure.
• Administration & management of delegation using Quest Active Roles server.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and capacity planning of VMware environment, proactively identify and perform hardware and software upgrades, provide technical guidance to other VMware administrators.
• Installed and administered Windows 2008 R2/ 2012/2016, Active Directory, DNS, GPO, XenApp, XenServer, XenDesktop, EdgeSight, Citrix NetScaler. Managed Virtual Servers supporting several applications.
• Pilot Internet Explorer 8 upgrade for the corporate desktop and Citrix environment.
• Troubleshoot Microsoft Windows Group Policy settings on desktop and Citrix servers.
• Monitoring, troubleshooting and problem resolution of IP Services - DNS, DHCP, and WINS, using Tivoli.
• Created templates from VM’s, deploy VM’s from templates and allocated resources.
• Need to gather data for User and computer migration and prepare for the file to be upload in Quest migration manager.
• Deployed Windows security and third-party software updates withWSUS andSCCM.
• Created TCP/IP scopes, maintained DHCP, DNS, and created group policies and permissions in Active Directory.
• Developed custom Identity Management component to synchronize Active Directory, LDAP, and legacy systems.
• Involved in creating theAzureServices withAzureVirtual Machine.
• Monitored infrastructure using MicrosoftSystem Center Operations Manager(SCOM).
• Developed custom web-based self-service identity management website using ASP.Net technology.
• Deployed Azure services for a hybrid-based authorization and encryption system.
• Worked on Share Point application to maintain the financial documents.
• Experience on Veeam Backup. Installing Maintenance Levels and updates onWintel/Windows Platform.
• Experience in configuring and management ofVMware Clusters,VMware DRS,High Availability (HA) andVMotion.
• Configuring FT for important High-End Vm’s. Taking caring of ESX and VM storage issues.
• Experience in configuringVMware vCenter Alarmsfor data store and host memory and CPU usage
• Coordinating with raising Support Tickets for ESX Hardware.
• Experience in setting upVMware standard vSwitchand ports groups (Service Console,Virtual MachineandVMKernel)
• Configuring HA, DRS, Storage DRS clusters. Taking care of capacity planning for new clusters.
• Troubleshooting Server crashes, unexpected reboots by analyzing the memory dumps with the help of debugging tools like WinDbg. Involved in Server new builds and Decommissioned process. VMware Migrations from 5.0 to 5.5, 6.0/6.5/6.7.
• Experience in configuringHardware iSCSIto Rack servers and add storage toVMware ESX hosts.
• Deployed VMware App Volumes and User Environment Management for faster application delivery, unified applications and user management to Horizon View Virtual desktops.
• Coordinated with storage teams and storage vendors on support tickets
• Experience inAWSIdentity and Access Management (IAM) components, including user, groups, roles, policies and password policies and provide the same to end user.
• Managed Windows 2008/2012/2016 Enterprise Cluster Servers for high availability.
• Experience in creatingVirtual Machineson Shared Data Store.
• Vcenters Administration handling HA, DRS Vmotion, snapshots etc. Troubleshooting ESX and ESXi servers.
• Analyze and build virtual servers for applications using Power Shell scripts in VMware and Windows.
• Coordinate with external vendors for hardware/software (HP/Microsoft/Quest/Symantec) related issues.
• Server administration and monitoring for physical VMware ESX servers and virtual machines, including Windows and Linux.Manage Microsoft infrastructure on VMware /VSphere environment.
• Use Remedy for ticket/change/incident management (ITIL process).
• Closely work with the application development teams to resolve any windows related issues.

Confidential, Springfield, Missouri

System Admin (Windows, VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Building new ESXi hosts from the scratch and Performed migration of all the VMs from ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0 with less downtime. Installing, Configuring & Trouble shooting of the new ESXi 5.5/6.0 in Cisco UCS B420 M4 Blade Server.
• Conversion of the old physical servers to virtual using VMware converter.
• Co-ordinated with the network team to plan the structure of network to be used for the new ESXi hosts like number of NICs, vLANs, subnets etc. Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2008 R 2 / 2012/2016.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of entire VMware Infrastructure i.e. vCenter, ESXi, VMware Update Manager (VUM), VMware Site Recovery Manger (SRM).
• Installed and configured VMware ESXi on several Cisco B-Series blades hosts from scratch at both (primary and backup) datacenters. Performed physical to virtual migration (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V) using VMware converter.
• Managing Active Directory components including Domain controller's installation
• Executed the migrating the existingv1 (Classic)Azure infrastructure intov2 (ARM), scripting and templating the whole end to end process as much as possible so that it is customizable for each area being migrated.
• ConfiguredAzure VPN-Pointto Site, Virtual networks, Azure Custom security, Endpoint security and firewall, Designed and configuredAzure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Configuring and Managing Virtual Networks, Storage, Memory and processers for the Virtual Machines.
• Worked onPivotal Cloud Foundry Applicationmigration and resolved issues.ided high availability forIaaS VMsandPaaSrole instances for access from other services in theV NetswithAzure Internal Load Balancer.
• UsedAzure OMS & Power BIfor visualizing the activities. Worked onAzure App Insights, Alerts and Log Analytics for Monitoring as part of OMS.
• PowerShell scripting for Automation - CreatingVM's, Virtual Networking, VPN, Key Vault, Load balancerandDisk Encryption.
• Administration of various network infrastructure components including Nexus 1000v, UCS Fabric Interconnect 6120/6140, Nexus 5548. Cisco UCS integrations with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN.
• Installed VMware VSphere Esxi 5.5 & 6.0 servers & Created virtual machines on ESXI Servers. Created standard Templates and deployed servers from the Templates
• Administration of Active Directory, sharepoint, exchange, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP and network administration skills in Windows 2003/2000/2008 , 2012, 2016 server and designed and successfully implemented VMware ESXI servers for server consolidation. Loaded Windows servers into Bigfix tool used for OS patching support and application
• Configured ESXI 4.0/ 5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0 with SAN Attached storage (LUN Assignments, Data stores)
• Utilized VMware Converter for Physical to Virtual/Virtual to Virtual conversion/Physical to Physical conversion. Windows Server and Desktop administration
• Experienced with SDLC and TFS, MS test, SVCMM TEST LAB, SCOM administration duties with motoring an maintenance with project build and test case build.
• Linked Different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance through vSphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment.
• Building new Windows Server 2003/2008/2010/2012/2016 on Intel Server Platforms, HP servers as per the company’s Windows build standards.
• Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, and Domain trust relationship, file and print services, user and group management.
• Implemented RAID5 for Fault Tolerance on Domain Controllers.
• Installed SQL server 2008 and deployed many SQL Cluster deployments for clients for database requirements.
• Experience in building VDI infrastructure using VMware View and VMware Horizon.
• Experience in building View Connection Server, View composer, Identity manager. Also Cloud Pod Architecture.
• Integration of VMware view infrastructure with the vCenter Environment.
• Installation IIS in Windows Servers and configured as per application requirements.
• Provided support for IIS related issues to different applications ad acted as a point of contact for any deployment related issue in Production’s deployments
• Image deployment through SCCM. Windows Server and Desktop administration
• Deployed about 200+ VDIS for users with windows 8 and windows 10 OS on them.
• Maintaining backups and restores of the Production and Development data.
• Worked in creating, cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware and migrating servers between ESX hosts usingVMotionand installed Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning on Unix/Linux systems.
• Created and maintained environment specific installation and configuration guide for P2V migrations, ESXI server, vCenter server, vSphere Clients, VMware Tools, Patch Upgrades.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory.
• Administering, troubleshooting, and automatingvSphere ESXi using Power CLI.
• Used PowerShell, PowerCLI scripts for migrating VM’s creating snapshots.
• Install, configure, monitor, Troubleshoot and administer Linux and Windows systems in physical and virtualized environment.
• Efficient on working with system performance and monitoring tools like SolarWinds and Splunk
• Part of a team of DevOps engineer for infrastructure support onAzure and GCP cloud.
• Working on Change Management and Request Management Tickets in Remedy Tool.
• Worked with the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, for taking the Incremental backup of the server.

Confidential, Wichita, Kansas

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and Configure VMWare VSphere 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 and vCenter Server 5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1
• Configure vCenter and ESXi security, vNetwork for standard and distributed switches, vSS/vDS policies
• Manage shared storage for vSphere and VMFS datastores, VM Clones/Templates, VMWare clusters, resource pools
• Create and deploy virtual machines, vApps, Implement VMWare fault tolerance and Patch Management,
• Troubleshoot, Monitor and Research Server alarms, Integrate VMWare view with Active Directory
• Patch Fiber, Configure CISCO MDS SAN switches
• Support VMWare environment including activities such as provisioning, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Build, Install, Configure, Troubleshoot and Support Windows 2003/2008/20012 servers, RHEL systems, Application servers (IIS, Web), Database servers (SQL, Oracle).
• Install and configure VMWare Cloud Automation center, policies, provisioning, and service entitlements
• Monitor systems in a 24x7x365 environment using (HP OpenView, BMC systems, HP Insight Manager, Sitescope)
• Develop, Document, and Implement daily procedures and disaster recovery of the VMWare environment
• Troubleshoot switches and routers
• Design, implement and monitor TSM, Client and server, Automate administrative Scripts and installation
• Troubleshoot, Support and Administer backups, Install, Configure and Troubleshoot Windows Servers
• Perform daily monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of backup jobs on various applications and platforms (MS Active Directory, Exchange, Oracle, SQL, SQL Server, Windows, VMware and Unix servers)
• Involved in programming using C, C++.
• Confirms program operation by conducting tests, modifying program sequence and/or codes. Involved in business meetings with users in gathering report requirements and translating the same into reports.
• Created report on biweekly and monthly basis and exported them in different formats (PDF and EXCEL) depending on user's requirement.
• Prepare release documentation for TEST and UAT (User acceptance testing) and Pre- production environments.
• Analyzed the queries using Statistics, Optimized, and fine-tuned the SQL using Explain Plan utilities for better performance.
• Effectively involved in Unit Testing and deployed the reports from development server for Testing and Production environment.
• Applying personnel programs experience, analyzes, develops and evaluates issues, and develops recommendations to resolve substantive problems and issues of effectiveness and efficiency of work operations in a major command program.
• Experienced with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) involving Systems Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation.

Confidential, Deerfield, Illinois

Sys Admin (Unix, VMware, Windows)

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Installing and Managing ESX/ESXi servers on HP, DELL and Installation of vCenter Server, vCenter Components and upgradingVMwareTools.
• Expertise in creating Datacenter Environment by creatingVMwareClusters, adding ESX(i) hosts in the Clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Hands on experience in implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management.
• VMwareStandalone Converter, PlateSpin tools are utilized for the P2V conversions.
• Created Snapshots according to user's requirement.
• Administered Microsoft Cluster Server with SQL server 2005/2008/2012.
• Maintained Web Servers by installing IIS 6 and 7, FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS6 and IIS7.
• Troubleshooting & testing of VDI instances.
• Installing, configuring, and troubleshootingVMwareView.
• Experience in Clones and Templates of Virtual Machines.
• Involved in troubleshooting of Virtual Networks and vSwitches.
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration.
• ConfiguredVMwareHA andDRS in acquiring higher efficiency forVMwareInfrastructure.
• Configured Domain Naming Server (DNS) and created forward/reverse lookup zones with associated pointer records.
• Expert Confidential AD, DNS, DHCP, File Server, IIS Web Server, FTP, Terminal Server, Windows Clustering, Exchange Mail administration.
• Experience with AD Group Policy, GPO, GPP, Users, Domain users and also handled permissions of users, Groups, File shares and Privilege to access LAN and Domain.
• Customized Windows 2003 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment.
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining HP ProLiant BL-series C-class blade servers and DL-series servers.
• Presenting Fiber channel SAN LUN's, RDM's iSCSI LUN's and NFS mounts.
• Hands on experience in creating vSwitches and different ports groups for different purposes.
• Managed NIC teaming Confidential ESXi server level for redundancy.