SUMMARY

• IT System admin wif more TEMPthan 8 of experience working in VMware administration and Windows Administration, Implementation, Installing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of network and communication equipment.
• Very good work involvement in Installing, Maintaining, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Managing Blade Center server, Configuring and Zoning Storage Area Networks and SAN Switches and VMware ESX Server Administration
• Experience wif administrative role in creating, monitoring and managing user accounts and monitoring Service health in Office 365.
• Technical noledge & proficiency in Windows Servers, VMware and Infrastructure Administration, Window Servers.
• Expert noledge in Microsoft Exchange technologies Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, as well as Office 365 and Microsoft Lync 2010 and 2013.
• Exceptional noledge in creating team sites on SharePoint Online and SharePoint migration to Office 365.
• Prompt at installation, configuration and administration of Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 & 2012/2012R2 servers on HP, Dell Power Edge, IBM Xseries hardware platforms.
• Experience in installing & configuring DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2003//2008R2 & 2012/2012R2 servers.
• Good involvement in designing and overseeing. Investigating Physical, Virtual framework in Cloud and On Premise on Windows server, Active Directory, Networking, Storage, VMware, Hyper - V, AWS Cloud, Microsoft Azure (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS), MS Exchange, Office 365, PowerShell scripting, and Power Shell.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Proficient Experience in installation and configuration of VMware ESX 3.0/3.5, vSphere 5.1, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/6.0 , VMware Virtual Center 2.0/3.5/4.0/5.0/6.0 & 6.2.
• Expertise in area of virtualization wif vSphere, VMware ESX 5.x, 4.x and 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server till 5.5.
• Expertise wif designing, installing and implementing VMware ESX/ESXI server, VMware virtual center, setting up DRS, High Availability, V-Motion and related VMware products such as VMware converter, VM Workstation, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Troubleshooting of server hardware issues by coordinating wif teh hardware vendors
• Monitoring virtual clients through centralized virtual server.
• Hands on experience in building teh ESXi Servers
• Performed teh server migration from windows server 2008 to windows server 2012.
• Hands on experience wif VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines
• Hands on experience configuring High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) / Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversions using VMware Converter
• Creating new Virtual machines for various Operating Systems.
• Performed teh server migration from windows server 2003 to windows server 2008 and 2012.
• Sound noledge of VMware Networking concepts like creation of NIC teaming, VSwitches, different types ofport groups and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 5.X and Virtual Center and Vmotion
• Adding Hosts to vCenter, creating and managing virtual machines under teh hosts
• Deploying and cloning of virtual machines.
• TEMPEffectively involved in PowerShell scripting and automating process. Implemented teh following roles in a Microsoft Exchange environment: Edge Transport, Mailbox, CAS Array, Hub Transport & Unified Messaging.
• Experience providing cloud solutions through Office 365.
• Sound noledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Upgrading ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x, 5.x, 6.x -using VMware Update Manager.
• Experienced in performing Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• Experience in creating Virtual Machine Templates and deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources.
• Monitoring Server Health Status of teh CPU processors, Memory, Fans, Temperature and Voltage.
• Working on and Performing virtual machine configuration changes as per teh customer requirement.
• Hands on experience in writing power shell scripts and automated administration tasks using VB scripting.
• Experience in monitoring systems using SSCM, SCOM, VCOPS, monitoring tools
• Proficient in installing, configuring and troubleshooting windows 2008/2012 servers.
• Brilliant comprehension of Created Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and oversaw User stories. Participated daily stand-up meetings. Involvement wif virtualization tools, for example, VMware/Hyper-V Manager and Citrix XenApp.
• Worked wif Solar Winds deployment, Manage Virtual Machines using Virtual center and web access.
• Administering & Troubleshooting issues wifin apps on Citrix 7.8 using Citrix Director & Citrix Studio Work.
• Exposure on VMotion migration, High Availability feature, DRS feature and Setting VM priorities on CPU and Memory resources.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server in Windows based server environment.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: vSphere 6.0 /5.5/5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0 , ESXi 5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0,VMware converter 4/3 and VMware VMotion.

VMware Virtualization Skills: ESX/ESXi 4/5/6 VSphere 3 and 4, VI3, Virtual Center Server, P2V, V2V, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, VApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, VMware VSphere Client, VMware View 4, VMware ThinApp, Events & Alerts, Capacity Planning, Plate Spin Power Converter, VMware SDDC, VRealize Automation and VRealize Orchestrator.

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

Operating System: Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2, LINUX.

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

Storage: EMC Power Path, Symmetric/Clarion, NetApp.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Akron, Ohio

System Admin - Windows/Wintel & VMware

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, administration and maintenance of VMware ESXi 6.5, 6.0,5.5,5.1 hosts and Windows Server 2008 and Server 2012 Virtual Machines and VM templates.
• Build Windows 2012, 2012R2 OS and migrations from older versions
• Upgrades VMware environment 5.1/5.5 to 6.0 and 6.5 and upgrades all operating systems from windows and 2016
• Migrated Standalone servers using converters like Platespin and VMware converter. P2V and V2V migrations.
• Implementation of Public/Private cloud infrastructure using VMware vCloud Director.
• Automation of many tasks using Vmware Vrealize Automation center VCAC and implemented many custom workflows using VRealize Orchestrator vRO.Installed and Configured Windows 2012R2 servers, 10 desktops as an upgrade from Windows 2003, 7 OS.
• Resolved L2/L3 level troubleshooting incidents and changes through ITIL tool BMC Remedy.
• Deployed applications and software’s on Windows 2012R2/2008R2/10 as required.
• Worked on replacing NIC cards, motherboard and updating firmware’s on Dell blade servers.
• Used PowerShell scripting tool for automating teh Windows updates, security patches, creating packages through SCCM and providing/removing access to teh users and for troubleshooting issues. noledge in Integrating Virtual packages wif SCCM 2012.
• Provided best practice guidance on setting up and maintaining a solid patching solution using SCCM 2012 R2.
• Created Custom reports utilizing teh SCCM DB using custom SQL queries and SQL Reporting Services.
• Performed many hot/cold VM provisioning and P2V, V2V migrations using PlateSpin and Vmware Converter.
• Integrated VCAC wif Vcenter Server, VCloud Director vCD, vRealize Orchestrator vRO, VCenter Operations Manager vCops, vRealize Business vRB.
• Integrated on-premise active directory wifazureactive directory.
• ConfiguredAzureVirtual Networks (VNets), subnets,Azurenetwork settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.Virtualized around 1500 VM’s, Data center migrations.
• Vmware patch management using VMware Update Manager and updating all server Certificates.
• Experience in building VDI infrastructure using Vmware View and Vmware Horizon.
• Experience in building View Connection Server, View composer, Identity manager. And also Cloud Pod Architecture.
• Integration of VMware view infrastructure wif teh vCenter Environment.
• Distributed resources in teh VMware infrastructure using Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS.
• Troubleshootingof daily production, dev and QAT issues. Assigned storage in SAN and creation of VMFS data stores.
• Expert in VM’s network configuration. Configured Standard Switch/Distributed Switches in VCenter 5.x environment.
• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of VMware ESXI 5.5 & ESXI 6.0 Virtual Centre server.
• Administer users, groups, Organizational Units (OUs) and other AD objects on teh Active Directory Domains.
• Experience in deploying azure ad connect to synchronize Onprem active directory accounts to Azure AD.
• Expertise in Installation, Maintenance and troubleshooting of various Standard Build Windows operating systems.
• Upgrading ESXI 5.5 to ESXI 6.0 using VMware Update Manager.
• 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.
• Administered 200+ ESXI hosts, 40 Clusters running close to 4000+ virtual machines. Teh virtual environments were designed and build upon Cisco and HP blades.
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) / Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migration using VMware Converter. Configuring VCenter Single Sign-on server (SSO)
• Knowledge in SQL server configuration. Troubleshooting Active directory permissions.
• Migrated SQL Server 2008 database to Windows Azure SQL Database and updating teh Connection Strings based on this
• Done P2V, V2V conversions of Windows2000 and Windows2003 servers using Enterprise Converter.
• Configured VM’s HA, DRS, FT settings and also Configured permissions, Roles in VMware virtual center.
• Worked wif may backup platforms like EMC AWAMAR and also DATA DOMAIN.
• Active Directory AD integration wif VCenter Server, vCAC, vCloud Director vCD, vRO.
• Expert on DRS resource pool configuration and creating DRS rules.
• Experience on SharePoint administration on 2010 and 2013.
• Worked on Virtual Cloud director for cloud management.
• Designed VMware VSphere storage configuration using SAN, ISCSI, NFS. Worked on Fibre Channel switches and familiar wif all storage protocols.
• Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and fiber channel protocols, fiber channel cabling, switching, and zoning from hardware and Vcenter.
• Upgrading teh Server Builds. Upgrading teh NIC from 4gig to 10gig, teaming and VLan tagging for redundancy and fault tolerance.
• Managed around 200+ hosts wif more TEMPthan 4500 virtual machines in this environment
• Expert in automation & orchestration platforms centered around Vmware VRealize.
• Hands on experience wif citrix Xenapp, Xen Desktop.Install and update Citrix Patches on Servers.
• Packaging Citrix Applications using Rapid Deployment Tool and Citrix Install Manager.
• Installing and maintaining Citrix Web server.Creating Virtual Machine Templates, taking clone and Snap shots as per teh client requirement.
• Monitoring Server Health Status of teh CPU processors, Memory, Fans, Temperature and Voltage.
• Setting up and troubleshooting features like HA/FT/DRS wif EVC for teh Virtual Machines for business continuity.
• Worked on Remedy and Service Now ticketing system
• Configuring Virtual Switches, Port groups
• Setting up Alarms/alerts for teh infrastructure changes.
• Creating daily report on resource usage and resource availability.
• Performing teh VMware server health checks.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.Creating resource pools and adding VM's into teh VDI pools.
• Experience in Handling Cloud environments like AWS. Configuration management using Amazon Cloud Formation, Continuous integration wif Jenkins. AWS management (EC2, EBS, RDS, ROUTE53).
• Managing Cisco servers using Cisco UCS manager.
• Install and Management ofVMwareSite Recovery Manager (SRM) and Patch management. usingVMwareUpdate Manager for ESX server.
• Installed and configured vSphere ESXi on HP blade/Rack servers/Cisco UCS.
• Experience wif VMware system patching using Update Manager.
• Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory Services.
• Monitoring utility using tools like site scope. vCops, Solar Winds, RVtools.
• Excellent understanding of SAN, NAS storage architecture.EMC CX 480/960 SAN Storage Administration and Provisioning for ESX hosts.
• Involving in team meetings and work on teh enhancement projects based on teh priority issues.
• Work on Remedy and Service Now ticketing system and work wif SLA.

Confidential, Morrisville, North Carolina

VMware & Windows Sys Admin

Responsibilities:

• Involved in P2V, V2V Migration as per client Requirement.
• Performing teh changes through teh change management
• Installing and Maintaining Vcenter Servers.
• Worked on creating Custom Azure Templates for quick deployments and advanced PowerShell scripting.
• Taking regular backup of Vcenter Server machine.
• Hands on involvement wif Implementation, Maintenance, and upgrades in a corporate IT environment wif Windows desktops and servers (Physical/Virtualization). Providing high level desktop support for executive level users on Windows 7/8/10.
• Responsible for producing detailed implementation instructions and carrying out changes to complete tasks/projects.
• Administration, Troubleshooting and Monitoring of Microsoft Exchange 2010 Mail servers, Lync, Blackberry and Enterprise Vault servers and Office 365. Used tools such as VMware Converter and PlateSpin Power Convert to work on ESX Environment for teh P2V conversions.
• Deploying VM guest operating system through VCenter.
• Configured & Deployed ESX/ESXi server in corporate production environment.
• Implementation of VSphere, users and groups management.Worked on Vcenter Server to manage teh ESX/ESXI severs in data Centre.
• Worked wif Update Manager to apply patches on virtual machines.
• Creating Resource Pools and Setting limits on CPU and RAM.Working wif shell scripts & executing them.
• Implemented Citrix Farm XenApp 7.6 for Production and Development in High-Available mode using Vmware 5.5 hypervisor.
• Experience Using SCCM 2012 to deploy teh Packages both teh Windows Installer Package and Virtual Package.
• Packaged applications are managed by Group Policy and Deployed by SCCM Tool
• Monitored SCCM platform health and mitigated issues as needed.
• Plan and migrate servers, relational databases (SQL) and websites to Microsoft azure cloud.
• Involved in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2008/2003 Servers, and VMware ESXi Servers 3.0/3.5/4.0/5.0.
• Installation and configuration of VSphere 5.5 and 6.0 and VMWare Virtual Centers.
• Managing teh Exchange 2007/2013 Servers. Performed advanced trouble shooting of Exchange 2007/2013 server hardware & Office 365 including mail routing issues.
• Performing Migrations from On-premise to teh Cloud based Office 365 Environment and troubleshooting errors and problems encountered during migrations. Experience in Troubleshooting critical hardware and software issues and other day-to-day user trouble tickets.
• Adding Hosts to vCenter, creating and managing virtual machines under teh hosts.
• Creating cluster, configuring DRS, HA and adding/removing ESXi host from cluster.
• ESXi Host upgrades using VMware Update Manager. Monitoring teh backup using VEEAM tool.
• Creating and managing Resource Pools and adding teh VMs into Resource Pools.
• Configuring teh ILO on HP DL360, DL380 G9 series and Cisco UCS. Configuring teh ILO and deploying teh operating system.
• Performing teh BIOS level update as per teh requirement. Performing teh Root Cause Analysis for teh issues.
• Packaging Citrix Applications using Rapid Deployment Tool and Citrix Install Manager.
• Deploying, Configuring and Managing of Windows 2008 and 2012 Servers
• Installation of Windows 2003/2008/2012 servers as per teh Server Delivery Requests.
• Converting physical machines to virtual machines.
• Build Windows 2008 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 4, 5 and teh P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of as well as Linux servers to VMware. Worked DNS & DHCP Management, Application upgrades and maintenance.
• Working wif teh hardware team recognize teh hardware issues of teh servers.
• Implementation and management of Client end backup and Antivirus solutions.
• Email account creation and management using Office365 admin and Exchange.
• Active Directory configuration and maintenance including GPO administration.
• Hyper-V, VMware, and OVM configuration, management, and troubleshooting of VM units.
• Monthly security patch management to systems using WSUS server.
• Administration of Office 365 and MS Exchange 2010, 2013, Hybrid, Staged, Cut-over, IMAP Migrations.
• Monitoring and management of environment utilizing Solarwinds, ConnectWise, and LabTech.
• Opening and resolving trouble incidents and problems utilizing FreshDesk ticketing system.
• Conducted DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP configuration and maintenance. Migrated ADFS 2.0 server farm to ADFS 3.0.
• Microsoft Office365 setup and management (wif Azure synchronization).

Confidential, Long Beach California

System Admin (Windows, VMware)

Responsibilities:

• VMware implementation and troubleshooting VMware ESX 4.0 and ESXi 5.0 Hosts.
• Built and configured ESX 4.0 Hosts and deployed 2003/2008 VMware Virtual Guests.
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines wif VMotion.
• Proficient in managing ESX Hosts using VMware vCenter.
• Linked Different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance through vSphere client to manage teh whole Virtual environment.
• Building new Windows Server 2003/2008 on Intel Server Platforms, HP servers as per teh 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.
• VDI and XenDekstop technical liaison wif business areas and offshore vendors.
• Experience in building View Connection Server, View composer, Identity manager. Also Cloud Pod Architecture.
• Integration of VMware view infrastructure wif teh vCenter Environment.
• Experience working wif VMware SDDC. Migrated IIS6.0 to IIS7.0 using Windows Deployment Tool 2.0.
• Patching teh Production Servers during teh green zone window wif Security patches.
• Maintain teh Software deployment and management solution and ensure proper patching on client systems.
• Experience working wif VMware SDDC. Creating and managing VSwitches and port groups for teh ESXi servers.
• Performing snapshot related operation on VMs like taking snapshot, reverting snapshot.
• Performing virtual machine configuration changes.
• Hands on experience wif IBM Rack/Tower models X series, HP Blade System C-class enclosures.
• Deploying and cloning of virtual machines.
• Performance monitoring of ESXi servers, VM’s by using vCenter Server.
• Creating VM templates, Snapshots, Cloning, and patching on servers.
• Re configuring VMs as per teh requirements: Hot add and Hot plug, extend hard disk.
• Creating virtual switches & port groups in virtual environment.
• Maintain teh Domain environment, including setting policies as per teh Security settings.
• Worked wif may backup platforms like EMC AWAMAR and also DATA DOMAIN.
• Defining group permissions and creating local and global groups wif account policies using Enterprise Administrator. Creating user rights and defining local and roaming profiles.
• Responsible to maintain teh server inventory and document teh server build/decommission, application installation/configuration, backup verifications, Operating System user accounts auditing, etc.
• Working on Change Management and Request Management Tickets in Remedy Tool.
• Experience in configuring and enabling VMware EVC on VMware Clusters.
• Experience wif VMware system patching using Update Manager.
• Installing and configuring vCenter 5.0 Server and Update Manager.
• Installing ESX servers & virtual center. Adding teh ESX to teh VC/ Virtual machines to an ESX sever / P2V to an ESX server.
• Migrating and Importing Virtual Machines P2V, V2V.
• Administered Microsoft Exchange server and performed Exchange client installations.
• Server and Client installation. Installing and integrating FTP.
• Experience in configuring and management of VMware Clusters, VMware DRS, High Availability (HA) and VMotion.
• Experience in setting up VMware Standard vSwitch and Ports groups (Service Console, Virtual Machine and VMkernal).
• Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates, worked wif Clones and Snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Experience in creating Virtual Machines on Shared Data Store.
• Managing, troubleshooting and administering Veam impage level backups for VDI infrastructure servers.
• Worked wif teh IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, for taking teh Incremental backup of teh server.
• Rack-mounted servers like IBM & Dell hardware, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Involved in teh storage operations on all teh models of VNX 5300, 5500, 5700, VNX-e 3100 and closely worked wif EMC team on VMax storage as well.
• Installing ESXI on Cisco UCS blades and C200 racks, using scripted installations, configuring and hardening ESXi servers.
• Administration of various network infrastructure components including Nexus 1000v, UCS Fabric Interconnect 6120/6140, Nexus 5548. Cisco UCS integrations wif Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN.
• Work on Remedy and Service Now ticketing system and work wif SLA.
• Taken responsibility for upcoming issues.
• Work on on-call rotation for 24/7 support.

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

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(me) hosts in teh 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 teh P2V conversions.
• Created Snapshots according to user's requirement.Administered Microsoft Cluster Server wif SQL server 2005.
• Maintained Web Servers by installing IIS 6 and 7, FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS 6 and IIS 7.
• 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 Netbackup Client.
• Applied patches on Windows servers and workstations wif Company standards.
• Configured Domain Naming Server (DNS) and created forward/reverse lookup zones wif associated pointer records.
• Expert at AD, DNS, DHCP, File Server, IIS Web Server, FTP, Terminal Server, Windows Clustering, Exchange Mail administration.
• Experience wif 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 at ESXi server level for redundancy.Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter Update Manager.
• Performed vMotion and Storage vMotion in teh day-to-day activities.