SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience with expertise in Windows Administration and VMware administration, Implementation, Installing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of network and communication equipment.
• Practical work experience in Installing, Maintaining, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Managing Blade Center server, Configuring and Zoning Storage Area Networks and SAN Switches and VMware ESX Server Administration.
• Installing patches and software upgrades recommended by IIS server.
• Installed and configured Win 2012 R2 print server.
• Configured and managed IIS 6.0/7.0.
• Technical knowledge & proficiency in Windows Servers, VMware and Network Administration, Window Servers.
• Provides in depth technical expertise in IAM technologies with a primary focus on Active Directory, Federation, Azure AD, AADsync (Azure ADsync), AAD connect (Azure AD connect).
• Executed POC work for AD and Azure AD related efforts.
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMware ESX/ESXi.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Build Data Sync job on Windows Azure to synchronize schools data from SQL 2012 to SQL Azure.
• Expertise in area of virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESX 6.x, 5.x, 4.x and 3.x hosts& Virtual Center server till 5.5.
• Deployed key VMware ESX/ESXi technologies, expertise with HA/DRS, P2V. ESX migrations from 4.1 to 6.0 to VSphere 5.0, 6.0.
• Experience on Red hat Linux Server & Desktop Environment using through Virtual Machine under VMware.
• Experience in Package management using RPM and YUM in Red Hat Linux.
• Installing, upgrading, and configuring RHEL 3, 4, 5 and 6 using Kickstart.
• Experience in installing, configuring, supporting and troubleshooting Unix/Linux Networking
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMware ESX/ESXi.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Involved in Design, Planning and Implementing Migration activities to move application from Solaris 9 & 10 to Red Hat Linux Environment.
• Experience working on IBM P/E series, IBM XSeries 346, 3650, 3650m2/m3, HP and Dell PowerEdge hardware.
• Experienced in configuring DNS, DHCP, WINS and Active Directory Services in Windows based server environments.
• Managed public/private cloud infrastructures utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS), including EC2.
• Performed configuration, deployment and support of cloud services including Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with deployment to VDI environment such as Updates/patches/Applications.
• Maintaining the File Server and Print Server and cloning the desktops on network in Windows Environment.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel).
• Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types ofPort groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management.
• Upgrading ESX 5.0 to 6.0 - using VMware Update Manager.
• Experienced in performing Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• 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.
• Maintaining Data in an offshore environment as a part of a Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Intermediate understanding of powerCLI (windows/VMware)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: ESX/ESXi Server, vSphere 6.0, VMware converter 4/3 and VMware VMotion.

VMware Virtualization Skills: ESX 6.0/5.5/5.0/4.1/4.0, ESX 3.5, ESXi, vSphere 5 and 6.0, VI3, Virtual Center Server, P2V, V2V, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, VRO, VDI, vCenter Operation Manager, vCenter cloud automation, vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware Management Assistant, VMware vSphere Client, VMware View 6, VMware ThinApp, Events and Alerts, Capacity Planning, Plate Spin Power Converter, SaaS.

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, Ethernet, Token Ring.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers and Dell Power Edge Servers.

Windows Skills: .NET, Winxp, IIS, Windows 2012, SaaS, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS.

Office Tools: MS office 365, MS Visio, MS Project, RV tools.

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior VMware/Windows Admin

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting of VMware ESX 6.0/5.5/5.0/4.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center. P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Installing patches and software upgrades recommended by IIS server.
• Installed and configured Win 2012 R2 print server.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Chassis 7000, DL380P GN8.
• Design, Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of SCCM and SCOM 2012.
• Setting up infrastructure for monitoring through SCOM 2012 and developing management packs as per the requirement.
• Served as a Tier 3 Domain Admin to handle routine SCCM 2012 tasks (Creation of collections, packages, advertisements, queries, reporting, testing, troubleshooting packages, monitoring advertisement status, and SCCM Software updates.
• Provided Risk Assessment and remediation guidance for SCCM 2012 infrastructures.
• Administration of VMware ESX, ESXi Servers using vCenter Server, experienced with VCenter operations manager (VCOP's).
• Hands on experience in updating/upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Managed VMware ESX (i) hosts using vSphere client and Web client.
• Deployed over 1,000 VMs in a week to support a migration from Windows 2008 to Windows 2012 R2.
• Build Windows 2k3, 2k8, 2k8R2 and 2k12, 2k12R2 os and deployment of 2k3, 2k8, 2k8R2 and 2k12, 2k12R2 servers.
• Performed Data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on NetApp's NFS, dell ISCSI SAN Storage.
• Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting, organize tasks, events and Configuring alarms
• Worked on iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID (0, 1, 3, 10, 01, and 5) concepts.
• Virtualized around 1200 VM's, Data center migrations
• Performed V2V and P2V Migrations of Physical Hosts to ESX/ESXi Hosts using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client and PlateSpin.
• Worked with the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, for taking the Incremental backup of the server.
• Implemented and Analyzed OS patches and fixes the issues on other OS patterns and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool.
• Migrated IIS6.0 to IIS7.0 using Windows Deployment Tool 2.0
• Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
• Played a vital role in Creating Virtual Machines, Cloning virtual machines, converting P2V (used standard VMware converter tool), VM-Provisioning (Linked clones, thin disks, de-duplication) taking Snapshots of virtual servers, HA, DRS, VMotion.
• Created host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux on Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant and VMware ESX.
• Administered the UNIX System for clustered HP Servers with fiber attached SAN.
• Installation of SAMBA utility software for sharing files with Windows hosts
• Managing Disks/File systems using Logical Volume Manager for Red Hat Linux.
• Designed and Implemented WCF services layer hosted on Windows Azure. This layer is the middle tier between SQL Azure and SharePoint online external content.
• Created Cache Memory on Windows Azure to improve the performance of data transfer between SQL Azure and WCF services.
• Designed and Implemented Database Schema, Imported School data and build stored procedures on SQL Azure
• Maintained optimal Exchange server health by using Quest server products such as Spotlight on Messaging for Exchange.
• Produced server reports to higher management using third-party tools.
• Familiarity with the latest attack trends, tools, and the threat landscape and how to defend against them
• Engineer and implement new security tools to feed analytics-driven Security Operations Center.
• Actively assess exiting production infrastructures, identifying security issues and prioritizing fixes.
• Managed and performed process that built over 15,000 virtual desktops in less than 9 months, automated the process using scripts and PowerCLI.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Share pointServer 2007 Administration.
• Planned and Migrated Outlook mail boxes to Office 356 environment.
• Maintained and patch "VUM" all 3.5 and 4.0 infrastructure of over 30 vCenter servers, over 1500 ESX hosts.
• Installed windows operating system remotely over the network using WDS.
• Responsible for creating forefront IAM through which you can automatically pull out employee information from .csv file.
• Engineering and administration of server infrastructure for all Dev, QA, and Production IAM systems.

Environment: Exchange Server 2016, Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012, Linux Servers, PowerCLI, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0, PowerShell, VMwareESX4.0, VCAC5.1, 5.2 VMware View 6, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, P2V, V2V, VMotion, HP DL360PG6, G7, G8, HPC700, IIS environment.

Senior VMware/Windows Admin

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured ESXi 5.5 infrastructure environment for huge Data Center migration.
• Performed physical to virtual (VMware) Migrations for over 180 servers using VMware Converter Standalone.
• Installation of vCenter server and its components.
• Troubleshooting IIS application based on monitoring and logs generated on the server.
• Monitoring of vSphere licensing.
• Maintained high degree of competency across the Microsoft Application Platform, focusing on .NET Framework, WCF, Windows Azure, AppFabric, and SQL Azure.
• Worked on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 r2, Active Directory/LDAP and Group Policy administration in a hybrid-cloud configuration (Windows Azure) with 40+ replicated sites.
• Develop PowerShell script to automate Active Directory and server tasks and Generate reports for administrators and management.
• Involved in Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP.
• Performed Life Cycle Management for ESXi hosts.
• Worked on capacity planning and management of Virtual machines in VMware environment. Implemented rapid provisioning and life cycle management for Redhat LINUX using kick start.
• Expertise in security hardening (iptables/selinux) major Production Servers, and compiling, building and installing web server based Linux tools.
• Worked on Microsoft Office 365 (Installed, Configured, Documented fixes and common issues).
• Working practices in a collaborative working environment with Microsoft and Logical is in migrating the AD objects its attributes and resources, VMs (VMware, Hyper-V and physical Servers) Exchange and SharePoint.
• Implementation of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solutions for remote global users.
• Created vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup. LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multi pathing.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).
• Implemented VMware Horizon View and VMware VSAN for a VDI solution for remote workers and developers.
• Virtualized software applications utilizing Thin App, streaming to a zero client and fat client environment.
• Designed a training environment for the technicians to train on building a datacenter that includes domain controller, DHCP, DNS, Exchange, and Open Filer server.
• Migration of all the legacy ESX/ESXi v5.x to 6.x, in the current environment all hosts are migrated to 6.0 and we are in the phase of moving to 6.0 Update2 in a converged infrastructure (VCE vBlock).
• Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration and Production environments and across Datacenters. Hands on experience with configuring Cisco UCS.
• Maintaining the file server, application and Print Server, IIS Server.
• Deployed Virtual machines, configured them with IP, installed VMware Tools and hardware.
• Configured and managed IIS 7.0/8.0.
• Install missing backup and monitoring blade logic agents as necessary per company standards.
• Ensure Trend Micro deep security agents are installed and active on the server.
• Ensure CMDB is updated and accurate per server specifications in preparation for go live change process.
• Configuring HA, DRS clusters, creating Affinity rules and configuring FT when required.
• Worked with the storage team to resolve ESX and VM storage issues.
• P2V Hot and cold conversions using converter enterprise 4, 5 and 6.0.
• Updating and upgrading ESX servers using Vcenter Update manager.
• Storage VMotions according to the requirement.
• System Analyst for Windows servers.
• Wrote various Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 then to Exchange 2007 migration documentations
• Wrote, reviewed and updated documentation for Exchange server builds
• Tested and verified procedures and troubleshoot any problems that the helpdesks reported
• Evaluated and installed Quest for Exchange and Active Directory tools, solved issues with the vendor.
• Experience with troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory.
• Creation of custom tools and scripts to meet business and regulatory requirements.
• Evaluation of new enterprise IAM solutions to ensure compliance with changing business requirements.
• Administration and support for PING Identity clusters.
• Responsible for Microsoft exchange server 2013, SQL and database server.
• Maintained Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall for Exchange Server.
• Successfully Migrated Win XP users to Windows 7 using USMT (User State Migration Tool).
• Designed online tools for managing ongoing PCI compliance management
• Delivered presentations on security topics at industry events
• Redesigned the company website and made it easier to use, in addition to other internal improvements.

Environment: vSphere 5.5/6.0, Exchange Server 2013, Fiber Channel - SAN, ISCSI, NFS (NAS), SRM 4.5 to SRM 5.X, Windows server 2008/2012, Active Directory, DNS,DHCP, SQL and database server, SaaS Environment, IIS Server, .NET environment.

VMware Admin/Windows Admin

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• InstalledVMwarevSphere5 and created virtual machines on ESX 5.5 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Worked on various infrastructure projects surrounding Servers consolidation, Physical to Virtual Migrations, Storage and Server Management.
• Responsible for the management of servers and duties include regular and proactive monitoring of servers, responding the alerts.
• Monitoring and updating Trend micro for Exchange server.
• Hands on experiences on McAfee EPO with deploying and removing agent on client's machine, removing virus and manually updating DAT files.
• Configuring Cisco ASA 5505 and 5506 like device set up, firewall, remote access VPN, and device management.
• Worked on Central Management Server (vCenter Server) to manage all the ESXI hosts in the datacenter.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• ConfiguredVMwareon clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage VMotion.
• Deployed new vSphere 5 infrastructure for VDI implementation.
• Performed VM Storage migrations to new EMC and Netapp storage arrays.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines usingVMwareConverter.
• Racked and installed ESXi servers and added to vCenter clusters.
• Responsible for building and deploying servers running Windows 2008 R2, and Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, and Red Hat).
• ConfiguredVMwareHA,VMwareDRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency forVMware Virtual Infrastructure.
• Worked onVMwareUpdate Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines.
• Performed datastore migration usingVMwarestorage vMotion.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Exchange Management Console.
• Expanded e-mail capabilities through interconnecting Microsoft Exchange implementing Internet Mail Service (IMS) and deploying Outlook Web Access
• Building VM's and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.
• Collecting asset inventory of desktops and laptops using SCCM2007.
• Collect application usage data and remove unused software using Software metering
• Running different reports software/hardware inventory reports using SCCM and share with management
• Creating VBscrit/PowerShell scripts to automate tasks with SCCM.
• Working on release management, Incident management, Problem management and Change management according to ITIL process
• Good experience in configuring, optimizing and troubleshooting of Linux/Unix servers and the Networking setups.
• Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for NLB and redundancy.
• Performed security monitoring tests to identify intrusions.

Environment: VMware Vsphere, ESXI 5/5.5, DRS, VMotion, FT, Cloning, Templates, Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, VMware lab manager, vconverter, Linux/Unix servers, P2V conversion.

Windows & Network Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring & Managing Active Directory in Windows 2003
• Active Directory Group policy management
• Single-Forest and Multi-Domain Active directory administration for 5000+ USERS
• Deploying, Configuring and Managing of Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers
• Support and maintain VMware vSphere Server Virtualization Environment
• Install configure and manage VM machines and templates
• Converting physical machines to virtual machines
• DNS & DHCP Management
• Providing application virtualization solutions with APP-V, VMWare Thinapp
• Coordination, support and troubleshooting of various Financial and IT Applications in Windows and Linux
• Managing Linux Enterprise version 5
• Implementation and management of Client end backup and Antivirus solutions
• Supporting Disaster Recovery Planning and Activation
• IIS Management
• Scripting and automating tasks using VBScript and PowerShell
• IT Asset Management using CA Unicenter
• Automated software Delivery and image deployments using CA Unicenter 12.
• Building self-portal for Automate delivery of applications using CAPAM
• Automated software and Hardware Inventory for all assets in IT infrastructure using CA Unicenter.
• Managing Symantec ghost Server for images
• Creating images of Windows XP and Windows 7 OS
• Deploying images with RIS(Remote installation Services) an configuring with Sysprep tools
• License management which includes keeping track of license and authorized users.
• Automated Job scheduling for different systems in IT infrastructure.
• Periodically upgrade/ Migrate CA with the version approved by IT security.
• Report generation for all the different inventories.
• Complete application virtualization, testing and publishing it to authorized users.
• Application upgrades and maintenance
• Trouble shooting the virtualized application issues
• App-V & Symantec server setup with redundancy and disaster recovery
• App-V package creation and deploy the packages in Production
• APP-V application server Upgrade\Patching.
• Understanding and assessment of various vulnerabilities.
• Tracking all systems for critical vulnerabilities using Qualysis
• Taking appropriate steps to remove and control these vulnerabilities
• Complete testing of security patches and deployment of these patches on vulnerable system.
• Reporting and appropriate escalations of various vulnerabilities for corrective actions.

Environment: - VMwarevSphere4.1, Windows server 2000/2003, DNS, IIS, DHCP, FTP, backup exec, Sophos, CA Unicenter 11, APP-V, Thin App, Symantec

Windows Administrator

Confidential 

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Maintaining Windows2003 and Windows 2008, 2008 R2 Servers.
• Worked with all components of HP (Smart Start, Insight Manager, Diagnostics and Network Configuration Utility) etc.
• Teaming NIC's using HP Teaming software for redundancy during failures.
• Update patches on Servers Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc.
• Resolved Problems related to Disk Space Usage.
• Resolved problems related to performance metrics such as Processor Usage, Memory etc.
• Perform day-to-day operation and troubleshooting of VMs.
• Keep Virtual hardware and VMware tools updated to keep a healthy environment.
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Experience in installing and configuring Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers from ILO management tool on Rackservers and Cisco blades.
• Creating Gold Templates and cloning.
• Responsible for day-to-day administration and monitoring of Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Terminal servers
• Work with storage team to create LUNs/NFS and Map it to VMware vSphere ESX (i) hosts.
• Experience in configuring VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VMKernal port Group sand VLANs.
• Experience in installing and configuring VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware vCenter Appliance.
• Experience in Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP.
• Configuration of Pre failure mechanisms alerts for all the servers.
• Define acceptable performance threshold for CPU/HDD/RAM utilization for assigned servers and monitor them regularly.
• Installing and configuring quota management in windows 2008.
• Installing and configuring Hyper-V in Windows bit editions.
• Remote Administration using terminal service.
• Generating reports software compliance using ESM.
• Monthly Health reports for all the servers and network devices.
• Monitoring ILL Bandwidth and latency.

Environment: VMWare ESX Server 3.5/4.0, vCenter 2.5/4.0, vSphere 4.0, VI 3.5, Active Directory, Windows 2003/2008, SAN, Fiber.