SUMMARY

• IT Professional with over 7+ years of experience in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration, Administration, Support of Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x, SUSE Enterprise Linux, VMware ESX 3.0/4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 , and vCenter Server 4/5.
• Experience upgrading Windows Server 2003 (win2k3) to Windows 2008 and 2012 on both physical and virtual machines to ensure server compliancy as part of the build process.
• Experience working Microsoft Active directory migration tool (ADMT) to consolidate legacy environments to new domains.
• Experience supporting Active Directory Migrations to consolidate HP environment into HPE global environments.
• Experience migrating all Linux LDAP configurations and Linux based AD groups to newer domains running on 2008R2.
• Experience designing and implementing a migration strategy to consolidate datacenters from all around the world as part of Refresh migration project using VMware Converter, PlateSpin, DoubleTake and configuring V2V, P2V, OVF migrations.
• Expertise in designing, implementing Active Directory (AD) roles, features and Windows Server 2008 and 2012
• Experience in developing documentation and runbooks for Datacenter/Active Directory consolidation plans via by coordinating with multiple datacenters across the US.
• Expertise in Administering and supporting Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2 Active Directory (AD), DNS, DHCP, WINS, Sharepoint, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010.
• Expert in Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 and VMware environments.
• Expertise in creating AD 2003, 2008, 2012 accounts, file permissions, DNS records administration.
• Experience configuring, maintaining and supporting Microsoft Cluster Server to maximize uptime.
• Provide 24/7 support in a 99.999 environment to maintain maximum uptime and ensure server reliability using monitoring products such as SCOM, MOM, HPOVSD and BMC Remedy.
• Experience implementing WSUS and SCCM for centralizing the OS and security patch management throughout the data center on the servers running windows operating system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft: Windows Server (2012, 2008 and 2003), MOM, SCCM, SCOM, WSUS.

VMware Products: Design and implement Virtual Infrastructure 4/5 with Virtual Center, ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x vMotion, HA, DRS, Managing Resource pools, ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Converter, Virtual Center, ESXi Patch management.

Storage: iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC CLARiiON, VMAX, VNX, NetApp 6240, 6040 FAS Solutions.

Hardware: Confidential Blade center HS - series/X-Series HS22/HS23, Cisco UCS B200’s B250’s M1’s M2’s HP BL460C, C-7000, DL580’s.

Racks and Cabling: Installation of Hardware, Cable Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Windows Systems Administrator/Active Directory Migration Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provision, installation and configuration and support of Windows 2008/2008R2/2012 Servers, upgrading Windows Server 2003 (win2k3) to Windows 2008 and 2012 on both physical and virtual machines to ensure server compliancy as part of the build process.
• Design and Implement a migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers, Active Directory environments which involved 6000+ servers of various Windows Server 2003/2008 versions to Windows 2012.
• Worked on Microsoft Active directory migration tool (ADMT) to consolidate legacy environments to brand new domains.
• Supporting Active Directory Migrations to consolidate HP environment into HPE global environments.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010 and building new windowsphysical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project
• Implementing GPO’s to control and monitor the environment.
• Provide 1st/2nd/3rd level support for Windows/ESXi servers running on a combination of HP/ Confidential /Cisco hardware.
• Migrate all Linux LDAP configurations and Linux based AD groups to newer domains running on 2008R2.
• Manage multiple projects as part of new refresh deployments to ensure all SLA’s are met along with using MS project and VISIO to engineer project deadlines.
• Configuring and Administering NFS, DNS, DHCP, CIFS, NTFS, FTP, SFTP, robocopy and LDAP on Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 server environment.
• Installation of ESXi 4.1/5/5.1/5.5 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM’sacross 10 Datacenters running 10000+ VM’s.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration ofVMwareESXi 5.0/5.1/ VirtualCenter 5.0/5.1, vCenterServers as well as upgrading to ESXi 5.5/Virtual Center 5.5.
• Configure QOS policies, Boot from SAN, MAC pools, WWPN pools, WWNN pools, BIOS policies, Boot Policies on CISCO UCS profiles.
• Responsible for capacity planning, design, install and configuration of newly provisioned CISCO 5108 enclosures, ESXi servers running B200’s, B250’s and migrating the old clusters to the new clusters building with V2V, P2V and OVF templates.
• Maintenance and support of Windows andVMwareenvironment for Global application consisting of more than 1000 servers running on various platforms.
• Work included contacting application team and hardware team to fix all hardware related issue and also communicate with security team to arrange data center access to hardware team.
• Active directory and group policy administration and server administration using scripting tools such as batch and PowerShell.
• Planning and configuring new internal & external websites utilizing IIS 6.0/7.0.

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Windows Server/Active Directory Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Windows Server 2003/2008R2 OS build, IP Configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds and Support & Administration.
• Active Directory user and security group creation, create shares and designate permissions, organizational units.
• Support the entire Active Directory migration project to move all desktops, laptops, servers, users and all Microsoft products to newer domains.
• Provide 1st/2nd/3rd level support for Windows/ESXi servers running on a combination of HP/ Confidential /Cisco hardware.
• Implementation of VMware vSphere 4.1/4.0 with Enterprise Plus Features of vDistributed Switch and Host Profiles Upgrade
• Upgrade and build VMware Infrastructure 3.5 to vSphere 4.1/4.0 and Update including vCenter4.0, ESX Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools and H/W upgrade to vSphere 4.0.
• Provides planning and technical support for company installations.
• Supported ongoing server consolidation to migrate physical servers to virtual environment
• Administered on the VMware Infrastructure 4.1/4.0 ESX, ESXi, HP Servers & Cisco network devices for the various Data Centers.
• Develop, test, and maintain a Disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• Provide 24/7 support to Middleware application servers (Weblogic, Tomcat, JBoss), Webservers (Apache, IIS, Oracle IPlanet) and Database servers (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL).
• Provide 24/7 support in a 99.999 environment to maintain maximum uptime and ensure server reliability in a large SAP environment using monitoring products such as SCOM and MOM.
• Supporting the windows server for various customers in shift basis.
• Perform daily systems monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs.
• Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Windows Server/Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with servers and Desktops
• Maintaining backups and restores of the Production and Development data.
• Involve in the installation Windows Server 2003 user environment including on hardware and software.
• Experience in both hardware and software level RAID Configurations & troubleshooting
• Network Attached Storage Implementations.
• Windows Server and Desktop administration.
• Added SAN Storage on a regular basis to clusters based on capacity requirements.
• Installing and Troubleshooting Servers through ILO.