SUMMARY

• Over 8.1 years of experience in Windows System Administration, VMware, and having experience in deploying Support and Solutions, Infrastructure Management and Microsoft technologies.
• An accomplished System Admin with extensive experience as a self - directed committed and diligent team player and can achieve key strategic initiatives and instills customer loyalty
• Having strong academic background in IT combined with excellent experience as a Windows System Administrator.
• Managing client accounts and successful initiation, execution & delivery of Projects in VMware.
• Administration of ESXi infrastructure for support and creating old and new infrastructure across the globe. Resource Sizing, resource management etc.
• Moderate testing experience in Microsoft HyperV and Citrix XenServer
• Troubleshot networking issues from cabling, ISA proxy destination/user sets, DHCP reservations (Windows Server 2k/03), and migration.
• Driving the Project for identifying Drivers, patches, firmware (network, OS etc.), testing them on Test Infrastructure and applying on Production environment
• Experience creating Microsoft Installer (.msi) packages.
• Microsoft System Center Configuration ( SCCM) 2012.
• Infrastructure improvement and management on vBlock 300 and vBlock 540.
• Managing Access Control through vCenter Server, Optimizing Resource Utilization, Load Balancing (VMware DRS) and ensuring High Availability (VMware HA).
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION usingVMwarevCenter Converter.
• Experience with 32 bits/64 bits X86 server products of HP, IBM, and Dell, Cisco UCS
• Experience in installation and configuration of vSphere 6.0/5.1, and vSphere 5.5 products.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFSstorage and RAID (0, 1, 10, 01, and 5) concepts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware vSphere 6.0/5.5/5.1,Workstation 11/10, ESX Server 6.0/5.5, VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Standalone Converter 5.5, VMware Update Manager, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI, VMware View.

Operating System: Windows Server 2012/2008 R2, Windows Server 2012/2008/2003 .

Application Servers: Microsoft Active Directory 2012/2008/2003 , DHCP, DNS, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0/7.0, SCCM.

Desktop Application: Microsoft Office 2010/2007, Outlook 2010/2007, Star Office, VMware Workstation 11/10.

Networking Equipment: CISCO Routers 17xx, 26xx, 36xx and 76xx Series, CISCO 29xx, 39xx Series Switches, CISCO IOS 10.x 11.x and 12.x, IBM Routers and switches

PROTOCOLS: MS Visual Studio 2012/2010/2008/2005 , Adobe Dream weaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, MS Visio.

STORAGE: NAS (NFS), SAN and ISCSI

Others: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, BootStrap, CMS, WordPress, AngularJS 1.x

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charleston West Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Worked on maintaining the servers, by connecting remotely to view the health status of the server.
• Worked on installing, configuring, maintaining and administering the Windows NT/ 2002/2003/2008/2012.
• Performed migration from Vcenter 5.5 and ESXi hosts to 6.0 Vcenter and upgraded the ESXi hosts with minimal downtime for the virtual machines.
• Worked on designing and configuring the ESXi infrastructure environment for huge data center migration.
• Involved in performing the migration from physical to virtual VMware for over 180 servers using VMware standalone converter
• Migrating NT server files and granting permission for both NTFS and share permissions.
• Resolved the file accessing issues, sharing public folder issues when disconnected from server.
• Pro-Actively monitored Service Now ticketing system to resolve the tickets within specified SLA.
• Worked on migrating the exchange accounts to Office 365.
• Providing the mobile access to office mail through Office 365.
• Worked on management tickets and incident tickets supporting field staff for maintain the logons and workflow and granting access to the Public folders and Mail box issues.
• According to the user requirement worked on increasing the mail box size by server exchange and also granted the privileges as per user requirement.
• Created PowerShell scripting for administrative tasks and management of the server infrastructure.
• Using PowerShell Maintained the Stale User list, Stale Computers list across the State.
• Managed and maintained virtual computing environment based on VMware and administration computer systems with windows and Linux kernel.
• Monitored MacAfee Antivirus and Trend Micro Service.
• Creating Cloud mailboxes, shared mailboxes and Distribution Groups. And also converting shared to user, user to shared mailboxes. Outlook permission issues and mailbox share permissions.
• Worked on troubleshooting the network problems, server, hardware failures, operating systems and application issues network connectivity issues to minimize downtime.
• Applied latest windows and security patched to all the servers by installing and administration of SCCM 2012
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS and DHCP.

Environment: WindowsServer OS 2012/ 2012/2008/2003 , Exchange Server 2003,2008,2012. Win 7, 8. Dell H/W Blade Servers on enclosure MX630.

Confidential, Charleston, WV

Windows VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration and Supporting Virtual infrastructure remotely (ESX hosts globally, vCenter, Installations) hosted globally in United States.
• Responsible for End to End ESXi/vCenter infrastructural and virtual platform issues such as HA, DRS, vMotion, Host profiles, Networks and Data stores etc.
• Driving the Project for identifying Drivers, patches, firmware (network, OS etc.), testing them on Test Infrastructure and applying on Production environment.
• Worked on setting up the Dell VRTX and blade servers for duplicating and supporting Disaster Recovery project.
• For the continuity process installed Double take on each server to replicate the old server in to a new blades.
• Responsible for building, configuring, migrating VMware ESXi hosts and Vcenter Servers
• Created the virtual machines for Linux and Windows, from the templates.
• Worked on creating clusters, adding ESXi hosts to clusters, adding storage and performing QA at cluster level.
• Installed Windows 2003/2008/2012 Servers on a standalone and blade servers based on application design.
• Worked on configuring the VMware on the cluster environment and also implemented vMotion, DRS, HA.
• Worked on performing P2V hot and cold conversion using converter enterprise 5 and VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Completed Physical to Virtual (P2V), Virtual to Virtual (V2V), and Virtual to Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2003/2008
• Patched VMware ESXi server 5.0 through VUM and upgraded the Vcenter server to latest build.
• Worked on configuring VDS and migrating the network from standalone switches to VDS
• Worked on remote tools for the ticketing process on fixing the incident reports and change requests.
• Using PowerShell scripting and predefined utilities worked on managing the Critical Servers CPU’s performance to ensure the production continuity.
• Administered production servers/network infrastructure dat includes Windows Administration of Domain controllers, DNS, DHCP, Exchange/2010/2007, NAS, terminal Server, Printer Server and File on Windows 2010/2008/2003.

Environment: ESXi 5.0/5.1, vCenter Server, Cloning, Snapshots, HA in Clusters, DRS, WindowsServer OS 2000/2003/2008/2012 , WindowsClient OS XP /Win 7, NetApp FC SAN/NAS storage, HP ProLiant G3, G5 and G7 servers, HP Blade Servers on enclosure c3000 and c7000,Citrix XenApp 5.0, Citrix Xen Desktop VDI, AWS, Remote desktop services.

Confidential, Erie, PA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implements, configured and maintained existing and new Microsoft Windows Server operating systems (2003/200/8/2008 R2, 2012).
• Performed regular system backups and disaster recovery procedures as well as data recovery utilizing Veritas NetBackup.
• Configured SAN disk and volumes through Veritas enterprise administrator.
• Server building and virtualization using VMwareESXi 5.0
• Managing the DNS and DHCP configuration.
• Troubleshooting LAN and WAN components specifically, CISCO routers, switched and firewalls.
• Handle daily Tier One support tickets from end user.
• Participated in weekly information systems security meetings to discuss and review weekly scans and identify the potential threats.
• Daily maintenance tasks, Daily servers reboot, Server checks, report generations, disk checks etc.
• User Management on Juniper VPN Firewall, Managing and maintaining file and print server on windows server 2008
• Installed, configured and administeredwindowsServer 2008/2008R2, 2012/2012R2 with various roles and features including AD DS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS, Web server and SQL database server
• Responsible for OS and Application deployment through Altiris Server. Handling Device Wall software for Endpoint Security Protection
• Provide Remote Support and administration on network for internal and external clients using tools like Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (RDP)
• Configured and managed the WSUS server for over 150 client computers and servers to apply update patches.
• Set up, implemented and manage the user account and security policies in Active Directory.
• Performed daily maintenance on server and services and assist in maintaining the network service such as DHCP Active Directory, DNS, RDP and VPN.
• Worked on configuring and maintain the client computer system and printers in network environment.
• Installed and configured ILO cards in HP ProLiant servers.

Environment: Active Directory DNS, DHCP, SQL 2008/2005,VMwarevSphere 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, ESX/ 4.0, 5.0,VMware,WindowsServer 2008/2008 R2, Virtualization (Hyper-V andVMware), P2V, V2V Migrations, TCP/IP, IIS

Confidential, Bloomington, IL.

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Windows Server and network infrastructure for the business clients.
• Troubleshot various problems with new and existing client infrastructure.
• Worked on setting up the VMware environment from base.
• Utilized VMware 5.0 and Hyper-V virtualization for server infrastructure.
• Worked on configuring and manipulating SCCM products.
• Understanding of the customer’s Service Level Agreement (SLA).
• Resolve all escalated faults within the SLA time frames
• L1 support for network and server related problems.
• Created documentation for the internal systems dat originally had highest point of escalation for helpdesk staff.
• Minor networking work with Cisco Catalyst and Nexus 7000 switches.
• Planned and implemented Active Directory and Group Policy redesign.
• Worked on managing the HP blade server and created packages for the various software deployment.
• Configured third party software and scripts to automate patching servers, desktops, software.
• Maintained group policy for the DNS, DHCP, and DFS.
• Created new images for new computers/servers with new OS and desktop support.
• Trouble shooting of Local Area Network Connection, Experience in troubleshooting of hardware as well as network related problem.
• Installing, Configuring and Administering of Local and Network Printers
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of MS Office, Outlook Express, MS Outlook.
• Analyze technical issues and coordinating troubleshooting and triage sessions.
• Provided the backup and recovery of the files and data, worked on Windows Firewall, Terminal Server, and Troubleshooting computer related problems. Attending client calls related to computers and network problems

Environment: Exchange servers /WindowsServer 2008/R2/2012,DNS servers

Confidential

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Maintained daily operation for the Windows Server infrastructure and components.
• Installed and updated the Windows patches.
• Created NTFS shares on Windows Server and provide permissions to users.
• Analyzed the performance issue by setting up Windows Server.
• Worked on maintaining and updating the active directory for autantication purpose.
• Cluster the Windows server to reduce the load on the application.
• Provided the end user support, mail and login administration, antivirus support and troubleshot the printer issues.
• Troubleshot the network TCP/IP connectivity related issues included DHCP and DNS.
• Maintenance of Desktops, Laptops
• Monitored tickets/service request, and preventive maintenance tickets.
• Installed, configured and maintained Internet-based software applications, tracked with incident tracking and conducted software patches release.