SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of enterprise - level technical experience specializing in virtualization, networking, server administration, storage management and data centre optimization.
• Experience includes project/personnel management, enterprise-level virtualization, data centre setup and relocation, server performance management and deployment planning.
• Over 10 Years of professional experience as Systems/VMware in supporting Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008 servers and VMware.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008 servers on HP/Compaq, Dell Power Edge, IBM xSeries hardware platforms.
• Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Experience working on Change Management, Request Management and Incident Management in Service Center/Remedy.
• Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2000/2003 servers.
• Experience in Implementing and Administration of Active Directory Services, replication, Trust Relationship and Enforcing Domain Group Policy.
• Experience in implementing and configuring hardware and software RAID under Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008 .
• Good experience in Blade server hardware, RAID, Microsoft Windows Clusters, Compaq / HP Blade Server hardware maintenance, HP Insight Manager
• Installation, Configuration Troubleshooting of hardware including Tower, Rack Blade Servers.
• Worked in large complex directory environments with experience supporting Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory AD .
• Experience with Microsoft Network Load Balancing and Microsoft Clustering technologies.
• Excellent skills in patching and hardening Win2000/Win2003/2008 servers using Windows Update and also by using the staged patches.
• Experience in resolving all levels of Severity Tickets, root cause investigations, system outages.
• Proficient Experience in installation and configuration of VMware ESX 3.0/3.5,vSphere 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 , VMware Virtual Center 2.0/3.5/4.0/5.0/5.1/5.5 .
• Experience in configuring VMware CPU and memory shares for virtual machines.
• Experience in building VMware virtual machines from templates and CD/ISO image.
• Administration of VMware Virtual Center and virtualization services VMware DRS, VMware HA, VMotion and SVMotion.
• Expert knowledge on configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESX i hosts from vSphere client.
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch dvSwitch.
• Understanding of the setup, configuration, and management of an enterprise VMware VDI Horizon View, vCenter, vSphere, and
• ESXi v5.x and daily operational support of this infrastructure.
• Experience incloning VMs and deploy new virtual machines from clones.
• Converted many P2V physical servers to Virtual Machines using VMware vCenter Converter part of decommission legacy servers effort.
• Experience in migrating the virtual machines between the ESX i Hosts using cold migration and VMladotion.
• Worked on VCAC 5.1,5.2 6 installing and configuring
• Creating the blueprints in VCAC.
• Connecting vcenter in VCAC configure vsphere and vcloud director endpoints.

SKILLS

• Virtualization: VMware ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0, ESX 4.1/4.0, vSphere 5.5/5.1/4.1, Virtual Center Server, vSphere Confidential, VMware Converter, P2V, V2V, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenDesktop 10
• Server Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012 R2, 2012, 2008, 2003
• Desktop Operating Systems: Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, XP
• Storage Systems and Tools: EMC VNX 5300 SAN, CX320 SAN, Storage VMotion, LUN Migration
• Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, POP3, MAPI, IMAP, DNS, DHCP, TELNET, SSH, ICMP
• Platform/Hardware: HP Proliant DL 380/385/580/585, HP C7000 Blade Chassis, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Cisco Catalyst 2950, 3550, 3750 switches
• Microsoft Product and Tools: Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, AD Certificate Services, DNS, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, WSUS server, SQL Server 2010 and 2012, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, SCCM 2012, IIS, Network Load Balancing, Failover Clustering, Exchange Server, Forefront Security, App-V and UE-V
• Networking Tools: Wire shark, CDP, Trace Route,Hyper Term, Putty, VNC, RDP, TeamViewer
• Monitoring Tools: Microsoft Operations Manager, SCOM Solarwinds Orion Network Apps
• Others: HP Insight and System Management, ILO management, HP Onboard Administrator, Norton/McAfee Antivirus, Anti Spyware

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. VMware and Windows Consultant

Projects:

• VMware ESXi 5.5 Installation, setup and configuration of five ESXi Hosts on HP DL G8 Servers and vCenter 5.5in Virtual Environment.
• EMC VNX SAN upgrade configuration and migration of data across EMC SAN.
• Windows Server 2012 Design, build, and migrationto Windows Server 2012 within the test and production environment.
• SCCM 2012 Implementation and configuration of System Center Configuration Manager 2012 to manage OS deployments, Antivirus updates, software packaging and advertisements, WSUS patching and upgrades.
• Citrix XenDesktop 10 - VDI installation and deployment using Citrix Studio.

Responsibilities:

• Implementated, configurated and setup VMware ESXi Hosts and vCenter 5.5 into Enterprise environment and architect for future expansion efforts.
• Configured High Availability HA, Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS, Distributed Power Management DPM and vNetwork Distributed Switch VDS .
• Installed, upgraded and deployed virtual servers with Windows Server 2012 OS.
• Configured EMC SAN VNX5300 storage for use with VMware 5.5 Environment.
• Setup and Configure SCCM 2012 for creating and distributing software packages, WSUS Windows desktop and server patching, Forefront Endpoint Protection Antivirus.
• Implemented EMC Avamar Backup and recovery strategy of all ESX and Virtual servers.
• Setup and Configure Test Servers on the Microsoft Hyper-V Environment.
• Consolidation and Capacity planning of physical hardware servers, workstation and desktops.
• Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012.2012R2 Virtual Machines in the ESX host clusters.
• Running patches and updates through update manager for the Esxi hosts.
• ESX Host build ILO Configuration/Base OS Setup/Patching/Firmware/Security Scans
• Physical Windows Server Build Rack/Cable hardware, ILO Configuration/Base OS Setup/Patching/Firmware/Security Scans
• Virtual Machine VM Build Base OS Setup/Patching/Security Scans
• Applied patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager and host update utility.
• Migrated and imported Virtual Machines P2V, V2V and also using OVF templates.

Confidential

Sr. Infrastructure Analyst

Projects:

• VMware ESXi 5.1/5.5 Installation, configuration and migration from ESX 4 to ESXi 5.1 Virtual Environment, ESXi 5.5 upgrade
• Microsoft App-v and UE-V: Setup and deployment in Citrix environment
• Infrastructure monitoring: Setup and deployed Solar Winds Application, Network and Virtual Monitoring components for IT Helpdesk to actively monitor and log server and network incidents
• Microsoft TMG Upgrade and configuration of firewall rules, objects and devices

Responsibilities:

• To ensure operational functionality, availability, efficiency and security of IT infrastructure in accordance with the hardware and software requirements of the business.
• Installation and administration of VMware ESX, ESXi Servers using vCenter Server.
• Supporting Virtual Infrastructure comprising of 50 VMware ESXi servers.
• Design, implementation and support of the Windows Servers and SQL servers.
• Creation of standard Virtual Machines and templates for VMware ESX, Lab Manager Workstation.
• Ensure that redundancy at both hardware and software layers is implemented to ensure high availability of the network and individual service.
• Planning and implementing fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on the network.
• Provisioning, evaluation and implementation and testing of IT solutions and resource planning.
• Evaluator and key decision maker for all aspects of software and hardware infrastructure.
• Review and assist in the creation of desktop management policies and procedures for an enterprise.
• Establish and enforce best practice processes for network management, including configurations, monitoring, patch management and security.

Confidential

Server and Network Analyst

Projects:

• Server Consolidation Virtualization Virtualized 170 Physical Servers and 15 locations into one Centralized Datacenter using VMware vSphere 4 technology.
• AD Migration Migrated around 3700 users within the NHS Camden Trust from Windows domain environment.
• Microsoft WSUS Installation, configuration and implementation for 150 Virtual Servers and 3500 Desktops.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of Trust's Data Centre Infrastructure design, maintenance and growth for core software and hardware products.
• Support, maintain and administer Trust's Server and Network Infrastructure.
• Ongoing deployment, upgrade and support for Microsoft and Virtual Servers in the datacenter.
• Provides technical support for projects and existing systems in cooperation with other teams.
• Worked extensively on Server Consolidation Virtualization projects.
• Installation, configuration and administration of ESX 4.0 and vCenter Server.
• Configured VLANS on multiple catalyst switches performed troubleshooting on TCP/IP networkproblems, Administered Frame-Relay and Local Area networks.
• Installed and Managed Wireless Networks for various sites.
• Installing and monitoring Antivirus software updates and Windows patches for Servers and Desktop computers using WSUS Server and SCCM.
• Servers/NAS Stores - Manage data, Backup/restore, manage server space by migrating data during out of office hours.
• Provided technical support and problem resolution for the LAN and its environment by analysing the problems and identifying the cause and circumstances of the problems and identifying the solutions.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Projects:

• Server Virtualization Virtualized Physical windows servers consisting of domain controllers, file servers, application servers, database server into virtual servers.
• SAN Storage Centralized data storage onto a HP SAN.
• SQL Server Upgrade and Rollout Installed and upgraded SQL Server and rolled it out to internal users and external clients.
• VOIP Telephony Design, setup and configuration of Nortel BCM 200 to support company's growing need for unified and simplified communications.

Responsibilities:

• Main role is to provision virtual and physical servers as per client requirements.
• Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Installing and updating the windows patches.
• Creating NTFS shares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Setting up perfmon tool on windows servers to analyze performance issues.
• Built and manage Virtual servers on VMware ESX Server 4.1
• Experience in creating Clusters in Virtual Center and adding ESXi Hosts to Virtual Center Cluster.
• Experience in setting up VMKernel Network and Enable VMotion.
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Experience in configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMware HA on Clusters in Virtual Center.
• Experience in creating and monitoring Resource Pool for Virtual Machines Resource Reservation and Limits.
• Troubleshoot computer/network, Internet and email problems for users.
• Creating and managing user accounts and the groups in Active Directory users and computers.
• Involved in daily Performance monitoring and Active Directory troubleshooting with the ability to analyze server performance and make recommendations for improvement.
• Helped in auditing Datacenter Inventory in the process of Data center migration
• Updated and maintained current running projects, escalation charts, contact details, risks and issues
• Created and maintained document management systems for the team's collaboration.
• Experience on Working On Call 24x7

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administering and managing Windows server 2003/2008 Active Directory services, DHCP and DNS servers
• Installed and Configured Networks and Wireless Access Point/Router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks. LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, Labeling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up
• Worked with Network Concepts such as OSI reference model, IP protocols such as TCP/IP, IP addressing, subnets, routing protocols like OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, STP
• Setup and configured various RAID 1 and RAID 5. Applied patches and upgrades to the servers.
• Configured backups and recovery plans for windows based servers using windows server backup utility
• Responsible for troubleshooting network, database, applications, and web performance issues.
• Documented and maintained automation scripts for administration of servers
• Worked on Server problems, Drive problems, Profiles, and other OS related problems
• Editing Group Policy Objects and applying new setting using Quest tool
• Installing and troubleshooting Antivirus problems
• Performed operating system patching and MS office patching