SUMMARY

• Over ten (10+) years of experience in virtualization /windows administration.
• Expertise in Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012 server administration and active directory administration.
• Performed system administration activities, security policies and monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels.
• Worked in the area of Virtualization with VMware VSphere 4.1 and 5.1e, ESXi 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, ESX 4.0 servers, vCenter server 2.5, 4.0, 5.0 and 5.1.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts.
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security.
• Expertise in DHCP, WINS and DNS.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts.
• Experience with enterprise backup systems and disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; solid understanding of VSphere 4.1 and 5.
• Expertise with IP sub - netting, VLANs, Load Balancing, and High Availability (HA) architectures.
• Performance monitoring, Error logging, Diagnostics, Fine-tuning and Backup management.
• Configured TCP/ IP protocols like NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, FTP, SFTP, SSH etc.
• Configured Citrix Terminal Server and Microsoft Hyper V.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESX hosts.
• Managed VMware ESX 3.x and 4.x with Virtual Center server 2.5 and vCenter 4.0 for managing multiple ESX servers.
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Templates, and Snapshots
• Experienced in resource management framework, creating resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Experience in Windows clustering Administration and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Server OS (2000, 2003, 2008R2, 2012),
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization Technologies: VI3, VMware VSphere 4.1 and 5.1e 4.0/4.1/5.0, VMware ESX 2.5/3.0/3.5, VMware ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0 , VMware VCenter, VSphere 4.1 and 5.1e Client, VMware VDIDirectory ServicesDeploying and Migration of Windows Based Active Internet Designing Directory, Installation and Administration of DHCP and DNS servers

Application Servers: DNS, DHCP, Windows Active Directory Services, P2V/V2V Converters, MS Office Apps

Directory Services: Deploying and Migration of Windows Based Active Directory. Installation and Administration of DHCP and DNS servers

Infrastructure Hardware: HP Proliant BL460C (G6 and G7) Blade Server series, DL380, DL580 physical servers, Dell Power Edge Servers, Intel x86 processors

Deployment Tools: Altiris, SSCM

Network: TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, SMTP and SNMP

Server Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 R2, VMWare ESX/ESXi server, Citrix Xen Server, Hyper-V

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, NY

VMware Administrator/Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administering and supporting 350+ servers Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Certify home grown and third party applications to run in windows Terminal server environment
• Installed, Configured and maintenance of Hosted VMware products.
• VMware vSphere client, Virtual vCenter Server.
• Virtual Networking(Virtual Switches, VM Kernel Ports) and Virtual Storage (Access Control and VMFS Datastores)
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
• Customizing guest operating system on Virtual Machines.
• Created DRS and Custom roles for users and Administrators High availability, Clustering, VMotion, Storage Vmotion.
• Server Consolidation with VMware Converter (P2P and P2V Conversions)
• Snapshot manager and restoring a snapshot.
• Configured WYSE Terminals to provide thin client solution to Business users.
• Implemented Quarterly patches to the servers suggested by Microsoft.
• Working with troubleshooting tools CDF Trace, PROC MON and Dependency Walker.
• Supported 5,000 plus User base

Confidential, New York, NY

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Windows 2003 Server administration and support / provisioning of Operating Systems / server patching.
• Configuration and Implementation of new servers according to standard...
• Maintain the stability of all W2K3 active directory servers, W2K3 Exchange 2003 servers, application servers, core systems support, Systems Disaster recovery plans.
• VERITAS Net Backup management and monitoring of the network backup/restore processes while ensuring data integrity and business continuity
• Responsible for Design and implementation of Server Infrastructure technology. Thorough knowledge of Windows 2000/2003 Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, Scripting Technologies, OS builds and troubleshooting and Server Hardware expertise
• Open problem or change management tickets in Helpdesk system as needed
• Wrote, reviewed and executed documentation of IQs, OQs, and PQs for computer validation.
• Working experience with VMware ESX 3i, VMware infrastructure Client 2.5,Virtual Center,P2v,V2V
• Installed and configure HP SIM 5.1 SP1 for all HP servers and set all alerts with monitoring capabilities.
• Ensured that all production servers are properly installed, secured and maintained with the latest driver updates and security patches
• Used Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) for operations monitoring, performance tracking, Security policies and auditing capability.
• Maintained detailed documentation and procedures for building, troubleshooting, installing, recovering, and supporting all Wintel servers and applications.

Confidential, Harrington Park, NJ

Junior Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the environment for deployment of Windows Server 2003.
• Analyzed the hardware and software requirements of Active Directory.
• Installed, configured, and provide troubleshooting for Server 2003.
• Migrated Windows Server 2003 from test environment to the production environment.
• Implemented and managed IP Addressing; configured TCP/IP addressing on a server.
• Created the Forest Root domain, and a Child domain in a production environment.
• Installed and configured an Active Directory Domain Controller.
• Established external trusts and cross-forest trusts.
• Managed an Active Directory site; replication schedules, site links and boundaries, used ADUC to create and manage computer, user and group accounts in an Active Directory environment.
• Used DcDiag, NetDiag techniques for troubleshooting.
• Performed authoritative and non-authoritative restore operations.
• Diagnosed and resolved issues related to masters role failure and AD database.
• Configured automatic updates for network clients by using Group Policy.
• Designed, planned and implemented Group Policy, delegation strategies and OU structure.
• Managed local, roaming, and mandatory profiles, planed strategy for placing Global Catalogue (GC) and evaluated the need to enable Universal Group Caching.
• Created approximately 500 user accounts in Active Directory and migrated all Windows NT users by ‘User State Migration Tool (USMT)’.