SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience in Windows and Linux System and Network administration, VMware Configuration & Administration, Project Management, System Design, Data center migration, Windows & Linux server management, Implementation & maintenance of highly scalable 24x7 availability solutions and support.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in VMware and Microsoft virtualization technologies.
• Experience in monitoring/managing VMware ESX 3.5, ESXi 4.0/4.1/5/0/5.1 and vSphere infrastructure.
• Expert in implementing and managing High Availability / Clustering environments.
• Experienced in migrating the current environment into virtual environment using the tools like platespin, vcenter converter.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration and system Administration of Windows ( 2000/2003/2008 ), HP - UNIX, RedHat Linux 4.5/4.6/5, Solaris (5.8/5.9/5.10 ).
• Expert in managing operating systems and end-user software.
• Experienced in performing network and security audits.
• Experience in recommending, scheduling and performing software and hardware improvements, upgrades, patches, reconfigurations and purchases.
• Expert in managing the Active Directory forest and domain environments including users, groups, printers, login scripts, etc
• Strong technical knowledge of current network protocols and standards, including LAN, WAN,VPN, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, FC, iSCSI.
• Extensive knowledge of computer server architectures, including peripheral interfaces (SCSI, RAID, Ethernet) and multi-processor designs.
• Experienced in managing the server cluster environment including configuration, shares and permissions.
• Experienced in installing and managing production, test and development environments.
• Experienced in migrating from development to production environment.
• Hands on expertise on Symantec Netbackup, Syncsort Backup Express, EMC CLARiiON, Dell power edge and blade servers, HP Proliant and Blade Matrix servers.
• Experience on Multi-tier Enterprise EMC/Dell Storage systems installation, migration, virtualization, management, monitoring, performance analysis & reporting.
• Strong knowledge of ITIL process and tools.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with high commitment to achieve corporate goals and ability to work collaboratively in a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization: VSphere 5.1/5.04.0 / 4.1 , ESX/ESXi server 5.0/4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 , VSphere Client, VCenter, VMotion, Storage VMotion, VMware Update Manager, VMware Tools, VMware Converter, DRS, HA and FT.

Server Operating Systems: MS Windows Server/Exchange Server ( 2000/20 R2), Red Hat Linux (Enterprise Linux 4/5/6), UBUNTU, SUSE 8/9/10.

Scripting: VB Script, Perl and Power CLI.

Storage: DAS, NAS (NFS), SAN and ISCSI.

Database: MS-SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 and Oracle 8/9i/10g/11i, IBM DB2.

Backups: VERITAS Netback up, TSM, Avamar and Windows NT Backup.

Antivirus: Symantec Endpoint, Norton Antivirus and McAfee.

Networking: Cisco 25xx, 35xx Routers and 35xx Switches, Brocade and Cisco MDS fabric switches.

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS, VPN, DNS, NTP, WINS, FTP, SSH, WinSCP and Telnet.

Terminal Services: Remote Desktop Services, VNC, Putty, Tera Term, Team Viewer, cytrix, Logmein and Terminal Services.

Other: Norton Ghosting, Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2007/2010 , Microsoft Visio, Rational Rose.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Woonsocket-RI

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Actively Participated in the ASPECT - Upgrade Project for the development of New Datacenter Environment Supporting over 200+ Caremark Call Center Users to accommodate a 3 year growth.
• Installation and configuration of ESX 5.0/5.1 in New- HP Proliant series Servers in a core new Data-Center.
• Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 Virtual Machines in the ESX host clusters.
• Installation of Vcenter server and Configuring ESX - host’s within the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Running patches and updates through update manager for the Esxi hosts.
• Installation of windows server 2008 R2 in physical servers that host the primary Caremark duties.
• Installation of Red Hat Linux that supports the telephony adapter servers for the Caremark callcenter.
• Configured and provisioned storage for the virtual environments (ESX) and individual hosts on VNX 5500 with Unisphere.
• Configured Physical Servers for Nuance Text to speech (TTS).
• Actively participated in Migration of Servers to the new Data-centre.
• Actively discussed with the vendors on software installations and Confidential vendor specifications for the new server.
• Scheduled backup jobs in over 500+ physical/virtual servers.
• Configuration of RDM and Cluster environment for Windows Servers 2008 with SQL 2008 cluster.
• Participated in Troubleshooting and configuration of Network issues for the VCenter in the New Data-centre Environment.
• Maintained Team Track ticketing for the Day 2 Day update of the Servers Installation Progress.
• Configured IIS, Asp.Net, Java for the new servers.
• Provisioned storage requests from EMC storage for the new datacentre environment.
• Extensive troubleshooting VMware, clusters, network, sharing, zoning issues and working with app-vendors to resolve the issues.
• Involved in daily ticketing of GPO, AD management, User permissions, Network sharing.
• Involved in Daily meetings with App-vendors and client to accommodate on-going project issues, management and requests monitoring.
• Rotational on call support.

Environment: ESX 5.0/4.1, VCenter server 5.0/4.1, Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 server, RHEl 4.8,5.5,5.6, Team Track, Tivoli Storage Manager 6.X, Net IQ 7.X,, EMC Clariion, VNX, Symantec Endpoint, HP Proliant DL580G7, HP Proliant DL360G7.

Confidential, San Diego -CA

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on wide experience in Deployment, requirement gathering, Installation, administration, Maintenance and troubleshooting of various Servers, Storage and Backup systems.
• Installation and configuration of ESX 3.5/4.0, ESXI 4.0 hosts for the existing farm expansion and administration of VMware Vsphere 4 environment.
• Successfully configured ESX servers for HA and DR capabilities.
• Performing physical to virtual servers(p2v) migration without downtime.
• Used third party Tools/Applications for performing hot migration and making them deployed from a central remote server.
• Involved in performing Vmotion and Vstorage administration for the successful data migration.
• Good understating and coding knowledge of Power shell/Cli for making automation of tasks and making the VMS to be created faster for cloning images.
• Use of HP ILO for the debugging and troubleshooting of servers in a datacenter remotely.
• Involved in creation of virtual switches and configuration of Nic for a clustered environment
• Creation of Virtual Switches, Ports and Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks
• Handling complete IT infrastructure includes Servers, Storage solutions and Administration, VMware configuration and Administration, Network devices, Security devices for datacenter.
• Administration of all Onsite/Offsite backups of critical servers, VMware applications servers and storage arrays through Symantec Netbackup 7
• Understanding and experience with DAS, SAN and NAS concepts, snapshots, clustering and fail-over, file permission management and disaster recovery.
• Installation, configuration and driver upgrades of HBA's (Emulex & Qlogic) on UNIX and Windows servers
• Successfully deployed and tested Disaster recovery solutions for selected business applications using EMC SRDF/A for high performance.
• Used VMware Update Manager to install critical and locally tested updates to the ESX Host.
• Installed EMC Snap View enabler successfully and created Snapshots & Snap View sessions for backups.
• Provided full design, planning, configuration, documentation, deployment and top-level support ownership of storage and VMware infrastructure technologies.
• Grouped physical disks into logical volumes dynamically sized and resized volumes to fit in the application.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the Storage related issues (like incidents, Service calls, and Work orders) generated in the production, Development and testing environments Using Service-now portal.

Environment: Linux 4/5,Windows 2000/2003/2008 server, Red Hat Linux 4.5/4.6/5 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange 2003/ 2007,VMware ESX3.5/4/,ESXi 3.5/4, VCenter Server, vSphere client, NetApp filers, EMC Clariion,SQL 2005/2008,Service-now.

Confidential, Raleigh NC

VMWARE ADMIN

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing software and hardware constraints to plan for new user requirements (capacity planning).
• Installation and configuration of ESX hosts for the existing farm expansion and VMware Virtual Center.
• Configuring, implementing and managing Virtual environment using VMware ESX 3.0, ESXi 3.5 infrastructures.
• Administration of ESX server included VM creations, expansion of the storage, moving the servers across the domains, and image backups of the VMware servers.
• Involved in pre-development and assessment of new servers/up gradation/compatibility of existing ones for the Vsphere4 environment.
• Performing physical servers to virtual server migration virtual to virtual (V2V) using vCenter Converter.
• Implementing and managing live migration of virtual machine disk files across storage arrays using Storage vMotion.
• Managed Active directory roles & services, worked on DNS, DHCP, and GPO.
• Implementing and managing High Availability / Clustering environments using vCenter.
• Remote configuration and Management of ESX hosts from Web Console.
• Installed configured and managed Microsoft exchange 2007 and done backup & restore of data.
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues like one path failure in SAN/NAS Storage environment, host not seeing storage, and HBA failure in SAN/NAS environment and performance issues.
• Involved in platform testing involving Ontap release, Qlogic and Emulex HBA’s, FC, SATA, SAS shelves and FCP/ISCSI switches.
• Analyzingsystemfaults, troubleshooting and running diagnostic tests on operating systems and hardware to detect problems.
• Designing, implementing and managing disaster recovery and backup process.
• Providing day-to-day onsite support for networked systems, hardware and related infrastructure.

Environment: Linux4/5,Windows 2000/2003/2008 server,Vizioncore, windows Xp,VMware ESX 3.0, ESXi 3.5, Vmotion, vcenter server, sphere client, center update manager, vcenter converter, San, NAS, Hp Blade servers.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Storage and VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of all login servers, farm servers, database servers, Application servers, VMware servers, EMC Clariion, NetApp storage arrays and Backup solution.
• Configuring, implementing and managing Virtual environment using VMware ESX 3.0, ESXi 3.5 infrastructures.
• Implemented and configured multiple CLARiiON Storage environments from initial setup to binding LUNs, creating RAID group, installing CLARiiON storage array software’s, enabling the host address the EMC CLARiiON storage array, provisioned and documented them to meet the requirements.
• Familiarity with data protection technologies which involve Snapmirror, Snapvault and OSSV.
• Designed and planned NAS infrastructure using SMB/CIFS/NFS protocols with EMC storage, windows and UNIX machines.
• Designed, Planned and Implemented fiber channel SAN with brocade switches, servers (Linux, Windows) with Qlogic and Emulex HBA’s and NetApp filers.
• Designed and Implemented iSCSI SAN with Cisco/Brocade switches (1 Gig and 10 Gig), servers (Linux, Windows) 10 Gig/ 1Gig ISCSI target cards and NetApp filers.
• Storage allocation/reclamation - Created Initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and Masking views for Auto-provisioning and recommended various best practices
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues like one path failure in SAN Storage environment, host not seeing storage, and HBA failure in SAN environment and performance issues.
• Data storage deployment, support, capacity planning and provisioning with SAN, NAS, iSCSI, direct-attached storage, & storage virtualization.
• Implemented SRDF for DR planning and Time Finder for local replication.

Environment: Red Hat Linux 4/5,Windows 2000/2003/2008 server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange 2003/ 2007,Microsoft Office, VMware ESX3.0/3.5, VCenter Server,EMC CLARiiON, Symantec Netbackup,, SQL server 2005/2008, Service-now.

Confidential, Cleveland- Ohio

Virtualization Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring, implementing and managing Virtual environment using VMware ESX 2.5
• Successful implementation and configuration of the ESX servers to existing NAS devices
• Core particitipation in DataCentere and involved as one of core engineer for the DataCenter. particitipated in migration procedures of a Datacenter.
• Performing installation and management of NAS and SAN storage solutions.
• Creation of windows and Linux vms and deploying them in the different datacenters from a single production lane.
• Creating and mirroring preconfigured Operating system like Windows/Linux and configuring Oracle/Sql, Web sphere services in the OS.
• Developing and implementing backup and disaster recovery protocols.
• Providing Load balancing capability for the virtual infrastructure.
• Analyzing software and hardware constraints to plan for new user requirements (capacity planning).
• Developing standard operating procedures and documentations for the virtualization environment.
• Documenting and communicating Project Status, Issues, Risks and Actions to project leads/managers.
• Providing day-to-day onsite support for networked systems, hardware and related infrastructure.

Environment: ESX 2.5, Windows 2000/2003, Windows XP, Red hat 3/4, NAS, SAN, ISCSI, web sphere 6.0/6.1, oracle 8/9i,NAS,SAN,ISCSI, VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters.

Confidential

System/Linux/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setup company’s servers, network and workstations in windows and Ubuntu..
• Maintained all computer equipment’s & peripherals
• Administered cross-platform Network (Linux and Windows) .
• Installation and Configuration of new server hardware .
• Developed the company’s web site and maintained through central DNS server from windows 2003 server.
• Backup files and tweak the system & network for optimal performance.
• Managed system and network disaster recovery plans.
• Used Shell/Perl scripting for automation and deployment of frequent tasks.
• Successfully configured LDAP for the Local and Remote User administration.
• Configured several Network configurations like FTP,SFTP,TELNET,SSH for the data transfer and Revision control systems

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Linux,Sun,Windows in all the servers
• Installed and configured windows server 2000.
• Created users and groups and allocated different security policies
• Involved in network mapping for the company for over 50-75 hosts.
• Involved in suggesting different disaster recovery models
• Automated several administrative tasks.
• Build Hard Drive Images for various O.S using Norton Ghost.
• Configured and maintained several DNS/DHCP/WINS services.
• Particitipated in 24/7 support roles for windows Servers, to help maintain and troubleshoot both software and hardware.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, Oracle 7.x, PL/SQL, JDBC, Linux, Solaris and Windows NT .