SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in VMware virtualization and Windows system administration.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2008/2003/2000/ NT4.0 Servers at single/multi domain environment.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro - active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude. Expert in Windows Server System Administrationskills.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS/WDS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server
• Experience in installation and configuration of VMware VI 3.5 suite, vSphere 4.1, and vSphere 5.1 products.
• Experience in consolidation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients.
• Moderate testing experience in Microsoft HyperV and Citrix XenServer.
• Experience in Networking and Security Configurations on ESX/ESXi Host.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMware VMotion, SVMotion, HA and DRS including vSphere Update Manager, VMware Data Recovery, vCenter Lab Manager and vCenter Orchestrator.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware vCenter Converter / Plate Spin PowerConvert and Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID (0, 1, 3, 10, 01, and 5) concepts.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks.)
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security.
• Experienced in installation, configuration, design and ongoing maintenance of Cisco router and switches.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing, and Windows networking.
• Experience with 32 bits/64 bits X86 server products of HP, IBM, and Dell.
• Familiar with Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling & labeling maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power and UPS monitoring.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly. A proven record of reliability, teh ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware VI 3.5 s, VSphere 4.1, 5.1 suites, ESX Server 3.x 4.x, ESXi 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x, VMware Virtual Center Server 4.x and 5.x, VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware vCenter Converter 4.x, VMware vSphere Update Manager 5.x, VMware vCenter Lab Manager 3.0.x, VCB, Unitrend Cloud storage, VMware Consolidated Backup 1.1.x, and Third party tools such as; VEEAM Backup and Replication, Platespin Power Convert.

Desktop Application: Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010, GroupWise 6.5 and 7.0 SP1, Outlook 2003 and Evolution, Open Office, VMware Workstation 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x.

Hardware: Dell Servers 1950, 2950, 6950, HP Thin Client t5530, HP DL380 G3,G5 and G7, HP blade Enclosure C3000 and C7000 WYSE VL10 and VL9, Network Interface Card, Multi Serial Port Adapter, Printers, Hard drive and Floppy drive, Hubs, Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches and Routers and DSL Modems, RAM, Audio and Video card.

Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 7, Windows Server 2000/20

Application Servers: SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008, Microsoft Exchange 2003and 2007, DHCP, DNS and WINS Services, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 and 7.0. Moderate Experience with UNIX based OSs such as; Red Hat Linux 9, Ubuntu 12.1 and 13.1.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure dat includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, File and print Servers, POS servers, DNS, DHCP, WINS and ISA 2005 Servers and other Application Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2012.
• Administration of GPOs, Domain Users and groups, and Computers on Active Directory 2003, 2008.
• Responsible production support on windows server platform level issues.
• Resolving teh day to day hardware and platform level incidents and requests through IT resource Management Tools such as HP Service Manager 9, Service Now.
• Working with ISO Team on monitoring server health and fixing issues which on security vulnerable servers.
• Managing/Administrating ESXi 4.1, 5.1 Hosts and Clusters on vCenter Server 5.1. Using vSphere Client 5.1, Power CLI, vSphere CLI, UNIX Shell Scripting.
• Remotely managing physical rack mount/blade servers using HP ILO 2.0, 3.0, Avocent KVM switch, HP On board Administrator, and HP Insight Management tools.
• Administrating parallel SCSI RAID 1+0, 5 Arrays using HP Array Configuration Utility and Array Diagnostic Utility.
• Participated in teh migration project of vSphere 4.1. To vSphere 5.1 and Migrated ESX 4.0, ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 using VMware vCenter update manger 5.1.
• Managing/ Administrating Citrix XenApp 5.0 servers using Citrix Access Management Console, Presentation Server Console, and Delivery Service Console.
• Managing/Administrating Citrix XenDesktop VDI, Unitrend Backup services using Citrix Delivery Service Console.
• Restoring files/folders on IBM TSM backups using Backup-Archive GUI on Windows 2003/2008 Production servers.
• Participating with compliance team on updating process patches for Windows servers 2003, 2008 using IBM Endpoint Manger (BigFix). configuring IIS 6.0, 7.0

ENVIRONMENT: Windows Server OS 2000/20, Windows Client OS XP /Win 7, VSphere 4.1and 5.1, NetApp FC SAN/NAS storage, HP ProLiant G3, G5and G7 servers, HP Blade Servers on enclosure c3000 and c7000. Citrix XenApp 5.0,Citix Xen Desktop VDI, Remote desktop services, Microsoft SQL 2005 and 2008 servers, Microsoft Exchange server 2007 and other applications servers.

Confidential, DES MOINES, IA

VMWARE ADMIN

Responsibilities:

• Administration of production servers/network infrastructure dat includes Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers, Exchange Mail Servers, WSUS Patching servers, print Servers, System Management Servers (SMS), Terminal Servers, RRAS and File servers on Windows 2003 and windows 2000 in teh data center server farm.
• Administrating DNS, DHCP, WINS, and ISA servers on Windows 2003 servers.
• Worked with 32, 64 bits x86 Intel, HP, IBM, and Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager and in MS Exchange Administration, troubleshooting issues related to mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Installed and configured Windows 2003/2008 servers and added them to teh domain.
• Installed and managed McAfee EPO software on servers and clients.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs.
• Worked on Datacenter Virtualization project where we did a fresh installation of vCenter Server 4.1 and VMware ESX 4.0, ESXi4.1 hosts.
• Implemented virtual datacenters, ESXi/ESX clusters and configured vStandard switches. Migrated physical severs to virtual servers (P2V) using vCenter Converter. Created VMs and installed OS on them, Created VM templates, Cloned VMs. Enabled HA, DRS for ESXi cluster.
• Installed and implement NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.
• Installed and implemented open source Open Filer 2.3 iSCSI SAN with RAID 10 for VMware and other servers with iSCSI initiators.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2000/2003/2008 , SMS, SQL Server 2000/2005, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003/2005, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX/ESXi Server and Workstation, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, Dell NAS, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall.

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

VMWARE ADMIN

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers (SMS) servers.
• Experienced with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Administering DHCP Server-creation of reservation and under reservation options,configuring of router IP address.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Configure and Managed Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 for teh users.
• Configured Terminal Server to access to teh servers using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
• Responsible for Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS.
• Installing, configuring, administering, and performance tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2000 familiar with Database Creation, Database Security, Database Replication/ Migration, Database Performance Monitoring, User Management, Database Backup/Restoration, Import/Export of SQL Database, Transact SQL, Microsoft SQL Clustering, SQL Query analyser and profiler.
• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 and VMs, and VMware workstation.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
• LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, Labelling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up.
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server, and application to meet business needs.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003/2005, Microsoft WWSUS, Windows XP, VMware

Confidential

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Served in computer maintenance, performed all types of hardware, software maintenance and engineering in addition to systems selection, backup and technical support.
• Installing, configuring and Windows 2003 servers of DHCP, FTP, WSUS, Web Server and SQL Database Server.
• Creating and managing teh users, groups, GPO in teh Active Directory.
• Implemented, Managed ISA server 2004 Firewall with web filtering and Remote Access VPN.
• Implemented and managed McAfee Antivirus EPO Server and clients for LAN security
• Monitoring of Internet usage, Antivirus statistics and reporting to Project Manager.
• Responsible & managing Online Trading applications, Servers & Connectivity with stock exchanges, providing remote support to end clients and branch users.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.)
• LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, Labelling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up.
• Investigated user problems, determined possible solutions, oversaw software, installation and upgrades.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data centre on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Planned and coordinated with major vendors like ISP and V-SATs service providers for installation/Down Calls of branches.
• Assigned duties and supervised a team of junior network engineers.

ENVIRONMENT: Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT Server, Windows XP.