SUMMARY

• Having over 7 years of experience in the field of VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5, VMware vSphere 6.0/6.5. Where Planning, Implementation, Administration and troubleshooting are involved with many platforms of OS like Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows 2008 and Windows 2012 R2, Windows 2016.
• Proficient in IT environment over architect, implement, and Support VMware Virtualized computing and Microsoft Windows environments.Managed Virtualization Environment using VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5, VMware vSphere 6.0/6.5, Virtualcenter, VI Client, P2V Installation, Configuration, Administration and Trouble shooting of VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5, VMware vSphere 6.0/6.5, Virtualcenter, VI Client Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Managing Windows 2008/2012 Cluster Servers For file and database, connected via Storage Area Network.
• Configured Resource Pool, V Motion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP
• Installing Citrix Presentation/XenApp server 6.5/7.6 LTSR and manage the farm through Presentation and Access Management Console.
• Implemented, and maintained an enterprise Infoblox DDI Service (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) environment with 100% uptime for over 3 years.
• Install, configure, and manage VMware virtualization environment components (vROPS, vSPHERE, vRA, vRealize suite, SRM, ESX, etc.)
• Strong experience supporting IT infrastructure for manufacturing systems such as SCADA and MES application.
• Experience in performing a 3PAR Node Rescue without any impact on production environment
• Experience in Array based migration using HP 3PAR Peer Motion.
• Experienced in configuring and managing EMC PowerPath and 3PAR MPIO solution for path failover, load balancing, path management and automatic I/O failure detection.
• Deployed new HP 3PAR V800 and IBM XIV Gen3 Storage to migrate 10 plus legacy HDS and EMC SAN storage for scalability and reliability.
• Successfully Migrated 200 plus virtualized UNIX hosts as well as 350 Plus Windows/VMware hosts from 3PAR F & T Series storage to 3PAR V800 utilizing HP 3PAR peer motion technology to reduce downtime which was running SQL, Cache, DB2, as well as ERP Environment. Keeping reliability as number one goal.
• Experience working with Hyper V & MSCS Clustering.
• Managing virtual machines using SCVMM, Hyper V manager.
• Centre migrations, Storage migration, Hyper V migrations, VM host maintenance movements, power outages, Patching…etc
• Took an initiative to help the team get accustomed with VMware 6.5 version.
• Experience with XenDesktop 6.5/ 7.6 LTSR and Provisioning Services 7.6.
• Knowledge of XenDesktop 7.X and Provisioning Services 7.X.
• Knowledge of Citrix Netscape and Citrix Access Gateway.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware VSphere suite 6.5/6.0, vRealize Automation suite 7.3/7.2, VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.7.0, VMware Automation Tools, SRM.

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows 7, LINUX (Ubuntu, Fedora, Red hat), VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper V

Storage Software Tools & Storage Arrays: NaviCLI, Netapps CLI, OnCommand, CISCO CLI, DM, DCNM, Brocade CLI, VPLEX, EMC Symmetrix VMAX, DMX - 4/3/2, VNX 5300,5500,5700,7500, Netapps FAS 2000, 3000, 6000, 8000 Series, EMC ISILON

Directory services / Internet: Designing, Deploying and Migration of Windows Based Active Directory. Installation and Administration of IIS 8.0, DHCP & DNS servers

Hardware: HP Blade servers G8/G9, HP Proliant servers DL 380 G8, DL385 G8, C7000, Dell Compellent, EMC SAN, VMAX, DMX, EMC Clarian, NetApp SAN and Dell EqualLogic, VCE Vblock, VxRack(HCI), VxRail appliance.

Backup: Commvault Backup, Symantec NetBackup and CA ArcServe Backup

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the designing and implementing the Dell Unity Storage array for new Hyper-converged infrastructure.
• Worked on CommVault backup to do file restores\systems restores from scratch.
• Have done the troubleshooting for finding out the root cause for backup failures. Installed the Commvault on a number of operating systems such as Windows and Red Hat Linux.
• Worked on Vrealize Orchestrator to monitor the Vmware environment’s health. Have determined the resources usages from the reports generated from Vrealize.
• Increased team productivity and automated repetitive tasks by using batch files, PowerShell, VBScript and WMI.
• Used VMware vMotion to eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running virtual machines between hosts.
• Install, configure, and manage VMware virtualization environment components (vROPS, vSPHERE, vRA, vRealize suite, SRM, ESX, etc.)
• Designed and implemented vROps 6.7.0 on enterprise level with multiple nodes for remotes sites.
• Implemented WSUS/SCCM integration and created a monthly phased patching process.
• Led the drive to upgrade from SMS to SCCM to take advantage of the advanced features that SCCM offered. Worked with Server Team to in corporate remote Sales Office sites into Active Directory which integrated PCs into SCCM for upgrading, inventorying, and patching.
• Deploy security updates using SCCM Software Update Point (SUP) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, and Xen and legacy hardware. Implement EMC VNX, VMAX, Clarion (CX, CX3, and CX4) SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere and SAN-backed applications.
• Installed vRealize Automation and is responsible for ensuring its availability for other users. The System Administrator creates tenants and manages system-wide configuration such as system defaults for branding and notification providers. This role is also responsible for monitoring system logs. In a single-tenant deployment, the same person might also act as the Tenant Administrator.
• Configured services for any workflows that we create in vRealize Orchestrator.
• Knowledge and preferably experience working with Powershell, HTML, SQL.
• Used the vRealize Automation SDK to provide software application interfaces. Planning and gathering the requirements for setting up TFS environments for environment based migration and upgradation.
• Built the Citrix XenApp\Xendesktop 7.15 LTSR from Scratch. Published all the applications in citrix.
• Administration of Citrix XenApp Farms (7.6\7.15 LTSR Farms).
• Expertise in creating Citrix Streaming Profiles and Publishing Applications to users in Citrix XenApp
• Troubleshot various issues related to Citrix resource manager, Printers etc.
• Monitored Citrix server’s health by using Citrix Edge Sight.
• Performed Citrix Farm and server health checks on regular basis.
• Developed Virtual apps for in-house client server applications through Citrix Streaming profiler

Confidential

Sr Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the engineering, planning, coordination, and installation of new or modified Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 Servers including Blade and SAN storage.
• Installed Windows Clustering Service on Windows Server 2016 and configured IIS Cluster 2016 and SQL Server 2016 cluster.
• VMware ESX 6.5 configuration and administration.
• Lead a project to remove all the windows 2003/2008 machines from environment. Successfully upgraded or decommissioned all the windows 2003/2008 machines.
• Installed and configured hyper-converged infrastructure in the environment as a part of migrating servers to newer environment.
• Migrated all the users from EMC ISILON to NetApp FLEXPOD storage(AFF8080).
• Experience with implementation and administration. Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and Fiber Channel protocols, Fiber Channel cabling, switching, and zoning.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Used VMware vMotion to eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running virtual machines between hosts.
• Involved in performing VMotion and Storage administration for successful data migration.
• Installation Vcenter server and Configuring ESXi - hosts within the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Lead a project to Active Directory Redesign. I’ve reduced the domain controllers to 8 with new of active directory of 25 domain controllers.
• Upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012.Documenting the process followed for restoration based up gradation of TFS server.
• Configuring Microsoft SQL server with TFS server.
• Configuring SharePoint foundation services with TFS 2010.
• Creating site collections for each Team Project Collection TPC
• Configuring SharePoint sites with Team projects in TFS.
• Configure TFS environment such that SQL Reporting and SharePoint interact with each other.
• Planning, Deployment and Management of Enterprise scale VMware vSphere Virtual Infrastructure vSphere 6.0.
• Monitored the whole infrastructure environment in SolarWinds. Generated reports for exchange environment, VMware Vcenter. Created polling events according to requirement to watch the health of the servers and all the live equipment in the datacentre.

Environment: windows 2003/20, Exchange Server 2010/2013, Windows 7/ Win 8/Win 10, VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5, VMware vSphere 6.0/6.5, ESX 4, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, SAN/NAS(EMC VMAX, VNX, ISILON) HP BL/DL G1/G3/G9-360/380, DELL PowerEdge Servers(1950, 2950,R710).

Confidential

Infrastructure Systems Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Planned and implemented vSphere upgrade 4.1 to 5.5/6.0 with VMware best practices.
• Windows Server OS migration from win and VMWare ESX 3.5/4.1 to 5.5/6.
• Took an initiative to help the team get accustomed with VMware 6.5 version.
• Provide Engineering guidance to EITS (Build, Run & DR), Data Architecture and Application Teams
• Create and Maintain Project related Infrastructure Engineering Documents.
• Work with Architect team to translate Infrastructure Documentation into engineering guides.
• Provide HP/cisco UCS Hardware Configurations and Quotes, when necessary.
• Installed HP Blades and Rack mount serves on new chassis and upgraded firmware.
• Installed and configured HP left-hand(VSA) storage on C7000 chassis in remote locations.
• Used VMware vMotion to eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running virtual machines between hosts.
• Implemented PowerShell scripts that automated creation of contacts from Active Directory users and updating of address books -increasing productivity and efficiency.
• Microsoft Hyper-V server 2012 and 2012 R2
• Configured services for any workflows that we create in vRealize Orchestrator.
• Knowledge and preferably experience working with Powershell, HTML, SQL.
• Used the vRealize Automation SDK to provide software application interfaces.
• Planning and gathering the requirements for setting up TFS environments for environment based migration and up gradation.

Environment: windows 2003/2008/2012 , Exchange Server 2010/2013, Windows 7/ Win 8/Win 10, VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5, VMware vSphere 6.0/6.5, ESX 4, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, Microsoft Hyper V, Microsoft SCVMM 2016/2012/2008 , SAN/NAS (EMC VMAX, VNX, ISILON) HP BL\DL G9 380 DELL PowerEdge Servers, DCNM, Device Manager, DCFM, Netapp FAS Series.

Confidential

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded 1200 servers from Windows server 2003 to windows server 2008/2012.
• Migrated the data centre from one location to another location.
• Deployed more than 300 VM’s with windows server 2012 on it. They are successfully running in production.
• Prepared server artefacts and documentation for all the deployed VM’s and for the VM’s in production.
• Engineered and administered Hyper-V servers.
• Lead the efforts in the creation of Migration Process Flows from discovery of data center current state through design of future state.
• Working in collaboration with my peers in the Professional Services group, created process flows, swim lanes, and documentation for a total data /application migration methodology.
• Relocation of 500+ server data center to meet hosting requirements while cutting costs.
• Coordinated migration of about 100 applications, web, and database servers with Data Migration Specialist, Application, and Support teams.
• Administration of environment running ESX/ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machines
• Managing backups for the whole Baker-environment which has CA ArcServe Backup Client
• Migrated Windows Server 2003 from test environment to the production environment.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles/Distributed Switches setup
• VMware SRM testing on NAS storage with storage replication
• Used firewall appliance where requirements call for layer 7 security models.

Environment: VMware VSphere 5.5/6.0, ESX 5.5, VM Converter, Virtual Centre, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VReplicator, clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, VCenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery & Backup, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , Microsoft Hyper-V server 2008/2012, Microsoft SCVMM 2012/2008.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured over 100+ VMware VSphere 4.1/4.0 ESX/ESXi nodes.
• Administration of environment running ESX/ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machines.
• Manage Virtual Machines, Installing VMware Tools, Creating Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines using Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual Machines.
• Experience with VMware SRM and 4.1 environment.
• Creation of VMs and install different guest OS
• Hands on configuring HA, DRS, vMotion and installing VMware tools
• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to manage the allocated EMC SAN, Fiber and Networking Infrastructure.
• Design, implementation and troubleshooting VMware ESX 4.0/3.5 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP C7000 and Cisco UCS 5100 Chassis.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtualcenter servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles/Distributed Switches setup
• VMware SRM testing on NAS storage with storage replication
• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 4.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.

Environment: VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5, VM Converter, Virtual Centre, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VReplicator, clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, Vcenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery & Backup, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 , Microsoft Hyper-V server 2008/2012, Microsoft SCVMM 2012/2008.

Confidential

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Administering VM’s across 4 Datacenters Running 1200 VM’s. Maintaining Performance lab machines in the datacenter and Project Management experience
• Migrated servers from multiple decentralized farms to a centralized global farm
• Installed ESXi5.1/5.0 in large environment on Cisco UCS on both protected and recovery sites
• Implementation of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers
• Implementation of VMware vSphere 5.0 with Enterprise Plus Features of Distributed Switches and Host Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 4.1 to vSphere 5.0 Update 2 including vCenter 5.0, ESXi Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SVMotion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates.
• Cisco UCS Deployment and Implementation for Virtual Environments
• 300+ P2V migration of windows and Linux servers.
• Expertise in providing support for Windows 2003/2008 servers and ADS.
• Experience with Server consolidation using VMware vSphere 4.1
• Upgraded ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 on servers using update manager.

Environment: Wwindows 2003/2008/2012 , Exchange Server 2010, Windows XP/ Win 7, VMware ESXi 4, VMware vSphere 4, ESX 4, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, SAN/NAS, Microsoft Hyper-V server 2008/2012 Microsoft SCVMM 2008.