SUMMARY:

• Extensive 7+ year experience in Windows Systems and Virtualization Design Implementation and troubleshooting of mission critical IT systems assignments.
• Expertise with Windows Active Directory Administration, Windows /Wintel Server 2003, 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, GPO, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, Services and WINS and managing Microsoft SQL Server.
• Having hands on experience in the field of system, Configuration Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Windows Server 2008/2012R2/2016.
• Strong knowledge in Microsoft System Center Operation Manager and related systems primarily: System Center Operations Manager SCOM 2007/2012/2016
• Installed and configured an automated tool Puppet that included the installation and configuration of the Puppet master, agent nodes and an admin control workstation.
• Experience remediating general windows security issues as well as containment, eradication and recovery of systems with in compromised environments.
• Very strong experience on setting up of all the three major public clouds AWS, GCP, Azure as well as VMware and Open stack private cloud and administration of the same
• Excellent skills in patching and hardening Win 7/Win 2003/2008/2012 servers using Windows Update and also by using the staged patches.
• Built Windows 2003/2008 Wintel Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers. Resolving server issues - Windows 2008/2003 server, Network connectivity, etc.
• Experienced in ITIL process implementation, Service Delivery, PMO/ IT Governance processes.
• Experience in installing and configuring applications in the IIS Environment
• IIS and Windows administration for a worldwide financial company with 10000+ nodes. Configuration, deployment, and maintenance of 2000+ Windows 2003 and Windows Servers
• Strong knowledge on Web servers (IIS 5.0/6.0/7.5/8.5 ), ASP.NET, Web Services and FTP Services on Windows Environment
• ITIL framework implementation, Strategic/Tactical Planning, Software Development MethodologyCustom Development, Service Management, On - shore/Near Shore/Off Shore Development, Program/Project Management, Project Recovery, Partner/Alliance Management, Software Test, Process Improvement.
• Strong understanding of SDLC and Business Analysis practices and good knowledge of Six Sigma, ITIL, CMMi Process.
• Upgraded full ERP 4.7 landscape DEV, SND, QAS and PRD to ECC 6.0 running on MSCS Server with SQL Server database 2005.
• Installed and configured Portal 7.0 Sandbox, Development, QA and Production landscape on virtual systems running on MSCS Server with SQL Server 2005 database.
• Experience in automating applications using PowerShell, Batch Script and VBScript.
• Implementing, Maintaining AD Infrastructure as a service in Microsoft Azure cloud platform
• Exposures with Azure Active Directory compatibility. Extensive experience in deployment, migration, patching and troubleshooting of windows 2008 and 2012 R2 Domain Controllers in Active Directory.
• Monitoring the Active Directory Replication status of the Domain Controllers.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows Azure Cloud and virtualization technologies.
• Extensively worked on organizational setup, site creation and maintenance, workflows, data management, user management, migration and integrating existing systems successfully into the Office 365 environment with design requirements.
• Developed organizational units in Active Directory (AD) and managed user security with group policies.
• Experienced in designing, implementing and evaluating applications, systems and utilities relevant to Active Directory Domain services.
• Administrating, creating and modifying DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation, DFS link, Web servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting, WINS, and DNS and managing user and group accounts Administration.
• Installing, Configuring, Managing and Troubleshooting, vCenter 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 Servers and ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 Servers.
• High Availability MSCS systems. Configured Single-Sign-On between ECC 7.0 systems and Enterprise Portal 7.0 systems.
• Deploy, upgrade and manage systems, including virtual infrastructure, hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Virtual Machines running with Windows/Linux OS, Deploying VMs from Templates, working on VMware View 5.0/5.1/5.5 and VMware VCenter Converter
• Administration in advanced features of ESX/ESXi, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, Update Manager and concepts of SRM.
• Implemented and managed HA, DRS clusters and Fault Tolerance on critical servers.
• Knowledge on HBA, iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts).
• Worked on scripting like PowerShell and Power CLi for Automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Packaging and Scripting: Wise Package Studio, Install Shield, VB and batchscripting

Management HP: SIM 4.x, backend, SMS, SCEP

Messaging Exchange: 2008 - 5.0, Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.x, 4.x

OS Imaging: OSD Via SCCM 2012, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010, Ghost Grid Computing Data Synapse Grid Server5.x

Programming and scripting: Python, SQL, VB scripting, PowerShell

Virtualization: VMware Workstation 9.x, 7.x, 6, 5, vRealize 8.0, VSAN

Productivity Software: Microsoft Office 365, 2010, 2007, 2003, (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access), Microsoft Project and Visio

Remote Management: SCCM Remote Tools, Remote Desktop, SMS Tools, HP iLo, KVM Tools.

Networking: Layer 2 and Layer 3 devices, TCP/IP protocols, firewalls, F5 load balancers (LTM)

Network management: Infoblox, SNMP, Cisco Works LMS, HP Open view, Solar winds, Ethereal

Enterprise AntiVirus: Cylance, Trend Micro, Norton SEP, McAfee Build and Configuration Tool TFS 2012/2013/2015/2017, VSTS, Jenkins

Cloud Technologies: AWS, Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Cloudbees

Active Directory: Design, Installation, Configuration & Troubleshooting. DC Migrations, Deploying & Troubleshooting GPOs. AD Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services

Tools: MS Visio, MS Project, MS Office, Rational RequisitePro, SharePoint, Rational Rose, ClearCase Languages: Python, Java, C, Perl, ROR

Various Features Services: IOS and Features, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, DHCP, CDP, DNS, TFP FTP Mgmt

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Buffalo, NY

Sr.Windows Vmware System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Building Windows 2012 R2/ 2016 servers based on the company standards and decommissioning the servers.
• Designed and executed on-prem to AWS cloud migration projects for Texas DIR state agencies
• Responsible for all System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) applications and Infrastructure.
• Compile report on returned information contained in a MIB (Management Information Base), port scanning tools and in the server logs the SOC while implementing FedRAM/NIST standers.
• Configured custom SNMP Polling, public and private MIB OIDs, examples bandwidth utilization, free disk space percentage, free memory percentage, circuit status.
• Full ITSM suite implementation. Implementation and custom scripting of Servicenow Geneva including ITSM, Azure/ADFS SSO, PPM, Vendor Management, Security Operations, and Governance, Risk, and Compliance.
• Threat Vulnerability Management Experience:
• Implementation lead for ITSM solution. Technical lead for custom Servicenow development in broad based national healthcare environment.
• Managing & Supporting the hybrid cloud, private cloud platform that runs on the virtual data center using VMware Cloud Suite tools like vRealize Automation (vRA 8.0), vCenter, vSphere & vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) along with AWS.
• Built, Configured and Deployed VMs and Templates. Migrated Physical-to-Virtual P2V and Virtual-to-Virtual V2V Migration of Windows XP, 7, 2000, 2003, 2008 from VMware and Hyper-V
• Cloud Migration for Confidential ’s existing Surveillance Pattern application migration from Netezza/GreenPlum/Oracle On-Premise to AWS Cloud system using AWS services like VPC, EMR, S3 and Big Data analytic tools.Servicenow POC implementation of solution for full ITSM suite.
• Reviewing and aligning existing ITIL processes to the new service model and tool.
• Worked with and helped implement Isilon integration with EMC elastic cloud storage solution (ECS) for storage on demand requirements within Confidential infrastructure.
• Manage and Administer Windows 2008, 2003, 2012 Exchange 2007, 2010, and IIS Servers.
• Windows 2008/2012R2/2016 Servers including Blade and SAN storage.
• Extensive experience on VMwareHA, DRS, P2V, V2V, vMotion, vCenter Server, Templates and Clones.
• Develop & establish operating policies, ITIL practices, internal controls & best practice approaches for computing and IT systems/services; evaluate overall operations of computing and IT functions & recommend enhancements.
• Involved in a technical advisory role for EMC products/solutions as a consultant for enterprise level storage.
• Supported and trained field engineers on EMC mid-tier and enterprise tier storage platforms.
• Installed and configured vRops with multi node cluster
• Proficiency in usingV Sphere, vCloud Suite /vRealize suite - vRealize Operations Manager (vRops), Log Insight, vRealize Orchestration(vRO), and vRealize Automation (vRA/ vCAC), VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN)
• Used Avocent DS View Module for the remote server access to the Dell rack serverr
• Experience with SRM 5.Xm, vCloud Director 5 5.1 and vShield Networking and Security.
• Experience on development of CORBA probes (for integration with Netcool/Omnibus) using Java and customization of Vista Bridge(Infovista)for extending Infovista data collection using Perl scripting and Developing and customizing reports in Infovista.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining vCenter/ vRealize Operations Manager (VCOPS/VROPS).
• Design and Deploy of Software Defined Network (SDN) in VMware NSX-V in multiple sites with extended L2 segments
• Integration of vRA and NSX with customer service portal blueprints.
• Implementing NSX-T in greenfield environment and migrating workloads
• Data driven performance tests using CloudTest for complex SaaS global shipping application.
• Deploying vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) to monitor network virtualization stack NSX-V
• Load Testing on the VMware Lab Manager/VCloud director deployment with DR Testing on SRM
• Web Server Administration -IIS. Managing IIS 7.0/IIS 8.0/10.0 Web servers and hosted web sites.
• Part of team managing IAM through Active Directory and Sail point with Radius server.
• Extending CloudTest framework with javascript for 1View SaaS performance testing.
• Upgrading NSX-V to NSX-T with migration co-ordinator
• Expertise in broad range of technologies, including business process tools such as Microsoft Project, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio
• N31-VAS, N31-MPLS, and M31-IMS, OMC-B/S Ems’s Infovista, Hp-OVO and Oracle grid. Creation of customized PSML pages, maps, monitors in Netcool/WebTop as per customer’s requirements and developing Netcool Tools for cross launching other applications such as BMC remedy, Info vista and UIM.
• Created tests that used XML, RESTful JSON and Javascript to test AJAX heavy SaaS web app.
• Experienced with all types of Deployment Tools including SCCM 2012 R2, Soft Grid and Altiris.
• Hands on experience with the VMC migration of VM's, Velostrata migration of Windows 2008 and 2012 R2 servers and SMS migration of servers that has Linux OS from on premise VMware to the AWS console.
• Assisted in building a Business Analysis Process Model using Rational Rose and Visio
• Automation, monitoring, and testing using PowerShell, Shell, Perl, Python.
• Rewrite existing Python/Django modules to deliver certain format of data and Able to create scripts for system administration and AWS using languages such as BASH and Python.
• Responsible for writing/modifying scripts using sh, ksh, and Bash for day-to-day administration
• Worked to establish vRA Blueprints and vRO Workflows that met the IRS’ needs using industry best practices.
• Responsible for creating UML modeling plan, Use Cases, process flows, screen flows and business requirements documentation to model system development specifications, using MS Visio and Rational Requisite
• Postman script development for testing workflows via JSON REST calls to vRA / vRO.
• Used AWS EC2 and S3 with VMWare Automation (vRA) to spin up VM's for testing use.
• Launch of VMware Tanzu Basic and Tanzu Mission Control (SaaS for MSP) as part of VMware’s Developer Ready Cloud vision and enabling Managed Kubernetes Services for App Modernization in multi-cloud container environments.
• VMware 6.0 to 6.7 vCenter and ESXi upgrades and external-to-embedded PSC conversions
• Administration of production servers, network infrastructure that includes Windows administration of Domain controllers, Migration activities, IIS web servers, File and print servers and terminal servers.
• Hands on experience in Antivirus Administration, Patch Management, Network devices analysis, Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing(VAPT) and log analysis.
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches. Worked on various scanning and Sniffing tools like Ethereal. Experience with VMware virtualization and infrastructure management.Involved in SNMP Network management.

Confidential - NY

VMware System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked on vSphere (ESXi 6.0, VCSA 6.0). Installation, Citrix, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, ESXi upgrades 5.5 to 6.0, VCenter upgrades 5.1, 5.5 to 6.0. Optimization of vSphere, Storage environments.
• Create Change Management documentation through Remedy and ServiceNow and set the schedules for decommission
• Expertise in installation, configuring and troubleshoot the Virtualization flat form using Hyper-V Windows RDS, RDSH, RDCB, Windows load balancers.
• Configured VMware and installed several Linux and Windows Operating Systems according to the client needs. Also involved in maintenance and Troubleshooting of VMware.
• Open ticket with VMware vendor and Troubleshoot issues coming in horizon VDI desktops
• PowerShell Scripts to automate migration steps.
• SME and being part of the global Infrastructure build team, responsible for the entire Windows server infrastructure for various projects includes Windows Hyper-v servers, Active Directory, DNS, Application servers and VMware vSphere Virtualized environment.
• Installed and configured the Hyper-v Servers for the windows virtualization.
• Handling The largest VMware Horizon View 6.2 and 7.1 Environment having 2 lakh VMs
• Upgraded Horizon View 6.2 environment to 7.1
• Troubleshooting IIS Servers and Database connectivity, issues with Active Directory, component services and ASP Net applications for correct settings enabled in servers
• Designed and planned for the Archiving, legal hold, Journaling, Retention policies after Mailboxes moved to O365 online.
• Utilizing the Log files, Lync snooper, Wireshark and PowerShell for trouble shooting Lync related issues.
• Manage VDI environment using VMware Horizon View Client.
• Involved in designing both internal and external VMware View 4.5 & 4.6 VDI solutions to customer base.
• Authored Phyton and PowerCLI scripts to automate the build of VxRack FLEX or VxRail virtual lab environments. Streamlined the process of installing and configuring VMware vSphere, NSX, vSAN, vRealize
• I worked as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Windows servers and good Knowledge and work experience with VMWare NSX and vRealize Operations Manager.
• Familiarity on network topologies, intrusion detection, PKI and secured perimeter network.
• Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5 on a Dell 2950 Power Edge M1000, VMware Infrastructure Client, VMware Virtual Center, License Server and VCB Setup.
• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining Windows and Citrix Servers which includes 10,000 user base and more than 100 plus applications.
• Responsible for LAN/WAN network communications, operations, hardware and application software for intensive segment of Rackspace's customers
• Demonstrate a very good working knowledge of Windows 7, SCCM 2012, Remedy, Admin Studio 2012, VMWare Horizon 5.2, VDI workstations, Citrix XenApp 5.6 - 7.5, Citrix Provisioning Server
• Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.
• Decommissioned Exchange 2013 server from the network domain after Office 365 migration completed using Microsoft best practices.
• Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.

Confidential - TN

Windows System Administrator / Desktop Support Technician

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented and supported IT solutions for local customers as a consultant - Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft SQL server, Microsoft Exchange server, Microsoft SharePoint server, Microsoft Windows XP/7/8/8.1, Microsoft Office and 360.
• Used CloudFormation to create infrastructure Stack using Templates and achieved automation using Chef (ruby scripts).
• Experience and knowledge with designing, installing and implementing VMware VSphere ESX/ ESXi 4.0, VMware VCenter, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, VMware converter VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Upgrades and deployments will be doing through PowerShell scripts and Deployment Engine (DE).
• Monitoring the Azure clusters health Pre and Post deployments.
• Proficient with deployment and management of AWS services - including but not limited to: VPC, Route 53, ELB, EBS, EC2, S3
• Administration of production servers, network infrastructure that includes Windows administration of Domain controllers, Migration activities, IIS web servers, File and print servers and terminal servers.
• Administered Active Directory, SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange Servers. Worked extensively on Group Policies and Printer paths in Active Directory. Good knowledge on DNS/TCP/IP and LAN/WAN.
• Configuration, Service administration, account maintenance of Office 365/Exchange /Forefront identity management/ Skype for Business Post Migration.
• Web Server Administration -IIS. Managing IIS 7.0/IIS 8.0/10.0 Web servers and hosted web sites.
• Installed, configured and managed servers, workstations, LAN equipment, MicrosoftWindows Server R2, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange 2010, Microsoft TMG 2010, corporate antivirus software, Microsoft Windows 7.
• Migration of infrastructure, data and applications out of legacy data centers into cloud and hybrid environments (public and private)
• Work with team to build out automation templates in Fugue or AWS Cloud Formation in support of the managed services platform.Pre-migration test for user from Exchange 2013 to Office 365.