SUMMARY:

• Being a professional with over 7 years of experience working in Enterprise IT environment, I have grown into someone with skills and professionalism from Level 1 to Level 2 to Level 3 professional that suits the need of your IT environment. With an aptitude to learn, ability to handle pressure, ability to work alone as well as willingness to work as a part of a team, good communication and presentation skills, and a desire to thrive and deliver, I can say that I am the right fit for your environment.
• Expertise in administering, maintaining VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi environments supporting wide ranges of OS and application while building Windows 2003, Windows 2008, and Windows 2012 Virtual Servers in hypervisors as recent as ESXi 5.5
• Experience with HP servers, CISCO UCS servers and Dell Power Edge Servers.
• Experience working in large international complex directory environments with experience supporting Windows 2000 Active Directory (AD).
• Maintaining the File and Print Servers and cloning the Desktops on Network in Windows environment.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server
• Experience in 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)
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESX 5.x, 4.x and 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server till 5.5
• Knowledge in EMC Clarion SAN Storage, NetApp Storage, Nimble Storage, NAS storage environment
• P2V, and V2V conversions of Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012 server families and LINUX using VMware Converter, including all the post migration troubleshooting for the windows
• Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots
• Strong experience with the VMware HA and VMware DRS including complicated storage adjustments manually and deadline oriented vmotion and svmotion migrations, sometimes between clusters.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types ofport groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management
• Intermediate understanding of powerCLI (windows/vmware)
• Providing comprehensive documentation for system builds
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite (Mainly Excel), Open Office, Visio
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, UCS & Dell hardware like rack - mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Work well both independently and as part of team. Proven capacity to work well under pressure and conflicting priorities.
• Worked on various environments giving Production support 24/7
• Provide daily, weekly and monthly health reports on Existing systems to make suggestions for upgrades

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows server 2012 R2/2012/2008 R2/2008/ 2003 / Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Vista

VMware: ESX/ESXi and vSphere 3.x, 4.x and 5.x, VMware converter 3, 4 and 5.0. Site Recovery Manager (SRM), Zerto for VMware, vCloud Director, VCOPS, vfoglight, VDI View/Horizon 5.x and 6.x 1

Hardware: Compaq, HP, CISCO UCS, Dell, Routers, Switches.

Office tools: MS office, MS Visio, MS project, RVtools

Applications supported from VM perspective: Exchange, SCCM, SCOM, ADDM, POS, PCI, Dynatrace, Lync, Splunk, and many others in the environment

Database: SQL Server ODBC connectivity

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, Token Ring, Ethernet, RAS, RIP, OSP, SMTP, DNS and DHCP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Migration Consultant/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planned and executed several migration waves for a server consolidation project which consisted of numerous P2Vs and V2Vs within same and across different datacenters, P2Vs performed through vCenter Standalone Converter 5.X and V2Vs performed through Zerto. Also assisted in planning migration waves for the client’s datacenter relocation project coming up in the future
• Worked as a part of the L3 WINTEL team in an international IT Services Provider Enterprise within a PCI compliant VMware environment of 150 plus CISCO UCS BladesM1, M2 and M3, 1500+ virtual machines and numerous applications hosted within a large storage space measured in Petabytes along with some HP standalone servers in the DEV/QC environment
• Took upon any challenges that came across in a dynamic environment with majority of tasks being external customer service. Dealt with a wide range of clients from telecom industry, grocery chains, fashion chains and a multitude of other industries.
• Created an entire environment from scratch for telecom client within two weeks for their voice messaging/IP phone services. This involved creating the cluster, configuring hosts, spinning new VM’s via OVA templates, and supporting them while closely working with external vendors; which the client uses since our environment was hosting the client. Also worked on all the OS builds for windows servers, got them through the staging and security teams and further verification till they went into production.
• Configured and supported HP DL series standalone servers configure RARITAN COMMAND CENTER and iLO.
• Also configured and supported CISCO UCS chassis and UCS B200-M3 blades and call the Cisco support if needed. Worked on FI, create template and deploy new ESXi host from the template. Add VLAN to the profiles and configure the VLANs from the VMware side and the UCS side.
• Configured ESX clusters with HA and DRS as required by the system, performed VMotion and Storage-VMotion as per the environment requirement based on the resources.
• Maintained a virtual infrastructure that mainly uses Nimble Storage hosting a range of systems including but not limited to Windows / R2 /2012/2012-R2, many variants of LINUX/UNIX including Ubuntu/Red Hat/Centos, MS SQL Servers, MS Exchange Servers, and MS-AD Servers. Servers being mostly hosted on the ESXi 5.1/5.0 at first and ESX1 5.5 afterwards
• Perform upgrade the vCenters from 5.0 to 5.5, and install all the components single sign-on, web-client, inventory service, and vCenter servers. Closely work with DB team to take the full backup of the DB. Also configure the upgrade the Update-manager.
• Performed capacity planning and planned storage migration by using RVtools and Microsoft excel for dynamic environment that required storage and tech refreshes frequently.
• Updated ESXi hosts in Prod/Dev/CAT/QA environments with newly released patches and driver extensions using VMware vCenter Update Manager
• Supported a Non production VMware Horizon View 5.2 environment with 150+ desktops
• Maintained weekly inventory of all the VM’s, Hosts, storage devices and networks in use by the Systems Integration team for a dynamic environment
• Created weekly reports on resource utilization (Memory/CPU/Disk Space) in the environment consisting of 3 vCenters for every cluster, thus keeping track of the infrastructure health and proposed and executed suggestions based on those reports for performance tuning of the whole system while keeping the resource utilization at the leanest. These were done by integrating the information generated via RVtools and VCOPS (VROPS).
• Created documentations for recurring/non-recurring standard processes for the use of the team.
• Created change request forms and worked on any change request tickets issued for/by the Virtualization Operations team using Service Now. Responded to incidents of various priority levels (P1/P2/P3) and worked in co-ordination with separate teams, sometimes with lower tier teams.
• Performed level 3 troubleshooting, also provided day to day support for the infrastructure operation including communicating with the vendors in an environment which was more than 95% virtualized

Confidential, Eagan, MN

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a part of the Ops team in a Federal government sponsored environment of 600+ HP blades/rack mount servers, 16000+ virtual machines and numerous applications hosted within 25 Petabytes of enterprise storage space. Also familiarized with the PCI regulations since the environment was PCI compliant.
• Assisted the Virtualization Engineering team in maintaining absolute compliance with respect to Federal regulations as well as PCI regulations by issuing and applying s on different hosts, keeping the host profiles updated as per directed by the regulation guidelines.
• Configured and supported HP Chassis, HP BL 685 Gen 7 blades, HP BL 660 Gen 8 blades, HP DL 385 Rack servers via C7000 Onboard administrator and iLO.
• Configured ESX clusters with HA and DRS as required by the system, performed VMotion and Storage-VMotion as per the environment requirement based on the resources.
• Maintained a virtual infrastructure that mainly uses EMC FC hosting a range of systems including but not limited to Windows 2003 Servers, Windows 2008 & Windows 2008 R2 Serves, RedHat Enterprise Linux, MS SQL Servers, MS Exchange Servers, MS AD Services Servers. Servers being mostly hosted on the ESXi 5.1 and some on the ESXi 5.0 hypervisors.
• Performed performance tunings in the virtual machines that hosted several applications including Splunk, ADDM etc.
• Performed capacity planning and planned storage migration by using RVtools and Microsoft excel for a constantly changing environment that required storage and tech refreshes frequently.
• Updated ESXi hosts in Prod/Dev/CAT/QA environments with newly released patches and driver exensions using VMware vCenter Update Manager
• Generated a monthly inventory of all the VM’s, Hosts, storage devices and networks in use by the vOps team for the environment where the number of active VM’s change frequently.
• Monitored the environment via VCOPS, and made suggestions to the management about several aspects of cluster capacity as in Memory, CPU, Storage usage
• Supported a VDI environment with VMware Horizon View spread across 2000+ desktops among two vCenters. Production environment using VDI 5.2 while the Non-Production using Horixon 6.0 version. They were both for the PCI applications.
• Participated in a rotating 24X7 on call support cycle every 8 weeks.
• Created documentations for recurring/non-recurring standard processes for the use of the team.
• Created a large number of VMs most of which were wintel servers strictly following the requirements as per seen in the environment. It was performed in collaboration with different application teams located in different geographical locations. Also created linux VM’s by deploying OVF templates and did basic setup as in giving IP address, installing VMware tools etc by following the standard procedural documents
• Created change request forms and worked on any change request tickets issued for/by the Virtualization Operations team using ServiceNow
• Performed level 2 and 3 troubleshooting, also provided day to day support for the infrastructure operation including communicating with the vendors in an environment which is more than 90% virtualized

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Sr. Systems Engineer (Windows and Vmware Migration)

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a migration technical team lead in large Multiple Datacenters (QTS at Suwanee, IO at Phoenix, Databank at Dallas and Alpharetta) migration project which involved VMware vSphere 5.0 & 5.1, VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0, vSphere Replication (VR), VMware vCloud 5.0 & 5.1, VMware Desktop Infrastructure (VDI-Now Horizon) 5.1, and supported the migration of citrix XenApp desktop farm
• Configured Dell PowerEdge M1000E Chassis, Dell PowerEdge M620 & M710 HD Blades, Dell PowerEdge R820 Rack Mount Servers
• Maintained a virtual infrastructure that uses Dell Equal Logic PS41x0 Series Arrays, EMC FC Storage and, of course, Windows 2003 Servers, Windows 2008 & Windows 2008 R2 Serves, RedHat Enterprise Linux, MS SQL Servers, MS Exchange Servers, MS AD Services Servers
• Performed capacity planning and server migration planning by creating a runbook for every migration wave. This included working very closely with the storage engineers. Also created an alternate protocol for the VM’s that were not supported for replication due to storage limitations in a very short period of time
• Started to group non-critical production VMs (Servers) first, setup in SRM Consistency Group & Recovery Plan and migrated VMs using SRM Plan migration then applied same process to rest of the critical business Servers
• Worked with a lot of moving pieces including pieces: IPPlan, VMTools Deployment, P2V, V2V, VR, analyze the Storage requirement & project estimate, Deployment and Configuration of new Blades, OS installation and configuration
• Worked the complete lifecycle of a datacenter relocation project, including standing up the new environment for prod servers as well as powering off all the servers in the non-prod environment which were fork lifted and shipped to the new datacenter and restarting them.
• Troubleshooting IIS applications based on monitoring and logs generated on the server
• Created a large number of VMs most of which are wintel servers strictly following the requirements as per seen in the environment. Worked with systems manager and project managers to extract requirements from the business and application teams. Most of the work was done by creating templates. Also spun some linux boxes with support from the linux team.
• Performed maintenance of new and existing VMs and physical boxes throughout the environment
• Created change requests using SharePoint and worked on any tickets issued for the windows team.
• Worked on Active directory to grant access to new team members.
• Acted as a liaison between the management and technical staff by maintaining proper coordination & communication with Project Managers, Business managers, DBAs, Application Team, outside vendors
• Performed level 2 and 3 troubleshooting, also provided day to day support for the infrastructure operation plus train the new hires in an environment which is more than 95% virtualized

Confidential -EMC, VA

VMware-Migration/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a part of a migration team to migrate VM’s across a complicated network consisting of 10 Datacenters to consolidate it into 3 datacenters for an ambitious Datacenter Consolidation project.
• Using VMware vCenter, created DataCenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS, built host and storage profiles for all new clusters.
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter. Performed V2V Migration using VMware converter as well as SRDF and swing LUNs. Also worked with Platespin for some P2V amd V2V.
• Touch based with and gained some Understanding and Knowledge VBlock and components and experience with Cisco UCS administration.
• Created standard documents considering the Proof of Concept Migration wave (POC), helped the project managers in preparing runbooks, playbooks for migration and did the data collection for all the required server constraints from the source DC and the target DC.
• Assisted the storage architect in determining storage requirements in the brand new target clusters in the environment mainly using EMC and HITACHI storage
• Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines, deployed VMs from templates and configured them
• Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches
• Troubleshooting IIS application based on monitoring and logs generated on the server
• Configured HP DL and BL series blades using the ILo & Onboard Administrator C7000 and HP Insight Manager.
• Worked with business clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes, and workflow.
• Participated in weekly meetings and daily standup reports in order to comply with agile team policies.
• Worked on Remedy Incident & Change request tickets via HPSM, mostly performing L2 troubleshoting

Confidential

Systems Administrator/VMware

Responsibilities:

• Installing ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and IBM hardware.
• Installation of Vcenter server and its components.
• Monitoring of Vsphere licensing.
• Deployed Virtual machines, configured them with IP, installed VMware Tools and hardware.
• Creating resource pools and adding the VM’s into the pools.
• Snapshots according to user’s requirement.
• Configuring HA, DRS clusters, creating Affinity rules and configuring FT when required
• Performed capacity planning for new clusters.
• Worked with the storage team to resolve ESX and VM storage issues
• P2V Hot and cold conversions using converter enterprise 3,4 and 5.0.
• Performance monitoring using VizoncoreVfoglight.
• Presenting FC SAN LUN’s, RDM’s iSCSI LUN’s and NFS mounts.
• Created several VMs most of which were wintel servers according to the specifications provided by the management together with the business and the application teams.
• Worked with the linux team in creating new vm’s with their help in configuring it.
• Creating Vswitches.
• Creating different ports groups for different purposes.
• Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for NLB and redundancy.
• Updating and upgrading ESX servers using Vcenter Update manager.
• Vmotion according to the requirement.
• Storage Vmotion according to the requirement.
• System Analyst for Windows servers.
• Experience with troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory.
• Responsible for Microsoft exchange server 2010, SQL and database server.
• Provide technical supports for Microsoft outlook 2007/2010.
• Maintained Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall for Exchange Server.
• Successfully Migrated Win XP users to Windows 7 using USMT (User State Migration Tool).
• Provide Level 3 support to end users.
• Creating technical notes and user guides for new software and database for end users.
• Perform technical expertise for windows systems environments on issues related to servers, local services, data centers, server configuration.
• Maintain records for event, audit and application logs.
• Monitor all windows backup and perform fine tuning every 15 days, mostly performed L2 troubleshooting.

Confidential, MN

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and manage ESX 3.5/4.1 VMware servers. Also worked with some
• Build VMs on demand using this client provisioning.
• Create VMs for Disk sharing for Oracle and Windows clustering.
• Build and maintain HA and DRS clusters health.
• Design and implement new Data Center VMware infrastructure.
• Assist users with slow and unresponsive VMs by troubleshooting issues with CPU and Memory.
• Migrate VMs according to load balance across different hosts.
• Installed ESX patches using Update manager.
• Run reports from Virtual center for usage and health of ESX hosts and Datastore usage.
• Create & manage LUNs for Datastore on Compellent storage systems by mapping LUNs to HBAs.
• Troubleshoot issues with slow Datastore access.
• Added Raw Disk mappings to VMs from available storage.
• Perform health checks of the storage and SAN infrastructures.
• Upgrade and migration of VMs from 3.5 to 4.0.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support for Windows servers and VMware infrastructure.

Confidential

System Administrator/VMware

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for participating in providing transition support and services for the Delphi Automotive Widows servers to gather and define the processes needed for the HP global delivery teams.
• Publishing and assigning the user permissions to access the Applications in Windows Management Console.
• Creating the load evaluators for load balance purpose while users accessing the Applications.
• Maintaining the file server, application and Print Server.
• Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on production servers.
• Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP.
• Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.
• Worked elaborately on different windows environment which include Windows NT version 4.0, Work Station, Terminal, 2000 and 2003.
• Running VB Scripts to validate logins on 1000 + servers and check the server access on weekly basis.
• Strong Knowledge in creating various objects like User Accounts, Computer Accounts, and Auto logon accounts.
• Assigning folder permissions to the users by gathering approval from the group owners.
• Efficiently created and managed various Groups (Domain Local and Global Security).
• Worked on HP Open View Service Desk (OVSD) tickets.
• Raised tickets for any issues discovered during validation.
• Using Net Use command to check whether we can connect to member servers or not.
• Categorization of server in terms of complexity and effort required to complete the primary system access tasks.
• Working on Ticket process in receiving Incident tickets in Remedy Tool in 24x7 environments.
• Created standard operating procedures and process documents for off shore resources.

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining systems which includes +150 servers; + 2500 user base and more than 100 various applications. Up till current date built several VMware servers with more than 30 applications.
• Assist in development of an India-to-India support model for these technologies.
• Migrated more than 300 users from Metaframe Presentation Server 1.8 to 4.0.
• Monitoring and managing the performance and the load balance of the Servers.
• Working on deadline, multitasking, simultaneously working on multiple projects and coordinating with various vendors. Applying Securities Policies.
• Creating a test Environment in VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Working with various production system and Network administration on Windows2003 advance server with Active Directory Domain Services.
• Publishing the Desktops and Individual Applications according to the Department requirements in the organization.
• Coordination with the Marimba Team for Creating packages for server build to install the application in the Test server.
• Providing users with access rights and permission for accessing the applications.
• Installing and updating the windows patches.
• Coordination/implementation of hardware and software installations and upgrades.
• Performance and capacity monitoring and management.
• Weekly server maintenance planning and coordination.
• Monitor and act on problem tickets.
• Created Process Documents and Standard Operating Procedures as per the ITIL standard and was reviewed by Managers.
• Introduced the procedure of templating the details and requirements captured from the Users for of all the Team and Managers.
• Updated the Managers with a weekly Status reports with the current status, issues and reasons for delays of the applications.