SUMMARY

• Microsoft Server, IIS, VMware Technology Professional having 6+ years of I.T. experience in Windows Server 2003/ 2008/2012/2016 , VMware ESXi 3/4/5/5.5/6.0/6.5 , Hyper - V 2008/2012/206 CISCO Switches and F5 Big-IP Load Balancers.
• Experience in Windows Server 2003/ 2008/2012/2016 Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), .NET, Java Applications, MSSQL, FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WebLogic, Tomcat, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server
• Experience working as a Migration Engagement Engineer to consolidate, support a large enterprise level application migrations/decommissions, server deployments as part of refresh projects.
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5 and vCenter Server 4/5/6/6.5
• Expertise in advanced features of ESX/ESXi 4/5/6/6.5, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA,DRS,and Update Manager
• Experience migrating from Windows Server 2003/2008 and 2012/2016 including upgrading MSSQL, IIS and application servers.
• Expertise working with Application teams, database teams, developers and Project Manager’s to fix and resolve any bug/migration issues.
• Experience implementing Hyper-V 2008/2012/2016 environments that consisted of SCVMM 2008/2012, Nodes, Clustered Shared Volumes, VHD/VHDX, and Live Migrations to ensure maximum up-time
• Experience in installing and tuning XenApp 6.5/XenDesktop 5.6/6.x/7.x and Group policy implementation on Citrix Application server.
• Experience in pre-provisioning new Cisco UCS service profiles from service profile templates designed for various VBLOCK/Hyper Converged projects including deploying VSAN.
• Experience setting up IT AUDIT controls, protecting information assets, to meet ITIL, SOX, HIPAA, CIS, SCSEM, NIST and PCI compliance standards.
• Excellent VMware PowerCLI and Microsoft PowerShell Scripting knowledge for automation of Virtual Infrastructure.
• Experience building a presentation to present the design of hosting architecture on Amazon EC2/Azure public/private clouds to deploy all the VM’s.
• Experience Creating a Virtual Networks on Windows Azure to connect all the servers and deploy Azure Windows Servers.
• Experience implementing WSUS and SCCM 2007/2012 for centralizing the OS and security patch management throughout the data center on the servers running windows operating system.
• Experience in configuring, maintaining and supporting Microsoft Cluster Server for MSSQL servers.
• Experienced in migrating Windows Server 2012/2008/2003 , RHEL 5/6/7, SUSE 10/11/12 and VMware ESXi hosts from Cisco UCS 5100 enclosures running on VBLOCK’s.
• Expertise web server Administration, installing and managing IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5/8/10 web servers and .Net and Java based web applications to ensure maximum uptime.
• Experience of Process oriented work environment, Change Management, Service Management.
• Explicit knowledge in implementing tiered SAN/Storage solutions using FAST and Virtual Provisioning on EMC VMAX/VNX/ISILON, NetApp FAS Solutions, Nimble and VSAN per best practices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Windows Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided the administration of all Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2016 system functions including Active Directory, file services, print services, IIS, SCCM 2007/2012 servers and event logging
• Also assisted in planning migration waves for the client's datacenter relocation project coming up in the future
• Create change records for all application migrations as part of maintenance window changes.
• Configure, maintain and support Microsoft Cluster Server for MSSQL, WebLogic, Tomcat and IIS webservers to maximize uptime and configure active/active and active/passive nodes.
• End to End deployment and configuration of new VBLOCK’s/UCS chassis as part of new implementation projects.
• Configure QOS policies, Boot from SAN, MAC pools, WWPN pools, WWNN pools, BIOS policies, Boot Policies on CISCO UCS profiles.
• Rack and Stack CISCO UCS 5108 enclosures that included B200’s B250’s as well as building out the entire UCS Manager, Fabric Extenders, 6120’s 6140’s XP’s
• Responsible for 18000+ servers for multiple site - Operating system, Active Directory, Security, SCOM, DNS, DHCP, Shares, Disk quotas, SMB and DFS-N/DFS-R.
• Configure advanced features ofESX/ESXi 4/5/6/6.5, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA,DRS,and Update Manager.
• Installation of ESXi 4.1/5.5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5 Hosts, vCenter Server (vSphere), vCenter update manager and administering VM’sacross 4 Datacenters running 4000+ VM’s.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMwareESXi 5.0/ VirtualCenter 5.0, vCenterServers as well as upgrading to ESXi 5.5/6.0/6.5 and Virtual Center 5.5/6.0/6.5.
• Designed, Architected, installed, configured and performed troubleshooting of VMware products vCAC, vRealize Automation, vCloud Director, Infrastructure Navigator, vCOPS, vSphere, vCenter, vCNS, SRM, vRA and vCloud Orchestrator.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication with the help of Endpoints.
• Installation of Citrix Presentation server 4.0/XenApp 6.5/6.0 & Citrix Client Tools
• Deploy, maintain and support of customer’s implementation of Citrix XenDesktop 7.x/6.x.
• Configure Windows/RHEL AMI Instances using AWS Console and assisted in Deploying Apache and IIS Webservers on AWS Cloud.
• Provide onsite technical support in an integrated Windows Server environment supporting users both at the executive level and below utilizing ticketing solutions such as ServiceNow and Cherwell.
• Configure advanced features ofESX/ESXi 4/5/6/6.5, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA,DRS,and Update Manager.
• Setup IT AUDIT controls, protecting information assets, to meet ITIL, SOX, HIPAA, CIS, SCSEM, NIST and PCI compliance standards.
• Deploy security patches, updates as part of the patching cycle using WSUS and SCCM.
• Work with Application teams, database teams, developers and Project Manager’s to fix and resolve any bug/migration issues.
• Provide 24/7 support to Middleware application servers (WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss), Webservers (Apache, IIS, HIS, Oracle IPlanet) and Database servers (Oracle RAC, DB2, MS SQL, MySQL).
• Administered performance analysis using tools like Nagios, SCOM, DynaTrace and HPOM.
• Configure, support and troubleshoot Active Directory roles and features such as File and print services, IIS, .net framework, and MPIO.
• Responsible for capacity planning, design, install and configuration of newly provisioned CISCO 5108 enclosures, ESXi servers running B200’s, B250’s.
• Create WWID pools, MAC pools and service profiles in Cisco UCS Manager.
• Deploying and troubleshoot .Net based Applications and Java based apps on IIS 6.0/7.0/8.0/10.
• Develop, test, and maintain a Disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• Perform break-fixes and work maintenance windows as well monitor alerts and logs to ensure maximum uptime.
• Root cause, triage analysis and problem management of migration processes and failures.
• Manage and Configure PKI infrastructure, RSA, VPN and RRAS, TMG servers, IIS web servers, FTP servers SCCM Servers and WSUS Servers.
• Creating standard process for advanced group policy deployment management as well as Active Directory users and group’s management.

Confidential, Lexington, KY

Windows Server/VMware Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Windows Server 2003/2008R2/2012 OS build, IP Configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds and Support & Administration.
• Worked with a team of Datacenter Support to maintain OS and Hardware.
• Migrate and upgrade from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 and 2012 including upgrading MSSQL, IIS and .NET application servers.
• Build development RHEL Linux servers including WebSphere Application servers, Apache/IIS webservers, MySQL and Perl based solution to assist developers.
• Deployed multi node Hyper-V clusters utilizing System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008/2012 to ensure maximum uptime by creating shared networking and cluster shared volumes.
• Managed resources within active directory as it pertains to Hyper-V clustering
• Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware vCenter/vSphere and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment.
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESXi Servers, Virtual Center Server (vSphere) and Virtual machines
• Configured advanced features ofESX/ESXi 4/5/6/6.5, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA,DRS,and Update Manager.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESXi Servers, Virtual Center Server (vSphere) and Virtual machines
• Automating the environment through VMware Orchestrator, and writing scripts for daily tasks.
• Develop, test, and maintain a Disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• Created user accounts, modified and deleted according to the environment using userAdministration
• Configure, maintain and support Microsoft Cluster Server for MSSQL and IIS webservers to maximize uptime and configure active/active and active/passive nodes.

Confidential, Lexington, KY

Windows Server/VMware Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with servers and Desktops
• Involve in the installation Windows Server 2003 user environment including on hardware and software.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESXi Servers, Virtual Center Server and Virtual machines
• Part of VMware migration team in implementing and updating the latest versions of VMware as well as building new VM instances as per the business requirement.
• Configured Multiple IP addresses for forward and dynamic routing
• Configured IIS 6.0 as an application server and troubleshooter the run time errors.
• Installed SSL certificates for .NET and Java applications in IIS and configured security ports..