SUMMARY

• Overall 5 years of professional experience in installing, configuring, integrating, and automating data center technologies in VMware/Windows and Linux administration
• Accomplished systems administrator managing server infrastructures and data - center operations across multiple platforms (Linux, Windows).
• Designed, implemented and managed multiple scalable VDI environments consisting of Xen Desktops, multiple XenApp Farms | Sites, and published applications.
• Knowledge on AWS platform, EC2 instance, RDS, S3, cloud front, cloud watch (monitoring), IAM, AMI, Volumes, snapshots, Migrating Ec2 to different locations, Bash scripting and other services.
• Experience in deploying VM’s, managing users and groups, deploying domain controller to Azure, installing and configuring Azure Ad connect.
• Experienced in installing, upgrading, patching, configuring, administrating and maintaining various Windows Servers.
• Design the VMware environment including: vSphere, ESXI, SCCM, SCOM, SRM (site recovery manager).
• Experienced in Performance Monitoring, Security, Troubleshooting, and Backup, Disaster recovery, Maintenance.
• Developed and used Custom reports and built in reports inSCCMfor reporting.
• Experience in Migration fromSCCM2007 toSCCM2012.
• Consolidating resources via Virtualization VMware and Hyper-V
• Excellent experience in working on vSwitches such as StandardvSwitches (vSS), Distributed vSwitches (VDs).
• Built Windows 2003/2008WintelServers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers
• Strong knowledge and extensive experience in data center migration projects.
• Good experience on working on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for maintaining business continuity and performing disaster recovery (DR) activity.
• Experience and understating in monitoring performance of Hosts and virtual machines, datacenters, monitoring backups using Net Backup operations Manager..
• Involved in Site minder SSO System integration and Application Production Support.
• Troubleshot switch to server and back to the secure cloudconnection.
• Extensive experience with Windows clustering on virtualized environments.
• Responsible for OS maintenance activities like upgrading the OS, updating the services and third-party software’s.
• Capacity planning tools like VMware Realize operations system.
• Provided 24/7 On Call production support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware VSphere 4.x, 5.0, 5.1&5.5, 6, 6.5 Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3.x and 4.x,5.x, 6.x, VMware Virtual Center Server (Vcenter) 2.x and 3.x,4.x,5.x VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager, VMware vShield manager, vROPS(Vrealize operational Manager) 6.4, 6.5, 6.6.1, VMWare vRealize Automation (VRA), vSphere Web client.

Server Hardware: HP Rack servers & HP Blades, Cisco UCS Blades, Dell Power Edge server

Monitoring Tools: Vrealize operational manager (vROPS), SCCM, SCOM, Solar winds, VRNI, Pandora, Nagios.

Databases: Microsoft SQL servers.

Backup tools: Veeam, Commvault simpana, Netbackup, TSM.

Web Services: Microsoft IIS.

Ticketing Tools: BMC Remedy & Service now, Foot prints.

Antivirus: Trend Micro, Symantec & McAfee.

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2000, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, and VMware ESX/ESXi server.

Cloud Platform: Vcloud Air, Vcloud director, AWS, Azure.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 R2/2012 R2 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Configuring and Managing Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Provided system administration and technical support for Windows 2003/2008/ 2012 Servers on a daily basis.
• Solving Day to Day tickets such as physical hardware failure SRs for replacement. Hands on experience of replacing memory DIMMs, HDs, Power Supplies, CPUs, NIC cards, FC cards within the servers, equipment and switches of various types such as HP, Cisco, Dell, Riverbed and more.
• Restoring the VM’s and Physical using the COMMVAULT VSS and BMR processed.
• Installation of new HP C7000 Enclosures configuration of OA, VC, EBIPA also creating blade profiles and other Configure for BL460 & BL620c.
• Full access to the Data Center & responsibility of racking, cabling, all physical servers, appliances & all equipment in the datacenter.
• ILO, IDRAC & Bios Configure for HP and Dell servers along with decommission of older Gen legacy servers, equipment for the part of new project/change.
• Daily tickets solving using Service Now (GSN) tool such as OS installation, Firmware upgrade, user permission in AD.
• Installed and Configured Extranet environment using office 365.
• Worked on Office 365 Share Point Online. And created the Share Point Site Collections using the Office 365 Admin Center. Worked on the Office 365 dashboards and configured the User Profiles in the Office 365.
• Office 365 (Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013, Lync 2013) Setup, Customization & Support.
• Working on Change Management and Request Management Tickets in Remedy Tool.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing for Change Management, Incident Management, and service requests.
• Manage BMC Remedy for reporting of daily activities of quality Information Technology services.
• Testing all new servers before turning into production environment.
• Racking, cabling, configuring all the equipment listed below and more. Cisco switches ASA firewalls,
• Patching & upgrading multiple ESXi Servers using TLS within the vCenter server.
• Creating, deleting, modifying & password resets of Accounts in AD and administration of AD OU, Accounts, Servers, etc.
• Created documents for the company for the builds, configure, etc. to help company in case of any need to build such servers or things depending on situations.
• Configure and deploy new Microsoft windows using HPC and SCCM (admin) for patch management throughout the data center on the servers running Windows operating system.
• Using PowerShell Scripting generate the IQOQ Reports.
• Install TLS in 2003, 2000, 2008 and 2012R2 servers.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day to day operations including installation, configuration, and maintenance of systems hardware, software and related infrastructure used to provide Windows services. Participating in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.
• Implemented and managed VDI environments utilizing VMWare Horizon View.
• Installed deployed and configured SRM 6.1.
• Build service profiles, boot policies from template from Cisco UCS manager.
• Provide implementation and Data center migration process support, Build new servers on UCS environment.
• Installed deployed and configured VR appliance. Created protection groups, Recovery plans and testing plans
• Automation of routine tasks and reports using PowerShell and PowerCLI for Windows, VMware, AD, and Exchange.
• Configured match rules by configuring search parameters in MDM according to Business Rules.
• Upgraded Semarchy MDM Application from 4.2 to 5.0.
• Participated in initial setup, configuration, and testing of IBM InfoSphere MDM
• Installed, maintain and troubleshoot MDM server hardware, operating system software.
• Hands on experience building MDM servers.
• Provisioning of virtual servers with templates for Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 & 2012R2.
• Worked with change management software's to create and apply change tickets in the Production environment.
• Install, Setup and Monitor the Servers, NetApp Storage, Windows, Linux, Switches and other network device on Windows System Center Operation Manager.
• Manage Identity Access management of Azure Subscriptions, Azure AD, Azure AD Application Proxy, Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Pass through Authentication.
• Experienced in configuring Cloud platform such as Virtual Networks Multi-site, Cross-site, VMs, Azure AD, Load Balancers, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, etc.
• Designed and Developed user interface and dash boards that help end users to collaborate and use their SharePoint work environment more TEMPeffectively.
• Developed mobile interactive applications and processes with K2 Black pearl integration.
• Implementing third party solutions that boost the clients SharePoint work environment.
• Designing, developing, implementing and maintaining of client forms using InfoPath with offline compatibility using the SharePoint workspace.
• Executing technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Windows Azure
• Azure AD - Implemented Azure AD using AD connect, Created from scratch Domain controllers’ s (Dc) and configured SSO and multifactor.
• Deployed Azure services for a hybrid-based authorization and encryption system.
• Experience in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012/2007 Design, Implementation, Administration and Management Packs Authoring.
• Migrated SCOM from .
• Configuring SNMP monitoring for firewalls, network routers and switches using SCOM 2012
• Experience in Configuring SCOM Gateways for Non-trust domains and troubleshooting infrastructural issues.
• Installed and configured DNS and DHCP server and Involved in troubleshooting of DHCP and other IP conflict problems.
• Inst Manage a global virtual infrastructure consisting of hundreds of ESXi hosts, thousands of virtual machines, across many Penn Datacenter sites.
• Update patches on Servers Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and wins etc.)
• Experience working on Anti-virus Trend Micro, Symantec & McAfee.
• Upgraded from 9.0 to Veeam 9.5 for backup and replication.

Confidential, St. Louis

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported 5000+ Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange users on Wintel server environment.
• Installing Maintenance Levels and updates on Windows Platform.
• Installed, configured & administer Windows 2003/2008 Standard and Enterprise Servers including installing IIS, .NET applications and Java Applications.
• Managed 10,000+ end users in a Citrix XenServer environment with Active Directory integration. Created GPO's, scripting.
• Setup of Multi-Factor Authentication between the Azure and Ping Federated with AD on-prem passwords.
• Identifying opportunities to improve infrastructure that TEMPeffectively and efficiently utilizes the Microsoft Azure Windows server 2008/2012/R2, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio, Windows PowerShell, Cloud infrastructure.
• Implemented Azure AD using AD connect, configured SSO and multifactor
• Involved in the installation, monitoring and support of firewalls, Cisco networks, perimeter security technologies, Internet technologies and remote office WAN/ LAN connectivity
• SCCM 2012/2007 experience focused on deploying, Packaging, administering, and troubleshooting an enterprise wide SCCM environment on large scale environment
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines, installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning, deploy Virtual Machines, including deploying linked Clones using View Composer. Assigned dedicated/floating Pools as per requirement.
• Administration and troubleshooting skills in issues related to View Connection servers, View Manager, View Security servers, View Composer, View Pools, View desktops, Snapshot, Win7 OS Templates creation and Share Point.
• Monitored performance, capacity and health of infrastructure using VCOPS 5.7.
• Application migration, deployment with ThinApp and ThinApp Factory used VMWare Horizon View Composer to provision desktop pools using manual provisioning methods.
• Managing and provisioning virtual resources using vCloud Director 5.1
• Performed Inter-Forest migration of users, workstations, and servers to Active Directory 2012 using Microsoft's Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) v3.2.
• Administering production server’s/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2.
• Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Installed, Configured and Implemented Terminal Server (TS) RemoteApp on IIS 7.0 Windows 2008 R2 published applications using TS Web Access, RemoteApp program and TS Gateway.
• Configured storage devices along with iSCSI disks in SAN using RAID 1, 5 and 10.
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Ensure successful completion of all Symantec Backup Exec and NetBackup jobs, restore files and systems as needed.
• Maintain systems using SCCM and SCOM, Install new System Center environments and services, Microsoft Windows XP/7.
• Integrated MDT 2012 with SCCM 2012 for TEMPeffective Migrations and Deployments and Creating Custom Migration Task Sequence for User State Migration.
• Hands on technical supporting and Monitoring Operations Manager 2007 R2 to enterprise environment.
• Responsible for running Wintel on host operating systems (and applications) such as Microsoft Windows to run in a protected, virtual environment in a window on Mac OS X.
• Testing of different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM's and Expertise in providing support for windows 2008/2012 servers and Active Directory's.
• Provide 24*7 hr. VMware and Windows/Linux production L3/L2 support.

Confidential, Reston, VA

VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Maintained windows server 2003/2008 on HP and IBM servers
• Worked on providing 3rd Level support for 2500+ Windows 2003/2008 Servers.
• Build servers with Raid Configuration RAID 5 and Raid 1+0on HP ProLiant DL380, 360, 580, ML370 servers.
• Worked on Change Management, Request Management and Incident Tickets in Service Center.
• Configuring windows firewall settings using group policy.
• Responsible for the network in general including switches routers, firewalls, systems (windows mostly) storage (NetApp, Store Vault), backup/restore
• Installed and Configured WIN, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Extensively managed active directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring using Active directory using PowerShell.
• Responsible for providing 3rd level support to applications in Production.
• Integrated MDT 2012 with SCCM 2012 for TEMPeffective Migrations and Deployments and Creating Custom Migration Task Sequence for User State Migration.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using ILO for remote connection to a server.
• Experience in Active directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, FILE & PRINT SERVER, IIS, FTP, terminal server, RIS/WDS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft clustering, MS exchange mail server and ISA server.
• Maintaining servers with latest security updates, critical patches, anti-virus, and backup
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Decommissioning of windows servers, including the disk wipes and drilling the hard disks depending on client requirements for each server.
• Experience in configuring Microsoft Load balancer (NLB) for Web Servers and Applications servers to distribute load and High Availability.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Windows 2000/2003 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using RSA/RILO for remote connection to a server.
• Build 200+ VMware vSphere hosts and added to new/existing VMware Clusters on Wintel Stack and involved in the Data Center Transformation.
• Worked as LDAP admin and managed various ldap instances in GE environment. Helped in performance tuning of the ldap directories.
• Experience on creating new VMware Clusters with HA and DRS enabled.
• Building new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the client.
• Experience in deploying new Virtual Machines from OVF/OVA templates.
• Creating Roles and permissions in VMware ESX Server 3.0/3.5/4.0
• Migrated VMware ESX 3.5 u2 to ESX 4.0 using VMware update Manager.
• Experience on hot and cold clone process.
• Installed/updated patches on VMware ESX (me) hosts using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Updated VMware tools on virtual machines using Update Manager tool.
• Provided 24/7 On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.