SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of professional experience in IT industry, as a system administrator specialized in handling large and diverse networks. Proficient in areas of design, implementation, integration and providing solutions on Microsoft Windows, Web environments and Virtualized Infrastructure
• 5 Years of working experience as a VMware Administrator in Data Center Environment running vSphere 4.1/4,0, VMware Infrastructure 3.5.Hands on experience in deploying VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure , thin client computing.
• Extensive experience in working with ESX4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 hosts configuration, Installation, management and maintenance
• Extensive experience in Windows 2008/2003/2000 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Experience in Cisco UCS blades and HP C7000 Blade administration
• Good Understanding of VBlock Components and EMC/NetApps SAN Storage.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro-active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude. Expert in Windows Server System Administration skills.
• Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization
• 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 Server monitoring, capacity planning, application monitoring with the help of Tivoli, HP insight and WebTop.
• Experience in installing, configuring, administering, and performance tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 familiar with Database Creation, Database Security, Database Replication/ Migration, Database Performance Monitoring, User Management, Database Backup/Restoration, Import/Export of SQL Database, Transact SQL, SQL Query analyzer and profiler.
• Experience in EMC SAN,DMX ,iSCSI, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Experience in VB scripting and Perl scripting.
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security. Installation, Configuration and managing Firewalls like Fortinet, ZyWall, SonicWall, ISA with content filtering, Anti-Spam, Web filtering, NAT, Application Publishing to public IP, Port Forwarding, log analyzing with Syslog Server. Experienced in installation, configuration, design and ongoing maintenance of Cisco router and switches.
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Experience with Datacenter relocation projects and P2V migration using the Platespin and Doubletake tools
• Experience and Familiar with Desktop Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware View 4.5 and Citrix Xen Server. Created and managed VMs virtual Machines and also involved in the maintenance of the server.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Work Summary

Confidential

Role: VMware admin

Responsibilities:

• Maintained VMware 4.1 environment hosting various host guest OS.
• Perform upgrades to hardware, operating systems, and applications.
• Maintenance of the server farm, Performance tuning and capacity planning related to the Virtualized environment and monitoring performance activities.
• Consolidate and manage Windows servers using VMware Sphere 4.0 clients and vCenter converter.
• Handling Sev 1 and Sev 2 tickets. Resolving day-to-day trouble tickets for operating systems, applications, printers, and network problems
• Active Directory user administration. Windows Server 2003 .
• Maintained login scripts, daily operations for Windows server infrastructure and components.
• Coordinate with multiple teams to fulfill new server build requests to satisfy configuration, storage, backup and monitoring requirements.
• Supporting the project teams to solve the production and UAT tickets

Confidential

Technical Consultant

• Identified Servers which were consolidated for virtualization using VMware Capacity Planner tool.
• Preparing the Project plan VMware ESX setup Implementation plan .
• VMware ESX server Hardware setup in all sites with HA/DRS Clustering/Vmotion .
• Networking setup with the portgroup and VLAN trunking on the ESX server and Physical switches.
• Fiber SAN storage setup and configuration on the McData Brocade FC Switches and DS4700 Controllers.
• Migrated Physical machines to Virtual Machines using the VMware tools VMware Converter .
• Configured Guest OS with resources pools and alerts.
• Configured applications.
• Installed / configured / maintained Windows 2000 Server / Windows 2003 environment.
• Supported day-to-day issues in Windows 2000 Server / Windows 2003 environment
• Monitored Windows 2000 / Windows 2003 servers using MS MOM.
• Troubleshoot HP / Dell / IBM servers and worked closely with vendors
• Tested applications and setting up the backup process using Acronis s/w.
• Monitoring setup using Virtual centre, MOM alerts Performance.
• Preparing the Technical document of the complete setup and VM environment standardization.
• Servers Migration using the P2V on the VMware ESX 2.1.3.
• Performed ESX host 2.1 migrations to ESX 3.0.1.
• Performed ESX host 2.5 migrations to ESX 3.0.1.
• Cold migrate virtual machine from ESX Server 2.1 host to ESX Server 3.0 host.
• SAN data store up gradation from VMFS2 to VMFS3.
• Virtual machines up gradation from VM2 to VM3.
• Virtual Center components, including Virtual Center Server, its database, and all associated clients.
• Upgraded ESX Server hosts and all their related VMware VMFS datastores, local and shared.
• VMware Tools up gradation on Virtual machines.
• Built Disaster Recovery environment with minimal impact on production environment.
• Replicated data for DR testing, application test.
• Setup DR Environment under DMZ network.

Confidential

Title: Systems Administrator Vmware

• Maintain VMware vSphere infrastructure for multiple Michigan offices
• Maintain Equallogic SAN for multiple Michigan offices
• Maintain Cisco Networking equipment for multiple company offices
• Maintain company network and internet infrastructure on Cisco, Juniper and HP networking fear
• Migrate company from Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware ESXi
• Execute P2V conversions for multiple physical servers and V2V conversions for multiple virtual servers
• Migrate company to new SAN environment from old HP Storage Server AIO 600
• Migrate company to new data center on HP blade chassis C7000, BL460
• Implement Core Switch architecture in company server room
• Maintain company desktops, laptops and printers
• Maintain and augment company disk/tape backup infrastructure
• Provide 24x7 on-call support of production servers
• Maintain public IIS farm
• Build and maintain the Linux based monitoring infrastructure MRTG, NAGIOS

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing system requirements for 8bit Silabs microcontrollers,
• Transformed LLD documents into useful functionality.
• Designed code for PCM simulator, and 12 channel systems
• Programmed for Flash memory, SPI interface, PWM data reception
• Involved in Integration of software modules and Hardware devices using JTAG
• Involved in Unit testing, Integration testing.

Confidential

Roll: Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coding of the application based on technical specifications using C , Multithreading, Socket Programming, Shell Unix Environment.
• Involved in complete development of TL1 commands, SNMP MIBs, SNMP requests using C , UNIX.
• Experience in solving FR's and CR's related to TL1 modules. Experience in setting up the NT, LT and LANX for traffic flow.
• Involved in developing SNMP Mapper for NT, LANX. Involved in designing the TL1 commands for LANX switch.
• Experience in supporting the client during PT. Experience in unit testing and target testing, preparing the test cases for ST, FT and reviewing the PT test cases. Involved in code reviews and document reviews for the TL1 related modules. Conducted various trainings for the new comers to the team.
• Experience in supporting the test team for the regression, smoke test.
• Experience in merging and delivering the IR's, FR's for various releases.
• Extensively worked on IPC Inter process communication for client and server communication.
• Responsible for product support and maintenance.
• Involved in Unit testing, System testing, Feature Testing, Smoke testing and bug fixing.