SUMMARY

• Systems Administrator with 7+ years of extensive industry experience, specializing in implementation, configuration and administration of different Operating systems and VMware for Windows Server.
• 7+ years of System Administration and IT experience in multiplatform VMware, Windows, and UNIX with hands - on expertise in networking and system integration.
• Experience in building the VMware Vcenter server and managing the ESX hosts.
• Extensive experience in Installing and Configuring vCenter, VMware VSphere (Infrastructure Virtualization suite), ESX/ESXi Server, Virtual Machines and vSphere Client.
• Experience with Data Centre Migration.
• Managing Access Control through vCenter server, Optimizing Resource Utilization, Load Balancing (VMware DRS) and ensuring High Availability (VMware HA).
• Deploying Virtual Machines (VM's) through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) Machines.
• Experience with networking and Storage related issues.
• Experience with SAN and NAS configurations.
• Extensive experience in performing System Integration/Administration for Microsoft Windows Servers, Windows 7/ Windows 8, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu and Mac O.S's.
• Experience with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and 2010.
• Worked on Active Directory Services, Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO); Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), DHCP, WINS, and DNS.
• Configuring and Administering IIS web servers.
• Creating Power Shell scripts to do Environment provisioning like Citrix/IIS/Database and Apache servers and vCAC server
• Deployed ESXI patches by update manager.
• Hands on Experience implementing transition path from virtual infrastructure to Private Cloud using vCloud Director.
• Deployed and managed VMware vCloud Suite based Private Cloud with Multi-tenancy, Self Service Portal.
• Deployed and configured vCloud director to coordinate with VMware Orchestrator to deploy vCloud Server.
• Complete understand of configuring EC2, VPC, automated stack configuration and Monitoring software for the cloud environment.
• Configuration and administration of Load Balancers, Network and Auto scaling for sub domains in AWS VPC.
• Installation and configuration of Git, merging code from develop branch to master branch and make it ready for deployment.
• Experience in Automation, Installation and overall Configuration Management of servers using Puppet and Ansible.
• Packaging and deploying the servers using the automation tool - PANDA
• Experience with installing and configuring the Windows server update services (WSUS).
• Administration of Active Directory in Windows environment. Managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Group Policies, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc.
• Contacting various Infrastructure teams to resolve issues quickly and configure Dynatrace APM agents on application servers.
• Install SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, and Oracle client.
• Perform installations, health check, patches, upgrades, capacity planning and performance tuning, through approved change.
• Working with incident/problem management tool REMEDY and ECRS.
• Raise incident tickets, update tickets and close out outages in ITSM tool.
• Experience with managing the Antivirus server.
• Installing and configuring LINUX Servers.
• Experience with Managing users and groups.
• Experience with creating Logical Volume Management and Samba share.
• Experience with installing and updating the packages in LINUX with YUM and RPM.
• Experience in ITIL Driven controlled environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Proxy/Web Servers: MS-Proxy, Microsoft ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration Server-2000), Apache 1.3.12, IIS, I-Planet Web Server.

Mail Server / Clients: MS Exchange 5.0, 5.5, 2000, Send mail on Red Hat/Solaris, WR Mail, Outlook Express, and Outlook

Server OS: Red Hat Linux 7.2, Windows NT 2003/, Windows 8, Windows 10& NT4.0

Software/ Methodologies: MS-Visio, Veritas Backup Exec, Sophos Anti-Virus, Norton AV Corporate Edition, SAMBA, VB Scripting, SQL / PLSQL, HTML, Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT)

VMware products: vCenter Update Manager 4.0,5.0, vSphere Client, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware ThinApp, HA, DRS, Fault Tolerance, vMotion, SVM, vApp, vCenter Heartbeat, VMware Workstation … VMware Converter, VMware Horizon View, PowerCLI

Storage: EMC Clariion, EMC Celera, DMX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

VMware/Windows Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the core datacenter infrastructure using VMware.
• Work on assigned projects and responsible for Windows/VMware technical tasks.
• Build and provision VM's, Physical, and ESX Host in client environment.
• Configuring Chassis \ Blades \ Virtual connect.
• Configuring distributed switching and storage.
• EMC storage - To run EMC Grab, Power path and LUN migration.
• Virtualization the PBM environment. Work on VMware ESX5/5.1/5.5/6.
• Work on presenting the SAN, NAS & ISCSI storage to ESX Servers.
• Physical Servers installation in Datacenter and responsible for racking, cabling and SAN Allocation.
• Deploying OS 2008, 2012 R2 Servers through Templates and MDT (Microsoft Deployment Tool), maintenance and Cloud architecture support.
• Manage VMware ESXi hosts, virtual machines, data stores, vSphere virtual center, and NetApp NAS storage configuration.
• Built a vCloud Director/VShield cloud environment with VMware as the hypervisor.
• Part of the Techno-biz team which involves, technically interacting with customers about the Infrastructure.
• Configuration and administration of Load Balancers, Network and Auto scaling for sub domains in AWS VPC.
• Installed and managed Windows 2008R2 and 2012R2 and Linux RHEL/Centos virtual machines and templates, ISO files for provisioning.
• Verify firewall connectivity for developers & users.
• Supporting App Team and third party vendor for the App installation.
• Responsible for OS Level Security patches & remediation jobs through Blade Logic.
• Security patches installation process on server environment.
• Perform effective Change, Incident management of the Infrastructure.
• Document network problems and resolutions for future reference.
• Responsible for Production server's turnover.
• Works with product development teams and architects to identify virtualization requirements and creates service.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates and Creating, managing multiple snapshots and ISO's.
• Build Windows /2008 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design.
• Partners with other engineering/operations partners, to improve upon service delivery, quality assurance, and MTTR of infrastructure/service incidents.
• Works on complex assignments where independent action and a high degree of initiative are required in resolving.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of 2003, & 2008.
• Extensively worked on VMware cloud automation team and responsible for cloud automation administration and enhancement.
• Talking to multiple GTS Team to understand their process for making it automated to minimize manual intervention and risks.
• Customize existing cloud API with Power Shell Script to build server with Lilly Standard (Like Windows Update, Domain, Backup, Antivirus etc).
• Creating and Managed VCO workflow for Day to day task.Creating and Managing blue prints for environment provisioning by vCAC.
• Creating and managed Resource pool for the different Business segment as per requirement.
• Creating Power Shell scripts to do Environment provisioning like Citrix/IIS/Database and Apache servers and vCAC server
• Publishing report to the reporting server.
• Working on the server health check list and resolving and updating on the servers.
• Engages and escalates to vendors for service restoration.
• Respond to and perform advanced troubleshooting of production, and pre-production issues.
• Experience in designing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto scaling groups.
• Experience, knowledge and understanding of DR strategies.

Environment: VMware vSphere 5.5/5.1/4.0, VMware View 5.0/4.5, Windows 2012/2008, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor.

Confidential, MI

VMware/Windows Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and upgraded ESXi 5.0/4.1 and 4.0 in a total of 120 ESX servers, Built 1000+ Virtual Servers and 500+ VDI's.
• Completed many vMotion activities prior to complete migrations.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates and Creating, managing multiple snapshots.
• Build Windows /2008 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion, DRS, HA.
• Performed P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 4, 5 and also the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of 2003, & 2008 as well as Linux servers from VMware.
• Monitored all UNIX Servers for CPU utilization, Network traffic, and hard drive space and Memory
• Upgraded VMware ESX 3.5 servers to ESX 4.0, 4.1 and ESX servers 4.1 to 5.0 and updated patches for VSphere 5.0
• Analyzed and Implemented OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool and also deploy patches using vCenter update manager.
• Assigning LUN's from storage array to ESX Server
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from VNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• Used CA Desk and Service Now for ticketing process on fixing Incident Reports and Change Requests.
• Installing and configuring Antivirus on all the servers.
• Engage hardware and software vendors to assist in improvement of current VMware environment and research and evaluation of the latest technologies.
• Managing the Critical Server's CPU Performance using predefined utilities and Power shell scripting to ensure the production continuity Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows administration of Domain Controllers, DNS, DHCP, Exchange 2010/2007 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, and Terminal Servers on Windows 2010/2008/2003.
• Working with incident/problem management tool REMEDY and ECRS.

Environment: VMware vSphere 5.5/5.1/4.0, VMware View 5.0/4.5, Windows 2012/2008/2003 , HP Server Automation Client, Quick Base, NetGeine, Service Now, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

VMware/Windows Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and upgraded ESXi 5.5, 5.0/4.1 and 4.0 in a total of 50 ESX servers, 600+ Servers.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates and Creating, managing multiple snapshots.
• Provisioning the servers thru Quick Base, Dell Edge Servers. Successfully completed Post-Provision on so many servers.
• Build Windows 2012/2008 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion, DRS, HA.
• Performed P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 4, 5 and also the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2003, & 2008 as well as Linux servers from VMware.
• Monitored all UNIX Servers for CPU utilization, Network traffic, and hard drive space and Memory
• Upgraded VMware ESX 4.1 to 5.0 and updated patches for VSphere 5.0.
• Clone the data from production to development environment using FLEXCLONE technology.
• Analyzed and Implemented OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool and also deploy patches using vCenter update manager.
• Assigning LUN's from storage array to ESX Server
• Used Service Now for ticketing process on fixing Incident Reports and Change Requests.
• Installing and configuring Antivirus on all the servers.
• Engage hardware and software vendors to assist in improvement of current VMware environment and research and evaluation of the latest technologies.

Environment: VMware vSphere 5.0/4.1/4.0, VMware View 5.0/4.5, Windows 2012/2008/2003 , Exchange Server 2007, Windows 7/ Windows 8, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring the VMware VSphere.
• Installing the VMware Vcenter server.
• Maintaining the ESX hosts and upgrading the ESX hosts.
• Upgrading Vcenter server and client.
• Performing VMotion and storage vMotion.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
• Managing 2003/2008 AD server.
• Managing Microsoft Email server.
• Converting the physical machines to virtual machines and virtual machines to virtual machines by using the Vcenter standalone converter and plate spin converter.
• Monitoring alarms and managing it using Vcenter Server Notifications.
• Monitoring the health Check of a VM's.
• Experience in troubleshooting the issues related to Vcenter server and ESX hosts.
• Installing and configuring windows 2003 and windows 2008 server.
• Installing latest support packs releases and hot fixes from Microsoft by using WSUS.
• Installing and configuring Antivirus on all the servers.
• Installing and configuring Linux machines.
• Installing and updating the packages on Linux machines by using YUM and RPM.
• Monitoring the CPU utilization and disk space and memory in Linux machines.
• Experience in creating Logical Volume Manager
• Maintaining the backups and Job scheduling.
• Experience in working with BlackBerry server like creating users and deleting users and Synchronizing issues.
• Troubleshooting the issues related to storage and networking.
• Installing and configuring the apache tomcat web server.
• Installing and configuring SQL 2008.
• Worked with Network Concepts such as OSI reference model, IP protocols such as TCP/IP, IP addressing, subnets, routing protocols like OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP and STP.
• Setup and configured various RAID 1 and RAID 5. Applied patches and upgrades to the servers.

Environment: VSphere 4.0, VSphere 4.1, ESX4.0/4.1, VMware VDI, windows 2003/2008 AD server, Red hat Linux 5.0, VMware standalone converter, plate spin converter, VCenter Operations Manager 5.0, IP Monitor, EMC Networker, WSUS Server, BlackBerry Enterprise server 5.0, MS exchange Server 2003/2007, SQL server 2008 R2.