SUMMARY

• Over 8 years of experience in VMware and Windows Administration.
• Comprehensive hands - on experience in Designing, Implementing, VMware Virtualization Technologies, Storage Design, Microsoft Technologies and Network Infrastructure.
• Designed, Installed and ConfiguredVMware ESX/ESXi within VSphere 3.5, 4,4.1,5,5.1, VMware VCenter 4/3.5 andVMware View 4.5, 4.6 environments, Consolidated Backup, load balancing, DRS, HA, FT, DPM, VMotion, VMware VCenter Converter and VMware Data Recovery, VCloud directory &VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 4.0/4.5.
• Experience in maintainingVMware ESX / ESXi environment, VCloud Suite, Microsoft Windows Server, EMC Storage Arrays, Citrix XenApp, Xen Desktop, Data Center management and day-to-day operations with Skill and Efficiency.
• Built, Configured and Deployed VMs and Templates. Migrated Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) Migration of Windows XP, 7, 2000, 2003, & 2008 fromVMware and Hyper-V.
• Expert in Configuring and administering Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007/2010, SQL server 2008 R2, IIS 6.0/7.0.
• Plan, Design and Implement Hyper-V Clustered environment, providing High Availability and Failover and Migration of Hyper-V cluster 2008 R2 to Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster.
• Deployed and Maintained Microsoft Technologies including: Windows Servers 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2; SQL servers 2005, 2008, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, Group Policy Design and Implementation, IIS 6.0/7.0; Remote Desktop Services, Windows Deployment Services, Microsoft Deployment Workbench.
• Hands on experience with HP Proliant Servers, IBM Blade HS20P Servers / and Dell Power Edge rack mount servers.
• Monitoring logs and Alerts of Servers & Network devices such as Routers, Switches, Firewalls and etc.
• Experience Working within a Cross Functional Team Environment to Achieve Position Objectives.
• Proficient in Developing Procedural & Technical Artifacts for Support & Customer Implementation.
• Installed Patches and Host Profiles on ESXi hosts and virtual machines usingVMware Update Manager.
• Designed and ImplementedVMware environment backup procedures and disaster recovery solutions
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, and Exchange Mail Server.
• Worked with Fiber SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS (EMC (CX30), NetApp, Dell MD3000i Dell MD 3200i, and troubleshooting SAN related issues and upgraded firmware of SANs inVMware and Windows.
• Worked onVMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Failover clustered Hyper-V environments and Create virtual machines within Hyper-V.
• Provide 24x7 on call support as part of scheduled rotations.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Visio and Outlook.
• Excellent leadership qualities, good communication skills and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 7/Vista/XP, Windows 2003, 2008, 2012, RHEL, MAC OSX.

Servers: Cisco UCS, DELL/ IBM/ HP Blade Server/ ML, DL 580, 380, 360, G4, G5G6 Proliant 5500/3000 Series Servers

VMware: VMware vSphere5.1/ 5.0/4.0, ESX Server 5.1/5.0/4.0/3.5/3.0 VCenter/Virtual Center Server 5.1/4.1/4.0/2.5/2.0 VMware HA, DRS, DPM and FT, vMotion, VMotion, VMware Converter 5/4/3, VMware Converter Boot CD.

Backup Software: Windows NT Backup, Symantec Backup exec Tools and VMware.

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2/2008/2005, Practical SQL Queries. Security Software Symantec Antivirus, and McAfee installation and monitoring.

Storage: DAS, NAS(NFS), SAN and ISCSI.

Scripting: VB Script, Perl and Power CLI.

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS, VPN, DNS, NTP, WINS, FTP,SSH and WinSCP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

VMware/Windows Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with project implementation teams and build infrastructure that complies with vendor requirements while meeting project requirements.
• Designing an Active Directory and Network Infrastructure, Forest and Domain Infrastructure.
• Implementing Group Policy, Managing and Monitoring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) managing and monitoring Domain Name System (DNS).
• Installation, configuration and administration of Windows 2008 R2/Windows 2012 (server core) domains in an enterprise network environment.
• Administering Information store Management, Public folder Management, Exchange system Manager Management, Groups and Address List Management, administrative Group Management.
• Setting up permission, delegating permission, Routing Groups and Routing groups Connectors.
• Provide support to application teams on IIS configuration, Ensure availability and capacity of key services such as file, print, DHCP and DNS.
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMwareConverter.
• Responsible for moving VM builds through the Server pipeline and into final production on the network.
• Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi Servers on HP & Cisco hardware, installation of VCenter Server, Upgrading 40+ hosts from VSphere 4.1 to VSphere 5.0 upgrading VMware Tools for all VMs.
• Create a procedure for the P2V migration and make a decision along with the client team to decide which servers to be virtualized.
• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 5.0 host servers with VSphere Client. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN.
• Manage testing, implementation and administration of VCenter Lab Manager Server.
• Perform troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms.
• Configure and Monitor alerts with WhatsUp Gold and Server's check software.
• RAID 1, 1+0, 5 and 6 Implementations.
• Interact and coordinate with different teams to meet the deadlines.
• Documentation includes PCI compliance Requirements, Project Plan, Network Diagrams, P2V migration and Network design and upgrade recommendations.
• Disaster recovery planning, implementation and recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.
• Update and patch all ESX servers and coordinate hardware-software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy.
• Provided 24/7On Call support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

Environment: VMwareESXi, VSphere 5.0/5.1 Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 HP DL & ML server series, Virtual Infrastructure Client, Smart Start 8.4 HP Insight Manager, UCS manager, Cisco Enterprise Network equipment.

Confidential, Bedford, MA

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployed and maintained 170+ servers, those includeVMware, Windows, and Microsoft and RedHat Linux platforms.
• Conducted Log Analysis and Troubleshoots on Performance of ESXi environment.
• Troubleshot network issues between Distributed VSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Maintained and installed Open SUSE Linux servers.
• Prototype Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization deployment. Symcor was a beta tester working with RedHat to deploy this service in production.
• Provided Consultation for Troubleshooting in Virtualization, SAN Configuration, Active Directory group policy design & Implementation and ESXi Distributed vSwitch Network Configuration.
• Provided Technical Recommendations for Installation and Implementation of Virtual Environments in Industrial Pl2ants. Identified Administrative Standards, Issues and Process Improvements.
• Created scripts in VB, Perl, and Powershell to Automate Tasks in the Guest VMs.
• Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Red hat and SUSE and VMkernel Linux appliances.
• Built and maintainedVMware and Windows Server Infrastructure.
• Provided technical assistance and best practices for customers to simulate in their own environment.
• Worked on developing technical papers on Virtualization for Process Automation Systems.
• Good experience in working on vShield manager as security virtual appliances built forVMware Center Server integration and configured through a web-based user interface, a VSphere Client plug-in, a command line interface (CLI), and REST API.
• Presenting LUNs, RDM and storage to various different hosts such as windows,VMware along with host side configurations of SAN storage.
• LUN path mapping and keeping track of VM's along with their data stores.
• Worked with VCloud directory to data services as virtual data centers that provide virtualized compute, networking, and storage and security.
• Develop Proof of concepts for latest Technologies, Documentation and verifying Test cases for Future implementations of VSphere 5.5, VCloud Automation Center, and Windows Server 2012, VMware VCloud director,VMware VOPS (VMware Operations Manager) andVMware vShield.
• Testing, Documentation and verifying Test cases for Future implementations of Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012,VMware VCloud director,VMware VOPS (VMware Operations Manager) and VMware vShield.
• Troubleshooting VSphere ESX/ESXi, ESXi Clusters, Host Profiles, vDistributed Switches, HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Fault Tolerance, Resource pools, VCenter Permissions, Snapshots, Disk expansions, Templates, snapshots, Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) using Power CLI and Remote CLI.
• Server Type Owner and responsible for around 110 servers with Microsoft Windows Server R2, Consisting of Microsoft Clusters, SQL clusters, Web server, Terminal Servers, License servers and other applications.
• Failover clustered Hyper-V environments and Create virtual machines within Hyper-V.
• Implementation of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers.
• Developing Workflows withVMware PowerCLI, Microsoft Service Manager 2012 and Microsoft Orchestrator Run books for Automating tasks for Virtual Machine, Virtual Desktop, Application Approval and Deployment processes.
• Deploy vApp workflow is to provide a single call workflow that is capable of instantiating a vApp Template from VCloud Director (vCD) and performing a number of operations on the resulting vApp before actually deploying and powering it on.
• Had deployed an automated provisioning workflow using VCOPS and checking performance of whole infrastructure.

Environment: HP DL 580 G5\G7, HPUX, DL380 G5\G6\G7\G8,vSphere 4 and 5, SRM5, Clustering, Net App FAS Devices,IBM SVC, Cisco Switches, Windows, Unix SLES, LinuxSUSE (9-10), Linux Red Hat and RHEL

Confidential, Pittsburg, PA

VMware/Windows Server Admin

Responsibilities:

• Experience in installation, configuration & administration of Windows servers 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 on Dell Servers (physical/virtual environment).
• Installation, Configuration and Administration ofVMware ESXi 5.0, Virtual Center 4.0 Servers and also patching, management and troubleshooting ofVMware, and ESX Servers.
• Created Domain User Accounts, Distribution Groups with Active Directory/Exchange environment.
• Involved in day-to-day support related to Data Center, documentation of run books, training, support, and coordination with offshore team for moving/relocating Windows/VMware/Applications/Backup support to offshore team.
• Installation of desktops in VDI environment.
• Implemented and tested Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with the terminal Services as in RDP Services, and Citrix Receiver.
• Experienced in applying monthly updates to windows servers 2003, 2008R2 and 2012 versions.
• Maintained and troubleshooting experience in Windows servers Windows 2003, 2008R2 and 2012versions
• Configured automated VM migrations using automated scripts in Powershell.
• Established and documented best practices for creating Red Hat software policies for deploying RPMs to over 6000 servers.
• Wrote Linux/Perl/XML monitoring script that launched failed processes and sent notification.
• Automation, Support and Implementation of Citrix XenDesktop (CITRIX VDI) infrastructure, Desktop Delivery Controller (DDC) and VDA (Virtual Desktop Agent) for VDI Effort.
• Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of Active Directory, SCCM 2007, SCCM 2012, Group Policy Management (GPO), IIS 7.0.
• Designed, developed, maintained group website.
• Re-designed and coded migration software for unit, integration, and production levels.
• Administering Novell SUSE Linux super computer cluster and storage.
• Responsible for fixing Red Hat patching within the HPSA application.
• Wrote Perl script to restore unique permissions to over 5,000 files.
• Automation and Implementation of Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp and Citrix Edge Sight updates, and work with re-structuring Citrix Infrastructure environments.
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP.
• Configured and maintained new VM's and Installed Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 servers, managing VM's and ESX servers.
• Support on ESX and VM Storage issues and coordination with Storage Team on planning and administration.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Involved in Installing, Clustering and Administration of SQL Server 2005 on Windows Cluster.
• Responsible for monitoring Backups and Restoration using CommVault/Simpana on Dell Power Vault ML6000.
• Participated/coordinated Weekly Status meetings and reported on the project status, Incident Reports and Change Management for the transition process.
• VMware ESX server Hardware setup in all sites with HA/DRS Clustering/vMotion.
• Experience in setting a cluster environment for load balancing and HA.
• Networking setup with the port group and VLAN trunking on the ESX server and Physical switches.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting VSphere performance: CPU, memory, disk/storage, and other issues.
• Involved in planning and design of Site Recovery Manager Environment for disaster recovery.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues during Site Recovery Manager Implementation.

Environment: VMware ESXi 5.0/4.0, VSphere 4.0, VCenter 4.0, Windows Server 2008, Windows 8/7/XP, Active Directory, DNS, TCP/IP, SQL Server 2005, Remedy, Cluster Services, LinuxSUSE, Perl, Powershell, Citrix XenDesktop 5.0 / 5.6, Citrix XenApp.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployed VMware ESX server 2.5 (virtualization technology) for Intel platforms (Windows and Linux servers). Deployed around 40 ESX servers Confidential different client locations. The virtual infrastructure was deployed on EMC SAN for better manageability.
• Migrated with team 100+ servers from NT 4 to Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 environment, including File and Application Servers restored File permissions and Shares.
• Implemented Microsoft DHCP, DNS, WINS, Domain trust relationship, fault tolerance, file and print services, user and group management.
• Worked on Migration Projects Involving IIS 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0-based applications.
• Was Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Installed, configured, administered Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory Services, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server.
• Was Responsible for Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS.
• Performed automated installations of Operating System using Jumpstart for Solaris and Kickstart for Linux.
• Weekly Backups on NAS storage.
• Storage capacity management, performance tuning, system dump analysis disaster recovery in Solaris, Linux.
• Participated in network design, implementation, and troubleshooting with multi-level Cisco LANs/WANs, which included: configuration of Cisco 2600 routers and Cisco Cat Switches.
• Implemented and Managed Symantec Antivirus console.
• Installed and configured 40 new servers Confidential client location with win 2003 Operating System and their required Applications.

Environment: Windows 2003 Servers, VMware, Active Directory, NAS, IIS 4/5/6, Red Hat Linux, Solaris, Cisco routers and switches.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured 40 new servers Confidential client location with win 2003 Operating System and their required Applications.
• Installed and Configured Windows 2003 Servers.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory.
• Remote Desktop Monitoring using Microsoft Terminal Services/Client.
• Provided application support and involved in troubleshooting project specific Software and Hardware related Issues.
• Involved in Configuring and Managing the Network Printers.
• Responsible for applying the Windows Patches and Fixes.
• Created and Maintained User Profiles for all new users via Windows NT/2000 Server User Manager for Domains.
• Configure, troubleshoot and maintain customer's network
• Worked on Network management software.
• Maintaining Escalations, Service Call and Incident ticket process receiving in 24x7 environments without passing the SLA.
• User tracking fault monitoring troubleshooting of client network and traffic management.
• Installation and configuration of TCP/IP in Window Server.

Environment: Windows2003 Servers, Active Directory, DNS, TCP/IP, Network Printers, Windows XP.