SUMMARY

• Accomplished and energetic IT Infrastructure professional with 12+ years of overall experience in VMware Administration, Windows Administration, Data Center Management and Desktop support.
• Flexible, Adaptable,able to influence and work successfully with diverse groups at all levels of the organisation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008 R2, Red Hat Linux.

Virtualization: VSphere ESX/ESXi server, Virtual Center, VMotion, VMware High Availability, DRS, VShield, VMware Converter, View 4, vRangerPro

Monitoring Tools: Netcool / Omnibus 7.2.x, BMC Remedy, vCheck, IOMeter, vFoglight, VM Turbo Tool

Network: TCP/IP, NFS, Telnet, FTP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, SMTP, HTTP

Hardware: HP C7000 Enclosure, HP BL 460C and other Blade Servers, IBM, HP& DELL Rack Servers

Languages: C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, HTML, DHTML, Shell scripts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting VMware ESX / ESXi 4.x, 5.x
• Virtual vCenter 4.x / 5.x Installation and Configuration
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting over 40+ ESX / ESXi hosts and over 600+ Virtual Machines
• Managing HP C7000 Blade Enclosures and assisting in Onboard Administration configuration
• Creating Virtual Machines and Templates. Deploying VMs from Templates
• Taking Snapshots and Clones of VMs and Deleting Snapshots when not required
• P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter
• To check the health of Hosts and VMs regularly to avoid performance issues
• Managing ESX servers patching using VMware update Manager
• Performing Hot and Cold Migrations of VMs between ESXi servers
• Configuring and Managing VM’s backup replication using vRanger
• To configure andmaintain DRS and HA clusters
• Configured and maintained FT to business critical VM’s
• Antivirus Installation, Service Pack Deployment, Firmware/Driver Upgrade on all Physical and Virtual servers
• Coordinating with Storage, Networking team to effectively maintain the VMware environment
• Updating VMware Tools regularly to have new driver and security enhancement that are critical for optimum performance
• Monitoring servers through remote tools like iLO,DRAC
• Coordinating with HP/DELL/IBM to resolve hardware issues
• Documentation and Reporting as per organization standards

Confidential, Denver, Confidential

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting VMware ESX / ESXi 3.x,4.x Servers
• Virtual vCenter 4.x Installation and Configuration
• Managing VMware environment with more than 50+ hosts and over 650+ Virtual Machines
• Coordinating with Storage,Antivirus,Patch Management, Network teams for maintaining the VMware environment
• Execution of migration and consolidations of legacy servers using physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V) conversions
• Creating Templates and Deploying VMs from Templates
• Performing vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Tuning the performance of ESX & ESXi servers and virtual machines using vFoglight
• Performing snapshots using VDR
• Configured Resource Pool,Alerts, Alarms, NTP
• To check for Resource Bottlenecks in Storage, CPU, RAM and Network
• Escalating cross functional issues to HP/IBM/DELL and coordinating with them to resolve the issues
• Used BMC Remedy for improved operational procedures and processes related to change management, problem,incident and release management
• Managing \Monitoring ESX Servers through VMClient
• Fine tuning of servers for optimum performance

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining Servers installed with Windows 2008/ 2003/2000/ NT servers
• Maintaining Active Directory infrastructure, with users, groups and OU management
• Check Event logs for errors/warnings related to objects, DNS name resolution
• Setting up User Rights and Privileges
• Maintaining Trend Micro Information Antivirus Server with automatic deployment of updates and patches to Windows 2003/2000/NT Server.
• MaintainingWindows File & Print servers.
• Installation and management of Printers remotely.
• Managing backups with Veritas Backup Exec on backup server and configuring Disk backup, Differential and Full backup.
• Installation and configuration ofDNS, DHCP Server
• Installation, maintenance, scheduling and reviewing of Windows patches being updated
• Commission and Decommission Servers as per the Datacenter standards and updated in a central repository.

Confidential

Sr. Desktop Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting HP/ IBM/ DELL brands of Desktops, Servers and Laptops
• Installation and Support of various softwares like MS OFFICE, VB, DBMS,JAVA, etc
• Installation and Support of Inkjet, Laserjet Printers of HP/ Lexmark/ Canon
• Installation and Support of Cisco Switches and Routers
• Experienced in Suite of Windows O/S (Win 2003 Server /Windows 2000 Prof./XP/98/MS DOS)
• Installed Symantec, McAfee and various other antivirus softwares
• Experienced in Disk Imaging tools like Norton Ghost,etc
• Handled numerous vendors for purchase of Hardware, Software and IT Services

Confidential

Field Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Computers and Related interfaces for Special Purpose Machines (SPM)
• Integeration of Computers into SPMs and interfacing through Data Acquisition Devices.
• Maintaining PCs under production line environment where downtime should be minimum
• Maintaining systems at various locations throughout India.

Confidential

Proprietor

Responsibilities:

• Computers and Peripherals Sales
• Responsible for AMCs, ASCs, and Renewals
• Networking Solutions
• Handlednumerous vendors for purchase of Hardware, Software and IT Services