SUMMARY

• Senior VMware/Windows Admin with 9+ years of experience in building and implementing new systems as well as overseeing systems migrations/upgrades, develop and implement effective deployment strategies. Takes on additional responsibilities and meets new challenges as a result - focused team player making strong contributions to long-term business success.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2000/ 2003/2008/2012 / R2 Servers, Wintel Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESXi 6.0/5.5/5.0/4.1/4 and 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, WSUS.
• Extensive experience in System Operation Manager (SCOM) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
• Extensive experience with Internet Information Server (IIS) and Microsoft Cluster Server
• Experience and Familiar with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi.
• Created and managed VMs (virtual server) and also involved in the maintenance of the virtual server.
• Implemented vSphere 5.0/5.5 for Proof of Concept & Supporting vCenter environment in large-scale production environment.
• Expertise in implementation and supporting VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1/4.0/5.0/5.5/6.0 environment.
• Expertise in upgrading of ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 hosts, vCenter 4 to 5, as well as upgrading 2000+ VM’s from Virtual machine hardware 7 to 8 as part of major enterprise upgrade.
• Extensive experience as administering MS Hyper-V.
• Extensive experience working with KVM, OVM, VDI.
• Experience working with HP Blade System.
• Extensive experience working with vCloud Automation Center (VCAC).
• Extensively worked on VMotion, Storage VMotion and Microsoft Active Directory.
• Expertise in managing vRealize Operations Manager Infrastructure along with Upgrades of the Infrastructure, as needed.
• In - depth knowledge on Infrastructure related Automation Solutions using vRealize Workflows, Developing automation scenarios, writing codes using vRA, vRO toolset, SDK, APIs, scripting.
• Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Experience with large number of P2Vand V2V migrations using VMware/Platespin and double take convertor tools.
• Sound knowledge on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Experience in installing, configuring windows /2003 and ESXi on HP C-7000 enclosures running BL460c, BL620c blades, Dell R-710/R-630/R-620/M-620/M-630 Servers and Cisco UCSB200’s and B250’s.
• Experience in configuring and upgrading Flex-10 shared Uplink Sets, SAN Fabrics, and Server Profiles on Virtual Connect Manager for BL460c, BL680c g6/g7/g8 on HP C7000 enclosures.
• Expertise in configuring HP DL 580’s, 380’s G5’s/6’s/7’s and upgrading servers using HP Smart update manager.
• Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows NT System Administration & support.
• Extensive background in working with the VMware vMotion technology.
• Extensive experience working on cloud & SaaS Platforms.
• Expertise in configuration of VEEAM and VCOPS for backup and monitoring the entire ESXi environment
• Experience in managing and configuring multipath based solution and well experienced in configuring NetApp, Brocades SAN based LUNs.
• Experience in transformation roles like transferring PDCEmulator, RID Master & Infrastructure Masters.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA and VMware DRS.
• Knowledge of installing HP Proliant Server Hardware, Microsoft, HP products, and Vista 7 configuration.
• Integrate and administer reporting services (SSRS) into the SharePoint environment including user groups, report publishing and data security.
• Hands on installation and Configuration of Storage Point (Blob Storage software), SharePoint 2010, VMWARE, SQL server 2008 R2, SSRS in clustered environment.
• Experience backing up VMware using VADP and Networker.
• Experience with Federation Services installs (ADFS & ADFSPRX), SSO & Office 365.
• Knowledge with NAS/SAN, VNX storage, Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010 and Solaris.
• Expertise in DHCP, WINS and DNS.
• EMC SRDF/A/S AND MSC and knowledge on SRDF Host component.
• Skilled on SYMMWIN (tool which use for EMC storage device operations).
• Provide 24/7 support in a 99.999 environment to maintain maximum uptime and ensure server reliability using monitoring products such as SCOM and MOM.
• Experience in creating protection groups, recovery plans, test DR plans, and SRA's in SRM 5.
• Expertise in Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000 Professional, Win XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, virtual networking, wireless networks &Cloud computing concepts.
• Experience in using VISIO, MS office.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization Products: Vsphere 3.x/4.x/5.x & 6.x (ESX/ESXi server 3.x/4.x/5.x & 6.x vCenter Server 3.x/4.x/5.x & 6.x), DRS, HA and FT. VMware update manager, VMware NSX, P2V vConverter, P2P Double Take Converter, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI) VMware view, VMware SRM 5.0, Microsoft Hyper v and Microsoft Virtual server 2005

Operation System: Windows Server NT 4.0/2000/2003/2003 R2/2008/2008R2/2012/2012R2, Windows XP/Vista/7, Wintel, Linux, Unix

System Automation: System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2, SCCM, Scripting via Power shell, Power CLI, VB Script, HP SIM & Confidential Director

Application Servers: Microsoft Active Directory 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2,DHCP, DNS, WINs, IIS 6.0/7.0, FTP, DFS, Double Take Replication, LDAP, Windows clustering 2003/2008

Hardware: HP Proliant Rack Mount 380/490/360 BL 460/480/490 G3/G4/G5/G6/G7 series, HP EVA 4400, HP HSA 300, HP MSA 1000, Confidential Blade Center S, Confidential 3690s series, Dell Power Edge Server, Dell Rack mount Servers, Cisco UCS B200’s B250’s M2’s M3’s, iSCSI/SATA/SAS hard disk drives, CD drives, ECC/non-ECC registered, Fabric HBA 4GB/6GB/8GB cards, Fabric switches and cable

Database: SQL Server 2008/2008 R2/2012R2

Programming Skills: Power shell, PowerCLI, VBScript, Batch Script

DR Tool: VMware SRM, Veeam and Zerto

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior VMware Wintel Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented ESX server infrastructure environment, Administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization files, and scheduling tasks
• Creating/Managing Virtual Machines, creating clones and templates/images for deploying VMs, audit them for perfection and manage utilities and applications installed on those VMs
• Performed Virtual Machines backup, snapshots, cloning, P2V and V2V conversion usingVMware stand-alone convertor.
• Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites (Windows 2003/2008/2012 ) on VMware ESX server and Prepared the strategy and implemented ESXi Migration.
• Configured HA and DRS on ESX clusters in VCenter, securing vCenter with Roles and permissions.
• Install multiple Operating Systems in different VM's and configure VM tools on them to accelerate hardware functionality and also maintain and configure unattended VM's builds.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 4.1.1 / Virtual Center 4.1 vcenter servers as well as upgrading to ESXI 5.0 / Virtual Center 5.
• Worked with team in upgrading VCenter and ESXi to 5.5 usingVMwareUpdate manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Created and managed operational dashboards, widgets, views and reports, property, metric and alert definitions, super metrics, capacity planning projects, operational policies, Groups and Applications within vRealize Operations Manager.
• Implement and manage vRealize Operations Manager solutions and management packs, End Point Operations Agents.
• Administration functions including deploying code solutions (.wsp), PowerShell scripts, server optimization, server management, term store maintenance, taxonomy, content deployment, web and service applications in Central Administration.
• Implemented the migrations of ESX servers from 3.5 to 4.0, from 4.0 to ESXi 5.1 and from 5.1 to 5.5.
• Performed data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapp NFS, EMC CLARiiON, Brocade SAN Storage.
• Create and maintain Database maintenance plans for SQL .
• Setup custom vApps and resource pools to individually manage specific groups of VMs and provide custom priorities.
• Performed necessary storage infrastructure maintenance in accordance with EMC and Customer change management policies.
• Hands on experience configuring Cisco UCS environment based on customer’s needs.
• Media based installs on several Cisco UCS B200 / B250 blades required for UAT/DRT/ETE and Production.
• Configured fault tolerance (FT) for mission critical Virtual Machines Configured and Managed VMware cluster with HA and DRS.
• Provide level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant BL460's/HP DL 580's/380's and Windows/Linux Virtual Servers.
• Supported design creation of data migration architectures.
• Integrate with enterprise SAN that included several Symmetrix V-Max arrays and CLARiiONs connected to several Windows & UNIX servers in the Data center.
• Involved with capacity planning and hardware procurements as per PwC standards.
• Federation Services implementations, with ADFS, ADFS-PRX and DirSync server installation and configuration2008R2 AD and 2012 Server Direct Access design and implementation.
• Involved in Data center migration more Than 500 ESX servers and large number of the windows physical servers
• Installed and maintained the Cloud setup in Linux cell to deploy vCloudDirector (VCD)to service the local teams in the organization.
• Configured virtual networks and vShield to servicevCloud Director (VCD).
• Performed VMware view upgrade from 4.0.1 to 4.6, 4.6 to view 5.0.
• Migrating Linux based machines and Power off Machines to virtual machines using VMware converter.
• Worked with NFS, DHCP, SAMBA, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, PXE BOOT and HP Service Center.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Configured and maintained MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Server) while utilizing VMware RDM feature.
• Operated as 24-hour on-call escalation point for all project-effecting problems related to all Migration efforts. Anticipated obstacles and recommended solution options.
• Maintain a disaster recovery plan by documenting current system configuration, identifying, analyzing, and evaluating critical data/hardware issues and documentation and testing plan.
• Worked on service requests from the client through service-now
• Created documentation for the server andVMwaretrouble shooting procedures.
• Member of 24X7 on call shift rotation for server and Virtualization environment support.
• Configure and deploy new Microsoft windows using WSUS, SCCM and HP Opsware for patch management throughout the data center on the servers running windows operating system.
• Remote design, implementation and administration of multiple Citrix farms including Presentation Server 4.0 and 4.5, XenApp 6.0.
• Performance monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting of EMC SAN.
• EMC or Confidential enterprise class storage systems experience.
• Management, maintenance, and implementation of data storage solutions, utilizing EMC Symmetrix/DMX and Clariion arrays.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.5/5.0/4.0/3.5 , VSphere 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 & Windows Server 2012R2/2008R2/ 2012/2003, Active Directory 2003, VCOPS, HP Proliant Servers, Dell Hardware, UCS Cisco Servers VCE / UCS, VBLOCK, Cisco, VMAX, VNX, Citrix XenApp 6.0 etc. PowerCLI Server OS: Windows Server 2000/ 2003/2008/2012 / R2

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

VMware/ Wintel Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planning and implementing Server setup, configuration & administration for Windows 2008, Windows 2003 & Windows 2000 Server and Active Directory Administration.
• Utilize applications such as MOM, SCOM, and VCOPS to improve the availability, performance, and ensure maximum uptime.
• Installation of ESXi 4.1/5/5.1/5.5 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM’sacross 10 Datacenters running 10000+ VM’s.
• Configured Initiator groups, Port groups, Storage groups and Masking views to allocate storage in a VNX environment.
• Work with application owners, Database owners to schedule downtimes, maintenance windows to schedule the migration efforts.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration ofVMwareESXi 5.0/5.1/ VirtualCenter 5.0/5.1, vCenterServers as well as upgrading to ESXi 5.5/Virtual Center 5.5.
• Creation and management of Virtual Machines and Templates
• Creation of clusters for (HA) High Availability, (DRS) Distributed Resource Scheduling and vMotion
• Manage and Configure PKI infrastructure, VPN and RRAS, TMG servers, IIS web servers, FTP servers SCCM Servers and WSUS Servers.
• Deploy security patches, updates as part of the patching cycle using WSUS and SCCM.
• Review PCI scans and remediate software distribution failures and toeliminate the problems causing vulnerabilities.
• Interacted with the global Wintel Engineering team regularly to understand and design solutions
• Plan, test and document Wintel Disaster Recovery processes
• Involved in the installation, monitoring and support of Wintel based servers, firewalls, Cisco networks, perimeter security technologies, Internet technologies and remote office WAN/LAN
• Administer all user/group permissions; NTFS share permissions, Terminal Services permissions, performance monitoring, troubleshooting level 2/3 issues, and group policy management.
• Create, maintain and transfer all packages to organized distribution points, as well as deploy all enterprise level monthly and bi-weekly security packages through SCCM.
• Provide level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant BL460’s/620’s/680’s/CISCO UCS B200’s B250’s and Windows/Linux Virtual Servers.
• Responsible for capacity planning, design, install and configuration of newly provisioned HP-C7000 enclosures, build Linux, Windows and ESXi servers on BL 460’s and BL620’s.
• Configure HP C7000 enclosure and blades leveraging Onboard Administrator, Virtual Connect Manager and ILO
• Creating standard process for advanced group policy deployment management as well as Active Directory users and group’s management.
• Expertise migrating 8000+ Windows Server 2003 servers to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 as part of large refresh/migration project.
• Provide 1st/2nd/3rd level support for Windows/ESXi servers running on a combination of HP/ Confidential /Cisco hardware.
• Configuring and Administering Exchange Servers, SMTP, Terminal Servers, DNS, DHCP, CIFS, SNMP, NTFS, FTP, SFTP, robocopy and LDAP on Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 server environment.
• Implemented and upgraded firmware for CISCO MDS switches - 9513, 9509, 9216i, 9148’s and 6120’s.
• Deploy, install and support custom build GIS infrastructure applications, asset management applications as part daily 24/7 operations support.
• Provide hands/feet support across multiple datacenters as well as stack/rack of cabling and servers.

Confidential, Columbia, MO

VMware Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Windows Server 2003/2008R2 OS build, IP Configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds and Support & Administration.
• Design, build, implement and maintain an enterprise wide patch management system for 500+ Windows 2008 Servers and 300+ Windows 2003 servers.
• Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware vSphere and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Monitoring the resources and services on the servers using System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2, HP SIM& Confidential Director, worked as SCOM administrator.
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESXi Servers, Virtual Center Server (vSphere) and Virtual machines
• Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Windows Server/Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment utilizing power shell and powerCLI.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESXi Servers, Virtual Center Server and Virtual machines
• Responsible for binding any new SAN LUNs and configuring storage groups using OnCommand Manager on NetApp FAS Solutions Platform and UNISPHERE on EMC VNX/VMAX.
• Develop, test, and maintain a Disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• VB SCRIPTS, PowerShell, Win Batch, PS tools and Windows command-line Scripting to automate the manual tasks on Servers and Client computers.
• Planning and configuring new internal & external websites utilizing IIS 6.0/7.0.
• Deploying and troubleshoot .Net based Applications and Java based apps on IIS 6.0/7.0
• Create and Setup monitoring Power shell scripts to monitor system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
• Used NetBackup for backing up & restoration of file systems.
• Helped to configure and maintain IIS 6/7/7.5 webserver server clustering, failovers and load balancing.
• Active Directory (AD) user and security group creation, create shares and designate permissions, organizational units.
• Participate in the troubleshooting activities associated with daily operation works.
• Implement and support new and existing activities configuration
• Provide 24/7 support to Middleware application servers (Weblogic, Tomcat, JBoss), Webservers (Apache, IIS, Oracle IPlanet) and Database servers (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL).

Confidential, Windsor, CT

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Windows Server/Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Maintaining, Monitoring, Upgrading Windows Server 2008, Linux and VMware.
• Hands on exposure Skills such as DHCP, DNS, GPO, Tivoli Endpoint Manager, Bigfix. Building Images, Scripting, VPN, Lotus Notes, VIOP, Load Balancing.
• Provided Web Server Support Apache/Tomcat, IIS, JBOSS, and WebSphere.
• Managing Red Hat Linux and VMware ESX servers.
• Played a key role in planning disaster recovery using configuration management and the Red Hat Cluster Suite.
• Installed and configured various services like DNS, DHCP, NFS, Apache Web Server, Samba and SSH.
• Managed and installed patches and software packages using YUM and RPM and creating YUM repository files for offline servers.
• Worked with system, network, security and storage teams to prepare and configure new servers for the environment.
• Setup, configured, and debugged network configurations for RedHat servers and workstations.
• Diagnosed and resolved hardware problems with Dell servers, workstations, and other hardware equipment.
• Provided assistance and documentation which allowed the 24/7 operations department to troubleshoot and correct problems without needing to page other employees.
• Having hands on exposure on scripting as per the need of the activities for performing tasks easier.
• Working on High Level Severity as per the ITIL Process.
• Good hands on exposure on handling Service Now, Elixir ticketing tool. Performing required activities in the location adhering the ITIL Process.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

VMware Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Participated in 24/7 support roles for Windows Servers, to help maintain and troubleshoot both software and hardware.
• Provided Hardware support, troubleshooting and diagnosis.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assign permissions using Active Directory.
• Administered the Group Policy, to upgrade and repair software installations.
• Respond to and address any tickets/ work requests in the Remedy Queue.
• Provided Support for DNS/DHCP/WINS services.
• Configured the Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC for testing and development.
• Installed WSUS and configured for patch deployment.
• Backup scheduling and Restoring using Veritas Net Backup and NT Backup.
• Build Hard Drive images of various O.S using Norton Ghost.
• Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.
• Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs.
• Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and implementation of trusts.
• Troubleshot and resolve computer problems; built and upgrade systems; install software and perform general troubleshooting.
• Handled multiple tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Develop and update the required network/system administration documentation.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.0/4.0, vSphere 4.0, 5.0, Windows Server 2008R2/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, HP Proliant DL and Blade Servers Cisco UCS blade servers.