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.
• Deployment, install and update ofVMwareproduct suites within Virtual Datacenters. vCenter v6, ESXi v6,VMwareNSXv6, vRealize Network Insight, vRealize Log Insight, Veeam Backup and Recovery, Veem MP, DRS, Distributed Switches, vRealize Suite, Storage DRS, HA,VMwareSite Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Extensive experience as administering MS Hyper-V.
• Extensive experience working with KVM, OVM, VDI.
• Experience working with HP Blade System.
• Experience working with vCloud Automation Center (VCAC).
• Worked on Multiple AWS instances, set the security groups, Elastic Load Balancer and AMIs, Auto scaling to design cost effective, fault tolerant and highly available systems.
• Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost-effective cloud solutions such as AWS.
• 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

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

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 vShield &VMwareNSXfor network segmentation and host based Anti-Virus solutions.
• 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.
• The configuration of Backup and Restore ofNSXManager and Data.
• Assessing the need and feasibility of planned improvements and upgrades to anVMwarevSphere environment including the implementation of Virtual SAN, Site Recovery Manager,NSXand/or vRealize Operations Suite
• 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.