SUMMARY:

• Over 9+ years of experience with expertise in Windows Administration and VMware administration, Implementation, Installing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of network and communication equipment.
• Installing patches and software upgrades recommended by IIS server.
• Installed and configured Win 2012 R2 print server.
• Configured and managed IIS6.0/7.0.
• Technical knowledge & proficiency in Windows Servers, VMware and Network Administration, Window Servers.
• Provides in depth technical expertise in IAM technologies with a primary focus on Active Directory, Federation,AzureAD, AAD sync(AzureADsync),AA Dconnect(AzureADconnect).
• Executed POC work for AD and Azure AD related efforts.
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMware ESX/ESXi.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAIDconcept.
• BuildDataSyncjobonWindowsAzuretosynchronizeschoolsdatafromSQL2012toSQLAzure.
• ExpertiseinareaofvirtualizationwithvSphere,VMwareESX6.x,5.x and 4.xhosts&VirtualCenterserver till6.0
• DeployedkeyVMwareESX/ESXitechnologies,expertisewithHA/DRS,P2V.ESXupgradesfrom4.1to6.0
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMware
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAIDconcept.
• Involved in Design, Planning and Implementing Migration activities of VMware vSphere and vCenter
• Experienced in configuring DNS, DHCP, WINS and Active Directory Services in Windows based server environments.
• Managedpublic/private cloud infra structures utilizing AmazonWebServices(AWS),includingEC2.
• Performed configuration, deployment and support of cloud services including Amazon Web Services(AWS).
• Experience with deployment to VDI environment such asUpdates/patches/Applications.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server,RIS,RRAS,NAT,WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server.
• Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of Port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management.
• Upgrading ESX 5.0 to 6.0 - using VMware Update Manager.
• Experienced in performing Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• Excellent experience with VMWare Update Manager (VUM) to install patches and perform upgrades on ESXi hosts
• Excellent experience of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMWare Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Involved in monthly patching and updates of windows servers/clients using system center configuration Manager (SCCM).
• Monitored and managed alerts from Solar winds Orion, SCOM.
• Built and configured Dell power edge servers- R420, R520, R810.
• Involved in racking and cabling various servers in the datacenter.
• Experience with ITIL processes for Incident, Problem and Change management
• Strong Experience in install, configure and manage VMWare ESXi, Virtual Center management, VMWare Data Recovery, VMWare Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and VMWare View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI), creating Reports using VMWare vRealization Operations Manager (vROPs).
• Deployment of VMWare vCenter Orchestrator as the cloud orchestration engine for service delivery automation and operational process automation.
• Excellent experience and knowledge with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up clustering features like V-Motion, Storage v-Motion, Enhanced vMotion, HA, DRS, DPM, sDRS, FT, Verifying EVC, Standard and Distributed switch configurations required for vMotion.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter and platespin.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server in Windows based server environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: ESX/ESXi Server, vSphere 6.0, VMware converter 4/3 and VMware VMotion.

VMwareVirtualization Skills: ESX 6.0/5.5/5.0/4.1/4.0, ESX 3.5, ESXi, vSphere 5 and 6.0, VI3, Virtual Center Server, P2V, V2V, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, VRO, VDI, vCenter Operation Manager, vCenter cloud automation, vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware Management Assistant, VMware vSphere Client, VMware View 6, VMware ThinApp, Events and Alerts, Capacity Planning, Plate Spin Power Converter, SaaS.

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, Ethernet, Token Ring.

Windows Skills: HP ProLiant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers and Dell Power Edge Servers..NET, Winxp, IIS, Windows 2012, SaaS, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS.

Office Tools: MS office 365, MS Visio, MS Project, RV tools.

Operating System: Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano TX

Sr Vmware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation/Configuration/Trouble Shooting of VMware ESXi 5.5, 6.0, 6.5
• Installation/Configuration /Trouble Shooting of VMware vCenter 5.x & 6.x Server.
• Performing physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-virtual (V2V) migrations.
• Configuring and Installing the Virtual Machines.
• Performing vMotions & Datastore allocations & Migrations.
• Installation/Configuration/Trouble Shooting of Windows 2008 and Windows server 2012 Servers.
• Performing an in place upgrade of Server 2003/2008 R2 to Server 2008/2012 R2
• Configuring Windows& DB Failover Cluster in Windows Server 2008/2012.
• NIC Teaming configuration on Windows Server 2008/2012 R2.
• NIC Teaming configuration on ESXi server.
• Data Center migrations: As part of Dc migration we have migrated 3000+ servers including Physical and Virtual, ESXi from one DC to another DC
• Experience on configuring, Managing & troubleshooting the Boot from SAN & ISCSI.
• Managing and upgrading the firmware on FI (UCS manager), Chassis & UCS servers and configuring the scheduled tasks for Backups.
• Made Architectural diagram and process flow as per ITIL standards.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Creating Templates and Deploying Virtual Machines as on required from Templates.
• Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections, Configuring Virtual Switches and Port Groups.
• Editing Failover and Load Balancing Policy for a Virtual Switch.
• Adding Additional Disk Space for Running VM’s hosted on server.
• Configuring Alarms, Scheduled Tasks, Resource Pool, VMotion.
• Creating Host Profiles and applying that host profile to another ESX hosts.
• Migrating Physical Machines to Virtual Machines using VMware converter.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Responsible for the implementation of VMware View VDI upgrades, Change Management, Problem Management, and ITIL related process.
• Staged production VDI environment, which includes ESXi clusters, Security Server and Connection Manager Servers.
• Created and Optimized standard Corporate desktop standard Images, user profiles, Set-up monitoring and ensure that VDI environment is set up optimally and deliver acceptable user experience.
• Monitor and maintain VDI Systems Health Status & Work with Desktop Enterprise groups in resolving VDI related issues & performing other tasks as assigned by Client Manager.
• Setting up infrastructure for monitoring through SCOM 2012 and developing management packs as per the requirement.
• Designed and Implemented VMware Horizon View for Linked clone using View Composer.
• Monitoring and Reporting the health status of VMware Horizon View VDI Environment and vSphere Environments using vCOPS / vROPS.
• Getting involved in TAG (Technical Architect Governance) meetings to help the environment to improve.
• Troubleshooting of VM Related issues, Data store, Network related issues with Existing VM’S.
• Installation and configuration of Vmware view 5.1,5.2.
• Installation and configuration of View Connection Server,View agent, View Composer and integrating theSQL Database with the View Composer and deploying the Linked Clones of Virtual Desktops to the endusers.
• Configuration of View Persona Management and Thin-app functionalities.

Environment: VDI, VMware NSX, SRM, Windows 2008/2012, SQL Server 2012,2010, VMware ESXi 6.0, 5.5, 5.1 Server, SAN,/NAS, SCOM, vCOPS, Dell Power Edge R730 Servers

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Senior VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Part of Level 3 team, managing 120 hosts and 5000 virtual machines and 10+vCenters& worked as a Team lead in migrating from VMware 5.x to VMware vSphere 6.0.
• Installed VMware ESX server 5.0/5.5/6.0 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Designed standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates.
• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Upgrading of ESXi from version 6.0 to version 6.5 while keeping the VM's in maintenance mode.
• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESXi 6.5 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HPBladeServersC7000 and C3000.
• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (VSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
• Migrated P2V and V2V Servers using VMware Standalone Converter.
• Installed/updated patches on VMware ESXi hosts using VMware Update Manager tool.
• Deployed VMware VCenter operations manager in the production environment to monitor performance of Virtual servers; data stores and their resources availability.
• Designing of vSphere for implementation of vCloud infrastructure.
• Connecting and configuring SAN and NAS storage into the ESXi and Hyper-V servers.
• Integration of vCloud Director with vShield and vCenter.
• Deployed and managed vCenter manager for vCloud Operations Management.
• Managing Disks/Filesystems using Logical Volume Manager for Red HatLinux.
• Installing and configuring vRealize automation 7.0 and vRealize Orchestrator7.0.
• Installed and tested vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations, to enable cloud orchestration layer for Software Datacenter model in testbed.
• Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for loadbalancing.
• VMs migration across the ESXI servers using advanced features likeVMotion.
• Worked on vSphereHost Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switchessetup.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS)like interconnectionofFiberChannelCableswithswitches,Fabricinterconnects.
• Designing of vSphere for implementation of vCloud infrastructure.
• Integration of vCloud Director With vShield and vCenter.
• Performed VSphere Replication using Site Recovery Manager5.0(SRM5.0)for back up incase of disaster.
• Performed P2V migration for approximately 100 physical servers using VMware converter.
• Deployed Vcenter Operations Manager(VCOPS),leveragingitscapabilityforproactivemonitoringofhealthof the entire virtual environment.
• Responsible for NSX configurations and creatingworkflows.

Environment: Exchange Server 2016, Windows2008 R2/2012, Linux Servers, PowerCLI, VMware ESXi 5.5/6.0, PowerShell, VCAC5.1, 5.2 VMware View 6, VMware Update Manager, VMware converter, P2V, V2V, VMotion, HP DL360PG6, G7, G8, HPC700, IIS environment.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Monitored and supported VMware vSphere Servers and related technologies (SAN, backups, and disaster recovery).
• Maintained and supported several IT systems including: Veeam Enterprise Backup & Replication Desktop Central, Service Desk, PRTG,WSUS.
• Successfully migrated company’s datacenter to Microsoft Hyper-V. Deployed Hyper-V 2012 R2 servers; convertedVMwaremachinestoHyper-Vandsetupbackups,replicationandotheradvancefeatures
• Reduced device management by over half the annual cost. Migrated MDM system to Microsoft Intune. Setup severalcomponentsincludingAzureActiveDirectorySynchronization,devicepoliciesandmigratecellphones from AirWatch to the newsystem.
• Coordinated Cisco BES 6000 VoIP upgrade from version 9.0 to11.0.
• Assisted with SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013migration
• ActedasaSubjectMatterExpertforOffice365includingdesign,migration,implementation,andmanagement ofSharePointonline,Exchangeonline,OneDrive,SkypeforBusiness,Sway,Delve,Video,VisioandYammer
• Worked on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 r2, Active Directory/LDAP and Group Policy administration in a hybrid-cloud configuration (Windows Azure) with 40+ replicatedsites.
• Routinely evaluate VDI system for performance optimizations and capacityplanning.
• Migrated from Webservers and websites from IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0, IIS 7.5 to IIS8.0.
• Worked with DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication on Fileservers.
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, andDHCP.
• Implementation of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solutions for remote globalusers.
• Virtualized software applications utilizing ThinApp, streaming to a zero client and fat client environment.
• Designed a environment for the technicians to train on building a datacenter that includes domain controller, DHCP, DNS, Exchange, and Open Filer server.
• Created Cache Memory on Windows Azure to improve the performance of data transfer between SQL Azure and WCFservices.
• Maintaining the file server, application and Print Server, IISServer.
• Deployed Virtual machines, configured them withIP, installed VMware Tools and hardware.
• Maintained Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall for Exchange Server.
• Successfully Migrated Win XP users to Windows 7 using USMT (User State Migration Tool).

Environment: vSphere 5.5/6.0, Exchange Server 2013, Fiber Channel - SAN, ISCSI, NFS (NAS), SRM 4.5 to SRM 5.X, Windows server 2008/2012, Active Directory, DNS,DHCP, SQL and database server, SaaS Environment, IIS Server.NET environment.

Confidential, Dallas,TX

VMware Admin/Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Daily administration of large-scale VMWare vSphere environments,Build and maintain theVMwarevSphere Infrastructure, Involved in the VMware implementation and expansion work.
• Configuring and maintaining VMware infrastructure resources including VMware vSphere/ESXi 4.0, 5.1 and 5.5, VMware vCenter Server, HA andDRS.
• VMware VSphere HA (High Availablility), FT (Fault Tolerance), DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler),
• Troubleshooting ESX issues related to storage, network and performance issues
• Experiencemaintainingbusinesscontinuityusingsnapshotbackuptechnology.
• Regularly reviewed Firmware levels on vCenter Host/ servers, involved in analyzing and implementing OS patches, hot fixes as well as updates and Performed EMC power pathupgrades.
• Supported data migration activities in VMs using SvMotion and data migrationactivities.
• Support,trouble shotand maintain hardware including hosts/servers,storageandrelatedperipherals.
• Monitored Server Health Status and Tracked VM Resources (CPU, Memory,Disks)
• AdministrationofHPBladeserversusingHPOn-boardAdministratorandIntegratedLights-Out(iLO)C7000 Chassis/ VBlock, Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC), CiscoUCS.
• Providedailysupportfortheenvironment.AssistinallDataCentermigrationefforts;worked on SANstorage forHostPreponServer,ConfiguringsharedLUN's,ExpandingandShrinkingofharddisk.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations
• Physical-to-Virtual(P2V)andVirtual-to-Virtual(V2V)conversionsofphysical/virtualmachinesusingVMware Converter.
• Used PowerShell to execute commands/scripts, Installed remote server administration tools using Powershell,PowerCLI, VBScript scripts
• Windows server 2000/2003/2008 / R2/2012, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Group Policy deployment to ensure standard computer settings, software distribution and security policy enforcement.
• SupportSCCMenvironment,includingapproving,testing,anddeployingupdatesinSCCM
• Performed routine maintenance on VMware environment such as vCenter upgrades, firmware upgrades, Patching, and HBA updates
• Running different reports software/hardware inventory reports using SCCM and share with management.
• Creating VBscript/ Powershell scripts to automate tasks with SCCM.
• Collecting asset inventory of desktops and laptops usingSCCM2007.
• Configuring & troubleshooting of Linux/Unix servers and the Networkingsetups.
• Taken care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for NLB andredundancy.
• Performed security monitoring tests to identify intrusions.

Environment: VMware Vsphere, ESXI 5/5.5, DRS, VMotion, FT, Cloning, Templates, Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, VMware update manager, VM converter, Linux/Unix servers.

Confidential, Stamford-CT

VDI Engineer/Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Implementationof VMware, Cisco and EMC based virtualized infrastructure for enterprise scale deployments.
• InstallationandconfigurationofESXi5.0/5.1inNew-HPProLiantseriesServersinacorenewData-Center.
• Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2 Virtual Machines in the ESX hostclusters.
• Installation and configuration of vCenter Servers, Clusters and resource pools for CaaS(ComputingasaService) instance builds.
• Managed 4 global VMware VDI systems v4.0 - v5.0 - v5.2 consisting of VDI machines via nationwide offices users, virtual home users, & global office users
• Level-2 engineer in areas of day to day VDI troubleshooting, VDI system maintenance, VDI s standards\best practices, &VDI local\global projects.
• Technicallead&projectmanagerresponsibleformigrating3VDIenvironmentsintoVMwareHorizon5.2View
• Supervised the planning, development, & execution of converting XPVDI machines toWin7.
• Executed capacity planning (VMware View licensing - vLANs - NetApp\vMAX storage - ESX hosts) for VMware VDI 5.2environment
• Managed VMware-assisted support calls\cases pertaining to resolving VDI environment tissues.
• Evaluated VDI monitoring tools vCOPs, VMturbo, Solarwinds, &Xiangti.
• Introduced VDI standards -VDI naming convention, AD group entitlements, ESX alerts, VDI power-on rules, snapshot retentions, &VDI evaluation\approval\chargebacks.
• Generated documentation in the areas of VDI Troubleshooting, VDI Optimizations, VDI standard.
• Worked on vCOPS 5.8/5.7 configuration and performance analysis on vSphere 5.5infrastructure.
• Configuration of VMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware Virtualcenter.
• Manage VMware DistributedResourceScheduler(DRS),vMotionandHighAvailability(HA)Clusters.
• Creatingand configuring vNetwork Standard Switch(vSwitch)andDistributedVirtualSwitch(dvSwitch).
• Configuration of different Port Groups Policies, applying security policy and Traffic Shaping.
• Virtual Machine (VM) Build Base OS Setup/Patching/Security Scans.
• VNX storage system Implementation and administration in VMware environment.
• Performed Hot Cloning, Cold Cloning, Classic vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Configuring, Monitoring HA, Fault Tolerance and DRS Clusters in Virtual CenterServer.
• Designing& Deploying ActiveDirectory Domain .Installing& Configuring DNS Servers and DHCP Server.
• Setting up t he UCS Servers from the scratch such as configuring Fabric inter connectors and MDS Switch for Cisco UCS
• Creating Service profiles and performing day to day operations of Cisco UCS.

Environment: Exchange Server 2007, Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, Power CLI, DMX, VMware ESXi 5.0,5.1, VMware update Manager, vCOPS, VMware converter, P2V, V2V, VMotion, HP DL360PG6, G7, G8, HPC700.

Confidential

Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring & Managing Active Directory in Windows2008.
• Active Directory Group policy management
• Single-ForestandMulti-DomainActivedirectoryadministrationfor5000+USERS
• Deploying, Configuring and Managing of Windows 2003 and 2008Servers
• Install configure and manage VM machines and templates
• Converting physical machines to virtual machines
• DNS & DHCP Management.
• Providing application virtualization solutions with APP-V, VMWare Thinapp.
• Managing Linux Enterprise version5
• Implementation and management of Client end backup and Antivirus solutions
• Supporting Disaster Recovery Planning and Activation
• IIS Management.
• Managing Symantec ghost Server for images
• Creating images of Windows XP and Windows 7OS.
• Deploying images with RIS(Remote installation Services)an configuring with Syspreptools.
• License management which includes keeping track of license and authorized users.
• Automated Job scheduling for different systems in IT infrastructure.
• Periodically upgrade/Migrate CA with thev ersion approved by IT security.
• Report generation for all the different inventories.
• Complete application virtualization, testing and publishing it to authorize dusers.
• Application upgrades and maintenance
• Trouble shooting the virtualized application issues
• App-V & Symantec server setup with redundancy and disaster recovery
• App-V package creation and deploy the packages in Production
• APP-V a pplication server Upgrade\Patching.
• Understanding and assessment of various vulnerabilities.
• Tracking all systems for critical vulnerabilities using Qualysis.
• Taking appropriate steps to remove and control these vulnerabilities
• Completetestingofsecuritypatchesanddeploymentofthesepatchesonvulnerablesystem.
• Reportingandappropriateescalationsofvariousvulnerabilitiesforcorrectiveactions.

Environment: - VMwarevSphere4.1, Windows server 2000/2003/2008, DNS, IIS, DHCP, FTP, backup exec, Sophos, CA Unicenter 11, APP-V, Thin App, Symantec

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Maintaining Windows2003 and Windows 2008, 2008 R2Servers.
• Worked with all components of HP (Smart Start, Insight Manager, Diagnostics and Network Configuration Utility)etc.
• Teaming NIC's using HP Teaming software for redundancy during failures.
• Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc.
• Resolved Problems related to Disk Space Usage.
• Resolved problems related to performance metrics such as Processor Usage, Memory etc.
• Perform day-to-day operation and troubleshooting of VMs.
• Keep Virtual hardware and VMware tools updated to keep a healthy environment.
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Creating Gold Templates and cloning.
• Work with storage team to create LUNs/NFS and Map it to VMware vSphere ESX (i)hosts.
• ExperienceinconfiguringVMwarevirtualmachineportgroups,consoleportsgroups,VMKernalport
• Group sand VLANs.
• Experience in Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS,DHCP.
• Configuration of Pre failure mechanisms alerts for all the servers.
• Define acceptable performance threshold for CPU/HDD/RAM utilization for assigned servers and monitor them regularly.
• Installing and configuring quota management in windows 2008.
• Remote Administration using terminal service.
• Monthly Health reports for all the servers and network devices.
• Monitoring ILL Bandwidth and latency.

Environment: VMWare ESX Server 3.5/4.0, vCenter 2.5/4.0, VI 3.5, Active Directory, Windows 2003/2008, SAN, Fiber.