SUMMARY

• 8 years of IT experience primarily in Wintel and Virtual infrastructure resources specializing in MS W2K8, W2K12, VMware vSphere 4.x, 5.x & 6.x; VMware vCenter server 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0 & Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6.x
• Expertise in Active directory design and support (GPO's, AD Schema, OU's, LDAP, Sites, Domains and Forests etc.).
• Experience in configuration of NIS, LDAP, DNS, DHCP, NFS, SAMBA, FTP, remote access, security management and Security trouble shooting skills.
• Experience in designing, implementing and migrating VMware Environments such as VMware 5.x and 6.x solutions.
• Good knowledge in designing, implementing and troubleshooting Citrix Xen Server Environments including Xen Desktop and XenApp.
• Implemented web clustering in Centos 5.5 Linux Server for load balancing.
• Experience in designing, developing and Implementing Client - Server applications using Microsoft technologies with expertise in cloud computing using Microsoft Azure.
• Knowledge of VMware server automation and configuring Active Directory Domain using scripting languages like PowerShell Scripts, VBScript, and Power CLI.
• Hands - on experience working on Microsoft SCCM, SCOM and SCVMM.
• Participating in regular and weekly project status meeting with team members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: Exchange 2000/ 2003/ 2007/ 2010/ 2013 , SCCM 2007/ 2012R2, MDT 2010/ 2013, SCOM 2007R2, SCVMM 2008R2/ 2012R2, VMware vSphere Client 5.1, VMware vCenter 5.1, UAG 2010, TMG 2010, Direct Access 2012R2, McAfee EPO 4.6/ 5.0, McAfee Email Gateway 5.6/ 7.6, McAfee Drive Encryption 7, Citrix XenApp 5.0/ 6.0, Citrix XenDesktop 5.6/ 7.0, Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.6/ 5.0, IBM Lotus Domino 5/ 6.5, IBM Lotus Notes 5/ 6.5, IBM Lotus Designer 5/ 6.5, Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Professional, Microsoft Office Communicator Server 2007 Enterprise, Microsoft Load Balancers 2008/ 2012R2, F5 Big-IP VE 200M.

Operating Systems: Windows 2000/ / TP all versions, MAC OS x11, Linux Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux v14.

Hypervisors: Microsoft Hyper-V 2008R2 /2012R2, VMware ESX 3.5, 4.1, ESXi 5.1, Citrix XenServer 5.6 /6.2.

Hardware: Dell rack servers and HP blades & Enclosures, IBM Rack Servers, NEC Rack Servers, Cisco Routers, Cisco switches, Cisco Firewalls, Brocade switches.

Storage: NEC M Series, Hitachi 100 Series

Management tools: VMware vSphere Client, vCenter, PowerCli, PowerShell 2.0/ 3.0 /4.0 and 5.0, Azure PowerShell 1.0/ 1.3, Symantec NetBackup 6.5, Backup Exec 2010, Robocopy, Azure ASM & ARM, Xplat-CLI, AzCopy, Azure Storage Emulator, Azure Storage Explorer, Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Professional

Databases: Microsoft SQL 2000/ 2003/ 2008/ 2012

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project 2010/ 2013, Microsoft Project Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2013.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MA

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and Administering Windows servers 2008/2012.
• Architect member for designing, implementing and evaluating Desktop as a Service Solutions using Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp 5 & 6.
• Maintain the integrity of the client Active Directory using PowerShell.
• Perform Active Directory administration including group policy and (moves/adds/changes) of user accounts, security groups, and distribution lists.
• Responsible for the migration of Windows 2008 servers to Windows 2012.
• Configuration of DHCP, DNS, IIS, WSUS on Windows 2008 and 2012 platforms.
• SCCM Distribution Point, Boundary Group maintenance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve SCCM client issues.
• Experience Using SCCM 2012 to deploy the Packages both the Windows Installer Package and Virtual Package.
• Knowledge of AD Design and Management for an Enterprise client with >3,000 Seats.
• VMware ESX/ESXi Host Server and Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration & Maintenance.
• Configured HA, DRS on clusters and did capacity planning for new clusters.
• Configured FT for business critical VM's.
• Designing dashboards and pull reports using vCops.
• Worked on ESXi and VM storage issues and also coordinated with the storage teams.
• Migrated about 1800 servers from Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) in both VMware and Hyper - V environments using platespin and VMware convertor.
• Upgraded ESXi servers using vSphere update manager.
• Management of VMware Infrastructure through vCenter and vSphere client.
• Responsible for root cause analysis on performance issue and Virtual machine failures.
• Troubleshooting SAN related issues and firmware upgradations of SANs in VMware.
• Test and recommend Replication/Backup solutions for VMware, SAN and Disaster Recovery.
• Configuration and Management of Datastores and storage clusters on vCenter server.
• Installation, Configuration and Management of hardware using HP One View and Virtual Connect Manager.

Environment: VMware vSphere 5.0, ESXi 5.0, vCenter 5.0, Windows Server 2008/2012, IBM Servers.

Confidential - Bedford, MA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in installation and administration of Windows 2008/2012 Server.
• Involved in maintaining the Active Directory and GPO management.
• Use Active Directory to reset passwords, manage group policies, add or delete accounts.
• Troubleshooting OS related issues on VMs using Hyper-V manager console on windows 2012.
• Involved in Installing and Administration of SCCM for applying latest windows and security patches to all the servers.
• Troubleshooting Client Connectivity, package and OS deployment issues by analyzing SCCM logs.
• Created the App-V Sequences for Win7 Environment and Deployed via SCCM.
• Troubleshooting windows update and performance issues.
• Troubleshooting server down and un-expected reboot of production servers.
• Installation and configuration of VPN server on windows 2008/2012 platform to provide secure connection between branch networks.
• Assessing and distributing Microsoft Monthly Patches using WSUS and SCCM 2012.
• Implemented PowerShell scripts that automated creation of contacts from Active Directory.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing guest Operating Systems.
• Designed, Implemented and Managed a VMware environment of 4 vCenters and 130 ESXi hosts with more than 2000 VM's.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources, Manage VM's using VMware virtual center and web access, Configurations of Virtual switched and network connections.
• Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).
• Experience in installing and configuring VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware VCA.
• Monitoring and maintenance of vCenter sever heartbeat.
• Providing and maintaining user access in vCenter, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS.
• Integrate SSO and two factor authentications with Active Directory.
• Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter Orchestrator.
• Patch management using VMware update manager for ESXi server.
• Configuration and Management of Datastores and storage clusters on vCenter server.
• Provided technical assistance in daily system checks and performance including backups and event logs.

Environment: VMware 5.5 cluster, Microsoft 2003/08/12, AD, DHCP, DNS, WSUS, VPN, IBM system x servers, DS storage system, Veeam Backup & Replication, Windows XP/7/10.

Confidential - Sacramento, CA

Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, Administration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/2012 Networks in a distributed, Multi-user environment.
• Troubleshooting windows update and performance issues.
• Configuring and Monitoring of group policies on sites, domains and OUs.
• Design and implement Active Directory service and systems policies.
• Trouble shooting systems, LAN, WAN and Firewall problems.
• Installation & Configuration of IIS with SSL, DNS, DHCP, FTP and Terminal servers.
• Extensive Use of PowerShell to execute commands/scripts.
• Backup & disaster recovery by Scheduling and Managing data backups on Windows Servers.
• Installing and troubleshooting experience with ESXi hosts and worked on creation of Templates, clones and used VM Backup and Replication for restoring VM's.
• Created HA and DRS clusters and Worked on configured FT for critical VM's.
• Configured vSphere HA, DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Configured VMware standard vSwitch & distributed vSwitch.
• Configured VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VM kernel port groups and VLANs.
• Installation, configuration and management of ESXi Servers on HP & Cisco hardware.
• Installation of vCenter Server, upgrading 40+ hosts from vSphere 5.0 to vSphere 5.5 and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Responsible for managing vCenter server and vSphere client for managing multiple ESXi hosts.
• Creating and managing resource pools and adding the Virtual Machines into resource pools.
• Monitoring event logs, alarms and trouble shooting them.
• Coordinating with storage and network team based on the requirements.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of Virtual Machines & ESXi hosts (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security compliance.
• Monitoring and maintenance of vCenter sever heartbeat.
• LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multipathing.
• Preparing Reports on Root Cause Analysis & System Log Analysis.

Environment: Windows 2003/08, Windows 7, VMware 5.0, Lotus Domino Client, Symantec Backup Exec 2012.

Confidential - Westborough, MA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Windows Based Directory Services on Windows 2008 Domain.
• Development of Public Hosted Services using VMWare 4.1, Hyper-V 2008 and Citrix XenServer 5.6 model, providing architecture recommendations to IT Management and ensure Best Practice is adhered to at all times
• Creation of groups, group policies, task scheduling and various necessary tasks for the maintenance of the whole domain setup.
• Managing and Maintaining DNS, DHCP on Windows 2008 Server.
• Configured DHCP server with different scopes to automatically assign IP addresses to systems.
• Administrating Windows 2008 Server, managing user’s account, rights and permissions and allowing Users Registration on the Domain.
• Includes Installation & troubleshooting of local & network printers, Notebooks and Scanners.
• Additional Domain Controller (ADC), Installation and configuration of DNS server, Security Policy, Dynamic Disk, Software Router.
• Remote Installation service and Remote Desktop Connection.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates.
• Creating and managing multiple snapshots.
• Lead offshore and onsite team to build Windows 2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design in Virtual environment.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion, DRS, HA.
• Experience on Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, & 2008 using VMware Converter.
• Upgraded VMware ESX 3.5 servers to ESXi 4.0, 4.1 and ESXi servers 4.1 to 5.0
• Administered Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) hosting ESX 5.0
• Analyzed and Implemented OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool and also deploy patches using vCenter update manager.
• Assigning LUN's from storage array to ESXi hosts.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from vNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing process on updating Incident Reports and Change Requests.
• Assist production support team on incidents and alerts related to Cisco UCSM and VMware infrastructure.
• Manages resources and assigns projects as per customer requirements.

Environment: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, HP DL & ML server series, IBM Xseries and System x servers, HP Insight Manager, IBM Director, Cisco Enterprise Network.

Confidential

Jr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, Administration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/ 2012 Networks.
• Troubleshooting windows update and performance issues.
• Configuration of DHCP, DNS on Windows 2008/ 2012 platforms.
• Dealing with clients to solve networking problems.
• Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 administration and configuration in a distributed, Multi-user environment.
• Upgrade Windows 2003 to windows 2008.
• Configuring and Monitoring of group policies on sites, domains and OUs.
• Design and implement Active Directory service and systems policies.
• Administration and management of Network Printers and File Sharing.
• Trouble shooting systems, LAN, WAN and Firewall problems.
• Installation & Configuration of IIS with SSL, DNS, DHCP, FTP and Terminal servers.
• Backup & disaster recovery by Scheduling and Managing data backups on Windows Servers.
• Installing & managing ISA 2004, 2006 for internet sharing & restricted internet usage.

Environment: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, ADDS, ADFS, Forest Migration, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, HP Insight Manager, IBM Director.

Confidential

IT Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform system administration functions including new system configuration, software installations.
• Working knowledge of FTP, DHCP, SSH, DNS, NIS, NFS and Samba.
• Responsible for maintaining user and group management.
• Able to configure and connect through Remote Access Service(RAS) and Remote Desktop Service(RDS).
• To install and manage operating systems through windows deployment services(WDS).
• Monitoring and basic troubleshooting of storage devices.
• Collaborated with multiple support teams to resolve critical time-sensitive issues, and responded to system emergencies.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in the initial VMware farm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Performed troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms.
• Performed server incident root cause, service, and crash dump analysis.

Environment: Windows XP/Vista/7, Windows Small Business Server 2003, Exchange 2003, Acronis Backup.