SUMMARY

• Overall 7+ Years of professional experience as Systems/VMware in supporting Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008 servers and VMware
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008 servers on HP/Compaq, Dell Power Edge, Confidential xSeries hardware platforms.
• Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Experience working on Change Management, Request Management and Incident Management in Service Center/Remedy.
• Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2000/2003 servers.
• Experience in Implementing and Administration of Active Directory Services, replication, Trust Relationship and Enforcing Domain Group Policy.
• Experience in implementing and configuring hardware and software RAID under Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008.
• Good experience in Blade server hardware, RAID, Microsoft Windows Clusters. Compaq / HP Blade Server hardware maintenance. HP Insight Manager
• Worked in large complex directory environments with experience supporting Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory (AD).
• Experience with Microsoft Network Load Balancing and Microsoft Clustering technologies.
• Excellent skills in patching and hardening Win2000/Win2003/2008 servers using Windows Update and also by using the staged patches.
• Experience in resolving all levels of Severity Tickets, root cause investigations, system outages.
• Proficient Experience in installation and configuration of VMware ESX 3.0/3.5,vSphere 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 , VMware Virtual Center 2.0/3.5/4.0/5.0/5.1/5.5
• Experience in configuring VMware CPU and memory shares for virtual machines.
• Experience in building VMware virtual machines from templates and CD/ISO image.
• Administration of VMware Virtual Center and virtualization services VMware DRS, VMware HA, VMotion and SVMotion.
• Expert knowledge on configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESX (i) hosts from vSphere Confidential .
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch&dvSwitch.
• Experience incloning VMs and deploy new virtual machines from clones.
• Converted many (P2V) physical servers to Virtual Machines using VMware vCenter Converter part of decommission legacy servers effort.
• Experience in migrating the virtual machines between the ESX (i) Hosts using cold migration and VMotion.
• Provided 24/7 On Call production support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Platform Skills: vSphere 5.5/5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0 , ESXi5.5/5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0, Virtual Center Server, VMware View, VMware vCenter Orchestrator, HA, DRS, Storage vMotion, Site Recovery Manager, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware vCenter Heartbeat, VMware vSphere Confidential, VMware Thinapp, P2V, V2V, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, Capacity Planning, Plate spin Power convertMicrosoft Products and tools Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, AD Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, DNS, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Hyper - V, WSUS server, SQL Server 2005, SQL server 2008, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, IIS 6, IIS 7, DHCP, TCP/IP

Server Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 R2Desktop Operating Systems Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

Management Tools: HP Onboard Administrator, HP Virtual Connect Manager,UCS,CIMC, Avocent DS View, Putty, MKS Integrity Change Management Software, Groundworks VI Monitoring Tool, Vkernel Monitoring Software, Microsoft Robocopy GUI, Solar winds IP Address Tracker, Veeam Backup, FastSCP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Knoxville TN

Sr VMware/ Citrix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining and supporting 1200+ servers with about 500+ users
• Installing and Maintaining Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 Servers.
• Worked with all components of HP (Smart Start, Insight Manager, Diagnostics, Network Configuration Utility etc)
• Scheduling jobs for updating the Firmware and Proliant Support Pack (PSP) through scripting and Altiris Tool.
• Teaming NIC’s using HP Teaming software for redundancy during failures.
• Use Altris to Install the Operating System and to run scripts to update patches on HP Servers
• Update patches on Servers Working Experience with Active DirectoryComponents (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc.)
• Resolving Problems related to Disk Space Usage.
• Resolving problems related to performance metrics such as Processor Usage, Memory etc.
• Fulfilling the customer needs and requirements for cloud infrastructure using vCloud Automation Center
• Perform day-to-day operation and troubleshooting of VMs.
• Keep Virtualhardware and VMwaretools updated to keep a healthy environment
• Maintaining Print servers, Application servers and File Servers.
• Hosting websites in IIS and configuring the apppools.
• Experience in installing and configuring Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers from ILO management tool on Rack servers and blades.
• Work with storage team to create LUNs/NFS and Map it to VMware vSphere ESX (i) hosts.
• Experience in installing and configuring vSphereESX (i) 5.1 on HPbladeservers HPC7000.
• Experience in migrating VMware vSphere hosts from ESX 3.5 U2 to 4.0 and ESX(i) 5.1 to ESX (i) 5.5.
• Experience in configuring VMware standard vSwitch&dvSwitch.
• Experience in configuring VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VMKernal port groups and VLANs.
• Experience in installing and configuring VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware vCenter Appliance.
• Managed VMwareESX (i) hosts using vSphere Confidential and Web Confidential .
• Played a vital role in Creating Virtual Machines, Cloning virtual machines, converting P2V(used standard VMware converter tool), VM-Provisioning (Linked clones, thin disks, de-duplication ) taking Snapshots of virtual servers, HA, DRS, VMotioning.
• Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Create and document process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
• Create thin provisioned VMs to suite Confidential application requirements and expanding Hard Disk sizes as requested by clients.
• Use Remedy Tool for ticketing (Change Management, Incident Management, and Request Management).
• Provide on Call support 24x7 during Critical Issues for Production Environment.

Confidential, Lancaster, PA

Sr. VMware/ Citrix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on ESX and VM storage issues and also coordinate with the storage admin team.
• Load/modify/configure applications on Citrix Servers.
• Migrated Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files.
• Involved in the process of Installing and upgrading the various applications on Citrix Servers and publishing the Application.
• Created VM Session for Test Environment for testing Application before deploying to Production.
• Maintained FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS7.
• Installed and configured Xenapp 5.5 server with published apps.
• Administered the existed XenServer 5.5, XenDesktop 5.
• Created a test Environment in Citrix or VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Provided the access rights and permissions for accessing the applications for the users.
• Responsible for Administration of Active Directory and delegating control / permissions.
• Involved System Administration support for Windows 2003/2008 Servers.
• Deployed ICA Confidential, printer driver mapping, shadowing users, checking sessions, managing server load and CPU utilization.
• Installed Citrix hotfixes on the servers.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SR.VMWARE/WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Building new Windows Server 2003/2008 on Intel Server Platforms, Confidential /HP/Dell PowerEdge servers as per the company’s Windows build standards.
• Administered and setup user profiles in Win2003/2008 servers and ADS maintenance
• Administered and setup Print servers in Win2003/2008 server.
• Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, and Domain trust relationship, file and print services, user and group management.
• Implemented RAID5 for Fault Tolerance on Domain Controllers.
• Installed SQL server 2005 and deployed many SQL cluster deployments for clients for database requirements.
• Migrated IIS6.0 to IIS7.0 using windows deployment tool 2.0.
• Patching the Production Servers during the green zone window with security patches.
• Maintain the Software deployment and management solution and ensure proper patching on Confidential systems. Maintain the Domain environment, including setting policies as per the security settings.
• Defining group permissions and creating local and global groups with account policies using Enterprise Administrator. Creating user rights and defining local and roaming profiles.
• Responsible to maintain the server inventory and document the server build/decommission, application installation/configuration, backup verifications, Operating System user accounts auditing, etc.
• Working on Change Management and RequestManagementTickets in Remedy Tool
• Built and configured ESX 3.5/4.0 hosts and deployed XP/Vista/2003/2008 VMware Virtual Guests.
• Experience in configuring and enabling VMware EVC on VMware clusters.
• Experience with VMware system patching using update manager.
• Responsible to ensure servers are current with firmware, drivers, patches and security updates.
• Proficient in managing ESX Hosts using VMware vCenter.
• Linked Different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance through vSphere Confidential to manage the whole Virtual environment.
• Experience in configuring Hardware iSCSI to Rack servers and add storage to VMware ESX hosts.
• Experience in configuring VMware vCenter Alarms for data store and host memory and CPU usage.
• Experience in configuring and management of VMware Clusters, VMwareDRS, High Availability (HA) and Motion.
• Experience in setting up VMwarestandardvSwitch and ports groups (ServiceConsole, Virtual Machine and VMKernal.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Experience in creating Virtual Machines on Shared Data Store.
• Hands on experience with vCloud Automation Center.
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Providing 24/7 on call support for critical and production issues.

Confidential, DALLAS, TX

VMWARE/WINDOWS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation.
• Build/Design Windows 2008/2003/2000 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers using CA Unicenter software deployment.
• Installed VMware ESX server 2.5/3.0/3.5 in a total of 360 ESX’s, 400+ servers & 4 VC’s. Created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented VMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager.
• Installed SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 servers clustered and non-clustered and creating SQL Database
• Manage, deploy, and debug SiteMinder policy servers used to authenticate/authorize users for Intranet and extranet sites and worked on Siteminder 5.5 and 6.0.Configured Siteminder policies, Realms, Rules & Responses.
• Troubleshoot applications and end to end functionality testing. Analyzed IIS and application logs, debugged problems at all stages in migration phase.
• Deploy patches using Big Fix as requested or scheduled by Engineering & Release Mgmt.
• Manage all non-production Desktop platforms and setup two labs for online browsing testing labs, Build / rebuild physical/virtual workstations (WMW, GFW, MAC etc.) and upgrade workstations as releases are available.
• Coordinate/Facilitate all planned and unplanned power outages for all environments.
• Planning of ESX 2.x upgrades to ESX 3.5 and assist with the implementation process.
• Engage hardware and software vendors to assist in improvement of current VMware environment and research and evaluation of the latest technologies.
• The project involved administering and maintaining XenApp 5.0 on 1150 servers with a total user base of 4700 end users.
• Administrated and Implemented Citrix Presentation Server 4.0/ 4.5, built and maintained Farms, Member Server, Citrix License Server, Data Collector, Data Store
• Setup, Configured and Published application in Citrix Fat and Thin Confidential via Citrix Presentation Server
• Configured and Troubleshooted via a web portal which include Printer issues to Farm errors
• Installed and Configured Window 2003, Terminal Server, Terminal Licenses.
• Extensively worked in Active directory, group Policies, and DHCP for optimal performance on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
• Installed and configured Citrix web interface and secure gateway.
• Implemented group policies to lock down terminal servers.
• Troubleshot issues with published applications and Confidential access.

Confidential

Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured Networks, and Wireless Access Point/Router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks. LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, Labeling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up
• Worked with Network Concepts such as OSI model, IP protocols such as TCP/IP, IP addressing, subnets, routing protocols like OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, STP
• Setup and configured various RAID 1 and RAID 5. Applied patches and upgrades to the servers.
• Configured backups and recovery plans for windows based servers using windows server backup utility
• Responsible for troubleshooting network, database, applications, and web performance issues. Documented and maintained automation scripts for administration of servers.