Experience Summary

A highly experienced and results oriented Information Systems Specialist with over 16 years of experience. Possess a proven ability to develop, administer and troubleshoot complex environments for major corporations. Skilled in utilizing high level Windows administration knowledge and storage products to design and implement solutions for the entire technology stack, lead infrastructure optimization initiatives, manage system performance and govern platform roadmaps.

Skills Inventory

Top 5 Skills Rating: Rate on 5 point scale 1 being lowest, 5 being highest

Other Technical Skills:

• Operating Systems: Windows 2003 /2008 , Linux , AIX
• Windows Specific: Citrix , MYSQL , clustering
• Virtualization: VMware , Xen
• LDAP: Active Directory
• Networking: Big IP, Network load balancers, IPsec, IP tables
• Network protocol: DNS, SMTP , HTTP , POP3 , SSH , SSL , DHCP
• Web server: IIS ,Apache
• Storage: Tivoli Storage Manager, SAN DS8000/8300 , NAS, IBM SVC, IBM tape library

Summary Of Qualification

• 16 Years experience as windows administrator With Unix Experience Windows 2003/2008, Linux , AIX
• 5 years experience in and VMware virtualization.
• 6 years experience windows components such as ISA , IIS and Active Directory
• Proficient in meeting tight deadlines, performance and client interaction, excellent presentation skills.
• Excellent overall project life cycle experience and team spirit.

Experience

Role: System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Setting up new ESX Clusters, configuring DRS and HA. Setting up VLAN and Datastores.
• Worked on Upgrading ESX to ESXi. Followed by VM servers Hardware Upgrade and Tools Update.
• Upgrading the Virtual Center Servers, Update Manager, VI Client, VMware Converter as and when new versions are released.
• Well versed in working on the ESX Service console and setting up VMA.
• Creating base Windows Images, syspreping and converting to Templates for future deployments.
• Build VMs as per requirement of the customer.
• Performing Health Checking the ESX Servers and hardening the servers.
• Responsible for Patching the ESX Servers, CIRATS remediation.
• Use VMware Converter to do the P2V conversions.
• Use Veeam Backup for copying the templates and VMs across different datacenters.
• Installed and configured two Arrays of Microsoft ISA Server 2006.
• Migrated around 100 websites from ISA 2000 to ISA 2006.
• Responsible for publishing Customer external websites on ISA servers.
• Responsible for maintaining / renewing IPSEC and Customer websites around 100 Verisign SSL Certificates.
• Maintains Internal Certificate Infrastructure.
• Works closely with the Network / Firewall team to harden the ISA servers and the websites.
• Involved and implemented may migration of Websites from Web Servers on Microsoft NLB to F5.
• Implemented and designed many Microsoft NLB and Clustering solution for customer.
• Well versed with Microsoft IIS 6.0 and 7.0. Worked on migration of websites to the new version.
• Maintains DNS and responsible for creating A records and CNAME.
• Configured WINS and DHCP Servers.
• Worked on many Transition and transformation projects also data center relocation projects including Network architecting, planning, implementing
• Created custom automation solutions to customer specific requirements
• Demonstrated ability to satisfy customers through analysis and problem resolution. Recognized as the Go-to person for immediate resolution to technical solutions

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

• Worked in an Enterprise Environment supporting an Industrial Account which has a large scale
• VMware Infrastructure with 50 ESX Servers and around 900 VMs Microsoft Windows . Plus this environment had around 500 Physical Servers.
• Responsibilities:
• Primary responsibility to Consolidate Servers from different locations Ohio, New Jersey, Phialdephia, Pougheekspie into one location Lexington, KY .
• Plan and document the migration plan with customer.
• Installed and Configured Platespin Power convert server and Image Servers .
• Work on P2V migrations using Platespin and VMware Converter.
• Upgrading the VMs from ESX 2.5 to 3.5.
• Running Heathcheck on ESX Servers and Windows servers.
• Responsible for hardening the servers and closing CIRATS.

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

• Worked in an Enterprise Environment supporting a Financial Account with 500 Windows Servers.
• Responsibilities:
• Building new Windows Servers based on customer requirement.
• Maintaining and Managing AD user accounts.
• Heathchecking Windows Servers.
• Worked on day to day administrative tasks by working on Incident tickets.

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

Responsibilities

• Installing Windows NT Servers and supporting clients
• Installing Microsoft Office Products
• Training clients and customers on multiple Microsoft Products

Confidential

Role: Network Engineer /Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation Windows NT servers
• Installation, configuration desktop servers
• Windows SQL server's installation and administration.
• Exchange server Administration.
• Worked as a Team lead to develop a Network and system management solution for the client's Medical transcription business unit. The environment has multi platform servers such as UNIX and Windows. Being a Microsoft Systems Engineer played a big role to configure and design the Windows NT environment for the data center and Linux based DNS/SMTP servers, ftp server for transcription file transfer.