Summary

• Over 8 Years of IT networking experience in the areas of Microsoft Network Administration, Server Consolidation, Active Directory Management, vSphere 5 Enterprise plus, Desktop Authority, Citrix Operations, Systems Management and Application Virtualization.
• Worked with Windows 2003 Active Directory configurations in a single forest, multiple domains infrastructure.
• Implementation and Designing of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Active Directory enabled applications.
• Implemented Patch management solution WSUS for managing patches for windows servers. Also managed other Patch management Software's like Shavlik.
• Implemented Microsoft Cluster Services MSCS for web services IIS 6.0 providing High Availability HA and failback for the business critical web applications hosted.
• Advanced knowledge of multi-user operating systems Installation and configuration.
• Maintaining the File Server and Print Server and cloning the Desktops on Network in Windows environment.
• Followed Change Management and Problem management procedures as part of steady state tasks for any kind of change which went in to the servers or even problem tickets which needed the Change tickets using tools like Remedy and PeopleSoft.
• Demonstrated high level of responsibility for researching, purchasing, and configuring any equipment needed for IT departments with little or no supervision.
• Expertise in VMware environments 2.5/3.0/3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0 and 5.1. Installed ESX server on DL580 series Servers and familiar with VMware Virtualization. Managed virtual machines on ESX servers. Familiar with ESX clustering, VMotion, HA DRS.
• Designed and implemented the migration of Citrix Presentation server 3.0/4.0 farms to Citrix 4.5/ XenApp5.0 farms hosting around 2000 users and 200 applications and extensively worked in Windows Active Directory environments from design, setup, and implementation to maintenance phases and attending severity calls.
• Managed all IT infrastructure support including E-mail and File servers, Desktop/Laptop, NT Administration and local area networks LAN .
• Working on Incident Tickets while on-call 24x7 rotation basis environment
• Good knowledge on working with Incident, Problem, Change and Request Management Tickets in Remedy Ticketing Tool
• Familiar with Tools Like Norton Ghost, remote control applications like pc anywhere and vnc
• Excellent Client handling Technical skills, which involve interactions, updating and remote transitioning of business specific applications.
• Good at Data analysis, identifying and planning strategies, which provides performance driven metrics

Technical Skills:

• VMware Tools: View 4.5 /ESXi4.1,5.0,5.1/VMWare vSphere 4.0, Site Recovery Management SRM , VMware infrastructure 3.0/3.5,ESX 3/3.5, vCloud Suite 5.1, vCenter Lab Manager 4, vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, Symantec backup, VrangerPro, vCenter Operations manager vCOPs , Platespin
• Operating Systems: Microsoft Server 2003/2008/2012, Live Communications/ Exchange Server 2003/2005/2010, VMware ESXi server
• Server Services: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Clean Server Installation/Migration, SCCM 2007/2012, SCOM, MOM, SMS, SSL, SSH, FIM, UDP, MDT, Hyper-V,POS, Blackberry enterprise 4.0, MS SQL Server, MS SharePoint
• Programming Languages: C, C , VBScript, Power shell, MS SQL server
• E-mail Clients: Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Remedy ITSM
• Designing Languages: MATLAB, VHDL

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Role: System Administrator

• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Netback ups software in Windows systems.
• Experience in installation, configuration, backup, maintenance, and support of Windows systems.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining the Netback ups.
• Creating a backup policy and installing agents.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining the Netback ups version from 6.0 to 7.1.
• Installing and configuring the software through Opsware.
• Working on the services desk management and remitted through ITIL V3
• Installation of Patches configuration management, version control, service pack reviewing connectivity issue regarding security problem.
• Implementation of day-to-day tasks in Windows Environment
• Experience in Creation and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Experience in VMware ESX Server to build guest OS and migration.
• Analyze, troubleshooting, and resolve Windows Server HW, Network problems in a Production Server environment.
• Manage Patches, Upgrades and Licensed Products for System software on all flavors of Windows Servers
• Support for Server Hardware Failure issues
• Installation, configuration, administration and maintenance of Windows Server 2003,2008 and 2012.
• Patch Management in ESX Servers Windows Servers through update Manager.
• Troubleshooting and repairing Hardware, software and network related problems.
• Performing Daily server checklist of servers from all over the locations.
• Migrate physical server windows servers 2003/2008 Cluster node servers to Virtual servers using VMware vCenter Converter and troubleshoot performance issue.
• Managed and troubleshoot Windows 2003/2008 file servers, Active Directory, WINS, DHCP, DNS, FTP, IIS storage servers, SQL server 2005/2008 and Exchange Servers.

Confidential

Role: VMWare Admin

Roles and responsibilities :

• Good experience in configuring, optimizing and troubleshooting of Linux/Unix servers and the Networking setups.
• Experience with installing, configuring and maintaining ESX Servers ESX3.5/ESXi 4.0/ESXi 4.1 and VMware ESX 5.1 and Server migrations from physical to Virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in vmware.
• Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware's product portfolio from the vCloud Suite to the Horizon Suite to meet the functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware VSphere4, ESX 3.5 and ESXi Server, VMware View.
• Designing, configuring, and administering LAN and WAN connectivity on Cisco hardware
• Configured and managed Cisco network hardware servicing the corporate LAN and 40 remote point-of-sale offices.
• Configured and deployed over 30 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5
• Configured and deployed Cisco 1000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5 infrastructure
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere 5 high availability management cluster configuration for customers
• Providing and maintaining user access in vcentre, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU or memory.
• Design, configure, and support Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Technologies.
• Management Troubleshooting of VM Environment for Desktops
• Installed necessary security patches every month to our production and pre-production environments.
• Patch management usding vmware update manager for esx server.
• SAN space allocation for esx servers host .Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX server.
• Configured Multiple static and dynamic IP addresses for forward and dynamic routing.
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Involving in maintaining and updating Active directory, GPOs, Global Groups and Resultant set of Policy for authentication.
• Working on windows cluster services. .
• Managing Public key and private key Infrastructure VeriSign MPKI .
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the application servers in production.

Environment : VM ware ESX 5.1, UCS C240 M3, Windows 2008/2003, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTFS, Bluecat BCN XMB Adonis DHCP,DNS ,JUNOS Space ,Cisco Nexus 5K ,CISCO switches , HP P4000, Emulex NC553, NC551 HBA's ,JUNPER SRX 240 , VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, VMwareVsphere client, Fault tolerance, High Availability and Distributed resource scheduling.

Confidential

Job Role: VWware Administrator.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Installing, configuring and maintaining the VMware ESX 2.5x / Virtual Center 2.x servers.

• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows, Linux.
• Implemented Migration by performing P2V, V2V and V2P conversions using vConverter and PlateSpin.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues which occur during software upgrades.

• Troubleshoot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Monitoring and managing virtual servers
• Taking care of pre requisites for servers before going for production
• Updating service account passwords
• Installed, configured and managing network file servers, print servers and maintaining various logs.
• Created virtual machines using Hyper-V and deployed prepared pre-production environment.
• Maintaining active directory system data and file server volume backups. Monitoring active directory integrity and replication.
• Logs file analysis using the Event Viewer and troubleshooting to resolve issues
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production
• Supported 24 7 on call schedule for Production support.

Environment: Windows Server 2000/2003,Windows xp/vista, Active Directory 2003, SQL Server 2000/2003, HP Proliant Servers, HA/DRS.

Confidential

Job Role: System Administrator

Roles and responsibilities:

• Installation and configuring of HP-UX and Red Hat Linux servers.
• Installing, upgrading and Linux using kick start installation, also SUSE Linux Servers manually and using System Imager and updated using YUM and worked on upgrading and configuring SGI Servers.
• Created Virtual server on VMWare ESX/ESXi based host and installed operating system on Guest Servers.
• Configuring NFS, NIS, NIS , DNS and LDAP.
• Updating YUM Repository and Redhat Package Manager RPM .
• Created RPM packages using RPMBUILD, verifying the new build packages and distributing the package.
• Configuring distributed file systems and administering NFS server and NFS clients and editing auto-mounting mapping as per system / user requirements.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance DNS servers, Mail servers, FTP servers, NFS, NIS, NIS , RPM and Samba Web servers on Sun Solaris, Linux platforms, AIX Server and IBM Tivoli for Load Balancing.
• Experience in installation, configuration and administration of Web Logic and Web sphere Servers.
• Configured SAMBA to get access of Linux shared resources from Windows.
• Worked in ZFS and QFS and fixed the problems occurred, set the quota and reservations for such file systems.
• Applying new patches and packages of HP UX and RedHat Linux.
• Extensive use of Logical Volume Manager LVM , creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes and disk mirroring in HP-UX, AIX and Linux.
• Implementation of RAID techniques and the creation of Disk groups and volumes, plex using Veritas Volume manager.

Confidential

Job Role: System Administrator

Roles and responsibilities:

Management and administration - Windows Active Dir. Structure and Group Policies

• Windows AD Group Policy Administrator
• Initiated, Demonstrated and implemented Wireless access to county applications for field users Terminal servers, VPN.
• Installation, configuration, administration and maintenance of Windows Server 2003 and Server 2000 on Dell Power Edge Servers.
• Management/monitoring of servers using default MS tools and third party tools. Migration of NT4 servers to Active Directory Domain.

• Security Administration of Windows Servers, user accounts and security groups
• Created AD users, groups, Policies, printer mapping and login scripting.
• Monitored server health, performance, executed scheduled tasks and designed event action plans for critical services
• Provided feedback to the management with suggestions for upgrades in technology or Hardware.
• Managed and maintained file server running Windows 2003 Advanced server and managed file and NTFS permissions for local users and groups.
• Configuration of Farms, Zones, DC's, DS, TS License servers, Web Servers.
• Administration of Windows2000 server and remote installation of Win 2000, Win XP client systems.
• Responsible for enterprise patch management.

Environment: Windows XP/NT/2000/2003, Microsoft Clustering, Active Directory, AD Group policy, NTFS permissions.