SUMMARY

• Over Six years of professional experience in IT industry as VMware/Windows Engineer. A VCP certified & AWS certified and working on VMware, AWS, Windows/Linux Technology, Telecom, and Desktop. Working throughout the process in Installing, Configuring and Managing the Windows and VMware Platform.
• Have been managing many Virtual Datacenters for client and configuring them according to the client requirements. Having good experience on Hyper - V.
• A VCP certified working on VMware, AWS, Windows/Linux Technology, Telecom, and Desktop.
• Worked throughout the Installing, Configuring and Managing the Windows and VMware platform.
• Good Experience in managing various Virtual Datacenters based on the client requirements.
• Strong knowledge in creating, deploying VMs within Hyper-V environment from Scratch for a business application.
• Managed several Microsoft and Linux Virtual Machines in a development and pre-production environment. vCenter Server, ESXi, ESX, Citrix XenApp, vMotion, Vcloud, P2V, HA, DRS and VDI configuration. Windows Server 2003/ 2008/ R2/ 2012. Active Directory and implementing Group Policies. HP Blade Servers, HP ILO, and Dell Blade Servers. SAN/NAS Configuration and Installation Net Backup, Netapp Solution.
• Experience in Patching servers, ESXi hosts, Dmz, Virtual windows desktops and windows virtual machines.
• Worked on Windows 2008/2003 Active Directory server administration.
• Expertise in scripting languages like PowerShell, Bash for AD & Operations.
• Good inter-personnel and analytical skills. Patient listener, Adaptive and Open to new ideas. Ambitious, Innovative & Energetic. Eager to Explore and Learn.
• VMware Update Manager (VUM), physical to virtual migrations, Storage vMotion, and VMware Workstation and using DELL and HP.
• Highly experienced in LAN/WAN networking architecture and TCP/IP protocol stack, Wireless networks Cloud computing concepts. DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Management.
• Configuring and managing ESXi, Virtual Storage, Software iSCSI, NFSDatastore, vSphereHA.
• Administering Microsoft technologies including Windows Server (NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012), Active Directory, and Microsoft SQL Server (2000, 2005, 2008, 2012) including IIS in servers.
• Netapp SAN: Data De-duplication & Compression, cloning and provision storage as quickly as possible, backing up and Restoring VMs.
• HP Blades: Installing and configuring, remotely installing Windows Operating system and ESXi troubleshooting.
• SCCM: Deploying software and updates on the servers and deployed application on the user’s system.
• McAfee Suite: Installation, Configuration of Account manager by creating new users and group, applying security access to the servers and security scan for vulnerabilities.
• Net Backup: Taking backup and restoring files, using net backup accelerator, Replication director, and instant recovery for virtual resources.
• Disaster recovery (DR): Configuring and Managing vSphere Replication and VMware SRM.
• Sound knowledge in Dell EqualLogic and VMware site recovery manager.
• Experience in handling VBR and Windows backup.
• Dealing with MPLS, RVA and experience in handling in Antivirus.
• Worked on VMware and vSphere 5, vSphere 5.5, and Vcloud Director.
• Installation, Configuration and Management of SAN/NAS.
• Creating Virtual machines using preconfigured templates.
• Configuring and administering a wide range of network services and protocols including Ethernet, TCP/IP, switching, routing, DHCP, SMTP, NFS, iSCSI, and DNS.
• Deploying an OVF template, taking and deleting snapshots & have hands on datacenter migration experience.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte- NC

Infrastructure Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing over 12000+ including VMware server 2003, 2008(R2 & Standard) and 2012(R2 & Standard) with vSphere client 5.1, 5.5&Linux with Ubuntu, cent OS.
• Good Experience of Active Directory in resetting the passwords, unlocking accounts, adding users, and Group Policy. Configured Single Sign-On for Google. Implemented & Completed Projects like AD-Clean-up, AD-Update.
• Built NOC teams in off-site and created multiple SOPs for the Left Shift.
• Expertise in creating process documentations, Initiated, and completed On-Boarding & Off-Boarding Project.
• Worked on VMDK Data Store Migration project and configured VM's as per the best practices, helped in retaining the space on datastore (Reclaimed 30TB space) & providing better application functioning.
• Hands On experience in Cloud environment including Azure, Aws, Red Hat, Cloud forms & Cloud bolt.
• Configuration and Upgrades with Hands on Experience in Symantec Backup Exec 14,15,16 on backup jobs and implemented & completed with Migration of Backups to Cloud (AWS). Knowledge on cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure & Nutanix.
• Available on a 24*7 on-call & helping clients on Physical servers and VM’s in a VMware environment.
• Built Microsoft Servers 2012, (Standard, R2), 2016, 2019 with VMware Orchestrator and Red Hat Ansible in a virtual environment.
• Installation & Configuration of Citrix servers& business applications on it.
• Hands & Feet’s on Experience on physical servers and Data center migration, Expertise on working with Dell Power-edge R520, R310, R710, 2850, 2950, R410 Physical servers.
• Hands on experience in Disaster Recovery.
• Created test environment in Citrix, VMware, Windows for production (application, security patch testing)
• Migrated Citrix Deservers to VMware windows 2012R2
• Worked on NAS & SAN Storage, creating new shares on SMB, Exporting NFS shares, Creating Alias for NTFS, Creating snapshots on ISILON.
• Managed domain users and groups in AD and create group policies to keep the network secured.
• Done PoC for VDI with VMware and recommended VMware Horizon for the infrastructure benefit.
• Worked as Telecommunication admin. Migrating to cloud Telecom system. Configuring and 24*7 support on Polycom, 8x8 Telecom system (Physical & Virtual) &VCC support.
• Implemented a project for Shadow Volumes and worked with Backup’s, SQL, Microsoft, which helped in clearing of the shadow’s and retained 40 TB of space.

Environment: Windows/VMware/ Citrix. Platform Used: Windows Server 2003, 2008&R2, 2012&R2/VMware 5.5/ESXi 5.1 & 5.5/Xenserver 5.5,6.5/Linux: CentOS, Ubuntu Physical servers, and Telecom system.

Confidential, Houston- TX

Server Admin

Responsibilities:

• Managing over 3000+ VMware servers 2003, 2008(Std& R2)2012(Std& R2) with vSphere client 5.1&Citrix XenApps, xenservers. Supervised 35 VM servers for daily backups.
• Have been an onsite project manager.
• Good Experience in managing the Active Directory by resetting passwords, unlocking accounts, adding users, and Group Policy. Configured Single Sign-On for Google. Implemented & Completed Projects like AD-Clean-up, AD-Update.
• Expertise in creating process documentations, Initiated, and completed On-Boarding & Off-Boarding Project.
• Configuration and Upgrades with Hands on Experience in Symantec Backup Exec 14,15,16 on backup jobs and implemented & completed with Migration of Backups to Cloud (AWS). Knowledge on cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure & Nutanix.
• Available on a 24*7 on-call & helping clients on Physical servers and VM's in a VMware environment.
• Built Microsoft Servers 2003, 2008(Standard, R2), and 2012(Standard, R2, physically) as well as in a VM environment and installing and configuring SAN for virtual environment. Configured QNAP storage.
• Installation & Configuration of Citrix servers & business applications on it.
• Hands & Feet's on Experience on physical servers and Data center migration, Expertise on working with Dell Power-edge R520, R310, R710, 2850, 2950, R410 Physical servers.
• Hands on experience in Disaster Recovery.
• Created test environment in Citrix, VMware, Windows for production (application, security patch testing)
• Migrated Citrix Xenservers to VMware windows 2012R2
• Server patching using Trend, WSUS and pro-active in looking after system securities.
• Managed domain users and groups in Active Directory and create group policies to keep the network secured.
• Done PoC for VDI with VMware and recommended VMware Horizon for the infrastructure benefit.
• Worked as Telecommunication admin. Migrating to cloud Telecom system. Configuring and 24*7 support on Polycom, 8x8 Telecom system (Physical & Virtual) & VCC support.
• Implemented & completed Single Sign-On for 8x8 VO, Salesforce, Office 365, G-Suit, SAP.
• Expertise and worked on multiple PoC's for the Organization.

Environment: Windows /VMware /Citrix. Platform Used: Windows Server 2003, 2008, R2, 2012/ VMware 5 /ESXi 5.1/xenservers 5.5

Confidential

Jr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing over 500+ VMware Servers 2003, 2008(Std & R2) 2012(Std & R2) with vSphere client 5.1 & Citrix xenapps, xenservers.
• Supervised 35 VM servers for daily backups. Managing VPN user and Active Directory by resetting passwords, unlocking accounts, adding users, and GP.
• Worked extensively on installation and control of the domain controllers.
• Built Microsoft Servers 2003, 2008 R2, and 2012 physically as well as in a VM environment and installing and configuring SAN for virtual environment. Have also used Netapp for storage, backup and restore of server's data and VMS true image.
• Resolved various Circuit, Data issues and handled several security and access control issues to ensure 24/7 system access. Managed domain users and groups in Active Directory and created group policies to keep the network secured.
• Increasing Disk Size of system volumes using Disk part utilities. Managing DNS. Working on Problem Management Tickets created for alerts /warnings. Creating Change management and Incident Management Tickets using Service Now Confidential IT service Management.

Environment: Windows / VMware/Citrix Platform Used: Windows Server 2003, 2008, R2, 2012 / VMware / ESXi 5.1.