SUMMARY

• Wide range of technical proficiency, education, certification and trainings. Equally adept as an individual contributor providing hands - on trouble-shooting, and as a leader, leading multi-functional teams in the resolution of complex technology problems.
• Possess enhanced skills in the development and implementation of highly effective disaster recovery plans. Oversee Datacenter Operations and maintain all systems ensuring virtually no downtime.
• Expert on Windows operating systems, Active Directory, Azure, IIS, Office 365, Microsoft server administration/support, VMware and Citrix XenApp Server.
• Performed installations, configurations and upgrades on Redhat, Centos and Windows servers.
• Installed and configured VMware ESX 5.1 and ESXi 6.5 with Virtual Center management, DRS, HA, VMotion, Data Recovery (SRM), vROPS and P2V converter.
• Expertise includes System Backups, Disaster Recovery, Storage Administration, Server Configuration, Hardware/Software Installation, Benchmark Testing and Implementation of Enterprise-wide Security and Antivirus Solutions.
• Subject Matter Expert on Backup products including HP data protector, Avamar, Veeam, NetBackup, Tape libraries and DataDomain.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• System Administration support with support of Windows, Linux and VMware For various leveraged accounts.
• Installed, configured and managed Windows 2003/2008/ 2012 and 2016 servers, both physical and virtual machines.
• Performed Active directory sync with Azure and administered office 365 for various clients.
• Installed and configured RHEL 6 &7 on virtual platform.
• Performed Windows administrative tasks including Active Directory, IIS, SSL, and Group Policy.
• End to end responsibility for server operations, including OS, hardware, Patching, Firmware, Bios and service packs.
• Configured and deployed Citrix Xen App Server 6.5 for publishing critical applications.
• Installed and configured VMware ESX 5.5 & 6.5 with Virtual Center management including DRS & HA and FT.
• VM Servers build & rebuild (Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM As per the client request through change management process.
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes using vROPS.
• Created Templates, Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Created Virtual switches and port groups, configure Virtual networking settings for redundancy by teaming VNICs, and configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Installed and worked on VMWare Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.1) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans.
• Administered and maintained Storage Area Networks (SAN- HP3PAR), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN) on ESX Servers.
• Executing ITIL processes such as Incident Management and Change Management using the Service Now Ticketing tool.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of windows Server 2003/2008and 2012 systems including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, File and Fax Sharing services and various application servers.
• Managed Active Directory and security groups associated with group policies/server privileges.
• Develop policies/procedures to ensure consistency of corporate directives.
• Configured and deployed Citrix Xen App Server 6.5 for publishing critical applications for HP Clients.
• Implement and support complex and global VMWare/ESX (v5.5/6.5) environments.
• VM Servers build & rebuild (Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM as per the client request through change management process.
• Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 As well as Linux servers
• Implemented backup technologies and managed backup environments with EMC Avamar, Veeam Data Protector, Networker and Net Backup.
• Responsible for strategic planning related to ongoing enhancement of large backup and recovery Domains.
• Worked with clients to develop disaster recovery plans in the event of data losses.
• Provided information to clients about the benefits of cloud storage and helped clients determine what Data should be transferred.
• Implemented DPA (Data Protection Adviser) for reporting backup successes and failures.
• Support of the Data Domain system for configuring MTREE and storage for backups as well as executing Replication to remote sites.
• Aptitude for assisting less-experienced team-members and providing a basis to resolve any related Business incidents.
• Executing ITIL processes such as Incident Management and Change Management using the Service Now Ticketing tool.

Confidential, Holtsville, NY

Datacenter team lead

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Windows 2003, 2008 & Windows 2012 Active directory and VMware virtual environment
• Responsible for Backups and restores and DR for Windows and UNIX servers using HP Data Protector 6.2 and NetBackup
• Participate in installing and configuring of UNIX/Linux based Oracle products
• Configured DataDomain for NetBackup integration and configured VTL (Virtual Tape Library) using Scalar i500 tape libraries
• Installed and configured VMware VCloud Director and created a private cloud for internal customers
• Installed and configured VMware ESX4.1 and ESXi 5.1 with Virtual Center management including DRS & HA
• Built, configured and deployed VM’s and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 as well as Linux servers
• User and Group administration in Linux and Solaris environment
• Installed and configured Power Path and San Surfer in order to connect to SAN drives on EMC Symmetric and VMAX storage systems
• Responsible for scheduling and troubleshooting executable jobs for various production systems using IBM's Tivoli workload scheduler (Maestro)
• Authorized to control SOX compliance for the databases and Datacenter security related issues.
• Executed ITIL processes such as Incident Management and Change Management via the BMC Remedy ticketing tool.

Confidential

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day support of Windows NT/2000/2003 and Novell 5.0 Servers environment
• Administration of Windows 2000 and 2003 Active directory, DNS and WINS
• Installed, maintained and upgraded Compaq, Dell and IBM servers using the Fault Tolerant Technology
• Used local and global groups to manage user account and access to resources
• Created and managed users, groups’ accounts, and computers policy, managed file systems, resources and managed user account security on Windows and Linux
• Installed, configured and supported printers and printer resources
• Installed and configured the Terminal Server
• Installed and configured Ghost Server and created images
• Responsible for implementations, support, administration and troubleshooting of Net Backup and HP data protector.

Confidential

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Windows 2000 and window 2003 multi-site network
• Deployed Active Directory Infrastructure with sites, multiple subnets, OU’s, group policies and DNS
• Created global user accounts, computer accounts, assigned permissions, implemented auditing and created login scripts
• Installed and configured Compaq and IBM servers with Windows 2000 Server
• Responsible for implementations, support, administration and troubleshooting of Veritas Backup Exec, Trend Server Protect and Trend Office Scan
• Worked extensively on IBM Net Vista series and IBM Laptops including testing and creating Ghost images
• Support of third level email issues within Lotus Notes client, Office 2000, etc.
• Responsible for implementations, support, administration and troubleshooting of Net backup and HP data protector
• Implemented hard disk fault tolerance features such as disk mirroring and striping with parity
• Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting associated local and network applications including software development tools