SUMMARY

• VMware Technology Professional having 8+ years of I.T experience in VMware, Windows, PowerShell and IT Support.
• A Windows engineer/Administrator with vast experience in Active Directory, DNS, DHCP with experience in Microsoft Server 2012, 2008r2, 2008, Server 2003 and 2003r2 and Windows XP, Windows 7 client operating systems. Extensive experience working with Microsoft 2003 and 2008 Clusters and Windows Power Shell.
• Hands - on experience in Project Management, Deployment, Installation, Administration, Maintenance and troubleshooting of various Microsoft Operating Systems and Application, Networks and Computers.
• Good experience and knowledge of maintaining SharePoint Server Cluster environment.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), IIS 5.1/6.0/7, FTP, Terminal Server, ADFS.
• Extensive experience with Windows 2008 clustering services.
• Active demonstrated strong analytical, troubleshooting and Interpersonal skills with a customer focused approach.
• VMware vSphereESXi 4.1/5.0 design, setup installation configuration and Administration.
• Installation, Configuration and maintenance of Hosted VMware and windows products.
• Design, Implementation, Testing and Deployment of VMware Infrastructure
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware vSphere4.0, ESX 3.5 and ESXi Server, VMware VCOPS.
• Upgrade vSphere 4.1 environment to vSphere 5.0 .
• VMware vSphere client, Virtual vCenter Server.
• Virtual Networking(Virtual Switches, VM Kernel Ports)
• Add Virtual Storage (Access Control and VMFS Data stores)
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
• Customize guest operating system on Virtual Machines.
• Created DRS and Custom roles for users and Administrators
• High availability, Clustering, vMotion, Storage vMotion.
• Server Consolidation with VMware Converter (P2V Conversions)
• Snapshot manager and restoring a snapshot.
• Knowledge of DR using SRM for VM's.
• Expertise in PowerShell scripting
• Performance and capacity planning for vCenter environment using vCenter operations Manager.
• System Administration-Managing Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.
• Set up and monitoring performance monitoring and capacity planning.
• Installing Dell and HP Servers .
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Managing Tasks, Events and Alarms in VMware Infrastructure
• Knowledge on iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Knowledge on Exchange and Office 365.
• McAfee EPO Antivirus Virtual Server Implementation and Administration.
• Strong leadership and communication skills and working experience with customers, end users and colleagues.
• Demonstrated ability to work in both individual and team environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, with particular emphasis on clear, detailed Business Requirements into Functional Specifications, and generating reports for management.
• Adapts to new systems and environments quickly, takes ownership of all duties, meeting management skills, Good work ethics, Group and individual based problem solving and decision making abilities.
• Strong leadership and communication skills and working experience with customers, end users and Colleagues.
• Demonstrated ability to work in both individual and team environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Virtualization Skills: ESX Server 5.0/4.0/3.5/3 , vSphere 5.0/4.0, VI3, vCenter/ Virtual Centre, Server 4.1/4.0/2.5/2.0 , Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, DPM, FT, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, VMware vSphere Client, VMware View 4, VMware ThinApp, Events and Alerts, Capacity Planning, SV Motion, VMware Converter 5/4/3

Desktop Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012, 2008, 2000 & NT, Windows Desktop OS 8, 7 Windows XP

Server Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012

Server Services: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Clean Server installation/Migration

Server Storage Hardware: HP blades C7000,IBM blades HS21, HP ProLiant DLs and Blade Servers, Dell, Power Edge Servers, EMC SAN storage VNX and Symmetric DMX-3

Scrip: PowerShell scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Salt lake city, UT

WINDOWS & VMWARE - Technology Lead

Responsibilities:

• System analysis, monitoring and performance tuning for Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012 Servers.
• VMware ESX 4.0 & 5.0 Host Server Installation, Configuration & Maintenance, VSphere Suite with P2V, Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration & Maintenance.
• Performed Windows 7 built, installed Applications and forwarded to the QA team for Quality testing.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware and legacy hardware.
• Monitoring the operating system, database & network by using the monitoring tools (Patrol and WMI).
• Installed ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and IBM hardware.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters, configuring FT for important VM's.
• Created resource pools and also added VM's into the pools.
• Performed Microsoft File and Print services management tasks.
• Worked on ESX and VM storage issues and also coordinated with the storage admin team.
• Performed P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 4, 5 and also the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Worked on Disaster Recovery Exercises for DR Plan for Production Servers.
• Analyzed and Implemented OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool.
• Involved in creating vSwitches and created different ports groups for different purposes.
• Involved in troubleshooting the DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory.
• Maintained Web Servers by installing Microsoft IIS7.
• Active Directory and Operating System account management With NTFS permissions.
• Maintaining FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS7.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory.
• Updated and upgraded the ESX servers using vCenter update manager.
• Compaq/HP Blade Server hardware maintenance and HP Insight Manager.
• Involved in the migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Up gradation of Windows server's service pack and security patch as per schedule.
• Configuration and Maintenance of Microsoft Windows cluster Servers.
• Developed technical notes and user guides for new software installations for end users.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing process on fixing Incident Reports and Change Requests.
• Involved System Administration Level III support for Windows 2003/2008 Servers.
• Installation, configuration & maintenance of Windows 2000, Windows 2003 & Windows 2008 Servers with Active directory Infrastructure, DNS, DHCP.
• Performed LUN management, RAID groups, and storage groups.

Environment: Windows 2008/2003, Windows 7, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, NTFS, Dell Power Edge, HP/Compaq ProLiant G3, G5 Blade Servers, IIS Servers, VERITAS Net backup, VMware ESX 4.0 & 5.0 Servers, PowerShell.

Confidential, Tampa Florida

PowerShell Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Automation scripts for virtual machine provision with OS customization
• Scripts for monitoring windows and VMware virtual infrastructure.
• Scripts for generating the reports
• PowerShell scripts to display the performance of the servers using MS charts
• PowerShell script for monitoring website availability
• Scripts for integrating VMware virtual machine and SCCM for guest OS deployment
• Scripts for managing the physical and virtual machine
• Identified applications which could pose issues with Windows 7.
• Windows form tool using PowerShell for vMotion.
• Automation of weekly and monthly server reboot using PowerShell
• Windows form tool (uses WMI and PowerShell queries) for administering the remote servers
• PowerShell script for active directory stale object removal
• Windows form GUI for daily activities of exchange and Office 365
• PowerShell scripts for collecting the print server, network information
• PowerShell script for creating scopes in DHCP
• Script to take backup of network, license information of ESX servers.
• Script for collecting logical drive information of list of windows servers
• Prepared service monitoring tool
• PowerShell script for updating the SQL queries

Environment: Windows 2003/2000 Servers, VMware ESX 4.0/3.4/3.0, vMotion, DNS, DHCP, NTFS, Windows 2012/2008/2003/2000 and Windows 7, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, Microsoft SQL 2005/2008.

Confidential, Saint Louis MO

Windows and VMware Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Involved in Installation and Configuration and Maintenance of Windows 2012/2008/2003/2000 on HP ProLiant Servers.
• Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD).
• Involved in troubleshooting the issues related to Servers, Local Services, Data Centers, and Server Configuration for Microsoft Windows Systems.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters and configured FT for the important
• Created Windows 2012 cluster and setup DFS on new Windows 2012 environment.
• Leveraging all the standalone and cluster 2003 file servers to new Windows 2012 File storage cluster.
• Functioning as a SPOC in Windows T2 team for escalated incidents and service requests for high visibility environments such as Microsoft SharePoint, successfully resolving the incidents and providing workarounds.
• VM's and also Maintained FTP Sites, Web Servers and created Virtual Directories in IIS7.
• Cloning, deploying VM's to Template, Templates to VM's, vMotion, Storage vMotion etc. Configured the NTP server in ESX Server for the time synchronization between ESX and VM's.
• Generated report summary and performance for ESX Servers and VM's. Created snapshot's for the VM's and also created new folders, data centers, clusters and resource pools in the VC.
• Involved in Scheduling Tasks, Monitoring Tasks, Created alarms and Deploying load balancing, implementing Network security.
• Deploying HA & DRS Cluster, Managing resources. Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Data store to another Data store. Migration of servers P2V and V2V by using VMware Converter.
• Involved in Customizing VM's (Memory, hard disk, NIC) and Analyzing log files, Resources utilizing monitoring.
• Problem analysis and Troubleshooting of ESX Server with service console. Resolving issues on servers, VLANs, routers, and switches in the data center.
• Responsible in using BMC Remedy System for incident, change and problem management.
• Created new VMware virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the Client.
• Configured vMotion for Hardware Resource Management.
• Troubleshooting the Hung VM Sessions on ESX Host and sending the files to VMware support for resolutions.
• Supported and Managed VMware ESX 3.5 and 4.0 infrastructure for production/non production environments including HA/DRS Clustering.
• Creating and managing security groups and reconciliation of the same regularly.
• Involved in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA's.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues which occur during software upgrades.

Environment: VMware ESX 4.0/3.5, VSphere 4.0, Windows Server 2012/2008/2003/2000 , Active Directory 2003, Dell Power Edge, HP ProLiant Servers, Microsoft SharePoint 2007/2010.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured and maintained Active Directory - User Management, Implementing various policies for the user using the group policies on Windows 2000 & Windows 2003 Server
• Implement Root, Forest and Child Domain System with Additional Domain Server in the different sites
• Successfully Migrated Win XP users to Windows 7 using USMT (User State Migration Tool).
• Configure the Remote Access Server for the remote client
• Configured Print and File Servers and allowed access to users using Group Policies
• Created User Accounts, Configured User Profiles, Created local and Global Groups and implemented Group Policies.
• Worked with Operations Team on a wide scale deployment of Windows 7 using SCCM as a distribution source.
• Updates, patching and software installations via group policies (GPO)
• Implemented Windows 2003 Server as Backup Domain Controller for Active Directory
• Configured and Maintained DNS, DHCP and WINS on Windows 2000 & Windows 2003 Server
• Shared Folders, Planned and Assisted in configuring NTFS Permissions
• Installation of Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003
• Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy
• Coordinate and monitor troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common system problems: document system events to ensure continuous functioning.
• Recommend course of action and implement as approved
• Troubleshoot the DNS servers by using tools like nslookup, event logging, debug logging
• Monitor server hardware, performance, and up time and respond to outages promptly
• Document server builds, server outages, and backup failures

Environment: Windows 2000/2003 Servers, Active Directory, Network Printers, Windows XP/7

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuration & Implementation of TCP/IP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, Windows NT 4.0 Server RAS connectivity through VSAT.
• Installation, Maintenance Management & Troubleshooting of Windows 95, 98, Windows XP Home & Professional, 2000 Professional, Windows NT 4.0 Server, WorkStation & Windows 2000 Server, Windows small business server, Microsoft Exchange 2000 server.
• Management of Hardware & Networking Department.
• Installation, Maintenance Management and Troubleshooting of SBS 4.5 BackOffice Servers, and Proxy Servers.
• Internet Server (DP602), Installation, Management and Troubleshooting.
• Performed maintenance of Microsoft Servers 2000 and 2003 consisting of adding users, editing user login scripts and granting permission to directories and shared files.
• Documented the process for supported systems and applications.

Environment: Windows 2003/2000/NT, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, NTFS and Microsoft Outlook.