SUMMARY:

• Exceptionally motivated Systems Administrator with 8+ years of experience providing excellent customer and mission support. Able to manage multiple projects concurrently with insightful prioritization.
• Progressive experience in installation, configuration, troubleshooting and administration in Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2 and various flavors of Linux such as Red Hat, Cent OS, Ubuntu and SLES Linux.
• Experience in Microsoft SQL server administration and installing and configuring SQL Clustering service provided by Microsoft. Experience in implementation & administration of NIS, DHCP, Send mail, NFS, DNS. Experience in working in virtualized environment VMware ESX 5.0 and 5.5.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Build / Manage multiple VMsWindows Server 2012
• Installation / Configuration
• Managing Server Roles
• Creating Server Shares
• Managing Server SharesWindows 10
• Installation / Configuration
• Joining Workstation to Domain
• Creating & Managing User / Computer Accounts
• Managing Account s
• Resetting Passwords
• Managing AD OU Structure
• Creating Non - Inheriting OUGroup Policy Management
• Creating / Managing GPOs
• Linking GPOs to assigned OUs
• Deploy Software / Files VIA GPO
• Configuring Windows Firewall with GPVMware 5.0 5.5
• Participated in regular 24/7 on-call server managing rotations
• Installing ESXi as a virtual server
• Deploying several VMs from Templates and customized their configurations as-needed.
• Tagging VLANs to Juniper Switches
• Creating and Managing VMware Snapshots
• Creating Virtual Data stores and Migration
• Through knowledge of Thick, Thin, Eagle Zero Storage allocation
• Server Migration from Host to Host
• Allocating storage, CPU, and RAM to servers
• Installing VMware tools
• Creating Clones from existing VMs (both live and powered-off)
• Responding to server down alerts in a timely manner and brought them up via HP iLO
• Evaluate New Products and recommend updates and upgrades
• Provide technical guidance to other VMware Administrators

Confidential, Jackson, MI

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience in deploying and configuring Windows 2008/2012R2 servers for SQL installation
• Experience in installing and configuring SQL Clustering service provided by Microsoft
• Deployed over 300+ Windows and Linux server for an environment upgrade project over a time-span of a year
• Experience with installing and using Shavlik Protect tool for server patching
• Experience tagging VMware VLANs to Juniper Switches
• Experience installing Bit9 on Windows servers
• Experience with using Qualys Scanner on Linux and Windows servers for Cyber Security auditing and compliance
• Performed Physical to Virtual Server Migrations
• Rotated 24/7 on-call support
• Worked on VMware vMotion for ESX servers
• Worked on VMware virtualization with Dell, HP and CISCO UCS hardware
• Installed VMware tools on the servers
• Experience in administrating Microsoft Exchange 2013
• Experience in working in a Converged Infrastructure Environment such as VBlock 300 and700 series
• Experience with monitoring servers in Solarwinds
• Experience in installing and configuring backup agent Simpana CommVault version 10
• Assisted in downloading RHEL ISOs and configuring them into Templates for future server deployments
• Performed Data stores creation and migration in VSphere
• Storage allocation on to Windows 2008/2012R2 servers
• Experience in designing, configuring, and implementing iSCSI SAN and NAS
• Worked on HPE P9500 and 3PAR storage
• Opened tickets with vendors such as HPE, RHEL, Windows, Voxai, Hitachi, VMware, and etc to solve issues that required vendor’s intervention
• Worked on Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) subnetwork
• Coordinated with the network team to setup Juniper 4300 and 3300 Switches in the Datacenter
• Worked closely with DBAs for SQL and Oracle related work
• Worked jointly with Infrastructure Architects to plan and implement new projects
• Excellent overall understanding of Thin, Thick, and Eagle Zero storage provisioning in vSphere
• Worked on Computer access queue daily, providing access to individual users or access groups to either servers or filesystems
• Worked on Service Manager (SM7) ticketing system, with different types of severities and priorities
• Performed Installation, Patches, Migration, Configured, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on (SUSE Linux 10/11, Red Hat Linux and Windows Systems
• Experience in monitoring/start up shell scripts for Windows, Unix, and Linux
• Provided extensive knowledge transfer (KT) documents and held meetings before leaving position

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performing network maintenance. System Administrator/Integrator role in a large team responsible for maintaining of Linux operating systems such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu and SUSE 10/11
• System Architect in creating and deploying blue prints for different deployments
• Created and testing documentation for customers
• Build Domains, Domain Controllers (DCs), Common Internet File System (CIFS) Servers, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers using Windows Server Datacenter 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2008R2
• Installed and configure SLES servers on HP and Dell blades, Upgrade the SLES servers from 11 SP2 to 11SP3
• Installed Java and other softwares (Commvault) on RHEL servers and SLES serves
• Configured SAMBA and windbind on the servers
• Installed new VM from the existing VM’s for RHEL and SLES

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Build Domains, Domain Controllers (DCs), Common Internet File System (CIFS) Servers, and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers using Windows Server Datacenter 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2008R2
• Worked as an Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, Cent OS and SLES)administration, OS installation and maintenance of SLES/RHEL HP Blades, IBM, CISCO USC and DELL x-86
• Installing, configuring and maintenance of SLES 10/11 SP1, SP2 and SP3 Redhat 5.4/5.5/6.0 on servers in production, Development and performance environments

Confidential, Eagan, MN

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• System Administrator/Integrator role in a large team responsible for maintaining of Linux operating systems such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu and SUSE 10/11
• Installation and configuration of Solaris, Linux, Windows for new build environment
• Configuration of network equipment for newly builds servers
• Virtual Machine administration on hypervisor OVM
• Managing physical servers through HP iLO
• Applied patches to servers using PatchBach server patching tool