Summary

A technology leader with 8 years of hands-on experience in data centre consolidation, VMware virtualization, storage design, Microsoft and Linux technologies and information technology process. I am analytical, solutions-focused and accomplished engineer, with a successful career in all facets of the IT infrastructure, migration, change management and other critical processes.

Experience Summary

• Experienced in design and implementation of all Data Centre Consolidation activities.
• Experienced in Data mining, Data Governance, Data integration and Open Stack / Cloud Stack.
• Capability of mentoring clients with multiple consolidation approaches per application constraints and non-flexible/regulatory requirements.
• Expertise in managing, monitoring, configuring ESX and ESXi 2.x/3.x/4.x/5.x Servers using Virtual Centre Server 2.x/3.x/4.x and vBlock.
• Extensive knowledge of Plate Spin Power Recon 3.x, Plate Spin Migrate 7.x/8.x/9.x, VMware converter 5.0, Double take 6.0
• Designed and implemented Branch in the Box BIB solutions for sites with specific requirements using Net App 2040/2240 filer, Cisco 4948 switches and Fujitsu RX 300 S6 servers.
• Collaborated with the storage team to configure SAN add LUN's to the virtual environment and develop a plan to deploy VM's based on their disk size.
• Experienced in planning and configuring Resource Pools, HA and DRS for the virtual environment.
• Well rounded knowledge of Systems Administration skills like Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, IIS, GPMC tool, MOM 2005 tool, patching and deployment of Windows Server 2008 2003.
• First class performer in satisfying Service Level agreement SLA and experience in leading the triage meetings for critical issues.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Senior VMware Engineer

• Confidential is a global engineering company and is expanding its business in the areas of power generation and distribution, industrial automation and water technologies. The goal of the project is to consolidate ATOS Business environment and provide support for the virtual environment. I performed following roles and responsibilities during my tenure in ATOS.
• Designed, implemented and maintained Branch in the Box BIB solutions for sites with specific requirements using Net App 2040 filer, Cisco 4948 switches and Fujitsu RX 300 S6 servers.
• Designed and implemented virtual environment using VMware ESXi 5.0 and 4.1 along with virtual centre 4.1 and 2.5 on Fujitsu servers and created clusters for high availability HA and distribute resource scheduling DRS .
• Used Cisco system UCS Manager to monitor and manage the vBlock.
• Deployed virtual machines from templates and configured Windows 2003, 2008 and Linux 5.x and 6.x on them as per the co-operate guidelines.
• Created users and groups and performed their modification based on the requirements for Linux servers.
• Monitored the system performance and tuned the kernel to enhance system performance.
• Managed disk file systems and added/removed disk partition and file access permissions.
• Used VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machine's.
• Created resource pools and distributed virtual servers among the pools based on their utilization.
• Configured security hardening and monitoring of virtual machines and ESX servers CPU, memory, disk, network utilization for security compliance.
• Upgraded Windows and Linux virtual machines running on ESX 2.5, 3.0 to ESX 5.0.
• Used Plate Spin Power Recon 3.7.3 to monitor and generate reports for the scheduled servers and recommend virtualization of servers using consolidation scenarios.
• Performed physical to virtual migration using Plate Spin Portability Suite 9.1 and resolved issues occurring during the migration.
• Used Double Take software 6.0 for P-2-P migrations and VMware converter 5.0 for P-2-V migrations, for unresolved Plate Spin issues during the migration window.

Confidential

VMware Engineer

• Confidential is a leading financial service provider. To achieve a single point of control over a geographically distributed infrastructure, AXA decided to consolidate and merge all the data centres into one.
• Installed and Configured ESX 3.5 host servers and virtual centre 2.5 on IBM 3950 servers, in the new data centre and created farms as per the requirement.
• Created vSwitch and configured vNetwork, vMotion, Resource Pools, HA and DRS for the virtual environment.
• Deployed Linux and Windows virtual machined from templates and cloned an existing VM as per the client request through the change management process.
• Installed patches and packages on Windows and Linux servers.
• Configured and managed network interfaces for Linux servers.
• Reconfigured the old virtual environment by adding resources virtual disk, memory and CPU to the virtual machines that had reached the threshold.
• Monitored the performance of the virtual environment using the virtual centre for Windows and Linux servers.
• Manually migrated VM's from one data store to the other to resolve the capacity issue.
• Performed P2P physical to physical conversion and P2V physical to virtual conversion using Plate Spin 7.0.
• Migrated file servers using Secure Copy 4.07 and synchronized them during the cutover period.
• Resolved issues occurring during the migration and provide support for the migrated servers.

Confidential

VMware Engineer

• Confidential is one of the largest commercial insurance providers. The goal was to migrate consolidate 800 plus servers from an old data centre into new data centre. It included virtualizing the physical servers, moving the storage arrays and the legacy physical servers.
• Installed and configured ESX 3.0 on Dell 6850 and 2850 servers in the new data centre.
• Racked and stacked the servers and configured RSA for the IBM servers.
• Created resource pools and enabled v-motion on ESX host servers.
• Captured images of physical machines P2I and deployed them on to the servers I2P configured on test VLAN.
• Converted P2P physical to physical and P2V physical to virtual using plate spin power converter version 6.8, during migration.
• Performed backup of virtual machines using TSM software.
• Installed and configured windows 2003 on the servers as per the guidelines.
• Configured Microsoft cluster for applications and monitored the health of the cluster.
• Resolved issues occurring during the migration and provided support for migrated servers.

Confidential

VMware Windows Engineer

• Confidential , a global solution powerhouse for in healthcare market. The first phase of the project was to consolidate 300 physical servers in the Confidential
• data centre. The second phase of the project was to migrate consolidate more than 500 servers from the data centre in Confidential
• Racked and Stacked HP Proliant DL series servers and configured ILO and secured the servers.
• Installed and Configured ESX 3.0 and virtual centre 2.0 on HP Proliant DL series servers.
• Created virtual switches and configured network connections using virtual centre server.
• Created templates with standard OS and deployed VM's from these templates.
• Configured CPU, memory and virtual disk on the virtual servers.
• Gathered information for the servers in UK and USA, like their disk space used, IP addresses, SAN attached drives, shared drives, print and file services, installed programs, databases and other applications installed on the server.
• Converted physical machines to virtual P2V and physical to physical P2P using Plate Spin Power Converter version 6.0.
• Converted Physical machines to Virtual P2V by using VMware Converter 3.0 for servers that we encountered an issue with Plate Spin power converter.
• Virtualized the application and development servers and resolved issues occurring with them. Monitored their performances and scheduled the production servers for migration based on the application owner's feedback.
• Worked with other team members on configuring DNS and DHCP servers.
• Deployed WSUS servers and worked with other team members on patching the servers.
• Monitored the virtual environment and resolved performance and bottleneck issues.

Confidential

Windows System Administrator

• Confidential , an IT giant gave me a perfect platform to elevate my career where I worked as a windows system administrator with the Microsoft IT team to implement and maintain internet protocol version 6 in Microsoft Corporation's IT infrastructure. During this project I performed the following duties:
• Installed and configured windows Vista OS RC and RTM builds and windows 2008 RC and RTM builds on different desktops and servers and checked the OS functionalities for various services such as DNS, DHCP, shares and security, user accounts and policies.
• Tracked bugs and worked with concerned teams to resolve them and documented the solution to prepare knowledge base article.
• Created reports related to IPv4 and IPv6 usage on desktops and servers.
• Interacted with different teams like exchange, MOM, office, windows mobile on performance issues while using IPv6 and resolved them along with other senior team members.

Confidential

Windows System Administrator

• Confidential is a mid-size insurance organisation. The day-to-day activities included, installing and configuring of new DELL servers, deploying security patches and resolving issues in the windows environment. I performed the following tasks in this project:
• Installed and configured DELL Power Edge and Blade servers with Windows 2003 Standard and Enterprise Editions.
• Managed Active Directory and configured security policies using GPMC tool.
• Managed and maintained DNS and DHCP servers and resolved issues related to them.
• Used WSUS Server to deploy patches on workstations and servers in the environment.
• Monitored the server performance by using MOM tool and escalated application specific issues to the concerned team.

Confidential

Internship plus graduate assistant

• I worked as an Intern along with the Senior System Administrator in the IT Department of the Roosevelt University, for remodelling the Server Centre of Roosevelt University. First three semesters I was a graduate assistant during my active schooling.
• Prepared and inventory of all the old hardware used.
• Monitored the performance of the old computer systems and than discarded the systems after removal of the hardware components.
• Racked and cabled the new servers and installed the required operating system as per the Universities Guidelines.
• Installed and configured windows 2003 on Dell servers.
• Deployed OS images on desktop machine by using Altiris software.
• Managed procurement of new desktops and hardware needed in the computer science department.
• Trained new students in creating users, groups, managing security policies and setting up a LAN network.