OBJECTIVE:

• Pursue career with a Firm that Offers an Innovative and Challenging Work environment to better utilize my Technical and analytical Skills and capabilities to contribute towards the organizations success.

SUMMARY:

• 9+Years of Overall IT experience with strong background in the areas of Servers, Network Planning, Design, Implementation & Administration. Deep Expertise in Virtualization and Storage, Specialized in VMware and EMC Stack. Strong Administration Skills for Windows/Linux/Unix Servers. Excellent skills in Storage Area Networks EMC Clarion/Celerra/VNX/VMAX/NetApp/Brocade/MDS.
• Excellent Skills in Public/Private Cloud Strategies with Expertise in VMware vCloud/vRealize Suite, AWS Assessments, architecture, Design and Implementation. Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, openstack.
• Excellent Skills in Networking with Deep understanding of VPNs, VLANs, VPCs, Net flow, CDP, QOS, LAN/WAN, DHCP, TCP/IP, Access - lists, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, SNMP. Excellent Scripting Skills with PowerShell and Powercli, Knowledge of JavaScript. Developed IT strategies, policies and procedures consistent with the businesses strategies and vision while effectively protecting: data integrity, security and limiting liability.
• 8+ Years of Design, implementation and ongoing management of Enterprise datacenters on Cisco UCS / IBM Blade center/ HP blade servers/ Dell PowerEdge Servers and VCE VBlocks( Converged Infrastructure).
• Setting up of VMware ESX/ ESXi 5.0, 5.1 5.5, 6.0(Beta Testing) Setting up VMware VCenter Server 5.1/5.5/6.0 (Beta testing), Powerpath, Nexus 1000v.
• Deep understanding of Core VSphere Technologies DRS, V-Motion, HA, Storage vMotion, SDRS, SIOC, Update Manager, vDS, Auto deploy, Host Profiles, Syslog, VASA, VAAI, Storage Profiles and vSphere Replication.
• Setting up of VMware Site Recovery Manager using RecoverPoint appliances or vSphere Replication or standard storage Replication using SRAs.
• Deep Expertise in vCloud/vRealize Suite consisting of VCAC 6.0/6.1/6.2, Application Director/Application Services, Hyperic, Infrastructure Navigator, vCM /Configuration manager, ITBM (Business management) 8.0/8.2, VCOPS 5.8/6.0, NSX 6.1, VCenter Orchestrator and Loginsight
• Expertise in VDI Technologies VMware View 5.0/5.2, Horizon 6.0, Citrix Xendesktop 7.1/7.5/7.6 Netscaler VPX, SDX, MDX.
• Expertise in EMC back up Technologies Avamar, Data Domain, Networker.
• V2V/P2V consolidation Estimation using VMware Capacity planner/Liquidware Labs.
• Expert in P2V’s/V2V’s using Platespin, Doubletake and VMware Converter( 4.0-5.5)
• Expertise in Performance Monitoring and Capacity planning using vFoglight / vCOPS /Manage-engine.
• Expertise in Various EMC Replication Technologies, MirrorView, SRDF, Time finder, RecoverPoint, VPLEX, EMC Replication manager.
• Expertise in Setting up Domain Controllers, DHCP servers, DNS Servers, CA Servers.
• Expertise in Microsoft Windows Clustering & Network Load Balancing on Server 2012, 2008, Administration and Upgrade of Server /2012, Microsoft SQL server / 2005/2008/2012/2014.
• Experienced in Hyper-v, SC 2012, SCCM, and SCVMM.
• Excellent Network administration and solid technical background in switches, and routers. Configuring VPN, QOS, LAN/WAN, DHCP, TCP/IP, Access-lists, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, SNMP on Cisco 2600, 3600, Series Routers, Cisco 2950, 2960, 3550, 3560, 6500 Series Switches.
• Base Skills in Redhat Linux 6.1/6.2/6.4, Open SUSE, Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle VMM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr solutions/Cloud Engineer /Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead Deployment of VCE vBlock k with 56 Cisco UCS B200M3 Blades/VMAX 20K storage / MDS 9513, integrated with 4 x RecoverPoint appliances running vSphere 5.5 u2.
• Deployed and Configured Base infrastructure for a Rapid POC Cloud initiative which consisted of 2 X Dell VRTX Chassis with 4 x M620 Blades Each used for Management Cluster, 2 x M1000E Chassis with 8 Blades Each for Cloud Resource Clusters, EMC VNX 5800, 8 x Node Avamar Grid running Avamar 7.1, 4 x node Isilon for File storage, Cisco Nexus 5K with FCOE Converged traffic and Netapp FAS 8060.
• Lead Rapid Design/architect deployment of a POC Complete software defined Self-service Cloud Solution running on vSphere 5.5U2 using VCAC 6.0, AppDir, VCOPS, Hyperic, VCO, NSX, EMC VIPR, and ITBM utilizing Predefined Custom Workflows of EMC Enterprise hybrid Cloud Solution.
• Built the Infrastructure for Microsoft Azure Private Cloud, assisted in building Hyper-v Servers, Domain Controllers, DNS Servers, Deployment of Netapp FAS 8060, Creating Gold Templates, SCVMM, SC 2012 installation.
• Successfully Executed a DR Exercise of ~200 VMware View Desktops and File-shares using VMware SRM with RecoverPoint Replication, File-shares failed over using VNX Unified.

Confidential

Sr. Solutions Engineer/Architect (Converged & Cloud)

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead on Architecture /Design/Deployment and Administration of 2 x vBlock 720s for a Private Cloud Solution which will was part of a datacenter Migration. This consisted of 52 B200M3 Blades per vBlock with VMAX 10K with 3 x Engines as Backend Storage for Production and Development/DR Sites.
• Technical Lead on Design/Deployment/Administration of vBlock Xtreme Infrastructure to support 600 Xendesktop users and 700 Xenapp Users. Running vSphere 5.1 With Best practices Configuration for Xendesktop and Xenapp aligning with Confidential ’s VSphere design Standards.
• Lead and accelerated Data center migration project of 1000+ Servers from Legacy External Cloud to internal Infrastructure on vBlocks with Custom migration methodology saving over 2M$ in new Infrastructure ( Firewalls, Cisco Nexus Switches, Wan Optimizers) and Significant Reduction in Professional Servers cost due to accelerated Migration.
• Lead Architecture Design and Implementation of Confidential ’s Private Cloud using vCloud Suite running on vSphere 5.5, VCAC 6.1, VCOPS, SRM. Developed Custom PowerShell scripts to add Windows Servers to Domain automatically, developed JavaScript’s to allocate IPs in IPcontrol IPAM,
• Created Scripts to auto join Linux Machines to QAS (quest authentication Server and AD). Created Gold VM Templates with Proper Guest agents and scripts required for provisioning as per Build Standard.
• Lead on Datacenter Expansion for Virtual infrastructure to extend vCloud Functionality to users in EMEA, APAC utilizing Dell PowerEdge R820s / VNX 5800 built using VSphere Design Standards.
• Lead on Implementation and Integration of AWS Public Cloud into internal infrastructure using Cisco DMVPN
• Lead on Integration of AWS into vCloud Automation Center to enable provisioning requests from VCAC Portal.
• Established Blueprints for Business Units, Approval Policies for VCAC offerings.
• Architected and Deployed vCloud Connector to Synch all Gold VM Templates across Geographical Sites

Confidential

Sr. Solutions Engineer/Architect (EMC Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Lead and Responsible for all Virtual Infrastructure consisting of over 300+ ESX hosts(Dell PowerEdge R710/R810/R820/R910/M1000E/M620 /HP C7000 BL465/DL 380/DL 580) running over 6400+ VMs
• VMware SME and Lead for all Virtualization Projects
• Lead a Full infrastructure Discovery for all VCenter’s, ESX, ESXi Hosts and VMs using Service-now
• Designed and Established all new vSphere Design Standards/Procedures based on Best Practices. Each VCenter Setup consisting of a separate DB Server instance and a VUM Server. With RBAC for Security.
• Built 15 New VCenter’s as per New Design standard, Migrated and Consolidated 29 Legacy VCenter’s to the newly Built 15 VCenter’s over the period of 6 months.
• Decommissioned and Consolidated 40+ Legacy ESX hosts running 3.5/4.1 and Lower Versions of ESX.
• Identified and Remediated Various Production ESX hosts running without Clustering or HA or DRS.
• Performed P2V analysis on over 500 Servers using VMware Capacity planner and consolidated over 150 Physical Servers to Virtual Machines as part of Server rationalization Project.
• Converted an End to End environment of over 40 physical Servers Behind DMZ to VMs using VMware converter saving over 600,000$ in support and maintenance Cost.
• Lead on Full Datacenter Migration/Consolidation of (800+VMs) from Shenzhen to Singapore by automation using Custom Powercli Scripting Saving over 400,000$ in Licensing, professional Services and new hardware Cost.
• Assisted in Deployment of Multiple Storage arrays ( Unified VNX 5400/5600/VNXe3150s)
• Performed Migration of File/Block data from Legacy Arrays to new Arrays with minimal Downtime.
• Actively participated in Deployment of Service now ITSM Suite and integration with VSphere.
• Responsible for Developing Virtualization Policies for New Builds, and address disaster recovery objectives and their impact.
• Resolved challenges in process of managing requests, Incidents and Problems by implementing Industry operational best-practices(ITILv3)
• Provided clear recommendations to improve Performance, Manageability and scalability of existing environments.
• Re-evaluated the existing infrastructure Monitoring, Capacity Planning Tools, Re-architected and re-deployed vFoglight.
• Developed & implement Patch Management policies and procedures for entire Virtual infrastructure.
• Acted as a day-day L3 Operational Support.

Confidential

Solutions Architect (EMC Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Technical SME in Helping Customer understand different components of vBlock.
• Demonstrated full failover and redundancy of all components in vBlock.
• Helped address all Concerns on Boot storm issues and Login storm issues by proper design recommendations.
• Acted as a Resident Mentor and helped pre-sales team in selling the vBlock solution.

Confidential

Solutions Architect (EMC Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the Configuration and Deployment setup.
• Re-Configured RecoverPoint Appliances based on Best Practices.
• Integrated the RecoverPoint appliances with SRM using VMware SRA for RecoverPoint
• Created Custom Powershell/ Batch Scripts for IP and DNS updates after failover.
• Successfully Performed an actual DR Test of ~ 200 VMs
• Created Documentation of Existing Setup, Layout and Delivered steps and Procedure failover using SRM.

Confidential

Solutions Architect (EMC Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ~ 400 ESX Hosts running over 8000+ VMs
• Administered and supported Multiple VBlocks across International Sites.
• Performed upgrade of UCS/MDS/Nexus 5Ks/ ESX and VCenter as per VCE Matrix.
• Provide architectural and configuration recommendations based on business requirements, projected growth, and hardware/software limitations to customer and VCE architecture teams.
• Involved in Implementation of POC ServiceMesh Cloud Suite on VCE vBlocks.
• Provided subject matter expertise on troubleshooting, operating, and deploying VCE VBlocks to customer's operational staff and other on-site residents.
• Involved in VPLEX Proof of Concept (POC) Design/Implementation.
• Developed, implemented, and provided firmware and software upgrade procedures as required across the compute, virtualization, SAN, and storage infrastructure in accordance with VCE Matrices
• Performed provisioning and configuration of Service offerings Using UIM/UCSM/SMC/VCenter.
• Troubleshooting of Cisco UCS Blade Systems/Symmetrix VMAX/MDS/VMware Environment.
• Provided day-to-day operational support as an on-site resident.

Confidential

Storage Architect (EMC Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Lead on Installation /Configuration of VNX 5500/5300/VNXe 3100 Configuration of Storage pools, Raid groups,
• Zoning/Configuration of Cisco MDS 9509/9513 SAN switches using Cisco Fabric Manager.
• Set up of RecoverPoint Appliances and integrate with VMware SRM .
• Host based Migration of Data from Falconstor/Clarion CX-4 to VNX using Open Migrator.
• Storage vMotion of 130TB of data from Legacy CX-4 to VNX 5500
• Performed Conversion of Redhat based Oracle Servers and win sever 2003 from physical to virtual (P2V) for a mission critical application.
• Setup Replication Schedules Using Replication Manager and Recover Point Appliance.
• Installation Configuration of Powerpath/ Unisphere agents on physical hosts.
• Storage Performance Monitoring/Reporting using Analyzer & SolarWinds Profiler.
• Configuration of VASA with Storage arrays and VSphere.
• Shared Best Practices, Provide Documentation as Deployed, Mentor/Knowledge Transfer.

Confidential

Systems /Network Admin

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implementation/ Migration of Physical Desktops to VD Infrastructure Consisting of 300+ desktops on ESXi/VMware View.
• Performed Installation/maintenance of Cisco UCS Blade Servers using Boot from SAN on VNX 5500
• Installed Fiber Channel network based on Cisco MDS switches backend.
• Virtualization of 80+ Physical servers running VMware ESX 4.0 connecting to NetApp FAS2000 NFS/VNX 5500.
• Implemented End to End Monitoring of Infrastructure using Nagios.
• Monitored availability of Servers, Network and network services, and established escalation and resolution policies and procedures to reduce the MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) of business critical network components.
• Automation Of tasks using Windows PowerShell, Powercli.
• Ensured all Servers are Upgraded and patched based on patching schedules.
• Day-to-day operational responsibility for Data Centre Network with large number of Networking data and voice switches and Firewalls.
• Managed network systems and services to an overall uptime percentage of 99.999% at the core.
• Performed Configuration of VLANs STP and Port channels
• L2 Support on Cisco Routers 1800, 2800, 3800, Cisco Switches Series,2900, 3500, 4900, 6500
• Troubleshoot wan related problems including OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and RIP routing and design.

Confidential

System / Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• P2Ved 50+ physical servers to virtual servers running on vSphere 4.0/4.1 on HP Blades c7000/bl465, Resulting in Significant Consolidation of Servers from 9 racks to 3 racks, significantly reducing downtime/ maintenance cost of the datacenter.
• Outlined designs and solutions for upgrading traditional SQL server to SAN based on EMC Clarion CX4.
• Handled SAN issues and developed Disaster Recovery plans for remote sites.
• Designed Implemented SAN Infrastructure for SQL server on EMC Clarion CX-4 Reducing Transaction time response by 65%.
• Installed, managed, and supported the point to point and LAN-to-LAN VPN connections and remote access VPNs.
• Performed Configuration/Maintenance of Exchange 2003/2007, Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Analyzed LAN & WAN to determine what were the major problems and improvements needed to be made to the network infrastructure.
• Responsible for routine Backups, server deployments, performance & uptime monitoring.
• Citrix Metaframe/presentation Server administration.
• Monitored of Network health Status Using Nagios.
• Acted as L2-Support for day-day operations.

Confidential

System / Network Admin

Responsibilities:

• Administered Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, Networks, Security devices for 350 users.
• Monitored server operations, identifying and reporting deviations and malfunctions, take corrective actions based upon operating instructions
• Deployed Applications Using GPOs deploy installations over Terminal Services.
• Backup Workstations using Symantec Ghost Imaging program.
• Provided second and third level support to Network Operations and team members.
• Designed and implemented new network/Server topologies as needed, incorporating best practices around WAN/LAN, mobility, switching, routing, security and convergence.
• Performed Network Analysis, Troubleshooting & Fault Isolation
• Worked with support teams on application deployments and upgrade issues
• Maintained wireless infrastructure, routers/gateways, remote access, security appliances/firewalls
• Managed Security and access controls of routers and switches.