PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 19+ years of experience in IT Industry as a Systems and Network Architect. A proven record of s and increased levels of responsibility in the design and implementation of Data Centers which involves selection of hardware and software, installation, configuration and maintenance.
• Highly skilled in developing solutions to technical problems, providing leadership and working with others to achieve company goals.
• Highly skilled in designing and management of Data Center’s with 1000+ Servers
• Architected / Designed solutions required for the entire Project / Customer based on their requirements.
• Extensive Experience in Deploying and Managing VMWare Clusters (6.5 to 3.5) Running on VCE vBlock, HP (C7000 with Blades and Rack Models), Dell (M1000e with Blades and Rack Modes) and Cisco UCS Servers, NUTANIX, VxRail, vSAN based HCI Solutions
• Deploying VDI Solutions using VMWare View and VMWare Horizon Suite.
• Extensive Experience in Managing Transformation Projects and Data Center Migration Projects.
• Maintain focus on achieving quality work while formulating and implementing advanced technologies to meet a diversity of needs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

VMWare Architect

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for Architect, Design, and Implement Data Center Environments that is highly efficient and highly available with primary focus on Compute and secondary focus on Storage.
• Manage compute capacity for physical and virtual environment to ensure high efficiency and high consolidation ratio while maintaining performance.
• Designed and deployed one of the Largest Nutanix Deployments (HCI) (300 + Nutanix Nodes) and developed scripts to automate most of the tasks.
• Managed vBlock Infrastructure in Day to Day Operations role
• Data center consolidation for Virtualization, consisting of 750+ ESXi hosts and 10,000+ VMs to a two data centers in North America
• Provided L3 support at various customer locations in the areas of VMWare, Windows running on various hardware platforms (vBlock, Dell, HP, Cisco).
• Extensive experience in VMware converter/ Plate spin, Zerto and other P2V, V2V Tools.
• Developed Scripts to Automate builds, reporting as required by management and accounting teams for billing purposes, and remediation of mis - configurations with PowerShell and PowerCli.
• Configure and manage vBlock, Cisco, HP DL/BL and Dell PowerEdge server infrastructures, install configure and manage VMware ESX (i) infrastructure.
• Design and implement word class (high available/fault tolerant/failover) Windows server and VMware infrastructure for running business critical applications and virtual desktop infrastructure. (VDI)
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA)and performance tuning for Windows servers on physical and virtual infrastructure.
• Analyzed VM-support logs for ESX servers and VCenter logs to diagnose the root cause of problem
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and gold Templates, worked with clones and snapshot of virtual machines
• Creating and managing host profiles to ensuring consistency across hosts in all sites
• Creating Baselines in VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Implemented the Storage DRS and scheduled the storage VMotion proactively to avoid outages
• Configured Virtual Center alerts and proactively monitoring the virtual environment
• Create and document infrastructure standards for Windows and VMware infrastructures

Confidential, Santa Ana, CA

System Administration

Responsibilities:

• Exchange Migration Project. (Migrated Lotus Notes Messaging to Exchange 2003
• Maintaining, troubleshooting and optimizing Exchange Cluster Environment & SAN storage for Exchange Cluster (EMC)
• Wrote VB Scripts for Updating & regular synchronization of AD Attributes with Data from HR and Cleanup of AD and Exchange objects in AD
• Planning and Designing for New AD Infrastructure.
• Designed and implemented Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007).
• Troubleshooting Day - to-Day issues with various Servers on different platforms.

Confidential, Edison, NJ

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Was part of a team in Upgrading Windows 2000 AD and Exchange 2000 to Windows 2003 AD and Exchange 2003 Server?
• Maintaining Infrastructure and SAP Servers.
• Troubleshooting the network connectivity problems between offshore & client networks.
• Troubleshooting Day - to-Day issues with various Servers on different platforms.
• Installation, Maintenance and Administration of Windows 2000/2003 Servers, Workstation and Enterprise Servers including installing Patches and Service packs

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Server Management - Installation, configuration and administration of servers on different flavors like Windows 2000/ NT and 2003, Exchange 2000, DNS, DHCP, Windows 2000 Active Directory, SQL 2000, SPS 2000 and ISA 2000/ 2004, Imail
• Network Support & Network performance monitoring - with major projects include Interoffice link Upgrade, Site to Site VPN connectivity between Confidential, India and New Jersey Offices.
• Regular Support Calls that are assigned by L1 Team for day to day problems.