PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Totally 14+ years of experience in IT Industry
• More than 6+ years in Linux Administration, VMware and Citrix Administration on basis for Customers Networks.
• Involved in Installation, Administration, up gradation, Testing, Performance Tuning, Backup and Recovery on Server Virtualization using VMware, Desktop & Application Virtualization using Citrix XenDesktop and Red hat Linux Administration.
• Worked on high - end servers manufactured by IBM, HP and Dell.
• Currently working as a VMware and Citrix SME

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Intel x86Dell Power edge 2950, 6950, R series, HP Blade Servers Gen5 to Gen 9

Operating Systems: Enterprise Linux (RHEL 4.0, 5.0, 6.0) Solaris 9.0, 10.0 (Level 1) AIX5.3 (level 1)

Virtualization: VMware ESX 3.5, 4.X and VCenter 2.5, 4.0 (vShpere), 4.5, 5.0, 5.1,5.5 Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop Virtualization 5.0, 6.0 and 7.6Volume Configuration: LVM

Web servers: Apache2.1 with the Modules

Mail Servers: Send mail 8.13 Qmail 1.03

Administration: NIS and NFS

Clustering: Piranha, GFS file system clustering

BIND: Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting the DNS Issues on the

Security: RootKit Hunter, Brute Force Detection (BFD)

Firewall: Checkpoint and Cisco Pix

Databases: MySQL 4.0.12

Proxy: Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting SQUID Proxy server on

Samba: Installing and configuring on the version 3.0

Monitoring Tools: Nagios1.2, eHealth (CA), BMC Patrol, MRTG (Multi Router TrafficGrapher), NetScout

Helpdesk: Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

SME - VMware and Citrix

Responsibilities:

• Working with UAL Citrix engineering team.
• Installation, configuration and administration of multiple XenApp farms.
• Expertise in using Director to troubleshoot issues.
• Performing Root Cause Analysis for all critical incidents.
• Managing VMware infrastructure for Citrix environment.
• Streamed services for servers and desktops on bare metal and physical target devices.
• Converting VDI PVS to MCS.
• Built provisioned image for users connecting in through web interface.
• Configuration of Citrix server policy, load management and printers
• Published Desktop and Project specific Applications using XenDesktop 7.6 and XenApp 7.6 using PVS and MCS.
• Monitored and Managed the Citrix environment using Citrix Director.
• Upgraded Citrix Environment from 7.6 to 7.7

Environment: vSphere 5.0, vSphere 5.1, vSphere 5.5, vCenter Server 4.1, VMware View 4.5, VMware Converter, VMware Update Manager, VMTS Patch manager, vSphere Management Assistant (vMA), VCB, vReplicator, vRanger Pro, vOptimizer, Citrix 4.5, Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 and 7.7, Sun Webtop, RDS

Confidential, Tulsa, OK

SME - VMware and Citrix

Responsibilities:

• VMware SME for the Confidential Virtual Environment. Handling Design and implementation of new site setup. Upgrading the existing environment.
• Involved in Knowledge transfer to offshore team and backbone for smooth migration which involves handling of Incidents and changes.
• Addressing the escalations and Severity issues in the virtualization platform.
• Meeting the defined SLA & MTTR.
• Performing Root Cause Analysis for all critical incidents.
• Provided Capacity report and Capacity planning for the top management
• Coordinate with the Architecture team to define virtualization standards
• Handled P2V for more than 400 servers using Platespin, VConverter and Double-Take tools.
• Successfully migrated VMware Environment from vSphere 5.0 to vSphere 5.5 with Single Site SSO Authentication domain for multisite location.
• Performance and fine tuning of ESX servers, monitoring of ESX Server’s performance.
• Good exposure to the ESX deployment on the UCS environment.
• ESXi host commissioning / decommissioning / Management.
• Implemented Cisco Nexus 1000v for VDs. This distributed switch is used for other network segments apart from VMware.
• Administration of Citrix servers
• Configuration of Citrix server policy, load management and printers
• Published Desktop and Project specific Applications using presentation server

Environment: vSphere 5.0, vSphere 5.1, vSphere 5.5, vCenter Server 4.1, VMware View 4.5, VMware Converter, VMware Update Manager, VMTS Patch manager, vSphere Management Assistant (vMA), VCB, vReplicator, vRanger Pro, vOptimizer, Citrix 4.5, Citrix XenDesktop 7.6

Confidential

Lead Virtualization Team

Responsibilities:

• As an active VMware Team Lead supporting 500+ ESX/ESXi hosts and 3000+ virtual servers (Both Windows and UNIX).
• Addressing the escalations and Severity issues in the virtualization platform.
• Meeting the defined SLA & MTTR.
• Performing Root Cause Analysis for all critical incidents.
• Attending Operational review call & GL review call with operational reports.
• Coordinate with the Architecture team to define virtualization standards.
• Periodic validation of the Server operating procedure for the VMware tower.
• Active participation in Data center consolidation projects & vSphere implementation projects.
• Virtualization assessment using the Capacity Planner tool.
• Have successfully migrated VI3 infrastructure to vSphere environment.
• Performance and fine tuning of ESX servers, monitoring of ESX Server’s performance.
• Good exposure to the ESX deployment on the UCS environment.
• ESXi host commissioning / decommissioning / Management.
• Worked as a Transition lead for Bochum datacenter Knowledge transfer in which Emphasis has taken the contract from IBM.
• Automated daily health check reports, capacity planning reports
• Design and implementation of Citrix XenApp Farm 5.0, 6.0 and 6.5
• Created Citrix streaming profile and published application
• Administration of Citrix servers
• Configuration of Citrix server policy, load management and printers

Environment: VMware ESX 3.0.2, ESX/ESXi 3.5, ESX/ESXi 4.1, Virtual Center Server 2.0/2.5, vCenter Server 4.1, VMware View 4.5, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware Converter, VMware Update Manager, VMTS Patch manager, vSphere Management Assistant (vMA), VCB, vReplicator, vRanger Pro, vOptimizer, ECO Shell, Veeam FastSCP, Putty, Citrixx XenApp 6.5

Confidential

Lead Virtualization Team

Responsibilities:

• Level 3 support for VMware servers and Lead for VMware team.
• Building up Virtual Environment across globe.
• Active member of VMware Operation & DC consolidation team. Dealing with moving physical and virtual servers from one DC to other DC. And also ensure proper functioning of VMware ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Installation and configuration of VMware ESX servers.
• Involved in creating and configuring new VMware ESX cluster.
• Trouble shooting problems related to ESX servers and virtual machines.
• Need to convert physical machine to virtual machine using VMware converter.
• Also involved in doing V2V replication using Vision Core vReplicator.
• Responsible for documenting Server configuration, technical problems and system administration tasks
• Providing RCA for severity one issues.
• Host up gradation across globe.
• Managing file system - LVM.
• Installation of Virtual Machines on VM Ware 3.0 and 3.5
• Upgrading the memory, vCPU, ethernet and file system for VM machines through VC client.
• Administration of VM Ware ESX servers and managing its resource.
• Installation and configuration of NAGIOS Monitoring tool on UNIX servers.
• Application support like Netezza, Composite/MySQL, JDK 1.6 etc.
• Resolving incident tickets and implementing new requests using Remedy Ticketing Tool and HEAT.
• Experience in Building physical and virtual servers for release to the production Environment.
• Experience in Deducting LUN’s on the hosts by using Power path and Multipath.
• Installation, configuration and Administration of GFS file system.
• Worked on Storage redemption project where we can saved 30 TB storage space by identifying abandoned and orphaned VMs.
• Knowledge in PowerShell scripting with VMTool kit and designed a dashboard to view Cluster capacity.

Environment: VMware ESX 3.0.2, ESX/ESXi 3.5, ESX/ESXi 4.1, Virtual Center Server 2.0/2.5, vCenter Server 4.1, VMware View 4.5, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware Converter, VMware Update Manager, VMTS Patch manager, vSphere Management Assistant (vMA), VCB, vReplicator, vRanger Pro, vOptimizer, ECO Shell, Veeam FastSCP, Putty.

Confidential, Oldsmar, FL

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Level 3 support for Linux and ESX servers.
• Administration of more than 3000 + UNIX servers in Nielsen Datacenter.
• Experience in Building physical and virtual servers and releasing to the production Environment.
• Design and implementation of ESX for new Datacenter.
• Datacenter Migration and Server consolidation.
• Transformation activity.
• Administration of VM Ware ESX servers and managing its resource.
• System support to Netezza.
• Setting up Offshore team.
• Knowledge transfer to Offshore team
• Designing the solution according to requirements, high level and low level Architecture Design and Administration
• Virtual to Virtual and Physical to Virtual server migration

Environment: VMware ESX 3.0.2, ESX/ESXi 3.5, Virtual Center Server 2.0/2.5, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware Converter, VMware Update Manager, VMTS Patch manager, vSphere Management Assistant (vMA), VCB, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, vReplicator, vRanger Pro, vOptimizer, ECO Shell, Veeam FastSCP, Putty

Confidential, Oldsmar, FL

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Level 2 support for Linux servers and Level 1 support for SOLARIS servers.
• User and group management.
• File and Directory Management like managing the permissions and attributes for users.
• Performing daily activities like CPU utilization, performance monitoring, space management, memory utilization etc on Linux and AIX Servers.
• System Log Management and Cron Management.
• Managing and maintaining system Processes.
• Documenting system configuration and performance statistics.
• Disk Management of Linux Servers.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of DNS, NFS, NTP, Postfix etc on Linux servers.
• Resolving user raised tickets by using IBM Clarify tool.
• Design, installation, configuration, customization & integration of CA eHealth and NetScout Ngenius for network elements/devices.
• In-depth understanding of Windows, Linux, Solaris operating systems, Networks like LAN, WAN etc.
• Installation and configuration of eHealth System EDGE agent, a lightweight but full-featured and extensible SNMP agent for UNIX, Linux, and Windows systems.
• Installed the open source net-SNMP agent Net-SNMP and created customized package for AT&T.
• Testing and installing the new patches and device s for eHealth.
• Upgrade of eHealth and NetScout to new releases in distributed environment

Environment: RHEL 4.0, Solaris 9.0, eHealth 6.0, NetScout Ngenius 4.2

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Linux Servers.
• Performance monitoring Tivoli Net view.
• Report generation and comparison of different reports
• Link monitoring and troubleshooting
• Preparing Link Utilization reports
• Taking Backup for firewall and routers
• Firewall Policy creation, Firewall Log Management, Router Log management
• Conducting Vulnerability Assessment for Cisco Routers, Firewalls and All production servers including Domain Server, File server etc.,
• Penetration Testing and conducting Internal Audits every quarter
• Implemented De-Militarised Zone for TCS LAN, VLAN
• Maintaining and Monitoring IDS Log, Analysing IDS reports
• Providing network support for TCS users

Environment: Redhat Advanced Server 2.0, Solaris 8.0

Confidential

Network and System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing LAN and WAN setup. Implementation includes configuration of Cisco Router for Internet & WAN connectivity with various ISP’s across the country
• Managing User Accounts, File Systems, Security, Disk Usage, Backup and Network Printing
• Managing and Monitoring System Performance
• Implementation of various applications according to the project needs.
• Involved in configuration of Nortel Alteon checkpoint firewall
• Implemented VLANS for different Logical Domains across the Local Area Network
• Configured Web servers on Linux and Windows
• Configured Qmail Mail server
• Configured Samba file server
• Configured bug tracking tool Bugzilla
• Configured RADIUS server for Nortel switches
• Configured NTP server to synchronize time for the time critical servers
• Linux Virtual Server clustering has been implemented using Piranha, Application Load Balancing using ZXTM
• Configured Trend Micro Virus wall suite and Trend Micro Neat suite for corporate LAN
• Implemented Wireless LAN
• Installed Oracle 9i server and client in LinuxAS2.0 and SQL 2000 server in Windows NT and Windows 2000

Environment: Redhat AS 2.0, Windows 2000 Server, Cisco Routers, Cisco switches

Confidential

Junior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Domain Controller.
• Installation and Configuration of Trend micro Virus wall
• Patch Management

Environment: Windows 2000 Server, Windows NT