System Administration Resume Profile
SUMMARY:
- SEVEN years of experience in System Administration/Application Packaging on Windows 2000, Windows NT 3.51/4.0, and Windows XP Professional and Vista.
- Experience in .MSI and .MST worked with various applications for Software Packaging. Also worked on unattended install methods like silent install using Install Shield Admin Studio, SMS
- Experience working on Wise Package Studio 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x, Install Shield Admin Studio 5.x/6.x, Wise for Windows Installer and SMS Installer.
- Worked Extensively on Creating Transforms .MST , Merge Modules, and Patches.
- Experienced in working with Deployment tools like Active Directory, SMS, Altiris and Novell Zenworks.
- Strong knowledge of Windows Registry system, File System, Security.
- Experience in working on Custom Actions and used VB Scripts, WMI Scripts and Wise scripts to customize the applications.
- Worked with Batch Files to create Silent Installs and permissions.
- Worked on Debugging tools like Filemon, Regmon, Procmon and Dependency Walker to assign permissions and missing files.
- Worked with ORCA to edit the MSI tables, Merge Modules and created Transforms MST .
- Good Knowledge on using deployment tools like SCCM, SMS, Zenworks and Marimba.
- Experience in System Analysis, Design, Development and Quality Assurance testing of Web applications, Client/Server applications and GUI applications.
- Experience in Automated Testing Process and strong coding/debugging experience in WinRunner automation scripting.
- Excellent communication, Project Management and interpersonal skills.
SKILLS:
- Packaging Tools: Wise Package Studio 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x, Install Shield AdminStudio 5.x/6.x. Wise for windows Installer, SMS Installer
- Deployment Tools: SMS 2000/2003, SCCM, Altiris, Active Directory, Novell Zenworks.
- Operating Systems: Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Server/Professional, Windows NT Server 4.0 and Workstation, Novell Netware, Unix and Vista.
- Backup Tools: Norton Ghost 7.5, VMware 5.0/5.5/6.0, Veritas Backup Exec for Windows NT and 2000 edition and Virtual PC 2004.
- Languages: C, C , HTML and V.B 6.0
- Databases: Oracle 7.x/8.0, MS Access
- Scripting Tools: VBScript, TSL Script, PowerShell, JavaScript and Perl.
- Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, PPP/SLIP
- GUI: Visual Interdev 6.0, Developer 2000
- Debugging Tools: Filemon, Regmon, procmon and Dependency Walker.
- Testing Tools: WinRunner 6.0
- Defect Management
- Tools : Test Director 6.5
Confidential
Application packager
Job Responsibilities:
- Experience on Admin Rights Remediation project for the applications that are having compatibility issues.
- Repackaged application to Windows Installer format MSI files using Wise Package Studio 5.6, Install shield Admin Studio 2013, and Install shield Editor.
- Configuring vendor supplied MSI using ORCA to create transforms .MST according to the client requirements.
- Admin Rights Remediation's of the packages by applying Shims using Application Compatibility Tool Kit.
- Used Filemon, Regmon and Advanced Registry Tool for monitoring the files and Registry Keys Accessed by the application as part of troubleshooting.
- Expertise on writing VB Scripts for the application installations and editing the Registries and creating custom actions.
- Good Knowledge on how to apply Shims and give permissions to Files, Folders and Registries to remediate the applications.
- Checking the application mitigations by using Standard User Analyzer and Application Verifier.
- Experience on PowerShell scripting for the application installations.
- Advertised and managed packages and collections in SCCM environment.
- Performing Quality Analysis of packaged applications done by other packaging engineers.
- Creation and Implementation of Transforms .MST and Patches .MSP within a package.
- Performed extensive package testing on VMWare Workstation 5.0.
Environment: Wise Package Studio, .MSI, .MST, VB Script, Power Shell, Install Tailor, VMWare 6.0, Orca, Filemon, Regmon, Procmon
Confidential
Software packager
Job Responsibilities:
- Created Windows Installer setup packages .MSI using Wise Packaging Studio 7.0
- Used VMWare Workstation 6.0 version to create and test MSI packages.
- Extensively worked on creating Vendor MSI's and also worked on vendor MSI's to make the changes according to the requirement and make .MST.
- Extensively worked with Setup capture and Install Tailor to take the captures and to create Transforms.
- Worked on Various applications to build MSI packages using Transforms MST , Merge Modules MSM according to the package requirements.
- Extensively worked on creating MSI's to support on Vista Operating System.
- Extensively worked on Nested Installs.
- Used third party tools to set the permissions to the registries according to the requirement
- Worked on .REG files like creating/merging, debugging the invalid entries and working with existing Registry using VB Scripts etc.
- Written VB, Wise Scripts to customize the applications and used the scripts for editing registries.
- Extensively worked with Orca to edit the MSI tables, Merge Modules.
- Used Filemon, Regmon, Procmon and Dependency Walker to debug runtime errors.
- Used setACL to give permissions in registries.
- Created batch files and exe files for manual installs and used wrapper.exe for automated installs.
- Performed quality assurance analysis on all the packages before distributing them to production environment.
- Provided desktop support, Installed and configured Windows 2000 XP workstations and laptops.
Environment: WINDOWS NT 4.0/95/98/2000/XP/Vista, Wise Package Studio 7.0, .MSI, .MST, VB Script, Wise Script, Install Tailor, VMWare 6.0, Orca, Filemon, Regmon, Procmon.
Confidential
Application Engineer
Job Responsibilities:
- Used Wise Package Studio 7.0 for windows Installer, Repackaged the applications according to the organization requirements.
- Documented the installation procedure as needed by the business requirement.
- Used scripts like Wise Script and VBScript to meet the Installation requirements.
- Worked on issues faced during application distribution using Novell Zen Works 7.0 version.
- Extensively worked on creating Vendor MSI's and also worked on vendor MSI's to make the changes according to the requirement and make .MST
- Used Regmon, Filemon to fix missing files, missing registry entries and to check for missing dependency files and giving permissions as needed.
- Used VB Scripts to customize the applications.
- Used Icon Sucker for creating Icons and Orca software to edit MSI tables.
- Worked on the Silent Installs for certain application to automate them for software distribution.
- Involved in testing the applications and sending it to Quality for QA testing and doing an End User Acceptance Testing to pass to deployment.
Environment: WINDOWS NT 4.0/95/98/2000/XP, Wise Package Studio 7.0, VB Script,
Wise Script, Install Tailor, VMWare 5.5, Orca
Confidential
Packaging Engineer
Job Responsibilities:
- Created Windows Installer setup packages .MSI using Install shields Admin Studio6.0
- Extensive use of Install shields Developer 9.0 to create Windows Installer packages.
- Worked with Norton Ghost to image/reimage the NT Images using Ghost Explorer.
- Utilized Admin Studio features such as Repackager and Legacy Setup Conversion Wizard to capture application installations and convert them to a Basic Developer Project.
- Created transforms .MST with Tuner and Developer to run alongside the original vendor
- Windows Installer setup package .MSI during deployment to add data and to allow future patching and updating.
- Used Install shield Conflict Solver to check the applications for a vast range of potential conflicts before deploying them into the production environment.
- Produce VBScript Custom Actions that add additional functionality to the Windows Installer setup package.
- Worked on various applications to build Merge Modules MSM and Patches MSP according to the package requirements. Worked on Silent Installs for certain applications to automate them for software distribution.
- Worked on SMS to deploy MSI packages.
- DLL redirection for the applications having conflict with the already present .dll/. ocx files.
- Maintained the DB for the status of the packaging with MSI Packages.
- Performed extensive package testing.
Environment: Windows XP, InstallShield6.0, Developer 9.0, VB Scripts, Norton ghost 8.0, SMS.
Confidential
Packaging Analyst
Job Responsibilities:
- Worked with VMWare to image/reimage the XP boxes.
- Created MSI application packages using Wise Package Studio 4.0.
- Created packages for vendor developed applications.
- Used Filemon, Regmon to debug runtime errors in a locked down environment.
- Worked on various scripting tools like VBScript, and Wise Script to meet certain customizations required by some applications
- Extensively worked on creating Vendor MSI's and also worked on vendor MSI's to make the changes according to the requirement and make .MST
- Worked on VB scripting to customize the applications.
- Worked on various technologies like transforms, setup capture, conflict solving.
- Worked with Novell Zenworks for software distribution.
- Involved in development work, integration of products into the current environment, testing and debugging.
Environment: Windows XP, Wise package studio 4.x, Novell Zenworks, VB script, VMWare.
Confidential
Packaging Analyst
Job Responsibilities:
- Migrated Windows NT 4.0 packages to Windows 2000.
- Worked with Norton Ghost 6.0 to image/reimage the NT boxes.
- Working .dll and .ocx files registration and version compatibility for packaging the applications.
- Experience on Install Shield to build Transforms MST while packaging.
- Worked on .REG files like creating/merging, debugging the invalid entries and working with existing Registry using VB Scripts etc.
- Maintaining the DB for the status of the packaging with MSI Packages.
- Creating Packages using Novell Zenworks for software distribution in the process for Testing/Pilot and Production and creating the Distribution points for various sites over the Novell Environment.
Environment: Windows 2000/98/NT 4.0, Novell Zenworks, MSI, Wise Studio 4.0, VB Scripts, Norton Ghost 6.0.