SUMMARY

• 9+ years of IT experience, specializing in planning, designing, installing, configuring and administering converged infrastructure.
• Excellent backup and recovery skills focusing primarily on performing disaster recovery and data migration related activities.
• Experienced in managing large scale environments using VMware, Vblock, EMC Storage and Confidential Switches.
• Experienced in ESX & ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Experienced in vSphere 5 and vCenter.
• Experienced in resource management framework, creating resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Experienced with the VMware HA,FT and VMware DRS.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMotion, Storage vMotion, VM Lab Manager and vCenter
• Experienced in VM Snapshots and Templates.
• Implementation of VCloud Director.
• Ability to implement VMware’s Virtual Switch technology; port aggregation, NIC teaming, VLAN trunking and port groups.
• Expertise in DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Excellent Knowledge on Vblock Architecture, UCS Compute, MDS - Switches, Nexus Switch.
• Successful deployments of Confidential UCS Compute Cluster with ESXi 4 and ESXi 5.
• Successful deployment of Confidential 1000v VSM with vSphere 5.
• In-depth knowledge on Vblock Storage like EMC VNX and VMAX.
• Extensive Knowledge in C3000 and C7000 Blade chassis firmware upgrade, Life cycle of old G1 Blade servers with new G8 Blade servers and Virtual connect upgrade.
• Racking and Stacking of Blade servers, Rack server and Floaters.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Veeam Backup and NetBackup
• Disaster recovery, planning and management.
• Experienced with Citrix application.
• Configuring and administering Data Domains.
• Configuring Data Domain Replications.
• In-Depth Knowledge on Installation, Patching and Troubleshooting Windows XP, 2000, 2003, 2008R2 and 2012.
• Configuring backup policies, schedules, media pools, multiplexing and parallelism.
• Configuring Disk based backups using Data Domain, File Type and Advanced File Type Devices.
• Network Infrastructure involving DNS, DHCP and WINS servers, TCP/IP Protocol Stack.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: HP C3000 and C7000 Enclosures, Dell Power

Edge and Rack: Mount servers.

OS: Windows Server 2003 & Windows XP/2008/2012/Vista, Red hat Enterprise Linux 4 & 5

Applications: MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio.

Backup: VMware vCB, Symantec backup/ NetBackup, VEEAM Backup.

VMWare: VMware ESX 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 Virtual Center, vSphere, VMware DRS & HA, VMware P2V Converter, vCenter Server. ESX/ESXi 4.0, 5.0,5.1 and 5.5. VMware Converter, VMware View, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, VMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Guided Consolidation, Lab Manager and VMware Workstation.

Third party VMware Applications: Solar winds Virtualization Manger

Ticketing System: HEAT, Cherwell, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Providence, RI

Lead Infrastructure Engineer/ Directory Services Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day support of Active Directory and Wintel-related services in the domain server infrastructure
• Creating and configuring Key tabs as per client requirement in Dev, QA and PROD environments.
• Administration of MS Azure and Office 365 portals. Users and groups management and server provisioning in Azure cloud. Troubleshooting of connectivity issues.
• Very good experience on scripting languages like power shell and VBI scripts.
• Providing support on DNS, DHS, Group Policies and Certificates installation.
• Provide off-hours support in response to outages.
• Performing on-call duties on regular basis and providing 3rd level support to internal customers.
• Worked with both core and read only domain controllers
• Experienced with 2003 and 2008 Active directory environment.
• Creating user, security groups, distribution groups and assigning NTFS permissions upon client needs.
• Involved in both Bubble up and Bubble Down process in our environment, which is used for the disaster recovery execution testing (DRET).
• Excellent knowledge on Group policy creating, editing and adding registry keys to the existing group policy.
• Experienced in Network Infrastructure Inflobox.
• Experienced in Creating, editing, enabling and disabling the DFS shares.
• Very good experience in DNS creations, Conditional forwarder DNS.
• Trouble shooting experience in AD lockout issues.
• Performed various VPN testing as a part of DR testing.
• Worked with different kinds of domains internal, external, DMZ, QA and MTSPROD.
• Good experience in ADSIEDIT and Quest GPO admin.
• Good knowledge in FSMO roles
• Worked with VMWARE 5.5, Creating VM's as per the client needs.
• Ability to complete tasks/assignments as part of the team and also manage individual tasks/assignments, milestones and deliverables to successful completion.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.1, vBlock 300, EMC VNX 5300, Office 365, Confidential UCS, vCloud Director, Red Hat Linux 6/7.

Confidential, Fort Myers, Florida

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and Administration of VMware, Windows, and Red hat Linux servers.
• Building, testing and managing of VMware vSphere 5.1 and 5.5
• Working with IDC, storage & network team to troubleshoot networking issue
• Configuring BIOS & RAID 0, 1+0, 5 and 6 as per client’s needs
• Worked in large complex directory environments with experience supporting Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory (AD).
• Building ESX, ESXi, Hyper V, Red Hat 5.x & 6.x using PXE and Kickstart
• Installing and configuring of vCenter 5.1, vCenter 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 servers.
• Create and Configure Virtual Machines, cloning and created Master Templates to create new virtual Machines.
• Physical to Virtual Migration using VMware and Hyper-V tools.
• Implementation and troubleshooting of vSphere Farm on ESXi 5.x platform
• Creating Host profiles to automate ESX configuration.
• Configuring and troubleshooting of HA, DRS, distributed switch, Clustering, vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Update patches on Servers Working Experience with Active DirectoryComponents (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc.).
• Configured and tested HA/DRS, Licenses, NTP, HP Management, DNS.
• Creating test VM to test HA and vMotion on the cluster.
• Creating Cloning, Snapshots Management and Templates on regular basis.
• Experience in provisioning application through Citrix Xenapp
• VCE vBlock Infrastructure provisioning, reconfiguration and decommissioning using EMC UIM.
• Advanced Performance Analysis and Troubleshooting across all layers of the Virtual infrastructure.
• EMC VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management for ESXi, Linux (RHEL) & Windows hosts.
• EMC Power Path installation and configuration for Storage Path load balancing.
• Planning & implementation of scheduled changes per change management policies.
• Configure SNMP based monitoring alerts on all Vblock infrastructure elements.
• Configuring Hyper-V hosts virtual networking, storage, cluster and Hyper-V VM’s high availability.
• Applying patches using update Manager or manually to ESX/ESXi hosts.
• Configuration of Vblock 300/320, UCS compute, storage configuration.
• Provisioning storage to the blade servers for the ESX installation.
• Zoning, LUN Masking and Mapping.
• Installation of Red Hat Linux that supports the telephony adapter servers .
• Configuring Virtual Machines on the Vblock.
• Implemented Disaster recovery site for production site.
• Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX servers.
• Performed Virtual Machine creation, VM Configuration changes and Cloning.
• Performed storage and virtual machine migration using hot and cold migration type.
• Performed health check for the existing environment.
• Troubleshooting issues related to ESX host, vCenter, HA, DRS and VMware update manager.
• Worked with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
• Involved planning and implementation of migration process
• Pre-migration, Migration, Post-Migration and validation check list.
• Tested different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM's.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM versions and Data store to VMFS 5.
• Worked with various internal and external IT groups to allocate resources to perform P2V conversion scheduling.
• Migrated Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter).
• Worked on Storage related daily Change Request activities.
• Have experience in NAS-NFS, NAS-CIFS and SAN storage administration.
• Configuring Qtree, Quotas for NFS and CIFS clients.
• Managing iSCSI Networks.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.1, vBlock 300, EMC VNX 5300, Confidential UCS, vCloud Director, Red Hat Linux 6/7.

Confidential, CA

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing Site Recovery Manager for automated disaster recovery of virtual environment.
• Implementing EMC Recover point for Continuous Remote Asynchronous Replication of production data.
• Installing Site Recovery Manager Server on the Source and the DR site and Integrating with respective vCenter’s.
• Implementing and managing Block based VNX storage system in VMware virtualization environment.
• Installing, Configuring and Managing Confidential Unified Computing System (UCS) platform for vSphere Infrastructures.
• Installing and configuring Recover point using Deployment Manager.
• Integrating SRM with the backend recover point using SRA adaptor.
• Implementing and Configuring recover point Production Volumes, Production Journal, Replica Copies, Replica Journal, Consistency Groups, Replication Sets, Replication priority and other settings.
• Installation, configuration and Administration of VMware, Windows, and Red hat Linux servers.
• Configuring SRM Resource mappings, folder mappings, network mappings, protection groups and data store groups.
• Creating and configuring Recovery plans and Recovery network options.
• Planning and executing non-disruptive Disaster Recovery testing by creating isolated network bubble Confidential the DR site.
• Managing SRM based protection in a highly dynamic environment ensuring newly deployed Tier1 VM’s are protected and on replicated data stores.
• Manage all aspects of vSphere environments.
• Configuring and managing Confidential UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including Raid Groups and Traditional LUNS, Pools and thin LUNs, LUN Migration, FAST VP, FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration.

Environment: VMware vSphere5.0, SRM 5.0 Array replication, Red Hat Linux 4/5, Confidential UCS, Nexus N1000v, Nexus 5548, UCSM, Recover Point, EMC VNX 5500.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured VMware ESX/ESXi 5.0/4.1 Hosts.
• Upgraded of vCenter Servers /ESXi hosts from vSphere 4.0, 4.1 to 5.0
• Upgraded VMs hardware components according to the vSphere requirement.
• Worked on SRM 5.0 deployment and configuration of DR site.
• Upgrading VM tools, VM versions and Data store upgrade to VMFS 5.
• Deployment of vFabric Application director.
• Deployment of vFabric Data director.
• Deployed VM appliances from OVF templates.
• Performed storage and virtual machine migration using hot and cold migration type.
• SAN space allocation for ESX hosts.
• Scanning and configuring LUN for ESX server.
• Troubleshooting issues related to ESX host, vCenter, HA, DRS and VMware update manager.
• Disk Space increase using VMware converter and importing of virtual server using VMware converter.
• Performed LUN management, MetaLUN’s, RAID groups, storage groups.
• Planned and implemented High availability & Disaster Recovery on Datacenters using Site Recovery Manager 5(SRM5).
• Performed health check for the existing environment.
• Created PowerCLI scripts for storage migration and routine health check for ESX/ESXi hosts.
• Worked with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
• Installation, configuration and Administration of VMware, Windows, and Red hat Linux servers.
• Implementing and managing Block based VNX/VMAX storage system in VMware virtualization environment.
• Installing, Configuring and Managing Confidential Unified Computing System (UCS) platform for VMware Deployments.
• VNX Storage Array monitoring and advanced performance analysis of its Storage Processors, frontend ports, LUNs, Pools and physical disk using Unisphere Analyzer.
• Installation of Red Hat Linux that supports the telephony adapter servers for the Caremark callcenter.
• Involved planning and implementation of migration process Pre-migration, Migration, Post-Migration and validation check list.
• Deployed, provisioned the shared NFS storage for ESX servers and virtual machines.
• Assigned LUNs to the Hosts (Windows, Solaris, Linux).
• Tested different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VM’s.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Win2K, Win2K3 servers
• User Account administration, File and Printer permissions on windows OS. Patch administration and deployment using WSUS.
• Expert knowledge on Windows Server 2008 R2
• Expert Knowledge on Hyper-V, including multi node Hyper-V clusters
• Ability to work independently in a technical environment.
• Migrated backup clients from NetBackup to EMC Networker.
• Configured Networker servers, Storage Nodes, Data Domain backups, media pools.
• Troubleshooting all backup failures on daily bases to ensure successful backups
• Performed critical restores as required by the business.
• Configured VADP (VM) backups using Networker.
• Configured Snapshot backups using Networker.
• Disaster Recovery, planning and Management.
• Migrated Tape based backups to Data Domain.
• DDboost implementation on clients and Storage Nodes.
• Prepared Technical Documentation
• Escalation Management - PIR preparation, handling Escalation Calls.
• Root Cause Analysis.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1/5.0, SRM 5.0 Array replication, EMC Data Domain, VADP, UCSM, Recover Point, Microsoft Hyper-V, Confidential UCS, VMAX 20K, VNX 5700.

Confidential

VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in planning and implementation of virtual environment
• Created Virtual Machines and Installed VMware Tools
• Provided physical to virtual migrations for servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Deployed Through Templates
• Cloned Virtual Machines
• Managed and Troubleshoot Virtual Network issues
• Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Worked on Cold migration and vMotion
• Worked on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into Resource pools.
• Configured DNS, DHCP
• Customized 2003/2008 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching.
• Maintaining, implementing and optimizing operating systems/software utilizing VMware virtualization technologies for vSphere 4.0/4.1 including configuration of VMware HA and DRS.
• Designing and deploying a corporate VMware ESX Server infrastructure.
• Managed testing, implementation and administration of vCenter Lab Manager Server.
• Documentation included PCI compliance Requirements, Project Plan, Network Diagrams, P2V migration and Network design and upgrade recommendations.
• Disaster recovery planning, implementation and recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.
• Updated and patched all ESX servers and coordinate hardware-software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy
• Backup and Storage Consulting - Networker, Netbackup and EMC Avamar.
• Migrated Backup servers and 10000 clients from Networker to Netbackup.
• Configured Master and Media servers.
• Configured VM backups using Netbackup.
• Implemented Data Domain to replace Tape based backups.
• Disaster Recovery, planning and Management
• Preparing and Implementing Service Improvement Plans
• Escalation Management - PIR preparation, handling Escalation Calls.
• Root Cause Analysis.
• Interviewed candidates for Technical Screening.
• Knowledge Transfer to new customers and other Team members through Technical Sessions.
• Liaison and Interfacing with clients and other technology groups for process enhancement and Escalation Matrix definition.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.0, EMC Avamar, Confidential UCS, P2V Conversion, Plate spin migration, vCenter upgradation.