TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Experience as System Administrator in an Enterprise wide environment is required
• Administrator experience in at least three of the following: Web Services, SharePoint, Load Balancing, SQL, .NET, Web Center
• Knowledge of Web Services, Windows Server Operating and Client - Server systems
• Knowledge of industry standards, trends and general business processes
• Knowledge of scripting languages to support job automation and scheduling activities for Production processes
• Project management experience

Confidential, Stamford- CT

System Administrator

• Identify and decommission of 40+ Physical Servers. Converted 100+ physical Servers to VM environments.
• Automated host configuration across a large number of hosts

Responsibilities:

• Project management- Gathering requirements, analysis, plan, enhance and execute with team
• Installing and configuring VMware VCenter Server 5.1, VCenter plug-ins.
• Performed storage migration for moving VMs from one data store to the other.
• Installing and configuring ESX 4.1/5.1 in large scale environment
• Create VMs on ESX hosts for installing, configuring and managing guest operating systems such as Windows server 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2012& RedHat Linux
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates
• Creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates and Cloning VMs
• Using Virtual center server for HA, DRS, and Vmotion and Storage Vmotion
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS
• Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines
• Create virtual switches and port groups, configure virtualization networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs; configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Log analysis knowledge for monitoring performance (CPU, Memory, Disk, network Utilization) and virtual infrastructure alarms in VCenter servers.
• Create and maintain environment specific installation and configuration guides for P2V Conversions, ESX server and VCenter Server installation, VMware tools, Patch Upgrades and, third party applications
• Linux OS configuration and fine tuning for better performance
• Install and configure applications in Linux Servers- Informatica, JBOSS, and Tomcat

Windows Administration

• Managing Active Directory, Group policy, DHCP and DNS management
• Installation, troubleshooting and support of File & Print services, Domain Controllers/Global Catalog, OU, Sites and Service, Certificates, DNS, DHCP, WINS, LDAP.
• OS upgrade, patching on Windows Servers 2008 & 2012
• Managing 500+ Servers in corporate environment in financial environment
• Collect application usage data and remove unused software using Software metering
• Running different reports software/hardware inventory reports using SCCM and share with management
• Creating VBscrit/Powershell scripts to automate tasks with SCCM
• Troubleshooting Windows applications and related Services
• Configure and manage HP blades, Rack-mounted with HP ILO and SUM.
• Managing Financial, Risk, Trading applications and web Reports.
• IIS and Tomcat, Apache Servers management - Cognos 10 and Spotfire 4.5
• Managing SQL Servers in clustering mode
• Managing LAN, WAN networks.
• Tracking, monitoring, documenting and reporting all the project details.
• Handling SOX applications
• Working on release management, Incident management, Problem management and Change management according to ITIL process.
• Coordination, support and troubleshooting of various IT issues related to Windows Servers and respective applications

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1 & 5.1, Web Services, Windows server 2003/2008 R2, 2012, DNS, .Net, IIS, DHCP, IIS, CItrix

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Windows/ System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Project management: requirement gathering, analysis, project plan. Execute. Document. Lessons learnt. Close out
• Installing, configuring & Managing Active Directory in Windows 2003
• Active Directory Group policy management
• Single-Forest and Multi-Domain Active directory administration for 5000+ USERS
• Deploying, Configuring and Managing of Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers
• Support and maintain VMware vSphere Server Virtualization Environment
• Install configure and manage VM machines and templates
• Converting physical machines to virtual machines
• DNS & DHCP Management
• Providing application virtualization solutions with APP-V, VMware Thinapp
• Install configure VB.net and create connections with Oracle and MS SQL databases
• Coordination, support and troubleshooting of various Financial and IT Applications in Windows and Linux
• Create virtual switches and port groups, configure virtualization networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs; configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Managing Linux Enterprise version 5
• Implementation and management of Client end backup and Antivirus solutions
• Supporting Disaster Recovery Planning and Activation
• IIS Management
• Scripting and automating tasks using VBScript and Powershell
• IT Asset Management using CA Unicenter
• Automated software Delivery and image deployments using CA Unicenter 12
• Building self-portal for Automate delivery of applications using CAPAM
• Automated software and Hardware Inventory for all assets in IT infrastructure using CA Unicenter
• Managing Symantec ghost Server for images
• Creating images of Windows XP and Windows 7 OS
• Deploying images with RIS(Remote installation Services) and configuring with Sysprep tools
• License management which includes keeping track of license and authorized users.
• Automated Job scheduling for different systems in IT infrastructure.
• Periodically upgrade/ Migrate CA with the version approved by IT security.
• Report generation for all the different inventories.
• Complete application virtualization, testing and publishing it to authorized users.
• Application upgrades and maintenance
• Trouble shooting the virtualized application issues
• App-V & Symantec servers setup with redundancy and disaster recovery
• APP-V application server Upgrade\Patching
• Maintenance to c# software tools that consume web services. The web service produced XML that was converted into KML for displaying weather stations in the Arctic.
• Understanding and assessment of various vulnerabilities.
• Tracking all systems for critical vulnerabilities using Qualysis
• Taking appropriate steps to remove and control these vulnerabilities
• Complete testing of security patches and deployment of these patches on vulnerable system.
• Reporting and appropriate escalations of various vulnerabilities for corrective actions.

Environment - VMware vSphere4.1, Windows server 2000/2003, DNS, Web Services, IIS, DHCP, .Net, FTP, backup exec, Sophos, CA Unicenter 11, APP-V, Thin App, Symantec

Confidential

Infrastructure Lead

Responsibilities:

• Design, install and configure Windows domain controllers.
• Designing and implementing Active directory according to meet the requirements of the organization.
• Configuring Active Directory User and FSMO roles.
• Creating the organizational Units and placing Users and groups in their respective OUs.
• Patching all Windows servers and workstations with Company standards.
• Configuring and administering Domain Naming Server (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Distributed File System (DFS), and Internet Information Service (IIS) for intranet applications.
• Worked doing Unit Tests of WCF web services.
• Managing Microsoft windows server disk storages, disks and volumes.
• Installation, configuration and management of Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Windows NT 4 Servers and NT Workstations
• Managing Exchange 5.5
• Configuring Win Proxy
• Supporting in-house and third party application
• Windows patch management
• FTP and file Server management
• Monitoring Internet connectivity
• Linux Server management