PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of experience with expertise in VMWare administration, Linux/RHEL and Windows Administration.
• Implementation, Installing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of network and communication equipment.
• Building, configuring, and managing Microsoft Windows servers in multi - tenant enterprise environments.
• Experience utilizing PowerShell to automate common functions.
• Build and manage VM's on Amazon AWS for Test environment. Configured RAID levels 0, 1 and 5.
• Extensive experience in working with VMware vSphere Suite, vCloud Suite and vRealize Suite.
• Configured power path for all hosts. Worked with Office 365 team to migrate email acct to cloud.
• Working with S3, EC2, VPC, Cloud Formation, Cloud Trail, RDS, and ELB etc. AWS Services.
• Server architecture in AWS by choosing Appropriate Instance types.
• Design solutions which integrate AWS cloud, on premise physical & Virtual server, EC2, S3 storage, networking and security.
• Developed strategy to migrate Dev/Test/Production from an enterprise VMware infrastructure to the IaaS Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud environment including runbook processes and procedures.
• Experience on Cloud Management for designing and implementing cloud-based solutions, including private, community and public cloud deployment models for a variety of mid-size companies .
• Experience in the installation, configuration, and administration of components in a large VMWare environment centered around best practices to include vCenter, VMWare Update Manager, vCenter Operations Manager, vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Experience in VM template design and leveraging vCenter Operations Manager and experience with server consolidation / virtualization for HW reduction and site migrations.
• Experience with VMWare vRealize Automation, vCenter Orchestrator, vCloud Automation Center.
• Practical work experience in Installing, Maintaining, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Managing Blade Center server, Configuring and Zoning Storage Area Networks and SAN Switches and VMWare ESX Server Administration.
• Technical knowledge & proficiency in Windows Servers, VMWare and Network Administration, Window Servers.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2 & 2012/2012R2 servers on HP/Compaq, Dell Power Edge, IBM x series hardware platforms.
• Expertise in WINS, DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2000/2003//2008 R2 & 2012/2012R2 servers.
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring and Administering VMWare ESX/ESXi.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Migrating legacy environment from VMware to new Hyper-V 2012 dynamic datacenter.
• Proficient Experience in Installation and configuration of VMWare ESX 3.0/3.5, vSphere4.0, VMWare ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/6.0, VMWare Virtual Center 2.0/3.5/4.0/5.0/6.0.
• Expertise in virtualization with vSphere, VMWare ESX 5.x, 4.x 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server till 5.5/6.0.
• Deployed key VMWare ESX/ESXi technologies, expertise with HA/DRS, P2V. ESX migrations from 4.1/5.1 to 5.1/5.5/6.0 to vSphere 4.x,5.x, 6.x.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, Configuration of networks, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel.
• Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Design, Install, Configure and Administration of VMware Horizon View 7.0/6.2/5.3 and vCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment.
• Deployed VMware App Volumes and User Environment Management for faster application delivery, unified applications and user management to Horizon View Virtual desktops.
• Strong understanding of VMWare Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of Port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management.
• Upgrading ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x, 5.x-using VMWare Update Manager.
• Experienced in performing Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• Experienced in creating Virtual Machine Templates and deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources.
• Exposure on VMotion migration, High Availability feature, DRS feature and Setting VM priorities on CPU and Memory resources.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server in Windows based server environment.
• Maintaining Data in an offshore environment as a part of a Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Intermediate understanding of power CLI (windows/VMWare).
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting.
• Extensively worked with Windows server architecture and administered them successfully.
• Provided 24/7 On Call production support onsite and remotely on rotation basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware Tools: vSphere 6.2 / 6.0 /5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0, ESXi 5.1 / 5.0, ESX 4.1 / 4.0, VMware converter 4/3 and VMware VMotion.

VMware Virtualization Skills: ESX 3.5, ESXi, vSphere 3 and 4, VI3, Virtual Center Server, P2V, V2V, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, VMware vSphere Client, VMware View 4, VMware Thin App, Events and Alerts, Capacity Planning, Plate Spin Power Converter.

Microsoft Products and tools: Active Directory Domain Services, AD lightweight Directory Services, AD Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services, DNS, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, Hyper-V, WSUS server, SQL Server 2005, SQL server 2008, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, IIS 6, IIS 7, DHCP, TCP/IPHardware: HP ProLiant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers and Dell Power Edge Servers.

Operating System: Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, LA-California

Sr VMWare/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Infrastructure and Build Project for new Deployments and consolidation of vSphere environment for Public/Private Cloud implementation.
• Work experience on Install, Configure, Troubleshoot and monitor Servers from windows and Wintel and administer the responsibilities both from remotely and locally.
• Configuration and administration of Load Balancers, Network and Auto scaling for sub domains in AWS VPC.
• Experience in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud-Formation AWS Configuration, Autos calling, Cloud Front, IAM, S3.
• Experience in design in Administration and Architec of public and private cloud platforms.
• End to End Implementation of VMware vCloudsuite based Private Cloud on VBlock Platform.
• Sound knowledge on ESX and ESXI Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Manage and Administer private clouds in Hyper-V infrastructure.
• Migrated over 100 plus DEV servers from CPL to Microsoft Azure.
• Experience in Installation of HP Rack Servers like HP ProLiant DL 580, DL 560 and good at administering these Servers.
• Work Experience on Test competing cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS) to understand strengths and weaknesses of VMWare’s Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Users with Azure subscriptions provisioned with the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program can now manage Site Recovery Manager (SRM) operations in the Azure portal.
• Experience with Cisco UCS server blades with VMware ESX deployments on Cisco UCS.
• Installing, configuring and managing Cisco Switches, Routers, Servers, Desktop Computers and Printers.
• Install, configure, maintain and administer Linux / UNIX operating systems and components. Diagnosed and resolved problems associated with DNS, DHCP, VPN, NFS and Apache.
• Design and Implement High Availability for web server using HA Proxy and Keep live. Installation and configuration of Apache, Tomcat and WebLogic on Linux.
• VCenter/vSphere 5.5/6.0 server installation and configuration.
• Deployment, upgrade and manage different operating systems including Windows 2012/R2, 2008/R2, Red-hat, and Virtual Appliances etc.
• Working on multiple vCenter Server’s for managing multiple ESXi Servers/Clusters/DC’s across different Locations.
• Working with Storage team for assigning and creation of VMFS/NTFS volumes within ESXi and Physical Windows servers from FC and NAS storage array’s including HP-3Par, EMC VNX, NetApp Filers.
• Implemented and management of ESXi HA and DRS clusters across three Virtual centers (5.1, 5.5, 6.0).
• Patching and Upgrading ESXi servers (5.1/5.5) using vCenter update manager and/or using DCUI.
• Providing different roles/permission access to VM’s while creating folder in vCenter for Application teams (Citrix/Backup/Linux teams).
• Working on Blade Server profiles, FCOE, CNA customization for HP Blade environment.
• Working in a HP Shop with DL360, 380, 580, BL460 Gen8 and Gen9 Infrastructure including Maintaining and managing different HP c7000 enclosures.
• Working on HP P2000, HP MSA’s for NAS, NFS, SAS (SCSI) storage provisioning and administration for ROBO (Remote locations).
• Experience in Setting up Connection Strings and connecting SQL Server AZURE Databases from locally Installed SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS) for Developers.
• Experience in design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi within VI3, vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 environments with Virtual Center management and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
• Providing Rotational on Call escalation and L3 support for Production issues.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.1/5.5/6.0, Windows Servers 2003/2008R2,2012R2, ProLiant Servers & Dell Hardware (Rack and blade servers) c7000 Enclosures, 460G8/G9, Symantec Net backup, Active Directory, vRealize Operations, EMC VNX, HP-3Par, Cisco/Brocade Switches.

Confidential, Burbank-CA

Sr Windows/VMWare System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the world to centralized locations in US, which involves numerous servers of various Windows 2008 and 2012 R2.
• Worked with team in upgrading vCenter and ESXi to 5.5 using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching.
• Experience in managing users and groups using AWS IAM. Imported data to S3 using Amazon Export/Import. Configured AWS SNS for email notifications.
• Migrated Data from physical data center to AWS. Participated in designing, build, and deployment of multiple applications using AWS stack (EC2, S3, EMR, IAM) focusing on high availability as a part of POC.
• Planned major patch releases by coordinating with the application team for the proper implementation of security patches within the environments.
• Created multiple EC2 instances of Red Hat OS for AWS.
• Installing, Configuring and Managing VMWare ESXi 4.1/5.1/5.5 Servers and virtual centers 4.1/5.1/5.5.
• Responsible for Up-gradation and patching of ESXi host using vCenter Update Manager.
• Responsible for HA, DRS and FT in Cluster configuration at VMWare vCenter level.
• Monitoring of servers about CPU Usages, Memory usages via vCenter server.
• Converting Physical server to virtual server through P2V using VMWare Converter.
• Performed data store migration using VMWare storage vMotion on Netapp NFS, EMC Clarion SAN Storage.
• Worked with NFS, DHCP, SAMBA, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, PXE BOOT and HP Service Center.
• Designed and implemented Exchange 2013 environment in a migration from Exchange 2010, ending in the decommissioning and removal of all legacy servers.
• Performed organizational units in Active Directory (AD) and managed user security with group policies.
• Experience in Creation and maintaining Email addresses and distribution lists in MS Exchange.
• Data store upgradation VMFS 3 to VMFS 5.
• Responsible for creating master template of Windows Server(Template/MDT), Linux Server (Kickstarter Image) and Application Server template.
• Configured and verified network functionality for servers and Cisco switches in the Data Center.
• Installation of Power Path, Power Path VE across Physical and ESXi Hypervisors and configuring Path policies for the ESXi Environment.
• Performing Resource allocation, Resource sharing and configuration of VM resources across different ESXi Cluster within a vCenter Environment.
• Configuring Virtual Networks (Switching/VLANs/VMKernel/Port groups).
• Working on Scripts for ESX CLI and Power cli for configuration and update of ESXi environment.
• Working with DBA, SAN, N/W team for resolving Performance, upgrade, Maintenance and Compatibility issues within the ESXi/Physical environment.
• Developed deployment solutions for network technologies including Optical VOIP VPN SAN switching and routing.
• Applied and maintained DISA/NSA STIG configurations to Microsoft and other vendor software products, administered site anti-virus and IPS/IDS software suites.
• Gain a Knowledge on approach with VDI user engagements while creating expanded technical support roles.

Environment: VMWare ESX 4.0/3.5, vSphere 4.0, 5.0, 5.5 & Windows Server Active Directory 2003, VCOPS, HP ProLiant Servers & Dell Hardware, VBLOCK, Cisco, VMAX, VNX, Citrix XenApp 6.0 etc. Power CLI.

Confidential

Windows/VMWare Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployment and configuration Virtual Servers using VMWare vSphere (ESXi 4.1,5.1).
• Deploying virtual servers using template, Microsoft MDT for Windows 2008.
• Installation and configuration of ESX server’s ESXi 4.1/5.1.
• Server migration physical to Virtual using Hot and cold cloning technology in VMware.
• Creating and configuration of Clusters.
• Configuring High Availability (HA), DRS.
• Converting Physical server to virtual server through P2V.
• Creation of template and Cloning of virtual server.
• Regularly reviewed Firmware levels on Host/servers, involved in analyzing and implementing OS patches, hot fixes as well as updates and Performed EMC power path upgrades.
• Provided disaster recovery and backup services using VMware consolidated backups (VCB).
• Performed various Snap Restore operations in case of any data loss within the specified volumes or LUN’s using the existing snapshots within the volumes.
• Roles creation and allocation of permissions across the Clusters and datacenters for different BU’s.
• Maintenance of virtual center server.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VC, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU or memory. Updating documentation of complete process.
• Experience on Storage (SAN / iSCSI / Fiber Channel).
• Provided Support for 24/7 Production, Test and Development environments.
• Performed hands-on technical implementation, troubleshooting, and remediation on complex client projects requiring high-touch or strategic vision.
• Upgraded entire US vSphere environment from 4.x to 5.x implementing new technologies.
• Developed and guided plan to upgrade over 200+ VMWare ESX hosts, with over 3000+ VMs, to ESXi 5.x while maintaining an uptime over 99%.
• Renewing SSL’s for more than 100+ ESX Hosts.
• Applying Updates, Patches to Hosts.
• Hands on Experience with OEM hardware (HP/DELL) & remote connectivity tools.

Environment: Windows Server Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, VMWare ESXi 4.0 Server, VMWare View, HP DL & ML server series, IBM xSeries& System x servers, HP Insight Manager, IBM Director, Cisco Enterprise Network, MS PowerShell.

Confidential

VMWare/Windows System Engineer

Responsibilities :

• Planning and implementing Server setup, configuration & administration for Windows 2008, Windows 2003 & Windows 2000 Server, Active Directory Administration and responsible for managing Windows and VMWare. Environment.
• Installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting and maintenance of VMWare virtual infrastructure (ESX 4.x and ESXi 5.x vSphere) platforms.
• Creation and management of Virtual Machines and Templates.
• Creation of clusters for (HA) High Availability, (DRS) Distributed Resource Scheduling and vMotion.
• Conversion of physical servers to virtual environment using P2V and VMWare Converter.
• Administering rights for Users and Groups for Virtual Center access.
• Experience with VMWare update manager to install patches and updates on ESX/ESXi 4.0 hosts and virtual machines.
• Tested the validity of the native Authentication system VAS (DELL).
• Familiar with backup and restore of Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMWare converter and with other third-party converters, Patch updating, monitoring/reporting SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Perform responsibilities of implementing Windows XP and hardware applications.
• Administered, maintained and monitored Central site with several remote Primary sites based on Windows 2003 Servers in a Windows 2003 Domain.
• Maintain daily operations for Windows server infrastructure and components.
• Coordinate with multiple teams to fulfill new server build requests to satisfy configuration, storage, backup and monitoring requirements.
• Configure and troubleshoot backup jobs, perform file and full server restores using Symantec's Net back up.
• Capacity Plan, Design and Deploy Data Center Infrastructure Set up for SharePoint 2010.
• Setup, configure and maintain SharePoint infrastructure for development, QA and production servers.
• Perform upgrades to hardware, operating systems, and applications.
• Experience installing and configuration of Solaris, Linux for new build environment.
• Experience working on configuration and customization of SAAS Applications.
• Experience on deployment and creation of SCCM applications and support.
• Experience on monitoring, configuring and managing SCCM environment.
• Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirement. Used windows 2003 Standard Edition. Upgraded the Firmware of the servers.
• Experience with Cisco Routers, Cisco Firewalls, Cisco UCS and Cisco Switches.
• Coordination with vendor / Service provider for problem resolution.
• Expertise in using Spice works ticketing system to resolve client issues in their system.
• Provide project support by configuring DNS, DHCP, GPO’s and Active Directory changes and implementations as needed.

Environment: VMWare ESX 4.0/3.5, vSphere 4.0, Windows Server Windows XP/Vista, Active Directory 2003, SQL Server HP ProLiant Servers, HA/DRS.

Confidential

System Administrator(VMWare/Windows)

Responsibilities:

• Part of System Engineer that helped over multiple clients for different projects and endeavors.
• Handling day to day escalation of L2/L3 Support Tickets.
• Managing and Controlling the System/Server/application issue remotely.
• Maintain inventory of all hardware and software resources in server room.
• Installation and configuration of Window Server 2003/2008 R2, Linux (SUSE, Red Hat 4.x/5.x).
• Creation and Modification of user Account, Groups in Active Directory.
• Experience on Hyper - V set up and administration of virtual machines.
• Building servers as per compliance requirements and getting them validated.
• Installation and configuration of Windows Active Directory Services. Setting up Domains and configuring DHCP, DNS servers, IIS Servers. SQL 2005 Server, Exchange 2003 Server.
• Installation & configuration of Linux Operating System using Shell scripts.
• Installation of McAfee Antivirus, LANDesk Client, MS-office, Safe boot in Laptops.
• Responsible for Vendor Co-Ordination on Technical front.
• Experience maintaining business continuity using snapshot backup technology in a virtualized environment
• Worked on SAN storage for Host Prep on Server, configuring shared LUN's, Expanding and Shrinking of hard disk.
• Configuration of File share servers across Windows (CIFS) and Linux(NFS).
• 24x7 LAN / WAN Data Centre Monitoring for fault, performance and security alerts.
• Troubleshooting issues related to OS performance, AD Permission, free disk space, OS rebuilds HW issues.
• Managing MDT ISO’s, PXE boot and App Installation Deployments.
• Installation of VMWare ESX 2.5/3.5 on physical Dell and HP servers and managing using vCenter 2.5.
• Configuring installing and managing different Backup, Antivirus, Blackberry Management services for Enterprise environment.
• Working with storage team and resolving SAN issues and working to have servers Provisioned with LUN’s, Migration Plan with involving Hot Backup’s, Snapshot of LUN’s and for DR activities.

Environment: Windows Servers, Active Directory, NAS, IIS 4/5/6, Cisco routers & switches, HP DL & ML server series.