PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 + years of experience working in VMware administration and Windows Administration, Implementation, Installing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of network and communication equipment.
• Very good work involvement in Installing, Maintaining, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Managing Blade Center server, Configuring and Zoning Storage Area Networks and SAN Switches and VMware ESX Server Administration
• Experience with administrative role in creating, monitoring and managing user accounts and monitoring Service health in Office 365.
• Technical knowledge & proficiency in Windows Servers, VMware and Infrastructure Administration, Window Servers.
• Expert knowledge in Microsoft Exchange technologies Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, as well as Office 365 and Microsoft Lync 2010 and 2013.
• Exceptional knowledge in creating team sites on SharePoint Online and SharePoint migration to Office 365.
• Prompt Confidential installation, configuration and administration of Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 & 2012/2012R2 servers on HP, Dell Power Edge, IBM Xseries hardware platforms.
• Effectively deployed Office 365 Infrastructure that include complete ADFS 2.0 & amp; ADFS Proxy Farm
• Experience in installing & configuring DNS, DHCP and Active Directory services in Windows 2003//2008R2 & 2012/2012R2 servers.
• Good involvement in designing and overseeing. Investigating Physical, Virtual framework in Cloud and On Premise on Windows server, Active Directory, Networking, Storage, VMware, Hyper - V, AWS Cloud, Microsoft Azure (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS), MS Exchange, Office 365, PowerShell scripting, and Power Shell.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Proficient Experience in installation and configuration of VMware ESX 3.0/3.5, vSphere 5.1, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/6.0 , VMware Virtual Center 2.0/3.5/4.0/5.0/6.0 & 6.2.
• Expertise in area of virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESX 5.x, 4.x and 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server till 5.5.
• Expertise with designing, installing and implementing VMware ESX/ESXI server, VMware virtual center, setting up DRS, High Availability, V-Motion and related VMware products such as VMware converter, VM Workstation, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Troubleshooting of server hardware issues by coordinating with the hardware vendors
• Monitoring virtual clients through centralized virtual server.
• Hands on experience in building the ESXi Servers
• Performed the server migration from windows server 2008 to windows server 2012.
• Hands on experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines
• Hands on experience configuring High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) / Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversions using VMware Converter
• Creating new Virtual machines for various Operating Systems.
• Performed the server migration from windows server 2003 to windows server 2008 and 2012.
• Sound knowledge of VMware Networking concepts like creation of NIC teaming, VSwitches, different types of port groups and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 5.X and Virtual Center and Vmotion
• Adding Hosts to vCenter, creating and managing virtual machines under the hosts
• Deploying and cloning of virtual machines.
• Effectively involved in PowerShell scripting and automating process. Implemented the following roles in a Microsoft Exchange environment: Edge Transport, Mailbox, CAS Array, Hub Transport & Unified Messaging.
• Experience providing cloud solutions through Office 365.
• Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Upgrading ESX 3.x to ESX 4.x, 5.x, 6.x -using VMware Update Manager.
• Experienced in performing Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• Experience in creating Virtual Machine Templates and deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources.
• Monitoring Server Health Status of the CPU processors, Memory, Fans, Temperature and Voltage.
• Working on and Performing virtual machine configuration changes as per the customer requirement.
• Hands on experience in writing power shell scripts and automated administration tasks using VB scripting.
• Experience in monitoring systems using SSCM, SCOM, VCOPS, monitoring tools
• Proficient in installing, configuring and troubleshooting windows 2008/2012 servers.
• Brilliant comprehension of Created Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and oversaw User stories. Participated daily stand-up meetings. Involvement with virtualization tools, for example, VMware/Hyper-V Manager and Citrix XenApp.
• Worked with Solar Winds deployment, Manage Virtual Machines using Virtual center and web access.
• Administering & Troubleshooting issues within apps on Citrix 7.8 using Citrix Director & Citrix Studio Work.
• 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.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware Tools: vSphere 6.0 /5.5/5.1 / 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/ESXi 4/5/6 VSphere 3 and 4, VI3, Virtual Center Server, P2V, V2V, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, VApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, VMware Management Assistant, VMware VSphere Client, VMware View 4, VMware ThinApp, Events &Alerts, Capacity Planning, Plate Spin Power Converter,VMware SDDC, VRealize Automation and VRealize Orchestrator.

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(SCOM), IIS 6, IIS 7.

Hardware: HP Proliant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers, Cisco UCS and Dell Power Edge Servers.

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

Network Protocols: SMTP, SNMP, DHCP, POP, SMB, NIS, NFS, DNS, FTP/SFTP, ARP/RARP, SSH, TCP/IP, NTP, TELNET, LDAP.

Storage: EMC Power Path, Symmetric/Clarion, NetApp.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Nashville, Tennessee

Sr. System Admin (Wintel/VMware/Windows)

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, administration and maintenance of VMware ESXi 6.0,5.5,5.1 hosts and Windows Server 2008 and Server 2012 Virtual Machines and VM templates.
• Build Windows 2k3, 2k8, 2k8R2 and 2k12, 2k12R2 OS and deployment of 2k3, 2k8, 2k8R2 and 2k12, 2k12R2 servers.
• Upgrades VMware environment 5.1/5.5 to 6.0 and 6.5 and upgrades all operating systems from windows 2k3 to 2k12.
• Migrated Standalone servers using converters like Platespin and VMware converter. P2V and V2V migrations.
• Virtualized around 1200 VM’s, Data center migrations.
• Implementation of Public/Private cloud infrastructure using VMware vCloud Director.
• Automation of many task using Vmware Vrealize Automation center VCAC and implemented many custom workflows using VRealize Orchestrator vRO.
• Installed and Configured Windows 2012R2 servers, 10 desktops as an upgrade from Windows 2003, 7 OS.
• Resolved L2/L3 level troubleshooting incidents and changes through ITIL tool BMC Remedy.
• Deployed applications and software’s on Windows 2012R2/2008R2/10 as required.
• Worked on replacing NIC cards, motherboard and updating firmware’s on Dell blade servers.
• Used PowerShell scripting tool for automating the Windows updates, security patches, creating packages through SCCM and providing/removing access to the users and for troubleshooting issues.
• knowledge in Integrating Virtual packages with SCCM 2012.
• Provided best practice guidance on setting up and maintaining a solid patching solution using SCCM 2012 R2.
• Created Custom reports utilizing the SCCM DB using custom SQL queries and SQL Reporting Services. 
• Performed many hot/cold VM provisioning and P2V, V2V migrations using PlateSpin and Vmware Converter.
• Integrated VCAC with Vcenter Server, VCloud Director vCD, vRealize Orchestrator vRO, VCenter Operations Manager vCops, vRealize Business vRB.
• Vmware patch management using VMware Update Manager and updating all server Certificates.
• Experience in building VDI infrastructure using Vmware View and Vmware Horizon.
• Experience in building View Connection Server, View composer, Identity manager. And also Cloud Pod Architecture.
• Integration of VMware view infrastructure with the vCenter Environment.
• Distributed resources in the VMware infrastructure using Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS.
• Troubleshooting of daily production, dev and QAT issues. Assigned storage in SAN and creation of VMFS data stores.
• Expert in VM’s network configuration. Configured Standard Switch/Distributed Switches in VCenter 5.x environment.
• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of VMware ESXI 5.5 & ESXI 6.0 Virtual Centre server.
• Administer users, groups, Organizational Units (OUs) and other AD objects on the Active Directory Domains. 
• Experience in deploying azure ad connect to synchronize Onprem active directory accounts to Azure AD. 
• Expertise in Installation, Maintenance and troubleshooting of various Standard Build Windows operating systems.
• Upgrading ESXI 5.5 to ESXI 6.0 using VMware Update Manager.
• Responsible of web application deployments over cloud services on Azure, using VS and PowerShell. 
• Good working experience in Azure Logic apps, Service Bus, Document DB and SQL Database. 
• Administered 200+ ESXI hosts, 40 Clusters running close to 4000+ virtual machines. The virtual environments were designed and build upon Cisco and HP blades.
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) / Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migration using VMware Converter
• Configuring VCenter Single Sign-on server (SSO)
• Knowledge in SQL server configuration.
• Troubleshooting Active directory permissions. 
• Migrated SQL Server 2008 database to Windows Azure SQL Database and updating the Connection Strings based on this 
• Done P2V, V2V conversions of Windows2000 and Windows2003 servers using Enterprise Converter.
• Configured VM’s HA, DRS, FT settings and also Configured permissions, Roles in VMware virtual center.
• Worked with may backup platforms like EMC AWAMAR and also DATA DOMAIN.
• Active Directory AD integration with VCenter Server, vCAC, vCloud Director vCD, vRO.
• Expert on DRS resource pool configuration and creating DRS rules.
• Experience on SharePoint administration on 2010 and 2013.
• Worked on Virtual Cloud director for cloud management.
• Designed VMware VSphere storage configuration using SAN, ISCSI, NFS. Worked on Fibre Channel switches and familiar with all storage protocols.
• Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS, and fiber channel protocols, fiber channel cabling, switching, and zoning from hardware and Vcenter. 
• Upgrading the Server Builds. Upgrading the NIC from 4gig to 10gig, teaming and VLan tagging for redundancy and fault tolerance. 
• Managed around 200+ hosts with more than 4500 virtual machines in this environment
• Expert in automation & orchestration platforms centered around Vmware VRealize.
• Hands on experience with citrix Xenapp, Xen Desktop. 
• Install and update Citrix Patches on Servers. 
• Packaging Citrix Applications using Rapid Deployment Tool and Citrix Install Manager.
• Installing and maintaining Citrix Web server. 
• Creating Virtual Machine Templates, taking clone and Snap shots as per the client requirement.
• Monitoring Server Health Status of the CPU processors, Memory, Fans, Temperature and Voltage.
• Setting up and troubleshooting features like HA/FT/DRS with EVC for the Virtual Machines for business continuity.
• Worked on Remedy and Service Now ticketing system
• Configuring Virtual Switches, Port groups
• Setting up Alarms/alerts for the infrastructure changes.
• Creating daily report on resource usage and resource availability.
• Performing the VMware server health checks.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations. Creating resource pools and adding VM's into the VDI pools.
• Experience in Handling Cloud environments like AWS. Configuration management using Amazon Cloud Formation, Continuous integration with Jenkins. AWS management (EC2, EBS, RDS, ROUTE53). 
• Managing Cisco servers using Cisco UCS manager.
• Install and Management of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Patch management. using VMware Update Manager for ESX server.
• Installed and configured vSphere ESXi on HP blade/Rack servers/Cisco UCS.
• Experience with VMware system patching using Update Manager.
• Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory Services. 
• Monitoring utility using tools like site scope. vCops, Solar Winds, RVtools.
• Excellent understanding of SAN, NAS storage architecture. EMC CX 480/960 SAN Storage Administration and Provisioning for ESX hosts.
• Involving in team meetings and work on the enhancement projects based on the priority issues.
• Work on Remedy and Service Now ticketing system and work with SLA.

Confidential, Irvine, California

VMware & Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Hands on involvement with Implementation, Maintenance, and upgrades in a corporate IT environment with Windows desktops and servers (Physical/Virtualization).
• Providing high level desktop support for executive level users on Windows 7/8/10.
• Responsible for producing detailed implementation instructions and carrying out changes to complete tasks/projects.
• Administration, Troubleshooting and Monitoring of Microsoft Exchange 2010 Mail servers, Lync, Blackberry and Enterprise Vault servers and Office 365.
• Used tools such as VMware Converterand PlateSpin Power Convert to work on ESX Environment for the P2V conversions.
• Deploying VM guest operating system through VCenter.
• Configured & Deployed ESX/ESXi server in corporate production environment.
• Implementation of VSphere, users and groups management.
• Worked on Vcenter Server to manage the ESX/ESXI severs in data Centre.
• Worked with Update Manager to apply patches on virtual machines.
• Involved in P2V, V2V Migration as per client Requirement.
• Performing the changes through the change management
• Installing and Maintaining Vcenter Servers.
• Worked on creating Custom Azure Templates for quick deployments and advanced PowerShell scripting. 
• Taking regular backup of Vcenter Server machine.
• Creating Resource Pools and Setting limits on CPU and RAM.
• Working with shell scripts & executing them.
• Implemented Citrix Farm XenApp 7.6 for Production and Development in High-Available mode using Vmware 5.5 hypervisor. 
• Experience Using SCCM 2012 to deploy the Packages both the Windows Installer Package and Virtual Package.
• Packaged applications are managed by Group Policy and Deployed by SCCM Tool
• Monitored SCCM platform health and mitigated issues as needed.
• Plan and migrate servers, relational databases (SQL) and websites to Microsoft azure cloud. 
• Involved in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2008/2003 Servers, and VMware ESXi Servers 3.0/3.5/4.0/5.0.
• Installation and configuration of VSphere 5.5 and 6.0 and VMWare Virtual Centers.
• Managing the Exchange 2007/2013 Servers. Performed advanced trouble shooting of Exchange 2007/2013 server hardware & Office 365 including mail routing issues.
• Performing Migrations from On-premise to the Cloud based Office 365 Environment and troubleshooting errors and problems encountered during migrations.
• Experience in Troubleshooting critical hardware and software issues and other day-to-day user trouble tickets.
• Adding Hosts to vCenter, creating and managing virtual machines under the hosts.
• Creating cluster, configuring DRS, HA and adding/removing ESXi host from cluster.
• ESXi Host upgrades using VMware Update Manager.
• Monitoring the backup using VEEAM tool.
• Creating and managing Resource Pools and adding the VMs into Resource Pools.
• Configuring the ILO on HP DL360, DL380 G9 series and Cisco UCS.
• Configuring the ILO and deploying the operating system.
• Performing the BIOS level update as per the requirement.
• Performing the Root Cause Analysis for the issues.
• Packaging Citrix Applications using Rapid Deployment Tool and Citrix Install Manager. 
• Deploying, Configuring and Managing of Windows 2008 and 2012 Servers 
• Installation of Windows 2003/2008/2012 servers as per the Server Delivery Requests.
• Converting physical machines to virtual machines.
• Build Windows 2008 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion, DRS, HA.
• Performed P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 4, 5 and the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of 2008 to 2012 as well as Linux servers to VMware.
• Worked DNS & DHCP Management, Application upgrades and maintenance.
• Working with the hardware team recognize the hardware issues of the servers.
• Implementation and management of Client end backup and Antivirus solutions. 
• Email account creation and management using Office365 admin and Exchange.
• Active Directory configuration and maintenance including GPO administration.
• Hyper-V, VMware, and OVM configuration, management, and troubleshooting of VM units.
• Monthly security patch management to systems using WSUS server.
• Administration of Office 365 and MS Exchange 2010, 2013, Hybrid, Staged, Cut-over, IMAP Migrations.
• Monitoring and management of environment utilizing Solarwinds, ConnectWise, and LabTech.
• Opening and resolving trouble incidents and problems utilizing FreshDesk ticketing system.
• Conducted DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP configuration and maintenance.
• Migrated ADFS 2.0 server farm to ADFS 3.0.
• Microsoft Office365 setup and management (with Azure synchronization).

Confidential, Charlotte, North Carolina

System Admin (Windows, VMware)

Responsibilities:

• VMware implementation and troubleshooting VMware ESX 4.0 and ESXi 5.0 Hosts.
• Built and configured ESX 4.0 Hosts and deployed 2003/2008 VMware Virtual Guests.
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Proficient in managing ESX Hosts using VMware vCenter.
• Linked Different vCenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance through vSphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment.
• Building new Windows Server 2003/2008 on Intel Server Platforms, HP servers as per the company’s Windows build standards.
• Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, and Domain trust relationship, file and print services, user and group management.
• Implemented RAID5 for Fault Tolerance on Domain Controllers.
• Installed SQL server 2008 and deployed many SQL Cluster deployments for clients for database requirements.
• Experience in building VDI infrastructure using Vmware View and Vmware Horizon.
• VDI and XenDekstop technical liaison with business areas and offshore vendors. 
• Experience in building View Connection Server, View composer, Identity manager. Also Cloud Pod Architecture.
• Integration of VMware view infrastructure with the vCenter Environment.
• Experience working with VMware SDDC
• Migrated IIS6.0 to IIS7.0 using Windows Deployment Tool 2.0.
• Patching the Production Servers during the green zone window with Security patches.
• Maintain the Software deployment and management solution and ensure proper patching on client systems.
• Experience working with VMware SDDC
• Creating and managing VSwitches and port groups for the ESXi servers.
• Performing snapshot related operation on VMs like taking snapshot, reverting snapshot.
• Performing virtual machine configuration changes.
• Hands on experience with IBM Rack/Tower models X series, HP Blade System C-class enclosures.
• Deploying and cloning of virtual machines.
• Performance monitoring of ESXi servers, VM’s by using vCenter Server.
• Creating VM templates, Snapshots, Cloning, and patching on servers.
• Re configuring VMs as per the requirements: Hot add and Hot plug, extend hard disk.
• Creating virtual switches & port groups in virtual environment.
• Maintain the Domain environment, including setting policies as per the Security settings.
• Worked with may backup platforms like EMC AWAMAR and also DATA DOMAIN.
• Defining group permissions and creating local and global groups with account policies using Enterprise Administrator. Creating user rights and defining local and roaming profiles.
• Responsible to maintain the server inventory and document the server build/decommission, application installation/configuration, backup verifications, Operating System user accounts auditing, etc.
• Working on Change Management and Request Management Tickets in Remedy Tool.
• Experience in configuring and enabling VMware EVC on VMware Clusters.
• Experience with VMware system patching using Update Manager.
• Installing and configuring vCenter 5.0 Server and Update Manager.
• Installing ESX servers & virtual center. Adding the ESX to the VC/ Virtual machines to an ESX sever / P2V to an ESX server.
• Migrating and Importing Virtual Machines P2V, V2V.
• Administered Microsoft Exchange server and performed Exchange client installations.
• Server and Client installation. Installing and integrating FTP.
• Experience in configuring and management of VMware Clusters, VMware DRS, High Availability (HA) and VMotion.
• Experience in setting up VMware Standard vSwitch and Ports groups (Service Console, Virtual Machine and VMkernal).
• Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with Clones and Snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Experience in creating Virtual Machines on Shared Data Store.
• Managing, troubleshooting and administering Veam impage level backups for VDI infrastructure servers. 
• Worked with the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, for taking the Incremental backup of the server.
• Rack-mounted servers like IBM & Dell hardware, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Involved in the storage operations on all the models of VNX 5300, 5500, 5700, VNX-e 3100 and closely worked with EMC team on VMax storage as well.
• Installing ESXI on Cisco UCS blades and C200 racks, using scripted installations, configuring and hardening ESXi servers.
• Administration of various network infrastructure components including Nexus 1000v, UCS Fabric Interconnect 6120/6140, Nexus 5548. Cisco UCS integrations with Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN.
• Work on Remedy and Service Now ticketing system and work with SLA.
• Taken responsibility for upcoming issues.
• Work on on-call rotation for 24/7 support.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Sys Admin (Unix, VMware, Windows)

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Installing and Managing ESX/ESXi servers on HP, DELL and Installation of vCenter Server, vCenter Components and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Expertise in creating Datacenter Environment by creating VMware Clusters, adding ESX(i) hosts in the Clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Hands on experience in implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management. 
• VMware Standalone Converter, PlateSpin tools are utilized for the P2V conversions.
• Created Snapshots according to user's requirement. 
• Administered Microsoft Cluster Server with SQL server 2005. 
• Maintained Web Servers by installing IIS 6 and 7, FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS6 and IIS7.
• Troubleshooting & testing of VDI instances.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View.
• Experience in Clones and Templates of Virtual Machines.
• Involved in troubleshooting of Virtual Networks and vSwitches.
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration. 
• Configured VMware HA and DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Configured Netbackup Client.
• Applied patches on Windows servers and workstations with Company standards.
• Configured Domain Naming Server (DNS) and created forward/reverse lookup zones with associated pointer records.
• Expert Confidential AD, DNS, DHCP, File Server, IIS Web Server, FTP, Terminal Server, Windows Clustering, Exchange Mail administration.
• Experience with AD Group Policy, GPO, GPP, Users, Domain users and also handled permissions of users, Groups, File shares and Privilege to access LAN and Domain.
• Customized Windows 2003 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment.
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining HP ProLiant BL-series C-class blade servers and DL-series servers.
• Presenting Fiber channel SAN LUN's, RDM's iSCSI LUN's and NFS mounts. 
• Hands on experience in creating vSwitches and different ports groups for different purposes.
• Managed NIC teaming Confidential ESXi server level for redundancy.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter Update Manager. 
• Performed vMotion and Storage vMotion in the day-to-day activities.