PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8+ Years of experience working as Systems Administrator with different VMware and Wintel platforms.
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)
• VMWARE Certified Associate in Data Center Virtualization (VCA - DCV)
• VMWARE Certified Associate in Cloud (VCA-Cloud)
• Experience working with hyper converged infrastructure from different vendors such as HP, Cisco and Dell.
• Experience working with HP Blades and chassis (C7000 and C3000) and HP One View.
• Experience working with Cisco blades, chassis and UCS Manager.
• Managed and Installed Windows DC, ADC’s, Member Domains and Linux servers.
• Installed, Configured and Maintained the VMware Esx 4.0 and VMware vSphere for installing DB servers like MySQL and MS SQL Server 2008.
• Monitored and Maintained Windows Server 2008 and Linux Centos 5.5 server.
• Designing and Implementing Active Directory Domains and Forests.
• Implemented Active Directory services for creation and maintaining users and group profiles based on company policies.
• Deployed servers such as IIS, Apache web server, DHCP, DNS, File Server, FTP server, Samba server.
• Implemented web clustering in Centos 5.5 Linux Server for load balancing.
• Implemented FTP, NFS and SAMBA servers for file sharing between Centos 5.5 and Win Server 2008.
• Troubleshooting of connection issues for RDP clients at network and security level.
• Installation, Configuration and Managing Exchange server.
• Creating and Configuring Exchange Policies.
• Recovering and Restoring Exchange server and Mail Boxes.
• Configuring with e-mail clients like outlook express and MS outlook 2003 and 2007.
• Experience in Writing/Maintaining and troubleshooting PowerShell scripts for build and operations environment to develop, test, and implement automation.
• Knowledge of VMware server automation and configuring Active Directory Domain using scripting languages like PowerShell Scripts, VBScript, and Power CLI.
• Extensive Experience working on vCenter server and vSphere client.
• Experience working with Installation, configuration and management of ESX and ESXi hosts.
• Experience working with VM Templates, clones and VM Backups.
• Strong knowledge on resource management framework using Resource pools.
• Experience working with all VMware technologies like vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability (HA), Fault Tolerance (FT), DRS and Storage DRS etc.
• Patch management and upgrades using VMware update manager.
• Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter and Platespin.
• Hands on experience working with configuration and management of VMware vSphere Standard Switch & distributed Switch.
• Hands - on experience working on Microsoft SCCM, SCOM and SCVMM.
• Migrations and upgrades related to Active Directory or the Domain Controllers.
• Experience in performing several storage administration tasks like creating new luns on EMC storage arrays.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000/2003/2012 & R2/2016, VM Ware ESX/ESXI server, Linux, Windows XP/Vista/7, IBM AS400.

Virtualization: VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0, 5.5 vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5 ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5 VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation, Horizon View & NSX.

Windows Administration: Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2003/2008 - installation and configuration, configuration and management of Active Directory. Patch management using SCCM.

Networking: OSI Reference Model, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts including vSwitches, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP stack for virtualization, configuration of printers and, scanners.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380, BL460c and BL465c blade servers, C7000 and C3000 HP Chassis, Cisco UCS B460 and B260, EMC VMX, VNX and ISLON.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bedford, MA

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and Administering Windows servers 2008/2012.
• System administration of Microsoft systems with Microsoft security (Patch Management).
• Configuring Hyper-V, Configuring VM’s & Upgrading VM’s, Modifying and setup High availability Hyper-V Cluster.
• Working with ILO, RAID levels, troubleshooting System Drivers and Firmware incidents.
• Clustering, Network Load Balancing, failover systems, disaster recovery sites, data replication Security protection, Anti-virus Enterprise Management and analyzing packets using NETMON.
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012 Active Directory.
• Responsible for the migration of Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2008.
• Configuration of DHCP Relay Agent in Windows 2003/2008 platforms.
• Configuration of DHCP, DNS on Windows 2003/2008 platforms.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and management of Anti-Virus platform MacAfee.
• Hands on experience with PowerShell scripting for automated backups and monitoring systems, AD and Exchange logs.
• Developed PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in Exchange 2010.
• Experience with Power Shell Scripting Knowledge, PowerShell remoting, background Jobs, Script Cmdlets, Modules etc.
• VMware ESX/ESXi Host Server and Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration & Maintenance.
• Configured HA, DRS on clusters and did capacity planning for new clusters.
• Configured FT for business critical VM's.
• Designing dashboards and pull reports using vCops.
• Worked on ESXi and VM storage issues and also coordinated with the storage teams.
• Migrated about 1800 servers from Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) in both VMware and Hyper - V environments using platespin and VMware convertor.
• Upgraded the ESX/ESXi servers using vSphere update manager.
• Management of VMware Infrastructure through vCenter and vSphere client.
• Responsible for root cause analysis on performance issue and Virtual machine failures.
• Troubleshooting SAN related issues and firmware upgradations of SANs in VMware.
• Test and recommend Replication/Backup solutions for VMware, SAN and Disaster Recovery
• Configuration and Management of Datastores and storage clusters on vCenter server.
• Installation, Configuration and Management of hardware using HP One View and Virtual Connect Manager.

Environment: HP ProLiant DL380, BL460c and BL465c blade servers, C7000 and C3000 HP Chassis, Cisco UCS B460 and B260, EMC VMX, VNX and ISLON, VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0, 5.5 vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5 ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0,5.5 VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation, Horizon View & NSX.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in installation and administration of Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server.
• Involved in maintaining the Active Directory and GPO management.
• Troubleshooting OS related issues on VMs using Hyper-V manager console on windows2008.
• Extensive experience in Installing, configuring and managing web servers IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5
• Hands on experience in using NETMON & Process Monitoring tools to debug Application & Network related issues.
• Troubleshooting windows NLB cluster issues, Windows fail over Clustering on Windows Server 2008 platform.
• Troubleshooting windows update and performance issues.
• Troubleshooting server down and un-expected reboot of production servers.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting Network Load Balancing (NLB) issues on windows 2008 server.
• Installation and configuration of VPN server on windows 2008 platform to provide secure connection between branch networks.
• Accessing Remote Server through Terminal Services client on Windows 2008/2012 troubleshooting terminal server issues.
• Implemented PowerShell scripts that automated creation of contacts from Active Directory.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing guest Operating Systems.
• Designed, Implemented and Managed a VMware environment of 4 vCenters and 130 ESXi hosts with more than 2000 VM's.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources, Manage VM's using VMware virtual center and web access, Configurations of Virtual switched and network connections.
• Experience on creating host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).
• Experience in installing and configuring VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware VCA.
• Monitoring and maintenance of vCenter sever heartbeat.
• Providing and maintaining user access in vCenter, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS.
• Integrate SSO and two factor authentication with Active Directory.
• Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter Orchestrator.
• Patch management using VMware update manager for ESXi server.
• Configuration and Management of Datastores and storage clusters on vCenter server.
• Provided technical assistance in daily system checks and performance including backups and event logs.
• Use PowerShell scripts for the automation of the system. Work with Security team for Active Directory auditing.

Environment: UCS C240 M3, Cisco Nexus 5K, CISCO switches, HP P4000, VMware ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0 and Windows Server 2012R2/2008, Active Directory 2012, HP ProLiant Servers

Confidential, Islandia, NY

Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, Administration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/ 2012 Networks in a distributed, Multi-user environment.
• Troubleshooting windows update and performance issues.
• Configuration of DHCP, DNS on Windows 2008/ 2012 platforms.
• Dealing with clients to solve networking problems.
• Upgrade Windows 2003 to windows 2008.
• Configuring and Monitoring of group policies on sites, domains and OUs.
• Design and implement Active Directory service and systems policies.
• Administration and management of Network Printers and File Sharing.
• Trouble shooting systems, LAN, WAN and Firewall problems.
• Installation & Configuration of IIS with SSL, DNS, DHCP, FTP and Terminal servers.
• Backup & disaster recovery by Scheduling and Managing data backups on Windows Servers.
• Installing & managing ISA 2004, 2006 for internet sharing & restricted internet usage.
• Installing and troubleshooting experience with ESXi hosts and worked on creation of Templates, clones and used VM Backup and Replication for restoring VM's.
• Created HA and DRS clusters and Worked on configured FT for critical VM's.
• Configured vSphere HA, DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Configured VMware standard vSwitch & distributed vSwitch.
• Configured VMware virtual machine port groups, console ports groups, VM kernel port groups and VLANs.
• Installation, configuration and management of ESXi Servers on HP & Cisco hardware.
• Installation of vCenter Server, upgrading 40+ hosts from vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 5.0 and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Responsible for managing vCenter server and vSphere client for managing multiple ESXi hosts.
• Creating virtual NIC cards for the respective VMs and assigning the network connections.
• LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multi pathing.
• Creating and managing resource pools and adding the Virtual Machines into resource pools.
• Monitoring event logs, alarms and trouble shooting them.
• Coordinating with storage and network team based on the requirements.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of Virtual Machines & ESXi hosts (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security compliance.
• Monitoring and maintenance of vCenter sever heartbeat.
• LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multipathing.
• Preparing Reports on Root Cause Analysis & System Log Analysis.

Environment: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, ADDS, ADFS, Forest Migration, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, Insight Manager, IBM Director, Cisco Enterprise, Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5/5.0 & Citrix Client Tools.

Confidential, Westborough, MA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Windows Based Directory Services on Windows 2008 Domain.
• Creation of groups, group policies, task scheduling and various necessary tasks for the maintenance of the whole domain setup.
• Managing and Maintaining DNS, DHCP on Windows 2008 Server.
• Configured DHCP server with different scopes to automatically assign IP addresses to systems.
• Administrating Windows 2008 Server, managing user’s account, rights and permissions and allowing Users Registration on the Domain.
• Includes Installation & troubleshooting of local & network printers, Notebooks and Scanners.
• Additional Domain Controller (ADC), Installation and configuration of DNS server, Security Policy, Dynamic Disk, Software Router.
• Remote Installation service and Remote Desktop Connection.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates.
• Creating and managing multiple snapshots.
• Lead offshore and onsite team to build Windows 2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design in Virtual environment.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion, DRS, HA.
• Experience on Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, & 2008 using VMware Converter.
• Upgraded VMware ESX 3.5 servers to ESXi 4.0, 4.1 and ESXi servers 4.1 to 5.0
• Administered Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) hosting ESX 5.0
• Analyzed and Implemented OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool and also deploy patches using vCenter update manager.
• Assigning LUN's from storage array to ESXi hosts.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from vNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing process on updating Incident Reports and Change Requests.
• Assist production support team on incidents and alerts related to Cisco UCSM and VMware infrastructure.
• Manages resources and assigns projects as per customer requirements.

Environment: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, HP DL & ML server series, IBM Xseries and System x servers, HP Insight Manager, IBM Director, Cisco Enterprise Network.

Confidential

Jr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2008, 2008 R2, 2012
• Designing and implementation of secured network using CLAVISTER & NETASQ products.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining various firewalls like CLAVISTER Firewall.
• Securing connections using VPNs (IPSEC & SSL).
• Patching and fixing loopholes of servers.
• Network Auditing and Vulnerability management.
• Implementing Various Anti-Virus Products.
• Designing and implementing high speed LAN with Optic-Fiber to build network according to ISO standards.
• Perform Virtual Machine migration from Hyper-V to VMware cluster.
• Installation and Administration of Kaspersky Anti-Virus (KAV) software on Servers running Exchange server, File Server, Domain controller.
• Installation and Administration of KAV and Kaspersky Internet Security for Client machines.
• Knowledge on Symantec Endpoint protection and Bit-Defender Antivirus Software etc.

Environment: Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, ADDS, ADFS, Forest Migration, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, VMware View, HP Insight Manager, IBM Director.

Confidential

IT Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performs system administration functions including new system configuration, software installations.
• Working knowledge of FTP, DHCP, SSH, DNS, NIS, NFS and Samba.
• Responsible for maintaining user and group management.
• Able to configure and connect through Remote Access Service(RAS) and Remote Desktop Service(RDS).
• To install and manage operating systems through windows deployment services(WDS).
• Monitoring and basic troubleshooting of storage devices.
• Collaborated with multiple support teams to resolve critical time-sensitive issues, and responded to system emergencies.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in the initial VMware farm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Performed troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms.
• Performed server incident root cause, service, and crash dump analysis.

Environment: MS Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Active Directory services, Clusters, SSH, SNM, DNS, DHCP, GPOs, FTP, SCOM, SCCM. Patching and OS deployment, TCP/IP, VMware ESX vSphere 4.x