SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with over 8+ years of experience in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration, Administration, Support of Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012, VMware ESXi 4.1.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0, and vCenter Server 4/5/6.0.
• Expertise in building, installing and configuring and support of Windows 2008/2008R2/2012 Servers, upgrading Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 and 2012 on both physical and virtual machines to ensure server compliancy as part of the upgrade/build process.
• Experience implementing WSUS and SCCM 2007/2012 for centralizing the OS and security patch management throughout the data center on the servers running windows operating system.
• Experience in creating WWPN, WWNN, and IQN Pools for FC and iSCSI Storage connectivity for storage provisioning on UCS Blade profiles.
• Expertise in building, configuring and upgrading Confidential - 7000 Enclosures with Confidential BL 460’s, BL 620’s, BL 680’s containing Intel Processors, Confidential Integrity BL 870c i2 utilizing OA, VCEM, Confidential Virtual Connect Support Utility
• Experience in configuring Confidential C-7000 Flex-10/Flex Fabric Shared Uplink Sets, SAN Fabrics, and Server Profiles on Virtual Connect Manager for BL460c, BL680c g6/g7/g8/g9 blades on Confidential C7000 enclosures.
• Experience setting up IT AUDIT controls, protecting information assets, to meet ITIL, SOX, HIPAA, CIS, SCSEM, and PCI compliance standards.
• Experience creating and deploying packages, advertisements on collections for monthly security patch upgrades in SCCM 2007/2012.
• Experience in deploying, maintaining and supporting Citrix XenApp, XenServer, XenDesktop environments as part of day to day operations.
• Expertise migrating 8000+ Windows Server 2003 servers to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 as part of large refresh/migration project.
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0, and vCenter Server 4/5/6.
• Expertise in Administering and supporting Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2 Active Directory (AD), DNS, DHCP, WINS, Sharepoint, SCCM 2007/2012, SCOM, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010.
• Knowledge of Managing User accounts under Active Directory and creating Group Policy, Active Directory Federation services (ADFS)
• Experience in configuring, maintaining and supporting Microsoft Cluster Server for MSSQL servers.
• Experience writing both Power Shell and PowerCLI scripts to automate Virtual Machine builds and DNS entry configurations.
• Expertise in creating AD 2003, 2008, 2012 accounts, file permissions, DNS records administration.
• Expertise in designing, implementing Active Directory (AD) roles, features and Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012
• Experience setting up IT AUDIT controls, protecting information assets, to meet ITIL, PCI, SOX compliance standards.
• Expertise web server Administration, installing and managing IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5 web servers and hosted internal web applications.
• Expertise working on Confidential Service manager/Service Center to create “Line Items”, “Incidents” to maintain all tickets queue’s as well as auditing procedures as well as BMC Remedy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft: Windows Server (2012, 2008 and 2003), MOM, SCCM, SCOM, WSUS.

VMware Products: Design and implement Virtual Infrastructure 4/5 with Virtual Center, ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x vMotion, HA, DRS, Managing Resource pools, ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Converter, Virtual Center, ESXi Patch management.

Storage: iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC CLARiiON, VMAX, VNX, NetApp 6240, 6040 FAS Solutions.

Hardware: IBM Blade center HS-series/X-Series HS22/HS23, Cisco UCS B200 s B250 s M1 s M2 s Confidential BL460C, C-7000, DL580 s.

Racks and Cabling: Installation of Hardware, Cable Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Windows Server/VMware Systems Engineer

• Build, install, configure and support of Windows 2008/2008R2/2012 Servers, upgrading Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 and 2012 on both physical and virtual machines to ensure server compliancy as part of the build process.
• Design and Implement a migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the world to two centralized locations in US which involves 6000+ servers of various Windows Server 2003/2008 versions.
• Configure, maintain and support Microsoft Cluster Server for MSSQL and IIS webservers to maximize uptime and configure active/active and active/passive nodes.
• Deploy security patches, updates as part of the patching cycle using WSUS and SCCM.
• Expertise migrating 8000+ Windows Server 2003 servers to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 as part of large refresh/migration project.
• Installation of ESXi 4.1/5/5.1/5.5 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM’s across 10 Datacenters running 10000+ VM’s.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 5.0/5.1/ Virtual Center 5.0/5.1, vCenter Servers as well as upgrading to ESXi 5.5/6.0 and Virtual Center 5.5/6.0.
• Configure and manage Oracle PeopleSoft 9.1 application servers running on Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Ensure all IT AUDIT controls, protecting information assets to meet ITIL, SOX, HIPAA, CIS, SCSEM, and PCI compliance standards.
• Architected and engineered the entire P2V, V2V, P2P datacenter migration project by working application owners, databases owners to consolidate the legacy physical environment to a upgraded virtual environment.
• Provide 1st/2nd/3rd level support for Windows/ESXi servers running on a combination of Confidential /IBM/Cisco hardware.
• Engineer and consolidate EMC storage solution and migrate the entire Windows bare metal environment to NetApp Based solution (MPIO) utilizing robocopy and Storage vMotion.
• Configuring and Administering Exchange Servers, SMTP, Terminal Servers, DNS, DHCP, CIFS, SNMP, NTFS, FTP, SFTP, robocopy and LDAP on Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 server environment.
• Setting up IT AUDIT controls, protecting information assets, to meet ITIL, PCI, SOX compliance standards.
• Deploy, install and support custom build GIS infrastructure applications, asset management applications as part daily 24/7 operations support.
• Work with application owners, Database owners to schedule downtimes, maintenance windows to schedule the migration efforts.
• Implementing GPO’s (Group Policy Objects) to ensure stability, reliability, control and monitor the environment.
• Responsible for capacity planning, design, install and configuration of newly provisioned Confidential -C7000 enclosures, build Linux, Windows and ESXi servers on BL 460’s and BL620’s.
• Configure Flex-10 Shared Uplink Sets, SAN Fabrics on Virtual Connect Manager for BL460c, BL680c g6/g7/g8/g9 blades on Confidential C7000 enclosure.
• Administering/Supporting production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, DNS, DHCP, NTP, Proxy File and print Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012.
• Provide hands/feet support across multiple datacenters as well as stack/rack of cabling and servers.
• Creating standard process for advanced group policy deployment management as well as Active Directory users and group’s management.
• Configure and deploy new Microsoft windows using WSUS, SCCM 2007/2012 and Confidential Opsware for security patch management throughout the new and legacy environments.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Windows/VMware/Network Systems Administrator

• Windows Server 2003/2008R2 OS build, IP Configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds and Support & Administration.
• Responsible for binding any new SAN LUNs and configuring storage groups using OnCommand Manager on NetApp FAS Solutions Platform and UNISPHERE on EMC VNX/VMAX.
• Develop, test, and maintain a Disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• VB SCRIPTS, PowerShell, Win Batch, PS tools and Windows command-line Scripting to automate the manual tasks on Servers and Client computers.
• Planning and configuring new internal & external websites utilizing IIS 6.0/7.0.
• Deploying and troubleshoot .Net based Applications and Java based apps on IIS 6.0/7.0
• Create and Setup monitoring PowerShell scripts to monitor system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
• Used NetBackup for backing up & restoration of file systems.
• Helped to configure and maintain IIS 6/7/7.5 webserver server clustering, failovers and load balancing.
• Active Directory (AD) user and security group creation, create shares and designate permissions, organizational units.
• Participate in the troubleshooting activities associated with daily operation works.
• Implement and support new and existing activities configuration
• Provide 24/7 support to Middleware application servers (Weblogic, Tomcat, JBoss), Webservers (Apache, IIS, Oracle IPlanet) and Database servers (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL).
• Supporting the windows server for various customers in shift basis.
• Perform daily systems monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs.
• Ensuring the Network Infrastructure is up and running.
• Install components such as modems, cords, splitter, and Ethernet NIC, routers and jacks.
• Management and troubleshooting of media servers, media gateways, and IP phones.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Windows/VMware Systems Administrator

• Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Windows Server/Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and Templates and cloning Virtual Machines.
• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with servers and Desktops
• Maintaining backups and restores of the Production and Development data.
• Involve in the installation Windows Server 2003 user environment including on hardware and software.
• Experience in both hardware and software level RAID Configurations & troubleshooting
• Network Attached Storage Implementations.
• Windows Server and Desktop administration.
• Added SAN Storage on a regular basis to clusters based on capacity requirements.
• Installing and Troubleshooting Servers through ILO.