SUMMARY

• Gather Engineering Requirements for migrating applications from on - premises Datacenter to another datacenter, schedule planning sessions for sizing out teh respective cloud environments, and create architectural diagrams showing teh process flow
• Work on POCs, Automate as much of it as possible and halp set up environments on VMware Environment: VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling, Resource Pools, VMware High Availability (HA), Virtual Switches(Standard & Distributed), Enhanced vMotion (EVC), ESX Host Profiles, Distributed Switch (vDS), Update Manager and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
• Configured VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) on both protected and recovery sites.
• Capacity planning and primary implementer on two primary projects, End of Lease and Morton Exit
• Hands on Experience on vCenter server consolidations, deployment and configurations
• Expert on cross vCenter migrations and cross datacenter migrations wifout any outage
• Hands on Expertise on PowerShell/PowerCLI scripting and automated all day to day activities in teh current environment
• Installed, configured, administered and upgraded vCenter Server 5.X, 6.X, ESXi 5.X, 6.X and RHEL 5.X, 6.X, 7.X as well as maintenance of their associated Hardware infrastructure
• Expertise in troubleshooting, Performance Monitoring and tuning of servers running mission critical applications
• Configure Classic and Application Load Balancer, Auto Scaling group for High availability and Fault Tolerant System
• Install and Configure EC2 Instances of Amazon Linux, Windows, Ubuntu, RHEL
• Implement EC2 backup strategies by creating EBS snapshots and attaching teh volume to EC2 instances

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Solutions: vCenter Server, SRM, VROPS, vRA

Compute Hardware: CISCO UCS, IBM, HP, DELL

Network Management Tools: Wireshark

Simulators: MATLAB, Verilog HDL

Programming Languages: C, C++, PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python

Storage: NAS, SAN, iSCSI, VMAX

Operating Systems: RHEL, ESXi, Windows, Ubuntu

Other Technologies: Visio, MS Office, Notepad++

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience in planning and execution for migrating workloads across vCenters and physical datacenters wifout any impact
• Efficient scripting knowledge on PowerCLI/PowerShell and automated day to day activities like creating virtual switches, updating security policies, Clusters, adding hosts to vCenter server etc.
• Expertise in documenting procedures and mentoring L2/L3 troubleshooting ways to team
• Upgraded VMware ESXi host networking from CISCO 1KV to VMware Distributed Switch
• Upgraded VMware ESXi hosts from 5.1 to 5.5 and 5.5 to 6.0 by ensuring right drivers are updated on teh different hardware models like IBM and CISCO UCS
• Worked actively during 2016 DR test and recovered ramdisk corruptions on RHEL 6 servers and validated those servers wif business partners on teh recovery site. Hands on experience on creating service profiles, racking/un-racking blades, associate/disassociate profiles and creating various pools like IP, MAC, and UUID on UCS Manager.
• Hands on experience on datacenter support and coordinated wif different vendors on hardware replacements.
• Knowledge on VROPS and developed blue prints for virtual machine deployments using vRA.
• Capacity planning for End of Lease and MExit projects and coordinating wif other team to migrate workloads.
• Developed process for migrating non-production RHEL workloads from East Peoria to Plano as part of MExit project.
• Migrated NAS mounts on RHEL servers as part of NAS End of Lease. Developed scripts to NAS migration in order to ease teh process wif 100’s of mounts.
• Installation, configuration of vCenter servers, RHEL, SRM and vRA.
• Well versed in configuring volume groups, logical volumes and extended logical volumes for system growth using logical volume manager.
• Expertise in troubleshooting performance/high priority issues on RHEL and ESXi servers.
• Hands on experience in installation, configuration and troubleshooting RHEL servers 4.X/5.X/6.X

Confidential, New Haven, CT

Graduate Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Extensively engaged in teh research activities, particularly working/testing on virtualization technologies and Software Defined Networks.
• Gained experience in building and configuring different hypervisors like VMware, KVM and Hyper-V.
• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting various issues during teh process of implementation in collaboration wif teh network team.
• Daily managed network equipment and upgraded software.
• Assumed responsibility for network maintenance at a physical level, cabling and racking network devices in data center.
• Utilized virtual lab for security attacks investigation.
• Identified and eliminated numerous network-related issues.

Confidential

Jr. Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Taught teh introduction course of programming languages to first year students, leveraging technical/ engineering expertise.
• Installed and configured Windows and Ubuntu workstations and assembled hardware.
• Served as a key contributor to teh development of new teaching materials for various Computer Engineering courses ensuring compliance of content/teaching methods to learning objectives.