SUMMARY:

• Over 7+ years of experience in Data Center Operations, IT Operations Management, Cloud/Automation management, Security, Process Enhancements and Team Management.
• Experience in Windows and Virtual infrastructure resources, System and Network administration, VMware Configuration & Administration, System Design, Data Center management, Data Center Migration, Implementation & maintenance of highly scalable 24x7 availability solutions.
• Proficient in Windows Server 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2 as well as Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and Windows 10 operating systems.
• Working knowledge in VMware Private Cloud, AWS and ipSCCM IaaS environments.
• Design and Implement virtualization solutions based on VMware VSphere ESXi 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1, ESX 4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 platform, vCenter 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0/2.5.
• Managing all aspects of VMware vSphere environments including vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Fault Tolerance, VMFS Datastore, Host profiles, Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring.
• Performed several P2V, V2V migrations using VMware Converter.
• Strong understanding of Hyper - V and VMware Networking concepts like different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware 4.x, 5.x, 6.x.
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x/6.x and vCenter environment.
• Excellent experience with VMware update manager to install patches and perform upgrades on ESXi hosts.
• Experience in configuring different types of storage Pools and thick and thin provisioned LUN’s.
• Deployed and administered Microsoft SQL Server in standalone and clustered environments.
• Working knowledge in AWS -EC2, IAM, VPC, and Storage.
• Excellent Hands-on experience in configuring Servers, Windows Cluster, SQL Cluster, SQL AO, MySQL, Hyper-V, VMware, VMs, SCCM.
• Hands-on experience in Building, Implementing and Supporting CISCO UCS.
• Expert in Configuring Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012, Linux servers.
• Knowledge in Active Directory Management, SCVMM, creating groups, assigning permissions.
• Coordinated with other teams to support network hardware such as firewalls, load balancers and switches and storage hardware such as SAN, DAS and NAS systems. Good knowledge on analyzing performance metrics and memory management techniques.
• Knowledge on generating and analyzing custom reports in vCOps.
• Monitoring of VM’s & ESXi server components (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) and security hardening for Security Compliance.
• Experience in analyzing the workloads and provided advice on the landing zones.
• Extensive experience with Windows clustering on virtualized environments.
• Extensive experience in managing vBlock using native element managers including vCenter, UCS, UIM, Unisphere, Cisco Nexus CLI and fabric manager.
• Developed and implemented procedures for operational processes including deployment, upgrade, migration and maintenance.
• Creating and configuring VMs and preparing build verification lists for provisioned VMs.
• VMware implementation and expansion work. Management of a 200 node ESX Farm running 1800 plus VM's. Designed and implemented fully automated DRS and HA clusters with HP and Hitachi SAN storage.
• Extensive experience with designing, managing and supporting the Active Directory, WSUS Infrastructure, ADFS Infrastructure, and DNS Infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN. Increasing resources like HDD, Memory and CPU.
• Experience in Designing and implementing end to end solutions for Microsoft based products like Windows Active Directory, Exchange Email system, SCCM for application, patch, and computer management, SCOM for alerting and monitoring Server health, DPM-Data Protection Manager for Backup and restore.
• Performed Restoring of failed Exchange servers and email databases from backups.
• Strong knowledge of VMware vRealize Operations Management and vRealize Automation 6.x.
• Familiar with EMC Storage Arrays, IBM Arrays, CISCO & Brocade Switches.
• Good knowledge of SAN storages such as EMC VNX/ VMAX/ VMAX3/ XtremIO, SAN switches, LUN expansion storage and pool migration.
• Provided Support for Citrix VDI environment and assist in migrating workloads to VMware VDI.
• Worked on different Hypervisors platforms such as VMware ESXi, Citrix XenApp, and Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity planner. Updated ILO versions of Physical hosts.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates. Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware and HP Blade servers resulting in a reduction of racks and power usage, decrease downtime during maintenance and upgrades and improved monitoring.
• Follow CIS Security Benchmark for server compliance and hardening.
• Experience with Data Center Migrations, Planning and Architecture of Physical and Virtual Datacenter.
• Excellent ability to develop a strong working relationship with the client and set correct expectations, including in-scope deliverables, status reporting content, feedback and transition plans.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

O/S: Windows 2003/2008 R2/2012/2016, RHEL 4/5/6, ESX/ESXi server 6.x, 5.x/4.1/4.0, vSphere 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0 /4.1, VSphere Client, VCenter, Vmotion, Storage vMotion, Vmware. Update Manager, Vmware Tools, Vmware Converter, Vmware Workstation, Microsoft Hyper-V, DRS, HA, FT, vRealize, vOrchestrator and vBlock.MS SQL Database, F5 Load Balancer, IIS/Apache Web server.

Cloud: Azure and AWS.

Automation Tool: Runbook.

Database: MS-SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 and Oracle 8/9i/10g/11i, IBM DB2.

DevOps Tool: CHEF, Vagrant, GIT.

Scripting Skill: Power Shell, Shell Script, Ruby.

Hardware: HP, Cisco UCS, IBM Blades, HP Blades, Dell Power Edge Servers.

Monitoring Tool: Site Scope, HP Sim, DELL IT Assistance.

Backup Tools: Windows NT Backup. Commvault, VERITAS Netback up, TSM, Avamar and Data Domain.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cincinnati, Ohio

System Admin (Windows/Wintel & VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to manage all administration work of Windows 2008/2012/2016 servers, Linux Redhat, Hyper-VMware Server.
• Configured and managed VSphere 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, ESXi hosts and VMs.
• Created LUNs, META LUNs, Storage Groups, and RAID groups.
• Restoration and Hardening of Windows Servers which are affected by Malware.
• Administered VMware ESXi Servers on HP C7000/Cisco UCS Blade Server Environment.
• Configured and managed View Desktop Virtualization (VDI).
• Created base images, pools and deploy virtual desktops for all departments based on requirement.
• Deployed VApp workflow is to provide a single call workflow that is capable of instantiating a VApp Template from vCloud Director (vCD) and performing a number of operations on the resulting VApp before actually deploying and powering it on.
• Involved in Operational support for B-Series and C-Series Cisco UCS hardware that runs VMware vSphere 5.1 -
• Implemented and designed cloud solution based on VMware VCloud Director for users.
• Experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion and HA technology.
• Configured and maintain new VM's, install Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Servers, manage VM's and ESX servers and install VMware Tools on VM's.
• Support and Manage VMware 6.0 infrastructure, installation and configuration of vCenter Server.
• Configured vCenter and ESXi for vRealize Automation and NSX integrated environment.
• Responsible for vRealize configuration Manager and its configuration. Installed agents on Windows server for patch management.
• Worked on Azure Multifactor Authentication, AD FS service to enable SSO with Office 365, Single Sign-on SSO with Azure and Office 365.
• Worked with 3rd party or Microsoft tools used in conjunction with Office 365.
• Merging 3rd party apps like Slack, salesforce, Workday in office 365.
• Maintain SSL certificates for multiple company sites both via outside hosting and internal IIS
• Configured VMs availability sets using Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic.
• Creating and managing the VMware cluster with HA and DRS. Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.
• Created Azure Automation Assets, Graphical runbooks, PowerShell runbooks that will automate specific tasks. Expertise in deploying Azure AD Connect, configuring ADFS authentication flow, ADFS installation using Azure AD Connect.
• VMware Horizon Client/VDI support and management
• Experience in making Cluster Settings, Adding rules according to Environment.
• Created and managed Host profiles, Datastore Pools for Multiple Host and Datastore Clusters across Multiple Data centers.
• ESXi patching using VMware Update Manager.
• Performed VMotion and Storage Migration of over 1000 VMs to consolidate multiple vDataCenters into one coordinating with the storage and network teams to migrate storage (EMC SAN) from one vDatacenter to another.
• Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, Storage vMotion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates. Managing vCenter permissions. Installation of VMware Tools and upgrade of ESX hosts.
• Expertise in troubleshooting and resolving issues in enterprise Citrix environment, Including Web Interface, application enumeration and performance issues, Printing and provisioning issues, for internal and external clients.
• Configured Source Control for Azure Automation Account, Created PowerShell Runbooks which was checked in for source control, version history, management, and security.
• Administering Windows servers 2008/2012/2016 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project. Creating and maintaining users, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Worked in Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Virtual Server Administration, and Patch Management on Microsoft Windows Servers.
• Suggesting software and hardware refreshing and active directory compliance setup for the forecast of FY2016.
• Conducted in-depth onsite architecture and configuration analysis of company VMWARE VSAN clusters, delivered documented current state and future state technical designs for future state compute platforms.
• Delivered an upgrade plan to bring mission critical vSphere VSAN clusters to 6.6, to meet demanding I/O requirements and deliver 24x7 reliable platforms.
• Deployed an automated provisioning workflow using VCOPS and checking performance of whole infrastructure.
• Created thin provisioned VMs as per client application requirements and expanding Hard Disk sizes as requested.
• Involved in build and maintain Highly Available secure multi-zone AWS cloud infrastructure utilizing Chef with AWS Cloud Formation and Jenkins for continuous integration.
• AWS Cloud administration - managing EC2 instances, S3, SES and SNS services.
• Build and customize OS images based on customer client needs. Deploy VDI environments and maintain images, desktops, and profiles.
• Provide support to private cloud environment build on OpenStack.
• Implementing and administering VMware vSphere, HA settings, DRS settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, Data Stores, and Networking techniques.
• Configured multipathing options on the hosts as per requirement.
• Experience in monitoring cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and other servers.Experience in creating custom alerts and setting up SNMP traps in multiple vCenters.
• Installing and Administering the various virtualization components like VCenter, vSphere etc.
• Installing vSphere 6.0/5.5 on half blade and full blade servers on Cisco UCS.
• Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Composed SCCM 2012 reports for customers, direct management & executive management teams.
• Supported all Windows, SCCM & SCOM servers at hardware, OS & application levels.
• Implementation of PowerShell scripts to efficiently fix errors for the customer's support teams found through the Active Directory environment.
• Installed, configured, and maintained Active Directory and third party migration products for the duration of the project.
• Supported VMware, specifically ESXi 6.5, 6.0 & 5.5 to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over servers.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Involved in the migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machine files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion issues related to Windows, application, virus isolation, and removal, storage and hardware configuration problems.
• Performed daily duties including answering internal support calls, Data Center walkthroughs, system health checks and event notification.
• Install, configure, and manage virtual machine resources, Infrastructure break fixes and root cause analysis.
• Work with various data center teams to implement networking and other infrastructure related changes.
• Working and support public cloud team for creating, managing VMs in AWS.
• Currently working in Private cloud automation project using CHEF, Vagrant, GIT, PowerShell, Ruby.
• Driving the Server Compliance Automation using CHEF and Unit Testing the recipes using RSPEC.
• Update the Active Directory Schema on Windows Server 2008 for updating the Exchange server CUs. It is an important prerequisite for update exchange server and install exchange server 2016.
• Fixed synchronization errors for Active Directory, SMTP and GUID and Immutable ID issues
• Provide input into system migration, hardware upgrade and replacements, and other changes which occur within the IT environment.
• Ensure the overall health of infrastructure services and hardware throughout the environment.
• Ensure appropriate documentation for specific support requirements.
• Develop and execute on maintenance plans across the environment, including deployment of security updates, security management, capacity/usage assessments, batch processing, and operating system and platform evolution planning.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

System Admin (Windows/Wintel & VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Administration of Windows 2008, 2012 servers, Install, configure, and manage Cisco UCS, Hyper-V, SCVMM.
• Installing and Administering the various virtualization components like vCenter, vSphere etc.
• Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Supported VMware, specifically ESXi 5.5 to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over servers.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESXi hosts
• Implemented and Tested desktop virtualization and introduced VMware View to the client
• Reviewed tasks, issues and recommend changes to reduce problem reoccurrences
• Configured Network and Server Software, Hardware and peripheral devices to resolve network issues
• Provided performance metrics, work load status update, and project status updates at biweekly workload tracking meetings
• Experience utilizing vCenter, including vSphere Command-Line Interface commands
• Performed data center Migration & Maintained data center Environment
• Configuration of vMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware vCenter. Administered and managed EMC storage, Xtreme IO drives.
• Configure, maintain, and monitor general purpose and critical computing assets through Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
• Maintains the Enterprise SCCM Tier I application and SQL databases. Deploy standardized software updates.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS, FT in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Determine need for and deploy patches for operating system and application software for ECO.
• Worked in Microsoft Azure Platform for migrating ECO infrastructure from On-Premise to Azure Cloud.
• Used PowerShell to Move VMs, Installation dependent software, Administrator Azure.
• Implementing Hyper-V cluster on Cisco UCS and build virtual environment.
• Prepaid plan to Install, configure, and manage Replication in Hype-V for disaster recovery of virtual environment, SQL clusters/ IIS servers.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment including shared files.
• Implemented GPO's, distribution groups and security groups via Active Directory on Microsoft Server 2008/2012.
• Install, configure, and administrator IIS servers' internet/intranet within various domains in virtual environment.
• Configuring applications in Global load balances, SSL certificates and ACLs management, Infrastructure break fixes and root cause analysis.
• Working with vendors to fix hardware related issues, Patching /IPAK installation of Windows and SQL servers.
• Provide assistance to application management team in troubleshooting, deployment, and monitoring of applications residing in the production environment.
• Administrating the Domain and Services, Active Directory, GPO, IIS (performing code loads on the production environment), Generating certificate request and Installing VeriSign certificate on the website.
• Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory Services.
• 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.
• Provide input into system migration, hardware upgrade and replacements, and other changes which occur within the IT environment.
• Decommissioned and deployed new Cisco UCS chassis and blades in present and new datacenters.
• Managed individual VMs for performance (disk tier, vCPU and vRAM adjustments as needed), new builds and decommissions.
• Install, configure, and manage virtual machine resources.
• Install, configure, and manage Replication in Hype-V for disaster recovery of virtual environment.
• Installation and administration of SQL clusters/ IIS servers.
• Configuring applications in Global load balances. SSL certificates and ACLs management.
• Infrastructure break fixes and root cause analysis. Working with vendors to fix hardware related issues.
• Patching /IPAK installation of Windows and SQL servers.
• Working with Planning and Application team for new hardware estimation.
• Adhere and implement the procurement process at time of new hardware procurement.
• Develop and execute on maintenance plans across the environment, including deployment of security updates, security management, capacity/usage assessments, batch processing, and operating system and platform evolution planning.

Confidential, Brookhaven, Georgia

VMware & Windows System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Build virtual infrastructure from scratch.
• Installation and Administration of HP Proliant and Dell servers. Configure OBA and iLO for HP chassis C7000.
• Install VMware ESXi 5.0 U1 on HP blades BL685 and add network & Hitachi storage for ESXi servers.
• Install and configure vCenter 5.0 with SQL Database.
• Installation and Administration of Fail over cluster in Windows 2003/2008 environment.
• Set up virtual network using vSphere Distributed Switch, standard switch, port groups and VM kernel.
• Deploy multiple VMs from template using Power CLI.
• Installation and support of VMWARE ESX 5.0 servers which hosts the virtual servers for the test/dev/staging/production environment.
• Creating clusters, Resource pools and adding VM's to them and installing VM Tools.
• Configured HA and DRS, SDRS as per VMware best practices.
• Exporting diagnostic data from ESXi & Virtual center for advanced troubleshooting.
• Virtualized Windows servers 2003 & 2008 using VMware Converter 5.0 and 4.1.
• Install & configure update manager for ESXi server patching, Performance monitoring & analysis of ESXi & Virtual machines.
• Used Citrix Director and Citrix AppCenter to managed user sessions, published applications and Citrix servers for both Citrix 7.6 and 6.5 environments.
• Build Physical servers using Windows 2003/2008 ISO image on HP blades BL685 and BL465.
• Installation and Administration of Fail over cluster in Windows 2003/2008 environment.
• Sorted complex issues pertaining to hardware and network failure - Monitored both Hardware and Software systems for errors and updated them regularly to maintain proper functioning and flow of information.
• Deployed performance monitoring tools.
• Worked on SCCM 2007 for advertising and distribution of packages. Using Image captured WIM files to deploy Images using SCCM 2007.
• Recommended new updates and changes required by the clients.
• Provide support for Windows Server 2003/2008, Active Directory, and other Windows-related technologies.
• Deploy Windows patches using SCCM.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools various Server, Network and Storage related policies. Migrate Server 2003 to 2008R2 Active Directory and FSMO Roles.
• Create group policy objects (GPO) and organizational units (OUs).
• Implemented user administration like adding, deleting and modifying user accounts.
• Coordinate and monitor troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common system problems: document system events to ensure continuous functioning. Recommend course of action and implement as approved.
• Handled technical documentation for quality, compliance and security purpose.
• Manage multi-domain network; installed domain servers, set domain user account & local policies, creating Windows, Mac & Linux file shares.
• Responsible of Management of Web servers - IIS 6.0.
• Maintaining Production, Staging and Development environments consisting of Windows IIS servers.
• Tuning, deployment, optimizing and managing a cluster of IIS 6.0 webservers running on Windows 2003.
• Deploy web content.IIS tuning and IIS metabase tuning.
• Managing application monitoring and alerting.
• Securely manage application components within a DMZ architecture, including load balancing, requesting firewall rules and local host security mechanisms appropriate to minimize risk and exposure while maintaining good application performance.
• Integration of websites with databases.Windows/Linux Server Administration and configuring servers according to project need.
• Installation of Web/App Instances. IIS scripting & Performance Monitoring of web Servers.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

System Admin - Intern

Responsibilities:

• Administrating, Configuring Windows Server (local & remote), & Linux Server.
• Configuring IIS on local and remote server.
• Worked on Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Group Policies, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc. Maintained and Supported Active Directory Services using Group Policy
• Configured outlook, Citrix, Internet, Cisco VPN and McAfee.
• Administration and Maintenance of Routers, Switches, Hubs, Leased, Dial Up Data Circuits & ISDN Line. Internet Proxy, and FTP Server. Administered/ maintained Red Hat Linux servers and system application.
• Migration of servers to new hardware (HP Blade Center) and new OS version, responsible for all UNIX related issues including OS, device drivers, OS tuning, environment setup for applications and updates.
• Application Migration from physical to virtual/virtual to virtual platform.
• Setup DRS and HA and daily tasks include Vmotion, Cloning, Snapshots and provisioning storage.
• Perform Migrations using VMware Converter Hot or Cold P2V for Windows or Linux.
• Build and maintain Windows 2003 servers, including IIS, SQL, and Application hosts.
• Administer and support Microsoft Windows Directory Services Infrastructure, including Active
• Uploading Application and configuring it on Remote Server IIS, .Net & SQL Server.
• Configuring & Maintaining Gateway, NAT, VPN, Firewall Server (Microsoft ISA Firewall Server)
• Administrating Mail Server (Exchange and FtGate).
• Configuring & Maintaining, DNS, FTP, DHCP Server. Creating the application .NET, PHP and database environment for developers.
• Taking Backup Utilizing Veritas Backup Exec & Auto Loader (DLT).
• Managed windows domain network; installed domain servers, set domain user account.
• Managed Linux Server, Apache Server. Managed Kerio Mail Server on Linux Platform.
• Configured & Maintained, DNS, IIS, FTP, DHCP Server. Taking Backup using Windows Backup Tool.
• Hardware troubleshooting. Installed Windows server, clients and configured the networks for different clients.
• Conducted deployments of objects and data through development, testing, replicated pre-production and replicated production environments.