SUMMARY

• 8 Years of Professional Experience on Windows, Active Domain Services and VMware administration.
• Experience with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring and administering VMware ESX / ESXi and created, managed VMs (virtual server) and involved in the maintenance of the virtual server.
• Experience and Knowledge of CISCO, CMP, Python compliance controls such as DLP and RMS and vCenter Operations Manager, vCenter Orchestrator, vCenter Cloud Automation Center, vCenter
• Knowledge of Cisco Routers/Switches, firewall, load balancers and TCP/IP protocols.
• Windows and VMware with Core Experience with Active Directory Administration and VMware virtualization technologies and Operations Support.
• In depth knowledge and technical proficiency in TCP/IP protocol stack and other network protocols such as: DNS, CISCO UCS, DHCP, Direct Access 2012 / 2016, VPN, and IPV4 / IPV6.
• Implemented migration to cloud Azure Environment.
• Experience with NetIQ Directory Resource Administrator (DRA) product requires regular read and write access into the Active Directory Domains, and any Office 365 tenants managed by each DRA Server.
• Experienced in Implementation and Migration of Skype for Business, Lync 2010, Lync 2013, Active Directory 2003, 2008 and 2012, System Center 2012.
• Excellent understanding of Exchange Online Configuration and Email migration, FIM synchronization.
• Successfully created team sites on SharePoint Online and SharePoint migration to Office 365.
• Vast experience troubleshooting issues with Outlook, Exchange server, ActiveSync and OWA. ensure this process occurs in a timely manner each DRA Server will cache a limited number of properties about all AD object types supported by DRA.
• Implementing, Maintaining AD Infrastructure as a service in Microsoft Azure cloud platform Imp
• Providing security for servers using iptables, ssh, kerbos
• Install, configure and maintain VMWARE ESX virtual environment
• Installed, configured, and maintained multiple production and development servers
• Designed and maintained both Solaris and Red Hat Linux infrastructures
• Provided system and log analysis, performance tuning, and monitoring.
• Maintained and support eTrust Access Control and KERBOS for all UNIX user accounts
• Migration Experience from Google apps to Office 365.
• Migration of SharePoint sites to Office 365 site using migrations.
• Binary Tree and Quest Migration Manager Tool experience in O365 migration
• Administered Microsoft SCCM 2012 environment, including creating or editing security groups, application deployment patch management, general troubleshooting.
• Served as Senior Systems Engineer design, installation, support which include, server management, VMware, MS Active Directory, McAfee EPO, Enterprise Storage, and Enterprise Backup services.
• Troubleshooting WebLogic, Tibco, and java related problems in production, staging and QA environment
• Provide routing and switching troubleshooting and support
• Installed, configured and provide support for the LDAP in the development, testing, staging and production environment
• Work on Cisco Datacenter Servers (UCS/UCSM) and Datacenter ACI switching.
• Active Directory Engineer Designing, implementing changes, troubleshooting, supporting Enterprise Wide Windows Active Directory environment composed of Multi - Forest environment with different Trusts, Multi-Forest migration and creation, multiple Domain environment, multiple domain consolidations and retirements, Sites and Services, Site replications, domain controllers holding different FSMO roles, DNS troubleshooting,
• User base accounts of 15,000 and Windows server count of 2,000 running different flavors of Windows Operating

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• VMware vSphere 4.0 / 4.1 / 5.0, vCenter Server 4.0 / 4.1 / 5.0, ESX 3.5 / 4.0 / 4.1 / 5.0 , VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, CISCO UCS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation, Windows Administration Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2012 R / 2016 - installation and configuration, installation and configuration of Active Directory creating users and groups, setting user access controls, domains creation and setup
• OSI Reference Model, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts including vSwitches, UCS, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP stack for virtualization, configuration of printers and, scanners
• HP ProLiant DL380 G5 / G6 Intel Xeon, HP ProLiant DL385 G6 / G7 AMD Opteron, Dell PowerEdge 2850, 2950, R710, HP BL 460c G5 / G6 blade servers, C7000 HP Chassis. NetApp V6000 Series
• Windows servers 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, Windows OS XP / Vista / 7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York City, NY

VMware VDI Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on management and design of a huge environment with thousands of ESXi hosts spreaded across various datacenters.
• Build new ESXi 6.0 hosts from the scratch and did the complete configuration for US and Caribbean locations.
• Installing, Configuring & Troubleshooting of the ESXi 5.1 and 6.0 in different types of HP ProLiant servers
• Co-ordinated with the network team to plan the structure of network to be used for the new ESXi hosts like number of NICs, vLANs, subnets etc.
• Deployed PowerShell scripts to various VCenter servers for monthly VMware metric reports.
• Installation and configuration of Windows Servers 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 Virtual Machines in the ESXi host clusters.
• Created various types of Tech Plans for hardware and software installations.
• Installation of VCenter Server and Configuring ESXi - hosts within the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Running patches and updates through Update manager for the ESXi hosts.
• Worked on maintaining vSphere vCenter 6.0, ESXI 6.0, Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0, vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Orchestrator.
• Install and configure vRealize orchestrator, vRealize operations manager.
• Administration and troubleshooting skills in issues related to View Connection servers, View Manager, View Security servers, View Composer, View Pools, View desktops, VDI Virtual Center, CISCO UCS, Snapshot Creation and Templates for XP and Win 7 OS.
• Responsible for the implementation of VMware View VDI upgrades, Change Management, Problem Management, and ITIL related process.
• Managed and Worked on Physical Data Center in Bethlehem and Easton.
• Managed weekly Tape backups for the datacenter.
• Worked as a part of steady state and project team.
• Provided wintel support for the client infrastructure.
• Performed bi-weekly datacenter walkthroughs and reported and resolved the observed issues.
• Worked on migration of 150+ Windows 2003 Servers.
• Worked on Active Directory to generate the list of machines with last login details.
• Integrate AD Forest during merger and takeover.
• Upgraded servers from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 R2
• Design and implement the company's LAN and WAN network infrastructure
• Configured and migrated DMVPN Tunnels from current environment.
• Worked on Oracle database 9i, 10g, 11g
• Setup Azure Cloud Infra, Cloud services, Network, Storage, VMs
• Presentation to business units and executives demonstrating VCE VBlock virtualization, UIM provisioning and VDI technologies.
• Migrated databases from SQL servers 2005 & 2008R2 to 2012 and 2014 express
• Worked with MS outlook, lotus and office 365.
• Service Delivery & Operations for Windows, Active Directory, ADFS, DNS, DHCP, failover Clustering, Hyper - V and Azure Infrastructure
• Worked on PowerShell scripts to report the daily DNS logs, user activity and management.
• Used on PowerShell during the creation of new virtual machine in order to configure it and prepare for prod environment
• Provided production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, WINS, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate
• Worked on Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer to deploy Windows 10 images on client laptops.
• Worked on supporting desktop client computing issues.
• Coordinated & Implemented the UCS Migration project - Migrated old VM infrastructure from HP Blade System to the new Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Blade Servers.
• Worked with Cisco UCS server, from datacenter rack setup to bring online on production environment

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1/5.1, ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0/5.0, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, CISCO UCS. Windows Server 2000/2003/

Confidential, NY

VMware Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, installed and configured Win 2008, 2012, 2016 servers in Enterprise Environment
• Installing ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and IBM hardware, Installation of VCenter Server, CMP, vCenter components and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Working VMware ESXi and vCenter 5.5/6.0/6.5, VMware vCloud, Cisco UCS Manager and UCS Central, CMP, Cisco NX-OS and Windows Server 2008-2016, Various Network Monitoring tools.
• Handle operational tasks relating to VDI such as ESXi host builds and updates, vCenter builds and upgrades, vCenter database maintenance, VDI pool and persistent desktops maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Handle operational tasks relating to VDI such as UCS, Cisco, Python, ESXi host builds and updates, vCenter builds and upgrades, vCenter database maintenance, VDI pool and persistent desktops maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Managing, building and upgrading the FlexPods and VDI such as UCS, Cisco, Python, ESXi host builds and updates.
• Supporting and Maintain vCenter Server Appliance, vRealize Operations Manager (vROps), vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), vRealize Business, ESXi and Update Manager.
• Worked on VDI Infrastructure that used technologies such as VMware Horizon View 6.0 and 7.0 and UCS.
• Managed VDIs with multiple operating systems such as Windows 7, Windows, Windows 10.
• Migrated Environment in cloud Azure.
• Design of cloud management stack, primarily in Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) and AWS used to host client servers and services across tiered branches of architecture
• Built VDI desktop pools with non-persistent VDIs and persistent VDI as per the requirement with users.
• Created and Designed Automation process of VDI creation for flawless onboarding of new user.
• Assisted in strict separation of permissions to least-privilege model using IAM roles and policies both within and across AWS accounts
• Create custom report to measure performance of VM’s and ESX servers using Virtual Centre and vROps.
• Very strong experience on setting up of all the three major public clouds AWS, GCP, Azure as well as VMware and Open stack private cloud and administration of the same.
• Planning, designing and developing Infrastructure related Automation Solutions using vRealize Workflows.
• Provide configuration, implementation, and troubleshooting support for the Compute Infrastructure (Fabric Interconnect, UCS Blade Server Chassis, UCS I/O Module, and UCS Blade Server), Storage Infrastructure and VMware to ensure they perform as expected steady-state and correct any failure conditions.
• Infrastructure support of Azure, IaaS, PaaS, Cloud, O365 Microsoft, and Active Directory, Identity management, Windows Scripting languages including (PowerShell, Python, Perl, and Bash) developing and deploying embedded IT infrastructure software.
• Active Directory Installation & Configuration, Group policy management, DHCP, DNS, NPS administration on Windows Server 2012/R2
• Designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including VPC, EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Migrated large number of Windows and Linux on premise VMs to AWS using Server Migration Service (SMS) and Partner service product Cloud Endure.
• Migrated the database of business-critical application to AWS database service.
• Configuration of Azure AAD Connect Synchronization Tool.
• Power Shell scripting and automation of routine tasks
• Deployment of software packages, Operating System and windows patches through SCCM server.
• Upgradation of SCCM 2012 to SCCM Current Branch
• Troubleshooting experience on Windows Client OS like Windows7 and Windows8
• Use Group Policy Administrator (GPA) tool to edit and implement GPOs in PROD and DEV domains
• Audit GPOs in PROD and DEV domains to point out inconsistency in GPO settings.
• Create Service Principal Names (SPNs) for SQL and SAN Keytabs in PROD and DEV domains.
• Import and link member servers’ baseline GPOs and WMI filters from PROD domains to PRE PROD domains.
• Design a large enterprise-level solution upon technical, application and business requirements
• Configured Service Profiles in Cisco UCS manager in Windows and ESXi Servers.
• Generated reports with various parameters of VMware infrastructure using multiple tools.
• Worked on physical to virtual migration(P2V) and virtual to virtual(V2V) using VMware converter 6.0

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1/5.1/5.5/6.1/6.5 Appliance, ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0/5.0/6.0 VMware vCenter 5.5/6.0, Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012, UCS, Active Directory, CISCO UCS,CMP, HP & Dell Blade Server Tools, IBM ServersWSUS, Manage Engine, SQL Servers 2008, Symantec Endpoint ProtectionTrend Micro Security, Power Shell, Symantec NetBackup, Azure

Confidential, NC

VMware VDI Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on management and design of a huge environment with thousands of ESXi hosts spreaded across various datacenters.
• Build new ESXi 6.0 hosts from the scratch and did the complete configuration for US and Caribbean locations.
• Installing, Configuring & Troubleshooting of the ESXi 5.1 and 6.0 in different types of HP ProLiant servers
• Co-ordinated with the network team to plan the structure of network to be used for the new ESXi hosts like number of NICs, vLANs, subnets etc.
• Deployed PowerShell scripts to various VCenter servers for monthly VMware metric reports.
• Installation and configuration of Windows Servers 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 Virtual Machines in the ESXi host clusters.
• Created various types of Tech Plans for hardware and software installations.
• Installation of VCenter Server and Configuring ESXi - hosts within the cluster using VMotion and HA.
• Running patches and updates through Update manager for the ESXi hosts.
• Worked on maintaining vSphere vCenter 6.0, ESXI 6.0, Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0, vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Orchestrator.
• Install and configure vRealize orchestrator, vRealize operations manager.
• Administration and troubleshooting skills in issues related to View Connection servers, View Manager, View Security servers, View Composer, View Pools, View desktops, VDI Virtual Center, CISCO UCS, Snapshot Creation and Templates for XP and Win 7 OS.
• Responsible for the implementation of VMware View VDI upgrades, Change Management, Problem Management, and ITIL related process.
• Managed and Worked on Physical Data Center in Bethlehem and Easton.
• Managed weekly Tape backups for the datacenter.
• Worked as a part of steady state and project team.
• Provided wintel support for the client infrastructure.
• Performed bi-weekly datacenter walkthroughs and reported and resolved the observed issues.
• Worked on migration of 150+ Windows 2003 Servers.
• Worked on Active Directory to generate the list of machines with last login details.
• Integrate AD Forest during merger and takeover.
• Upgraded servers from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 R2
• Design and implement the company's LAN and WAN network infrastructure
• Configured and migrated DMVPN Tunnels from current environment.
• Worked on Oracle database 9i, 10g, 11g
• Setup Azure Cloud Infra, Cloud services, Network, Storage, VMs
• Presentation to business units and executives demonstrating VCE VBlock virtualization, UIM provisioning and VDI technologies.
• Migrated databases from SQL servers 2005 & 2008R2 to 2012 and 2014 express
• Worked with MS outlook, lotus and office 365.
• Service Delivery & Operations for Windows, Active Directory, ADFS, DNS, DHCP, failover Clustering, Hyper - V and Azure Infrastructure
• Worked on PowerShell scripts to report the daily DNS logs, user activity and management.
• Used on PowerShell during the creation of new virtual machine in order to configure it and prepare for prod environment
• Provided production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, WINS, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate
• Worked on Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer to deploy Windows 10 images on client laptops.
• Worked on supporting desktop client computing issues.
• Coordinated & Implemented the UCS Migration project - Migrated old VM infrastructure from HP Blade System to the new Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Blade Servers.
• Worked with Cisco UCS server, from datacenter rack setup to bring online on production environment

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1/5.1, ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0/5.0, VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, CISCO UCS. Windows Server 2000/2003/ 2003 R2/2008/2008 R2/2012, Active Directory, HP ProLiant servers, Veritas Products, HP & Dell Blade Server Tools, IBM Servers, WSUS, Manage EngineVNC Viewer, Hyper-V, SQL Servers 2008R2, 2012, 2014 & 2016, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Power Shell, SEP.

Confidential

VMware / VDI Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing VMware VSphere 6.0, 6.1 and created virtual machines on ESX 5.1, 5.5 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Worked on Central Management Server (VCenter Server) to manage all the ESX hosts in the datacenter.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Designed, installed and configured Win 2003, 2008, 2012 servers in Enterprise Environment.
• Designed and implemented the enterprise Windows 2003, 2008 Active Directory & GPO’s.
• Installed and supported SQL Server 2003,2008
• Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 Server Maintenance and builds
• Install & Support Web Servers, FTP Servers, File and Print Servers
• Maintained networking devices and various servers’ hardware & software.
• Scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, Perl, Bash) Experience developing and deploying embedded IT infrastructure software.
• Performed installations and testing of upgrades and patches before final implementation in the active network.
• Defined and implemented system and network administration services.
• Defined and implemented backup service levels.
• Responsible for facilities management, liaison with vendors and training for end users on various platforms and for various applications.
• Responsible for documentation of processes and changes in the network on a day-to-day basis.
• Supported daily administered of SCCM including client health, software and operating system deployment and all required reporting.
• Deploy SCCM Server upgrades and patches.
• Manage VDI environment using VMware Horizon View Client.
• Involved in designing both internal and external VMware View 4.5 & 4.6 VDI solutions to customer base.
• Deploy and manage VMware horizon view on CISCO UCS for VDI deployment and failover clustered Hyper-V environments.
• Managed and Monitored availability, performance and disk/CPU usage of servers
• Performing backups of data on the servers as well as network backups
• Monitor various aspects of server like health; file systems, logs using tools like BMC patrol, Tivoli, and Net view.
• Assisting customers and end users with hardware, software application & network connectivity issues.
• Installing various applications, performing OS tuning and configuring IP networking parameters.
• Actively participated in migration from Windows 2003 to 2008 server and application updates.
• Worked on building, configuring and maintaining the solutions utilizing VMware, Automation and VMware NSX.
• Troubleshooting of file system issues with remote servers via telnet and putty.
• Performed tape and library management of daily, monthly and incremental backups.
• Participated in installation of Tivoli Management Framework.
• Creation of profiles, profile manager, task configuration and execution with ITM 5.1 6.2 package.
• Configuration of Active Directory, Event Pro, Outlook to desktops and laptops and mapping them to host server.
• Managed Microsoft Clustering Services
• Managed Symantec NetBackup 6.0,6.5,7.1
• Managed configure vSphere ESX 4.1,5.0,5.1,5.5

Environment: VMWare ESXi, vCenter, Windows 2008R2, SQL Server 2008 R2 STDCareFusionPharmogistics CISCO UCS,CareFusion Inventory Manager Client 1.4.5, Symantec NetBackup Client 7.5.0.6, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.3001.165 , HP Lefthand P4000 SAN, LDAP, GPO, ADFS, PKI, DNSDHCP, WINS