SUMMARY

• Datacenter, Cloud, Converged & HCI Infrastructure professional with over 14 years of work experience in IT Infrastructure projects and service delivery with hands on converged Vblock, VxBlock, HCI VxRail, & Nutanix, blade servers, VMware and Windows/Linux experience in wide range of concepts and technologies.
• Experience working across International Support teams, global delivery with offshore/ onsite model, dealing with cross functional team, planning initiative, tracking issues as per PMI guide lines.
• Experienced in Virtual Server Build with Windows 2K3/2K8/2K12, RH Linux and with its Security Feature
• Comprehensive background in the installation, upgrades, configuration, rollout and support of hardware, software, peripherals and network devices.
• Experienced in ERP/CRM Rollout, implementation, and establishing support system as per ITIL guidelines.
• Working on Virtual Infrastructure, VSphere Client and setting up ESX in the virtual environment.
• Implemented DR Solutions SRM 5 and Recover Point, Installed SRM 5 vSphere Client Plug - in, established site reciprocity, configured protected site by resource mappings, placeholder data store setup. Configured replication for a group of VMs for recovery plans.
• Hands on experience on VMWare Administration, XtremIO, VMAX, VNX/VNXe Administration using Unisphere, HA clustering, cloning ESX servers in the VM Ware environment
• Worked with UCS Manager to configure IP Pools, VLAN’s, and vNICs, Boot Policies, Server Pools, VSAN, VHBA, KVM Access and Management Console. Configured Service Profiles on UCS Server.
• Experience of developing support procedures and service standards to meet business requirements and end-user needs.
• Expertise knowledge in Server technologies and Technology Change Management
• Experience in Monitoring, performing Health Checks, installing patches and upgrading hardware on the production servers
• Maintained an excellent rapport with fellow colleagues, vendors and trainees Involved in documentation regarding Windows server configuration, operating procedures, and service records relating to Windows hardware.
• Good understanding of Software defined network like Cisco ACI.
• Excellent communication and diagnostic skills; consistently solve problems and rarely escalate issues.
• Efficiently coordinated with the Technical Support Team and Vendor to resolve the problem
• Expertise in System administration of Microsoft products like Windows 2000/2003/2008
• Server/Professional, Windows 2003 Server/Microsoft Office XP/2k/97, Exchange server.
• Experience in the design, development and test of disaster recovery planning, and business continuity planning.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a strong knowledge of ITIL, SDLC Processes
• Have good communication (verbal and written), analytical & a committed team player as well as an independent worker, able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization Products: vSphere 6.0/5.1, Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3.x/4.x, vCenter Server 3.x/4.x, DRS, HA and FT, VMWare Capacity Planner, VMWare Stand-alone Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), VMware View, View Connection Server, View Composer, ThinApp, VEEAM, VmSight, PlateSpin, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Xen Server, Xen/MetaFrame Presentation Server, CA Nimsoft Monitor for VMWare

Operating System: Windows Server 2003/2008 R2/2012, Windows 95/ME/XP/Vista/7, 4/5, RH Linux, Solaris

Application Servers: Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008/2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange 5.5Microsoft Exchange 2000, DHCP, DNS, WINS, IIS 6.0/7.0, Apache

Database Servers: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2008 R2 Standard/Enterprise.

Backup & DR Solutions: VMware VDP, Symantec NetBackup 6.0, EMC RecoverPoint 4.1

Desktop Application: Microsoft Office 2003/2007 with Outlook, Open Office, Project, Visio.

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Servers T series, Dell Rack mount Servers R Series with iDRAC, HP ProLiant Servers with HP ILO 2, CISCO UCS C200 M1 Servers, Network Interface Card, Multi Serial Port Adapter, Printers, CD/DVD Drives, iSCSI/SATA Hard drives and Floppy drive, Routers, Switches, Hubs, SDSL/ADSL Modems, ECC/Non-ECC Registered/Unbuffered RAM, Audio/Video cards, EMC VMAX/ VNX/VNXe, riverbed WOC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano, TX

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Management & Administration of two VxBlock with VNX8000 & XtremIO, and VMware vSphere 6.0
• Evaluated solution alternative with vendors VCE, CISCO and VMware to identify & meet technology need of business sponsor.
• Worked with EMC Engineer for development of DR Plan and EMC RecoverPoint Implementation & testing
• Deployed NUTANIX NX-8235-G4-35022 Cluster and six nodes NX-3260-G4-03111 cluster. Also, performed node add to existing Nutanix Cluster, created storage pool & container. Configured ESXi host using vSphere 6 fat client, controller VM- VLAN’s Configured on vSwithc0, created separate vMotion vSwitch0 port group. Created new vSwitch for Guest VM VLANs
• Worked with Oracle SME and prepared Oracle Databases Best Practices Guide for Vblock.
• Developed and integrated business continuity and disaster recovery plans using RecoverPoint & SRM by configuring Protection, Recovery and Replication of Virtual Machines
• Prepared LCS for Vblock Expansion
• Identified Infrastructure vulnerabilities and worked with Security & server team for remediation, generated gap analysis report and work with admin for remediation.
• Defined continuous monitoring & reporting procedures for infrastructure with VxBlock SNMP Configuration and Test with NMS Netcool & Nagios
• Design & Implemented Vision 3.4 for monitoring resources & health of VxBlock for compliance across all components
• Security Management by Vblock Password Change for CISCO Switches, ESXi Hosts and EMC VNX & XIO
• Prepared run book establishing requirements, methods and procedures for routine maintenance for support team & mentored technical support team.
• Used Mitrend to prepare report and analysis of Vblock environment & resources to forecasts utilization patterns, capacity and performance
• Configured the Cisco ACI switches like Nexus 9000.
• Vblock Asset Tagging and Device Name Tagging
• Provisioned & Monitored VxBlock resources for storage, data store and network.
• Configured UCSM and CISCO switches for CISCO Call-Home Device registration

Environment: VxBlock, EMC VNX800, XtremIO, MDS 9000, Nexus 9000, VNXe, Nexus 3000, EMC RecoverPoint 4.1, VCE Vision 3.2, Windows 2012/2008 R2, SUSE Linux, OEL, Windows Win 7, VMware ESXi 6.0, UCSM 2.2 (1b), UCS Central v1.2, CISCO UCS Server, Remote desktop services

Confidential - Alcon, Fort Worth

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Management and administration of thirteen Vblock 720 and Vblock 320 spread across North America, Europe and Asia.
• Worked with vendor tech support VCE, CISCO and VMware for resolution of issues and hardware replacement.
• Backup and recovery AMP Servers using VDP 5.6
• Deployed Cluster and performed node add to existing Nutanix Cluster, created storage pool & container. Performed resource monitoring and provisioning on NUTANIX Cluster
• Involved in Patching ESXi hosts using VMWare Update Manager
• Planned, and managed project, problem analysis and resolution for SRM Implementation
• Planned disaster recovery and implemented recovery by Creating Protection Groups and Recovery Plans in VMware SRM
• Configured vSphere Replication on Virtual Machine
• Monitored health of the environment using vCOPS.
• Provisioned of resources like storage, data store and ports on vEthernet ports on N1k, administration on VSG

Environment: Windows 2003/2008 R2, SUSE Linux, OEL, Exchange Server 2010, Windows Win 7, VMware ESXi 5.2, 5.5 Server, UCSM 2.2 (1b), UCS Central v1.2, UCS Director 5.1, CISCO Prime, VMware VDP 5.6, CISCO UCS Server, EMC VMAX 40K, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Remote desktop services, Infoblox 6.x

Confidential, Warren

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implemented VBlock VB720 in Prep Prod, Prod and VDI environment for Confidential OnStar.
• Worked with UCS Manager to configure IP Pools, VLAN’s, and vNICs, Boot Policies, Server Pools, VSAN, VHBA, KVM Access and Management Console. Also, Configured Service Profiles on UCS Server
• Monitored of Vblock resources that comprised six domains, and 60+ chassis using UCS Central v1.2 and UCS Director 5.1
• Administrator of Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2. Performing Server services - Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP Admin
• Configured backup of VMs using VDP 5.6, and backing up VMs.
• Monitored VMWare vSphere 5.1 environment for data store utilization, snapshots, and VMs connected to vCD/DVDs and any other issues, de commissioning of VMs and reclaiming resources.
• Responsible for configuration and management of VMware vCenter 5.1, VMware HA, Automated provisioning and VMware clustering.
• Responsible for Managing VMware connectivity with shared storage (SAN) solutions
• VMware administration - Implementation, Multi-pathing, Performance tuning & capacity management.
• Prepared Infrastructure Capacity & asset report for Pre-Prod, Prod and VDI Environment.
• Worked with CISCO and VMWare tech support for resolution of issues, and hardware component replacement.
• IP & DNS registration on Infoblox 6.x

Environment: Windows 2003/2008 R2, SUSE Linux, OEL, Exchange Server 2010, Windows Win 7, VMware ESXi 5.2 Server, UCSM 2.2 (1b), UCS Central v1.2, UCS Director 5.1, EMC VMAX 40K, VMware VDP 5.6, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, CISCO UCS Server, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell PowerVault NAS, Zywall and SonicWALL Firewall, Remote desktop services, Infoblox 6.x

Confidential

Vblock/VMWare Admin

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Vblock 320, Vblock 700 infrastructure, identified migration candidates and established the new Virtual infrastructure utilizing VMware vSphere suite 5.2 bundled with ESX hosts, vCenter Servers and Clusters for CP Rail, Calgary, and DND, Ottawa.
• Monitored performance, capacity and health of infrastructure using VCOPS 5.7.
• Identified cloud infrastructure requirement and mapping that to client expectation.
• Performed VMWare Administration, configuration, administration, and monitoring of vSphere 5.2
• Application migration, deployment with ThinApp and ThinApp Factory.
• Managed and provisioned virtual resources using vCloud Director 5.1,
• Well versed with DRP and Business Continuity Planning using SRM 5, Recover Point
• Built ESX servers and implemented complete integration with SAN for VMotion in a VMware DRS and HA enabled environment.
• Performed backup and restore operations of VMware host servers’ configuration, Virtual Machines backup, snapshots, P2V-V2V conversion using VMware stand-alone convertor, applying Patch updates, monitoring/reporting, SSH, SNMP and alerts notification. Configured and used EMC Recover Point for replication.
• Administer production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, and File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2.
• Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Configured storage devices along with iSCSI disks in SAN using RAID 1, 5 and 10.
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.

Environment: Windows 2003/2008 R2, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Win 7, VMware ESXi 5.2 Server, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, CISCO UCS Server, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell PowerVault NAS, Zywall and SonicWALL Firewall, Remote desktop services, CA Nimsoft Monitor for VMWare

Confidential, Jersey City

Infrastructure Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Global Data Centre Consolidation project. Successfully designed and implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation. Implemented SRM 5. Performed SAP, Oracle and other application P2Vmigration using Plate Spin Migrate 9.1.
• Deployed UCS Blades, Dell Rack Mount Server R and M Series using iDRAC, and HP ProLiant Servers with ILO 2. SCCM used to install and configure W2K8, configured and deployed riverbed WOC. P2V Migration using PlateSpin
• Lead Technology Implementation including vendor selection, System Architecture, Setting landscape, Capacity planning, security, storage management and High Availability.
• Experience in IT decision-making, policy direction, planning, and team management. Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy. Recommends resolutions to complex matters of significance and coordinate the implementation of the approved course of action.
• 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.
• Coordinate testing, upgrade and configuration of system files and services. Ensure changes are in accordance with appropriate operating procedures
• Built Windows 2008/2003Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers using CA unicenter software deployment.
• Installed VMware ESX server 2.5/3.0/3.5 in a total of 360 ESX’s, 4000+ servers & four VC’s. Created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented VMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager.
• Administrator production of servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers, Exchange Mail Servers, WSUS Patching servers, print Servers, System Management Servers (SMS), Terminal Servers, RAS and File servers on Windows 2003 and windows 2000 in the data center/server farm.
• Experienced with x86/x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, SQL Server 2000, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server, vCenter Sever, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, Dell NAS, Zywall and SonicWALL Firewall.