SUMMARY

• Virtualization wif VMware ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0, ESXi 5.x, ESXi 6 servers and Virtual Center server 2.5, VCenter 4.0, VCenter 5.x, and VCenter 6, VConveter, VMware Horizon View 5.1 and 6.
• VMware NSX,
• Citrix XenDesktop 5.x and 7.x
• Hands on Experience in Microsoft Server 2003/2008 and Network Administration.
• Build and troubleshooting experience wif VMware ESX4.x, ESXi 5.x, ESXi 6.x, Virtual Center Server 4.x, 5.0 and VMware VSphere Suite
• Building of VDI desktops in vCenter and managing them through Horizon View Administrator
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware ESX, ESXi servers and VMware workstations
• Experience in Virtual Center Server 2.5 and VCenter 4.x, 5.x for managing multiple ESX/ESXi servers
• Experience in Virtual Center Upgrades from 5.1 to 5.5 & 5.5 to 6 including upgrading ESXi hosts and SRM also
• Assign Storage (LUN) to host from Netapp FAS6220 and IBM V7000
• Detailed Understanding of AWS
• Experience in ESX/ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots.
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter
• Extensive experience in working wif VMotion and Storage VMotion technology.
• Strong experience wif VMware (High Available) HA, Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM)
• Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/2008 Design, Implementation, Administration and Support. Installing, Configuration & Troubleshooting
• Configuring of Domain Naming Server (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• Excellent experience in administration, configuration and troubleshooting of Windows XP/Vista/7 Workstations
• Familiar wif SQL server 2005/2008, Oracle installation and configurations
• Experienced wif HP and Dell servers and Workstations
• Very good understanding of SAN and NAS systems.
• LAN and WAN Technologies
• Excellent written / verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Capability to multitask
• Ability to quick learn new technologies and implement them.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

System Admin - Manager

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of 8 techs, 4 in US and 4 offshore (Hyderabad, India )
• Support 140K+ VDI users globally
• Support 200K+ VDI environment including DR sites in multiple regions
• Work on VDI infrastructure Migration to HP Moonshot servers on Citrix XenDesktop 7.5x
• Managing and Maintaining XenApp 6.5 infrastructure, including VMware infrastructure used to host App hosting Servers for AppV.
• Work wif the ESX team to support 3400+ ESXi hosts managed by over 130 VCSAs
• Manage the ESX upgrades to 5.5U3 which also included VCSA upgrades.
• Coordinate wif multiple teams regarding Image and Security updates.
• Maintain and Monitor Xen Brokers and Desktop groups
• Maintain and working wif Atlantis ILIO Appliance used for VID deployment and Clone Management
• Setting up weekend Support schedule as we are a 24/7 support environment.
• Working on adding VMware NSX into the VDI environment.
• Run weekly meetings to discuss issues and new updates in environment
• Using Splunk to monitor VDI environment and health check
• Testing new VIDs provided by desktop engineering team in our Test sites and then scheduling the VID deployment in Production.
• Work wif h/w team to schedule H/W break fix or upgrades by performing predictive failures and moving clients to another site
• Run VCSA disk cleanup when they reach over 75% filled.
• Rebuild of VDI sites taken down for break fix or other issues
• Work wif the security team and ESX team to renew vSphere SSO certificates
• Testing Horizon View 6 / 6.2 as a product to replace existing VDI environment
• Testing Windows 10 in Xen Desktop 5.x /7.x environment and Horizon View 6
• Training in AWS so as to start planning to move multiple reporting servers, torrent servers to cloud

VMWare Admin Lead

Confidential, Carlstadt, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Configuration of VMware ESXi 5.1 /5.5 Update 1/6 on HP Proliant BL460C Gen8 Blades
• Managing them using VMware vCenter server and vSphere Client
• Lead and work wif offshore team on day to day support actvities
• Worked closely wif the storage team to ensure allocation of SAN (Netapp & HP StorageWorks XP) to the hosts
• Managing and monitoring of 70+ host / 1200+ guests in 4 different vCenter Servers (NJ, JX, PH & HK)
• Updating all existing Templates and effected guests wif "Disabling Time Synchronization" Fix
• Create new VMs for installing, configuring and managing guest OS such as Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2 and Red Hat Linux
• Building VMware guests on ESXi Server from templates.
• Using vCenter Server for VMotion and Storage VMotion
• Checking suggestions made by partially automated vSphere DRS
• Created a working document for vCenter and ESXi upgrade from 5.1 to 5.5 in the lab.
• Part of the team that upgraded vCenter, ESXi & SRM from 5.1 to 5.5 and from 5.5 to 6
• Installing HP firmware upgrade to all HP servers as part of the ESXi upgrade
• Installed VMware SRM 5.x & 6 wif vSphere Replication and NetApps SRA.
• Routed vSphere Replication traffic via dedicated network away from management network.
• Assigned storage (LUN) to hosts from Netapps and IBM V7000
• Used Upgrade advisor for Netapp to upgrade Netapp FAS6220
• Providing additional resources to guests based on requests made.
• Managing VMware Horizon View 5.3 & 6 environment
• Building Windows 7 guests in Horizon View pools
• Scheduling creation / consolidation / deletion of Snapshots based on requests.
• Correcting VMX files to point to correct VMDK files. (Issue caused by latency in storage while Symantec NetBackup is running)
• Patching of all Windows Servers used by VMware applications.
• Use IBM Endpoint Manager to patch Windows Servers 2008 / 2012
• Working noledge of HP iLO, HP Onboard Administrator & HP Virtual Connect Manager

System / VMWare Admin

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of VMware ESX 4.1, ESXi 5.x on HP ProLiant DL 380, DL385 and DL580
• Manage them using VMware vCenter server and VMware vSphere Client
• Work closely wif the Storage and Networking team to ensure allocation of storage and network infrastructure as and when needed
• Creation and management of virtual machines, installing VMware tools, creating Templates, Cloning and deploy virtual machines for templates.
• Managing the VMware ESX servers through VMware Infrastructure Client
• Managing Memory, CPU and Disk size of the existing VMware instances on ESX/ESXi servers based on usage patterns
• Building the Cluster Environment for ESX Servers to maintain the VMware Sessions
• Help in creating technical documentations including team guides.
• Working wif vendors/users to plan and schedule downtime on critical servers
• Provide reports based on daily, weekly and monthly health of existing VMware ESX servers and guests. Make necessary changes for optimal health.
• Create VMs for application testing as per client requests and delete them ones the testing is done.
• Work wif clients to migrate them from Physical to Virtual desktops.
• Migrate physical server to run as virtual instances on ESXi Servers
• Resource Management - Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for vMotion migrations between ESX/ESXi servers
• Update the Patches for ESX/ESXi Servers using VMware Update Manager in vCenter server

Technical Support Engineer

Confidential, Paramus, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Maintaining Windows Server 200/2003, Internet, Intranet, DNS, DHCP
• Assisting in configuring, monitoring of switches and maintain internetwork
• Configuring and Troubleshooting of computers for office personals
• Networking and proxy Installation. Provide user support for server related issues (file permissions / restores / user group maintenance)
• Install, configure, test, maintain, monitor, troubleshoot end-user workstations, related hardware and software
• Add workstations to domain and administration of user management
• Check for new vulnerabilities and updating of the patches to be applied on the systems according to the OS running on it
• Scanning the systems and the servers for vulnerability, services running on it
• Identifying both Hardware and Software errors and apply appropriate fixes to effected terminals

Network Support Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Administration, Managing & Maintaining Of Windows Server 2000/2003 & Windows XP Professional
• Networking and proxy Installation
• Performance Monitoring of the Servers.
• Experienced in the Installation & Configuration of Linux
• Training and Troubleshooting computers for office personnel
• Checking for new vulnerabilities and updating of the patches to be applied on the systems according to the OS running on it
• Installation and Maintaining Domain In Windows Server 2000/2003
• Building servers
• Scanning the systems and the servers for vulnerability, services running on it
• Applying Security Fixes
• Assigned systems for external users Coordinated work orders from a team of Sales and Service people and kept track of the progress.
• Identifying both Hardware and Software errors and applying fixes to effected terminals

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation and administration of Windows 2000 server and Win 98 systems
• To assess and test the impact of new applications on the network
• Setting up host and user level security and perform security administration tasks
• Provided the Roadmap to scale for future growth
• Prepared the documents for each phase and submit to the management
• Post Installation support for the LAN