PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 6+ years of experience as Windows Systems Administrator and VMware Engineer, in Network Planning and Technical Design Implementation, Installing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of network and communication equipment.
• Experience in Microsoft Windows 2008/2003/2000/NT 4.0 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Extensive experience with Windows 2008, 2003, 2000, NT, XP, Vista, Active Directory Administration, Disaster Recovery Planning, Remote Access, Back Office Products, Routers, Switches, Telecom & Backup devices.
• Experience in Installation (Server Builds) of all types of Microsoft Windows Operating Systems (2008/2003/2000 Servers), Application Software under multi - platform environments, deployment & monitoring Servers.
• Experience and familiar with Virtualization technologies like Installing, Configuring, and Administering VMware ESX/ESXi. Created and managed VMs (Virtual Server) and also involved in teh maintenance of teh Virtual Servers.
• Practical work experience in Installing, Maintaining, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Managing Blade Center, Configuring and Zoning Storage Area Networks and SAN Switches and VMware ESX Server Administration.
• Working Experience with Windows Patching on windows 2000,03,08 and 2008 R2
• Professional Working Experience on HP Servers (DL360/380/580, ML580), HP ProLiant BLP20 and C465 (C 7000 Chassis) Blade Servers, and DELL Power Edge Servers.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server in Windows based server environment.
• Experience in updating Servers with latest Service Packs, Security Patches, Antivirus definitions and software distribution using Microsoft Systems Management server (SMS), Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Windows Server update services (WSUS)
• Expertise in Vizioncore Products, which include VRanger Pro DPP, VFoglite.
• Monitoring of servers through MOM or SCOM tool, BMC Patrol and maintaining teh health checks. Configuring teh SNMP agent for teh servers to receive teh alerts through NMS system and resolve accordingly.
• Experience with x86/x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like Blade Servers, rack-mounted Servers, Tower Servers, Desktop, Laptop and other peripherals.
• Extensive Knowledge about SAN Configuration and Implementation, Storage Components like Internal storage, Attached storages, San Switches, HBA, LUN & Mapping, RAID groups, Volume Groups.
• Experience in Network LAN WAN deployment, including IP Addressing and Troubleshooting.
• Systems and Network Administration, Windows 2008, 2003, 2000, NT, TCP/IP, Backup and Restore.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, configuration of networks, Router Configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and Wireless Networks.
• Experience in Lotus Notes, Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, Outlook, Printing, and Windows Networking.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2008/2003/2000/NT/7/Vista/XP, Unix/Linux.

VMware Tools: ESX Server 5.0/4.1/3.5/3.0/2.5, Virtual Center 2.5/2.0, VSphere 4.1, and VMware converter 5/4/3, VMotion.

Databases: DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, and MS Access.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL460c

Backup Software: Symantec, Vizoncore Vranger Pro, and VMware.

Directory Services: Microsoft Active Directory.

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, POP3, SMTP, and SNMP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbus, OH

System Administrator.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers on HP and DELL Servers.
• Created User Accounts, Domain Accounts, and Distribution Groups with Active Directory.
• Used Service Desk Tool for Incident Reports/Tickets, Change Management, and Request Management in Service Desk by meeting teh SLA requirements.
• Administered User Accounts, Domain Accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups with Active Directory.
• Involved in teh maintenance and up gradation of DNS and DHCP Servers.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• Configured and maintained new VM’s and Installed Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers, managing VM’s and ESX servers by using VIC, Putty and Web Access and installing teh VMware Tools on teh VM.
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHPCP.
• Maintaining teh file server, application and Print Server.
• Involved in Troubleshooting and solving day to day issues that occurred, solving teh issues tickets and try to maintain teh healthy environment.
• Work with different applications like Buddy, Insider.
• Involved in Termination of users.
• Involved in server setup and in joining teh server to domain.
• Work with Linux server to redirecting teh web sites.
• Work with PowerShell to terminate teh users and give teh different access codes to different users.
• Take care of backup and regular checking of backup process are backup is working fine by using commvault.
• Worked with corporate security to identify and remediate areas of workstation risks after implementation of Marimba and SMS/SCCM their were no significant security events within teh corporation.
• Create, delete and modify user accounts.
• Work with Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management Shell to create different Mailbox, Shared Mailbox and Distribution Lists.
• Created Folders and give different permissions to different users and groups.
• Work with print management to Add New Printers and share them wirelessly.
• Involve in backup procedure in inserting and taking tapes from Dell ML6000 Power Vault Modular Tape Library.

Environment: VMware ESX 5.0/4.0, VSphere 4.0, Vcenter 4.0, Windows Server 2008 R2/2003, Windows 7/XP, Active Directory, HP Proliant DL and Blade Servers, DELL ML6000 Power Vault Library.

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Windows & VMware Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design, implementation, and maintenance of current large scale physical and virtual consolidated infrastructures as well as with teh design, test and implementation of future technologies within virtual space.
• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers on HP and IBM Servers.
• Worked on configuring teh servers with Raid Configuration on HP Proliant DL585, DL380 Servers.
• Supported VMware, specifically ESX vSphere 4 to monitor cluster performance, optimize teh server environment, and diagnose and resolve production issues amongst 3 Data Centers and over 1000 servers.
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups with Active Directory.
• Experience in teh Installation of desktops using VDI environment.
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, SCCM, WSUS, DNS, and DHPCP.
• Migrated P2P, P2V and V2V Servers using VMware Converter and Platespin.
• Involved in teh maintenance and up gradation of DNS and DHCP servers.
• Installed teh applications on teh servers through Marimba Channel.
• Performed P2V conversions using converter enterprise 4 and 5 and also P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.
• Maintained and upgraded system inventory software on 90+ servers in teh global inventory network. Provided 3rd level support for teh SCCM infrastructure and standard desktop software.
• Worked with windows server update Services and System Center Configuration Manager
• Worked with System Center Operations Manager
• Performed ESX Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Implemented and Tested desktop virtualization and introduced VMware View to teh client.
• Planned and Set up teh Web Server environment for SSO (Single Sign On) technology.
• Windows systems administration including installing system Security Patches, Hot Fixes.
• Reviewed tasks, issues and recommend changes to reduce problem reoccurrences.
• Performed Production Server Support, Network Administration functions, and Automated Information Systems assistance.
• Configured Network and Server Software, Hardware and peripheral devices to resolve network issues.
• Experience working with windows shell scripting
• Provided performance metrics, work load status update, and project status updates at weekly workload tracking meetings.
• Experience using a formalized change management and incident management process.
• Experience troubleshooting DRS Cluster errors with shares, pools, and limits.
• Involved in Troubleshooting ESX host issues with VMware.
• Administration experience utilizing Virtual Center, including VSphere Command-Line Interface commands.
• Configured and maintained new VM’s and Installed Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers, managing VM’s and ESX servers by using VIC, Putty and Web Access and installing teh VMware Tools on teh VM.
• Involved in Installing, Clustering and Administration of SQL Server 2005 on Windows Cluster.
• Install new/rebuild existing Servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Installed, Configured and Maintained infrastructure systems such as ticketing systems and Asset Management applications.
• Maintained data center environment and monitoring equipment, develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.
• Used VM Convertor for converting Physical Servers to virtual mode.
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHPCP.
• Supported ESX and VM storage issues and also coordinated with teh Storage Admin Team.
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying teh integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups using Vizioncore VRanger, Vizioncore VFogLight.
• Created, changed, and deleted teh User Accounts per request.
• Performed daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to teh appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.
• Involved in Deploying, Administering and Maintaining SCCM infrastructure and also Monitored Diagnose and remediate of SCCM client/server problems.
• Provided support per request from various constituencies, Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
• Applied OS Patches and Upgrades on regular basis, and upgraded administrative tools and utilities.
• Configure/add new services as per teh requirements.
• Created User Accounts, Domain Accounts, and Distribution Groups with Active Directory.
• Used Remedy Tool for Incident Reports/Tickets, Change Management, and Request Management in Remedy by meeting teh SLA requirements.
• Performed periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Performed ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required and Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

Environment: Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2003, Windows 7/XP, VMware ESX 4.1/3.5, ESXi 4.1, VMware VSphere, VMware View, HP ProLiant Servers, HP Systems Insight Manager, HP Virtual Connect.

Confidential, Irving TX

Windows & VMware Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all teh Windows 2003 and 2000 Servers in teh Data Center.
• Installation and Administration of Windows 2003/2000 Servers, domains and database servers like SQL.
• Evaluated and Recommend Support Administer and maintain Windows 2003, 2000, NT, Exchange 2003, Exchange 5.5, Backup Exec, IIS servers) and about 50 Windows XP/2000, Desktops and IBM/ Compaq/ Gateway Laptops overall LAN & WAN support.
• Monitored BACKUP jobs, executed restore jobs, and restarted failed jobs.
• Assisted in troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of BACKUP solutions currently installed with teh client infrastructure.
• Administration of DNS, DHCP, WINS in Active Directory Environment.
• Hands on Experience on VMware ESX 3.0 Servers.
• Building VMware session on ESX 3.0 Server, Cloning, and Creating Templates.
• Building teh VM Server and maintaining teh VMware ESX Servers.
• Maintained VMware ESX Servers through VMware Infrastructure Client.
• Upgraded Memory, CPU and Disk size on teh existing VMware Sessions on ESX Servers.
• Created Load Evaluators to apply on servers to maintain teh performance of teh servers.
• Configured Summary Database for Resource Manager for storing teh Data in teh Database for reporting purposes.
• Involved in administrating teh corporate SMS/SCCM asset management Project that managed software delivery, security updates, and application tracking on Windows systems.
• Provided inventory for software and hardware on over 30,000 endpoint systems. Project emphasis on maintaining a secure network environment and delivery of digital content of arbitrary size.
• Configured alerts for Servers, Applications and send teh alerts via email, SNMP.
• Designed and Implemented Microsoft Active Directory.
• Designed and implemented messaging services using Website hosting, Internet Information Server (IIS) Configuration, Implementation and Maintenance.
• Maintained Software deployment and management solution and ensure proper patching on client systems.
• Maintained teh Domain environment, including setting up teh policies as per teh security settings.
• Administered DNS, DHCP, WINS in Active Directory Environment.
• Coordinated with Application, Network and Security Teams and Vendor Management.
• Responsible for setting up Windows 2003/2000/NT Servers.
• Installed and configured Microsoft Windows 2003, Active Directory.
• Upgraded Windows 2000 to Windows 2003.
• Defined group permissions and created local and global groups with account policies using Enterprise Administrator.
• Created user rights and defined local and roaming profiles.
• Created, tested and deployed virtual environments using Virtualization Technologies - VMware Workstation and ESX Server 3.0 and 3.5.
• Added new organizations to teh existing Enterprise Domain.
• Installed and Configured DHCP, DNS and WINS.
• Manually removed teh failed domain objects from Active Directory Database.
• Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
• Performed P2V conversions using VM Converter and V2V conversions using vMotion.
• Created VM Machines for Test Environments to Test Applications.

Environment: Windows 2003/2000/NT Servers, Active Directory, DNS/DHCP/IIS Server, Windows XP/Vista, VMware ESX, Terminal Services, Printer Server.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Windows System Administrator.

Responsibilities:

• Installed and Configured Windows 2003 Servers in a single domain Environment.
• Remote OS installation using RIS. RAID1 and RAID5 Management, Windows 2003 Clustering and Remote Server Administration.
• Installed, Configured, Administered and Maintained teh Terminal Servers. Setting up Windows Server 2003.
• Installed ESX Hosts and created Virtual Machines through Virtual Center Server.
• Installed ESX 3.5 on 10 Hosts and maintained more than 100 VM’s.
• Built and managed virtual servers and test domain controllers on VM ware.
• Managed and implemented Business Data Recovery solutions for teh clients using NAS and SAN products with Offsite data recovery.
• Installed and configured SQL Server 2005 on Microsoft Cluster.
• Installed and Configured Exchange 2003 with a single site Configuration.
• Installed and Configured IIS and DTC on teh Web Servers.
• Configured and Maintained Symantec Backup Exec 10D on DLT 4000.
• SNMP Management - Installed and configured HP Open View and Dell Open Manage application for Network Management Configured Paging-mails to notify administrators teh severity of teh traps.
• User Password resets/unlock.
• Monitored backup jobs, executed restore jobs, and restarted failed jobs.
• Assisted in troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of backup solutions currently installed with teh client infrastructure.
• Working on various environments such as Testing, Implementation, Production Support on 24/7 bases while working on critical issues.

Environment: Dell Power Edge 4350/6350, Dell Fiber Channel-Power Vault 650F, 51F Fiber Channel Storage Hub, Dell NAS, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft Cluster server.