SUMMARY

• More than 12 years IT Experience using Microsoft Windows Server technologies and experienced in Citrix technologies around 2 year. Seasoned and resourceful Senior Virtualization Consultant with 5+ years' experience in mission - critical organizations, the financial and insurance industry.
• Extensive expertise in server and infrastructure, technical project and resource management. Proficient at designing enterprise-wide solutions that substantially improve operating stability, efficiency and profitability. Intuitive and analytical, skilled at assessing complex infrastructure issues and developing strategies for quick resolution.
• Consistently deliver IT deployment projects on-time with minimal disruption to critical business processes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas TX

Sr. VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Architect, Design and implementation of datacenter migrations and consolidation on vSphere and windows.
• Providing architectural guidelines on storage and network for new datacenter.
• Worked with applications team to design the upgraded platform for the new applications to improve the customer experience.
• Installing and Configuring Windows 2008/2012 servers and upgrading windows servers 2003 to 2008.
• Installing and Configuring ESXi 5.1 and ESXi 5.5 Servers on Cisco and HP DL series Servers.
• Working on V2V Cloning on Windows servers on VMware Environment.
• Working on P2V Migration Using VMware Converter 4.3/5.0/5.5 and Platespin.
• Creating Templates, Snapshots, resource pools and clones on VMWare Environment.
• Worked on configuring VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using Virtual Centre server.
• Worked on AD, creating users and giving permissions, group policy addition, removal and other amendments under security officer’s approval.
• Designed and Implemented vRealize operations (vROPs 6.0).
• Creating Templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources
• Monitoring of Virtual Machine's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security.
• Setting up Users and Groups for access to the Virtual Center.
• Installation, configuration & management of Cisco UCS Blade Server & Rack Server
• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of VMWare, Network, & Storage Infrastructure
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS)
• Worked on Virtualization Technical issues & problems logged by the client company users in day-to-day Operations and providing complete Technical Support for the Client Company.
• Worked on patching windows servers 2003,2008 and 2012 by IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager patch management tool.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Adding admin accounts and permissions, Creating Data Stores database and Data Collectors, Server and farm performance settings like CPU and Memory Optimizing. Admin Settings like health monitoring, ICA connection limits.
• Installing and configuring all kinds of Citrix Clients, Using client for web, Program Neighborhood agent, Program Neighborhood
• According to originations requirements publishing resources like Configuring client to server content redirection and Server to client content redirection, Modifying publishing resources and Disable or Hide the publishing resources
• Creating the policies and configure according to the organization requirements and apply the policies, and even prioritizing policies.
• Session connecting settings, Creating Virtual IP’s addresses, Broadcast settings Session reconnecting configurations like session reliability, auto client reconnection Session performance configurations like display settings, speed screen accelerations, latency reduction.
• Configuring load evaluator, creating custom load evaluator, assigning default and advanced load evaluator, Monitoring load evaluator and rule activity.
• Creating, configuring and associating applications with Isolation environment. Installation manager packaging like creating single or group application packages and deploying to single or group of servers with in the Citrix farm and also rolling back the packages.
• Configuring client printer, assigning network printer, Printer driver management like replicating print drivers, Universal driver printing policies like configuring print driver mapping and managing printer bandwidth.
• Creating and configure Web interface sites, site appearance configuration, Authentication configuration like pass-through, configuring workspace control.
• Installation and configuration of ESX server 3.0 - 3.5.
• Installation and configuration of Virtual centre 2.0.
• Installation and configuration of VM (Virtual Machine).
• Experience on one full VMware deployment.
• Teaming, cloning, snapshots
• Worked on Remote Administration by using VMware server
• P2V and V2V conversions by using platespin converter
• Good understanding of ESX server architecture
• Working on Migration concepts like Vmotion and cold migration
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of Vms from templates.

Confidential

System Administrator Windows

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining windows servers 2008, 2003.
• Troubleshooting hardware related issues.
• Worked on windows Active Directory operations, DNS and DHCP configurations.
• Participating in major issues and working as an active team member to resolve the issues.
• Worked on migrations application migration, server migration, resolving the hardware compatibility issues
• Installed and configured IIS, FTP and NTP servers.
• Configured windows server access and active directory user accounts as per the group policies for the secure access.
• Experience with service desk ticking system and change management process
• Worked on Datacenter relocation and Server decommission and migration projects
• Managing the overall administration of LAN / WAN systems involving design of network layouts, configuration and maintenance of application servers and databases.
• Designing backup strategy & ensuring scheduled / unscheduled backups as per the backup plan.
• Providing Wintel based support for servers, applications, infrastructure incident tickets via ticket system.
• Application installation
• OS upgrades, Service Pack Installations and OS feature enhancement
• Manage server hardware, update firmware.
• Maintain server inventory with the tool aperture.
• Performing Wintel Patch Updates by using tool Shavlik.
• Connecting the servers through ILO for troubleshooting.
• Configuring RAID levels, USER, GROUP, OU creation, Applying group policies different level.

Confidential

Senior Customer Engineer.

• Provided Online Technical support to customer for issues related to their Hardware, Software and Network via phone and personally visiting them.
• Resolved issues for end users accessing the servers from remote locations using terminal server client.
• Ensured that the daily, weekly and monthly business data backup & restore operations are complete using Arcserve for NT And 2000 servers.
• Checked Server Backup regularly for integrity, checking for disaster recovery of the site to ensure minimum loss in case of disaster.
• Upgraded all the Win 98 operating system workstations to Windows 2000.
• Involved in the decision making for implementation of new infrastructure technologies.
• Installed new Windows 2000/2003 server as per Business requirements and maintain administration in system services.
• Monitor system performance through performance monitor.
• Send updates and logs of system performance to higher management on a daily / weekly / monthly basis.

Confidential

Inplant Trainee

Responsibilities:

• Gone through Training program and worked as a system trainee in CMS during this period and provided Infrastructure Technical support to customers for issues related to their Hardware, Software and Network via phone and personally visiting them.
• Resolved issues for end users accessing the servers from remote locations using terminal server client.
• Coordinated with the Hardware vendor to fix all the hardware issues with workstations and servers.
• Ensured that all the workstations and servers are patched weekly with Anitvirus patches and Microsoft patches.
• Ensured that the daily, weekly and monthly business data backup & restore operations are complete using Arcserve for NT And 2000 servers.
• Checked Server Backup regularly for integrity, checking for disaster recovery of the site to ensure minimum loss in case of disaster.
• Monitor system performance through performance monitor.
• Send updates and logs of system performance to higher management on a daily / weekly / monthly basis.
• Keep in touch with buyers and suppliers to follow ups for orders.
• Keep follow up with Factory persons for end to end process of making garments and export it in tamely manner to buyers.
• Always update and keep record of Orders in system SAP.