PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Upto 7+ years of IT experience primarily in Virtual infrastructure resources specializing in VMware 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0; VMware vCenter server 4.0, 4.1,5.0.
• Extensive experience in working with ESXi servers - configuration, Installation, management and maintenance.
• Experience in administrating and managing a 200 node VMware ESXi environment with multiple clusters.
• Experience in implementing ESXi servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft server technologies, such as Microsoft server 2003/2008, Exchange 2003/2007, Office Communicator 2007, and how they interact on the network.
• Advanced knowledge of backup server technologies such as Symantec Backup Exec versions 11d, 12 and 2012.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Server technologies, such as Microsoft server 2003/2008, Exchange 2003/2007, Active Directory, Windows Update Server (WSUS), and Windows Deployment Server (WDS) and how they interact on the network.
• Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission settings, roles and responsibility assignments and VM resource allocations on ESXi hosts.
• Experience in upgrading ESX/ESXi host, vCenter Servers from 3.5 to 4.0 to 5.0
• Experience with VMware view 5.1/4.6/4.5/4.0 and Virtual desktops deployments.
• Hands on experience with HP Proliant Servers, IBM Blade HS20P Servers / and Dell Power Edge rack mount servers.
• Used PowerShell, PowerCLI scripts for migrating VMs, creating snapshots.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, with different types of port groups. Good understanding of Cisco USC manager.
• Good understanding about SAN, iSCSI, NAS Configuration and Implementation including attached storages, SAN Switches, HBA, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS.
• Mass production of VM's (batches of 100) utilizing the VMware cli together with Windows PowerShell FOR NEXT LOOP to mass produces VM's.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment.
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion technology.
• Strong experience in configuring HA and DRS clusters, using EVC on as needed basis.
• Configured, Monitored and Maintained Virtual server farms consisting VMWARE, and Hyper V.
• Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vConverter.
• Good expertise in Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager.
• Experience in Windows clustering Administration and troubleshooting
• Experience with DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations and Implementations.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, and Exchange Mail Server.
• Experience with HP Blade System C-class enclosure (7000) and IBM chassis using Onboard Administrator and virtual Connect.
• Experience in Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2008R2 server architecture and administration.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Visio and Outlook.
• Excellent leadership qualities, good communication skills and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization Products: VMware ESXi3.x/4.x/5.x, vCenter Server, VMWare Stand-alone Converter, VMware Lab Manager, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

Operating System: Windows Server 2012/2012R2/2008/2008R2, Windows 7/8, RHEL 4/5/6.5

Application Servers: Microsoft Active Directory, Office365, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010, DHCP, DNS, Solarwinds, Kiwi Syslog, Unitrends backup, Roadnet 3.x, Sharepoint, Lync, File server.

Hardware: Dell PowerEdgeR610/620/710 Servers, Dell PowerVault NX3000 and NX3100 Servers, HP ProLiantDL320/360/380 G5/G6/G7/G8 Servers, IBM v3700, EMC VNX-5300, EMC VNXe3100, NetApp FAS/E Series, NIC and HBA cards, iSCSI/SATA Hard drives, Dell and HP KVM device/switch.

Protocols: TCP/IP, SNMP, IMAP, FTP, RDP, HTTPS.

VoIP: 3CX, Asterix, Digium, FreePBX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lebanon, NH

VMware Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully designed and implemented new VMware Environment using IBM servers for consolidating existing Physical and Virtual infrastructure.
• As a part of System optimization project work involved migrating VMs from old VMware platform ESXi 4.0/4.1 to new ESXi 5.1/5.5 to increase the performance and stability on the systems.
• Built Windows 2012/R2/2008/R2 Servers on VMs, physical standalone based on application requirements.
• Installed VMware ESXi 5.1/5.5 in a total of 14 ESX’s, 500+ servers & 2 VC’s. Created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard templates and deployed servers from the templates.
• Assigned volumes and LUNS from IBM, HP3Par Storage to application and database servers using Qlogic Fiber Channel Swtiches.
• Administered DNS, DHCP, and Exchange & ISA servers. Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager and in MS Exchange Administration.
• Implemented Windows infrastructure platform for Office365 Project which included installation of ADFS, ADFS Proxy, Dirsync and Hybrid Exchange 2010 servers.
• Integrated Office365 products with E3 Subscription licenses which included Microsoft Office 2013 software such as Office, Lync, One Drive, Sharepoint and Visio 2013.
• Worked on building VMs for Solarwinds Application to monitor all the systems connected on the network. Deployed VMs with Operating System 2012 R2 and configured Solarwinds application Servers and database Servers with required specifications and licenses.
• Configured SQL 2012 Server for Solarwinds Database Server and created the required database instances various Solarwinds Modules.
• Optimized Solarwinds Orion Website to grant access to the Application users using Windows Authentication with required privileges and conducted training sessions on the functionality of the Solarwinds Modules which included NPM, NCM, SAM, FSM, WHD, VMAN and IPAM.
• Installed Kiwi Syslog servers on Windows VMs to consolidate the network devices system logs and monitor them through single platform to troubleshoot the issue.
• Worked with Unitrends Backup solution and created retention policies to backup critical data on both physical and virtual systems, Exchange servers, File servers, Application Servers, SQL 2012/2008/2005 database servers, NAS devices and VMs.
• Lead role in managing and upgrading critical applications for storefront such as Roadnet Transportation Suite used for selecting delivery timeslots for customers. Created a process plan for upgrading the application and upgrading the connected oracle database schema version from version 3.5 to 3.6.
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain. Flip the Exchange services from Active to Passive node to install the patches and perform maintenance work on the Exchange servers.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Worked on Datacenter and System Optimization Project which included replacement of Server hardware, Qlogic Fiber Channel Switches, cables, PDU, Storage drives etc.
• Part of On-call rotation Process for providing support 24x7 to fix the operational issues critical windows application servers. Performed maintenance work after regular hours of Production to avoid any major impact on the storefront and Plant operations.

Confidential, NYC, NY

VMWare Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware vSphere4.x, 5.x/vCenter Servers and Deploying HA & DRS Cluster, Managing cluster resources
• Monitoring 6500 Virtual Servers across different Datacenters.
• Participated in Installation and configuration of VCenter Server, and VSphere licensing.
• Designed and upgraded Windows 2003/2008 DC Active Directory Infrastructure to Windows 2008 DC Active Directory Infrastructure.
• Proactively monitoring, capacity planning, troubleshooting and investigating performance issue by using vCOPs.
• Deployment and integration of vCenter Operations Manager with EMC VNX for comprehensive performance monitoring.
• Advanced Monitoring and Performance Analysis of vSphere Environment using native tools as well as vCenter Operations Manager.
• Implemented and tested Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with the terminal Services as in RDP Services.
• Technical support for Microsoft Server 2000/2003/2008 , Exchange 2003/2007/2010 , Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Microsoft Office Suite, Active Directory, SAN, NAS, DAS, Cisco IOS, Cisco SDM, router, switches, RIP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, TCP/IP, VPN, VLAN, DNS, VMware, IIS, Load Balancing, Clustering, Hyper-V, etc.
• Design and architecture review for VREALIZE installation based on VMware recommended best practices
• Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Configuration of service blueprints used in VREALIZE
• Performed pre requisites check forVREALIZE installation
• Installation and Configuration of VREALIZE.
• Implementation of install, design and configuration of VREALIZE.
• Troubleshooting VREALIZE components.
• Rebuild existing Vblock hardware, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. using VMware vSphere & vCenter related products.
• End to End Implementation and configuration of Cisco Unified Computing System as the Vblock platform Compute layer.
• Vblock Converged Infrastructure Administration and management with Cisco UCS Manager, Nexus CLI, Fabric Manager, vCenter, Unisphere and UIM.
• Provide Operational support across all layers of Vblock platform including Virtualization, Compute, Networking and Storage.
• Configuring and Managing Cisco MDS based SAN switches for fibre channel connectivity between VNX and UCS.
• Added additional hard disks using NetApp V6000 Series, vsphere 5.5 and reconfigured the network settings of the target virtual machines.
• End to End implementation and Management of the Vblock networking including Access, Distribution, Aggregation and Management layer.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, vNIC/vHBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Server, Network and Storage related policies.
• VLAN creation across the Vblock platform.
• Vblock Best Practices and Operational Run Book Documentation.
• Deployment of Cisco Nexus 1000v as the virtualized access layer on the Vblock platform.
• Cisco UCS Management and Administration in vSphere environment.
• Experienced in applying monthly updates to windows servers 2003, 2008R2 and 2012 versions
• Maintained and troubleshooting experience in Windows servers windows 2003, 2008R2 and 2012 versions
• Creating disk spaces for windows servers.
• Resolving tickets in ServiceNow and TechExcel. And coordinating with offshore team
• Configuring Citrix Presentation server/Xenapp.
• In-depth knowledge & skilled withCitrixadministrative tools and utilities
• Provided 24/7 Production support forCitrixenvironment.
• Cloning, Building and deploying new VM's and installing different guest OS like Windows server 2003/2008/2012 and Linux. Creating virtual NIC's for the respective VM's and assigning the network connections to a particular port group in the Vswitch's
• Created User Accounts, Domain Accounts, and Distribution Groups with Active Directory.
• Administered user accounts, domain accounts, administrative rights, security, and distribution groups with Active Directory.
• Participated in creating the security policies in Active Directory.
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP.
• Maintaining disk spaces, RAM and connections to SAN of virtual servers
• Resolving AVAMAR backup issues.
• Maintaining Backups of the VM's, taking snapshots.
• Managing VM's by vSphere Client and Web Client.
• Upgraded VMware tools for the VM's
• Administration of user and group accounts and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements
• Troubleshooted network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Upgraded the VMware tools, VM Hardware 9 on all the VM's as a part Upgrade process and also Upgraded VirtualCenter to VSphere and created a linked mode environment for VC's.

Environment: 6500 Virtual Servers including Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, Linux, Exchange Server 2003. VMware ESX4.0, VMware ESXi4.1, VMware View, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter

Confidential, Nashville, TN

VMware Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Upgrading ESX/ESXi server using VMware Update Manager.
• NIC teaming for ESX/ESXi Servers.
• Installing and maintaining vCenter Servers.
• Taking regular backup of vCenter Server machines by using Snapshot.
• Cloning Virtual Machines.
• Converting Virtual Machines running on Workstation to VMs on ESX Server (V2V)
• Converting Physical machines to Virtual Machines using VMware Converter (P2V)
• Changing the configuration of VM's on need basis.
• Taking Snapshots and reverting back as per the requirements.
• Monitoring Server Health Status of the CPU processors, Memory, Temperature &Voltage.
• Setting up and troubleshooting features like HA/FT/DRS with EVC for the Virtual Machines.
• Troubleshooting issues related to Virtual Machine VMotion, snapshots, clones, templates.
• Creating daily report on resource usage and resource availability.
• Provide training to new hires on how to use the virtualization environment.
• Delegating permissions on Resource Pools to users using Access Controls.
• Creating Virtual Machine Templates.
• Good knowledge on Installation and Configuration of Windows 2003/2008 Servers, Win7and Windows 2007 operating systems.
• Managing Blade servers by using Cisco UCS.
• Configuring and managing windows Clusters.
• Knowledge on Active Directory Services on Windows Server 2008.
• Managing and implementing various services such as DNS and DHCP, RDS etc.
• Creating and Managing User accounts in Active Directory.
• Assigning Folder Permissions to users.
• Creating users/groups manage permissions and administrator rights.
• Ability to create shares and give user access to the share folders.
• Able to understand computer hardware and other operating system's function.
• To work on Active Directory - Creation of User IDs, Provide Access to users for different project groups.
• Ensuring that the goals of the Incident Management process are achieved; restoring normal service as soon as possible based on customer perspective and within defined SLA; detecting, logging, categorizing and prioritizing incidents; providing initial Incident Support.

Confidential

Technical Support Executive

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in configure and managing DNS, DHCP etc.
• Expertise in implementation, configuration, administration of Linux/Windows Servers.
• Expertise in manual/automated backup systems and restore.
• Expertise in Planning and designing Windows Active Directory Environment.
• Good in Group Policy Object Administration & Trouble Shooting.
• Expertise in Working with ADS, DHCP, DNS Server Roles, Domain Controllers.
• Expertise in IIS Server for using web based Applications.
• Handling all Kinds of Wintel and hardware issues.
• VM Ware Infrastructure Client configuration and managing the VM's through VI Client.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter).
• Creation & Configuration of Virtual Switches, Ports, Port Groups and setting up layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Creating templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources.
• Creating duplicate VMs using Cloning feature.
• Troubleshooting issues relating to VMotion such as compatibility issues.
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem and troubleshooting them.
• Implemented and Configured VM Ware Infrastructure cluster running on IBM Blade servers.
• Deploying various patches by using WINSCP.