PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of experience in Datacenter Consolidation, Migration, Business Continuity, Backup, Storage and VMware administration
• Designed and Implemented virtualization solutions based on VMware vSphere ESXi6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1, ESX 4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 platform, vCenter6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0/2.5andVblock 100/200/300/700 series
• Excellent experience in managing all aspects of VMware vSphere environments including vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Fault Tolerance, Horizon View, Network/Storage IO Control, VMFS Datastore, Host profiles, Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring
• Hands on experience in Data Center Migration.
• Experience wif the Remedy and change management process
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of portgroups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMwareESXi4X, 5X and VirtualCenter and vMotion.
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMwareSiteRecoveryManager (SRM)
• Experience in deploying, troubleshooting and testing SiteRecoveryManager (SRM) versions 5.5, 5.1 and 5.0 using array replication on VNX5300 and VMAX.
• SME wif large scale virtualization experience including SAN, NAS and iSCSI.
• Successfully launched VMwareHorizon View Related Applications like RDSH, Desktop pool, Application Pool,ThinApp,AppVolume, Workspace etc.
• Created, managed, and maintained VMWareThinApp, VMWareAppVolume, VMWare vRealize, RDSH repositories/farms.
• Installed and configured instances of VMware'svRealizeConfiguration Manager (VCM) for evaluation and initial implementation.
• Installed, configured and performed troubleshooting of VMware, Oracle, and Red Hat Products including vCAC, vCloud Director, Infrastructure Navigator, vCOPS, vSphere, vCenter, vCNS, SRM, and vCloudOrchestrator.
• Extensive experience wif Windows clustering on VMware.Excellent experience wif VMware update manager to install patches and perform upgrades on ESXi hosts.
• Provisioning and maintainingVMwareVDIthe entireVDIenvironment inVMwareHorizon View 5.2 wif 2,300+ Windows 7 virtual desktops.
• Experience in handling P2V and V2V migrations using VMware convertor in a large environment.
• Cisco Unified Computing Systems implementation and configuration specific to vSphere, for compute platform highavailability, redundancy and elasticity
• Created new Service Profile templates, SAN &LANpoolson Cisco UCS using CiscoUCSM
• Deployed new service profiles from the template and independently on Cisco UCS using Cisco UCSManager (UCSM)
• Have hands on experience on managing Cisco FlexPod (UCS) environments.Responsible forP2C/2C/TCAM test for CAT6K product wif Autotest.
• Configure/troubleshoot SNMPv2c/v3 on hosts and network devices
• Configuring RAID and RAID groups, Storage Pools, Storage virtualization platforms of HC 250 and thick and thin LUNs
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis.
• Knowledgeable in Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 and 2012 (SCCM)
• Expertise in Microsoft Patch deployment usingSCCM2007 / 2010 and WSUS.
• Automate daily task in managingSCCMservers including generating reports and monitoring ofSCCMinfrastructure health.
• More than 6 years, provided day - to-day system administration and technical support for Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 servers.
• Involved in creating Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents for managing and troubleshooting issues.
• Lead solution deployment projects including hands on configuration ofconvergedandhyper convergedinfrastructure. Supportedconvergedinfrastructure and virtual environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware Products: VCenter 4.0,4.1,5.0,5.1,5.5&6.0, ESX/ESXi4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1,5.5 & 6.0, VSphere client, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Update Manager, VMware Tools, VMware Converter, VCOPS

SERVER OPERATING SYSTEMS: MS Windows Server (2003/2008/R2/2012), Red Hat Linux (Enterprise Linux 5/6/7).

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows, Linux 5/6/7, Unix

STORAGE: VMAX, VNX, XtremIO

DATABASE: MS-SQL Server, Postgres

BACKUPS: EMC Avamar, Data Domain

NETWORKING: Cisco MDS, Cisco 5K, Cisco 3K

NETWORK PROTOCOLS: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, FTP, VPN, VTP VLAN, SNMP, SMTP.

HARDWARE: HP/COMPAQ ProLiant servers, HP/IBM Blade Centers, IBM X-series Servers, Dell Power Edge Server, DLT/DAT Tape backup, DLT Tape Library, Tablet PCs, Cabling/Patch panels, UPS APC, PC/Laptop Hardware, HP/IBM Blade Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Long Island, NY

Sr. VMwareWindows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Administering the various virtualization components like vCenter, vSphere etc.
• Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters
• Supported VMware, specifically ESXi 6.0 to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over servers
• Configuration of vMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMwarevCenter.
• Worked on deploying and configuring shared recovery site, a many-to-one, or an N: 1 configuration in SiteRecoveryManager (SRM) where we connect multiple protected sites to a single recovery site.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data
• TroubleshootingLinuxkernel issues, deep diving debugging and escalating to criticalpaths.
• Administration of VMWarevRealizeOperations (VROPs) andvRealizeLoginSight.
• Develop and maintain O&S Standard Operating Procedures forVDIEnvironment.
• Virtualizing desktop applications for use in aVDIenvironment and application delivery throughVMwareThinApp and App Volumes 2.12.
• Involved in the migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machine files using the vMotion, Storage vMotion and Storage virtualization platforms like HC 250.
• Experience on installing and configuring HPE Hyper V C250 Converged Platform.
• Experience in Software Defined Networking architecture and implementations using NSXManager
• Good experience working on the Remedy and change management process
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory
• Trouble shooting issues related to VMwareESXhost, VMwareVcenter, VMwareupdatemanager.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMwareESXi hosts
• Implemented and Tested desktop virtualization and introduced VMware View to the client
• Reviewed tasks, issues and recommend changes to reduce problem reoccurrences
• Migration of active directory services from Windows NT to FF 2000 to Windows 2003
• Configured Network and Server Software, Hardware and peripheral devices to resolve network issues
• Provided performance metrics, work load status update, and project status updates at biweekly workload tracking meetings
• Experience utilizing vCenter, including vSphere Command-Line Interface commands
• Performed data center Migration & Maintained data center Environment
• Performing initial Cisco UCS cluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade servers and on managing Cisco FlexPod (UCS) environments.
• Provisioning VLANs and fabric interconnect uplinks for server connectivity to the Layer3 data center.
• Involved Integration Testing ofCOTSsystem after installing new builds, creating and executing Test Plans and Test Cases to verify data accuracy, and updating Operational Incident Reports, Stakeholder Implementation Manuals, andCOTStool Implementation Guides.
• Provisioning resource pools for servers, UUIDs, MAC addresses, WWNNs, WWPNs
• Performed Zoning on Cisco MDS switches as required.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including Traditional LUNs, Pools and Thin LUNs, LUN Migration, FASTVP, FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the 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

Environment: VMware ESXi 6.0 Server, Windows 2003/2008 R2, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Servers, CISCO blade servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote Desktop Services, IBM TSM, Microsoft Visual Studio TFS.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administrating the Domain and Services, Active Directory, GPO, IIS (performing code loads on the production environment), Generating certificate request and Installing VeriSign certificate on the website.
• Designed and installed configured vSphere 6.0 as part of POC. Analyzed various available options and implemented high available Platform Service Controllers (PSC’s) for vSphere 6.0
• Configured complex and advanced settings like ATS locking on ESXi servers as per the storage arrays attached to the servers.
• Served or PMO team on long-term infrastructureupgrades and new projects notably security log event management.
• Created service profiles, vNIC, vHBA, service profile templates.
• ManagedVDIproject (VMwareView) from design and development to post- implementation; Successful implementedVDI.
• ProvidingLinuxsupport like Red Hat Linux (Enterprise Linux 5/6) to Quality Assurance team to resolve system issues impacting their testing.
• Configured boot order, MAC pools, IP pools and UUID pools in Cisco UCS Manager.
• As part of building new ESXi hosts, performed zoning on Cisco MDS switches for the ESXi hosts and the storage array front end ports.
• Created LUNs in EMC XtremIO, VMAX, VNX and mounted them to ESXi as VMFS5 data stores.
• Installed ESXi on Cisco B &C-Series servers through KVM and added them into the vCenter.
• Worked on several consolidations, virtualization and cloud projects at involving VMware products, including NSX, vCloud Director, vCAC, vCloudOrchestrator, vSphere, vCenter, vCOPS, vCNS, AppSpeed, SRM, and vCenterConfigurationManager.
• Involved in configuring Active directory in windows server 2012.
• Running Avamargrids. Daily backup status.Avamargrid maintenance, software upgrades.
• Supported several server migrations from Netbackup toAvamar. Along wif configuringavamarplugin type special backups like SQL and Lotus notes DBbackups.
• Involved in writing test plan and developing Autotest script and TCL forP2C, 2C, System Test and RDT/ORT.
• Created and validated clusters, dvSwitch, port-groups and VLAN’s as per the requirements
• Configured HA, DRS, affinity and anti-affinity rules through vCenter to ensure high and continuous availability to business user.
• Installed VMware Update Manager and upgraded versions on several ESXi hosts through it by creating new baselines.
• Created package, advertisement and collection on theSCCMConsole
• System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM2007/2012 R2/R3) operating system deployment (OSD) and administration hands-on experience
• Installed VMware SRM and created Protection groups and Recovery plans and performed DR tests as scheduled.
• As an Implementation Specialist, me was tasked to review system functionality and verify compliance wif system requirements/ specifications afterCOTStool integration. Duties includedCOTSsecurity system integration and full system regression testing, to verify system access and functionality.
• Worked on MSActiveDirectoryDHCP, DNS, WINS, and Microsoft Internet Information Service(IIS)and Scripting Languages likePowerShell, VBScript, vCLI
• Experience in Microsoft Server 2012/2016 Operating Systems.
• Managed a staff of five regardinginfrastructureaspects to provide maximum uptime, current maintenance, disaster recovery process and plan.
• Collaborated wif business partners, stakeholders and technology project teams to analyze, document and manage detailed functional specifications.
• Translate requirements and use cases into test conditions for product, performance, user acceptance and operational acceptance testing.
• Perform gap analysis on existingsystemsand prioritize defects wif subject matter experts.
• Created work break down structures of the projects on the technical prospective.

Environment: VMware ESXi 6.0 Server, Windows 2003/2008 R2, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Servers, CISCO blade servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote Desktop Services, IBM TSM, Microsoft Visual Studio TFS.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Infrastructure Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of complex Infrastructure solutions as per the business requirements wifin provided budget.
• Provided technical leadership to theInfrastructureAnalysts team, and served on related taskforces to solve medium to high complex issues.
• Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory services.
• Responsible for establishing forest level trust between different forest and autanticating users for unrestricted access in the specified forest for all the available resources.
• Implemented the concept of Windows Clustering on the servers having critical applications running
• Managing Virtual Machines, InstallingVMwareTools, Creating Templates, Cloning, and Deploy Virtual Machines using Templates.
• Planning, managing and Installationof VMwareESXi 5.5 /6.0 server, Installation and configuration of virtual center database and installation ofVMwareinfrastructure virtual machines.
• Performed periodical updates ofVMwarehosts and guest patch updates, as well as performed parallel upgrade from Esxi 5.5 to Esxi 6.0.
• Worked closely wif Storage and Networking teams to manage the allocated SAN, Fiber and Networking Infrastructure.
• Updated the Patches for ESX Servers usingVMwareUpdate Manager in Virtual Center.
• Involved in Managing, Upgrading, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 Servers.
• Used automation scripts to minimize error level in day to dayVMwareoperations
• ManagedVMwareDistributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.
• Worked on management integrated ESX servers, created a new storage space, creation of VMFS data store, Configuration networking for the virtual machines.
• Troubleshooting problems pertaining to Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012.
• Managing the VM infrastructure (DRS, HA, Virtual Center Server, VM Converter).
• Installation/configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN environment.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012 R2, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, VMware ESXi 6.0 Server, Cisco UCS, vCloud Director 1.5, VMware vCloud Center and VMware vCenter Orchestrator 4.1, EMC VNX Family storage systems, Remote desktop services.

Confidential

Sr. VMWare Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Administering the various virtualization components like vCenter, vSphere etc.
• Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters
• Supported VMware, specifically ESXi5.5 to monitor clusterperformance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over servers
• Configuration of vMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware vCenter.
• Maintained WindowsServers2008 R2, 2012 R2 administration created User Accounts and Groups in ActiveDirectory (AD) as required after gaining required approvals.
• Managed Active directory, DNS, WINS and DHCPServers.Managed Users & Other AD objects.
• Worked on V2V and P2V migration of PhysicalserverstoVMwareESXi hosts.Converted several physicalservers(both Linux and Windows) to virtualservers.Administrator on SMS/SCCM 2007 System ManagementServer/ System Center Configuration Manager.
• Worked on deploying and configuring shared recovery site, a many-to-one, or an N: 1 configuration in SiteRecoveryManager (SRM) where we connect multiple protected sites to a single recovery site.
• Involved in the migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machine files using the vMotion, Storage vMotion and Storage virtualization platforms like HC 250
• Experience in Software Defined Networking architecture and implementations using NSX Manager
• Good experience working on the Remedy and change management process
• Generating Performance report summary for ESXi servers and VM's
• Migration of active directory services from Windows NT to FF2000 to Windows2003
• Configured Network and Server Software, Hardware and peripheral devices to resolve network issues
• Provided performance metrics, work load status update, and project status updates at biweekly workload tracking meetings
• Performed data center Migration & Maintained data center Environment
• Performing initial CiscoUCScluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade servers and on managing Cisco FlexPod (UCS) environments.
• Provisioning VLANs and fabric interconnect uplinks for server connectivity to the Layer 3 data center cloud
• Provisioning resource pools for servers, UUIDs, MACaddresses, WWNNs, WWPNs
• Performed Zoning on CiscoMDS switches as required.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including RaidGroups, Traditional LUNs, Thin LUNs, LUNMigration, FAST VP,and FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the 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

Environment: VMware ESXi 5.5 Server, Windows 2003/2008 R2, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Servers, CISCO blade servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote Desktop Services, IBM TSM, Microsoft Visual Studio TFS.

Confidential, Melbourne, FL

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation and Operations of a large VMware based virtualization environment comprising of 10 Linked mode VCenter servers, 20 VDatacenters, 105 HA/DRS clusters, 2100 ESX/ESXi hosts and more than 12,000 VM’s
• Proof of Concept for VMware on Cisco Unified Computing Systems
• Cloud Infrastructure administration wif VMware vCenter, Unisphere and Cisco Nexus CLI.
• VMAX and VNX storage system Implementation, Storage virtualization platformsHC 250 and administration in VMware environment.
• Monitoring the Cisco MDS 9500 series, Cisco Fabric Interconnects 6100 and 6200 series, Nexus 5k and 7k switches, VNX/VMAX Array for failures and alerts.
• Creating packages, collections and advertisements for software distributions, while maintaining and troubleshootingSCCMand computer clients' health
• Responsible for implementing and guaranteeing process and systems are in place to deliver highly available storage platforms.
• Involved in eHealth and Eco Meter Management Network Support tool,that uses SNMP v1, SNMPv2c, and SNMPv3 to send request to gather results from the generated reports.
• Performing production wide live VM networking migration from Standard Virtual Switches to Distributed Virtual Switch
• Involved in troubleshooting OS andCOTSapplications. Handled custom application configuration and issues analysis. Also handled remote support and lease roll of computers across U.S.
• Created new VLAN’s and port-profiles on Nexus 1000v as per the requirements. VNXStorageArray monitoring and advanced performance analysis using Unisphere Analyzer
• Installation and configuration of EMCPowerPath in ESXi for SAN Storage Path optimization.
• Leveraging the N1KVirtualSupervisor Modules control plane for centralized configuration and management of all the distributed ESXi virtual Ethernet modules
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management and integration wif vSphere
• Cisco UCS integrations wif Cisco Nexus 5548 for LAN and Cisco MDS for SAN
• Experience developing and maintaining NSX/vCloud mini datacenter lab from scratch.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including Raid Groups and Traditional LUNs, Pools and Thin LUNs, LUN Migration, FAST VP, FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration

Environment: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, VMware ESXi 5.1 Server, Dell Power Edge Servers, CISCO UCS blade servers, HP Servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote desktop services, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN,Zywall and SonicWall Firewall IBM TSM, IBM NAS, Cisco Nexus 5K.

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring VMware ESX/ESXi 3.0/3.5/4.0, and vSphere Suite
• Installing & Configuring Virtual Center Server 2.5 and vCenter 4.0
• SAN fabric zoning for CiscoMDS 9216 and McDATAED 6064 using Fabric Manager
• Consolidated storage and expanded by upgrading from CX 700 to a higher capacity CX 3-80 /DMX 4 using Sancopy
• Migrated Physical Machines to Virtual Machines (P2V) and Virtual Machines to Virtual Machines (V2V) using VMware converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation
• Performed HotCloning, ColdCloning, Classic VMotion and Storage VMotion. In depth Knowledge in vMotion
• Managing Domain Controllers and Additional domain controllers
• Symantec antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server
• Migration of active directory services from WindowsNT to Windows2000 to Windows2003
• Providing CapacityPlanning review for all the servers
• Patching all Windows servers and workstations wif Company standards
• Configuring & administering Domain Naming Server (DNS),Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Distributed File System(DFS), Internet Information Service(IIS) and Remote Access Service(RAS)

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server and Workstation, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, Dell NAS, Zywall and SonicWALL Firewall.