PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience in Windows Systems designing, deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral devices.
• Innovative results - driven IT professional wif solid history of progressive hands-on experience in the analysis, administration, management, and support of information management systems. Extensive experience in Windows, Virtualization technologies and Storage area network solutions.
• Extensive noledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, HA and DRS including VMware Lab Manage.
• Experience in P2V, V2V Migration using VMware Standalone Converter. .
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, and NFS Storage and RAID technologies.
• Knowledge of configuring storage appliances such as EMC, IBM, HP3Par, Dell to setup redundant environment.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2012 R2/2012/2008 R2/2008/2003 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Worked on Microsoft Office365 and Migration of mailboxes from Exchange 2003 platform to Office365
• Experience in Microsoft Office 365 solutions such as Exchange, Office, Lync, One Drive and SharePoint.
• Extensive experience wif CyberArk's security products such as Enterprise Password Vault, Privileged Identity Management, Application Identity Management including design and implementation of Disaster Recovery hot-site and development of the BCP plans using LDRPS.
• Experience wif 2-factor autantication.
• Experience wif HP, IBM and Dell hardware including rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Designed and implemented infrastructure for major Projects and applications such Solarwinds, Kiwi Syslog, Roadnet Transportation Suite and Office365.
• Experience consolidating domains and forests using ADMT.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks)
• Administering production servers/network infrastructure that includes Domain Controllers, Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2.
• Experience in disaster recovery in physical and virtual environments wif vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
• Experience in Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop and VDI Technologies.
• Experience wif static desktop and dynamic desktop supporting technologies such as Thin Cloning, Provisioning, Application Virtualization (App-V).
• Experience in Powershell and PowerCLI for automating VM build process.
• Implementation of View 5.0, View 4.5 Desktop Virtualization View 4.6, VDI on Cisco UCS.
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security. Experienced in installation, configuration, design and ongoing maintenance of Cisco router and switches.
• Experience wif Datacenter Infrastructure involving work wif maintenance on server hardware, storage devices, network devices and Power Distribution Units (PDUs).
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player wif excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/4.5/5.5, vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0, ESX 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Converter, SRM PlateSpin Migrate, Double-take, VMware Capacity Planner, vCloud and Workspace Suite, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), VMware Data Center Vitualization, VCOPS,VMware WorkstationWindows Administration: Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2003/2008 - installation and configuration, installation and configuration of Active Directory creating users and groups, SCCM, setting user access controls, domains creation and setup.

Networking: OSI Reference Model, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts including vSwitches, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP stack for virtualization, configuration of printers and, scanners.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 G5/G6 Intel Xeon, HP ProLiant DL385 G6/G7 AMD Opteron, Dell PowerEdge 2850, 2950, R710, HP BL 460c G5/G6 blade servers, C7000 HP Chassis. NetApp V6000 Series.

Operating Systems: Windows Server OS - 2003/2008/2008R2, Windows 7/XP/NT Wintel Servers, Hyper-V.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, SFO, CA

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Successfully designed and implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation.
• Built Windows 2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on the application requirement and connected servers wifin load balancers to balance load and built redundancy.
• Installed VMware ESX server 5.0/5.5 in a total of 160 ESX’s, 2000+ servers & four VC’s. Created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented VMotion, Virtualized Windows physical servers using VMware standalone converter P2V and setup required configuration on the VM.
• Worked on building Virtual environment on CITRIX platform. Added 20 hosts and 400 Virtual machines into the clustered virtual infrastructure
• Worked on Installing RHEL 4/5 on application and database servers and configured Networking and multipathing.
• Consolidated domains and forests using ADMT 3.x.
• Utilized ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tools) to migrate 400 + accounts, 600 + groups, and 300 + computers to the new forest design.
• Building new servers inlegacy VMware from 2003 to 2008, andHyper-V for applications those are readyto move to new Dynamic Data Center.
• Configured and Documented windows clustering for VCenter server, vCloud Director, VMware vFabric Web Server, and SQL Servers.
• Experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View Composer and View Connection Manager to make Virtual Desktop Infrastructure efficient and to simplify desktop administrative management tasks. Responsible for successfully upgrading all hosts and vCenter servers to vSphere 5.5.
• Architect and deploy VMware desktop and server virtualization solutions including storage, network, and server components.
• Sequencing applications for MicrosoftApplicationVirtualization (App-V) 4.5 using Sequencer and deployed to the clients through APP-V server.
• Performed Active upgrade to applications in APP-V.
• Installing VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on Cisco UCS and HP blade servers wif Flex 10 Networking.
• Designed and configured Storage Area Network utilizing 2 x EMC CX3-40 SAN devices.
• Implemented the centralization of Virtual Desktops; deployed and demonstrated Proof-of-Concepts for VDI - VMware View and Quest vWorkspace.
• Hands on wide experience wif VMware vCloud Director.
• Determining customer requirements and designing VMware-based solutions architectures spanning VMware’s product portfolio from the vCloud Suite to the Horizon Suite to meet the functional and business requirements of a range clients of various sizes and across verticals.
• Implemented vCloud Automation Center.
• Documentation of Double-Take Run books, Workbooks, Migration scripts and diagnostic procedures.
• Experience in EMC VNX 5300 SAN storage Administration.
• Monitoring virtual infrastructure using VMware vCenter.
• Upgrading vCenter Server and ESX /ESXi Hosts from 4.0 to 4.1 using vCenter update manager.
• Fully automated, migration and failover wif vCenter site recovery manager 4.0/4.1.
• Installed configured and updated firmware on UCS C210 servers for physical migrations.
• Installation and configuration of Double-Take Availability.
• DNS change/Re-pointing validating activities as a part of the migration.
• Installed and worked on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 4.0) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans.
• Implementation and configuration of EMC Avamar 7.0 / 7.1and Data Domain Backup environment wif Data deduplication reduplication and HFS checkpoint validation in a global environment, also a weekly data domain cleanup reclaiming storage space. EMC VNX Storage Arrays wif Brocade switches.
• Extensive experience in working wif the Wintel servers 2008, 2012.
• Administrating DNS, DHCP, and Exchange & ISA servers. Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager and in MS Exchange Administration.
• Experienced wif 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.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Installed & configured Windows 2008 wif Active Directory service.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router wif security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
• LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, Labeling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, and NFS Storage and RAID technologies.
• Experience wif User Administrator, Implementation and User revalidation, Patch Advisory and daily system health check, BIOS flash, raid Bios upgradation, Mass Migration.
• Installed and configure Hyper-V manager on Windows 2008 Hyper-V Host.
• Responsible for Desktop, Laptop, Network and Outlook support & troubleshooting client’s issues.
• Created, tracked, and closed trouble tickets via Remedy Ticket Tracking Tool.
• Disaster recovery planning, implementation and recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.
• Creating PowerShell and PowerCLI script for automating VM build process, worked wif clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Experience in IT decision-making, policy direction, planning, and team management. Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance wif company policy. Recommends resolutions to complex matters of significance and coordinate the implementation of the approved course of action.

Confidential, Rhode Island

VMware Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated physical SQL database servers to the virtual environment using double take and VMware vsphere 5.5.
• Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management.
• Provided remote phone support and onsite support for the datacenter migration from physical environment to virtual environment.
• Conducted tests to determine the best strategy and methodology for the migration process to occur on windows 2003/2008 servers.
• Exposure to other Backup Technology - Backup Exec, EMC Avamar, EMC Networker, Troubleshooting issues related to backup environment, Strong understanding of Netbackup error codes and resolution and Performing builds, decommissions, and verifications of backup setup.
• Responsible for administering and supporting 350Citrix serverenvironment on Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Responsible for Terminal server builds and Citrix XenApp server deployments in both Physical and virtual environments.
• Utilized ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tools) to migrate 200 + accounts, 400 + groups, and 200 + computers to the new forest design.
• Implemented Desktop Virtualization (VDI) and vWorkspace.
• Implementation of View 5.0, View 4.5 Desktop Virtualization View 4.6, VDI on Cisco UCS.
• Maintained an updated version of issues log for the test results and test process.
• Sequence applications using APP-V sequencer and use full infrastructure to publish them.
• Create application packages in the APP-V management Console to publish it.
• Virtualized physical windows servers using VMware converter and double-take.
• Added additional hard disks using vsphere 5.5 and reconfigured the network settings of the target virtual machines.
• Responsible to perform BIOS update on Dell Systems.
• Involved in Installation, configuration and testing of Platespin Migrate and Power Recon.
• Installing & Configured Virtual Center Server 2.5 and vCenter 4.0.
• Worked on vCenter Server 4.0 for managing multiple ESXi Servers.
• Troubleshooting experience wif ESX Servers and ESXi Servers, vSphere and vCenter manager.
• Consolidation and Capacity planning of Physical Servers using Power Recon.
• Architected scalability and sizing of servers for P2V migrations using performance traces and Platespin PowerRecon.
• Conducted process planning, noledge transfer, and resource management to expedite migrations and reduce P2V failure rates.
• Thorough planning was done for downtime, noing each server usage & there placement in Datacenter.
• Experience wif VMware Convertor /Platespin and Doubletake convertor tools.
• Configured and Documented windows clustering for VCenter server, vCloud Director, VMware vFabric Web Server, and SQL Servers.
• Hands on wide experience wif VMware vCloud Director and Quest vWorkspace.
• Experience wif Datacenter relocation projects and SAN Replication migrations.
• Execution of Platespin Portability Suite jobs as documented process.
• Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and Cisco hardware, and installation of vCenter Server, vCenter Components and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.
• DNS change/Re-pointing validating activities as a part of the migration.
• Migration of 300+ servers from different data centers were moved to Centralized Data Center using Platespin Portability Suite.
• Migration of Windows servers from VMware ESX3.5 to VMware ESX 4.0 Farms
• Refreshed the physical servers as part of P2P wif Platespin Portability Suite.
• Installing VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on Cisco UCS and HP blade servers wif Flex 10 Networking.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router wif security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
• Extensive experience in working wif the Wintel servers 2008, 2012 and Hyper-V.
• Scripted the vmdk disk creation using Power shell scripting and implemented it in Power CLI.
• Coordinated server downtimes and application downtimes wif the customers and other teams during migrations.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, and NFS Storage and RAID technologies.
• Responsible for 24×7 production / development server farm monitoring of 280 servers utilizing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).
• Used SCOM SQL Reporting Services to create custom reports for planning, management updates, historical tracking etc.
• Performing day to day SCOM operations about resolving alerts and tuning resolution states etc.
• Documented the migration process in detail and initiated the migration tasks.
• Worked on SCCM and WSUS for Windows OS deployment and Patch management.
• Monitored the migration activity during nights and provided onsite and remote phone support to the migration team. Updated management about the progress of migration.
• Installed VMware tools on the virtual machines after the P2V migration.
• Added the virtual network adapters (VNICs), updated the MAC address using vshpere 5.5.
• Configured the IPV4 properties, IP settings, DNS configuration and WINS configuration.
• Configured VMDKs and added them to the virtual machines after the migration.
• Created new hard disks for the vms using vsphere 5.5 and brought them online using the windows disk management and veritas storage manager.
• Uninstalled the hardware specific drivers from the virtual machines after the P2V migration.
• Reconfigured the vCPU and the Memory setting of the virtual machines after the P2V migration.
• Ran powershell scripts to reconfigure the SQL databases for the TempDB, MaxDOP and memory configurations.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

VMware Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured & Deployed ESX/ESXi server in corporate production environment.
• Used automation scripts to minimize error level in day to day VMware operations.
• Leveraged VMware Infrastructure Implementation and Consolidation expertise to implement Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) migrations, blade server capacity planning, high availability and failover settings (where applicable) on newly installed blade servers and existing rack-mount servers, training of the existing IT staff on its purpose and proper use and documentation.
• Averted catastrophic downtime and extravagant recovery costs on multiple occasions by preemptively creating virtualized copies of all critical servers in conjunction wif custom developed rapid-deployment templates for XP and Server 2003 VM’s.
• Involved in maintenance ofCitrix XP,PS 3.0 and PS 4.0 farm, which includes more TEMPthan 100 Servers and 100 various applications.
• Involved in Installation and upgrading the various applications on Citrix Servers andpublishing the Applicationon Citrix PS 4.0 farm.
• Played role as a VMware/Unix Admin to provide L3 support in a complex Environment.
• Design, Installation, configuration of VMware Site Recovery Manager. Had run failover-Failback tests over the bidirectional SRM.
• Sequence applications using APP-V sequencer and use full infrastructure to publish them.
• Responsible for testing in RSP (Raid Storage Processor) Drivers, Bios, Gui/TUI interfaces, API’s, Test Automation and Management software on a customer platform, Nas, San, Server, Router, and Storage environment.
• Utilized ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tools) to migrate 200 + accounts, 400 + groups, and 200 + computers to the new forest design.
• Installing VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on Cisco UCS and HP blade servers wif Flex 10 Networking.
• Responsible for checking the health of servers, updates and backup.
• Responsible to perform BIOS update on Dell Systems.
• Performing Disaster recovery for customer using Avamar backups and Performing Physical to virtual and virtual physical recovery using Avamar.
• Cancelling activity which are partially backed up and troubleshooting backup failure jobs.
• Virtualized Windows server Migration usingVMware Converter, PlateSpin PowerConvert and doubletake convertor.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Configured and Documented windows clustering for VCenter server, vCloud Director, VMware vFabric Web Server, and SQL Servers.
• Hands on wide experience wif VMware vCloud Director and Hyper-V.
• Hands on wide experience wif Desktop Virtualization (VDI) and Quest vWorkspace.
• Creating PowerShell and PowerCLI script for automating VM build process, worked wif clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Deployed VMware ESX server 3.0 (virtualization technology) for Intel platforms (Windows and Linux servers). Total of 40 ESX servers wif over 600 VMs wif Virtual center.
• Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, WINS, Domain trust relationship, fault tolerance, file and print services, user and group management.
• Involved in design and implement Server migration from Physical to Virtual using VMware P2V Assistant 2.1.2
• Analyzing and reporting Virtual environment usage through VFoglight report and presenting the same to Site Lead and Stake holders.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router wif security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
• Extensive experience in working wif the Wintel servers 2008, 2012.
• Involved in migrating physical servers to VMware virtual servers using P2V Assistant.
• Worked on Migration Projects Involving IIS 5.0 and 6.0 based applications.
• Installed VMware ESX Server 2.5 on all the physical servers to host multiple virtual machines.
• Installed Management Server (VMware VCenter Server) instance to enable centralized management of multiple hosts.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, and NFS Storage and RAID technologies.
• Installed VM Clusters (ESX 2.5), Hosts and virtual machines.
• Converting the physical servers to virtual servers using P2V Assistant.
• Enabled VMware HA, VMware DRS for higher efficiency for the Infrastructure.
• Installing, troubleshooting and supporting of Desktops, Laptops, Network Devices, and Computer Peripherals.
• Ran powershell scripts to reconfigure the SQL databases for the TempDB, MaxDOP and memory configurations.
• User Support - Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance, server & user related problems. Support users to resolve their day to day issues related to OS, E-mail, Account issues, hardware etc.
• Responsible for Backup/recovery strategy of all ESX servers. Planning and implementing fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on the network.
• Responsible in diagnosing & troubleshooting of VMware ESX and Virtual Center Environments.
• Support & Training - Provide necessary help / training to IT Helpdesk / Telecom Support Personal to resolve day to day issues.

Confidential

VMware Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed Virtualization Environment using VM Ware ESX 4.x, VM Ware V Sphere 5.x, Virtual Center, and VI Client.
• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Trouble shooting of ESX 4.x,Vsphere 5.0, Virtual Center, VI Client.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates.
• Creating PowerShell and PowerCLI script for automating VM build process, worked wif clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Sequence applications using APP-V sequencer and use full infrastructure to publish them.
• Exposure to other Backup Technology - Backup Exec, EMC Avamar, EMC Networker, and Troubleshooting issues related to backup environment.
• Migration of Windows servers from VMware ESX34.x to VMware ESX 5.x Farms
• Refreshed the physical servers as part of P2P wif Platespin Portability Suite.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router wif security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Configured Resource Pool, V Motion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP.
• Consolidated domains and forests using ADMT 3.x.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, and NFS Storage and RAID technologies.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter).
• Migrating of Virtual Machines using V Motion
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Creating Templates from VM’s, deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resource.
• Monitoring of Virtual Machine’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security.
• Analyzing and reporting Virtual environment usage through VFoglight report and presenting the same to Site Lead and Stake holders.
• Converting P2V and V2V using VMware Standalone Converter.
• Creating duplicate Virtual Machine’s using cloning technology (hot & cold).
• Migration of Virtual Machines using V-Motion.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
• Creation of Virtual Switches, Ports and Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks.
• Troubleshooting issues relating to Vmotion such as compatibility issues wif help of event log.
• Setting up Users and Groups for access to the Virtual Center.
• Moving VM’s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage V-Motion.
• Ran powershell scripts to reconfigure the SQL databases for the TempDB, MaxDOP and memory configurations.
• Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between Virtual Machines.
• Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting.
• Organize tasks, events and Configuring alarms.