PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years of experience in System administration on Windows, VMware and Unix Administration and Managed 1400+ servers of Operating systems both physically onsite and remotely.
• Extensive experience in installing and configuring VMWARE ESX 4.1, vCenter, VMware vSphere (Infrastructure Virtualization suite), ESX/ESXi Server, Virtual Machines and Vsphere Client and migrated all physical servers to virtual instances at various data centers of GE business.
• Remotely monitoring and managing servers using utilities like VMware, Terminal Services, RDP, HP - ILO, PC anywhere and maintained Cisco LANs and WAN devices (Cisco Routers and Switches).
• Install latest Microsoft Security Patches and application updates on all the servers and desktop.
• Designed and implemented virtualization using VMWARE ESXi 5.1 Server and configured VMWARE HA, VMWARE DRS, VCB, VMOTION, VSWITCH.
• Migrated physical servers to virtual instances using P2V tools like VMWARE converter, Platespin and built MS cluster on VMWARE.
• Familiar wif several IaaS and PaaS technologies (Amazon EC2, Azure, OpenStack, VMWare VCD) and Experience in designing and managing Cloud infrastructure (Microsoft Azure, Vmware).
• Part of VMWARE migration team in implementing and updating the latest versions of VMware as well as building new VM instances as per the business requirement.
• Proficiency in Disaster Recovery, Clustering, High Availability, Patches and VMWare and Monitored all UNIX Servers for CPU utilization, Network traffic, and hard drive space, Memory using related software.
• Supporting high-end production servers for operating system issues and vendor coordination wif various hardware vendors like HP, DELL, and IBM for hardware failures.
• Experience in VMware VDI administration, Experience in IP Networking and Monitoring Remote Desktop and Windows Desktop.
• Provided 24/7 supports for clients both on call and on site.
• Designed and implemented Microsoft Cluster services on various nodes hosting MS SQL Server 2003 and different third party applications.
• Experience in System Administration, Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on UNIX.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage: SAN, NAS and ISCSI.

Scripting: Shell Scripting

programming Skills: C/C++, Unix Bourne Shell.

operating Systems: Windows 2012 R2, 2008R2,2008,2003,Windows2000Red Hat Linux, VMware ESX Server 3.5/4.0,ESXi5.1VSphere 5.1,VMWARE HA, VMWARE DRS, VCB

databases: MS-SQL Server 2005, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014.

Virtualization: VMWare, VcentervSphere, client VMware converter, DRS,HA and FT

Web Related Application:

MS-IIS 5.0/6.0, MS-Proxy Server 2.0, Tomcat, PHP:

Network Protocols: TCP/IP,DHCP,HTTP,HTTPS,VPN,DNS,NTP,WINS,FTPSSH, WinSCP And Telnet.

Tools &Utilities: VMWARE ESX 2.5/3.0/3.5/4.0, Symantec Antivirus 9.0,VERITAS Netback up, PCAnywhere.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

VERITAS Enterprise Administrator

Confidential HA,

Responsibilities:

• Implementation and support of systems in Test/UAT/Production environments (SDLC) and Continuous monitoring of server process.
• Procuring and Building the new Servers as per the Customer Requirements.
• Coordinating wif various teams like Network Operations, Data Center Operations, GlobalChange Operations and Site Services to resolve infrastructure critical issues wifin the SLA’s.
• Ensure dat the Servers builds were accurate by QC which include Flatten & Rebuilds, DNS
• Changes, Storage changes and Network Configurations.
• Provide operations support (Systems Administration & Database Administration) for SDO and SESIT.
• Managing all aspects of systems management, administration, and operations of large-scale web and SQL based services by leading a worldwide team of skilled build engineers.
• Take initiative for ongoing and upcoming projects and planning the workflow and initiating the team for new projects by coordinating wif both onsite and off shore Teams of Microsoft Customers.
• Working wif Server Owners to ensure dat the applications gets adopted to technological advancements such as SQL Always On, Windows Azure, Win 2012 offerings from Microsoft and take advantage of the new technologies.
• Installation, Administration, Configuration of SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014.
• Installation and Upgrading the OS (Windows 2008, 2012 and 2014) on the Servers to make the Servers compliant to Microsoft Policies.
• Migrated and validated users and SQL logins in the new environment.
• Monitored database status including CPU, memory, I/O, space, and dead locks using SQL Server Utilities and performed performance testing in SQL server using SQL profiler.
• Assisting users in taking SQL back-ups while performing OS upgrades for their critical servers.
• Worked on SQL server migration of multiple SQL 2008 instances to SQL 2012 and to SQL 2014.
• Participating in audit meetings wif the customers regarding compliance and adaptation of new technologies.
• Maintaining the OS Compliance, SQL Compliance, OS IPAK & SQL IPAK compliance for the supported servers and ensuring they are upgraded to the latest.
• Security patching of all Servers.
• Change Management- On behalf of our SESIT and SDO customers, Infrastructure engages Datacenter Services through established call tracking systems (ITSM Change) to submit Move/Add/Change (MAC) requests on server platforms.
• Providing Assistance to the Customers while replacing RAM, HBA cards wif the help of Data Center Technicians.
• Change Management Types, Server OS rebuild, Server OS configuration change, Server moves, Server decommission, IP/WINS/DNS add or change, ACL/VIP/SNAT add or change, Backup schedule add or change, Asset database update (ITSM), Server EOW/EOL notification, DC monitoring add or change, Server admin access change.

Confidential, Chicago

VMWare Engineer

Environment: VSphere 5.1, windows 2003, 2008, 2008R2, SQL 2008R2, Share Point, Dell Compellent, commvault backup, RHEL5, RHEL6, Keepass.

Responsibilities:

• Virtual to virtual migration of VM’s from old virtual environment to new virtual environment and leading the team for VMware planning and configuration.
• Documenting the old environment and the present environment.
• Planning and installing vSphere 5.1 and ESXi 5.1 servers and adding ESX hosts to the virtual center and assessment of both online and offline virtual machines.
• Adding Processors, RAM, NIC, Disks to the Virtual Machines.
• Installation of SQL Server 2008R2 Standard edition on all the servers dat are there on the virtualization farm.
• Administration of network performance by monitoring and trouble shooting.
• Installation of SMS and Adding roles (IIS) under SCCM and configuring Active Directory to SCCM for having containers to publish information.
• Placing orders for dell hardware products like r710 servers and sonic firewalls.
• Active Directory infrastructures used to provide security and access to various systems, services and applications sponsored and/or supported by COMIR and its supported departments
• Trouble shooting OS performance issues like memory leaks, OS crashes, missing/corrupt file issues and boot failures.
• Configuring Vmotion/creating resource pools and configuring the VM’s based on the priority.
• Monitor and maintain SCCM software repository and server performance and report changes to SAN and virtual host environment as part of Change Control and documentation procedures.
• Troubleshooting ADS, DNS, DHCP server and clients, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Domain related issues.
• Installation of windows2008 and 2008R2 and RHEL6 on the virtual machines and creation of the same virtual templates.

Confidential, IL

Dev Ops Support Engineer

Environment: Windows Azure Management Portal, Mingle, Cruise Control, SQL Server Management Studio, Vault Client, Remote Desktop Connection, Cloud Storage Connection, ORION, MerchantSvc Tool, WinScp,Linux,Windows 2003,2008/R2.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working on creating Hosted Services in Windows Azure for the applications of Red box in both QA and DEV environment and monitoring of Services in the Production Environment.
• Updating the instance counts in the production for the services of Red box in the Production Azure Subscription.
• Creating the CNAMEs and updating the DNS records for the Hosted Services in the QA and DEV Subscriptions.
• Working wif Chase for Merchant Service Server related issues like Batch Submission and Stopping and Restarting the Merchant services.
• Adding the New Co-Admin and Managing the Co-Admins for all the Subscriptions in the Windows Azure Platform.
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication wif the help of Endpoints and also VM Migrations from Transitional hosts on Canada Boxes.
• Worked wif development team on obtaining relevant changes and built Deployment packages for several Applications to the latest versions by updated code wif the help of Cruise Control and working wif the issues related to it.
• Setup trust between on premise and cloud server using ACS and ADFS in Azure.
• Filled in for DBA in doing SQL Server setup and configuration and applied service packs and cumulative updates.
• Worked wif local System Admins on setting up internal names using combination of DNS/CNAME and host files.
• Identify and setup Site scope Alerts to quint essential services.

Confidential

Windows VMWare Engineer

Environment: ESX 4.1, VCenter server 4.1, vSphere client, Windows 2003/2008, 2008R2 server, RHEL 4.8, 5.5, 5.6, Team track, Tivoli Storage Manager, Symantec Endpoint, Oracle, Active Directory, DNS, HP Proliant DL580G7, HP ProLiant DL360G7.

Responsibilities:

• Designed the VMWARE VSphere 4.1 installation on hosts and Virtual center servers and Documenting all the network, server and resource configurations.
• Installation and configuration of windows servers 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 virtual machines on the ESX host.
• Converted Windows and Linux Physical servers to virtual using vConverter and Double Take wif minimum downtime.
• Patch Management and deployment of the Wintel systems and general support of the Wintel infrastructure including decommissions.
• Installing and configuring the VMware VSphere and creating clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
• Configured VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which includes 60+ VMware ESX, which are SAN/NAS connected, in Production and Non-Production environments dat host over 120+ servers running Windows & Linux variations and over 1100+ workstations running Windows XP.
• Participated in migration of servers from San Diego datacenter to Las Vegas and Quincy datacenters.
• Extensive experience in ITIL Documentation.
• Providing access to the users by using Active Directory to the groups and working wif access related issues of the users such as Login failures, Account Lockouts, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name resolution.
• Creating ACL requests and storage requests by using Remedy. And used Men and Mice for adding and editing the CNAME Records and creating SSL certs.
• Extensive use of HP Opsware for installing the software and attaching the software policies and use of HP and DELL ILO for debugging and troubleshooting of servers in a datacenter remotely.
• Configuration of RDM and cluster environment for windows servers and participated in Troubleshooting and configuration of Network issues.
• Installing and updating the packages on Linux machines by using YUM and RPM and configured the Linux machines. Monitored the CPU utilization and disk space and memory on Linux machines.
• Installed and updated the SEP Antivirus on all servers and desktops and also installed SNMP informant wif required Plugins.
• Responsible for monitoring network to ensure network availability to all systems users and provide support for networking team.
• Upgrading the ESX servers using update manager/ command line / copying on a DVD from the VMware portal and going through the BIOS configuration.
• Installing and Configuring Terminal servers for remote desktop and managing the online OS mirroring (RAID).
• Worked wif Active Directory Services and windows server 2003 & 2008 domains, DNS, DHCP, hands on experience on MS exchange server, backup & restore, remote server administration.
• Granting privileges to local administrators by adding them to domain account and dealing wif security issues wif AD and implanting Quest AD tool (Active tools, quest reporter and quest restore).
• Installing and configuring terminal services for remote desktop servers and managing windows and exchange servers.

Confidential, Texas

Infrastructure Engineer

Environment: VMWARE ESX 3.5 and 4.0, vSphere 4.0, Virtual Center, VMotion, VMware HA, VMware DRS clusters, Virtual Machines on Windows 2003/2008 and Red Hat servers, Ubuntu, Euca Tools.

Responsibilities:

• Experience in integrating User Identity between traditional on-premise applications/directories and several different Cloud (Saas) applications.
• Troubleshooting OS performance issues, memory leaks, OS crashes, missing/corrupt file issues and boot failures.
• Installing, Managing and Monitoring Active Directory and DNS Servers.
• Designed VMware virtualization infrastructure based on vSphere for multiple Enterprise projects for development and testing division wif consolidation of 500+ Wintel Servers, 500+ Sun Solaris x86 boxes using Vizioncore, vConverter and VMware vConverter. Designed automated provisioning process of VMs.
• Use of P2V and V2V tools like VMware enterprise converter, vConverter (from VizionCore) and PlateSpin to consolidate and reduce the server footprint and focus on Green IT, VMware View (VDI), Site Recovery Manager-SRM and VMware Lab Manager.
• Responsible for day-to-day operations involving monitoring, Queues, health checks, remote administration of systems in a production environment.
• Ensuring data downloading and uploading via FTP at remote location. Tuning networks, maintaining backups and ensuring minimum downtime.
• Driving the server consolidation in building new servers in a clustered environment and supporting the clients to move them into production wif the applications installed.
• Monitor all UNIX Servers for CPU utilization, Network traffic, and hard drive space, Memory using related software and Applied Kernel patches in Unix Systems.
• Creating and managing shared disk groups in clustering environment and installed and configured enterprise server hardware.
• Installing, Managing and monitoring Active Directory Servers.
• Worked in creating, mounting and unmounting new file systems.
• Configuring RSA and other remote access devices and Trouble shooting on TSM backup issues and Tivoli Monitoring services.
• Converted physical Windows and Linux servers to Virtual using vConverter and Platespin Migrate.
• HMS - Irving, TX: System Administrator Aug2009-Jun2010
• HMS is the nation’s leader in cost containment solutions for government-funded, commercial, and private entities focused mainly on health care. Setup and maintain virtual environment using VMware and provided technical guidance in Datacenter operations.

Environment: vSphere, vCenter server and virtual center, workstation, Linux 4/5,Windows2000/2003/2008 server, Red Hat Linux 4.5/4.6/5, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange 2003/ 2007,VMware ESX3.5/4,NetApp filers, Citrix server, SQL 2005/2008.

Responsibilities:

• Installation of windows servers and managing users and group policies in Active Directory.
• Installing SNMP informants and updating Antivirus on servers.
• Performed administrative tasks on Microsoft Active Directory such as creating templates for new groups wifin domains, assigning user permission, locking down group policy objects.
• Joining Client to Domain, user configuration structure of ADS - configuring ADC.
• Served as Virtualization Lead in HMS responsible for setting up virtual environments consisting of 200+ virtual machines (VMs).
• Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery (DR) solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and EMC Recovery Point, successfully recovering all client servers at backup site.
• Participate and lead proposal/bid response and business development activities as an enterprise solution/technology SME.
• Created migration plans and executed upgrade from VMware ESX 3.5 to vSphere (ESX 4.1).
• Developed scripts to perform weekend checkouts after reboot occurring every weekend.
• Tracked and reported performance metrics and provided capacity planning recommendations to maximize server virtualization rates and overall environment efficiency.
• Extensive use of VI Editor for day-to-day system admin work on Linux servers.
• Provisioning of Fault Domain Mirrors on windows servers.
• Worked wif SAN team for Zoning of storage area for various applications. Configured servers for high availability through Dynamic Multipathing using Veritas DMP.
• Maintaining appropriate file and system security, monitoring and controlling system access, changing permission, ownership of files and directories, maintaining passwords, assigning special privileges to selected users and controlling file access, monitoring status of process in order to increase the system efficiency.
• Support activities surrounding the VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which includes 60+ VMware ESX, which are SAN/NAS connected, in Production and Non-Production environments dat host over 120+ servers running Windows & Linux variations and over 1100+ workstations running Windows XP. Lead all development, engineering, and support for the Virtual Center software.
• Converted Physical Windows and Linux servers to virtual using vConverter and PlateSpin migrate and configured SAN disk storage devices and NAS storages on UNIX servers.
• Installing VMware workstations and maintaining VMware servers using VI Client.

Confidential -Chicago, IL

Senior VMWARE Engineer

Environment: VMWARE ESXi 3.5,4.0,HA, DRS, VMware Virtual Center Server, VMWARE vCenter Converter, VMWARE Consolidated Backup, Windows 2003 64bit Edition, Linux, IIS6.0, SQL Server 2005,Vertias Net Backup.

Responsibilities:

• PMO designed P2V migration project from Memphis datacenter to Chicago datacenter
• Installed and configured VMWARE ESX 3i server on HP DL 380 G5 model server.
• Storage allocation and configuration through VI client for all ESX servers installed.
• P2V migrations and Swing builds of virtual instances moving from two locations
• Application and file share migration from Memphis to Chicago using various third party tools like EMC, Platespin.
• Design and implementation of replicator node architecture for site-to-site replication of virtual instances through NFS, which later moved to local storage using storage vmotion.
• Phase-by-Phase P2V migration of applications and servers from Memphis datacenter to Chicago Datacenter.
• Implemented a new setup of VMWARE consolidated backup proxy server and integrated wif existing VERITAS net backup for backup solution of complete VMWARE ESX farm.
• Implemented both forklift migrations and swing builds for First Tennessee Bank infrastructure migration from Memphis data center to Chicago data center.
• Designed and migrated Active directory/DNS from Physical to Virtual and enabled site-to-site replication between the datacenters.
• Designed and implemented the VMWARE Vsphere 4.1 upgrade from VMWARE Vsphere 4.0 ESX hosts and Virtual center servers.
• Supporting HP Poly server for Accenture in daily operations and mission critical changes for SQL installs and upgrades.
• Designed and implemented Cloud architecture for integrating virtual centers servers from various global client locations and automated the VM deployment using Manage IQ.
• Supported and Transitioned new clients for FIS in migrating the servers and applications both physical and virtual wif minimum downtime.
• Taken a role of VMware architect for P2V migration to various FIS commercial and leveraged clients.
• Designed and Implemented DR architecture for METLIFE and successfully completed the DR test using VMWARE Cloud architecture.
• Took an active role in SAN migration from EMC old model storage to the latest VMAX for both physical and virtual servers, which included both remediation and migration.

Confidential

VMware Engineer

Environment: VMWARE ESX 3.0, Virtual center, VMOTION, Windows 2003/VISTA, SQL Server 2003,SAP Applications.

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented virtualization of SAP application servers on VMWARE 3.0 ESX Server.
• Migration of physical servers to virtual instances using VMWARE 3.0 ESX SERVER.
• Designed and implemented the migration of Linux servers and windows 2003 servers to VMware instances and hosted them on ESX servers using virtual center.
• Supported and solved all operating system related issues when migrating the client applications which are running on SAP and Oracle databases.
• Resolved issues by using Mount points when SAP and Oracle servers were down.
• Tickets Solving through Remedy Software and New file systems are created whenever needed.
• Deploying, Handling and Maintenance of different servers like Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Anti Virus and creating users, groups and configuring the group policies.
• Designed and planned Terabytes size cross platforms Virtual Servers solutions for consolidation.
• Designed and Implemented Microsoft clustering for SQL server 2003 on windows 2003 four node cluster for high availability of database services.
• Acted as an escalation point for all system related issues during the course of virtualization and server migration.
• Tree Structure - Child Domain, Forest structure, DC & ADC, Group policy / system policies.
• Installed and configured brand new HP DL380 servers wif windows 2003 operating system.
• Phase-by-Phase P2V migration of applications and servers.