SUMMARY

• Around 8+ years of experience in designing, deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2008/2003/2000 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro - active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude. Expert in Windows Server System Administrationskills.
• Experience with Cisco UCS and HP C7000 blade chassis and blade server administration.
• Experience on the VBlock 300,700 Components and EMC VNX/VMAX SAN storage.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, and FSMO roles
• Experience in implementing and administering VMware vSphere, Permissions, HA settings, DRS settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, ThinApp, Data Stores, and Networking
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS including Lab Manager and Orchestrator.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 6.8.x. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Experience in installing, configuring, administering, and performance tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 familiar with Database Creation, Database Security, Database Replication/ Migration, Database Performance Monitoring, User Management, Database Backup/Restoration, Import/Export of SQL Database, Transact SQL, SQL Query analyser and profiler.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFSstorage and RAID concept.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN,Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks.)
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security. Installation, Configuration and managing Firewalls like Fortinet, ZyWall, SonicWall, ISA with content filtering, Anti-Spam, Web filtering, NAT, Application Publishing to public IP, Port Forwarding, log analyzing with Syslog Server. Experienced in installation, configuration, design and ongoing maintenance of Cisco router and switches.
• Experience inMicrosoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing and Windows networking.
• Experience with wintel x86 / x64Intel, HP, IBM and Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Familiar with Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling & labeling maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power and UPS monitoring.
• The ability to install computer and electronic equipment in a safe and careful manner.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly. A proven record of reliability, the ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.
• Maintain documentation for International Certification Accreditations like ISO 2000, following ITIL standards to facilitate business change transformation and growth.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware VSphere 4, Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3.x and 4.x, VMware Virtual Center Server 2.x and 3.x, VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDM 2.0, Thinstall Application Virtualization, Citrix Xenserver, and Virtual-pc

Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 2003 SP1, Windows Server 2000

Application Servers: SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Microsoft Active Directory 2003, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, Microsoft Exchange 2000, DHCP, DNS and WINS Services, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, 7.5, SCCM and SCOM

Backup Solutions: VMware VCB, Image for windows, VizioncoreVrangerPro, Acronis- Pro v10

Desktop Application: Microsoft Office 2003, Outlook 2003 and Evolution, Open Office, VMware Workstation 5.0 and 6.0

Hardware: Dell Servers 1950, 2950, 6950, HP Thin Client 5445, and VL9, Network Interface Card, Multi Serial Port Adapter, Printers, CDR and CDROM, iSCSI/ SATA Hard drive and Floppy drive, Hubs, Switches and DSL Modems, RAM, Audio and Video card

Storage: (SAN/NAS) Clariion, DMX, Symmetrix V-MAX, Celerra NS 960,Clariion, CX4-960, Solutions Enabler(SYMCLI), Unisphere, SMC, SRDF-A,SRDF Adaptive Copy, Time Finder, Celerra Manager, EMC ISILON, NaviAnalyser, Control Center, HDS USP, VSP, AMS, HP EVA, XP12k, P9500, Cisco 9509, 9513 and 5020, QLogic.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Sr. Server/VMware Administrator

Role & Responsibilities:

• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), NAS, File and print Servers, and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2010.
• Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Administrating/Responsible production Exchange 2003 Email Server, creating/disabling users, Mailboxes management, public folders administration, monitoring server health, LDAP, SMTP traffic/queues, Resolving Outlook issues.
• Installed, Configured and Implemented Terminal Server (TS) RemoteApp on IIS 7.0 Windows 2008 R2 published applications using TS Web Access, RemoteApp program and TS Gateway.
• Performed Windows 7 built, installed Applications and forwarded to the QA team for Quality testing.
• Implemented Microsoft Clustering for IIS Web Servers.
• Familiar with web based .Net application, xml integration in IIS web server, IIS Clustering, Load Balancing, Logging and Reporting.
• Familiar with windows, software and Hardware based Firewalls. Allow/Block ports, inbound/outbound TCP/UDP traffic, PAT/NAT, Remote Access VPN and site to site VPN, content filtering, log analysis, reporting, configurations of Syslog, SNMP and Access control.
• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 4.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Installed and configured the ThinApp version 4.5 for capturing the application.
• Supported VMware architecture for the storage and Network virtualization.
• Performed backup and restore of VMware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and with other third party converters, Patch Update, monitoring/reporting, SSH and SNMP and notification of alerts.
• Installed and implement NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.
• Installed and implemented open source OpenFiler 2.3 iSCSI SAN with RAID 10 for VMware and other servers with iSCSI initiators.
• Connected Thin Client (WYSE, DevonIT), desktop Windows Xp2 clients to RDS 6.1.
• Participated in the migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.

Environment:Windows 2000/2003/2008, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7, VMware ESXi 4.0 Server, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, iStore SAN, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell PowerVault NAS, Zywall and SonicWALL Firewall, Remote desktop services

Confidential, Houston, TX

Windows System’s Engineer/VMware Engineer

Role & Responsibilities:

• Updating and patching ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers using VMware Update manager.
• Perform server migration over Data centers using VMware converter 5.5
• Setting up HP virtual connect enterprise manager for centralized access of all the HP C7000 Enclosures in the environment
• Creating VC domain groups and assigning profiles to HP BL460c Gen9,8,7 blades
• Configuring iLO and updating firmware for HP blade enclosure C7000
• Upgrading fabric path for the enclosure and migrate blades to new switch environment this helps in aggregating the uplink speed for the blades which have network bonding
• Configuring Site Recovery Manger (SRM) for critical VM environment and testing failover, failback and reprotect replication group during the planned activity
• Configuring VMware Update Manager for updating the baseline and installing latest patches on all the ESXi hosts
• Creating virtual infrastructure by configuring VSphere and installing ESXi 5.5 server on HP Blade Enclosures C7000 and creating datacenter and resources using VSphere client
• Managing SMVI backups for all the VMs
• Managing SQL server consolidation project by identifying potential SQL servers which are running standalone on physical hardware and converting them to VMs this also has a value add to the customer.
• Hands on experience installing, configuring & administering Network services like DHCP and DNS services.
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX/ESXi servers, vCenter server and Virtual machines.

Environment: Windows 2003/2008/2012, SQL Server 2012,2010, VMware ESXi 5.5,5.1 Server, Dell Power Edge R730 Servers, HP Enclosure c7000, HP BL460c Gen9,8,7 servers

Confidential Reuters, MD

Windows System’s Engineer/ VMware Engineer

• Coordinating ESX Cluster Migration by providing application level steps which includes preparing DCHS (Data Center Hardware Specification) and SLRQ (Storage Level Request Questionnaire) based on the application requirement.
• Performing installation and maintenance of company products to ensure that the system is functioning according to specifications
• Providing software development and consultation to prospective users
• Deployed OS and software remotely using SCCM 2012
• Deploying forest level trust between two domains
• Participating in monthly DR (Disaster Recovery) activity by providing application availability after recovery.
• Responsibilities include application deployment, migrations, site moves, site set ups
• Creating application package using Final Builder and deploying it on production and non-production servers.
• Working on TFS (Team Foundation Server) for Release Engineering to add or edit config templates for new RE build.
• Configured Dyna Trace tool for .Net application monitoring.
• Troubleshooting IIS and .Net application based on monitoring and logs generated on the server.
• Working on shared storage cluster and monitoring application services on it.
• Installing SSL certificate on production servers to ensure availability of the application.
• Created Batch script for automating IIS reset process and installing client certificate on servers.
• Created PowerShell script to automate deleting old logfiles
• Troubleshooting routine product issues (Incident Tracking and Resolution).
• Participating as an active member of the software development lifecycle, through attending new feature requirements reviews and developing leading edge processes to support these new product enhancements.
• Acting as the primary business liaison to the business segment, through facilitating communication between Development, QA, Product Management, Technical Operations and Segment business leaders on new product releases, technical outages, and routine maintenances (hosting moves). Effective communication and presentation to key business stakeholders are instrumental.

Environment: Windows 2003/2008 R2, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0,7.5, VMware ESXi 3.5 Server, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote desktop services, IBM TSM, Microsoft Visual StudioTFS

Confidential

STORAGE & VMWARE Administrator

Role & Responsibilities:

• Profiles Upgrade Experience from VMware Infrastructure 4.0 to vSphere 5.0 and Update 1 including vCenter5.0, ESX Hosts, Update manager, vSphere client, and Virtual machines tools and H/W upgrade to vSphere 5.0.
• Upgraded VMs hardware components according vSphere requirement.
• Have good knowledge on desktop virtualization.
• Establish and implement ongoing monitoring procedures as indicated by establishing a baseline and appropriate metrics, generating a security monitoring procedure, implement scripts, and auditing/verifying the system as reported on a periodic basis and participate in security audits
• Involved in Planning and Design of VMAX and VNX Storage for Provisioning Storage to different Open System Environment.
• Created Storage Groups, Port Groups, Initiator Groups and Masking Views to perform Auto- Provisioning using SMC and Symcli.
• Implemented FAST VP and Created Fast Policies for Storage Group on Technology Tier EFD/FC/SATA
• Created Homogenous/Heterogeneous Pools and RAID groups on VNX and enabled Flash Cache on selected Pools.
• Worked with EPIC Team to provision Storage for EPIC Environment and meeting their response time requirement by performing various test
• Maintain ECC infrastructure, troubleshoot day-to-day issues, configured alerts for management of the entire SAN infrastructure and also dealt with performance issues
• Created Consistency Groups and Replication Sets, assigned journals for back-in-time recovery and replicated 25TB of data to their DR Side.
• Created Snapsure Checkpoint of Filesystem and Schedule it for daily and Weekly rotation
• Run Grab utility and generate Server HEAT report for Environment Analysis and qualification during Migration.
• Performed Virtual LUN Migration to tweak their Environment based on Performance.
• Created Fc alias and Device-alias, VSANs, Zones on Cisco and Brocade using FM, webtools and CLI.
• Zoned Servers to Storage Ports on Cisco MDS, Brocade and Connectrix Directors.
• Monitored Performance on Switch Port.
• Installed and added switches to fabric and added Brocade to Cisco Fabric.
• Upgraded Q-Logic/Emulex HBA Firmware, Bios and Drivers.
• Installed Powerpath for Unix and Windows Environment and PP/VE on their ESX Servers for High Availability and Load Balancing

Environment:ESX, VMWARE, VSPHERE, V-MAX, DMX 4, DMX 3-950, DMX 2000, CLARiiON CX 4-960, CX 3-80, Connectrix MDS 9506, 9513, DS-5100B and ED-48000, Navisphere/Navicli, Fabric Manager, Device Manager, Brocade CLI, Cisco CLI, Solaris, VERITAS Volume Manager, Windows, Linux, IBM-AIX, HP-UX.