PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience in installation, administration and networking in various MS Windows OS environments.
• IT Professional with 10 plus years’ experience in Systems Administration with a primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of Windows server 2003/2008/2012 R2 and VMware vSphere, ESX 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 VMware Vcenter 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0,
• Expertise on ESXi and ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots
• Experience on Virtual Center server 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 for managing multiple ESX servers and linked vCenter servers
• Thorough knowledge of Windows Vista; Windows XP; Windows 2000 Server; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; TCP/IP; Install Shield; Symantec Ghost; Symantec Deploy Center
• Active Directory Services; Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO); Group Policy Management Console (GPMC); DHCP; WINS; and DNS.
• Excellent command of running projects employing industry standard project management techniques.
• Extensive documentation and training experience.
• Successful project and technical team leader and motivator

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows Vista; Windows XP; Windows 7 and Windows 8

Microsoft Servers: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008R2; Windows Server 2012R2;

Software: Office365,MS Office 2007/2013; McAfee; WinZip; Symantec Ghost; DameWare Mini Remote Console; Email (Microsoft Exchange 2013)and many others.

Hardware: Intel, 3COM, HP Proliant DL380, HP ML570, IBM x86 Servers, Dell PowerEdge M805 and others.

Virtualization: Vmware; Microsoft Hyper - V

Networking: Eicon Communications products such as OSI Gateway for DOS and OS/2; SNA Gateway; IPX/SPX; TCP/IP; Routers; Switches; Modems; Hubs and Bridges.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

IIS Admin/Systems Admin

Responsibilities:

• Directed IT Infrastructure operations according to executive strategies developed by partnering with corporate executive team and department heads.
• Systems Administration with a primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of Windows server 2008R2/2012R2
• Blade server builds usingCisco UCS Manager 2.2.4
• Windows Active Directory Management using Active Administrator Utility.
• Deployment of tools and processes to support role-based access control and delegation in Active Directory
• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Trouble shooting of ESXi 5.5.x, VSphere 5.5 Virtual Center VI Client.
• VMware HA and DRS implementation.
• Vmware Vshpere Fault Tolerance implementation.
• Veeam Backup and Recovery
• Windows Powershell experience for Active Directory Administration.
• Familiarity with VMware Powercli
• Active Directory Group Policy Management for Windows 2003/2008R2 and Windows 2012R2
• Troubleshoot and resolve Group Policy Object (GPO) application problems for the enterprise
• Coordinated with Team Members for migration activity from Windows 2008R2 to Windows 2012R2
• Supporting Active Directory related issues, DNS troubleshooting/Networking related issues
• Executed and performed server system operations and support consisting of Windows 2008,2012, IIS 7,IIS8
• Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS)
• Configured Resource Pool, V Motion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP
• 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 resources
• Monitoring of Virtual Machine’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security.
• 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 v motion such as compatibility issues with 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.
• 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.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr. Analyst/Windows Systems Admin

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to work as a part of the Wintel /VMware Team
• Active Directory Group Policy Management.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Group Policy Object (GPO) application problems for the enterprise
• Coordinated with Team Members for migration activity from Windows 2008R2 to Windows 2012R2
• Initiated the documentation of the system inventories and operating procedures.
• Supervised the system working, including the various changes and modification made to it.
• EMC VNXE and NetApp Storage Experience for VMware Infrastructure.
• Supporting the organization in Datacenter Consolidation Projects.
• Windows Patch Management using SCCM 2012
• Supporting Active Directory related issues, DNS troubleshooting/Networking related issues
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware vSphere, vSphere with operations management
• Experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines
• P2V Migrations using VMware Convertor
• Experience in working with vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Knowledge of Metadata Cleanup and DCDiag on Windows Servers in the domain to identify and troubleshoot issues if any
• Participate in new Windows Server OS installations and configurations (Windows Server2008 R2/2012R2).
• Assist in the delivery of server virtualization utilizing our SAN/VMware infrastructure, specifically the setup and maintenance of QA & Web Dev websites.
• Provide day-to-day website support including analysis, debugging, maintenance and performance tuning for Web hosting environment (Windows Server 2008/2012R2, IIS 7.x, IIS8, .NET framework, load balancers, etc.).
• Specialist in using IIS and the innovative exploitation of its extensions, including: site setup, IP bindings, URL redirects, app pool recycling, HTTP response headers, output caching, compression, request filtering, handler mappings, IPv4 restrictions, SSL certificates, virtual directories, session state persistence, web server farms, etc.
• Knowledge of Active Directory Migration
• Knowledge of Active Directory Replication
• Creating VMware Developer Image
• Updating VMware Developer Image
• Maintain a complete list of Servers in Dev/Test Environment
• Refreshing IDC and other Test/Dev Images
• Testing Patches for Test/Dev Environment
• Running Patches for Dev/Test Environments
• Troubleshoot issues during and after MS Patch Deployment.
• Supporting IDC Dev/Test Environment common issues.
• Supporting Developers - Common Developer Issues
• Clinic station Application Deployment in QA Environment
• Visual Studio locks up.
• Using Host Monitor for administering the Windows Dev/Test Environment.
• Using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 for Administering the Virtual Environment.
• Physical to Virtual Conversions.
• Virtualization: VMware V-Sphere Client, ESX 4.0 Servers, VM creation, physical to virtual conversion, migration within VMware clusters.
• VMware Servers performance and resource utilization analysis and corrections

Confidential

Windows Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Creating Developer Image
• Updating Developer Image
• Maintain a complete list of Servers in Dev/Test Environment.
• Refreshing IDC and other Test/Dev Images
• Testing Patches for Test/Dev Environment
• Running Patches for Dev/Test Environments
• Troubleshoot issues during and after MS Patch Deployment.
• Supporting IDC Dev/Test Environment common issues.
• Virtulization: Hyper-V Manager
• Virtualization: Microsoft Virtual Server
• Supporting Developers - Common Developer Issues
• TFS Server is running slow.
• Visual Studio locks up.
• Forcibly Check Back in a TFS Item
• How to remove a project from the TFS.
• Supporting Active Directory related issues, DNS troubleshooting/Networking related issues.
• Using Host Monitor for administering the Windows Dev/Test Environment.
• Using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 for Administering the Virtual Environment.
• Physical to Virtual Conversions.
• Virtualization: VMware V-Sphere Client, ESX 4.0 Servers, VM creation, migration of VMS from Hyper-V to VMware, physical to virtual conversion, migration within VMware clusters.
• VMware Servers performance and resource utilization analysis and corrections.

Confidential

Senior Products Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Preparing VM setups using VMware workstation for Dev and QA team.
• Managing VM inventory.
• Preparing Sysprep images for VMs
• Working with the Solutions Team for preparing labs similar to customer setups
• Troubleshooting AD/Exch issues.
• AD tasks include replication failure, DNS troubleshooting etc.
• Exchange tasks include exchange mail flow issues, exchange disaster recovery, IIS troubleshooting etc.

Confidential

QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure the platform servers Win2k3 and join the Windows SharePoint Hosting server to the platform domain.
• Create web sites at the ISP, organization and reseller levels using the Web-Based Unify Control Panel interface and test their functionality internally as well as externally
• Perform backend testing on WSS hosting Servers and Platform SQL server
• Perform Sanity and Regression testing on Platform Version 4.0.0/WSS 3.2.0 and filing of bugs and verified bug fixing as well
• Written test cases for WSS 3.2.0 HF1 and WSS 3.2.0 HF2 releases and performed testing for the same and have handled the sign offs for the above releases
• Sign offs for Confidential Unify WSS 3.2.0 Install and Upgrade guides.

Confidential

Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Support Engineer for Microsoft Small Business Server 2003
• Expertise in analyzing information system needs, evaluating end-user requirements, custom designing solutions, troubleshooting for complex information systems management
• Well versed with installing, maintaining/ configuring Windows 2003 & its shell variables, networks & equipment’s, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Port Tracking, Active Directory and Recovery Console etc
• Pivotal in mapping clients requirements and providing customized solutions, finalizing product specifications as well as extending high-end technical support on various Servers.
• Possess excellent interpersonal & communication skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly & utilizing the same in a productive manner.
• Able to work well under pressure and willing to learn about new technology and methods