PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• IT Professional with 10 plus years’ experience in Systems Administration with a primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of Windows server 2003/2008/2012R2 and VMware vSphere, ESXI 4.1,5.0,5.5, VMware Vcenter 4.1, 5.0 and 5.5
• Active Directory Services; Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO); Group Policy Management Console (GPMC); DHCP; WINS; and DNS.
• Extensive documentation and training experience.
• Successful project and technical team leader and motivator

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

Virtualization: Vmware;Microsoft Hyper - V

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

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

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

Vmware Admin/Systems Admin/IIS Admin

Responsibilities:

• Managed Virtualization Environment using VMware ESXi 5.5, VMware V Sphere 5.5,Virtual Center, VI Client, P2V
• Systems Administration with a primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of Windows server 2008R2/2012R2
• Windows Active Directory Management using Active Administrator Utility.
• 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
• Installation, Configuration, Administration and Trouble shooting of ESXi 5.5.x,Vspere 5.5 Virtual Center VI Client
• 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

Windows Systems Admin/Vmware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to work as a part of the Wintel /VMware Team
• Systems Administration with a primary focus on installation, configuration, and administration of Windows server 2003/2008R2/2012R2
• Blade server builds usingCisco UCS
• Developed architecture of directory solutions particularly for Windows and related platforms.
• Implemented procedures for determination and development of Directory management services.
• Executed effective processes for auditing and change management solutions for Directory services.
• Managing users with Lync Server Control Panel.
• Managing Clients, and Devices with Lync Server Control Panel.
• Knowledge of Installation and Configuration of Lync Server 2013 Standard Edition.
• Design, Implementation, Testing and Deployment of VMware Infrastructure with Cisco UCS Hardware.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 4.1,5.0.5.5 and VCenter Server 4.1,5.0.5.5 Server
• Virtual Networking (Virtual Switches, VM Kernel Ports)
• EMC Unisphere VNXE Storage Experience for setting up VMware ESXi Infrastructure.
• Experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESXi hosts and virtual machines
• Vmware Clustering, Vmware HA and Vmware DRS Configuration and Setup.
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
• P2V Migrations using VMware Convertor
• Snapshot manager and restoring a snapshot.
• Windows Active Directory Management using Active Administrator Utility.
• 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
• 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).

Confidential

Windows Server Administrator(On Contract with Accenture India)

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 ENSIM Unify WSS 3.2.0 Install and Upgrade guides.
• 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