SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of professional experience in the IT industry in various positions
• 4+ years of professional experience as System Administrator, Desktop and Customer/End user support
• 4+ years of experience in designing, implementing and managing Virtualized Infrastructure based on VMware platforms
• Excellent understanding on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots
• Building Cluster Environment for High Available Applications and managing resources like HDD, Memory and CPU
• Create baseline Windows 7 image to work within VMWare VDI Environment to ensure that all patches and security measures are in place
• Good understanding on resource management framework like creation of resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools, P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter
• Generating Performance Reports and Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager, extensive experience in working with the VMotion and Storage VMotion technology
• Strong experience with the VMware HA and VMware DRS
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of V Switches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN and load balancing, beacon traffic, notification to switches for connectivity problem
• Good understanding on storage types including iSCSI, NAS and SAN, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS, NetApp SAN technologies such as LUN creation, LUN masking, zoning, LUN addressing and, storage management for SAN using SCSI devices
• Responsibilities included installing, configuring and troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 R2/2008/2003, SQL Server 2005/2008/2008 R2 per enterprise standards.
• Exceptional skills in configuring Domain Controllers, DNS, DHCP roles in Windows and Linux server environments.
• Maintaining the File Server and Print Server and Windows Deployment Services (WDS) in Windows Environment.
• Excellent skills in Virus updates, Security updates and Service Pack updates.
• Outstanding skills in supporting users over phone as well as using Remote Support Tools such as VNC, Windows Remote Desktop, WebEx, Cisco UCS Manager and ILO to connect to the servers.
• Considerable hands - on experience with Server/PC hardware integration, Network Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Switches, Routers, Firewalls and VPN.
• Significant experience in identifying, analyzing and troubleshooting technical service requests.
• Manage the deployment, maintenance, support and upgrade of servers, hardware, software, OS and distributed printers in a Linux, Microsoft Windows OS and server environment.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012/2008 R2/2008/2003, Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP, Red Hat Linux 9, Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10, MP-RAS UNIX, SUSE Linux, Solaris 8, VxWorks

Networking Protocols: LAN/WAN routing, TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, RAS, RIP, SMTP, LDAP, POP3, VPN and VLAN

VMware products: VMware ESX/ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0, VMware Infrastructure 3 & 2, VMware VCenter Converter, VMware VCenter server, VMware Horizon view, VMware SRM, VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VCloud Director, VCOPS

Databases: SQL Server 2012/2008 R2/2008, MS-Access, MS-SQL

Storage: EMC CLARION, VMAX, VNX, Hitachi, Netapp using FC, iSCSI SAN’s and NAS

Languages: C, C++, Scripting: BASH, Perl, Python

Tools: Bug tracking tools like STAR, Bugzilla, configuration management tools like Clear case, Source code control system, GNU profiling tools, HTML, Nagios Monitoring tool

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assessment design and Planning for Implementation of vSphere Environment
• Was responsible for maintaining and supporting 500+ servers with about 2000+ users.
• Installed vSphere 5.1 from the scratch such as ESXi, vCenter, etc.
• Worked on vSphere Upgrade projects from ESXi 5.0 to ESXi 5.1and also upgrading from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5
• Application packaging using ThinApp 4.7.2/4.7.3 and integration with VDI View environment
• Installing and configuring VMware vCenter Server, vCenter Update manager and Managing vCenter permissions
• Performed P2V and V2V migration using VMware Center converter
• Responsible for creating and building Windows7/8 &Windows 2003/2008 server virtual images on VMware ESX servers.
• Creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates and Cloning VMs
• Created VDI environments using VMware View
• Used VMWare View to create VDI pools, recompose VDI pools, and refresh VDI pools
• Create baseline Windows 7 image to work within VMWare VDI Environment to ensure that all patches and security measures are in place
• Responsible for upgrading VMware View (VDI) from version 5.0.1 to 5.1 including View Connection Server/ Security Server/ View Composer, etc.
• Used ESXi Image Builder CLI to create ESXi install images with custom updates, patches and drivers
• Experience with PowerShell, PowerCLI, esxcli
• Using vCenter server for HA, DRS and VMotion
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS
• Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines
• Scheduling replication and snap shot specific tasks
• Migrated VM’s and upgraded virtual hardware
• Installing and configuring ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5 in large scale environment using vSphere Auto-Deploy Server
• Trouble shooting issues related to ESXi host, vCenter, HA, DRS, vCenter server agent (Vpxa), VMware update manager
• Strong experience creating Virtual Apps and using VMware ThinApp.
• Create virtual switches and port groups, configure virtualization networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs, configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Good knowledge on integrating SAN, iSCSI and NAS with ESX servers.
• Excellent log analysis knowledge for monitoring performance (CPU, Memory, Disk, network Utilization) and virtual infrastructure alarms in vCenter servers.
• Create and maintain environment specific installation and configuration guides for P2V Conversions, ESX server and vCenter Server installation.
• Replicated all the Production Server for Disaster Recovery using VReplicator.
• Solved issues raised in Installing and Configuring while replicating the Production Server to DR Servers.

Confidential, Atlanta GA

VMware/ Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in administering Cisco UCS hardware Chassis like Cisco UCS 5108, Blade servers like Cisco UCS B200M2, B200M3 and B230M2 and Rack mount servers like C200M2 and C200M3.
• Experience in creating Cisco UCS service profile templates, service profile and associate service profile with Cisco UCS blade servers.
• Installed and configured ESXi 5.1 on Cisco UCS B 200 M2, UCS B 200 M3and B 230 M2 blade servers and sent WWPNs to the storage team to allocate fibre channel SAN devices to add data stores to ESXi hosts in the VMware cluster.
• Installed and configured vCenter and created and configured cluster with DRS and HA and added ESXi hosts to the VMware cluster.
• Involved in P2V and V2V conversion of Windows NT, 2000,2003 and 2008 servers by using VMware vConverter 3.0,4.0 and 5.0.
• Did V2V conversion of Hyper-V VMs, Xen VMs into VMware VMs from one data centre to another datacentre.
• Consolidated two data centres running with VMware VMs with the help of swing storage.
• Experience with most of the VMware vSphere features like vMotion, storage vMotion, DRS and HA.
• Created Virtual Machines, templates and snapshots, and deployed VMs from the templates and created and applied host profile.
• Having Experience in Cisco UCS C200 M2, IBM System x3690 X5, EMC VNXe3100, VNX 5100 and EMC Data Domain DD640 Rack & Stack.
• Did Microsoft clustering for clustered SQL servers and Hyper-V. hosts.
• Installed and configured Hyper-V manager, Fail-over cluster manager and configured CSV’s.
• Experience in VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines administration.
• Converted existing standard vSwitches in older environments to Distributed switches.
• Worked on Dell PowerEdge R610/810/910 and IBM System x3690 X5 Rackmount servers to configure RAID, upgraded firmware and Install Windows Server 2003/2008 and ESX4.1/ESXi5.1.
• Used PowerShell, VB Scripting for automating processes and collecting reports for daily tasks.
• Experience with Windows NT, server 2000, server 2003 and server 2008 Administration.
• Experience in configuring VMware vCenter Alarms for data store and host memory and CPU usage.

Confidential, Orlando, Fl

VMware/Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure VMware vSphere 4.0 and 4.1 servers on HP C7000 chassis and BL 680c blade servers.
• Upgrade experience from VMware Infrastructure 3.5 to vSphere 4.1 using Update Manager (VUM) also includes virtual machine tools and hardware version 7 of virtual machines.
• Administration of HP C7000 chassis with virtual connects using VCM and OA.
• Administration of vSphere ESX/ESXi nodes using the vCenter across 2 datacentres’.
• Used Host profiles for ESX/ESXi hosts to configure multiple number of other ESX hosts in little span of time and to maintain clusters in compliance.
• Configured Clusters for the ESX/ESXi hosts and created affinity and anti-affinity rules in the DRS to either keep the VMs together or separate them.
• Creating and Managing resource pools for VMware Virtual Machine.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network (vSwitch / VDS) with HP Virtual Connects.
• Experience with EMC &Netapp SAN Infrastructure with VMware Environment.
• Experience of Storage Migration on 500 VM’s (Fiber channel Upgrade from EMC DMX-3 to DMX-4).
• Large number of P2V migration using tools like VMware convertor 5.0, Platespin and Doubletake.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, & 2008 as well as Linux servers from VMware.
• Implementation of SRM 5.0 on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution for VMware VSphere Environment.
• Failback testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites.
• Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Building VM’s and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.
• Installed the VMware Capacity Planner in planning, designing and implementing the virtual infrastructure environment and monitoring of virtual environments.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure VMware vSphere 4.0 and VI 3.5 environment for hosting the servers on HP C7000 blade enclosure.
• Reconfigured all ESX network connectivity utilization VLAN tagging and teaming.
• Consolidated many smaller ESX clusters and hosts to provide optimum resource utilization.
• Migrate Virtual machines from one environment to newly build Environment using vMotion and VMware Converter.
• Deploy VMs using Templates as per requirements. Clone VMs and took snapshots of VMs.
• Responsible for well-organized and maintain Virtual Environment.
• Created and maintained environmental specific installation and configuration guides for P2V conversions, ESX Server, vCenter Server, vSphere Clients, VMware Tools, Patch upgrades.
• Implementing and managing Windows 2003/2008 ADS, DNS, DHCP Server with clientrequirements.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory.
• Administered the Group Policy, also used group policy to automatically upgrade, repair software installation online.
• Troubleshooting of System Hardware & Application issues.Implementation and administration of LAN.
• Locally & remotely managing Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Server issues fixing the same with in defined SLA.
• Configure and manage Symantec Enterprise Protection Manager to protect the Network from the tread attacks.
• WSUS server implementation and manage the Windows Network with latest updates and patches.
• Capacity planning with the help of HP Performance Insight Manager reporting tool.

Confidential

Jr System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Win 2000 servers in Enterprise Environment.
• Created and implemented the enterprise Windows 2003 GPO’s.
• Involved in Windows 2000 Server Administration Maintenance and builds
• Install & Support Web Servers, FTP Servers, File and Print Servers.
• Performed installations and testing of upgrades and patches before final implementation in the production.
• Performed system and security Audits to define system service and security levels.
• Windows 2003 cluster environment experience.
• Taking part in change management process by raising CRs and implementation of the Changes.
• Managed and administered Windows NT,2000 and 2003 servers.
• Responsible for documentation of processes and changes in the network on a day to day basis.
• Managed and Monitored availability, performance and disk/CPU usage of servers