PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Senior VMware/Windows Systems Admin wif 6+ years of experience in Virtualization wif VMware vSphere, ESXi 5.5,5.0,4.1 servers, vCenter server 5.5,5.0,4.1, vCenter Converter, VMware Orchestrator (vCO), VCenter Operations Manager and vSphere Replicator
• Experience in deploying Virtual Machines (VM’s) through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual - to-Virtual (V2V) Machines using Platespin, Double take and VMware convertor.
• Expertise wif IP sub-netting, VLANs, Load Balancing, & High Availability (HA) architectures
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates & Snapshots.
• Proficient in Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012R2 server upgrade, Active directory administration
• Experience in Writing/ Maintaining & troubleshooting scripts written both in MS Power Shell and/or VB script for build & operations environment to develop/test/implement automation tools.
• Responsible for 300 users as third level support of 20 applications on XenApp 5.0 and XenApp 6.5/7.6.
• Expertise in Configuring, Maintaining and Troubleshooting different Server Hardware dat includes Cisco UCS B-Series & C-Series Servers, HP C7000 Enclosures, BL series blades and DL series Rack mount Servers as well as managing them using the Cisco UCS Manager and HP Onboard Administrator.
• Experience in basic Configurations and Management of Cisco Nexus 9K/7K/5K/3K Switches.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

TOOLS/METHODS: VBlock, VMware vSphere 5.0/5.5/6.0, VCenter Server, 5.0/5.5/6.0, ESX 5.0/5.5/6.0, VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, VMotion, Storage VMotion, VMware, HorizonView, VMware Data Center Virtualization, Hyper-V, VCOPS, Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, IPTABLES, Windows Firewall, Office 365, Microsoft Azure Configuration of DHCP, DNS, Printers, Scanners and Installation of VPN client, ADUC, SCCM, SCOM SQL services, Lync 2010/2013, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing & subnetting Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, Switches, Routing Concepts, SLA, blade Servers, C7000 HP Chassis. NetApp V6000 Series, Cisco UCS, Windows Server OS-2003/2008/2008R2/2012R2/2016, Windows 10/7/XP/NT Wintel Servers, Comm Vault 10,11

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Las Vegas, NV

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completed Windows server upgrade of 30 servers from Windows server 2012R2 to Windows servers 2016 successfully. Documented all the steps and done all the testing needed to check the compatibilities before the cutover.
• Assist wif on Premise Exchange Server, Azure AD, and DirSync and Federation configurations.
• Provided Active Directory Management and Support.
• Managed and configured Microsoft's Office 365 Azure active directory so dat it was properly synchronized wif the on premise Active Directory environment.
• Troubleshot Azure services synchronization wif on premise AD and resynchronized using the Azure tools. Windows 7, Office 365 and Windows 10 deployment, troubleshooting, installation, ghosting and back-ups
• Configured all the access rules for LAN, WAN and DMZ in SonicWALL firewall, VPN, set up the secondary (Failover) SonicWALL device, Managing McAfee and Symantec anti-virus/Spyware from ePolicy orchestrator and the SEP Manager
• Worked on Server Consolidation project to reduce the number of physical servers and convert them to the Virtual servers. Reduced the count of servers from 104 to 70. dis includes some of the virtual servers too to combine some of the services from multiple servers to single server.
• Working closely wif the Development/QA/Programming teams to and managing Big-IP F5 production environment for over 100 websites, Managed IIS environment and SSL certificates for all those 100 websites.
• Set up VNX 5300 SAN from the scratch and managing 100 TB of a Data singlehanded and making sure it runs smoothly on a daily bases.
• Conquer the project of migrating the Company’s phone system from Avaya to ShoreTel and made sure all the Cisco Switches and Routers works fine after the cuto
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• Migrated about 1000 Mailboxes from Exchange 2010 to office 365 environments, Managing the Barracuda E-mail Security, AWS EC2 and cloud backup environment and SharePoint online environment.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Windows/VMware Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked in Converged Infrastructure Operations Team wif an Environment consisting of 4000+users, 4500 servers, Win2003 R2, Win2008R2, Win 2012R2, VCE vBlock, vSphere 5.5/6.0
• Worked on Windows server upgrade of over 400 servers from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 along wif the migration data and the applications.
• Monitor and analyze network/system logs for security and performance issues wif tools such as GreyLogs, Nagios, Munities, Zabbix, Cacti.
• Resolving at least 35 Tickets per day pertaining to Infrastructure Operations Team using the Cherwell Ticketing System Administering and Completing File Share Migration 1000+ shared folders using DFS
• Administering and Troubleshooting issues wifin apps on Citrix 7.8 using Citrix Director and Citrix Studio
• Using PowerShell scripts to automate processes pertaining to installing software’s on Windows Server 2012R2, Administering and implementing Exchange 2007 & Exchange 2013
• Managing users on ADUC, Using Infoblox Grid Manager to configure DNS and IP entries, GPOs, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), SMTP, FTP
• Experience in EMC Clarion SAN Storage, NAS storage environment, Responsible for 24×7 production / Development server farm monitoring of 500+ servers utilizing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), administration of SAN Environment using Navisphere Manager

Confidential, Cleveland, Ohio

Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the US to new locations in US, which involves more TEMPthan 1500 virtual machines.
• Experience wif AD architecture in a large (more TEMPthan 10,000 user) environment.
• Responsible for Terminal server builds and Citrix XenApp server deployments in both Physical and Virtual environments. Worked on Citrix streamed services for servers and bare metal and physical targets
• Responsible for 24×7 production / development server farm monitoring, tuning resolutions and Resolving Alerts of 500+ servers utilizing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).
• Worked closely wif Network Ops team to configure Cisco Nexus 1000v VDS and VMware VDS and on network isolation of critical VMs using PVLANs
• Worked on SCCM 2007/2012 and WSUS for Windows OS deployment and Patch management.
• Utilized ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tools) to migrate 200 + Accounts, 400 + Groups, and 200 + Computers to the new forest design.
• Upgraded VMware Infrastructure 5.0 to vSphere 5.5 along wif updating the vCenter, ESXi Hosts, vSphere client from 5.0 to 5.5 and Virtual machines tools upgrade to 8,9 and 10.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Windows 2003/2008R2/2012 in the created virtual machines and installed the required Roles, software and tools.
• Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2 installation, deployments, troubleshooting and automation.
• Working knowledge of writing SQL queries. Administer Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions, System Policies and network security devices for the users.
• Create and maintain ACL's to allow only specific LAN computers to use squid, as well as utilizing access.log to test squid proxy.