SUMMARY:

• Over 8+ years of total experience in IT Confidential . Extensive experience in Windows 2012/2008 R2/2008/2003 R2/2000 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Install, configure and manage the VMware ESX servers(4.x, 5.x, 6.x), VSphere and HVD clients 
• Worked on thin client provisioning and configuring 
• Maintenance of VMware server console monitoring the server and client machines 
• Worked on the data storage for VMware severs and troubleshooting part. 
• Installing, Managing and Monitoring Active Directory and DNS Servers. 
• Install, configure, and upgrade Microsoft Windows server operating systems and applications 
• Recognize and troubleshoot problems with server hardware and applications software 
• Managing the FTP sites Handled the Production Releases for upgradations and migrations on 2003 /2008 and 2012 servers and applications. 
• Administration of Active Directory in Windows 2003/2008/2012 environment. Managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution,
• Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc. 
• Installing and Configuring AD, DNS, DHCP.
• Deployment of patches on windows servers, using SCCM.
• Wide experience supporting mission critical trading applications which are hosted on Windows 2003/2008/2012  
• Worked on the MacAfee Antivirus installation and configuration 
• Maintaining various user access application which automates the process of providing access to the user to AD.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment. 
• Possess strong planning, analytical, problem solving and organizational skills. ITSM ticketing tool 
• Experienced with VMware products - VMware GSX/ESX server, VMware workstation and VMware player.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, VM Lab Manager and Orchestrator.
• Experienced with complex networking topologies which includes Firewall, Load Balancers and Core Switches.
• Experience with Citrix Net scalar in a Pre-production environment.
• Experienced in IT decision-making, policy direction, planning, and team management. Participated in various migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Good understanding of networking concepts which includes Configuration of networks, Router and Switch configuration (Juniper, Cisco and HP), TCP/IP, Content Filtering, VLANs, Routing in LAN/WAN and wireless networks.
• Installing, Managing and Monitoring Active Directory and DNS Servers. 
• Install, configure, and upgrade Microsoft Windows server operating systems and applications 
• Recognize and troubleshoot problems with server hardware and applications software Managing the FTP sites 
• Handled the Production Releases for upgradations and migrations on 2003 /2008 and 2012 servers and applications. 
• Domain Controllers, Managing the disks, complete installation and configuring windows2003/2008 and 2012 servers. 
• Active Directory Services. Managing the disk raids, cluster services and installation of operating systems and applications. 
• Managed VMware ESXi’s with Virtual Center server and vCenter for managing multiple ESX servers.
• Experienced in ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Templates, and Snapshots.
• Migrated configuration management from Puppet to Chef 
• Experienced in resource management framework, creating resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Installed and the managed the active directory and its tools.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter and PlateSpin.
• Experienced with the VMware HA, FT, DPM, and VMware DRS.
• Ability to implement VMware’s Virtual Switch technology; port aggregation, NIC teaming, VLAN trunking, and port groups.
• Setup, Administer & Support Server running Windows 2000,2003, 2003R, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012.
• Performance monitoring, Error logging, Diagnostics, Fine-tuning and Backup management.
• Configured TCP/ IP protocols like NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, FTP, SFTP, SSH etc.
• Knowledge of Configuring Citrix Terminal Server and Microsoft Hyper V.
• Analyzed and resolved operating systems and applications issues on various systems.
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security. Installation, Configuration and managing Firewalls like Juniper SRX, Cisco ASA and Checkpoint IP Appliances with content filtering, Web filtering, NAT, Application Publishing to public IP, log analyzing with Syslog Server. Experienced in installation, configuration, and design recommendations of Cisco router and switches.
• Production Support (24*7) environment exposure.
• A quick learner with ready take challenges.
• Excellent communication, written, and organizations skills and also a very good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMWare:  vSphere, VMware ESX and ESXi, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, Virtual center server, VMware converter enterprise, VMware Update Manager, FT, HA, DRS, DPM, Vmotion and SVMotion, VMWare GSX server, SRM, ThinApp, Lab Manager, VMWare Workstation, VMware capacity planner, VMWare Player.

Skills on Windows:  Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2, 2008,2012, MYSQL, MS SQL Server - 2005, 2008 & 2008 R2, 2017

Server O/S:  Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 R2, 2012 servers, Linux (Cent OS) servers.

Networking:  Wireshark, Whatsup Gold, ASDM, Cisco Network Assistant, Alien Vault, Packet Trap, Nagios network monitoring

Management:  Project Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan documentation, Budgeting and Estimation Theories, Work Breakdown structure, Network Diagrams.

Application Server:  SQL Server 2005,2008, MS Active Directory 2003 and 2008, DHCP, DNS, WINS, & Microsoft Internet Information Service

Hardware:  Cisco UCS, Dell server HP blades, IBM X series, Network Interface card, Multi Serial Port Adapter, Printer, Hubs, Switches, and DSL Modems, RAM, Audio and Video card. Hard drive and Floppy drive.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Sr. Systems Engineer

• Managed ESXiservers’ clusters hosting various virtual machines for different client sites.
• Managed and Worked on Physical Data Center.Managed weekly Tape backups for the datacenter.
• Worked as a part of steady state and project team.
• Performed bi-weekly datacenter walkthroughs and reported and resolved the observed issues.
• Worked on migration and upgrades of Windows Servers.
• Installation VMware ESXi 5.5 /6.0 server, Installation and configuration of virtual center database and installation of VMware infrastructure virtual machine. 
• Performed periodical updates of VMware hosts and guest patch updates, as well as perform parallel upgrade from Esxi 5.5 to Esxi 6.0. 
• Windows update deployment through WSUS/SCCM on client workstations and servers. 
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to manage the allocated SAN, Fiber and Networking Infrastructure. 
• Worked with Setup trust between on premise and cloud server using ACS and ADFS in Azure. 
• Worked with Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and set up communication of Endpoints and also VM Migrations.
• Cloning, Building and deploying new VM's and installing different guest OS like Windows server 2003/2008/2012 and Linux. 
• Worked on automation scripts on PowerShell. Deployed applications with PowerShell scripts 
• Creating virtual NIC's for the respective VM's and assigning the network connections to a particular port group in the Vswitch's 
• Leveraged VMware infrastructure implementation and consolidation expertise to implement P2V migrations, blade server capacity planning, high availability and failover settings on newly installed blade servers and existing rack mount servers.
• Played role as VMware/windows admin to provide Level 2 & 3 supports in complex environment. 
• Designed, installed, configured of VMware site recovery manger SRM.
• Regular BAU activities such as increasing disk size, adding additional drives, cloning, Teaming Networking and virtual switches (Both Primary and extended). 
• Update the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center. 
• Involved in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2008 R2 and 2012 Servers. 
• Used automation scripts to minimize error level in day to day VMware operations 
• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters 
• Management integrated ESX server, create a new storage space, creation of VMFS data store, Configuration networking for the virtual machines. 
• Migrated servers from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 R2
• Worked with VMware converter to perform Virtual to Virtual, Physical to Virtual migration.
• Migrated servers such as File servers, Applications servers, Web servers and Database servers to new OS.
• Worked on SQL Servers 2008R2, 2012, 2014,2017 Express.
• Migrated databases from SQL servers 2005 & 2008R2 to 2012 and 2017 express.
• Expert in creating SQL 2017 Reports using SSRS - Parameterized, Drill down and Drill through reports, cross tab reports, Sub Reports, Summary Reports and charts using variables and expressions 
• Experience in implementing Failover Clustering support for SQL Server Active Passive Cluster configuration. 
• Implemented High Availability & Disaster Recovery techniques like Always ON Availability Groups, Clustering (Both Active-Active and Active-Passive), Database Mirroring and Log Shipping.
• Migrated from Webservers and websites from IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0, IIS 7.5 to IIS 8.0.
• Worked with DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication on File servers.
• Experienced in Writing Chef Recipes to automate our build/deployment process and do an overall process improvement to any manual processes. 
• Puppet installation for infrastructure automation, manifest, ruby, shell scripts and automated infrastructure WAS, Tomcat, Web logic. 
• Developed and Designed Multiple VM Templates for Windows Server 2008R2, 2012R2.
• Experience in Setting up Nagios and Ganglia for monitoring HBase. 
• Provide technical support for Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Nagios Network Analyzer
• Manage standalone ESX hosts and multiple Hyper-V hosts.
• Puppet 3.x, Chef installation and setup, planning designing GUI for automation using cloud forms, Design RPM packages for installation and configuration thorough chef resource 
• Worked on Knowledge management documents for server’s migration project.
• Worked with IT teams such as client computing and network team to resolve incidents within SLA
• Administered and Supported DNS Servers, DHCP Servers, Domain Controllers in a forest.
• Worked and monitored on daily alerts and issues with File servers and Print servers.
• Installation and implementation of AppDynamics on all Prod and Non-Prod environment for monitoring of all java, node.js, php, .Net, python application. 
• Worked on SQL Server 2017 process involving database snapshots andtracking Performance Counters, data compression, online indexing, Contained Databases, security principals and AAG (Always-On Availability groups).
• Coordinating between the AppDynamics support and application owners by raising CRs to find the root cause.
• Designed & implemented various Disaster recovery and High availability measures for the infrastructure.
• Worked on patching schedule for the servers using the Management Software Manage Engine.
• Used Manage Engine to regularly patch the servers and other systems.
• Worked with Active directory and group policies on multiple domain controller’s environment
• Managed the application servers hosting Legacy software for Coal mining Confidential .
• Worked applications such as Solar winds, Nagios, Avaya systems and LANSweeper.
• Worked with Vendors and Implemented and Administered Client Applications.
• Provided 24 x 7 Support for the steady environment.

Confidential, Emeryville, California

Sr. System Admin

• Responsible to Install,Manage and configure HP, Dell and IBM server with installed Windows Operating System 2000/ 2003/2008 /2012 for Physical and Virtual VM-Ware servers on Clustered environment.
• Automation & business process improvement and exchange domain migration.
• ESX Build & Migration - ESX host built, New VM Server built and P2V and V2V migration, Cloning, Template Installing, configuration and administration of VMware ESX Server 3.5/4.0/4.1, Creating & Managing HA, DRS, VSwitch, DB Switch, Cluster, Snapshots, Template and Clone
• Configured VMware ESX - Tasks, Events, Alarms, and Maps.
• Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 installation, deployments, troubleshooting and automation. 
• Researched requirements, deployed in a test environment and production, created documentation. 
• Utilize Windows Server Update Services to manage and deploy software patches. 
• Manage new hire account creation, user terminations, privileges and all other user account modifications. 
• Utilized IPC ticketing systems (Manage NOW, Service NOW). 
• Worked on proactive alerts from monitoring by AppDynamics and ELK- stack.
• Installation and Maintenance the Application Servers Migration and upgradation of Operating systems and applications. Deployed application upgrade with PowerShell   
• Application compatibility checking on Operating systems 
• Creating the Msi Package to deploy on servers and client machines.Deploying the office builds on client desktops. 
• Installing and Configuring patches using SCCM and WDS servers. 
• Successfully implemented VMwareEsxi server for server consolidation 
• Performed periodical VMware hosts and guest patch updates, as well as perform parallel upgrade from Esxi 4.1 to Esxi 5.1 and 5.5.
• Implemented Continuous Integration and deployment using various CI Tools like GIT, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef and Salt Stack
• experience in Configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, and Puppet for Deployment on Multiple platforms. 
• Installed VMware Esxi server and created Virtual machines on Esxi servers. Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates.
• Installed, configured and administered Esxi 5.1 on HP C7000/Dell power Edge T110 
• Installed management server (v Center server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple hosts 
• Linked different v Center server using linked mode to have a single instance a vsphere client to manage the whole virtual environment 
• Use of SQL Server 2017 and Windows Failover Clustering technology to render high availability of databases. 
• Creating and managing virtual machines and templates, worked with clones and snapshots of virtual machines 
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, implemented migration of virtual machines using vMotion, virtualized windows servers using VMware converter and plate spin power convert 
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency of VMware infrastructure 
• Defined the patch management process for the VMware environment to upgrade the hosts and VM's and successful completion of update manager installation in all the environments 
• Performed hardware replacement and troubleshooting for HP blade servers and dell rack servers. 
• Used solar winds IP address tracking tool to track the subnets and to maintain Network topology. 
• Used groundwork &vkernel monitoring tools to have 24/7 monitoring on all the servers and virtual machines   
• Deployed anti-virus software (McAfee, Symantec-Norton) to client systems using remote consoles and directly at the workstations. Utilized MS Word to document IT procedures for software installation programs. 
• Setup file shares on file servers and assigned permissions; Managed user security and distribution groups in Active Directory 
• Using JIRA for bug tracking, issue tracking, project management function and project issue for software team.Create and maintain workflow 
• Installed/configured VMware to improve server availability, reduce workload for IT staff, and automate server deployment for various business units 
• Accountability for providing support VMware virtual machine administration and built, migration through VM Converter and Plate spine (P2V, V2V), VM infrastructure administration through Virtual Center Server 2.5, High availability and Load balance through VMware Host HA clustering, DRS, V-Motion.
• Administered the WSUS and WDS (Windows Deployment services).
• Good knowledge in installing, configuring and Administering Microsoft Windows platform.
• Knowledge of Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 Domain concepts (Active Directory), DNS, and DHCP, Antivirus Management Installation/Upgrade etc.
• Ticket & Problem Handling (ITIL Framework) - Day to Day Incident Management, Problem Management and Change Management analyzing the faults through Root-Cause Analysis (RCA) and suggesting technical solutions for overcoming the same through Service Center.
• Participation in Audit related activities, Handling Project Quality Work, Service level reporting and analysis. Presentation to senior management on achievements/fallbacks.
• Involved in Cloud related activities with Different tools of Cloud computing,OpenStack, CloudStack for support.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Windows, VMware System Administrator

• Created Virtual Machines and Installed VMware Tools.
• Provided physical to virtual migrations for servers utilizing VMware Converter, Vizioncore.
• Deployed Through Templates. Cloned Virtual Machines.
• Managed & Trouble shooted Virtual Network issues.
• Configured and Managed if any issues with HP Proliant (ML/DL) servers
• Managed Inter-VLAN routing, Ether channel, Stacking and SPAN ports configuration on Cisco switches.Configured Netflow and SNMP on ASA, and other Layer 3 devices for monitoring.
• Monitored Network/Server related issues using monitoring tools (Whatsup Gold, Wireshark).
• Documented Disaster Recovery & Data Center Security Plan for Marc Jacobs IT Infrastructure.
• Ensured adherence to procedures and processes for hardware, software, and applications.
• Worked on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Worked on Cold migration and Vmotion.
• Worked on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into Resource pools.
• Configured Netbackup Client.Performed operational turnover on all system implementations.
• Performed problem analysis and Root Cause Analysis when failures occurred.
• Interacted with different teams to meet the deadlines and participated in weekly meetings.
• Developed network management processes within the ITIL v3 Framework with the team.
• Patched all Windows servers and workstations with updates through WSUS server with Company standards.
• Configured DNS, DHCP.Creating of users and groups system and Account policies 
• Implementing and configuring LAN and Windows servers. User support, System maintenance 
• Worked with GPO’s, Domain controllers, users, groups.
• Converted the physical servers to virtual servers using P2V assistant.
• Enabled VMware HA, VMware DRS for higher efficiency of the infrastructure. 
• Installing, troubleshooting and supporting of desktops, laptops, network devices and computer peripherals 
• User support-Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance, server and use related problems. Support users to resolve their day-to-day issues related to OS, Email, and Account issues, Hardware etc. 
• Responsible for backup/recovery strategy of all Esxi servers. Planning and implementing fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on the network 
• Customized 2003/2008 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching, to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment.
• Participated in Project Management in several key projects which included the migration and consolidation of several data centers, migration planning for future system consolidation.
• Worked with HTML and PHP.Assisted in monitoring and maintenance of MS SQL server databases.
• Assisted in Database mirroring as the disaster recovery solution.
• Worked with windows clustering.Monitored the Daily Full Back-up and Transactional log backup jobs.

Confidential, New York City

System admin

• Assisted in the operation of Wintel computing environment.
• Assisted in hardware installation and maintenance of workstations, servers, networking equipment, and other supporting hardware. Worked with Linux volumes, user creations.
• Deploying the Application through Microsoft and third party tools.
• Carrying out system admin activities for the Win 2003 servers.
• Remote administration of Windows Domain Controller’s located around the globe.
• Implemented the Active Directory services and maintained the FSMO roles in forest and domain wide roles.
• Maintained FSMO roles by transferring and seizing the Active Directory roles from Domain controller to Additional Domain controller.
• Implemented Microsoft 2008 R2 Clustering services for application and data base servers.
• Performed user account creation, deletion, and configuration.
• Download/Upload of Transcription files using FTP Client application.
• Supervised backup and disaster recovery operations
• Configured the Storage areas in Raid combinations of 0,1,5,6,10.
• Assisted with a team for maintenance of DFS and some of the member servers.
• Administering Windows 2003 & Active Directory and migrated to 2008 R2.
• Performed occasional off-hours and remote support.
• Maintained the MOM for 150 production servers.
• Migrated from MOM to SCOM 2007.
• Migrated from SMS to SCCM.
• PKI Digital certificates.
• Administrated the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and migrated to 2007 managed the 3500 mailboxes.
• Assisted in hardware installation and maintenance of workstations, servers, networking equipment, and other supporting hardware. Performed user account creation, deletion, and configuration.
• Managed the system center endpoint protection. Supervised backup and disaster recovery operations.
• Performed occasional off-hours and remote support. Collect data and help performing Capacity Planning.
• Preparing the IT Dashboard report for every month. Administering and monitoring the windows environment.
• Experience with the Microsoft Project Server2010.Installation and monitoring MacAfee Antivirus.
• Responsible for devising Backup Strategies for each project.
• Attending Conferencing calls with Security team, Application and Backup teams.
• Carrying out system admin activities for the Win 2003/2000/NT servers.
• Installation of Applications & Software on the windows Servers remotely.
• Knowledge sharing and conducting training sessions to the project engineers on the new processes. Passing on the knowledge to the existing team members.