PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

8+ years of total experience in IT industry.
VMware certified Professional 4 (VCP410)
Microsoft certified Technology specialist –MCTS 2008.
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE 2003)
5 years in the area of Virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESX 4 and 3.x hosts and Virtual Center server.
Experience in EMC Clarion SAN Storage, HP EVA 8400, Netapps NAS storage environment and IBM DS4800 SAN storage
Worked on different VMware products like VMware ESXI server, VIEW4.5/4.6, Lab Manager, VMware workstation and VMware player.
Experience with Cisco UCS manager and HP C7000.
Knowledge on Vblock, Nexus5000 and Fabric Extender 2000.
Experience in SAN switch zoning on Mc-Data Switches and Brocade Switches
Sound knowledge on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots
Build and troubleshooting experience With ESX hosts and Virtual Center Server.
Extensive experience with Windows 2008 clustering services.
Sound knowledge on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter and PlateSpin
Extensive background in working with the VMware vMotion technology
Strong experience with the VMware HA and VMware DRS.
Experience with Netapps NAS/SAN storage
Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 3.X and Virtual Center and vMotion.
Knowledge on Microsoft Hyper V.
Basic knowledge on Symantec backup exec and vRanger Pro Backup tools
Documentation knowledge with Microsoft Office Visio.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• VMware

• Operating System

• Serves OS / Hardware /Storage

• Backup Software’s
• Symantec backup exec and vRanger Pro. Veeam tools
• Applications
• MS Office 2003, 2007 and MS Visio

EDUCATION

• Master of Science in Computer Science.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

CERTIFICATION        

• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
• VMware Certified Professional  VCP4
• Microsoft certified Systems Engineer MCSE
• ITIL V3 Foundation Certificated

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,
Atlanta     [02/2011 – Present]
Technical Consultant (VMware/Windows)
           
Environment: VMware infrastructure 4.0,vCenter Server, Hyper-V, Windows 2008/2003 Server, Cisco UCS 5108, HP EVA 8400, HP Blade C7000, HP Blade C3000, HP VC Flex 10, Cisco Nexus 5000 with fabric extender 2000, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Citrix, Symentac Netbackup, SQL and Oracle

• Design, implementation and troubleshooting VMware ESX 4.0/3.5 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
• View 4.5  Assessment and deployment with ThinApp integration .
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP C7000 and Cisco UCS 5100 Chassis.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000 server, Professional, Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles/Distributed Switches setup
• LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multi pathing
• VMware SRM testing on NAS storage with storage replication
• Installed and Implemented Vmware ESXi 4.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Administration of HP Blade series C3000, C7000, Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus 5000 with 2000 fabric extender.
• Invloved in Vblock POC deployment and testing project
• Performed system administration activities, security policies and monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels
• Strong interpersonal communication and technical skills in software, hardware and networking which help me to quickly identify and resolve issues.
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Technical Support to other groups in the company

Confidential,
NY   [06/2008 – 02/2011]
Technical Consultant (VMware/Windows)
           

Environment: VMware infrastructure 4.0,vCcenter Server, Windows 2008/2003 Server, HP Blade C7000, HP Blade C3000,  HP VC Flex 10, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Citrix, Symantec Antivirus 10.x, Symentac Netbackup, SQL and Oracle

• Design, implementation and troubleshooting VMware ESX 4.0/3.5 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP C7000 blade servers.
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000 server, Professional, Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers on Virtual Machines .
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles/Distributed Switches setup
• Experience in administration on Netapps NAS and IBM SAN storage.
• LUN creation and storage mapping administration
• Administration on zonining/LUN masking on mc-data and brocade SAN switches
• VMware SRM testing on NAS storage with storage replication
• Hands on experience installing, configuring & administering Network services like DHCP and DNS services.
• Installed and Implemented Vmware ESXi 4.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance
• Administration of HP Blade series C3000, C700
• Performed system administration activities, security policies and monitored system performance both at software and hardware levels
• Exceptional troubleshooting, organizational, interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills. 
• Strong interpersonal communication and technical skills in software, hardware and networking which help me to quickly identify and resolve issues.
• Assist staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and guidelines.
• Technical Support to other groups in the company
• Setting up bulk tests using the equipment to test voice, video and data applications for the DUT
• Bug tracking, reproducing, reporting
• Setting up Regression Network in the lab to include all the products and features by Occam to create virtual NOC to test the latest builds
• Updating the internal wiki with notes

Confidential,
NY  Sept 2006 to July 2008
Windows/VMware Engineer                                                                    

Environment - Vmware infrastructure 3.0/3.5, vCenter Sever 2.5, Windows server 2003/2008, Dell servers, HP Proliant Servers, DNS, IIS, DHCP, Fiber Channel, ISCSI SAN, VSS, FTP, Symantec/Veritas backup, Symantec corporate 10.2.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of ESX servers 3.5.
• Administrating Vmware infrastructure 3.5 using vCenter 2.5
• Installation and implementation of vCentre server to administrate the ESX servers which include licensing, HA/DRS clustering, managing the Fiber channel/ISCSI SAN storage configuration.

• Configured and managed VMware ESX Server 3.5 and Virtual Center 2.5.
• Designed and implemented a 45 node ESX environment using multiple clusters.
• Converted 150 plus physical to Virtual conversions for datacenter consolidation project.
• Management and administration of Windows 2003 Active directory.

• Installation and configuration of VM’s using templates and cloning and managed using resource pools.
• Experience with SCOM/MOM2005 servers.
• Design, configuration and troubleshooting of TCP/IP and Networking.
• Upgrading VM’s from windows server 2003 to Windows servers 2008.

• Installation and configuration of new domains including DNS, WINS, Group policies and Design and implementation of Tier1 applications for larger clients.
• Citrix Presentation Manager Management and troubleshooting.
• Hands on experience with HP Proliant Servers and Dell Power Edge rack mount servers.

• WSUS. Responsible for the enterprise Group Policy management
• EMC CLariion SAN storage Implementation and administration of SAN Switches with Brocad, Mc-data and Cisco SAN switches
• Build a Visual Source Safe (VSS) Sever for our internal IDM documents management.
• Build a new FTP server on Windows 2008 Server as the previous server on Windows 2003 got crashed and also migrate all FTP accounts from old server to the new one.
• Configuring and Managing DHCP and IIS, Load balancing, troubleshooting.
• Responsible for designing and deploying Remote Access solutions.
• Managed Active Directory services. (Created Accounts, Reset Passwords, and Allowed Access to different Directories using NTFS permissions).
• Provided server and client support for all issues such as logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity and authentication issues.
• Performed all forms of backups using Windows server backups, wbadmin and NTDSutil.
• Installing and updating security patches and Antivirus on clients using Symantec corporate 10.2.
• Documented the entire architecture of the ESX nodes and window servers that are created.

Confidential,
NY September 2005 to August 2006
Systems Engineer                                          

Environment – Datacenter Administration, Windows server 2000/2003, ActiveDirectory, DNS, IIS and SAN storage.

Administrating windows servers; including Windows Clustering in datacenter and containing 350 windows servers, IBM SAN storage, Linux and AIX servers.

Responsibilities:

• Administrating and managing windows servers including configuration and troubleshooting of Active directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS.
• Administration of Datacenter with Windows/Linux server and IBM SAN storage
• Created and managed user and group accounts which includes configuring password policies, user rights, domain and local user accounts and setting profiles for multiple accounts.
• Design, installed and configured domain controllers at different sites and implemented replication by configuring trusts and subnets.
• Created and modified security policies and updated the template to multiple computers.

• Installation, configuration and Administration of IIS web servers.

• Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.

• Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs.

• Responsible for upgrading entire enterprise from windows server 2003 running in mixed mode to windows server 2003.
• Implementing security and update patches for servers and clients.

• Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and implementation of trusts.

Confidential,
 (INDIA)  Nov 2003 to July 2005
Systems Administrator

• Assembled, configured, installed, tested and repaired computer hardware and software.
• Management of Active directory and windows server infrastructure.
• Provided technical support for the users and resolving software/hardware issues.
• Performed hands-on administration and monitoring of Local Area network (LAN).
• Experience with solar winds monitoring tools for servers and network devices.
• Resolved Microsoft desktop applications (Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook) issues.

• Managed the installation and configuration of Windows 2003 Server/Workstations.
• Created user and computer accounts on the Active directory users and computers.
• Configured servers for DHCP, WINS and DNS services.

• Installation, configuration and Administration of IIS web servers.

• Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.

• Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs.
• Installation and configuration of Domain Controllers and implementation of trusts.

• Troubleshot and resolve computer problems; built and upgrade systems; install software and perform general troubleshooting.

• Handled multiple tasks to meet project deadlines.
• Develop and update the required network/system administration documentation.