Summary:-

More than 15 years of experience in IT Operations - Virtualization Technologies ESX 3.x/4.x/5.x, Citrix , System Administration Support, Storage Backup, Network Architecture, Capacity Planning, DR Solutions, Messaging, Antivirus, Security, RDBMS, Performance Analysis Optimization.

Technical Expertise:

• Extensive experience in Design, Planning, Implementation Administration of the Enterprise level IT infrastructure Servers, Desktop, OS, Network Communication and Storage for the day to day business requirements.
• Extensive experience in Server Desktop Virtualization, Consolidation and Migrations - VMware ESX ESXi 3.x/4.x/5.x, VMware View, vCenter Server and Citrix.
• Experience in Design and Implementation of Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure vCloud Director, DynamicOps.
• Extensive experience in Configuration and troubleshooting of SAN / NAS storage systems in the virtual environment EMC, Netapp, 3PAR.
• Extensive experience in the design and implementation of Business Continuity and DR Solutions for the Virtual Infrastructure - VMware SRM, Netapp Metrocluster, vCenter HB, VMware FT.
• Extensive experience in Systems Integration, Capacity Planning, Performance Optimization, Clustering and Load Balancing Technologies.
• Experience in Enterprise Multi Domain Active Directory deployment, GPO management.
• Extensive experience in Server builds, Administration and Support of Windows 200x and Red Hat Linux Servers.
• Proficient in vMA, PowerCLI, Perl / Shell scripting.
• Well versed in Protocols Services like LDAP, TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, RMI/IIOP, SOAP, SSL, SMTP, ICMP, IMAP, POP3, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, DMPLS, VLAN, NAT.
• Extensive experience in HP/Dell/IBM Servers and Workstations.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a fast paced and high-pressure environment.

Skill Summary:

• Virtualization : VMware ESX/ESXi, Hyper-V, Citrix XenApp 6.5
• Operating Systems : Windows 200x / Win 7/ Vista / XP / NT , Red hat Linux, OpenVMS
• Cloud Management : vCloud Director, DynamicOps
• Storage : EMC, Netapp, 3PAR
• Web Servers : IIS, Apache.
• Mail Servers : Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 / 2003 / 2000, MDaemon
• Firewalls : ISA Server 2004 / 2006, Checkpoint, Norton Firewall.
• Antivirus : Symantec Antivirus / Trend Micro Corp Editions
• Proxy Server : Wingate 7.0 / Win proxy
• RDBMS : Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2005, MS Access 6.0
• Scripting : PowerCLI, Perl, Shell Scripting.
• Languages : C, C , Visual Basic 6.0, Developer 2000, SQL Forms.
• Reporting : Crystal Reports 9.0, SQL Reports
• Process/Change Management : Remedy, Service-now
• Monitoring Tools : Netuitive, Nagios, Splunk, vFoglight, Akorri, vKernel, VMTurbo

Career Summary

Confidential

Senior Virtualization Engineer

• Administer and support the day to day operations, respond to trouble tickets and provide level 2 3 support to RBS Global VMware infrastructure spread across multiple data centers in the US, Europe and APAC 40 vCcenter Servers, 800 ESX hosts, 16000 VMs, HP blades Rackmounts, EMC, Netapp, 3PAR storage, etc
• Assisted in the Design Deployment of 3000 VDI environment VMware, Leostream Connect, Netapp RCU .
• Worked closely with the Business Continuity Management team to identify the critical servers, Designed and implemented the DR solution VMware SRM for the virtual infrastructure for effective failover and failback.
• Designed, configured, Scripted and Executed the migration of 3000 VDI vms to the new environment VMware, Leostream Connect, HP 3PAR storage, SRM with minimal downtime and no incidents.
• Defined the scope, reviewed the existing procedures, defined and documented new standards and procedures for the proper administration and Audit Compliance.
• Actively involved in the Design, POC and implementation of the Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure.
• Configured centralized patching system VUM for effective host patching and audit compliance.
• Installed and Configured vCenter Server Heartbeat for the high availability of vCenter Servers.
• Installed and configured vMA for Host monitoring and Administration.
• Worked closely with vendors on Product evaluation and selection based on POC's and test results.
• Virtualized time critical real time trading applications P2V.
• Working closely with the Polyserv team for SQL server DB consolidations.
• Performance optimization of the current VMware Infrastructure by observing best practices for a virtual environment.
• Worked with critical business units to determine the best virtual solutions for their business requirements.
• Coordinated with different cross-functional teams like Network, Security, Storage and ensured SLAs are met.
• Provided production support in call rotation in a 24x7 environment and monitored trouble ticket queues to attend user and system calls.

Confidential

Vertex Pharmaceuticals,

VMware Administrator

• Provided level 2 3 support and day to day administration and troubleshooting of the Global Virtual Infrastructure spread across multiple data centers in Europe and the US.
• Reviewed, Planned and Standardized the Vertex global VMware infrastructure and to Vsphere 4.0.
• Consists of VMware 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0, 3 Vcenter servers, 100 ESX hosts, 2000 VMs, HP EVA SAN, NetApp, EMC Clariion, etc
• Defined the scope, reviewed the existing procedures, defined and documented new standards and procedures for security compliance and trained other team members on the best practices.
• Successfully Configured / troubleshooted FC / IP based SAN in the virtual environment.
• Configured VMware FT for high availability of BES and other critical Prod applications.
• Configured centralized VUM for host patching and performed Virtual H/w Tools upgrade on VMs.
• Configured Nagios for Host and Storage monitoring.
• Created Host profiles for Prod, Validation and Dev clusters for the standardization of the ESX host builds and configurations.
• Member of technical support team which is responsible for infrastructure services on VMware, Microsoft Windows Red Hat Linux.

Confidential

VMware Engineer

• Provided level 2 3 support and actively involved in the day to day administration of the Virtual Infrastructure.
• Actively involved in Planning, Migration and Consolidation of 700 Windows 2000/2003/Linux servers as a part of Staples Global VMware Infrastructure in large heterogeneous networks.
• Successfully completed Server Consolidation and Migrations using virtualization technologies using VMware ESX 3.5, VC 2.5 and Platespin Portability Suite P2V, V2V V2P .
• Developed proof of concepts and successfully coordinated the server virtualization for different business units.
• Migrated obsolete hardware platforms to VMs and retired / repurposed physical servers.
• Virtualized high disk utilization SQL servers using RDM technology for performance optimization.
• Responsible for coordination with team members on migration schedule and ensured proper change control processes during conversion.
• Participated in UAT and maintained proper documents for all conversion procedures.
• Right Sized servers based on the actual utilization of resources.
• Reviewed and provided recommendations on various customer IT infrastructure environments.
• Actively involved in Server capacity planning based on workload forecast, performance analysis of business applications, server hardware, storage Symmetrix Clariion and communication infrastructure.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

• Actively involved in Planning, Migration and Consolidation of Enterprise Virtual Infrastructure VMware ESX 3.5, VC 2.5, Converter 3.0, Platespin, VCB, Windows 2000/2003/Linux servers
• Provided level 2 3 support and actively involved in the day to day administration of the Virtual Infrastructure.
• Implemented and configured VMware HA DRS as a failover and performance optimization method.
• Responsible for day to day administration and troubleshooting of the virtual Infrastructure.
• Configured VCB for backups and VUM for VMware updates.
• Actively involved in Server capacity planning based on workload forecast, performance analysis of business applications, server hardware, storage and communication infrastructure.
• Provided production support in call rotation in a 24x7 environment and monitored trouble ticket queues to attend user and system calls.

Confidential

IT Manager System Administrator

• Actively involved in the Deployment Administration of MS Exchange 2003/2007, ISA Server 2004.
• Implementation and administration of COSMOS ERP, setup deployment of SQL Server .NET applications in production environment.
• Successfully Designed, Planned Implemented the Enterprise VMware Infrastructure VMware ESX 3.0, VC 2.0, P2V Assistant, Windows 2000/2003/Linux servers .
• Provided level 2 3 support and actively involved in the day to day administration of the Enterprise IT Infrastructure.
• Responsible for coordination with team members on P2V migration schedule and ensured proper change control processes during conversion.
• Actively involved in Enterprise Multi Domain Active Directory deployment and GPO management.
• Actively involved in the Planning and Implementation of IT Infrastructure for company's LAN WAN environment.
• Configuration Administration of CISCO Routers Switches.

Confidential

Network Systems Engineer

• Responsible for administering Active Directory and effective deployment of GPOs.
• Installed Global Catalogue Server on site and troubleshooted Active Directory replication problems.
• Implementation and administration of IIS, setup deployment of SQL Server, .NET applications in development production environments.
• Installation and Administration of Checkpoint Firewall.
• Designed the network infra and provided Network System support for the main office and over 30 remote locations in all aspects of the company's LAN, WAN, and Telecommunication environments.
• Supported and maintenance of Oracle based ERP on Open VMS platform Oracle forms, Reports, SQL PL/SQL .
• Managed network security, Mail Proxy servers.

Confidential

Network System Administrator

• Responsible for Active Directory users and Groups management and effective deployment of Group Policy to maintain database application level security.
• Responsible for server build, configuration and administration of Windows NT/2000 based servers.
• Active role in the analysis, planning, designing, implementation training of the new Database application developed for the company.
• Maintained operations procedures for network administration, equipment upgrades, data backups, and other day to day operations in the IT department.

Confidential

Senior Faculty, Programmer Centre Manger

• Involved in both the Training Division Software Development division.
• Installation and configuration of PCs, Application software's, Antivirus Software's
• Analysis, planning and implementation of new business horizons, Course structures curriculum, analyzing the feedbacks from the students, faculties well wishers and taking necessary steps to improve the business and reputation of the company.
• Training students and project assistance.

Confidential

Junior Trainer Programmer

• Involved in both the Training Division Software Development division.
• Corporate Training for senior managers in corporate giants INDAL Indian Aluminum, HNL Hindustan Newsprint Limited , etc.
• Preparation of Courseware's, analyzing the feedbacks from the students, Training students and project assistance.
• Software development for clients.