SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of IT experience primarily in Installation, Configuration, Administration, Management, Development, Verification, Technical Support, Trouble shooting and User training of the consolidated Virtual Systems Environment
• Successfully designed and implemented new VMware Environment using IBM servers for consolidating existing Physical and Virtual infrastructure
• System optimization project work involved migrating VMs from old VMware platform ESXi 4.0/4.1 to new ESXi 5.1/5.5 to increase the performance and stability on the systems
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations
• Analyzing the VM - support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem and troubleshooting them
• Experience in Adding servers to vCenter servers and managed hosts using vSphere client
• Experience in VMware ESX Server 3.5/vSphere ESX 4.0/vSphere ESX 4.1/vSphereESXi 5.0/vSphereESXi 5.1, Virtual Center 2.5/4.0/5.0
• Assisted with VMware planning, consolidation and upgrades; including the regional ESX servers refresh
• P2V and V2V migration of Windows 2k, 2k3, & 2k8, Linux servers from VMware HW
• Experience with Physical System (rack/stack, cabling, hard drive replacement, hardware upgrades); also Installed, Configured and Supported Cisco UCS and VM servers
• Administered DNS, DHCP, and Exchange & ISA servers. Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager and in MS Exchange Administration
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals
• Experienced in managing Group policies, user accounts and configuring sites in a multi-site domain structure
• Configured and Upgraded System Hardware and Software, including system cycling, installation and initial testing of all system patches, updates, and fixes
• Experience in handling multi data center environment and remote hands support

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: VMware vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5, VMware ESX 2.5/3.0/3.5, VMware ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.0, VMware vCenter, vSphere Client, VMware VDI, VMware ThinApp, View 4.6/5.0, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware Update Manager, vCenter Lab Manager 4, vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008/2008R2/2012, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7, Apple Mac OS, VMware ESX server, Red hat Linux

ServerServices: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Clean Server Installation/Migration

DR/P2V Tools: Platespin migrator, Quest vConvertor and Double take DR tools

Programming Languages: C, C++

E-mail Clients: Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes

Designing Languages: MATLAB, VHDL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Peoria, IL

VMware windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• VMWARE ESX 3.x to 5.x Servers Installation, Configuration & Administration
• Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of Windows Server environment, including VMware ESX/ESXiHost, Clusters, Servers and Virtual Machines; and Interfaced with different Venders
• Taking regular backup of vCenter Server machines by using Snapshot
• Troubleshooting issues related to Virtual Machine VMotion, snapshots, clones, templates
• Involved in Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment, vSphere Linked Mode and Replicated Storage
• Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites
• P2V and V2V migration of Windows 2k, 2k3, & 2k8, Linux servers from VMware HW
• Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using Virtual Center
• Expertise in Active Directory migration, upgrades, disaster recovery, troubleshooting and support
• Planning, Implementing and Managing Group polices
• Managing Blade servers by using Cisco UCS
• UCS firmware upgrade from 1.4 to 2.0 and from 2.0 to 2.1
• Configuring and managing windows Clusters

Confidential, Wayne, PA

VMware windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience with CISCO UCS servers (B-series, C-series), EMC Storage, EMC ViPR, and replication (VMAX, VNX, XtremIO, RecoverPoint, AppSync, VBlock)
• Implemented and Configured VM Ware Infrastructure cluster running on IBM Blade servers
• Converting Virtual Machines running on Workstation to VMs on ESX Server (V2V)
• Converting Physical machines to Virtual Machines using VMware Converter (P2V)
• Troubleshooting issues relating to VMotion such as compatibility issues
• Creating daily report on resource usage and resource availability
• Working on Migration concepts like vMotion, Storage vMotion and cold migration vCenter management, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion
• Delegating permissions on Resource Pools to users using Access Controls
• Setting up and troubleshooting features like HA/FT/DRS with EVC for the Virtual Machines
• Expertise in Working with ADS, DHCP, DNS Server Roles and Domain Controllers
• Managed and maintained network services, including high volume Mail/POP/IMAP servers as well as Web, DNS and FTP servers

Confidential, Roseville, MN

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on different VMware products like VMware workstation, VMware server, VMware player, VMware Converter, VMware SRM and ESX server 5.x
• Configure Virtual Network in ESX server by creating vSwitches
• Experience in installing and configuring vCenter servers
• Creating Virtual Machine Templates
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager
• Server Build and troubleshooting experience With VMware ESXi 5.0/ESXi 4.1/ESXi 3.X, vCenter server 2.5 and VMware vSphere Suite
• Configured, deployed and involved in troubleshooting of VMs, ESX/ESXi servers, vCenter server, and vSphere 4.0. Configured Fault Tolerance (FT) for business critical servers
• Experience in virtualizing the environment using Hyper-v virtualization on windows server 2008 host servers
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology
• Managing and implementing various services such as DNS and DHCP, RDS
• Expertise in implementation, configuration and administration of Servers
• Managed Multiple Server suites(Windows, UNIX and Red Hat Linux) on VMware ESX server and designing of Active Directory
• Managed and maintained network services, including high volume Mail/POP/IMAP servers as well as Web, DNS and FTP servers

Confidential

Windows Support

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment
• Build, Installed and provided Technical Support for Windows & Red Hat Linux Servers both Physical
• Virtual, including system Installation/De-commission and initial testing of all Operating system patches, updates and fixes
• Installation and migration of Core Services DHCP, DNS and WINS
• Creating and Managing User accounts in Active Directory
• Maintaining the File Server and Print Server and cloning the Desktops on Network in Windows Environment
• Assigning Folder Permissions to users
• Experience in installing monthly Security patches and hot fixes on windows platform including with providing documentation
• Extensively used Process Monitor, Process Explorer and FileMon, for troubleshooting
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN
• Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks