SUMMARY

• VMware/Windows Administrator with 7 years of experience in IT industry.
• Extensive experience in Win 2008 … Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro - active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude.
• Expert in Windows Server System Administration skills.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, File & Print Server, Terminal Server, Microsoft Clustering, Microsoft Exchange Servers, LDAP.
• Experience in Virtualization technologies like installing and configuring VMware vSphere. Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter. Creating host & client VM templates & cloning.
• Performed day-to-day run-the-engine tasks to ensure that the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is working appropriately and highly available to the customer base; and that any issues are being proactively resolved.
• Provided documentation of the VMware VDI environment by Visio charts, run books and configuration guides.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing, and Windows networking.
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel with HP hardware, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly.
• Proven record of reliability, ability to perform under time constraints, good judgment under pressure.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation.
• Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Windows 2000/XP/7/Windows 2003/2008 servers
• Active directory
• DNS & DHCP.
• VM Ware ESX 3.5/4.0/5.0 / and 5.5 Virtual Center
• VI Client
• P2V.
• VMware - ESX 3.0 / 3.5 VC and VI client

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York City, NY

Sr Windows & VMware Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining physical and virtual environment consists of 2000+ servers.
• Built number of VMs through templates/clones, created templates/clones for future use and physical servers/hosts 5.0/5.1 from ISO Images.
• Configuring ILO of standalone/blade servers & chassis as part of server built & updated firmware when required.
• Physical server setup in datacenter including cabling/de-cabling to patch panels & switches for networking.
• Coordinating with provision team to provide server/URL access within specific VLANS and troubleshoot where necessary
• Installation, configuration and administration of Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server.
• Responsible for production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and their appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Performed backup through Net backup and restore of VM ware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshots.
• Capacity management of VLANS and perform maintenance when required, such as session migrations
• Solid understanding and knowledge of IBM Tivoli storage manager for backup/restore, archive and disaster recovery through TSM extended edition and/or TSM Fastback.
• Configuring and troubleshooting of monitoring tools such as HP SIM, Solar Winds Orion, and SCCM.
• Extensive hands-on experience on configuring and maintaining System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) for monitoring system/servers health and performance.
• Complete Datacenter/Cluster/Host/VM environment set up, configuration and operations including VMware features such as HA, DRS, VMKernel through vCenter.
• Hands on experience in Symantec Antivirus installation, configuration, maintenance.
• Experience with patching Development, test and Production environment servers through WSUS and troubleshooting with Pre and Post patching issues.
• Detailed understanding of Cisco UCS environment with configuration of UCS Central and manager.
• Day-to-day deal with datacenter with complete access including audit and inventory of faulty parts of servers or server.
• Interacting and coordinating with different teams to solve the production issues.
• Leading offshore and Tier II support team with tracking and reporting of daily duties.

Environment: Windows … SMS, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server and Workstation, Unix, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, NAS, SRM, SCCM, ILO, HP SIM, Solar Winds, SCOM, Symantec, Firewall, EMC, BL/DL … servers, Cisco UCS.

Confidential

System Administrator (Windows/VMware - L2)

Responsibilities:

• New OS Build in Physical & Virtual environment (2k3, 2k8 and 2k12).
• SMS and BL Patch rollout and management.
• Performance Monitor tool used to monitor the performance of the system.
• Based on the alert taking pro-active measures to avoid severity incident.
• Design and Implementation of File access in the file server.
• Configuring print server in windows 2003 server environment.
• VMware virtual server builds and Migration.
• Upgrading virtual server like RAM, HDD & CPU.
• Creating, Deleting, Managing User accounts, Groups and OUs on Windows Server 2003.
• Creating the DNS Records and Monitoring DNS Service
• Coordinating with different Team to get the RCA.
• Performing daily incremental and weekly Normal weekly backups on tape drive using Windows backup tool.
• Installing/configuring of Windows 2003, 2008 Active directory, DNS, DHCP.
• Using HPSM/Remedy ticketing tool for raising Tickets (Change & Incidents).
• Monitoring & Supporting Disk & Ping failure Alerts.
• Troubleshooting Active Directory Issues.
• Troubleshooting DHCP and DNS servers.
• Taking Active Directory, DHCP and DNS backups and restoring as on required.
• Backup & Restore of DHCP.
• Vendor Coordination.
• Installing, configuration and administration of VMware ESX Server 3.5
• Creating, monitoring Virtual Guest Machines and the environment.
• Maintain, managing ESX server via VI client.
• Configured HA, DRS& Resource pool and Cluster level management
• Configured VMware ESX - Tasks, Events, Alarms, and Maps.
• P2V & V2V migration and general maintenance activities regularly.
• Monitoring VMware Infrastructure - CPU, Memory, Disks and networks.
• Performing Snapshots,Templates, Cloning, and Migrating with VMware.
• Creation, configuration of Virtual switches and Port groups.
• Exposure to deploying various patches by using SCCM/SMS.
• Troubleshooting skills of VMware ESX server via Putty.
• Preparing daily checklist and updating management regularly.
• Excellent communication, presentation and team working skills.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Windows & VMware Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creating and managing separate VMware clusters for Development, QA and Production.
• VMware ESX 3.5 & 4.0 Host Servers, vSphere Suite, Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration and Maintenance.
• Monitoring the operating system, database, and network using MOM Monitoring via VNC, & VPN.
• Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on Production Servers.
• Monitored and managed performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual Center Server for HA, DRS.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT, 2008 & 2003 as well as Linux servers from VMware.
• Monitored and managed the performance and the load balancing of the Servers.
• Participated in Team meetings with Managers and submitted weekly Status reports with the current status, issues and reasons for delay in solving the Hardware and Software related issues.
• System Administration, Level 3 support for all Windows 2008, Windows 2003 Servers & Microsoft Virtual Server 2005, Windows 2008 Hyper-v worldwide through ILO, and IDRAC.
• Created User Accounts, Configured User Profiles, local and Global Groups and implemented Group Policies.
• Performed system monitoring and performance tuning for 2008/2003 Servers.
• Active Directory Infrastructure and Operating System account management, Group security policies.
• Monitored and managed the performance and the load balance of the Servers.
• Installed and updated the Windows Patches and Hot Fixes.
• Maintained the File Servers, Application Servers and Print Servers.
• VERITAS Netback up for clients, Microsoft cluster and Remote Server maintenance for hardware failure.
• Expertise in remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
• Configuration of Server operating systems, service pack up gradation and Security Patches.
• Used RDP to assign the local security policies on member servers and standalone server.
• Worked on Ticket process in fixing the Incident tickets in Remedy Tool in 24x7 environments.