Summary
Over 8 years of professional experience in System Administration with expertise knowledge on VMware Virtualization and Cisco networking and trouble-shooting and Windows 2008/2003 Operating Systems, Committed towards perfection in work, capable of managing large scale projects in enterprise level and seeking professional excellence in all endeavors.

Professional Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge and experience in the Virtualization and Systems Administration domain.
• Extensive knowledge in Cisco networking and Trouble-shooting and SAN.
• Professional experience with VMware VSphere 4 / ESX 3.5 and VMware VCenter 4/VCenter 3.5, VMotion, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, FL, Host Profiles, SRM 1.0/2.0/4.0, VApp, VMware VCenter Converter
• Expertise in design and Implementation virtualization solutions based on VMware Infrastructure 4 (VI 4) platform with EMC VNX storage and Cisco UCS Blades
• Extensive hands on experience with design and implementation of enterprise wide Virtualization Projects with VMware and Vblock POC
• Installing VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on Cisco UCS and HP blade servers with Flex 10 Networking.
• Overseeing implementation/deployment of DCF Infrastructure consolidation using Cloud Computing methodologies with the aim of providing 100% virtualization.
• Implementation of VMware Sphere 4/View 4.6, VDI on VBlock 300 EX/EMC VNX series
• Expertise in design and Implementation virtualization solutions based on VMware Infrastructure 4 (VI 4) platform
• Deploy, Secure, Analyze, Administer and Troubleshoot VMware VI4 platforms
• Implementation of View 4.5 Desktop Virtualization
• Configuration of Cisco UCS blades.
• Experience with Configuring DMZ architecture for private clouds.
• Experience with VMware cloud director installation and configuration.
• Implementation of Cisco Nexus 7010 and managing Vblock 300 EX environment .
• Implement ITIL Methodologies
• Developed and implemented ITIL Support/Service Desk Policies and Procedures; re-vamped service desk to provide efficient support for clients world-wide.
• Extensive hands on experience with design and implementation of enterprise wide Virtualization Projects with VMware.
• Experience in system and network administration and engineering, hardware evaluation, project management, systems and network security, incident analysis and recovery.
• Cisco router configuration and change management, providing technical support for Cisco Router configurations and installation for Customer.
• Configuring IP RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP. Experience in implementation, support and trouble shooting of VLAN’s including operational knowledge of spanning tree protocol (STP), VLAN trunking, inter VLAN routing and ISL/802.1q.
• Experience with Cisco 2900, 3800, 3900, 7600 series routers.
• Experience with Cisco 2500, catalyst 6500, catalyst 4500, MGX 8800 series switches.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESX hosts.
• Experience with application packaging using ThinApp 4.5.
• Installing VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP blade servers with Flex 10 Networking and virtual connect and flex fabric setup
• Experience in Windows clustering Administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with View 4.5 design and implementation.
• Experience with Esxi 4.1 implementation.
• Experience with EMC VNX 5300 and V-block.
• Design and Implementation setup of HP Flex Virtual Connect on C7000 Encloser
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• Experience in Fiber SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS (EMC-CX30, NetApp, Dell MD3000i Dell MD 1000 storage technologies and worked with SANs in VMware environments and troubleshooting and upgrading firmware in VMware and other environments such as Windows
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching
• Experienced in Planning and implementation of SAN products such as HP EVA and NetApp Storage systems
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, 2000 server, Professional, Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
• Experience installing, managing and administering Windows 2008 and 2003 based Domain controllers, Backup / Additional Domain Controllers
• Management, Client Installation, Remote control, Site database maintenance and Recovery
• Experience installing, configuring & administering Network services like DNS, DHCP, WINS and WSUS
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities
• Hands on experience installing, configuring & administering Network services like DHCP and DNS services.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance
• 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.
• Installation and Management of Network Security Servers like Symantec Corporate Edition and Trend Micro Office Scan

Education

• MS in Computer Networks & Telecommunication Systems,
• Bachelors in Computer Science

Professional Certifications

• VMware vSphere Certified Professional - VCP 4/VCP 3
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - MCITP
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - MCSE
• Cisco Certified Network Professional – CCNP
• RedHat Certified Technician - RHCT

Technical Skills

Core VMware Virtualization Skills

ESX 4.0, ESX 3.5, ESXi, VSphere 3 and 4, VI3, Virtual Center Server, P2V, V2V, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, VApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, Vmware Management Assistant, Vmware Vsphere Client, Vmware View 4, Vmware Thinapp, Events and Alerts, Capacity Planning, Platespin PowerConvert

Desktop Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, Win XP sp2, Vista, Windows 7

Server Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2.

Server Services

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

Management Tools

HP Onboard Administrator, HP Virtual Connect Manager, Avocent DS View, Putty, MKS Integrity Change Management Software, Groundworks VI Monitoring Tool, Vkernal Monitoring Software, Microsoft Robocopy GUI, SolarWinds IP Address Tracker, Veeam Backup-FastSCP

Directory Services / Internet

Designing, Deploying and Migration of Windows Based Active Directory. Installation and Administration of IIS 6.0, DHCP & DNS servers

Server Hardware

HP blades C7000,IBM blades HS21, HP Proliant DLs and Blade Servers, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Enterprise Virtual Array Family, Netapp FAS2000 series

Networking

TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, VLSM, Subnetting, VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing, NAT, VPN, ACL, Frame-Relay, PPP, HDLC, ISDN, Route Redistribution, DHCP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, SNMP, Syslog, NTP, MPLS, BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIPv2, RIPv1, Static Routing, Policy Based Routing, Redistribution, Route Summarization, STP, RSTP, VTP, Trunking, VLANs, Layer 3 switching, HSRP, VRRP

Experience Summary

Confidential, VA March 11 – Aug 11
Technical Consultant

• Worked on their latest project and upcoming product.
• Wrote the strategy document, designed and administrated the environment consisting of over 90 ESX hosts and 1200 Virtual machines environments at different Geographical locations
• Fulfill multiple duties, including designing, building and supporting VMware ESX and Windows Servers for quality assurance and production departments. Deployed VMware ESX server 4.0 (virtualization technology) for Intel platforms (Windows and Linux servers). Total of 90 ESX servers with over 1200 VMs with Virtual center.
• Designed, deployed, and implemented View 4.5 with Thin-app and local mode.
• Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, WINS, Domain trust relationship, fault tolerance, file and print services, user and group management, task scheduling, monitoring and testing.
• Responsible for all aspects of TCP/IP functionality across multiple enterprise Data Center environments.
• Installed VMware VSphere 4 and created virtual machines on ESX 4.0 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Worked on Central Management Server (VCenter Server) to manage all the ESX hosts in the datacenter.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Working with Netapps San and working on snap manager for taking the backs-ups.the data-storage on demand from the users.
• Responsible for Designing and implementing VMware public/private cloud.
• Responsible for building environment, data center with design and Implementation of VMware Infrastructure4 (VI 4) platform with EMC VNX storage and Cisco UCS Blades
• Installed and Tested VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 2.0/4.0) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
• Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines
• Worked on HPC7000 G6 and G7. Starting from getting IP’s, installing, configuring and then assigning the blades for ESX, ESXi and physical servers.
• Worked on web application like IBM websphere and Oracle weblogic.
• Worked in setting up the Data-Center and Infrastructure for this project.
• Was responsible for bring up the whole environment up with 90 ESX hosts and 56 ESXi hosts.
• Changing the network as it was desired at various stages after code drop, and was involved in power shut-down for maintenance.
• Responsible for GA code drop.
• Installing windows and linux and configuring windows machine with the specified requirements in the project.
• Maintaining AD/Core and giving access to users.
• Worked with a fast transfer protocol fasp developed by a company called Aspera.
• Responsible for documenting test plans, Test Scenarios and test cases for the entire module.
• Responsible for end-to-end testing for entire application. Peformed integration, regression, and performance testing.
• Fulfill multiple duties, including designing, building and supporting VMware ESX and Windows Servers for quality assurance and production departments.

Confidential,NY March 09 – March 11
Sr.Technical Consultant

• Wrote the strategy document, designed and administrated the environment consisting of over 50 ESX hosts and 400 Virtual machines environments at different Geographical locations
• Fulfill multiple duties, including designing, building and supporting VMware ESX and Windows Servers for quality assurance and production departments.
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation
• Involved in performance testing of virtual machines against physical server. Did I/O performances checks which included physical raw partitions, remoted SANs system, local virtual IDE or iSCSI disk subsystem tests. Involved in performance tests for network and used tools like Intel IOMeter, Microsoft exchange server 2003 load simulator, Microsoft windows memory diagnostic.
• Installed VMware ESX server 4.0 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates
• Installed, Configured and administered ESX 4.0 on HP Blade servers using HP onboard administrator for the HP Blade chasis & enclosures
• Expert in Flex Virtual Connect and Fabric Modules configuration in HP C7000 .
• Designed and implemented View 4.5 for desktop virtualization.
• Used ThinApp 4.5 for application packaging.
• Used Avocent DS View Module for the remote server access to the Dell rack servers.
• Involved in network optimization testing on the desktop virtualization.
• Installed Management Server (VCenter Server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple hosts
• Linked Different Vcenter servers using linked mode to have a single instance of Vsphere client to manage the whole Virtual environment
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, implemented migration of virtual vachines using VMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter and Platespin PowerConvert.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure
• Installed and worked on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 4.0) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem
• 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 the Dell Rack servers and HP Blade servers
• Configured and monitored Microsoft SQL server 2005/2008 Databases and perform routine tasks such as performance tuning, indexing, purging and database replication for Vcenter server and Database dependant virtual machines
• Used different Administration and support tools(Veeam Backup-FastSCP) to perform regular backup and restore of the virtual machines disks and data
• Conducted VMware Virtualization Assessments to recommend consolidation scenarios and project cost savings associated with virtualization for clients.
• Used MKS Integrity Change management Software tool to maintain the CMDB and Virtual Infrastructure Information.
• Used Groundworks & Vkernal Monitoring Tools to have 24/7 monitoring on all the servers and virtual machines
• Performed in place upgrades of Windows 2003 server to Windows Server 2008/R2 on Dell Physical Servers -Power Edge 1950, R610 & R710.
• Windows clustering Administration and troubleshooting
• Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, WINS, Domain trust relationship and group management.
• Providing technical support for high profile technical design/defect analysis
• Providing Technical/Operational assistance and feedback on potential design improvements

Confidential,Boston February 07 – March 09
Senior VMware Technical Consultant

• Installed VMware VSphere 4 and created virtual machines on ESX 4.0 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESX 4.0 servers for server consolidation.
• Worked as Technical Lead on various infrastructure projects surrounding Servers consolidation, Physical to Virtual Migrations, Storage and Server Management.
• Responsible for the management of servers and duties include regular and proactive monitoring of servers, responding the alerts
• Worked on Central Management Server (VCenter Server) to manage all the ESX hosts in the datacenter.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Installed and Tested VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 2.0/4.0) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans
• Implemented successful recovery by VMware SRM and eliminated the complexity of managing and testing recovery plans
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage VMotion
• Virtualized Windows server Migration using VMware Converter, PlateSpin PowerConvert.
• Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Infrastructure
• Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines
• Integrated the HP SAN volumes to the Virtual Infrastructure to store the Virtual Machine files
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem.

Confidential, NY August 05 – January 07 Virtualization Consultant

• Deployed VMware ESX server 3.0 (virtualization technology) for Intel platforms (Windows and Linux servers). Total of 40 ESX servers with over 600 VMs with Virtual center.
• Implementation of Microsoft DHCP, DNS, WINS, Domain trust relationship, fault tolerance, file and print services, user and group management.
• Involved in design and implement Server migration from Physical to Virtual using VMware P2V Assistant 2.1.2
• Involved in migrating physical servers to VMware virtual servers using P2V Assistant.
• Worked on Migration Projects Involving IIS 5.0 and 6.0 based applications.
• Installing, troubleshooting and supporting of Desktops, Laptops, Network Devices, and Computer Peripherals.
• User Support - Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance, server & user related problems. Support users to resolve their day to day issues related to OS, E-mail, Account issues, hardware etc.
• Responsible for Backup/recovery strategy of all ESX servers. Planning and implementing fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on the network
• Responsible in diagnosing & troubleshooting of VMware ESX and Virtual Center Environments.
• Support & Training - Provide necessary help / training to IT Helpdesk / Telecom Support Personal to resolve day to day issues.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA May 2004 - August 2005
Systems Engineer

• Installed VMware ESX Server 2.5 on all the physical servers to host multiple virtual machines.
• Installed Management Server (VMware VCenter Server) instance to enable centralized management of multiple hosts
• Installed VM Clusters (ESX 2.5), Hosts and virtual machines
• Converting the physical servers to virtual servers using P2V Assistant
• Enabled VMware HA, VMware DRS for higher efficiency for the Infrastructure
• Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirement. Used windows 2003 Standard Edition. Upgraded the Firmware of the servers. Participated in mounting, racking and cabling of the servers
• Monitored the servers and trouble shot the server issues
• Resolved the user issues related to Active Directory Users and Groups

Confidential,India May 2002 - May 2004
Windows Systems Administrator

• Installed Windows NT, Server2003, Workstation, Proxy Server, Configured, implemented and provided maintenance
• Managed Domain Controllers and Additional domain controllers
• Symantec antivirus console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server
• System Troubleshooting in case of a failure and maintained server uptime above 99.99%
• Migration of active directory services from Win NT to Win 2k to Win 2003
• Provided Capacity Planning review for all the servers
• Customized the 2000/2003 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching, to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment
• Configured & administered Domain Naming Server (DNS),Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Distributed File System.(DFS),Internet Information Service.(IIS) and Remote Access Service(RAS)