SUMMARY

• VMware Horizon View Engineer/Administrator with 14+ years’ experience.
• Areas of expertise include but not limited to VMware VSphere ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5, VMware vCenter 5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2012/2016, Hyper - V, Windows XP/7/10, Active Directory, PowerCLI
• scripting, VMware vROPS, VMware Horizon RDSH, VMware Horizon View 4.0/5.x/6.x/7.0/7.4/7.6, Horizon View Manager, Horizon View Composer, Unified Access Gateway, VMware App Volumes, NVIDIA Graphics and vGPU with VMware, VMware Horizon and VDI support, VMWare User Environment Manager, AppSense, SCCM, SCOM, Hyperconverged technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• VMware VSphere ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5
• VMware vCenter 4.0/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5
• Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2012/2016
• Windows XP/7/10
• HyperV
• VMware Horizon View
• Active Directory
• DNS
• DHCP
• Powershell, PowerCLI
• vRops
• vRA
• vRO
• High Availability

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

vmwARE Horizon Vdi ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and maintained the VMware Horizon View 7.6 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment
• Actively involved and participated in the planning and design expansion of VDI for additional use cases while scaling infrastructure to maintain peak performance
• Test, troubleshoot and deploy applications, upgrades and operating system security updates in the virtual desktop environment while working with application teams to minimize user impact
• Managed ThinApp and AppVolumes application delivery technologies
• Managed user profiles with View persona management
• Created, Tested, and maintained Group Policies used to configure the virtual desktops
• Monitored, tuned and troubleshooted the VDI environment using vRealize Operations Manager for View
• Worked with the infrastructure team in support of the vCenter hosting the VDI environment
• Interacted with end users to understand workflows and requirements in order to troubleshoot issues and optimize the end user experience
• Presented and introduced VDI solutions and topics to non-technical audiences
• Acted as an escalation point in support of enterprise scale virtual desktop issues or initiatives
• Closed all support requests tickets in a timely manner with a focus on customer satisfaction
• Performed other BAU work such as patching/upgrading as well as project support for items such as the Windows 7 to Windows 10 migration.
• Worked as part of a team in support of VDI and other Enterprise Desktop technologies including Antivirus, SCCM Administration, Single Sign On, Group Policy, OS Deployment, Full Disk Encryption and Removable Media Encryption solutions
• Worked with VRA to create deployment automation with automation tool
• Installed and configured VRA components
• Took on additional responsibilities as assigned or requested

Vmware engineer

Confidential,Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Administer production servers/ network infrastructure that include Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S/FTP and SMTP), file and print servers and terminal servers on Windows 2008/2008 R2
• Responsible for L4 & L5 support for all server related issues, operation and maintenance of Windows, VMware ESXi, Backup, Network
• Work with Software vendors to provide optimum system performance and availability
• Support Active Directory (maintenance, upgrades, Group Policy, troubleshooting) and changes to meet the clients growing needs of Windows servers management and administration
• Consultant for a Server Consolidation and Infrastructure setup project consisting of following: Clustered VMware ESXi on HP DL380 G6, Virtual Center, VMotion, VMware HA, DRS, Virtual Machines templates, Sysprep, etc.
• Expertise in PowerShell scripting (Automated tasks, Deployment, Active Directory, Office 365 Exchange)
• Created 6 Datacenter Infrastructure based on Windows Server 2008 64bit Active Directory with 3 parallel networks i.e. Business Network, DMZ and Management
• In depth knowledge of server administration, networking and security, Data center migrations and consolidations, Storage administration, Computer Operations, Network Services, Desktop Services, System Development, Enterprise information management for end users
• Built, Deployed and Configured VMware Guests for Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2008 and Windows 2003Servers
• Windows OS build, IP Configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds, GPO, and Support and administration

Systems engineer

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Experienced with server update, SCCM, Update Util
• Upgraded Managed Receiver 4.3 for windows, 12.1 for Mac users, company or BYOD machines
• Communicated with different team members of different departments to update and apply new patches Familiar with Tricerat, opted for active directory profile management, folder redirection Experienced in Service Now (SNOW) ticketing software
• Experienced with RES workspace Software, implemented and accessed for data collection, profile management and alert management etc
• Introduced login VSI and login PI, incremental in testing of server performance, Session slowdowns and hosted virtual machine
• Configuring and managing of Permissions in vCenter Server
• Patch Management in ESX Server through UPDATE MANAGER and accessing the ESX Server using Putty
• Configuring Active Directory Settings, and monitored Server Health Status of the CPU processors, Memory, Fans, Temperature
• Monitoring, managing and reporting daily, weekly and monthly server status
• Scheduling backups and restoring backups as required
• Assigning rights and privileges to users to access files and folders
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting DHCP and DNS servers
• Remote Server Administration through Remote Desktop Connection
• Antivirus Installation and maintain regular updates