SUMMARY

• 7+ years of IT experience primarily in Virtual infrastructure resources specializing in VMware vCenter server 5.0, 5.5,6.0 and 6.5.
• Extensive experience in working with ESXi servers - configuration, Installation, management and maintenance.
• Experience in administrating and managing VMware ESXi environment with multiple clusters.
• Experience in implementing ESXi servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots.
• Knowledge of managing, maintaining, administering, troubleshooting high end network devices such as cisco routers, switches and ASA firewalls.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft server technologies, such as Microsoft server 2003/2008/2012/2016 , Exchange 2003/2007/2010 and office 365, Skype for business, Active Directory, Windows Update Server (WSUS), and Windows Deployment Server (WDS) and how they interact on the network.
• Advanced knowledge of backup server technologies such as Symantec Backup Exec versions 2012 and 2016.
• Proficient experience in AWS and Azure cloud services.
• Experienced in AWS Cloud platform and its features which includes EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, AWS Config, Auto Scaling, Cloud Front, IAM, S3 and Route53.
• Experienced with deployments, maintenance and troubleshooting applications on Microsoft Azure Cloud infrastructure.
• Working knowledge on Azure cloud IaaS and PaaS Services.
• Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission settings, roles and responsibility assignments and VM resource allocations on ESXi hosts. Experience in upgrading ESX/ESXi host, vCenter Servers from 5.0 to 5.5 to 6.0.
• Experience with VMware view 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1 and Virtual desktops deployments.
• Experience in configuration and support of VMware Horizon Suite, Workspace, Mirage, View and vROPs.
• Well experienced in Creating Templates, VDI Pool creations, VDI Provisioning, VM priorities, Roles and permissions, Resource pools, VM Cloning and Knowledge of Snapshots.
• Dell hardware, services, settings, directories, storage, etc., in accordance with standards and project requirements using VMware vSphere & vCenter related products.
• Hands on experience with HP Proliant Servers, IBM Blade HS20P Servers / and Dell Power Edge rack mount servers.
• Microsoft applications including DNS, DHCP, SQL, printing, Proxy, IIS, Active Directory and Domain Controllers.
• Experience with AD Group Policy, GPO, GPP, Users, Domain users and also handled permissions of users, Groups, File shares and Privilege to access LAN and Domain.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, with several types of port groups. Excellent understanding of Cisco USC manager.
• Experience about SAN, iSCSI, NAS Configuration and Implementation including attached storages, SAN Switches, HBA.VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS.
• Experience in Network LAN/WAN deployment. Extensive experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion technology.
• Strong experience in configuring HA and DRS clusters, using EVC on as needed basis.
• Configured, Monitored and Maintained Virtual server farms consisting VMWARE, and Hyper V.
• Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vConverter.
• Expertise in Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager.
• Experience with DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations and Implementations.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT and Exchange Mail Server.
• Experience with HP Blade System C-class enclosure (7000) and IBM iSeries chassis using Onboard Administrator and virtual Connect.
• Planning, deploying, and managing System Center Configuration Manager 2007/2012 (SCCM) and SCOM.
• Experience in Windows Server 2008, 2008R2, 2012and 2016 server architecture and administration.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Visio and Outlook.
• Excellent leadership qualities, excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware, vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5 /6.0 , 6,5, vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5 , ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.5 /6.0 /6.5, Horizon View VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation.

Windows Administration: Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016 - installation and configuration, installation and configuration of Active Directory creating users and groups, setting user access controls, domains creation and setup, Exchange Server 2010/2013, Office 365.

Operating Systems: Windows Server OS - 2003/2008/2008 R 2/2012/2016. Windows OS- 10, 7/XP/NT. Linux Server OS- AIX, Solaris.

Networking: OSI Reference Model, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and sub netting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts including vSwitches, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP stack for virtualization, configuration of printers and, scanners.

Hardware: Cisco UCS, HP ProLiant DL380 G5/G6 Intel Xeon, HP EVA, HP ProLiant DL385 G6/G7 AMD Opteron, Dell PowerEdge 2850, 2950, R710, HP BL 460c G5/G6 blade servers, C7000 HP Chassis. NetApp V6000 Series.

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Practical SQL Queries.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Overland Park, Kansas

System Admin - Windows, Wintel and VMware

Responsibilities:

• Building the Virtual machines and Physical Servers with Windows 2008/R2, 2012 &2012/R2 and 2016 from scratch.
• Proficient Experience in installation and configuration of VMware 5.5/6.0/6.5
• Restoring the VM’s Using the COMMVAULT.
• Onsite VMware Administrator and Windows Administrator - Provide Technical support services.
• Server Hardening, ESXI installation on bare Metal (vSphere, Hyper - v).
• Heavy Windows patching, and trouble shooting.
• Hardening of various servers include running the anti-virus batch file manually, checking them from end to end, Domain changes and patching.
• Experience on wide Data center, where several thousand servers are managed.
• Working on datacenter issues on HP C7000, Cisco UCS5108 Chassis, Dell M100. Configuring ILO and ID rack servers.
• Administered Windows 2008/2012 Active Directory, Sharepoint, Exchange, DNS, DHCP, WINS, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Configuring fault tolerance (FT) for critical VM’s Configured, and Managed VMware cluster with HA and DRS rules.
• Building Windows 2008 R2, 2012, 2016 Servers, Office 365, IIS, Lync, and upgrading Windows on both physical and virtual machines. Worked with ILIT, PCI, Security. Implemented SVCMM Microsoft System Center Configuration Manger R2 Cluster
• Deployed and updated services in n-tier architecture vcloud air environment.
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on vcloud air environment.
• Maintained awareness of business needs and changing technology landscape, relative to public cloud.
• Created Azure VMs and Storage accounts. Created ACS and integrated with applications, service bus to manage partner’s access to the APIs, managed storage in table and blob using explorer tools (IAAS).
• Created Multiple subscriptions for various departments to Mange azure subscription consumption
• Migrated servers to new team foundations TFS.
• System analysis of ESXi VM hosts and Windows servers prior to upgrades/patching
• Support and Implementation of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) / Veeam 8.0/9.5
• Working on TPAM to generate the temporary passwords which helps to login servers.
• Maintaining the Physical servers using the iLO and ID rack Consoles.
• Implemented SCCM 2012 /SCOM 2012/SCDPM 2012 infrastructure as a service in Azure to monitor, manage, backup & restore the Azure workloads. Integrated Solarwinds with asset tracking and life cycle reporting.
• Replicated client setups using combinations of Azure and Hyper-V for testing purposes.
• Spent a lot of time setting up and testing varies Azure Products.
• Rebuilt Solarwinds / SQL server platforms by remote, pulled in and rebuilt database items from two decommissioned platforms.
• Worked with Microsoft support to resolve any critical issues with SolarWinds for monitoring.
• Deploying Nutanix hardware, firmware, AOS, NCC and Foundation updates.
• Deploying ESXi upgrades and patches using Nutanix Prism and VMware Update Manager (VUM).
• Migrated Veeam 8.0 to 9.5 on Backup and replication and enterprise manager
• Migrated SQL server Databases to new Azure cloud servers. Experience in Backup, Restoring and Moving of Databases; Configuring SQL Server Agent Jobs and designing Database Security.
• Worked on V Sphere, vCloud Suite /vRealize suite - vRealize Operations Manager (vRops), Log Insight, vRealize Orchestration(vRO), and vRealize Automation (vRA/ vCAC), VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN).
• Migrated from Windows 7 to Windows10, deployed Office 365 test
• Migrating the servers 2008/R2 and 2012/R2 using SCM.
• Wrote PowerShell scripts, VB scripts for administrative tasks and management of the server infrastructure.
• Update patches on Servers Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc.
• Creating PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts and queries for Nutanix and ESXi host, VM and storage reporting.
• Administered and maintained servers with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), SCCM.
• Managed 2008, 2012 R2 servers in the Citrix Farm environment.
• Worked with RMS, KMS, active directory, FTP, IIS, SCCM 2012, SCOM, WSUS.
• Provision Azure Active Directory Azure Management for all users
• Custom Azure Templates for quick deployments and advanced PowerShell scripting.
• Worked on AD, DNS, DHCP, File Server, IIS Web Server, FTP, Terminal Server, Windows Clustering, Exchange Mail administration. Expert in Decommissioning VM’s and Esxi and all Hardware with in Data Center.
• Experience in installing and configuring vSphere ESXi’s on HP and Cisco bladeservers.
• Package distribution using SCCM server across all the desktops(imaging) and servers in the environment.
• Upgrading the ESXi 5.x to 6.x using VMware Update manager (VUM).
• Upgrade of SolarWinds to latest version - SolarWinds was implemented using the latest version for the modules
• Configure new VMware ESX and ESXi VMhosts and create new Virtual Machines as needed
• Worked with vRealize Orchestrator (VRO) to run the Work flow for VRA for VM’s.
• Install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within VI3, vSphere 4, vSphere 5 and vSphere 6 environments with Virtual Center management, LabManager, vCloud Director.
• Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vCenter Operations Manager, Horizon Workspace, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp and VMware View desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI).
• Installed VMware vSphere and ESX server 5.5, 6.x, running Virtual Servers.
• Increasing the Size of VM’s using Disk part, EXPART Partition Magic & other tools. Upgradation of ESX server from 5.1 to 5.5 environments.
• Deploying VM's using PowerCli. Creating and managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations
• Creating templates from VM’s and deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources
• Wrote Powershell scripts, for Login script, AD user creation, Windows registry check.
• Implemented PowerShell scripts that automated creation of contacts from Active Directory users and updating of address books.
• Implemented several best performance settings and group policies on VDI infrastructure for better performance of VDI environment and better user experience.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows NT,2003, 2008,2012 and 2016 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and legacy hardware.

Confidential, Tempe, Arizona

Windows/Wintel & VMware System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered the virtual infrastructure in the data center using VMware vSphere 5.x. Managed the change control procedures.
• Supported windows and VMware engineering operations, coordinated with the software license vendors and renewed the licenses of VMware and Microsoft products. Experience in implementing and deploying workloads on Azure VM. Experience in implementing images and disks.
• Responsible in building physical and virtual server’s on Windows, ESXi host, creating clusters, adding ESX hosts to clusters, and adding storage.
• Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of Windows Server environment, including VMware ESX/ESXi host, Clusters, Servers and Virtual Machines and Interfaced with different Venders.
• Migration of existing applications and development of new applications using AWS cloud services.
• Designed the data center rack elevations, racked and stacked new server & network and storage equipment.
• Gathered the requirements from the management and implemented windows and VMware solutions based on the requirements.
• Implemented VMware SRM for disaster recovery and windows SCCM for desktop deployment and patch management.
• Create custom report to measure performance of VM’s and ESX servers using Virtual Centre and vROPS.
• Worked on different applications such as Confluence, JIRA, MOM, SCOM, SCCM and VCOPS to improve the availability, performance, and ensure maximum uptime, worked with incident management and change management.
• Managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with ESXi 5.x Hypervisor and managed with vSphere vCenter 5.0.
• Wrote Windows PowerShell script to automate setting of user credentials and activation of Windows
• Planning, designing and developing Infrastructure Related Automation Solutions using vRealize Workflows.
• Migration of Inventory Management and QuickBooks software from on premise Windows server to Azure VM (IaaS).
• Managed 10 scale out repository; new feature with veeam 9.5 to main a healthy stable Database.
• Set up DR replication copy group to another location or site for DR purpose on Veeam
• Experience in remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).
• Taking care of capacity planning for new clusters, ESXi and VM storage issues.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters, FT for important VM’s.
• Capacity planning using Capacity planner and VMware guided consolidation for gathering the physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics.
• Install and configure of vRealize Automation, Application Services, vRealize Orchestrator.
• Integrate vRealize Automation with vRealize Operations 6.1 including EndPoint Operations (Hyperic) and vRealize Insight (Log Insight).
• Deployed new virtual machines from templates. Configured the network adapter settings for the newly commissioned windows servers.
• Deployed new Linux virtual machines to install the applications from vendors.
• Worked on vMotion, HA, DRS and other VMware technologies.
• Cloned the virtual machines, took the snapshots whenever required.
• Hands on management and implementation of Active Directory Schema, DNS, Sites, Services, GPO/OU, replication, FRS, Exchange, Lync, and all MS Services.Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory Services.
• Configured VEEAM backup for the virtual machines. Update VEEAM to the latest version.
• Administered the Hyper-V virtual infrastructure. Deployed new machines, extended hard disks, configured the network and provided support for the Hyper-V environment.
• Worked as an active directory domain administrator for windows servers 2008. Worked on DNS, MS terminal and DHCP servers in the active directory. Presenting FC SAN LUN’s, RDM’s iSCSI LUN’s and NFS mounts.
• Created vSwitches and different ports groups for different purposes. Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for redundancy.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.
• Installing windows server 2008/2012 R2 for different roles and patch management.
• Deploying GPO for user and computer objects. Post installation configurations. Creating host records on DNS for websites.
• Implemented SCCM for desktop image deployment.
• Worked with System Center Configuration Manager SCCM for patch management, software updates, OS Deployment, software installation & inventory. Installed several applications from different vendors on the newly commissioned windows servers.
• Maintained an inventory of all the hardware and virtual machines in the data center.
• Designed the storage volume replication for SAN to SAN replications from primary to DR Datacenter.
• Upgraded the memory capacity of the Dell ESXI hosts.
• Created VSwitches for DMZ access of the windows servers and migrated the servers to the DMZ network.
• Monitored the network and servers using Solar Winds.
• Administered, managed and installed Symantec end point protection on all the windows assets in the infrastructure.

Confidential

Windows/Wintel & VMware System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and managed ESXi 5.x VMware servers.
• Build VMs on demand using this client provisioning. Created templates for application servers such as Oracle and SQL.
• Create VMs for Disk sharing for Oracle and Windows clustering.
• Build and maintain HA and DRS clusters health. Installed ESXI hypervisor on dell hardware.
• Design and implement new Data Center VMware infrastructure.
• Assist users with slow and unresponsive VMs by troubleshooting issues with CPU and Memory.
• Migrate VMs according to load balance across different hosts.
• Creating Virtual switch and configuring Virtual switch settings and policies
• Involved in P2V, V2P Migration using Stand Alone VMware Converter Server and Plate Spin.
• Managing and implementing various projects with all phases of life cycle for virtualization.
• Configured ESXI 4.0 with SAN Attached storage (LUN Assignments, Data stores)
• Utilized VMware Converter for Physical to Virtual/Virtual to Virtual conversion/Physical to Physical conversion. Windows Server and Desktop administration
• Experienced with SDLC and TFS, MS test, SVCMM TEST LAB, SCOM administration duties with motoring an maintenance with project build and test case build.
• Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Responsible for supporting application which hosted on Azure
• Worked with deployments, VMware NSX, Maintenance, change management and troubleshooting applications on Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Azure. Installation IIS in Windows Servers and configured as per application requirements.
• Provided support for IIS related issues to different applications and acted as a point of contact for any deployment related issue in Productions deployments Image deployment through sccm. Windows Server and Desktop administration
• Deployed about 200+ VDIS for users with windows 8 and windows 10 OS on them.
• Maintaining backups and restores of the Production and Development data.
• Network Attached Storage Implementations. Worked with several applications .net, java, people soft, CRM..
• VM deployment, snapshot management using power shell.
• Installed SQL database on RedHat/Debian Servers. Worked on Apache and NGINX configuration and troubleshooting of web server related issues
• Installed ESX patches using Update manager.
• Experience in Cisco UCS /HP C7000 blades administration and troubleshooting,Writing PowerShell Scripts, vb and powercli scripts. Worked with VMware NSX. Creating and managing user accounts and the groups in Active Directory users and computers.
• Involved in daily Performance monitoring and Active Directory troubleshooting with the ability to analyze server performance and make recommendations for improvement.
• Experience writing both powershell and powercli scripts to automate virtual machine builds and dns entry configurations.
• Run reports from Virtual center for usage and health of ESX hosts and Datastore usage.
• Create & manage LUNs for Datastore on Compellent storage systems by mapping LUNs to HBAs.
• Troubleshoot issues with slow Datastore access. Added Raw Disk mappings to VMs from available storage.
• Perform health checks of the storage and SAN infrastructures. Upgrade and migration of VMs from 5.1 to 5.5.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support for Windows servers and VMware infrastructure.

Confidential, San Francisco, California

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assisted with all related VMware issues including the regional ESXi servers refresh.
• Responsible for updating and patching all ESXi servers.
• Responsible for maintaining Virtual Center for the Test and Development environments.
• Monitoring and managing the performance and the load balance of the Servers.
• Working on deadline, multitasking, simultaneously working on multiple projects and coordinating with various vendors. Applying Securities Policies.
• Creating a test Environment in VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Working on Remedy tickets and prioritizing the work as per the SLAs.
• Publishing the Desktops and Individual Applications according to the Department requirements in the organization.
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Build Windows 2008/2003/2000 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers using CA unicenter software deployment.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented VMotion, DRS, HA. Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and V2V.
• Upgraded VMware ESXI servers using p2v update manager.
• Installed and Configured Microsoft Clusters which include SQL 2005 on clustered environment.
• Monitored the servers using HP Sitescope and resolved the issues.
• Responsible for building and supporting nearly 800+ Workstations for testing teams.
• Deploy patches using Big Fix as requested or scheduled by Engineering & Release Mgmt.
• Coordinate/Facilitate all planned and unplanned power outages for all environments.
• Engage hardware and software vendors to assist in improvement of current VMware environment and research and evaluation of the latest technologies. Coordination/implementation of hardware and software installations and upgrades.
• Performance and capacity monitoring and management. Weekly server maintenance planning and coordination.
• Monitor and act on problem tickets.
• Created Process Documents and Standard Operating Procedures as per the ITIL standard and was reviewed by Managers.
• Introduced the procedure of template details and requirements captured from the Users for reference of all the Team and Managers.
• Updated the Managers with a weekly Status reports with the current status, issues and reasons for delays of the applications.