SUMMARY

• 12 years plus of experience in the IT industry of which five years as a VMWare Administrator and five years as PCF operator and architect.
• Experience in building PCF environments across all environments from scratch.
• Experience in supporting PCF production platforms 24*7
• Experience in AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Working experience with BOSH, CF CLI, UAAC tools
• Strong understanding in over all PCF architecture including critical services such as RabbitMQ, Redis, MySQL, Redis Enterprise, Spring Cloud services..etc
• Strong experience in upgrading PCF platforms
• Strong experience on setting up PCF pipelines for automation
• Experience in building Aerospike clusters in non - prod and production environments.
• Experience in providing 24*7 production support on Aerospike and PCF
• Experience in Building vBlocks logically and physically. And provisioned few vBlocks in customer locations.
• 5+ years in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi 6.0,5.5,5.1,5.0/ESXi4.1 and ESX 3.X servers, vCenter server 2.5, 4.0, 5.0,5.1,5.5, linked vCenter servers and vCenter Converter
• Build and troubleshooting experience With VMware ESXi 6.0,5.5, 5.1,5.0,4.1/ESX 3.X, vCenter server 2.5,4.0,5.0,5.1,5.5 and VMware vSphere Suite
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 4X, 5X,Virtual Center and vMotion
• Experience in maintaining and performing daily operational task of the VMware vCenter, ESX, ESXi, vCloud director, Lab Manager, SRM, vCloud Automation Center, vCloud Application Director, vCloud Operations Manager…. etc.
• Experience with design, plan and implementation of production and DR VMware infrastructure, including ESXi, vCenter Server and Site Recovery Manager
• Experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESXi hosts
• Design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 4 and 5 environments with Virtual Center management, Lab Manager, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Deployment of business critical technologies in DR site with VMware SRM .
• Experience with VDI View 4.0/4.5/5.0/5.1 desktop virtualization deployment
• Worked on the Application Packaging with VMware ThinApps
• Good understanding on Citrix Xenapp.
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, Plate spin Power convert and vCenter Guided Consolidation
• Experience on administration on Confidential UCS and HP blades hardware
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology
• Strong Experience in vNetwork concepts: vSwitch and dvSwitch
• Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM)
• Have knowledge in troubleshooting the issues and the incident management.
• Experience in Active directory, administration of Windows (2003, 2008, 2008R2) and Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL) operating systems.
• Experience in HP Blade System C-class enclosure (3000/7000) using Onboard Administrator and Confidential UCS 5100,5108 chassis and Confidential UCS B200 M1, M3 blade servers
• Have strong knowledge on VM cloning, linked cloning process and snapshots.
• Experience working on Fusion IO SSD mezz cards on Confidential M3 blade servers
• Strong working experience on VMware cloud products such as vCloud director5, 5.1, vFabric application director 5.1,5.2, vCloud application director 6.0.1, vCloud Automation Center 5.2, vCloud Automation Center 6.0.1
• Strong analysis skills that include insight on successfully applying technological solutions and best practices to resolve business issues, while improving overall efficiency, quick learner and self motivated.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMWare VSphere 5.5,5.1,5.0/4.0, VMware infrastructure 3.0/3.5,ESX 3/3.5,4.0, ESXi4.1,5.0,5.1,5.5, VCenter Lab Manager 4, VMware View 4.5,5.0, ThinApps, SRM, vCenter Server5.5,5.1,5.0,4.1, vCenter Update Manager, VVM, Symantec backup, VRangerPro, VCloud Director5.1,5.0, VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure), VMware Converter Standalone 5.0, SRM(Site Recovery Manager)4.1,5.0, EMC RecoverPoint, vCloud Director 5.0,5.1, vFabric Appication Director 5.1,5.2. vCloud Application Director 6.0.1, vCloud Automation center 5.2, 6.0.1 vBlock: UIM 3.0/2.1, UCS Manager, Unisphere, MDS switches, Nexus 1k, 5k.

PCF: PCF 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10,1.11,1.12,2.0,2.1,2.4 and 2.6 OpsManager, ERT, RabbitMQ, Redis Community, Redis Enterprise, Windows Runtime, Spring Cloud Services, Healthwatch, PCF Metrics, PCF Scheduler, Single Sign-on, Isolation segments and Splunk nozzles.

Aerospike: Aerospike enterprise versions 3.X, AMC 3.X

Operating Systems: Microsoft Server 2012, Microsoft Server 2008,2008 R2, Server 2003, Server 2000, Redhat Linux5,6, Solaris 8,9,10, IBM AIX (5.2/5.3), VMware ESX/ESXi server and HP-UX. Desktop Operating systems such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Sr. Cloud Engineer/PCF Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, building PCF platforms across all environments, also responsible for engineering and documentation.
• Responsible for managing IaaS VMware clusters
• Responsible for Upgrading, Patching and configuring ESXi hosts and also setting up cluster configurations for PCF availability zones
• Strong knowledge on vSphere monitoring such as vROPS
• Provide technical advice to PCF teams on how to configure VMware clusters
• Provided 24*7 support on VMware
• Managing and supporting RabbitMQ clusters such as upgrades, bug fixes, troubleshooting issues
• Installed, configured other essential tiles in PCF such as MQSQL, Redis, Spring Cloud Services, PCF Metrics across all environments
• Strong experience on setting up monitoring tools for PCF infrastructure such as Healthwatch, PCF Metrics, Splunk(Logs from PCF to Splunk) and AppDynamics for applications
• Responsible for upgrading PCF platforms including all service tiles
• Experience with Concourse pipelines
• Responsible for DR plan for PCF, backups of Aerospike database and PCF components.
• Responsible for planning and implementing hardware migration in PCF, also adding additional AZs to existing PCF environments.
• Setup connection to Schwab repos such as Bitbucket, TFS from PCF application containers.
• Migrated all apps to Diego cells from DEAs when DEAs were no longer supported in all environments.
• Responsible for Aerospike vs Redis in-memory performance POCs in PCF.
• Planned and built RabbitMQ clusters in PCF across all environments
• Planned and built Redis enterprise clusters in PCF across all environments.
• Provided support for Redis and RabbitMQ.
• Built and configured VMware cloud products such as vCloud Direcor 5.0,5.1, Fabric Application Director 5.1,5.2, vCloud application director 6.0.1, vCloud Automation Center 6.0.1 from scratch.
• Worked on deploying applications through application director
• Experience on building vCAC, blueprints and vCloud templates (Both Linux RHEL5,6 and Windows 2008, Windows 2012)
• Working experience on importing Cloud templates to vCloud application director and using them in creating application blueprints
• Worked on troubleshooting issues on VMware vCenter, ESXi and Cloud products such as VCD, vCAC and VCAD
• Direct responsible for vCloud director, vCloud application director, vCloud automation center environments
• Built Aerospike clusters (including zenoss monitoring setup, alert system, logging rotation, AMC setup, error handling..etc) across all environments in both datacenters
• Created service profiles and service profile templates in Confidential UCS and installed ESXi on the blade servers
• Worked and managed Confidential UCS chassis, HP blade system Onboard administrator and their blade servers from Confidential UCS Manager web interface and HP Onboard web interface
• Installed three FusionIO mezz cards on three Confidential B200 M3 blade servers individually and configured them for application and development team to test the performance of reads and writes with Aerospike and MongoDB databases.
• Working experience on Aerospike database installation and configuration on 3 servers and made them as cluster. Upgraded application for every few months when new software releases.
• Provided complete infrastructure support (compute, network and storage) to application team
• Good knowledge on Puppet and Chef
• Strong troubleshooting knowledge on high-end cloud products such as vCloud director, vCAC, vCloud application director
• Created Internal, External, Routed networks in vCloud director
• Created and managed several Organizations and created provider virtual datacenters and organization virtual datacenters
• Built few applications from scratch in vCloud application director using drag and drop canvas methodology in blueprints for application automation and deployed them through app director
• Integrated vCloud automation center with vCloud application director and Integrated vCloud director with vFabric application director for POC project
• Strong working knowledge on creating tenants, create fabric groups, create business groups, add end points, allocate compute resources, create reservations, create network profiles, create build profiles, using of custom properties, creating blueprints for Windows and Linux, publish blueprints, convert blueprints as service and create catalogs in vCloud Automation Center
• Strong working experience on creating cloud providers such as vCloud director or vCAC in vCloud application director, imported cloud templates, created and managed logical templates, created blueprints and created applications.
• Worked closely with application team and provided them infrastructure support
• Day to day working activities on vSphere environment 5.1 and 5.5 and Cloud environment
• Worked on vCheck reports to check day to day issues on existing environment and resolve issues

Confidential, San Jose, CA

VMware Lab administrator

Responsibilities:

• Converted huge number of Windows, Linux, Mac, HP UX, IBM AIX and Solaris physical servers to virtual in a Confidential Tower Datacenter.
• Experience in moving physical servers from one data center to another data center, which we were unable to convert to virtual.
• Responsible for all the virtual servers, which we are converted, and which we were moved physical servers to new datacenter.
• Experience working on VDI platform. Created and managed server desktops
• Experience on day to day engineering tasks on VDI platform and vSphere environment
• Performing day to day admin operational tasks of performance of virtual machines
• Experience in changing network settings in different operating systems in physical servers before we move them to new data center
• Prepared documentation on change network settings on different Operating System Servers like Windows, Linux, Solaris, MAC, HP UX, IBM AIX
• Responsible for all P2V conversions and maintaining the servers
• Experience in using VMware Center Converter Standalone 5.0 for P2V conversions.
• Worked with templates, snapshots, clones and linked clones

Confidential, Franklin, MA

VBlock Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and performing daily operational tasks of the vBlock
• Experience in Logical build and Physical build of vBlock
• Experience in deployment of vBlock in customer locations with their requirements
• Working with UIM (Unified Infrastructure Manager 3.0,2.1), USC Manager
• Installation and licensing of Nexus 1k switch
• Installation and configuration of ESXi 5.0/4.1 on Confidential UCS blades and AMP servers.
• Managing Management Virtual Machines on AMP servers
• Create a service from service profile template and provision on Confidential UCS blades
• Good knowledge and understanding on storage and networking components on vblock
• Working on deploy UIM template and configuration and licensing
• Installing, configuring and licensing of Power path for vSphere 5.0 and vsphere 4.1.
• Experience on working with Confidential UCS 5048,5100, 5108,chassis, blades B200, B250, AMP C200 (Mini AMP, HA AMP) servers, Nexus 3560 switches
• Nexus 5k switches (5548), MDS switches (9500 series), VNXe, VMAX of the vBlock.

Confidential, Portland, OR

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for deployment and support of VMware vSphere ESXi4.1/ESX 4.0
• Performed upgrade of ESX 3.5 to vSphere 4.0, vCenter 2.5 to 4.0
• Experience in Deployment and Implementation of VDI View 4.5.
• Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments
• Experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager
• Design, plan and implementation of production and DR VMware infrastructure, including ESXi, vCenter Server, Site Recovery Manager
• Experience on working with EMC Recover Point for point in time recovery, continuous replication, bandwidth reduction and simplified testing.
• Experience on working VMware view platform.
• Performed data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS, EMC CLARiiON SAN Storage
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities
• Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter
• HP Blade Center administration on HP blade models C7000/C3000 .
• Provide research into VMware Thinapp initiative for increasing server virtualization
• Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.
• Involved in definition of success criteria for use cases.
• Created use cases for desktop design and implementation.
• Design and implementation of ThinApp environment.
• ThinApp Packages Applications Upgrades and deployment testing and Production Implementation.
• Experience writing and debugging multi-threaded applications and packaging.

Confidential, Roseville, CA

Build Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved with all major datacenter projects that involve SAN storage or virtualization.
• Architected and designed VMware ESX 4.0/ESX 3.5server infrastructure for multi site/multi datacenter environment.
• One of the first companies to fully integrate ESX virtualization in the DMZ network, eliminating 75 hardware based IIS web portal Servers.
• Used HP DL585 G2 and IBM x3850 with quad dual core processors and 72GB RAM as ESX server platform.
• Consolidated over 300 End of life servers into ESX 3 HA and DRS clusters.
• Responsible for keeping all VMware ESX servers up to date with patches and updates with minimal downtime using Vmotion for SAN attached VMs and Storage Vmotion for Local storage VMs.
• Created a virtual desktop solution for over 2000 mobile and offshore user base insuring company data stays in the company.
• Deploying and managing Windows, Linux and Solaris Operating systems in the virtual environment.
• Installing and configuring geo dispersed Microsoft Clusters with HP and Unisys 7000 hardware.
• Installing, managing and supporting hardware for HP Enterprise Virtual Array and XP 24000 Enterprise Storage systems IBM/XIV Virtual Array and a range of Brocade Directors and switches.
• Worked closely with MS SQL and Oracle DBA groups to determine best possible configuration for Storage LUN assignments and raid levels.
• Implemented HP System insight manager server to manage P series HP blade systems and HP hardware SNMP traps.
• Manage and support HP Poly serve virtual file cluster and virtual SQL cluster.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

ESX Build Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuring and management of ESX 3, 3.5 and vCenter Server 2.5.
• Experience and knowledge with designing installing and implementing VMware ESX servers and vCenter server and setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Site stuff had a VMware 3 and 3.5 environments. I started building VMware vSphere from scratch.
• Managed 20 ESX servers managed by one virtual center with 4 clusters. Each cluster configured HA and DRS for disaster recovery, Load balancing and troubleshooting.
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and Snapshots with in no time. Creating clusters, Resource pools and adding VM’s to them and installing VM Tools
• Creating and configuring vNetwork Standard Switch (vSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
• Created and Managed resource pools under clusters for virtual machines
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines
• Experience on Migration concepts like V-Motion and Cold migration
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2000/2003 servers
• Configuring vNetwork distributed switches and migrating the networks from vNetwork standard switches to vNetwork distributed switches.
• Configuring different type of port groups policies, applying Security policies, traffic shaping, load balancing, failover detection, hard and soft zoning and VLAN Tagging.
• Experience of creation or conversion of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and VMs
• Worked on creation of snapshots and managing them
• Migrated physical machines to virtual machines (P2V) and virtual machines to virtual machines (V2V) using VMware Converter and vCenter guided consolidation.
• Troubleshooting ESX & performance of virtual machines
• Daily responsibilities included maintenance of virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, hot and cold migration of virtual servers.
• Created and maintained SQL cluster for HA, VM’s, VC, ESX servers
• Good experience with VMware Update Manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.