SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Wintel/VMware System Engineer with 8 years of experience in Information Technology with expertise in installation, configuration up gradation, support and administration of Windows server 2000/2003/2008 at single domain platforms, installing Domain Controller and implementing Active Directory, working on user accounts and group policies.
• Extensive experience working with vSphere 4.0/4.1/5 products. Strong experience on VMware vSphere 5.0 features including vMotion and storage vMotion, High Availability HA , Fault Tolerance FT , Dynamic Resource Scheduler DRS , Distributed Power Management DPM
• In-depth knowledge and hands on expertise on VMware vSphere ESX 4 and 5, VMware virtual center, vCloud director, Site Recovery Manager, Lifecycle Mgr., Lab Manager, VC Operations Manager, Vizoncore vfoglight and performance monitor.
• Extensive experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.0 servers, vCenter server 2.5, 4.0and vCenter Converter
• Proficient in Windows 2000/2003/2008R2/2012 server upgrade and active directory administration
• Experience in installing, testing and implementing Directory services and server products related to windows server environments
• Excellent in AD Partitions, Schema, DFS, DNS, Group Policies, Backup and Restore, LDAP, AD Replication, Trust relationships, AD sites and services, ADCS/PKI Services, ADFS
• Expertise with SRM 5.0
• Extensive experience with the Active Directory tools
• Application virtualization using VMware ThinApp 4.5 version
• Strong experience with the VMware HA High Availability ,Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS and VMware Distributed Power Management
• Proficiency in tools / concepts like - VMware vCenter, VMware VCD, VMware VUM, VMware SRM, VMware vChargeback, VMware VCOPS, VCM, CapIQ, VMware vCenter Converter, VMware Host Profiles, PowerShell, Quest/Vizoncore vfoglight, EMC PowerPath/VE, Dell Open Manage Server Administrator, Dell racadmin utility, Dell IT Assist/Open Manage Essentials, Dell DSET utility, Dell PSM portal, Dell diagnostics, APC InfrastrXure Central.
• Created, managed and supported VMs. Installed and Upgraded VMware tools on all Windows Machines.
• Created, managed and supported Physical boxes HP Blade servers.
• Troubleshooting hardware and software issues for Windows server 2003/2008/2008 R2. Sys logs, IML and ILO logs, Bug check - Kernel Dump, Small memory dump as well as complete memory dump, Perfmon log
• Working Knowledge on Symantec Altiris and Enterprise Vault
• Worked extensively on Templates, snapshots and clones. Creating templates and deploy VMs and upgrading them with latest MS Patches.
• Manage Licensing with KMS key, SAN Policy, Page Files sizes and location, Dump file settings, registry settings for SNMP, install and manage SEP, SolarWinds and Putty.
• Worked on HP Proliant Blade servers, Dell Power Edge rack mount servers and was involved in upgradation of HDD, Memory and CPU.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 servers.
• Expertise with Windows Active Directory installation and user administration. Configuring active directory domain controller and RDP access. Day to day troubleshooting of Windows Server Operating System issues.
• Handled P2V and V2V conversions using tools like stand-alone vConverter and Platespin for Windows and Linux boxes.
• High understanding on resource management framework like creation resource pools and adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Experience in upgrading ESX/ESXi host, vCenter Servers from 3.5 to 4.0 to 5.0.
• Worked on HP Service Manager 7 and Remedy ticketing systems.
• Used Vmware Orchestrator to create and run automated, configurable processes to manage the VMware vSphere infrastructure
• Familiar with Citrix XenApp 6.5 and Xen Server environments, VDI, SDLC concepts
• Excellent in patch management, application and OS deployment using SCCM 2012

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• VMware: Vmware vSphere 4/5, Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3x,4x,5x VMware Virtual Center Server 2x and 3x, VMware DRS, HA and FT, UniDesk, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager 1, VMware Virtual Desktop, Infrastructure VDM 2.0, VMView, Thinstall, ThinApp and PlateSpin, VCloud
• Windows Operating System: Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, Win98/2003/2007/XP/Vista, Windows Server 2008 R2/2012, Windows 2003 SP1, Windows Server 2000, Linux RHEL 4/5/6
• Skills: Database: Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, SQL 2003, Microsoft SQL Server
• 2000/2005/2008. OS: Windows 95-2K8 , Windows XP
• Professional, Windows XPe, Windows Vista, HP-UX 11x, SCCM 2007, PowerShell
• Remote Management: HP-SIM, HP-ILO, Dell- DRAC, IPMIVEW
• Hardware: HP Proliant DL360 G7, DL380 G6, DL385 G1, DL385 G2
• HP Blade Server BL35p, BL 460c G1, BL460c G6, BL 465c G6
• HP Blade chassis c3000, c7000
• Load balancing: F5 Big IP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Patching Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for patch management in a windows environment consisting of windows server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 using System Center Configuration manager 2012
• Proficiency in tools / concepts like - VMware vCenter, VMware VCD, VMware VUM, VMware SRM, VMware vChargeback, VMware VCOPS, VCM, CapIQ, VMware vCenter Converter, VMware Host Profiles, PowerShell, Quest/Vizoncore vfoglight, EMC PowerPath/VE, Dell Open Manage Server Administrator, Dell racadmin utility, Dell ITAssist/Open Manage Essentials, Dell DSET utility, Dell PSM portal, Dell diagnostics, APC InfrastrXure Central.
• Participate in regular VMware administration provisioning activities on VMware environment
• In-depth knowledge and hands on expertise on VMware vSphere ESX 4 and 5, VMware virtual center, vCloud director, Site Recovery Manager, Lifecycle Mgr., Lab Manager, VC Operations Manager, Vizoncore vfoglight and performance monitor.
• Architected and designed VMware ESX server infrastructure for multi-site/multi datacenter environment.
• Responsible for daily patching on about 7000 servers, including the development and production servers. Coordinating with server owners on patching the servers and making appropriate planning to avoid disasters in the production environment.
• Design, implementing and managing Active Directory AD , Internet Information Server IIS 7.0, Microsoft Operations Manager MOM /System Center Operations Manager SCOM , Systems Management Server SMS /System Center Configuration Manager SCCM
• Experience with SRM 4.5/5.0 deployment and implementation
• Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.
• Performed IIS internet information services 7.0 administration, troubleshooting and managed log files for the windows web servers ,2003,2008 R2 versions
• Experience with Microsoft Hyper-V POC environment
• Created use cases for desktop design and implementation
• Demonstrated Project Management experience and prioritization skills.
• Collaborative in approach to working with a team
• Highly creative approach to proactively developing solutions that prevent problems, as well as problem solving.
• Responsible for troubleshooting the servers with SCCM client problems and installing clients on servers and desktops
• Used Configuration Manager reporting services to build reports to get the compliance status of servers from the SQL database using SQL query and SSRS and used the built-in reports in SCCM for patch management.
• Helped senior managers in the planning and design of patching automation using PowerShell
• Followed and implemented change management procedures wherever necessary using Service Now ticketing system, raised change request tickets before patching the servers so that the owners are notified in a timely manner, raised incidents for servers which are with memory and disk space problems
• Handled the F5 Big IP load balancing console to take the servers out of the Big IP pools before patching which handled the live traffic servers and putting back the servers into the pools after patching.
• Worked with the operations management system team to update the OMS database and cleared the CMDB errors, found which pools are missing the pool members and duplicate hardware ci's
• Used HP ILO integrated lights out management system to do cold reboots on servers which got shutdown during patching.
• Used Nessus Vulnerability Scanner to scan the servers for vulnerabilities and making the list of the servers to prepare them for patching.
• Updated the monthly software update groups for newly released monthly patches from Microsoft.
• Deployed applications on client machines for different user collections using Configuration Manager application deployment technique
• Responsible for OS deployment in the development environment for developers to test the code

Confidential

Windows Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Administering/Supporting production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, DNS, DHCP, File and print Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2.
• Built Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 Servers - clustered and non-clustered, on standalone and blade servers Configuring ILO, Configuring RAID 1/5, Installing OS W2K3/W2K8/W2K8R2 SP1, setting up VLAN, configuring NIC teaming etc.
• Installed ESXi hosts and VC's. Created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images. Upgraded Templates with latest patches.
• Extensive experience in applying patches in Windows Server environment
• Performed Virtual Machines backup, snapshots, cloning, P2V and V2V conversion using VMware stand-alone convertor.
• Member of Project IT team responsible for maintaining datacenters and associated running systems, involved with developing and implementing IT initiatives to increase productivity and efficiency while reducing management overhead. Managed major issues involved in projects affecting both internal and external customer.
• Maintained inventory for all servers for invoice purpose
• Installed configured Windows 2008 with Active Directory service. Responsible production support of Active directory AD , GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Handled trust relationships across different domains in the environment and formed new trust relationships.
• Worked hand in hand with the Project Manager and helped him manage server builds as well as documentation with extensive team work.
• Creating/Managing Virtual Machines, creating clones and templates/images for deploying VMs, audit them for perfection and manage utilities and applications installed on those VMs.
• Coordinate hardware and software installations and upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance with company policy. Recommends resolutions to complex matters of significance and coordinate the implementation of the approved course of action.
• Used Vmware Orchestrator to run automated processes to manage VSphere infrastructure.

• Responsible for quickly troubleshooting high priority issues for end client, related to Windows OS and HP Blade servers in full-fledged production network.
• VMware Environment had 3 Virtual Centers, 7 Data Centers, 11 Clusters, 43 ESXi hosts and 1499 VMs HP Proliant Blade servers for various clients.

Confidential

Windows/VMware Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Involved in live migration/cold migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Installing and troubleshooting ESX/ESXi servers on HP, DELL hardware.
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Wintel Windows 2000/2003 servers, Active Directory Services, installation and deployment of enterprise-wide Group Policies GPO , Domain Users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment using Active Directory components
• Transferred the domain updates using active directory replication across domains.
• Implemented DFS distributed file systems for sharing of files across the networks
• Extended the AD schema by adding classes and attributes, and testing before the implementation in the production environment.
• Daily monitoring and managing the health of the active directory system
• Monitoring the server, storage, and application utilization data
• Monitored the Citrix servers published applications on XenApp 6.5 hosted on the Vmware ESX servers.
• Handled an average of 5-6 ticket per day using Remedy ticketing system.
• Used PowerShell to automate common, repetitive and bulk management tasks for Active Directory, such as creating, removing or updating objects in AD.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA High Availability , Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler DRS and VMware Distributed Power Management DPM .
• Managed disaster recovery by using Vmware SRM to manage sites by installation of SRM 5.1, configuration and troubleshooting wherever required in the environment.
• Responsible for helpdesk support using Spiceworks ticketing system, inventory and system reporting.
• Performed day-to-day administration of Wintel Servers. Updates, deployment of windows OS. Installed Windows 2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers and configured admin roles
• Administration of IIS web servers 5.0, 6.0
• Increased drives of the Virtual Machine
• Updating Firmware and Bios of the Hardware
• Worked on NetBackup and restore of Vmware host server configuration,
• Weekly backup of Virtual Machines using features like snapshot.
• P2V-V2V conversation with VMware converter and PlateSpin.
• Hands on experience with VMware VSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0.
• Installed vCenter Server instances to enable centralized management of multiple hosts. Maintaining and troubleshooting VMware vCenter
• Installing, maintaining and troubleshooting VMware VI client 4.0/4.1/5.0.
• Monitored and Maintained VMware Environment which included 25 ESXi 4.0 Servers, 2 Clusters and 450 Virtual Machines.
• Implemented disaster recovery utilizing VDR.
• Installation using features like HP ILO 2/3 to install ESXi in remote servers.
• Assisted in initial setup and connectivity issues between ESX/ESXi hosts and storage arrays.
• Configuring and Implementing VMware on HP Proliant Blade Servers.
• Worked on RAID 5 for servers: 4TB> 2TB 2TB to avoid data loss in case of failures.
• Managing user accounts, permissions, active directory, anti-virus and anti-spam software.

Confidential

Virtualization Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware and HP Blade servers resulting in a reduction of racks and power usage, decrease downtime during maintenance and upgrades and improved monitoring.
• Management of a 200 node ESX Farm running 1800 plus VM's.
• VMware implementation and expansion work. Creation troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX/Hyper-V Virtual Machines. Creation of templates from VMs and deploying VMs from templates.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.
• Performed day-to-day administration of Wintel Servers. Updates, deployment of windows OS.
• Performed various kinds of trouble shooting VSphere environment
• Administered and implemented fully automated DRS and HA clusters.
• Worked on large datacenter consolidations and completed them successfully using P2V conversion tool - vCenter Converter.
• Extensively worked on VMware Update manager for Host upgrades and patches. Migrate / Upgrade ESX Host from 3.5 to 4.0-1 and from 4.0-1 to ESXI 5.0. Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity planner.
• Configure and administrate new baselines using VUM VMware update manager .
• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003 and 2008 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP
• Used ADFS Active directory federation services for single sign on purposes.
• Administrating production of servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers AD-DS , Exchange Mail Servers, patching servers, Print and File servers on Windows 2003 and windows 2000 in the data center.
• Managing active directory security and accounts administration, which includes management of service accounts, permissions, passwords, delegation, configuration and the removal of stale accounts.
• Handled DNS troubleshooting on servers, clients, dynamic updates and zones problems.
• Created and managed users and computer groups
• Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines. Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual Center server for HA, DRS. Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Experience in Remote support tools. Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7/Wintel.
• Handled multiple tasks to meet project deadlines

Confidential

Windows-Network Administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Installed, configured administer Windows 2003/2008 Standard and Enterprise Server.
• Installing, troubleshooting and supporting of 1000 Desktops, Laptops, Network Devices, and Computer Peripherals.
• Created User Accounts, Configuring User Profiles, Creating local and Global Groups and implementing Group Policies
• Involved in analyzing, testing and deploying new releases and patches of the software
• Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions and System Policies
• Installed of Operating Systems Win98, Win XP, Win 2000, Win 2003 etc.
• Configuration and Managing Remote Installation Service RIS
• Implemented user administration like adding, deleting and modifying user accounts
• Installation and troubleshooting Cisco Catalyst 2960, 3550, 3560 series switches and cisco 2600 and 3600 series routers.
• Managed Domain Controllers and Additional Domain Controllers.
• Implementing Disaster Recovery in Windows 2000/2003 Domain.
• Configured of Domain Naming Server DNS and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP .
• Planning and scheduling the network down time for various upgrades and maintenance check.
• Support Training - Provide necessary help / training to IT Helpdesk / Telecom Support Personal to resolve day-to-day issues.
• Responsible for Backup/recovery strategy of all windows based servers. Planning and implementing fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on the network using different media devices like compact disk and additional hard disks etc.