OBJECTIVE

• Systems Engineer / Administrator, seeking a position in reputed organization to utilize state - of-art, software, and hardware components with a creative, technology-driven organization in an environment that encourages innovative thinking, recognition, career development, and customer interactions.

SUMMARY

• Having more than 10 years of experience in IT industry, in the area of System administration of Windows, VMware, Citrix and AWS in a complex Client-Server environment.
• Installing, upgrading and configuring Windows 2012, 2008 and 2003 on IBM/HP/CISCO UCS servers.
• Installation and configuration of ESXi 5.0, 5.5 & 6.0 servers and Virtual Machines.
• Design, Implementation, Testing and Deployment of VMware Infrastructure.
• Installation and Configuration of VSphere client and VCenter Server. Managing multiple Datacenters and Clusters with VCenter Server.
• Experience in building and managing servers in Cloud (AWS).
• Very good understanding of AWS concepts like EC2, S3, RDS and VPC.
• Experience in configuring CISCO UCS environment.
• Server Consolidation with VMware Converter (P2P and P2V Conversions)
• Planning and implementing Windows OS upgrades from 2003 to 2008.
• Experience in working with Microsoft Active directory in Windows 2003 and 2008 server environment.
• Experience in patching Windows and Linux servers using WSUS and various patching tools and techniques.
• Experience in various Dell/Quest products including Active Roles Server, Quick Connect and Password Manager.
• Developing and executing Power shell scripts to automate tasks.
• Working knowledge on Citrix Xenserver and virtualization VDI products.
• Experience with Confidential and IBM storage devices.
• Experience in configuring McAfee on both Desktops and Servers.
• Experience in TCP/IP, MS Terminal Services, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Telnet.
• Knowledge of Routers and Switches. Subnetting, vlan, vpn, firewalls, OSI model.
• Good communication skills, self-motivated with a high degree of attention, a good team player, committed to work and have sound leadership qualities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Cisco UCS, Dell, HP, IBM and SUN Servers, Workstations and Laptops, Networked Printers, Routers, Layer 2 and Layer 3 Switches, Storage Area Networks (IBM, Confidential, HP, vSAN)

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012/2008/2003, Windows Desktop 10/8.1/8/7/XP, VMware ESXi 6.0/5.5, Citrix Xen App 6.0 VMware Horizon View 6.2/5.2/5.1(VDI), Ubuntu, MacOS

Protocols: DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, FTP/SFTP/TFTP, SMTP, SNMP, NAT, VPN, WINS

Remote Support: GoToMyPC, LogMeIn, Remote Assistance, WebEx, PCAnywhere, IBM AMM, ILOM, DRAC, Remote Desktop, UCS Manager, VNC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Sr. VMware/Citrix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of the Clinical Applications Infrastructure team, managing the critical clinical application servers in Windows/VMware and Citrix applications.
• Building VMware ESXi hosts and Windows physical and virtual servers by following the build process which includes installing and configuring server monitoring tool, backup tool, anti-virus and Server QA and security scan.
• Remediating the issues found in Server QA and security scans by applying proper patches and Windows updates.
• Configuring Windows clusters in Windows 2012 servers.
• Working end to end on CISCO UCS blades. Configuring Service profile templates, Service profiles, Boot policies etc..
• Participating in Windows server patching.
• Managing Citrix farms for critical Clinical applications.

Confidential, NY

Sr. VMware/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of global build team, responsible to build the Windows & VMware Infrastructure for various projects.
• Installation, configuration and support of servers utilizing HP Hardware and firmware (BIOS) upgrades.
• Performed installation, configuration, and administration of Windows 2008 R2 & 2012 and VMware ESXi 5.0 & 5.5 environments including scale of about 2000 servers.
• Building Windows servers in Amazon Web Services using EC2 instances.
• Assisting capacity estimation for migrating Windows servers to Amazon Web Services and IBM Cloud.
• Actively working on P2V project to achieve 90% of virtualization using VMware Converter.
• Leading Windows OS upgrade from 2003 to 2008 project.
• Protecting Legacy Windows 2003 based applications with VMware vShield Firewall Appliance and Trend Micro Deep Security ensuring only specific firewall ports are open as well as monitoring activity.
• Installed and configured the Windows Clustering services for various projects and for business critical database servers.
• Installing ESXi on HP blades and rack servers and CISCO UCS server configuring the settings to cope up with the present environment.
• Creating standard, DV-Switches and configuring network configuration across the vCenter servers.
• Creating ESXi host Profiles and adding/removing profile settings to make it compatible with different environments across the vCenter servers.
• Installing and configuring Confidential Avamar proxies and grids for backup policies for VCenter and Virtual servers.
• Actively worked with Storage Teams for allocation/troubleshooting and provisioning of storage, running Confidential and Confidential for the ESXi hosts, Guests with SQL- RDM’s within Confidential and Confidential .
• Configuring High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Patch management using VMware update manager for ESX server.
• Scan and deploy patches and updates to the (WSUS) and keeping up-to-date patch-levels. Provide support for users, groups and security access to Active Directory objects including organizational units. Managed AD user accounts, access and group permissions in Win 2003 AD.

Confidential

Windows/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Windows Server Administration:
• Responsible for 500+ Windows Servers, 200+ Virtual servers and 50 Unix (Solaris and Linux) servers and 5000+ users.
• Installing, configuring and managing Hyper-V.
• Building Windows (2003/2008) servers and doing QA of server builds built by team members.
• Installing IBM server guide on new servers to implement RAID and doing firmware upgrades.
• VMWare Administration:
• Provide maintenance on VM servers ESX and ESXi running Windows and Linux as well as performing test for patches and new software.
• Converting physical servers to virtual servers (P2V) using VMware Convertor Standalone.
• Upgrading VMware tools and hardware on VSphere 4.1 & 5.0 and creating virtual snapshots of various servers.
• Ticket Handling:
• Creating or changing accounts for new hire, set up group policies and folder permissions depending on the title and installed any software that is necessary in order for them to accomplish their daily tasks.
• Supervising and managing incoming service tickets, resolution times and resolution details.
• Create Change orders to perform server build, changes, and decommissions.
• Participating in Change Control meetings to discuss and implementing the changes on servers.
• Active Directory Administration:
• User, group, group policy and share management.
• Creating AD security groups for File and Print sharing and service accounts from application access.
• Installing, configuring and administering Quest Active Roles Server in User domain and Exchange domain to automate the user account and mail box account set up. Creating security containers to restrict access using ARS.
• Installing, configuring Dell Quick Connect to sync data between primary source (Peoplesoft) and Active Directory.
• Installing and configuring Dell Password Manager to automate user account password resets.
• Developing Power shell scripts to generate user and groups information from AD.
• Working knowledge on Citrix Xenserver and virtualization like XenApp, XenDesktop, Presentation Server
• Network printer / scanner (HP, Toshiba and Lanier) installation, trouble shooting and support. Upgrading printer drivers and creating VIP queues as per requirements.
• Once a month patch deployment to all servers and workstations based on patch release, testing and deployment using LUMENSION ENDPOINT MANAGEMENT / SECURITY.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring Windows 2003 and 2008 on physical and virtual environment.
• Installing, configuring and managing Hyper-V.
• Server administration: Server issues /hardware and software / patch roll out etc.
• Provisioning file and print servers. Adding memory and CPU to virtual print servers.
• Provide support administration and troubleshooting AD related issues (DNS, GPOs, Replication, etc.,)
• Running IBM hardware diagnostics and replacing any failed parts (hard disk, motherboard etc.)
• Onboarding new servers / decommission old ‘end of life’ servers.
• Upgrade Windows from win 2000 to 2003, from 2003 to 2008.
• Monitor, identify, resolve, and document Customer support tickets (hardware, software, and user problems).
• Creating AD users and assigning home drive and share drive permissions based on the department using Power shell commands.
• Patching Windows servers based on the Microsoft recommendations.
• Scanning desktops and servers using McAfee anti-virus.
• Creating AD domain local and global groups to provide the share drive access to users.

Confidential

Unix/Solaris Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed system administration of UNIX servers by using Operating Systems of Solaris 8
• Installed patches and other software packages for Solaris and Linux.
• Disk and File system management through Solstice Disk Suite on Solaris and other logical volume manager for other flavor of UNIX.
• Configured Hardware and Software RAID on Sun Servers
• Configured and maintained NIS, NFS servers on Solaris.
• Administrative tasks such as System Startup/shutdown, Backup strategy, Printing, Documentation, User Management, Security, Network management, dumb terminals and devices carried out.
• Performed OS upgrades and Patch loading as and when required.
• Administered NFS Mounts.