TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

• Over 10 years of experience as a Systems Administrator with extensive knowledge in VMware Virtualization.
• Over 4 years of Experience in Datacenter Migration and Transformation.
• Experience as a VMware admin specialized in the area of Virtualization with VMware ESXi 4.1 / 5.0 / 5.5 servers and Virtual Center server and SAN, NAS and iSCSI technologies.
• Primarily in a production and development environment with a multiple skills of Active Directory, VMware Vsphere, VShield Manager, Citrix, Zerto, Double Take, Infoblox, Symantec Endpoint Protection with project management skills.
• Experience with DELL, HP, IBM and Cisco UCS Chassis and Blades administration.
• Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment, DNS, DHCP.
• Administering, Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2008 R2/2003/2000 Active Directory Infrastructure Managing over 1200 servers.
• Designing and implementing new Windows environment of IIS, FS, PS, WSUS, AD and ISA servers as per project requirement.
• Experience working in a high-availability MSCS clustered environment.
• Administration of Citrix XenApp Farms, Installation of Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5/5.0/6.5 Citrix Client Tools.
• Knowledge in Oracle 8i, Microsoft Sql Server 2000, 2005 and IBM DB2 8.1

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESX 5.5/5.0/4.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Double Take, Recovery Point Approach.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on Dell Chassis 1000E, Cisco UCS 5200 Chassis, IBM H Blade Center Chassis.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
• LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multipathing.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as
• FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS NAS .
• Periodic update of patches, drivers and firmware's for all our Global ESX hosts.
• Capacity availability management in our vSphere environment.
• Design and Implemented the Zerto Replication for the Virtual Machines in case of DR.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Provided day to day system administration and technical support for Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 Servers.
• Server hardening using Security Configuration Wizard and Group policies.
• Configuring and Managing Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Providing support to any DFS links and replication issues, folder and printer permission, etc. Advanced troubleshooting of issues such as Active Directory and FRS/DFS replication issues, application memory leaks and Kerberos issues.
• Provide server and client support for all issues such as: logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity, DNS and name resolution, authentication problems.
• Group Policy Objects GPO for desktop and server environment consistency security using Group Policy Management GPMC , Group Domain Local, Global and Universal .
• Creation with scopes and permission assignment to resources, roaming profiles for users maintain organization Unit hierarchy with Delegation of administration.
• Managing Group Policy. Creating and Managing Organizational Units.
• Coordinating and supporting with the development team during rollout of their application and migrating their existing environment for IIS servers.
• Monitoring all windows Productions and development servers with Altiris monitoring tools to find out the failure of servers and components and we are supporting round a clock to fix the issue within the SLA and if required coordinate with vendors to fix the issue.
• Tracking the critical and high issues which happened in our windows and VMware environment in our support tracker for best practice to implement in all other servers after getting approval from business owners.
• Administration of Dell M1000E Chassis, Cisco UCS Chassis and Cisco Nexus 5000 fabric extender.
• Providing 24/7 datacenter operations support and Management.
• Installing and configuring consoles for any new Servers, Storage Device, Routers and Switches.
• Audit data center spares, cabinets, rows, hardware, and fiber and patch cables and cross connects specifics for periodic reports.
• Handling Severity 1 call without any escalation and provided solution on time and will coordinate with other towers and vendors to brought the business live without any impact.
• Attending new project call and provide solution, suggestion for the environment setup based on business requirement as per the standard.
• Provide on-call support, troubleshooting, incident notification and resolution, problem management and root cause identification.
• Perform software applies to internal development testing environments using documented procedures and processes.
• Provided Customer support by 24x7 shift rotation basis and monitored trouble ticket queues to attend user and system calls.

Environment: VMware Infrastructure 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5, vCenter Server, VCenter operation Manager, VShield, Zerto Replication, Double Take, Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server, Cisco UCS 5000 Series, Cisco Nexus 5000 with fabric extender, Dell PowerEdge Servers, IBM H Blade Center, EMC VNX 5200, 5500, VMAX, EMC Recovery Point, IBM Power 8 ,7, 6 servers, Raritan PDU's, Raritan Command Center Gateway console, Citrix, Symantec, Infoblox, Symantec End Point Protection.

Confidential

Datacenter Migration Consultant Windows / VMware

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESX 4.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Plate Spin.
• Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Blade Servers C7000 and C3000.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as
• FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS NAS .
• Periodic update of patches, drivers and firmware's for all our Global ESX hosts.
• Capacity availability management in our vSphere environment.
• Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Servers on Virtual Machines.
• Provided day to day system administration and technical support for Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers.
• Server hardening using Security Configuration Wizard and Group policies.
• Configuring and Managing Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
• Providing support to any DFS links and replication issues, folder and printer permission, etc. Advanced troubleshooting of issues such as Active Directory and FRS/DFS replication issues, application memory leaks and Kerberos issues.
• Provide server and client support for all issues such as: logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity, DNS and name resolution, authentication problems.
• Group Policy Objects GPO for desktop and server environment consistency security using Group Policy Management GPMC , Group Domain Local, Global and Universal .
• Creation with scopes and permission assignment to resources, roaming profiles for users maintain organization Unit hierarchy with Delegation of administration.
• Managing Group Policy. Creating and Managing Organizational Units.
• Coordinating and supporting with the development team during rollout of their application and migrating their existing environment for IIS servers.
• Monitoring all windows Productions and development servers with BPPM monitoring tools to find out the failure of servers and components and we are supporting round a clock to fix the issue within the SLA and if required coordinate with vendors to fix the issue.
• Providing 24/7 datacenter operations support and Management.
• Audit data center spares, cabinets, rows, hardware, and fiber and patch cables and cross connects specifics for periodic reports.
• Handling Severity 1 call without any escalation and provided solution on time and will coordinate with other towers and vendors to brought the business live without any impact.
• Attending new project call and provide solution, suggestion for the environment setup based on business requirement as per the standard.
• Provide on-call support, troubleshooting, incident notification and resolution, problem management and root cause identification.
• Perform software applies to internal development testing environments using documented procedures and processes.
• Provided Customer support by 24x7 shift rotation basis and monitored trouble ticket queues to attend user and system calls.

Environment: VMware Infrastructure 4.0,4.1, vCenter Server, Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server, Plate Spin, VMware VCenter Converter, Active Directory Migration, TCP/IP, DNS, IIS 7.0/6.0/5.0, Windows Clustering, FTP, File and Printer Server, BPPM.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design, Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of ESX servers 3.5.
• Administrating VMware infrastructure 3.5 using vCenter 2.5
• Installation and implementation of VCenter server to administrate the ESX servers which include licensing, HA/DRS clustering, managing the Fiber channel/ISCSI SAN storage configuration.
• Installation and configuration of VM's using templates and cloning and managed using resource pools.
• Management and administration of Windows 2003 Active directory.
• Design, configuration and troubleshooting of TCP/IP and Networking.
• Upgrading VM's from windows server 2003 to Windows servers 2008.
• Installation and configuration of new domains including DNS, WINS, Group policies and Design and implementation of Tier1 applications for larger clients.
• Configuring and Managing DHCP and IIS, Load balancing, troubleshooting.
• Managed Active Directory services. Created Accounts, Reset Passwords, and Allowed Access to different Directories using NTFS permissions .
• Provided server and client support for all issues such as logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity and authentication issues.
• Performed all forms of backups using Windows server backups, wbadmin and NTDSutil.
• Installing and updating security patches and Antivirus on clients using Symantec.
• Installation administration of Windows 2003 Domain Controllers, Active Directory Design Architecture, File/Print/Database Servers.
• Maintain and support Microsoft directory and cluster services. Windows 2K/2003, Installation and configuration and designing of Active Directory.
• Design New Active Directory deployment/infrastructure for multiple sites for Clients.
• Maintain Active Directory Environment for Clients.
• Troubleshoot Active Directory replication/DNS/account issue/GPO .
• Troubleshoot Client Logon failures related to Kerberos, DNS Replication issues.
• Configure, troubleshoot and monitor core services such as Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP and group policy.

Environment: VMware Vsphere 3.5, Windows 2000/2003/2008, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WINS, IIS, FTP, WSUS, Dell and HP Proliant Servers.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for Windows NT, 2000 and 2003 Servers.
• Active directory management and administration, DFS, Print and file service, managing back up using Windows Backup. Having good experience in handling remote access tools like, Dame Ware, RDP.
• Implementation and administration of DNS, DHCP, IIS and WINS.
• Provided support for more than 1500 Shell based applications.
• Providing support for SCCM client.
• Provided remote support and administration of Blackberry Enterprise Servers Client.
• BlackBerry support and Mail id creation Deletion and email client support.
• Provided support for the OS deployment and Patch management.
• Backup management using Windows NT Backup and shell scripted backup tool.
• Managing Server Shares and Permissions
• Administration of SCOM and monitor, maintain SCOM environment.
• Manage entire process with Peregrine Service Center Which includes Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management RCA and Configuration Management
• Updating the troubleshooting process as per ITIL process.
• Monitor and progress all assigned calls and as appropriate follow escalation procedures for problem resolutions.
• Configure, troubleshoot and monitor core services such as Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP and group policy.

Environment: Windows 2003/ 2000/NT, DNS, FTP, File Servers, DHCP, WINS, Active Directory, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Dameware.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and administration of Windows NT, 2000 2003 Servers.
• Administration of production and development servers used for enterprise electronic mail services, DNS, DHCP, Backups, Directory services, file and print services, database services, system security and performance monitoring in a small and medium sized production environment.
• Creating domains, user accounts, roaming profile, group policy creation and assigning rights in Servers.
• IIS Installation, Configuration and administration.
• Troubleshooting IIS sites related issues.
• Installing and configuring SQL Server 2000 Oracle 8,9i.
• Creating users and assigning privileges from Sql server Oracle 8,9i.
• Installation Configuration of Network Printer.
• Installation and maintenance Of Anti-virus Software Updating patches.
• Configuring disk Quotas on NTFS Partitions.
• Configuring and troubleshooting software components. Diagnosing system error, Configuring application software and system software.
• Deployment of Web Servers and Databases.
• Windows NT Server Network with User levels Access.
• Windows 95/98 and Windows NT workstation clients.
• Installation and Maintenance of LAN with devices like Hubs, Switches.
• Managing Local and Network Printers.
• Configure, troubleshoot and monitor core services such as Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP and group policy.

Environment: Windows 2003/2000/NT, DNS, FTP, File Servers, DHCP, WINS, Active Directory, Oracle 8i, Sql Servers, IBM DB2.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and administration of Windows NT, 2000.
• DNS, backups, file, print services, database services, system security and performance monitoring in a small a medium sized environment.
• Creating domains, user accounts, roaming profile, group policy creation and assigning rights in Servers.
• Dynamic Host configuration Protocol.
• Installation Configuration of Network Printer.
• Installation Configuration of applications and database.
• Installation and maintenance Of Anti-virus Software Updating patches.
• Configuring disk Quotas on NTFS Partitions.
• Configuring and troubleshooting software components.
• Diagnosing system Error, Configuring application software and system software.
• Configuring Internet options. Deployment of Servers Web, Databases.
• To maintains hardware and software repairs and upgrades on all Windows NT and 2000 server.
• Configure, troubleshoot and monitor core services such as Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP and group policy.

Environment: Windows 2000/NT, DNS, FTP, File Servers, DHCP, WINS, Active Directory.