SUMMARY:

• Global datacenter infrastructure scoping and consolidation expertise in Windows 2000, 2003, 2008.
• Implementing, configuring, and supporting Windows 2000/2003/2008 AD,VMwareESX / ESXi, vSphere 4.0 and vCenter including HA\DRS.
• Highly proficient in performing physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to physical (V2P) migrations
• Performed virtualizations of Oracle, SQL, Active Directory, IIS, and Exchange.
• Keen understanding of internet services such as DHCP, HTTP, DNS, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SMB and VPN
• Working knowledge of Dell and HP blade server hardware.
• Experienced in performing bare metal restorations of dead servers to similar or dissimilar hardware.
• High understanding of disk based replication and disk de - duplication in disaster recovery (DR) exercise scenarios.
• Project management planning skills during project activities and initiatives which include personnel resourcing and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to quickly understand key technologies in regards to providing return on investment for any corporations benefit.
• Performance of technical support and software installation documentation and up keeping of said documentation.
• Ability to work independently or as a member of a team managing multiple projects or resources and discerning workload priorities.
• Expert in the ability to motivate and encourage staff/co-workers to perform successfully under stressful situations and deadline pressures.
• Open minded ingenious thinker with the ability to provide innovative imaginative, "outside the box" technical solutions where needed.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization: vSphere 4, ESX, ESXi, vCenter, Hyper-V, SCVMM, XenDesktop, VDI

Directory Services: Active Directory, LDAP

Terminal Services: Remote Desktop Services, Terminal Services & Citrix XenApp

Clustering Solutions: Microsoft Fail Over Cluster Services, VERITAS Storage Cluster

Microsoft Products: SCOM, Microsoft Servers (2008 R2, 2008, 2003, 2000) & Microsoft Exchange 2007,2010

Storage & Backup: Symantec Backup Exec and NetBackup, EMC Clariion & Navisphere agent, IBM Tivoli

Data Protection & Security: Symantec Endpoint Protection, McAfee Gate way (IronMail)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Virtualization Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• In depthVMwareSME service delivery and process management lifecycle expertise used to facilitate the architectural planning, scoping, and implementation execution of a new deployment of vSphere & vCenter to the existing ITIL v3 global datacenters with emphasis on decommissioning and replacing existing legacyVMwarehardware environments that consists of ESX versions 2.5, 3.0, 3.02, 3.5and Virtual Center 2.0/2.5and replacing ALL legacy ESX hosts with vSphere 4 managed by vCenter instances for a global Siemens client located in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and Germany as well as providing high level technical advice for other various Siemens clients.
• Acting as a liaison between varied I.T. group’s technical subject matter expert teams and solutioning teams to ensure that the current virtualization infrastructure project initiative meets extensibility, complexity reduction goals, and returns on investment.
• Providing support direction in regards to the existing legacy virtual environments in conjunction with guiding the current vSphere upgrade initiative using HP c7000 blade enclosures/HP DL380 G6 and re-formatting iSCSI NetApp filers from 1MB/2MB to 8MB block size.
• Highly experienced with Windows Window OS administration and clustering support,VMware related capacity planning, and scoping of physical servers that could-would be converted to virtualized instances which also included rolling out of test virtual desktop deployment environment (VDI) of 400 clients usingVMwareview 4 and ThinApp 4 in conjunction with using Avamar Virtual edition for VMware.
• Mentoring and providing knowledge transfer and guidance to senior and junior systems engineers locally and remotely on best practices during vSphere4 host install and support considerations along with the VM guest P2V, V2V migrations from the old legacy ESX external storage volumes to the new vSphere 4 farm storage environments.
• Motivating, encouraging, -engaging all support staff regarding day to day management support of the new vSphere infrastructure.
• Managing, planning, and scheduling off hours P2V migration moves with system engineers in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Germany as part of the virtualization initiative that’s currently in place as well as creating and continually updating step by step documentation on refinement procedures, and troubleshooting techniques regardingVMware’s best practices when performing physical to virtual (P2V/V2P) server moves using theVMwareconverter or PlateSpin on Windows and Linux based servers.
• Managing and planning of forklift and (P2P) physical to physical server moves from remote satellite U.S. sites to the main tier1 Datacenters in Chicago and Mobile Alabama as another part of the Datacenter consolidations project.
• Meeting with business technology unit application owners to review applications/app servers that are or that are not candidates for virtualization now that the new vSphere environment supports 64bit CPU processing.
• Helping solutions teams prepare for proof of concept management reviews which will in turn help to further refine IT processes and SLAs.
• Adherence to technology corporate planning policies and practices in all activities and when appropriate make recommendations for improvements to increase efficiencies and effectiveness of the newly implemented vSphere global farm infrastructure.

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Washington DC

Responsibilities:

• Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX server, VMware vCenter, setting up vMotion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization.
• Used to configure and maintain Virtual Servers, Templates and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
• Configuring and Managing DHCP, Active Directory, DNS in Windows 2003/2008 Server.
• Experience in implementing Data sensitivity/Confidentiality.
• Responsible for multi-domainActive DirectoryForest design, operation of hosting environment.
• Upgrading virtual environment ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0 and Virtual Center 2.5 to vSphere 4.
• Worked with Configuration management tools like ECM to run custom reports from the CMDB and for documentation purposes as well.
• Provided Network Administration functions usingActive Directoryto create Email and Network user accounts and to manage OUs and Group policy.
• Implemented disk encryption technologies such as bit locker for additional level of security.
• Deploying VMware View 4.0, Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View Composer, View Connection Manager to make newVMware View (VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) efficient and simplify desktop administrative management tasks.
• Carried out P2V, V2P, V2V conversions in a large scale and created custom templates.
• Worked with Backup tools like IBM Tivoli, VERITAS Net Backup.
• Experience with Windows application packaging with VMware ThinApp.

Windows/VMWare Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization
• Involved in VMware updates manager to install & troubleshoot patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Involved with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions.
• Implemented and managed e-mail archival system usingSymantec Enterprise Vault 7.5 and Equal Logic Storage Area.
• Managed Group policy, Users and User Access using Active Directory.
• Involved in installing/configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager and administrating multiple labs in Lab Manager and dealing with Lab Manager issues.
• Was responsible for installing configuring and troubleshooting Windows NT/Windows 2000/2003 and 2008 servers using enterprise standards.
• Made technical recommendations and identified administrative standards, issues and process improvements.
• Managed Fiber SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS (EMC-CX30, NetApp, Dell MD3000i Dell MD 1000 storage technologies and worked with SANs in VMware environments and troubleshooting and upgrading in VMware.Documented the entire architecture of the ESX nodes and window servers that are created.
• Debugged client and server hardware such as DELL PowerEdge servers and Dell Desktops, Laptops, etc.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in Windows Systems Administration.
• Was involved in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Windows 98/NT workstation/server4.0 in a network of over 2000 computers.
• Also worked on installing, configuring, and troubleshooting associated local and network applications including software and other development tools.
• Supported browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer.
• Supported MS Exchange, MS Outlook and MS Office.
• Created new and modifying previous Group Policies and User Profiles for NT Domain users for implementing security features on NT workstations.
• Installed Windows on servers and configured internet and LAN connectives between servers and other hardware like printers and scanners.
• Dealt with installation of the different packages and patches to update the packages on different hosts.
• Created the users and groups in the network to assigning privileges to the users to access the resources.
• Performed password recovery for the users, changing the passwords and deleting the existing users.
• Performed Backups to tape drives from servers and also performed Restore operations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the issues related to installation of operating systems, hardware problems, printers/scanners, Internet Connections.
• Managing the disks by creating partitions, new file system for every partition and Mounting the files system to a mount point.