SUMMARY

• 7+ years of Professional experience as System Administrator, Desktop and Customer/End user support on IT technologies, Virtualization Tools, Applications including VMWare, Citrix, Redhat Linux, Solaris, Suse Linux, AIX, Cent OS, Fedora, OEL and Windows environments.
• Experience in administering Solaris & Linux. Experience in Installation, Configuration, Backup, Recovery, Maintenance, Support of Sun Solaris & Linux.
• Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 on Sun Servers using Jumpstart Servers, Flash Archives and Interactive Installation.
• Worked with Database administrators to tune kernel for Oracle installations.
• Experience in installations and configuration of VMs using VMware vSphere.
• Sound knowledge on Virtual Center server and VC 4.0/4.1 for managing multiple ESX/ESXi servers, SRM 4.0, View 4.5, ThinApp 4.5, vShield and vCloud Directory.
• Excellent understanding on ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Building Cluster Environment for High Available Applications and increasing resources like HDD, Memory and CPU.
• Experience with ESXCLI 5.x scripting, Citrix XenApp VDI, Citrix VDI Virtualization solution and leveraging.
• Worked on Installation & Configuration of the database forXenDesktop and XenApp 6.5
• Generating Performance Reports and Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager.
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology.
• Strong experience with the VMware HA and VMware DRS.
• Installation and maintenance of SCCM.
• Provide remote support and generated workable solutions.
• Installed IIS on Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Good knowledge in Configuring Citrix Access and Citrix Secure Gateway.
• Good experience with Monitoring and Managing Citrix Met frame Presentation Servers.
• Knowledge of Network Security products use (CISCO, McAfee) configurations, and reporting products.
• Involved in the Beta Testing of VMware products, well versed with various testing methods like Functional testing, Regression testing and System testing.
• Develop automated scripts using PowerShell.
• Expert working knowledge on Installing XenDesktop, Preparing mater images with required applications.
• Troubleshooting for Tier III, Tier II technical issues (when CSRs and managers are unable to resolve issues).
• Creating a test Environment in Citrixor VMware for Production Team to test their applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows 2012 Server, Windows 2012, Windows 2008 R2 and Win 2003, Red Hat Linux, RHEL 3/4/5/6, Solaris Release 2.10/2.9/2.8/2.7 , IBM - AIX 5.X, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and NT.

Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS, Active Directory, Terminal Services, FTP

Hardware: Cisco UCS B200,HP C7000, HP Prolient DL360 G7, DL380 G6,DL385 G1, DL385 G2, HP Blade BL35p,BL460c G6, BL 465c G6 IBM X Series

Virtualization: VMware ESX 4.x/5.xESXi 5.5UI,, Putty, VMconverter, VMware vSphere, VM vCenter server, VMware vMotion, VMware view, VMware ThinApp, VMware Workstation, VMware Player

Citrix: Citrix Metaframe PS 3.0/4.0/4.5 and XenApp 4.5/5.0/6.0/6.5/7.0 , XenMobile and PVS.

Databases: SQL Server 2012/2008 R2, Oracle8i, 9i, 10g

SAN: Hitachi Freedom store 9900, EMC Clarion CX700, EMC DMX2000, XP1024, XP12000, SUN A5200, D1000, A1000.

Tools: VNC, WebEx, ADMT, Remedy, IBM ISM MAXIMO, AD Snapshot Tool, Tivoli Backup Exec, DS View, ILO, NetworkRegister,Blade Logic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Timonium, MD

VMware Administrator/ Windows System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Server builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration, troubleshooting and Performance in Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 on virtualized machines.
• Migrate domain controllers from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Assessment design and Planning for Implementation of vSphere Environment, View 4.5/ThinApp 4.5 environment.
• Worked on vSphere Upgrade projects from ESX 3.5 to ESX 5.0. /5.5.
• Application packaging using the ThinApp 4.5 and integration with VDI View environment.
• Troubleshoot upgrades and day to day to support of windows OS for 2nd and 3rd level support.
• Server Build and troubleshooting experience with VMware ESXi 5.0/ ESXi 4.1/ ESXi 3.X, vCenter server 2.5 and VMware vSphere Suite.
• Proficient in configuring of DNS, DHCP and Active Directory Services in Windows based server environments.
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Worked on Installation, Configuration and Administration of CitrixXenDesktop
• Installing and configuring VMware VCenter Server, VCenterplug-ins including VCenter converter and upgrade manager and managingVCenter permissions.
• P2V migration using VMware converter and V2V conversions using VMware converter and Plate Spin and doubletake.
• Experience with Cisco UCS B200 and HP Blades C7000administration.
• Migrating existing infrastructure into virtualization environment using VMware Physical to Virtual Converter and VMware Workstation.
• Developed PowerShell scripts to ensure consistency in the environment including discovering servers missing SCOM installation.
• Responsible for creating and building Windows7/8 &Windows 2003/2008 R2 server virtual images on VMware ESX servers.
• Creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates and CloningVMs.
• Using Virtual centre server for HA, DRS, FT and VMotion.
• Tier III & Tier II support and mentor to helpdesk staff providing documentation and timely resolutions and solving all the issues related to the printers. Weekly Reboot and snapshots of all the servers including the Print servers for error free print environment.
• Scheduling replication and snap shot specific tasks.
• Responsible for implementation, distribution and support for all facets of OS deployment in SCCM 2012.
• Create virtual switches and port groups, configure virtualization networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs, configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Excellent log analysis knowledge for monitoring performance (CPU, Memory, Disk, network Utilization) and virtual infrastructure alarms in VCenter servers.
• Create and maintain environment specific installation and configuration guides for P2V Conversions, ESX server and VCenter Server installation.
• Replicated all the Production Server for Disater Recovery using VReplicator.
• Printer Management in CitrixPS4.0 and XP farms and maintaining the Print Drivers on Citrix Servers in the Farm.
• Participated in a project to upgrade clients load balancer to Citrix Netscaler. This reduced potential down times from out of warranty equipment.
• Extensive installation and administration of Citrix Xenapp4.5/5.0/6.0 on windows 2003/2008 R2 servers.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Citrix System Administrator / VMware System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configure and troubleshoot computer hardware, operating systems, network configurations and software.
• Managed the installation and configuration of Windows 2003 Server/Workstations
• Installation &administration of Windows 2003 Domain Controllers, Active Directory Design& Architecture, File/Print/Database Servers.
• Worked on Setup Replication, Synchronization between multiple domain Controllers, DNS and Database Servers Window Server 2008 R2.
• Worked on use of delivery Controller to publish the Citrix desktops.
• Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.
• Worked on creation of a new farm and joining of the Citrix XenApp Servers.
• Replaced defective Computer and Network equipment as needed such as switches and routers.
• Responsible for Tier 2 support for all proprietary applications and prepare to properly handle Tier 1 support.
• Windows 2003, Installation and configuration and designing of Active Directory.
• Configured Group Policies, Active Directory, Exchange, password resets etc. Secured client Wireless Networks using encryption and redeployed their Wi-Fi equipment for proper signal and usage hence improved their bandwidth and productivity.
• Configure, troubleshoot and monitor core services such as Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP and group policy.
• Supported 75 end users in many aspects of the hardware and software environment.
• Installed hardware, applications, maintained LAN / WAN / Wireless networks, support remote access users, develop documentation, the IT team.
• Managed network servers and components including installation, configuration and maintenance.
• Prepared and presented report to management on organization’s security and virus protection audit.

Confidential, Irving TX

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuring of SUN Solaris and Linux servers.
• Involved in Building and configuring Solaris 8/9/10 using Jump start server and Red Hat Linux Servers using KickStart server as required for the project.
• Maintained maximum uptime and maximum performance capacity for Enterprise Production, QA, and UAT/Staging.
• Incident management for Unix Servers (Solaris, Linux).
• Installed and configured Solaris 10 servers with Zonesandcontainers with SUN ZFS.
• Primary responsibility includes building and supporting Solaris/ Redhat Linux 3,4 servers.
• Monitoring CPU, memory, iSCSI disks, disk controllers, physical disk, HW and SW RAID, multipath, file systems, network using the tools NAGIOS and BMC Tools.
• Extensive experience in installing, integrating, tuning and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere and Weblogic application server.
• Implemented SUDO, SSH and other security tools and implemented SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) security compliance.
• Assisted in configuring the application servers with other components such as database, web servers, LDAP directory, Active Directory, BEA Web logic etc.
• Extensive use of Veritas Volume Manager for Disk management, file system management on Sun Solaris environment.
• Created Zetabyte file system (ZFS) in Solaris 10. Created zpools. Exported ZFS from local zones to local zones.
• Installation and configuration Veritas NetBackup on Sun Severs and performing Backup using Veritas Net Backup.
• Extensive use of Korn shell, Bash for scripting.
• Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting.
• Involved in Planning, building and Administration of various High Availability clusters and heart beat checking on Sun Solaris using VCS in heterogeneous SAN environment.
• Regular disk management like adding / replacing hot swappable drives on existing servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
• Planned, scheduled and Implemented OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance.
• Worked with other IT teams, customers (users), and other managers in helping build and implement systems and standards.
• Involved in migration of projects from one flavor to another one. Involved in development, user acceptance, and performance testing, production & disaster recovery server.

Confidential, Denver, CO

System Administrator (VMware/ Citrix Admin)

Responsibilities:

• Maintain on daily basis and modify the Citrix environment and Virtual Desktop Environment for users in various enterprise applications in a fast-paced IT network infrastructure setup.
• Working experience to Installed and configured Netscaler NSVPX-ESX 9.2.
• Used Virtual infrastructure Client for managing VM Machines.
• Created test environment in Citrix or VMwarefor production Team to test their application.
• Creating VMware Lab setup as per Internal QA team’s requirements using VMware ESXi Servers.
• Updating/ Patching Windows Virtual Machine in VMware Clusters.
• Configure and install VMware ESXi images (5.0/5.1).
• Providing users with access rights and permissions for accessing the applications.
• Responsible for Administration of Active Directoryand delegating control / permissions.
• Experience in support of a Citrix XenApp 6.0 environments (including hands-on experience architecting/engineering and supporting implementations of Citrix).
• Systems administration including Windows Server 2003/2008, Terminal Servers, Citrix XenApp6.0,XenServer 6.0.
• Installed, Configured XenDesktop 5.5with provisioningserver, Web interface server.
• Installed and configured XenApp6 server with published apps.
• Experience with Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2,Active Directory, GPO,OU.
• Knowledge of and experience in Microsoft Active Directory environments.
• Developing and Implementing Software and Hardware as per company standards.
• Installed, configured, maintained MS hypervisor Windows 2008 R2 Server.
• Installed and configured SCVMM on Hyper V server. Create P2V and V2V.

Confidential

Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5 on a HP Proliant BL C 7000 Server (C-class), VMware Infrastructure Client, VMware VirtualCenter, License Server and VCB Setup.
• Built and maintained the system infrastructure to host the EMR, Titan, and Docutrakapplication in Citrix farm both in physical and virtual servers.
• Published application in Citrix Presentation farm through web client, worked in citrix policies, citrix access gateway and web interface.
• Extensively used Password Manager for account management.
• Installed and configured Edge sight to monitor system capacity and performance monitor.
• Worked with team member and end users to support and handle the request for the RSA token, User Creation in Active Directory, Server issues.
• Documentation of the server built process, RSA token support, Citrix Policies, prepared business case documentation about the Citrix farm and VMware for cost cutting.
• Researched with other team members in new products and technologies for optimal utilization of the Blade Servers, cost cutting and site-to-site redundancy.
• Administered and implemented VMware ESX server 3.5 hosting VM in window 2003 standard.
• Successfully migrated physical server and VM in ESX server using VMware Converter.
• Designed and installed the VMware Consolidated Backup to ease the backup of the VM an integrated with VERITAS Netbackup.
• Installed and Configured Windows 2003, Terminal Server, Terminal Licenses and performed system and application updates.