Professional Summary:

• Experienced in installation, configuration, design and ongoing maintenance of Cisco router and switches.
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware vCenter Converter / Plate Spin PowerConvert and Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of VMware VMotion, SVMotion, HA and DRS including vSphere Update Manager, VMware Data Recovery, vCenter Lab Manager and vCenter Orchestrator.
• Experience in Networking and Security Configurations on ESX/ESXi Host.
• Experience in consolidation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients.
• Experience ininstallation and configuration of VMwareVI 3.5 suite, vSphere 4.1, and vSphere 5.1 products.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro-active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude. Expert in Windows Server System Administration skills.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2008/2003/2000/NT4.0 Servers at single/multi domain environment.
• Over 7 Years of IT networking experience in the areas of Microsoft Network Administration, Server Consolidation, Active Directory Management, vSphere 5 Enterprise plus, Desktop Authority, Citrix Operations, Systems Management and Application Virtualization.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFSstorage and RAID 0, 1, 3, 10, 01, and 5 concepts.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN,Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks.
• Experience inMicrosoft Office Suite, iWork, Mac OSX, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing, and Windows networking.
• Experience with 32 bits/64 bits X86 server products of HP, IBM, and Dell.
• Familiar with Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling labeling maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power and UPS monitoring.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly. A proven record of reliability, the ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

Technical Skills:

• VMware: VMware VI 3.5 s, VSphere 4.1, 5.1 suites, ESX Server 3.x 4.x, ESXi 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x, VMware Virtual Center Server 4.x and 5.x, VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware vCenter Converter 4.x, VMware vSphere Update Manager 5.x, VMware vCenter Lab Manager 3.0.x, VMware Consolidated Backup 1.1.x, and Third party tools such as VEEAM Backup and Replication, Platespin Power Convert.
• Desktop
• Application: Microsoft Office 2007, 2010 Office 365, iWork, GroupWise 6.5 and 7.0 SP1, Outlook 2003 and Evolution, Parallels, Open Office, VMware Workstation 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x.
• Operating System:
• Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.1, Mac OSX 10.9,10.10, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2012SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008, Microsoft Exchange 2003and 2007, DHCP, DNS and WINS Services, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 and 7.0. Moderate Experience with UNIX based OSs such as Red Hat Linux 9, Ubuntu 12.1 and 13.1.
• Hardware: Dell Servers 1950, 2950, 6950, HP Thin Client t5530, HP DL380 G3,G5 and G7, HP blade Enclosure C3000 and C7000 WYSE VL10 and VL9, Network Interface Card, Multi Serial Port Adapter, Printers, Hard drive and Floppy drive, Hubs, Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches and Routers and DSL Modems, RAM, Audio and Video card.
• Networking:
• TCP/IP socket programming , Ethernet, Wireless LAN, VPN, Installing andConfiguring Servers SSH, FTP, VNC, DHCP, DNS, Apache, Samba etc . Familiar with Cisco CCNA related networking devices. Good understanding about SSL and IPSec security protocols on a VPN Virtual Private Network

Professional Experience:

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Roles and responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and maintaining the VMware ESX 2.5x / Virtual Center 2.x servers.
• Creating, Installing, configuring and maintaining the Virtual Machines, installing Guest Operating Systems like Windows, Linux.
• Implemented Migration by performing P2V, V2V and V2P conversions using vConverter and PlateSpin.
• Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues, which occur during software upgrades.

• Troubleshoot network issues between Distributed vSwitch, Layer 2 switches and resolved slow performance between SAN network and VM networks.
• Monitoring and managing virtual servers
• Taking care of pre requisites for servers before going for production
• Updating service account passwords
• Installed, configured and managing network file servers, print servers and maintaining various logs.
• Created virtual machines using Hyper-V and deployed prepared pre-production environment.
• Maintaining active directory system data and file server volume backups. Monitoring active directory integrity and replication.
• Logs file analysis using the Event Viewer and troubleshooting to resolve issues
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production
• Supported 24 7 on call schedule for Production support.

Environment:

Windows Server 2000/2003,Windows XP/vista, Active Directory 2003, SQL Server 2000/2003, HP ProLiant Servers, HA/DRS.

Confidential

VMware Administrator

Customer Service tool for Amex employees to raise requests of different types Access requests, Report Request, MRA requests. Each request has sub types of request where user can fill in the forms to submit the requests. Additional features provide executing the request for Admins and Managers.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, File and print Servers, POS servers, DNS, DHCP, WINS and ISA 2005 Servers and other Application Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2012.
• Administration of GPOs, Domain Users and groups, and Computers on Active Directory 2003, 2008.
• Responsible production support on windows server platform level issues.
• Resolving the day-to-day hardware and platform level incidents and requests through IT resource Management Tools such as HP Service Manager 9, Service Now.
• Working with ISO Team on monitoring server health and fixing issues which on security vulnerable servers.
• Managing/Administrating ESXi 4.1, 5.1 Hosts and Clusters on vCenter Server 5.1. Using vSphere Client 5.1, Power CLI, vSphere CLI.
• Remotely managing physical rack mount/blade servers using HP iLO 2.0, 3.0, Avocent KVM switch, HP On board Administrator, and HP Insight Management tools.
• Administrating parallel SCSI RAID 1 0, 5 Arrays using HP Array Configuration Utility and Array Diagnostic Utility.
• Participated in the migration project of vSphere 4.1. To vSphere 5.1 and Migrated ESX 4.0, ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 using VMware vCenter update manger 5.1.
• Managing/ Administrating Citrix XenApp 5.0 servers using Citrix Access Management Console, Presentation Server Console, and Delivery Service Console.
• Managing/Administrating Citrix XenDesktop VDI using Citrix Delivery Service Console.
• Restoring files/folders on IBM TSM backups using Backup-Archive GUI on Windows 2003/2008 Production servers.
• Participating with compliance team on updating process patches for Windows servers 2003, 2008 using IBM Endpoint Manger BigFix .

Environment

Windows Server OS 2000/2003/2008/2012, Windows Client OS XP /Win 7, VSphere 4.1and 5.1, NetApp FC SAN/NAS storage, HP ProLiant G3,G5and G7 servers, HP Blade Servers on enclosure c3000 and c7000. Citrix XenApp 5.0,Citix Xen Desktop VDI, Remote desktop services, Microsoft SQL 2005 and 2008 servers, Microsoft Exchange server 2007 and other applications servers.

Confidential

System Administrator

Roles and responsibilities:

• Installation and configuring of HP-UX and RedHat Linux servers.
• Installing, upgrading and Linux using kickstart installation, also SUSE Linux Servers manually and using System Imager and updated using YUM and worked on upgrading and configuring SGI Servers.
• Created Virtual server on VMWare ESX/ESXi based host and installed operating system on Guest Servers.
• Configuring NFS, NIS, NIS , DNS and LDAP.
• Updating YUM Repository and Redhat Package Manager RPM .
• Created RPM packages using RPMBUILD, verifying the new build packages and distributing the package.
• Configuring distributed file systems and administering NFS server and NFS clients and editing auto-mounting mapping as per system / user requirements.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance DNS servers, Mail servers, FTP servers, NFS, NIS, NIS , RPM and Samba Web servers on Sun Solaris, Linux platforms, AIX Server and IBM Tivoli for Load Balancing.
• Experience in installation, configuration and administration of Web Logic and Web sphere Servers.
• Configured SAMBA to get access of Linux shared resources from Windows.
• Worked in ZFS and QFS and fixed the problems occurred, set the quota and reservations for such file systems.
• Applying new patches and packages of HP UX and RedHat Linux.
• Extensive use of Logical Volume Manager LVM , creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes and disk mirroring in HP-UX, AIX and Linux.
• Implementation of RAID techniques and the creation of Disk groups and volumes, plex using Veritas Volume manager.

Confidential

System Administrator

Roles and responsibilities:

Management and administration - Windows Active Dir. Structure and Group Policies

• Windows AD Group Policy Administrator
• Initiated, Demonstrated and implemented Wireless access to county applications for field users Terminal servers, VPN.
• Installation, configuration, administration and maintenance of Windows Server 2003 and Server 2000 on Dell Power Edge Servers.
• Management/monitoring of servers using default MS tools and third party tools. Migration of NT4 servers to Active Directory Domain.

• Security Administration of Windows Servers, user accounts and security groups
• Created AD users, groups, Policies, printer mapping and login scripting.
• Monitored server health, performance, executed scheduled tasks and designed event action plans for critical services
• Provided feedback to the management with suggestions for upgrades in technology or Hardware.
• Managed and maintained file server running Windows 2003 Advanced server and managed file and NTFS permissions for local users and groups.
• Configuration of Farms, Zones, DC's, DS, TS License servers, Web Servers.
• Administration of Windows2000 server and remote installation of Win 2000, Win XP client systems.
• Responsible for enterprise patch management.

Environment:

Windows XP/NT/2000/2003, Microsoft Clustering, Active Directory, AD Group policy, NTFS permissions.