Systems Administrator with 8 years of work experience in administration of Vmware, Windows, Linux, Windows Hyper-V along with project management

• System Administrator with over 7 years' experience in Windows/Oracle/ESX.
• Technical lead for a team of 5 people who are responsible for all server builds and all platforms for Henkel
• Excellent knowledge of server hardware, networks, infrastructure design concepts, Database
• Windows and VMware Administration and Clustering: Installation including kick starting , configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and large-scale global deployment.
• Designed, acquired and deployed a corporate VMWare ESX server
• Administration of backup restore solutions
• Knowledge of Powershell, SQL, IIS, Websphere, jbass, VBScript
• VMware virtualization expertise including installation, administration, configuration, and deployment of ESX hosts and instances.
• Extensive knowledge on building-out, Installation, Configuration, Upgrades, and Support of IBM, HP, and Dell Servers and HP Blade Center servers.
• Excellent knowledge on networking, IP addressing, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, IIS
• Knowledge with ITIL, SDLC, Project management
• Working knowledge of SAP Basis, Oracle DB, Websphere, jboss, Linux, SDLC, SQL, SAP Basis

Technical Skills:

Software: Transact SQL, ORACLE PL/SQL, Remedy, WinRunner, Silk Performer, Microsoft Exchange Server, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Symantec Ghost

O/S: Solaris, Linux Ubuntu, Windows, Mac OS X, VMware ESX Server,Azure

Hardware: SUN, HP, DELL, IBM and Cisco PIX/ASA, Routers, Switches, VPN Concentrators, and Cisco Load balancers CSS 11500 Series . Cisco Call manager 4.x, 5.x and 6.x, EMC SAN CLARiiON CX-340, CX-380. EMC Celerra

Network Protocols: XMPP, DHCP, DIG, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, Ethernet, IOS, netstat, NFS, NIS, nslookup, RIP, TCP/IP, and tcpdump.

Good knowledge of system backups, recovery, web marshal, mail marshal, AD, Exchange Server, Domino Server, Cisco VPN, Airwatch, Wireless technologies,Blackberry, Apache devices, IPhone, Android, Audio/Video Conf Systems, Projectors, etc

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of windows servers and VMware
• Responsible for generating storage reports and resize datastores as needed
• Deployments and monitoring of systems via SCCM
• Testing of applications on test environment before release
• Maintenance and alerting on potential storage capacity issues NFS Qtrees and Aggregates
• BAU support in regards with Win 2003, 08, 12 servers, Oracle database
• Full support with File, Print, Exchange servers, AD, etc. and in-house application servers
• Health checks of Exchange server
• Troubleshooting Administration of mail routing / mail flow
• Performing offline defrag on exchange database
• Deployments via SCCM, Group policy management
• Liaising with 3rd parties in regards with vendor applications and databases
• Administration of Win 2000/2003/2008/2012 servers, VMware ESX, Exchange Server
• Managing data stores, Snap Shots, Backup's, Health Check's, Monitoring Alert's, Cluster Management, Fault Tolerance, etc on VMware
• Matters concerning Active directory, Back up's, VPN, Domino, Cluster Servers, Networks, Printers, AD, DNS, DHCP, Domino Server, Group policy management, Folder Redirections, Roaming profiles, etc
• Documentation of training manuals for users in regards with new applications and changes to the existing systems
• Daily backups using Symantec
• Adjustment of resources such as CPU/RAM of Virtual servers.
• Maintenance of ESXi environment by balancing of load using Vmotion as required.
• Work with Windows and Linux operations teams on any day-to-day troubleshooting and RCA.
• Participate if power down and power up activities of the ESX environment across multiple data centers.
• Perform Physical to virtual migrations using platespin.
• Schedule and Upgrade Virtual center servers and ESX hosts
• Monitor and audit the health and availability of the organization's servers.
• Apply security baselines on ESX hosts.
• Manage projects related to ESX team.
• Perform restoration of files from Netapp snapshots.
• Monitor snapshots and snapvaults and ensure that they are rolling off in a timely fashion.
• Work with different lines of business in right sizing their virtual environment.
• Configure and troubleshoot storage multipathing on ESX hosts.
• Perform new ESXi builds and upgrade old environments to the latest version of ESXi.

Projects to Date:

• Successfully migrated the standalone servers to VMWare ESX,
• Migrated Win servers 2003 to Win 2008
• Migrated over 1500 PC's and Laptops to Win 7 from XP
• Part of a team involved with migration of Exchange server to Google and Docs to Google apps
• Took the initiative and completed the folders access levels clean up,
• Restructured Active Directory 2003,
• Completed the site move to 3rd party's location with complete planning, implementation and documentation of the same,
• Successfully planned, implemented, documented site migration involving changes to print, file, database, DNS, DHCP, servers with changes to users profile changes
• Moved FTP server from Windows to Linux
• Printer consolidation and standardization to Ricoh, involving SAP and windows servers
• Successfully Planned and coordinated to move NEC PABX platform to Alcatel,

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with server support group in day-to-day support of file print servers, Video conf, inhouse applications, pc builds, etc
• Responsible for creating health report on the entire servers in our environment.
• Responsible for restoring user data using Legato Networker.
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting storage issues on servers.
• Responsible for patching servers with the latest Merrill Lynch approved Microsoft patches.
• Responsible for making sure that the disk space utilization on file servers is proper.
• Responsible for subscribing servers into monitoring devices such as NetIQ.
• Responsible for creating SNA user sessions.
• Extensive knowledge in using Ticketing system Remedy ITSM.
• Experienced in working with remote control tools like Terminal Server client, Avocent Dsview, Remote Admin Compaq Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition.

Confidential

Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

During this period I worked with three different IT departments at Auckland city council. I worked with the windows server build team, the windows server production support team and the Citrix team.

• As a member of the server support team I was involved in supporting users with issues on their home directories, printer problems, permissions issues and other various production problems.
• I was also involved during the infrastructure related issues such as data center power-up power downs.
• As a member of windows server build team, I was responsible for building servers at various data centers across council
• During this period I was also responsible for making sure that the network and storage requirements have been met for each and every server that was being