SUMMARY

• 71/2 years of extensive experience wif Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro - active Virtualization/Windows and Network Administrator wif an excellent 'can-do' attitude.
• Experience wif Virtualization technologies in Installing, Configuring and administering VMware ESX/ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 and created and managed VMs (virtual machines) and also involved in the maintenance of the vCenter Server 5.0/5.1/5.5.
• Worked on vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 and for managing multiple ESXi Servers, Build and troubleshooting experience wif ESX Servers and ESXi Servers, vSphere and vCenter manager.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts)
• Experience wif x86 / x64 Intel, HP & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Implemented and managed HA and DRS clusters.
• Strong noledge and hands on experience in data center Migration.
• Implementation of View 5.0, View 4.5, Desktop Virtualization View 4.6, VDI on Cisco UCS.
• P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter Enterprise 3 and 4 and PlateSpin.
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESX 4.X and Virtual Center and vMotion.
• Knowledge in EMC Clarion SAN Storage, HP EVA 8400 and NAS storage environment
• Knowledge on iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Excellent Linux, Unix Skills and debugging wif 10Gbe switches troubleshooting
• Experience wif Firewalls, IPs, switches and VPNs configurations.
• Distributed systems wif virtualization, thin provisioning, and networking in Linux for the RAID storage systems
• Standard Linux/UNIX administration activities on Linux servers. Investigate and resolve system problems/performance issues
• Strong noledge on Server, Desktop and Application Virtualization.
• Troubleshooting using PowerCLI.
• Worked extensively on Templates and clones.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2012/2008/2003/2000/ NT 4.0 servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Hands-on experience in Project Management, Deployment, Installation, Administration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of various Microsoft Operating Systems and Application, Networks and Computers.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), IIS 5.1/6.0/7, FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server
• Expertise in building Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, 2008, 2003, 2000 servers using HP Smart Start, Array configurations, diagnosing server, Updating Firmware and PSP, Application Software under multi-platform environments, deployment & monitoring physical Servers.
• Experience in managing multiple Windows systems wif Microsoft SCCM 2007 providing patch management, remote control, software distribution and OS deployment.
• Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, GPP, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Administrating, creating and modifying DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation, DFS link, Web servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting and WINS and DNS and managing user and group accounts Administration.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing, and Windows networking.
• Extensive experience wif Windows 2008 clustering services.
• Familiar wif Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling & labeling, maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power and UPS monitoring.
• Experience in Writing/ Maintaining & troubleshooting scripts written both in MS Power Shell and/or Python script for build & operations environment to develop/test/implement automation tools.
• Documentation of data recovery plans and models wif updating the internal wiki.
• Weekly checkhealth reports for the servers wif trouble shooting along wif fix for storage servers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMwarevSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 , vCenter Server 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 , ESX 3.5/ 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 , VMware Update Manager, HA, DRS, FT, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Workstation

Windows Administration: Configuration of DHCP and DNS, installation and configuration of VPN client, Windows Server 2003/2008 - installation and configuration, installation and configuration of Active Directory creating users and groups, setting user access controls, domains creation and setup.

Networking: OSI Reference Model, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and subnetting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts including vSwitches, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP stack for virtualization, configuration of printers and, scanners.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 G5/G6 Intel Xeon, HP ProLiant DL385 G6/G7 AMD Opteron, Dell PowerEdge 2850, 2950, R710, HP BL 460c G5/G6 blade servers, C7000 HP Chassis. NetApp V6000 Series.

Operating Systems: Windows Server NT 4.0/2000/2003/2008 R2/2012, Windows XP/Vista/7, Linux & Centos, Apple Mac OS.

Languages: C, C++, Python, VBScript, SQL, Bash, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Lake Forest, IL

Senior VMware/Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of Datacenters and installing the Hardware of HP proliant, Dell Power Edge and Cisoc UCS Blade servers.
• Hands on experience will HP, Dell and Cisco UCS chassis and maintenance of converged infrastructure across different locations of the datacenters.
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization wif vSphere 5.0/5.1/5.5, VMware ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5 and Virtual Center server 5.5
• Extensive Knowledge and experience in upgrading the total virtual infrastructure from vSphere 5.0 to 5.5 on cross platform infrastructure like HP, Dell and Cisco UCS servers.
• Experience in installing ESXi, VMware vCenter Server and creation of folders, Datacenter and VMware clusters using enhanced features like HA and DRS.
• Extensive noledge and hands on experience in P2V and V2V migration of 1500 Virtual Machines using VMware Converter, Double take and Platespin tools.
• Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines for easy deployment of different versions and different flavors of virtual machines.
• Expert in creating vswitches like standard and distributed switches, port groups and troubleshooting them
• Knowledge in Configured Netbackup Client for backing up the virtual machines using the snapshots technology and removing the stale snapshots by running the power shell scripts.
• Hands-on experience in migration of vm’s from Host to Host using vMotion and from one Lun to another Lun using storage vMotion
• Installed and deployed Site Recovery manager (SRM) for disaster recovery plans using replication between EMC storage arrays using EMC recover point.
• Installing, configuring VDI instances using PCOIP protocol and creating floating and dedicated desktops and troubleshooting the instances.
• Knowledge and experience on applying patches to windows servers using SCCM where the SCCM pulls the updates from WSUS and controlling the installation of updates to the required servers by following the organization standards.
• Configured Domain Naming Server (DNS) and created forward/reverse lookup zones wif associated pointer records.
• Customized Win 2003/2008 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment
• Worked wif business clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes, and workflow
• Ensured adherence to procedures and processes for hardware, software, and applications
• Interacted, coordinated wif different teams and participated in daily meetings and tracking the issues and new deployments to meet the deadlines.
• Administrating production servers/network infrastructure dat includes Windows administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), MS SharePoint, MS Office 2007/2010, Exchange 2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008.
• Prepared detail documentation for the whole physical and virtualized the environment

Environment: Windows 2008/2003, Windows 7, Microsoft DFS, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, NTFS, Dell Power Edge, IBM, HP ProLiant Confidential, G5 Blade Servers, IIS Servers, IBM TSM backup, VMware ESX 4.0 & 5.0 Servers, Exchange Server 2010/2013.

Senior VMware Admin

Confidential, New Providence, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Managing ESX and ESXi servers on HP, DELL and Installation of vCenter Server, vCenter Components and upgrading VMware Tools.
• Planning, managing and Installation of VMware ESX 5.0 /5.1 server, Installation and configuration of virtual center database and installation of VMware infrastructure virtual machine.
• Management and integration of ESX server, create a new storage space, creation of VMFS data store, Configuration networking for the virtual machines.
• P2V, V2V conversions of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers using Enterprise Converter.
• Planning, configuration, maintenance and administration of VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, V-Motion, Storage Motion, HA and DRS, P2V, V2V and Troubleshooting.
• Configure and manage User, Group, Permission, Role, Resource pool on VMware virtual center.
• Planning, configuration, maintenance and administration of Windows Server Systems.
• Configuration, Management and Troubleshooting on websites (including .NET) running on Microsoft IIS 6.0 and 7.0
• Configuration, management and Troubleshooting Microsoft Physical and Virtual Clusters and NLBS
• Hands-on experience on Microsoft debugging tools like Procmon, Adplus, Poolmon, Windbg and Debug Diag 1.1
• Server Security to include maintaining most current OS MS patches, Symantec Antivirus and OS Hardening.
• Plan and schedule OS upgrades & firmware upgrades.
• Administration and managing VMware server (ESX 5.0 & 5.1) on production level.
• Management of virtual machines, their resource pools and capacity planning security hardening and Monitoring of VMs & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Creation and Deployment of Virtual Machines in datacenter, setup of their VLAN/Port-group.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Migration VM ware convertor, Virtual Infrastructure client.
• Installation/configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN environment.
• Performing VMware crash/error analysis, Root cause Analysis, Coordinate Post Problem Analysis and Trend Analysis.
• Managing the VM infrastructure (VMotion, DRS, HA, Virtual Center Server, VM Converter).
• Managing Windows 2003/2008 Cluster Servers For file and database, connected via Storage Area Network.
• Health Checkup of all the Production Servers, monitoring what’s up alerts on a routine basis.
• Hardening of Servers to ensure proper security measures are implemented.
• Installation & configuration Of Hp Blade servers, HP Proliant BL-460c G7, and Network load balancing, and network redundancy.
• Played a key role in Successful migration of VMware 5.0 to VMware 5.1.
• Troubleshooting problems pertaining to Windows 2000/2003/2008.

Windows & Citrix Admin / VMware Engineer

Confidential, PA

Responsibilities:

• Administered VMware environment, evaluated & implemented new hardware & software solutions dat benefited architecture & operations. Implemented VMware SRM & troubleshooting performance issues.
• Analyzing and implementing OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool.
• Played a Key role in Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2003/2008 Servers, and VMware ESX Servers 4.0/4.1.
• Maintained vCenter Server 4.1 & implemented View Desktop Infrastructure
• Building ESXi 4.0/5.0 Hosts and maintain those ESXi servers through vSphere Client.
• Design and implementation of vCops for of capacity planning to monitor and build new clusters, ESXi and increase storage lun’s as per the needs.
• Configured HA, DRS clusters, FT for important VM’s.
• Capacity planning using vCops and VMware guided consolidation for gathering the physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics.
• Used tools such as VMware Converter, PlateSpin, and Veeam FastSCP to work on ESXi Environment for the P2V conversions.
• Design and implementation of standard switches and maintaining the redundancy level for ESX network created different ports groups for different networks like VMnetwork, Vmotion/VMkernel, Management and Storage networks..
• Customized layer 2 & layer 3 networking between VMware, networking components & storage for high availability & maximum performance.
• Performing migration of VM’s from Host to host and between Lun’s using vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Identified & fixed ESX performance bottlenecks by working wif clients & other teams and configured NFS server to share resources across multiple servers.
• Created Snapshots according to user’s requests and requirement.
• Presenting FC SAN LUN’s, RDM’s iSCSI LUN’s and NFS mounts.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.
• Worked wif system engineering, network, security, & storage engineering teams to prepare & configure new servers for the VMware ESX environment.
• Disaster recovery planning, implementation & recovering systems during crash or hardware failure.
• Update & patch all ESX servers & coordinate hardware-software installations & upgrades to ensure work is performed in accordance wif company policy.
• Performed troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory and maintained Web Servers by installing IIS 6, FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS 6.
• Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management.
• Configured automated VM migrations using automated scripts in PowerShell. Standardized network cable runs for VMware hosts across multiple data center.
• Manage Juniper switches (EX4200), Firewalls (SRX3400) & Checkpoint IP350 for Primary Data center
• Interact & coordinate wif different teams to meet the deadlines
• Documentation includes PCI compliance Requirements, Project Plan, Network Diagrams, P2V migration & Network design & upgrades recommendation.
• Provide Level 2 support to end-users and performed technical expertise for windows systems environments on issues related to servers, local services, data centers, and server configuration.
• Monitor all windows backup and perform fine-tuning every 15 days and Maintained records for event, audit and application logs.

VMware/ Windows Admin

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the VMware implementation and expansion work by adding 50+ hosts bringing total to 105 managed hosts and administered more than 1500+ VMs.
• Created and managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production.
• Perform capacity analysis of existing physical production environment using VMware Capacity Planner.
• VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.
• Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware convertor and HP Blade servers resulting in a reduction of racks and power usage, decrease downtime during maintenance and upgrades and improved monitoring.
• Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual Center Server for HA, DRS.
• Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Administered and setup print servers in Windows 2003/2000 server.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network in ESXi & Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and deploying VMs from templates.
• Administer for windows server and all related server services including FTP, AD, DNS, DHCP and VPN.
• Creating a test Environment in VM Machines for Production Team to test their applications.
• Monitor around 600 physical servers wif SCOM and SCCM 2007 and HP insight manager.
• Experience wif data center hosting web sites maintaining application servers.
• Installed, configured and administering Microsoft Windows 2003/2000 servers.
• Perform regular maintenance of Server 2008 and 2003, which consist of adding users, editing user login scripts and granting permission to directories and shared files.
• Monitor Sonic wall CDP (Continues data protection) 6.0 services for offsite backup.
• Provide Active Directory, Group policy and user profile maintenance.
• Maintain Symantec Endpoint protection management console.
• Provided technical support to troubleshoot network connectivity, network printing and user access issue.
• Troubleshoot windows infrastructure by resolving trouble tickets assigned by the users.
• Maintained and track hardware and software inventory and documents.
• Maintaining documentation and process for supported systems and applications.

Environment: VMware ESX 4.0/3.5, vSphere 4.0, Windows Server 2008/2003, Active Directory 2003, HP Proliant Servers and Dell Hardware

Systems Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for participating in providing transition support and services for the Delphi Automotive Widows servers to gather and define the processes needed for the HP global delivery teams.
• Publishing and assigning the user permissions to access the Applications in Citrix Management Console.
• Creating the load evaluators for load balance purpose while users accessing the Applications.
• Maintaining the file server, application and Print Server.
• Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on production servers.
• Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP.
• Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.
• Worked elaborately on different windows environment, which include Windows NT version 4.0, Work Station, Terminal, 2000 and 2003.
• Created objects like User Accounts, Computer Accounts, Auto logon accounts.
• Assigning folder permissions to the users by gathering approval from the group owners.
• Efficiently created and managed various Groups (Domain Local and Global Security).
• Worked on HP Open View Service Desk (OVSD) tickets.
• Raised tickets for any issues discovered during validation.
• Using Net Use command to check whether we can connect to member servers or not.
• Categorization of server in terms of complexity and effort required completing the primary system access tasks.
• Created standard operating procedures and process documents for training off shore resources.

Environment: Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT Server, Windows XP/98.