EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Over 14 years of experience in Windows and Virtual infrastructure resources, System and Network administration, VMware Configuration Administration, System Design, Data Center management, Implementation maintenance of highly scalable 24x7 availability solutions.
• Expertise in system administration of Microsoft products like Windows server 2008/2003/2000/NT and other Application servers in Data Center environment.
• Experience in working with ESXi servers configuration, installation, maintenance and patch management using VMware Update Manager.
• Efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots.
• Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission settings, roles and responsibility assignments and VM resource allocations on ESXi hosts.
• Experience in upgrading ESX/ESXi host, vCenter Servers from 3.5 to 4.0 to 5.0.
• Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter.
• Experience in VMware networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, with different types of port groups.
• Experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion and HA technology.
• Configure and maintain new VM's, install Microsoft Windows 2008 Servers, manage VM's and ESX servers and install VMware Tools on VM's.
• Support and Manage VMware 5.0 infrastructure, installation and configuration of vCenter Server.
• Hands on experience with IBM Servers, HP Proliant Servers and Dell Power Edge rack mount servers.
• Creating and maintaining users, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Experience in Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, WSUS, FTP environment, Virtual Server Administration, and Patch Management on Microsoft Windows Servers.
• Experience in SharePoint 2010 implementation and administration, creation of Web Applications, Site Collections, document libraries, site columns and lists. Develop and customize forms using InfoPath and publish into SharePoint sites. Develop custom workflows using SharePoint Designer, templates and custom fields.
• Assisted in migration of Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. Experience in Exchange 2010 configuration and administration, creation of email accounts for users.
• Experience working with Storage Area Network SAN , EMC CLARiiON, EMC VNXe Good understanding about SAN, iSCSI, NAS configuration and implementing attached storage.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills, good leadership qualities.

Skills Set:

Windows 2012/2008/2003/2000/NT Servers, Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP/2000/NT/95/98 Clients, Active Directory Services, TCP/IP Connectivity, Exchange 2010/2003/2000/5.5 Servers, SQL 2008/2005/2000 Server, IIS, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server ISA , Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Server, VMware vSphere, ESX/ESXi, Hyper-V, vCenter, Citrix XenApp server, Terminal Services, Norton Anti-Virus, Trend Micro, Check Point, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, Barracuda Spam Filter, MobileIron, WAN optimization Riverbed Steelhead, Cisco routers, Catalyst switches, firewalls.

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Windows/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Working on more than 90 virtualized VMware environment / Windows Server in an enterprise environment. Virtualization monitoring and performance planning.
• Build new ESXi hosts and perform migration of all the VMs from ESXi 4.1 to 5.1.
• Co-ordinate with the network team to plan the network structure for the new ESXi hosts like number of NICs, vLANs, subnets etc.
• Configure NIC teaming at ESXi server level for redundancy.
• Installation of vCenter server and configuring ESXi host's within the cluster using vMotion and HA.
• Implement and manage VMware Servers and design solutions based on VMware. Building VM's and new templates for different projects.
• Create, manage and configure VMs, cloning, deploying VM's to template and templates to VM's.
• Perform P2V, V2V migrations using VM Convertor.
• Snapshots of Virtual Machines as when required.
• Running patches and updates through update manager for the ESXi hosts.
• Reconfigure vCPU and the memory setting of the virtual machines as required.
• Create Virtual Switches, Ports and Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks.
• Create various types of desktop pools like manual pools, automated pools, linked clones pools, full clone pools and RDP pools in as per users requirements.
• Administering Windows 2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Responsible for OS upgrade, patching and migrations.
• Active Directory management, Group Policy administration, maintenance of DHCP, DNS and other application servers.

Environment: Windows 2012/2008R2/2008/2003 Servers, Windows 7/XP, MS SQL Server 2008, VMware ESX/ESXi, vSphere 5, Hyper-V, vCenter, EMC VNXe, Storage Replication, EMC Avamar, Barracuda Spam Filter, Riverbed Steelhead, Citrix XenApp server, Active Directory services, WSUS, DHCP, DNS, RDP, IIS, FTP, MobileIron.

Confidential

Windows/VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Handle complete IT infrastructure - servers, storage solutions and administration, VMware configuration and administration, network devices, security devices for data center.
• Installing, managing and troubleshooting ESXi servers.
• Installation of vCenter server and its components and configuring ESXi host's within the cluster using vMotion and HA.
• Building VM's and new templates for and allocating them to appropriate resource pools, upgrading VMware Tools.
• Create snapshots as per requirements.
• Perform P2V, V2V migrations using VM Convertor.
• Management of capacity planning for new clusters, ESXi and VM storage issues.
• Administering Windows 2008 Active Directory, building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Installation and configuration of Windows Active Directory Services. Setting up Domains and configuring DHCP, DNS servers, IIS Servers. Optimization and performance tuning.
• Active Directory users, groups, and computers including delegating authority and applying permissions to various member servers' nomenclature.
• Implementation, configuration and administration of SharePoint 2010 Server. Site and sub site and site collection creation, security and permissions, workflow creation using SharePoint Designer, customised creation of forms using InfoPath.
• Configure and maintain document libraries, lists, site columns and site collections.
• Migration of Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. Tasks involve creating managing e-mail accounts and user support. Configuring mail clients.
• Provide Backup Recovery support using EMC Avamar.
• Assist in planning and setup of backup and disaster recovery solutions, understanding and coordinating BCP Business Continuity Planning activities.
• Experience in performing network and security audits, assisted in enterprise level annual ITC audit.

Environment: Windows 2008 R2/2008/2003 Servers, Windows 7/XP, VMware ESX/ESXi, vSphere 5, Hyper-V, vCenter, MS Exchange Server 2010/2003, MS SQL Server 2008, Active Directory services, WSUS, DHCP, DNS, IIS, FTP, Citrix XenApp server, EMC Clariion, Storage Replication, EMC Avamar, Riverbed Steelhead, Barracuda Spam Filter, MobileIron.

Confidential

IT Engineer/Windows/VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administering Windows 2008 Active Directory, building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Installation and configuration of Windows Active Directory Services. Setting up Domains and configuring DHCP, DNS servers, IIS Servers. Optimization and performance tuning as needed.
• Enforce domain security through Group Policy Administration, Active Directory Management.
• Creating managing user accounts, e-mail accounts, managing user rights and permissions. Configure mail clients. Managing User Group accounts and their access control.
• In place upgrade of Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2008 of physical and virtual machines.
• Create Active Directory users and groups, including delegating authority and applying permissions to various member servers' nomenclature.
• Building VM's and new templates for and allocating them to appropriate resource pools.
• Installation of VMware tools, perform P2V, V2V migrations using VM Convertor.
• Participated in installation and configuration of vCenter server, and vSphere licensing.
• Updating and upgrading ESXi servers using vCenter update manager.
• Remote Access using Terminal services. VPN access to enterprise resources. Set up connectivity between head office and remote location for users.
• Setting up connectivity between head office and remote location for users.
• Responsible for Citrix Server infrastructure software support, XenApp server for application virtualization.
• Administration of RDBMS MS SQL 2008 Server, responsible for database backup and restore, creating access logins.

Environment: Windows 2008 R2/2008/2003 Servers, Windows 7/XP, VMware ESX/ESXi, vSphere 5, Hyper-V, vCenter, MS Exchange Server 2010/2003, MS SQL Server 2008, Active Directory services, IIS, FTP, WSUS, DHCP, DNS, EMC Clariion, Storage Replication, EMC Avamar, Riverbed Steelhead.

Confidential

Windows Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Propose solutions for IT infrastructure design and implementation. Advise on System architecture, System integration planning and implementation.
• Network planning, design and implementation. Design and implementation of Windows Server environments.
• Installation and configuration of Windows Active Directory Services. Setting up Domains and configuring DHCP, DNS servers, IIS Servers.SQL 2005 Server, Exchange 2003 Server. Optimization and performance tuning.
• Setting up connectivity between head office and remote locations for clients.
• Manage change requests for all environments using Change Management process.
• Performance tuning of Application and Server architecture for improved performance.
• Perform Load testing on application platforms to determine the best application settings and configurations.
• Working with business partners to analyze issues and develop solutions to support applications
• Projection of hardware requirements for client projects and their day-to-day maintenance requirement.
• Lead a team of support engineers hold daily planning/status meetings and work to troubleshoot system/network issues, documentation and training.
• Monitoring the end-user experience and create action plans to address connectivity or compatibility issues.
• Manage the coordination efforts of design development, documentation, training and end-user support.

Environment: Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 Servers, Windows XP, MS SQL Server 2005/2000, Exchange Server 2003, Active Directory services, WSUS, DHCP, DNS, RDP, IIS, FTP, Terminal Services.

Confidential

Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of servers workstations on Microsoft platform.
• Installation configuration of Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT operating system.
• Configuring and maintaining Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2000/5.5. Managing users. Database backup. Creating managing e-mail accounts and user support. Configuring mail clients.
• Installation and configuring Microsoft SQL 2005/2000 server, daily backup and maintenance.
• Installation and maintenance of Web servers IIS , management of websites.
• Configuring and managing Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration server ISA . Setting up access polices for users.
• Installation and configuration of Windows Active Directory Services. Setting up Domains, configuring and establishing Trust Relationships, configuring DHCP, DNS and RAS Servers.
• Maintaining Remote Servers using Terminal services / RDP client.
• Providing 2nd/3rd level desktop and network support to parent company in Switzerland over WAN.
• Projection of hardware requirements for forthcoming software projects and day-to-day maintenance requirement.
• Manage the coordination efforts of development, beta testing, quality assurance, documentation, training and end-user support.
• Configuring various test conditions and different operating system versions and languages for testing releases of projects on servers desktops and laptops. Preparing test cases.

Environment: Windows 2003/2000/NT Servers, Windows XP/2000/NT clients, Exchange Server 2003/2000/5.5, MS SQL Server 2005/2000, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, RDP, IIS, FTP, Proxy Server, ISA Server etc.