SUMMARY

• IT Professional with over 8+ years of experience in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration, Administration, Support of VMware ESX 3.5/4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1, Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2.
• Creating and configuring Datacentreand clusters in vCenter server.
• Expertise on Creating virtual machines, installing operating systems inside VM's and installing tools and configure these VM's based on customer requirements.
• Experience in Microsoft Active Directory, infrastructure solutions, messaging and Unified Communications areas to perform configuration, testing, and deployment of all Microsoft virtualization, Exchange and related technologies.
• Provide Office 365 configuration/migration, IT support for Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
• Experience in working on upgrading, transitioning and migrating Exchange to the latest version.
• Experience on server build and configurations on Exchange 2010, trouble - shooting and reporting skills on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010.
• Hands of experience in creating the OU, security groups, Distribution list creation and enabling the mailbox in Exchange 2010.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations, Hot Migrations and Templates.
• Good Knowledge on Deploying and Managing Virtual Machines using Virtual centre through OVF/OVA.
• Configuring Resource Pool, Alerts, Alarms.
• Experience on vMotion and SVmotion, HA feature, DRS feature.
• Creating Virtual Switches and port groups in virtual environment.
• Moderate testing experience in Microsoft HyperV and Citrix XenServer.
• Configuring vSphere Standard Switches (VSS) and virtual distributed switches (VDS).
• Configuring LUNS to ESX/ESXi host data stores and extending the data stores.
• Updating and Upgrading the ESX and ESXi servers using VMware update manager.
• Convert physical machines to virtual machines (P2V) and virtual machines to virtual machines (V2V) with VMware converter.
• Configuring and troubleshooting HA and DRS feature using CLI.
• Monitoring performance of server
• Installing, Configuring and troubleshooting of Active directory services and Domain naming systems in windows 2003 and 2008 environment.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS/WDS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server
• Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc.).
• Monitor pending issues and ensure closure within SLA
• Configuring and troubleshooting Group policies for controlling computers and users.
• Installing and configuring Linux/Unix servers and Creation of Users/groups in the server.
• Configuring Job Scheduling using corn tabs in Linux/Unix Servers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PLATFORMS: Windows 98/2000/XP, Windows 2003/2008 Standard/Enterprise Edition Server; Microsoft 64-bit systems - XP, 2003, SQL Server 2000/2005, MS DOS, UNIX, Centos 5/6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu

SERVERS/TECHNOLOGIES: Windows Terminal Services, IIS 5.0/6.0/7.0, Apache, SQL Server 2000/2005, Windows 2000/2003/2008 , Windows Clustering, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2010, Active Directory (AD), HP ILOv1/2, DNS, WINS, Telnet, FTP, TFTP, and DHCP, DELL PERC 6i/H700, Adaptec RAID Controllers, Clustering, EMC SAN, High availability systems

HARDWARE: Dell PowerEdge 2600,2800, 2950, R410, R510 HP ProLiant DL360 G7, DL380 G6,DL385 G1, DL385 G2Cisco PIX 515E,ASA5500 series firewallCisco catalyst 2950, 2960 series switches

APPLICATIONS: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems - . Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Visio, MS Office XP/ 2003/2007/2010 , Norton Ghost, VERITAS/SYMANTEC Backup Exec, Team Viewer, RDP’s

PROTOCOLS: TCP/IP, NFS, iSCSI, DNS, DHCP, IPSEC, PPTP, Ethernet

VIRTUALIZATION: VMware ESX Server 4.1, ESXi 5.0 and Virtual centre 4.1, 5.0, VM Converter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, BLOOMFIELD, CT

WINDOWS/VMWARE ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and managing Virtual Infrastructure, ESX 3.5, VCenter, vSphere.
• VMware infrastructure 4.5, 5.0 / VSphere installation and configuration
• Troubleshooting ESXi server and VCenter using command line.
• Apply patches to all the ESXi hosts in the environment whenever required
• Configuring Resource pool and DPM.
• Experience with large number of P2V and V2V migrations using VMware/Platespin and doubletake convertor tools.
• Hands on experience in VMware products VSphere 5.0
• Server consolidation with VMware converter (P2V and V2V conversions).
• Solved coexistence mail routing problem for the Office 365 migration team.
• Migrated and thoroughly documented the procedures to migrate from various environments to the latest version of Exchange 2010 and Windows 2008 R2.
• Generateactive directory reports with PowerShellProvide site progress reports toproject leadership
• Supported Microsoft Exchange Server 2010/2003, Outlook, Outlook Web Access (OWA) / Web Mail, email queue and Exchange Push Mail for mobile devices.
• Maintain Troubleshooting with Stores dismount and maintaining the disk space in exchange 2010.
• Creating Resource Pools and Setting limits on CPU and RAM.
• Configuring Virtual machines using Templates, Hot clone, Cold Clone and Cold Migration.
• Troubleshooting issues related to Virtual Machine, vMotion, snapshots, clone and template.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Creating and managing the users, groups, GPO in the Active Directory.
• Added servers to Active Directory and LDAP server.
• Performed backups, Operating system Installation, Software installation, Adding or removing users and troubleshooting of Unix/Linux Machines
• Overview tuning and performance monitoring for Unix/Linux workstations and servers
• Configuring VMware vSphere Cluster features like High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS).
• Responsible for NSX configurtions and creating workflows.
• Created a Host Profile and configured multiple hosts from well-built Host.
• Installed and configured multiple ESX/ESXi hosts using Auto Deploy.
• Installing and configuring of Virtual Distributed switches and assigning them to VLANs.
• Monitoring ESX/ESXi hosts and Resource availability using vCenter operations manager.
• Installing and configuring of Virtual Standard Switches and assigning port groups to it.
• Troubleshooting ESX/ESXi hosts using ILOinterfaces.

ENVIRONMENT: - ESXi 3.5/4.1/5.5, VCenter server 4.1/5.5, Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 server, RHEL 4.8,5.5,5.6, Team Track, Horizon View 5.2, IBM N Series, IBM x3850 X5/IBM 3850 M2/x3950 M2.

Confidential, BALTIMORE, MD

WINDOWS SYSTEM ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Installed and worked on VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM 5.0) for the disaster recovery and managed recovery plans.
• Monitoring of Virtual Machines &ESXi Servers using Virtual centre.
• Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) & Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) in Virtual Centre.
• Creating & Managing Virtual Machines & Templates.
• Migration of ESXi from Ver4 to Ver5
• Configuring Centralized licensing for the virtual centre server.
• Convert a Virtual Disk from Thin to Thick & Convert Thick to Thin Format.
• Creating & Managing Resource pools & adding the VM's into the resource Pools.
• Converting P2V, V2V using virtual converter.
• Monitor, manage and troubleshoot using tools such as event viewer, MMC, EXBPA, exchange management shell, PowerShell, message tracking tool, regsvr32, regedit, and regedt32.
• Perform MS Exchange system administration activities involving install, update, configure and maintain servers.
• Responsible for using NSX for replacing vmware vswtich and vsphere distributed switch to provide true networking.
• Setting up Exchange Server Archiving - archive items from Microsoft Exchange user mailboxes, journal mailboxes, and public folders
• Troubleshooting Exchange Components (Exchange Database, Outlook Web Access, Offline Address List, Mail Flow, Public Folders and Free/Busy Information).
• Monitoring of VLANs in Virtual Distributed Switch.
• Configuring and managed DNS and Active Directory.
• Generating reports on SLA for all client locations in End usercomputing. Reports on pending incidents, tasks and follow up for closure.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Creating & managing port groups in Standard switch & DVS Switch.
• Creating VLAN in VDS & in IBM Blade switches.
• Creation, configuration of Virtual switches and Port groups.
• Maintain, managing ESX server via VI client and web-client.
• Installing Application's in the Virtual Machine as per user request.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers (SMS) servers.
• Design and implement Active directory Services/DNS/DHCP/IIS in Windows 2003 Server environment.
• Installation, configuration and administration of Windows 7, XP & 2000 Professional Client OS.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2000/2003, Windows XP, Red hat 3/4, NAS, SAN, ISCSI, web sphere 6.0/6.1, oracle 8/9i, NAS, SAN, ISCSI, VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters, SCOM 2007.

Confidential

WINDOWS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Managed the overall administration of Windows System applications.
• Performed various troubleshooting and maintenance operations in Windows Server environments.
• Selected Professional Performance.
• Use PowerShell scripts for the automation of the system. Work with Security team for Active Directory auditing.
• Configuring Windows Clustering
• Installed of latest versions of Operating Systems on demand, per requirements of the clients.
• Sorted complex issues pertaining to hardware and network failure - Monitored both Hardware and Software systems for errors and updated them regularly to maintain proper functioning and flow of information.
• Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.
• Performed security monitoring tests to identify intrusions.
• Monitoring VMware Infrastructure - CPU, Memory, Disks and networks.
• Provided Tier 2 and Tier 3 technical support.
• Experience in Installing and configure the vmware NSX appliances for a setup including vmware vsphere,vmware NSX and openstack.
• Deployed performance enhancing/monitoring tools.
• Recommended new updates and changes required by the clients.
• Produced new system and network designs for clients.
• Preparing daily checklist and updating management regularly.
• Building windows servers in virtual machines & activate the windows.
• Windows 2008 Failover Cluster configuration and management.
• Performing Server Hardening activities - Windows Registry level Modifications.
• Participated in complete system builds, upgrades and migrations activity.
• Documented the new Windows server settings that have been applied to the network.

ENVIRONMENT: - ESX 5.0/4.1, VCenter server 5.0/4.1, Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2 server, RHEL 4.8,5.5,5.6, Team Track, Tivoli Storage Manager 6.X, Net IQ 7.X,, EMC Clariion, VNX, Symantec Endpoint, HP Proliant DL580G7, HP Proliant DL360G7.

Confidential

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR/VMWARE ENGINEER

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 Windows 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.
• Running VB Scripts to validate logins on 1000 + servers and check the server access on weekly basis.
• Strong Knowledge in creating various objects like User Accounts, Computer Accounts, and Auto logon accounts.
• Provided BC/DR replication for VMware and Hyper-V infrastructures incorporating OTV andNSX virtual networking.
• 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.
• Scheduling scripts twice a week and worked extensively on bad server list.
• Categorization of server in terms of complexity and effort required to complete the primary system access tasks.
• Experience with VMware, creating VM Sessions for installing multiple OS and applications.
• Working on Ticket process in receiving Incident tickets in Remedy Tool in 24x7 environments.
• Created standard operating procedures and process documents for training off shore resources

ENVIRONMENT: Red Hat Linux 4/5,Windows 2000/2003/2008 server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange 2003/ 2007,Microsoft Office, VMware VCenter Server, EMC CLARiiON, Symantec Netbackup,SQL server 2005/2008, Service-now.

Confidential

WINDOWS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Administered, maintained and monitored Central site with several remote Primary sites based on Windows 2003 Servers in a Windows 2003 Domain.
• Migration of virtual machines from ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0.
• Maintain daily operations for Windows server infrastructure and components.
• Coordinate with multiple teams to fulfil new server build requests to satisfy configuration, storage, backup and monitoring requirements.
• Installing and updating the windows patches.
• Creating NTFS shares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Setting up windows servers to analyse performance issues.
• Maintained and updated Active Directory for authentication purposes.
• Managing Registry settings as per application perspective.
• Clustered the Windows servers to reduce load on applications.
• Taking full responsibility till the installations must be done for a given period of time.
• Annual Maintenance Contracts follow-ups, keeping full track of customer invoices.
• Performed extensive testing across all Windows OS with users to get signoff for each application.

ENVIRONMENT: Windows 2000/2003, Oracle 7.x, PL/SQL, JDBC, Linux, Solaris and Windows NT.