SUMMARY

• Over 10+ years of experience in the areas of IT Infrastructure, Cloud/Virtualization technologies, Datacenter Technologies, server management and operations, Application development, Maintenance and support.
• Expertise in Amazon Cloud (AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, snapshots etc) and Verizon Public Cloud.
• Expertise in product evaluations, project planning, platform design and architecting.
• Worked closely with various vendors, sales teams in selecting and evaluating various solutions during Cloud platform design.
• Experience in install, configure and manage the platform. Administration and troubleshooting of VMware vSphere environment and vFabric Data Director.
• Experience in managing VMware vSphere environment (VMware vCenter, vFabric Data Director, vPostgres, V - Motion, HA, DRS, FT, templates, clone, snapshots, host profiles)
• Performed system software/hardware upgrades, updates, and patches.
• Expertise in server consolidation, Datacenter migrations (P2V, V2V)
• Experience in installing and configuring Double-Take Availability for cloud. Installing and configuring F5 LTM VE, Netscalar VPX for network team to perform internal load balancing.
• Exposure HP enclosures c7000, c3000, ProLian BL465c, DL360 servers, HP Onboard administrator, iLO and HP Virtual Connect tools.
• Experience in using Puppet, scripting languages like PowerCLI, vMA, Bash. Excellent troubleshooting skills with hardware and software in windows & RHEL environment.
• Make technical recommendations to management in capacity planning, building virtual farms, strategy planning, RFP. Identifying administrative standards, issues and process improvement.
• Worked with Business Owners in migration planning, scheduling, approvals (CCB), change requests, clearly communicating technical solutions to business users, resulting in successful implementation.
• Experience in wiring queries, SPs for databases like SQL, Sybase 11.5. Developed and supported applications running on C, C++ languages.
• Experience in Production Support, Skilled in project management (UML, RUP, Agile,Scrum) and Quality assurance (ISO, CMM), Software testing methodologies.
• Worked closely and effectively with all levels of management to satisfy project and productivity requirements, Offers logical, forthright thinking and able to provide effective solutions to solve difficult problems.
• Excellent communication, leadership skills. Self motivated, highly energetic and eager to accept responsibility.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization Technologies: VMware vSphere 5.x, ESXi v5.x/4.x, vCenter 5.x/4.x, VMware vConverter, PlateSpin, vMA, PowerCLI, Update Manager, vCACCloud Technologies/Platform Amazon Web Services (EC2, VPC, EBS, S3), Verizon Cloud (VPC), vFabric Data Director, Puppet

Converter/Migration tools: vConverter, PlateSpin Cold and Hot migration

Operating System: Windows 2003, 2008 R2, Red Hat Linux 5 and 6, Solaris.

Hardware/Enclosure: HP Blade System c7000, c3000, Onboard Administrator, iLO, virtual connect

Databases: Sybase11.5, DB2, SQL,, Postgre SQL

Development Methodologies: OOAD, Agile Scrum and XP Methodology. UML, Microsoft Vizio, Project Plan, Rational RSA, MS Office

Programming Languages: C, C++, Python, Shell Scripting

Tools: BMC Patrol, WireShark, Microsoft Vizio, Clear case, Clear DDTs, Rational Purify, Rational PureCoverage. F5 LTM VE, Netscalar VPX, Double-Take Availability for Cloud, Cloud360, Nagios

Change Management: BMC Remedy, HP Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Enterprise Cloud Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creating, managing and supporting virtual servers hosted on various platforms like Amazon EC2/VPC, Verizon Cloud (Reserved Performance, Resource pools) and VMware ESXi.
• Design, configure, and support virtual machines in multiple public cloud environments (Amazon EC2, vCloud Director, vCAC, Verizon VPC, vFabric Data Director) for both intranet and Internet facing applications.
• Responsible for creating installation templates (using Puppet), deployment scripts, documentation, and troubleshooting for thousands of virtual systems hosted within private and public cloud environments.
• Experienced in implementing change management, incident & problem management processes in Cloud platform.
• Working with various business units providing operational support for various servers (Amazon cloud (AWS), Verizon Cloud, VMware vShere environment, Windows 2008, RHEL 5.8 and 6.2) hosted in private and public cloud platforms.
• Migrating servers between private and public cloud platforms, various data centers.
• Decommission of servers that are no longer used.
• Working with network, security, storage teams in performing various day to day activities.
• Experienced in interacting with vendors on product selections, demos and evaluations.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Infrastructure/ VMware Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Data center management & migration planning, build plan, cut over strategy, test strategy & plan, configuration changes in Solaris, Windows, SQL, Oracle servers.
• Responsible for interaction with Customers, Business Users, Business Analysts and various application portfolio managers in planning & implementing migrations.
• Participate in CCB meetings for all the CRQs related to migration, new installations.
• Setting up HP enclosures C7000, C3000, BL465c, DL380 blade servers using onboard administrator, iLO, Create server profiles, configure network and storage using Virtual Connect tool.
• Design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 4 and 5 environments, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, FT and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, VMware converter VM Backup products and other products for virtualization
• Install, configure vCenter, vSphere client, vUM (update manager), update patches, perform upgrades, necessary fixes.
• Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) of Windows 2003, 2008 servers
• Working with network & Security teams for Firewall, network (VLAN) configurations, TSM backup teams, updating documents for operation handover after GO-Live.

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

VMware admin

Responsibilities:

• Maintained VMware 3, 3.5 environment hosting various guest OS (Windows, Linux, Solaris)
• Perform upgrades, patch updates to hardware, operating systems, and applications.
• Maintenance of the server farm, Performance tuning and capacity planning related to the Virtualized environment and monitoring performance activities.
• Consolidate and manage Windows servers using VMware Sphere 4.0 clients and vCenter.
• Handling operational tickets. Resolving day-to-day trouble tickets for operating systems, applications, printers, and network problems
• Install, configure, manage and troubleshoot windows operating systems (2000, 2003, XP)
• Active Directory (creating users and computers, groups, account unlocking, password reset), DNS administration (adding, modifying, updating servers)
• Coordinate with multiple teams to fulfill new server build requests to satisfy configuration, storage, backup and monitoring requirements.
• Handling escalation tickets as per SLA agreements.

Confidential

Application Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for coding of the application based on technical specifications using C++, Multithreading, Socket Programming, and Shell scripting Environment.
• Involved in complete development of TL1 commands, SNMP MIBs, SNMP requests using C++.
• Experience in solving FR’s and CR’s related to TL1 modules. Experience in setting up the NT, LT and LANX for traffic flow.
• Involved in developing SNMP Mapper for NT, LANX. Involved in designing the TL1 commands for LANX switch.
• Experience in supporting the client during production testing. Experience in unit testing and target testing, preparing the test cases for ST, FT and reviewing the PT test cases. Involved in code reviews and document reviews for the TL1 related modules. Conducted various trainings for the new comers to the team.
• Experience in supporting the test team for the regression, smoke test.