SUMMARY

• VMware certified professional with 8 years of experience in Information Technology - Planning, Installation, Configuration, Design, Engineering, Integration, Development, Administration, Management, Verification, Technical Support, Trouble shooting and User training of the consolidated VMware, Windows, Linux, Citrix, Virtual Systems Environment
• Comprehensive knowledge of mechanical systems principles and applications involved in data center operations
• Datacenter/Data domain Consolidation and Virtualization using VMware technologies: VMware vSphere 4.x/5.x, VMware ESX 2.5/3x/4.x,ESXi 3.5/4.x/5.x,vCenter Server 4.x/5.x,VMware View 4.x/5.0, VMware vCloud Director 1.5, Vrealize automation (VRA), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), VCAC, ThinApp, Update Manager, P2V, V2P, Templates, Snapshots, Cloning, DRS, HA, vMotion & SVMotion
• Extensive experience in installation, configuration, maintenance, design, Administration, implementation, and support on Solaris, Linux, AIX and HP-UX Environment
• Experience in vCloud Director 1.5 installation and Configuration and connecting data base servers like SQL servers vCenter, vShield, Catalogs, Chargeback, ThinApp, Netapp in Business Planning and Control System environment
• Managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provisioning and implementing, VMware View 4.x/5.x by configuring VMware View Composer, View connection server, View Agent and View Client
• Implemented VMware’s Virtual Switch technology (vSwitch), Tunneling, NIC teaming, VLAN trunking, and port groups, IP sub-netting, Load Balancing, High Availability (HA), Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, Data Stores, and Networking
• Strong working knowledge of LDAP groups, net groups, ability to query LDAP for user details, and Migration experience on LDAP/AD Admin to assist with an LDAP to AD migration
• Expertise with Rack/Blade servers, Windows Active Directory Administration, Windows Server 2000/2003,Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP; managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008
• Administered, Installed (EMC VNX/Unisphere), Customized, and Supported Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Fabrics to meet technical computing requirements; also Identified Hardware, Software and Network issues
• Knowledge on ITIL and Experience in performing general UNIX administration (Linux, HP-UX,), especially in RedHat Linux area with RHEL 6 or 7 experiences.
• Backup Enterprise Systems and Disaster Recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; Solid understanding of VI 3.x, vSphere 4.x implementation with Shared Storage, Maping (RDM), iSCSI, NFS/VMFS strategies for Performance and Optimization along with RAID concepts.
• Technical Supports Complex System environments and prioritized Multiple Projects; including Troubleshooting, Operations and Maintenance of the Enterprise in a Team environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VIRTUALIZATION PRODUCTS: VMware vSphere 4.x / 5.x, VMware ESX 2.5, ESX 3.0, ESX 3.5, ESX 4.0, ESXi 3.5, ESXi 4.0, ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.0, ESXi 5.1, vCenter Server 4.x/5.x, VMware View 4.x/5.0 (VDI),CITRIX, VMware vCloud Director 1.5 with MS SQL, VMware vCloud Connector Server and Node v1.5.0, VMware vCenter Operation, VMware vCenter server Appliance, VMware Health Analyzer and Capacity IQ, VMware vCenter Converter, VMware Update Manager, VMware vShield Manager, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), VMware Converter, VMware DRS, HA, vMotion, SVMotion

OPERATING SYSTEMS / SERVICES: Windows Server 2003/2008 - Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), DNS, DHCP, Web-Server (IIS7, IIS6), TCP/IP Networking, FTP, LINUX, AIX

DATABASE: MS SQL 2008/2005, Oracle 11g/10g/9i, SQL 2008 and SQL 2012

MANAGEMENT TOOLS: EMC Unisphere, Cisco UCS Manager, MS Exchange, Office 365,Dell Open Manage Server Administrator, DRAC Tools, MS SCCM, SCOM, Hytrust, BMC Management Utility, HP Insight Manager, Nagios, Remedy

HARDWARE& Management Tools: Dell Servers 1950, 2950, 6950, HP Thin Client 5445, WYSE VL10 and VL9, Network Interface Card, Multi Serial Port Adapter, Printers, CDR and CDROM, iSCSI/ SATA Hard drive and Floppy drive, Hubs, Switches and DSL Modems, RAM, Audio and Video card, EMC VMAX, EMC Unisphere, VMware orchestrator, Avamar backup and recovery, Cisco UCS Manager, Dell Open Manage Server Administrator, SOX Admin skills, DRAC Tools, BMC Management Utility, VRA, VROPS, HP 3par thin provisioning, HP Insight Manager, Nagios, Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, PHOENIX, AZ

WINDOWS/VMWARE ENGINEER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Working as a senior consultant providing services to various clients in USA.
• Administrating the Domain and Services, Active Directory, GPO, IIS (performing code loads on the production environment), Generating certificate request and Installing VeriSign certificate on the website.
• Data domain and Active Directory Services, GPOs, DNS, AD Trusts & Routing, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server, ISA Server and FSMO roles
• Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory services.
• Implemented virtual infrastructure at data centers from the base level building multiple ESXi hosts.
• Designed, installed and administered the NetBackup suite version 6.5 for medium-sized businesses, increased performance by 4% with new version. - Discussed variations in the different versions of NetBackup.
• Configuring Dell EqualLogic PS6100 storage array, mapping the LUNs to the VM infrastructure.
• Configuring DNS servers, active directory servers
• Design, develop and manage Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform
• Performance monitoring and capacity planning with Server management, Security using Hytrust
• Configuration experience with cisco ASA 5510 Adaptive security experience.
• Monitoring, configuration, creating and troubleshooting CISCO UCS
• Cisco Application centric infrastructure integration (ACI) with VMware and UCS hardware integrations and installation experience into the servers.
• Configuration and installation of IIS server 6.0
• Hands on experience on Managing and Configuring the Servers, PC’s, Routers and Switches and Maintaining Networking Equipment’s.
• Monitoring, configuration, creating and troubleshooting user access for Microsoft Lync
• Migration of Hyper V VM’s to VMware and deploying SQL servers with VMware (at client SP EXPRESS) and experience with clustering services.
• Created and managed Virtual Machines, Installed VMware tools, Orchestrator, Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines; including deploying link Clones using View Composer. Assigned dedicated/floating Pools as per requirement
• Created/Supported Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SVMotion, Resource pools, permissions, Patch management, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, Disk Expansions and Templates
• Windows Server 2000/2003,Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP; managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 and Expertise on Office 365
• Experience with Disk volume management products ( ASM and Symantec Veritas storage foundations)

ENVIRONMENT: Microsoft Lync, Outlook, Hytrust, VMware vSphere 5.5, Cisco server M4C 420, Dell power edge R 520, Dell power Edge 2900

Confidential, BEDFORD, MA

WINDOWS/VMWARE ADMIN

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Administered VMware Infrastructure - vSphere/vCenter/VDI environments from Development and Support to day today maintenance; running over 350 ESX Hosts and 3000 Virtual Machines
• Building, administering, monitoring and troubleshooting RHEL 3.x, 4.x, IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2, servers on P-Series, Dell and Compaq hardware platforms.
• Add, remove and resizing Logical volumes using LVM in Red Hat Linux and implementing software RAID at installation time.
• Provided assistance for utilization of NetApp storage features and Installed and configured NetApp software and hardware components
• Implemented NetApp storage management systems, documented storage management practices. Formulated and executed plans for data archival and data migration.
• Monitoring, maintenance, patching, security, support and upgradation of Windows, Linux virtual environment.
• Participated in integration of storage management processes in operations framework.
• Configuration of SNMP in Routers/ Switches forNagiosapplication.
• Establishing Single Sign on access between two applications using Active Directory Federation Service Software (AD FS 2.0).
• Systems Engineer experienced in Windows Server, SCCM, SCOM, SQL & VMware administration & support, software packaging & global deployments
• Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions, shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment.
• Define/setup network protocols, Network File Services (NFS), and Network Information Services (NIS) in Red Hat Linux and IBM AIX systems.
• Managed Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provisioning and implementation, VMware View 5.0 by configuring VMware View Composer, View Connection Server, View Agent, View Client, installing updates and patches
• Involved in Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere operation management Environment, vSphere Linked Mode and Replicated Storage, Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites
• Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of Windows Server environment, including VMware ESX/ESXiHost, Clusters, Servers and Virtual Machines; and Interfaced with different Venders
• Experience with CISCO UCS servers (B-series, C-series), EMC Storage, EMC Avamar, EMC ViPR, and replication (VMAX, VNX, XtremIO, Recover Point, AppSync, VBlock)
• VCE Vblock cloud infrastructure, IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) implementation and Delivery of Vblock 100 (3x) & x) compute and storage infrastructure, and Vblock 700 (5x) compute infrastructure
• Skilled at Vrealize automation ( VRA) software 6.1 and 6.2 building and providing consolidated service approvals, reclamation and chargeback
• Experience with Vrealize operations manager (VROPS) in converging performance, capacity planning and configuration management.
• Configuration survey and review, implementation, remediation, testing and training of VCE Vblock cloud infrastructure with focus on virtualization and compute technologies
• Installing, configuring and administering network technologies, Network processing, centralized and distributive network connection.
• Experience with Installing and configuring DHCP Client/Server and workstations for IP/IPX based LAN
• Build, Installed and provided Technical Support for Windows & Red Hat Linux Servers both Physical and Virtual, including system Installation/De-commission and initial testing of all Operating system patches, updates, and fixes
• Performed Daily Monitoring of System performance, capacity & managed Inventory; adjust System configurations to accommodate required loads and functionality; also Setup & Configured McAfee policy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO)
• Experience with Physical System (rack/stack, cabling, hard drive replacement, hardware upgrades); also Installed, Configured and Supported Cisco UCS and VM servers vCloud Director 1.5 installation and Configuration and connecting data base servers like SQL servers vCenter, vShield, Catalogs, Chargeback, ThinApp, Netapp in Business Planning and Control System environment
• Executive presentations discussing cloud computing business development and strategy
• Participated in on call rotation and support
• Presentation to business units and executives demonstrating VCE Vblock virtualization, UIM provisioning and VDI technologies
• Delivery of Vblock 100 (3x) & x) compute and storage infrastructure, and Vblock 700 (5x) compute infrastructure
• Logical configuration design review of Vblock Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Configured and deployed over 20 Cisco UCS computing clusters with VMware ESXi 5 and vCenter 5
• Configured and deployed over 25 ESXi 5 clusters leveraging EMC UIM/P
• Configured and deployed Cisco 3000v virtual switch module appliance within vCenter vSphere 5 infrastructure
• Configured and deployed VMware SRM for Disaster Recovery/ Business Continuity
• Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere 5 high availability management cluster configuration for 8 customers
• International assignments to Latin America
• Configured Citrix and VMware on clustered environment, Implemented vMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager

ENVIRONMENT: VMware vSphere 5.x/4.x/6.x, VMware ESX 4.0/ESXi5.x, VDI view 5.0, Open Stack, VMware Standalone Convertor, Cisco UCS, MS Server 2003/2008,Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, McAfee ePO, HP Proliant BL blade server series, HP Insight Manager, HP Service Manager, EMC VNX Family, EMC CLARiiON, and EMC Celerra storage systems, VMware vSphere 4 and 5 infrastructure: vCenter, ESX Virtualization, SRM, Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop, and VMware View Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, EMC VNXe SAN, VRA,v EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager - Provisioning (UIM/P), Cisco Unified Computing System, VBlock, Nexus 1000v, and Microsoft infrastructure technologies.

VMWARE ENGINEER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Strong working experience of LDAP groups, net groups, ability to query LDAP for user details, and Migration experience on LDAP/AD Admin to assist with an LDAP to AD migration
• Managed VDI project (VMware View) from Design and Development to post- implementation; Successful implemented VDI
• Presentation to business units and executives demonstrating end user computing and VDI technologies
• Topology, Line, and Component diagrams for multi-tenant and virtual desktop infrastructure greenfield technology implementation
• Detailed Design documentation for multi-tenant and virtual desktop infrastructure greenfield technology implementation
• Rolled out VMware Lab Manager to Developers with a Self-service Portal to Deploy, Manage, and Maintain Virtual Datacenters; also deployed VDI desktop solution globally
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Specialized in bringing a turnkey VDI VMware View Solution for over 3000 User; involved in Technology Infrastructure Planning, Execution, and Policy development
• Managed and support VMware vCloud Center and VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) in Customer's pre-production environment
• Configured and Upgraded System Hardware and Software, including system cycling, installation and initial testing of all system patches, updates, and fixes.
• Experienced setting up and troubleshooting Citrix Access Gateways; Windows and Citrix Server administration in an Enterprise environment that uses physical and virtual infrastructure as well as external storage like Hitachi and EMC
• Maintained Storage aspects of new Server Integrations, Storage allocation, and Change management; also performed Storage analysis, Capacity planning, and performance planning of storage components - EMC VNX Family, EMC CLARiiON, and EMC Celerra storage systems
• Implementation of FTP SSH Samba Server in Linux Environment and Linux Shell Scripting with Python, powerShell and Power CLI
• Security administration port security on switch and IP security on Router via Access list
• Installed & Configured Storage Area Network (SAN) and Storage (RAID), Pool creation, LUN - creation, mapping, migration; 3 par thin Provisioning, Storage Ports - host, arrays, tape devices and Zoning configuration using EMC Unisphere
• Tested the system manually to check Networking applications, protocols and products involve TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IPv4, IPv6; also Carried out Configuration testing includingMulti-path I/O, Positive and Negative testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Monitored systems for performance and capacity issues and recommends remedies as necessary; Implemented vMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager
• Assisted with VMware planning, consolidation and upgrades; including the regional ESX servers refresh
• Provided technical support for Systems Engineering -including Operating System builds, Security, Access controls, User Account set-up, Storage solutions, Performance tuning & analysis, Backup/recovery, and business continuity activities

ENVIRONMENT: VMware Infrastructure with vSphere 5.x and vSphere 5.x/6.x, VMware ESXi5.x, VDI view 5.0, VMware Standalone Convertor, vCloud Director 1.5, VMware vCloud Center and VMware vCenter Orchestrator 4.1, Citrix XenApp 6.5, IBM xSeries and pSeries Servers and Cisco UCS, power shell, power CLI, MS Server 2003/2008, Citrix, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 R2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, HP Proliant BL blade server series, HP Insight Manager, EMC VNX Family, EMC CLARiiON, and EMC Celerra storage systems

Confidential - NY

WINDOWS SYSTEM ENGINEER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Managed large-scale Virtualized Data Centers -VMware View, VMware ESX/ESXi and vSphere features including vMotion, HA, Virtual SMP, Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers (SMS) servers.
• Designed, Acquired and Deployed a corporate VMware ESX Server infrastructure with capacity for 200 servers across 3 separate environments
• Rolled out VMware View as our strategic Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution to support globalization
• Analyzed, Administration and Support of Desktops, Thin Clients using Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) Technology. Identify, evaluate and recommend Zero and Thin Client Endpoint Devices
• Maintained, Implemented and Optimized Operating Systems/Software utilizing VMware virtualization technologies for vSphere 4.0 including Configuration of VMware HA and DRS
• Deployed physical and virtual servers: install, configure, and troubleshoot operating systems and clusters. Run, maintain, monitor and optimize existing physical and virtual computer infrastructure
• Developed Standard Operating Procedures document for the installation and configuration of ESX server V4.0
• Managed Multiple Server suites(Windows, UNIX and Red Hat Linux) on VMware ESX server and designing of Active Directory
• Performed cost analysis supporting consolidation of physical servers into VMware
• Collaborated with multiple support teams to resolve critical time-sensitive issues, and responded to system emergencies
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in the initial VMware farm design to ensure successful deployment
• Created/Supported Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, vMotion, SVMotion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, Disk Expansions and TemplatesF
• Backup Enterprise Systems and Disaster Recovery operations; familiarity with SAN replication technologies; solid understanding of VI 3.x, vSphere 4 implementation with Shared Storage, ISCSI, NFS/VMFS strategies for Performance and Optimization
• Participated in Active Directory migration, upgrades, disaster recovery, troubleshooting, on call rotation and support

ENVIRONMENT: VMware vSphere 4.x, VMware vCenter, VMware infrastructure, VMware ESXi 4.x Server, VMware Standalone Convertor, Windows 2000/2003/2008, Exchange Server 2003, Open filer iSCSI SAN/NAS, is tore SAN, Dell Power Edge Servers, Dell Power Vault NAS, Zywall and Sonic Wall Firewall

Confidential

SYSTEM ENGINEER

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN (Xiotech Magnitude 3D 4000S), Fiber and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMware firm design to ensure successful deployment
• Designed the Infrastructure and administered the environment running over 35 ESX Hosts and 700 Virtual Machines. Also, designed the performance monitoring processes and improved disaster recovery processes to utilize virtualization benefits
• Involved in Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment, vSphere Linked Mode and Replicated Storage, Configuring Sites Roles and Privileges, Alarms for monitoring the Site Status; Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites
• Created and managed Virtual Machines, Installed VMware tools, Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines
• Managed VMware, Windows Server 2003, Active Directory and Microsoft’s SMS 2003
• Designed and implemented Microsoft SMS 2003 server site hierarchy for Asset Management and managed Security update
• Analyzed existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner
• Configured VCB, which dumps the backup to VERITAS Netbackup Server and Seagate Backup- Backup Proxy Server
• Monitored Server Hardware and Operating Systems
• Worked onP2V using VMware converter (75 % virtualized) running different applications with different Hardware Migration and P2V conversion
• Administration of the VERITAS storage High Availability Solutions on VERITAS Cluster Server environment
• Created Snapshot and test Rollback, configured vMotion, Cluster and Failover
• Participated in development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery & Backup

ENVIRONMENT: VMware vSphere 4.0, ESX 2.x/3.x, VM Converter, vCenter, Virtual Infrastructure Client, vMotion, vReplicator, clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, vCenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery & Backup, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003, Dell R700 PowerEdge M1000,Veritas Netbackup, Seagate Backup