PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 7 years of proficient experience in IT Industry in the area of VMware Virtualization products, Windows and UNIX Administration.
• Prominent understanding of various methods in the vCenter server features like vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Fault Tolerance (FT), Distributed Power Management (DPM) Storage vMotion, High Availability (HA), and other products of VMware.
• Extensive experience in working with VMware vSphere Suite, vCloud Suite and vRealize Suite.
• Well experienced in provisioning virtual machines in a fly from Templates, Clones, creating Snapshots and managing user Roles and Permissions.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2012/2012R2/2008R 2/2008/2003/2000/ NT4.0 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro - active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude. Expert in Windows Server System Administration skills.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering. Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concept.
• Experience in with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, VMware vSphere. Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients. Experience in Networking configuration & Security Configuration on ESX Host.
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing, and Windows networking.
• Experience with x86 / x64Intel, HP, Cisco UCS, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Installed and Configured VMware vSphere 6.0, ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.0, vSphere4, ESXi 4.x, ESX 4.0, ESX 3.5, Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0,4.1, VMware View 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, 4.5 and 4.0, VMware vCenter 4.1 on Cisco UCS servers and upgraded to the latest vSphere ESXi 5.5 patch.
• Experience in EMC/VCE products includes Vblock 300 & 700 series, BLOCK& FILE LEVEL (UNIFIED) EMC storage arrays.
• Knowledge of Office 365 deployment models and best practices.
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.
• Maintained Forward and Reverse Look up Zones, Conditional Forwarders through DNS.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering.
• Experienced in Configuring FC, SAN, VMFS, iSCSI SAN and NAS Storage with Different Vendors like EMC, NetApp.
• Good Understanding EMC NAS Celera, Netapp FAS.
• Hands on experience in physical to virtual machine (P2V) conversions and virtual to virtual machine (V2V) conversions as well as conversions between different virtual machine formats using VMware Converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Strong experience in networking concepts such as vSwitches, VMkernel ports, VM ports and Service console, traffic shaping, NIC teaming, load balancing & failover detection.
• Good knowledge of storage concepts related to iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC CLARiiON, and Netapp.
• Experience in patch management and upgrading ESX hosts using VMware vSphere Update Manager and VMware Host Update Utility.
• Good understanding of various methods to back-up virtual machines as well as DR strategies utilizing Site Recovery Manager 5.0 (SRM).
• Hands on experience in System administration and troubleshooting in Windows NT/ 2000/2003/ 2008/2008 R2/2012 servers, RedHat, SUSE Ubuntu centos, Active Directory services, LDAP services, WINS, IIS, RAS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, RDP, Windows failover clustering, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Clustering Services.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with a wide variety of people at various levels, foster cooperation and collaboration among individuals in the work unit, help team resolve conflicts constructively and ability and willingness to communicate when help is needed.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro-active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude. Expert in Windows Server System Administration skills.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application and Virtualization: VMware vSphere 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0 (ESX/ESXi, vCenter server, VMware converter, vMotion, Storage vMotion VCenter Operations Managers (VCOPS), vRealize Operations Manager (VROPS), VMware Update manager) vConverter, VMware Data Recovery, Vmware HA, FT, VMware vCLI, VMware converter, VMware SRM.

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL/BL series, Dell Power Edge, Cisco UCS, HP C class Blade servers.

Storage: Netapp, EMC, VMAX, VNX iSCSI SAN s and NAS.

Tools: RMAN, Active Directory, HP SIM, Avamar Proxy, DS View, RV tool, UCS manager Vclient, Web Client, VRanger, HP SIM, VMware converter, Plate spin, open filer.

Networking & Protocols: LAN/WAN routing, TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, RAS, RIP, SMTP, LDAP, POP3, VPN and VLAN.

Databases: SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Microsoft Active Directory 2003/2008, Microsoft Exchange 2003and 2007, DHCP, DNS and WINS Services, Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 and 7.0. Moderate Experience with UNIX based OSs such as; Red Hat Linux 9, Ubuntu 12.1 and 13.1.

Scripting Languages: PowerShell, PowerCLI, Bash, Python.

Operating Systems: Windows Servers NT/ 2000/2003/2008/2008/2012 , Windows client OS XP/Vista/Windows7, RHEL, CentOS Ubuntu).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Wichita, Kansas

Sr. System Admin (Windows, VMware, Wintel)

Responsibilities:

• Administration of vSphere infrastructure in our environment managing 4000 VMs and 450 ESX/ESXi host spread across multiple sites.
• Built ESXi hosts, Virtual Machines, Windows Virtual clusters, worked on ESXi clusters. Configured HA and DRS rules for new Clusters.
• Created HA affinity and Anti-Affinity rules, provided support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Information Technology (IT) systems and coordinating with the system, Network and Database administrators to troubleshoot various issues during implementation.
• Extensive experience with maintenance of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Global Group Policy, Windows IIS, SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Clustering.
• Excellent work experience on Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on creating and defining the object classes and attributes that relates to users, computers, printers and services in addition to the extension of the object interface by managing permissions, group policies and delegations.
• Plan and implement Active Directory migration from 2008R2 to 2012.
• Build and configure DNS and DHCP servers for a vast infrastructure.
• Regular disk management like adding/replacing hard drives on existing servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
• Creating users, assigning groups and home directories, setting quota and permissions; administering file systems and recognizing file access problems.
• Maintaining appropriate file and system security, monitoring and controlling system access, changing permission, ownership of files and directories, maintaining passwords, assigning special privileges to selected users and controlling file access, monitoring status of process in order to increase the system efficiency, scheduling system related and cron jobs.
• Resolve various issues such as Windows Policies, Application licensing through RDP.
• Coordinating with Vendors regarding production issues & solving problems.
• Responsible for Administration of Active Directory and delegating control / permissions.
• Installing, Configuring and Administrating ESXi hosts and vCenter Servers.
• Troubleshooting Critical and High priority VMware issues and driving to resolution.
• Windows & Linux server P2V consolidation and V2V using VMware Converter.
• Patching ESXi severs and VMs using VMware Update manager.
• Easy handling and troubleshooting ESXi servers through command line. Performing RCAs by analysis ESXi and vCenter logs.
• Conducting pre-sales sizing estimates of a customer’s data center environment, consolidation estimates provide guidance on what can be achieved via virtualization and consolidation assessments. Creating, Managing HA and DRS clusters, EVC, DRS Rules.
• Analyzing performance bottlenecks and fine tuning VMs for optimal performance.
• Experience in managing Azure Storage Accounts.
• Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure backups.
• Installed OS, patches and security policies through SMS2003/SCCM2007/ SCCM 2012 Admin Tools.
• Created Automatic Deployment Rules for Software update management using SCCM 2012 R2.
• Experience in administering Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) for patch management.
• Hands on experience with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), Windows Deployment Services (WDS), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) for OS deployment, patch management, software distribution andto maintain application inventory.
• Building, provisioning and commissioning of Virtual Machines in a standardized format.
• Performing - vMotion, SVmotion, Cloning, Snapshot, FT, Alarms, Roles and Host Profiles.
• Managing and maintaining Site Recovery Manager.
• Wrote PowerShell & powerCLI scripts for the teams use with customers that have been heavily utilized thus saving much time with each case.
• Ability to create scripts using Azure PowerShell during for automation and build process.
• Good working experience in Azure Logic apps, Service Bus, Document DB and SQL Database.
• Physical host Hardware Firmware/Drivers upgrade. Deep Understanding of SAN, NAS, iSCSI storage.
• VB SCRIPTS, PowerShell, Win Batch, PS tools and Windows command-line Scripting to automate the manual tasks on Servers and Client computers. Configured and used out of band management tools like Cisco UCS, Dell iDRAC and HP iLO.
• Patched ESXi Hosts using VMware Update Manager and host update utility.
• Deployed New ESXi 6.0 host to increase the capacity.
• Build and configure multiple ESXi 5.5, 6.0 hosts on Cisco UCS B200 blades according to the design documents.
• Created templates for rapid deployment of Virtual Machines.
• Configuring and managing User, Group, Permission, Role, and Resource pool, Alerts, Alarms on VMware virtual center. Resolved corporate server infrastructure problems and changes in support of the company split.
• Used PowerShell scripts to automate the task.
• Build and support Windows 2008/2012 and RedHat-based Linux distributions such as RHEL, CentOS or Fedora.
• Solved high severity tickets Sev1 and Sev2 in a timely fashion. Participated in a 24x7 on-call duty rotation.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in the initial VMware design to ensure successful deployment.
• Analyzed the existing decommissioning process for physical servers and virtual machines and created a custom workflow to make sure proper and consistent decommissioning of assets.
• Troubleshot networking related problems.
• Provided frontline support to the service ticket requests like login failures, account creation, process management, and restarting services.
• Provides support to all IT systems, including day-to-day operations, monitoring and problem resolution for all the client/server/storage/network devices. Performed (P2V, V2V) migration using VMware converter.
• Racked and configured HP ProLiantDL380 G9 servers, for building vSphere and standalone application servers as per company Standards. Installed SQL Database and provided support to HP P2000 storage.
• Strictly adhered to Change and Incident Management process to keep up high ITIL standards.
• Built and manage Bastion servers for secure login.
• Monitored SCCM platform health and mitigated issues as needed. Documenting step-by-step process used for Repackaging and testing which includes Custom Action Scripts using VB Script, Wise Script, Auto IT, PowerShell.
• Build and manage VM’s on Amazon AWS for Test environment. Configured RAID levels 0, 1 and 5.

Confidential, Seffner, Florida

VMware, Wintel, Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure ESXI host in HP DL380 and blade servers using Kick start files
• Used Power cli scripts to automate Host deployment and VM provision
• Deployed 500+ VM’s using template and customization scripts. Created different scripts for variety of OS in new VSphere 5.1 infrastructure.
• Installed and configured Cisco UCS blade, fabric interconnect, Flex. Hands on Experience with UCS cabinet 5108, Fabric Interconnect 6120/6140/6248 , Flex 2100 series, B2 series blades.
• Manage cisco servers using CISCO UCS MANAGER 2.0
• Worked on EMC VNX, lun management. Build, maintain and troubleshoot environment from shared data center to dedicated DC.
• Configure fabric SAN switches zoning and troubleshoot multipath. Experience with windows mobility patching.
• Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources, Manage VM's using VMware virtual center and web access.
• Domain Administrator managing 2008 R2 / 2012Domain Controllers, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, Supporting services like IIS, File Servers, FTP Server, Print Server running on servers in Data Center and Engineering Labs.
• Taking care of Patch Management in ESX Server through Update Manager & Accessing the ESX Server using Putty.
• Responsible for Virtual Provisioning and Monitoring.
• Wrote PowerShell and powerCLI scripts for reporting and automation addressing either a single customer's environment or multiple customer environments.
• Expertise in building the monitor server which can monitor network devices, servers with its available services and any SNMP enabled devices and send instant alert. Expertise in configure and managing DNS, DHCP etc.
• Provided detail documentation for whole physical and virtualized environment.
• Handling all Kinds of Wintel and hardware issues.
• Administered Windows Server 2003/2008R2, DNS, WINS, DHCP, IIS, FTP servers for multisite environment
• Created VM images to be used for deployment through Microsoft's Automated Deployment Services for test.
• Troubleshooting Windows OS and hardware related issues.
• SCCM 2012 was used extensively for deployment of packages (creating collections, Advertisement, Configuration Manager Console, Package definition, Distribution points, Reporting).
• Commissioning and decommissioning of windows servers. Administrating DNS, DHCP, FTP, SFTP.
• Coordinating with various vendors like VMware, Microsoft, DELL and Sun for escalations.
• Using VMware vCenter, created Datacenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Installed, developed and maintained minor/major repairs to hardware, software, and peripheral equipment.
• Provided Remote Support and administration on network for internal and external clients using tools like Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (RDP). Installed and configured network Printers.
• Created and installed Infrastructure requirement application, E.g. SCCM, SCOM, Casper, SEP etc.
• Worked with Network team to troubleshoot misconfigured network, VLANs etc.
• Handled extensive P2V & V2V of production servers of windows 2003, 2008 as well as Linux 5.8 & 6.3.
• Created VDI desktops for VIEW 5 using linked clone and upgraded vcenter 5.0 to 5.1
• Work with Cloud team to implement VCloud director 5.1
• Created and managed Independence disk for VDC virtual machines.
• Made list of GPO’s for different OU and made replica of dedicated environment to dedicated environment.
• Capacity planning using vCOps and install VCOPS for MHE. Handled technical documentation and Run books.
• Configured power path for all hosts. Worked with Office 365 team to migrate email acct to cloud.

Confidential, Phoenix, Arizona

System Admin (Windows, VMware)

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for the IT environment. Implemented complete infrastructure for external clients.
• Managed Fiber network and GPON equipment.
• Configured DHCP and DNS installed and configured Windows Server, Active Directory, and Internet Information Service (IIS 5.0/6.0); created users and groups, setting user access controls.
• Installed and configured VMware ESX 4.x ESXi 5.x and Monitored, managed performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Responsible for Virtual Server building using VMWare. Virtual Center Server & License Server Installation and Configuration.
• Configured HA, DRS, Resource Pool and Managed the Cluster Level. Configured vMotion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP.
• Managing Configuration and managing HA Settings and Customizing HA for Virtual Machines plus Configuring DRS in a Cluster. And the DRS Automation Level Using DRS Affinity Rules. VM Ware Infrastructure Client configuration and managing the VM's through VI.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter).
• Creation & Configuration of Virtual Switches, Ports, Port Groups and setting up layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks. Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Creating templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources.
• Creating duplicate VMs using Cloning feature.
• Installation and configuration of ESX servers and VM virtual servers using VM-templates to facilitate server consolidation, migration and testing. Analyze performance of physical servers to determine and customize virtual server specification.
• Deployment of VM templates to deploy virtual servers.
• Installing patches and software upgrades recommended by security scan. VMtools up gradation at host level and VM level.
• Troubleshooting issues relating to VMotion such as compatibility issues.
• Analyzing the VM-support logs for ESX servers and Virtual Center logs to diagnose the root cause for the problem and troubleshooting them. Created and Managed VMware cluster with HA and DRS. Managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Applied operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes and then validating server.
• Monitored event logs, application logs, system logs and troubleshooting.
• Day-to-day internal company user issues troubleshooting including their system access, AD profile etc.
• Provided the backup and recovery of the files and data, worked on Windows Firewall, Terminal Server, and Troubleshooting computer related problems. Attending client calls related to computers and network problems.
• Provided technical support to users, solving connectivity problems. Managed disk space and system resources.
• Created templates for rapid deployment of Virtual Machines. P2V & V2V conversions using VMware Convertor.
• Installed and configured Apache Tomcat Web server to host web applications.
• Configured Backup Server running Veeam Backup to configure backup jobs and schedules for virtual servers.
• Managed Active Directory, added new Domain Controller to existing domain and configured DNS replication. Worked on backend storage for servers which were on ISCSI SAN and had ISCSI initiators.
• Performed daily Backup and recovery by Veritas Netbackup. Supported multiple sites and development support tools including MS Office Suite, Visio, Perforce, GNU tools, Perl, Expect, Cadence, NEC, Xilinx, Synopsys, all kinds of application on Linux/Windows servers.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks. Managed Antivirus Server. Deployed antivirus definitions through centralized Symantec antivirus server.
• Configured and Managed Remote Installation Service (RIS), FTP server, users, groups, OU structure, and implemented group policies. Troubleshot networking related problems. Actively involved in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce bottleneck.
• Managed cron jobs and job scheduling. Supported and troubleshot existing systems in Redhat Linux.
• Schedule and managing the backup as per the client requirement.
• Configure and manage Symantec Enterprise Protection Manager to protect the Network from the tread attacks.
• WSUS server implementation and manage the Windows Network with latest updates and patches.
• Scheduling cron jobs for disk utilization, CPU utilization, backup of the data & operating system and other applications as per the requirement using shell scripting.
• Used the logical volume manager (LVM) to create a volume groups, which was then partitioned into logical volumes.
• Maintained network inventory, Data backup and documentation for all hardware & software.

Confidential

Unix, VMware, Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, Managed, and Troubleshooted Windows 2000/2003 Servers and Windows 2000/XP Professional Workstations.
• 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.
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Worked with Linux, Unix Servers, LVM’s, files and directories.
• Administering DHCP Server creation of reservation and under reservation options, configuring of router IP address.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment. Interacted and coordinated with different teams to meet the deadlines.
• Build various version of LINUX/UNIX for infrastructure and troubleshoot them.
• Configure and Managed Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007for the users.
• Configured Terminal Server to access to the servers using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
• 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. Strong Knowledge in creating various objects like User Accounts, Computer Accounts, and Auto logon accounts.
• Installed Printers and scanners- Ink Jet and Laser (standalone and network printers.
• Experience in Internet Information Services 4.0.
• Extensive installation and administration of Citrix 3.0 on windows 2003 servers.
• Publishing the Desktops and Individual Applications according to the Department requirements in the organization.
• Publishing of application in the Citrix environment for the User to test through the web interface.
• Providing users with access rights and permission for accessing the applications.
• Installing and updating the windows patches.
• Assigning folder permissions to the users by gathering approval from the group owners. Identify and troubleshoot failing clients, return clients after troubleshooting to ensure proper remediation. Issue and track escalations to clients' system administrators.
• Understanding of tape pools, tape retention, backup levels (full, differential, incremental)
• Attending meetings on upcoming lab projects. Using own technical skills to work as directed in labs