SUMMARY:

• Experienced IT professional with over 7+ Years of experience in Windows/Wintel/VMWare Platform. Demonstrated excellence in leading enterprise - wide virtualization effort with accountability of overseeing vendor / hardware qualification, architecture / design, installation, configuration, migration & documentation. Committed to performing high-quality work. Offers VMware virtual architecture and Troubleshooting, great analytical skills, and excellent time management abilities.
• Proficient in Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012R2/2016/2019 server upgrade and Enterprise Level Active directory administration.
• Experience in Designing, Installing, Configuring, Administrating and Troubleshooting VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Environment.
• Experience with Federation Services (Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).
• Extensive experience with the Active Directory tools.
• Making sure the MS Windows and VMware platform meet or exceed organization goals for availability, capacity, efficiency, scalability, and performance.
• Administered multiple Active Directory (AD) domains and related services supporting 10K users and 100+ clients.
• Professional experience with VMware VSphere ESXi 6.7, 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.1 and VMware VCenter, VMotion, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, FT, Host Profiles, VApp, VMware VCenter Converter.
• Maintain and manage Active Directory Environment focusing on GPO driven policies, user/group management and potentially cross-domain functionality.
• Installing Monthly Security patches and scheduling regular maintenance to ensure the health and security of the servers.
• Worked on vCenter server for managing multiple ESXi servers.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve problems with Project Server and SharePoint.
• Used Power Shell in running automated queries for Patching, Imaging and Deployments.
• Build and troubleshooting experience with ESX servers and ESXi server.
• Experience on Identity & Access Management on Microsoft Technology Forefront Identity Manager 2010.
• Experience in Debugging .NET applications using Windbg, process monitor, Performance monitor tools and debugging networking related issues using network monitor.
• Experience with installing and configuring the Windows server update services (WSUS).
• In-depth knowledge and hands on expertise on VMware virtual center, vCloud director, Site Recovery Manager, Lifecycle Mgr., Lab Manager, VC Operations Manager, Vizoncore vfoglight and performance monitor.
• Administration of Active Directory in Windows environment. Managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Group Policies, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc.
• Implementing hybrid system integration, transformation, virtualization and Datacenter consolidation projects.
• Strong Customer Centric Approach with excellent analytical, coordination, presentation and leadership skills; skilled in grasping the big picture and conceptualizing solutions.
• Have experience of managing Windows Server environment: Active Directory, Domain Services, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, WINS Name Resolution, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS/WDS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server.
• Managed SharePoint end user accounts, permissions and access rights and managed database connections.
• Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals and TCP/IP protocol suite, including enterprise DNS and DHCP, subnetting, virtual networking and wireless networks.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, ND

Windows System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed Windows 2012R2/2016/ 2019 in the created virtual machines and also installed the required software and tools.
• Administering Windows servers Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Experienced in applying monthly updates to windows servers 2008R2/2012/2016 versions.
• Responsible for configuring and deploying web applications on IIS servers and configuring database servers on windows 2008/2012/2016/2019.
• Maintained and managed Domain Name Service (DNS) for Active Directory (AD) enterprise.
• Creating and managing the users, groups, GPO in the Active directory.
• Automate systems operation task and server provisioning through tools such as Microsoft systems center, WSUS, Ivanti and PowerShell Scripting.
• Maintained user, group, and computer accounts for the enterprise network and administered DNS, DHCP and WINS.
• Provided Server/networking support, deploy new installations, and ensure performance by monitoring, analysis, and performance tuning.
• Performed Vulnerability/risk analyses, security hardening and remediation of computer systems, application and keep operation systems and application current by performing regular upgrade and patches.
• Ensured optimal performance, capacity planning, capacity management for the Windows and VMware environment.
• Experienced in Windows clustering Administration, troubleshooting and Microsoft failover clustering manager.
• Created VM's on ESX servers and deployed VMs through OVF Templates, Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks, vSwitches & dvSwitches
• Performed Active Directory cleanups. Linked Active Directory to other technologies using LDAP, Radius, and ADSync.
• Supported Ticket for SharePoint site creation and access issue.
• Developed powerful business applications within SharePoint to increase efficiency and productivity.
• Extensively involved in Installation, configuration, and Administration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010/2013 on medium farm environment.
• Deployed VMware App Volumes and User Environment Management for faster application delivery, unified applications and user management to Horizon View Virtual desktops.
• Creation of Virtual Switches, Ports, Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks.
• Aligning business requirements with latest cost-effective technologies, consolidating application and infrastructure landscape using hyper converged solution and Hybrid cloud solutions.
• Supported VMware to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose, resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over servers.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Windows /VMware System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Architected and designed VMware ESX server infrastructure for multi-site/multi datacenter environment.
• Experienced in Virtual Server Administration, WINS, DNS, DHCP and Patch Management on Microsoft Windows Servers.
• Experienced in designing and implementing rich user experiences using SharePoint (Office 365).
• One of the first companies to fully integrate ESX virtualization in the DMZ network, eliminating 75 hardware-based IIS web portal Servers.
• Continuous review of Business-critical Database to proactively identify space issues, performance tuning issues.
• Administration of VMWare VCenter, VM Datacenters located in all over sites in different Geographical locations in the world.
• Worked with IAM identity access manager, security firewalls.
• Implemented user management and security with IAM Identity Management Console.
• Managed Troubleshoot performance issues for Team Foundation Server and Tableau Server.
• Installed Active Directory Services on the Production/Test/Pre-production Servers. Active Directory environment (i.e. Created User Accounts, Security group, added and removed users to group, Managed the logon scripts, shared, gave permission, mapped the drives).
• Consolidated over 300 End of life servers into ESX 3 HA and DRS clusters.
• Designed and implemented PowerShell 3.0 scripts to automate wide variety of server/infrastructure tasks and strengthened departmental audit capabilities.
• Configured users, groups, group policy objects, service accounts, application layer services and other objects, often coordinating with software developers.
• Designed and maintained Group Policy and supported Domain User Account in Active Directory Domain Servers.
• Converted existing Virtual Machine from Standard to Premium Storage Account. Patching and Validating of Virtual Machine in Azure.
• Created user Account, Password reset and elevated rights to all users with Active directory.
• Participated in regular VMware administration & provisioned activities on VMware environment .
• Guided and lead the team in VMware and datacenter management in line with the design documents, planned the activities of configuration and development with the PM and worked with product vendors to resolve product issues.
• Handled multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.

Confidential

Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked in a Team for managing and supporting applications in Citrix XenApp and Xen desktop environment on Windows Server 2003/2008 R2/ 2012 R2.
• Responsible for Maintaining Citrix XenApp and Xen Desktop environment, including Servers
• Responsible for installing in-house and 3rd party applications on Citrix Terminal Servers and publishing to users through Citrix Delivery console.
• Highly involved with image builds, image updates, PVS image release process, and V-Disk management.
• Performed backup and restore of VMware host server configuration, Virtual Machine backup, snapshot, P2V, P2P, V2V conversation with VMware converter, Platespin and with other third-party converters, Patch Update, monitoring/reporting.
• Worked on Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Group Policies, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc.
• Monitored policy server logs, trace logs and validated health check for all the servers.
• Developed Windows PowerShell script to automate setting of user credentials and activation of Windows.
• Implemented PowerShell scripts that automated creation of contacts from Active Directory users and updating of address books -increasing productivity and efficiency
• Involved in live migration of VMs and data files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion
• Took active part in troubleshooting vCenter and ESXi issues and in system hardware failures.
• Work with SCOM monitoring team to tune SCCM Management pack to provide alerts and performance feedback.
• Worked and managed the Security & Administration of servers including Windows 2008 R2, 2012.
• Managed service requests through HP Open view ticketing system and change management process.
• Configured Puppet Server for monitoring and installing Puppet Agents in multiple servers.
• Performed automated user management, installation and configuration of various services and backup-using Puppet.

Confidential

System Admin (Linux/Unix/Windows)

Responsibilities:

• Part of Providing 24/7 technical support to Production and development environments.
• Installed and configured Windows servers 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2 Virtual Machines in the ESX host clusters. Created user and computer accounts on the Active directory users and computers.
• Configured servers for DHCP, WINS and DNS services.
• Involved in Installation, Configuration, troubleshooting and patching using SCCM and SCOM. Worked with infrastructure monitoring through SCOM.
• Configured email client with office 365 email address.
• Configured and maintained VMware View VDI environment. Supported VDI for 150 desktops + VMware View environment.
• Developed PowerShell script to automate server tasks and generate reports for administrators and management.
• Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP.