SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with over 7+ years of experience in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration, Administration, Support of VMware ESX 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1/ 5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0 vCenter Server 4/5/6 and Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R 2/2012/2016/2019.
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESX 4.0, VMware ESXi 4.1.1/ 5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0 , and vCenter Server 4/5/6.
• Expertise in advanced features of ESX/ESXi 4/5, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, and Update Manager.
• Xenapp’s off Winframe/Metaframe/Presentation Server/XenApp
• Experience in configuring and upgrading Flex - 10 Shared Uplink Sets, SAN Fabrics, and Server Profiles on Virtual Connect Manager for BL460c, BL680c g6/g7/g8/g9 on HP C7000 enclosures.
• Expertise with maintaining and updating the Domain Controllers and RODC in Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Experienced in running RHEL 5/6, SUSE 10/11 and ESXi on Cisco UCS 5100 enclosures running B200’s, B250’s blades.
• Experience in creating WWPN, WWNN, and IQN Pools for FC and iSCSI Storage connectivity for storage provisioning on UCS profiles.
• Expertise in configuring Management pools for any current and future Cisco UCS blades that are added to the Cisco UCS environment.
• Experience configuring EMC PowerPath for all bare metal Linux Servers to ensure multipath policies as well as PowerPathVE for all ESXi servers.
• Experience in creating protection groups, recovery plans, test DR plans, and SRA’s in SRM 5/6.
• Experience deploying and configuring vCloud director to coordinate with VMware Orchestrator to deploy vApp’s, and VDC’s.
• Experience utilizing vMotion, SvMotion for large datacenter migrations to migrate from EMC Clariion to EMC VMAX 20k Storage Arrays.
• Expertise in supporting enterprise level windows system administration
• Experience with Server Monitoring & Alerting
• Familiar with linux (debian, redhat)
• Scripting - PowerShell & batch scripting
• Experience with Windows based DHCP, DNS, File, Print, and Proxy server administration
• Strong experience, Active Director
• Strong experience, GPO

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware Products: Design and implement Virtual Infrastructure 4/5 with Virtual Center, ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x vMotion, HA, DRS, Resource pools, VMware Converter, Virtual Center, ESXi Patch management (VUM) VMware Converter Expert Level in Physical to Virtual migration of datacenter, Virtual to Virtual Migration (VMware 3.x to VMware 4.x), Physical to Physical Hardware refresh.

Cloud AWS: EC2, S3, EBS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, ElasticCache, SWF, Puppet, JIRA, SQL, RDS, Shell/Bash Scripting, Git, APACHE, Docke

Microsoft: Windows Server (2008 and 2003), Windows 7, Windows XP, MOM, SCCM, SCOM, WSUS.

Storage: iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC CLARiiON, VMAX, VNX, NetApp 6240, 6040 FAS Solutions.

Linux: SUSE, Red Hat Linux.

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge R710’s, Cisco UCS B200’s B250’s M1’s M2’s HP BL460C, C-7000, DL580’s.

Racks and Cabling: Installation of Hardware, Cable Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing and supporting of cloud based infrastructure and its solutions.
• Managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and orchestration tools such as Chef.
• Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, AutoScalingGroups(ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudTrail.
• Installed several hotfixes and patches on windows servers to eliminate vulnerabilities.
• Failed over Windows cluster resources from Active to Passive nodes in a cluster environment for scheduled maintenance and emergency changes.
• Updated drivers and firmware on HP branded Emulex FCA using OneCommand
• Responsible for performing tasks like Branching, Tagging, and Release Activities on Version Control
• Manage and Maintain the physical hardware and virtual environment / infrastructure of the Energy & Utilities group using Virtual Center Server v6.0 with a mixture of ESXi 6.5 & ESX 6.7 hosts, consisting of seven physical hosts with 150 - 200 virtual machines. Built the v6.0 vCenter Server and moved / migrated hosts over from the previous v5.5 Virtual Center Server, created server type templates for the streamlining of the server deployments with 3rd party and ARM specific software / applications. Manage the host resources \ virtual machine resource allocation (CPU, memory, hard disk, etc) and perform routine maintenance on this environment (schedule downtime for patches, updates & upgrades).
• Migrated one of our data centers to AWS cloud, DCs, ADFS, SQL…..etc using aws sms connector.
• Troubleshooting impacts and vulnerability from monthly patching for applications and OS.

Confidential

Senior System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and maintain web/application servers
• Administered and supported cloud based services including Box, Webex and SharePoin, SFTP,HTP.
• Maintenance/Configured/Monitor Oracle databases and Web servers using IBM Web Sphere and HTTP servers. Helped troubleshoot issues involving development projects and software customizations.
• Investigates application logs to uncover and address error patterns
• Troubleshot and resolved bugs in .NET applications to ensure optimal development environment.
• Hosting responsibilities will encompass security, access control, load-balancing, data sources, one and two-way SSL setup and certificates.
• Windows Web administrator IIS 6.0 7.0 with extensive experience installing, configurations, integrations with ASP.NET,.Net Framework 2.0,3.0 3.5 Configuration.
• Designed and Implemented SCOM and WSUS2012, 2016 environment with multiple management groups monitoring over 10,000 servers and devices.
• ADFS Design and implementation in Multiple Forests and Multiple Domains, Web access and Single Sign On
• FIM Design, installation and troubleshooting in Multiple Forests, Multiple Domains
• Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing and supporting of cloud based infrastructure and its solutions.
• Managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and orchestration tools such as installing, configuring instances.
• Experienced in creating multiple VPC’s and public, private subnets as per requirement and distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the VPC.
• Created NAT gateways and instances to allow communication from the private instances to the internet through bastion hosts
• Installing, configuring StrongSwan, side to side tunnel to connect to vendors and contractors.

Confidential

Senior System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and maintain web/application servers
• Implement and upgrade vaproducts
• Establish and maintain documentation and standards
• Deploy J2EE and .NET applications in Windows and UNIX environments
• Maintaining and implementing data sources, SSL certificates, API integrations, and extensions of web the architecture.
• Create, maintain, and use scripts to automate routine tasks and gather data for performance tuning
• Monitor server and application performance, resource utilization, and assist the other departments and Systems Administrators in forecasting resource needs.
• Install web Infrastructure application patches/fixes and plan/implement upgrades
• Monitor server and web application server logs with a deep understanding of java application logging
• Perform advanced problem determination and root-cause-analysis
• Document technical environments, processes, procedures, test and project plans
• Assist Development and Project teams in designing applications consistent with established architecture
• Assist with capacity planning, architecting new environments, and long term resource forecasting
• Windows Web administrator IIS 6.0 7.0 with extensive experience installing, configurations, integrations with ASP.NET,.Net Framework 2.0,3.0 3.5 Configuration
• Making sure of High Availability of PRODUCTION Infrastructure.

Confidential, New Kensington, PA

VMware Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring ESXi 4/5/6 using custom based ISO s and Boot From SAN based installs on several hundred CISCO UCS B200 s, B250 s as required for UAT/Production deployments of Windows 2003/2008/2012 and RHEL/SUSE deployments.
• Installation of ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM s across 7 Datacenters running 10000+ VM s
• Responsible for capacity planning, design, install and configuration of newly provisioned CISCO 5108 enclosures, ESXi servers running B200’s, B250’s.
• Install, Configure and update VMware ESXi 4.1 to VMware ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0 , vCenter 5/6 Servers.
• Engineered and migrated 400+ Windows Servers from physical to virtual using VMware converter 4.3/5.0 as part of a large datacenter migration project.
• Deploy VMware Operations Manager Suite (vCOPs) for enterprise level monitoring, resource utilization and weekly and monthly reports.
• Implementation of SRM 5.0 on vSphere across multiple sites to provide Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment and working with SAN team to replicate storage across multiple datacenters.
• Deploy and configure vCloud director to coordinate with VMware Orchestrator to deploy any specific VDC’s and vApp’s.
• Deploy various private cloud VMs and VM builds for Middleware Testing environments using VMware vCloud Director/vShield.
• Provide level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant BL460’s/HP DL 580’s/380’s and Windows/Linux Virtual Servers.
• Active Directory user and security group creation in AD, create shares and designate permissions for specific groups.
• Configure and maintain Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, vMotion, Sv-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, and Templates.
• Deploy various private cloud VMs and VM builds for Middleware Testing environments using VMware vCloud Director/vShield.