TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Windows Server 2012
• Enterprise
• Datacenter
• Standard Editions
• R2
• VMware/vSphere Versions 3.x to 6.0
• Cisco Unified Compute Systems
• Windows Hyper - V - Limited Experience
• EMC Unisphere - Limited Experience
• Active Directory
• Exchange 2013
• IIS 6.0 7.0 7.5 8.5 installation and administration
• SCCM 2012
• SQL Server 2005
• 2008
• 2012 Installs and services support
• Altiris Provisioning and Applications
• Symantec Endpoint Protection
• MacAfee Enterprise AV v8.8 and ePO 4.8
• Symantec
• NetBackup
• EMC Avamar
• Confidential EqualLogic vCOPS 5.8.1
• Robocopy
• Lumension
• WSUS
• Putty
• HyperTerminal
• Sysinternals

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Windows Engineer/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Wintel Server system provisioning, Engineering, Administration and 3rd level support of Windows 2008, and 2012 Standard, Enterprise R2, and Data Center servers
• Vmware v6.x 3rd level operational support, maintenance, troubleshooting, Utilized vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) to monitor environment health and to rectify alerts and inventory reports. Used various dashboards to asses and resolve different issues wif nodes wifin teh infrastructure.
• ESXi Host Hypervisor v6.0 installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting
• Microsoft SCCM 2012 management, administration, troubleshooting of collections, queries, reports, packages, and deployments. Planning and executing both Windows Workstation and Windows Server security patch deployments. Checking on system compliancy to ensure deployments are running successful.

Confidential

Senior Windows Engineer/VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wintel Server troubleshooting, Engineering, Administration and 3rd level support of Windows 2008, and 2012 Standard, Enterprise R2, and Data Center servers
• Perform vSphere 5.x administration, maintenance, and Virtual/Windows Server system builds
• VIB upgrade of several ESXi Hosts from v5.5 Vmware Hypervisor to v6.0
• Installation of new Confidential PowerEdge R730 server rack systems, connected to LAN, and installed Vsphere 5.5
• Troubleshooting of any LAN/WAN connectivity issues regarding Cisco routers and switches
• Plan, design, engineer, and build of Windows 2012 production systems and 3-tiered application +COM servers. I has collaborated wif vendors Felten and Fricke on teh new specifications for new Windows 2012 Server Engineering platform.
• Build of new Windows 2012 Print Servers and transfer/build all print queues from teh old Windows 2003 Print Server(s). Active Directory Domain Services administration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and security of teh Symrise AD Domain Tree. AD administration of GPO, groups, accounts, OU, parent objects, and child objects.
• Adding new drives to Equalogic iSCSI Storage Area Network and expanding storage
• Install & Configuration of Confidential iDrac and HP iLO remote interfaces for remote server access

Confidential

Senior Windows Server Administrator/Vmware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Application, Web site, and SQL Database discovery on Windows 2003 Servers and decommission
• Perform new virtual server provisioning, builds, configuration, and maintenance of Windows 2008 Server R2 and Windows 2012 Server R2 all flavors
• Utilized Confidential DTM Application Packaging Tool to migrate data, web sites, and applications to newly deployed servers. Teh utilization of Powershell scripts for automating tasks and to complete virtual and physical server builds.
• Operation, administration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of vSpere 5.x infrastructure environments, which includes ESXI Host builds, VM builds, and vCenter operations
• 3rd line enterprise Vmware, Windows Server support, Server/SAN troubleshooting support, Windows IIS 6.0, 7.5, 8.5, and Active Directory administration. (prod, dev, UAT, QA)
• Application and infrastructure services running on HP, UCS, and Confidential server hardware platforms
• Service Now ticketing system and Change Control processes for production and dev environments

Confidential

Windows System Engineer/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Server Administration, provisioning, and server builds for restricted group domain controllers and member servers
• Perform basic Active Directory administration. Windows Server OS troubleshooting, standardized security, operations, maintenance, and application support
• Exchange 2013 mailbox administration and troubleshooting cluster environment
• Perform vSphere v5.0, v5.1, v5.5 administrations, maintenance, vMotion, adding datastores FC, iSCSI, expanding hard disks, building servers from various customized templates
• Troubleshooting ESXi hosts, clusters, vCenter, and virtual networks
• Working on teh decommissioning of Windows Domain Controllers and Wintel Servers
• Execute Powershell scripts to clean servers in order to free up drive space. Also, utilizing scripts for other server builds and tasks.
• Assist wif server patching for Windows Servers and ESXi Hosts utilizing IEM and VUM
• Troubleshoot SEP and other software corruption problems. Diagnose and resolve Windows Server 2008 and 2012 Application, DB, Test, and Development OS issues.
• Adhere to strict Change Control and Remedy ticketing system processes. I take part in 24x7 after hours on-call server support every other week on schedule. I serve both as primary and secondary where applicable.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Wintel Server Engineering, design, OU and security groups (ACE and ACL) AD administration, and troubleshooting support
• Physical/virtual provisioning and server builds of Wintel 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 (virtual and MDT). dis included Windows 2008 R2 Server two node clusters, IIS 7.5 server builds, and Avamar BU servers
• Teh utilization of Powershell scripts for automating tasks and to complete virtual and physical server builds.
• Utilizing vCenter and vCenter Web Client in creating clones, templates, and Guest Customization Specification
• Cleaned up remote signed virtual machines dat were reported by SRM invoking Powershell script then performing manual clean-up of incorrect entries in vCenter Server Database
• Implementation and maintenance of new Cisco UCS 510B chassis, UCS B200 M2 and M3 blade servers, Cisco UCS C420 M3 blades, UCS 6140XP Fabric Interconnect hardware, and utilization of UCS Manager for configuration, administration & maintenance purposes.
• Assisted team in standing up new Cisco UCS environment, Implementation of vSphere 5.5 VC Server, installing teh 5.5 Hypervisor from boot LUN at new lease data center in Piscataway, NJ. Teh configuring of teh management network and then adding new 5.5 ESXi Hosts to teh HA/DRS Clusters.
• Vmware ESXi 5.x host implementation, maintenance, troubleshooting, VUM patching, and administration support.
• Lead Engineer on teh Wintel Server Decommission and Datacenter migration project. Decommissioned and migrated over 150 servers combined.
• Responsible for EMC Power Path configuration and upgrades on Wintel servers. Worked wif SAN Engineer regarding code upgrades to SAN arrays.
• Firmware upgrades to UCS components, FI’s, IOM, IMC, Blade Servers at several sites to update firmware version from 2.0(4b) to 2.1(3b)
• Maintained HP DL380 and 580 rack-mount servers and BL 465, 460C server blades wif C7000 enclosures, Cisco UCS Blades & chassis.
• Assisted wif SCCM 2012 management, administration, troubleshooting of collections, queries, reports, packages, and deployments. Planning and executing both Windows Workstation and Windows Server security patch deployments. Checking on system compliancy to ensure deployments are running successful.
• Utilized vCops v5.8.1 monitoring system to view, manage, validate, and collect statistics wifin teh Vmware infrastructure environment.
• Maintenance, administration, configuration, and support of teh Cisco UCS & vSphere v5.0 environment at both teh Fair Lawn and Franklin Lakes, NJ Data Centers.
• Utilized teh Remedy ticketing and change control systems.
• Data Center network & SAN liaison and server hardware support (Hands-On)

Confidential

Windows Engineer/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Windows Server operations and maintenance support
• Data Center infrastructure support
• Physical/virtual provisioning and Windows 2008 & 2012 server builds
• Virtual Center administration
• Responsible for server security remediation and baseline (Tivoli BigFix)
• Troubleshooting .NET Frame versions v2.0 through v4.5
• Active Directory domain controller, AD replication troubleshooting, and OU administration
• Service Now ticketing system and Change Control processes for production and QA environments

Confidential

Windows Engineer/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Operations support of Wintel server farm, Clusters, and Data Centers
• Windows Server OS maintenance on Confidential x series and Confidential servers
• Erected several 5.1 ESXi Host and added to vCenter cluster
• P2V and V2V custom virtualizations
• Vmware vCenter host and virtual machine administration
• Teh decommissioning of Windows 2003 and Citrix servers during Data Center move to Newark
• Rack-mount and basic network configuration of Confidential SAN switches
• Built Windows 2008 Datacenter domain controller and installed at new Newark data center

Confidential

IIS Administrator/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• New .NET code deployment releases to production, development, and staging environments
• Attribute changes, HTML and web.config changes, FTP web site replications
• IIS WEB administration troubleshooting, log file maintenance, and working wif IP Monitoring system
• Requested and installed various CA WEB server certificates
• Utilization of batch scripts and VB scripts
• Windows provisioning and Windows server support
• Virtual builds utilizing Vmware vCenter and customization build templates

Confidential

Windows Infrastructure Engineer/VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed Windows vCenter Server wif a SQL DB back-end. Installed hypervisor and added ESXi 5.0 hosts to Vmware DC clusters
• Added datastores, created virtual switches, configured port groups, VLAN’s, uplinks, etc.
• Implemented new Cisco UCS 510B chassis, UCS B200 M2 blade servers, and UCS 6120XP Fabric Interconnects from design documents.
• Stabilized teh Lumension MS security patching system by upgrading font-end application server and Lumension patch agents
• Fashioned Helpdesk and Alert Center procedures and scheduled all patch related activities for teh different computing environments
• Troubleshoot, upgraded, maintained failover processes on Windows Server 2008 clusters, housing SQL DB, file and print, and application resources, etc. Windows Server and McAfee Anti-Virus troubleshooting issues dat had occurred in teh production environment.
• Cabled all required Ethernet uplinks, FCOE, and SAN connectivity
• Rack-Mounted VNX storage appliance, made SAN connections, and daisy-chained storage shelves
• Basic configuration of Cisco MDS multi-layered SAN switch
• Worked wif Cisco Engineers and Firewall teams to ensure proper network routing out to teh core and required ports to be opened
• Constructed new physical rack-mount Confidential R510 and R710 servers
• Provisioned Windows 2008 R2 physical servers and Windows 2003, 2008 virtual servers. Worked on design and specifications wif vendors
• Daily 24x7 support of Windows servers and maintaining systems wifin teh data center

Confidential

Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Netware 6.5 to Windows 2008 data migrations on to new MS cluster server
• Applied and restored share and NTFS Active Directory security permissions
• Daily Citrix end-user support, and maintenance/support of servers/Citrix Farm
• Brand new server builds of physical and virtual Windows servers
• Responsible for teh maintenance and support of teh Lumension MS security system
• Responsible for teh maintenance and support of Vmware ESXi 4.1, vMotion, builds, applications, memory resources, hardware failures
• IT Support at teh new Freedom Tower location (owned by teh Port Authority)
• Daily & 24x7 support of Windows servers, and maintaining stable system wifin teh data center