SUMMARY

• Over 14 years of experience as a Systems Administrator with extensive knowledge in VMware Virtualization.
• Experience as a VMware admin specialized in the area of Virtualization with VMware ESX 5.x and 4 servers and Virtual Center server, vSphere and SAN/NAS technologies.
• Highly experienced in establishment/setup, Primarily in a production and development environment with a multiple skills of Microsoft Server OS, VMware, Citrix Xenapp, WebInterface, Edgesight with project management skills.
• Administration of Citrix XenApp Farms, Installation of Citrix Presentation server 4.0/ XenApp 4.5/5.0/6.5 & Citrix Client Tools.
• Experience in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment.
• Administering, Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2008 R2/2003 Active Directory Infrastructure Managing over 5000+ servers. Solid skills in database administration and network administration in large scale enterprise environment.
• Experience working in a high - availability MSCS clustered environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hypervisors: ESX 3.0; ESX/ESXi3.5; ESX/ESXi 4.0; ESXi 4.1; ESXi 5.x

OS: Windows Server 2012/2008, Windows 7,Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

Terminal Services Application Servers: Citrix Metaframe PS 4.0, XenApp 4.5/5.0 & 6.5.

Applications: vCenter Server 3.5 /4.0/4.1/5.0 ; VMware Site Recovery Manager; VMware Data Recovery, Citrix Presentation Server 4.X & XenApp 6.5, MS SQL Server administration, Symantec Backup Exec 8.5.

Hardware: IBM 3650, Equallogic iSCSI SAN (PS 5000E, PS 5000XV, PS6000XV), Cisco UCS,Power Edge Dell Servers, HP Blade Servers C7000 and C3000 and Rac k Servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, IL, Chicago

VMware & Windows System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMware ESX 5.5/5.1 Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual centers.
• Virtual environment with Linux, Windows servers and ESXi hosts across four datacenters in multiple remote locations.
• Server migration P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter, Plate Spin Migrate, OVF export andvSphere Replication.
• Responsible for creating Clusters with High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
• Creating/Managing host profiles and deploy to hosts in a VMware clusters.
• Handling Windows patch updates (WSUS) and on regular intervals when the maintenance windows is approved for Prod servers.
• Patch Management of ESX Hosts using VMware Update Manager.
• Implemented vCOPS in Production\Development as a monitoring solution.
• Build new ESXi hosts from the scratch and Performed migration of all the VMs from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 across Datacenter’s.
• Created templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions.

Confidential, PA, Malvern

Sr System Administrator - VMware & Citrix

Responsibilities:

• Administrated server consolidation through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center, using Virtual Center, ESX, creating VMs, using/building VM templates and customization of files.
• Performed Data Center Migration of Physical Servers to Virtual Servers (P2V) Using VMware Converter.
• Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites (Windows 2003/2008) on VMware ESX server.
• Installed VMware ESX server 5.0/5.1 and created virtual machines on ESX Servers.
• Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates.
• Installed Management Server vCenter Server to enable centralized management of multiple hosts.
• VM Servers build & rebuild (Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM) as per the client request through change management process.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines, Templates, Clones and Snapshots.
• Hot and Cold cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware vCenter Converter.
• Configuring and Administering Microsoft Windows 2008/2003 Servers, Active Directory.
• Installation, configuration and administration working knowledge on Window 2008 R2/2012 servers at single or multi-level domain platforms.
• Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and performed Storage VMotion where the storage is migrated.
• Managing of Citrix XenApp 6.5/4.5 Farm using Citrix Management Console (Server Management, Publishing & Managing of Applications).
• Production experience with Internet IIS, IBM Websphere Application server, Windows 2012/2008/2003 Domain Administration, Application Servers, File Servers, Windows Terminal Server.
• Providing Infrastructure support for Windows 2008/2012, SQL & File servers.
• Building new Servers according to security standards. Installing software, patching, upgrading and maintenance of operating system.
• Responsible for installing configuring and troubleshooting on 2008 R2 servers using enterprise standards.
• Build and deploy Citrix XenApp Server's on VMware ESX and migrate farms from Citrix XenApp 5.0 to Citrix XenApp 6.5.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of Citrix Server farm running Physical & Virtual Windows 2003 servers, Xenapp 6.5 on Win2008 for production and test environment.
• Managing of Citrix XenApp 6.5/4.5 Farm using Citrix Management Console (Server Management, Publishing & Managing of Applications).
• Managing VM ware infrastructure, Creating VM’s, snapshots and Clones.
• Configure, troubleshoot and monitor core services such as Active directory, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP and Group policy.
• Perform general system administration duties in a Windows Active directory environment, Patching of servers done through Shevlik servers.
• Allocate NFS and SAN storage to VMWare environment.
• Provisioned storage to customer's using both ISCSI and Fiber Channel.

ENVIRONMENT: VMware ESXi 5.x and 4.x Server, vCenter Server,VMwareVSphere, VMwareStandalone Convertor, HP Proliant DL 380 G6, G7 and Gen8, ILO Manager, W2K12, W2K8R2, W2K12. Citrix XenApp 6.5, WebInterface, BESR Backup, EMC Storage.

Confidential, Pittsburgh - PA

Citrix Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installing configuring and troubleshooting on 2008 R2 servers using enterprise standards.
• Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Windows 2003 administration and support.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of Citrix Server farm running Physical & Virtual Windows 2003 servers, Xenapp 6.5 on Win2008 for production and test environment.
• Managing of Citrix XenApp 6.5/4.5 Farm using Citrix Management Console (Server Management, Publishing & Managing of Applications).
• Managing Citrix core infrastructure including Web, app, SQL and Citrix servers. Maintain Citrix Datastore, license servers, and Zone Data Collectors and Edgesight.
• Installation of applications on Citrix servers. Respond and resolve to monitoring alerts escalated to the team and Support Client applications installed on Citrix XenApp Servers.
• Configure applications on Citrix Presentation and XenApp servers.
• Provisioning new physical & virtual servers and installing Citrix on them for expansion of Citrix farms.
• Citrix Xenapp 6.5 migration planning, developing, testing and moving the migration process onto full-fledged production network.
• Responsible for administering and supportingCitrix serverenvironment on Windows Server 2003/2008.
• Responsible for Terminal server builds and Citrix XenApp server deployments in both Physical and virtual environments
• Supported 10,000 plus User base.

Environment: Citrix XenApp 5.0/4.5,/6/5 Windows server 20 & X64, Citrix Streaming Profiler 6.5/6.0/5.2, SQL 2005/2008.

Confidential

VMware Consultant (Sr System Administrator - VMware & Citrix)

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESX 4, ESXi 5 and vCenter Server 5.
• Well Experienced with designing, installing and implementingVMwareESX servers and vCenter server 4.0 and setting up ofVMwareFeatures like V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots with in no time, Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.
• Responsible for P2Ving acquired server hardware from newly acquired subsidiaries.
• Good experience withVMwareUpdate Manager and Host Update utility to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
• Creating and configuring VNetwork Standard Switch (VSwitch), VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from VNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• Day to day VMware tasks (create VMs, manage resource pools, etc)
• Responsible for ESX resource management, recommend solutions.
• Support multiple VM environments for our products.
• Created and managed resource pools for Virtual Machines.
• Experience with multiple backup and recovery technologies like Cloning, Snapshots, and Disaster Recovery technology.
• Successfully migrated Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the VMotion and Storage VMotion.
• Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.
• Created templates from VMs and deployed VMs from templates.
• Designed, implemented, managed and maintained VMware Infrastructure 3.5, vSphere 4/4.1, 5.0 (Apply all updates and upgrades)
• Managed 6 Virtual Centers, over 280 ESX Servers, over 70 clusters and 3500 VMs.
• Provided day to day system administration and technical support for Windows 2003 Servers.
• Server hardening using Security Configuration Wizard and Group policies.
• Group Policy Objects (GPO) for desktop environment consistency & security using Group Policy Management (GPMC), Group (Domain Local, Global and Universal) Creation with scopes and permission assignment to resources, roaming profiles for users & maintain organization Unit hierarchy with Delegation of administration.
• Managing Group Policy. Creating and Managing Organizational Units.
• Extensive experience in Installation, Configuration, Deployment and management of enterprise applications using IBM Websphere 5.1, 6.1 and 7.0 Deployment Manager Server and all WebSphere Application servers on Microsoft Windows 2008/2003/2000.
• Gathered various metrics for apply timings and support tickets to assist in driving root cause analysis.
• Provide on-call support, troubleshooting, incident notification and resolution, problem management, post-mortem analysis, and root cause identification.
• Perform software applies to internal development & testing environments using documented procedures and processes.
• Provided Customer support by 24x7 shift rotation basis and monitored trouble ticket queues to attend user and system calls.

Environment: Windows 2003, Windows 2008, VMware ESX 4.X, Active Directory. IBM WebSphere DMGR/Application Server 5.1/6.1.0.13/7/ X, Oracle, SQL 2000/2005, Tivoli-TSM&BESR Backups, EVTS Tickets, TCP/IP, DNS, IIS 7.0/6.0/5.0, Windows Clustering, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5/XenApp 6.X.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Windows 2K/2003, Installation and configuration and designing of Active Directory.
• Design New Active Directory deployment/infrastructure for multiple sites for Clients.
• Maintain Active Directory Environment for Clients.
• Troubleshoot Active Directory (replication/DNS/account issue/GPO).
• Troubleshoot Client Logon failures related to Kerberos, DNS & Replication issues.
• Perform regular monitoring of network systems for performance, integrity, security, and availability. Support Microsoft Windows 2003 servers.
• Configure, troubleshoot and monitor core services such as Active Directory, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP and group policy.
• Windows NT, Windows 2000 administration including admin and support
• Extensive experience in management of data center operations, network systems, and application development.
• Installing and troubleshooting (Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows NT and Windows 9X) client application software in conjunction with the software analyst where needed.
• Resolving day-to-day user support issues and troubleshooting
• Responsible for security and integrity of the Information Systems.
• Managing the recovery(Backup/Restore) of data in the instance of a system failure.creating and managing user accounts. Email system setup and Anti-Virus Software
• Client software/hardware support/maintenance for windows 95/98, Windows NT and Windows 2000 workstation clients