SUMMARY

• 7+ years of IT experience primarily in Installation, Configuration, Administration, Management, Development, Verification, Technical Support, Trouble shooting and User training of the consolidated Virtual Systems Environment
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration & Troubleshooting VMware ESX, VSphere, Virtual Center Servers
• Expertise in creation of VM's on ESX Servers and installation of hosts and guest OS Windows
• Good Knowledge of Network configuration on ESX servers which include NIC teaming, Bonding for Failover and Load Balancing purposes
• Migrating Virtual Machines across various VMware products like ESX, GSX servers Workstation and VMware servers
• Extensive experience in working with ESXi servers - configuration, Installation, management and maintenance
• Experience in implementing ESXi servers with efficient virtualization strategies by creating clones, templates, task scheduling, prioritizing VMs, creating and managing snap shots.
• Experience with VMware view 5.1/4.6/4.5/4.0 and Virtual desktops deployments
• Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, with different types of port groups
• Good understanding about SAN, iSCSI, NAS Configuration and Implementation including attached storages, SAN Switches, HBA, VM creation capable file systems including VMFS and NFS
• Extensive experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion technology
• Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission settings, roles and responsibility assignments and VM resource allocations on ESXi hosts.
• Strong experience in configuring HA and DRS clusters, using EVC on as needed basis.
• Experience in P2V and V2V conversions using VMware vConverter.
• Experience with VMware lab manager for Installing and Maintaining Operating Systems, adding and updating applications and resolving problems
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Server technologies, such as Microsoft server 2003/2008, Exchange 2003/2007, Active Directory, Windows Update Server (WSUS), and Windows Deployment Server (WDS) and how they interact on the network
• Experience in updating Servers with latest Service Packs, Security Patches, Antivirus definitions and software distribution using Microsoft Systems Management server (SMS), Systems Center configuration Manager (SCCM) and Windows Server update services (WSUS)
• Experience with DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations and Implementations
• Experience in upgrading the AD environment from and
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, and Exchange Mail Server
• Expertise in configuring RAID technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows Server 2012/2012R2/2008/2008R2, Windows 7/8

Virtualization Products: VMware ESXi3.x/4.x/5.x, vCenter Server, VMWare Stand-alone Converter, VMware Lab Manager, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Protocols: TCP/IP, SNMP, IMAP, FTP, RDP, HTTPS

Hardware: Dell PowerEdgeR610/710 Servers, Dell Power Vault NX3000/NX3100 Servers, HP ProLiantDL320/380 G5/G6 Servers, Confidential v3700, EMC VNX-5300, EMC VNXe3100, Dell and HP KVM device/switch

Languages: C, C++, Python

Scripting: Windows PowerShell, Visual Basic

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Wayne, PA

VMware / Windows System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completely own, manage and maintain the VMware infrastructure 3.5 & VMware Vsphere 5.0 environment for the development and integration environments
• Design, install, configure VMware ESXi within vSphere 5.x environments
• Upgrading VMware tools and hardware versions on virtual servers
• Installing Windows Server Migration Tools on destination servers that run Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview or Windows Server 2012.
• Creating deployment folders on migration destination servers, for copying to source servers.
• Registering Windows Server Migration Tools on source servers
• Upgrading ESXi hosts from ESXi 4.0 to 5.1 in the environment.
• Managed daily operation of Windows 2012r servers and Active Directory administration
• Working on day to day issues on VDI's, VDI pools and virtual machines.
• Participated in the migration from an NT 4.0 Domain to a Windows 2000 AD Forest and subsequently upgraded from 2000 AD to 2003 AD.
• Planned and implemented a new Active Directory (2003) to effectively manage end users, computers, printers, and applications from a centralized location.
• Worked on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools
• Customize layer 2 and layer 3 Load Balancing between VMware, networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance.
• Experienced managing Microsoft Hyper-V Servers.
• Performed tons of Live Migration in SCVMM for Hyper-V VMs
• Deployment of VMware Horizon View setup.
• Configured, Monitored and Maintained Virtual server farms consisting VMWARE, and Hyper V
• SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware, vSphere and SAN-backed applications
• Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversions by using VMware Converter and Plate spin Power convert
• Build Technician for Windows Server 2008/2012 on Hyper-V/VMWare
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment
• Expertise in configure and managing DNS, DHCP
• Creation of User IDs, provide access to users for different groups via Active Directory
• Troubleshoot and maintain various servers within the virtual environment like Windows 2003/2008 servers, ISA, AD and IIS
• Managed and maintained Mail/POP/IMAP servers as well as Web, DNS and FTP servers

Confidential, Dallas, TX

VMware / Windows System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on different VMware products like VMware workstation, GSX/VMware server, VMware player, VMware Converter and ESX server 5.0
• Working on Migration concepts like Vmotion, Storage Vmotion and cold migration
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of Vms from templates
• Creation of different port groups like Service Console, VMkernel and VM port groups
• Configure Virtual Network in ESX server by creating vSwitches
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter
• Driven the migration project - VMware ESXi 3.5 to VMware ESXi 5.0
• Creation & Configuration of Virtual Switches, Ports, Port Groups and setting up layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks
• Configured HA, DRS & Resource Pool and Managed the Cluster Level
• Configured VMotion, Alerts, Alarms and NTP
• NIC teaming for ESX/ESXi Servers
• Install and support Windows Server upgrades
• Creating users/groups manage permissions and administrator rights
• Proficient in Configuring of DNS, DHCP and Active Directory Services in Windows based server environments
• Expertise in manual/automated backup systems and restore

Confidential, Union, NJ

VMware / Windows System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Virtual Machines in an Enterprise SAN and NAS environment
• Publication of Desktop and Application through Vmware Horizon View
• Troubleshooting of VM issues, Host issues, Vmotion issues and Hardware issues
• Manage VM’s using VMware Virtual Center and Web Access
• Installing, configuring the VMware Esx & Esxi 4.0/5.0/5.1/5.5
• Moving the running VM from one host to another using vMotion Technology
• Adding Hosts to VC, Creating and managing VM’s under the Hosts
• Expertise in implementation, configuration and administration of Servers
• Deploy Virtual Machine and use Clone, Snapshots and Template
• Installation, configuration and administration of Windows 7, XP & 2000 Professional Client OS
• Servers, Network and Resources security implementations
• Proficient in Configuring of DNS, DHCP and Active Directory Services in Windows based server environments

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in Active Directory migration, upgrades, disaster recovery, troubleshooting and support.
• Expertise in Working with ADS, DHCP, DNS Server Roles and Domain Controllers.
• Updating OS & Implementing Patches on all the servers & Desktops across the Network using WSUS.
• Planning, Implementing and Managing Group polices.
• Managing Routing and Remote Access Server, Configuring Terminal Servers and Clients.
• Managed and maintained network services, including high volume Mail/POP/IMAP servers as well as Web, DNS and FTP servers.
• Expertise in implementation, configuration and administration of Servers.
• Expertise in IIS Server for using web based Applications.
• Expertise in manual/automated backup systems and restore.
• VM Ware Infrastructure Client configuration and managing the VM's through VI Client.
• Deployed physical and virtual servers: install, configure, and troubleshoot operating systems and clusters.
• Managed Multiple Server suites(Windows, UNIX and Red Hat Linux) on VMware ESX server and designing of Active Directory
• Performed cost analysis supporting consolidation of physical servers into VMware.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills both with hardware and software in windows environment
• Configuring RAID 0/1/5