SUMMARY

• Having 7+ years of experience as MicrosoftWindowsSystems Administrator.
• Implementation and Support ofWindows 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, 2003, 2000 and NT Servers on HP, Confidential, IBM and Compaq Blade Servers.
• Good Experience in creating port groups, VLAN networking and NIC teaming on VMware ESX 5.x/4.x and vCenter environment.
• Maintained Forward and Reverse Look up Zones, Conditional Forwarders through DNS.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering.
• Experienced in Configuring FC, SAN, VMFS, iSCSI SAN and NAS Storage with Different Vendors like EMC, NetApp.
• Providing detailed impact analyses at the facility, IDN, and GPO levels.
• Good Understanding EMC NAS Celera, Netapp FAS.
• Responsible for Active Directory, Windows2008 and 2012 OS, Window7 OS
• Solid understanding of the VMware Hypervisor.
• Experience in managing Active Directory Domain Controllers, DNS and DHCP Servers.
• Good understanding on the networking concepts like the LAN, WAN and SAN.
• Experience in configuring and setting up physical HP servers.
• Experience in configuring and setting HPE Oneview with Insight Control server provisioning.
• Installing, configuring, administration ofWindows2003 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers (SMS) servers.
• Installing and Administering the various virtualization components like vCenter, vSphere etc.
• Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Supported VMware, specifically ESXi 6.0 &5.5 to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers.
• Develop, test, and maintain a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VMware virtual Center, configuring mail alert for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU and memory.
• Installed and configured VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.5 (SRM) on multiple sites and created disaster recovery plans.
• Installed, Configured and Administered Hudson/Jenkins Continuous Integration Tool.
• Handling Tickets, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and maintenance in daily day to day job
• Installing, updating and managing different servers like DNS, LDAP, FTP, Tomcat & Apache web servers on Linux.
• Installation and upgrading of SCCM servers. Adding and updating Distribution Points.
• MaintainedWindows Servers 2008 R2, 2012 R2 administration created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory (AD) as required after gaining required approvals.
• Built and configured new 2008R2 servers in VMware and Microsoft Hyper - V environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas - TX

Sr. Windows/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementation and Support ofWindows2012, 2012R2, 2008 R2, 2008, 2003, 2000 and NT Servers on HP, Confidential, IBM and Compaq Blade Servers.
• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESXi 6 and vCenter Server 6.
• Troubleshooting ESXi server and vCenter using command line.
• Co-ordinate with the network team to plan the network structure for the new ESXi hosts like number of NICs, vLANs, subnets etc.
• Apply patches to all the ESXi hosts in the environment whenever required.
• Configuring Resource pool and DPM.
• Updating the group policy objects (GPO's) whenever required by opening a change record in HPSM
• ManagedWindows2008 Active Directory, VMware Active directory Exchange Domain Administration and Microsoft Exchange .
• Solved coexistence mail routing problem for the Office 365 migration team.
• Configured and maintained new VM's and Installed Microsoft Windows2008/2003 Servers, managing VM's and ESX servers by using VIC, Putty and Web Access and installing the VMwareTools on the VM.
• Configuring and administrating DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory Services.
• Performed backups, operating system Installation, Software installation, Adding or removing users and troubleshooting of Unix/Linux Machines
• Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) 5108 running ESX cluster.
• Implemented UCS Central and managing 6200 & 6300 series UCS's with Global Service Profiles.
• Managing 30 UCS Domains equaling 1,800 servers, 2660 CPU's.
• Responsible for NSX configurations and creating workflows.
• Created a Host Profile and configured multiple hosts from well-built Host.
• Successfully supporting over 200 VMware ESX hosts, 4000 Virtual Machines for virtualization team.

Environment: ESXi 6.0/5.5 Server, Windows 2008 R2/2012 R2, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, Confidential Power Edge Servers, HP Servers, CISCO blade Servers, Remote Desktop Services, IBM TSM, EMC Data Domain, NetApp.

Confidential, Brentwood - TN

Application Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• MigratingWindowsserver 2003 toWindowsserver 2008R2.
• Installing and configuring newWindows2008R2 server.
• Responsible for the migrating all the data and user accounts fromWindows2003 to windows2008R2.
• Troubleshooting the network issues in the servers.
• Active Directory Services -- Managing Users, GPOs & Other Resource objects.
• Implementing Group policies as per the Customer request. Creating groups, users and assigning share permissions.
• Designing and implementation of required infrastructural changes related toWindowsEnvironment, Active Directory and VMWare.
• Active Directory (AD) administration including Group Policy administration.
• Provides valuable inputs for designing, implementing and communicating enterprise ITIL Service Management policies and procedures.
• Installing and configuring Microsoft Outlook on Desktops.
• Wrote PowerShell scripts to automate application deployment and data collection.
• Deep knowledge in NTFS Permissions and file sharing.
• Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS),Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP, managing Internet Information Service (IIS 6.0),Remote Access Service (RAS).
• Deploying patches, upgrades and installing OS and applications through SCCM.
• Experienced in designing VPCs to isolate databases by configuring private subnets, NAT instances, bastion servers in public subnets and password-less SSH inside subnets (Securely)Connecting to the Linux instances running inside a private VPC
• Configuration and installation of the vulnerability scanners in various Datacenters.
• Built Windows Physical servers with 2008R2/2012 on Blade Servers and Rackmount Servers.
• BuiltWindowsvirtual servers with OS 2008R2/2012.
• Hands on Experience Enterprise Mail Transfer Agent (MTA (Iron Port, Proof point).
• Migrated user mailboxes from Exchange 2010 to Office 365.
• Provided 24/7 production support forWindows/Virtual Servers.

Environment: MS WindowsServer 2003/2008R2/2012, Clusters, DNS, DHCP, IIS, NTFS, 6.0/5.5, VMotion, Office 365, Active Directory services, Clusters, SSH, SNM, DNS, DHCP, GPOs, FTP, Patching and OS deployment, TCP/IP, VMware ESX vSphere 4.x.

Confidential, Austin - TX

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing System upgrades and administration of Windows2012 R 2/2008 R 2 network Infrastructure in a multi-site active directory organization, Active directory site replication management, Group Policies/OU/Security Accounts/Service Accounts Management
• Overall management of EMC- VMware ESXi 5.5/VCentre Virtual Infrastructure with multiple data centers for best performance, security and best disaster recovery (Utilizing Veeam and Symantec Backup Exec) strategies
• Network Infrastructure management, Switch VLAN management, Firewall/ WAN VPN Links management, SIP Phone System Support
• Experience in creating and securing ASP.NET 2.0/3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5 applications deployment in IIS 6/IIS 7.5/ IIS 8.0/IIS 8.5 web servers
• Installing and configuring ASP.NET web service applications on IIS 8.0/8.5 for Universal Store application.
• Managed Microsoft SCCM 2012 deployments in a large-scale global environment of 50,000+ users; oversaw deployments of large and complex applications targeted for mass audience
• Continually looked for ways to improve, optimize, and streamline software deployment process in order to ensure smooth, uninterrupted delivery to the business users
• Ability to rack, stack, cable and label servers in a controlled neat manner. Good understanding of how systems are physically connected to Servers
• Perform Rack and Stack for various IT equipment when required on a day to day basis Server setups.
• Assist in moving and racking equipment as directed for special projects.
• Responsible for all project deliverables and follow ups on large implementations of infrastructure/configuration management services using SCCM 2012
• Assisted in maintaining and updating the Share point platform.
• Knowledgeable and Experience in Data center practices (i.e. basic fault tolerance, cable routing, calculating power usage)
• Expertise in designing and configuring security for .NET framework applications and implementing
• Install new TSM clients on new systems and Cluster
• Proficiency in using datacenter servers, cabling, racks, and in-rack-PDUs, Outstanding understanding of the Data Center infrastructure
• Exchange server 2013/2010/2007 high availability (Mail Box Server DAG & CAS Clustering) solutions deployment with Edge Server configuration, OWA/Active Sync Configuration, Public Folder Configuration, Exchange Server backup/restore configuration, SSL Certificate Requests and Configuration, Trend Micro Email Spam Filer Configuration and Complex mail flow issues troubleshooting, Exchange migration projects
• Automated the SQL Backup execution using Power shell SCCM 2012 scripting with VERITAS Net backup and EMC Networker commands
• Experience in Wire shark and all level of support in migration and provide customer orientation each application level.
• Managed Domain controller migration (DC) of 1000+ application instances from infrastructure discovery to execution phase.
• Expert in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technologies and Cryptography Applications.
• Managing System upgrades and administration ofWindows2003/ 2012 R 2/2008 R 2 network Infrastructure in a multi-site active directory organization, Active directory site replication management, Group Policies/OU/Security Accounts/Service Accounts Management
• Updated MEDCOM PKI portals with supporting documentation.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experienced with installing, Configuring Windows 2008/2008R2
• Installed and configured .NET applications on IIS 6.0 web server and Microsoft Windows NT and 2003 server.
• Configured multiple ASP.NET websites in IIS 6.0 using Virtual IPs.
• Deployed ASP.NET applications in IIS 6.0 and configured the data sources.
• Configured Authentication methods in IIS 6.0 to control access to the applications.
• .Net application support and integration with IIS.
• Installed Confidential certificates in IIS and configured security ports.
• Trouble shooting authentication.
• Maintained and updated Active Directory for authentication.
• Created Managed Servers in a Cluster with round-robin algorithm and NLB clustering for Load Balancing
• Created user accounts, modified and deleted according to the environment using user Administration
• Installed necessary patches.
• Working experience in taking backup and restoring data using various techniques.
• Configured Thresh-hold values in Manage engine applications manager Used by the monitoring team.
• Maintained scripts to ensure a secure IIS administration.
• Configured Multiple IP addresses for forward and dynamic routing
• Configured IIS 6.0 as an application server and troubleshooter the run time errors.
• Installed Confidential certificates for .NET applications in IIS and configured security ports.
• Involved in maintaining and updating Active directory for authentication.Configured clusters in IIS for high availability
• Worked closely with Database Administrator team and was involved in planning, developing database structures, maintaining security, running backups and recovery of SQL Server databases.
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Writing T-SQL queries, creating indexes, joins on tables to increasing the performance of queries.
• Good working knowledge SQL performance tuning.
• Expertise in Installation, applying patches, configuring, Upgrade and troubleshooting of SQL Server 2008/05/00 on Windows Servers Clustered and Hyper-V environment.
• Experience in Database Security includes creating Logins and Roles for users to access the database. Managed security logins and worked with Windows authentication, SQL server authentication and mixed modes.
• Experience in writing Maintenance Plans for Full, Differential and Transactional Log Backups

Environment: IIS 6.0, SQL Server 2008/2005, NET 3.0, Windows Server 2008,Win2K.