SUMMARY:

• Around 7 years of experience in designing, deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2012/2008/2003 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Motivated, enthusiastic, and pro-active System/Network Administrator with an excellent 'can-do' attitude. Expert in Windows Server System Administration skills.
• Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, XML SQL DB, MSI deployment, FSMO, DNS, DHCP,AD snap in, File Print Server, IIS Web Server , FTP, Terminal Server, MSMQ, SNMP, MMC,RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server , ISA Server and FSMO roles
• Experience in implementing and administering VMware vSphere, Permissions, HA settings, DRS settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, ThinApp, Data Stores, and Networking
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS including Lab Manager and Orchestrator.
• Experience in P2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 6.8.x. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Experience in installing, configuring, administering, and performance tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 familiar with Database Creation, Database Security, Database Replication/ Migration, Database Performance Monitoring, User Management, Database Backup/Restoration, Import/Export of SQL Database, Transact SQL, SQL Query analyzer and profiler.
• Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFSstorage and RAID concept.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN,Ethernet Port, Patch Panel and wireless networks.
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security. Installation, Configuration and managing Firewalls like Fortinet, ZyWall, SonicWall, ISA with content filtering, Anti-Spam, Web filtering, NAT, Application Publishing to public IP, Port Forwarding, log analyzing with Syslog Server. Experienced in installation, configuration, design and ongoing maintenance of Cisco router and switches.
• Experience inMicrosoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing and Windows networking.
• Experience with wintelx86 / x64Intel, HP, IBM Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Knowledge of SCCM.
• Familiar with Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling labeling maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power and UPS monitoring.
• The ability to install computer and electronic equipment in a safe and careful manner.
• Strong communication and people skills, both written and verbal. Able to assess and resolve client issues quickly. A proven record of reliability, the ability to perform under time constraints, and good judgment under pressure.
• Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation. Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

SKILLS

• Software MS Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server, MS Exchange Server2003/2007/2010,
• Microsoft Active Directory 2000/2003/2008/2008/2012 R2, Symantec Ghost, VERITAS Backup Exec-Netback up, MS Office XP,2003,2007,2010, MS Windows XP professional, Windows Vista/7,Symantec Antivirus Corporate /Endpoint Protection, Visio Professional.
• Servers Dell Power Edge: 2900, 2950, 2650, R510, R710 IBM Blade Center: HS JS, e325, e326,
• Xseries335, 336, 365, 440, 445,3250,3550,3620 HP Blade System: BL20p BL30p, DL360, DL370, DL380, DL385, DL560, DL310, DL510 and DL580
• Hardware HP/COMPAQ ProLiant servers, HP/IBM Blade Centers, IBM X-series Servers, Dell
• Power Edge Server, DLT/DAT Tape backup, HP Procurve Switches, Sonic Firewall, DLT Tape Library, Tablet PCs, Cabling/Patch panels, UPS APC , PC/Laptop Hardware, HP/IBM Blade Centers, Cisco routers

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Vmware/windows Admin

• Planning, configuration, maintenance and administration of VMware ESX server,
• VMware virtual center, V-Motion, Storage Motion, HA and DRS, P2V, V2V and Troubleshooting.
• Configure and manage User, Group, Permission, Role, Resource pool on VMware Virtual center.
• Installed and configured ESXi 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 Servers on Blade Servers.
• Worked as an IIS Administrator.
• Deployed multiple website for the applications.
• Experience of FC SAN/iSCSI SAN/NAS IBM DS 3200, NetApp FAS 2220, 2240, Dell
• Equal Logic storage technology and work with SANs in VMware environments
• Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines and Deploying VMs through Templates
• Created Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches.
• Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.
• Pushed the Patches and Updates through VMware Update manager.
• Monitored ESX server alarms and acted on those incidents to resolve.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• P2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Working on Migration concepts like Vmotion and cold migration.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Connecting to ESX server by using putty and Web access.
• Working on networking concepts like creation VSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC's.
• Provision VMware Datastore's and configure storage for Virtual Machines.
• Created Root Cause Analysis RCA for any VM failures and for any server outages and server problems.

Confidential

Sr. System/vmware Engineer

• Involved in design, implementation, and maintenance of current large scale physical and virtual consolidated infrastructures as well as with the design, test and implementation of future technologies within virtual space.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESX 5.5, Virtual Center 5.0 Servers and also patching, management and troubleshooting of VMware, and ESX Servers.
• Participated in Installation and configuration of vCenter Server, and vSphere licensing.
• Installed IIS 7 on windows server 2008R2 and made detailed documentation with implementation operational procedure.
• Involved in Installation, Configuration, and Maintaining of Microsoft Windows 2012/2008 Servers on HP and IBM Servers.
• Build and configure IBM Blades.
• Working experience with cloud solutions.
• Experience with implementing IT service management application solution within ITIL frame work.
• Setup the citrix VDI infrastructure along Xenservers platform.
• Maintain on daily basis and modify the Citrix environment and Virtual Desktop Environment for users.
• Installed and configure IBM blade center with IBM blades as per client request
• Created User Accounts, Domain Accounts, and Distribution Groups with Active Directory.
• Installed and Configured WIN, TCP/IP, FSMO roles, DNS, DHCP, IIS and Terminal Services.
• VB SCRIPTS, PowerShell, Win Batch, PS tools and Windows command-line Scripting to automate the manual tasks on Servers and Client computers.
• Installed and configure System Center Virtual Machine Manager SCVMM and added Hyper-V host on that.
• Managed shared folders groups using DFS, applied NTFS/Active Directory file permissions, create user profile and user rights restrictions and password management.
• Worked on datacenter solution and hands on experience on data center migration.
• Excellent knowledge in VB scripting.
• Implementation and Maintenance of Group Policies and Active Directory Replication.
• Experience in the Installation of desktops using VDI environment.
• Migrated P2P, P2V and V2V Servers using VMware Converter.
• Working on Configuring and Deploying SCCM 2007.
• Configured the SNMP Agent and Traps on Windows servers.
• Experience with WSUS and application deployment to users profile through SCCM.
• Possess excellent Windows server skills in the areas of Active directory, Domain architecture, TCP/IP, DNS, Wins system, availability, scheduling, server capacity and performance.
• Implement decommissions process using P2P technology using Plate Spin Power Convert for IBM Blade Center. Using Shadow Protect for database restore with P2P, P2V and V2P environment.
• Performed P2V conversions using converter enterprise 4 and 5 and also P2V cold conversion using VMware Vcenter Converter standalone.
• Installing and configuring Site Recovery Manager SRM .
• Worked on application server for user authentication and security.
• Involved in the Backup and Recovery of the Database using Symantec Backup exec.
• Configured and maintained new VM's and Installed Microsoft Windows 2012/2008 Servers, managing VM's and ESX servers by using VIC, Putty and Web Access and installing the VMware Tools on the VM.
• Administered SRM Site Recovery Manager support for Failover from one site to the other.
• Supported ESX and VM storage issues and also coordinated with the Storage Admin Team.
• Involved in the maintenance and up gradation of DNS and DHCP servers.
• Supported data migration activities in Windows VMs using vMotion.

C Confidential

Sr. System/

• 150 Linux Red Hat and Debian , Windows and Solaris servers.
• Created a disaster recovery plan for the entire Linux environment.
• Designed infrastructure and CFEngine policy to scale to 30,000 hosts in a mixed Linux, Solaris, and AIX environment.
• Confugure and install citrixxenapp 6,6.5 and xendesktop 5.
• Linux and UNIX infrastructure design and management.
• Successfully designed and implemented VMware ESX servers for server consolidation.
• Built Windows 2012/2008 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack on these servers
• Created a test Environment in Citrix or VMware for Production Team to test their applications.
• Planning and testing the application Virtualization for various new application releases using Citrix Streaming Profiler and publishing it to the Citrix farms.
• Installed VMware ESX server 5/5.5 in a total of 100 ESX's, 2500 servers four VC's. Created virtual machines on ESX Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.
• Part of the Server migration team, responsibilities include identifying systems that have to be moved behind a firewall depending on the OS and its vulnerabilities and the classification of the system.
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented VMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V.
• Used XML to transfer the data from database to the web application and vice versa.
• Deployed 250 VM's with Windows operating system for the end users.
• Servers were a wide variety of database, IIS, and application servers including SQL 2000/2005/2008/2012
• Install and maintain operating system for windows server 2008 with detailed documentation along with procedures.
• Working experience with linux red haut migration.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Installed configured Windows 2008 with Active Directory service.
• Worked on Powershell scripting for troubleshooting.
• LAN Cabling, RJ-45 crimping, Labeling, Patch Panel, PC Junction boxes, Phone Switches and Rack set-up.
• Installed and managed McAfee EPO software on servers and clients.
• Responsible for Desktop, Laptop, Network and Outlook support troubleshooting client's issues.
• 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.
• Worked with Application Compatibility tool kit for windows deployment.
• Creating and configuring vNetwork Standard Switch vSwitch , VM Kernel Ports, VM ports, Service console and NIC teaming.
• Processed and serve HTML files with the help of application server role.
• Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and Snapshots with in no time. Creating clusters, Resource pools and adding VM's to them and installing VM Tools.
• Managed 100 ESX servers located at various data centers by one virtual centre. Each Data centre has multiple clusters with biggest of 15 clusters used for HA and DRS for disaster recovery, Load balancing and troubleshooting.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, SQL Server 2005, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP/7, VMware ESX-ESXi Server , vCenter Sever, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, Dell NAS, HP blade

Confidential

Administrator

• Managed the implementation, configuration, deployment and ongoing support of Cisco Unified Computing System UCS server infrastructure hosting Enterprise Applications.
• Coordinating ESX Cluster Migration by providing application level stepswhich includes preparing DCHS Data Center Hardware Specification and SLRQ Storage Level Request Questionnaire based on the application requirement.
• Performing installation and maintenance of company products to ensure that the system is functioning according to specifications
• Worked on MSMQ to communicate between remote machines.
• Worked on storage solution on every cloud.
• Providing software development and consultation to prospective users
• Responsibilities include application deployment, migrations, site moves, site set ups
• Creating application package using Final Builder and deploying it on production and non-production servers.
• Troubleshoot issues relating to windows deployment.
• Excellent knowledge on PowerShell scripting.
• Manifested XML scripting in various automation process.
• Working on TFS Team Foundation Server for Release Engineering to add or edit config templates for new RE build.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.
• Performing Data Migration for NAS using Securecopy.
• Participating in monthly DR Disaster Recovery activity by providing application availability after recovery.
• Configured Dyna Trace tool for .Net application monitoring.
• Installing and Configuring the EMC Layer driver software
• Coordinating with the Offshore Technical Team during different datacenter activities.
• Troubleshooting IIS and .Net application based on monitoring and logs generated on the server.
• Working on shared storage cluster and monitoring application services on it.
• Installing SSL certificate on production servers to ensure availability of the application.
• Troubleshooting routine product issues Incident Tracking and Resolution .
• Participating as an active member of the software development lifecycle, through attending new feature requirements reviews and developing leading edge processes to support these new product enhancements.
• Acting as the primary business liaison to the business segment, through facilitating communication between Development, QA, Product Management, Technical Operations and Segment business leaders on new product releases, technical outages, and routine maintenances hosting moves . Effective communication and presentation to key business stakeholders are instrumental.

Environment: Windows 2003/2008 R2, SQL Server 2000, IIS 6.0/7.0, VMware ESXi 3.5 Server, Dell Power Edge Servers, HP Servers, IBM Blade Servers, Remote desktop services, IBM TSM, Microsoft Visual StudioTFS

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the environment for deployment of Windows Server 2008.
• Create custom VBscript for software deployment and administrative support.
• Build and maintain our corporate Windows 7 image and deployment of said image using SCCM.
• Install individual and network printers, use remote Desktop connection and remote technical support applications for end user support
• Used SNMP to monitor the hundreds of servers, workstations and printers.
• Implemented Virtual Desktop environment including several components such as 10Gbps Cisco Enterprise Router with two 24 port Gigabit Switches and 2 IBM 3650 Blade Servers connected 2TB Nas Sever with Firewall Tested with Citrix and VMware as I saved company 40 Hardware Cost.
• Assemble packages for deployment via CD and/or Altiris using programs like cabarc, VB script and PowerShell.
• Performing Microsoft Server, Active Directory, and Group Policy functions.
• Experience in working and managing offshore environment.
• Troubleshooting Windows server issues, IIS 6.0 and 7.x, database connectivity, issues with Active Directory.
• Set up workstations dual and quad monitors , clone and image computers. Set up user accounts via Active Directory, set up email accounts via Linux servers, setup phone extensions in and asterisk phone server in Linux and administer them to users and departments. Set up vpn accounts for user in Linux
• Installed, configured, and troubleshoot Windows Server 2008.
• Worked with desktop development teams when troubleshooting complex application outages and collaborated with the team when preparing for firm-wide business continuity testing.
• Experience in creating Clusters in Virtual Center and adding ESXHosts to Virtual Center Clusters.
• Implemented and managed IP Addressing configured TCP/IP addressing on a server.
• Performed database administration and performance tuning for Oracle and MYSQL databases in Linux Servers and automated database backup with shell scripts.
• Used DcDiag, NetDiag techniques for troubleshooting.
• Worked with MMC to customize console and delegation.
• Extensive experiences in configuring Windows Active Directory and LDAP over different forests and across multiple domains.
• Leadership ability of a team of 17 members.
• Performed few infrastructure application installations in clustered environment as part of load balancing to handle application load and to reduce downtime.
• Identified and fixed logon Scipts errors to decrease time for users to logon to computers
• Configured automatic updates for network clients by using Group Policy.
• Designed, planned and implemented Group Policy, delegation strategies and OU structure.
• Managed user accounts, groups, print queues and controlling access rights using Active Directory.
• Responsible for managing Citrix Server 4.0 and configuring Citrix clients.
• Installed, configured, performed troubleshooting and deployed SP1 for Windows 2003 Servers.
• Performed day-to-day administration functions, backup and restoration, file server maintenance.
• DNS and port forwarding as well as code analysis and error code investigation and resolution, Customer/technical support including email, ticketing system, and phone support.
• Supported all remote offices and home-based users using NetMeeting, VNC and Cisco VPN.
• Created images for various divisions for all desktops and laptops using Ghost.
• Solely responsible for all IT decision making, support and administration at a site of more than 200 'demanding users' in a fast paced architectural and engineering environment.
• Implemented a new in-house printing solution that includes Xerox multi-functional copier, printers, scanners and wide format printer.

Confidential

Systems / Confidential Administrator

• Creating Virtual Machines
• Installed and configured ESX 4.0 Servers on Blade Servers.
• Using VMware vCenter, created DataCenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and implemented HA and DRS.
• Performed physical to virtual P2V migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View
• Performed tons of V2V Migration
• Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines
• Deploying VMs Through Templates
• Created Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches
• Installed following servers Win98, Win XP, Win NT, Win 2000, Win 2003, Win 2008 etc.
• Configured DNS, DHCP and FSMO roles etc.
• Configured HP Blade DL460 using the ILo Onboard Administrator and HP Insight Manager.
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining HP Proliant BL-series C-class blade servers and DL-series servers.
• Worked with business clients to evaluate, streamline, and improve current systems, processes, and workflow.
• Participated in weekly meetings

Confidential

• Installation, configuration and system administration of Windows 2000/2003
• Maintaining network running on Windows 2000/2003 for 900 Users
• Migrating users and their settings from Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 server to 2003 server/Exchange server
• Active Directory User's Management for new employee joins and providing access to the resources and file permissions
• Involved in the TCP/IP network configuration, Creating and deleting the user accounts across the location
• Responsible for Domain controller's throughout organization
• Monitored and maintained backups in Symantec
• Managing Remote Servers through Terminal Services Manager
• Maintaining corporate DNS system
• Routine maintenance activities for optimal performance
• Installing and Set up Print servers in the Network
• Creating Virtual Sites and Directories in IIS and FTP server
• Prepared Network Documentation and Created Disaster Recovery Plan
• Setting up user accounts, Permissions and Passwords