Active Directory Manager

VENU GOLI

Mobile: 919-***-****

Email: ****.****@*****.***

Summary of Qualifications:

IT Professional with 12+ years of expertise in Windows, VMware technologies

Design, Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of SCCM and System Centre

Experienced in configuring Active Directory Services in Windows based server environments.

Hands on experience configuring and managing IIS 6.0/7.0 as well as installing patches and software upgrades recommended by IIS server

Well versed in virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESX 6.x, 5.x, 4.x and 3.x hosts& Virtual Center server till 5.5 and have deployed key VMware ESX/ESXi technologies.

VDI support engineer In-depth knowledge VSphere client /Hypervisor /Horizon view/office 365, exchange servers/tickets resolving/beta testing.

Expertise experience in Redhat Jboss Web Server and Apache tomcat

Expertise experience in Labvantage LIMS Architecture

Expertise experience in Microsoft Windows Clusters, SQL Always on HA groups

Technical Skills Summary:

VMWare Skills:

ESX/ESXi Server, vSphere 6.0, VMware converter 4/3 and VMware VMotion.

VMWare Virtualization Tools:

ESX 6.0/5.5/5.0/4.1/4.0, ESX 3.5, ESXi, vSphere 5 and 6.0, VI3, Virtual Center Server, P2V, V2V, Storage VMotion, HA, DRS, SRM 4.0, Host Profiles, vApp, VMware Consolidated Backup, VRO, VDI, vCenter Operation Manager, vCenter cloud automation, vCenter Site Recovery Manager, VMware Management Assistant, VMware vSphere Client, VMware View 6, VMware ThinApp, Events and Alerts, Capacity Planning, Plate Spin Power Converter, SaaS.

Networking Protocols:

TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, Ethernet, Token Ring.

Hardware:

HP ProLiant DL360, DL380, DL580 Servers, BL465c Blade Servers, Cisco B class servers,SUN Fire sysyems,IBM Blade servers and Dell Power Edge Servers

Windows Skills:

.NET, Winxp, IIS, Windows 2012, SaaS, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, GPO, DFS.Powershell,Hyper-V,MS Exchange

Office Tools:

MS office 365, MS Visio, MS Project, RV tools

Operating System:

Windows [2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2,2016]

Database

SQL and Oracle databases

Storage

HP EVA 3000 and EMC VNX

Cloud

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure,V-Block and Docker

Certifications:

EMC IT-as-a-Service Expert Exam for Cloud Architects Certified

EMC Information Storage Management (ISM)V2 Certified

EMC Storage_Administrator, VNX_Solutions_Specialist_Version_7.0_certified

EMC Virtualized Infrastructure Specialist Exam for Cloud Architects Certified

ITIL Foundation Certified

Microsoft Specialist: Implementing Microsoft Azure Solutions

Microsoft® Certified Professional

VMware VCP-510 Certified

Experience Profile

Client: Intuit, Plano, Texas 05/2016-Present

Sr. Windows/VMWARE Engineer

Responsibilities:

Installed, configured, and troubleshoot Windows Server 2000, 2003,2008,2012 and 2016 servers.

Involved in Windows/Application Patch management

Installed and Managed Active directory Services in the IT Infrastructure.

Dealt with Server performance issues and optimization

Used Debugging tools to find Root cause of server performance issues

Managed file servers and printer servers.

Provided 24x7 supports of the server global infrastructure

Created profiles and configured the group policies.

Configured Domain security policies, Local security policies.

Used PowerShell /VBA for automation

Used SPLUNK/VRA/HP monitoring tools and sysinternals

Created groups, users and managed file and print share permissions.

Analyzed system outages and provided RCAs.

ITIL Certified and strong working knowledge of ITIL Incident, Problem and Change Management disciplines.

Administration of WSUS servers and deploying patches.

Managing the IIS web servers and Apache web servers.

Managing Windows Server Family products with Active Directory Integration.

DNS,DHCP, WINS, Disk quota management in windows server.

Worked remotely and provided 24x7 supports on critical systems and ON call

Installed and configured Windows Failover Clusters and SQL Always on high available clusters

Worked on maintaining vSphere vCenter 6.0, ESXI 6.0, vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations

Manager, vRealize Orchestrator in a VMware virtualized environment, Horizon View 7.0.2, vROPs.

Responsible for Capacity planning and Maintaining the Health status of VDI environment and providing business continuity service and support for large Virtual Desktop Deployments all over the globe.

Create custom report to measure performance of VM's and ESX servers using Virtual Centre and vROps.

Managed and maintained Cisco and Brocade Switches

Configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies

Worked on Infrastructure Capacity management tasks

Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.

Designed VNets and subscriptions to conform to Azure Network Limits.

Mentored Junior Teams

Coordination with Microsoft Azure team and App team to migrate existing application to Azure Cloud. Setup Azure Cloud Infra, Cloud services for smooth migration.

Upgraded 100+ ESX hosts from ESX 5.0 to ESX 6.x using VMware Update Manager tool.

Design and Management of Public and Private cloud offerings providing IaaS/ SaaS/ PaaS using VCloud Director, Hyper-V.

Provided planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading support for vRealize Automation & vRealize Orchestrator.

Deploy Distributed Execution manager and agents for vRealize Automation connectivity.

Workflow Development using VRO tool and integrating VRO with external tools & configured and Deployed the VRA 7.0, VRA 7.1 and created the documentation for it. .

Designing a setup for VRO environment with end to end provisioning.

Worked on CISCO,HP,IBM and Dell servers

Troubleshooting experience in VRO tool in scenarios of integration, port issues, services being corrupt etc.

Worked along with a team to write script for VMware ESX server using PowerShell.

Worked with vCloud Automation Center (VCAC).

Worked on Servers, Application and database backup tasks

Create workflows and managed activities through vRealize orchestrator.

Create custom report to measure performance of VM's and ESX servers using Virtual Centre and vROps.

Designed and implemented Hyper-V and Hyper-V Failover Clustering, virtualizing over 90% of workloads, enabling high availability across most systems, and driving efficiency for local and remote locations.

Environment: Hyper-V, VMware App Volumes, VSphere Suite 5.1 and 5.5, ESXi 6.x and 5.5, Virtual Center ThinApp, AWS Cloud, MS Azure.

Client: Citigroup, Irving, TX 04/2015-04/2016

Sr. VMWARE/Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting of VMware ESX 6.0/5.5/5.0/Hosts, VMware vSphere virtual center. P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.

End to end security of infrastructure systems with Load balancers and https encryption

Installing patches and software upgrades recommended by IIS server.

Administration of VMware ESX and ESXi Servers on HP Chassis 7000, DL380P GN8.

Labvantage LIMS end to end design,Implement and Architect

GxP Documentation and Technical Design Specification documents creation.

Disaster recovery solutions implementation and documentation.

Administration of VMware ESX, ESXi Servers using vCenter Server, experienced with VCenter operations manager (VCOP's).

Created vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup. LUN creation and storage mapping administration and configuring Multi pathing.

Managed VMware ESX (i) hosts using vSphere client and Web client.

Handled the VMware solutions to support storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS).

Implemented VMware Horizon View and VMware VSAN for a VDI solution for remote workers and developers.

VDI deployment of Win 7 machines with citrixStudio 7.7, VDI with Personal vDisk and redirected user profiles to centralized shares, Deploying VM servers and P2V conversions for cost reductions.

Moving VMWare View to citrixXenDesktop5.6 environment., build and maintain CitrixXenDesktop PVS environment.

Constructs VDI parent imagesVDI pools for new business developments based on remote connection method specifications.

Performing VDI migration via developed process workflow - VMware View 5.1 to Horizon 6.2.

Routinely evaluate VDI system for performance optimizations and capacity planning.

Performed Data store migration using VMware storage vMotion on NetApp's NFS, dell ISCSI SAN Storage.

As Windows Administrator:

Maintained and troubleshot windows 2008R2 and 2012, RHEL 6(Linux) and Sun Solaris 11(UNIX) server.

Ccreating Azure VM, Cloud Services and Storages by using Azure Power-Shell Script.

Developed a migration approach to move workloads from On-Premises to Windows Azure and develop new cloud-ready application solutions.

Configuring Cloud platform such as Virtual Networks Multi-site, Cross-site, VMs, Azure AD, Load Balancers, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, etc.

Used Azure Active Directory for MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) and integrate with Virtual Desktops for users.

Design, Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of SCCM and SCOM 2012.

Served as a Tier 3 Domain Admin to handle routine SCCM 2012 tasks (Creation of collections, packages, advertisements, queries, reporting, testing, troubleshooting packages, monitoring advertisement status, and SCCM Software updates.

Provided Risk Assessment and remediation guidance for SCCM 2012 infrastructures.

Deployed over 1,000 VMs in a week to support a migration from Windows 2008 to Windows 2012 R2.

Migrated IIS6.0 to IIS7.0 using Windows Deployment Tool 2.0.

Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.

Installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux on Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant and VMware ESX.

Administered the UNIX System for clustered HP Servers with fiber attached SAN.

Managing Disks/Filesystems using Logical Volume Manager for Red Hat Linux.

Designed and Implemented WCF services layer hosted on Windows Azure. This layer is the middle tier between SQL Azure and SharePoint online external content.

Environment: Exchange Server 2016, Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012, Linux Servers, PowerCLI, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0, PowerShell, VMwareESX4.0, VCAC5.1, 5.2 VMware View 6, VMware Lab Manager, VMware converter, P2V, V2V, VMotion, HP DL360PG6, G7, G8, HPC700, IIS environment.

Client: JPMORGAN CHASE, Newyork. 02/2014-04/2015

Sr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Troubleshooting IIS application based on monitoring and logs generated on the server.

Maintained high degree of competency across the Microsoft Application Platform, focusing on .NET Framework, WCF, Windows Azure, AppFabric, and SQL Azure.

Worked on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 r2, Active Directory/LDAP and Group Policy administration in a hybrid-cloud configuration (Windows Azure) with 40+ replicated sites.

Develop PowerShell script to automate Active Directory and server tasks and Generate reports for administrators and management.

Involved in Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS.

Extensively worked with Active Directory Services, IIS Servers, DNS, and DHCP.

Worked on capacity planning and management of Virtual machines in VMware environment. Implemented rapid provisioning and life cycle management for Redhat LINUX using kickstart.

Expertise in security hardening (iptables/selinux) major Production Servers, and compiling, building and installing web server based Linux tools.

Worked on Microsoft Office 365 (Installed, Configured, Documented fixes and common issues).

Successfully migrated 1500 user mailboxes from Exchange 2013 to Office 365 to create a hybrid deployment for the business.

Organized and worked with Exchange 2013 infrastructure for the deployment of the hybrid environment.

Applied patches, service packs, and security updates to servers.

Ran the Best Practice Analyzer for Exchange and followed Microsoft best practice guidelines for the hybrid deployment of Exchange and Office 365

Prepared migration plans for Exchange 2013 environment that encompassed organizing AD for user synchronization and migration.

Administered Windows Server roles and features in connection with the Exchange 2013 Office 365 hybrid environment.

Implementation of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solutions for remote global users.

Virtualized software applications utilizing Thin App, streaming to a zero client and fat client environment.

Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration and Production environments and across Datacenters. Hands on experience with configuring Cisco UCS.

Maintaining the file server, application and Print Server, IIS Server.

Configured and managed IIS 7.0/8.0.

Ensure CMDB is updated and accurate per server specifications in preparation for go live change process.

Configuring HA, DRS clusters, creating Affinity rules and configuring FT when required.

Worked with the storage team to resolve ESX and VM storage issues.

System Analyst for Windows 2003-2008 servers.

Wrote various Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 then to Exchange 2007 migration documentations

Wrote, reviewed and updated documentation for Exchange server builds

Tested and verified procedures and troubleshoot any problems that the helpdesks reported.

Evaluated and installed Quest for Exchange and Active Directory tools, solved issues with the vendor.

Experience with troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active directory.

Creation of custom tools and scripts to meet business and regulatory requirements.

Evaluation of new enterprise IAM solutions to ensure compliance with changing business requirements.

Responsible for Microsoft exchange server 2013, SQL and database server.

Maintained Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall for Exchange Server.

Successfully Migrated Win XP users to Windows 7 using USMT (User State Migration Tool).

Environment: vSphere 5.5/6.0, Exchange Server 2013, Fiber Channel –SAN, ISCSI, NFS (NAS), SRM 4.5 to SRM 5.X, Windows server 2008/2012, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, SQL and database server, SaaS Environment, IIS Server, .NET environment.

EMC Data Storage Systems, Austin,Texas. 11/2012-01/2014

Sr. Vmware Engineer

Responsibilities:

Installed VMware vSphere 5 and created virtual machines on ESX 5.5 Servers. Created standard images and deployed servers from the images.

Worked on various infrastructure projects surrounding Servers consolidation, Physical to Virtual Migrations, Storage and Server Management.

Monitored and updated Trend micro for Exchange server.

Worked on Central Management Server (vCenter Server) to manage all the ESXI hosts in the datacenter.

Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with snapshots of Virtual Machines.

Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, Storage VMotion.

Deployed new vSphere 5 infrastructure for VDI implementation.

Managed VMware-assisted support calls\cases pertaining to resolving environment issues.

Evaluated VDI monitoring tools vCOPs, VMturbo, Solarwinds, & Xiangti.

Introduced VDI standards -VDI naming convention, AD group entitlements, ESX alerts, VDI power-on rules, snapshot retentions, & VDI evaluation\approval\charge backs.

Generated documentation in the areas of VDI Troubleshooting, VDI Optimizations, and VDI standard.

Performed VM Storage migrations to new EMC and Netapp storage arrays.

Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.

Racked and installed ESXi servers and added to vCenter clusters.

Responsible for building and deploying servers running Windows 2008 R2, and Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, and Red Hat).

Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Virtual Infrastructure.

Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESX hosts and Virtual machines.

Performed data store migration using VMware storage vMotion.

Setup Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates.

Proficiency with Microsoft Exchange Management Console.

Expanded e-mail capabilities through interconnecting Microsoft Exchange implementing Internet Mail Service (IMS) and deploying Outlook Web Access

Building VM's and new Templates for new Projects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.

Collected asset inventory of desktops and laptops using SCCM2007.

Collected application usage data and remove unused software using Software metering

Ran different reports software/hardware inventory reports using SCCM and share with management

Created VBscript/PowerShell scripts to automate tasks with SCCM.

Worked on release management, Incident management, Problem management and Change management according to ITIL process

Good experience in configuring, optimizing and troubleshooting of Linux/Unix servers and the Networking setups.

NIC teaming at ESX server level for NLB and redundancy.

Performed security monitoring tests to identify intrusions.

Environment: VMware VSphere, ESXI 5/5.5, DRS, VMotion, FT, Cloning, Templates, Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2, VMware lab manager, vconverter, Linux/Unix servers, P2V conversion.

Hewlett Packard GlobalSoft, Bengaluru, India. 08/2010-11/2012

Sr. Vmware Admin

Responsibilities:

•Installing and configuring VMware VCenter Server 5.1, VCenter plug-ins.

•Performed storage migration for moving VMs from one data store to the other.

•Installing and configuring ESX 4.1/5.1 in large scale environment

•Create VMs on ESX hosts for installing, configuring and managing guest operating systems such as Windows server 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2012&RedHat Linux

•VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.

•Creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates and Cloning VMs

•Using Virtual center server for HA, DRS, and Vmotion and Storage Vmotion.

•Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS.

•Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines

•Create virtual switches and port groups, configure virtualization networking settings for redundancy by teaming up NICs; configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.

•Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines

•Log analysis knowledge for monitoring performance (CPU, Memory, Disk, network Utilization) and virtual infrastructure alarms in VCenter servers.

•Create and maintain environment specific installation and configuration guides for P2V Conversions, ESX server and VCenter Server installation, VMware tools, Patch Upgrades and, third party applications

•Linux OS configuration and fine tuning for better performance

•Managing storage, disk mount, extend space on Linux Servers

•Install and configure applications in Linux Servers- Informatic, JBOSS, and Tomcat.

•Managed, maintained, and administered Exchange 2007, Office Communicator Server 2007.

07/2008-07/2010

Wipro ltd, Bengaluru, India.

Windows Admin

Responsibilities:

•Managing Active Directory, Group policy, DHCP and DNS management

•Installation, troubleshooting and support of File & Print services, Domain Controllers/Global Catalog, OU, Sites and Service, Certificates, DNS, DHCP, WINS, LDAP.

•OS upgrade, patching on Windows Servers 2008 & 2012

•Managing Citrix XenApp 6.5 and Presentation Server 4.5.

•Install and publish applications in Citrix, provide permissions

•Publish VM desktops via Citrix Xen desktop.

•Collecting asset inventory of desktops and laptops using SCCM2007

•Collect application usage data and remove unused software using Software metering

•Running different reports software/hardware inventory reports using SCCM and share with management

•Creating VBscrit/Power shell scripts to automate tasks with SCCM.

•Troubleshooting Windows applications and related Services

•Configure and manage HP blades, Rack-mounted with HP ILO and SUM.

•Managing Financial, Risk, Trading applications and web Reports.

•IIS and Tomcat, Apache Servers management –Congo’s 10 and Spot fire 4.5

•Managing LAN, WAN networks.

•Handling SOX applications

•Working on release management, Incident management, Problem management and Change management per ITIL process.

Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1 & 5.1, Windows server 2003/2008 R2, 2012, DNS, IIS, DHCP, IIS, Citrix

01/2008-07/2008

Primaccess Technologies (Client: Wipro) Hyderabad, India.

Engineer Desktop management

Managing and Maintaining Desktop, Laptops

Troubleshooting Windows XP, Vista PCs

Managing windows servers and Virtual machines

07/2005-12/2007

Rainbow Online Services Hyderabad, India

Network Assistant

Trouble Shooting PCs, Laptops and servers Hardware and Software

Connecting Switches and networks

Installing Client PCs with XP, Vista

Education

Master Of Science in Computer Science, Alagappa University.

Bachelor of Science, Kakatiya University.

Employer details,

Nikhil Pendem

Orabase Solutions LLC.

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