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Manager Active Directory

Location:
Bellaire, TX, 77401
Posted:
March 08, 2017

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PROFESSIONALSUMMARY

Over *+ years of professional experience in Vmware consulting and Administration of VMware products such as vRA, vRO, Horizon suite including vSphere, vCOPS, vROPs for monitoring and capacity planning.

Experience in Virtualization technologies and software including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V server.

Extensive experience in Installing and Configuring vCenter, VMware vSphere (Infrastructure Virtualization suite), VMware Horizon suite, ESX/ESXi 5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0 and 3.5, Virtual Machines and vSphere Client.

Windows Server administration of Active Directory in Windows 2012/2008/2003 environment. Troubleshooting and managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, GPO Configuration, windows file and printer server Permissions etc.

Sound knowledge on Hyper-V, ESX and ESXI Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.

Experience in Migrating from VMware ESXi to Hyper-V 2012 with SCCM SP1 R2.

Experience with Cisco UCS blade chassis and server administration.

Experience on the Vblock 300,700series components.

Experience in large datacenter environments, design implementation and management.

Experience in configuring Cisco Nexus 1000vDistributed Network Switch and vSphere Distributed Switch

Managing Access Control through vCenter server, Optimizing Resource Utilization, Load Balancing (vSphere DRS) and ensuring High Availability (vSphere HA).

Deploying Virtual Machines (VM’s) through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) Machines using Platespin, Doubletake and Vmware convertor.

Created resource pools as well as administering the resource pools in vSphere clusters

Install patches, upgrade ESX/ESXi and Hyper-v and VMware Virtual Machines using Update Manager (VUM).

Good experience with Powershell, python scripting and vSphere CLI.

Experience in Microsoft Azure, Citrix XenApp 6.5 and Citrix XenDesktop 6.5.

Expert in VMware technologies like vROPS, VRA, and Realize automation.

Experience with UCS Enterprise environments (experience administering Cisco UCS, including experience installing / provisioning all UCS domain components, including fabric interconnects, chassis, blades, service profiles, pools, policies, templates, and firmware) also familiar with other UCS tools (UCS Central/Performance Manager).

Extensive experience in performing System Integration/Administration for Microsoft Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server, Exchange Server 2008/2003, Windows98/XP/Vista/7/8/10.

Understanding of Windows Active Directory, Domain Services, DNS, DHCP, Windows Desktop and Remote Desktop.

Solid front-end developer with experience in various UI technologies including JSP, AJAX, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Extensive experience in centralized and distributed version control systems such as SVN and Git.

Experience in writing test cases in Java environment using Junit.

Deployment experience of VMware VSAN on the VxRail appliances.

Experience working with VMware vRealize Automation, VMware NSX, Agile methodology, and DevOps.

Experience developing and maintaining O&S Standard Operating Procedures for VDI Environment.

Creating and managing the VMware cluster with HA and DRS.

Solid understanding of vCloud Air and Azure cloud.

Deployment experience in Citrix Zen Desktop from a VMware VSAN perspective.

Expertise on cloud initiatives related to LAMP, WAMP, and MS SQL server.

Experience in Oracle and SQL database and Dell Equalogic storage.

Experience in Networked Attached Storage, Network switching and routing essentials.

Experience working on blade servers and rack servers such as HP BL460, BL 660, Dell R710, R720.

Experience in IP, firewalls, Routing, switching technologies, VLANs and Windows server failover clusters.

Experience administering Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS).

Good knowledge of Microsoft SQL Database, Installing Databases, taking backup of the databases etc.

Maintain daily System Health Checklist and work proactively to avoid any system issues.

Installed and managed Antivirus on all the servers and desktops.

Install latest Microsoft Security Patches and application updates on all the servers and desktop.

Possess strong logical, analytical and problem solving skills with positive attitude.

Possess strong communication and Interpersonal skills. Can quickly master and work on new concepts and applications with minimal supervision.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2012, 2008 R2, 2003, VMware vSphere 5.x, 4.x and ESXi server 5.x, 4.x

Virtualization: VMware vSphere 5.x, 4.x, VDI, VxRail, VMware NSX, ESX Server 5.5/5.0/4.1/4.0 and Virtual Center 5.x/4.x

Network Services: Cisco Nexus 1000v, DNS, DHCP, WINS, ADDS Remote Access Services, Routing and Remote Access

Server Applications: VMware vCenter, Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, DHCP, Microsoft Management Console, IIS/Web Servers, PlateSpin, VMware Converter, Double-Take, Remedy, Terminal Services, Remote Desktop

Education& Certifications

Bachelor degree in Computer Science Engineering

VMware Certified Professional – VCP 5 DCV

VMware Certified Associate - VCA-Cloud

Cisco UCS Certified

Professional Experience

WMS, Houston TX Mar 2014 – Till Now

VMware/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

Worked on Installing, configuring and maintaining VMware ESXi 5.5 hosts and vCenter 5.5 Environment.

Configure and worked on vCenter Linked mode.

Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2008 servers and 2012 R2 Servers on Virtual Machines.

Hardware environment Dell M910, M710 full height, half height blades and cisco UCS.

Also worked on POC for vBlock300 for specific customer needs.

Building and maintaining Physical servers on Dell PowerEdge M910 and M710 blade servers.

Worked on administrating BIOS and firmware upgrades on Dell blade servers in Chassis Management Controller.

Troubleshoot issues with Linked Mode connected with Update Manager.

Updating and patching ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers using VMware Update manager.

Perform server migration over Data centers using VMware converter 5.5.

Managed and configured vSphere Networking Concepts such as vDS, Distributed Port Groups, VLANs, LACP.

Upgraded the test environment from vSphere 5.5 to 6.0 with external PSC along with the vSphere components like vCenter, vSphere Update Manager etc.

Supported large scale Data Center activities including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities.

Successfully operated Platespin to migrate physical hosts to the client Cloud.

Worked on OS patch management (SCCM, WSUS), Server and Application Virtualization, backup solutions.

Taken care whole storage for our environment, day to day storage requirements, storage pools, extended data store, storage I/O controller, swing LUNs to migrate VMs between clusters.

Worked on administering Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), and network file access utilizing NFS and CIFS protocols.

Worked with VMware engineers to build custom ESXi image for our environment, which includes (custom filter driver for Trend Micro, power path from EMC).

Deployed Java/J2EEapplications to Application servers in an agile continuous integration environment and, also automated the whole process.

Worked on design principles, and worked on python, JavaScript and scripting languages for automating activities of RestAPI.

Deployed and worked extensively on Trend Micro (Anti-Virus in Virtual Environment).

Installation of filter drivers on each Host for Trend Micro, deployed about 500+ DSVAs (Deep Security Virtual Appliances) in our environment, custom installation of VMware tools in order to support Trend.

Worked on VMware pCli for deploying vApps, for making any changes on VMs and Hosts like VMCI, Syslog settings, pulling any Host related or VM related data, also for setting Affinity rules for a VM on a host.

Troubleshoot and remediated many issues related to VMware and windows, has very good experience in working with VMware BCS support engineers, also extensively worked with Dell enterprise engineer for any Hardware related issues, ex: system board failure, Bad Memory, CPUs also issues related to power, voltage.

Experience in working with two different vendors at a time in SEV1, when a critical issue comes up in production environment, Ex: PSOD, APD situations.

Hands on experience installing, configuring & administering Network services like DHCP and DNS services.

Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX/ESXi servers, vCenter server and Virtual machines.

Worked on IP, firewalls, Routing, VLANs and Windows server failover clusters.

Tested and maintained a system backup and disaster recovery plan for critical VMs.

Collaborated with multiple support teams to resolve critical time-sensitive issues.

Maintaining the documentation and Run Books of the environment and updating them in Archives.

Charles Schwab, Austin TX Jan 2013 - Feb 2014

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

Responsible for Installing and configuring and Upgradation projects.

Worked on upgradation the vCenter server5.0 environment to 5.1.

Upgraded ESX 4.1 servers to ESXi5.0 and from 5.0 to 5.1 by using update manager.

Troubleshooting ESXi and vCenter 5.1.

Worked extensively on HP G7 and new G8proliant servers.

Developed the whole new Virtual environment such as created HA and DRS clusters new Data Store clusters along with resource pools.

Worked extensively on vSphere update manager to upgrade the virtual machine hardware and, also patching the ESXi hosts.

Worked on Linux and Wintel Servers, housing Linux, Windows, EMC Storage, Dell Storage, Juniper routers and switches, Firewalls, VMWare.

Created DRS rules of affinity and anti-affinity in the vSphere environment.

Performed operational tasks in the Virtual Environment with Windows and linux vms.

Performing Daily, Weekly and Monthly Oracle monitoring and maintenance tasks.

Worked with storage vendors for better replication understanding and also SRA’s application provisioning.

Encountered and troubleshoot many issues during the whole processes.

Computer Associates(CA), Hyderabad, India Sep 2010- Dec 2012

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Architecture, design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, vSphere 4 and vSphere 5 environments with VirtualCenter management, LabManager, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion etc.,

Deploying desktops with windows 7/vista/XP and managing desktops, user authentications and also trouble shooting end user issues.

Assisted fellow admins with Storage and creation of Virtual servers.

Created new virtual machines to meet the specifications provided by the Client.

Configured VMotion for Hardware Resource Management.

Set up VMotion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource System (DRS), Fault Tolerance (FT) and related VMware products such as VMware Workstation.

Participated in the development and implementation of VDI-related operational procedures and standards.

Schedule VM Backup and Snare to be protected Snapshots and manage/reload Snapshots

Troubleshooting the Hung VM Sessions on ESX Host and sending the files to VMware support for resolution.

Supported and Managed VMware ESX 5.0 infrastructure for production/non production environments including HA/DRS Clustering.

Creating and managing security groups and reconciliation of the same regularly.

Involved in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA's.

Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives and Issues which occur during software upgrades.

Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 servers from VMware and legacy hardware.

Analyze and troubleshoot on an advanced level, performance of Storage Area Network (SAN) backed VMware ESX infrastructure to determine proper allocation of resources to a multi-department user population with widely varying needs.

Worked on IP, firewalls, Routing, VLANs and Windows server failover clusters.

Customize layer 2 and layer 3 networking between VMware, networking components and storage for high availability and maximum performance.

Developed, tested, and maintained a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.

ADP Pune, India Mar 2008 - Sep 2010

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installing, troubleshooting and supporting Linux-NIS, Windows 2003 server’s administration and Active Directory.

User Support - Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance, server & user related problems. Support users to resolve their day to day issues related to OS, E-mail, Account issues, hardware etc.

Responsible for Backup/recovery strategy of all ESX servers. Planning and implementing fault tolerance and strategies for backup and restoring files on the network

Managed the installation and configuration of Windows 2000 Server/Workstations.

Created user and computer accounts on the Active directory users and computers.

Configured servers for DHCP, WINS and DNS services.

Installation, configuration and Administration of IIS web servers.

Provided Norton Antivirus support for virus security.

Administration of print servers and troubleshooting print jobs.

Support & Training - Provide necessary help / training to IT Helpdesk / Telecom Support Personal to resolve day to day issues.

Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirement. Used windows 2003 Standard Edition. Upgraded the Firmware of the servers. Participated in mounting, racking and cabling of the servers

Monitored the servers and trouble shot the server issues

Resolved the user issues related to Active Directory Users and Groups

Having good knowledge on incident, problem, change and SLA.



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