windows/ VN ware engineer

Mohammed Khan

System Administrator

Mob. 214-***-**** email: ****.***********@*******.***

ProfessionalSummary

System administrator with 7+ years of hands-on and multi-tasking experience, adept at handling multiple operations, including installation, upgrade, configuration, administration and maintenance of windows servers.

Experienced VMware Certified Professional (VCP) with experience in designing, deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, servers and peripheral equipment.

Proficient in Windows 2003, 2008 and 2012 servers including installation, upgrade, configuration, administration and maintenance of windows servers.

Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, Microsoft Clustering and Exchange Mail Server in Windows based server environment.

Expert in implementing VMware Horizon View (7.0) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) from scratch to creating desktop pools, deploying golden images and assigning pools to users/groups.

Experience in implementing and administering VMware vSphere HA settings, DRS settings, Cluster groups, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, Licensing, Templates, ThinApp, Data Stores, and Networking techniques.

Experience in deploying Virtual Machines (VM’s) through Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) machines using Platespin, Double-Take, and VMware convertor.

Experience in VMware vRealize Automation (VRA), VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VCO), vCenter Operations Manager (VCOps), vSphere Replicator.

Expertise level and experience in working with vMotion and Storage vMotion technology.

Experience in working on vSwitches such as Standard vSwitches, Distributed vSwitches, and Cisco Nexus 1000V.

Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESXi.

Extensive experience with Windows Server Clustering services.

Experience in windows server administration, including patching and mitigating security Vulnerabilities.

Experience in applyingsecurity patches to ensure client computer and server vulnerability security compliance.

Experience in managing multiple Windows systems with Microsoft SCCM 2007 providing patch management, remote control, software distribution and OS deployment.

Created and tested SCCM Packages in AD Group Objects environment.

Configured Dashboards in SCOM and setup SharePoint to display these dashboards.

Administered, maintained and supported SCOM platform.Implemented changes/enhancements to SCOM components and creating custom Management Packs (MP) as needed.

Administered Microsoft Azure cloud services, storage and Virtual Machines through Azure portal.

Worked on migration of VM's and Physical servers directly to Azure and Automate VM deployment in Azure.

Performed configuration, deployment and support of cloud services including Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Experienced in designing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto scaling groups.

Administrating, creating and modifying DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation, DFS link, Web servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting and WINS and DNS and managing user and group accounts Administration.

Experience in design and deploy failover clustered Hyper-V environments.

Experience in Windows 2008 & 2012 Hyper-V Setup & Support.

Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts).

Technical Skills

Windows

Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, SCCM, SCOM, WSUS, MDT, Server 2003, 2008, 2012, Hyper-V Environment, Windows XP, windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Exchange Server 2007, 2010.

VMware

VMware VSphere, VCenter Server, Horizon View, Site Recovery Management (SRM), vCloud Suite, vCenter Update Manager (VUM),vRealize Automation(VRA), vRealize Operations Manager(VRO), vCenter Operations manager(VCOPs),Veeam Backup, Symantec backup, Double-Take Converter, PlateSpin, vSphere Replicator.

Tools

Solarwinds, HP Performance Manager (HPPM), HP Server Automation (HPSA), IDRAC, ILO, Service Now, RHEL.

Networking

OSI Model, IPv4 and IPv6 address and subnetting, Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP, UDP, switches, routing concepts, virtual network concepts, VLANs, dvSwitch, TCP/IP, configuration of printers and scanners, Cisco NSX.

Work Experience

IT Operations Systems Consultant

United Health Care (Optum), Plymouth, MinnesotaSep 2016 to Present

Responsibilities:

Worked as a part of Build and Migration Services team to support the server builds and migrations.

Build and configure new Windows Servers to include Clusters w2k3, w2k8 and w2k12 OS deployments, windows 2003, Windows 2008 R2 and windows 2012 servers.

Upgrade windows server 2003 to 2008 or 2012 as a part of Server 2003 remediation project.

Designed and configured ESXi 6.0 infrastructure environment for huge Data Center migration.

Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS as well as creating and Managing resource pools.

Perform Life Cycle Management for ESXi hosts. Worked on capacity planning and management of Virtual machines in VMware environment.

Cluster Migrations from unstable old vCenter to new vCenter.

Worked on physical to virtual migration(P2V) and virtual to virtual(V2V) using VMware converter.

Performed physical to virtual Migrations for servers using VMware VSphere Replication, double-take converter and Plate-spin.

Server decommissions and IP decommissions as per company process.

Worked closely with storage and networking teams to ensure SAN and networking infrastructure met virtual infrastructure specifications.

Used Power Shell to automate the tasks and schedule backup, maintenance jobs.

Automated OS install procedures and prioritized custom maintenance configurations, significantly improving performance of both legacy and newly deployed solutions.

Involved in Disaster recovery solution for vSphere Environment, vSphere Linked Mode and Replicated Storage,

Worked on Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM (Site Recovery Manager) and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites.

Worked on vMotion, Cloning, Snapshot, FT, Update Manger, Host Profiles and Templates.

Worked on Clusters with various Servers in Azure Cloud Resource Groups.

Created Azure virtual machines, implemented and managed virtual networking within Azure and connected to on-premises environments.

Environment:ESXi vCenter Server, Cloning, Snapshots, HA in Clusters, DRS, Windows Server OS Active Directory, Windows Client OS XP /Win 7, NetApp FC SAN/NAS storage, HP ProLiant G5, G8 and G9 servers.

VMware Consultant

CPUC, State of California, Sacramento, CAMar 2016 to Aug 2016

Responsibilities:

Worked as a VMware consultant to design and deploy of a VMware Horizon View 7 infrastructure (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) as per client requirement.

Requirement gathering and designed the business solution for VDI deployment as per client requirement.

Installed and configured Windows servers, DNS, WINS and DHCP servers.

Installed and configured the whole VMware environment from scratch including ESXi Servers, cluster builds, VCenter deployment, configured network and storage.

Create and configure Tenants, endpoints, Fabric groups, Reservations, Create blueprints and entitlements.

Installation of SQL servers and database creation for View composer, Vcenter, VUM, Trend deep security.

Installation and configuration of SAN solution, Creating Management group /Clusters / volumes and assign to ESX servers

Installation of View connection server, replica servers, composer servers, security servers.

Implementation and configuration of VMware Horizon View 7 in 4 different Sites

Created various view pools with linked clone feature to reduce storage and improve OS management and rapid desktop deployment.

Implementation of VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manger) for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR)

Administering and Monitoring vBlock components using element managers (UCS Manager, vCenter Server, Unisphere).

Installed and the managed the active directory, created the GPO’s and placed them on an OU.

Administration of SCCM 2012 for applying latest windows and security patches to all the servers.

Creation and maintenance of Active directory users, groups, OU and effective access management by using best practices of security permissions.

Troubleshoot, Monitor and Research Server alarms, Integrate VMWare view with Active Directory.

Involved in creating, maintaining and troubleshooting Group Policies, user/group creation and administration.

Environment: Windows 2012/2012R2, Windows 7, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, NTFS, Cisco UCS, VMware ESX 5.5 - 6.0 Servers, A10 Load Balancers. Exchange Server 2010/2013.

Windows Active Directory / SCCM Consultant

JIC, State of Delaware, New Castle, DE Aug 2014 to Feb 2016

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities included provisioning new customer servers on Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows Server 2012 Standard and Enterprise.

Responsible for deploying OS and firmware updates to all security appliances which include Windows servers, HSM's, and Linux servers.

Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment.

Managed Windows Active Directory Services, Adding Users and setup file permissions.

Created Active Directory GPO's to enforce standard security settings in both production and test environments.

Assisted in designing, implementing and evaluating applications, systems and utilities relevant to Active Directory services.

Microsoft Server Active Directory experience including Group Policy creation and use of AD for automated security hardening.

Responsible for basic Security techniques including Vulnerability Analysis, Risk Analysis, Mitigation Plans, Incident Response, Configuration Management, Systems Security Planning and Security Infrastructure Test and Evaluation.

Deployed and configured SCCM 2012 for imaging and deployed applications and Operating Systems across enterprise environment.

Utilized SCCM to deploy OSD and packages to clients.

Capture image, Configure Boot images and DP's, Manage Drivers and create Task Sequence for OSD.

Developed and used Custom reports and built in reports in SCCM for reporting.

Planning and managing Office 365 deployment by using SCCM and the Office Deployment Tool.

Built new servers in legacy VMware from 2003 to 2008, and Hyper-V for applications.

Designed and Implemented SCOM 2012 environment with multiple management groups monitoring over 10,000 servers and devices.

Configure Dashboards in SCOM and setup SharePoint to display these dashboards.

Build custom Management Packs in SCOM as needed for application and server monitoring.

Configuring SCOM 2012 to include network monitoring of devices such as routers, switches, network interfaces, various ports, VLANS.

Performed alert-based investigation and troubleshooting of alerts fired into SCOM monitoring solution.

Performed LUN management, metaLUNs, RAID groups, storage groups.

Deployed Puppet for automated management of machine configurations.

Environment: Windows 2012/08/03, Windows 7, Microsoft DFS, VMware View 4.6/5.0, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, NTFS, Dell Power Edge, IBM xSeries, HP/Compaq ProLiant G3, G5 Blade Servers, IIS Servers, IBM TSM backup, VMware ESX 4.1, 5.0, 5.5 Servers, Exchange Server 2010/13.

System Administrator

G3 Technologies (New Providence, NJ), Bangalore, IndiaNov 2011 to Apr 2014

Responsibilities:

Installing and configuring ESX and vSphere Suite.

Installing & Configured Virtual Center Server (vCenter 4.0).

Creating and Configuration virtual machines, installing VM Tools into VM’s and allocating for end user.

Creating and Deployed Templates and Snapshots for Virtual Machines.

Creating and configuring virtual Standard Switch (vSwitch) and Distributed Virtual Switch (dvSwitch).

Configuration different type of Port Groups Policies, applying security policy and Traffic Shaping.

Configuration ISCSI LUN in virtual storage.

Performed Hot Cloning, Cold Cloning, Classic vMotion and Storage VMotion.

Security hardening and Monitoring of VM’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network) for Security Compliance.

Configuration, Administration and Monitoring HA, Fault Tolerance and DRS Clusters in Virtual Center Server.

Designing and Deploying Active Directory Domain.

Installing and Configuring DNS Servers and DHCP Server.

Implementing Active Directory Sites and Services for optimizing the Replication and logon traffic.

Installation and configuring Red Hat Enterprise.

User and Group administration on RHEL Systems.

Systems Engineer

Dell, Hyderabad, IndiaMay 2009 to Oct 2011

Responsibilities:

Installing, configuring and administering Windows 2003 Enterprise Server.

Domain User Account Administration using Active Directory.

Configuration of Domain Naming Server (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).

Symantec console management, updating antivirus definitions through centralize Symantec antivirus server.

Configuration and managing Internet Information Service. (IIS 6.0).

Configuration of Remote Access Service(RAS) and Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Creating User Accounts, Configuring Profiles, creating local and Global Groups and implementing Group Policies.

Sharing Folders, Planning and Assigning NTFS Permissions and System Policies

Installation of Operating Systems Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 etc.

Configuration and Managing Remote Installation Service(RIS)

Trouble shooting the networking related problems.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication

Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Certifications

VMware Certified Professional 6 - Data Center Virtualization VCP-6

VMware Certified Associate 6 - Data Center VirtualizationVCA-6

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