Hiren Savaliya

Employer: chad

Phone Number: 610-***-****

Email ID: adjp3f@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary: -

Extensive experience in Windows 2012/2012R2/2008R2/2008/2003/2000/NT4.0 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.

Performed SCCM Administrative tasks like creating and deploying applications, packages and Operating System Deployment (OSD) task sequences.

Worked on projects involving implementation and upgrade of SCCM.

Strong understanding about SCCM workflows like client installation, patch management, database replication.

Worked on Specter & meltdown project, BIOS updates & driver updates of 2000 workstations & 120 servers through SCCM.

Professional VMware/System Administrator with extensive experience in Data Center Environment actively seeking job.

Experience in Implementation and Migration of UC technologies Skype for Business, Lync 2010, Lync 2013, Exchange 2013 and 2010 Active Directory 2003, 2008 and 2012, System Center 2012, WSUS, Intune, Azure and Blackberry 5.0

Professional VMware/System Administrator with extensive experience in Data Center Environment using ESXi 5.5,6.0 and VSphere VCenter Server 5.0,5.1,5.5,6.0,6.5, Citrix XenApp (5.0, 5.0 FP, 6.0,6.5) running Other VMware Products like VCenter Update Manager 5.0,5.1,6.0,6.5

Extensive experience in VMware and Microsoft virtualization technologies.

Strong knowledge and experience on VMware ESXi 6.X, 5.X, 4.X, and VMware vSphere5.

Expertise in ESX and ESXi servers – configuration, Installation, management and maintenance with High Availability, DRS, V motion, Storage V motion and Fault Tolerance.

Having Hands on experience for Windows Server/ VMware Administrator in deployment & management of Windows Servers, Active Directory, Exchange, Storage Administration, VMware, Office 365 Experience in Installation and Configuration of XenApp 6.0//5.0 & Citrix Client Tools, Single Sign on Sever (SSO), vCenter Inventory Services and vCenter 6.5, 6.0, and 5.5.

Worked on SCCM features like Desired Configuration Management, Power Management and Software Metering.

Basic knowledge of AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Comprehensive knowledge of multiple storage technologies, SAN-based arrays, and configuration tools

Expertise on SANs installation, EMC Control Center, large storage arrays, and data center outsourcer

Extensive experience with Active Directory, Domain Name System, Windows Internet Naming Service, and Microsoft Exchange.

Experience with TCP, IP and IP routing, LAN, WAN, bridges and switches, OSI model and fiber optic technology.

Experience with contract management and knowledge of technical task order creation and oversight.

Installation, configuration and administration of multiple XenApp farms, XenApp datastore management, Utilization of XenApp and XenDesktop machine and user polices; including printer policy.

Citrix Receiver client management and configuration for Windows and mobile devices.

Experienced in Automation of Tasks Using PowerShell Scripts.

Used SCCM as a deployment tool for deploying applications on to user machine

Worked extensively on Templates/Clones/Snapshots & Resource pools

Experience of using VMware Consolidated backup and Data Recovery appliances in backing up and restoring VM’s.

Administered multiples Vcenter with VMware vCenter 6.0.0 that host Virtual servers and VDIs

Experience in installing and configuring storage technology such as SAN, NAS, ISCSI, and RAID.

Experience in installing, maintaining and managing various rack mounted and Blade servers from Dell, HP, and IBM.

Administering Microsoft Windows 2010,2008,2003, Windows 2000 and NT Server Environments, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP.

Worked on various SAN Fabrics (FC SAN, ISCSI SAN) and NAS storage.

Excellent team player with good communication and leadership skills.

Technical Skills

Virtualization Technologies

Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Citrix XenApp5.0/6.0/6.5, vRealize Operations Manager6.0/6.5, VMware vSphere 6.0/5.5/5.1, vCenter,6.0/5.5 ESX/ ESXi 5/5.1/5.5,6.0 vCenter Update Manager 6.0, vSphere Client, VMware VMotion and Storage VMotion, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, VMware High Availability, VMware Fault Tolerance, VMware Consolidated Backup and Veeam Backup and Replication.

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2008/2008 R2/2003, Windows 8/7/XP, Unix & Linux

Methodologies

ITIL v3 framework

Cloud Technologies

AWS, Office 365, Microsoft Azure

Applications/Middleware

Microsoft SCCM 2012 R2, SharePoint 2010, Tivoli (TSM), Microsoft Office, Plate Spin

Networking

Firewall, proxy servers, DMZ servers, DNS, and DVS switching, Citrix NetScaler setup - HP iLO / Dell DRAC, TCP/IP, UDP - Cisco WebEx, DNS, DHCP, NLB & Failover clusters

File Servers

DFS, FTP, Windows SharePoint Services

Web Servers

Internet Information Services 6.0/7.0/7.5/8.0

Mail Servers

Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010/2013 & MS Outlook

Active Directory

Design, Installation, Configuration & Troubleshooting. DC Migrations, Deploying & Troubleshooting GPOs. AD Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services

Ticketing Tools

HP Service Manager 9, Connect wise and BMC Remedy 7.1/9.1

Scripting

PowerShell, VB Scripting

Professional Experience

OTIS Elevator, Farmington CT Sep 2019 till Present

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities: -

Managed Microsoft SCCM deployments in a large-scale global environment of 2000+ users; oversaw deployments of large and complex applications targeted for mass audience.

Provision SCCM 2007/2012 infrastructure, Installation, Maintenance and administration.

Upgraded SCCM 2012 to SCCM 2012 v1803 with 2000+ workstation client and 120+ Server client.

Developed PowerShell script to create collection in SCCM 2012 during up-gradation of SCCM 2012 also developed script to install DP and secondary site server on server.

Significant Contributor in successful implementations of all the major User stories in intune service ops

Responsible for Sign-Off's from intune Operations for Migration Projects like Product Studio

Experience in Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of VMware ESX/ESXi 3.X, 4.X, 5.X, 6.X servers Extensive experience in migration of servers P2P, P2V and V2V by using VMware Converter.

Responsible for managing end-to-end compute infrastructure across 10 datacenters around the world, comprising of ~2000 ESXi hosts and 10000 Virtual Machines (VMs).

Provided level-3 infrastructure support, and assisted in the maintenance and troubleshooting of SCCM site server and client workstations; good understanding of the SCCM infrastructure including boundaries, site server roles, and parent/child relationships in order to troubleshoot SCCM related issues.

Maintaining and Administering Windowsservers2008/2012.

Maintain the integrity of the client Active Directory using PowerShell.

Perform Active Directory administration including group policy and (moves/adds/changes) of user accounts, security groups, and distribution lists.

Responsible for the migration of Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2008.

Configuration of DHCP, DNS on Windows 2003and 2008 platforms.

Install and Decommission new SCCM Primary and secondary site servers.

Creating SCCM configuration baseline for Desired Configuration Management (DCM)

Leveraged SCCM Reporting and Query tools for the management of global enterprise resources including desktops, laptops, and windows servers in a 1000+ Windows users\' environment.

SCCM Distribution Point, Boundary Group maintenance.

Troubleshoot and resolve SCCM client issues.

Administration of GPOs, Domain Users and groups, and Computers on Active Directory 2003, 2008. Working with ISO Team on monitoring server health and fixing issues which on security vulnerable servers.

Experienced in WINS, DNS, DHCP, Virtual Server Administration, and Patch Management on Microsoft Windows Servers.

Experience Using SCCM 2012 to deploy the Packages both the Windows Installer Package and Virtual Package.

Experience in Installation and Configuration of DNS, DHCP, IIS, WSUS Server.

Played a pivotal role in design and implementation of new infrastructure using Cisco Hyperconverged technology.

Configured various components of the Cisco HyperFlex infrastructure including Cisco UCS Manager 4.0 and Cisco Hyperflex Connect.

Experience in setting up the VLANs, service profiles, Fabric interconnects, network profile in Cisco UCS Manager.

Implementing Intune Autopilot and configuring profiles to match GPOs

Intune (Autopilot, Security Baselines, Integration with SCCM)

Knowledge of AD Design and Management for an Enterprise client with >3,000 Seats.

VMware ESX/ESXi Host Server and Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration & Maintenance.

Configured HA, DRS on clusters and did capacity planning for new clusters.

Configured FT for business critical VM's.

Designing dashboards and pull reports using cops.

Worked on ESXi and VM storage issues and coordinated with the storage teams.

Migrated about 1800 servers from Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) in both VMware and Hyper-V environments using Plate spin and VMware convertor.

Upgraded the ESX/ESXi servers using vSphere update manager.

Management of VMware Infrastructure through venter and vSphere client.

Responsible for root cause analysis on performance issue and Virtual machine failures.

Troubleshooting SAN related issues and firmware upgradations of SANs in VMware.

Test and recommend Replication/Backup solutions for VMware, SAN and Disaster Recovery

Configuration and Management of Data stores and storage clusters on venter server.

Installation, Configuration and Management of hardware using HP One View and Virtual Connect Manager.

Client: -UPS, Texas March 2018 –Aug 2019

System Engineer

Responsibilities: -

Build and troubleshoot customer and development environments that contained company software suite. Utilizing VMWare infrastructure and primarily managing Microsoft Web Services and SQL environments

Worked on vSphere (ESXi 6.0, VCSA 6.0). Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, ESXi upgrades 5.5 to 6.0, VCenter upgrades 5.1, 5.5 to 6.0. Optimization of vSphere, Storage environments.

Help troubleshoot Mobile Device Managed (MAM) devices as well as Mobile App Managed policies (MAM) with Intune

Configured Confidential Intune for Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM) in Office 365

Created application packages, WIFI and VPN settings to deploy to devices enrolled in Confidential Intune

Performed device enrollment in Confidential Intune MDM/MAM for company staff

Generated reports with various parameters of VMware infrastructure using multiple tools.

Administration & Configuration of SCCM 2012

Worked as a Windows/Cloud admnistrator and managed a large complex environment consisting of more than 10000+ servers across multiple datacenters on different continents

Configured and deployed ESXi 6.5 servers into VMware farm for production workload.

Involved in installation and configuration of VMware ESXi 6.0 on Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, HP Proliant Blade and Rackmount Servers and Cisco UCS Blades.

Executed technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Windows Azure

Develop, document and implement Engineering and Operational strategy for the Storage infrastructure.

Maintained security upgrades for installed software.

Built many windows and Linux servers on both virtual and physical environments and turned over to production. vApp deployment and configuration.

Built and deployed VMware vCenter 6.7 for production workload (both Windows and appliance based).

Partner with internal infrastructure teams for effective support of telephony platforms and ensures business partners maximize capability and utilization of telephony platforms and investments.

Responsible for managing users Microsoft Outlook and Active Directory Accounts.

Managed the installation and configuration of Windows Server/Workstations

Performed hardware and software maintenance in labs and office desktops

Installed and configured networks, router, TCP/IP, and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN

Providing Comprehensive documentation for system builds.

Performed hands-on administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of Local Area network (LAN), resulting in optimum performance and minimum downtime

Proficiency in managing vSphere environments including Installations and upgrades of ESXI, vSphere standard switch, distributed switch, Distributed resource scheduler (DRS) storage DRS, High availability and Fault tolerance, Update manager, patch management, virtual storage, Host profiles etc.

Advanced troubleshooting and Performance analysis of all aspects of virtualized environments.

Worked in closely with R&D team.

Deployed and configured VMware Update Manager and created Host Baselines and profiles for Seamless upgrades of VMware ESXi Hosts from VMware ESXi 5.5 to VMware ESXi 6.5.

Troubleshoot a hardware issues and Co-ordination with HP for any hardware issues to resolve faster and adherence to SLAs

Experienced in vROps administration and performance monitoring analysis.

Worked on compute blades HPGen9 DL360, Lenovo RD530 server, cisco blade servers.

Experienced in vCenter backup and restore and switch backup and restore using Power CLI

Worked on networking components such as VSP4K and VSP7K

Experienced in Creating Linux OVA by using scripts

Installed and configured VMware VSphere Update manager and updated the patches for ESXi servers using VUM in vCenter.

Client: -Verizon, Georgia Jun2016- Dec - 2017

Role: System Analyst

Responsibilities: -

Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5 on a Dell 2950 Power Edge M1000, VMware Infrastructure Client, VMware Virtual Center, License Server and VCB Setup.

Responsible for monitoring and maintaining Windows and Citrix Servers which includes 10,000 user base and more than 100 plus applications.

Creating a test Environment in Citrix or VMware for Production Team to test their applications

Administer Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, and network security devices for 350 users.

Configuration & Administration of Windows Server 2012 using SCCM 2012 R2.

Migrated to Windows 2003 Server/Exchange 2003 Server with Blackberry Integration Services, Windows Server Updates Services (WSUS), and Microsoft Operations Manager.

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

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

Designed VNets and subscriptions to conform to Azure Network Limits.

Deploy and manage VMware horizon view on CISCO UCS for VDI deployment and failover clustered Hyper-V environments.

Describe the features Configuration Manager and Intune include, and explain how you can use these features to manage PCs and mobile devices in an enterprise environment.

Manage PCs and devices by using Intune.

Configure and using Microsoft Store for Business.

Deploy apps and manage information access by using Intune

Documenting Application Installation, known issues which occur regularly.

Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.

Patch management & updates using SCCM 2012.

Deploying View Connection server in Replica mode for High Availability and Load Balancing.

Planning, implementing and managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

Ensure timely and effective response to telephony related incidents according to established Service Level Agreements.

Establishes and maintains a proactive approach to monitoring and managing telecommunications environment call center and telephony Infrastructure.

Involved with core Data Center technologies that revolve around the Cisco and NetApp converged reference architecture called FlexPod.

Assisted in planning and developing complex networks for telecommunications systems

Was part of team responsible for developing clustering products

Studied customer requirements and analyzed design solutions against the EMC guidelines

Administration of Cisco FlexPod Solution, which includes a Cisco UCS and a NetApp Unified Storage Solution.

Working knowledge of Cisco UCS platform, like creating servers, setting up VLANs, assigning it to set domains and clusters, setting fabric interconnects, and setting up heartbeat connections.

Determined root cause and recommended appropriate counter measures for product improvement

Performed EMC design, analysis, and testing support

Configuring and troubleshooting the print and load managers on XenApp farms

Creating Test Environment in Citrix for Production Team for testing their solutions.

Deployment of VMware ThinApp for application virtualization for efficient Application installation and maintenance in VDI environment.

Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion- migrations between ESX Servers.

Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.

Client: Vujas INFOTECH, India April -2012- Dec- 2015

Role: System administrator(VMware/Windows/Linux)

Responsibilities: -

Installed of latest versions of Operating Systems on demand, per requirements of the clients.

Sorted complex issues pertaining to hardware and network failure – Monitored both Hardware and Software systems for errors and updated them regularly to maintain proper functioning and flow of information.

Responsible for Administration of Active Directory and delegating control / permissions.

Extensively worked in Windows Active Directory to create users & groups.

Created packages, Programs and the distributed the content to Distribution points and deployed to User and Device Collections in SCCM 2012 R2

Integrated MDT with SCCM for effective Migrations and Deployments and Created Custom Migration Task Sequence for User State Migration

Proficient in Packaging Microsoft Office and Virtualizing the Microsoft Products and deployed via SCCM

Documented step-by-step process used when profiling using Application Profiler.

Installation of vCenter5.1 Single Sign on Server (sso), Inventory Services and vCenter5.1

Installation and deployment of UCS Firmware upgrades which includes Fabric interconnects, I&O Modules and blade upgrades 2.1.x to 2.2.5b

Worked with the team deploying Azure to support them as well as help them migrate application and Data.

Huge P2V Experience using VMware converter running different applications with Different Hardware.

Installing, Configuring, Managing v Cloud director5 in the Internal Cloud Deployment Project.

Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Red hat and SUSE and VM kernel Linux appliances.

Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates, and many more…

Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.

Installing and configuring the VMware VSphere and creating clusters for High Availability (HA)

and Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS).

Participate in root-cause analysis meetings, gathering lessons learned, analyzing data, and developing solutions to improve performance and quality.

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