Muhammad Usman

Sr. VMware/Windows /Wintel Engineer

Ph. No. 872-395-2037
E-Mail: usman.m81447@gmail.com
SUMMARY
Around 8+ years of experience in Virtualization with Installation, Configuration, Administration, Support of VMwareESX3.5/4.0,
VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7/7.0 Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2/2012/2012R2/2016/2019 and Azure Cloud.
Worked VMware Data Center Virtualization and Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing, Failover Clusters. Experience in configuring
VMware standard vSwitch & dvSwitch. 
Expertise in Azure Infrastructure Azure Web Roles, Worker Roles, VM Role, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure AD Licenses, Virtual
Machine Very good knowledge on cloud products vCloud Director/ AWS/MS Azure/OpenStack.
Hands on experience on Backup and Recover from a Recovery Services Vault using Azure PowerShell and Azure Portal.
Hands-on experience and project management including Windows Server 2003,2008,2012,2016,2019 and VMware Virtualization
Motion, P2V, V2V, VMware Update Manager, VMware Workstation, Citrix Xen Desktop, Xen App, XEN Server. Installation,
configuration, Administration of VM Ware ESX/ ESXi, Virtual Center.
Expert knowledge on configuring hardware iSCSI and NFS storage to VMware ESX (i) hosts from vSphere client.
Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS/WDS, RRAS,
NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server
Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite, virtual networking, wireless networks & Cloud computing concepts.
Experience with enterprise backup systems and disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; solid understanding of
vSphere 4/5/6 implementation with shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI, NFS / VMFS strategies for performance and optimization.
Expertise with IP sub-netting, VLANs, Load Balancing, and High Availability (HA) architectures
Has good end-user support and customer service experience.
Experience in Active Directory Services, GPOs, DNS, AD Trusts & Routing, ADDS, ADFS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web
Server), VoIP, FTP, Terminal Server, NFS, SSH, Microsoft Lync, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Microsoft SharePoint,
Acquisition integration, SAN, VSAN, Exchange Server, ISA Server and FSMO roles.
Experience in Active Directory Administration, Group Policy Management. Experience on Group policies, SCOM, SCCM and
configuring file/print services. 
Hands-on experience on Citrix Provisioning Services, XenApp, App-V, Appsense, XenDesktop, App Volumes, RDSH and VMware
ESX/ESXi. Experience implementing Azure AD Connect and sync on prem active directory to azure.
Experience in change management, HP Hardware support includes BIOS up gradation, PSP installation and MSA firmware up
gradation. Experience in Migrating from VMware ESXi to Hyper-V with SCCM SP1 R2.
Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware
Distributed Power Management
Experience in setting up and configuring SCCM Operating System Deployment (OSD) for Windows XP and Windows 7 and MDT
within SCCM. Hyper-V host servers will be upgraded and migrated to build a Failover Cluster environment
Expertise in SCCM Administration, deployment, packaging, network inventory, installer and network designing.
Experience in Microsoft Active Directory, infrastructure solutions, messaging, and Unified Communications areas to perform
configuration, testing, and deployment of all Microsoft virtualization, Exchange, and related technologies.
Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX/ESXi, VMware V sphere 4.x, Virtual center 4.X and
5.x/6.x/7.0 Servers. Completed application deployments via SCCM and troubleshooting of problem clients/installations
Good knowledge on Active Directory Forest architecture, WDS, Data Protector, Windows PKI and experience in wintel operations in an
onsite-off- shore model. Executed deployments, server migrations, Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions and upgrades as part of the IT team.
Supported AWS Cloud environment with 200+ AWS instances and configured Elastic IP
Experience in vSphere Replication using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for backup in case of disaster.
Experience in Installation, Configuration Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Citrix Presentation Server on Windows Server and expert
in Citrix Load Balancing. Patch management using WSUS, SCCM; Worked with TCP/IP network protocols.
Designed VNets and subscriptions to confirm to Azure Network Limits. 
Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the VNets to the Internet using Azure External Load Balancer. 
Experience with Microsoft desktop version like Windows 7, 8, 10. And On-Call Support, Production support, .Net framework, Tape
Backups and saas environments experience. Strong analytical, technical and troubleshooting skills.
Experience with enterprise backup systems and disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; implementation with
shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI, NFS / VMFS strategies for performance and optimization
Experience in installing and configuring VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware VIEW.
Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Wintel Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance
Good Understanding and Knowledge VBlock and components and experience with Cisco UCS administration and EMC SAN storage.
Manage various AWS/AZURE environment for provisioning of windows /Linux servers and services implemented by the providers.
Extensive technical experience in engineering enterprise server systems, especially the Wintel server platform in a server farm / data
center environment. VMware Process automation using vSphere power CLI and Windows PowerShell.
Management of private cloud with Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) using cloud computing tools – VMware vCloud Director, VMware
vRealize Automation, DELL VIS self-service creator, Platform ISF.
Worked with test and maintain disaster recovery plans (DR) for critical VMs and application data using VMware Site Recovery
Manager (SRM). Experience with VMware NSX, ESX, ESXi.
Implementation and after configuration maintenance of HA, DRS, FT and Resource pool.
Installation, Configuration and Administration of Virtual Infrastructure using ESX/ESXi, VMWare V sphere 4.x, Virtual center 4.x and
5.x, 6.x Servers.
P2V conversion of Windows server editions using enterprise VMWare converter and also installed the VMWare tools on the Virtual
machines and V2V conversion. Build new servers daily in legacy VMware from 2003 to 2012, and Hyper-V for applications.
 Creating and Patching the Templates, also built templates from ISO image files
Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources, Manage VM's using VMware virtual center and web access,
Configurations of Virtual switched and network connections.
Provide, build and maintain the VMware vSphere Infrastructure, involved in the VMware implementation and expansion work,
Configuring and maintaining VMware infrastructure resources including VMware vSphere/ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 5.1 and 5.5, 6.0, 6.5; VMware
vCenter Server.
Experience in ESX Architecture, guest O/S installation, setting up of VM power ON priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and
Snapshots. Experience in VEEAM backup and replication tool for performing VM migrations and replication activities
Experience in Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual conversions by using VMware Converter, Platespin Power convert.
Extensive experience in working with vMotion and Storage vMotion features in vSphere
Proficient at designing enterprise-wide and disaster recovery solutions that substantially improve operating stability, efficiency, and
profitability.
Windows administration - Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, WSUS,
Microsoft Clustering.
Excellent coordination with the Technical Support Teams and vendors to perform implementations and to resolve the issues.
Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESX hosts.
Experience in Wintel Windows clustering Administration and troubleshooting.
Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update
manager and manual upgrades for Patching. Working knowledge on Microsoft Azure. Good experience in AWS and Azure cloud
services.

EDUCATION
Associate Degree in Engineering Science, Baton Rouge Community College, Louisiana, 2013.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Virtualization: ESXi server7.0/6.7/6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0 / 4.1, vSphere Client, VCenter, VMotion, Storage VMotion, Manager,
VMware Tools, VMware Converter, VMware Workstation, Microsoft Hyper-V, Vrealize, DRS, HA and FT.

Hardware: HP C7000, Cisco UCS

Server Operating: VMware 7.0, 6.x, 5.x, 4.x, Windows Server (2019, 2016, 2012 R2, 2008 R2 and 2003), Windows10, 8, 7, Windows
XP,

Scripting: VB Script, Perl and Power CLI.

Database’: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 and Oracle 8/9i/10g/11i, IBM DB2.

Backups: VERITAS Netback up, NDMP, TSM, Avamar and Windows NT Backup.

Networking: Cisco 25xx, 35xx Routers and 35xx Switches, Brocade and Cisco DS fabric switches.

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS, VPN, DNS, NTP, WINS, FTP, SSH, WinSCP and Telnet.

Cloud Technology: Azure, AWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cardinal Health, Dublin, Ohio

Sr. VMware/Windows /Wintel Engineer
Mar 2019 to Present

Installing and configuration VMware tools and orchestration of guess OS that include Windows and Linux.
ESX Server Maintenance, ESX Server Deployment, ESX Server Upgrades, Virtual Center Maintenance, Operational Troubleshooting,
Virtual Server Maintenance, Storage Migrations and Patching.
Implement and Manage VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Operations Manager
(vROPS).
Hybrid cloud management of the enterprise using VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA).
Upgraded Active Directory environment from existing 2008R2 to 2012R2.
Built Windows 2019/2016 and 2012 R2 Wintel Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design and deployed stack
on these servers. 
Worked with infrastructure monitoring through SCOM.Installation, configuration and Administration of IIS web servers.
Supported MS Windows network infrastructure; including any of the following: Active Directory, WINS, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy,
Exchange. Manage change requests for all environments using Change Management process.
Experience in migrating on premise to Windows Azure using Azure Site Recovery and Azure 
backups. Configured the SCCM 2012 and monitored the production servers.
In-depth knowledge of Active Directory and SCCM integration with Active Director.
 Used SCCM 2012 R2 extensively for package deployment. Worked on creating collections, Advertisement, Configuration Manager
Console, Package definition, Distribution points and Reporting.
Installed OS, patches and security policies through SCCM 2012 R2 Admin Tools.
Cloning, Building and deploying new VM's and installing different guest OS like Windows server 2012R2/2016/2019 and Linux.
Developed and Designed Multiple VM Templates for Windows Server 2012R2,2016, 2019.
Install, configure VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Log Insight, vR Network
Insight. Creating the Backup’s and restoring the data for servers on scheduled basis.  
Experience in decommissioned and rebuild the servers in Data Centers. Experience with Data Centers on small and large scale.  
Worked on various Azure services like Compute (Web Roles, Worker Roles), Azure Websites, Caching, SQL Azure, NoSQL, Storage,
Network services, Azure Active Directory, API Management, Scheduling, Auto Scaling, and PowerShell Automation. 
Communicate with Subject Matter Experts/Users to resolve and clarify any issues that are raised during the development
cycle. Supporting Disaster Recovery Planning and Activation. IIS Management. 
Scripting and automating tasks using VBScript and PowerShell. 
VMWare vRealize Operations Manager installation, support, reporting, and maintenance
Deep knowledge of VMware enterprise features (DRS, HA, vMotion, VSAN, Update Manager) and P2V tools such
as VMware Converter. Experience in working with Software Configuration Management tools - Ansible 
Responsible for the successful migration of the Microsoft Exchange environment to an Exchange 2013 scenario, provided support and
administration and complete documentation. Manage access control within vRealize Operations Manager  
Worked on Storage API automation for the project VMware vSphere 7.0 VSAN.  
Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines. Deploying VMs through Templates.  
Configured and Managed Windows Failover Clustering on Server for SQL environment (GUI mode and PowerShell)  
Deploying, Maintaining and Decommissioning the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Environment (VMware Horizon View).
Responsible to manage all administration work of Windows 2016 and 2019 servers, Linux Redhat, Hyper-VMware Server. 
Configured and managed V Sphere 5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7 and 7.0, ESXi hosts and VMS. Created LUNs, META LUNs, Storage Groups, and
RAID groups. 
Configure Azure cloud service for end point deployment and Enable Open ID and Windows Live authentication in Azure cloud apps.
Worked on creating Azure Blob for storing unstructured data in the cloud as blobs.
Created and managed policies in Symantec NetBackup related to Disk-to-Disk Primary Backup and Disk-to-Tape Secondary Backup.
Installed and configured IIS on new build FTP Servers.
Installed Configured maintained and troubleshoot the Windows Server's 2008 and 2012 windows servers and Virtual Servers.
Hardening the servers with the MacAfee Antivirus and making sure the affected servers are free from virus.
Manage, Maintain and Support current Windows/VMware & Disaster Recovery related infrastructure
Worked on AWS for deploying EC2 instances consisting of various flavors viz., OEL, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu and Solaris in both
Linux and Windows. 
Experience in maintaining vSphere Center 7.0, Esxi7 .0, Realize Automation, Operationalizations Manager, V Realize Orchestrator in
a VMware virtualized environment. 
Service Delivery & Operations for Windows, Active Directory, ADFS, DNS, DHCP, failover Clustering, Hyper –V and Azure
Infrastructure. Managing VM on Azure using Azure Resource Manager and Templates.
Monitored infrastructure using VMware vRealize Operations Manager with Endpoint agents on Windows and Linux. Creation of Virtual
Switches, Ports and Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks. 
Deployed V App workflow is to provide a single call workflow that can instantiate a V App Template from vCloud Director (vCD) and
performing several operations on the resulting V App before actually deploying and powering it on. 
Involved in Operational support for B-Series and C-Series Cisco UCS hardware that runs VMware vSphere 5.1/6.0/6.5/6.7/7.0– 
Implemented and designed cloud solution based on VMware V Cloud Director for users. 
Experience in working with the vMotion technology and Storage vMotion and HA technology. 
Installation and configuration of VMware ESXi6.5/6.7/7.0 installation and configuration of VMware Virtual Center Server and creating
Virtual Machines.
Used tools for data backup, mirroring and recovery such as Commvault, VRanger and Microsoft System Center Operation Manager
SCOM 
Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS. Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines 

Illinois Tool Works, Glenview, Illinois

Windows, VMware, Wintel Sys Admin
July 2017 to Feb 2019
Work with cross-functional teams and guide Wintel, UNIX, Storage, Backup, Desktop support, network, Security and other Technical
teams. Teaming NIC's using HP Teaming software for redundancy during failures.
Update patches on Servers Working Experience with Active Directory Components (AD Users and
Computers, DNS, DHCP and WINS etc. Install the Operating System and to run scripts to update patches on Servers.
Participate on scheduled weekend Release activity / patching activity. Resolved Problems related to Disk Space Usage.
Resolved problems related to performance metrics such as Processor Usage, Memory etc.
Strong knowledge in designing solutions in Wintel, Active Directory, Messaging and VMWare technologies.
Experience working with Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Open Source. Managed Amazon Web Services like EC2, S3 bucket, RDS, 
Installed OS, patches and security policies through SMS/ SCCM Admin Tools.
Taken escalations related to Windows Server, Active Directory and Exchange issues.
Worked with implementing and efficient management of Active directory infrastructure setup with DNS services on Windows Server
2008 R2/2012/2016 platform. Responsible for domain and workgroup management, user & computer accounts.
Responsible for efficient group policy management. Strong knowledge in Desktop mass deployment management systems.
Good Understanding of SCCM, SCOM, Backup, Storage, Network, and Security solutions
Ensure monitoring of critical applications and devices hosted inside the datacenter.
Worked on AWS & Open stack cloud to provision new instances. S3 Storage Services. AWS EC2 & Cloud watch services CI/CD
pipeline management through Jenkins.
 Responsible production support of Active directory (AD), GPO, Domain users, Users and groups and given appropriate permissions,
shares and privilege to access LAN and Domain environment. 
SCCM experience focused on deploying, Packaging, administering, and troubleshooting an enterprise wide SCCM environment on large
scale environment
Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings,
security policies and routing. 
Experience and Familiar with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, administering VMware ESX/ESXi. Created and
managed VMs (virtual server) and involved in the maintenance of the virtual server.
Excellent knowledge in creating and managing users, permission settings, roles and responsibility assignments and VM resource
allocations on ESXi hosts. Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, File & Print Server, FTP, Terminal Server, NAT, and Exchange Mail
Server. Ensure component level redundancy for all critical services hosted inside the data center.
Administered a Microsoft Cluster Server with SQL server 2008/2005.
Understanding and working knowledge of Citrix infrastructure, XenApp/Xendesktop 6.5 and 7.x including Citrix Director, Citrix PVS &
Citrix Storefront.
Manage single and/or multiple sites to carry out day-to-day maintenance and operations of Windows 2000/2003 Active directory, DNS,
DHCP, WINS and MS Exchange 2003 with Outlook Web Access. Recommended and established operation requirements, policies and
procedures. Maintained and monitored all systems within environment to ensure optimal performance.
Provide high-level support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant servers and Linux/Windows virtual servers.
Used VMware vSphere client (5.1 and 5.5) to monitor virtual machine resource usage
Configured and installed VMware tools on the custom built VM's.
Expertise with IP sub-netting, VLANs, Load Balancing, and High Availability (HA) architectures.
Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets. 
Strong experience with the VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware
Distributed Power Management. Co-ordinate with the network team to plan the structure of network to be used for the new Virtual hosts
like number of NICs, vLANs, subnets etc.
Worked with Nagios for Azure Active Directory & LDAP and Data consolidation for LDAP users. Monitored system performance using
Nagios, maintained Nagios servers and added new services and servers. Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented
vMotion. Deploy security patches, updates as part of the patching cycle using WSUS and SCCM. 
Troubleshoot any issues related to VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Resource pools, VMware High Availability,
Enhanced vMotion (EVC), ESX Host Profiles, vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS), and VMware Fault Tolerance (FT).
Monitoring and managing performance of ESXi servers and Virtual Machines migration using Virtual Center server HA, DRS.
Configured Management and Resource Cluster, Add Host to a Cluster, Configure its licenses, Network Configuration, DNS and NTP.
Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an existing VM as per the client request through workflow management
process.
Scheduled tasks for manual vMotion and Storage vMotion of VM’s and managed snapshots prior to planned patch install or upgrade.
Configuring/Mounting data store to ESX server using iSCSI or LUN and moving VM’s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage
vMotion. Migrating physical servers to virtual server using VMware Converter (P2V)
Performed Hardware and Software maintenance of Windows server Environment, including VMware ESX/ESXi Hosts, Clusters,
Servers and Virtual machines. Building servers and creating templates/images for deploying virtual machines.
Built the Base Images in VMWare time to time and testing the solutions using clone the machine.)
Keep Virtual hardware and VMware tools updated to keep a healthy environment.
Created and documented process for deploying Virtual machines on VMware.
Used Remedy Tool for ticketing (Change Management, Incident Management, and Request Management).
Using Solar Wind Monitoring for the Production Environment.
Scheduling Change by preparing the Change Plan Document and following Approval process to perform any H/W or S/W changes or
up gradation. Patching Deployment Windows Servers using SCCM and Shavlik
Monitoring daily backup status, restoration of missing files/directories and other backup related activities with backup team.
Troubleshooting equipment malfunctions, failures, and develop resolutions in a timely fashion.
Setup and configured RAID 1 and RAID 5, troubleshoot and replace the failed drive for rebuild.

Avnet, Phoenix, Arizona

VMware/Windows Administrator
Jan 2016 to June 2017
Migrated and Managed VMware ESXI – 5.0 and 5.1/5.5, worked on VMware capacity planner.
Performed tons of V2V Migration., Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines.
Deploying VMs Through OVF Templates, Created & Troubleshot Virtual Networks and vSwitches.
Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration and Remediate.
Configured Netbackup Client thorough planning was done for downtime, knowing each server usage &their placement in Datacenter.
Creating Data centers in the Vsphere Web client and adding the Hosts to the Data center.
Configuring the Host profiles and Remediate. Setting up the VLANS for each and individual VMs.
Installed and Configured Windows based server 2003/2008/2012 R2 based on the Data Center requirement.
Hands Experience on UCS –Configuring VSwitch1 and editing configurations of VMX file –Type delay.
Worked with Physical or Virtual Servers were replicated by Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technology from Primary site to Disaster
Recovery (DR) site. Data Center Management, Capacity planning and management.
Hands on experience on Automation and deployment of all virtual machines using PowerCLI.
Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal
storage. Responsible for configuring Protection Plan & initiating Protection Installed and upgraded VMware vSphere.
VMware ESX/ESXi Host Server Installation, Configuration & Maintenance. Design and Implementation of migration strategy for
consolidating Data Centers from around the world to centralized locations in US which involves numerous servers of various LINUX
versions. Responsible to maintain cluster servers and ensure the load balancing among the nodes.
Configuring High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS).
 Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
Using VMware vCenter, created DataCenter Environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESX hosts in the clusters, and
implemented HA and DRS. Installed and configured ESX 5.1, 5.5, 6.0 Servers on Blade Servers.
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 And Virtual Storage (Access Control and
VMFSDatastores).
Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of ESX 4.x, ESXi 5.x, ESXi 6.x and vCenter Server 5.0 and 6.0. 
Installations of VM Ware 5.0,5.5 and 6.0 versions along with the Active directories, DNS and DHCP services, File servers etc.
PowerShell, VB Scripting and related tools for automated installations and functions.
Expertise in maintaining the data centers and doing the data center Virtualization. 
Experienced in Configuring and tuning VSphere6 and migrating from vSphere 5.5 to latest 6.0. 
Applying windows Security Updates & Critical updates & Patching. Preparing & sending weekly and monthly reports.
Helped clients configure and manage Office 365 Online Share Point site
Worked on rebuilding physical servers from Windows 2008 to Windows 2012 R2, datacenter version.
Maintain Active Directory (DHCP, WINS & DNS) within the networking environment (LAN) of Windows 2008.
Perform Microsoft Server 2012 maintenance and upgrades.
Installed, Configured maintained and troubleshoot the Windows Server's 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 windows servers.
Address performance related issues of Workstation/ servers /Storage in Infrastructure and provide remediation steps to resolve them
permanently. DNS server configuration and troubleshooting.
Created new organizational units according to the application policies and resolved multiple issues related to OU and Group policies.
Worked on Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT,
WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server.
Installed and configured Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Servers from ILO management tool on Rack servers and blades.
Experience with vSphere Host Profiles, Standard and Distributed Switches setup. LUN creation and storage mapping administration and
configuring Multi pathing. Configuring HA, DRS clusters, creating Affinity rules and configuring FT when required.
Performed capacity planning for new clusters. Worked with the storage team to resolve ESX and VM storage issues.
P2V Hot and cold conversions using converter enterprise 5.x.
Office 365 Migration participated as part of a team responsible for migrating Exchange 2013 to Office 365 Online. Setup rules for
SPAM filtering & Blacklist and Whitelist Email Address/Domain in the cloud and TLS connectors. 
Presenting FC SAN LUN’s, RDM’s iSCSI LUN’s and NFS mounts.

Enterprise Products, Houston, Texas

System Admin (Windows/VMware)
Nov 2013 to Dec 2015
Monitoring of Virtual Machines & ESXi Servers using Virtual center.
Creating Desktop pools and Application pools and auto deploy vm's using instant clones in VMware Horizon connection servers.
Installed and configured SCVMM on Hyper V server. Create P2V and V2V.
May also produce and create reports, charts, manuals proposals and perform light programming (scripting).
Configuring Virtual machines using Templates, Hot clone, Cold Clone and Cold Migration.
Troubleshooting issues related to Virtual Machine, vMotion, snapshots, clone and template.
Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege
to access our LAN and Domain environment.
Creating and managing the users, groups, GPO in the Active Directory.
Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) & Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) in Virtual Centre.
Creating & Managing Virtual Machines & Templates. Configuring IIS 6.0, 7.0, 7.5
Creating Desktop pools and Application pools and auto deploy vm's using instant clones.
Migration of ESXi from 4.5 to 5.0 and 5.1 at a later project towards the end of project.
Configuring Centralized licensing for the virtual centre server.
Convert a Virtual Disk from Thin to Thick & Convert Thick to Thin Format.
Creating & Managing Resource pools & adding the VM's into the resource Pools. Converting P2V, V2V using virtual converter.
Monitor, manage and troubleshoot using tools such as event viewer, MMC, EXBPA, exchange management shell, PowerShell, message
tracking tool, regsvr32, regedit, and regedt32.
Perform MS Exchange system administration activities involving install, update, configure and maintain servers.
Performed several windows servers 2008/2012administrative task including, new server build, windows server hardening (IIS).
Responsible for using NSX for replacing VMwarevSwtich and vsphere distributed switch to provide true networking.
Deployed EMC VNXe SAN for vSphere high availability management cluster configuration
Setting up Exchange Server Archiving - archive items from Microsoft Exchange user mailboxes, journal mailboxes, and public folders
Troubleshooting Exchange Components (Exchange Database, Outlook Web Access, Offline Address List, Mail Flow, Public Folders
and Free/Busy Information). Performed extensive testing across all Windows OS with users to get signoff for each application.
Running VB Scripts to validate logins on 700 + servers and check the server access on weekly basis.
Strong Knowledge in creating various objects like User Accounts, Computer Accounts, and Auto logon accounts.
Monitoring of VLANs in Virtual Distributed Switch.
Configuring and managed DNS and Active Directory.