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Chicago, Il, Us

Warsaw, Indiana, Us

Installing, configuring, upgrading, and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers in an enterprise Data Center environment.IT professional with over 8+ years of experience in Deploying, Administration, Maintaining and Supporting Enterprise Microsoft & VMware Platforms, customized business applications and Azure Cloud AdministrationBuild, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of 2003, 2008, and 2012 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V, and legacy hardwareEstablished Operating System Deployment, images, and Task Sequences via SCCM 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.Experience in VMware virtualization Planning, implementation, sand ongoing management with early and current versions of VMware solutions, vCenter Operations. Created, managed, and maintained VMware ThinApp, vROps, vRA, vRO, Cisco UCS, vRealize, VMWare AppVolume, VMWare vRealize, RDSH repositories/farms. Experience with 3rd party solutions in VMware environments including Veeam, Zerto, Symantec and TrendMicro.Hands on experience in Azure Development, worked on Azure web application, App services, Azure Storage, Azure SQL Database, Virtual machines, Azure AD, Azure search, and notification hub Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services AWS, VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V technologies implemented and incorporated in existing company infrastructure for Cloud Compute and PowerShell Scripting for QA/QC automationExperience in handling P2V and V2V migrations using VMware convertor in a large environment.Installed, configured, administered and maintained Sun One LDAP Directory server 7.0/11g on RedHat Linux 6.x/7.x

Maintained and Troubleshooted windows server's windows 2008R2 and 2012 versions Creating disk spaces for windows servers.Monitored SCCM platform health and mitigated issues as needed. Documenting step-by-step process used for Repackaging and testing which includes Custom Action Scripts using VB Script, Wise Script, Auto IT, PowerShell.Performed installation, configuration and maintenance of 32-bit and 64-bit wintel Windows 2003/2008 servers and 64-bit Windows 2008 servers.Customized Windows Server 2012/2012R2/2016/2019 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment.Packaging Citrix Applications using Rapid Deployment Tool and Citrix Install Manager. Deploy XenApp 6.5 to new and migrating servers.Used Azure to backup and store data in blobs. Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates. Deploying View Connection server in Replica mode for High Availability and Load Balancing.Extensive experience with maintenance of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Global Group Policy, Windows IIS, SQL Server and Microsoft SQL Clustering.Creation of PowerShell and VB Scripts to automate IT tasks and processes. Deployed and managed windows RDS environments (RDSH and RDVH), Terminal services.Deployed VMs in Microsoft Azure using both Redhat and Ubuntu servers. Experience in resolving issues after installation and testing components after installation. Executing temp test cases. Installing and Maintaining Windows 2008, 2012 and Windows 2016 Servers.Excellent understanding modern cloud (compute, storage, networking) application architectures on Azure to ensure easy monitoring and high availability. Created and managed new Users, roles and projects through Keystone. Responsible for the implementation of VMware View VDI upgrades, Change Management, Problem Management, and ITIL related process.

Responsible to build, rebuild, configure, migrate, decommission and troubleshoot Windows virtual machines. Responsible in building physical Windows, ESXi host, creating clusters, adding ESXi hosts to clusters, adding storage and performing QA at cluster level. Installing Windows, Linux Operating System.Firmware upgrade on HP OA, HP Virtual connect module, HP BL/DL, Dell PowerEdge M1000e, CISCO UCS chassis and servers. Installed and upgraded VMware vSphere ESXi4.5/5.0/5.1/5.5. Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates and Creating, managing multiple snapshots. Build Windows 2012/2008/2003 Servers on standalone and blade servers based on application design. Performed P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise and also the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD. Building Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers on Dell R610, R710, R810 hardware. Built Windows 2008 domain controller and join to the existing domain.Administering domain trusts and changing the domain mode using Active Directory Domains and Trusts. Administering and Maintaining Active Directory group policies for the environment through Group policy editor. Implement two nodes clustering with windows 2003 STD R2 serves and windows 2008 Ent R2.Reconfigured all ESX network connectivity utilization VLAN tagging and teaming. Configuring, administering, maintaining & troubleshooting of windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2012Servers such as DC, DNS, IIS, DHCP, and Database servers. Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.Installed, configured and administered windows Server 2008/2008R2/2012with various roles and features including AD DS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Web server and SQL database server. Performed backups, troubleshooting and problem resolution for servers associated with a VMware virtual infrastructure. Installed and configured VMware Horizon VDI View Connection Servers (Standard & Replica).

Installed and configured domain controllers, DNS, DHCP as per the design. Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates and Creating, managing multiple snapshots. Installing and Configured access rules on Kaspersky Antivirus Corporate edition.Configured, administered and troubleshooted some platforms with ISA Server & TMG Forefront, VPN site-to-site for integration into a single domain and with a single Active Directory. Updating Security patches for Operating system and all other Applications.Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0, ESX 3.5 on a Dell 2950 Power Edge M1000, VMware Infrastructure Client, VMware Virtual Center, License Server and VCB Setup.Installing and Configuring Terminal Server for Remote desktop.Creating Disk cloning for servers with help of Ghost software.Troubleshooting Windows time related issues.Configuring and managing Domain Naming System (DNS).Providing databases recommendations and database tuning for Dev Teams.Ensure that network devices and solutions were aligned with the company's global policy (i.e. network polices, Security policies etc.)Monitor, analyze, troubleshoot, report and escalate server (OS/hardware), SAN storage and backup (NetBackup/tape library) issues/alerts, backup job and media management, SOX DTM and SEC controls and work with system admins, application owners and vendors to bring back the affected systems online as per SLA. Responsible for monitoring and maintaining Windows and Citrix Servers which includes 10,000 user base and more than 100 plus applications.Provide configuration, implementation, and troubleshooting support for the Compute Infrastructure (Fabric Interconnect, UCS Blade Server Chassis, UCS I/O Module, and UCS Blade Server), Storage Infrastructure and VMware to ensure they perform as expected steady-state and correct any failure conditions. Working on Commvault Back up Recovery, and BMR.Working on Server O/S, Hardening and Antivirus.