PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over Six years of experience in IIS (Internet Information Services) Web server 6.0/7.0 and Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012 Installation, Configuration, Administration and Maintenance.
• Experienced with deployments, Maintenance and troubleshooting applications on Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Azure.
• Experience in configuring and managing IIS Web Server farms using load balancers.
• Application support for asp.NET based hosted internal & external websites.
• Maintaining multiple Internal/External websites on IIS 5.0/6.0/7.5 on multiple server environments
• Experience on installing and configuring SSL certificates in web servers and enabled secured (https) transactions.
• Troubleshooting .Net application issues hosted on the IIS.
• Good working experience on PowerShell scripting And MS Web Deploy for creating Websites.
• Good working experience with PowerShell on windows servers.
• Installing windows roles, features and deploying applications using PowerShell scripting.
• Identification and replacements to include IIS, Apache, etc.
• Experience in setting up clustered environment for Load balancing and high availability of Web and Application servers.
• Installed and configured Multiple Websites in IIS using different techniques.
• Experience in analyzing the IIS logs to collect information about server events, server performance, and user activity.
• Created user accounts, modified and deleted according to the environment using user administration in Active Directory.
• Experience in working with various monitoring tools.
• Experienced in Monitoring tools like Site Scope, SCOM, Keynote and Gomez
• Experience in installing monthly security patches and fix packs on windows platform including with Providing documentation.
• Experienced in making documentation for issues we worked on and provide knowledge transfer to other team members to share the work load when we get multiple priority 0 issues at the same time.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

.Net Framework: .Net 3.0/4.0/4.5, VB.Net, ASP. Net

Web Servers: IIS 6/7/7.5/8.0, MOSS 2007/2010.

Languages: C# 2.0, C++, Visual Basic 6.0, C, Java Script, Power shell.

Database: SQL Server 2005/2008/2012.

Development Tools: Visual Studio, MS - Office, Photoshop

Operating Systems: MS Windows Server 2012/2008/2003, Linux

Protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, FTP, SMTP and HTTP HTTPS

Load Balancer: Network load balancer (NLB), F5 Big IP

Monitoring Tools: Scom, Sitescope, Gomez, Keynote, Dynatrace

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

IIS/.Net Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured multiple websites in IIS 7.5/8.5 using Virtual IPs, multiple ports and Host headers.
• Deploying and managing applications in Datacenter, Virtual environment and Azure platform as well.
• Implemented disaster recovery techniques.
• Upgrading applications from windows 2003 R2 to Windows 2012 R2.
• Migrate legacy intranet applications to IIS 8.5 and troubleshoot issues .
• Deployed ASP.Net applications in IIS and configured the data sources.
• Generating PowerShell script to enhance
• Worked on PowerShell Scripts to move logs from IIS web and application servers to shared storage location as part of log redundancy policy and scheduled in task Scheduler.
• Maintained scripts to ensure a secure IIS administration.
• Worked on SSL and assigned the certificates to various sites and renewing those certificates.
• Created Managed Servers in a Cluster with round-robin algorithm and NLB clustering for Load Balancing.
• Created PowerShell Scripts to patch DLLs across various servers and also to automate database deployments (Dacpacs) using SSDT.
• Deployed Web Applications and Databases onto Web servers and Database servers using IIS and TFS.
• Developed customized timer jobs, configured custom Web services and Search optimizations tools, optimized high volume libraries, wrote Power Shell scripts.
• Monitoring Applications and identifying issues using Monitoring tools like Dynatrace and SCOM.
• Working on Azure for highly available customer facing B2B and B2C applications.
• Deployed the applications on multiple IIS application Servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Work closely with the other Middleware Application Server Administrators.
• Scheduled jobs on servers using Blade Logic.
• Documented the resolution steps for outages after having root cause analysis.
• Actively participated in 24X7 on call production support.
• Troubleshoot database usage issues due to application servers.
• Upgraded vendor software’s on server as per the requirement.
• Worked with Microsoft to resolve .Net runtime issues.
• Worked on Configuring SiteMinder on IIS.
• Provided the performance metrics of the web applications after every release in order to capture the performance of the code.
• Worked extensively on configuring, installing and migrating VM Servers between different clusters.
• Migrated update sets, imported data into service now from various data sources, including excel, web Services and ftp servers.
• Created users, roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Actively participated in 24X7 on call production support.

Environment: IIS 7.0, IIS 7.5, IIS 8.0, IIS 8.5 .NET 2.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, Windows Server 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2.

Confidential, Lake Forest, IL

IIS / System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5/8.0 web server on Microsoft Windows 2003/2008R2/2012 server accordingly.
• Worked on Migration projects from IIS 6.0 to 7.5 and IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.5 to IIS 8.0.
• Deploying and managing applications in Datacenter, Virtual environment and Azure platform as well.
• Configured multiple websites in IIS 7.0/7.5/8.0 using Virtual IPs, multiple ports and Host headers.
• Deployed ASP.Net applications in IIS and configured the data sources.
• Configured Authentication methods in IIS 7.0/7.5/8.0 to control access to the applications.
• Worked with Monitoring tools like SCOM and Site Scope for internal monitoring and Keynote and Gomez for external monitoring.
• Troubleshoot and properly document network, server, workstation, software, and security issues.
• Maintained logbook, tape backups, and checking of various errors.
• Taken data backups, file backups and restored them during the roll back process whenever necessary.
• Installing, configuring and deploying applications on Web logic Application Server 8.x, 9.x. Working with application teams.
• Maintained and updated Active directories for authentication.
• Created Managed Servers in a Cluster with round-robin algorithm and NLB clustering for Load Balancing.
• Monitoring Applications and identifying issues using Monitoring tools like Site Scope, Dynatrace, and SCOM.
• Worked on F5-BigIP to enable and disable servers at the time of Deployment.
• Experience on Disaster recovery to run the applications smoothly did SQL server Mirroring, Replication and Backup.
• Working on Azure for highly available customer facing B2B and B2C applications.
• Deployed the applications on multiple IIS application Servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Created users, roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Actively participated in 24X7 on call production support.
• Co-ordinated with offshore.
• Installed SSL certificates in IIS and configured security ports.
• Written and maintained scripts to ensure a secure IIS administration..
• Created users, roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Have extensively used the tools like Log Parser, Fiddler, Firebug and perfmon for trouble shooting and Debugging the web applications.

Environment: IIS 6.0, SQL Server 2008/2005, .NET 3.0, Windows Server 2008, 2012, Win2K, Microsoft Azure.

Confidential, Woodland hills, CA

Web Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring .NET applications on IIS 7.5/6.0 Web servers on Windows 2008 R2/2003 Servers
• Migrating applications from IIS 6.0 to 7.5 as well as II6.0 to IIS 8.0
• Working on providing security by configuring SSL certificates as well as authentication techniques.
• Working on configuring load balancers like NLB, F5-BigIP for multi node environments.
• Deployed applications on multiple web servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Providing on call support for both staging and production environments.
• Working on change management process for application deployments, platform level developments and monthly security patching as well.
• Good working experience with PowerShell 3.0 for installing windows features and roles and for automating monthly security patching.
• Installation and configuration of Apache Web Server 1.3 for Various intranet/extranet websites
• Perform troubleshooting and diagnosis to hardware/software network failures and provide resolutions.
• Troubleshoot and properly document network, server, workstation, software, and security issues.
• Open, track, and resolve tickets and act as Incident Coordinator until problem resolution
• Maintained logbook, tape backups, and checking of various errors.
• Worked with off shore team in identifying and fixing the application issues.
• Worked on data center redundancy for failing over the traffic across other data centers in case of disaster.
• Secondary duties include monitoring Veritas backups until normal completion.
• Perform regular security monitoring to identify any intrusion.
• Maintain the timely recovery of data lost due to software crash or hardware failure.
• Maintained scripts to ensure a secure IIS administration.
• Developed Windows batch scripts in order to work on multiple servers at a time in various versions which
• Can make the tasks much more efficient.
• Maintained and updated Active directories for authentication.
• Monitoring Applications and identifying issues using Monitoring tools like Site Scope, Dynatrace and SCOM.
• Worked on F5-BigIP to enable and disable servers at the time of Deployment.
• Deployed the applications on multiple IIS application Servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Created users, roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating system authentication.
• Actively participated in 24X7 on call production support.

Environment: IIS 8.0, IIS 7.5, IIS 6.0, .Net 4.0, Windows Server 2008 R2/2012.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed applications on multiple Web servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Working in building new environments by creating VMs, deploying windows operating system then installing platform pre-requirements, deploying applications and configuring security.
• Support on call schedule for Production support.
• Configured servers for DHCP, WINS and DNS services.
• Experience with VMware, creating VM Sessions for installing multiple OS and applications.
• Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP.
• Actively Participated in the DR Drills/ Fail Over Tests organized by the Release Management team and documented the metrics of the application performance and have worked with OPS, DEV and Data Center team to resolve as per the SLAs.
• Working on creating CSR (Certificate sign in request) and communicate with CA (Certificate authority) to get new certificates and configure them on web servers to provide security to internet facing web applications.
• Working in building new environments by creating VMs, deploying windows operating system then installing platform pre-requirements, deploying applications and configuring security.
• Deployed applications on multiple web servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality
• Providing on call support for both staging and production environments.
• Working on change management process for application deployments, platform level developments and monthly security patching as well.
• Worked with Data Center Team to resolve server outages and any unresponsive servers.

Environment: : IIS 8.0, IIS 7.5, IIS 6.0, .Net 4.0, Windows Server 2008 R2.