SUMMARY:

• 15+ years of experience in the implementation, administration, configuration, deployment and troubleshooting of Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Server and client Windows Systems.
• Expert level knowledge of Active Directory design, Group Policy Objects, Organizational Units, users, groups, domain tree, domain forest, child domains, Active Directory Schema, sites and services replication, Active Directory domains trust relation, and Active Directory migration from Windows 2003R2/2008 to Windows 2008R2/2012R2.
• Strong knowledge in systems migration, software deployment using Windows Deployment Tool (MDT 2010), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012),Windows Server Update Services, virtualization (VMware vSphere, ESXi Server, Microsoft Hyper - V), PowerShell scripting, technical support, security and monitoring database applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: MS Windows Server 2016/2012R2/2012/2008R2/2008/2003R2/2003/2000/NT, Windows10/8.1/ 8/7/Vista/XP/Me/98/95 DOS, Novell Netware, Sun Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X Tiger

Hardware: Windows, Macintosh, IBM, HP, Dell/EMC SAN hardware, IDE hard drives, SCSI devices, Direct Attached Storage, PC hardware, Cisco Routers, Switches, Hubs, Network Printers and Load Balancer, Mail Server/ MS Exchange Server 2016/2013/2010/2007/2003 /2000 /5.5 , Lotus Domino 6.1/5, MS Outlook, Messaging 2016/2013/2010/2007/2003 /2000 , Blackberry Enterprise Server, Windows Mobile, Instant Messaging, Live communication server, Office communication server, Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes 6.5, Mail Daemon, Qmail for UNIX

Web Servers: Internet Information Server (IIS) 8.0/ 7.5/7.0/6.0/5.0 /4.0 , IBM NET. Commerce Server, SharePoint 2016/2013/2010/2007/2003 , Services 3.0, iPlanet Web Server (Sun one), Apache Web Server

Network: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS, ARP, SNMP, HTTP, NNTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, SSL

Protocols: LAN/WAN, VPN, NAT, MIME, MAPI, LDAP, VLAN, Telnet, VLSM, OSPF, Frame Relay, EIGRP, IPSec, DFS, RRAS, NAP, RADIUS, NPS, SSH

Backup/ VERITAS: Netbackup, Backup Exec, NAS, SAN, DAS, RAIDS, Power Quest Norton Ghost

Recovery: ImageCast, ImageX, Partition Magic and Backup Utilities

Security: NetIQ Analyser, MS ISA, Symantec Norton Antivirus, McAfee, Trend, Panda Antivirus

Monitoring: PC Anywhere, Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012, Operations Manager 2005, Systems Management Server 2003, WSUS, WAIK, Citrix Presentation Server 4

Databases: Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i, Crystal Report, PL/SQL, RDBMS, T-SQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2016/2014/2012/2008 R 2/2008/2005/2000 , MS-Access 2016/2013/2010/2007/2003 /2000

Languages: HTML, CSS, XML, VBScript, Jscript, WSH, WMI, ADSI, PowerShell, ASP, ASP.NET

Scripting: Command line, Batch processing, MS-Visual Studio.NET, SQL Server Management Studio

Virtualization: VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0 , ESX 3.5/3.0, vCloud, vCenter Server, Workstation, MS Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer 7.0/6.5/6.2/6.1/6.0 , XenApp 7/6/5 and XenDesktop 5/4/3

Office Tools: MS-Word, Excel, Power Point, InfoPath, Project, Visio, Ie, Net Meeting

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Active Directory Engineer/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planning, designing and migrating AD objects from Windows Server 2003R2 to 2012R2 and 2008R2 to 2012R2 in intra-forest and Inter-forest environment using Dell (Quest) Migration Manager for AD, ActiveRoles Management Shell/VBScript/PowerShell and ADMT 3.2 tool.
• Writing PowerShell function/module/manifest scripts to managing AD components/objects.
• Configuring Push/Pull mode Desired State Configuration (DSC) to managing servers.
• Planning, designing, installing, configuring and troubleshooting of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, SharePoint 2013 and SQL Server 2012 in cluster physical/virtual environment.
• Planning, designing, configuring, implementing Windows Software deployment environment using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010, Windows Deployment Services (WDS), User State Migration Tool (USMT), Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012) to deploying Windows XP to Windows 7.
• Planning, designing, configuring, testing, validating, implementing and deploying of Microsoft Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) across client’s Active Directory with GPOs.
• Planning, designing and testing of Datacenter disaster recovery exercise procedures.
• Planned, designed, installed and configured CyberArk Vault, Password Vault Web Access (PVWA), Application Identity Manager, Central Policy Manager (CPM), PrivateArk Client, Privileged Session Management (PSM), OLAC, PACLI and Disaster Recovery (DR) cluster.
• Used JIRA/ServiceNow ticketing systems to resolve various troubleshooting issues including account lockout, permissions, GPOs, site replication, DNS, DHCP, AD health monitoring etc.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Active Directory Engineer/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrating AD objects from Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 to 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2003/2008 R2 to 2012 R2 in Inter-forest/Intra-forest environment using ADMT 3.2 and Dell (Quest) Migration Manager for Active Directory tool and VBScript/PowerShell scripting,
• Installing and configuring AD Certificate Services (Enterprise - Root CA) - Single Tier PKI deployment in production environment and verifying issued certificates.
• Planning, designing, configuring, and implementing Windows Software deployment environment using MDT 2010, WDS, User State Migration Tool (USMT), Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012) to deploying Windows XP to Windows 7 and various medical related applications.
• Planning, designing, installing and configuring VMware vSphere ESXi 5/5.5 with multiple hosts and clusters environment for Exchange Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Active Directory Engineer/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated AD objects from Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 R2 to 2012 R2 in Inter-forest environment for Confidential and Confidential entity (14 forests with 28 sites), 1600+ servers, 56 domain controllers, 35000+ users, 3400+ groups using VBScript/PowerShell scripting, ADMT 3.2 and Dell (Quest) Migration Manager for Active Directory tool.
• Decommissioned multiple domain controller from inter-forest and intra-forest environment, removing all AD related components and returns the domain controller to a member server.
• Planned, designed, installed and configured Exchange Server 2010 and migrated from Exchange Server 2007 to 2010.
• Planned, designed, Installed and configured Infoblox vNIOS virtual appliance, Network Insight, Reporting and Management family of products for Grid Master, Grid Master Candidate and Grid members to manage, control, optimize DNS, DHCP, and other services.
• Planned and designed Trustwave Secure Web Gateway to protects against dynamic, cross-component malware, and next-generation web based threats.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Active Directory Engineer/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned, designed and implemented network topology infrastructure for Active Directory rollout pilot testing and production for migration of Windows 2003 to 2008 R2/2012.
• Migrated AD objects from Windows Server 2003 to 2012R2 and 2008R2 to 2012R2 in intra-forest and Inter-forest environment for various companies using Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory, ActiveRoles Management Shell/VBScript/PowerShell and ADMT 3.2 tool.
• Supported to resolve Windows Active Directory/Exchange mail-box, calendar, and contacts access permissions, new logon attributes update, department transfer update, account reinstated related various incidents/tasks with ServiceNow systems.
• Worked with Microsoft’s Account Lockout and Management tools and PowerShell scripting to diagnosis and troubleshoot account lockouts issues. Also gave seminar to Help Desk team members regarding AD Account lock out issues to educate further.
• Deployed Active Directory Custom attributes to obtain for various department related objects.
• Used Symantec Enterprise Vault to archive for PC users.
• Used Quest ActiveRoles tool to provisioning and de-provisioning of accounts, adding and removing group membership etc.

Confidential, New York, NY

Sr. Active Directory Engineer/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and designed network topology infrastructure and created the blue print for Active Directory rollout and pilot testing for migration of Windows 2003 to 2008 R2/2012
• Migrated AD objects from Windows 2003 to 2008 R2 in Inter-forest environment for Confidential and Confidential entity (12 forests with 24 sites), 1000+ servers, 48 domain controllers, 25000+ users, 2300+ groups using VBScript/PowerShell scripting and ADMT 3.2 tool
• Configured, managed DHCP & DNS, redesigned Active Directory environment with 900+ organizational units and 800+ group policies, setting up the global catalog, site-replication and deployment of Confidential Roles and removed Script Logic policies.
• Planned, designed, configured and implemented Windows Software deployment environment using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT 2010), Windows Deployment Services (WDS), User State Migration Tool (USMT), Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012) to deploying Windows XP to Windows 7.
• Implemented Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) across client’s AD with GPOs.
• Involved to administering Exchange Server, SQL Server, and Syslog tracking systems, ISA and Web sphere for security monitoring, XenApp and various financial applications.
• Planned designed and configured three-tier architecture from scratch for SharePoint Server 2010 and create corporate Intranet site using SharePoint Designer 2010 and InfoPath 2010.

Confidential, Cranford, NJ

Sr. Active Directory Engineer/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed and migrated Windows 2003 domain environment to Windows 2008 R2 environment for USA and EU entity (3 forests with 12 sites), 500+ servers, 12 domain controllers using VBScript/PowerShell scripting and ADMT 3.2 tool.
• Configured, managed DHCP & DNS, redesigned Active Directory environment with 548 organizational units and 162 group policies, setting up the global catalog, site-replication and deployment of Confidential roles and raised Windows 2008 R2 domain and forest functional level.
• Cleaned up existing environment, demoted domain controller by force on AD database corrupted domain controllers, and performed metadata cleanup after force removal.
• Documented all installed applications and compatible versions inventory and upgraded those applications with latest versions applications of different vendors.
• Performed an in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2003x64 to Windows Server 2008 R2 and applied appropriate patches, hot-fixes, service pack updates.
• Used Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), Windows Deployment Services (WDS), User State Migration Tool (USMT), and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to deploying Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2.
• Installed, configured and administered multiple instances of MS SQL Server 2008R2 and developed various types of reports using MS SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Migrated and configured HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) 10.0 to 11.0 version.
• Installed and configured Endeca Server for SQL Server environment.
• Built physical server, Installed, configured and maintained Ignite for SQL Server.
• Installed, configured and removed ScaleOut State server from 500+ servers.
• Installed, configured, and maintained vSphere 5/4, ESX servers and vCenter server.
• Configured IIS with CSS handler setup for IIS server 7.5/7.0/6.0/5.0
• Installed, configured, and maintained Control-M Agent, AviCode Agent, and NetIQ Agent, SEP client, VM tools, Quest Software, RightFax, Symantec Enterprise Vault, Anti-Virus Software, and Logs Error handler with registry setup.
• Resolved various technical troubleshooting tasks with Remedy Management Systems.
• Planned and designed network topology infrastructure and created the blue print for Active Directory rollout and pilot testing for migration of Windows 2003 to 2008 R2.
• The Redcats USA Active Directory environment had 5 forests/domains and each forest had 5 sites and each site had 2 domain controllers.
• The project goal was to Active Directory forest/domain consolidates from 5 forests to 2 forests and phased-out those three forest/domain environments and the project was completed with site topology plan and domain migration strategy.
• Installed and configured of Active Directory services, which included setting up the global catalog, Users, Groups, Organizational Units, and Group Policy Objects configure, site-replication and deployment of Confidential Roles as per requirements.

Confidential, New York, NY

Active Directory Engineer/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, installed, configured and maintained MS Windows Server 2008/2003/2000 , MS Exchange Server 2007/2003/2000 and applied service packs, patches and security hot-fixes.
• Active Directory replication, GPOs, Active Directory backup / restore services, Active Directory security services. Active Directory group policy and Active Directory auditing.
• Configured and maintained Blackberry Enterprise Server, Windows Mobile, Office communication server, MS Outlook 2007/2003, Outlook Web Access and instant messaging.
• Installed, configured and administered multiple instances of MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000.
• Designed and developed various types of reports using MS SQL Server Reporting Services.
• Monitoring Server performance and services using SolarWinds Performance Monitor.
• Installed, configured, maintained and administered MOSS 2007 migrated SharePoint Portal 2003 to MOSS 2007 and created InfoPath 2007 based forms.
• Resolved various technical issues using Quest Software, NetIQ, RightFax, Symantec Enterprise Vault, Anti-Virus Software, and Remedy Management Console.
• Installed and administered Citrix XenServer 5.6/5.0, XenApp 5, and XenDesktop 4/3.
• Performed backup/restore and disaster recovery strategies and providing technical supports.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Engineer/Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planned and designed topology infrastructure for Exchange Server 2003. Build Exchange 2003 prototype and provided high-level of migration steps from Exchange 2000, working with Microsoft Exchange 2000 network infrastructure, name resolution services, current Exchange 2000 deployment were all factors in designing a site and replication topology.
• Installed, configured, implemented and maintained of MS Exchange Server 2003 and MS Outlook 2003 and tested the rollout in test lab which included the real time data from the production environment.
• Configured OWA and Mobile (team work support) for Exchange 2003 and configured Windows Mobile, Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES), live communication server and Office communication server.
• Group policy planning, deployment domain controller and provided technical support for Active Directory, Messaging system, Outlook Web Access, scheduling and calendar.
• Active Directory replication, Active Directory backup / restore services, Active Directory security services, Active Directory group policy and Active Directory auditing.
• Worked on SQL Server 2005/2000, SharePoint, MOM, SMS, IIS, ISA, RightFax and NetIQ
• Installed, configured, maintained, supported and monitored performance of backup jobs in day-to-day service and restored system state/data files using HP StorageWorks Library, ADIC Scalar i2000 Robotic Tape Library, Quantum disk-based backup DXi5500 using VERITAS NetBackup and Backup Exec etc.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Engineer/Exchange Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, implemented and maintained MS Windows 2003, MS Exchange server 2003 and Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 in multiple servers with required applications.
• Planned, implemented and maintained Active Directory with DNS and DHCP servers.
• Implemented and designed of Confidential role and global catalog server deployment along with external trust relationship between trees.
• Active Directory replication topology created using SMTP and IP protocols.
• Planned and deployed Group Policy Objects.
• Configured and maintained Blackberry Enterprise Server, Windows Mobile, Instant messaging, Live communication server, MS Outlook, Outlook Web Access.
• Installed and configured Microsoft Clustering Services using active/active and active/passive.
• Migrated from Exchange Server 2000 to Exchange Server 2003.
• Planned and deployed Microsoft Virtual Server and VMware ESX Server and consolidated servers through physical to virtual, virtual to virtual and virtual to physical technologies.
• Installed and configured SharePoint Services and managed project tasks.
• Installed, configured and maintained Oracle 10g and MS SQL Server 2005/2000.
• Configured and maintained Microsoft IIS 6.0/5.0, securing it by MS lockdown tool.
• Installed and configured VERITAS NetBackup and Backup Exec software.