TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• Windows Server (2000,2003,2008,2012) VB Script / Powershell
• Windows (2000,XP,Vista,7,8) PKI
• Active Directory DNS, DHCP,WINS,Kerberos,ADFS
• SMS 1.2 SQL
• MS Exchange NetApp
• WSUS VMWare 3.x - vSphere 5
• Market Data Applications (Reuters, Open Bloombergs, ILX, Multex)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Active Directory Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS and various other Infrastructure services.
• Upgraded 125 Servers from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2 / 2012 R2 from standalone Dell Poweredge 2950’s and HP Proliant DL 360’s DL 380’s to HP Blade C7000’s
• Windows 2008 Active Directory and Terminal Server upgrades from Server 2003
• Built and configured 8 Microsoft Cluster Servers utilizing HP Bladesand VMWare.
• Maintained / Supported NY Presbyterian Cornell and Columbia’s Microsoft Active Directory Domains
• Configured Windows Azure Cloud environments to provide Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) redundancy for high availability. Office 365 implementations that called for the deployment of Azure Active Directory Sync in addition to OneDrive for Business, Lync Online and Exchange Online.
• Use Active Directory to create, modify, and maintain system accounts accuracy
• Utilized PowerShell and VBScript to automate tasks
• Upgraded 10 ESX Hosts from V4 to vSphere 5
• Administration of GPOs, Domain Users and groups, and Computers on Active Directory 2003, 2008.
• Responsible for Windows7, Windows 2008 / 2012 Active Directory and Terminal Server patching & upgrades.
• Creating and managing the users, groups, GPO in the Active Directory.
• Built over 100 Vitrual Servers utilizing VMWare vSphere

Confidential, NY

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Maintained a Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Environment
• Upgraded 15 servers from Windows 2003 - 2008 to Windows 2012
• Develop design for Active Directory, MS Exchange, SharePoint, SEP, FIM, Citrix, VMware, Print Services, Asset management and others
• Successfully created, managed, and monitored a variety of users, groups, and GPO’s in Active Directory services and group policies.
• Designed and Maintained a Microsoft DFS Environment utilizing Microsoft Windows 2012 Server

Confidential, NY

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed a storage area network utilizing Network Appliance, migrated 50 TB from various File Servers to a NetApp Storage environment
• Security Administration of File Server, user accounts and security groups on a multiple Active directory and NT4 domains.
• Administered AD (Active Directory) for Windows 2003 including IIS 6.0, GPO deployments, DNS, DHCP configurations & web services in .NET framework (platform)
• Upgraded Order Processing Servers from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008
• Designed DFS Environment
• Led Project to upgrade Active Directory Environment from Windows 2003 to Windows 2012
• Led Project to upgrade 500 Workstations from Windows XP to Windows 7

Confidential, New York, NY

Directory Services Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Ovation Employee Choice Award for contributions to the success of Confidential .
• Led project to migrate from NT 4.0 Domain model to Active Directory.
• TV 2.0 Closed down MSNBC Office, migrated to CNBC and Confidential locations.
• Created AD Infrastructure for the 2008 Beijing Olympics
• Collapsed all Oxygen infrastructure, migrating all File and Print, as well as all users to Confidential Universal's Active Directory environment. iVillage Migration) Collapse all Oxygen infrastructure, migrated all File and Print, migrated all users to Confidential Universal's Active Directory environment. migrating the user and share data for iVillage and healthology
• Instrumental in achieving on time launch of .media QA release
• Media General project
• Promoted to role as storage engineer and charged with building and administer a SAN storage environment. Managed the selection, procurement, and installation of new net applications and equipment.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed an enterprise storage area network (SAN) for NT and Solaris servers using Digital Equipment Storage Works Fibre RAID Arrays and EMC FibreArrays. Create switched Fibre network for use with SAN using a fabric topology. Developed hardware standardfor the Fibrechannel SAN .
• Built a cluster environment for Microsoft IIS server and Microsoft Exchange server using Microsoft Cluster Server and Digital Equipment Storage Works Fibre Channel RAID Array.
• Designed, implemented, and administered a corporate BIND/DNS environment using BIND 8.22 P3 and P5 running on Solaris 7.0 for use with Dynamic DNS and Windows 200 Active Directory. Configured zone delegation, zone transfers, and zone creations.
• Constructed a lab environment consisting of 25 Windows 2000 advanced servers to test Active Directory, DNS, domain design/migration, cluster server, and Windows terminal server.
• Coordinated the migration testing of user and machine accounts from NT domain to Windows 2000 domain using Mission Critical One Point Migration tool.
• Tested Windows 2000 DNS using Active Directory Integrated DNS, zone transfers between corporate root and DNS servers, and zone replication between primary and secondary servers.
• Conducted testing of Windows 2000 cluster server with Microsoft Exchange Platinum RC1 and support for Digital Storage Works and Emulex Fibre Channel 7000p card and drivers.

Confidential, New York, NY

Systems Administrator, Desktop/Client Server

Responsibilities:

• Converted 600+ PCs from Windows NT 3.51 to 4.0 and 250 Unix work stations to Solaris 2.6. Worked with developers on compatibility of applications to system upgrades.
• Served on technical team that converted all PCs in the World Trade Towers from Banyan Vines to MS Exchange. Built Exchange servers to test system prior to conversion. Converted 400+ email users .
• Instrumental in project to standardize PC software installations with the goal of eliminating the need for equipment moves within the Capital Markets Department.
• Participated in design of unattended install build script that automated and standardized software installation for the trading floor. Upgraded script and converted applications installation from Sysdiff to SMS .
• Built SQL servers for newly developed applications. Collaborated with software developers on testing and rollout of new applications.

Confidential, Norwalk, CT

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Migrated 20+ users from a DOS/Windows to an NT 3.51 environment.
• Set up Windows 95 on laptops for remote dial-in users.
• Installed an NT RAS server for remote dial-in capability.
• Designed Airborne domain model, established domain trust relationships, implemented the NT TCP/IP environment to include WINS, and set up directory replication.
• Installed and configured SQL/SMS to support 20-user network including software distribution and software and hardware inventory.
• Participated in the installation of network for new office including the wiring of network cables.
• Installed software for 150 new bar code scanners used by branch couriers, and provide ongoing technical support and troubleshooting for scanner operations.
• Created a five-workstation test laboratory to conduct test trials, resulting in a significant reduction in downtime of network.