SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of Experience in providing IT infrastructure solutions on technologies like Office 365, MS Exchange, System Center Configuration Manager, Active Directory, VMware ESX/ESXi, Hyper - V, Windows Server and Networking.
• Manage Identity Access management of Azure Subscriptions, Azure AD, Azure AD Application Proxy, Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Pass through Authentication.
• Having Experience Configuring and managing Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Connect health, Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
• Resolved Azure AD issues relating to Office 365, Active Directory to AzureAD and CAIDM to Active Directory.
• Resolving the Sync issue Microsoft Managed Services Service Provisioning Provider (MMSSPP).
• Provided guidance in the planning, gathering requirements, recommendations, and implementation of data migration to Office 365, and configuration best practices
• Having Experience on creating and updating the Various Power Shell Scripts for windows, Active Directory, Azure AD and o365.
• Developed a migration approach to move workloads from On-Premises AD to Windows Azure or develop new cloud-ready application solutions.
• Designing, Configuring and maintaining Active Directory Services on Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016(Test, Development) Domain controller.
• Install and Manage security reporting tools to monitor any Active Directory changes. Plan and manage all the migrations and upgrades related to Active Directory and Domain controllers.
• Expertise in Active Directory Setup and troubleshooting for any deleted objects and AD Recycle Bin.
• Planning, creating and managing AD group policy Templates and Policies Administration, Operating System security Patches Upgrade Procedure for secure computing and network environment.
• Experienced in Deploying Web Apps and Creating Web-Jobs Sync on premises Active Directory users to office 365 with ADCONNECT and ADFS to make easy to user moving.
• Responsible for Servers Health Check and Performance Monitoring for all the Window servers.
• Experienced in configuring Cloud platform such as Virtual Networks Multi-site, Cross-site, VMs, Azure AD, Load Balancers, Azure SQL, Cloud Services, etc.
• Executing technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Windows Azure
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud watch. Migrated applications to the AWS cloud.
• Experience in administration, troubleshooting and resolving Group Policy Objects.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining the new LDAP OU, Groups, Schema, and attributes.
• Experience in configuring LDAP, SSL, SSO (CA SiteMinder) and Digital Signatures.
• Implemented Right fax 9 environment. Created a hybrid VM and virtual server environment.
• Providing High Availability Solutions (DAG) for User Mailbox Databases.
• Understanding of AD Attributes, LDAP Queries, PowerShell Scripting to Modify AD Attributes, Group Policy Analysis, GPO Configuration Trouble shot issuesrelated to Forefront Identity Manager.
• Good communication skills, inter personal skills and proven ability to perform both as an individual and as a team player.
• Knowledge on Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) and Forefront Identity Manager (FIM).
• Experience working with and configuring ISA servers.
• Ability to make decisions and manage time effectively to a deliver plan on schedule.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Office 365: Exchange, Outlook, Lync/Skype for Business, Share point, Yammer, Azure AD, One Drive and Active Directory, Teams, One Note

Admin Management: Group policies, Active Directory(AD), Active Directory Federation Services(ADFS), Microsoft Exchange Administrator Servers and Microsoft Windows servers

Virtualization: Hyper-V, VMotion, VMware vSphere 4.x.5.x, 6.x, VCenter, VMware ESX/ESXi 4.x, 5.x, 6.x

Ticketing System: ServiceNow and Remedy Cloud

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Microsoft Server 2008, Windows 10, Microsoft Server 2012 r2, Unix and Linux

Networking: Application layer (DNS/WINS, SMTP), and Management layer (DHCP),LAN/WAN/WLAN concepts and Service control layer (TCP/IP).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, WA

Sr. Windows Active Directory Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing Microsoft Identity Management products (Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Services, and Azure, AD Connect, Office 365) serving as an enterprise-wide directory containing 400k Objects.
• Managing Identity Access management of Azure Subscriptions, Azure AD, Azure AD Application Proxy, Azure AD Connect, Azure AD Pass Through Authentication
• Creating and managing application integrations for identify and access management. Having Experience of Creating conditional Access policies Multifactor authentication (MFA), Resetting MFA and Resolving the MFA issues.
• Familiarity in the following areas: single sign-on, enterprise directory architecture and design, directory schema, namespace, replication topology, resource provisioning, role-based access Control, user lifecycle
• Successfully established and tested Azure AD Tenant for production. Provided technical direction to allow Active Directory on-Prem group to populate users
• Experience in Syncing the Objects Users, Groups, Workstation from active directory to azure active directory.
• Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), SAML, web Single Sign-on (SSO), OAuth and related authentication technologies.
• Assist in the scripting of AD user and contact object updates using PowerShell to facilitate synchronization to Azure AD.Havingexpericne with Various Powershell module (Azure ad, Active Directory and exchange online)
• Having experience in Splunk checking the login error status of users in various applications
• Having Experience of troubleshooting of user account provisioning between legacy Client directories and CSC active directory and LDAP directories
• Experience Configuring and managing AzureAD Connect, AzureAD Connect health, Microsoft Azure Active Directory.<:
• Provided/presented migration statistics, issues/resolution, and deliverables to leadership, detailing user, group, and physical device success percentages, tracking milestones for what had been migrated or was still in need of migration
• Provide end to end support for the migration of all the Directory objects, from the source (Multiple Domains), to the target Single Domain.
• Monitoring the Licenses for Azure Ad issues, resolving the Licenses Issue for Azure AD Users. Assigning the licenses Group based.
• Familiarity in the following areas: single sign-on, enterprise directory architecture and design, directory schema, namespace, replication topology, resource provisioning, role-based access Control, user lifecycle.
• Resolved Azure AD issues relating to Office 365(MMSSPP), Active Directory to AzureAD identity and user permissions.
• Knowledge on testing the application Variousbethods and Deploy the application in to cloud.
• Configured and resolved Azure AD Connect sync issues,Various types of Data issues and Atrribute issues.
• Having Experience of Creating and Managing the users and groups in Azure AD.
• Experience troubleshooting skills in a Windows 2012 environment - Event log analysis, installation and administration of Windows Server 2012, including user setup and defining roles, performance tuning, backup and restore, security monitoring, registry for the Application Specific Servers.
• Having experience of Working with Ldap tools Softera andOracle Ad admin .
• Configured DirSync and ADFS Servers for synchronization and single sign-on.
• Developed transition plans and managed migration projects across a variety of scenarios including on premise, Hybrid and hosted Exchange, and application upgrades. Including Active Directory Federated Services with Windows Server.
• System Administration experience including installation, administration, and maintenance ofSharePoint2013, 2010
• Experience in Migration ofSharePointfrom, MOSS and O365.
• Experienced in designing and implementingSharePointArchitecture and managing site collections and sub-site hierarchies.
• Install and configure users with VPN access & remote access Experience with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), Patching updates/ Application Inventory/ deploying software etc.
• Worked on Dirsync Errors and rectified SMPT Errors in BETA testing.
• Managed inventory and software distribution with SMS2003/ SCCM 2007/ SCCM 2012
• Integrated custom visuals based on business requirements usingPowerBIdesktop.
• Provided maintenance and development of bugs fixes for the existing and newPowerBIreports.
• Installed and configured Enterprise gateway and Personal gateway inPowerbiservice.
• Scheduled Automatic refresh and scheduling refresh inpowerbiservice.
• Providing Technical Support for Post ­Migration Issues/Issues faced by users in the Hybrid Environment.
• Extensive experience in configuring and managing. Troubleshooting physical, Virtual infrastructure in cloud and ON premises on Windows Server, Active directory, Networking Storage, VMware, Hyper-V.
• Planned and implemented transition from Exchange 2013 to Exchange Online for a few hundred users.

Environment: Office Pro Plus 365, Active directory, Azure, Exchange online, Microsoft Exchange server 2007/2012/2013 , VMware ESX, SQL, Microsoft system center,Office Enterprise 365 E1, E3, E4 and E5, Windows Power Shell, ESX/Virtual center, Windows server 2008/2012, TCP/IP, DNS, Group Policy, IMAP, LDAP,Power BI, ADDS, DNS, SCCM, DCHP.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Windows Active Directory Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Manage & support a large client base Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012 and 2016 in a multi domain/forest Active Directory of more than 3500 windows server on 24x7x365 basis in an enterprise infrastructure.
• Primary responsibility for the Active Directory Administration to provide strategic and tactical direction for the Active Directory Services, Identity and Access Management, Roles Based Access Control and Segregation of Duties
• Worked on Active Directory (AD) Domain Consolidation. Service delivery of the Azure Active Directory and the Identity Management team within Microsoft cloud platform (O365 Identity, Azure etc.)
• Designed and implemented a new ROLE BASED admin model with deployment of Quest Roles.
• Configure Tunneling for transmitting over IPv4 network. Creating Organizational Units (OU's) and setting up Group Policy Objects (GPO), and Group Policy Containers (GPC).
• Worked closely with the Office 365 migration team during large client migrations to assist and provide support.
• Worked on Exchange and Teams Configuration in QA and Production.
• Configured Mail flow using Inbound and Outbound Connectors.
• Worked on Mail Encryption and Data Loss Prevention for the mail routing scenarios from internet to exchange and exchange to internet.
• Experience with designing, deploying, managing, and configuring onvirtualdesktopinfrastructure (VDI) environments using VMWare, Horizon, and Citrix solutions.
• Expertise inActiveDirectorydesign and support (GPOs, AD Schema, OUs, LDAP, Sites, Replication.
• Expertise in managing the users and objects using Identity Manager
• Worked and resolved issues on Azure AD relating to Office 365 identity and user permissions.
• Provided business solutions for the small and enterprise level companies using Lync Online and combination of Cloud-based Office 365 and On-premises Exchange servers.
• Configuring a managing DNS, DHCP, web servers and other Active Directory Services.
• Worked and managed Operating System upgrades within the environment from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012.
• Furnished large-scale Active Directory/Exchange 2007/2010, Lync 2010 configuration, migration involving Blackberry Enterprise Server accounts with general administration and oversight.
• Administration, Maintenance and Management of Mailboxes and Troubleshooting Exchange Components (Exchange Database, Outlook Web Access, Offline Address List, Mail Flow, Public Folders, Free/Busy Information).
• Created Site collection, Site, List, Libraries, to support third party vendor perform installation and test third party application to integrate withSharePoint.
• Tests and applied Windows Server, Sql Server, andSharePointservice packs and cumulative updates.
• Managed inventory and software distribution with SMS2003/ SCCM 2007/ SCCM 2012.
• Managed Patching for Workstations with SMS2003/ SCCM 2007/ SCCM 2012.
• Worked, Configured and maintaining VMware View VDI environment.
• Troubleshoot Azure services synchronization with on premise AD and resynchronized using the Azure tools.
• Administration, Troubleshooting and Monitoring of Microsoft Exchange 2013. The setup consists of about 1500 user environment.
• Configured email client with office 365 email addresses, configured mobile phones with email clients, shared calendars and trouble shoot issues related to sharing, experiencedwith Office 365 Pro Plus troubleshooting issues.
• Assisted in troubleshooting Remote Servers, TLS connections, Application Mail Relay, Backup and Restore,Disaster recovery and Patch Management.
• Designed mail flow and requirements for external connectivity including. OWA, ActiveSync and Outlook anywhere.
• Experience in deploying virtual servers using VMwareESX/ESXi platforms.
• Establish high availability using techniques such as continuous replication, recovery storage groups, network load balancing, single copy clustering, and similar techniques.
• Manage recipient objects, including migrating recipients from previous versions of Exchange server to Exchange server 2010/2013.
• Performed administration tasks, including modifying the Active Directory, server and database maintenance, deletion, creating Notes ID's, password resets and client configuration.
• Administered daily tasks both for the on premise and the cloud environment using PowerShell.

Environment: Active Directory, Azure AD Connect, Dir Sync, ADFS, Microsoft Outlook, Share Point, SQL, Disk utility, MDT, USMT,Application Proxy, PowerShell cmdlets.

Confidential, MO

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed various Office365 administrative roles in Exchange Control Panel (ECP), Skype for Business, Password management, Exchange and Security management.
• Maintained documentation for all the deployment related steps of the Microsoft O365/Exchange and Messaging-computing environment.
• Worked on deployment of hybrid Office 365 environment with upgraded Exchange 2013 environment.
• Developed transition plans and managed migration projects across a variety of scenarios including on premise, Hybrid and hosted Exchange, and application upgrades. Including Active Directory Federated Services with Windows Server.
• Configured email client with office 365 email addresses, configured mobile phones with email clients, shared calendars and trouble shoot issues related to sharing, experienced with Office 365 Pro Plus troubleshooting issues.
• Performing Migrations from On-premise to the Cloud based Office 365 Environment and troubleshooting.
• Errors and problems encountered during migrations.
• Management of users, computers, and GPOs in Active Directory.
• Group Policy Object (GPO) creation, troubleshooting, and management
• Managed DHCP severs to set IP scopes as well as to reserve, blacklist and whitelist IP addresses
• Created OU's for new units that were coming in
• Ensured that trust between forest were set correctly to provide availability to users
• Used GPO's to manage permissions, access and authorization on the network
• Maintaining Active Directory infrastructure, create accounts, groups, GPO etc.
• Designed and Implemented network design using TCP/IP.
• Fixed synchronization errors for Active Directory, SMTP and GUID and Immutable ID issues.
• Architected and deployed the technology infrastructure within the environment, including Microsoft Exchange Servers, and Windows Servers Performed mid-migration and post-migration support to the enterprise.
• Utilized Exchange Calculator Sheet for Mailbox Sizing.

Environment: Exchange 2007, 2010, Office 365,ActiveDirectory,OU, Security Groups and Distribution Groups

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed, logged, and tracked complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to network connectivity and/or access issues reported via phone, email or other ticketing system.
• Documented SOPs and user documentation for Incident Management, Account Management, Laptop Training Support, and support.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory, a directory service which contains information of all user accounts and which optimizes the network traffic.
• Monitored the server and analyzed the root cause for the issues and further resolving it by providing the Documentation.
• Experience in implementing and maintaining Intranet-websites. Support experience in Windows administration and Hardware Troubleshooting.
• Configuring different e-mail clients like MS-Outlook.
• Executed modifications to Windows systems to improve efficiency, reliability, performance &System Security.
• Troubleshot issues with the client, user authentication, and mobile devices.
• Evaluated and recommended cost effective new or enhanced hardware and/or software systems, services and network technologies for maximum functionality and infrastructure security based on customer and/or companyneeds. Creating domain trusts for different domain users to gain access to data and resources.
• Defined and documented Backup & Recovery plans, as well as robust disaster recovery strategies.

Environment: Windows 2008, 2008/R2, ADS, DNS, DHCP, Microsoft Outlook, Disk utility, Windows XP\7.