Solutions Engineer Resume
Pennington, NJ
CAREER OBJECTIVE:
Results oriented individual with a multi-faceted skill set demonstrated in various professional settings seeking a professional position that will benefit from a strong work ethic and desire to contribute. To Serve the Organization as a System Administrator / System engineer with dedication and commitment to get better results.
INNOVATIVE:
Consistently analyze and improve technical capabilities related to the field of Information Technology there by increasing the efficiency and competitive with the fast growing Technologies.
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:
Operating SystemsFree BSD, RedHat, Linux Suse, Microsoft Windows 3.0-3.11, 95, 98, ME, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Microsoft DOS, MAC OS. Other Live CD ISO Linux
Software, Other Applications, and monitoring tools
Lotus Notes 6.5, MS Outlook, CA Unicenter Software Delivery And assets management, Active Directory, SMS, Oracle 11i, Siebel 7.8 web client and tools, Todd for oracle and SQL, MS Visio, MS office Suite, MS Project, Clarify, Remedy, and CA Service desk, Trouble ticketing database, Veritas net Backup, Norton, MacAfee, Vmware, MS Virtual PC, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, and dreamweaver. NetIQ App Manager and HP Openview. Compaq Insight manager. IBM Director,PC Anywhere, Terminal Server, Citrix Metaframe, and DSView, Tivoli Storage Manager Express, IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1, HP Open View Storage Area Manager 2.2 and MS SharePoint
Servers
Microsoft Windows 2000 And 2003 Server, SMS Server 1.2, 2.0, and 2003, MySQL Server, IIS, SQL 2000, Citrix, Altiris. MS Exchange 2000, 2003, and 5.5, Domino R6 & 6.5.
Hardware
Intel and AMD (Dell/Compaq/HP/IBM), Laptops, and desktops.
Servers: Compaq, HP Proliant Servers, Dell Poweredge 6400/4400 SUN Enterprise Servers 3500 & E4500, IBM RS600 3464, IBM Netfinity 5500, IBM NAS 100, IBM X360 e- Series server, and
Intel,IBM 345,350,360,M10,M7000, IBM DS4000 series storage hardware
Storage
EMC Symmetrix and IBM Shark for incremental storage needs. Veritas Volume Manager used for managing SAN storage connected to EMC Symmetrix and IBM ESS for Shark based storage.XP 512, Compaq SANWorks and Compaq Storage works 4100 RAID Boxes.
Networking
CISCO 1600, 2500, 3000, 4000, 7000 Routers, LAN/WAN, CSU/DSU, Hubs, Token Ring, Star, Ethernet topologies, and various cabling, TCP/IP, NETBIOS, and IPX.
Development
HTML, C, C++, VB, VB Script, Verity of web designing tools.
Professional Experience:-
Company: Confidential
Duration: January 7th 2008 – Present (Contract)
Location: Pennington, NJ
Playing a role as Solutions Engineer, responsibilities include providing solutions, & designing new infrastructure, and integrating in-house as well as 3rd party application to verity of brokerage workstations in various platforms.
“The Global Wealth Management CAI group deals with designing and implementing complex solutions tightly coupled with existing framework. The project provides challenging opportunities in providing a complete single point solution based on various technologies and products developed integrated in the framework”
- Working with Microsoft windows 2003, IIS 5.0, 6.0, IBM Web Sphere, IBM MQ, ServerLet, Site Minder, VM Ware, CA Unicenter, 3DNS, Netscaler, IDM Lighthouse, and EMC Documentum.
- Planning, Building and configuring UI, UD, Application (WS), UDDI, SM Policy, Database servers.
- Taking active part in product profile meetings to appreciate new applications.
- Responsible for all documentation and promoting releases to QA and Production environments.
- Analyzing and understanding new technologies and applications to integrate in current environment
- Feasibility analysis of design, providing estimates for time resource and infrastructure involved.
- Feasibility analysis of design, providing estimates for time resource and infrastructure involved.
- Integration and administration of NetScalar enterprise class network load balancing solution.
- Architecting new solutions
- Design and implementation of HA SAN clustered storage network using EMC CLARiiON and Emulex technologies supporting high speed real time Microsoft SQL server transactions
- Using CA Uni-center for software delivery.
- Coordinating various teams (development, infrastructure, release management) to plan project, set dates for rollout of solutions.
- Acquired strong knowledge and experience in administration of enterprise class DNS services such as Cisco Network Registrar (CNR) and BigIP 3DNS
- Migrating the existing infrastructure from Siteminder 5X to Siteminder 6x SiteMinder.
- Analyzing and understanding new technologies and applications to integrate in current environment
- Coordinating various teams (development, infrastructure, release management) to plan project, set dates for rollout of solutions.
- Acquired knowledge on EMC Documentum.
- Gained knowledge and experience managing and deploying Identity Management Systems (IDM) – Waveset/SUN Lighthouse IDM including technologies such as SAML, PKI, SSO, Federation, LTPA and WS
- Managing approximately 32 different server types, combined inventory of 182 virtual and 20 physical servers.
Company: Confidential
Duration: September 10th 2007 – December 31th 2008
Location: Princeton, NJ
Played a role as Windows System Administrator. Worked with Newswire and WSJ.com groups to fulfill all infrastructure and support needs of the client. Worked closely with Network, UNIX, and Vmware Administrators.
- Troubleshooting arrays and storage units attached to the servers.
- Deploying builds to Linux and Windows servers for QA Team.
- Building servers using VMware ESX 2.1.0.
- Responding and resolving remedy tickets assigned to my team.
- Patch management using Patch link
- Worked on weekends for Production box issues.
- Configure HBA cards. (SAN: Fibre Channel Configuration, Fabric & LUN Management, Storage Management)
- Configuration of RIB’S.
- Managing and maintaining FTP and IIS web Servers for Development team and for production usage as well.
- Troubleshooting Active Directory replication problems.
- Creating standard process for group policy deployment
- Managing technical support team which is responsible for infrastructure services on Microsoft Windows technology
- Build 6 Production, 11 staging, and 9 Development servers were build. With in a limited time.
- Database backup and restores using Veritas Net Backup.
Company: Confidential
Duration: February 20th 2006 – August 31st 2007(Contract)
Location: Piscataway, NJ
Played a very important role of System Administrator, in a team of three, The IEEE a non-profit organization,is the world\'s leading professional association for the advancement of technology. Through its global membership, the IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics among others.
Roles:
- Managing technical support team which is responsible for infrastructure services on Microsoft Windows technology
- Updating servers And Workstations with latest service packs and Patches via SMS server.
- Support for backup sw: Veritas Backup Exec 8.0/8.6/9.0; Veritas NetBackup 4.5/5; CA ARCserve 2000/9.0
- Data Replication, Snap Shots, Shadow Copy, Veritas Storage Foundations, and Virtualization Technology.
- Worked on CA Unicenter Software Delivery and assets management. Deployed agents and created packages for unattended remote installation.
- Building servers from scratch with Windows 2000 & Windows 2003 servers on HP and IBM servers which includes staging of the servers updating the server from firmware point of view, customizing arrays as per the business needs and then building the servers.
- Supporting the Network based on windows servers in 3 data centers consisting of 2500+ servers.
- Troubleshooting arrays and storage units attached to the servers.
- Work on completing all storage and backup/restore requests
- OS and upgrade service packs, firmware and patches on Servers.
- Provide support for problem management & Change Management of servers and environment/architecture. Using Remedy ticketing system 6.0 versions.
- Installation of Antivirus clients on servers.
- Netbackup agent installation on the servers.
- Configure HBA cards. (SAN: Fibre Channel Configuration, Fabric & LUN Management, Storage Management)
- Configuration of RIB’S.
- Building servers using VMware ESX 2.1.0.
- Building the Web servers and Component Load Balance servers.
- Publishing of websites and COM + Application using Application center.
- Troubleshooting Active Directory replication problems.
- Creating standard process for group policy deployment
- Active Directory users and groups management.
- Supported and Administer two (2) separate \'Two Nodes\' Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server Cluster, with over one (1000) thousand mailboxes.
- Administration and Maintenance of Windows based network of over 700 workstations
- Preparing monthly work status report and updating technology specific documents
- Developed new methods to install and start services remotely on hundreds of clients.
- Extensive technical experience with Exchange Server including Internet Mail Service, SMTP protocol, SendMail, X.400 connectors, RAS connectors and gateways to disparate messaging systems. Integration of Exchange technology has been accomplished in both private and public business organizations. Current skill set includes experience with Exchange 2000/2003 in mixed mode environment with Exchange 5.5 and Active Directory Connector.
- Strong knowledge of windows registries.
- IIS administration for the local internal site.
- Administered Microsoft Exchange server and performed Exchange client installations
- Managing and maintaining FTP Servers for Development team
- Development of Software Deployment Methodologies, Patch Management, Anti-Virus Update Deployment
- Group policy implementation for domain and auditing.
- Developed new ways to make unattended installations for applications that do not
- Support Push Method. Oracle client and Cisco VPN Client are the examples.
- Vb. scripting support for SMS and active directory/desktop support
- Install shield, Wise for windows installer, and Windows installer
- Implementation and administration of DNS, DHCP and WINS Servers
- Review and Resolve software distribution failures and to eliminate the problems
- That causes those failures.
- Creating standard Net-backup policies and taking back-up of the servers, and
- Workstations via Veritas Net Backup, and restoring the data as per the customer
- Request
Company: Confidential
Duration: March 7th 2004 - February 10th 2006 (Contract)
Location: Warren, NJ
Played role of System Administrator, team of two, and worked closely With Windows and Network Administrator to fulfill the Clients Needs. Bohler Engineering is Civil engineers and Architectural firm and the Bohler engineering also affiliated with three other companies Whitestone Associates witch is the Geotechnical and Environmental firm, Control Point is the Surveyors, and the Atlantic traffic is the traffic & design Engineers.
Roles:
- Development of Software Testing Standards, Desktop Automation, All Standards for Software Deployment from Submission of Request to Deployment
- Development of Software Deployment Methodologies, Patch Management, Anti-Virus Update Deployment
- Development and maintain of Automation PC Image Building
- SMS support (in-house and field software deployment program)
- Management of DNS, DHCP and WINS Servers.
- Managed a Windows 2000/2003 Server Farm (Local & Remote)
- Group policy implementation for domain and auditing.
- Administered Microsoft Exchange server and performed Exchange client installations
- Design and perform server and security audits, system backup restore procedures, and other recovery processes in accordance with the company\'s disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
- Configuration of file and Print Servers.
- Provide 24x7 supports for problem management using HP Open View Service Desk 4.0 and HP Open View NNM.
- Change Management of servers and environment/architecture. A part of HP Open View Ticketing system.
- Planning and deployment of the Group policy for the security features of the Company.
- Managing User rights and ID Management.
- Troubleshooting arrays and storage units attached to the servers.
- Troubleshooting OS and upgrade service packs, firmware and patches on Servers.
- Provide support for data center server problems using one stop ticketing system.
- Microsoft Patch Installationthrough Patchlink server 5.0 version.
- Installation of Patchlink cache server.
- Installation of Antivirus clients on servers.
- Installation and Configuration of SMS primary and secondary sites at different locations for Patch management, Software Distribution, Hardware/Software Inventory and Software Metering.
- Support Remote user connectivity issues involving VPN-Checkpoint and Citrix Application Gateway
- Maintained backup using Veritas Net backup, and writing backup polices
EDUCATION:
Associates in business management, Confidential college
MCSE Windows 2000 from Confidential Technology,
Windows 2003 Server Training From Confidential Institute,
Certifications MCSE: Microsoft Certified System Engineer).