SUMMARY:

• Senior Windows and Active Directory expert with over 30 years of IT experience
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, migrating and managing both physical and virtual Active Directory environments
• Team lead and senior engineer on multiple enterprise migration projects
• Strong scripting and development of Group Policies and security within Active Directory
• Experience includes both clustered and non - clustered environments

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2012, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP, NT4, HP 1000, 3000, 9000, Sun Solaris 8, Confidential ESX 4.1, 5.1 MAC OS X Server

Hardware: Dell, HP, EMC, IBM, NETAPP appliances

Programming Languages: PowerShell Version 2, 3, VBScript, VB 4.0, Assembly, C, Pascal, UNIX Shell, and MS-DOS

Databases: SQL2005, SQL 2008, Oracle 10, Oracle 11

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Windows Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported all operational activities Confidential contract in the areas of Active Directory, Exchange 2010, Confidential, and Confidential clustered environments.
• Implemented and maintained the enterprise Group Policy Infrastructure and made all necessary changes to the infrastructure as required supporting both OS and applications.
• Implemented and supported Confidential using internal Microsoft Certificate authority for providing computers, user’s certificates for the use of logon authentication, exchange mail encryption and other applications.
• Managed the Active Directory environment using QUEST tools for all Active Directory users, groups, Organizational Units.
• Part of a team for the implementation of new server for Server 2012 and reviewed procedures to be used for migration.
• Responsible for implementation of INFOBLOX to replace existing multi-forest Microsoft Confidential with is a single Confidential, IP address management service.
• Worked with the implementation of IDS tools for vulnerability management. Also supported the new implementation of IBM Endpoint Manager.
• Supported PVCS system that controlled all development software for the enterprise.
• Participated in COOP exercises and did failover and failback of systems from main site to disaster recovery site.
• Worked with nationwide administrators in accomplishing their projects goals and made recommendation to modify the infrastructure. Assisted the inter-region administrators in resolving their issues with both physical and Virtual servers.
• Supported implementation of HP SM9 ticket and Change Management system.

Confidential

SME Active Directory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported all operational activities for the BLS contract in the areas of Active Directory, Exchange 2007, end-user issues.
• Designed and implemented the monitoring of the enterprise using Confidential Group Policy Administrator, Application Manager, and Group Policy Resource Administrator.
• Responsible for resolving Tier 4 level design and operational issues of AD including the creation improvements of the Group Policies for AD, Exchange and all applications.
• Designed and implemented internal Microsoft Certificate authority for providing computers, user’s certificates for the use of logon authentication, exchange mail encryption and other applications.
• Worked with regional technicians in accomplishing their projects goals and made recommendation to modify the infrastructure.
• Tasks included performance monitoring, results analysis and enhancement, root cause determination, as well as process automation through the use of various scripting methods and available technologies.
• Assisted the inter-region administrators in resolving their issues with both physical and Virtual servers.
• Worked with the local support server services, network, and firewall teams in resolving enterprise level issues. Created necessary groups in Active Directory to provide security at multiple levels.
• Managed the Active Directory environment using Confidential tools Directory Resource Administrator and Group Policy Administrator, AppManager.

Confidential

Active Directory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and coordinated projects for servers and workstations throughout the Confidential offices creating the infrastructure.
• Supported the resolution of Tier 4 level issues in a complex multi-vendor environment.
• Worked with regional technicians in accomplishing their projects goals and made recommendation to modify the infrastructure.
• Tasks included performance monitoring, results analysis and enhancement, root cause determination, as well as process automation through the use of various scripting methods and available technologies.
• Part of the On-Call rotation to handle Enterprise level issues if they arose.
• Assisted with the inter-region administrators in resolving their issues with both physical and Virtual servers.
• Worked with the local support server services, network, and firewall teams in resolving enterprise level issues.
• Created necessary groups in Active Directory to provide security at multiple levels.
• Managed the Active Directory environment using Confidential tools Directory Resource Administrator and Security Manager to generate reports for resolving issues.

Confidential

Subject Matter Expert Active Directory

Responsibilities:

• Identified, planned and coordinated the cost-effective and timely acquisition of necessary hardware and software components, software licenses, purchase authorizations, source selection and sole-source justification as required to meet the needs of the WarFighters in multiple theaters.
• Contributed technical input to the modification of the Performance Work Statement (PWS) to meet the 17 forests to single forest consolidation requirements for 1.2 million user environment Confidential Operations Security Center, Confidential -Theater Network Operations and Security Center, 9th Signal Command, G3, G5 and G7 of the Army.
• Reviewed technical documents and designs submissions by contractors as required by PWS and responsible for the review of the Design Review documents in areas of GPO, Site and Replication designs.
• Maintained and made necessary changes to the Identity Management infrastructure with consultation of the various commands.
• Upgraded multiple servers to Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 and implemented security requirements of the Army.
• Performed all Active Directory troubleshooting and resolved daily/weekly issues in the environment.
• Updated Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert (IAVA) patches for servers to meet Federal Information Security Management (FISMA) requirements. Provided system security plans, security categorization, business impact analysis and security assessment reports.
• Generated testing and user acceptance requirements.
• Worked with Defense Information Systems Agency, MITRE for the new Forefront Identity Manager system and the research forest for the implementation of a central Army Exchange forest.
• Implemented a Secure cloud in a lab environment.
• Participated in weekly In-Progress Review for existing contracts of the Army and provided specific input to certain projects.

Confidential

System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Supported all operations activities for the TSA contract in the areas of Active Directory and Exchange 2003.
• Assisted the help desk in resolving AD/Exchange problems.
• Implemented Microsoft patches as required on server as they were tested and released.
• Worked with Engineering in the migration from Symantec SAV10 to SEP 11. Assisted in the creation of policies and exclusion for specific servers.
• Responsible for resolving all Level 4 issues regarding Active Directory, Confidential, Infrastructure, Application servers.
• Performed all troubleshooting in Active Directory and made modification to the existing infrastructure to improve site replication, GPO consolidation.
• Worked with project managers and architect solutions on proposal and provide all system drawings, technical content and project plan for the proposal.
• Implemented approved proposal by the customer to completion and generate all turnover documentations to customer’s satisfaction.
• Act as a mentor to Junior/new engineers to accomplish their tasks.
• Work closely with managers to resolve overall project issues.
• Assisted in the creation of migration planning from NT to Windows 2000/2003 and migrating from multiple forests to a single forest.

Confidential

Staff Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, upgrade and implementation of Active Directory from Windows and from .
• Visited each Housing and Urban Development site and performed all upgrades.
• Performed validation of the upgrades and resolved all upgrade issues in GPO, site replication and forest wide issues.
• Assisted the Exchange 2003 team in the implementation of conversion from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2003.
• Assisted the implementation of Microsoft Live Meeting and SharePoint.
• Generated and implemented all group policies required for the project.
• Worked closely with the desktop team in the rollout of Office 2003/Outlook 2003.
• Created group policies required for the implementation.
• Built identical server environment of the main site and created the Disaster Recovery site. Validated the failover of the main site.
• Designed and implemented smart card and the process required to conform to Confidential executive directive. Also preparing environment for the implementation of Microsoft Identity management.
• Served as an expert to management for all types of hardware analysis.
• Performed functional and performance analysis.
• Develop procedures for building server and performing preventative maintenance for all types of servers. Responsible for auditing all servers build in the enterprise when problem arise that local staff is unable to solve.
• Create test environment using both Confidential and Microsoft’s Virtual server technologies. The environment includes several workstations, servers and Windows 2003 Domain Controllers with all services.

Confidential

Site Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supported all activity as a site manager for 75 people in defining tasks, setting up objectives for each areas of responsibility and overseeing program requirements for the site.
• Monitored budgets, schedules of each projects and met with program manager regularly.

Confidential

Active Directory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project leader for Netware 3.X to Windows 2000 Server migration feasibility study.
• Supervised junior engineers and all aspects of migration including setup, testing, and validation.
• Planned, designed, and implemented an Active Directory infrastructure for a large Windows 2000/2003 Server enterprise environment.
• Design issues included domain structure, Confidential infrastructure, WINS infrastructure, Organizational Unit design, and Site configuration.
• Responsible for Group Policy design and implementation.
• Deployed Domain Controllers, File Server, Backup Servers required for all field sites for the Housing and Urban Development.
• Managed a network of 120 Sun Solaris 8 systems ranging from small to medium servers.
• Performed daily backup of the systems using NetBackup and was part of the disaster recovery team.

Confidential

Project leader

Responsibilities:

• Supervised junior engineers and all aspects of migration including setup, testing, and validation.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Senior engineer for a worldwide installation of communications and file servers for the Confidential involving experience with the latest NetWare, Microsoft and Citrix Winframe technologies.
• Identified problem areas and provided new methods in streamlining current implementation procedures.
• Re-evaluated client’s Network infrastructure and recommended improvements to meet the need of a growing network.
• Designed implemented recommended necessary changes and provided support after implementation. Performed upgrades from NT 4.0 and WIN 95/98 to Windows 2000.
• Designed system policies using Zenworks for Novell, DOS, WIN95/98 and NT workstation clients. The restrictions ranged from implementing basic company LOGOS, NAL to full implementation of a single application that the user was able to run upon logging to the network. In some cases the clients implemented NDS for NT to include centralized user managements from the Novell Server.
• Supported clients in solving messaging issues in both the server and the workstation levels using Microsoft Exchange and GroupWise in an enterprise environment.

Confidential

Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible as a hardware project manager for implementation of customized client-server medical application software under Windows NT 4.0.
• Resolved all hardware/software issues on the project.
• Tracked budget, schedule in all procurement activities related to the project.
• Supervised all aspect of a 1200 user LAN/WAN NT, Novell 3.x, 4.x network.
• Design new Novell 4.1, 4.11 and NT 4.0 networks for new projects.
• Setup, installed and supported users on Novell and NT workstations.
• Supervised contractors for cabling, power distribution design for newly acquired companies by the corporation.
• Maintained routers, switches, hubs and verifying T1, ISDN connections to each of the sites.

Confidential

Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining and administering 1000 user token ring network.
• As a team of system engineers, performed 700 user rollout for Windows 95, NT workstation.
• Improved existing server’s performance by re-designing the network through performance analysis.
• Added new Windows NT LAN system, setup Windows NT server, Confidential server, and Confidential server, Microsoft IIS server, worked with local ISP to setup connectivity to the internet and setup Firewall protection.