Sr. Systems Administrator Resume
Dallas, TX
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Versatile systems technician with 17 years of experience in a wide scope of IT technologies including Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016, Active Directory, Exchange, Citrix, VMWare, and enterprise level production environments.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Projects Engineer with focus on Security & Active Directory
Responsibilities:
- Confidential Project support for Infra - Security team
- Confidential resource for Infra-Security related initiatives, vul remediation’s, and PCI/PII compliance measures
- AD SME for project support
- Upgrade forest/domain schema, create new sites/links for new Data Center coming online
- Analyze & remediate AD health for sysvol, replication, group policies, latency
- Deploy Ivanti Windows patch solution
- Deploy Centrify PAM infrastructure, AD delegation, GPO’s
- Support for migration of legacy applications to updated standards for PCI, including TLS 1.0 upgrades
- Middleware support for IIS, migrating 2003 web servers to 2012/2016
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Sr. Systems Administrator
Responsibilities:
- AD SME for project and operations support
- Support and maintain Windows infrastructure
- Troubleshoot AD DS, replication/sysvol issues
- Build and maintain gpo’s for day to day ops and for compliance and regulatory standards
- Server support 2008/2012R2
- Support for internal Microsoft PKI
- Work with app teams to deploy/troubleshoot issues
- NIST/CIS remediation on 2012 R2 domain controllers
- Automation of tasks via PowerShell
- Support after hours critical issues
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Active Directory Solutions Engineer
Responsibilities:
- AD 2008R2 to 2012R2 upgrade
- Consolidation of OU structure, Group Policies
- Remediation of audit findings for PCI and PII compliance
- Discovery, Plan, and Implementation of AD to align to best practices, availability, and performance
- Consolidate security groups and remediate audit issues with access permissions to resources
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Sr. Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Exchange 2007 to 2010 migration, Quest Migration Mgr
- Active Directory 2003 to 2012 Forest/Domain upgrade & consolidation
- Extend schema, demote 2003 dc’s, promote 2012R2 core & full dc’s, configure dns on dc’s, consolidate OU structure
- Troubleshoot delegation issues, mailbox permissions, linked user mailboxes
- Manage all aspects of user migration, planning, scheduling, migration, and post-migration
- Consolidate GPO’s and deprecated legacy polices & configurations
- Deploy 2012R2 Msft Certificate Authority, root and subordinate
- Deploy & mange certificates for enterprise, EFS, credit card data encryption, moving off self-signed to pki
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Active Directory 2003 to 2008R2 Upgrade
- Exchange 2003 Decommission
- Build/deploy domain controllers, decommission existing 2003 domain controllers, seize/transfer fsmo roles, upgrade schema ffl and dfl
- Migrate RUS, offline address books, public folder backlinks to 2007, decommission legacy 2003 administrative group, adsi remove backlinks that gracefully could not be deleted
- Remove legacy routing connectors and groups
- Add internal PKI deployed msft certificate authority
- Create 2008R2 runbook and handover documentation for IT staff
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Sr. Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Project and operations support for Windows/VMWare/Citrix teams
- Build and deploy windows 2008 and 2012 servers for infrastructure and support roles for enterprise level physical and virtual
- Create custom solutions for internal/external applications ranging from directory integration; certificates, sso, etc…create custom lds instances to support apps.
- Migrate applications from various domains to single forest/domain
- Work on multiple projects and support existing environment across the existing 2003 and 2008 servers
- VMWare ESX 5.1, ESX 5.5, vCenter 5.1, 5.5 - deploy hosts, vm’s, templates, troubleshoot esx/guest issues.
- VMWare Horizon (View) VDI deployment - deployed 1000 user Pool running Windows 7 for call center in Manila.
- Configure and deploy group policies
- Active Directory, project and operational support - consolidation, migration, hygiene
- Consolidate/remediate DNS AD integrated
- Extensive scripting via vbs and powershell to automate migration tasks, mass changes/updates to AD, daily operational items.
Confidential, Dallas, TX
Sr. Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Active Directory forest to forest migration
- Migration of 1,200 users & mailboxes to new domain
- Quest Migration Manager 8.9 utilized to migrate users, mailboxes, & pc’s
- Configure and deploy group policies
- Support build out of Lync 2010 Frontend servers, activate users and apply policies
- Create and maintain security groups, service accounts.
- Mailbox maintenance Exchange 2010 for new user mailboxes
- Build and deploy custom scripts to manage AD/Exchange uses, groups, and mailboxes
