PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• 21 years of successful professional experience within the IT Operation’s field ranging from system support to the Architecting, design, Engineering, implementation, and administration of IT Infrastructure in a small and large, commercial and government environment.
• 15 years superior record of delivering multiple projects compliance with SLA’s and management style excellent written and communication skills.
• 12 years Team lead and Management experience with 15 - -5 system engineers /Administrators on team
• Initiated, planned, closed and maintained several project successfully within IT infrastructure
• Cloud Infrastructure Deployment on AWS and Azure
• Cloud migration and strategy planning
• AWS Hybrid Cloud deployment experience and support
• Datacenter creation and migration experience
• Systems and Application migration experience.
• Office 365Solution Architect with successful Mail migration to O365 mail for over 4000 users
• Engineering Team lead for O365 migration deployment to Online Tenant
• Implementing and Supporting Active Directory Federation Service(ADFS) 2.0 /3.0 with SS0 EIDM
• Microsoft Active Directory designing and organization. AD 2003/2008/2012 R2
• Active Directory Group Policy (GPO) & P (GPP) Implementation and Management
• Implementing, Deployment and administration of Microsoft Exchange server 2000/2003/2007
• Red Hat Linux Administration RHEL7
• Enterprise Resiliency design and implementation experience
• Server Virtualization on Hyper-V and VMware 4.x -5.5 - VSphere Certified (VCP-DCV4)
• ESXi 4.1- 6.0 host Server Configuration and management
• Extensive experience with Dell & HP blade chassis
• McAfee Anti-virus and E-policy experience and
• Extensive Data Backup Administration with Commvault Galaxy Systems
• Enterprise Storage Architect, creating and managing storage for virtualized environment
• Extensive experience Confidential Compellent and EqualLogic SAN Storage. ISCSI, FC management
• Experience in evaluating systems processes, identifying bottlenecks and recommending solutions
• Resourceful and research oriented in completing projects
• Goal-oriented and dynamic professional with extensive experience delivering solutions focusing on cost savings, growth, and customer satisfaction.
• Skilled at analyzing business processes and procedures and recommending solutions to improve results and operational effectiveness.
• Prepare and keep repository of project documentation, and deliver customer project binder after completion.
• Evaluated and initiated solutions to improve System performance and user practices reducing cost and improving Client and customer satisfaction.
• Planned, designed, and developed solution on assigned projects, meeting all required SLA’s .
• Experienced working with vendors and professional support Team,
• Good team member / builder and motivator.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Snr Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure review and recommendation design for SaaS and PaaS migration.
• Created migration roadmaps for specific clients application and infrastructure migration to cloud
• Federating access to client cloud based and external applications using ADFS 2.0 /3.0
• SSO for AWS based Cloud applications
• Identity Management for Application endpoints using SAML / ADFS
• Creating Relying Party Trust, manually via script and with XML Metadata
• ADFS 2.0 farm upgrade to 3.0 and migrating over 55 Relying parties
• Creation of application relying parties and claims customization.
• NetScaler VPX HA administration
• Optimal IdM VIS Server management

Confidential

Infrastructure Associate Manager

Responsibilities:

• Multi-tier Infrastructure environment design from DEV to PROD to support deployment and migration of systems and applications on Linux RHEL 7 and windows
• Oracle RAC & Grid HA design and deployment
• Systems integration for DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Sellenium and Artifactory
• Apache web Server installation and configuration
• ASM Disk creation with Storage LUM mapping using multipath
• IBM MQ Explorer Installation and Configure
• System Architecture and Validation.

Confidential

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Principal member in AWS platform Engineering Architect for domain infrastructure migration.
• On-Premises Hybrid Cloud implementation and Administration
• Migration of over 400 VMware Servers to EC2 instance
• Administering Azure Active Directory, Azure AD-Connect
• Azure Storage by Microsoft
• Management of AWS services - including but not limited to: VPC, IAM, Redshift, ELB, EBS, EC2, S3
• Design state-of-the-art technical solutions on AWS that address customer’s requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Create and manage volumes and snapshots
• Proficient in the use of Cloud watch and Cloud trail services
• NetScaler VPX for ADC management
• Configure, manage and administer VPC ensuring that the various networks are configured as secured as possible using ACLs, Security groups etc.
• Use of IAM to manage users, groups, roles, policies etc.
• Build and maintain custom deployment and provisioning service for various Windows systems
• Identifying appropriate use of AWS operation best practices
• Create and manage S3 buckets using ACLs and security policies
• Amazon S3storage Life-Cycle management
• Enterprise Architect and Administration for VMware ESXi host
• Deployment and management of AD DS, Domain Controllers, DNS, ADFS farms.
• PKI and services management,
• Enterprise SAN Storage Administration on Confidential Compellent and EqualLogic Storage
• Server Security Configuration and Policy enforcement (STIG)
• Active Directory and group policy Management on windows
• Windows Azure AD Management, Exchange on line EOL, MSOL Services.
• AWS EC2 Server build, AWS Route 53, Security group Administration
• Federated Directory synchronization using AD-Connect(AAD)
• DNS Administration and management
• Microsoft Services management
• Lead Migration Engineer for O365 Mail migration
• Microsoft O365 Administrator

Active Directory Consultant.

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Responsibilities:

• Consolidation of 300 batch files to group policy ps
• Identified relevant and non-relevant batch files
• Meet with enterprise stake holders for
• Implemented Group policy ps to execute and manage enterprise shared resources.
• Created process documentation and to onsite and IT management staff

Senior windows System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Daily Infrastructure support of Windows Servers system
• Migration of entire datacenter to new office location task involved the planning and successfully moving entire IT infrastructure to a new office building 10 miles away from old office with zero production impact.
• HSPD2 PKI enterprise implementation with team members
• Build, deployment and Administration of Microsoft Configuration Manager R2 server for Application / Windows Application packaging and deployment, Enterprise system Patches/ System inventory/ Software license inventory
• Upgrade and Migration from SCCM 2007 R2 to SCCM 2012
• Administration Solarwind Patch Manager third party application patching (Mozilla, Java, Adobe and Firefox)
• Active Directory 2008 Management,
• Server Virtualization and Builds, VMware
• NetApp ONTAP data storage management (Junior Level)

Confidential

Snr. Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementing and Deploying System Configuration Center Manager (SCCM 2007)
• Supporting server uptime, Hot fixes, patches, maintenance reboots, updates and upgrades
• Providing front end user support and backend server and systems support to Confidential employees.
• Hardware and application support
• Providing Active Directory and file Server support.
• Administration McAfee E-policy Anti-virus Server
• Currently involved in Active Directory upgrade from
• Installed and deployed Symantec Ghost Server
• Working on current Projects such as WSUS deployment
• Reconfigured McAfee E-policy cluster Server for better hardware administration
• Developed documentation for Server builds and hardening prior to deployment on windows platform specific to customer site.
• Daily Tier 1 to 3 support using NCEP Helpdesk ticketing system
• Daily management of User objects in Active Directory
• Thunderbird mail client support

Confidential

Server Operations Team Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting server uptime, Hot fixes, patches, maintenance reboots, updates and upgrades
• Effectively managing resources within the infrastructure to provide 24/7 client system support.
• Daily user application and backend support using RDP and Remote access support
• Providing Active Directory and file Server support to 12,000.00 user across eight different domains
• Standardizing Server builds and hardening prior to deployment on windows 2003, 2003 R2, 2008 R2) & (x64) and 2008 R2
• Developed and maintained IT procedural documentation to facilitate change management standards.
• Daily Tier 3 support using Service Desk ticketing system
• Daily management of User objects in Active Directory
• Experience in HP Blade and Confidential hardware including fault diagnosis and hardware replacement
• Assisted in developing and administering technology consistent with the organization's strategic goals and business plans.
• Administration Enterprise Clustered Exchange 2003 and 2007
• Monitor network resources using SCOM, M.O.M
• HP Blade Server and Chassis Support
• Windows File Cluster Management
• Server Build and Installation
• System Documentation and Analysis
• Server Recovery
• Server Build Image Consolidation
• File Server Migration
• Printer Cluster Support
• Infrastructure Support

MS Exchange Migration Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Act as a technical lead during HUD's email migration project from Lotus Domino/Notes to Microsoft Exchange 2003 environment using Binary Tree’s CMT Universal migration software in 8 domain environment of 12,000 users
• Research, test and recommend migration software for migration project.
• Wrote internal documentation for migration software and trained technicians on migration procedures.
• Pre-migration preparation of user accounts, decrypting user data, user account provisioning and user notification.
• Migration of user's primary and archived mail data. Migration consisted of 12,000 user accounts and 1700 generic mail accounts.
• Provide post-migration on-site end user support and .
• Acted as technical lead during migration of generic mail accounts.
• Troubleshoot corrupted Lotus Notes mailboxes in order to successfully migrate to Exchange.
• Active Directory and user account administration in an Exchange 2003 environment which includes user mailbox creation, mailbox deletion, and troubleshooting SMTP alias issues.
• Post migration user support for Outlook client support.
• Trained Lockheed team in Exchange Server and outlook client support.