TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Windows Administration: Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012 R2 environments, including implementation and support of multi - sites Active Directory and multi-tenancy.

UNIX Admin: Skilled in Debian 4 and Cent OS.

Virtualization: Qualified/Certified in administration vSphere 6.0, Site Recovery Manager, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, ThingApp; Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, XenServer 4.1 &5, Win2012R2 Hyper-V.

Exchange: Competent with troubleshooting, migration and implementation of Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013 in enterprise environment, with multiple Administrative Groups and Information Stores/Public Folder Stores.

Disaster Recovery: Experienced in Site Recovery Manager, vSphere 5.1, Double-Take 7.3, AWS, Confidential Azure Site Recovery.

Security: Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security and Anti-virus, McAfee IPS, Symantec Anti-virus, WSUS, LandGuard 2012.

Data Bases: SQL Server 2008/2012/2014

Database Management Systems: Data Constraints and Consistency, Hierarchical and Relational Models, Querying.

Global Access: Sophos UTM 9, ISA 2006, Proxy Servers, FTP Servers, VPN concentrators/appliances.

Network Management: Dell OpenManage, MOM, SMS, Digital Remote Access Cards (DRACs), HP Integrated Lights Out (ILO cards).

Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX, NetBIOS, DNS, FTP, TFTP, SFTP, HTTPS, HHTP, Telnet.

Scripting: C, C++, C#, ASP.NET, AJAX.

Server: Confidential fail-over and multi node clusters

Hardware: Experienced in maintenance, troubleshooting and part replacement in Dell PowerEdge series and HP Proliant ML/DL series, blades.

Network: Cisco, Vyatta, Astaro Routers, Xirrus access points, switches, FC, ISDN, ADSL/SDSL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

AWS Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Developed Backup and Archiving, Disaster Recovery in AWS
• Assigned Roles and Policies to Users, Security Groups by using Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Provided architecture guidance and proof of concept for selected Business Units, assessing migration feasibility and deployment strategy based on AWS Architecture best practices
• Evaluate technologies, solutions and applications to identify cost saving opportunities
• Investigating AWS capabilities (security - IAM / ACL / Trusted adviser, VPC, Cloud Formation, Cloud Front, EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, SQS, SNS, Elastic ache, Lambda, IoT, Code Deploy, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Redshift & ECS)
• Involved in designing and deploying applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling
• Configured the Cloud Trails logs for security audit using the Cloud Watch with automated alerts to emails
• Created S3 backups using versioning enable and moved objects to Amazon Glacier for archiving purpose
• Created users and groups using IAM and assigned the individuals to the each group based on their roles
• Create technical architecture diagrams and reference models to document architectural decisions
• Developed scripts for maintaining servers running in Amazon Web Services (AWS). These scripts facilitated the backup, shutdown, startup, and email notification of events using the SNS, SQS and SWF
• Involved in designing and developing Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, and EMR
• Implemented NACL, Security groups for Inbound/Outbound access using the ELB and VPC peering
• AWS data backup (snapshot, AMI creation) and DR techniques, along with data-at-rest security within AWS

Confidential

Supervisor - Azure Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Workshop assessment to measure customer infrastructure readiness for Azure cloud migration
• Define and deliver on-site technical engagements with partners and customers. Participating in pre-sales on-site visits, understanding customer security and compliance requirements, delivering custom solution engagements.
• Building enterprise strategy for Azure cloud adoption to meet new requirements: AAD DC, ADFS, IM RMS, SSO and Azure Remote App.
• Supervising the team of five members, scheduling of staff and ensuring that team members provide support coverage consistent with meeting project expectations
• Responsible for planning and execution of various projects and release testing simultaneously
• Work closely with colleagues, vendors, and other stakeholders to identify and maximize opportunities to improve the delivery of reliable applications that meet business requirements without defects
• Setting up Office 365 hybrid infrastructure, assisting with mailbox migration
• Assisting customers with best practice design and implementation of vSphere 6.x stratagem or SCVMM 2012R2, as well as performing upgrade to the latest version, along with migration of GuestOS from vSpehre to Hyper-V
• Planning and Implementing Failover Confidential Clustering along with Highly Available Roles
• Planning and Implementing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solution; analysis test cases to determine weak and/or untested areas and initiate measures to expand test coverage to address
• Installing, upgrading and migrating Exchange environment
• Setting up Remote Desktop farm and publish business application
• Member of team delivering IT operations of production infrastructure via physical or virtual whose growth nearly tripled during tenure

Confidential

Primier Field Engineer - Public - Private Cloud

Responsibilities:

• Superior problem solving and troubleshooting skills at the System Engineer level
• Installation, configuration and resolving the customer issues related to SVMM 2008, 2012 R2 across the globe
• Manage patching and patch compliance using SCVMM2012
• Creating and configuring the Private Cloud with App controller and Windows Azure Pack / Azure Stack
• Configure and manage Hyper V and Cluster using SCVMM Server
• Performed OS Migration and Upgrade assistance from vSphere to SCVMM, along with capacity planning and performance optimization
• Architecture design of scale out and decupling between on premises and Azure cloud infrastructure
• Delegation and Self Service, automation with PowerShell

Confidential, NJ

Lead Strategy Consultant - Enterprise Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Optimizes a Cloud computing environment by strategic workload placement and allocation for lower risk and volatility.
• Extending BGP networking to the AWS cloud by implementing Sophos Remote Ethernet Device to multiple region.
• Creating custom images in AWS to maximizes and enhances an extensible and scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Automation of server migration to AWS via Double Take Move. Confidential server cluster resilience, such as SQL Denali with multi - region nodes placement.
• Coordinated the planning and executing of large-scale AWS disaster recovery exercises, producing results that demonstrated business-critical systems can be recovered within established timeframes in the event of a real disaster.
• Achieved high level of productivity by simultaneously coordinating disaster recovery unit tests, planning major integrated tests and leading process-development projects.
• Custodian and architect of global IT standards for Regional Datacenters.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in datacenter technologies including virtual networking, storage and access control.
• Designs proposals and solutions for core IT services.
• Analyze which client applications can be optimized in a Cloud Computing environment.
• Deliver Cloud Readiness Assessment /Design based on sound business and technical requirements.
• Perform Virtualization Assessment / Strategy and Design for customers.
• Lead Infrastructure technology staff responsible for functional & technical end user services.
• Validates systems architecture designs for vSphere 5.x and Hyper-V 2012 R2.
• SME in Confidential technologies including Windows Server 2012 and System Center.
• Lead Cloud Architect. Interact with officers, employees, members and vendors.
• Provide project deliverables that are compliant with delivery methodology.

Confidential, New York, NYS

Senior Consultant Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead of a team responsible for administering and supporting vSphere 4.1/5.0 farm with 40 ESX/ESXi hosts and 750 GuestOS.
• Interact directly with clients to map virtualization migration plans and support a cloud based multitenant infrastructure.
• Designed and implemented the data migration process for sensitive data (customer, account, money market, loans, and securities) as a part of vSphere SRM disaster plan and Vision Solution Availability failover profiles.
• Acted as the senior liaison between IT, Sales and Professional Services. Managed a Project Management system to better align existing client engagements
• Maintain high availability for services including GeoCluster for multi regions locations.
• Provide Project oversight in conjunction with the PMO, to insure on-time delivery of Virtual Desktop Projects with cross platform such as VmWare VDI and Citrix VDI In A Box.
• Managing Citrix Farm version 6.5.
• SAN administrator EMC CLARiiON CX4-120C; HP P4000 Multi Camp/Site cluster.
• Configured and maintained SQL2008/2012 cluster. Active/Active and Always ON.
• Supported Confidential Exchange 2010 server.
• Providing support to the development team, by helping troubleshoot JAVA, APACHE, ASP.NET.
• Provide 24x7 on-call systems support.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked directly with senior business users to build out a VMware ESX/EXxi environment from scratch, including implementing SAN P4000, Cisco Switches and VLANs.
• Optimized server environment and engaged business user directly to build out custom solutions for Confidential .
• Supporting Hyper-V, XenServer 5.5 and vSphere 4.1, P2V, V2V, VCB, VDR, SRM.
• SAN administration: LeftHand, K2, StarWindSoftware, OpenFiler, Nexenta and OpenFiler.
• Working knowledge with HP, Dell servers.
• Setting/Troubleshooting windows servers 2003, 2008R2 farm.
• Sql 2005/2008 Maintaining Databases/SQL Cluster.
• Software deployment via Altiris Deployment Management, creating .bat files, PowerShell v.2.
• Managing IIS 7.5 Intranet/FTP sites.
• Troubleshooting Cisco networking, creating new Vlans.
• Setting up Antivirus Protection such as: McAfee Epo Orchestrator and IPS.
• Improving server reliability.
• Supporting Mac G4/G5 OS 10.4 - 10.5; Bind to AD; Apple Remote Desktop.
• Exchange 2007 support / Transaction to Exchange 2010.
• Desktop support, network connectivity and printer troubleshooting.

Confidential, Irvington, NY

SysOps Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for client project delivery for new virtualization/cloud projects, migrations and administering infrastructures consisting of Windows 2003 Active Directory Farm of over 35 Servers; Windows XP/Vista over 600 workstations.
• Engage clients to map out strategies for infrastructure implementation.
• Supported clients for various financial applications via telephone, email and ticketing systems.
• Supporting Mac, Symantec End Point Protection 11.0
• Server Consolidation P2V. VmWare ESX/ESXi and XenServer 5.0
• Administered back-up/recovery solution utilizing using VCB with Veeam and Acronis True.
• Image Echo Server, Symantec Backup Exec.
• Monitored and supported internal network security, including adding/deleting users and shared permissions using active directory.
• Provided Confidential Exchange 2003/2007 support.
• Provided support to internal users and External clients on all hardware and software issues.
• Responsible for repairing and testing desktops. Laptops for clients.
• Exceptional communication skills; interfaces effectively with upper management, vendors, staff, peers and users.
• Genuine commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.

Confidential, New York

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administers and supports multi-domain & multi-platform environment with locations across the five boroughs.
• Responsible for full integration of Windows, Mac OS, Lotus Notes, Novell, Debian, and Ubuntu Servers.
• Administers messaging system consisting of Lotus Notes 8 and Exchange 2007.
• Serves as a level 3 support for all network/server issues.
• Supervises two junior system administrators/help desk technicians.
• Trains and designs training for users and junior staff.
• Designed and conducted full virtualization of existing infrastructure.
• Conveyed full P2V (physical to virtual) and V2V (virtual to virtual) of Win2k3 enterprise AD.
• SQL servers and Domino servers to XenServer and VMware ESX servers.
• Extensively familiar with hot/cold server conversions.
• Experienced with virtualization concepts of DR, HA, and DRS including VMotion, Storage VMotion, and VCB backup.
• Designed and administers multi-layer security privileges across all network resources.
• Fluent in scripting and performing administrative tasks using PowerShell.
• Migrated Windows 2000 infrastructure to Windows 2003.
• Implements and administers multiple Site to Site (failover and load balancing) VPN connections with branch offices and outside business partners.
• Implements and enhances firewalls policies.
• Administers mobile computing environment, RADIUS and VPN services.
• Oversees/maintains system tape backups and employs disaster recovery plan.
• Purchases software licensing, support agreements and tracks licensing compliance.