OBJECTIVE:

A challenging position as an Infrastructure Systems Engineer/Manager

SUMMARY:

• An accomplished and self - motivated Information Technology Professional with extensive Systems Administration and Management experience, who leverages strong interpersonal and technical skills to achieve business objectives
• Develop front end conceptual design leading to detailed SQL DB engineering for a large and complex system and working with the vendor, client and the project team.
• Creating Process, Standards and documentation development.
• Team management and team building
• Design and build high-availability systems and client/Web/Server systems.
• Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Technical Leadership and Project Management
• Budget management
• Vendor management
• Middleware
• Disaster Recovery planning, management and implementation
• Systems performance tuning and monitoring
• Implementing the Design and deliverables.
• Expert in Microsoft Infrastructure Technologies and Cloud computing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Windows Server, NT3.5 to 2012 R2 core and GUI

Hyper-V Server,, 2008 to 2012 R2

Windows Client, Win7, 8.0, 8.1, Vista, XP, on the HW or VM for remote users

Windows Storage Server 2003 to 2012

Windows Server & HW (Cisco) 2003 to 2012

Windows Server Terminal Services

All version and Citrix

Storage Pools, Spaces, Scale-outWindows Server 2012 & R2

RDMA and Cluster Shared Volumes in HA mode + SMB 3.02

Windows Server, 2012 & R2

Cisco IOS 12.x or higher & ASA 8.6

Barracuda, Wireshark and Networkview

MS Active Directory 2000 up to 2012

MS Group Policy 2003 up to 2012

IAS, CA, eTrust, Node32 and TrendMicro OfficeScan Enterprise

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Sized, Ordered the Equipment and Installed the Virtualization Infrastructure.
• Installed new servers and Active Directory Infrastructure and populate it in Virtual Servers.
• Designed Sized and installed File Storage and other Virtual machines.
• Moved the file system to new file server.
• Made all the workstations a domain member and transferred the old pier to pier profiles data to new user profiles.
• Setting up backup systems to back up the data and virtual machines.
• Adding Email Alerting and Reporting services for server s status and backups.
• Adding one way Email system to serve reporting and Alerting systems.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Sized, Ordered the Equipment and Installed the Virtualization Infrastructure.
• Updating Servers and Active Directory Forest and Domain to upper functional levels.
• Added Domain Controllers and Antivirus servers.
• Adding new file services and Storage for redundant security and performance.
• Provisions for reimaging the Workstations and Servers in short notice.
• New Backup systems using MS DPM 2012 and new storage systems.
• Added Email Alerting and Reporting services for server s status and backups.
• Added one way Email system to serve reporting and Alerting systems.

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Providing Design, Sizing and HW/SW order for installation of redundant SQL DB systems, and Network security enhancement.
• SSL VPN services installation and configuration.
• Expanding Domain Controllers by adding a GC DC.
• Implementing Virtual Infrastructure.
• Creating Storage for File Services and backups using iSCSI.
• Installed and configured backup server.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure System Engineering Consulting.
• Design for Modular Data Center in a Commercial Container
• Architecture / Engineering Design and Material resistance / selections.
• HVAC Engineering & Design review.
• Computer (Servers), Networking Equipment, Computer Room Component Selections for predetermined Capacity.
• Pricing and Finished product price Calculation.
• Production Resource selection.
• Contract Administration and Supervision.

Confidential

Manager Information Systems (Infrastructure services)

Responsibilities:

• Managed concurrent multi projects, technical team and budget of multi million dollars.
• Provide leadership, direction, management and technical expertise to ensure the continual and seamless functioning of systems, middleware, like Java Web applications
• Deployed in windows HA Load Balanced and virtualized environment.
• Clients sized up to 145,000 students/parents and 7000 teachers.
• Analyzing information resulted to Architecture, Sizing calculation, Preparation of Schematics, completing Approval process and Deployment of SOA 2, 3 or 4 tier production systems i.e. Web application Servers, DB Server Clusters, providing service through HA / Load Balanced Web Farms for Clients Serving up to 150,000 users.
• Windows Server up to 2012 R2
• Planned and implemented infrastructure using Windows operating systems.
• Monitoring server condition status 24/7.
• Planned and implemented alert and escalation process in the event of server malfunction.
• Update and maintain hardware inventory as per company policy.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software issues as they arise.
• Conducted servers backup and data integrity.
• Responsible for securing the servers.
• Create purchase requisitions for IT hardware/software.
• Regular application installations, configurations, and day-to-day administration.
• Working with and troubleshooting all of the following, including, but not limited to: SMTP, SNMP, SNTP, POP, FTP, SSL, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet, SFTP, DNS, RDP, TCP, ICMP, UDP and NTFS.
• Document issues and associated resolutions to problems.
• Upgraded it from 2000 to 2003 to 2008 to 2008R2 to 2012. Setup and configured AD 2008 R2 Certificate server, DNS, DHCP, MAPI, SAM, Operations Masters (FSMOs), Win32Time, Kerberos and NTLM. Managing the Structure in AD for all objects ranging from handling user accounts to OUs Domains Forests, Trust Relationships etc.
• Creating new Forest, Rename old domains, set them up under new Forest.
• Creating Subdomains for acquired Companies, Setup Domain Controllers for Remote sites and Implementing ADFS for those that needed to connect and TRUST as they were. Working with Developers helping them to use LDAP / LDIFDE.
• Implementing SSO for SharePoint using the same facilities along with System Centre Services Manager (SCSM) and Exchange Server have been implemented for selected users.

Confidential

Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design, Size, Install and configure new SQL Servers.
• Deploy database change scripts provided by third party vendors
• Performance Tuning
• Performed Server Farms Sizing and Deployment for MOSS 2007.
• Performance fine-tune and production Support for approx.1000+ Users.
• Performed Back-End SQL server Installation/Configuration and create Central Admin Site, along with Corporate and document repository and some User Sites for authorized users and setting the site permissions as per corporate requirements. Create backup procedure for the Sites and DBs. Prepared Lunch and Learn PowerPoint presentations for the staff and scheduled some of them for several sessions to learn and practice. Supported the users there after. Created a PMO site for PMPs later on. Customized the look and feel to reflect the corporate’s branding.
• Upgrade to 2010 and SQL 2008 R2 on Windows 2008 R2.
• Used VISIO 2010 to create Workflow in conjunction with SharePoint Designer also simple forms using INFOPATH.
• Upgrade to SharePoint 2013 and SQL 2012 on Windows Server 2012 and ran the tests to make sure everything works well. After fixing some issues that we have encountered the resource requirement i.e. HW and SW licenses were determined and the process of upgrade started.
• Oversee the SharePoint Portal Server infrastructure, user access and application deployment - taking the lead role in implementing SharePoint across.
• Support the installation, configuration, security, operation, and maintenance of all web portal servers, equipment, and software related to SharePoint infrastructure
• Participate in planning and execution of tasks related to the evaluation of new SharePoint based initiatives (Upgraded Versions, Third-Party Solutions, and Integration with additional Enterprise Systems).
• Develop, configure and maintain document libraries, enterprise lists and site collections. Perform typical system administrative activities such as site creation, user training, backup, restore and issue resolution.
• After implementing/upgrade to Exchange 2007 from 2003 and change the architecture to Confidential we also had to increase the capacity for Mailboxes significantly. The Exchange 2007 implemented in CCR HA mode.
• When moved/Upgrade to Exchange 2010 also in Confidential Cluster mode for 1000+ users. This time the architecture changed since new technology became available.
• Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.x, 5.x and 10 for Exchange had been part of the messaging solution.