Experience Summary:

• Senior Infrastructure Technology lead and supervisor with more than sixteen years infrastructure technology experience.
• Broader leader and supervisory experience in global industries such as Financial, Telecommunication and Pharmaceutical.
• Windows infrastructure SME and leader. Broader knowledge of various infrastructure solutions such as storage, virtualization, Linux, network, databases, firewall and security technologies.
• Proved to be a reliable, dependable and well organized supervisor for new technology induction, technology migration, upgrade and uplift projects.
• Instrumental in advising developers' community for new infrastructure trends and upcoming efficient technologies.
• Key expertise are business requirement gathering, project planning, developing infrastructure upgrade/migration plan, design and develop resilient and redundant application environment, process optimization, automation, automated monitoring and alerting, using SCOM and SCCM.
• Expertise in infrastructure architecture design with product specification and cost analysis.
• Expertise in end-to-end solution provider not limited to infrastructure but also suggesting monitoring and support model for applications.

Technical Skills:

• O/S Platforms: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2003 and Red Hat Linux.
• Database: MS SQL Servers, Oracle, Sybase, DB2.
• Hardware: HP Rack and Blade servers, Dell Server, IBM Servers, NetApp, EMC, UCS
• Other Tools and Software: PKI, Certificate Services, Citrix, Active Directory, IIS, FTP, SFTP, SSH, WSUS,
• Backup, VMWare, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Windows Clusters, DFS, Wireshark, SCCM, SCOM, Cyberark, SEP etc..

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Infrastructure Lead/Architect

• Effective leadership and technologist role to guide team in designing, developing and deploying solutions to optimize technological functionalities, operational reliability and out of date processes.
• Application analysis to architect disaster recovery and high availability solutions. Directed to develop infrastructure automation and scripts to achieve desired SLA and recovery objectives. Technical guidance to leverage effective DNS as well as load balancing technologies.
• Designed and developed infrastructure solution for legacy application migration and upgrade projects.
• Developed and released Windows Server 2012 R2 base build configuration for automated internal cloud deployment using VMWare VCAC and SCCM technologies.
• Designed and instituted new Windows platform vulnerability analysis and remediation process using SCCM.
• Developed new key health markers to monitor operating system environment to be used by organization's ESM technology. Designed process to have regular weekly Ops Review which rolls over to monthly and quarterly management review. All infrastructure team is introduced and trained to follow this process to have uniform review across different teams.
• Lead Windows infrastructure team to deploy stop-gap monitoring solution in partnership with ESM team to save 0.5 million operating expenses for the organization.
• Acted as SME for Active Directory infrastructure for deployment of OKTA, a cloud SSO provider. Integrated many internal as well as cloud base application with this solution.
• Member of infrastructure and enterprise architect review board committee to evaluate vendor products for organization's strategic technological needs. Some of the solutions are MFTP, IIS Web farm and SCCM.
• Successfully managing and leading legacy NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 domain decommission project.
• Developed user friendly and automated service request catalog to improve overall user experience for IT services.
• Key contributor for various ITSM process deployments such as vulnerability management, service improvement, incident management, event management, release management etc.

Confidential

Platform Solution Architect

• Global Windows Business Application Infrastructure Solution Provider Team Lead. Advised businesses for strategic infrastructure planning, resiliency and contingency plan. Acted as conduit between business application and technical infrastructure for process improvement, new features or functionality deployment, application upgrades or migration.
• Project planning for application consolidation, cost reduction and improved efficiency and resiliency. Designed and developed data migration strategies, data sharing policies and acted lead for infrastructure mergers or acquisition projects.
• Infrastructure design to comply firm's regulatory and security policy. Guided application owner to comply those policies. Security reviews for DMZ and external facing applications.
• Application automation for cloud friendly environment. IIS server automation using IIS backup, load balancing and deployment strategies. PowerShell scripting to automate application and infrastructure.
• Documented and communicated different infrastructure strategies and policies including but not limited to DMZ infrastructure, storage options, file transfer options, app server options, resiliency options, monitoring options, scheduling options etc.
• Designed and deployed SQL server clustering, Windows production access control, DMZ server access. Designed application startup environment, helpdesk automation tools.
• Lead infrastructure projects for Hyperion EPM upgrade, BCP strategies, IBM Filenet infrastructure design and deployment. Application AD integration.
• Designed low latency hardware profile including OS tuning. Also developed green environment friendly hardware profile with optimizing application for virtualized environment.
• Leading Windows 7 virtual desktops migration projects. Reviewing application capabilities. Fixing or following up vendor to certify applications.
• Designed automation using PowerShell for VM creation, DNS update, multi-process execution, application monitoring and automated application deployment cycle. Designed and developed automated monitoring using PowerShell scripts, SCOM and SCCM.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer Lead

• Acted as global engineering team lead for key global infrastructure projects. Lead regional AD Enterprise Engineer responsible regional AD site design, replication topology, group policy design and domain engineering. Scripted AD routine task using powershell and vbscript.
• Independently managed business line projects. Arranged meetings, lead the project, collected project requirements, determined the dependencies, collected resources, presented the solutions, presented the design diagrams, executed the solutions, documented the deployment and processes, developed the support plan.
• Responsible for third level escalation lead for any Windows Infrastructure, Citrix or Netapp related problems. Responsible for Windows automated server build, WSUS, PKI, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Clusters.
• Redesigned Windows dynamic DNS and DHCP infrastructure. Designed and deployed Centrify Direct Control Solution for Unix identity integration with Active Directory. Designed and developed SQL server cluster implementation.
• Responsible for infrastructure disaster recovery scripts and documentation.

• Designed Windows cluster deployment documents as a standard for infrastructure team. Deployed SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 clusters. Implemented Print, IIS, File Server, WINS and DHCP cluster. Designed Windows PKI infrastructure on Windows Server 2008 for NAC and Wireless project.
• Deployed Centrify Direct Control for integrating Unix authentication into Active Directory. Responsible for addressing open regulatory and security audit issues for Windows infrastructure. Developed automated infrastructure scripts to adhere regulatory and security standards.
• Managed and guided team who is responsible to develop automated infrastructure tools using Powershell and vbscripts.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

• Worked with business to understand their IT requirements, produced solution proposal, documented detail implementation plan including poc/test/uat/dev/prod phases.
• Designed, implemented and documented Windows Active Directory and Exchange expansion projects. Created Vision design diagram and produced maintenance plan for the infrastructure.
• Successfully lead key infrastructure projects while guiding implementation team.
• Installed and configured MS Exchange OWA, mailbox servers. Implemented RPC over HTTP, Outlook ActiveSync and OMA. Used Exchange tools such as EXBPA, SMTPDiag, Exchmbx and other tools.
• Managed Windows 2003 and Windows 2000 Active Directory. Used ADSIEdit, ADmodify, Replmon, Repadmin, nltest, DS utilities. Scripted AD tasks using vbscripts. Managed GPO and Citrix Farms.
• Designed and deployed Altiris Notification and Deployment Server. Designed and Managed Active Directory and Exchange infrastructure for the company worldwide.

Confidential

Senior Member of Platform and System

• Installed and configured Windows Servers to comply CFR Par 11, SOX and FDA standard. Day to day maintenance of more than 70 Windows Servers and more than 40 Red Hat Linux Servers. Followed and designed change management and auditing for applications. Configured Microsoft Clusters. Installed and configuration Qlogic HBAs, EMC PowerPath on Windows as well as Linux servers.
• Configured and administered IIS 6.0, Exchange 2003 and SQL Servers. Installed and configured domain controllers for corporate Active Directory domain. Maintained corporate Active Directory world wide. Created Group policies. Used ADMT and Quest tools. Installed and configured Citrix Presentation Server 3.0 farm for application distribution through multiple Citrix Server. Working on upgrading Citrix Presentation 4.0 upgrade. Installed and configured MKS toolkit on Windows Platform to configure SSH on Windows. Also used Cygwin.
• Installed and configured VMware ESX for providing virtual OS platform for server consolidation. Red Hat Linux Server Patch management through Red Hat Satellite Server. Windows Server Patch Management through Patch Link. Created and Distributed Package through Patch Link for easy deployment of the packages to the multiple servers. SSH, FTP, NFS, Samba and Apache configuration on Linux Servers.