SUMMARY:

• I am a highly qualified Performance driven, experienced multi - disciplined IT professional with excellent technical, strategic in large global environments, people and operational skills, which thrives on new challenges.
• I am experienced in Active Directory design, support and migration. Exchange design, migration, (2003, 2010, 2013 and 2016).
• Also experienced in Office 365, Wintel, Azure, DHCP, DNS, Citrix, Vmware ESX, SCCM R2 and Power shell Scripting.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Specialist Directory Services Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Supported 2008 R2 Domain Administration (10Domain Controllers)
• Engineer and Install MIM 2016 environment for synchronizing passwords from one domain to another without a two way AD forest trust
• Creating and Maintaining group policy
• Administer Azure AD
• Administer ADFS for Office 365 SSO
• Administer AAD Connect for synchronizing of user objects to the cloud
• Administer DHCP Servers
• Work with migration team for migrating on prem AD users azure AD

Confidential

Senior Directory services and Messaging Architect

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Exchange 2010 (Hub, Mailbox, Activesync and Cas Servers)
• Supported 2008 R2 Domain Administration (10Domain Controllers)
• Creating and Maintaining group policy
• Design, engineer of exchange 2010 2 sites (1primary, 1 DR)
• Support two Office 365 Government Tenants
• Administer Exchange Online
• Administer Azure AD
• Administer One drive
• Administer Skype for business online
• Administer SharePoint online
• Administer Exchange Online Protection
• Power shell Scripting (Cloud Azure/Office365 and OnPremise AD/Exchange/Lync)
• Create SOP for Junior Member staff for supporting Exchange 2010 and Active Directory
• Provide Senior Managers weekly updates on status of messaging environment
• Administer Azure AD
• Administer Azure Ad Connect
• ADFS 3.0
• Microsoft Ad Integration with cloud applications e.g. SalesForce, SuccessFactor, WorkForce and Office365
• Perform dirsync from On Prem to office 365 Tennant and implement single sign on
• Setup up federation and free/busy sharing between On prem Exchange Org and Office 365 Tenant

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day-to-day operations of real-time and asynchronous communications and collaborations systems. Applications include but are not limited to, Microsoft Exchange servers, Skype for Business/Lync servers, Windows 2003/2008 R2/2012 R2 domain controllers, DNS/WINS servers, Microsoft Outlook, Exchange 2010,Proofpoint spam gateway, Airwatch MDM, Active Sync, Quest Active Directory Recover Manager, Quest Active Administrator, Tools4Ever SSRPM (Self-Service Password Resets), Accelops Monitoring tool
• Performing Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner
• Engage in activities as required, such as developing build documents, Run-books for team members
• Plan; deploy solutions, document procedures and coordinate systems software and hardware activities with local and remote team members.
• Provide L4 Support for Wintel Platform
• Mentor and provide escalations to Offshore and On site L1, L2 and L3 engineers

Confidential

Senior Messaging and Directory Services Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Exchange 2010/2013/2016 (Hub, Mailbox, Activesync and Cas Servers)
• Supported 2008 R2 Domain Administration (42 Domain Controllers)
• Creating and Maintaining group policy
• Design, engineer of exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 for 5 sites (2 primary, 2 DR and 1 stretched) (Americas, APAC and Europe)
• Migration of over 40,000 mailboxes from exchange 2003 to exchange 2010 for two separate acquisitions using Quest
• Migration of 40,000 mailboxes from exchange 2010 to exchange 2013 and 2016 using native mailbox moves
• Lead effort of migrating Europe legacy mailboxes to new exchange 2016 environment (1200 users)
• Implement archiving for user mailboxes
• Administer Lync 2010 & 2013
• Administer Iron port (Onsite and cloud based)
• Power shell Scripting
• Create SOP for Junior Member staff for supporting Exchange 2010 and Active Directory
• Provide Senior Managers weekly updates on status of messaging environment
• Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0 Administration
• Administer of Maas360 MDM SAAS
• Planning and scoping for Exchange 2016
• Planning and scoping to migrate Archive mailboxes to Office 365
• Support ADFS 2.0 and single sign
• Administer Office 365 Tenant
• Setup SuccessFactor, workday and other third party apps as Relying trust partners to provide SSO for domain users to use their AD credentials for access
• Setup two office 365 Tenants as Relying trust partners to provide SSO and to Federate the Tenant
• Using Authentication Policies to implement MFA for Extranet users
• Administer SCCM 2012 for patch deployment of messaging infrastructure
• Administer SCOM 2012 for monitoring of messaging infrastructure
• Creation and linking GPO for the domain
• Design and Installed 2012 DHCP servers for redundancy

Confidential

Sr. Systems/Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for over seeing the Global infrastructure
• Support Cisco Wireless LAN Controller
• Support of Cisco Call Manager 4.0
• Configuration and setup of Cisco Switches & Routers
• Configuration and setup Cisco ASA
• Support of the following Server Hardware(HP IBM and Dell Servers)
• Building and Support of Citrix Presentation Server 4.5
• Build and Support Exchange 2003 & 2010
• Migrate 5000 mailboxes from exchange 2003 to exchange 2010
• Building and Support of Windows 2003 & 2008 Active Directory (Application, DHCP, DNS, IAS, Storage and Domain Controllers)
• Delegating day to day administration functions to junior staff
• Implementing Policies etc
• Build and Support of Xensource Virtual Server by Citrix
• Implementing and Support of Radius Authentication for Radius Devices
• Implemented DR for Exchange 2003 using Appassure snapshot Server
• Team Leader for a team of four and also act as an escalation point for the desktop support team
• Sharepoint 2003 Administration
• Backup Rotation using Veritas Backup Exec 12
• Administration Of Symantec Av 10.0 & 11.0
• Administration of Barracuda Spam Filter
• Building and Support of Bleackberry Enterprise Server 4.5 and 5.0
• Build and Support of Storage systems (HP MSA 2000 FC Storage, IBM DS4000 FC, HP MSA 2000 iscsi)
• Build and Support ISA 2006 for publish OWA
• Evaluate new technologies and doing proof of Concepts.
• Configuration and Support of HP Tape Libraries (MSL2040 and 5000)

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of a Windows 2003 domain (AD)
• Administration of a Exchange 2003 environment
• Administration of Cipher Trust Iron Mail Spam Filter
• Vmware ESX 3 Support
• Symantec Enterprise Vault Administration
• Administration of Black Berry Server (4.1)
• Windows Share Point services (2007)
• Microsoft Operations Centre (2007)Implementation
• Symantec Antivirus Administration
• Microsoft DHCP and DNS administration
• Administration of Antigen Antivirus for Exchange

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administer and design Trend Office scan environment for both Desktops and Production Server (50 Global Trend Servers)
• Administer and design Trend Server Protect Management for production servers and Netapp appliances (35 global Trend servers)
• Administer Trend Control Manager for the Trend environment (1 Control Manager to manager and deploy updates to Trend Master Server)
• Administer and implement Patchlink update server as well as schedule patch deployments for enterprise servers (40 Patchlink servers)
• Administer Lucent Qip (DNS and DHCP management) for Confidential global enterprise consisting of around 50 servers world wide for the DNS and DHCP management
• Support Nortel VPN connectivity for remote access for the Confidential global enterprise
• Cisco ASA SSL VPN implementation (staging project)
• Testing Iss Preventia desktop host based end point security for desktops
• Experience with ISS intrusion prevention devices (day to day pro-active monitoring to see if network host(s) were being compromised
• Administered Veritas Netbackup
• Windows 2003 domain administration (AD)(doing group policies etc. for the Thomson global enterprise where needed)
• Administer SQL 2000 (install and support for Patchlink)
• Administer Quest Recovery Manager and Active Roles

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of a Windows 2003 domain (AD)
• Administration of a Exchange 2003 environment
• Administration of Cipher Trust Iron Mail Spam Filter
• Administration of Altiris Imaging Server (doing desktop patching and deploying files and software to end users)
• Cisco Pix, Routers and switches administration
• Administration of Strata Guard Intrusion detection system
• Administration of Akonix Instant Messaging system
• Administration of Windows 2000 & 2003 File & Print Servers
• Administration of Cisco Secure Server
• Testing Cisco Secure Agent for desktop to do end point security
• Administration of Black Berry Server
• Administer Windows 2000 and XP Desktops
• Implementation and Administration of Microsoft Operations Management Server (2005)
• Administration of Symantec Antivirus Server
• Experience with NSI Double Take (replication software)
• Administered Veritas Backup Exec
• Basic experience with Mac’s
• Experience with HP Insight Manager
• Administration of HP Server, Tape Library & Storage
• Windows Share Point services (2003)
• Vmware ESX 5
• Supporting and troubleshooting HP servers
• Microsoft Performance Monitor
• Microsoft clustering and load balancing
• Administer Quest Recovery Manager and Exchange Message stats

Confidential

Computer Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed a Windows 2000 and 2003 domain (AD)
• Administered Exchange 5.5 domain; Exchange 2000 and 2003 domain
• Developed and implemented as well as administered Share Point Portal Server 2003 (inclusive of company branding etc.)
• Implemented and administered System Management Server 2003
• IIS (5.0) (6.0) administration
• Checkpoint Firewall (NG) administration
• Supported end users
• Citrix Metaframe (XP) Support
• Symantec Ghost administration
• Veritas Netbackup experience
• Veritas Backup Exec Administration
• Administered Windows 2000 and XP Desktops
• Installed and administered Linux Red Hat
• Maintained and added of Nortel PBX phone sets (using OTM)
• Maintained HP servers

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed Credit Unions Windows 2000 domain (AD)
• Administered Exchange, SQL, Terminal, ISA and Remote Access Server (2000)
• Implemented Credit Union Cisco Wide Area Network (WAN)
• Developed Credit Union web site and provided end user Support
• Managed Credit Union IT Department and IT Network
• Supervised System Administrator and System Clerk
• Veritas Backup Exec Administration
• Administer Windows 2000 and XP Desktops
• Managed a staff of two (System Administrator and System Operator

Confidential

Senior Computer Operator

Responsibilities:

• Administered Windows NT domain and monitored ATM
• Exchange 5.5 and SQL 2000 administration
• Administer Windows 2000 and XP Desktops
• Experience with running scripts on Sybase database
• Veritas Backup Exec administration
• Microsoft DHCP and DNS administration
• Maintained and repaired computers
• User support in both a local area and wide area network
• Provided troubleshooting and daily back-up of servers
• Experienced with Phoenix Banking System and Postilion