SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of experience in IT industry with experience in Server administration in various environments - Window 2000 & 2003 with Active Directory Services (AD, DNS, DHCP).
• Experienced in Active Directory Migration in an intra-forest environment.
• Experienced with troubleshooting application authentication in Active Directory Multi domain environment.
• Experienced level knowledge of Migration tool Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory.
• Experienced in Migrating Users and Computers from one Domain to another Domain.
• Assisted in need for any messaging system reconfigurations and executed them if required.
• Add, remove, certify and moved new or existing end-user accounts and administered permissions and access rights.
• Web Server administration in IIS 5/6/7 environments related to Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2008 respectively.
• Experienced in creating multiple websites using multiple IPs, multiple ports and configuring host headers.
• Creating Automation Deployments using Power Shell Scripting and Batch Scripting.
• Generating Certificate sign in Request for New SSL Certs including Import & export of the SSL Certificates among Websites.
• Experience on SharePoint Server 2007 management and troubleshooting.
• Experience in managing Active directory, DNS and DHCP Servers.
• User Management including Adding, Deleting, Modifying, auditing and Assigning Rights to the User accounts on Domain Controller.
• Working on Active Directory administration, accountability, security groups, distribution groups, replication, GPOs roles.
• Handy experience in co-coordinating releases, build deployments etc.
• Experience in managing NLB and F5 load balancer devices and Policy configurations for new Websites.
• Gain understanding about current MOM environment.
• Experience in coordination with application development teams for issue troubleshooting.
• Worked with performance monitoring teams to tune the performance of IIS web servers for stability and high availability.
• Provided tier-3 support for production environments and troubleshooted critical issues at minimal business impact.
• Experience in creating and troubleshooting FTP sites and managing large FTP web farm.
• Installing, Configuring Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008.
• Managing Virtual Servers and troubleshooting issues on performance.
• Provided 24X7 on call support for production environments.
• Worked with testing teams for load testing the applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Systems: Windows Server 2000/2003/2008

Web & Application Servers: IIS 5.x/6.x/7.x, Apache

LDAP Directories: Active Directory and Sun Directory Server

Languages: C, C++, C# and VB

Scripting languages: Power shell, WSH, Batch

Databases: SQL server 2000/2005/2008, DB2 and MS Access

Networking: DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, FTP, MOM, SCOM, SMTP, SOAP, POP, HTTP and HTTPS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Toledo, OH

Systems Engineer/Active Directory

Responsibilities:

• Windows Server administrations.
• Windows 2003 & 2008 Servers deployment and Configuration.
• Managing Active directory, DNS and DHCP Servers.
• Anti- Virus updates and MS Patches Management.
• Installed and Configured Active Directory domain controllers.
• Worked with application owners to integrate with applications into LDAP authentication and authorization.
• Active Directory Services -- Managing Users & Other Resource objects.
• Managing Cluster Services -- Installation & Administration.
• Managing file servers (MS Cluster servers) and print servers.
• Web Server Administration/Application support -- IIS 6.0.
• Managing IIS 6.0 Web servers and hosted web sites.
• Planning and configuring new internal & external websites.
• Website content and application release management and creating Virtual directories.
• Application support for asp, .NET & java based hosted internal & external websites.
• Deploying .Net based Applications and Java based apps on IIS 6.0.
• Troubleshooting .Net application issues hosted on the IIS.
• Creating, deploying, renewing and Import & export of the SSL certificates.
• Configuring Site Minder web agents clients for authentication.
• Coordination with application development teams for issue troubleshooting.
• Managing F5 load balancer devices -- Policy configurations for new websites.
• Working on web server optimization and performance.
• Provide level 3 support to application issues as per defined SLAs.
• Work with Developers team very closely to throughout life cycle on engineering application.
• Creating and troubleshooting FTP sites and managing large FTP web farm.
• Managing Production Support Hotline -- Support for asp, .NET & java based applications.
• Acting as liaison between the various business groups and IT groups to communicate issues and coordinate resolutions to production issues.
• Root cause analysis and fixing the Windows / IIS Web Server Related issues.
• Tracking and documenting production support issues.
• Resolving NetIQ, Team Quest and Site scope generated alerts.
• Request For Change -- Production Release process management.
• Working with HP Proliant, Dell and Blade servers, working with hardware team to add/replace the faulty peripherals, upgrading the firmware software.
• Creating, configuring and troubleshooting scheduled task.
• Checking and fixing the permission issues.
• Creating the documents and updating the documents of the projects.
• Installation and Configuration.
• Share Point Portal Server 2007.
• Managing web applications and site collections and managing user groups.
• Managing and administrating of MOSS 2007.
• VMware & Hyper-V Server Administration
• Managing Virtual Servers -- Virtual Infra Client, VMware ESXi Server& Hyper-V.
• Troubleshooting the VM machines using Virtual center and VMware Infrastructure client.
• Cloning and troubleshooting VM ESX hosts and guest servers.
• Creating and deploying templates.
• Have good experience in supporting Citrix applications, providing access to applications and publishing the applications.
• Migration of shared web farm (consists of 150+ in Dev/QA/Prod) from IIS 5.0 to IIS 6.0.
• Migration of external web farm from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0.
• Migration of Job server (task scheduler) from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008.

Confidential, Sanjose, CA

IIS / Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Migration projects from IIS 5.0 to 6.0.
• Installed and configured IIS 5.0/6.0 web server on Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 server accordingly.
• Installation and configuration of Windows NT/2000/2003 Servers.
• Managing Windows 2003 Server Family products with Active Directory Integration.
• Encrypted NTFS file system in Windows XP and Windows server 2003 to secure data resources.
• Configured multiple websites in IIS 6.0 using multiple IPs, multiple ports and Host headers.
• Deployed .net applications in IIS 6.0 and configured the data sources.
• Configured Authentication methods in IIS 6.0 to control access to the applications by enabling them in the web server role as per the application requirement.
• Implemented disaster recovery techniques in share point environment for high availability.
• Maintained scripts to ensure a secure IIS administration.
• Installed Veri Sign certificates in IIS and configured security ports.
• Maintained and updated Active directories for authentication.
• Creating Virtual Machines to my environment using VM-Ware.
• Configured clusters for IIS Servers for high availability.
• Created and Managed Servers in a Cluster with round-robin algorithm and NLB clustering for Load Balancing.
• System Administration with ADS, IIS, FTP and Proxy.
• Configured IIS 6.0 as an application server and troubleshoot the run time errors.
• Maintained the applications among run-time processes in a cluster of application servers.
• Deployed the applications on multiple IIS application Servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and Fail over functionality.
• Created users, roles and groups for securing the resources of Organization using Active Directory.
• Network Administration with switches, routers and firewalls.
• Involved in Performance tuning of IIS Web server with respect to heap, threads and connection pools.
• Troubleshoot IIS Web Server connection pooling and connection manager with SQL databases.
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Supported on call schedule for Production support.
• Involved in trouble shooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production Environment.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing the IIS web server and Apache web servers.
• Installing Internet Information Server 4.0 & 5.0 - Configuring virtual directories and websites.
• DNS, WINS, Disk quota management in windows 2000 server.
• Administration of WSUS servers and deploying patches.
• Configuring Domain security policies, Local security policies.
• Creating groups, users and assigning share permissions.
• Deployed static applications (HTML and ASP) and .net applications on IIS 5.0.
• Installed/enabled ISAPI filters on IIS using and configured web service extensions.
• Migration of shared web farm (consists of 150+ in Dev/QA/Prod) from IIS 5.0 to IIS 6.0
• Migration of external web farm from IIS 4.0 to IIS 5.0
• Creating, deploying, renewing and Import & export of the SSL certificates.
• Installed security certificates into system store to configure secured transactions.
• Experience in working on debug tools and windows & IIS command line tools.
• Performed networking tasks like ip routing and configuring specific gateways .
• Worked on basic, digest, passport and Windows live-id authentications.
• Migration of Job server (task scheduler) from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003.
• Experienced in Trouble-shooting various run-time errors( app/platform related)
• Installation of Software packages like Web logic, WebSphere.
• Performed administrative tasks like patching and installing security updates on windows servers.