SUMMARY:

• Corporate IT professional with over 30 years of experience architecting, designing deploying large technical environments in the Bio - Pharmaceutical, Financials and Government Industries. Architectural design of Active Directory, Security principles and Disaster Recovery. Implement solutions to address identify business issues and assure overall solution integrity. Documentation of technical spec sheets and proof of concepts. Assist with scope of work design and development. Strong sense of responsibility and integrity. Work effectively with clients, IT management, staff and vendors.
• Active Directory 2003, 2008, 2012 - Active Directory Solutions delivering infrastructure architectures to key global business and infrastructure initiatives. Responsible for leading and coordinating Active Directory (AD) projects from a technology architecture perspective, ensuring that infrastructure development activities are consistent with the direction set by accepted best practices. Provide 3rd level support, DHCP, WINS, Print Servers, GPO, DFS, and Clustering.
• Venafi TrustAuthority - implemented tool with support of the vendor to establish a baseline of normal and key usage. Configured TrustAuthority to organize and gain control of all keys and s by defining owners,
• SSO - Ping Federated - provisioning and de-provisioning to facilitate SSO to selected SaaS providers.
• PKI SHA1/SHA2 2008 R2 - Support of two- or three-tier hierarchy and come in three types: root, intermediate, and issuing. A CA hierarchy typically has a root CA at the top level under which you have one or more intermediate CAs.
• SSL tools - SSL Discovery, utility for windows, CSR creation tool, Internal name tool for Exchange.
• Office 365 - Tested in Lab environment Exchange on-line. Configured Windows Azure Active Directory Sync tool to copies user information and password from on-perm to office 365 test environment.
• Azure - Manage the Azure portal for testing of Cloud Services, VM’s and App Services.
• ADFS 2.0 - Papered MS PKI Infrastructure for Federated Collaboration with ADFS. Configured ADFS 2.0 for
• Amazon Web Services - Deployment of Active Directory, Exchange 2013 and Remote Desktop Gateway.
• Windows 2003 R2, 2008 R2 and 2012 - 3rd level support, DHCP, WINS, Print Servers, GPO, DFS, Clustering
• DNS Server Windows 2003/2008 - Advance knowledge of AD-Integrated zones, Primary and Secondary Zone.
• Windows 2003 R2, 2008 R2 and 2012 - 3rd level support, DHCP, WINS, Print Servers, GPO, DFS, Clustering
• LDAP MS Service - Administrator, LDAP Server Configuration and System Monitoring
• BOYD - Framehawk, AirWatch, Bomgar and tested and Implemented into Production.
• Quest - Introduced Recovery Manager for Active Directory to backup all object with-in the Forest globally
• ServiceNow - creation of Change Request forms, creation report to monitor changes in production environment. eDirectory - Integration of Windows 2008R2 to IDM for password synchronization various directories,
• Clustering High Availability Windows2003/2008 - Strong implementation and support of Unicast, Multicast
• NetScaler - VIP Network Load Balancing - Heavy administration of NLB. Setup and support of Round Robin DNS servers. Strong configuration of Unicast Multicast modes
• GPOM - implementation advance GPO’s management solution into Forest, Domain and local.
• Virtualization - Good understanding, VMware 5.0 and Hyper-V 3.0, with creation of VM.
• PowerShell/VB - Good understanding modifying scripting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Active Directory Architect (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Lead Active Directory Architect Plan Recommend best-of-breed solutions to support business in aggressive 4 years Business plan. Architect systems to meet functional and non-functional infrastructure requirements
• Interpersonal communication and organizational skills required to operate as a leading member of global distributed technical teams that deliver quality service.
• Work as part of a global Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture team; works with project managers, infrastructure engineering teams, application architect’s teams to resolve issues which arise within project; drives project’s progress.
• Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
• Proactively provide feedback regarding infrastructure engineering methodologies, standards and leading practices Minimize technical exposure and risk on projects.
• Review business plans and provide recommendations for overall technical architecture and technology landscape.
• Develop an overarching view of the applications environment and provide recommendations for an integrated systems approach.
• Assist in navigating Celgene IT standards to ensure vendor compliance regarding security, technology and risk evaluations, etc.
• Develop implementation plan for infrastructure architecture.
• Develop and manage ongoing architecture governance structure.
• Monitor and advise strategic partners on platform security standards.
• Evaluate current infrastructure, platform and 3rd party solutions. Recommend optimal end-state and potential alternative solutions with focus on scalability, reliability and flexibility.
• Evaluate technology/tools and identify prospective solutions.
• Monitor and advise strategic partners on platform standards.
• Planning and implementing a worldwide migration from Windows 2003 to Window2008R2
• Creation of Discovery, SOW and POC documents to provide clear technical direction to address business needs
• Evaluation and testing of Windows 2012 server for development for future organization roll-out and implementation.

Confidential

Sr. Active Directory Architect (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Provide Remote Microsoft Platform engineering/consolidate 8 Windows 2003 R2 servers Globally to Windows 2008 R2, requiring security investigation, and capacity planning and performance measurements.
• Collapse multiple Active Directory forest located in Australia, Asia. Norway and Vancouver into a single forest located in Montreal. All work was conducted remotely with-out any down time to the business.

Confidential

Sr. Active Directory Architect

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed new and existing projects for compliance with standards and architectural plans.
• Lead Architect in a City Wide effort in collapsing 20 Windows 2003 Child Domains into 1 Windows 2008 Forest.

Confidential

Sr. Active Directory

Responsibilities:

• Coordination of an Active Directory reconfiguration/Upgrade and implementation project, effectively migrating five (5) AD domains in the Electrical and GAS Distribution throughout New York State into a single-domain. Utilized ADMT 3.0 for migrating users and objects from multi domains to a one AD domain

Confidential

Sr. Active Directory Technologist

Responsibilities:

• Implemented/ roll-out of Active Directory 2003 sites throughout Columbia Earth Institute.

Confidential

Sr. Windows Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided centralized systems operational support administration, installation and maintenance of Active Directory configurations typically span multiple business functions and geographic.

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented MS SNA server into Confidential ’s NT domain infrastructure. The SNA server consisted of connectivity to AS/400 and mainframe systems connected to remote office.

Confidential

Sr. Windows Engineer - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• The project consisted of designing and testing the implementation of an NT Master Domain mode in Windows NT3.51 platforms to support the NT Domains globally

Confidential

Assistant Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager for the design and implementation of the technical migration plan to convert 300 Notes Servers globally and Windows 3.0 server between the United States and Asia.

Confidential

Sr. Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Defined, designed, developed and implemented Fixed Income Trading Systems utilizing NTS 3.5, LAN Manager 2.2, Notes 3.0 and Workgroups for Windows 3.11 connected to an AS/400. The technology was supported globally.

Confidential

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Supported Global Network which consisted of the following; IBM LAN Server 3.0