SUMMARY:

• Self - motivated Architect / Lead / Consultant / Admin/ Developer with 12+ years of experience in system design, development, analysis and implementation using Microsoft Technologies for enterprise applications.
• Azure experience - extended working knowledge in cloud service, IaaS, worker role, service bus, queue, azure blob and table storages and API Management. Configured NSGs for two tier and three tier applications. Experience in integrating on premises servers to Azure. Configured VNETs and subnets as per the project requirement. Configure Azure blob storage and Azure file servers. Configured private and public facing Azure load balancers etc.
• Enterprise-level experience - Working with large teams and involved in architecture of highly scalable, secure, distributed applications, aligned with company standards, process, methodologies, and best practices.
• Process and Implementation - Extensive experience implementing software throughout the SDLC process, deep hands-on experience of networking, migration and implementation in Azure.
• Ensured the responsible for overall technical quality, migration, deployment standards and architecture of the application.
• Have good exposure to various domains like Financial, Banking, Telecom, Re-Insurance, Non-profit and Manufacturing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Azure Expertise: IaaS, PaaS, VM Migrations, VNet, Traffic Manager, Azure Cloud Services, SQL Azure, Active Directory, Data Factory, Data Lake, HDInsights, ExpressRoute, Power Shell, OMS, Security Center, Service bus, blob storages.

MS Servers: Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012, MOSS 2007, SharePoint2010/2013, Office 365, Windows Cluster Server, SQL Server, IIS Server, File Server, Proxy Server, Exchange Server, SMS server, Terminal Server

Networking: Cisco Router Configuration/Installation, TCP/IP Configuration, Ethernet, Firewall, VPN, Wireless Networking, Hyper-V, Virtualization, Cloud storage, Clustering

Software Engineering Methodologies: Agile / SCRUM and Waterfall

Other tools / technologies: Power Shell, MS Visio, Azure AD Connect, VMware, IP Sub netting, DevOps, Metalogix, AvePoint.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NYC, NY

Azure Cloud Architect

• Led migration of Virtual Machines to Azure Virtual Machines for multiple global business units.
• Prepared capacity and architecture plan to create the Azure Cloud environment to host migrated IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for refactored applications and databases.
• Created recommendations on how to duplicate a subset of on premise machines to the Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) offering which will be used for disaster recovery. This analysis included the specifics to synchronize on premise data with SQL Server and SharePoint instances hosted in VMs.
• Performed client acceptance and prototyping using Azure Compute and SQL Azure instances.
• Worked on Data Factory Editor, to create linked services, tables, data sets, and pipelines by specifying JSON definitions for these artifacts.
• Built a solution using Azure managed services StorSimple and Blob storage to archive on-premises data to cloud.
• Configured VMs in availability sets using Azure portal to provide resiliency for IaaS based solution and scale sets using Azure Resource Manager to manage network traffic

Azure Cloud Architect

• Designed and configured Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, Azure network settings, DHCP address blocks, DNS settings, security policies and routing.
• Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure VNets and subnets.
• Exposed Virtual machines and cloud services in the VNets to the Internet using Azure External Load Balancer.
• Provided high availability for IaaS VMs and PaaS role instances for access from other services in the VNet with Azure Internal Load Balancer.
• Implemented high availability with Azure Resource Manager deployment models.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Setup Azure Virtual Appliances (VMs) to meet security requirements as software based appliance functions (firewall, WAN optimization and intrusion detections).
• Leveraged VNET system routes and underlying route table that holds Local VNet Rules, On-premise Rules, Internet Rules and IP Forwarding as design basis.
• Designed User Defined Routes with custom route tables for specific cases to force tunneling to the Internet via on premise network and control use of virtual appliances in the customer’s Azure environment.
• Associated routes with VNets via the route table per relationship constraints.
• Managed IP Forwarding for VMs and role instances acting as virtual appliances.

Office 365/Azure Specialist

• Led implementation of Office 365 and Azure Active Directory for single sign on, authentication, authorization and Azure Role-based Access Control (RBAC).
• Installed, configured, administered, monitored Azure, IAAS and PAAS, Azure AD.
• Used Windows Azure portal to manage Virtual Network and Traffic Manager
• Created, managed, monitored VM using Windows Azure portal admin
• Created, managed, monitored Web site using Windows Azure portal admin
• Used Azure BLOB to access required files and Azure Storage Queues to communicate between related processes.
• Designed and developed standalone data migration applications to retrieve and populate data from Azure Table / BLOB storage to on premise SQL Server instances.
• Smoothly created pre-production environments and manage the portion of traffic going to them. Debug in the cloud when needed and roll back if issues are found.
• Azure Network Configuration - Created resource groups using resource manager which allow to see cost/billing and monitoring information for resources within a resource group and manage access to those resources as a set for individual customer.
• Attend ongoing client meetings to introduce and answer Azure PAAS and IAAS questions as they arise, covering important application migration considerations and options.
• Served as process owner under an Agile Scrum project implementation, leading session for sprint planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings.

Office 365/SharePoint Architect

• Developed proof of concepts and created technical architecture components.
• Provided technical guidance during client workshops and regional events.
• Automated and executed Office 365 procedures utilizing Windows PowerShell.
• Resolved tenancy technical issues and monitored Office 365 systems.
• Administered and supported Office 365 and MS Exchange policies.
• Created and managed site collections, designate site collection administrators, manage user profiles via SharePoint Online admin center.
• Manage Site collection storage limits and SharePoint Online user profiles.
• Monitor the health of SharePoint Online service, and change and release notifications.

Sr. SharePoint Administrator

• Managed site collections, configured security, created sites, list, libraries, and configured site features in SharePoint 2007/2010.
• Designed SharePoint Sites, Pages, Web Parts, and Workflows; utilized SharePoint Designer 2007 for the creation of custom workflows.
• Managed user permissions using Active Directory in SharePoint 2007/2010.
• Created and maintained executive calendars within SharePoint; scheduled/rescheduled meetings.
• Served as a Knowledge Manager (KM) for the PMO.
• As the Administrator planned and scheduled the installation of new or modified hardware and operating systems and applications software.
• Responsible for managing user accounts to include network pr.

Sr. SharePoint Administrator

• Involved in the Administration of MOSS 2007 and SP 2010 Farms.
• Maintained the servers and services of the servers in the SharePoint Environment.
• Migrate the exiting MOSS2007 SharePoint sites into exiting SP 2010 Farm.
• Involved in backup, restore and moving Content DB from old SQL Database Server to new SQL Database Server.
• Extensively worked with Central Administration portion to perform server reports, manage errors, logging, web applications, site collections and optimizations Experience in how to took backup and restore the content DB of SharePoint Sites.
• Used Metalogix tool for site to site and content migrations from MOSS to SP2010.
• Provided technical support on activities such as creating sites, user training and data restoration.
• Developed strong relationships with key figures across the organization both business and technically focused from the operation engineers to program manager.

SharePoint Administrator

• Installed, configured and validated SharePoint 2010 for upgrade and migration from SP-2007
• Created Sites & Sub Sites and installed Solution Packages by using PowerShell in SP 2010.
• Extensively used PowerShell to perform backup for the farm and restore content database through interface.
• Set up SSO integration, search indexing, scopes, data backups, audience targeting in SP 2010.
• Used Quest migration tool for content migration from LN to SharePoint.
• Extensively worked for monitoring production and development server logs, troubleshooting, controlling site access, administering Search and Indexing, approving and publishing InfoPath forms etc.
• Use SP Designer to create custom pages and display data from SQL database.
• Used Active Directory for creating User, groups and integrated with Central Admin.
• Set up and provided day-to-day end-user support through email, desktop, and telephone support in a highly collaborative team environment.
• Set up permission levels and permissions for individual users and Active Directory groups, libraries, and lists.