PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Having 10+ years of experience as a Microsoft Active Directory Administrator, have played an important role and involved in all aspects of the IT Infrastructure for planning and designing on Windows environment.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Server Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Verifying Site Replication Status.
• Monitor Domain Controller and Sites replication status using Quest Spotlight Tool.
• Troubleshooting when problem occurs in the environment.
• Administration on Quest Active Role Server v6.8, Quest Reporter, Quest Recovery and Quest Change Auditor.
• Establishing trust between forests, (between Confidential and other forest when requires).
• Monitor and resolve security situations at all levels of domain to ensure stable and secure domain.
• Ownerships on pulling reports from environment using scripts, tools and command, example: DC uptime, replication status, user login status report, remedy and CRQ tickets status.
• Day - to-day management of domain controllers.
• Review DC event and security logs and take corrective actions.
• Monitoring connectivity, synchronization, replication, net logon, time services, FSMO roles and trust relationships.
• Working on daily Incidents and change management CRQs which includes End User issues, OU and Group Policies etc..
• Managing patch management through WSUS Server for Domain Controllers.

Confidential

Quest Migration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Creation and management of directory infrastructure
• Includes FSMO roles, trusts, Kerberos KDCs, replication topology, etc.
• Creation of all top-level OU hierarchies with Sub OUs, groups, and appropriate security permissions. This includes adding the OU Admins to the Add Computers group, Group Policy Creator Owners group, and OU Admins mail list. It also includes setting appropriate permissions on the created objects
• Monitor and reporting associated with the reliability and security of the domain
• Use the domain admin account only for actions that require the privilege level of this account.
• Monitoring changes to domain root and domain controllers OU to ensure unauthorized changes do not occur.
• Day-to-day management of domain controllers.
• Monitoring connectivity, synchronization, replication, net logon, time services, FSMO roles, schema, NTDS database partitions, DNS settings, SRV records, and trust relationships.
• Review DC event and security logs and take corrective actions.
• Monitor and resolve security situations at all levels of domain to ensure stable and secure domain.
• Domain Controller Management
• DC health checkups.
• Physical security of the domain controllers in IT Division space and over site for all domain controllers.
• Backups and restores on domain controllers.
• Full disaster recovery plan and practice of DCs and core Directory objects.
• Manage group policy at root of domain and for Domain Controllers OU.
• Creation, testing, and management of GPOs intended to be used by multiple OU Admins.
• Manage the Users and Computers Containers.
• Install and manage security reporting tools used to monitor changes to the Active Directory.
• Delegate monitored data and elevated privileges to others as needed.
• Create and maintain the test domain as a reasonable approximation of the production domain.
• Coordinate and configure alarm distribution to OU Admins for OU-related events.
• Verify new software deployments and GPO policies work by testing them in the Primus test domain as appropriate.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Download the latest report from the GNS reporting tools
• And validating the records with TAMS database tools.
• Dividing the server records tower wise.
• And running the scripts to check the server status whether it’s alive or not with ping test and FQDN test.
• Segregating the A-records and Alias-records organization wide for example jpmchase.com, jpmorgan.com, jpmchase.net, bankone.net, wamu.com and bear.com.
• Sending the records to all associated tower owners for email approvals.
• After getting the email approvals from the tower owners again need to test the records ping test and FQDN test.
• Raising the MACD Ticket for assign the MACD Engineer for implementations.
• Opening the ECMS (Enterprise Change Management System) tool to mentioning the plan and details of the change, implementations, attaching the 300 records spreadsheet and email approval to ECMS to get the all the (tech groups, change management group and impact group) approvals.
• After getting the ECMS approvals, with the implementation dates change has to finish.
• Using the Host master tool to remove the A-Records and Alias Records or moving the records from one domain to another domain.
• After all the above process then change will be completed.
• Again verify the records in GNS report tool whether records deleted or not if not escalate to escalation team.
• Assigning the work to all team members.
• Communicating the all tech groups to get the ECMS approvals in time.
• Streamlined to achieving 100% change within SLA.
• If change fallows in freeze period communicating the towers owners to get the email approval.
• Verifying the records to be validated correctly
• Discussing the problems facing in the change process and implementation in team meeting.

Engineer System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring administrating of AD, DNS, DHCP, FTP, File Server.
• User management, Group management and implementing Group Policies.
• Centrally administrating Microsoft Active Directory.
• Implementing user level and file level securities in Windows2000, 2003 and 2008.
• Creating Global, Universal and Domain Local groups for Network shared folders and assigning permissions to users.
• Troubleshooting Access related issues.
• Configuring servers as per the project purpose.
• Working with Symantec anti-virus for troubleshooting and resolving various issues.
• Working with respective Backup teams for Addition, Removal and suspension of servers from backup rotations and troubleshooting issues with Backups of windows clients.
• Streamlined the check list process for various tasks for Achieving 100% effectiveness.
• Identified Servers utilization and Negotiated with client for virtualization to reduce cost for client.

System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installing Configuring server 2000, 2003, 2008, AD, DNS, DHCP, RIS, FTP and File Server.
• Implementing Domain and OU level Group Policies.
• Monitoring Network usage and link performance using solar wind and sending utilization reports to management.
• Coordinating with ISPs and ensures that the problems with links get resolved.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting of Outlook.
• Performed Team Lead position for Desktop Administration.
• Handling of team size 5 and distribution of work, Planning, scheduling co-ordination with team members and Networking teams.
• Monitoring Servers and network devices like switches and Routers for hardware failures.
• Backup and Restore Management using Windows NT backup.
• Performing server power recycling at scheduled intervals.
• Creating Global, Universal and Domain Local groups for Network shared folders and assigning permissions to users.
• Configuring, managing and maintaining file and print servers.
• Configuring domain controller, DNS and DHCP servers for various testing projects.
• Administrative tasks like creating user, security groups and distribution groups.
• Configured HP Network printers for all type of Printer alerts.
• Preparing Technical and process documents for various deliverables.
• Coordinating with sourcing team for procuring new software and hardware assets.
• Automated the windows update patches using batch files.