SUMMARY

• Hands on Infrastructure Manager with superior track record designing highly functional active directory and network infrastructures skilled in Disaster Recovery, Active Directory Design, Optimization and Security, Virtualization Technologies VMWare, Hyper V, and Citrix and Network Design, Optimization, and Implementation. Consistently implements and maintains healthy, stable enterprise level environments.

DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION MIGRATION

• Microsoft Exchange Server: 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010 2012
• Storage Area Networks Fiber/ISCSI : Equalogic, IBM Netapp
• Database: SQL Server, MYSQL
• Operating Systems Services: Windows 2008, 2003, 200, NT, Apple OSX
• Active Directory, Group Policies, DNS, WINS, ISA, FTP, IIS 5, 6
• Network LAN: Cisco Catalyst, Extreme, HP Procurve, Foundry
• VPN Firewall: Windows GRE, Cisco, Checkpoint, Sonicwall, Watchguard
• Enterprise Backup: Symantec Backup Exec., Netbackup
• Virtualization Technologies: VMWare ESX 3.5, ESX 3.0, Citrix Metaframe 4.0, Virtual Server
• Client Server Applications: System Center: Operations Manager SCOM
• Configurations Manager SCCM , Trend Server Protect, McAfee EPO 4.0 Symantec Antivirus

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lab Engineer

Served as a DEVOPs engineer, supporting developers in India and US. Deployed Microsoft Exchange environments, Lotus Domino, System Center Configuration Manager SCCM , System Center Operations Manager SCOM , Microsoft Lync 2013. Troubleshot and resolved periodic issues withinLotus Domino 8.5, 9.0, Exchange Servers 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 and Lync environments. Managed QA and Dev forestsin VSphere and VCloud environments. Stabilized Dev forests by extending forest to India, adding redundancy, replication and local authentication. Implemented split DNS policy, pushing simplicity when developing solutions airwatchdev.com and airwatchqa.com . Deployed CA servers and resolved periodic PKI related issues. Assessed development environment for bottlenecks and pain points within VSphere and VCOps extending multi-tiered applications where needed, addressing resource related issues. Assisted various teams by authoring small scripts using Powershell to automate cleanups, drive maps Administered Active Directory, deploying clean up scripts for performance testing teams. Utilized VMWare, Xymon and VCCM to audit, monitor and administer environments. Deployed SUSE, RHEL, Centos servers as well as Windows 2012, 2008 and 2003.

Confidential

Infrastructure Manager Senior Systems Administrator

• Improved Development process by identifying bottlenecks, Active Directory silos and stop gaps in the development to production workflow. DeployedMicrosoft Virtual Machine Manager VMM , System Center Operations Manager SCOM , and System Center Configuration Manager SCCM to create transparency, server, application and network device monitoring and implemented a server build process. Identified and resolved sluggish Virtual Machines. Isolated developer / code related problems withinSharePoint, Apache,IIS and other web applications. Conducted performance related testswithin IIS, Visual Studio. Administered IIS and performed all URL rewrites within IIS using Regex for clients such as Bayer Crop Science and Coca Cola. Migrated Creative Digital Group from hosted email to Microsoft Exchange 2010 and implemented Single sign-on SSO . Collaborated with LBi'sglobal infrastructure team to develop and manage successful network merger of Creative Digital Group, LBi, LBi Health, MrYouth and DigitasLBi. Created site to site VPNs to offices in London and New York alsoestablished trusts between Creative Digital Group and assisted with migrating all servers and users onto LBi domain. Designed and implemented backup solution using Scalar and Backup Exec and audited backups and Active Directory quarterly. Managed vendor relationships for Atlanta office Telecom, HVAC and supported all users in the office 50 Macintosh / 50 PCs . Worked closely with Account Services, BI and Developer teams. Administered SQL Server 2008. Migrated source code from Team Foundation Server 2005 to 2008.

Confidential

Active Directory Architect Lead Audit Compliance Engineer / SAS70 / PCI

• Redesigned Active Directory implementing role based authentication for all systems including database, application and file servers. Assist in identifying numerous security vulnerabilities, satisfying SAS70 requirements. Audited backup and disaster recovery and detailed extensive solution outlining missed SLAs, backups, network bottlenecks and identified new architecture that included Data Domain and Commvault. Defined new SLAs for business units company wide and assisted in defining new backup policies. Perform extensive testing on Project Server 2010 for PMOs site within Microsoft SharePoint. Identified and resolved Active Directory related issues NTFRS, DNS, Site Design, Forest and Domain Planning Architecture and Global Catalog Design .

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer Collapse Migration Engineer

• Projects consisted of closing, moving and consolidating several offices throughout the United States. Roles include designing and implementing new subnets for LANs, redesigning backups and disaster recovery solutions using Netbackup, Backup Exec and Scalar solutions, eliminating sluggish response for Active Directory replication, redesigning DNS configuration site to site replication and external lookups and implementing Windows patch solution WSUS client side targeting . Migrated sluggish servers into capable virtual environments using Microsoft Virtual Server and VMWare ESX Server 3.0 and 3.5 and deployed several new server builds for VMWare ESX servers and IBM Sans. Designed, presented and implemented SCOM and Cisco VPN solution Cisco ASA 5520 to replace sunset Checkpoint VPN splat box. Plans were designed with Visio and supported with Microsoft, Cisco and VMware Best Practices. Administered SQL Server 2000 SQL Server 2005

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer Migration Engineer

• Assist with a Datacenter migration from Dubuque, IA to Atlanta, GA. Designed and deployed new VMware ESX Hosts 3.5, SQL 2008 clustered solutions Active / Active Active / Passive with Fiber attached SANs IBM EMC . Support business units on Citrix Xenapp 4.0 resolving sluggish transaction processing within Web Clusters and SQL database backend. Web farm processed several million transactions daily.
• Administered Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 Farms
• Utilized Remedy and Clarity as primary ticket system

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer Acquisition, Collapse Migration Engineer

• Planned and designed the acquisition of NPPN Inc. on Active Directory and Network. Worked with CIO, business managers and project managers to perform network and application discoveries identify application migrations, sunsets and develop phases for migration. Acquire VMWare and Equallogic SANs for primary solution of application and server migration to minimize risk of any down time. Performed two-
• way trusts on Active Directory side and created LAN to LAN VPN from Checkpoint Firewall to Cisco PIX 501. Expand LAN to include several new VLANs for ISCSI, new applications and Web clusters. Work with developers to perform capacity planning in all environments including IIS 5, 6. System Center: Operations Manager SCOM Configuration Manager SCCM .

Confidential

Systems Engineer / Consultant

• Certified Microsoft consultant for Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and Active Directory Infrastructure design for numerous enterprise clients in the Atlanta area. Design numerous LANs for companies in the Atlanta area, implementing group policies, file permissions, backups, FTP servers and VPN. Primary consultant for Exchange related issues and performed several migrations from Exchange 2000 to 2003 and Exchange 2000 to hosted environments. Primary Microsoft consultant for several companies Auriga Laboratories, Crawford Communications, Atlanta Police Foundation, Nalley Automotive , administering all aspects of network.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer

• Ensure all areas of the network were functional. Improve security by replaced Linksys routers with Cisco Routers with several access lists. Implemented Enterprise Virus solution Trend Micro for LAN and Cloudmark for email spam filtering. Purchased ATM Frame Relay implemented site to site tunnel. Manage Toshiba telephony system, performing all phone administration. Created and maintained various databases using Access Inventory, Shipping and Receiving . Troubleshoot desktop related issues. Troubleshoot all Blackberry related issues and other PDAs Domain migration from Microsoft Small Business Server to Windows 2003.