SUMMARY:

• 10+ years Microsoft Active Directory planning, installation and maintenance
• 15+ years in Windows, Linux and Novell environments
• 5+ years of experience with VMware ESXi 4.x and 5.x or Hypervisor including but not limited to XEN, Hyper - V
• 4 years of expertise in installing configuration and managing of F5 Big-IP for Load balancing, LTM and others
• 5+ years of experience working with enterprise server platforms ( Confidential, Confidential, Oracle, Confidential, Confidential )
• 5+ years of enterprise class storage arrays, SANs and storage protocols such as NFS, iSCSI, etc.
• 6 years of experience in administrative function as well as maintenance of RedHat 4.x/5.x/6.x

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 7/8, Windows Vista Business/Ultimate, Windows 2000/XP Professional/Home, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows (3.x and 9.x) and MS-DOS

Network Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, Linux (Red Hat/Suze/Ubuntu), Windows NT Server, Windows 2000 Server/Enterprise and Datacenter, Novell NetWare 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x, Sun Solaris 2.6/7, etc.

Applications and tools: VMWare vSphere Hypervisor 4.5, 5.1 and 5.5 ESXi, Microsoft Back Office Suite (MS SQL Server 2005/2008/2012, Microsoft Exchange 5.5/2000/2007/2010, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), and Systems Management Server 1.2/SCCM 2010, Oracle 7/8/9i, Pervasive SQL, Microsoft Office Suites, Citrix Metaframe 1.0/1.8, Novell ZEN Works 3.x, Veritas Backup, Backup Exec, Norton Antivirus Corporate edition 7.5/ 7.6/8.0, Symantec Endpoint Security, VNC, Web tools (XML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript), MS Project

Network Protocols and Management: TCP/IP (DNS, DHCP AND WINS), IPSEC, IPX/SPX, SMTP, SNMP (Managewise 2.x and Confidential Openview), SolarWinds Orion, Splunk, New Relic, Layer 7 XML Gateway, etc.

Hardware: Confidential PC compatibles, Confidential PowerEdge servers, Confidential Optiplex/Precision/Dimension Desktops, Confidential Inspirion/Latitude laptops, Compaq/ Confidential Servers (Proliant} Compaq/ Confidential Desktops and Laptops, Confidential Enterprise Servers, etc. Hardware devices such as network cards, hubs, Confidential Catalyst Switches, Confidential Routers, Nortel switches and hubs, modems, Confidential Phones, Confidential VPN Concentrator 3000 series, etc.

Solutions: Voice over IP (VoIP), Virtualization and Cloud computing, VMware View Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (View 6.0), Enterprise Managed Services, different Enterprise - wide solutions, Confidential /AWS Cloud Solution, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• In charge of drawing up a development or integration plan and as well as deployment plan.
• Involved in planning, configuring and maintaining various IT projects in the environment.
• Engaged in configuring and maintaining Active Directory Services using Windows Server 2008r2 and 2012 as well as Microsoft SQL servers 2008 and 2012 for various database needs in the environment.
• Designed and implemented network management solution for network and application monitoring using Solarwinds NPM and SAM for the enterprise
• Involved in planning and deployment of virtualization project using VMware ESXi 5,x which involved consolidation of many Windows and Linux servers into virtual servers and management of the environment.
• Worked with application team in building and managing servers for various applications
• Working with various vendors for application and hardware installation and troubleshooting
• Coordinating and setup stage for software testing and release.

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in systems administrations activities in Linux and windows environments
• Patching and running updates of servers, OS and applications in Windows and Linux environments.
• Utilizing SPLUNK, New Relic, Gomez, XML Gateway and other tools to monitor applications and network performance on approx. 100 servers
• Web Access Firewall management as well as load balancing using F5 Big-IP
• Managing and supporting and troubleshooting the servers running Oracle Enterprise Identity Management (EIDM) systems - Oracle Identity Manager (OIM), Oracle Access Manager (OAM) and Oracle Virtual Manager application in VMware virtual environment.
• Coordinating and setup stage for software testing and release.

Senior Systems Engineer/IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In charge of Symantec Endpoint Protection implementation and administration.
• Involved in monitoring SonicWALL ( Confidential firewall system) and initiating time sensitive incident handling protocols.
• Prepared detailed briefings and intelligence reports to executive leadership.
• Researched hackers, hacker techniques, vulnerabilities and exploits and contribute to technical cyber threat assessments regarding client systems and data.
• Performed risk assessments and execute tests of data flow system to ensure functioning of data processing activities and security measures.
• Involved in project management, systems engineering, and maintenance for Application development planning and implementation (SDLC cycle)
• Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery for the enterprise network.
• Involved monitoring BIG-IP F5 Local/Global Traffic Manager for load balancing and Access Policy Manager for access control
• In charge of analyzing the current systems (operating systems, hardware, software, networks)
• Engaged in select the new technologies while observing the various constraints (cost, time frame and security)
• In charge of drawing up a development or integration plan and as well as deployment plan.
• Planned, coordinated and controlled various IT projects such as Cloud and Datacenter development and deployment projects with virtualization using VMWare ESXi 4x and 5x
• Involved in planning, implementation and deployment of virtualization environment with VMware ESXi (vSphere), and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), running Horizon/View client (VMware View 6.0) as well as maintenance and support environment
• Engaged in planning, designing, configuring and maintaining Active Directory Services using Windows Server 2008r2 and 2012.
• Implemented Microsoft SCCM 2007for hardware and software management and patching and update
• Configured and managed Linux (RHEL 6.5, CentOS and Ubuntu) and Windows operating systems user management, application and web services.
• Engaged in migration, supporting of web application (JIS) hosting to AWS cloud space
• Installed operating system software, troubleshot, maintained integrity and configured network components along with implementing operating systems (Linux and Windows environments) enhancements to improve reliability and performance
• Engaged in strategic planning and quality assurance for various client application development and testing
• In charge of Systems and infrastructure architecture and implementation using various solutions

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in systems integrations and supports in Windows AD and virtualization environment
• Planning, installation and maintenance of servers, applications and other network equipment using solutions like VMware ESXi 4.1 and 5.0 on Confidential Blade Servers and Confidential PowerEdge Enterprise servers
• Installed, configured and maintained - RHEL 5 for application development
• Involved Enterprise class storage arrays, SANs and storage protocols such as NFS, iSCSI, NTFS, etc
• Involved in various project management like Datacenter visualization project
• Systems troubleshooting, maintenance and general support

Senior Systems Engineer and IS Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various IT consultancy services for different clients in DC Metro
• Involved in designing, deployment, maintenance and support different network solutions for clients, which include Active Directory Services using Windows Server 2000/2003 Servers and Novell Directory Services (NDS) in small, medium and enterprise scale sites
• Installed, configured and maintained - RHEL 5 for application development and web presence (running Apache)
• Managed enterprise class storage arrays, SANs and storage protocols such as NFS, iSCSI, NTFS, etc.
• Involved in different installation deployment and support of network connectivity, depending on clients’ needs, and environments both LAN and WAN which include installing and configuring of switches, routers, remote connections like VPN
• Involved in implementation of different information security systems - content filtering, firewall and others
• Involved in various software and hardware deployment and support projects for various clients in clients/server environments which include Office application software, anti-virus and security software, specialized applications like Medical, Financial, Mortgage, HR applications.
• Involved in maintenance of sites and troubleshooting of various issues both software and hardware
• Managed different technicians and engineers and receiving escalation calls for resolutions.

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in design, management and troubleshooting of Microsoft Active Directory Services, NT domain systems and Novell Directory Service (NDS) in enterprise environment.
• Involved in planning, installation, hardware/software upgrade/migration and maintenance of servers for different needs and projects both Novell NetWare and Windows NT/2000 servers as well as application of service packs
• Involved in general network maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Involved in several special projects as assigned by superior which including, Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition deployment to servers and workstations, Internet Content Filtering using Surf Control and Symantec Web Security, MacAfee Help Desk and Heat and Servers hardware upgrade and consolidation.
• Participated in workstation, application distribution and remote management using Microsoft Installer (MSI) and Novell Zenworks for Desktop 3.0
• Involved in setting of inventory management and control of software and hardware on servers and workstations
• Involved in planning and evaluation of different Storage Area Network (SAN) and Disaster Recovery solutions for the enterprise and testing of migration of GroupWise5.5 to Microsoft Exchange 2000

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in planning, designing, installing, configuring and maintaining Novell and Windows NT 4.0 servers both locally and remotely for Decennial project under Census 2000 all over the country including Puerto Rico.
• Participated in Novell Directory Service (NDS) and NT domain administration, security, troubleshooting and resolving various problems on the servers including disk, backup and other hardware and software problems in heterogeneous environment (NT, Novell and UNIX enterprise networks) for Beta Unit under decennial project.
• Involved in setting up Test Environments for various file releases under the project.
• Involved in life release of files to different regional office and states under the project.
• Performed database administrations and supported application developers and testers in the area of test environment setup and file migrations using database management tools like PeopleSoft, Oracle 7/8 SQL and FTP.
• Documented procedures and guidelines on various installations, configuration and troubleshooting for tester, administrators and technicians.

LAN Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Managed and guided the technical support staff. Involved in planning and implementation of various plans - Y2K testing and compliance plan.
• Performed all necessary system administrative functions, which included implementing, installing and configuring Novell/Windows NT 4.0 network.
• Involved in configuring and maintaining TCP/IP (DHCP, DNS and WINS services)
• Involved in Level-2 support activities
• Managed and supported intranet servers for Science Faculty using Microsoft IIS 4.0 and Proxy servers
• Set up and managed users and group account, securities in Novell NDS and NT Network in enterprise environment.
• Involved in analyzing, performance tuning and troubleshooting hardware and software problems both on workstations and servers.
• Conducted research on various computing issues and compiling reports on network performance and optimization.

Network Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Supported Network connectivity with NetWare 3.12 & 4.11 and Windows NT 4.O.
• Involved in maintaining and creating users and group accounts.
• Set up and configured Workstations in both Novell and Windows NT environment.
• Involved in PC staging and configuration.
• Supported users with various applications and printers.
• Involved in general technical support activities, and hardware and software troubleshooting.
• Involved in migration process from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, Novell 3.12 to 4.11 and NT 4.0.
• Installed, configured and maintained PC and Laptops (for mobile users) and other devices like Modems, NIC, Memory, and other equipment.