SUMMARY:

• Throughout his career, Confidential has had the opportunity to work on a diverse set of technical projects, and to participate in the development of several business solutions.
• Some projects involved in - depth technical knowledge, while other projects took advantage of his sales and project management skills.
• During the latter portion of his career, Confidential has been concentrating mostly on Data center migrations, process optimizations and product/business solutions.
• Lately providing solutions on Cloud services and managed services (offshore and onshore) focusing on project management and Client relationship work involving multiple industry verticals and technologies from hardware to software, networking to security, applications to virtualization and multiple vendors.
• Confidential offers consultancy and management services on a variety client projects from 50K to 10M.
• He has helped many companies of all sizes to design and implement strategies and optimize their environment. Confidential currently holds numerous certificates from various vendors. Confidential has authored various technical documents and is a co-author of - “The Real MCTS/MCITP Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator Exam 70-647” by Syngress Publishing
• Confidential has consulted on many projects and the following clients are only intended to be a summary of projects.
• As a Consultant to various clients, managed projects throughout all project phases of planning, testing and deployment in accordance with the established guidelines and methodologies and following best practices such as MSF, MOF, ITIL, TOGAF, PMLC, SDLC, Agile, etc.
• Projects involved security and process optimization, Backup/Disaster Recovery Strategy, Service Level Agreements, performance / trend analysis as well managing/leading the team of technical and business resources.
• These projects also involved working and managing relationship with internal stakeholders as well as with various vendors.

SUMMARY OF TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/ 2008/ 2012 , Windows 8/ 7 /Vista/XP, Unix, Linux, Novell

Directory Services: Active Directory, AD Federation(ADFS), SSO, SAML (Profiles, idP, SP, Principal), Forefront, Identity Integration(MIIS/ILM/FIM), Ping Identity

Network Services: IIS, FTP, WWW, DNS, WINS, DHCP, Proxy Services, Load Balancing

Remote Access: Citrix Presentation/XenApp, XenDesktop VDI, Remote Desktop (RDS), SSL VPN, AppSense, ADC

Back Office: Exchange 2013/2010/2007/2003/5.5 , SMS, SCCM 2012 /2007, SQL, ISA, Sharepoint, RRAS, MBSA, Lync /OCS, Lotus Notes, Unified Messaging, MS Deployment Toolkit (MDT), PAS, Intel VPro, 802.1x

Backup/Storage: SAN/NAS/DAS, Arc Serve, Veritas, Backup Exec, Netbackup, Veritas Cluster Server, Volume Replicator, HP OmniBack, Legato, Symantec Enterprise Vault, NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager, Snapshot, Mirroring, IntelliSnap, iSCSI, Unified Storage management, CIFS, SCDPM, virtualization

Software: Oracle, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Visio, Project, Norton Utilities, McAfee, WinFax, PC Anywhere, VNC, NETIQ, VMWare ESX, vsphere, Virtual Server, Checkpoint, ITIL, Remedy, Vergence, Nortel CallPilot, CRM, Sage, ACT, Quest, ADMT, USMT, ADC, NTDSUtil, LDP, COTS, Office Profile Wizard, AppDNA, Wyse Manager, Meditech, and many others

Monitoring: HP Open View, WhatsUP Gold, SCOM, iLO, DRAC, Tivoli

OS Deployment: Ghost, Altiris, SCCM 2007/ 2012, MDT

Hardware: HP, Confidential, Confidential, EMC, SAN/NAS, Blade Servers, Avaya, Juniper, Blackberry, Wyse, Dialogic, NetScaler, NetScaler SDX/ MPX/ VPX, f5, BIG-IP, Cisco CSS/ ACE, etc.

Networking: Cisco routers/switches, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, VLANs, NAT, Load Balancing, GSLB

Security: Firewalls, Content filitering, L2-L7, Compliance, Auditing, ProxyInfrastructureActive Directory Services, Active Directory, GPO, Group Policy Management Console(GPMC), ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces), LDAP, Group Policy, Terminal Services/RDP, Remote Installation Services (RIS), DHCP, WINS, DNS, Global Catalog Servers (GC), Application virtualization- Softgrid, App-V, Xen, ThinApp, Load Balancer, Cloud Services, Software Defined networking(SDN)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager - IT Merger & Outsourcing

Environment: multiple forests/domains, Virtualization, security, firewall, VPN, Cisco, Checkpoint

Responsibilities:

• Managed critical and challenging partial business acquisition project from Confidential to Confidential and outsourcing to another managed services provider simultaneously
• Managed/Led complex decoupling projects including multi-forest AD, Exchange, Lync, Sharepoint, Desktop Mgmt, SCCM, VPN, etc. with very aggressive schedule.
• Negotiated contracts and established SOW and SLAs with vendors
• Effectively planning/communicating with various stake holders.
• Leading all aspects of projects from start to finish including project team definition, resource requirement/allocation decisions with managers of impacted departments
• Interfacing with stakeholder interfaces, project planning, functional documentation, vendor management, budgeting, full project execution, tracking, and reporting
• Interfacing with various onshore and offshore business and technical departments.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager - Data Center / SAP Migration

Environment: multiple forests/domains, Citrix, Virtualization, SAP, security, firewall, VPN, Cisco

Responsibilities:

• Managed critical and challenging Data Center migration/consolidation project from 13 DCs to 2.
• Effectively planning/communicating with various stake holders.
• Leading all aspects of projects from start to finish including project team definition, resource requirement/allocation decisions with managers of impacted departments
• Interfacing with stakeholder interfaces, project planning, functional documentation, vendor management, budgeting, full project execution, tracking, and reporting
• Interfacing with various onshore and offshore business and technical departments.
• Reviewing of the Solutions, Architecture/design and requirements (BRD) documents

Confidential

Pre-sales consultant / Project Lead

Environment: 5,000+ users, multiple forests/domains, multiple Citrix XenApp, VDI. Windows 2008/2012 Windows 7 / XP, SCCM, vmware

Responsibilities:

• Involved representing vendor from RFP, RFQ, pre and post sales presentations and guidance.
• Defining timelines and project guidance from technical as well as logistics stand point.
• Windows 7 deployment via SCCM 2012 and MDT, Active Directory, Citrix, VDI, VPOD, Poof-of-concepts, testing, and implementation
• Desktop/Server architecture, remote connectivity, patches/upgrades, security, antivirus

Confidential

Program Manager

Environment: 2,000+ users, multiple forests/domains, Citrix, Virtualization, Altiris, Cisco, firewalls, load balancers

Responsibilities:

• Managed critical and challenging Enterprise-wide VDI/ BYOD project involving Citrix XenDesktop, Windows 2008/2012 RDS, XenApp, Windows 7 VDI, Hyper-V, Hitachi
• Effectively planning/communicating with various stake holders.
• Leading all aspects of projects from start to finish including project team definition, resource requirement/allocation decisions with managers of impacted departments
• Interfacing with stakeholder interfaces, project planning, functional documentation, vendor management, budgeting, full project execution, tracking, and reporting
• Interfacing with other business departments
• Reviewing of the Solutions, Architecture/design and requirements (BRD) documents
• Managing Cost/benefit analysis, TCO, ROI, SDLC, PMLC

Confidential

Network/Security Architect

Environment: 20,000+ users, multi-forest, multi-vendor, Citrix farms, RDS, firewalls, switches, load balancers, virtualization, Cisco

Responsibilities:

• Designed and planned Data Center migration involving networking and security; managing multiple vendors and timelines
• Network/Security architecture, remote connectivity, Load Balancers, Application Delivery Controllers

Confidential

Solutions Architect/ Project Manager

Environment: 40,000+ users, Active Directory multi-forest, multi-vendor, Exchange, RDS, firewalls, switches, load balancers, virtualization, SAN, SCCM

Responsibilities:

• Managed Data Center migrations involving networking and security; managing multiple vendors and timelines
• Network/Security architecture, remote connectivity, security

Confidential

Migration Adviser

Environment: 50,000+ users, multiple forests/domains, multiple Citrix farms. Windows 2008 /7, SCCM

Responsibilities:

• Project involving Branch Technology refresh, Active Directory, SCCM, virtualization, and Windows 2008 designing, SCCM planning, Poof-of-concepts, testing, and implementation
• Desktop/Server architecture, remote connectivity, patches/upgrades, security, antivirus

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Environment: 57,000 desktops, Active Directory multiple forests/domains, multiple Citrix farms, SCCM, firewalls, switches, load balancers 11,000+Apps

Responsibilities:

• Led Projects involving Citrix, Active Directory, Exchange, SCCM, and Windows XP /7 designing, Poof-of-concepts, testing, and implementation
• Desktop/Server architecture, remote connectivity, patches/upgrades, security, antivirus
• Single-sign on solutions such as Citrix Password Manager and Microsoft Identity Management

Confidential

VDI Architect/ Project Manager

Environment: 2,000+ users, multiple forests/domains, multiple Citrix farms, Virtualization, SCCM

Responsibilities:

• Led VDI project POC involving Windows 2008 RDS, XenDesktop, Windows 7 VDI, Hper-V, VMware, EMC
• Desktop/Server architecture, remote connectivity, patches/upgrades, security, antivirus
• Project scheduling, reporting and analysis

Confidential

Solutions Architect/ Sr. Consultant

Environment: 50,000+ users, multiple forests/domains, multiple Citrix farms, Virtualization, SAN, Switches, firewall

Responsibilities:

• Led Data Center project involving Active Directory XenApp, Netscaler, and Windows 2008 Remote Desktop Services, NetBackup, EMC, Cisco, NetScaler
• Designing/planning, Poof-of-concepts, testing, and implementation
• Desktop architecture, remote connectivity, patches/upgrades, security, antivirus
• Single-sign on solutions such as Citrix Password Manager

Confidential

Sr. Technology Advisor/ Project Manager

Environment: 2,000-50,000 users, multiple forests/domains, multiple Citrix farms, Virtualization, SAN, Switches, firewall, SCCM

Responsibilities:

• Led Projects involving Data Centers, Citrix, Active Directory, Exchange 2007/2010, SCCM 2007, Symatec, SAN, NAS virtualization, and Windows 7 /XP /2003 /2008, Unified Communication, Remote Desktop Services, OCS, App-V
• Designing/planning, Poof-of-concepts, testing, and implementation
• Desktop/Server architecture, remote connectivity, patches/upgrades, security, antivirus
• Single-sign on solutions such as Citrix Password Manager, Microsoft identity Manager
• Responded to RFPs and various pre-sales presentations
• Won the most qualified sales award

Confidential

Infrastructure Architect/ Project Manager

Environment: 20,000 users, multiple forests/domains, multiple Citrix farms.

Responsibilities:

• Led Project involving Active Directory and Exchange migration, designing/planning, Poof-of-concepts, testing, and implementation
• Server architecture, remote connectivity, patches/upgrades, security, antivirus

Confidential

Infrastructure Architect/ Migration Consultant

Environment: 5,000 users, multiple forests/domains, multip

Responsibilities:

• Led Data center migration project involving Active Directory, Exchange, SAN, Poof-of-concepts, testing, and implementation
• Server architecture, remote connectivity, patches/upgrades, security, antivirus

Confidential

Solutions Architect/Team Lead

Environment: 57,000 users, multiple forests/domains, multiple Citrix farms, firewalls, switches, load balancers 11,000+Apps

Responsibilities:

• Led Projects involving Citrix, Active Directory, Exchange, SAN, and Windows XP designing, Poof-of-concepts, testing, and implementation
• Desktop/Server architecture, remote connectivity, patches/upgrades, security, antivirus
• Single-sign on solutions such as Citrix Password Manager and Microsoft Identity Management

Confidential

Security Auditor/ Project Manager

Environment: 4,000 users globally, 100+ servers. Windows 2003 AD forest, multiple domains. Exchange 2003, firewalls, switches, load balancers. 800+ Apps

Responsibilities:

• Secuirty auditing, recommendations
• Desktop/server standardization
• Active Directory auditing & recommendations
• ITIL standardization- Incident/Change/Patch management

Confidential

Infrastructure Architect

Environment: 5,000+ users, 100+ servers, Windows 2003 AD forest. Citrix farm. VDI. Exchange 2003, firewalls, switches, load balancers. 2500+ Apps

Responsibilities:

• Desktop/Applications Standardization
• Move to Thin client from PC and ultimately towards VDI on Citrix platform
• Server based desktop architecture using Citrix, softricity, and thinstall

Confidential

Infrastructure Architect/ Project Lead

Environment: Multiple Windows 2003 AD forests. Exchange 2003. Citrix farm, firewalls, switches. 12,000+ Apps

Responsibilities:

• Desktop/Applications Security & Standardization
• Migration from NT to Windows 2003 Active Directory and XP
• Citrix migration

Confidential

Infrastructure Consultant/ Project Manager

Environment: 20,000+ users. Windows 2003 AD forest. 12,000+ Apps

Responsibilities:

• Migration from NT to Windows 2003 Active Directory
• Migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003