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- ITIL V.3 Foundation 2010- Microsoft Certified Systems- Engineer (MCSE)- Linux I & II Trained- Oracle 10g Cert Training- CCNA - Trained- A + Certification- F-5 BIG-IP LTM Essentials- VMware VSphere 5/6/7- VMware View V4.5- Exchange Server 2016- Microsoft Office 365- Oracle Imaging System Admin- Oracle Process Mgmt. Admin- PMPEDUCATIONB.Sc. (Chemistry),University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC 1990OPERATING SYSTEMS- Windows Server 2008/2012/2016- Windows XP, Vista, 7/8/10- Sun Solaris 9/10- Redhat Linux Enterprise Server5/6/7- Centos Enterprise Server 5/6/7NETWORK/HARDWARE- Hubs, switches, (hybrid hubs),- Sun E15000, Sun T200 SAN,- Dell Power Edge 2950 Xeon- HP Blade Systems/Servers- ProLiant DL580 G5- HP ProLiant c-Class Blade- HP Proliant BL Series, 460CG7- IBM Blades / X series- UCS C210, UCS B230DATABASES- Oracle 10/11g Database- MS SQL Server 2005/2008 /2012APPLICATIONS/SERVERS- Windows Terminal Server- MS SQL Server 2008/201/2016- Exchange Server 2003/2010Exchange Server 2016/3O65- MS SharePoint 2010/2016,- MS Internet Information Server7- MS Office Suite 2010/2016- Visio Professional 2012/2016- TOAD for Oracle 11g- Windows SSH clientsVIRTUALIZATION TECHOLOGY.- VMware Server ESX/ESXi 5/6/7- Microsoft Hyper V- HP Virtual Connect Flex fabricModule- Hp Insight Control- AWSBACKUP /IMAGING- Symantec NetBackup- Symantec Norton Ghost 14.0- Symantec Altiris ApplicationControl Solution- Acronis True Image EchoServerDEVOPS Tools- Github- Artifactory- Cloudbees, JenkinsPROFESSIONAL SUMMARYA professional senior system engineer and Architect with more than 18 years of IT experience. Technical strengths include 17 years engineering and administering Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 Active Directory (SME), Exchange 2007/2010/16, MSSQL 2005/2008/2012, FTP, DNS, DHCP, WINS, IIS 7. Seven (7) years combined experience in Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Server/Centos 5, 6) and Oracle 10/11g database administration. Ten (10) years in Virtualization technologies which includes planning, deployment, configuration and administration of host systems, virtual machines. Execute VMware ESXI (VMware ESXi 5/6, or ESX and vCenter 5/6.0) related projects by designing platform solution, providing guidance and expertise. Strong hands-on experience with vSphere systems administration and support including VMotion, HA, DRS, VDS, Affinity rules, vCenter, storage migrations, P2V migrations, Strong hands-on experience with vSphere problem determination, capacity planning and root cause analysis. Also, vSphere Thin Provisioning, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, 3rd party plug-ins, vSphere Standard and Distributed Switches.Experienced in Amazon Web Services (AWS) provisioning and configuring EC2. Provisioning and configuring auto scaling group. Vast knowledge IAM configuration. Knowledge of CloudWatch, CloudFront and cloud formation Monitoring. Extensive experience in DEVOPS, managing project life cycle and reporting project status - Ability to organize, develop, document, execute, and improve processes supporting department/section Key Performance Indicators. I have Strong knowledge of High Availability, storage concepts, including, SAN and NAS (experience with storage protocols SCSI, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, NFS, CIFS), with excellent written and verbal communication skills.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCESr. System Engineer/AD Architect, IRS/Abacus/Free Alliance 6/2017 to PresentTechnical Lead: Exchange 2016 to Office 365 Hybrid Migration (on-premises Exchange servers and Exchange Online). Technical lead for 18 members AD, Exchange and network engineer team. Facilitated the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables. EXCHANGE 2016/O36: Deploy exchange recipients, mailbox Database, online archiving, eDiscovery, retention policies, RBAC, DAG, Federation Trust, Audit logging, Data Loss Prevention and Transport Rules. Used Barracuda PST Enterprise tool for PST migration. Migrate user local personal email archive to office 365 online archive nationwide (over 50,000 users). Perform Azure AD Connect to synchronize local Active Directory domain to Office 365, creating a copy of local AD accounts in Azure Active Directory that link back to the master copies.Active Directory: Responsibilities include AD replication model / AD replication topology; Authentication and Authorization; DNS; Group Policy; Interactive logon; Kerberos; TCP/IP; Security auditing; Operations masters; DFS; Domain and forest trusts; Certificates; Windows time service; Active Directory Schema; User and Group management; Delegation; Tools to troubleshoot AD (dcdiag, dnscmd, netsh, repadmin, w32tm); PowerShell or scripting for AD. Also, provide technical and project leadership across a diverse team for multiple Active Directory programs and projects. Provide capacity planning and performance monitoring to sustain and improve platform availability and efficiency.Microsoft Azure administration add, moves, and changes, etc. Participate in developing and maintaining backup and recovery procedures and processes documentation. Azure Global Foundation Services (GFS) data centers and Azure data center architecture, regional availability and high availability. On-premises Active Directory, deploy Active Directory, define static IP reservations, understand ACLs, Network Security Groups and Design Azure Compute. Azure load balancing options, including Traffic Manager, Azure Media Services, CDN, Azure Active Directory, Azure Cache, Multi-Factor Authentication and Service Bus.AWS/Cloud NGI Project: Participate in evaluation of Hyper-converged technology to address various tapeless data backup (RTO and RPO) requirements to the cloud. Assess all IRS business and product needs for a data backup that requires tapeless backup using Nutanix as HCI solution to the cloud (AWS and Azure). Create Test plan requirement on selected Hyper-converged technology. Develop migration plain requirement. Address Security concerns when building migration plan requirement. Evaluate and recommend cloud technology on NGI tapeless backup project.Sr. Systems Engineer/Verification Engineer, RockhammerTS/Census, 1/2017 to 5/2017Active Directory verification and Validation planning and Implementation. Review active directory requirement and map it to architectural design document. Create all the verification plan and task input for validation. Work with Windows team to perform validation of the verification task which include Install new/rebuild existing servers and configuration hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standard and project/operational requirements. Perform an assessment of client's infrastructure and ICAM program and provide input to comprehensive report. Analyze Active Directory architecture and settings and identify gaps. Perform identity data correlation and provide reports to client. Work with clients to update data in Active Directory. Contribute to preparing "runbooks" with instructions and settings for agency systems administrators.VMware Administrator/Engineer: Maintain and administer VSphere 6.0 server environment. Create and manage maintenance process procedures for VMware version updates. Patch all ESXi Hosts and Quest OS. Ensure seamless failover and testing during maintenance tasks. Perform remediation strategy for outstanding issues, which includes STIG (using tools: PowerCLI, scripts) and upgrade.Provides support to the AWS/Cloud, Datacenter, Backup, Storage, BCDR, Database, and DevOps engineering and implementation teams. Provides input on the development of design, implementation, user guides, and training materialsDevelops functional validation workbooks for performing site-to-site failover, workload redistribution, recovery, and fail-back for VMware Vsphere6Sr. Systems Engineer/ Enterprise Architect, IRS/Constellation West 6/2015- 12/2016Active Directory/Windows Server 2008 R2 to 2012 migration: Created build documentation procedure and provide proof of concept in DEV for migration/upgrade of Active Directory/ Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2 to meet RSA Archer security compliance in the new location. Perform proof of concept for Microsoft Exchange 2016 migration from Exchange 2010/2013 in DEV environment. Raise Domain and Forest Functional level, GPO management. Redesign DNS, DHCP and other services. Established standards for Active Directory and Domain Controller Server Configuration, DFS Namespace Design, DFS Root Design, Active Directory Sites, AD replication modeling/ AD replication topology, Authentication and Authorization. PowerShellUsed AWS Cloud for development build and testing: Configured and implemented IAM Policy Provisioned EC2 for both Linux and Windows servers. Launch and configure Databases with RDS. Provision systems storage with EBS, S3 and data achieve with Amazon Glacier. Launch and control AWS infrastructure with CloudFormation. Have working knowledge of Amazon OpsWorks for configuration management. Used CloudWatch, CloudFront and cloud formation Monitoring. Created Sanity Check plans which covers server monitoring of disk space, and memory usage, and failed processes of servers in all environments.VMware 6 Administration: Install new/rebuild existing servers and configuration hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standard and project/operational requirements. Monitoring of archer servers in vSphere environment is relative to VMware ESXI events, alerts, alarms and performance using vCenter monitoring tools (Cluster CPU Utilization, Cluster Memory Utilization, Storage Latency & Capacity, Virtual Machine Disk and Memory Usage), High availability, clustering, vmotion, storage vmotion etc.MS SQL 2008/12 Administration: SQL Server 2008/12 tasks: Rebuild Index, Check Database Integrity, Update Statistics, Backup Database maintenance plan, backup/recovery, replication, failover and disaster recovery and review SQL Server Agent Error Log. Also Perform MSSQL 20012, installation, configuration, and cluster build documentation and implementation.AD Architect/Exchange Administrator, FTC, Washington, DC 4/2014 6/2015Project Lead, Active Directory/Exchange 2007/10 in providing the highest level of technical expertise in the architecture, design, development, implementation, integration, migration and operation management of a nation-wide Microsoft Active Directory (Windows 2008/12) and Exchange 2007/2010 infrastructure that supports Blackberry. Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables.Active Directory: Plan and schedule project timelines. Provide direction and support to project team. Include sites, GPO, DNS, DHCP, FSMO roles, trusts, Kerberos KDCs, replication topology, etc. Prepare, make presentation and maintain documentation of directory and messaging services components and connectivity. Participate in developing and maintaining backup and recovery procedures and processes. Responsibilities include AD replication model / AD replication topology; Authentication and Authorization; DNS; Group Policy; Interactive logon; Kerberos; TCP/IP; Security auditing; Operations masters; DFS; Domain and forest trusts; Certificates; Windows time service; Active Directory Schema; User and Group management; Delegation; Tools to troubleshoot AD (dcdiag, dnscmd, netsh, repadmin, w32tm); Resolve escalated Help Desk tickets using Remedy Application as management reporting tool. Install, build, secure (USGCB/STIG), maintain, troubleshoot, administer (using tools, PowerShell, scripts) and upgrade Microsoft Windows Servers,EXCHANGE 2007/10: Administered MS Exchange and provided server support. Troubleshooting mail flow issues. Manage Mailbox databases/ Backups/ Repair/ Recovery. Create and maintain new user accounts, security groups, distribution lists, and Exchange 2010 mailboxes. Manages Exchange via Exchange Management Console and PowerShell to configure and decommission mailboxes and distribution lists, providing access to mailboxes and calendars, as well as configuring mailbox retention policies and other various settings in coordination with HR and Legal departments. Assists with the Remedy ticket queue for the Exchange Administration team with over 400 revolving tickets to ensure proper work ow and timely resolution.VMware Administrator: Maintain and administer VSphere 5.x server environment. Create and manage maintenance process procedures for VMware version updates. Patch all ESXi Hosts and Quest OS. Ensure seamless failover and testing during maintenance tasks. Perform remediation strategy for outstanding issues, which includes STIG (using tools: PowerCLI, scripts) and upgrade.Sr. Systems Engineer, BOOZ Allen Hamilton, McLean, VA 11/2012 3/2014Project Lead: Active Directory Windows 2008 R2 Migration to Windows 2012: As project lead, I facilitated the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables for migration of Windows Server 2008 R2 to windows 2012 R2 Active Directory in a new Indigo Data center. I led the design, implementation and technical support of a high availability multi-domain directory infrastructure platform. Responsibilities include AD replication model / AD replication topology; Authentication and Authorization; DNS; Group Policy; Interactive logon; Kerberos; TCP/IP; Security auditing; Operations masters; DFS; Domain and forest trusts; Certificates; Windows time service; Active Directory Schema; User and Group management; Delegation; Tools to troubleshoot AD (dcdiag, dnscmd, netsh, repadmin, w32tm); PowerShell or scripting for AD. Also, provide technical and project leadership across a diverse team for multiple Active Directory programs and projects. Provide capacity planning and performance monitoring to sustain and improve platform availability and efficiency.VMWare /Cloud Engineer: Led a team of technical and non-technical personnel to plan design and deploy VMware private and public cloud infrastructure which consists of multiple technologies with expandable capabilities, service and value to our clients. Configured and implemented IAM Policy Provisioned EC2 for both Linux and Windows based server. Launch and configure Databases with RDS. Provision systems storage with EBS, S3 and data achieve with Amazon Glacier.MS SQL 2008 Administration: Install, configure and manage Microsoft SQL 2005/8/2012 in a clustered Physical and virtual environment. Perform MSSQL backup and restore, log shipping and mirroring. Troubleshoot MSSQL Server services and outages. Create maintenance schedules. Create ODBC connections to Databases.Linux Administrator: Administration of RHEL 5 and 6, which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting virtual server issues. Creating, cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client Adding SAN using multipath and creating physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes. Involved in applying Patches, installing patch bundles on Redhat Linux Performed automated installations of Operating System using Kick start for Linux. RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management.Sr. System Engineer/Exchange, CatalystRX, Rockville, Maryland 12/2010 11/2012Program Lead Exchange/Active Directory Architect: Perform Infrastructure redesign\restructuring. Analyzed the company current application, hardware, OS, site and Network and determined how the domain and sites should be placed. Met with various business groups to understand how the Restructuring AD will meet the needs of each group. Participated in the design, installation and build out of new datacenter in Ashburn, VA. Plan and implemented migration from Rockville datacenter to the New Datacenter. Consolidated three AD forest, migrated them from windows server 2003 to Windows server 2008 R2 functional level in the entire sites nationwide. Plan and designed the upgrade from exchange 2007 to 2010 SP2. Performed AD security and cleanup of stale accounts. Establish standards for Active Directory and Domain Controller Server Configuration and naming convention.EXCHANGE 2007 to 2010 Migration: Participate in planning, design and deployment of Exchange 2010 migration from exchange 2007. Perform ADprep and installation of exchange 2010. Mailbox migration. Engage in administrative tasks such as adding, modifying and deleting group mailboxes and email accounts. Develop and report out on usage statistics and drive managed service provider's monitoring of the messaging and email environmentVMWare Administrator: Design, implement and perform project management for server virtualization using VMware (Server ESX/ESXi 4.1 & Workstation 7.5) to include SAN storage, VM migration VM failover (HA), and Physical to Virtual (P2V) migrations. Began the redesign of call center/Help Desk to conform to ITIL standards.Linux Administrator: Administration of RHEL and AS 3, 4, 5 and 6 which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting virtual server issues. Creating, cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client Adding SAN using multipath and creating physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes. Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, testing. Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password, resolving permissions issues, user and group quota.Sr. Systems Engineer, Unisys, Reston, Virginia 01/2005 12/2010Active Directory Architect: Tech Lead in infrastructure technology team in development and deployment of STIP, NO-FLY and SBINET project for TSA. Responsible for the design, development, implementation, integration, and migration of Microsoft Active Directory (Windows 2003/2008) for TSA ITE/DEV enterprise network. Architected TSA Exchange 2007/SharePoint in ITE environment to cover application testing, migration & design planning, performance testing, and team education. Perform systems and active directory administration services to include; Users, Group, DNS, DHCP, Site, Domains, Terminal Services and Name Servers in development and production environment.Designed and implemented Exchange Server 2003/2007 including front-end / back-end configuration, Outlook Web Access and highly available MSCS clustering. Supported TSA Bridge project in ensuring of its conformity with the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) standard. Microsoft Windows Application servers, File servers, Terminal servers, Exchange servers 2003/7, SQL servers 2000/5VMWare Administrator: Design, implement and perform project management for server virtualization using VMware (Server ESX/ESXi 4.x, 5.x & Workstation 6.5) to include SAN storage, VM migration VM failover (HA), and Physical to Virtual (P2V) migrations. Evaluated multiple target hardware platforms Servers (windows, UNIX and VMware),Linux/Oracle Database Administrator: Perform installation, configuration and administration of and Oracle Database 10/11g Servers on Solaris, Red Hat, and Windows platforms. Perform system optimization on oracle, UNIX, and Linux. Perform backup, restore, inter-operability, capacity planning, operational redundancy, contingency planning, integration, and operations of all components, hardware and software in TSA AD network enterprise. Provide server, patch andHONORS AND AWARDSUNISYS Silver Recognition Award for outstanding support in transitioning the TSAs operation to DC2 Facility and Exceptional achievement and contribution to the success of Unisys - 2009US CITIZENReferences Available Upon Request |
