Mohammed Ahmeduddin

acubw7@r.postjobfree.com

501-***-****

SUMMARY:

8+ years of Active Directory experience and operational support on Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 platforms.

Expert knowledge of Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Windows desktop and Remote desktop. Implementation and administration of Active Directory in Windows 2003/2008 environment

Experience installing, managing and administering Windows 2008 and 2003 based Domain controllers, Backup / Additional Domain Controller

Currently leading the windows 2003 server refresh project with a team of 6 members, interact and coordinate with different teams to meet the deadlines.

Working with the Patch Management team to makes sure the servers are updated with the latest release security patches to adhere with company security policy using Shavlik and BMC Tools.

Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Xenapp 6.5, 6.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0, 4.0, Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 and MetaFrame 1.8 on Windows 2008, 2003, 2000, XP and NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition in a controlled environment serving 5000+ users globally

Migration from Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 and earlier versions to Xenapp 6.0/6.5 for Windows 2008 R2, Citrix Windows clients (4.0,5.0,6.0,6.3,7.0, 8.x, 9.x,10.x,12.x)

Documentation includes PCI compliance requirements, PCI vulnerability management, remediation, audit evidence submission, user access review recommendations

Experience with enterprise backup systems and disaster recovery operations; familiarity with SAN technologies; solid understanding of vSphere implementation with shared storage fiber channel, ISCSI, NFS / VMFS strategies for performance and optimization

Perform troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms as part of production support.

In depth knowledge of Installing and configuring IBM and Dell Servers. Configuring RAID, Disk Mirroring, SAN Volume Expansion, Raid, SCSI Controller Installation

Provided live support for the VMware supported production environment

Hands on experience with vSwitches, port groups, and Cisco Routers & Switches, TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs, Ethernet port, and Wireless networks

Built a desktop pool using Linked clone and configure pool for required user group.

Sound working knowledge on FC SAN, ISCSI SAN and NAS storage.

Experience on SAN Storage and Disaster recovery solution with VMware SRM

Security Administration of File Server, user accounts and security groups on a multiple Active directory and NT4 domains

Experience with setting up Print Spoolers, FTP sites and tracking emails.

Expertise in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

p Programming Languages:

T-SQL, PL/SQL

Database Application Software:

SQL Server 7.0/2005/2008,2012,MS Access, Oracle

DB Utilities:

Network:

SQL Server Management Utilities, Query Analyzer.

TCP/IP, DNS, NAT, DHCP, LAN.

Microsoft Tools

MS Office- Access, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, MS SQL Server Reporting Services 2005/2012, Visio, IIS, SCCM, SCOM

Operating Systems:

Windows NT 4.0

Windows XP/98, AIX, Windows 7 & 8

Windows Server 2000/2003, 2008,2008 R2 2012 R2

Third Party Tools:

Languages

Virtualization

Lite Speed, Performance Dashboard, TOAD

VB.net, ASP.net, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML.

VMware ESX 3.0/3.5/4.0, Citrix XPe/MetaFrame PS3.0, Citrix PS4.0/PS4.5, XenApp 5.0/6.0/6.5 XenServer, XenDesktop

EXPERIENCE:

CVS Caremark, RI February 2014 to Present

Windows VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

Leading the windows 2003 server refresh project with a team of 6 members, interact and coordinate with different teams to meet the deadlines.

Experience in architecting, building and maintaining systems on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Sharepoint

Coordinate with application owners to identify the windows servers which can be decommissioned.

Perform in place or fresh server upgrade to windows 2008 R2 servers.

Implement the GPO settings for the identified PCI servers to make sure the servers are in compliance with PCI standard.

Manage Active Directory and Domain policies

Patch Management which makes sure the servers are updated with the latest release security patches to adhere with company security policy using SCCM 2012

Perform troubleshooting of operating system and software infrastructure issues on Domain Controllers, Member Servers, Server Clusters, and Virtual Machine Farms as part of production support.

Documentation includes PCI compliance requirements, PCI vulnerability management, remediation, audit evidence submission, user access review recommendations

Installed ESX on Bare Metal, installed and upgraded drivers and BIOS Firmware for Qlogic CNA, configured networking (VSS), NIC teaming and software ISCSI adapters for SAN.

Configured HA Cluster for ESX Hosts, configured Resource Pools to optimize the available hardware Resources, and enabled DRS for Load Balancing.

Configured failover priority for Virtual Machines running Production applications and databases. Added rules to Cluster for further customization.

Provided live support for the VMware supported production environment.

Experience in implementation and deploying Ether channeling in vSphere ESXi5.0 environment.

Performed up gradation of ESX 3.5/ESXi4.1 environment to vSphere 5.0 .

Provided NETAPP, QLOGIC, and DELL SAN support to enterprise systems in test and production environments. Supported encrypted data networking from Host Bus Adapters (HBA) to SANs over FDDI, ISCSI and Ethernet.

Monitoring and troubleshooting for any OS & Hardware related issues and analyzed system logs to determine the root cause.

Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Windows desktop and Remote desktop

Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and SVMotion.

Experience in updating/upgrading ESX/ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.

Taking care of NIC teaming at ESX server level for NLB and redundancy

Physical machines CPU and Memory usage metrics

Worked on Exchange 2010 processes, such as Mailbox migration and Mailbox performance optimization.

C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. December 2012 to December 2013

Vmware Engineer

Responsibilities:

Experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware ESX 5.5 environment

Analyze network traffic for the VM hosts in collaboration with the Networking team

Performed datastore migration using VMware storage vMotion on Netapps NFS, dell ISCSI SAN Storage

Assisted in P2V conversions of Windows servers using VMware vConverter

Involved in Assessment of current environment for desktop virtualization.

Experience with setting up new VMware clusters and integrating into the existing Environment.

Created use cases for desktop design and implementation.

Installation of VMware Tools and upgrade of ESX hosts .

Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments

Assessment,design and implementation of View 4.5 environment

Creating and managing the VMware cluster with HA and DRS.

Monitoring and managing performances of ESX/ESXi servers and virtual machines.

Hardware expertise to replace Memory Module, CPUs and HBAs

Storage VMotion according to the requirement

Upgrade firmware, BIOS using IBM Update Express.

P2V Hot conversions using converter enterprise 3 and 4

P2V cold conversion using Vmware Converter Boot CD

Installing VMs and deploying VMs from templates

Installing and upgrading VMware Tools

Installing and managed VDI terminal servers

Provided isolated desktop environment via VDI

Creating resource pools and adding the VM’s into the pools

Jet Blue, Long Island June 2010 to Oct 2012

Citrix Administrator

Responsibilities:

Managed & developed a Citrix farm containing 200 Citrix PS4.0 servers to serve 6000 users

Administered the migration of all the applications from Citrix PS4.0 to Citrix 4.5 (Xenapp) servers

Handled 5 Lab servers within the Citrix PS4.5 farm for testing the applications before roll out, 20 to 30 Development servers to check the compatibility and stability of the applications, 150 Production servers for publishing the applications for the end users

Tested the application on virtual machines in the lab environment; Production environment consisted of both Windows Server 2000 and 2003 OS

Administered 10 Disaster Recovery servers within the farm for load balancing the Production servers and to improve the reliability of the applications

Actively involved in on-call rotation once in a month along with the team members

Handled an average of 5-6 ticket per day using Remedy ticketing system in the round robin fashion

Managed Web Interface 4.5 client to publish the applications; deployed version 10 Citrix client for all the client desktops to access the applications

Installed, Configured & Implemented a XenDesktop environment to serve pilot users using HP thin client devices

Provided customized desktops, profiles & applications through XenDesktop to the end users

Maintained documentation of all the installations, troubleshooting tickets, updates and upgrades of servers, Citrix Access Gateway/Netscale.

Administered AD (Active Directory) for Windows 2003 including IIS 6.0, GPO deployments, DNS, DHCP configurations & web services in .NET framework (platform)

Performed VB scripting to push GPO’s to client desktops

Performed backup using Veritas and Norton Ghost; Deployed Citrix clients and maintained patch management using SMS and Citrix Hotfix; Monitored the performance of Citrix servers & applications using Edgesight; Deployed Citrix packages using Citrix Installation Manager

Campus Management, FL Nov 2007 to May 2010

Application Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

Installation, configuration, administration and maintenance of Windows 2008 operating system on HP Proliant \ Compaq Servers. Management \ monitoring of servers using various third party applications.

Complete monitoring and support to Infotrix Self Service Application.

Complete Remote support For Engines located at multiple locations.

Providing support Connections of DSL & Layer-2 VPN Connections with respect to Client Engineers

Jobs involved in looking after Engines as a System administration in installation and Maintaining all Engine Components, configuring & sharing both Laser & Thermal printers, supporting application software used by the users on servers.

Generating Reports in regular bases depending upon Engines Success / Failure Transactions.

Complete Preventive Maintenance for Application Servers, Database servers, Proxy servers & Test server.

Implementing new upgraded Test release on Staging Environment (Test Server) and then to Production Environment ( App Servers)

Installed server based and peer to peer networks depending upon the clients requirements

Working with Field Engineers from Network Connection to complete Hardware & Software Installations & up gradation

Providing Microsoft Access support, Network and system support.

Installing project related specifications for testing users and hosting databases with SQL Server 2005.

Administrating with Infotrix Browser, resolving errors & warning of All Engines, Branch components & API Monitoring.

Troubleshooting day to day server related issues on Windows Server 2008 including file backup & restores.

Installation, configuration & troubleshooting Windows 2000 & Windows 2003 guest virtual machines.

Security Administration of File Server, user accounts and security groups on a multiple Active directory and NT4 domains.

Participates in vendor application software evaluation, installation, and proof of concept activities.

Proactively reviews application explains to identify and resolve potential performance problems.

Participates in application code walkthroughs. Ensures code is efficient and conforms to DBA recommended standards and best practices.

Influences application design, including application infrastructure and process.

Performs unloads and loads of database to support application testing requirements.

Mentors application team in getting up to speed using application and database software including, but not limited to, Stored Procedure Builder, Stored Procedure Debugger, and Client Assistant Enabler.

Supports stress testing efforts.

Computer Science Corporation, India Aug 2006 to Oct 2007

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Complete support For IT production Dept., Handling of Site Scope builds on IIS Server. Monitoring of Setup, debugging & sorting out problems.

Complete support for user & administrator.

Jobs involved in looking after the network administration, installation and configuration Maintaining user accounts, configuring & sharing / Network printers, supporting application software used by the users on NT & Solaris servers.

Designed Windows NT TCP/IP networks.

Providing Microsoft Access support, Network and system support.

Installing project related specifications for testing users and hosting databases with SQL Server, DB2, and Oracle.

Providing Remote Desktop Support, Initiating and Monitoring VERITAS Net Backup, Administration and Troubleshooting Video Conference equipment’s like Tandberg and polycomm

Administering Network infrastructure, Switches, Internet, desktops.

Created User Accounts, groups and running scripts on production servers.

Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP

Worked extensively on 2500 + server environment and 200+ windows domains.

Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.

Worked elaborately on different windows environment which include Windows NT version 4.0, Work Station, Terminal, 2000 and 2003.

Running VB Scripts to validate logins on 1000 + servers and check the server access on weekly basis.

Strong Knowledge in creating various objects like User Accounts, Computer Accounts, and Auto logon accounts.

Experience in Internet Information Services 4.0

Publishing the Desktops and Individual Applications according to the Department requirements in the organization.

Providing users with access rights and permission for accessing the applications

Installing and updating the windows patches

Assigning folder permissions to the users by gathering approval from the group owners. Identify and troubleshoot failing clients, return clients after troubleshooting to ensure proper remediation. Issue and track escalations to clients' system administrators.

Understanding of tape pools, tape retention, backup levels (full, differential, incremental)

Attending meetings on upcoming lab projects

Using own technical skills to work as directed in labs.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science & Engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), India. (2005)

Certifications:

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (2008, SR3287815)

Cisco CCNA Certified (2009, 213098)

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