Manager Active Directory

Aamir R. Mansoor

Email: *****.*******@*******.***

Cell: 832-***-****

Highly motivated, creative and organized Team Lead, Project Manager and Professional Systems Engineer with

over 13 years of experience applying people, process, problem solving and technical skills to improve individual,

team and organizational performance.

Professional Summary

• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory in a complex setting.

• Excellent interpersonal Skills and very effective and methodical problem solver.

• SME on Migration and Consolidation of multiple windows domains.

• Proven technical leadership skills, Project Management and Operations Planning experience.

• Expertise in Quest Migration and Management Tools.

• Solid experience in re mediating security shortfalls in Active Directory environment.

• Huge ability to create clear and concise documentation.

• Rapid learner who can very quickly become proficient in any computer related discipline.

Certification/Exams/Coursework

• MCTS : Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration

• MCTS : Windows 7 Configuration

• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) – 2003

• CompTIA Security+

• Exam: Managing & Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment

• Coursework: Exchange 2007 Installation and configuration.

Education

• University of Phoenix, Master of Science in Computer Information Systems – March 2006

• University of Houston, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science – December 1997

Technical Tools

• Quest Tools : Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory, Quest GP Manager, Quest Recovery Manager

for AD, Quest Intrust for AD, Quest Active Roles Server

• Win 2008, WIN2003, WIN2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Visio, Project, Excel, Word

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Experience

Icon Information Consultants LP – July 2010 to Present

First Data Corporation Office Houston, TX

Sr. Information Security Engineer

• Serve as SME for Active Directory from Infosec Perspective.

• Review any security risks and offer remediation for windows based systems, Active Directory in specific.

• Responsible for redesign of the OU structure from multiple layers to a flat structure.

• Manage Safeboot Encryption and Symantec Endpoint protection for the organization.

Responsible for evaluating Microsoft Bitlocker solution replacing Safeboot and setup policies and

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procedures for the implementation and migration to Bitlocker.

Responsible for Managing Windows based firewall via GPO’s.

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Documenting and updating existing GPO’s while planning consolidation and elimination of redundant and

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unused GPO’s to create a more efficient policy infrastructure

Led the massive cleanup of Active Directory for Quest Active Roles Licenses and saved over 150K.

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Setup new policies on user, OU and GPO’s management for support teams for best practices.

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First Data Corporation (Houston, TX) Oct 1998 – July 2010

Active Directory Engineer (Jun 2006 Jul 2010)

• Managed Active Directory Environment with 35K+ objects and 23 Domain Controller across the globe.

• Involved in testing and doing due diligence for upgrade to Windows 2008

• Led projects to consolidate multiple domains and forests to a single domain

• Manage multiple forests during the migration process and keep multiple environments up and available

• Planned and set standards/guidelines for all Domain migrations and acquisitions.

• Work with the exchange team during migrations and setup policies for exchange, MOM, LCS/OCS etc

• Provide support and help to development in integrating domain authentications for external apps.

• Use Quest Migration Manager tool to manage Domain Migrations and maintain a sync of multiple

environments during the migration phase… short term and long term

• Part of Global teams to consolidate International division of First Data into one single domain

• Delegate permissions to support staff (help desk, desktop, server) teams to manage Active Directory

objects via certain access templates controlling the level of access for audit

• Work in a dedicated lab environment, a replica of production, for new technologies and for QA purposes

when planning to implement new apps or changes

• Manage GPO’s, login scripts and scripting as needed.

• Setup and manage Quest Recovery Manager for AD to backup the domain and restore objects as needed

• Represent team on Change Management calls to follow policies and procedures to protect production

environment for any outages.

• Work with Project Managers to run major projects that require vast resources.

• Manage DFS links and NTFS permissions.

Windows Server Administrator (Mar 2005 – Jun 2006)

• Performed general maintenance and administration of 250+ servers using Microsoft’s standard tools,

custom automation scripts, TNG, Hyena, and other tools.

• Supported the Houston Data Center for TeleCheck.

• Responsible for Patching, Anti Virus, Backups and monitoring on windows servers.

• Designed and implemented GPO’s to manage workstations, servers, and audit requirements.

• Managed the local domain along with DHCP/WINS for the environment.

• Manage NTFS permissions on file servers.

• Worked with business unit managers to schedule outages and implement system patches, upgrades and

updates.

Manager End User Services (Jan 2003 – Mar 2005)

• Responsible for hiring technical staff.

• Responsible for supervising technical staff, training of employees.

• Responsible for annual review for technical staff and forward to upper management.

• Manage employee time for HR payroll and manage scheduling.

• Interacted with upper management on upgrades and cost saving initiatives.

• Dealt with business SLA’s and made sure call centers are up and running without outages.

• Handle any escalations for business and employee based issues.

• Managed projects from OS rollouts to equipment refreshes with changing technologies.

• Managed multiple projects for the enterprise to standardize procedures and apps

• Involved in evaluation of new hardware and other technologies from Desktop perspective.

Sr. LAN Administrator (Oct 1998 – Jan 2003)

• Supported 2000+ users in the Houston Office along with small regional sales offices across the US.

• Resolve end user issues and support day to day PC related issues including LAN connectivity

• Managed workstations on Symantec Antivirus including patching and upgrading clients

• Configuration, implementation and maintenance of WSUS environment

• Working with Active Directory team, creating and managing OU and GPO’s

• Created and supported Citrix application packages to be used on thin clients.

• Worked on replacing all non XP workstations with a standard XP image across the TCK enterprise

• Creating and converting software packages using MSI utility for deployment

• Assisted the Active Directory team in the migration of Domains.

• Install equipment/software, update and maintain various PC support databases and documentation and

conduct research on new technologies

Robert Half Consulting (Houston, TX) Feb 1998 – Oct 1998

USA Value Exchange Consultant

• Custom applications development in Access for Finance and Sales departments with Oracle as the backend

• Design, create, document and maintain modular Access databases that support the U$AVE departments

• Project to implement security for all databases at user and administrative level

• Perform critical data analysis and present conclusions to the U$AVE senior management

• Perform technology investigations and provide solutions and recommendations

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