Jon Zubair

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonzubair

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Morris Plains, NJ 07950

908-***-****

ac846z@r.postjobfree.com

Significant experience in IT industry with a proven track record. Creative problem solver who

excels under pressure and gets the job done. Accustomed to a fast pace, fulfilling priorities and

meeting deadlines while consistently achieving company objectives. US Citizen.

EXPERIENCE

Strategic Business Systems, 2017 - Date

Systems Support Engineer

Provided Systems Administration and Support of Windows 2012 R2 and 2016 Servers.

Designed, implemented and administered consolidating the current environment to a virtualized environment, in order to reduce hardware costs, data center maintenance costs, and centralized management needs.

Active Directory, LDAP Authentication, Group Policy, Windows Cluster environment, and VMWare ESXi.

Extensive working knowledge of PKI, ADFS, AWS, and Office365 suite

Provide support NetBackup v7.7.3 - 8.1.2 and Commvault v11 SP13, Master and Media Servers\Agents

Provide support for backup related issues such as snapshot error, client connectivity issues, Disk pool related issues, MSDP pool related issues, Storage servers, new and existing backups and restores in local and cloud environment (AWS and Azure)

Upgraded OpsCenter, Master Servers, Media servers and clients from v7.7.6 to v8.1.2

Upgraded Veritas Netbackup Appliances to v3.1

Strong knowledge of NetBackup agents including Oracle RMAN, Microsoft SQL Intelligent and Script based policy, Microsoft Exchange (DAG), NDMP, SLP, Duplication, Replication, AIR, Import jobs, VTL, Vault\Media management, Disk, Media\Tape and Cloud storage.

Generate and schedule customized backup reports and Alerts using OpsCenter 7.7.6 - 8.1.2

Lord Abbett & Co., Jersey City, NJ 2011 - 2017

Product – DataCenter Support Specialist

Systems administration of MS Windows includes Windows 2008 and 2012 Servers, Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows Cluster environment, and VMWare ESXi.

Setup VMware vSphere/ESXi 6 environment and upgraded existed hosts and introduced new ESXi hosts for Production & DR site ESXi and migrated all VMs and NFS volumes to new environment from vSphere/ESXi 5.5 environment.

Extensive knowledge of VMWare conversion tools to run pre- and post-conversion tasks.

Lead physical to virtual migration project for the team and Converted 500 plus VMs from physical to virtual using VMware converter 5.5.

Schedule monitor and troubleshoot jobs in Tidal Enterprise Scheduler v5.31, Cisco Workload Automation 6.3

Monitor entire IT environment using HP Openview, HP Operation Manager, SiteScope, manage Incidents, Change Control with ServiceNow

Experienced AWS, created, installed and configured ec2.

Deploy Patches and updates on Monthly basis using Shavlik v9.1

Manage Data Center, Rack – unrack HP DL 360, 380 G7, G8 servers, Blades BL460, 460c G7, G8, Storage, Library, DataDomain, Brocade Switches, Blade center c7000, PDU, Avocent switch PM3010v in 3 geographical locations (Jersey City NJ, Secaucus NJ and TierPoint TekPark, PA).

Administration and support NetBackup 8.0 Master and Media Servers

Implemented VEEAM v9.5 for VMWare backups

IBM Global Delivery Framework, East Fishkill, NY 2010 - 2011

Systems Administrator

Systems Administration and Support of 1700+ Servers (physical and virtual) includes Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Servers, Active Directory, Windows Cluster and Citrix environment. Deployed Patches and updates on Monthly basis. Remedied change control, Incident management, security updates. Performed regular Server Health Check, performance tuning, and Quarterly maintenance for all supported Servers.

Implemented and administered the consolidation of the current environment to a virtualized environment, in order to reduce hardware costs, data center maintenance costs, and centralized management needs.

Supported and remedied backup-related issues of TSM, improved backup success rate.

Flight Centre USA, Ramsey, NJ 2006 - 2010

Senior Systems / Data Center Administrator

Provided Systems Administration and Support of Active Directory, Windows 2003 and 2008 Servers, Microsoft Exchange 2007-2010, IIS 6.0, Linux and Citrix Presentation Server 4.0. Managed disaster recovery and defined backup policies. Oversaw media management, device management, and scheduling.

Designed, implemented and administered consolidating the current environment to a virtualized environment, in order to reduce hardware costs, data center maintenance costs, and centralized management needs.

NSLIJHS - Eclipsys Westbury, NY 2006 – 2006

Senior Systems Analyst – Consultant

Migration of Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2003 Server SP2 using quest migration manager.

Configured and troubleshoot end users’ workstations with updated system.

Installed and Configured 23 IBM x346 servers with windows 2003 server, NAV, TSM Client v 5.3.4, Server Raid Manager, IBM Director, BigFix client and CA Agent.

Troubleshoot and resolved MS Exchange and Outlook related issue

Johnson & Johnson, Raritan, NJ 2005 – 2006

Analysis and Design

Systems Administration and maintenance of Active Directory, Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers.

Backup and Restore using Tivoli Storage Manager v5 (TSM), HP OmniBack II v3 and Veritas Netbackup 4.5/5.0/5.1, defined backup policies, media management, device management and scheduling, managing backup of twelve hundred servers, more than 500 TB of data with SAN and over the network with HP/UX and Windows media servers.

quarterly Disaster Recovery drill for operating companies of Johnson & Johnson.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Computer Science

International Foundation Washington, DC

Diploma in Network Engineering

IT Technical Institute, Edison, NJ

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS

VMware Certified Professional 5.0

Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) for MS Exchange Server 2000

Symantec(Veritas) Certified NetBackup 7.5

Novell Netware 3.12 certified

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Microsoft windows 2003\2008\2012\2016 Active Directory, Windows 2003, 2008 Server R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, MS Hyper –V server 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange v5-v10, MS SQL Server, Windows 7, 8 and v10, Citrix Server.

Virtualization: VMWare VSphere ESX\ESXi 5, 5.5 and 6.0 Server, VMware converter 5.5

Backup: Symantec veritas NetBackup 5, 6, 7 and v8, Opscenter, HP Storage Data Protector A.05.10, CommVault v5.9 – v11 SP14, Veritas Backup Exec 7.11- 10

Software: TWS (Maestro), Tidal Enterprise Scheduler v5.31, Cisco workload Automation v6.3 Service Now, Remedy, C-Support, Numara FootPrints 8.0, HP Operation Manager, HP Open View, NetIQ, Dameware, MS Office 95-2010, pcAnywhere, Symantec Utilities and Virus Scan, and McAfee Virus Scan, Microsoft Operation Manager, Bloomberg gateway, Macgregor XIP, ITG Broker lines, PAM, statstreet and SimpCorp, ftp, sftp, Shavlik v9.1, ivanti 9.2, SCCM 2012, SCVMM 2012 sp1, System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), PKI Public Key Infrastructure.

Hardware: HP DL 360, 380 G7, G8 servers, Blades BL460, 460c G7, G8, And IBM SERVERS, EMC Storage, Library, DataDomain, Brocade Switches, Blade center c7000, PDU, Avocent switch PM3010v, IBM Tape Library TS3584, DataDomain 4500, Symantec Appliance 5230, DELL EMC VMAX 950F, Dell Poweredge servers, Oracle Storage Tek SL3000, IBM X series Servers and Sun Enterprise series servers, HP ESL 9000 Tape Library, ADIC Scalar i2000 Tape Libraries, Spectra Logic 120, LTO3-LTO5, Compaq DLT/SDLT tape drives, HP DAT and DLT / SDLT tape drives.

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