Active Directory Management

Lead Senior Systems Architect/Engineer with a competitive 15+ year experience in Banking, Healthcare and Retail markets. Efficiently execute technical and managerial skills to coordinate successful delivery and meet demands based on client needs and industry changes. Offer highly competitive and innovative ideas to drive business development and value creation.

Skills

Network/O/S/Protocols: Windows Enterprise Server • Windows Terminal Services • VMWare (ESX 3x 4x 5x 6x) Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 /4.5 • XenApp 5/6x7 • Linux RedHat 7.1 • WinXP, Win7-10 • TCP/IP • IPX/SPX NetBios • SNMP • SMTP • DNS • DHCP • WINS • VLANS • BGP • NLB • EIGRP • OSPF • Active Directory • Novell Netware NDS • ZenWorks

Systems Mgmt/Monitoring: SMS2K3/SCCM12 • SolarWinds • What’sUpGold • Nagios • IBM Director • HP IRS HP/SUM • Backup Exec • Tivoli Storage Manager R4.5 • Arcserve 2000 for Windows • Arcserve 7.1 for Netware Windows Backup

Software and Programming: MS IIS 7.0 6.0, 5.0 4.0 • Apache 1.3.2 • SSL • HTML • XML • VB Script • ADSI PowerShell • Power CLI • MS SQL Server WLBS • Checkpoint FW NG/NGX • Cisco ASA • MSCS (Microsoft Clustering Services) • VMware vSphere (ESXi) 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.0 • Cisco / Brocade FibreChannel • Baracuda • GSLB

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge • Compaq HP Proliant Servers • IBM • Cisco • 3com • Intel • HP • EMC VNX (IronPort) Barracuda • HPC7000 Blades Chassis • HP Onboard Administrator • HP Virtual Connect • HP Flex Fabric 20/40 Modules

SAN Technology: NetApp FAS2240 7-Mode • XIO ISE Technologies • EMC Vmax100k All flash Array • EMC VNX5200/5400 • EMC Vplex Metro VS2 • IBM DS5100 • Dell Equal logic • HP EVA 4400/6400/8400

experience

Lead Senior Solutions Architect/Senior Engineer/Technical Lead

Bank of America-Merrill Lynch/ NYUMC/Willett Advisors/Rosenthal & Rosenthal (Consultant)

New York, NY June 2014- Aug 2016

Worked in partnership with diverse enterprise sectors; provided expert technical services in achieving business objectives, and overcoming challenges. Improved the structure and efficiency of IT systems in organizations by providing strategic guidance to clients with regard to technology. Management, Builds and Designs of newly and existing solutions precisely around (VMware, Active Directory, Servers, HPC7000/UCS, SAN’s, Switches and converged infrastructures)

Provide wide spectrum of architectural and engineering solutions, oversee, manage and mentor engineers

Maintenance of existing infrastructure while design and build out of a green field vMware Metro Cluster solution for mission-critical business continuity and disaster recovery approach with active/active datacenters

Built and managed VMware ESXi 5/6 Hosts in a datacenter cluster HA/DRS configuration

Architecture of Virtual Center Server to provide centralized management, operational automation, resource optimization and high availability to IT environments

Utilization of VMware Update Manager for ESXi host remediation for compliance and patch management

Design and implementation of VMware vCOPS/vRops to proactively identify and solve emerging issues with predictive analytics and alerting, ensuring optimum performance and availability of applications and infrastructures across virtual environments.

Design, implement a vSphere Metro Cluster Storage solution using EMC’s Vplex /Vmax3 100k all flash Array

Architecture and implementation of vSphere ESXi 5.5/6 in a stretched cluster configuration across NY and NJ (Cervalis) datacenter locations for business continuity to provide close to 0 time RTO and RPO

Design and configuration of Cisco OTV for vSphere Metro Cluster Support across Cisco Nexus 7K switches

Introduction of LISP protocol and ASR/ISR router implementation for route optimization between 4 location

Architecture and configuration of EMC’s Vplex across both Metro location which involved presentation of local storage arrays through EMC VPLEX to create distributed synchronous volumes across sites in NY and NJ

Zoning of EMC Vplex Front End and Back End ports to both targets and initiators

Installation, configuration and management of both HP C7000 and Cisco UCS chassis and blades

Upgrade and management of HP C7000 chassis components (HP OA/Virtual Connect/FlexFabric 20/40)

Architect and manage HP Virtual Connect Flex-fabric 20/40 modules (Vlans, Fibrechannel, CNA)

Out of the box configuration of the HP OA, ILO and blade configuration thru (EBIPA) interface

HP Virtual Connect configuration of VLANS/Fabric in conjunction with server profile associations

Management of 5 storage arrays (IBM DS5100, EMC VNX5300/5400 EMC Vmax100K EMC Vplex Metro VS2)

Engineered and managed SAN fabrics on both Brocade and Cisco MDS fibre-channel (Zones and Lun Masks on Arrays)

Responsible for enterprise wide Active Directory LDAP/DNS/DHCP maintenance/infrastructure health status

Management of Active Directory: Users, Groups, Computers, Domains, Organizational Units

Maintenance of Active Directory FSMO roles, Management of AD: Users, Groups, Computers, Domains, OU’s

Utilization of Remedy (BMC) and Heat ticketing system related to Work Requests, IT project and Incidents

Utilization and management of IBM Director and HP IRS to remediate, update and prevent hardware failures

Global IT Manager/Solutions Architect/Engineer

Enabled company growth while containing cost for a Data Analytics company that provided Big Data Services, virtualized the server environment, improved processing efficiencies and reduced footprint throughout the enterprise architecture.

Manage all aspects of technology - responsible for running and supporting the company’s global technology infrastructure including Vmware, LAN, WAN, SAN, Voice and Data.

Global (Vmware/SAN) redesign/Implementation to meet company requirements

Consolidated physical server infrastructure into 90% Virtualized environment

Developed process and framework for the overall global IT infrastructure

Engineered and built out backup and DR failover solution for business continuity initiatives (Sungard)

Support ongoing day-to-day technology needs, ensuring uptime including network, data and voice services

Provided precise dexterity specifically with innovative technical designs and solutions

Assumed and carried both strategic and tactical responsibilities across global enterprise

Proposed and executed projects as per company requirements, provided solid technical foundation

Redesign, overall SAN environment specifically for huge volumes of data supporting Big Data initiatives (Dell Equal Logic, NETAPP XIO tech) (ISCSI/FC)

Robust Virtualization Experience including vSphere ESXi, strong windows experience including Active Directory

Supervision of Networking/Security Cisco Platform/Cisco Firewalls, Voice Communication (Avaya)

Senior Systems Architect /Technical Lead

Tory Burch (consultant)

New York, NY Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

Enabled a high-end clothing designer to achieve explosive growth from startup to $1B retail operations, architected and implemented a scalable, secure and reliable IT infrastructure to accommodate the rapid global expansion.

Manage and guide a team of 7 systems Back-Office engineers

Served as Lead Systems/Architect in the implementation and redesign of the enterprise wide Virtualization SAN/Brocade/Vm’s/ESXi, Systems and Network technologies across all global data centers.

Management and Design of Projects involving (Infrastructure, Active Directory, VMware, and SAN technologies) that supported retail operation, warehouse management and ERP systems implementation.

Architect and implement contingency plan for Global Enterprise wide DR and Business Continuity solutions

Collaborate with key business units and internal teams to define enterprise architecture principles, standards and guidelines, analyze business technology challenges, assess costs, and suggest solutions

Performed design reviews across company and collected enterprise architecture performance metrics to assure continuous improvement

Develop archiving and backup solutions across enterprise to ensure protection adhere to recovery SLA’s

Design and execute POC’s for critical enterprise applications, including enhancements and benefits with business case scenarios and cost productivity measures.

Redesign of all the datacenters electrical and UPS environments (APC Triplite)

Segmentation of all LAN infrastructures to facilitate efficiency and provide redundancy

Reconfiguration and implementation of all the backup solutions across the enterprise

Maintenance of enterprise wide applications, servers, networking gear and monitoring tools

Provide daily and weekly technical documentation and operational reports for upper management review

Generated reports and budgets on the overall Global Datacenter improvements, provide technical guidance and assistance, cross-train team members

Senior Systems Architect

M5/Shoretel.com (Shoretel.com)

New York, NY Jun 2012 – Jan 2013

Served as Lead Systems Engineer/Architect in the implementation and redesign of the current data centers realignment initiatives

Management and Design of Projects involving (Infrastructure, Active Directory, VMware, and SAN technologies)

Evaluated and recommend cost effective solutions for projects and new technologies

Developed process flow documentation based on company needs

Management and realignment of the company wide Microsoft Windows Infrastructure

Redesigned Fibre Channel (Brocade) and LAN environment

Restructured current production Virtualization Environment (ESX4.1)

Daily Management of the EMC VNX SAN Appliance via (Unisphere)

Architected overall data protection solution for Vmware (Quest)

Maintenance and Management of the (5) C7000 chassis and Dell Hardware

Microsoft Active Directory / LDAP/DNS/ Group Policy/DHCP/Forests/Trusts

Senior Systems Network Engineer

CSC (csc.com)

New York, NY Mar 2009 – Sep 2011

Served as Senior Back Office team Lead/Systems/Network Engineer in the support and development of effective technology solutions that meets approx 2,000 end-user needs throughout NY Metropolitan Area

Manage and coordinate efforts necessary for planning, design, development and support of

Responsible for daily, weekly, monthly technical reports for upper management

VMware (ESX 3.x) (VSphere 4). (DRS / HA / VMotion)

VDI POC implementations (Vmware) (Citrix)

SAN/NAS (FC/iSCSI) (Hp EVA)

HP Blade System C7000 Proliant BL680c Series (VMware) Solution)

Daily Windows Active Directory administration and security assessment

Citrix XenApp 5/6, Presentation Server 4.0 / 4.5 Cisco Routers and Switches (IronPort) Symantec Web Gate (MI5 networks) Checkpoint Firewall FW-1(NG) on (Nokia) Active Directory/Exchange – Maintenance of healthy AD/Exchange Environment

Management of Mobile Internet Devices via Active Sync (Exchange2007), Enterprise wide Messaging System (Exchange2007) Maintain DNS, DHCP, WINS, MSCS, SAN Technologies Trend Micro Suite (IMSS) (Office Scan)(ScanMail) / MacAfee Solutions Nagios / SolarWinds – Network and server monitoring utility Microsoft SMS / Microsoft WSUS 3x Backup and Archive Solutions

Windows Clustering and load Balancing technologies

Management/Deployment of Virtual (ESX3.5/VSPhere 4) technologies to reduce both hardware and power/cooling costs. Configuration of vCenter 2.5/Update manager/DVS/and Host Profiling

Consolidation of P2V using VMware’s both Hot/Cold consolidation mechanisms (HP Blade System C7000)

Architecture/Design of VMware infrastructure utilizing advanced HA/DRS/VMotion/SVmotion functions

Architect and implement DR solution of virtualized environment Via-vRanger and vReplicator to DR site

Implementation of VDI technologies through the enterprise, thin clients (Wyse) - VMware/View/XenDesktop

Management and Configuration of SAN’s and Cisco MDS Switches, as well as Configuration and Presentation of LUNS on EVA4400 via Fabric Manager for Virtualization Purposes

Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Citrix XenApp/ Presentation Server Farm 4.0/4.5/5/6.5 and Installation and configuration of Windows 2k3/2k8 servers in Virtualized and Physical environments

Maintenance of Windows 2003/2008 clusters and Windows Active Directory/Group Policy/Security Environments

Utilization of AD tools for maintenance of healthy Site Replication and Communication

Manage, design and Implement Exchange 2003-2007 upgrade

Maintain network backbone via Cisco routers and switches

Management of Checkpoint (NG on Nokia) firewall and VPNs across the enterprise

Design implementation and roll out plan for Exchange 2007

Management of Enterprise Wide Messaging (Exchange2k3/2k7)

Interface with Help Desk to assist with SMS and WSUS operations

Monitor systems via SolarWinds and Nagios to ensure 24/7 system up-time

Review and evaluate department technology requests and recommend alternative solutions

Collaborate with hardware and software vendors on purchasing and procurement initiatives

Senior Systems Engineer /Team Lead

SUNGARD

New York, NY Oct 2004 – Feb 2007

Design, Install and Manage enterprise wide Cisco devices (Routers, Switches, WAP Gear)

Checkpoint Firewall-1 NG-FP3/NGAI/NGX and VPN Maintenance and Troubleshooting

Design, Implement and Manage Enterprise Active Directory Forests/Domains (W2k3, W2k, DNS, DHCP, WINS, AD)

Support Enterprise Messaging Systems with Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2000

Design, Implement and Administer Enterprise SMS 2003 site servers

Administration of Enterprise SQL 2000/2003 Servers

Monitor all LAN/WAN devices via Nagios

Administration of WUS/SUS Server for patch deployments and updates

Management of Symantec/AV and SPAM (Modusgate) protection

Responsible for regular maintenance of network printers

Responsible for campus-wide data backup and disaster recovery strategy with Tivoli

Administration of NT/2000/2003 Servers and IIS 6.0 Web Servers.

Provide second and third level support to network specialists, admins, and techs

Prepare weekly status reports on project

education

B.S - COMPUTER SCIENCE TOURO COLLEGE (NY)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

VMware 3.5/4.0 VCP (Certification)

MCSE Windows 2003 Training (Certification)

Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp Administration (Certification)

Cisco Router Switch Configuration and Implementation Training

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