Active Directory Engineer

Rufus Dolopei

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North Plainfield, New Jersey 07060

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Technology Summary

Ten plus years experience working in information technology within all size enterprises and global environments, providing solutions as a systems engineer and administrator in complex WinTel environments as well working in implementation projects. Adhering to best practices and technical standards based on corporate standardized process and procedures. Work with project managers and vendors during planning, implementation, and product life cycle. Developing and maintaining operating procedures and processes as well as being engaged in training after transitioning to the production and service stages. Experience and skills in prevailing industry architecture and engineering methodologies such as ITIL

Certifications: MCSE 2000; MCSA Server2003; MCTS Server2008 Active Directory; ITIL v3

Core Competencies: Windows network infrastructure, Windows servers, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, DHCP, IIS, FTP, SMTP, terminal servers, WinTel systems security and VMware ESXi environment.

Systems: Windows Server 2012R2, 2008, 2008R2, 2003, All Windows clients, Dell racked mounted and Dell blade M series servers; HP racked mounted and HP C class blade servers within both a Physical or virtual (VMware) environment.

Networking: VPN, WLAN, and Windows Infrastructure Networking

Software: Exchange servers 2003/ 2007/2010, VMWARE ESX\ESXi servers, CITRIX XenApps, MS SQL servers; Backup exec \ Netbackup; EMC Avamar backup, TCP/IP internetworking within a LAN/WAN environment. HP ILO, HP Open view, DELL Open Manage, iDRAC, Microsoft operating systems, Hyper-V, SCVMM, SCDPM, SCCM, DELL Open Manage IT Assistant, SolarWinds NPM and APM, Remedy, Service Now

Professional Experience

GAIN Capital

Bedminster, NJ May 2016 November 2016

Infrastructure and technologies systems analyst: consultant

Serve as an analyst to support the global infrastructure and information technologies platform for Gain Capital, a global currency and futures trading company. Use Windows systems administration, application support and network troubleshooting skills and experiences to perform job duties and task.

Use SolarWinds, Informatica, Idera, Tibco, Visionapps remote server tools for virtual and physical servers, as well as Gain Capital proprietary tools to monitor the trading applications, networks and hardware health. Resolve incidents and problems relating to the trading application’s databases, web interfaces, cloud based applications, and both Windows and Linux operating systems.

Provide support for the Citrix and XenApp 7.0 environment by monitoring, troubleshooting and resolving issues alerted by monitors. Provisioning new servers and rolling out both hosted, published applications, and releases for clients.

Interface with internal, external clients, corporate management and technology vendors, and utilizing ITIL best practices in information technologies operations to support and resolve issues.

AAC Inc. November 2014 March 2016

Virginia

Server Administrator

Member of the U.S General Service Administration Enterprise Server Services team, serving as a Windows Server Systems administrator in a Virtual (VMware 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5) and physical environment using SolarWinds, vCenter, RDP and iDRAC and HP ILO to monitor and manage the servers.

Responsibility is administration of SolarWinds, Physical and virtual Windows Servers environment, applications and hardware support to achieve or exceed service level agreement.

Respond to alerts, prioritize and remediate issues causing alerts on down applications and services using SolarWinds APM/NPM and diverse management tools to remediate incidents, problems, and establish root causes.

Participate in processes and service improvement projects by researching and working with vendors to provide fixes, upgrades and updating documentations.

McGraw Hill Companies October 2013 –October 2014

East Windsor, NJ

WinTel Solution implementation Engineer: Consultant

Serve as a member of the WinTel solution implementation and engineering team for the datacenter separation and migration projects.

Deploy new servers physical and virtual (VMware) ; perform system integration testing on Windows based operating systems and Perform post remediation on new server builds.

Analyze systems capacity, fine tune system parameters and configuration to optimize performance and ensure security of systems. Perform patching, backup/restore, shutdown and startup process.

Duetche Bank February 2013 – September 2013

Parsippany, New Jersey

WinTel Server Administrator: Consultant

Performed server administration in the global Wintel core group, doing application upgrade and migration projects, performing quality assurance for newly built or upgraded Window servers.

Making changes to server to remediate problems and to investigate performance issues. Diagnose and resolve incidence and problems in a highly secured and controlled environment.

Utilized various third party tools such as Sharepoint, bladelogic, Nimsolft, Tivoli, Remedy to collaborate with global team. Perform assigned task and document recommended and approved changes.

KPMG LLP- Montvale, New Jersey May 2011 – May 2012

Senior Systems Administrator: Consultant

Deploy, and administer enterprise class servers in a large WINTEL physical and VMWARE environment installing Windows Operating Systems including roles and features on HP DL38x. and DL 585 hardware.

Support hosted applications for both third party and internally developed code for client area and business requirements. Maintenance and problem resolution for enterprise system’s software and hardware utilizing tools as HP configuration manager, HP SIM, Raritan, HP ILO, SCOM, Team Track and ITS IMS.

Analyze and resolve complex enterprise system hardware and software problems; interfacing with database administrators, software development, network support personnel and vendors to resolve issues on servers, to migrate or upgrade hardware and software.

Horizon BlueCross Blue shield July 2010- September 2010

Newark, New Jersey.

WINTEL Infrastructure Analyst: Consultant

Deploy and provision Server systems on various generations of HP

Hardware in a distributed Wintel environment with over 2,000 HP DL38x, DL 585 and HP Blades C class servers with Windows 2003 and 2008 environment on both physical and virtual servers.

Administer infrastructure servers such as Active Directory domain Controller, DNS, WINS and DHCP servers.

Performed hardware and Firmware upgrade. Install scheduled OS and patches.

Monitoring the infrastructure Servers with HP Sites Scope, HP Insight manager and other monitoring tools to diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve issues with hardware, Windows operating systems.

Ernst & Young LLP - Secaucus, New Jersey May 2007 - November 2009

Infrastructure Engineer

Provide engineering and support for the global infrastructure’s 10,000 + HP/DELL servers in a WINTEL environment in 3 global data centers employing various high availability technologies with zero tolerance for down time, accept allotted scheduled maintenance.

Troubleshooting and correcting problems on servers providing Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, MS SQL services. Identify hardware, operating system, application and procedural problems for service availability and improvement.

Monitor performance and utilization based on accepted thresholds and baselines. SCOM and SCCM to monitor and maintain security updates and patches for Windows servers.

Resolve problems, change management requests and documenting resolutions.

Barrett Industries Inc. - Roseland, New Jersey June 2002 - January 3, 2007

Network/Exchange Administrator

Planned, designed, and migrated from Windows NT4.0 to Windows 2003 Active directory. Server consolidation with VMWARE and uploading applications to CITRIX Presentation server 4.0

Building and administering Windows infrastructure servers with AD domain controllers, DNS, DHCP, File and print servers roles.

Maintain CITRIX Servers, MS SQL servers, MS Exchange servers, IIS servers, custom applications, DFS, HP MSA SAN storage, VERITAS backup exec, security, virus protection and patch management.

Aspen Technology Inc. - New Providence,

New Jersey November 1997 – November 2001

WINTEL Systems Administrator

Performed systems administration and engineering duties to deploy and support Windows servers and clients in a Windows NT4.0 and Windows 2000 environment. Perform migration from NT4.0 to Windows 2000 servers as well as working within a project team to migrate from NT domain to Active Directory.

Daily administrative tasks involved managing directory services, file and print servers, printers, Exchange servers, Active Directory, network infrastructure services such as DNS, WINS, DHCP, domain controllers, installing security patches and upgrades using SMS servers and SUS.

Manage backup and disaster recovery using EMC Legato, VERITAS backup software and ADIC auto-changer tape drives. Troubleshooting and resolving network or connectivity issues involving AD, DNS, and DHCP servers, routers, switches, or faulty cables.

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Education

CHUBB Institute - Jersey City, New Jersey

Diploma Network Engineering

Kean University College of New Jersey

Post Baccalaureate Major, Computer Science

University of Liberia Capitol Hill -Monrovia, Liberia

BBA Business Administration

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