Office Azure

Tolu Alo

***** ******** ****** ****, ******* Texas 77429

*******@*****.***, 832-***-****

Objective I am responsible and accountable for all aspects of organizational IT Administration, including administering, maintaining servers, security, storage, infrastructures, networks and support of computer hardware, software, web, telecommunication and IT related matters.

Summary of Critical Skills

• Servers Administration - Active Directory, Exchange Server, Azure, Domain Controllers, Skype for Business Server, Window Servers, SharePoint, IIS, GPO, OU, Power Shell, DFS, SMTP,CA.

• Network Administration - LAN, WAN, Access Points, Switches, TCP/IP, DHCP, NAT, DNS, VPN, Wi-Fi

• Storage Administration - Dell EMC Storage, HPE 3Par storage • Backup - Backup Exec, Acronis, Veeam, iland cloud.

• Security Administration - Firewall, Spam Filtering, McAfee EPO, AVG, Cylance, Watchguard. • Migration - Exchange Server, Gmail, AD, MS Exchange to Office 365, Windows 7 to 10.

• Virtualization - Virtual Box, VMware and Hyper V.

• Proficient in Windows Servers 2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2, 2016, 2019, Office Suite, Windows 7, 10. • Cloud - Azure, Office 365, AWS, Linode, Rack Space, Digital Ocean.

• Patches Management - MDT, WDS, WSUS, Kaseya, GPO, GFI Lan Guard • Network Monitoring – IP Sentry, Kaseya, Firewall, GFI LanGuard, InterMapper, PRTG. • Ticketing - Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Sugar CRM, ZoHo CRM, Mojo and SolarWinds Help Desk. • Remote Support - Using Apple Remote Desktop, RDP, Kaseya, Team Viewer, Join Me

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Systems Engineer DHI Telecom Group Houston TX June 2019 – Present

• Office 365 Administration, Azure Active Directory, Exchange Online, AD Connect Directory Synchronization, Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, SharePoint, One Drive.

• Azure, Building VMs, Built and managed networking, Managing VM sizing, Creating Azure tenants, Configuring and managing Azure storage volumes, File Services, OS, permissions

• Setup configured and administering of physical, virtual, cloud (Windows and Linux) servers.

• Building, deploying and managing the Dell, HP and Cisco UCS C220 Servers

• Managing and configuring VMware Venters, EXSi hosts VMs, ESXi. VMware High-Availability, VMware VMotion and Web console, VMware Distributed switches. ESXi deployments, VM creation, templates, snapshots and VM backup.

• Managing HP Proliant DL 360G5, Dell EMC Storage and HPE 3Par Storage Server 7200c.

• Backup and restore servers using VEEAM Backup creating backup jobs, restore points, integrating with VMware, HyperV, hosts, 3par and iland. Created GFS retention policies for Weekly, Monthly, Quaterly and Yearly backups on Veeam host servers.

• Configured and managing Active Directory, which involves Configuring service Authentication, Domain Controllers, maintaining Active Directory, Creating Snapshots, Trust, Sites and Subnets.

• Managing User Accounts and Computer Accounts, Role Base Access Control (RBAC), groups policies, domain replications.

• Patch management using GFI Lan guard.

• Deploy, install, configure and managing Red hats, CentOs, Ubuntu, FreeBSD servers creating sudo accounts, cron job rotation, nginx and apache webserver configuration management, disk extension, certificate renew, logs management, SNMP configuration, Monitoring, Patching, Network and Email Services, Wildcard to PFXPKCS12 Conversion.

Office 365 / Collaboration Engineer

AXA Equitable Jersey City, NJ May 2019 – Oct. 2019

• Administered and maintained Windows Servers 2003 - 2016, Active Directory, Exchange Server 2010, Skype for Business Server 2015 and online, One drive for Business.

• Azure, Created of Azure tenants, Built VMs, managed networking, VM sizing, Configured and managed Azure storage volumes, File Services, OS, permissions.

• Office 365 Administration, Exchange Online, AD Connect Directory Synchronization, Exchange Server to Office 365 Migration, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, One Drive.

• Administered and supported Office 365 users create users accounts, add licenses, and MS Exchange policies, Groups, OUs, Shared mailboxes, Sites, Rooms, DirSync, Security, mail flows.

• Searched and investigation Spams/emails (Content search and eDiscovery, export content search results, and manage eDiscovery cases). • Administer the O365 Portal and monitor for alerts, status.

• Enabled authentication methods (sign-on security, multi-factor authentication (MFA), device sign-on methods, manage authentication methods). Knowledge of SAML 2.0, Azure Active Directory.

• I managed Microsoft O365 identity (hybrid cloud, B2B, B2C, AD Connect, Azure AD)

Systems Administrator

ORIUX (formally Peek Traffic Corporation) Houston TX May 2016 –May 2019

• Setup, configured and administered of physical, virtual servers using VMware ESXi 6.5 and Hyper V.

• Configured and managed Group Policies that involves settings managed Group Policy Objects. • Installed and configured Active Directory Certificate Services. • Administered and supported Skype for Business audio/video conferencing architecture. Working on Lync and Skype for Business control panel. Integrated Skype for business server with exchange, transport server. • Azure, Created of Azure tenants, Built VMs, managed networking, VM sizing, Configured and managed Azure storage volumes, File Services, OS, permissions.

• Creating team sites and personal sites on SharePoint. • Provisioned & Decommissioned of Domain Controller Server, FSMO role placement.

• Configured Network Services and Access, Configuring DNS Zones, DNS Records, DHCP and VPN. • Installed and configured Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and Single Sign-on with ADFS. • Configured and managed Active Directory, which involves Configuring service Authentication, Domain Controllers, maintaining Active Directory, Creating Snapshots, Trust, Sites and Subnets. • Managed User Accounts and Computer Accounts.

• Backup and restore of servers, workstations using Backup Exec 15. • Installed, configured and administered Microsoft SQL Servers 2005 – 2014.

• Administered McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 5.3.1 Server and workstation antivirus. • Administered Avaya VOIP Telephony Server and Clients.

• Setup and administered Windows Deployment Server and Windows Server Update Services. • Implemented Patch Management using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), OU and GPOs • Supported Epicor 9 and 10 ERP Server and Clients. • Power Shell Scripting for automation. • Used Zoho CRM ticketing to provide diagnosis and monitor service requests. • Installed, configured, supporting CentOS 7.x, Open Suse, Ubuntu.

IT Specialist

CHR Solutions Inc. Houston TX Oct. 2014- Feb 2016

• Configured and administered of Microsoft Server 2003 – 2012 R2, Active Directory, Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013, and Office 365. Managed User Accounts and Computer Accounts.

• Administered Barracuda email and spam filtering for whitelisting and blacklisting email.

• Administered Kaseya to monitor, inventory, remote control, deployed patches and antivirus

• Configured and administered Cisco Wireless Controller and Cisco wireless access points.

• Administered and Upgraded the Firewall, Routers, Switches, Patch Panel, SSL and PPTP VPN.

• Monitored and improved network performance, traffic, and updated firmware. • Given permission or restrict user’s device from accessing some webpages on the network. • Block or open network ports from having access to my network.

• Monitored configure/troubleshoot branch office VPN Tunnels connections. • Managed the network traffic, authenticate servers, users/groups, hotspots and monitor traffic.

• Used Microsoft Dynamics CRM ticketing system to provide diagnosis and monitor service requests • Updated procedure processes on Microsoft SharePoint. • Installed and configured Microsoft SQL Servers 2012 create instances and queries.

Technical Support

Fry’s Electronics Houston TX Sept. 2013 – Oct. 2014

• Administered the deployment of windows OS images using WDS, MDT

• Setup, repaired laptops, iMac systems: mac book pro, mac book air, iMac G5, and mac mini

• Used Sugar CRM ticketing system to provide diagnosis and monitor service requests.

• Configured e-mail on their iPhone, iMac and laptops using Exchange, outlook, POP and Office 365.

• Setup, configured, and troubleshoot Polycom phones and voice support on Polycom phones. • Microsoft office 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 365, Outlook mail, Blackberry, SMS, iPhone (4, 5, 6). • Setup, service and repaired Multi-functional printers, Scanner. • Built and deployed servers, workstations, desktops and gaming computers

• Recovery of data from defective iMac hard drive using file scavenger, active boot.

• Removed Spyware, Malware, and Virus removal using Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky, AVG Antivirus

Education B.Sc. Computer Engineering 2006 Ladoke Akintola University of Technology.

Houston Community College Servers Administration Certificate 2016 A+ Certified.

References available when requested.

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