Active Directory Senior It

Rana Aslam

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

Phone: 925-***-****

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rana-aslam-804850253

Certified: VMware PMP

Work authorization: US Citizen No Visa Sponsorship Required

Sr. Windows System Engineer

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION

Senior IT Professional with more than 14 years of experience in Systems, VMware Administration, and Active Directory Administration with a primary focus on installation, configuration, and maintenance.

Extensive Experience in Microsoft Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012R2, 2016, 2019 and 2022.

Experience in building new servers, decommissioning old servers, and upgrading and migrating servers with the proper written procedure by the client.

Manage Exchange 2003/2007/2010/2013/2016 Environments, ADFS, Office365 global admin/support, Exchange Archiving experience, Backup and Restore PST. Exchange Migration experience

Experience in the Implementation and Migration of Active Directory 2003, 2008, and 2012, System Center 2012, WSUS, Intune, Azure, and Blackberry 5.0

Configured, managed, and supported Mobile Device Management MDM Intune, AirWatch,

Provided Level 3 support for 35,000 physical and virtual Windows servers to Fannie Mae.

Experience in working with agile and ITIL processes.

Experience with SAN, NAS, Network, Backup, and other infrastructure teams. Expertise with data management and Windows Share/NTFS permissions.

Experience with VMware vSphere, ESX 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0, VMware vCenter 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0, and vRealize.

Experience in the area of Virtualization with VMware ESX 4. X, 5.0, and 6.0 servers and the Virtual Center server.

Expertise on ESXi and ESX, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, cloning, and Snapshots.

Workstation, VMware converter, VM Backup products, and other products for virtualization.

Skilled in working with different types of software Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Lynch, PowerShell, VMware, Microsoft Outlook, and Office365

Worked on different VMware products like VMware vSphere, vRealize, and operations management.

Experience in the Installation of Oracle and MYSQL.

Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of Vswitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming, and VLAN Problem management on VMware ESXi 4X, 5X, 6X, 7X, 8X, and Virtual Center and Vmotion.

Excellent experience with VMware updates manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.

PowerEdge Servers with RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10 configurations.

Remote management of servers using HP ILO, Dell DRAC.

Responsible for installing, configuring, and troubleshooting on Windows NT/Windows /2008 /2012/2016 /2019 and 2022 servers using enterprise standards.

Extensive experience in working with vMotion and Storage vMotion.

Responsible for data center inventory management including server’s replacements, leased servers send offs, racking and Untracking of servers, KVM installations on HP Servers.

Scripting & Automation: PowerShell, Python, Bash.

Networking & Security: Azure Firewall, Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel, Azure Active Directory (AAD), VNet Peering.

Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure (Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure App Services, Azure Functions)

Microsoft 365 Services: Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive for Business.

Identity & Access Management: Azure Active Directory (AAD), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Conditional Access, RBAC.

Messaging & Collaboration: Exchange Hybrid, Email Security (Defender for Office 365), Mail Flow Rules, Compliance Policies.

Upgraded the server’s Windows 2008 and 2012 servers to Windows 2022.

Hands-on experience with the HP blade c7000 enclosures and the ML, DL, and BL series servers.

Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, NFS storage, and RAID (0, 1, 3, 10, 01, and 5) concepts.

Experience with 32-bit/64-bit X86 server products of HP, IBM, and Dell.

Familiar with Data Center/Server Farm environment, like server deployment, Cabling & labeling, maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power, and UPS monitoring.

Responsible for managing the Jira story board.

SKILLS

Project manager (PMI certified) vSphere 7.5 / 6.5 / 6.0 / 5.5 / 5.1 / 5.0 / 4.1 / 4.0, ESXi 8.0 / 7.0 Virtual Center Server VMware View VMware vCenter HA DRS, Storage v Motion Site Recovery Manager Host Profiles VMware vCenter Heartbeat VMware vSphere Client, VMware P2V, V2V VMware Consolidated Backup VMware Management Assistant Active Directory DHCP DNS GPO OUs User and Computer

Microsoft Products and tools

Active Directory Domain Services AD Lightweight Directory Services AD Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services Active Directory Rights Management Services DNS Exchange, Hyper-V WSUS server SQL Server, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager IIS, DHCP TCP/IP

Server Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows R2 Management Tools: HP Onboard Administrator HP Virtual Connect Manager Avocent DS View Change Management Software

Education

• Bachelor's in computer science

Certification

• Professional VMware vSphere 7.x

• Professional VMware vRealize Automation 8.x

• Project Management Professional (PMP)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Soft Black LLC

System Engineer

Clients: Blue Jay

Dallas, TX – April 2024– Present

Roles & Responsibilities

Design, configure, and maintain system infrastructure, including servers, networks, and cloud environments.

Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions to improve efficiency.

Windows server Microsoft Server 2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2, 2016, 2019 and 2022 Configuration & Maintenance.

Ensure system security by implementing best practices, firewalls, and data protection measures.

Automate processes using scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash).

Collaborate with software developers, IT teams, and stakeholders to optimize system functionality.

Experience in the administration and installation of Cisco UCS chassis, HP Blade server, Dell Chassis, CISCO Fabric interconnect, Cisco Networking.

Experience with managing AMD processors and with PowerEdge servers.

Developed automation scripting in Python to manage Java applications across Linux servers.

Conduct system upgrades, patches, and regular maintenance.

Create and maintain documentation, including system configurations.

Strong knowledge of operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS).

Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud) and virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V).

Understanding of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, firewalls).

Proficiency in automation and scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash).

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

Script writing in PowerShell for Office 365 to manage users and MFA.

Supported Active Directory Federation Services upgrade from ADFS 4.0 to ADFS 5.0

Monitoring & Performance NetScaler MAS, Splunk, Wireshark.

Responsible for Security vulnerability for Windows servers.

Responsible for installing, upgrading, configuring, and maintaining VMware ESXI 7.0 8.0 Host Servers, vSphere Suite with P2P and P2V, and Virtual Machine Installations, configurations, and maintenance.

Migration of virtual servers from Citrix to Hyper V and VMware.

Designed, deployed, and maintained Microsoft Hyper-V clusters, ensuring 99.99% uptime.

Experience in installing and upgrading and configuring, and decommissioning Dell PowerEdge R730, R740, R750, R760 servers.

Install, upgrade, and decommission UCS blade b200 m3, m4, and m5.

Developed a PowerShell script for account creation in Active Directory, Azure AD, Office 365, and Exchange.

Hands-on experience with installing and configuring Windows 10/11.

Hands-on experience with SOX audit reports and automation.

Configured HA, DRS clusters, and capacity planning for new clusters, configuring FT for important VMs.

Manage and configure IOS and Windows devices with Intune.

Managing 1,10,000+ iOS iPhones/iPad devices using MEM and ABM console.

Responsible for managing both supervised (ABM) & unsupervised modes of iOS devices.

Managing 5000+ Windows 10 devices (including AVD host pool) using MECM Console.

Center to facilitate all the necessities of the customer.

Creating and managing application integrations for identify and access management. Having Experience of Creating conditional Access policies Multifactor authentication (MFA), Resetting MFA and Resolving the MFA issues.

Hands-on experience with Microsoft Sentinel administration.

Wrote a script in PowerShell for Active Directory.

Hands-on experience with PowerShell scripting for Azure and O365.

Configure PKI to create a secure connection for both public web pages and private systems.

Familiarity in the following areas: single sign-on, enterprise directory architecture and design, directory schema, namespace, replication topology, resource provisioning, role-based access Control, user lifecycle

Configured DirSync and ADFS for Active Directory synchronization and single sign-on with Office 365. Create and manage Active Directory services, Active Directory B2C, and Azure Cloud Domain Services.

KYNDRYL / TEK system

Project manager

March 2023 – April 2024

Remote

Roles & Responsibilities

Create, manage, and maintain cloud resources and services in major providers, including Microsoft Azure™ and AWS™. Install and Configure Azure Cloud Sentinel Data and Monitor server services.

Successfully established and tested Azure AD Tenant for production. Provided technical direction to allow the Active Directory on-prem group to populate users.

Manage a 20-person team for infrastructure support and hardware upgrade management.

Experience in syncing the Objects, Users, Groups, and Workstations from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory.

Experience in configuring and managing AZURE AD Connect, AZURE AD Connect health, and Microsoft Azure Active Directory.

Configured automated VM migrations using automated scripts in PowerShell. Standardized network cable runs for VMware hosts across multiple data centers.

Responsible for managing AD Certificate Services.

Installing and configuring ADCS services.

Hands-on experience with 240 domain controllers.

Configured, Managed, and Supported Microsoft Intune Enterprise Mobility + Security Company, Employees, and Third-Party Devices. Handled Microsoft Intune to deploy updates, applications, and mobile device management.

Implemented procedures for the operation and overall administration of IIS web servers.

Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) – for managing users, SSO, MFA, and Conditional Access.

Lead on developing PowerShell and PowerCLI Desired State Configuration scripts for automation of system builds and continuous integration.

Used Tenant to scan vulnerabilities and resolve them on 10000 servers.

Web server installation and configuration of .NET application in MS IIS 6.0/7.0/8.0 and 10.0

Scripting PowerShell, Python, PHP, JavaScript, including C, C++

Wrote scripts in PowerShell to change registry settings to resolve Vulnerabilities.

Perform data protection/restoration (Veeam Availability / Veeam Backup and Replication).

Involved in Planning and live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machine files using the Veeam tool.

Worked on weekends and 24/7 on call rotations to support the team in upgrading network equipment.

Microsoft Configuration Manager (MECM) version 2309 - 2403 Build, Deployment, Patching, Asset management.

TCS

Avantiv project Nov 2022 – Feb 2023

Remote

Roles & Responsibilities

Provided L3 and L4 support to different clients of IBM.

Worked on the NCircle Tool to test the Group policy for all types of servers.

Experience using cloud providers and APIs for Amazon (AWS) EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, VPC, SNS, AMI with Cloud Sigma (EU) and GFS storage.

Configured Docker Engine with Docker-specific commands, Created Custom Docker Images, and deployed Docker containers on AWS as Part of Cloud CloudFormation template.

Managing Windows server and client system patching through Microsoft Configuration Manager (MECM), also application and OS installation through MECM.

Deployment of new software packages. Packaging of Applications when needed for distribution with MECM Deployment

Maintenance and Administration of Oracle and Db2 Servers on Windows.

Troubleshooting of Windows Servers in production, Dev, and test environments.

Hands-on experience making VMware backup with Veeam.

Experience with handling more than 450 domain controllers and also managing a stealth interceptor.

Provided level 3 support for over 35000 VMs.

Done migration of SQL servers on Amazon RDS.

Developed and deployed a restful web service using Python and Flask, resulting in a 25% reduction in server response time and a 15% increase in user satisfaction.

Configure and install SQL Server 2022 (16.x) SQL Server 2019 (15.x) SQL Server 2017 (14.x) SQL Server 2016 (13.x).

Server Configuration & Maintenance, vSphere Suite with P2P and P2V, Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration & Maintenance.

Performed P2V Hot conversions using Converter Enterprise 4.5 and also the P2V cold conversion using VMware Converter Boot CD.

Maintained architecture and implementation of Citrix XenApp environments.

Has Experience working in Enterprise Data centers with 50 Firewalls.

Configured site-to-site VPN using SonicWALL TZ210 firewall.

Supported Exchange 2003/2007/2010/2013/2016 Office365 Global Admin.

HP Store Once GUI to identify a failed disk. Compile reports for HP Store Once report and data protector backup reports on windows.

Administer the Veritas NetBackup (v.8.7.3) systems which consist of (Quantum i6000 Tape Libraries, VTL Quantum DXI4701, DXI6900, HPE Store Once, HP D2D324, thousand servers (master, media, client’s hosts of SUN, HP, Exchange, Win2003, Win2008, NDMP, Oracle, SAP, VCS Info scale Enterprise, BMR).

Upgrading the Firmware to the latest version/date on the BIOS/ controllers/ hard drives.

Created POC environment to test migration of Exchange 2013 to Office 365.

Migration Project to migrate from Exchange 2010 to Office 365 using BitTitan.

Responsible for developing the plans for Enterprise PKI

Documented Troubleshooting and installation steps and process for Netback and other applications.

Configured Group Policy Objects to create a secure Windows Infrastructure.

Installed all 3rd party tools according to the client's requirements.

Responsible for solving ITSM (incident management) tickets for various issues related to VMware and Windows Servers.

Installed Citrix Profile Management and EdgeSight Client 5.4

Worked on ITM and IBM Big Fix.

Managed DNS, DHCP, Remote Desktop Session Host, DFS, and Microsoft Failover Clusters.

Increasing Virtual hardware, such as disk space, RAM, CPU, and assigning a new Network NIC.

Worked on security policies and vulnerabilities.

Worked on Azure Intune and resolved security vulnerabilities and other issues.

Analyzed and implemented OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using IBM BigFix.

Experience with Azure active directory, Group policy, Users, and groups.

Remotely managing physical rack mount/blade servers using HP ILO 2.0, 3.0, Avocent KVM switch, HP Onboard Administrator, and HP Insight Management tools.

Develop one-off PowerShell scripts for the customer's support teams to efficiently fix errors found through the Active Directory environment.

Also, hands-on experience in the setup, configuration, and migration of Active Directory.

Assisted in Migration Projects, moving the servers from 1.0 to 3.0 and 2.0 to 3.0.

Worked on the ServiceNow Jakarta version and Kingston.

Used ServiceNow for ticketing (Change Management, Incident Management, and Request Management)

IBM, (kaiser Permanente)

Project Manager

California, CA

July 2019 – Aug 2022

Sr. Virtualization Architect/Engineering

Vrops, VRA, VRO, Administrator, WAS admin Role

Roles & Responsibilities

Deploy and run applications with flexible, security-rich Java EE-certified runtime environments.

Support Storage NetApp, whether it’s Fibre Channel, iSCSI, or FCoE, working with the architecture.

Responsible for building, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting vRealize Suite to automate infrastructure functionalities in Virtual and cloud Infrastructure.

Experienced in building, configuring, and maintaining vRA 7.5 and vRO 7.5 infrastructure using VMware Life Cycle Manager

Implementing VMware Pivotal container service to run containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, and other emerging container technologies.

Integrate and Deliver Automation solutions using VMware technologies (vRealize), Chef, Ansible Tower, Puppet and public cloud APIs working multiple internal departments in delivering enterprise automation solutions.

Responsible for building Xaas blueprints using custom firms to deploy different types of servers in Private cloud, HCI, and vCenter.

Configured a New NetApp HCI environment and migrated the Legacy VMware Infrastructure to the HCI environment.

Responsible for managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting issues on the Hyper Converged infrastructure vXRail and NetApp HCI environment.

Build a New vRA 7.5 infrastructure in standalone mode with multiple tenants and configure external vRO as endpoints.

Build/Modify New Workflows in vRO to automate processes in virtual infrastructure and improve processes by modifying existing workflows in vRO

Created New tenants, Iaas and Xaas BluePrints, Business Group, Event Subscriptions, Property Groups, and cloud formation templates.

Configured SNOM, CyberArk, Satellite, Jenkins, Git, and Ansible Tower as endpoints in vRO to provision servers in the end endpoints.

Worked on configuring NetApp Hyper converged infrastructure to add an endpoint in vRA to provision VMs

Implemented new process workflows in vRO to Provision and decommission Servers in the environment.

Migrated Blueprints between different vRA using Cloud Client tool and GitLab in VMRLCM

Import and export packages between different vROs

Written several playbooks to automate tasks on the server level.

Migrate tier 1 to 4 replicated storage. COS1 to 4.

Supporting the vRealize suite environment 24X7 and documenting newly implemented processes.

IBM

Technical Project Manager

Columbia, MO

July 2016 – June 2019

Roles & Responsibilities

Delicate balance between capacity, latency, and throughput. Leverage features like quality of service (QoS), cache management, and intelligent load balancing to ensure that Enterprise SAN meets the performance needs of the most demanding applications.

Responsible for building and maintaining all aspects of the Windows/VMware vSphere environment, vCenter 5.5/6.0/6.5, ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5, and Virtual Server (Windows/Linux)

Responsible for maintaining vRA as an IaaS Administrator to create Tenants, Roles, Licensing, Endpoints, Fabric Groups, Business Groups, Reservations, Blueprints

Creating custom blueprints XaaS as blueprints, IaaS as blueprint, PaaS as Blueprints per business requirement, and assigning to appropriate Business Groups to Provision servers from different end points AWS Cloud, IBM Cloud, and vCenter.

Creating custom Workflow in vRO and customizing schema, modifying scripts to automate tasks in vCenter.

Worked on vROPS by customized dashboards for data store, Host, VM, Services alerts using vROPS, generated email notifications, created thresholds, and automated reporting with customized policies through vROPS

Responsible for maintaining VMware Horizon View 6.1/7.0/7.0.2/ environment to maintain Windows desktops.

Installed and configured App Volumes 2.11, assigned Appstacks and writable volumes to specific users.

Installed and configured Horizon UEM 9.0(User Environment Manager) and created user and admin file shares to save their personalized settings.

Problem detection, resolution, and maintenance on the following software: VMware vSphere 6 and newer, VMware Horizon View, Microsoft Windows 10 desktop and newer, Microsoft Server 2012 and newer.

Worked on a project on creating a dashboard to generate a report on compute resource reservations of VMs, reclaiming compute resources.

Worked on upgrading vCenter and ESXi Host from 6.0 to 6.5 version in the environment.

Responsible for maintaining security vulnerabilities by patching ESXi, vCenter, and VMware Appliances to the latest patch level.

Patching ESXI Host Using Auto Deploy Rule and VMware Update Manager. Patching a Linux Server using the Ansible automation tool.

Creating and Troubleshooting Host profiles for ESXi hosts and assigning them to ESXi hosts

Responsible for troubleshooting any type of issues on ESXi host, vCenter server, and providing RCA for issues.

Perform installation, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, optimizing & maintaining of mostly Linux and Windows servers, applications and backup and recovery of the systems.

Experience with installation, problem detection, resolution, and maintenance on the following hardware: Dell Servers, HP Servers, Cisco UCS Servers

Responsible for building and maintaining new UCS domains with Network and Storage configurations.

Responsible for creating and managing Templates and service profiles in UCS domains in B&C series servers.

Experience in troubleshooting complex production network issues with multiple teams and vendor engagements. Excellent understanding of virtual and physical network stacks and their topologies

Experience in writing PowerShell Scripts to automate manual tasks in a VMware Environment

Worked on a major migration project in migrating VMs to different vCenters through an automation process using PowerShell and PowerCLI Scripts

Migrated VMs to a different datacenter and converted the server’s Physical to Virtual using the VMware Standalone Converter tool

Responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and upgrading software in Hyper-converged infrastructure, VXrail, and Nutanix

Migrated VMs from Legacy vCenter to Hyper converged Servers, VxRail and Nutanix using VMotion and Automation

Troubleshoot all types of issues on VxRail. This includes network, array, and host.

Troubleshooting Network, File System, storage, performance, and access-related issues on Windows servers

HP/Pfizer

Windows/VMware Administrator

Dec 2013 – Jun 2016

Pearl River, NY

Roles & Responsibilities

Experienced in Installation, Configuration, and Administration of VMware ESXi 5.1, ESXi 5.5/ VCenter Servers. Assessment, design, and Implementation of the vSphere upgrade from 5.1 to 5.5, 500 ESX hosts upgraded from VMware ESX 5.0 to ESXi 5.5.

Performed ESXi hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across datacenters using vMotion.

Performed Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations, and Hot Migrations using vMotion, deploying new virtual servers, maintaining templates, and performing updates when necessary.

Building new VM's and Installing different guest OS like Windows server 2003/2008,2012, Linux and Sun Solaris.

Configured and Implemented VMware Horizon View6.x Linked clone technology using View Composer

Excellent Administration and troubleshooting skills in issues related to View Connection servers, View Manager, View Security servers, View Composer, View Pools, View desktops, VDI Virtual Center, Snapshot Creation, and Templates for XP and Win 7 OS.

Problem analysis and troubleshooting of ESXi Server with service console, and resolving issues on servers, VLANs, routers, and switches in the data center.

Worked on vSphere Data Protection for virtual machine backups and disaster recovery.

Experienced in building new scripts using PowerShell and PowerCLI commands to automate manual tasks in a virtual environment.

Creating vSwitch's, different type of port groups like Service Console, VM Kernel, Virtual Machine and assigning the VLAN, that. Configured NIC Teaming for load balancing and failover.

Configured Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment using Site Recovery Manager (SRM) integrating with storage-based replication.

Manage Cisco UCS servers using Cisco UCS Manager to ensure all the alerts are addressed.

Replace Memory, CPU, Mother Boards, Blades, Chassis and Fabric Interconnects in Cisco UCS domain and HP blade servers to resolve issues related to hardware failure.

Involved in Customizing VMs (Memory, hard disk, NIC) and analyzing log files, resource utilization monitoring.

Scheduling tasks, monitoring tasks, and creating alarms. Deploying load balancing, implementing Network security.

Configuring NAS, SAN, and iSCSI storage to the VMware ESX servers and installing the iSCSI Software and Hardware Adapters to the ESX servers.

Involved in on-call rotation for supporting production, strictly maintaining SLA's.

Created documentation for Server Builds, Application Installations, Mapping the drives, and Issues that occur during software upgrades.

Responsible for using BMC Remedy System for the following incident, change, and problem management.

Gulf Stream

WINDOWS\VMware Administrator

Aug 2010 – Nov 2013

Atlanta, GA

Role & Responsibilities

Managing large VMware infrastructure - 100+ hosts and 1500+ virtual machines, and performed hundreds of migrations such as P2V, V2V and P2P using VM Converter and Plate Spin.

Installed VMware ESXi server 5.0/5.5 and created virtual machines on ESXi Servers. Designed standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates.

Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, 2012 R2 Servers on Virtual Machines and Citrix virtual desktop support and Decom.

Creating and configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for load balancing, Resource pools, and adding VMs to them, and installing VM Tools.

Performed Snapshots, Cloning, Migration across ESXi hosts like Cold, Hot migrations using vMotion

Responsible for monitoring and troubleshooting server issues with Event Log Analyzer

Plan, implement, and configure Fault Tolerance (FT) solutions for business-critical servers.

Responsible for Virtual Environment maintain and well-organizing Administering Windows 2008/2012 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.

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