Systems Administrator Responsible for third-level support for all server related issues.

. Maintained and supported more than 2000 servers for Intel Steady State. Proof of Concept (Windows Server 2008 Deployment) Configured Server Core; configured networking; security and system settings on Server Core. Added and removed server roles and features; configured AD Domain Services roles; configured network infrastructure roles; configured file and print services; configured IIS7 on Server Core. Added backup features and used unattend.xml files to automate Windows Server 2008 setup. Performed unattended domain controller installation. Technical Environment Windows 2000 Server; Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; VMware Server and Tivoli Storage Manager. Responsible for: Day-to-day support on Windows Server and backup/restoration for more than 2000+ Intel Servers; job entailed frequent visit to Data Center, due to the nature of the work

Prepared the environment for deployment of Windows Server 2003. Implemented and managed IP Addressing; configured TCP/IP addressing on a server. Created the Forest Root domain, and a Child domain in a production environment. Installed and configured an Active Directory Domain Controller. Established external trusts and cross-forest trusts. Managed an Active Directory site; replication schedules, site links and boundaries, used ADUC to create and manage computer, user and group accounts in an Active Directory environment. Used DcDiag, NetDiag techniques for troubleshooting. Performed authoritative and non-authoritative restore operations. Diagnosed and resolved issues related to masters role failure and AD database. Configured automatic updates for network clients by using Group Policy. Designed, planned and implemented Group Policy, delegation strategies and OU structure.

 Managed local, roaming, and mandatory profiles, planed strategy for placing Global Catalogue (GC) and evaluated the need to enable Universal Group Caching. Created approximately 500 user accounts in Active Directory and migrated all Windows NT users by User State Migration Tool (USMT). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Analyzed the hardware and software requirements of Active Directory. Installed, configured, and provide troubleshooting for Server 2003. Migrated Windows Server 2003 from test environment to the production environment. Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, and patch management. Implemented virus protection. Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation. Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures Installation and maintenance of all systems within a clients digital environment.

Participated on several advisory committees responsible for making recommendations to upper management regarding Active Directory migration, data center consolidation, server virtualization and operations management and monitoring. Designed and developed an overall strategy for implementing Microsoft System Center 2007, including an upgrade path to Configuration Manager from Systems Management Server 2003, as well as the initial deployment of Operations Manager. Designed, developed and deployed the corporations first Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 server farm including but not limited to workflows, content indexing, records center repositories, solutions templates and web parts. Assisted in the deployment of the Storage Area Network (SAN) solution employing EMC2 technologies. Custom server builds based on desired server utilization including various RAID configurations (i.e. RAID-1 for mirroring, RAID-5 for servers requiring performance). Designed, deployed and maintained the corporations test lab environment consisting of 120+ virtual machines hosted on VMwares ESX Server platform. Conducted a single sign-on proof-of-concept solution utilizing Microsoft technologies. These included Active Directory / Application Mode (ADAM), Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003. Additional responsibilities included providing 24/7 technical support of daily operations in the primary data center for 250+ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition servers; domain controllers, SQL Server 2000 and 2005 database and application servers.

Conducted a enterprise wide audit of network topology including network traffic analysis and bandwidth utilization, Active Directory structure and Group Policies, servers, services, open ports, firewall configuration, missing security patches, NTFS access control and network share permissions across three sites.

Published MTA-Long Island Bus Network Infrastructure document outlining results of network audit, along with remediation recommendations. These included available network services, organized by server, highlighting those services that were eligible to be disabled, core services of DHCP, DNS with a recommendation that these services be integrated into Active Directory while supporting dynamic updates, Novell Netware interoperability issues with a solution for automatically synchronizing NDS with Active Directory, an Active Directory Future Directions section to serve as a guide to implementing Group Policies and completing the migration to native mode from mixed mode. A Netware to Windows 2000 Server Migration Planning Guide was also included for future reference. SQL Server 2000: consolidation of multiple database/application servers and database instances. Assisted in the deployment of the Storage Area Network (SAN) solution employing EMC2 technologies. Custom server builds based on desired server utilization including various RAID configurations (i.e. RAID-1 for mirroring and data recovery, RAID-5 for performance application and database servers). IIS: several web applications, as well as network / server management tools were deployed. Designed, developed and deployed the organizations SharePoint Services server farm. Implemented several of the recommended solutions including the deployment of new domain controllers, integrating DNS into Active Directory with dynamic updating enabled, authorizing DHCP servers, SNMP foundation with trap destinations and community strings, and designing a fault tolerant and fail-over strategy. Provided other general recommendations with regards to backup and restore, disaster recovery, software packaging and distribution, and network resource monitoring and management. These recommendations included Veritas NetBackup to replace existing ArcServe Backup solution and SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor. Preliminary design considerations with regards to Disaster Recovery Solution were fully documented and published. Recommended, designed and deployed software packaging and automated distribution solution using Microsofts Systems Management Server 2003. Upgraded (rebuilt) several key network servers from Compaq 3000 to HP ProLiant DL380 (4Gen). Configured RAID-5 arrays and mirrored volumes using SmartStart Essentials Software. Completed stalled Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 Active Directory domain migration. Implemented several key domain security configurations using Group Policy feature of Active Directory.

INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES: Active Directory Services, Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO), Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces), ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool versions 1,2,3), USMT (User State Migration Tool), Assign and Publish MSI packages via Active Directory Group Policy, Terminal Services, FTP/W3C/SMTP/NNTP Services, Remote Installation Services (RIS), Imaging Technologies (Symantecs Ghost, PowerQuests PowerCast, Altiris Inc.s PC Transplant), DHCP, WINS, DNS, Internet Information Services (IIS 4/5/6/7), SharePoint Services, Office SharePoint Server 2003/2007/2010, Routing and Remote Access Services (RRAS), Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and Remote Access Policies (RAP), Admission Control (QoS), Internet Authentication Services (IAS, RADIUS), SNMP (Network Management) Services, SMS (Systems Management Services), SQL Server 7.0/2000/MSDE/2005/2008/EXP, System Center 2007 (Essentials (SCE), Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Configuration Manager (SCCM), Operations Manager (SCOM)), Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007 (Working Knowledge), Microsoft iSCSI Initiator and Software Target.