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Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States

 Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, WSUS Server, File Server, WSUS, ADFS,CA Worked in a consulting firm to assist various systems administration tasks in installing, configuring, and managing Windows server 2008,2012,2012 R2 and 2016 for non-prod environments. Involved in upgrading Domain controller Servers from 2012R2 to 2016 R2. Created multiple GPO policies for Client Machine and Servers. Expertise in configuring and maintaining the windows 2012,2012 R2, 2016, 2019 Configured AD FS for SSO for Applications Created AD CA root Authority, maintains, and Manage certs within Domain.  Migrated Domain Controller from 2016 to 2019 Responsible for Windows Patching, using WSUS and Online Catalog.  Building Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022 Maintaining Hardware health of Physical HP ProLiant Servers across 2 Datacenter Locations. Hardware replacement of Physical Servers, upgraded HP Gen 9 Servers in Datacenter to Gen 10 Servers Responsible for Maintaining storage architecture for VNX and Dell PowerStore. Bi-Annually patching of HP Firmware for Gen9, Gen 10 HP ProLiant Servers Quarterly patching of VMWare ESXI servers, updated esxi from 6.5 to 6.7 and from 6.7 to 7.0.3 Patching Windows Servers through SolarWinds Patch Manager every quarter.  Backing up machines using Veeam Backup, writing Old Backups to Tape. Maintaining Backup Retention for Dev, Test, Prod VM’s  Analyzing VM health using VROPS and SolarWinds.  Server deployments for Windows 2016, 2019, SUSE linux and RHEL 8.0, 8.4, 9.0 Servers Linux Administration including, mount point creation, disk expansion, installing libraries, repos, quarterly patches.  SolarWinds upgrade from 2020 HF2 to 2023.3.0, maintain SolarWinds Database. Citrix user account management, new application deployments.  GlobalScape SFTP server maintenance, creating new SFTP accounts, virtual Folders, SFTP Event Rules. Auto delete rules after retention, auto upload and download of files into the application.

Illinois, United States

 Worked in a consulting firm to assist various systems administration task in installing, configuring, and managing Windows server 2008,2012,2012 R2 and 2016 for prod and non-prod environments. Managing Domain Controllers, DNS, ADFS and CA Involved in upgrading Domain controller Servers from 2012R2 to 2016 R2. Created multiple GPO policies for Client Machine and Servers. Expertise in configuring and maintaining the windows 2012,2012 R2, 2016, 2019 Installing IIS for Web Development Configured AD FS for SSO for Service Now, Logic Monitor, NexTalk, Heat and ServiceNOW application Created AD CA root Authority, maintains, and Manage certs within Domain.  Responsible for Certificate renewal for all the certs within Domain. Migrated Domain Controller from 2016 to 2019 Added Multiple Domains in the forest for HA. Deployed ADFS for their new domain, manages ADFS Relying party trusts for SSO. Configure HA ADFS server. ADFS Migration from 2016 to 2019 Server Responsible for Windows Patching, using WSUS and Online Catalog.  Building Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022 Worked in a consulting firm to assist various systems administration task in installing, configuring, and managing Windows server 2012 R2,2016,2019 for non-prod environments. VMware implementation and expansion work. Creation & troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX/Hyper-V & Virtual Machines. Creation of templates from VM’s and deploying VMs from templates. Installed, configured & administer Windows 2012/2016 Standard and Enterprise Servers including installing IIS, .NET applications and Java Applications. Installing Maintenance Levels and updates on Wintel/Windows Platform. Managing CA Root, deploying certs for SSL based Web Applications, certificate auto renewal. New certificates for Client Trust.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

 As AKS Support Engineer, we use to support AKS Deployments, troubleshooting, Implementing new Solutions for multiple clients across the world. Helping customers to get successful in deploying AKS, ACI, ARO, ACR, Load Balancers, Subscription Management, helping clients determining Cost Management for various Azure Cloud Solutions. Helping Customers deciding right SKU Size for the AKS Deployment, troubleshooting issue with load balancing on Nodes auto scale deployment for auto Node scale up and scale down and recommending right size for the type of Deployment. Determining and helping customers issues with Horizontal POD Scaler, supporting new deployments of applications in Azure using YAML, JASON and Terraform. Supporting customer Persistent volume, PV Disk and PVC resources in Azure Determining the root cause with Public, private Load Balancers, issues with NSG’s. Answering questions related to exposing external IP of Load Balancers, subscriptions, log management and Monitoring resources. As AKS Support Engineer we supported other Kubernetes clusters like ARO Supporting New AKS Cluster deployments, Troubleshooting, Load Balancing rules.  Suggesting Auto Certificate renewal for AKS, Auto Upgrade of Cluster and Nodes, Maintenance Schedule Troubleshooting POD and Manifest deployment through YAML file Supporting new ARO Cluster creation and Maintenance. Supporting RHEL Kubernetes cluster on Azure Creating deployment YAML files for HPA (Horizontal Pod Scaler) and Node Auto-Scaler for accommodating application Load. Helped customers creating proper Affinity, Non-Affinity rules, Daemon and Replica sets, Persistent Volume, Persistent Volume Claims, allocating Right Azure Disk, Azure Files for AKS Workload.  Supporting Integrating Azure resources like, ACR, ARO, ACI, AKS, Azure SQL Databases with Service Principals

Mundelein, Illinois

 Worked under a team of Systems Architect’s to design the overall systems implementation design for multiple high-end projects. The system design covers all the minute details involved. It consists of rack/chassis layout of the servers involved in the project and also overall description of process from a blade/rack mount server first introduced in datacenter to being deployed in vCenter server. This document contains all information in a very understanding and simple way. Involved in upgrading Domain controller Servers from 2012R2 to 2016 R2. Created multiple GPO policies for Client Machine and Servers. Expertise in configuring and maintaining the windows 2012,2012 R2, 2016, 2019 Installing IIS for Web Development Configured AD FS for SSO for Service Now, Logic Monitor, NexTalk, Heat Created AD CA root Authority, maintains, and Manage certs within Domain.  Responsible for Certificate renewal for all the certs within Domain. Migrated Domain Controller from 2016 to 2019 Added Multiple Domains in the forest for HA Responsible for Windows Patching, using WSUS and Online Catalog.  Building Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022 Worked in a consulting firm to assist various systems administration task in installing, configuring, and managing Windows server 2012 R2,2016,2019 for non-prod environments Responsible for health of 50 AKS Cluster across Dev, Test, UAT, PROD Environment Integrating Azure resources like, ACR, ARO, ACI, AKS, Azure SQL Database with Service Principals.Network Implemented Auto Scaling for AKS Nodes, auto scaling of PODS when necessary. Moved Virtual and Physical Servers from on prem to Cloud. AKS upgrades from 1.16, 1.18, 1.21, 1.22, 1.23 to meet the compliance requirements for Microsoft Support. Involved in upgrading Domain controller Servers from 2012R2 to 2016 R2 Created multiple GPO policies for Client Machine and Servers.

Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States

 SCCM Engineer responsible for Maintaining, Managing, Creating new deployments for Server and Workstation Patching, Vulnerability management across multiple Windows OS images, like Windows 7,8,10 Server 2008, 2012, 2012R2, 2016 and 2019 WSUS patching for Windows Servers, monthly rollup updates WSUS reports, patch approvals, Configuring Upstream, down stream Servers. Maintaining high redundancy on WSUS Servers Deployment of new WSUS Servers for remote sites Troubleshooting servers which does not get patched through WSUS. Configuring GPO rules for servers to fetch updates from WSUS Servers and for DMZ servers to get directly from Microsoft.  Maintaining download and install schedule for TEST, PROD and DEV Servers.  Building of Deployment packages, software collection groups, device collection groups, auto deployments, Client Device settings Responsible for health of distribution points, connectivity between different SCCM servers, storage locations for packages that needed to go off. Creating proper folder structures for individual software, making it easy and well organized. Third party Software Upgrade packages in SCCM for new deployments and upgrade of existing software updates, following proper clauses and making sure upgrade do not replace existing software SCCM agent management and troubleshooting of inactive clients. SCCM Site upgrade from 1904 to 2004.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Computer Management, Data Structures Advance Database Management. Integrated system project build up.

Bachelor'S Degree, 3.4