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Brielle, Nj, Us

Provide consulting services ranging from planning, design and implementation of network infrastructure, systems administration and desktop support.Migrated on-premise Exchange to cloud based Office 365 (O365) E3 - implemented Azure AD Domain Services so as to support SSO making it possible for users to login using corporate credentials. By moving to the cloud was able to provide new collaboration tools such as SharePoint and Skype at the same time reducing work for the internal IT staff.Planned and implemented Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, accounting systems and VPN access. Implementation of Dell AppAssure to provide data protection and disaster recovery of critical systems. Performed System Engineering & Administration of Windows servers, Active Directory (group policies). Manage virtual environment running Hyper-V. Provided day-to-day break-fix support for desktop, server and networks. Collaborate directly with Microsoft Support professionals, Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), and peers to find solutions to break-fix questions. Conducted research on emerging products, services, and standards in support of IT operations. Ensure the secure operation of computer systems, servers, and network connections. Perform System Engineering & Administration of Windows servers, Active Directory (group policies). Manage virtual environment running Hyper-V.

Freehold, New Jersey, Us

Farmingdale, Nj, Us

Somerset, Nj, Us

Analysis, design, planning, and migration of 3 Windows 2008 forests to a single forest single domain thus simplifying administration and well as increasing security across sites in US, UK and India. Increased security of corporation’s FTP implementation using FTPS Implicit architecture. Implemented WSUS for distribution of company approved patches. Designed and implemented DNS, DHCP and WINS solutions with redundancy across 3 sites. Planned and implemented Disaster Recovery for Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Accounting Systems and VPN access. Perform daily system engineering and administration of Windows 2008 Active Directory and Member Servers, Group Policies, WSUS, Symantec BackupExec and AppAssure Replay’s backup and disaster recovery software. Implementation of virtualized systems utilizing Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi solutions.

Park Ridge, Nj, Us

Conduct research on emerging products, services, and standards in support of IT operations. Ensure the secure operation of computer systems, servers, and network connections. Perform System Engineering & Administration of Windows 2003 and 2008 R2 servers, Active Directory (group policies). Designed and implemented a virtual test and development lab running Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Hyper-V R2. Managed virtual environment using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (VMM 2008). With the use of virtual machines IT reduced large investments in additional hardware servers.Provide desktop support for software, hardware and telecommunication system.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Security engineer at AT&T focused on Microsoft’s IPTV Enterprise server platform involving 23 sites and over 4,000 Microsoft Windows 2003 Servers. Tasks include security analysis of Windows Server 2003 system; identify risk and vulnerabilities, development of mitigation techniques. Design and implement a set of security best practices for the Windows environment. Perform and interpret system vulnerability assessment scans on Windows 2003 environment. Provide feedback into Windows IPTV security strategy and roadmap for the product. Worked side-by-side with Threat Management team to aggregate and interpret security logs from over 4,000 Microsoft Windows 2003 servers to syslog services and transport upstream to a centralized alert management system. Provide hands-on hardware and software support in Multimedia (IPTV) lab which simulated SHO-to-VHO-to-STB.

Waterloo, On, Ca

Instrumental in the development of corporate software policies and procedures. Consolidated teams from several companies that merged with EasyLink. Promoted cross training and knowledge transfer between the teams. Made recommendations to create cross-functional service teams in an effort to unite groups and bring cost down through architectural consolidation. Directed the move and migration of three (3) lab locations to one (1) new location.

Iselin, New Jersey, Us

Duties consisted of managing projects such as Windows Active Directory migrations, building technical staff, growing consultants’ technical knowledgebase and building/maintaining partnerships with companies such as Microsoft. Responsible for approximately 170 consultants. Wrote technical requirements and performed needs analysis. Customer base consisted of pharmaceutical, telecommunications, banking and manufacturing companies. Projects have included design, installation and tuning of Microsoft's IIS web server, Proxy Server (ISA), DNS, DHCP, WINS, VPN server and Microsoft Exchange. Managed the migration of Macintosh standalone database application to a Microsoft Intranet solution running on an Intel hardware platform.

New York, New York, Us

Managed a group of 16 people. Responsible for design, implementation, migration and support of LAN, hardware and software, Help Desk, training, voice and data communications, and market data feeds for the entire corporation. Designed and implemented a migration plan from Novell to Banyan, MS-DOS to Windows and a topology upgrade to 10BaseT and TCP/IP protocol stack for a 500+ user network. Developed a database client server architecture based Oracle and SUN systems to be the basis for future backoffice applications. Standardized on Intel hardware platform and Microsoft Windows for desktop systems

Managed a group of 30 people with responsibilities for support of open standards based products. Also responsible for pre-sales support, written responses to RFP’s, integration of third party products and Project Management.

Managed group of programmers.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science