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Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

• Worked at client site as IT System Administrator, responsible for overall IT projects and services, managing everything alone.• Migrated the Firewall from CISCO ASA to Sonic-wall, in an active, passive mode• Managing Sonic Point access points• Administering Microsoft Exchange server 2010• Migrated all mailboxes to Office 365• Migrated the file servers to Jean Martin Cloud platform• Successfully converted more than 100 physical servers to virtual servers using P2V migration.• Managed Windows Server 2008 and 2012 R2 environments. Maintained proper security patches installed to ensure environments are secure. • Migrated the VMware environment from Esx 4.1 to Esxi 5.5 environment • Managed and redesigned all the backup-restore process• Installation and configuration of ESXi 5.5/6 in New- HP ProLiant series Servers in a core Data-Center. • Installation and configuration of Windows servers 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2 Virtual Machines in the ESX host clusters. • Installation of Venter server and Configuring ESXi - host's within the cluster using VMotion and HA. • Maintain on-Prem AD and Azure AD environments and connections. • Migrated all Windows 2008 Domain Controllers to Windows 2012 R2 Domain Controllers.• Managed KB custom applications, like Qantel PowerShift, Sales Logix, Sl Powers gateway spam filer, Kaspersky 10 admin center, citrix sage 500, Ricoh printers, 8x8 IP phones etc. • Configured, troubleshot, and maintained Windows 2008 and 2012 Servers. • Worked on physical hardware like Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell power Vault SAN, HPDL360p, BL460, BL480, G7, and G8. • Worked on Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), IIS FTP, Terminal Server, RIS, RRAS, NAT, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering, Exchange Mail Server and ISA Server. • Interacted and coordinated with different teams to meet the deadlines.

Irvine, Ca

Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

Responsible for third-level support for all server and network related issues.Manage Service desk, Field services & Network teams (13 staff):Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management.Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.Provisioning new servers, imaging; handling other daily routines; leading new deployments from systems perspective by coordinating internal resources; performing systems backups and restore procedures.Handling the complete installation, configuration & maintenance of Microsoft Windows Servers; designing the Backup Strategy for sites and ensuring scheduled/unscheduled Backups as per backup plan and restoration; managing Server, Domain, AD, User Rights, etc.Meet department heads, IT representatives to achieve management goalsEnsuring that the goals of the Incident Management process are achieved; restoring normal service as soon as possible based on customer perspective and within defined SLA; detecting, logging, categorizing and prioritizing incidents; providing initial Incident SupportDesign, deployment, and maintenance of a broad range of Microsoft Technologies including:Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012Azure, office 365 and exchange onlineExchange Server 2003, 2007,2010Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Hyper-V, DNS, WINS, DHCP and Active Directory.Group Policy Design & Implementation, IIS and Terminal Services. Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, 2006.SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008.Instrumental in managing complete configuration and installation of:VMware ESX (3.5), ESXi, and vSphere 4 & 5 environments with Virtual Centre Management, Lab Manager.Worked on Cisco routers (800,1900,2900,3900), switches (3850,2960,2950) & ASA firewalls (5510,5505)

Al-Khobar, Saudi

Bachelor'S Degree In Computer Applications, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Degree

Diploma In Computer Science And Eng., Computer Science And Eng.

Activities and Societies: Badminton, Cricket....Engineering Diploma in Computer science