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Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

• Experience in Designing, Implementing and leading large and complex projects for EUC estate from concept to delivery including but not limited to Windows OS Migration, MS Intune, Active Directory Domain Upgrades, Deploying M365 Security Solutions (Defender for endpoint, DLP)• Helping customers in designing and implementing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Data Loss Prevention, Microsoft Information Protection. • Involved in Planning designing of IT Infrastructure to Migrated ~1200+ Servers of Windows, RHEL, SUSE Linux Instances from Third-party Datacenter to Customer Datacenter.• Create High Level and Low Level Infrastructure Design• Involved in enabling Disaster Recovery Capability for mission critical Applications using VMWare Site Recovery Manager.• Involved in Creation of Move group, Migration Plan, Implementation Plan for all identified workloads as per Project Plan.• Analyze Upstream and Downstream application Key dependencies and ensure all workloads are migrated without Business impact by assessing Firewall Rules between different network Zones• Involved in Migration of Active Directory Domain Controllers and Shared Services Infrastructure (DNS, WINS, McAfee and Monitoring )

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Involved in Planning and Designing of VMWare and Windows Infrastructure to migrate Production environment as part of IT Merge and Acquisition • Involved in designing Citrix Infrastructure to Publish applications to Citrix Users• Involved in Designing and deploying DMZ Zone to host Web applications.• Designed and Implemented Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and Security Tools• Create High Level and Low-Level Design documents• Successfully migrated 32+ Critical Applications from Third-party Datacenter to Client DC

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

• Designing and implementing Active Directory and Azure Active Directory • Integrating on-premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory • Building Azure Landing Zones• Migrating workloads from On-Prem to Azure • Plan, Analyse and Provide Design for VMware and Windows Infrastructure• Create High Level and Low-Level Design documents• Plan and Execute Upgrade Projects Like Windows 2003 to Windows 2012 and ESXi Upgrade from ESXi4.5 to 5.1. • Develop and Maintain overall Backup, recovery, and Disaster Recovery strategy. • Provide Touch Support to Datacentre Servers in Installing Operating Systems and Replacing Physical Hardware’s. • Providing L4 Support for Windows and VMware infrastructure

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Plan, Analyse and Provide Design for VMware and Windows Infrastructure.• Involved in Datacenter Virtualization and Consolidation Project , Virtualized more ~ 800 Servers using DoubleTake and VMware Converter. • Assisting customers to Virtualize and Consolidate Servers as part of Lifecycle Refresh.• Providing L3 Support across Windows and VMware infrastructure. • Migrated more than 32 Remote Sites EOL hardware’s and Operating Systems to the latest. • Develop and implement hardware and software standards for network, servers. • End to End co-ordination of Microsoft Security Patch rollouts on the ClientInfrastructure

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Handled Multiple Roles within TCS (Internal IT)• Worked as Server Administer and provided to support to below areas • Setup end to end Infrastructure delivery centers for multiple projects • Install , Configure and Provide Support to Server Operating Systems • Install , Configure and Provide Support to Active Directory , GPO , DNS , DHCP,WINS • Backup and Restore of Server Infrastructure • Manage and Maintain Lotus Domino Servers • Setup WSUS , Symantec Server for all end clients • Manage Print and File Servers and DFS

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Provided Application and desktop Support.