Over 14 years of experience in Microsoft on-premise and Cloud technologies. Hands-on understanding of computer networks, security, on-prem to cloud migrations and Virtualization. Motivated team player with strong communication, problem solving and project management skills.
Providing technical consultancy to the clients residing in US, UK and Canada region.
• Projects are accomplished by following the industry standard Microsoft recommended project management approach which includes phases like Assess, Design, Implement and Manage in the project lifecycle.
• Performed workload migrations from on-premise platforms to Azure including VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM and physical server scenarios.
• Performed planning, designing and implementing of Windows Server operating system (All versions) deployments and upgradation.
• Deployment of Active Directory and Azure AD Connect with security, authentication and Single Sign-on through ADFS.
• Migrated numerous customers from EA/ PSYG to CSP subscription in Azure which includes both native and manual Resource Group migrations.
• Designed Extended Active Directory topology to Azure infrastructure for numerous clients. • Accomplished several messaging projects from on-premise, Cloud and IMAP platforms and migrated the mailboxes to Microsoft Office365.
Provided technical consultancy to clients in United States.
• Deployment and upgradation of Windows server 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016 Active Directory Domain Services, AD Roles, Troubleshooting, Active Directory Migration and Multi Forest deployment.
• On-premise Exchange 2007 / 2010 /2013 /2016 Exchange Server deployments in co-existence, hybrid and upgradation.
• Migrations to Office 365 from on-premises Exchange servers, O365 to O365 and any hosted email to O365. G Suite email migrations with MigrationWiz, SkyKick, Quest and Office365 FastTrack.
• Office 365 customized DLPs, transport rules, E-discovery, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and Conditional Access Policies.
• Identity management through Azure AD Connect in single and multi-forest environments.
• Azure BCDR, Azure networking with virtual networks, Subnets, VPNs, Network Security Groups, Azure File Sync, assessments of the client’s environment, migration of on-premise datacenter to Azure for physical, Hyper-V and VMWare platforms through ASR and Azure Migrate.
• SSO deployment with ADFS for Office 365 and through OKTA.
Worked as technical lead of networks and system support team and provided remote technical consultancy to onshore, near shore offshore offices and clients based in USA, Canada, UK, Latin America, Pakistan and Middle East MENA region. Designing and executing network changes according to SOPs for internal and external stakeholders maintaining SLA and OLAs. Presented network and system architecture and handling auditor queries pertaining periodic audits. Worked with clients and lead technical meetings to discuss project details & challenges, designing planning strategies, disaster recovery, procurement, vendor and change management, licensing and service management. Received promotions twice for outstanding performance. Designed/ architected infrastructure of JetHealthSolutions on a colocation datacenter single handedly from the scratch. Managed a network of 500+ nodes, 100 physical servers and 400+ Virtual Machines on both onshore and offshore locations.
Technologies:
Windows Server 2003/ 2008/2012/ 2016, Active Directory Domain Services ADDS, MS Exchange 2003/2007/2010/2013, Azure, Office365, On-premise email migrations to Office365, Security Certificates, ISA Server 2004/2006, TMG, Office Communicator, Distributed File System (DFS), MS Virtual Server, IIS, Hyper-V, Data Protection Manager, MS System Center Virtual Machine manager (SCVMM), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), DHCP, DNS & FTP servers, SAN, NAS, iSCSI network storage, VPNs (Remote and Site to Site), wireless networks, VOIP call center, VLAN, L2, L3 switches, Symantec/ MacAfee Endpoint Protection, Juniper firewalls. Linux, Website publishing through firewalls, Internet, Intranet, extranet, Compliance, NMS, SNMP, Video conferencing, external DNS management, Windows Server and client operating systems, Storage and Backups solutions and Web hosting solutions.
Member of IT team comprising of network and systems engineers to provide support for LAN of 400 nodes and WAN connecting 5 Onshore and Offshore offices using Cisco routers and switches. Member of “Incident Management” and “Emergency Response” team.
Technologies:
Active Directory Services (Domain Controllers), DHCP Server, DNS Server, FTP/ FTPS Server, File Server (NTFS Permissions)
IIS , ISA, WSUS, Exchange Server 2003/ 2007,RIS, Attended/ Unattended installation of Windows operating systems, Datacenter, Power/ UPS management, Link utilization, VOIP call center, Video conferencing, wireless networks, EIGRP, Static routing, NMS, E1, IPLC links, PRIs and internet links (Fiber, radio, VSAT), Call recording, Backups, VPN, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Software Upgrades/ Patches, Staging systems and laptops following SOPs. Scripts, Supplier Management, Procurement, Disaster Recovery Plans.
Member of the global system operations team looking after day to day operations of LAN and WAN network consisting of over 300 client nodes and datacenters with 80 servers in both onshore and offshore offices. Installed and configured Windows, Linux servers and workstations, performed hardware/ software troubleshooting and upgrades.
Technologies:
Active Directory AD, DHCP, DNS, IIS, FTP, ISA, Print and File Servers, NTFS Permissions, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, IBM Lotus Domino Notes, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, VPN, Wireless networks, Tandberg video conferencing, Vonage, Samba, Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS, Asterisk, Vicidial, VMWare, CMS, E-Security, E-Attendance, IP cameras, Project Archiving and Backups.