•	Over 18 years of work experience which includes 10+ years in Active Directory/Azure AD/O365, 
7+ years in Identity and Access Management, 2+ years in Privilege Access Management which includes Delinea and Microsoft PAM, and 5+ years of SailPoint, Okta administration and configuration.

California University of Management and Sciences

Rajasthan University

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application (PGDCA)

Integrated Institution of Education and Technology

**Identity Lifecycle Management:**  

*   Oversee the entire identity lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding, ensuring timely provisioning and de-provisioning of user access.  
*   Implement automated identity lifecycle management processes to enhance operational efficiency.  
*   Develop Separation of duty model for all user identities along with the least privilege model. 

**Perform Active Directory Administration including**  

*   Active directory administration including remediation based on ADRAP recommendations. 
*   Design a hardening strategy to secure Domain controller and non-human accounts to attain a security baseline, including PKI administration.  
*   Developing secure baseline Group policy for Servers, Workstations, and browsers.  
*   Domain controller upgrades, demotion and patching.  
*   PKI -Review and process certificate requests submitted by users or automated systems. 
*   PKI -Handle requests for certificate revocation promptly, regularly update the CRL to ensure that revoked certificates are properly documented and disseminated. 
*   Create, manage and troubleshoot ADFS/ Azure AD multifactor policies  
*   Securing Service accounts and configuring fine-grained password policies  
*   Periodically review ACLs on GPOs, OUs and make necessary upgrades.  
*   Group policy management, creation, delegation, security filtering, WMI filtering. 
*   Administration of Azure AD, AAD connect, SSPR.  
*   Perform Schema extensions

Identity Access Management and Active Directory Architect

**Project Responsibilities:**  

*   Define, implement, and evolve the strategic direction and roadmap for Citrix’s Enterprise Identity Management platform.  (Joiners, Movers, Leavers and Job Family Groups) 
*   Define the project parameters on how to secure elevated identities as per red forest requirements for the high value applications.  Partner with teams to establish roles, entitlements, and potential segregation of responsibility. 
*   Review and analyze existing IAM / IAM security solutions for effectiveness and efficiency and develop strategies to improve and enhance the solutions. 
*   Responsible for implementing Enterprise Identity governance solution that supports all departments. 
*   SailPoint Integration to Azure AD (Configure Azure AD, SailPoint IIQ Connector Configuration) 
*   Review critical attributes for completeness in Azure and SailPoint IIQ, such as email addresses, phone numbers, and department information. 
*   Deploy and configure Microsoft PAM  
*   Set up roles and permissions for users. 
*   Determining which privileged accounts need management and monitoring. 
*   Define policies for privileged access, Configure monitoring and auditing features

Staff IT Systems Engineer

**Project Responsibilities:**  

*   Domain Controller maintenance, patching, health checks, reachability, account lockouts, monitoring, DNS name solution.  
*   Group policy management, creation, delegation, security filtering and clean up empty GPO 
*   WSUS configuration to deploy Windows Patches and gather reports. 
*   Deploy New domain controllers and tools servers in AWS and Azure  
*   Implement SSO authentication, authorization policies, claim rules using SAML / OpenID, for Active Directory Federation Services.  
*   Troubleshoot SSO and MFA related issues, related to token, assertion and claims issue. 
*   Generate PowerShell reports on AD Object count, Sites, GPO, and replication. 
*   Removal of dead and tombstone domain controllers from Active Directory via metadata cleanup.  
*   Organization Unit restructure and delegation  
*   Performed AD migrations using ADMT tool  
*   Perform Okta Administration including  
*   Install and regularly upgrade of the Okta Active Directory agent. 
*   Admin Active Directory import and provisioning settings.   
*   Assign applications to users based on RBAC model.  
*   Troubleshoot SSO and MFA-related issues, related to token, assertion and claims issue. 
*   Implement SSO authentication, authorization policies, claim rules using SAML 
*   Develop Security Best practices using SSO, MFA, Session Lifetime Rules

Active Directory Engineer for Enterprise Security

**Project Responsibilities:  (Environment: Microsoft Server and Cloud infrastructure )** 

*   Responsible for integrating enterprise applications used in Comcast to leverage ADFS authentication by establishing ADFS trust between the application and the ADFS system or Microsoft Azure. 
*   Responsible for the upkeep of the ADFS server infrastructure, ADFS monitoring, ADFS patching and attending to any ADFS service outage or break Fix. 
*   Integrating application to Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) for SSO authentication using SAML and OpenID 
*   Active Directory Federation Install, configure, onboarding, troubleshoot, health check, monitoring 
*   Implement SSO authentication, authorization policies, and claim rules using SAML / OpenID, for Active Directory Federation Services.  
*   Working with Microsoft Azure Architects to integrate cloud-based applications with modern authentication (SSO) 
*   Identifying issues related to modern authentication in Active Directory Federation Servers and then working with application developers to find the cause and remediate the issue. 
*   Create, manage and troubleshoot ADFS multifactor policies  
*   Troubleshoot and configure SSO assertion values in the token based on user attribute  
*   Maintenance and patching of Active Directory Domain controllers  
*   Group policy management, maintenance, troubleshooting AD replication and connectivity issues  
*   Work with IDM team & give recommendations regarding Active Directory cleanup & AD object maintenance.  
*   Handle all levels of Active Directory administration & constantly evolve OU structure based on the ongoing business needs.  
*   Support physical and virtual Active Directory and ADFS servers.

Active Directory Solutions Engineer

**Project Responsibilities:** 
  

*   Worked on Client Active directory to make it compatible for office 365 migration  
*   Used the Idfix tool to identify issues and apply necessary fix.  
*   Install and configure AAD connect for Active Directory sync. 
*   Generated PowerShell reports on AD Object count, Sites, GPO and replication 
*   Prepared Domain and Site diagrams using Visio  
*   Performing Active Directory health check 
*   Commissioning and de-commissioning of windows servers.  
*   Explaining the benefits of O365 and educating the customers on AAD connect administration  
*   Configure Server Automation using PowerShell Scripts.  
*   Installing and configuring VMware ESX servers

Sr. Cloud Specialist

**Project Responsibilities:** 
  

*   Built Active Directory Infrastructure from ground up for RMS One (RMS Cloud Solution), with all the necessary ISO security framework 
*   Worked on Active Directory, VMware Vcenter, Symantec Antivirus 
*   Fix active directory replication, and time sync issues. Configuring Group Policy, Domain, OU and Sites. 
*   Group policy management, maintenance troubleshoot replication and connectivity issues. Group Policy structure was tested in the lab before implementing it in the production environment.  
*   Performed active directory migration from windows 2008 to windows 2012 
*   Support over 1000 users globally having diversified application authentication environments. 
*   Maintenance and patching of Active Directory Domain controllers  
*   Distribution Lists & Security Groups administration.  
*   Troubleshoot issues related to Websense and McAfee endpoint encryption. 
*   Migrated 1000 physical machines out of 1500 server to virtual via P2V  
*   Migrated 300 virtual machines from Xen Desktop to VMware Vcenter via V2V 
*   Restructured and upgraded Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager  
*   Deploying mail-enabled security group for self-service from outlook  
*   Maintain AD Domain controller’s hardware in the data center (HP ProLiant & Dell PowerEdge) 
*   Provisioning ESX server, Vcenter, and creation and maintenance of VM templates 
*   Perform administration of virtualized windows servers via VMware vSphere and VMware vSphere web client. Have knowledge about ESX installation, virtual LAN and storage, creation of templates.  
*   Running reports on Active Directory, Windows server, office 365 and ESX Server using PowerShell and Powercli respectively 
*   Performing server builds  
*   WSUS configuration to deploy Windows Patches and gather reports.

Systems Design Engineer

**Project Responsibilities:** 
  

*   Performing Active Directory health check  
*   Involved in installation, configuration, and integration and fine-tuning of Windows 2000/2003 operating systems. Design, implementation, and integration of LAN and WAN systems based on Compaq servers/workstation 
*   Providing assistance to the network engineers to resolve escalated calls 
*   Installing and configuring of Windows 2003 and 2008 servers on HP and Dell servers  
*   Installing and configuring VMware ESX servers 
*   Identifying hardware failures in servers racked in the data center 
*   Upgrading firmware for BIOS, RAID controllers, BMC and DRAC for DELL servers. 
*   Involved in the planning and execution of server consolidation by converting physical servers into virtual servers 
*   Design, implement and provision standardized multi-tiered Microsoft-based application hosting solutions upon which to effectively deploy enterprise applications. 
*   Performing Cutover, IMAP, hybrid migration 
*   Develop and implement server-hardening security protocols and apply them to new and existing server infrastructure 
*   Installation and configuration of Active Directory domain controllers, windows servers, DFS, desktop deployment via WDS 
*   Configuring virtual servers, commissioning and de-commissioning of servers. Design, implement and support the virtualization strategy including VMWare 
*   Running reports on Active Directory, Windows server, office 365 and ESX Server using PowerShell

Office 365 Engineer

**Project Responsibilities:** 
  

*   Handle windows network having more than 50 domains and more than 3000 servers, setup software deployment policies in Active Directory and Windows servers 
*   Upgraded the forest level of the entire domain  
*   Upgrading firmware for BIOS, RAID controllers, BMC and DRAC for DELL servers. 
*   Fixed the replication topology of 300 domain controllers and documented the new Replication layout.  
*   Performed server builds of windows servers. 
*   Performed ESX server installation on IBM servers including IBM Blades 
*   Configuring virtual servers, commissioning and de-commissioning of servers. Design, implement and support the virtualization strategy including VMWare

IT Business Delivery Lead

**Project Responsibilities:** 
  

*   Involved in the setup of a new 500-seater office (Desktops, Printers, and Server room) in Luzern & Zurich (Switzerland) 
*   Setup all the IT devices in the Datacenter (Servers, Desktops, Access Points, Printers) 
*   Installation and configuration of Active Directory Domain Controllers, Windows servers, DFS, Desktop Deployment via WDS. Configuring Terminal Server, DHCP, & DNS  
*   Design, implement and support the corporate Active Directory environments. 
*   Configuring virtual servers, commissioning and de-commissioning of servers. Design, implement and support the virtualization strategy including VMware 
*   Design and deploy systems management and monitoring tools 
*   Develop and implement server-hardening security protocols and apply them to new and existing server infrastructure

Infrastructure Support Analyst

**Project Responsibilities:** 
  

*   Managed 500 Active Directory Domain Controllers and Windows Server 
*   Identified AD replication issues, tombstoned Active Directory domain controllers and cleaned them out of Active Directory. 
*   Installation and configuration of Active Directory domain controllers, windows servers 

Installing and configuring of Windows 2003 and 2008 servers on HP and Dell servers

Senior IT Consultant

**Responsibilities:** 
  

*   Call supporting Microsoft enterprise customers. Hired for good technical & good communication skills  
*   Troubleshoot Active Directory enterprise issues for clients of Microsoft.  
*   Every call was different. A new person to deal with and a new issue to fix. Issue may be for a single Active Directory server or the entire domain. Always fixed every issue within 24 hours. 
*   Promoted from Support Engineer to Technical lead in 8 Months of Joining the Job

Active Directory Sr. Subject Matter Expert

**Description:** Hired as a desktop analyst, but quickly rose to the level of server analyst. As server analyst was assigned the task of monitoring Active Directory and Windows Servers and maintain health Checks.

Technical Support Analyst

**Responsibilities:** 
  

*   First Job out of college but was handling one Active Directory Domain Controller and 50 Client machines

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