8613 Pisa dr. Apt 1326

Orlando, Florida-32810

Mobile- +14073537547

Email – Meeharpriaks@gmail.com

 

 

Harish Negi

SUMMARY:

Over 14 years of experience in Information Technology, specializing in sustaining operations and the improvement of IT efficiencies.  Significant experience in bridging the work of disparate offshore resources while driving for continuous process improvement.

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KEY SKILLS

Team Building & Mentoring, Identity Management, Risk Assessment/Mitigation, Emerging Technology Research, Vulnerability Assessments, Disaster Recovery Planning, Policy / Procedure Development, Active Directory Internals, Offshore Resource Coordination, System Integration Planning, ITIL Framework, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010, Office 365, Single Sign On, Multifactor Authentication, Domain Consolidation, Reverse Proxy, OCS.

 

Technology Summary

Service Platforms:	Active Directory, Exchange Server, Office 365, SharePoint, IIS, WSUS, Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 & 2012, SAML, TMG, SCOM, FIM (Forefront Identity Management), OCS, Azure Active Directorfy Premium, OKTA
Availability Technologies:	Veritas Cluster Server, Microsoft Cluster, F5 BigIP Load Balancer, Windows NLB
Scripting:	PowerShell, VBScript
Networking:	LANs, WANs, VPNs, Routers, Firewalls, DNS, DHCP, IP Address Management
Storage:	Fiber Channel, iSCSI, CIFS/SMB, NFS, LUN Zoning/Masking

 

Professional Experience

Electronic Arts, Orlando – FL, June 2013 – Present.

Systems Architect (Collaboration & Identity)

Provide strategic planning, direction and overall technical leadership to develop the areas of Messaging, directory services, multifactor authentication, and federated identity.

Recent Project Highlights:

Office 365 Migration – Served as Technical lead for a complex migration from on premise Exchange organization with 18000 mailboxes to Office 365. Architected, installed and configured hybrid infrastructure, Forefront Identity Manager, ADFS 2.0, TMG, to facilitate the migration.

 

Exchange On premise Decommission – Technical lead to decommission legacy on premise exchange infrastructure.

 

Single Sign On (ADFS 2012 R2) – Installed and configured ADFS 2012 R2 servers, WAP to provide Single Sign On between EA and cloud Application.

 

Extranet – Installed, Configured a brand new infrastructure consisting of TMG, Kemp Load balancer, Hyper V to publish on premise applications over Internet.

 

SSO/MFA evaluation - Serving as Technical lead for a new SSO & MFA solution. Evaluating and testing various SSO& MFA solutions to provide users one common experience across all platforms and devices.

 

Electronic Arts, Orlando – FL, August 2010 – May 2013.

Senior Systems Engineer.

Served as Level 3 escalation engineer for Global Operation Group. Responsible for the sustaining operations of several thousand servers and ensuring the availability of the company’s critical enterprise applications such as OCS, Active Directory, TMG, Whale, ISA, Microsoft Exchange, SCOM, ADRMS.

Installed and configured Exchange 2007 infrastructure, and performed mailbox moves from legacy exchange 2003.

 

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, - India, USA & UK, September 2002 – Aug 2010

Associate Consultant.

Managed and served as Level 3 escalation and consultant for Windows Servers, Exchange, Active Directory, and SCOM for different enterprise clients in various countries.

Performed Domain consolidation and migration for TCS clients such as GE, and Scotia Gas Networks.

 

Wipro InfoTech/ Computerware India Pvt Ltd, -India, December 2000 - 17th September 2002

Microsoft Exchange and AD administrator

Led the team delivering Facility Management services to KPMG

 

The team’s responsibilities included:

 

·   Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Implementation/administration., Addition of user and group accounts on Exchange

·   Manage address list and distribution lists, Exchange server incident handling and troubleshooting

·   Exchange server backup, restore and monitoring, Managing public folders, access and replication

·   Configuring exchange routing, Implementation of Symantec 7.0 Enterprise Antivirus software.

·   Monitoring, optimizing Active Directory performance and replication

·   Responsible for handling L2 desktops calls/ servers calls.

·   Process management, documentation as per ISO9001., Raptor firewall administration.

·   Administration of Microsoft Proxy server, IIS server. Installation of OS image using Symantec ghost cast server.

·   Hardware Inventory using HP-Openview service desk, Installing, Configuring, Managing, Monitoring, and Troubleshooting DNS for Active Directory.

 

 

 

Chipsoft Technology Pvt Ltd,- India, February 2000-November2000

Systems Engineer.

 

Performed System Administration Windows NT 4.0 servers and supported workstations.

I was responsible for ensuring high network availability and low system downtime, system backups.  Troubleshooting leased data circuit issues, backup ISDN lines, and dial-up lines for RAS.   Responsible for ensuring adequate software licenses were purchased and complete hardware inventories were kept. Design and implement Local Area TCP/IP Networking solutions. System installation, configuration and maintenance of Windows networks.

 

 

Education

1996-1999: - Computer Engg. from Ambedkar Polytechnic, Delhi (Board of Technical Education, AICTE) in First Division with distinction

 

 

 

Professional Memberships / Certifications

 

Professional Society / Certification	Member Since / Date Certified
MCSA-Windows 2000	2003