Rizwan Q.

Experience

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  Unbounded Solutions, Inc.

  May 2009 - Jan 2011

  Exchange Engineer

  - Worked on multiple projects with Unbounded as a consultant.Perform, design and carry out deployments, cross-forests, data center consolidations, organization consolidations, organizations dis-junctions and directory synchronization projects - Created best practices documents, whitepapers, and training materials on administration and migration.The existing Exchange 2003 environment in CCSD was obsolete and the CCSD required the latest and greatest Exchange technology to be effectively designed and implemented to support a very active set of Exchange users who additionally required new features including Outlook Web Application (OWA) 2010, Outlook Anywhere and Blackberry Enterprise Server v5.0.1 for effective communication • Worked from USI headquarters remotely and led the architecture, design and engineering of enterprise Exchange 2010 platform in CCSD • Exchange 2010 Setup involved: Client Access (CAS), Hub Transport (HUB), Mailbox (Mail), Edge server (Edge) SMTP send/receive/relay connectors, exchange load balancing, message queues, email routing, journaling, monitoring mailboxes, outlook 2003/2010 setup, OWA 2010 configuration, Outlook client problems debugging, VBS powershell administration scripts • High Availability Configuration involved: Network VLAN Segmentation with 2 IP Ranges 2 CAS, 2 HUB, 2 Mail Servers across enterprise Database Availability Group with 2 copies of database (active/passive) • Server Configuration involved: Dell PowerEdge R710 and PowerVault MD3000 & MD1000, DAS units, with RAID5 and RAID 1 configuration • Migrated 4,200 users from exchange 2003 to exchange 2010 environment • Upgraded Blackberry servers 4.1 to 5.0.1 Show less

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  GroupM

  Feb 2011 - Mar 2012

  Messaging Consultant

  Responsible for design, architecture, availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, and security of the new Exchange 2010 infrastructure.Worked as a Microsoft Engineer(Tier 4), while anticipating, mitigating, identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving Exchange related problems as reported by the system monitoring tools, event logs or lower level tools.Performed the installation, configuration and testing of Exchange 2010.Developed, documented, and maintained policies, procedures and associated training plans for Messaging administration. Worked on providing messaging support for the new Google's Postini design.Key technologies worked on during this project:- Exchange 2010- Lotus Notes - Blackberry- Google Postini Show less

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  Forsythe Technology

  Feb 2012 - Jan 2016

  Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

  Key Technologies Architected and Administered: • Managing Office 365 Tenants and Architecting ADFS Solution for Azure Cloud• Microsoft Exchange 2013, 2010, and 2007• Good for enterprise (Mobility Solution)• MDM AirWatch (Mobility)• Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliance• EMC SourceOne Archive• RightFax• BES Blackberry Enterprise Server

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  Schiff Hardin LLP

  Jan 2016 - Feb 2020

  Sr. Azure Engineer

  Key Technologies Architected and Administered:• Design Azure infrastructure managing Resources like Azure VMs, Vnet, Subnet, firewall Entra ID, Azure Storage, file, and blob, DC, DNS, Group Policy and DHCP • Microsoft Exchange 2016 and 2010• Architecting ADFS and Azure Cloud Connect, and deployed/managed Kubernetes Clusters, pods containers, networking, storage and load balancers for the firm. • proficient in managing Azure vms, vnet, storage using Terraform and Ansible• Administering Hyper-V Failover Clusters, VMware and Azure VMs• Hyper-V Servers 2008, 2012 and 2016• MDM MobileIron• KEMP Load Balancer LTM/GTM• Axway Gatekeeper for messaging Hygiene• Managed and maintained Azure hybrid environment for the firm. Show less

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  Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

  Feb 2020 - now

  Sr Systems Engineer & O365 Engineer