Project Manager Senior
Resume:
Nitin Kamboj, CISSP, PMP
Clarksburg, MD 20871
***********@*******.***
Cell# 718-***-****
SKILLS
O/S and Network: Windows 2019, 2022 Exchange 2013, VMWare, Citrix, AWS Cloud
Operating System: Unix, AIX, Linux, MS-Windows, Solaris Systems
Hardware: IBM and IBM compatible Personal Computers, Digital 1600 IBM RS/6000,S85, M80, H50,H70 F50,43P,B50
Career Profile:
To share my experience, guide and assist the organization to its highest level of performance, particularly in the field of Technology.
I am a USA Citizen and Registered with Selective Services
CERTIFICATION: CISSP, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, Zero Trust Forrester, ITIL V4
Active Clearance: Public Trust Moderate
Professional strengths:
Familiar with Linux and windows applications and operating systems of Windows Server 2012R2, 2016, 2019
Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Desktop, Windows administration, Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010, Active Directory, VMware and Citrix Xenapp 6.X, 7.X
Comprehensive knowledge of Windows management tools, Internet information systems, Windows scripting technologies with VB and PowerShell
Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
Ability to effectively convey ideas, methodologies and work in a team environment
Received training in Linux Essential course
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MBL Technologies. 11/2022 - Present
Senior Project Manager(ICAM ZTA PMO), Department of Education
Leading the project management efforts in design and deploying Enterprise wide changes
Leading the project with customers to adopt organizational changes effectively.
Lead the teams to work with Agile methodology for faster adoption, higher utilization of changes, and proficiency with the changes that impact employees who use the changes.
Lead Support and supervise customers and other teams with the transitions.
Assess change impact, conducting impact analysis, assess change readiness, and identify key stakeholders.
Lead with implementation of organizational changes in relation to business processes, technologies, and systems.
Lead the ICAM architecture to implement SASE, SOAR integration with on prem AD and Azure AD to be compliant with ZTA
Lead the ICAM integration with Mobile devices with MDM and Intune AD to be compliant with ZTA
Lead the ICAM integration with Login.gov and CDM federal dashboard AD to be compliant with ZTA
Leading and Supporting the IAM/ICAM needs of the organization with the use of CyberArk
Scrum methodology was used with teams with the cloud ICAM team
Agile methodology was used with FAFSA teams where cross functional reporting had to be done
As a Scrum Master Revamped Product Backlog management, leading to increase in project completion speed
Transformed the Agile environment by coaching team members, resulting in an uplifting the predictability of the project velocity
Conducted daily scrums, retrospectives, sprint reviews and planning meetings to ensure active communication and optimal operations
NOAA 6/17 – 11/22
Project Manager
Secure AD is one of the mission critical projects which support Seven-line offices Identity and access Management needs including DNS, Web Hosting, Critical Apps, SharePoint, SSO for mission users without which mission scientist/general users and users web sites will go down and they won’t be able to authenticate to any system leaving user non-functional entirely incurring heavy financial loss to the organization. The Active Directory Red Forest level are actually "Enhanced Security Administrative Environment" also known as ESAE. The ESAE leverages advanced technologies and recommended practices to provide an administrative environment and workstations with enhanced security protection. ESAE offering is designed to help thwart a critical element of these credential theft attacks by limiting exposure of administrative credentials. Secure AD project is based on a Tier model with Zero Trust Architecture.
Experience
Led the Zero Trust Architecture with Tier system and granular rights for IAM/ICAM
Led the requirements gathering workshops and managed the process to clearly define and sign off the phase one scope.
Provided project management services ranging from business process automation, creating project plans and managing projects, estimating, budgeting, mobilizing resources, helping bring projects back on track, and implementing Agile.
Managed the end-to-end delivery of cross-functional client and consulting teams for phases one and two of the mobile app development.
Collaborated with the design consulting team, alongside client technology and marketing teams to establish and own an end-to-end project plan.
Managed all changes across multiple teams and their impact on timeline, resources, and budget.
Led weekly progress and budget reporting, including tracking changes to stakeholders
Led project, resource and financial planning and execution for analysis, development, test, and deployment teams on agile and waterfall projects. Led all release and sprint planning, daily scrums, backlog grooming and retrospectives on agile projects.
Led risk, issue, communication, release, change, and vendor management.
Led project communications management to delivery team, mid-level, and executive management.
Led project vendor management, including consulting and 3rd party software vendors.
Coached organization and project teams from waterfall to Agile project delivery.
Accomplishments
Led the Architecture of Secure AD design and implementation effectively delivered before scheduled time
Coached organization and project teams from waterfall to Agile project delivery.
Led the successfully migration of Seven sites to Secure AD under a single umbrella
Proactively worked with project team on resolution of issues to client’s satisfaction
NOAA
Scrum Master 5/16 – 5/17
Experience
Worked as Scrum master on team to get the deliverables on time
Enforced Agile practices for cross-functional teams, increasing productivity of team members
Facilitated and guided Sprint Planning and Review meetings while maintaining team engagement
Built an Agile team and implemented improvements to improve the teams' communication, developed predictability using relative estimates, and improved the process of gathering, analyzing, and elaborating on requirements from business stakeholders.
Provided coaching on Agile and Jira for product and project managers unfamiliar with these methods and tools. Created a productive working environment for a team of more than 15 working together on the same product backlog.
Built an automated workflow, improving the decision-making process for prioritizing business requirements and projects. This process reduced the amount of manual work to maintain up-to-date worksheets.
Understood stakeholder needs and business requirements, built product backlog, wrote business and technical user stories, managed dependencies, and prioritized backlog with the product owner.
Performed accessibility testing for the existing solution, created a backlog for improvements, and prepared a process to prevent accessibility debt from compounding
Improved the process of building and communicating the product strategy through product roadmaps. Connected the product roadmap with Jira tickets, creating an experience that the product roadmap is a living document.
Developed and standardized requirements management processes using Jira and Confluence in the department of around 60 people. Used change management techniques to minimize the impact of different objectives and make change durable.
New York University
NYU IT 11/15 – 4/16
IT Project Manager
Experience
Led the Project management and solution design role for both cross-departmental and project-based teams.
Led the requirements gathering of the design, architecture and deployment of all Citrix Provisioning Services and Citrix XenDesktop virtualization environments in the company.
Led project, resource and financial planning and execution for analysis, development, test, and deployment teams on agile and waterfall projects. Led all release and sprint planning, daily scrums, backlog grooming and retrospectives on agile projects.
Led risk, issue, communication, release, change, and vendor management.
Led project communications management to delivery team and executive management.
Coached organization and project teams from waterfall to Agile project delivery
Established proper communication with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders in the organization
Led cross-functional teams in the successful implementation of enterprise software solutions.
Astoria Bank 4/08 – 10/15
Team Lead Windows System Engineer
Experience
Responsible for designing and supporting methodologies around server architecture both from Microsoft Windows and hardware infrastructure perspective to support the IAM/ICAM needs
Handle all aspects of system architecture, monitoring, system administration, system backups, fine tuning, system controls and documentation
Perform responsibilities of designing and implementing high availability solutions
Responsible for installing, configuring, upgrading and troubleshooting any issues relating to Windows server infrastructure technologies
Design, implementation, management and maintenance of Microsoft Exchange 2010/2007 systems
Migration of Microsoft Exchange from 2007 to 2010
Worked on CyberArk Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of Cyber Ark Privileged Access Manager.
Specialization includes Implementation, Configuration, Testing and Maintenance of security products. Hands-on knowledge in Installation of Cyber Ark components including Vault, PVWA, CPM, PSM.
Handle the tasks of providing status and updates on the progress of all work performed
Responsible for maintaining and monitoring AD objects and GPO’s
Create, maintain and evaluate documentation, i.e. backup procedures, software and hardware lists, proper naming convention and proper IP address
Monitor system performance, troubleshoot hardware and software problems, install and maintain system and window applications
Installed software, patching, upgrading and maintenance of operating system.
Installed, upgraded and maintenance of server hardware components as per requirement.
Responsible for installing configuring and troubleshooting on Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2 servers using enterprise standards.
Build, deploy, and administer VMware virtual servers.
Excellent experience with VMware updates manager to install patches and updates on ESX hosts and virtual machines.
Administer, monitor, and troubleshoot backups.
Perform system hardware and software inventories of production servers.
Document server builds, server outages, and backup failures.
Install, configure and maintain the Citrix Farm
Migrated environments from Presentation server 4.5 to XenApp 6.5 involving more than 100 Production servers
Daily responsibilities included maintenance of Virtual machines for performance issues also implemented V-Motioning, Hot and Cold Migration of virtual servers and technical writing, documentation, security assessments, vulnerability assessments or other related activities
Major role in redesigning Citrix architectures for improved performance as well as designed new farms for better application virtualization.
Tier 2-administrator role for maintaining and troubleshooting Citrix Presentation and XenApp farm farms with 2500 users and 180 applications.
Troubleshoot end user Citrix application access issues to other complicated presentation server related issues.
Redesigned Citrix architecture for improving Citrix end user experience over the WAN and increased printing speeds as well.
Managing 150 virtual machines used for both Citrix and Windows Administration 800 physical servers
Managed upgrades of Service Packs, Patches/Hot fixes at both physical and virtual environments
Coordinated and worked closely with the SAN Admins for storage needs as per the requirements along with planning future storage needs.
Administration and support of VERITAS Net-backup 7.6
Testing and monitoring server health using Citrix EdgeSight for XenApp 6.0/6.5 environment.
Worked on Agile and waterfall methodology with team and management
Accomplishments
Worked on the upgrade of Citrix environment
Deployed Citrix XenApp 6.x in DR and Production successfully
Deployed provisioning services and vDisks successfully
Deployed DC’s, RODC’s, Active Directory and member server 2008 successfully
Deployed Exchange 2010 and 2013 successfully
Managing Backup through Veritas NetBackup successfully
Proactively worked on resolution of issues to clients satisfaction
IBM 4/06 - 3/08
Windows/AIX System Administrator
Experience
Installation of Windows 2000/2003 and supported Organizations ICAM/IAM needs
Installation, configuration and maintenance of Microsoft Exchange 2003
Installation of DHCP, DNS
Managing File System (FAT, NTFS)
Installation and support of Application (MFG/Pro)
Managing Accounts, Managing Network Services, Managing Network Printing, Managing Security
Migrating users from Novell Netware to Windows NT
Installation and support of NT workstation and Windows 9x workstations.
Upgrading Firmware on Veritas backup utility
Serve as primary contact for technical support calls and email.
Coordinate and integrate the departmental computing systems with the enterprise business applications and with the networking and LAN/WAN systems.
Ensure that the existing desktop standards are meeting the needs of the user community.
Maintaining Network (LAN,WAN), Security implementation, RAID, DHCP, DNS, Disk management and remote printing.
Extensive experience in Installation, Configuration and Administration of Windows NT/2K/2003 systems.
Experience in working IBM Enterprise Storage Server(ESS) Shark Systems.
Migration,Installation,Configuration of AIX 5.1/5.2
Installation of Operating Systems and applications
Installation and Administration of Windows 95/98, Lotus Notes, PCTCP, Onnet, and other office productivity software.
Expertise in Stuttered cabling for LAN, Implementation of Local Area Networks under Windows 3.1 and Novell network.
Interacted with vendors for software, hardware and network evaluation, implementation, administration and troubleshooting
Global Consultants 6/03 - 4/06
Windows System Administrator
Global Consultants are mortgage bankers and brokers providing financial services to there clients. Assisting them in getting mortgage loans through support of various banks involved
With them.
Administration of Windows NT / 2000/2003
Experience
Installation of Windows 2000/2003 Server
Administer Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, and network security devices for 350 users
Replication, Trust Relationship and enforcing Domain wide Group Policies.
Lowered spam by 75% using firewall filtering with real-time spam black lists for incoming email
Backup and restore network data with Veritas Backup
Performed desktop migration from Windows 95/NT4 to Windows 2000. provided technical support for corporate client/server systems
Responsible for hardware and software applications for workstations, servers, and network data communications. Collaborated with executive management and department leaders to assess network capacity needs.
Remote Administration using terminal service, RDP, PCAnywhere and RemotelyAnywhere.
Perform desktop imaging
Deploy, maintain and report security patches for servers and workstations.
Responsibilities:
Serve as primary contact for technical support calls and email.
Responsible for receiving and logging issues and troubleshooting problems until they are sufficiently resolved.
Document all problem resolutions and perform various record keeping tasks regarding issues, corporate assets, performance and quality control.
Coordinate and integrate the departmental computing systems with the enterprise business applications and with the networking and LAN/WAN systems.
Ensure that the existing desktop standards are meeting the needs of the user community.
Maintaining Network (LAN,WAN),Security implementation, RAID, DHCP, DNS, Disk management and remote printing.
Extensive experience in Installation,Configuration and Administration of Windows NT/2K systems.
Interaction with venders on HW/SW issues.
Implementation and automation of backups using Tivoli and Disaster Recovery Planning
Interaction with management concerning company's IT issues.
Also handled Network administrator in Windows NT and Novell Netware
Installation of Operating Systems and applications
Management of printers and workstation
Very proficient with installation and support of different Operating systems
New York Life Insurance Co., Forest Hills, NY. 2/02 – 6/ 03
System Administrator
Setting up of Windows NT server, configuration of DHCP/TCP/IP/DNS/Extracting user from Novell to Windows NT /Installation of MS office. Implemented MFG/pro, Involved in the System Administration Network Administration in Windows NT and Novell Netware
The hardware is uses are Windows2000, Novell Netware, Windows NT server. Software configuration is use are UNIX MFG/Pro 7.2h, Progress (runtime query version only), Windows 3.1, Windows95/98, pctcp, Outlook. Other equipment in use are VSAT IDU (personal earth station), HUBS, UPS, BUS Structure, Ethernet network
Experience
Tested System to identify hardware, software crashes.
Handling a LAN / WAN setup
Trained users on ongoing basis
Monitoring and killing the hung user process
Tested and implemented applications
Studied and analyzed users requirements and provided effective solutions thereto
Implemented clients IT policy. Guarded against virus attacks and information thefts.
Review log, pruned database
Help Desk Technical Phone Support and customer service
Responsible for receiving and logging issues and troubleshooting problems until they are sufficiently resolved
Building new computers and hardware repairs
Help Desk Operations and Metrics Reporting
Beginning Level Network Support, Coordinate and integrate the departmental computing systems with the enterprise business applications and with the networking and LAN/WAN systems
PC and Peripheral Inventory Tracking and Reporting.
Back-Up Print Operator
End User Training
Document Help Desk Procedures and Problem resolution for Knowledge Base Error Correction
OS:AIX 4.3.3,4.3.2,, SOLARIS 7/8,LINUX 7.0/7.1/7.2,SCO UNIX 3.2, WINDOWS NT/98/95 WINDOWS 2K/ SERVER and PROFESSIONAL.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Management Sciences (Computer Major) – India, Lucknow University 1996- 1999
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