Nick Sciulara
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Dell Technologies
Senior Advisor, Cybersecurity Engineering & Operations
2020 : 2021
Kforce Inc
Senior Advisor, Cybersecurity Engineering & Operations at Kforce Inc assigned to Dell Technologies
o Manage and support on-premises Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Exchange Online, & O365 related Microsoft technologies from a dedicated home office with a high-speed internet connection for UMG’s office locations globally.
o Support over 10,000 users, servers, and workstations across five AD forests.
o Manage security groups & delegated Organizational Unit rights for our Helpdesk, Deskside & Server teams globally.
o Design, implement, and support GPO's across all domains.
o Maintained the Quest Active Roles Active Directory terminal management servers.
o Manage the internal Certificate Authority, DHCP & DNS servers globally.
o Deployed & configured DNS servers at smaller offices to utilize the sites local internet connection. Utilized split DNS, and created secondary internal DNS zones to help speed up the DNS resolution for UMG's external DNS zones.
o Installed, configured, & managed the ADFS & WAP servers.
o Worked with application owners to setup over 100 ADFS relying parties & Azure SSO applications.
o Installed & configured Nagios to monitor HP ProLiant server hardware, & to ensure uptime.
o Managed virtualization platforms & hypervisors like Hyper-V & VMWare.
o Applied the latest operating system patches, & security updates using WSUS.
o Manage 0365 E3 & E5 licenses via PowerShell to enable or disable license service plan options.
o Manage Exchange Online primary, archive, & shared mailboxes, added resource rooms, modified primary & secondary SMTP addresses as requested, bulk added members to new distribution lists via PowerShell, & imported PST’s into O365.
o Added new & retired email domains in Exchange Online, released emails from quarantine & updated the allow & block mail flow rules as required.
o Sip enabled AD accounts for Skype for Business & Teams via PowerShell.
o Improved AD processes & automated repetitive tasks whenever feasible.
o Performed root cause analysis of critical outages & incidents & coordinated implementation.
2008 : 2020
Universal Music Group
Active Directory Analyst
o Supervised the GDS Server Services Eastern region team.
o Assigned the server analysts responsibilities and troubleshooting tasks for operating system, server hardware, and supported services and applications.
o Participated in Change Management and ensured team followed the defined change control process and UMG’s established notification process such as the Service Metrics Web Site.
o Built, installed, and tested servers based on requirements from Design and Architecture or established standards.
o Loaded operating system, network operating system, applications and middleware.
o Monitored system performance and took proactive action when pre-defined thresholds were exceeded.
o Performed maintenance functions, troubleshooting and problem isolation.
o Managed server center in UMG’s New York office. (e.g. power, A/C, access, space, server rack, etc.)
2005 : 2008
Universal Music Group
Server Support Team Lead
o Provided daily server support for NYC, New Jersey, and Miami offices which included 1200 clients.
o Install, administer, configure, and maintained 90 NT 4.0 / 2000, Citrix Metaframe, and Netware servers.
o Work with team members to provide support on a rotating 24 x 7 basis for all servers in NYC.
o Support all hardware and software issues with servers across all platforms.
o Perform Local NDS Maintenance, and Netware Login Scripting.
o Administer security on Netware and NT/2000 servers.
o Handle server related problems through Remedy system.
o Worked with HP/Compaq servers and hardware.
o ZEN Maintenance and Configuration.
o Created ZEN packages for all client application’s and rollouts.
o Responsible for Disaster Recovery functions.
o Responsible for Data Backup, Backup Schema, and Offsite Storage.
o Server Capacity Planning.
o Norton Anti-virus Design, and Monitoring for NT and Netware servers.
o Setup and configure network printers to run on Netware printer agents via TCP/IP.
o Break / Fix Support.
2000 : 2005
Universal Music Group
Server Support Analyst
Skills
Active Directory, Active Directory Experience, ADFS, Azure AD, Data Center, DHCP, Digital Media, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Entertainment, ESXi, Group Policy, Hyper-V, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Servers, Music, Music Industry, Nagios, Office 365, SCCM, Servers, Social Media, System Administration, System Deployment, Technical Support, VMware, VMware vCenter, VMware vSphere, Windows, Windows Server, WSUS
About
Systems engineer with an emphasis on Microsoft technologies, including Active Directory, Exchange, and Azure cloud solutions.
Providing many years of industry experiences to assist clients in designing, building, implementing, and continuously improving the overall IT business environment.
• Expertise with domain creation, schema modifications, sites and services configurations, maintaining, managing, and troubleshooting Active Directory in a global enterprise environment.
• Expertise with DNS, WINS, and Group Policies via Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM).
• Expertise with Active Directory Federation Services.
• Expertise with Active Directory Certificate Services.
• Expertise with on premise Active Directory, Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, Azure Active Directory, and Azure AD Connect in a hybrid enterprise environment.
• Proficient with PowerShell scripting and automation in Active Directory, O365, Azure Active Directory, Exchange Online, Skype for Business, and Teams.
• Hands on experience with systems such as VMware, AWS, Google Cloud, DigiCert, Duo, Remedy, and Service Now.
• Successfully upgraded all the Active Directory domain controllers globally from Windows 2008 to Windows 2016.
• Successfully migrated the ADFS v3 farm hosted on VMware to AWS.
• Perform yearly Active Directory restores offsite at IBM’s disaster recovery location in Sterling Forest, NY using tools such as Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory (RMAD) and U-Move by U-Tools for application owners so they can restore applications and test disaster recovery for vital systems.
• Deployed Azure AD password protection at UMG using on-premises Azure AD protection proxies and Azure Password protection DC agents to enhance password polices that use both the global and custom banned-password lists stored in Azure AD.
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