Anup Ghonge

• Owning and prioritizing all Active Directory project tasks

-GPO

-DNS

-DHCP (Failover DHCP)

• Implemented Identity Provider (Okta) and integrated with Active Directory
• Improving the Active Directory Security Posture from Identity Standpoint by leveraging the following

-Microsoft Defender of Endpoint (Windows Defender ATP)

-Centrify

-CyberArk EPM

-AD Tier Model

-Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)

-Hardening of Group Policy as per NIST Framework

• Responsible for mitigating the Vulnerabilities with reports from

-PingCastle

-BloodHound

-Sygnia

• Managing Implementation of new features in Windows 10, 11 and Server 2019 and 2022 by outline plans and specifications such as how, where and each component would work in the Colgate landscape
• Identifying issues, analyzing information and providing solutions to problems
• Led technology selection and rollout, focusing on organizational planning and supplier service-level agreements.
• Guided organizational technology strategy and roadmaps. Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.

i)International Personal Finance: Duration: Nov 2008 to April 2011

Projects undertaken:

• Setup Pre-Production environment at offshore for Release testing for development team and Testing team
• Implemented SCOM 2007 for datacenter servers for monitoring purpose
• Setup windows 2008 domain controller and windows 7 clients in testing environment for release testing
• Domain controller Time SYNC activity with UTC
• As a Service Delivery team member got the additional responsibility for managing Incident Management, Problem Management and Configuration Management part
• Upgradation of MacAfee from 3.6.1 to 8.0
• Redesigning of ISA Server 2004 for better internet security & manageability
• Management of ADS, Creation of Group Policies and Maintenance ; DHCP, DNS
• Services on the DCs and ADCs in Windows 2003 Servers
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ii) Pacific Life Insurance Company: Duration: Oct 2007 to Oct2008

Projects undertaken:

• Manage Servers and workstations from console, manage policies in McAfee,
• Implementation of Antivirus Server – McAfee epolicy Orchestrator 3.6.1
• Generating Reports for analysis for more than 350 clients
• Implementation of Microsoft WSUS 3.0 for deployment of Microsoft updates
• Over the LAN for 350 clients and 100 + servers including production environment
• Implemented Sophos Spam controller for clients to block various domain email Ids in spam controllers.
• Implemented Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer version 2.0
• Setup Live like Staging and testing environment at offshore for development and Testing team, for testing of various Releases, Patches and Hotfixes

• Server 2003:- Management of ADS, Creation of Group Policies and Maintenance ; DHCP, DNS services on the DCs and ADCs
• Exchange Server 2003:- Maintaining the Mailboxes on two sites, Maintaining mails flow, Database Backup, OWA access, Exchange Logs & Mail Filtering
• WSUS Server – Deployment of Windows updates over the LAN
• File Server- Managing file Share & Security permissions
• Windows server 2003 R2
• Manage Network Printers
• Barracuda Spam Controller: - Block various domains, ids, etc in spam controller & monitor Reports of spam controller
• MS-ISA SERVER 2004 using ISA server as Web Proxy, exporting ISA server web proxy logs managing & updating blocked web sites, monitoring the same for any issue

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• Installation & Configuring DELL, laptops and desktops for 2000 based networks
• Windows 2000 server & Windows 95/98/XP workstations
• Maintenance & troubleshooting of all computers in the company
• Creation and Delegation of User accounts in Exchange Server 2003
• Maintenance of printers HP LaserJet 6L, 2100,1200,1300,1100.