BHAKTI KALE CHOKSHI

• As part of the leading technology consultants group serving Stanford University, my team specializes in designing, architecting, and building cutting-edge systems to empower our clients across the University and Hospitals.
• As a member of the Ops team my regular activities are listed below but not limited to System administration activities: Patching, securing, monitoring, maintaining systems and the performance of workloads of more than ~500 systems.
• Manage hardware, software, and utilities for installation, modification, troubleshooting, maintenance, and upgrades of operating systems and server environments
• Monitor and analyze resource usage to recommend/develop enhancements to system capabilities and performance
• Compare, evaluate, and implement new technologies
• Integrate systems into the computing environment
• Document systems infrastructure for users, support, and consulting personnel
• Act as liaison with various departments across campus
• Facilitate vendor relationships.

Check out my LinkedIn profile for the other projects I have worked on.

• Administered Active Directory, addressing account issues and ensuring system compliance through SOX audits.
• Proactively monitored servers, managed infrastructure services, and oversaw Windows clustering and Citrix Servers.
• Handled Microsoft Exchange tasks, including mailbox management.
• Managed Software Asset and vendor relationships for IT licensing.
• Led projects, applying IT best practices for enhanced organizational efficiency.

• Management of Active Directory Forests
• Group policy implementation planning, creation and modification
• Domain controller health and Replication monitoring
• Addition and removal of domain controllers
• DNS management and configuration
• Management & Configuration of DFS
• Account Lockout issues
• Implementation of requests as per client requirements
• Use of the ITIL process to perform changes
• Solving Incidents and Problem tickets
• Preparation of documents like Change Implementation Plan and Root Cause Analysis.

• Part of the Microsoft Enterprise Platforms Support, specialized in Directory Services
• Primary responsibilities include addressing technical issues related to MICROSOFT OS in a domain environment and assist the same remotely
• Resolving issues in the Global Active Directory domain environments of Microsoft's Enterprise level customers; this includes Microsoft's Gold Certified Partners
• Handling the overall administration of systems involving design of network layouts, configuration and Active Directory Database Other components include Managing Profiles
• Managing and deploying Group Policies
• FSMO Roles and Global Catalog maintenance and troubleshooting, DNS related issues
• Promotion & Demotion of domain controllers, adding new sites/subnet, replication links, OUs and objects
• Active Directory Replication troubleshooting & Account Lockout troubleshooting
• File Replication Service and Distributed File System.