SUMMARY:
- Seasoned enterprise level Microsoft infrastructure architect and technical project manager specializing in global deployment, transitions, and migrations to the latest versions of Active Directory, Exchange, and Windows.
- Extensive experience with Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, Lync and scripting projects from ranging several 100 to over 100,000 users. Veteran project manager, presenter, and writer with twenty - five years of in-depth, hands on experience with some of the most complex environments in the world.
- Over the last twenty-five years I have helped multiple companies architect solutions and best practice models based on Microsoft infrastructure technologies.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Confidential - Tampa, FL
Microsoft Messaging Architect
Responsibilities:
- Manage 5,000+ seat Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, SCOM/SCCM and Lync global migration project
- Migrated 3000+ Blackberries to ActiveSync mobile solutions
- Manage Unix/Linux Sendmail platforms for various production equipment
- Create detailed planning, procedures, and documentation
- Develop custom solutions and applications to increase automation and efficiency
- Write user manuals on Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and Lync
- Design and carry out greenfield deployments, cross-forests, data center consolidations, organization consolidations, organizations disjunctions, identify management, and directory synchronization projects
- Migrated and thoroughly documented the procedures to migrate from various environments to the latest version of Windows, Active Directory, and Exchange
- Architect POC for Exchange 2013 and BYOD concepts utilizing In-house and external (Outlook365) services.
- Worked with all versions of Exchange and NetApp, EMC, Nimble, VMWare, Hyper-V, BlackBerry, iPhone, ActiveSync, Riverbed, F5, Kemp, SCOM/SCCM 2012 and other enterprise technologies
- Created scripts to automate the process of executing inter-org migrations to Exchange 2003, 2007, and 2010
- Implemented Barracuda SPAM filtering product for Exchange 2010/2003
Confidential - St. Petersburg, FL
Microsoft Infrastructure Architect
Responsibilities:
- Migrated and thoroughly documented the procedures to migrate from various environments to the latest version of Windows, Active Directory, and Exchange
- Worked with all versions of Exchange and NetApp, EMC, VMWare, BlackBerry, iPhone, ActiveSync, SCOM and other enterprise technologies
- Designed and wrote a SPAM filtering product for Exchange 2000/2003
- Beta testing every version of Exchange since 4.0 at Confidential in 1996
Confidential - Tampa, FL
Microsoft Infrastructure Architect
Responsibilities:
- Establishment of a Microsoft consulting practice and the required processes to manage it
- Multiple transitions and cross forest migrations to Exchange 2000
- Implemented Citrix/ Exchange 2000 at a multiple location organization with over 15,000 mailboxes and two with over 80,000 mailboxes
- Designed and developed a collaboration and document management solution for the Professional Services team
- Migrated Professional Services and sizing analysis team data to Great Plains
- Implemented best practices and processes to enable to Professional Services team to work more efficiently
- Created an information portal and assisted in the development of implementation and best practices guide that is used by PBS and its partners
Confidential- Dallas, TX
Team Leader & Network Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Managed a team of over thirty PC software support technicians
- Provided direct support to over 600 local users and resources used by over 60,000 other users
- Rolled out the first production Windows NT domain, Exchange 4.0, and SMS 1.0
Confidential - Tampa, FL
Team Leader & Network Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Possess thorough knowledge of PowerShell, VBScript, NT Batch, and Visual Basic
- Provide hosting services for over 30 domains for businesses and friends/ family, since 1995
- Maintain a lab of six physical and over thirty VMs running various Microsoft OSes and applications
- Microsoft Hyper-V and VMWare ESX\VSphere Server
- Storage Area Networks (NetApp, Dell EqualLogic, EMC) and DAS planning and design
- All versions of Microsoft Office, BlackBerry Server, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, and ActiveSync
