SUMMARY

• Key Decision Maker in Mission - Critical Network Migration and Enhancement Initiatives Solid Command of the Project Life Cycle
• Hands-on and results-driven senior IT systems maintenance professional with more than 20 years’ experience with expertise in the design, development, and deployment of high-performance back-office IT solutions.
• Passionate for conducting deep dive research to investigate and resolve system failures.
• Proven ability to mentor and lend expertise to high-performance teams.
• Well-versed in value delivered to customers in enterprise and consumer segments.
• Skilled at analyzing system requirements and translating corporate business needs into comprehensive strategy, road map, and implementation plans.
• Domain experience in Active Directory, Exchange, Security and Cloud Computing.
• Identify risks related to solutions implementation and provide mitigation recommendations.
• Engage in environmental root cause assessments.
• Strong leadership in galvanizing teams to embrace a singular vision and oneness of purpose; respected for making staff training and mentoring a high priority.
• Stellar reputation for tackling steep learning curves and emerging successfully as a subject matter expert.
• Relentless desire to take on endeavors of increasing complexity.
• Champion for constant change and automation.
• Robust history in delivering sophisticated projects to be on-time and within schedule despite shifting priorities, and demanding expectations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Active Directory Architect

Responsibilities:

• Serving as an AD sharp-shooter on the Active Directory AE (Acquired Entity) merger and acquisition project.
• Provide deep dive support of AE Active Directory Infrastructure. Prepare recently acquired companies AD domains for integration / dual-ACL migration into existing AD forest.
• This involves rigorous object cleanup and standards enforcement to include flattening of deep nested groups and proper attribute population.
• Coordinate, attend and lead daily project meetings with various AD stakeholders throughout the AE integration process.
• Serve as a technical resource regarding all Active Directory support issues.
• Assist junior engineering teams with advanced OS troubleshooting and diagnosis.
• Write, test, and implement scripts (PowerShell, Visual Basic (VBS), WMI, ADSI to perform routine and repetitive tasks associated with AD troubleshooting.
• Responsible for the design, engineering, build, test, and implementation of all aspects of the Active Directory (AD) environment ensuring the security, integrity, and availability of authentication, authorization and LDAP related services to the enterprise’s internal as well external customers. Key responsibilities are to plan, design and implement Active Directory life cycle upgradesMultiple Domain Consolidation, emerging new tools and techniques to ensure that the infrastructure platform is highly availableeffectively supports the enterprise and meets the needs of enterprise-wide clients.
• Work with other engineers on the overall direction of the current and future state of Active Directory, LDAP/Authentication systems, access solutions, and infrastructure.

Confidential

Senior Active Directory Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led the completion of phase II of a four phase Intra-Forest Active Directory consolidation initiative for Confidential as the Senior Lead Active Directory Engineer, supporting 4,000 users and 125 servers.
• Held full accountability for the seamless migration of groups and users from a multi-source child domain structure to final end-state domain.
• Partnered with cross-functional teams to identify and execute remediation steps; prepared phase III tasks.

Confidential

Lead Active Directory Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Served as technical lead in the design, testing, POC and implementation in collaboration with stakeholders and technical teams for the Lotus Notes to Office 365 migration for 13,000 seats globally.
• Created an Active Directory design for corporate retail stores, ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS standards and the decommission of Novell e-Directory, supporting 45,000 seats globally.
• Upgraded a multi-forest/domain Corporate Active Directory to 2012 R2, ensuring alignment with financial goals, enterprise architecture standards, and technology vision; partnered with key server team members in building the Windows 2012 R2 gold image, complying with PCI-DSS, HIPAA, Confidential Cos. internal security, and compliance hardening standards used for server builds in HyperV environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Active Directory Architect / Lead Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Championed multiple in-house enterprise initiatives supporting the integration with Active Directory.
• Managed 200 portal applications, OIM/OID account provisioning, and the migration and integration of Active Directory related activities.

Confidential

Active Directory Architect

Responsibilities:

• Employed ADMT 3.1 and a scripted process to complete the migration which enabled hands-on-site engineers to migrate the workstation during live hours based on a deployment schedule.
• Completed initiative on-time and within budget, providing seamless operations for 3,000+ users and workstations, 200+ servers, and all lab equipment.

Confidential

Exchange Migration Consultant

• Advised and led the IRIS email migration for Confidential FAST-IT from multiple UNIX sendmail and Exchange 2003 systems with 12,000 users to SaaS Exchange 2010 infrastructure and the Meeting Maker application with 5,000 userssupporting diverse access methods needs, encompassing all versions of Outlook 2003 and above, including MAC versions and
• Outlook anywhere functionality via platform independent browser to ensure cross-platform compatibility.

Confidential

Active Directory Architect / Solutions Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Created end-to-end infrastructure designs for a wide portfolio of business facing applications and internal IT projects spanning the enterprise.
• These work efforts account for discovery, assessment, infrastructure sizing, detailed diagrams, implementation planning, resource identification, and technical oversight of delivery.
• Championed design, implementation, and maintenance of a global infrastructure for Confidential supporting 36,000 employees worldwide.
• Defined a five-year Windows and Active Directory strategy and managed global operations for configuration management and technical service and support.
• Served as subject matter expert, providing guidance on IBM
• TIM/TAM, IDM, MIIS, SCCM, Active Director 2008, Citrix Farm, LiveLink, and internal portal integration with existing ActiveDirectory.

Confidential

Senior Practice Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, tested, and implemented a Windows NT migration to Windows Server 2003 Active Directory infrastructure for Staples Retail Group, maintaining compliance with PCI-DSS guidelines; provided technical guidance, executed functional tests, and developed design, support, and procedure documents.
• Confidential, was the Technical Lead for the Windows NT and Exchange 5.5 migration.
• Worked with Confidential team to develop and support the Exchange 2003 design, Active Directory integration, messaging coexistence, migration, and support strategies for the entire project.
• Primary responsibilities included providing technical and engineering guidance for developing processes for migrating existing mailboxes, public folders, conducting functional testing, and developing technical design, support, and procedural documents. Conducted knowledge transfer sessions to LAN team and Email Administrator on the new Active
• Directory and Exchange 2003 environments. Developed the solution architecture and guided the development of the implementation plans for the Windows Active Directory and Exchange 2003 migration.
• At L.E.K Consulting, primary responsibilities included providing technical and engineering guidance during the detailed assessment and analysis of the existing Windows NT and Exchange 5.5 operating environment.
• The purpose of the analysis was to identify a migration strategy of the existing systems and services to Windows 2003 Active Directory and Exchange 2003.
• The analysis included communication platforms, network services DNS/DHCP/WINS, Backup and Recovery, and security, and support and administration.
• The results of the assessments provided detailed tactical and strategic recommendation with aviable migration approach.