SUMMARY

• Active Director Architect with TEK Systems his recent assignments were at NaviSite as an Active Directory architect, John Hancock as a VMware architect, General Dynamics as an Active Directory and VMware engineer, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts as a Cloud Migration consultant.
• He formally worked at Confidential DATA, Inc. in the Managed Technology Services Practice Area.
• He has over twenty (20) years of experience in Information Technology with a strong background in server hardware, storage, virtualization, and core IT applications.
• Mitchell’s strong skill set in leading the design and implementation of projects on a global scale has helped clients achieve significant return on value.
• He has an extensive background in enterprise virtualization and server technologies, core messaging and database technologies, as well as the ability to develop massively scalable solutions.
• Mitchell is a versatile technology advocate, demonstrating his flexibility and deep technical aptitude with his comfort with the Microsoft and Linux infrastructure stacks, as well as VMware and Hyper V. As a former long - time employee of Digital, Compaq, and HP, Mitchell has specialized knowledge of the HP server and storage hardware platforms.
• Mitchell has excellent written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating Systems: Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000/XP/NT4/9X/3X, Hyper V, VMware ESX, vSphere 4, VMware Server, XenServer, Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0, RHEL 3/4/5, SuSE Linux 10, Digital Unix, Open VMS
• Applications and Platforms: Microsoft Exchange 2013/2010/2003/2000/5.5, Microsoft Lync Server, IIS, Apache Web Server, Tomcat, Websphere Application Server (WAS), Weblogic, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, Active Directory, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), ADAM, Novell Groupwise, Oracle 10g/9i, Microsoft Online Solutions (MSOL), Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS), Amazon EC2 Cloud, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Small Business Server (SBS) 2008/2003
• Storage: EMC, HP 3 PAR, Dell, NetApp, Mylex, Swxcr, Data Protector, Legato, IBM, ARC, Veritas, EMC Avamar
• Backup: Symantec Backup Exec 2010/12/11/10, VERITAS through 9.0, ARC, EMC Legato, Double Take, Windows Backup/NTBackup.
• Scripting/Programming: Visual Basic/VBA/VBScript/ASP, Perl, C, C++, Dbase III+, SQL, HTML
• Tools: MS Office, SSH, telnet, FTP, Gopher, cfengine, Faxination, Postfix 2.1.5, BIND
• Monitoring Tools: BMC Patrol, NetIQ AppManager, HP OpenView, CA Nimbus, MOM
• Antivirus/Antispam: Symantec, McAfee, Antigen, Forefront, Trend Micro, Clamav, CA, Blue Coat, Barracuda, Postini, Proofpoint, AVG
• Networking: Cisco ASA (7.x - 8.x), Cisco PIX (6.x-7.x), Cisco Catalyst Switches, HP ProCurve Switches
• Other: Active Directory Design, Migration, and Implementation; Exchange Server Design, Migration and Implementation; Blackberry Server Design and Implementation; Virtualization and Storage Consolidation Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented migration of an on-premises exchange infrastucture of 5000 seats to Office 365 tenant.
• Designed, implemented and led project migrating multiple Data Center servers to VMware ESX 4.1 platform on various hardware from HP and Dell. Confidential USA 1500 users
• Installed Microsoft SQL Server 2005 multi-node clusters for mission critical application for a major Health Care Provider. Configured Analysis Services, SQL Server Agent jobs, and tested high availability functions. 
• Installed Exchange Server 2010 in high-availability clustered environment; migrated users from Exchange 2007, integrated third-party anti-virus and spam filtering.
• Deployed and managed Citrix MetaFrame environment hosting dozens of thick-client applications. 
• Developed tools and work instructions for schema migration from legacy version of Windows to Windows 2008 R2. 
• Installed and configured Hyper V Server 2008 R2 in production environment, consolidating various physical servers onto single flexible infrastructure delivery platform. Performed scripted virtual server migrations from one Hyper V server to another.
• Deployment and configuration of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) for various clients.
• Design, execution, and documentation of migration of Small Business Server 2003 (SBS 2003) to Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008)
• Design and implementation of System Configuration Manager 2007 for enterprise-level deployment.
• Migrated infrastructure for organizations to and from various cloud solutions providers, including Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Online Solutions. Confidential (1000 users)
• Configured various network firewall and proxy devices to implement and enforce network security and provide VPN tunnels; devices configured include Cisco ASA 5500-series appliances, Cisco PIX 500-series firewalls, and Blue Coat reverse proxy devices.
• Created value for customers by designing and implementing iSCSI SAN solutions on NetApp, EqualLogix, and HP to reduce costs and enable rapid infrastructure deployment. 

Confidential

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented new HP servers and storage for the ESX 5.0 cluster
• Designed and implented new achitecture and upgraded of Active Directory to Windows 2008 R2
• Desinged and implemented Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 migration
• Created procedures and fasiltated the process of Vmotioning systems from legacy hardware and ESX platform to new
• Managed disaster recovery design and implementation
• Tested disaster recovery senario and documented for compliance
• Knowledge transfer to off shore resources when migration was complete

Confidential

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked with leadership members to identify pilot users
• Implemented pilot user moves and used use case to determine desing flaws
• Remediated design and operations guides to minimize issues during mass migration
• Managed and implemented migration of remaining users
• Worked operational issues after migration
• Knowledge transfer to local resources when migration was complete

Confidential

Acting IT Directory

Responsibilities:

• Supported department IT environment consisting of fifteen servers, an EMC Clarion SAN, and two hundred servers of different operating systems, including Windows 2000/2003 Server, AIX, Linux, and Novell Netware.
• Migrated email for the department from GroupWise 3.x to Microsoft Exchange 2003.
• Migrated existing NAS infrastructure to Dell iSCSI infrastructure.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed physical HP servers and storage hardware; configured remote access with iLO, Avocent Rackview networked KVM, and network-enabled APC PDUs.
• Created VMware ESX 3.5 virtual hosting environment on HP servers. Estimated capacity and based on historical trend data and sized LUNs and VMs.
• Created and managed fiber-channel (FC) HP StorageWorks SAN and installed active-passive cluster of SQL Servers to support public web-based OLTP consumer-oriented application.
• Deployed Cisco Catalyst 2900-series LAN switches; configured VLANs and ports to trunk broadcast domains to VMware ESX hosts.
• Executed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversions of multiple Windows 2003 web servers running the company’s e-commerce sites on IIS and .NET, several Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers running various home-grown application software and open source software (RADIUS Server, FreeTDS, BIND), and management/monitoring servers.
• Installed four new Active Directory domain controllers running Windows Server 2008, transferred the FSMO roles, and raised the domain’s “functional level” after demoting and retiring existing Windows 2000 domain controllers.
• Installed four Microsoft Exchange 2007 servers in a fault-tolerant environment with Standby Continuous Replication (SCR), then migrated all corporate email from existing Exchange 2003 cluster.
• Upgraded two Blackberry Enterprise Servers to RIM’s 5.0 release of the software. Executed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) conversions of the BES servers.