TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Messaging: Exchange (5.5 - 2013), Office 365, Lync 2010, OCS 2007 R2

Systems: Azure Cloud, Active Directory(2003 -2012), Windows 2003 - 2012, SharePoint administration, SAN Storage (EMC, HP, IBM), DFS File Server Engineering, Blackberry 4 - 5.0 & 10, HP/Compaq Servers, Dell Servers, Symantec Backup, Server Clusters, VMware (3/4/5x), IIS Web Servers, Right Fax 9.4, DHCP, VMWare, Hyper-V

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Infrastructure and Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Level Exchange 2010/13 engineer for 10k mailbox email system to include; Mailbox and server management. Troubleshoot email, mail flow, DAG management.
• Perform upgrades for VMWARE 4.x and 5.x to VMware 5.5. Perform P2V and V2V, provision virtual machines via templates and OVF files. support and troubleshoot VM infrasture and storage of VMWARE.
• Active Directory DS management and an administration to include replication troubleshooting, user, group, and computer object management, DNS, DHCP and DFS administration.
• Management of Active Directory Federation Services, proxy, hybrid servers. for third party application and external trust relationships.
• Managing of users and server for Symantec EV solution to include; adding databases to archives and configuring EV task pertaining to exchange.
• Perform day - day management and troubleshooting for Windows infrastructure. to include. Active Directory, Exchange, SQL clusters, SCCM 2013, OSD via SCCM.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Infrastructure and Messaging Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Managing Windows 2012 R2 Active directory infrastructure. To include users, groups, policies, PowerShell scripts, machine objects, DNS, DHCP, and ADFS.Configure Hybrid scenario for Office 365 and on premise exchange 2013 to include exchange 2013 hybrid server, AD federation services, external proxy servers and office 365 hybrid configuration with DNS
• Exchange 2013 DAG consolidation to optimize databases performance by consolidating databases. CAS Array configuration and implementation.
• Engineered exchange 2013 server placement to re - architect server placement for SMTP transport and DAG resilience.
• Exchange 2013 server patching.
• Migration of 5k mailboxes to office 365 Decommission of 70 % exchange 2013 mailbox servers.
• Build Active directory infrastructure in Windows Azure, build and configured 3 node ADFS farm and 2 node ADFS proxy environment.
• Configured ADFS for SSO for SharePoint and other ASP and .NET apps
• Configured windows Azure and VM provisioning, while lead the configuration for the vnetwork in Azure. Installed and configured Azure AD directory sync using full SQL version. .

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Exchange Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting 5K mailboxes for users in hybrid environment to include, room mailboxes, dynamic and static distribution groups.
• Office 365 administration for Exchange mailboxes, Lync accounts, Office 365 licenses and other features of Office 365.
• Management of all relaying, DAG and database configurations, Active - Sync and mailbox policies, send and receive connectors, and duties pertaining to Exchange 2010/13
• Active Directory DS management and an administration to include replication troubleshooting, user, group, and computer object management, DNS, DHCP and DFS administration.
• Management of Active Directory Federation Services, proxy, hybrid servers. Configuration of DirSync and other infrastructure suitable for Office 365 communication.
• Managing of users and server for Symantec EV solution to include; adding databases to archives and configuring EV task pertaining to exchange.
• Lync 2010 management of front end, AV, and Edge services.
• Management of users SIP setting and conferencing and voice policies. migrated 10 mailbox infrastructure to office 365 in hybrid configuration using windows azure, ADFS, proxy and DirSync

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administrator of 4 Exchange 2003/07/2010 organizations to include mail routing, mailbox administration, mailbox migration, Websence and barracuda AVI/Spam appliances, MDM, and Active Unified Messaging administration.
• Build Exchange 2013 infrastructure to include 10 mailbox server and 6 client access servers. Build completely new windows 2012 active directory forest and migration of all mailbox and user objects to the count of 10k mailboxes and 50k AD objects
• Active Directory administration of 5 forests to include cross trust administration, user administration, PowerShell scripting, DNS modification, DHCP scope administration, user and computer object migration. Detailed project planning for Active Directory forest migrations.
• VMware administration to include deploying new VMs, building VM hosts and clustered datacenters. Administration of HA capabilities, migration of physical to virtual servers within a Vmotion cluster. Migration of
• Administration of NetApp and EMC storage platforms to include partitioning LUN, RAID groups, and storage groups. Hot LUN migrations and fabric zoning.
• Migrated 8K mailbox infrastructure to office 365 in hybrid configuration using windows azure, ADFS, proxy and DirSync

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administrating Exchange 2010 ORG to consist of 5 CAS. 6 mailbox and 5 transport servers. Stretched across 2 datacenters and one DR site.
• Configured DAG clustering for DC failover and DR protection.
• Configured CAS array and site load balancing using barracuda load balancers.
• Performed Exchange 2003 to 2010 migration of 5k mailboxes. Configured mobile technologies such as: Active - Sync, OWA, Outlook Anywhere and public auto discovery.
• Migration of Active Directory Windows 2003 to Active Directory Windows 2008. Optimization of site replication using Active Directory sites and services. Administration of Lync 2010
• Configured DNS infrastructure for optimization of zone name resolution throughout the forest. Strategically placed DHCP server for Dynamic IP assignment.
• Administrated barracuda archiving, spam and virus filter and load balance appliance.
• Administrated Active Directory and Exchange 2010 for daily duties, while performing a Exchange 2013 migration to office 365. I configured Exchange to run in a hybrid mode and migration of exchange mailbox to the cloud. .

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Migration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and architected an Active Directory and Exchange migration for a 500 company acquisition.
• Migration of 500 user and multiple groups and service accounts using Quest migration tool.
• Migration of 500 Exchange 2010 mailboxes and distribution groups.
• Completely administrated ESXi 5.x infrastructure to include HA, DRS, and VM s
• Migration of 70 application, database, and file servers as well as all computer accounts into another Active Directory forest. Admiration of Lync 2010
• Administration of all Citrix servers and Citrix applications. Published new Citrix Applications via XenAppp presentation severs.
• Administration of Windows 2008 Active Directory and Exchange 2010.

Confidential

Senior Messaging Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed, maintained, and supported 34 Exchange 2007/2010 Edge, CAS/UM and mailbox servers stretched globally across 3 datacenters. (1 Europe, 1 Asia Pac, 1 North America.)
• Performed Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 migration for 75000 mailboxes, using PowerShell scripts and scheduled native mailbox features, also performed daily operation maintenance for 130,000 mailbox, contacts and group objects
• Build, maintained, and supported DAG mailbox database groups spanning across multiple Active Directory sites. Troubleshoot Active sync and Outlook webapp issue s.
• Performed daily support for Symantec, FOPE spam and antivirus edge server technologies for SPAM/AVI edge protection, Configured CAS arrays and DAG clusters for Exchange 2010 mailbox servers.
• Migration of OCS to Lync 2010 and administration of Lync 2010

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Messaging Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Management of Exchange 2003 server infrastructure to include 10 node backend Exchange cluster stretched across 2 US cities using VERITAS clustering. As well as 4 load balance front end servers. Replication was done using VERITAS replicator
• Architected and engineered Exchange 2010 migration of 4 CAS/Hub transport servers and 4 mailbox servers that housed 6 databases with in DAG replication cluster.
• Management of BES 5.0 and over 5k handheld devices. Solely and successfully migrated Proof point AVI/Spam filtering appliance into a cloud on demand platform.
• Administrated Windows 2008 Active Directory infrastructure stretched across multiple AD sites. Maintained ownership of creating, modifying, and maintaining GPO.
• Management of two node Right Fax Enterprise active passive cluster for outbound and inbound faxing capabilities. Management of Exchange object using console and shell

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Infrastructure Architect/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architected two separate datacenters for east and west coast. Engineered routers and switches.. Also, ordered new hardware to support all windows servers. Configured and managed EMC Navisphere cx120 for all fabric storage.
• Architected and engineered new complicated Active Directory multi - site forest and DNS infrastructure. Build power shell scripts to automate administration. Performed migration using such tools as Active Directory RMS and Active Directory FS to optimize AD planning.
• Implemented 4 node SQL HA cluster and successfully migrated all databases from old hardware. Configured and migrated 5 node server HA web farm
• Built, managed, and administrated 16 node ESXI platforms. Configured HA hardware F5 load balancers.
• Build WDS servers for deployment of all Windows OS, administered and configured Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and GPO s after the successful migration of AD forest.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implemented, engineered, and migrated Active Directory infrastructures for a global multi - site company. Engineered a complicated multi-level DNS structure.
• Lead a Windows 2008 Active Directory migration and build RODC for satellite sites
• Build and configured SQL 2008 and application clusters, as well as complicated IIS web load balance farms for HA. Provided 3rd level support to desktop and help desk team.
• Administered DS4800 IBM SAN. Connected to brocade switch fabric. Administrated IBM Blade, Eseries, and Xseries servers.
• Configured and Administrated VMware 3.5 infrastructure to include: exercising Vmotion within 4 node DRS clusters.. Also tested HA and FT VM host with Vsphere 4.0

Confidential, Conyers, GA

Microsoft Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Solely Administrated Windows Server 2003 forest to consist of 100 physical and 27 VMware virtual servers.
• Administered Lefthand ISCSI and HP MSA Fiber fabric SAN to include, carving out LUN, Virtual disk, and volumes. Administrated Blackberry enterprise server
• Configured and administrated Exchange 2007 as well as engineered a migration from a 2 node Exchange 2003 clustered Exchange environment. Migrated over 4000 mailboxes
• Administrated and configured 4 node ESX 3.x virtual server farm.
• Engineered a complicated IDEALSTOR backup san solution to take advantage of the disk to disk to tape technologies.
• Configured SCCM 2007 for monitoring resources of all Windows servers.
• Installed and configured Windows server 2008 for future migration of the domain.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Microsoft Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assess customer infrastructures before making recommendations for security, hardware, and software upgrades before implementation. Duties of a project manager.
• Active Directory and Exchange 2003/2007 migrations for multiple small to medium size customers. Extensive Exchange and AD migrations using quest migration tools.
• Architected and Engineered Active Directory, Exchange, Windows server 2003, and Microsoft Windows SBS environments. Created GPO to secure all environments
• Created software packages using SMS as well as Microsoft ADS. Pushed updates to various workstations and server using SMS and WSUS
• Engineered and configured enterprise monitoring Systems suck as MOM, Pro IT, Orion, CA R11 & NSM. For monitoring and maintaining of customer networks

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Technically architected and lead Windows domains inter forest migrations. Using ADMT 3.0, troubleshoot and documented this process to make all inter forest migrations a success.Packaged and deployed application and updated using SMS 2003.
• Implemented and administered VMware server environment as we consolidated old physical server onto a VM platform. Using P2V technologies. Troubleshoot VM Servers as needed.
• Build and maintained SQL clusters, and proprietary newspaper application server for reliability, accessibility, and durability to clients across the enterprise.
• Administrated Citrix enterprise environment as well over 400 enterprise application, file, DC, and web servers to keep network stability and reliability across the infrastructure.