PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

I am a highly skilled Engineer and Manager with 16 years of professional IT experience with the last 5 years heavily focused on management and strategy. I am a proven leader by leading teams as a project manager through various tasks. Additionally, I exhibit excellent communication skills along with the highest degree of professionalism.

KEY TECHNOLOGY AREAS:

• Windows Server
• SMS 2.0, 2003
• Active Directory Services
• SCCM 2007, 2012
• Group Policy Management
• Network Switches
• User Security Management
• Routers
• PKI Policy
• Firewalls
• Exchange Server 5.5 - 2010
• Cloud Computing
• Cisco UCS (Server/Network)
• Mobile Device Management
• VMware
• Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Server Engineering/Cloud Services Manager

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Services Manager
• Manager of Private Cloud and Virtual infrastructure
• Defining overall process an governance
• Vendor management
• Marketing and growth opportunities to internal clients
• Reporting of metrics
• Strategic growth of the solution
• Consulting with internal clients on projects to assess their wants and needs and align them with corporate strategy
• Facilitate idea’s for growing the value of the infrastructure within budgetary constraints
• Lead engineer responsible for other team member projects
• Define audit and build process for Windows server

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Server Engineering Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Server Engineer provisioning hardware for various projects including Banking Center Deployments
• Configuration Manager administrator for team
• Responsible for deployment of Windows Server systems utilizing Configuration Manager as deployment tool
• Physical Windows server deployments
• VMware virtual Windows server deployments
• Responsible for administration of Configuration Manager and package and Task Sequence Deployment enhancements
• Assist in providing direction for server deployments according to corporate standards
• Team member for Server Consolidation project

Confidential, Northville, MI

NOC Manager/Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Company is a managed services IT Provider for Small to Medium Businesses
• Functions vary from project management, implementation engineering, and sales engineering for new clients
• Management of 2 team members that provided 1st and 2nd level support
• 3rd level support engineer
• Create standards for clients supported by Vision
• Complete assessment of potential client infrastructures and design and plan the implementation of Vision standardized equipment
• Execute plans and lead implementation team
• Built new servers and upgraded existing servers when necessary.
• Planned, coordinated, and assisted in desktop and data center migrations
• Developed Active Directory and Exchange infrastructure
• VMware virtual infrastructure deployment
• Virtual Windows server deployments
• SAN storage deployment
• Provided Lifecycle planning for clients
• Involved in pre-sales engagement for infrastructure opportunities which included qualifying opportunities and developing project plans, statements of work, and margin analysis documentation.

Confidential, Madison Heights, MI

Senior Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Company is a managed services IT provider
• Involved in pre-sales engagement for infrastructure opportunities which included qualifying opportunities and developing project plans, statements of work, and margin analysis documentation.
• Created and provided envisioning plans, network designs, and implementation documentation to clients
• Developed and presented network solutions based on Microsoft BackOffice applications and core technologies, Windows clustering services
• Mentoring of level 1 and level 2 engineers
• Designed, implemented, and configured Windows 2000/2003/2008 Active Directory and Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007 networks.
• Migration of client infrastructure to Colo hosted infrastructure
• Migrated existing Windows NT/2000/2003 domains to Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 Active Directory.
• VMWare ESX Server deployment in Colo hosting infrastructure
• Version management of hosts in Colo from VMWare 3.5 to 4.0 vSphere
• Provided Lifecycle planning, NOS migrations, Process development
• Cisco and HP hardware implementation

Confidential, Troy, MI

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to Confidential for infrastructure migration project
• Developed Active Directory and Exchange infrastructure
• Worked with client on assessing needs for current and future growth
• Developed migration strategy to migrate from NDS to Active Directory Infrastructure

Confidential, Troy, MI

Senior Architect/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported various sized clients throughout metro Detroit
• Developed and implemented strategies and standards necessary for migrations of legacy platforms such as NT4 and Exchange 5.5 to a Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003 infrastructure.
• Performed Workshops for clients based on the current environment and the direction of their infrastructure.
• Created Security evaluations as well as developed and integrated DR and business continuity strategies
• Application migration and implementations

Confidential, Madison, WI

Senior Microsoft Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• National client base
• Developed and implemented strategies and standards necessary for migrations of legacy platforms such as NT4 and Exchange 5.5 to a Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003 infrastructure.
• Developed and implemented NDS and AD designs
• Security evaluations
• Developed and integrated network backup, and disaster recovery
• Developed, implemented and enforced various IT technology and process standards and policies as they relate to usage and governing of multiple IT business systems.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Systems Administrator for the Server Support team, supporting sites in Farmington Hills and other sites throughout the United States. Supported over 20,000 users.
• Lead migration engineer of multiple domain Windows NT environments to a single domain Active Directory environment.
• Migration engineer for migration from Nortel to Cisco infrastructure.
• Implementation of SMS 2.0 with SP5 and Feature Pack.
• Server deployment utilizing SMS and OSD deployment pack

Confidential, Troy, MI

Sr. Email Architect/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architect and Engineer for AD/Exchange 2000 implementation
• IIS Web Server integration
• Lead Handleman Architect for email migration project from Mainframe based email system to Exchange 2000 Server
• Responsible for design of architecture
• Lead Handleman Architect for file server migration from Novell to Windows.
• Primary function was administration of Microsoft systems including, Windows NT/2000 Server and Advanced Server, SQL 6.5 and 2000, SMS 2.0, Exchange 5.5 and 200)