Summary:

A System Center Architect with over 10 years experience in System Management. Ken has led successful implementation and adoption of System Center at several Fortune 20 companies nationwide and he has international delivery experience in Europe and Canada. He has engineered solutions for clients in the Financial, Telecom, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Technology, Food Services, Legal, Public Sector, as well as Insurance and Transportation. He has strong project management exposure, as well as versed in Microsoft Operations Framework and delivery model. Ken has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer MCT since 2008, a Regional MCT lead 2013-2014 and a MCT embassador at Microsoft TechEd Conference 2014 . He is currently the lead organizer for the NYC System Center User Group.

Work Experience

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System Center Architect

Independent consultant Focus on solutions delivery for system center across the product suite sccm, scom, scsm and scorch

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Group Manager/System Center Private Cloud Architect

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He had won praised from the account executive team for successfully deliver to scope despite a challenging work environment. He had performed a health assessment and architectural validation for both a green field implementation of System Center Operation Manager 2012 to facilitate migration from SolarWinds and a migration to Configuration Manager 2012. He oversaw and managed a team of 7 direct reports.

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Designed and implemented System Center Operation Manager 2012 to replace the provided implementation of Site Scope. Effort involved Architecture consideration, Design planning, knowledge transfer to key resources. Infrastructure consisted of 1 Management Group, 2 resource pools and included monitoring of both unix and wintel servers, deployment of multiple management Packs, tuning. Further he successfully configured the AD, SharePoint, VMM management Packs and deployment of two Gateway Servers.

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• At 35000 managed this client on SCCM 2007 needed to have a solid design and assessment of their migration to Configmgr 2012. Kenold lead with architecture and design planning, lab build as well as implementation and rollout of SCCM 2012. Some of the complexity of the engagement include tablet imaging UEFI/UDI , IBCM internet based Client management , as troubleshooting Threat Management Gateway for https connectivity.
• He successfully developed and implements a solution that needed to co-exist with the existing environment.

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Principal Owner System Center Architect

Ken has held the role of a Solutions Architect, Solutions Owner for System Center suite including responsibility for pre-sales, business development for several award-winning Microsoft Partner firms nationwide. He had provided training for SMS, SCOM, BDD, OSD, ITMU Patch Management .

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OpsMgr Technical Advisory support to a team of developers responsible for HP Management offerings.

Confidential Provide Architecture and Operational support for various projects related to System Center to clients nationwide. Recent engagement involve Desktop Deployment Planning for a manufacturing firm Dallas, TX , Solutions Architect for a Desktop Migration for services organization Minneapolis, MN and an insurance company Branchville, NJ

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Provided 3rd Level Global support for JP Morgan SCCM and App-V infrastructure. Responsibilities included maintaining the health and availability of 200 servers with various SCCM site roles via various monitoring tools including OpsMgr. Provided operational support for JPMC global App-V infrastructure.

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Relevant technology: SMS 2003, SCCM 2007, SCOM 2007, SCOM 2012, SCCM 2012, MDT, DDPS, ACT, MAP, MDOP, WWPC, Sales, SOW, POC, ADS. He has assisted clients in Desktop Deployment Planning Services DDPS , package/Automate applications for deployment via SMS and via OS Deployment OSD as well as in the design and implementation of an application packaging standard.

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Architected and Implemented System Center Service Manager SCSM to enable Kern to contrast the benefits of Service Manager vs their homegrown service Desk solution. Project entailed design and deployment of SCSM, Infrastructure Build, Documentation and knowledge transfer to showcase service offerings and service requests.

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Overall responsibility to Architect and migrate Hiatchi's proprietarily management tool JP1 to SCCM for a global visibility into Hitachi various subsidiaries-- including architecture design, test plan and validation, implementation and rollout.

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Senior Consultant Microsoft Consulting Services

• successfully showcased to Micron the benefits of the system Center product suite including SCCM, OpsMgr, SCVMM and DPM by delivering an accelerated POC using Server Virtualization Advanced Management SVAM to showcase how the management tool stack up on top of our hyper-v solution.
• This project hopefully will lead to many opportunities in the future for the Boise area account team as well help Micron maximized a greater return leveraging its investment in our products which would result in a potential saving 500K.

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• Review and analyzed the team proposed architecture
• Review all the components and features of SCCM in-depth with the team.
• Deep dive under-the-hood whiteboard discussion about roles and product features.
• Analyze the global network impact of SCCM including Asia/Euro-Africa impact .
• Redesigned and Implemented SCCM POC in Native Mode.

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• Coordinated application support for Citi Global Architecture team with Microsoft
• Troubleshoot deployment delivery failure from the HP OpenView CM
• Identify internal process remediation.
• Develop a virtual lab to speed future application troubleshooting.

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• Architecture and Design review session for the Central site Server
• Reviewed capacity requirement for potential upgrade issues for SCCM
• Coordinated Risk Assessment and Premier follow-up for the global architecture to ensure the infrastructure is adequately design to support 100K seats