PROFILE:

• Highly motivated and energetic professional seeking Exchange Engineer position with more than 12 years of experience working with Exchange and Lync Servers.
• Also Team Lead experience within the following sectors and areas
• Government Sector
• Maintain and Design Exchange Environment
• Maintain Exchange Environment
• Migrate Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010
• Consultant Sector

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Exchange and Messaging Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design project plan to migrate from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013
• Consolidate two Exchange environments
• Design project plan to setup Exchange 2013 separate forest
• Setup DAG
• Design project plan to setup Lync 2013
• Setup and Maintain SMTP Gateway Servers (Netmail & Symantec Messaging Gateway
• Maintain Two Exchange Environments (Exchange 2003 & 2007)
• Maintain Mobile Devices with Maas360 & Blackberry Servers
• Setup BES 10 Servers
• Maintain Active Directory and DNS Servers
• Maintain OCS environment
• Maintain SMTP Relay server (Symantec Messaging Gateway)
• Maintain Secret Clearance

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Exchange and Messaging Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design migration from Exchange 2007 to Office 365
• Moved Exchange 2007 CAS functionality to Exchange 2010 CAS
• AutoDiscover
• OWA
• ActiveSync
• Anywhere

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Exchange 2010
• North America Site Exchange Environment
• 5,000 Users
• Maintain Exchange 2010 Environment
• Resolve transaction logs issues
• Resolve issue that come up in SCOM
• Worked on Lync Environment
• Completed design of Lync
• Research if Director Servers is needed
• Configured certs for Front - End Servers
• Patched Servers
• Maintain Lync Environment
• Configured users for Polycom phones
• Configured Common Area phones

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Exchange Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Designing Exchange 2010
• 3 Site Exchange Environment
• 15,000 Users
• Design Mailbox, Hub and CAS Roles
• Created project plan for design and user moves
• Worked on Lync Design
• Completed design of Lync
• Added Director Server
• Rebuilt Front End Server
• Maintain Exchange 2003 Environment
• Resolve transaction logs issues
• Resolve issue that come up in SCOM
• Maintain Active Directory
• Configured DFS replication
• Created users and groups

Confidential, Charleston, SC

Exchange Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Designing Exchange 2010
• 2 Site Exchange Environment
• 70,000 Mailboxes
• Design Mailbox, Hub and CAS Roles
• Reported project milestones to Project Manager
• Communicated project plan and status to Project Manager and Project Director
• Confirm SLA compliance in the project plan
• Served as the Exchange point of contact for engineers on other projects

Sr Exchange Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Exchange 2003
• 70,000 Users
• Maintain Exchange Cluster
• Active Directory
• Backup Exec (Backup Solution)
• SCOM (System Center Operation Manager)
• Blackberry Servers
• Failover Blackberry Servers
• Maintain BES environment

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead for Exchange Team
• Named Mission Critical Engineer by the CIO of US Dept of Justice
• Active DOJ Clearance
• Manage employees vacation time
• Manage employees daily tasks
• Team is responsible for:
• Exchange 2003
• 20,000 Users
• Double Take for failover
• Active Directory
• IAP (HP Archiving System)
• Data Protector (Backup Solution)
• Installing and Configuring Exchange 2010 for Migration
• Mailbox Servers
• Hub Servers
• CAS Servers
• Direct-Attached Storage (DAS)
• HP SAN
• SCOM (System Center Operation Manager)
• Blackberry Servers
• OCS (Office Communications Server)

Senior Lead Network Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• 20,000 Users
• Active DOJ Clearance
• Maintain Exchange 2003 Servers in Primary and Secondary Sites
• Repair and defrag Databases using eseutil and isinteg
• Exchange 2010 Project
• Trained at New Horizons for Exchange 2010
• Racked servers for Exchange 2010
• Racked Dell DL380
• Racked DAS Systemworks MSA60
• Maintain IAP (HP Archiving System)
• Maintain Data Protector (backup program) for Primary and Secondary Sites

Confidential, Miami, FL

Senior Exchange Engineer/Admin

Responsibilities:

• 15,000 Users
• Leading the following projects
• Development of Test Lab for Exchange, LCS and SharePoint
• Setting up Tivoli Alerts on Exchange Server LUNS
• PDG-mail routing
• Log files cleanup on Exchange CAS
• Setup of Exchange DR
• Fixing GAL issues
• Assist with day to day support of user on Exchange Servers
• Migration of Lotus Notes 6.5 to Exchange 2007
• Migrated users from Lotus Notes 6.5 to Exchange 2007 using Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange 4.1
• Maintain day to day operation of Exchange Servers and mail flow
• Maintain BES Servers
• Created Databases and Storage Groups on Exchange Mailbox Servers
• Use Powershell and Power GUI scripting tool to pull information from Exchange Servers
• Powershell was used to move users mailboxes from one server to another server

Confidential, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on budget for our Engineering Team
• Managed the tickets system for the team
• Made sure tickets were resolved
• Report to Director over progress of the tickets for the team
• Maintain Postini for Main Site, HA Site and London Site
• Led team in Exchange 2003 Project
• Design improvement of Exchange 2003 Servers
• Implemented new Exchange 2003 Clusters
• Active/1Passive Nodes Cluster
• Active/1Passive Nodes Cluster
• Maintain day to day operations of Exchange Servers and mail flow
• Led team in Exchange 2007 Project
• Design New Exchange 2007 Servers for 3 Projects
• Created Project Plans for each site and also maintain the Plan
• Maintain Active Directory
• Disabled Link State
• Implemented 3 Exchange 2007 Servers Projects
• Migrated users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007
• Developed Dev lab for Exchange 2007
• Maintain day to day operation of Exchange Servers and mail flow
• Use Powershell and Power GUI scripting tool to pull information from Exchange Servers
• Blackberry DR
• Implemented Blackberry DR Server
• Developed Exchange Dev Environment
• Auto Accept Project
• Implement Auto Accept within Exchange Servers
• Maintain and support Active Directory
• Maintain and support LCS

Confidential, Troy, MI

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led the Exchange Team through projects and day to day work.
• Outlook and OWA Training Project
• Worked with Confidential and New Horizons to get Outlook and OWA training for users
• Coordinated video conference room for training
• Data Retention Policy Project
• Created Project Plan
• Coordinated Conference call with Project Team (included the legal department)
• Defined retention plans for Exchange Server Policy which included mailbox sizes for the entire company
• MOM Implementation Project
• Design MOM Infrastructure
• 2 Management Servers
• 1 Database Server
• 1 Reporting Server
• Implemented Management Packs
• Support MOM Infrastructure
• Improve Exchange Performance Project
• Implemented Global Catalog Servers
• Design SAN for Exchange Servers
• Implemented new Exchange Servers
• Migration of Lotus Notes to Exchange
• Design Exchange Servers
• Migrated Users from Lotus Notes to Exchange
• Maintain Exchange Servers
• 6 Front-End OWA Servers
• 4 SMTP Servers,
• 6 Exchange 2000 Back-End Servers,
• 13 Exchange 2003 Back-End Servers,
• 18 Exchange 2000 Servers in Remote locations
• 3 CipherTrust Servers
• Maintained Blackberry Servers 3.6 and 4.1
• Created change requests
• Designed and maintained AD (12 Windows 2003 Servers) and DNS
• Worked off-hours and weekend
• Provided on-call support
• Resolved high priority cases

Confidential, Atlanta, GA (Consultant)

Network Admin

Responsibilities:

• 20,000 Users
• Migration of Cox Broadcasting Forest to Cox Television Forest
• Designed Forest for Cox Televisions
• Implemented Exchange and Active Directory Servers
• Migrated AD to new Forest
• Migrated Exchange to new Forest
• Worked with Change Management
• Maintained DNS and WINS servers
• Setup Blackberry Enterprise Server
• Setup and maintain HP servers and also setup ILO

Confidential, Cookeville, TN (Consultant)

Network Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Windows Infrastructure Projects
• Designed Network for Banks
• Setup Domain Controllers with Windows 2003 and Active Directory
• Coordinated training for Bank admins
• Setup a managed Norton Anti-Virus
• Installed and maintained Vertas Backup Software
• Installed and maintained SQL Server

Confidential, Charlotte, NC (Consultant)

Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the Small Business Server (SBS) Team
• Windows Server
• Setup, configured, maintained Windows 2000 & 2003 which included Windows components such as Active Directory, DHCP and DNS
• Setup, configured and maintained SharePoint
• Setup, configured and maintained ISA
• Setup, configured and maintained Exchange