SUMMARY

• Microsoft Exchange Migration / Deployment Consultant with more than 8 years of total experience in Migration / Installation / Deployment and Implementation of Exchange Servers / Dell Servers / Virtual Servers / Operating Systems and Active Directory
• Responsible for several Server builds and Migrations of Windows, MS Exchange 2003/2007/2010 across multiple remote locations
• Installed and configured MS Exchange / 2010 Server, Maintained all Exchange and Windows Servers 2000/2003/2008 , BPOS, Office 365
• Installed and configured MS Exchange 2010 server, Responsible for Active Directory design, implementation and administration
• Installed Windows Server 2003 on Blade servers series 3850, Managed Citrix server; created accounts, and log off users, Migrated DFS from Windows to Net Apps Box
• Installed Windows 2008 Server and fully created the environment, Installed and Migrated Exchange and with implementation
• Migrated Groups and permission’s from Widows using VB script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Rockville, MD

Server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided Engineer level support for an Exchange 2010 environment, including mail routing, service pack update help desk ticket solutions
• Administered and maintained WebSense email and spam filter for Exchange 2010
• Administered PGP secure mail server
• Administered BlackBerry Enterprise Servers
• Provided support for rightfax server for Exchange 2010
• Migrated users from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010
• Migrated entire mail environment from their current datacenter to another datacenter with near zero down time

Confidential - Seattle, WA

Exchange Messaging Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed database recovery for existing mailboxes on Exchange 2007
• Created Recovery Storage group for Exchange 2007
• Migrated existing Exchange 2007 server roles to physical servers that met Microsoft Best Practices
• Developed PowerShell scripts for daily and monthly administrative tasks for Exchange 2007
• Resolved escalated mailbox issues, CCR, internal and external mail routing issues
• Designed Architecture plan for migration from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010
• Provided Visio documentation of current Exchange 2007 messaging environment
• Provisioned Office 365 Service Pilot with Microsoft in order to handle an "XL Tenant" size for up to 500,000 Users.
• Organized meetings with Microsoft to provision necessary licenses (approximately 10,000) with tenant provisioning for up to 500,000 to future-proof the design
• Meeting with Microsoft support to discussing the current bandwidth requirements for existing setup.
• Set up Active Directory Federation Servers for authenticated sign-on
• Implemented Directory Synchronization services, mobile device services for Android and iPhone connectivity.

Confidential - Seattle, WA

Exchange Messaging Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed Exchange 2010 migration from 2007 by building the architecture with high availability and disaster recovery
• Delivered solutions that included design, layout, engineering and support for 12,500 users
• Executed overall corporate messaging architecture for the migration and post migration tasks
• Resolved escalated mailbox migration issues, high availability, CCR, Exchange routing problems, target address issues, missing migration items, bug fix resolution
• Implemented various Exchange support relating to Active Directory objects via ADSIEDIT and performed several Outlook workarounds
• Processed migration/rollback when issues occurred and devised support strategies for all technical team members
• Designed and deployed Enterprise Lync Server 2010 with the complete feature set that includes Edge Servers for third party collaboration
• Architected High Availability design for Lync Front-End Servers to utilized F5 NLB
• Utilized multiple servers for SQL Clustering for Archiving and Monitoring databases
• Configured Enterprise Voice that integrated with Cisco Call Manager for Enterprise Voice functionality and integration with the Unified Messaging Server
• Installed new Blackberry Enterprise Servers, migrated blackberry users from 4.0 to 5.0.2 in new Exchange organization
• Used Blackberry Transporter Tool to migrate BES users
• Applied managed mailbox policies, corrupted databases, restructured public folder design, addressed server/mailbox migration issues, and decommissioned Exchange 2007 Servers
• Performed Documentation on architecture of environment and provided knowledge transfer to all technical team members upon project completion
• Implantation of SCOM server and completed deployment of agents to all production servers

Confidential - Olympia, WA

Windows Messaging Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and deployed an Exchange 2007 Email system across multiple AD sites for 5700+ users from an Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 environment
• Configured mailbox servers with client functionality that includes Outlook Web Access, and message journaling to meet business unit requirements
• Implemented the design layout of high performance storage for the Exchange databases
• Designed a proof-of-concept and pilot testing for corporate-wide coexistence across pre-migrated and post-migrated users and ensured interoperability
• Evaluated third party migration tools to facilitate the migration based on the requirements of the business
• Utilized Microsoft System Center Operations Manger 2007 (SCOM) to monitor Systems for issues occurring during migration
• Designed and deployed Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007 R2) with the complete feature set that includes Edge Server for third party collaboration
• Configured enterprise Voice that integrates with Cisco Call Manager PBX for Enterprise voice functionality

Confidential - White Plains, NY

Sr. Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed the migration and co-existence of multiple Active Directory Exchange 2007, 2003 and 2000 email organizations into 1 large AD Forest and 1 Exchange environment
• Configured application server migrations to a new AD domain and forest
• Coordinated the remote site migrations for Active Directory, Email, and Workstations
• Performed migration of six thousand Windows XP workstations
• Configured a parallel deployment and migration to a highly available platform
• Designed and deployed a set of edge services in the DMZ that will allow secure access to the Microsoft Exchange environment for Active-Sync and OCS users
• Designed a Highly Available Virtual Server computing platform leveraging VMware ESX 3.5 to support some of the projects required systems

Confidential - Stamford, CT

Exchange Messaging Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to the perform Exchange 2003 Escalated support for 26,500+ users
• Performed several disaster recoveries on both client servers with EMC storage and Dell servers
• Fulfilled all roles in the Exchange environment including, backups, anti-virus and anti-spam solutions, system monitoring etc.
• Worked with a team to implement an Instant Messaging environment that would support the customer's environment
• Documented each division's process/procedures for supporting their Microsoft Exchange environment
• Worked to develop a "Standards and Operations" manual
• Designed and deployed a set of Bridgehead Servers in the DMZ that will allow secure access to the Microsoft Exchange environment for Active-Sync
• Designed a Highly Available Virtual Server computing platform leveraging VMware ESX 3.5 to support some of the projects required systems