SUMMARY:

• Senior Systems/Messaging Engineer with extensive experience in multiple platforms in a fast - paced, high-demand environment Strong work ethic, detail oriented, and follow-through skills Extremely productive in a high-volume, high-stress environment Excellent written and verbal communication skills Ability to convey complex technical information to management at all levels.
• 20 years overall professional experience with rack-mountable servers, storage systems, advanced networking, major hardware appliances and server operating system platforms
• 16 years professional experience with Microsoft Server environments in mid- corporate and large enterprise environments, asset planning and resource management
• Ability to manipulate most major software/management platforms with no assistance
• 10 years leadership/management experience
• 6 years Project Management experience
• Additional experience in operations management, inventory control, staff management, procedure development, asset procurement and technical writing

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000-2016, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 5-6, Sun Solaris 6-10, HPUX 11, Windows XP - 10, MacOS X 10.4-13, iOS 5-11, Android OS 2-7, Blackberry OS 4-10

Core Technologies: Active Directory/DNS, Azure AD Connect and DirSync, ADFS, ADCS/PKI, and VPN

Hardware: Cisco Ironports, F5 BigIP/Barracuda/Kemp HLBs, McAfee/SonicWALL Firewalls and Traffic Shapers, HP/IBM/Dell Blade Servers, HP EVA/IBM XIV/Dell PowerVault/EMC DataDomain/ NetApp FAS Storage, EMC Avamar/CommVault archiving and journaling appliances, and DLT/LTO libraries.

Additional Server Products: VMWare VCenter/VSphere ESX 4-6.5, Hyper-V Server Role or Core Edition, Exchange Server 2003-16 or Online/Hybrid/On-Premises, Lync 2010/13 or Skype for Business Online/On-Premises, SharePoint 2007-16 or Online, Symantec Backup Exec/Enterprise Vault/Discovery Accelerator, Dell/Quest QMM/QCS/QRM/Spotlight for Exchange/Active Directory, HP Sitescope, Microsoft Identity Manager 2016, System Center 2007-16 (SCOM,SCCM,SCVMM,SCRO,SCSM), McAfee ePO, SEPM, Sophos PureMessage, Airwatch, Fireeye HX, Exchange Online Protection, and McAfee Security for Exchange.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Messaging Architect/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed capacity planning of current servers and also performed upgrade/migration/security planning for future Exchange 2016 and Skype for Business architecture.
• Migrated 8000+ mailboxes from corrupt databases after datacenter migration from Dell’s managed services and decommissioned ten Exchange 2010 and 2 Office Communicator 2007 R2 servers.
• Performed cleanup of ten years of legacy addresses, inactive mailboxes, distribution lists, ActiveSync devices, orphaned objects/permissions. Upgraded legacy Exchange recipient objects and converted 3000+ mailboxes to correct types.
• Addressed major issues on Exchange Servers affecting stability such as AD topology, database locking and corruption, authentication, incorrectly configured IIS services, unauthorized sets of users.
• Reconfigured Exchange Servers for single AD site after datacenter migration and shutoff for improved reliability, more tightened security and better disaster recovery.
• Deployed 2 new Exchange 2010 Edge servers for better control over mail relaying and a new Lync 2013 Edge server to achieve federation with vendors and external organizations

Senior Messaging Architect/Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided design/implementation, capacity planning, SOP/environment documentation, network diagramming and software acquisition analysis on six major separate projects for Exchange 2010-2016, Lync 2010/2013, Skype for Business and Office 365, implemented Symantec Enterprise Vault/LiveOffice for journaling and archiving with Discovery Accelerator for eDiscovery or Exchange in-place eDiscovery/Data Loss Prevention for regulatory compliance.
• Built and deployed virtual servers for multiple sites under both VMWare ESX and Hyper-V, managing multiple VMWare hosts and clusters in vCenter, upgrading virtual machines or expanding resources.
• Mentored Domain Administrators and molded into Enterprise Administrators via conducting several short classes as the primary instructor.
• Performed migrations of 30000+ users from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010/13/16 on-premises or Office 365 hybrid configurations and AD from Windows Server 2003/8 R2 to 2012 R2.
• Automated daily or weekly tasks through commonly found or custom written PowerShell scripts

Confidential

Collaboration Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the global Confidential Exchange 2010/2013/Office 365 organization of 300,000+ mailboxes, Lync 2010 Enterprise pools consisting of 200,000+ users, and a SharePoint 2010 server farm hosting 15,000+ intranet sites. Monitored via HP Sitescope 11.20 and SCOM 2007 R2.
• Managed increasing enterprise demands from VMWare VCenter Management Console and VSphere 5 Client to deploy new or replacement servers and adjust VMWare hosts and virtual hardware.
• Coordinated and provided advanced Tier 3 support for Windows/Linux custom applications and ITIL change control management through Maximo/RemedyForce.
• Performed migration of 50,000+ mailboxes from Exchange 2010 to 2013/Office 365 and 220 SharePoint 2007 to 2010 content databases

Confidential

Network Administrator/PC-Mac Support Services

Responsibilities:

• Delivered onsite and remote management and migrations for home businesses to midsize businesses on servers hosting Exchange Server 2010, Active Directory domain controllers, or application servers virtualized in VMWare VSphere ESX 4-5 or physical Blade/custom built servers.
• Maintained office networks under contracted provisions while designing new networks and implementing improvements to expanding or existing networks and their associated assets.

Confidential

Enterprise Administrator/Exchange Architect

Responsibilities:

• Migrated Windows NT/Server 2000 domain controllers to Server 2003 and then managed staff element organizational structures with Active Directory in Windows Server 2003, Solaris NIS services, Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007, ADCS PKI certificates and Sun Fire/Enterprise web servers.
• Migrated 22,000+ mailboxes from Exchange 5.5/2000 to 2003 and then later to 2007. Maintained Exchange Servers (physical 2003/VMWare virtualized 2007) for the enterprise, PowerShell/VBS Scripting and streamlining asset usage with equipment mailboxes.
• Provided local and worldwide networking/application support to Sun/Microsoft platforms. Performed monitoring via HP Network Node Manager and SMS 2003 and addressed all resource/change management issues/tasks related to hardware replacement, software management and baselining.