TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Microsoft Windows 2000
• 2003
• 2008 & 2012 Server. Installed configured and troubleshooting of Active Directory. Terminal and Cluster Servers. MS Exchange Server 4.0
• 5.x
• 2000
• 2003
• 2007
• 2010
• 2013
• 2016 & Office 365. Azure
• Dirsync
• Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services (AADSS) & Azure AD Connect. Azure Premium Services. Mobility Suite
• Intune
• RMS
• EMS. Live Communication Server (LCS)
• Office Communication Server (OCS)
• LYNC Server 2010 & LYNC 2013 - Skype for Business. Identity Lifecycle Manager (IDM 2007)
• Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010
• Microsoft Identity Manager 2016. SCOM & SCCM. PowerShell
• VBScript
• WSH
• WMI
• ADSI. Visual Basic. SharePoint. Microsoft Office . SQL Server 6.5 - 2014. RedHat Linux. IBM Sametime. Backup Exec
• Net Backup
• Legato Networker
• ARCserve / Brightstor
• Cloud Allied Office 365 Mailbox Backup Solution. Citrix. RightFax 8.0 - 10.6. BES - Blackberry Enterprise Server & Cloud Services. Altiris. Quest Migration Manager (formerly Aelita Migration Software)
• Priasoft Migration Suite for Exchange
• NetiQ Exchange Migrator. Solarwinds
• Nokia (formerly Alcatel-Lucent) VitalSuite Performance Management Suite
• WhatsUpGold
• HP Enterprise Systems Management. Symantec Enterprise Vault (KVS) 6.x - 11.x. eDiscover. Installed and configured McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
• Symantec Endpoint Protection & Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
• Commvault Simpania. Verizon CaaS - Cloud as a Service (Cloud). Quest ZeroFOOTPRINT
• Binary Tree’s Remote Hosted Migration Tool. Cloudiway Migration Solutions.Quest NDS Migrator. Quest Active Directory Migrator
• MigrationWiz. iOS and Android Mobile Platforms. Google Postini
• Cisco IronPort & Symantec Brightmail Gateway. Novell 2.x - 8.x
• Groupwise. NETIQ-Novell Identity Manager
• NETIQ Access Manager 4.5
• SAML 2.0 SSO
• NETIQ Reverse Proxy
• MFA. Azure Premium Services / Products - Azure
• Dynamics 365
• RMS (Rights Managements Services)
• MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)
• Intune
• Office 365.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Microsoft Messaging Architect / Migration Specialist / SME

Responsibilities:

• Architecting, designing, implementing, configuring and troubleshooting migrations to Exchange Server 2003, Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2010, Exchange 2013 & Office 365 from previous versions as well as migrating users and groups from Lotus Notes and GroupWise to Exchange Server 2003, Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2010, Exchange 2013 & Office 365 using Microsoft tools such as PowerShell scripts & commands and third party tools such as Binary Tree, Quest Migration Tools (Aelita), Priasoft Migration Suite and NetiQ Exchange Migrator. Active Directory Design and Review as well as Implementations and Migrations using Microsoft’s ADMT & Third Party Tools such as Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory and Binary Trees SMART Active Directory Migrator. Designing, building & implementing SCOM & SCCM infrastructures as well as 3rd party software (Solarwinds, Nokia (formerly Alcatel-Lucent) VitalSuite Performance Management Suite, WhatsUpGold, HP Enterprise Systems Management) to monitor and update servers at client environments.
• Designing, configuring and deployment of Exchange Server 2013 within On-Premises environments.
• Designing, configuring and deployment of Exchange Server 2013 within Hybrid environments.
• Designing, configuring and deployment of Office 365.
• Designing, configuring and migrating to Office 365.
• Designing, configuring and migrating Exchange 2010 & 2013 to Office 365
• Designing, Implementing, configuring and troubleshooting ADFS, Dirsync, Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services (AADSS) & Azure Active Directory Connector (AD Connector).
• Designing, configuring and migrating Active Directory to Azure.
• Designing, configuring and implementing new Active Directory environments and Domain Controllers in Azure.
• Designing, configuring and deployment of Exchange Server 2013 within Hosted - Cloud environments.
• Migrating from Exchange 2007 & 2010 to Exchange 2013.
• Migrating from Groupwise to Exchange 2013 both On-Premise & Office 365 (Cloud) Environments (Hybrid).
• Migrating from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2013 both On-Premise & Office 365 (Cloud) Environments (Hybrid).
• Designing, configuring and migrating to Office Communications Server 2005 & 2007 (OCS), LYNC 2010 & LYNC 2013 / Skype for Business
• Designing, configuring and deployment of Exchange Server 2010 within Verizons CaaS - Cloud as a Service environment.
• Designing and deployment of High Availability Strategies such Data Availability Group (DAG) for Exchange Server 2010.
• Designing and deployment of High Availability Strategies such as Local Continuous Replication (LCR), Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR), Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) and Single Copy Cluster (SCC) for Exchange Server 2007.
• Installing and configuring Blackberry Enterprise Server to work with Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2010 & 2013.
• Migrating Blackberry Enterprise Server to Blackberry Cloud Services.
• Designing, configuring and deployment of 2012 Server R2.
• Migration from 2003 Domain Controllers & 2008 Domain Controllers to 2012 Domain Controllers.
• Supporting both Asynchronous/Bisynchronous communications as well as free/busy sync/gal sync. Implementing iOS 3, 4, 5 & 6 and Android 2, 3 & 4x Mobile Platforms.
• Installing and configuring of Office Communications Server 2005, 2007 (OCS 2007) both Standard and Enterprise to work with Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2010, Exchange 2013 & Office 365.
• Designing and implementing the upgrading of current Active Directory environments in Windows 2003 to a Windows 2008 & Windows 2012 Active Directory native mode environment to be used by Exchange 2010 SP1 & SP2 & Exchange 2013.
• Migrated from Lotus Notes and previous versions of Exchange to Office 365 using Native tools (Exchange to Office 365), Binary Tree and Quest OnDemand Migration software
• Designing, installing and configuring LYNC to work with Exchange 2010, Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging, Exchange 2013 and Office 365 as well as LYNC Online.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting Cisco Unified Messaging Server - Cisco Unity to work with Exchange 2007 & Exchange 2010.
• Upgrading from previous versions of Cisco Unified Messaging Server - Cisco Unity to newer versions to work with Exchange 2007 & Exchange 2010.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting Microsoft Unified Messaging Server 2007 & 2010 to work with Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 & Exchange 2013.
• Designing the Architecture and Migration from Gmail App Mailboxes & Documents to Exchange 2010 / Exchange 2013 & Office 365 using .csv & Third Party Tools.
• Automating administrative tasks using Exchange PowerShell commands and scripts as well as performing tasks not capable of being done via the Exchange Management Console (EMC). Troubleshooting using PowerShell commands.
• Upgrading from Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging Server to Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging Server.
• Designing, Architecting, configuring, implementing and troubleshooting Active Directory Migrations and Upgrades with Microsoft ADMT & Third Party Solutions such as Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory and Binary Trees SMART Active Directory Migrator.
• Designing, Architecting, Configuring, Implementing and Troubleshooting new Active Directory Environments and migrating users and acquired companies with Microsoft ADMT & Third Party Solutions such as Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory and Binary Trees SMART Active Directory Migrator.
• Implementing, configuring and troubleshooting of solutions to Administer Active Directory Environments such a Quest’s Active Administrator.
• Designing, Implementing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Microsoft’s Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM) & IDM 2007
• Novell Identity Manager Implementation and Support.
• Designing, Implementing, Configuring and Troubleshooting of Symantec Enterprise Vault 9x & 10x. Day to Day Support.
• Migrating from EmailXtender & SourceOne to Enterprise Vault using TransVault.
• Configuring Active Directory to work with EMC EmailXtender, EmailXaminer, SourceOne, Symantec Enterprise Vault as well as Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 & Exchange 2013.
• Designing Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2010 & 2013 to work with NetApp Storage and NetApp Snapmanager for Exchange 5.0 & 6.0 as well as NetApp Synergy for storage design and capacity planning.
• Designing, implementing and configuring Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and High Availability Solutions for various versions of Microsoft Exchange.
• Installed and configured ArcServe, Backup Exec, Net Backup and EMC (Legato) Networker to create VMware, Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory and system backup jobs and restores.
• Design & Architecture, Implementations, Deployments, Upgrades and Support of Microsoft Office 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 20 and Office for MAC .
• Troubleshooting of ArcServe, Backup Exec, Net Backup and Legato Networker backup and restore jobs.
• Installing and configuring VMware 3.5 & VSphere, VMWare 5.x, Hyper-V and Oracle VM VirtualBox to be used by Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 & Exchange 2013.
• Supporting client sites & hosted managed environments.
• Working with engineering to address RFE’s, SDR’s and fixes.
• Pre-Sales and Post Sales support.

Confidential

Exchange / Avamar Implementation Specialist

• Consultant for the EMC / AVAMAR Group architecting, designing, implementing, configuring, troubleshooting and upgrading Avamar deduplication software at client sites for backups and restores to work with various operating systems on SAN’s and VMware.

Confidential

Sr. Tech Lead / Sr. Critical Response Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing the infrastructure, implementing, installing, configuring and troubleshooting of EmailXtender 4.x, SourceOne and EmailXaminer 3.x to work with Groupwise, Exchange and Lotus Notes.
• Architecting, designing and configuring Active Directory to work with EmailXtender, EmailXaminer and Exchange.
• Installed and configured Office Communication Server (OCS) to work with EX and EXM for SOX Compliancy.
• Installed and upgraded to the latest HotFixes and Service Packs. Addressed Groupwise, Exchange, Lotus Notes, AD and SQL issues relating to EX and EXM.
• Installed and configured EMC (Legato) Networker to backup and restore EMC EmailXtender and EmailXaminer databases.
• Configured and troubleshooting of ExSearch (Discovery) issues. Worked with EX utilities to resolve issues.
• Installed, configured and troubleshooting of DiskXtender to work with EmailXtender for storage.
• Configured EX and DX to work with Networker, Centera Storage, NAS and SAN.
• Supported client sites. Implemented and configured EX 4.x and EXM3.x on a VMware environment.
• Addressing Exchange, Lotus Notes, AD and SQL issues relating to EX and EXM.
• Installed and configured Facetime Instant Messenger Archiver and IMlogic IM Manager to archive Instant Messages from Yahoo, Sametime, Bloomberg Bmail, Google Talk, Windows Messenger and Live Messenger for compliancy to work in conjunction with EX and EXM.
• Worked with engineering to address RFE’s, SDR’s and fixes.
• EX and EXM upgrades.
• Sales Team Pre-Sales and Post - Sales Support.