EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

I am a Senior Level Engineer and Solutions Architect with experience providing technical solutions to both small, large and enterprise class (over 135,000 users) companies. My experience transcends multiple industries including: Health Care, Insurance, Pharmaceutical, Legal, Finance and Manufacturing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Active Directory

Design and implementation of Active Directory 2003, 2008, 2008 r2, 2012, 2016 Standard and Enterprise - Forests, Domains, Sites, OUs, GPOs, FSMO, Identity Management and DNS

ADFS - Design and implementation in Multiple Forests and Multiple Domains, Web access and Single Sign On, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

FIM - Design, installation and troubleshooting in Multiple Forests, Multiple Domains

Azure AD

DNS

DHCP

Mimecast

CSC

Messaging

Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013, O365 - Assessing, Design, installation, support and troubleshooting

Lotus Notes - Support and migration

Domino Server

Hybrid Exchange

On prem Exchange

Office 365

Messaging/Mobile

Blackberry

BES

Good

BoxTone

Migrations - Using Quest Migrator Tools/ ADMT / BitTitan / Binary Tree

Novell to Active Directory - Quest NDS Migrator

Active Directory to Active Directory - Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory and ADMT

Lotus Notes to Exchange - Quest Migration Manager for Notes, Notes Migrator for Exchange

Lotus Notes to O365

Exchange to O365 - Binary Tree, Quest Migrator for Exchange

GroupWise to Exchange - Quest Migration Manager for GroupWise

Exchange to Exchange - Quest Migration Manager for Exchange

O365 to On-Prem

VMware vSphere 5.1 vSphere 5.5

ESXI 5.5

VMworkstation

VCloud

Microsoft Hyper-V

Cloud

Office 365 - O365

Microsoft BPOS

Azure

Azure AD

Structured Methodologies

Waterfall

Iterative and Incremental

Spiral

TOGAF

Modelling

Enterprise Conceptual, Enterprise Logical, Enterprise Physical

ANSI/SPARC Three Level Architecture

Entity Relationship Models

Disaster Recovery and Storage/Archive

VERITAS

Symantec

Arc Serve

Quest Archive Manager

Symantec / Veritas Enterprise Vault

Enterprise Architecture - Expanding and Collapsing forests and domains

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Messaging Engineer/Migration Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Analyze mail data for dozens of companies being acquired by this Multinational Insurance Company
• Prepare data for migration - Repair and split .PST files
• Perform data ingestion into BitTitan
• Manage archival of data
• Archive Data within Azure Explorer
• Import data for litigation issues
• Perform data ingestion into Veritas Enterprise Vault
• Perform migrations
• Set up Exchange environment to ingest new users
• Perform migrations to and from O365
• Troubleshoot Email/Exchange issues
• Re-write company documentation for training
• Revamp migration strategies and methodologies for more reliable and efficient migrations

Confidential

Active Directory Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyse Forest and Domain architecture
• Plan implementation according to Microsoft Best Practices
• Design solutions around printing GPOs
• Worked within AGPM (Advanced Group Policy Management) construct
• Design solutions for the elimination of logon scripts
• Create GPO structures
• Create security groups
• Binary Tree migration strategy development
• Staff augmentation where needed

Confidential

Active Directory Architect

Responsibilities:

• Analyse 6 separate forests and 6 separate domains, loosely connected via non-functional trust mechanisms comprised of:
• Over 6,000 devices
• Over 500 servers comprised of Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, and 2016
• Perform health analysis on enterprise
• Perform performance analysis on enterprise
• Perform Microsoft Best Practices analysis
• Develop architectural reorganization plan for building out green field 2016 Active Directory enterprise to:
• Collapse forests and domains according to Microsoft best Practices
• Create true sites
• Design DFS
• Consolidate domains into OUs to facilitate effective use of GPOs
• Centralize Management
• Centralize backups
• Utilize true SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication
• Allow the utilization of Microsoft Identity Management products
• Position this government entity to take advantage of current and future cloud technologies
• Develop migration strategy utilizing Quest or Binary Tree tool sets
• Present findings and recommendations to C-suite personnel

Confidential

Senior O365 Migration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Create Project plan for Migration to O365
• Create Azure presence for cloud synchronization
• Design strategy for Hybrid environment
• Analyse Active Directory and provide recommendations on 4 forests and 9 domains
• Trusts
• DNS
• DHCP
• Sites
• Certificates
• Analyse current Exchange 2010 environment
• Repair Current on premise Exchange 2010 environment
• Design POC strategy for Hybrid migration
• Design POC lab
• Build POC environment
• Develop migration strategy
• Troubleshooting Azure AD Connect synchronization issues

Confidential

Senior Active Directory Architect

Responsibilities:

• Major Active Directory and email migration for the acquisition of 16 hospitals
• Designed migration process for folding many disparate Active Directory structures and platforms into the corporate Server 2012 R2 standard.
• Migrating all on-premises email systems to O365
• Designed end-to-end strategy
• Designed and implemented Project Plan
• Lead team of 4 Architects and Engineers
• Reported to multiple C-Level Executives from LifePoint
• Performed Network analysis
• Developed Migration Strategy and created Strategy Document
• Performed GPO analysis
• Designed new OU structure
• Designed POC, performed POC and created POC document
• Developed Migration Methodology of emails to O365
• POC AD Connect
• Designed AD FS solutions for hybrid environment
• Tested various SSO scenarios
• Solution Multi-Factor Authentication
• Worked with vendors to derive solution for non-cloud connected users/machines

Confidential

Migration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Migrate 12,000 acquired users and 121 Mail-in databases from on-premises Lotus Notes 9.0.1 to Office 365 tenant
• Designed strategy to perform migrations in ultra-tight time frame and unique constraints.
• Created all design documents and run book.
• The company that the division was acquired from was a competitor and would not allow us admin access to their mail environment to perform the migrations, so I had to build a new Lotus 9.0.1 environment in order to migrate all users off of Lotus
• Built and configured the Quest Migration servers
• Using Quest Migrator Notes to Exchange I migrated all users to cloud/O365 environment
• I migrated the mail-in databases to shared folders in the cloud
• I migrated ITAR compliant databases to ITAR compliant environment
• Tested synchronization with Azure AD and various Identity management products

Confidential

Migration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and installed Azure Tenant
• Designed Azure AD environment
• Design the migration strategy for migrating 250 Mailboxes and calendars to their Office 365 tenant
• Construct strategy documents and run book
• Perform discovery
• Perform preparations
• Update and tune server 2012
• Recovered corrupt Exchange Database
• Run test migrations
• Run Pilot migrations
• Perform migration
• Provide Exchange support
• Provided designs on how Azure DirSync works and how to facilitate SSO via DirSync
• SCCM

Confidential

Active Directory / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Migrate servers from Server 2003 and Server 2008 to Server 2012
• Analysis for the deployment of GMSAs (Group Managed Service Accounts)
• PowerShell script writing to automate a Password reset tool to discover loops in FIM to Active Directory

Confidential

Active Directory / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Migrate Server 2003 Active Directory platform to Active Directory 2012 R2.
• Remediate Active Directory issues discovered by RAAS
• Architect a smaller Domain Controller footprint
• Restructure DNS to adhere to Microsoft Best Practices
• Restructure Site links worldwide
• Full documentation of present and future states

Confidential

Senior Active Directory Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Active Directory Remediation - Remediation of major Domain Controller, DHCP, and DNS issues globally; in concert with Microsoft PFT and RAAS (RAP as a Service)
• Stale AD Object removal
• Tomb-stoned Servers
• Registry corrections
• Major patch corrections
• Time Server issues
• Active Directory Site creation
• DNS changes on both external and internal DNS servers
• A-record creation and troubleshooting
• CNAME record creation and trouble shooting
• Migrations from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2 in America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Pacific Rim countries - China, Japan, Korea, India, and Australia
• Designing Migration strategies
• Identifying and Mitigating risks
• Domain Controller Builds
• DHCP and RADIUS (NAP) Server builds
• Designed numerous and complex PowerShell scripts to facilitate migrations
• Domain Controller population and statistics
• Automation of DNS and WINS population on servers
• Active user identification
• Domain Controller Demotion and removal
• ADFS SSO (Single Sign on) integration
• Multi-forest trust creation
• Certificate creation
• LDAP (AD-LDS) integration
• Worked with VMWare 5.5 to identify and correct misconfigured servers to comply with Enterprise standards
• Worked with multiple vendors to in corporate software solutions
• Lenovo Cloud
• Scan Safe
• Communicating needs, requirements and direction with various offshore personnel
• Working closely with project managers and upper echelon personnel to facilitate smooth transition
• Managed tickets, projects and Change Management with Service Now

Confidential

Solutions Architect/Migration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Forest and Domain analysis
• Migration planning
• Quest Migration Manager setup
• Using Quest Migrator I migrated over 10,000 users and workstations to consolidate forests and domains
• Worked with Exchange Team to migrate Exchange from acquired companies into Confidential Forest

Confidential

Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Domain and Forest consolidation
• Worked with design team identifying and documenting the current state, designing and documenting a clear and concise end state and creating the migration process and project plan
• Used ADMT to perform migrations from legacy Forests and Domains to central Forest and Domain
• Decommissioned Domain Controllers
• Created and performed ad-hoc scripting to support migrations, Active Directory clean-up, Exchange trouble-shooting and audit requirements
• Conceptualized and created a PowerShell Training site to guide novice PowerShell users toward mastering the scripting language
• Designed the tutorial path and created the curriculum which included:
• Nine training modules ranging from Introduction to Advanced
• Incorporated over 15 hours of training videos
• Created a script database comprised of over 500 scripts ranging from basic to advanced concentrating on Audit Compliance, Active Directory, Exchange and Office365
• Performed Comparative Analysis on Multiple Vendors for outsourcing solutions for Enterprise Tier One and Tier Two support
• Consumed thousands of pages of vendor surveys and proposals
• Used Comparative analysis to weigh pros and cons of each vendor and derive the recommendation document for presentation to C-Suite personnel
• Constructed multi-forest, multi-domain trust solutions for divestiture
• Performed current state analysis to create current state documentation
• Produced blueprints, designs, process flow diagrams to get to end state
• Designed Active Directory platforms and migration strategies for acquisitions
• Created Active Directory topology documentation for new Dairy Division in China
• Performed comparative analysis on Gartner Vector analyses pertaining to multi-factor authentication products for more secure handheld medical instruments in the field.

Confidential

Senior Active Directory Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Documented entire current state - generating multiple forms of documentation including Visio topology representations of infrastructure, use case analysis of over 1,000 Applications, Services and subservices and presented findings to Architectural and budgetary committees. Other areas documented:
• All Domain Controller settings
• All GPOs
• Performance metrics for 113 DCs
• Inter Forest trusts
• DNS
• DHCP
• Designed autonomous testing environment to vet upgrade and migration process and application compliance - Blueprints, Process flows, timelines and budget
• Complete scaled replica of production environment
• Designed testing strategies
• 815 applications
• 232 Services
• Upgrade testing
• Migration Testing
• Resource Forest Testing
• Designed complete end state and strategies - Full set of design documents for presentation to C-Suite and Global stakeholders.
• Consolidation of 113 Domain Controllers to 50
• Resource forest to house legacy applications
• Inter-Domain and Inter-Forest Trusts
• GPOs
• DNS replication
• FRS to DFRS replication migration
• Performed ADUA testing with Microsoft
• Designed remediation strategies
• Worked with global branches in the UK as-well-as American business units to design site structure with a hub and spoke replication model

Senior Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• ADFS - Active Directory Federation Services, Design, implementation and troubleshooting of ADFS, Single-Sign On 2.0 for client with 27 domains in three forests
• FIM - Forefront Identity Manager - Join and projection rule creation and troubleshooting for multiple clients
• Active Directory Assessment and Design - Windows Server 2008 Single forest, three Domains, 27 sites
• DNS troubleshooting
• GPO troubleshooting
• VSphere 5.0 and 5.5
• Upgrading 5.x to 5.5
• Appliance provisioning vSphere 5.5
• SharePoint 2010 and 2013
• Assessments and design
• Hybrid solutioning
• Hyper-V Virtualization
• Azure - No on-prem. Design of complete Server 2012 environment – single forest/single domain. 2 DCs, DNS, back-end ADFS File server, back-end Web Server, Exchange 2013 server, front end proxy

Confidential

Senior Engineer / Lync Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Active Directory 2008 r2 and Active Directory 2012
• Assessments of existing Active Directory environments for performance and best-practice adherence
• Troubleshooting Active Directory, DNS, GPOs, ADFS with a variety of toolsets
• Troubleshooting FIM – Join rules and projection rules, filtering
• ADFS Federation design and implementation – enabling external access to internal apps, cross domain access
• Domain, Site and Replication creation for Server 2012 environment single forest, dual domain
• Clustering of Server 2008r2 servers and Exchange 2010 servers
• DHCP and DNS design, implementation and troubleshooting
• Lync 2010 design and implementation – 35,000 users
• Migrations – Quest tools
• Designed migration strategy for Active Directory 2003 to Active Directory 2008r2 – 6,000 users
• Designed migration strategy and performed Novell to Active Directory migration of over 35,000 users – complete design of AD environment, managed 15 Engineers
• Designed migration strategy and performed GroupWise to Exchange 2010 migration – 35,000 mailboxes
• Lotus Notes/Domino to Exchange 2010 – 37,000 mailboxes, Designed migration strategy, performed proof-of-concept, performed successful pilot migration
• Designed migration strategy and performed Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 migration 11,000 users
• Assessments – Enterprise level
• Networks – Assessed Active Directory Environments for performance, best-practice adherence and solutioning for remediation for numerous clients nationwide
• Exchange environment - Assessed Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 Environments for performance, best-practice adherence and solutioning for remediation for numerous clients nationwide
• Documentation
• Detailed System Design Specifications, Blueprints and Process Flows
• Detailed System assessments and recommendations
• Detailed As-built documents
• Training guides
• Building and tuning numerous:
• Windows Server 2008 R2 servers
• Windows Server 2012 Standard servers
• Domain Controllers
• Exchange 2010 and 2013 Servers
• Client interfacing – Onsite, hands-on client interfacing nationwide
• Managing Engineer Team and Project Management
• PowerShell scripting

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Active Directory
• Object management – The directory structure over a single-forest multi-domain model had thousands of orphaned objects requiring removal and metadata clean-up for properly functioning monitoring.
• Best-practice assessments were performed to tune the entire system and adhere to best-practices
• PowerShell Scripting – I designed a number of scripts to export data from non-Microsoft databases and ingest it into Active Directory, as-well-as scripting migration and management tasks
• FIM – Forefront Identity Manager – Designed FIM rules to provide more efficient AD object creation from home-spun HR application and Single Sign-On capabilities
• Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Microsoft Exchange 2010 migration – 17,000 mailboxes
• Supported Exchange 2007 Environment
• Supported Lotus and Domino Environment until migration
• Meeting Maker to Outlook calendaring
• Unified Messaging/Lync 2010 – Design, implementation and testing
• Lotus SameTime to Microsoft Lync migration
• Lotus Notes and Cyrus Mail to Microsoft Exchange 2010 migration
• Messaging
• Designed BES 5.x platform and migrated 2,000 users from BES 4.x
• Designed and installed BoxTone Monitoring platform for BES
• Designed and installed Good Server platform for Android an iOS
• Deliverables included:
• Extensive documentation, assessments, recommendations, blue-prints
• Migration plans
• Testing regimen plan
• BES 5.0 Infrastructure
• Good Infrastructure
• Exchange 2010 Messaging Platform
• PowerShell scripts for managing Active Directory objects
• Training guide creation
• Created and conducted classroom and auditorium training
• Created SharePoint sites to:
• Monitor all project documents and deliverables,
• Track consultant tasking and progress
• Client facing FAQs, knowledge bases, self-help and training sites.

Confidential

Exchange Migration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of PowerShell scripts to facilitate the support of Active Directory objects and 30,000 mailboxes during and after Hyatt’s migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2010 BPOS. I trained Tier-three and Tier-two support personnel to use BPOS tools (Exchange Control panel ECP, CMPMT, FIM Tool); provided Tier-three support, escalating issues to Microsoft and delivering solutions to end-users, and extensively documented the processes and transferred knowledge to the business.