TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Windows Servers (2003, 2008, 2012)
• MS Exchange Server 2003/07/10/2013
• Active Directory Management/Design
• Lotus Notes/Domino R5, R6, R7
• Enterprise/Technical Project Management
• Microsoft IIS 5, 6, 7
• Clustered Applications & Servers (Microsoft Failover Clustering)
• VMWare 2.x, 3.x, 4.x (Migrations and Management), 5.x (Vsphere)
• Microsoft Hyper - V 2008/2012 & Training
• SAP - ERP (Ops, Financial, Corp)
• MS SQL 2k, 2006, 2008 / My SQL (Linux)
• MySQL/Wordpress/Joomla management
• Cloud / Hosted-based environments (BPOS, Office365, Google Apps, Amazon AWS, Windows Azure)
• Quest Migration Manager / ARS
• SCOM, MOM, TCP/IP Networking (LAN, WAN), SCCM
• Scripting Languages (HTML, Perl, XML, AJAX)
• Windows Powershell
• MS SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013
• Cisco IronPoint, Tumbleweed
• Manage Engine: AD Management Suite
• Microsoft SCCM, SCOM
• OCS 2007 R2, Lync 2010/Lync 2013
• PlateSpin (Novell)

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant - Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design a large enterprise-level solutions upon technical, application and business requirements
• Develop capacity planning, disaster recovery, performance tuning and testing, logical and physical architecture design
• Provide consulting to support hybrid platform solutions and platform rationalization for customers.
• Consult/Architect migrations from old Exchange (2000, 2003, 2007, 2010) to Exchange 2013 and Office365
• Consult/Architect migrations from Lotus Notes to Exchange and/or Office 365.
• Develop “Trusted Advisor” relationship with end user clients
• Provided detailed assessment of customer's environment prior to migration.
• Coordinate and provide project plan development.
• Develop detailed documentation for migration plan.
• Provide development of deployment and test plans
• Create plans to develop and execute complex deployment scenarios
• Design/Coordinate Environmental changes - consolidation, platform upgrades, and divestitures of Exchange and Active Directory platforms.
• Understanding of Public Folder and PST migration complexities.
• Extensive design and development of Dell/Quest diagnostic tools

Confidential

Senior Solutions Architect & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided Best Practice methodologies for TNHC four global technology properties
• Execute, enhance and develop hybrid Exchange O365, Exchange 2013 On-Prem and Remote locations
• Managed and led team of consultants in executing several on-time Exchange migrations (10-50k users) from Exchange 2010 to Office 365; internally and externally
• Manage 4 Virtual Environments (VMWare ESX 5.5) - Development, Test, Staging and Production
• Manage and develop Windows Azure remote BI infrastructure
• Design and implement Manage Engine management solutions for Directory services teams, service desk leadership and IT management
• Plan Office Communications Server R2 migration to hybrid Lync 2013/Lync Online solution for 40k users
• Plan Lync 2013 Office Deployments for remote clients; manage project plans, project teams, deliverables, cost
• Work with IT Infrastructure Team to ensure quality of coordinated projects and business needs
• Ensure servers and storage environments meet proper performance, capacity and best practice needs
• Lead project planning, design and maintenance of IT Infrastructure
• Research and lead implementation of new technologies to improve the virtualization and storage environments
• Assist in DR planning, implementation and testing of multi-site virtualization and storage environments
• Assist with planning and deployment of infrastructure security measures
• Participate and Lead post-mortem meetings to discuss outage occurrences, develop safeguards and implement/recommend any changes to avoid recurring issues
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring that all errors and problems were tracked; worked with engineering teams to develop custom solutions for O365 & other network-based systems environments

Confidential

Senior Advisor - IT Advisory

Responsibilities:

• Assist EY leadership in shaping the IT Infrastructure practice and methodologies.
• Lead and provide guidance on all aspects of proposals, staffing, and managing IT Technical and Operations Management programs/projects.
• Lead and provide guidance over a broad area of technical architecture design and use.
• Lead and provide guidance with data center operations control and facilities management.
• Lead and provide guidance on all stages of technical development life cycles.
• Lead and provide subject matter knowledge in lT governance, process and organizational improvement with respect to industry leading frameworks (such as ITIL, CMMI, COBiT, PMI, Prince2, Six Sigma, Lean, etc.).
• Perform IT assessments and building improvement plans/portfolios and be able to convince, guide and advise Chief Executive Officers on moving forward in the areas of:
• Networks and utilities, Desktop management, Platform and storage management, Server management and consolidation, Environments management, Internet/Web management, Operating levels establishment, Operating systems and database experience, Application/infrastructure performance and event monitoring, Third-party sourcing and contract management
• Align technical operations with application/service models across industry markets and leading IT process and organizational re-engineering programs or project streams.
• Lead diverse project teams including client, advisory, and third-party and across global regions.
• Define/architect IT services as they relates to technology and operation processes with an ability to relate IT services in business terms.
• Build business cases and justify IT Technical and Operations Management improvements.
• Engage in practice building activities, improving internal solution sets, methods and resources.
• Keep on the leading edge of innovation and trends in IT Technical and Operations Management tools and techniques.

Confidential, Atlanta

Active Directory/Office365 Exchange Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Development of Test/Dev, QA and Production GPOs and policy directives/deployment
• Multi-domain consolidation / domain migration (KO / CCR)
• Develop Internal structure / restructuring and action plan for EA / Solution Architecture teams
• Diagram new environment (project mapping / visio design)
• Lotus Domino / Notes R8 migration development to Office365 Lync/Exchange 2010 (Quest Migration Mgr) (95k users)
• Provide technical guidance, direction and expertise to infrastructure teams
• Build of W2K12 and Certification of operations and systems infrastructure
• Development of virtual test infrastructure (Exchange/Lync/AD 2012)
• Active Directory PKI management / deployment
• Training of L3 Engineers and Administration
• Quest ARS migration re-architecture planning (Quest Migration Manager / AD)
• Benchmark testing Hosted Exchange / Sharepoint 2013
• Development planning O365 Exchange/Sharepoint 2010 - 2013
• Transition development, Level 4 Support, Project Planning
• Script development, regression testing, proof of concept
• Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring that all errors and problems were tracked; worked with engineering teams to develop custom solutions for O365 environments

Confidential, Atlanta

Active Directory Architect & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assessed current environment & provide detailed analysis (hardware & infrastructure)
• Replaced aged Windows 2000 domain
• Created design for Active Directory environment offering redundancy and geo-dispersed sites/dcs
• Planned and executed migration from Active Directory 2000 (W2K) to Active Directory 2008 R2 (W2k8 R2)
• Connect isolated corporate Active Directory to remote Office365 (Cloud) infrastructure (Exchange & Lync 2010)
• Provide documentation (and diagrams) of new infrastructure
• Train IT team and IT management on MS Active Directory best practices
• Execute domain name rename within corporate environment
• Execute DC replacements in remote sites\
• Manage Dev / Test Amazon AWS environments (deployment, configuration)

Confidential

Senior Microsoft and VMWare Engineer/Architect (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Lead Management of Exchange 2007 infrastructure and Lotus Domino 8 migration (QMM; Notes - Exchange)
• Management of Active Directory (Migration, Architecture design from 2003 - 2008)
• P to V conversion of legacy servers (acquisition) or V to P, as required by LOB (design, architecture, development & project plan)
• Configuration recommendations for AD re-design (forest integration)
• Disaster recovery design and project plan for new infrastructure
• Upgrade of Virtual VMWare ESX environment (3.x, 4.x, 4.1 VSphere to 5)
• Upgrade of Virtual VMWare Hosts (technical) and Guests as required by LOB
• Migration of Virtual VMWare Guests to new virtual environments
• Implementation of P-V and V-V (migration plan and development) into VSphere 5 infrastructure
• Heavy use of VMotion and Platespin (Novell) technologies to manage VMWare
• Work closely with application teams and developers on new requirements that may be required by software/hardware/OS changes (as necessary)
• Heavy documentation and delivery of OS migration/AD migration/Exchange to Domino migration plans

Confidential

Senior Microsoft Engineer (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Management of AD/Exchange 2007 environment
• Architected migration/solution from Exchange to Microsoft BPOS/Office 365 infrastrucutre.
• Implementation of Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 (Architecture and Design) and migration of data to Office 365.
• Management / Conversion / Maintenance of all IIS environments (migration to IIS 7.5)
• Management / Maintenance VMWare ESX 4.0 environments (architected solution to VMWare esx 5)
• Management / Maintenance of all Windows server environments
• Microsoft Hyper V-2008 & 2012 Lab Testing
• Development of Roadmaps and Technical Project Plans for Infrastructure Development
• Designed, managed and developed migration plan for Exchange 2010 messaging environment in order to maximize benefit to the organization (new implementation, performance tuning, system upgrades, monitor server logs and mail flow)
• Re-Defined Outlook monitoring and system standards for the enterprise Designed and implemented the infrastructure supporting the messaging environment.
• Provided performance tuning for the Spam filter system & Mail Security systems (Postini)
• Provided end-user support documentation and long-term training tools
• Provided final level of escalation for Exchange 2010/ Outlook and legacy Lotus Notes technical issues
• Implementation and maintenance of system center family (SCCM, SCOM, DPM)
• Implementation and maintenance of OCS/Lync in a large environment
• Implementation and maintenance of SharePoint 2010 in a large environment
• Provided management reports, overview and outline for implementation process
• Mentored, directed and managed team members within guidelines of new implementation
• Developed migration plans for Exchange 2010 solution from Virtual infrastructures to HP blade hardware