SUMMARY:

Architect and migrate customers to solutions using Confidential Active Directory, Azure AD, Cloud solutions (Azure and AWS), Office 365, SaaS applications, IAM solutions, and automation. In addition evaluate and set technology direction, architect/Implement solutions for Fortune 500 companies using the latest products and solutions from vendors such as Confidential, NetApp, VMWare, Confidential, Cisco, Riverbed .F5, Solarwinds, Airwatch, Good, Bluecoat, Dell, NetIQ, and Red Hat.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Provide guidance on the evolution of systems and architectures and the adoption of new technologies
• Conduct and provide industry research and evaluations on strategic architectural alternatives
• Perform price benchmarks and cost estimation and modeling of various technologies for consideration
• Lead teams of people
• Level 4 support in all areas
• Data center design and migration including spaceplans, power, cooling, cabling, patching
• Identity management and architecture
• Single Sign On
• Multifactor Authentication
• Azure Cloud
• Amazon AWS Cloud
• Disaster Recovery Architecture
• Application and Data Virtualization
• High Availability architecture
• VMWaree ESX Farm Architecture and Design, 3.x to current, 1000v, vCenter,
• VMWare Site Recovery Manager
• VMWare vRealize Suite architecture, migration, integration, and support
• Enterprise Monitoring and Alerting (Tivoli, NetIQ Appmanager, Solarwinds SAM)
• Enterprise automation
• Enterprise Reporting and Metrics
• Confidential Group Policy Design, Implementation, migration, and support
• Test Lab design, implementation, and operation
• Life Cycle Management
• Standards
• Enterprise Portal design, development, Implementation, support and metrics
• Management tool integration and portal creation (ServiceNow/Solarwinds IPAM and SAM, VMWare vCenter, VMWare Log Insight, IPSoft IPCenter
• Event and Incident correlation, investigation, and analysis
• Enterprise Time Services (NTP) design and deployment
• Confidential /Louts Storage Manager )TSM) Architecture, backup planning, support
• Confidential Azure
• Confidential Office 365
• Openstack
• Confidential Cloud
• VMWare vCloud
• Compliance and Security
• Active Directory - All versions - Design, implementation, and migration as well as group policy
• Cross Platform Identity Management and Single Sign-on (Windows, Linux, AIX, VMWare, Storage, Hardware, SAP)
• SSO, SAML, ADFS, XML, SOAP
• Security monitoring and Auditing
• NetIQ Identity Management suite, Directory and Resource Administrator, Security Administrator
• Confidential Identity Manager
• Confidential Forefront Identity Integration Server
• Quest Change Auditor
• Confidential Tivoli Identity Manager
• Symantec/RSA SecureID Appliance Design, migration, implementation and support, including hardware and soft tokens
• Safenet HSM/Luna apliances
• Network/Server Penetration Testing
• Exchange 5.5-2013 - Architecture and design, implementation, and migration including High Availability
• Office 365/Exchange Online - Hybrid Environment
• Mobility/BYOD Architect - Airwatch and Good
• Enterprise automation
• Enterprise Reporting and Metrics
• Confidential Group Policy Design, Implementation, migration, and support
• VMWare Log Insight Architecture, integration, deployment, support
• Tivoli NetCool-OmniBus Architecture and Integration
• Nagios Architecture, deployment and integration
• Micosoft System Center including Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Orchestrator, Service Manager, Endpoint Protection architecture, deployment and integration
• ServiceNow architecture, integration and customization
• IPSoft IPCenter Design, implementation, and integration
• Splunk Enterprise
• HP Openview/Enterprise
• CA Spectrum
• Storage and storage area network design (NetApp/ Confidential ), tiering,, replication, and archiving
• NetApp OnTap 6, 7, 8, 7-mode
• NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager Architecture and Integration
• Data virtualization
• Data Management including classification, and security
• NetApp SnapProtect for VMWare, for SQL Server, for Oracle, for Exchange, and SAP
• Confidential TSM
• Veritas NetBackup
• Comvault Galaxy
• Designed, migrated LARGE infrastructures
• Active Directory (10+ migrations for customers, for customers such as Confidential, Confidential, Shell Oil, EJ Gallo Winery, EGL… and over 400,000 objects)
• Users
• Computers
• Servers (including reACLing)
• Groups (including merging, token cleanup/bloat, synching)
• Trusts
• Exchange (starting at Exchange 5.5 and every version since. 8+ customers including Confidential, Philip Morrie, EGL, Shell Oil, EJ Gallo Winery
• Mailboxes
• Distribution groups
• Free/busy sync
• Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory
• Quest Migration Manager for Exchange
• NetIQ Domain Migration Administrator
• Platespin PowerRecon
• Platespin Convert
• VMWare Converter
• Symantec Ghost
• Name resolution Architecture - DNS and WINS including Scavenging and DNS zone client updating
• IP Management Architect - Solarwinds IPAM
• DHCP Architect
• Load Balancer Architrecture, standards, deployment and migration (Cisco ACE Blade to F5 Virpion)
• Network Compression and Analytics (Riverbed Steelhead, Cascade, SteelCentral, AppInternals, AppResponse, OpNet, Riverbed scripting, and NPM/APM). Was responsible for day to day support of all Riverbed equipment and software
• F5 and Cisco Network Load Balancers
• WAN/LAN architecture (Cisco)
• Cisco Voice over IP (VOIP) / Call Manager design, implantation, and integration
• Cisco IP Phone Services SDK Development
• Cisco VOIP Custom Phone Directory
• Enterprise Wireless (Cisco) design and integration
• Enterprise VPN ( Confidential RRAS to Cisco Anyconnect/Router)
• Firewall/Security/Proxy architecture (Cisco and Bluecoat)
• DMZ Design and implementation
• VB/VB.net
• C#
• C
• C++
• TSQL/SSIS
• Batch
• VBScript
• Powershell
• WMI
• Remoting
• VMWare PowerCLI/Scriptng
• NetApp Powershell Toolkit
• Confidential LDAP/ADSI
• HTM:/ASP/PHP/MySQL/CFM
• Cisco IP Phone SDK, and integration with Confidential Active Directory and Cisco Call Manager
• Javascript
• SOAP/SAML/XML
• Interwoven OpenDeploy
• Mercury Quality Center including Test Director, WinRunner, Quicktest Professional, QuickTest Pro for SAP, LoadRunner
• Database architecture (SQL Server/Oracle) and design
• SQL Server (all versions from SQL 7 to 2014)
• SQL Server development including database design, stored procedures, automation,
• Hadoop
• Confidential Windows Administrative Tools
• VMWare vCenter and Client
• VMWare vRealize Operations
• NetApp vCenter Plugin
• Dell PowerGui
• SoapUI
• Dell Security Explorer
• Putty
• Confidential Visual Studio
• Fiddler
• Confidential Remote Desktop Client
• Solarwinds Engineers Toolset
• Wireshark
• Riverbed Steel Central
• Riverbed Cascade
• Riverbed NSP and APM
• Hyperterminal
• NMap
• WinSCP
• Confidential SQL Server Management Studio
• Confidential IIS
• ServiceNow Change Control, Help Desk, Service Catalog, Configuration Database
• Solarwinds Orion architecture, customization, and integration, Solarwinds IP Address Manager, Server and Application Monitor
• NetApp SnapProtect for VMs, for SQL Server, for Oracle, for Exchange, and SAP
• NetApp OnTap 6,7,8, 7-mode
• NetApp SRM
• NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager
• VMWare PowerCLI
• NetApp OnTap Toolkit
• Confidential Windows SDK
• Confidential Windows Debugging Tools
• Confidential Tivoli Identity Manager
• Confidential /Lotus Storage Manager (TSM)
• NetIQ Identity Management suite, Directory and Resource Administrator, Security Administrator
• NetIQ Appmanager
• Dell ActiveRoles Server
• SunOne Directory Server
• Symantec Enterprise Vault
• RSA Secure ID
• Altiris Deployment Suite
• Lotus Notes/Domino

EXPERIENCE:

Owner/Managing Consultant

Confidential, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Design entire enterprise, including networking, security, client, users. Etc..
• Designed and migrated customer to cloud services on Azure including
• Office 365
• Azure IaaS
• Azure Data Lake
• Azure Active Directory (including AD sync)
• Setup SSO with several SaaS applications and servers custom applications
• Advise and develop all process, procedures, security, infrastructure needed to pass SOC 2 type 2 audit..

Confidential, Austin, TX

Identity and Security Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identity and Access Architect for various Whole Foods initiatives
• Set policies for identity management
• Implemented various workflows in Confidential Forefront Manager for group, user account, and Enterprise Services
• Architect for any Cloud initiatives including SSO, MFA, and Synch
• Azure Global Administrator for Whole Foods
• Amazon AWS Administrator for Whole Foods
• Responsible for:
• Active Directory (internal)
• Azure Active Directory
• Confidential Forefront Manager - owned application and all workflows, planning for Confidential Identity Manager upgrade
• Azure AD Connect
• Responsible for multiple implementations of Azure Single Signon and Azure Multifactor Authentication
• Enterprise DNS and DHCP Architecture

Confidential, Austin, TX

Emerging Technology Architect / Virtualization Architect

Responsibilities:

• Emerging Technology Architect
• Cloud Services Architect
• Active Directory Architect
• Reviewed AD status and make recommendations on changes
• Redesigned AD site structure
• Enterprise Services Architect
• Designed and migrated DHCP services from network routers/switches to Windows based DHCP servers
• Changed all DNS registiration of Windows client machines from self registration to DHCP server taking over all client DNS registrations
• Virtualization architect
• Designed and implemented VDI solution for OAG developers for all development efforts
• Designed and implemented external application publishing for all critical OAG applications from internally to externally available

Confidential

Sr Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Azure/cloud services architect, including onboarding new companies, designing hybrid environment, multisite, Azure AD, Azure B2C, Azure Active Directory (AAD)
• Active Directory architect including advised customers on security, group policy, trusts, design, migration, troubleshooting
• Virtualization architect including both public and private clouds
• Identity and access management architect, including Active Directory (AD), Confidential Identity Manager (MIM), FIM, and workflows
• Data Center/Enterprise modernization including advising clients on application migration to various Windows and Unix platforms as well as version upgrades of applications to newer platforms

Confidential

Managing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Pres/ales/Engagement/RFS/Special Project Architect
• System Roadmaps, evaluations, and guidance for various application and infrastructure architectures
• System performance evaluations and guidance
• Security and Compliance guidance
• Infrastructure architecture
• Application architecture

Confidential

IT Architect

Responsibilities:

• Server/Application Consolidation and Virtualization Architect
• Presales/Engagement Enterprise Architect on multiple engagements
• Special Projects/RFS/Solution Architect
• Active Directory/Exchange/Server migration architect for LARGE clients
• Provide guidance on the evolution of systems and architectures and the adoption of new technologies
• Conduct and provide industry research and evaluations on strategic architectural alternatives
• Perform price benchmarks and cost estimation and modeling of various technologies for consideration
• AMS Tool Design Team
• Novell to AD migrations

Confidential, Manhattan, NY/Richmond, VA

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• responsible for strategic IT decisions, planning and scoping, as well as working directly with business client
• Set standards for IT environment
• Lead project and support teams
• Active Directory/Exchange Architect
• Security/Identity Management Architect
• Determine Identity requirements
• Determine and Create identity processes, workflows, and standards around identity creation, updating and management
• Evaluate and implement identity manage tools
• NetIQ Identity Management suite, Directory and Resource Administrator, Security Administrator
• Quest Activeroles
• Confidential Forefront Identity Manager and Identity Integration Server including connectors
• Implement enterprise identity management and connect to various security applications including single sign on with SAP, AD, Linux, AIX, VMWare vCenter, VMWare ESX, Cisco switches/routers/etc…, VOIP, etc…
• Create/Develop/Update connectors, agents etcc using SOAP, SAML, XML, etc..
• Data Center Architect
• Design data center from ground up including all infrastructure and migration processes for 1400+ systems, including SAP, internet web hosting, Exchange, AD, application servers, prod, qa, and dev, environments as well as migration processes for Windows, AIX, Linux, Mainframe, AS400
• Design network architecture, including switch, firewall, load balancing, VMware 1000v, management, logging, reporting
• Designed internet and internal DMZs for various applications
• Design security architecture, including firewalls, HIDS, NIDS, web and email content filtering
• Design pSeries architecture
• Design Storage architecture on NetApp
• Design Disaster Recovery Environment
• Designed multiple data centers
• Main data center (1400 servers)
• Remote DR data center (600 active, 400 DR)
• Remote Plant/Office data centers (8) (~ 15 servers)
• Design VMWare architecture including storage, networking, HA, backups and disaster recovery
• Multiple locations including
• Main data center (1000 guests)
• Remote/DR data center (600 guests)
• Remote plant/office data centers (10 guests)
• Designed migration path and process for any physical to move to virtual
• Designed migration process to move existing virtual from source data center to new data center including storage replication
• Designed SRM architecture for hot site failover
• Enterprise Monitoring/Alerting/Problem Ticket Replacement
• Designed, integrated, wrote code, etc… to tie Solarwinds SAM, Ayehu Eyeshare Process Automation and Service Now together to replace Tivoli - Netcool-Omnibus-Service Now environment
• Created configuration database in Service Now and synchronization between Service Now and Solarwinds Orion
• Mobility / BYOD Architect
• BYOD security and authentication architecture
• Mobile device management - Airwatch and Goodlink
• AD/Exchange integration
• Office 365 Integration
• RSA soft token integration
• BYOD security and authentication architecture
• Exchange Architect
• Exchange architecture, storage layout, load balancing setup, archiving, integration
• Migration architect including org calendar sync, users, applications, etc… mailboxes
• Multiple SMTP domains
• Office 365 Hybrid architect as well as migration architect
• Active Directory Architect
• Multiple domain migrations including users, printers, servers
• Multiple AD Forests/domains
• OU structure
• Trusts
• Group Policy
• Integration
• Tier “4” support
• Name resolution and IP Management architect including all DNS and DHCP for 100+ internet public domains, 20 internal DNS and AD domains
• Responsible for all Riverbed equipment including Steelheads, Cascade, APM, NPM, Steel Central, AppInternals, AppResponse
• Cisco Call Manager Design and Migration Architect
• Cisco Call Manager 4.x to 8/9.x
• Designed and wrote code to integrate
• Custom phone directory based on Confidential Active Directory, Cisco IP Phone SDK, SQL Server, and Cisco Call Manager - designed custom management application to tie AD, SQL Server, and Cisco Call Manager to
• , code creation, implementation, and support using Cisco IP Phone SDK, Call Manager,
• RSA soft token integra
• Server Consolidation Architect
• Server Consolidation Architect
• DNS co-architect
• Server Consolidation Architect
• DNS architect

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Architect and Implementer

Responsibilities:

• Design complete network setup including internet connection, firewall, VPN/remote access, and site to site VPN to connect new network to Shell and Halliburton network as well as hosted financial system.
• Design complete Active Directory domain infrastructure including user authentication, naming conventions, group policy, and OU structure
• Design complete Exchange mail environment including redundant clusterd mail bridgeheads, Exchange OWA webmail, clustered mailbox servers on SAN, storage limits, and policies.
• Design Windows XP based PC image and deploy to all users
• Design asset management and software distribution system based on Altiris Client Management Suite and deploy to all PCs.
• Design backup and restore system and train staff on use
• Design network/server monitoring system for proactive monitoring of entire environment

Confidential

Sr. Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Set standards for technologies used for client projects, including testing products, writing standards, and creating implementation processes that were then used by entire consulting organization
• Confidential Active Directory/Exchange SME including creating document templates and design guides that were used by rest of consulting organization.
• Confidential Windows/Exchange/SQL High Availability and Clustering SME including creating all material and teaching classes for Compucom consultants on design and implementation of clusters. Additionally, created designs for clients such as Tyco International, Staples, Texas Health and Human Services.
• Migration Tool Evaluation Team - Team Lead - tested all major vendors Active Directory and Exchange migration tools in real world environment setups. Set all criteria, setup environments, worked with vendor SEs in test lab, documented all tests and created all documentation surrounding the results and issues.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Project Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Took part in the Confidential run Exchange 2003 GIRF Pilot project, including receiving Exchange design from Confidential Exchange Ranger/Solution Development Team on proposed Exchange 2003 Organization, cluster, and migration plans
• Design Windows 2003 based Active Directory infrastructure using beta version of Windows 2003
• Design a highly available and completely redundant Exchange 2003 environment using beta version of Exchange 2003, including a 3 multinode clusters located at each of their 3 data centers around the world
• Houston - 6 node (4 active, 2 passive) cluster based on an 24TB EMC CLARiion CX600 SAN for mailbox storage and backups
• London - 3 node (2 active, 1 passive) cluster based on an 3TB EMC CLARiion CX300 SAN for mailbox storage and backups
• Singapore - 2 node (1 active, 1 passive) cluster based on an Confidential FASt SAN for mailbox storage
• Design, test, and implement Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) based backups for Exchange mailbox databases on SAN using EMC SIME for Exchange as VSS initiator and Veritas Netbackup 5
• Design and migrate all name resolution components globally including:
• 40+ Primary DNS zones (several hundred reverse lookup zones)
• 1000+ DHCP scopes
• Create group policies for managing existing Citrix Infuse and Metaframe environment.
• Train client staff on all components of design including group policy, delegation, security, replication, disaster recovery, cluster maintenance, etc….
• Create installation, configuration, and process guides for all components of the design including server builds, AD, cluster, Exchange, ISA, etc…
• Design and implement proof of concept test lab for testing of all processes and designs
• As result of project InformationWeek ranked Gallo as #1 on the InformationWeek 500 list of best users of technology
• Active Directory/Exchange/COE Project - Project Lead Architect
• Windows 2000 Active Directory Design/Implementation/Migration Architect
• Exchange 2000 Design, implementation, and migration architect
• Mobile device integration architect
• Name Resolution Design/Migration Architect
• Test Lab Architect
• NetIQ Administration and Migration Tool Architect
• Desktop and Resource Migration Architect

Confidential, Houston, TX

Expert Support / Test & Integration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Create, Test, Document all Server related applications including creating server images for entire Equiva account (800+ servers)
• Setup/Maintain T&I Lab network - setup/maintain the isolated active directory network used by the T&I lab personnel.
• Setup/Maintain T&I Lab Production Emulation network - setup/maintain the isolated network used for testing that is a mirror of production network
• Create or advise on creating all software installation packages using Wise
• DCeS Level III Expert Support
• Maintain DNS/DHCP/WINS infrastructure
• Maintain Domain Infrastructure
• Maintain domain infrastructure for 30 resource and 4 account domains
• Architect, Setup, and Maintain Active Directory for CSC support on account
• Maintain as well as train server group on SAN usage
• Advisor to other accounts on NT4/W2K servers as well as architecture, infrastructure, and usage
• Many other special projects

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior NT Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Senior NT Engineer supporting a very large Enterprise
• 100 Domains, 15,000 users, 1000+ servers
• Various special projects including:
• Alliance NT SAN Architect/Design/Implementation/Migration
• Windows 2000 Planning and rollout
• Siebel 2000
• Shell/Texaco to Alliance User/Server Domain Migration
• VPN pilot
• Windows 2000 pilot
• Application Migration/Testing
• SAP Rollout
• Consolidation of network resources from parent company domains to new domain
• Enterprise Administrator Territory design (now NetIQ DRA)
• Write remote management and administration scripts for servers
• Create policy for hardware and software installs including software and hardware testing
• Intranet Site redesign including setting policy for naming conventions, file sizes, directory structure, and creating templates for business units, maintained IT website

Confidential, San Francisco/Davis, California

Production Manager and Web/Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

• HTML/C/Javascript/PERL/Java developer
• Determined client needs, designed, provided cost estimating, and developed websites for clients including creating all graphics, HTML programming, and JavaScript programming
• Installed cabling, outlets, hubs, network cards, and configured computer systems for LAN’s for several clients
• Responsible for the day to day maintenance and administration of a small LAN
• Responsible for hardware and software upgrades and maintenance on all systems on LAN
• Provided technical support for clients including software/hardware recommendations
• Taught classes to clients
• Yolo County Resource Conservation District - HTML programming, graphic design using Adobe Photoshop, Internet graphic design
• Public Officials for Water and Environmental Reform – HTML programming, Internet graphic design using Adobe PhotoShop