SUMMARY:

Business Technology, IT Executive, Active Directory /Exchange Architect, Technology SME/Software Engineer with over 20+ years of National and International experience in implementation, design, installation, configuration, management (Agile/Scrum) and overseeing of global infrastructure and executive decisions using best practices. I have proven hands - on experience with of various industries environment deploying technology for the benefit of corporate Stakeholders and their consumers. I have an international executive presence for developing and executing against a 5+year strategic plan. My record of my success and continuous executive growth in the Oil and Gas and private sectors will continue.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems

• Windows 95, 98
• Millennium
• NT4.0 Server
• 2000 Pro
• 2000 Server & Advanced Server
• XP Pro
• Windows 2003
• Windows 2008 R2
• Windows 2012
• Windows 7
• PowerShell 3.0
• Windows 8
• Windows 10
• Novell 5.0
• Linux
• Unix
• Solaris 8
• BeOS
• Banyan Vines
• AS-400

Software

• MS-Office Premium
• MS-Office 2013 Premium
• Office 365
• UM
• OCS
• Exchange 2010
• Exchange 2013
• SCCM
• Cloud Technology
• Lotus Notes 4.6
• R5 & R6.5
• Unix Admin
• Mainframe
• Lawson
• NAS
• SAN
• Net IQ
• Citrix Metaframe
• Hyper V
• VMware HorizonView
• VMWare Workstation 9
• VMWare ESX 4.5 and 5.1 Fiber Link
• EA
• SAP R3 4.6
• SQL Server
• Azure
• Corporate McAfee Antivirus Corp
• Micro Trend
• NOS
• Norton Antivirus Edition Corp.
• Norton Internet Security 2002
• NetBackup Veritas NetBackup
• PC Anywhere
• Carbon Copy
• NetOps
• Lap Link
• Service Center
• BES
• Documentum
• Lightning
• WebSense
• Active Directory
• Remedy Action Request 5
• Quest Migration Manager tool
• Quest NDS Migration Manager
• QMMEX
• Script logic

Hardware

• Confidential -Compatible PCs
• USB Devices
• Cisco Routers & Switches
• Samsung
• Compaq Platforms & Enterprise Servers
• HP Invert
• Confidential Servers
• DSL
• Wireless Nics
• Intel
• Laptop Support ( Confidential, Confidential, and HP)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential , Houston, TX

IT Coordinator / Migration / Active Directory Architect SME

• Turnaround Assessment environment with diverse team members that continually deliver to projects at levels exceeding all expectations. Communicate with the ability to work effectively and resourcefully in both independent and collaborative team settings.
• Collaborate with Business teams and Technology teams to establish high level scope / guidelines, perform infrastructure discovery and application dependency analysis, determine business requirements, identify migration strategies, negotiate schedules and provide ongoing coordination. Receive high level numbers, tracking, and reports of all application instances scheduled for migration.
• IT Strategy Health Check
• Milestones Action Plan
• Run/Grow/Transform Assessment
• Shareholder Value Dashboards
• Structure the IT Team
• Systems Audit Analysis
• Tactical Governance Migration Specialist (Quest Tools)
• Create high level scopes detailing phased plans for implementations for client
• Participate in migration execution of 200+ application instances as migration specialist.
• Active Directory Migration (Quest Tools QMM)
• Machine and Server Migration (Quest Tools QMM/RUM)
• Cleanup of Active Directory across the Infrastructure
• Create a design for restructuring Targets and Target Folders
• Active Directory Administration (Create\Delete Profiles, Security, Service Accounts, and Distribution List)
• Create OU’s - configure and structure OU’s to the best practice
• Created high level Windows and Citrix product roadmap and strategy

Confidential

IT Coordinator/Migration Lead/Active Directory Architect SME

• Turnaround Assessment environment with diverse teams members that continually delivered to projects at levels exceeding all expectations.
• Communicates with the ability to work effectively and resourcefully in both independent and collaborative team settings.
• Skilled at stakeholder’s management, risk management, and working with C-level executives to bridge the gap between Hospital’s business objectives and technology capabilities.
• As a Migration Lead over Cerner Migration Integration team, responsible for Application and Server Migration from a high level non-strategic to strategic Hospital Infrastructure.
• Point of contact for Cerner ( Confidential ) (La Porte, Starke, Valparaiso, and Porter) Migration.
• Collaborates with Business teams and Technology teams to establish high level scope/guidelines, perform infrastructure discovery and application dependency analysis, determine business requirements, identify migration strategies, negotiate schedules and provide ongoing coordination.
• Deeply involved in design, planning and execution of migration plan to migrate/decommission all application instances and servers in Cerner ( Confidential ) Scope, without disruption to Business Groups.
• Received high level numbers, tracking, and reports of all application instances scheduled for migration.
• Host High Level weekly status meetings with senior management, business, and technology teams.
• Coordinates closely with SAs, DBAs, Implementation Engineers, Network and Storage teams to ensure successful execution of Migrations on time within budget with zero defects.
• IT Strategy Health Check.
• Milestones Action Plan.
• Run/Grow/Transform Assessment.
• Shareholder Value Dashboards.
• Structure the IT Team.
• Systems Audit Analysis.
• Tactical Governance Migration Specialist (Quest Tools).
• Creates high level scopes detailing phased plans for implementations for client.
• Coordinate Go-Live Procedures for Hospital merge.
• Manages day-to-day hospital operations to include shaping the strategic vision of overall IT function.
• Manages successful migration of critical production and contingency servers with no impact to business.
• Optimizes Hospital Migration by employing various migration strategies.
• Spearheads reconfiguration of Migration Scope.
• Manages migration of 500+ application instances from infrastructure discovery to execution phase.
• Participates in migration execution of 200+ application instances as migration specialist and triage lead.
• Facilitates, tracks, and completes decommission of 500+ application instances and servers.
• Leads triage team on the migration weekends to ensure prompt resolution of all issues and successful migration.
• Hosts high level weekly status calls with senior management of La Porte Hospital, CHS, and Cerner to provide project status, and highlight risk.
• Successfully manages migration of very complex infrastructure and critical production.
• Migrates Linux Servers (Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.).
• Active Directory Migration (Quest ToolsQMM).
• Machine and Server Migration (Quest Tools QMM/RUM).
• Cleans up Active Directory across the Infrastructure.
• Creates a design for restructuring Targets and Target Folders.
• Active Directory Administration (Create/Delete Profiles, Security, Service Accounts, and Distribution List).
• Creates OUs - configures and structures OUs to the best practice.
• Manages IT infrastructure (web servers, accounting servers, Application Server, SQL Server database servers network attached storage and, workstations).
• Manages and implements projects to evaluate and deploy a functional VDI environments.
• Creates high level Windows and Citrix product roadmap and strategy.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Coordinator/Sr. Technology Project Manager/Active Directory Architect SME

• Facilitates the high level design, implementation, management, and communication of customer focused strategic business plans/charters.
• Defines, manages, and implements the long term strategic Information Technology roadmap.
• Collaborates with C-Level groups and development teams to deliver against product and service goals and business requirements.
• Agile process with continuous Scrum meetings.
• Works with key business clients.
• Maintains continuous process improvement and user satisfaction.
• Increases IT’s value through innovation and emerging technologies.
• Defines, builds, and supports the hiring plan and team structure.
• Anticipates future network needs by identifying proactive solutions to satisfy needs.
• Helps establish and build relationships with vendors in conjunction with corporate leadership.
• Oversees all IT-related purchasing and budget usage; works with accounting to develop budgets.
• Holds responsibility for capacity planning and scheduling vendor negotiations related to IT.
• Creates scopes detailing phased plans for implementations for client.
• Ensures strategic applications delivery with creation of robust BI architecture environments scaled for long-term enterprise use.
• Creates design, implements and deploys AD FS 2.0 for global environment.
• Develops and executes multi-pronged strategy that included support to existing applications, education, and shared best practices within BI community.
• Cut Migration rework 98% with high degree of accuracy in user acceptance testing, migration, production implementation, and onboarding processes.
• Migrations covered 2k up to 200k end users, mailboxes and objects using Quest Migration Tools (Quest Tools (QMMAD, QMMEXCH).
• Leverages emerging technologies with integration into existing processes: evaluated and implemented tools for OLAP, ETL, BI, and enterprise content management, with no additional cost due to license agreements.

Confidential

IT Coordinator/Active Directory/Exchange Architect SME

• Created in the high level assessment planning and migration of global infrastructure.
• High level Project plan to consolidate organization and decommission of old infrastructure.
• Assessed and created migration strategy.
• Proven track record for developing and executing against a 3-year strategic plan.
• Migrated all users, shared mailboxes, service accounts, application servers, and exchange mailboxes.
• Created strategy for synchronized public folders and SMTP Routing.
• Documentation for users to reconfigure BES Device to new Target Exchange Organization mailbox.
• Documentation for users to reconfigure ActiveSync Device to new Target Exchange Organization mailbox.
• Documentation for users to access Target Exchange Organization mailbox through Outlook Web Access.
• Created Migration strategy with Internal Confidential team on re-pointing applications relaying SMTP email off PS.Net to Exchange 2013.
• Project Plan with Defined Tasks and Milestones.
• Migrated 100,000 Mailboxes.
• BES/Active Sync device configuration documents.
• End User communication plans.
• Agile process with continuous Scrum meetings.
• Daily User Migration List.
• Project - Weekly status report.
• World Class project risk and quality management process.
• Monthly 3600 Project Satisfaction Surveys and Estimates at Completion reviews.
• Pointed, short timeframe risk assessments across the six dimensions of project risk, throughout life of project.
• Used Quest Migration Suite for AD and Exchange.
• Migrated 2600 end users to Windows 2012.
• Created and managed global teams for the support of the migration.
• Managed and implemented the project to evaluate and deploy a functional VDI environment for the benefit of corporate customers and their consumers.
• Created Windows and Citrix product roadmap and strategy.
• Consolidated and migrated +65 Citrix forms in +20 countries (American, Europe, Asia, Middle East) in a single global form.

Confidential, Houston, TX

AD Architect/Exchange Migrations

• Created scopes detailing phased plans for implementations for client.
• Managed day-to-day operations to include shaping the strategic vision of overall IT function.
• Created and managed over 30 teams in an International environment.
• Migrated 185,000 users end objects and mailboxes to a Windows 2008R2 Infrastructure and Exchange 2010.
• Built IT solutions for internal and external business users.
• Reconfigured Active Directory to eliminate issues with Group Policy and DNS. Correctly setup Active Directory Sites and Services to properly reflect all sites and subnets. Implemented the use of Distributed File Service and folder redirection to lower administrative overhead with moving data shares between servers and replacing desktops.
• Active Directory Architect, responsible for creating all OUs and Structure for sites.
• Created Backup/Replication Design for the NAS in Corp and SAN for different sites that were acquired, to best practice methodology.
• Created design, implemented and deployed AD FS 2.0 for Global Infrastructure.
• Maintained ITIL best practice.
• Restarted the IIS Server for Status Report Viewer.
• Migration Specialist (Quest Tools).
• Active Directory Migration (Quest ToolsQMM).
• NDS to Exchange 2010 (Quest NDS Migration Manager).
• Machine and Server Migration (Quest Tools QMM/RUM).
• Exchange Migration w; free busy (Quest Tools QMMEXCH).
• Cleaned up Active Directory across the Infrastructure.
• DFS root move across Domain Controllers, created a design for restructuring Targets and Target Folders.
• Exchange Migration Support.
• Active Directory Administration (Group Policies, Create/Delete Profiles, Security, Service Accounts, and Distribution List).
• Created OUs - configured and structured OUs to the best practice.
• Managed IT infrastructure (web servers, email servers, accounting servers, SQL Server database servers network attached storage and, workstations).
• Managed and implemented projects to evaluate and deploy a functional VDI environments.
• Designed and implemented Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop solutions in the datacenter.
• Created Windows and Citrix product roadmap and strategy.
• Consolidated and migrated +80 Citrix forms in +25 countries (American, Europe, Asia, Middle East, China) in a single global form.

Confidential, Houston, TX

AD Architect/Exchange, OCS/DFS Migration

• Created detailed designs for AD, DFS structure and fault tolerance.
• Created scopes detailing phased plans for implementations for client.
• Reconfigured Active Directory to eliminate issues with Group Policy and DNS. Correctly setup Active Directory Sites and Services to properly reflect all sites and subnets. Implemented the use of Distributed File Service and folder redirection to lower administrative overhead with moving data shares between servers and replacing desktops.
• Created Backup/Replication Design for the NAS in Corp and SAN for different sites that were acquired, to best practice methodology.
• Lead Engineer and provided technical support for Active Directory, SQL Server 2005, Internet Information Services (IIS), Office SharePoint Server 2007 and VMWare ESX 4.1 Virtualization (V Optimizer, V Ranger, V Spotlight).
• Migration Specialist (Quest Tools).
• Performed engineering and technical lead role on DFS Structure project, which affected 40,000 EU. The project implemented Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 to replace remote application installation and was responsible for $4.5 million in cost reductions in remote office VPN elimination.
• Migrated from Windows Live to OCS.
• Active Directory Migration (Quest Tools).
• Exchange Migration (Quest Tools).
• DFS root move across Domain Controllers, created a design for restructuring Targets and Target Folders.
• Exchange Migration Support.
• Active Directory Administration (Group Policies, Create/Delete Profiles, Security, Service Accounts, and Distribution List).
• Created OUs - configured and structured OUs to the best practice.
• Managed IT infrastructure (web servers, email servers, accounting servers, SQL Server database servers network attached storage and, workstations).
• Managed and implemented projects to evaluate and deploy a functional VDI environment for virtual desktop initiative, with plans to expand the offering to 2000+ users.
• Designed and implemented Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop solutions in the datacenter.

Confidential, Houston, TX

System Administrator/Migration Design/Support

• Created scopes detailing phased plans for implementations for client.
• Reconfigured Active Directory to eliminate issues with Group Policy and DNS. Correctly setup Active Directory Sites and Services to properly reflect all sites and subnets. Implemented the use of Distributed File Service and folder redirection to lower administrative overhead with moving data shares between servers and replacing desktops.
• Storage Migration using Quest Tools.
• Lead Engineer and provided technical support for Active Directory, SQL Server 2005, Internet Information Services (IIS), Office SharePoint Server 2007, and VMWare Virtualization.
• Performed engineering and technical lead role on agent application delivery project, which affected 2500. The project implemented Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 to replace remote application installation and was responsible for $4.5 million in cost reductions in remote office VPN elimination.
• Administrated several Active Directory forests with trusts maintained between them with 60,000+userobjects, over25 domain controllers in a multi-site firewalled environment containing trust relationships with each other and external agencies.
• Active Directory Migration (Quest Tools).
• Lotus Notes to Exchange 2007 Migration (Quest Tools).
• Exchange Migration (Quest Tools).
• BES 5.0 Administrator.
• Migration Support.
• Created Backup/Replication Design for the SAN in Corp and NAS for different sites that were acquired.
• Active Directory Administration (Group Policies, Create/Delete Profiles, Security, Service Accounts, and Distribution List).
• Created OUs - configured and structured OUs to the best practice.
• Created and managed VMWare File Share servers.
• Created virtual desktop for end users.
• System Administrator for all clients, Blackberry, and Citrix users.
• Citrix Administrator.
• Backup Administrator.
• Managed IT infrastructure (web servers, email servers, accounting servers, SQL Server database servers network attached storage and, workstations).

Confidential, Houston & Austin, TX

Lead Network Specialist/AD/Exchange Architect

• Constructs and maintains current enterprise environment for assigned client.
• Creates OUs - configures and structures OUs to the best practice.
• Remote support and visits customer/client sites for all end users at Lamar University, Texas Tech, Matt Goff, NPC Practitioners Clinic and Consolidated Wealth requesting added, deleted or any Active Directory changes.
• Creates Backup/Replication Designs for the SAN and NAS for different sites that were acquired.
• Brought in to determine issues with Active Directory configuration including DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy. Implemented a full redesigned of the domain OU structures to efficiently target and implement new Group Policy Objects as set forward as requirements from ISO and industry best practice. Created reverse DNS lookup zones and configured conditional forwarders to help direct DNS queries to E-Port caching servers. Configured subnets in Active Directory Sites and Services.
• System Administrator for all clients, Blackberry, and Citrix users.
• Creates and manages VMWare File Share servers.
• Uses Firecall to allow assigned users to gain temporary special access.
• Supports all hardware and software changes as needed.
• Creates scopes detailing phased plans for implementations for all clients.
• Uses Sychron to create and support virtual environments for different divisions/departments of the City of Temple and Seton Medical Center.
• Exchange Migration (Quest Tools).
• Manages users in accessing the MySAP portal.
• Manages IT infrastructure (web servers, email servers, accounting servers, SQL Server database servers network attached storage, and workstations) (Financial Institution).
• Maintains network connectivity for the small institution.
• Remote Backup Administrator, manages multi-backups remotely.
• Manages backup jobs and firewall.
• SCCM/SMS.
• SCOM.
• OCS.