PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

• Career Information Technology professional with exceptional technical abilities, insightful project management and a diverse background that spans 16 years within the IT industry.
• Active Directory Enterprise design and Implementation Engineer
• Microsoft Exchange Architect and Engineer
• Microsoft Failover Clustering Engineer
• Microsoft SQL Server Engineer
• VMWARE ESXi Engineer
• Technical Project Manager
• Storage Engineer
• Compliance and Auditing
• Network Security Analyst
• Enterprise Monitoring and Reporting
• ERP/CRM Host Support Specialist

SUMMARY PROJECT AND ENGAGEMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Senior IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted assessment and audit of running AD environment to include JV and subsidy infrastructure.
• Performed remediation of replication issues, group policy issues, time server hierarchy, and schema/extension attribute and permissions documentation and remediation.
• Also reviewed Office365/Azure AD MFA and SSO setups, API client and SCOM reporting.
• Retired older domain infrastructure, including a Exchange hybrid deployment and related old infrastructure no longer needed.

Confidential

Senior IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Audit and review running AD environment, business systems, Office365/Azure/AWS, Exchange, datacenter, networking and storage configuration.
• Conducted audits on security and health, and presently implementing remediation to identified issues.

Confidential

Senior IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed existing “Greenfield” and “PAW” architecture proposed by Microsoft, revised and re - architected to facilitate a simpler design that fit with legacy domains, existing architecture and would allow a relaxed and gradual migration process toward the new domain.
• Worked with AWS and VMWare teams to simplify authentication, Kerberos, PKI,DNS/DHCP and legacy infrastructure leveraging F5.
• Performed ADRAP and cleanup on existing AD and Exchange environments.
• Worked with SCOM, Splunk and audit teams to refine monitoring and environment data collection, including AWS/Azure cloud infrastructure.

Confidential

Senior IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design and integration of Confidential Energy’s AD infrastructure to include PKI migration, MIM, Infoblox migration, ADFS migration and other SSO system migration.
• Audited AD prior to move, performed cleanup and audited other interconnected systems for compliancy to Exxon’s standards.

Confidential

Senior Architect and consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architected migration process and collapse of several (12) AD domains, approximately 320,000 objects spanning 400+ locations worldwide.
• Consolidation included AD, Exchange, VMWare infrastructure, PKI, datacenter hardware and network migrations, cloud-based infrastructure migrations, SAP consolidation and FIM/SCOM/SharePoint consolidations, to include remediation where necessary to support Confidential ’s operational standards.

Confidential

Senior IT Consultant - Audit

Responsibilities:

• Assisting Confidential IT team with a pre-merger audit deficiency correction.
• Remediated issues found within their AD, Exchange, VMWare and DFS/File/permissions infrastructure. Established procedures for AD backup, DR, and authoritative restore, Exchange backup, DR, and restoration, and VMWare HA/DRS and VM restoration. Worked with the SQL DBA team to ensure correct database snapshots, replication, maintenance and backups are effective, along with documentation of supporting processes. Also reviewed deficiencies on local network at the Technology Center to include WAN issues (firewall and web filtering) and proposed corrective measures.

Confidential

Senior IT Infrastructure Consultant

Responsibilities:

• One of the largest pipeline companies in North America, recently merged with Atlas and undergoing a consolidation program.
• I served as project architect and technical lead for a 7000+2100 mailbox migration from Exchange 2010 to 2013, and migration of approximately 900 field users from Office 365 back to Exchange 2013.
• I also assisted with archival process and procedures for establishing legal holds on users.

Confidential

Senior IT Infrastructure Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worldwide naval ship registry and maritime authority with approximately 120 worldwide locations and 7800 users.
• Senior architect of Office365 back to on premise Exchange 2013 hosting. Movement included 1100 users, shared mailboxes and archival data. Followed up with migrating approximately 950 users from Lotus Notes to Exchange via Quest Lotus Notes Migration Manager.
• Upgraded VMWare host environment from v5 to v5.5.
• Analysis of current SQL enterprise clusters (3 clusters of 4 nodes each) and designing a SQL 2014 upgrade-migration plan for (October 2014) implementation. This solution will include DR center database replicas.
• Analysis of Active Directory domains acquired from mergers, and architecting many-trusted domains to single domain migration strategy. (implementation starting in Jan 2015)
• Assist IT team with any daily administrative tasks and mentorship (general server maintenance, change management)