Principal Exchange Engineer Resume Chantilly, Virginia - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Highly accomplished professional with solid background in information management and security and technical expertise within dynamic environments, in pursuit of bottom - line goals and objectives. Expertise in systems integration, upgrades, and compliance, as well as current pursuit of Master’s in Cybersecurity Policy and Confidential certification.
Successfully manage testing, configuration of change control.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to quickly gather information and implement plans of action.
Team Leadership / Motivation IT Infrastructure / Design IT Strategy IT Security
Network Administration Technical Support Deployment / Migrations

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Lotus Notes/CCMail Windows 9x / NT / 2000 MSMail3.x Outlook / 2000 / 2007 / 2010 / 2013
Legato CheyeneArcServe6.0 Clarify6.0 Novell IntraNetware4.11 Novell ZenWorks1.01
Managewise2.1/2.6 BackupExec NT 7.3 Elron Firewall Microsoft Office 2K7 / 2K10 / 2K13
Windows Server 2008R2 / 2012 Exchange Server 4. / 5.x / 2K / 3 / 7 / 10
Quest Migration Manager for AD / Exchange Quest Spotlight on AD
Quest Spotlight on Messaging Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Diskeeper 7.0
VCS 4000/3100, VAX 11/780, VAX 11 / 785, VAX 6000, VAX 8810, VAX 8650
IBM 3083-JX IBM 3090-200J AN / UYK-65V DPS6 HONEYWELL and PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT
HP 9000 715 / 750 Sun Sparc2's COMPAQ Confidential TOSHIBA PACKARD BELL
Cisco, Confidential PowerEdge, Compaq Proliant servers, Synoptics hubs, GigaSwitch, Cubix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chantilly, Virginia

Principal Exchange Engineer

Responsibilities:

Experienced Systems Engineer responsible for monitoring, testing and analyzing system activities to ensure maximum performance, efficiency and availability of system usage as well as plan for growth due to increases in system capacity of the Exchange 2007 organization.
Identified and resolved problems affecting Exchange 2007 system performance and efficiency. Maintained policies, procedures, and training plans for messaging system administration and appropriate use of a multi-site geographically dispersed fault tolerant Exchange 2007 clustered environment.
Responsible for the designing of the Exchange 2013 clustered environment.
Experienced working in a team-oriented collaborative environment.
The interface on technical issues and matters concerning Exchange with application teams and management. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Confidential, Laurel, Maryland

Systems Integrator

Responsibilities:

Oversaw system maintenance, upgrades, and migrations including evaluating existing IT needs and providing recommendations for enhancement and improvement to senior leadership.
Executed Active Directory / Exchange Server Health Checks, Design and Implement Enterprise Messaging, established IT requirements, delivered key contributions to strategic planning meetings.
Addressed end user needs and oversaw system upgrades, handled documentation in formal logs for future reference, and developed and implemented standard operating procedures and policies.
Advised technical staff on existing projects, led project activities, and ensured quality of finished work.
Facilitated extensive comprehension of directives across user levels and function by interpreting and communicating directives into technical directions.
Served as the Confidential Leadership Book Club Facilitator and provided training and mentoring to peers regarding company policies and standard operating procedures.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Lead Exchange Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

Managed day to day administration, support, maintenance and monitoring of MS Exchange infrastructure including overseeing configuration, performing backup and restore procedures, front end/back end setups, message flow and security.
Troubleshot Outlook issues, administered mailboxes and Users accounts, and directed product lifecycles maintaining vendor support, maintenance contracts, and software licensing compliance, as well as necessary updates/upgrades.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Lead Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Constructed, installed, maintained, and supported MS Exchange, DNS, WEB, and DHCP servers.
Researched and documented SAN, Disaster Recovery Plans, Infrastructure Maintenance, Windows NT/2K/2K3, DNS, WEB Server problems, permissions, and server loads.
Coordinated with cross-functional personnel ensuring Exchange Server project compliance with security and other departmental requirements.
Upgraded Unclassified Exchange system re-establishing mission critical mail flow communication for troops in war zone with stateside headquarters through strategic recovery of system from backups and execution of upgrade of Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server platforms 2000/2003.
Presided over Windows Server 2000 upgrade with minimal downtime for numerous embassies by performing backup of current DNS configuration, executing system upgrade, verifying functionality, and completing upgrade.