Executive Summary:

I am a Senior Level Engineer and Solutions Architect with experience in small and large over 135,000 users enterprise technologies including:

• Active Directory
• Design and implementation of Active Directory 2003, 2008, 2008 r2, 2012 Standard and Enterprise Forests, Domains, Sites, OUs, GPOs, FSMO, Identity Management and DNS
• ADFS Design and implementation in Multiple Forests and Multiple Domains, Web access and Single Sign On
• FIM Design, installation and troubleshooting in Multiple Forests, Multiple Domains
• Messaging
• Exchange 2007, 2010, 2013 Assessing, Design, installation, support and troubleshooting
• Lotus Notes Support and migration
• Domino Server
• Messaging/Mobile
• Blackberry
• BES
• Good
• BoxTone
• Microsoft Lync
• Lync 2010, 2013
• VMware
• vSphere 5.1
• vSphere 5.5
• ESXI 5.5
• VMworkstation
• VCloud
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Microsoft SharePoint architectural level and some design level
• SharePoint 2010, 2013
• Migrations Using Quest Migrator Tools
• Novell to Active Directory Quest NDS Migrator
• Active Directory to Active Directory Quest Migration Manager for Active Directory
• Lotus Notes to Exchange Quest Migration Manager for Notes, Notes Migrator for Exchange
• GroupWise to Exchange Quest Migration Manager for GroupWise
• Exchange to Exchange Quest Migration Manager for Exchange
• Cloud
• Office 365
• Microsoft BPOS
• Azure
• Enterprise Multimedia
• Qumu
• Windows Media
• Accordant
• Structured Methodologies
• Waterfall
• Incremental
• Spiral
• Modelling
• Enterprise Conceptual, Enterprise Logical, Enterprise Physical
• ANSI/SPARC Three Level Architecture
• Entity Relationship Models
• Disaster Recovery and Storage
• VERITAS
• Symantec
• Arc Serve
• Enterprise Architecture within the SDLC construct

Experience:

Confidential

Senior Active Directory Solutions Architect

Complete design of Active Directory 2014 environment and full migration strategy from Active Directory 2003. This project encompassed 15,000 users and 113 Domain Controllers over four forests and six domains worldwide for the eighth largest global causality insurer. It involved the upgrade of three forests from 2003 to 2014 and the migration of users from one forest to the main forest, retaining the 2003 forest as a resource forest.

• Documented entire current state
  • All Domain Controller settings
  • All GPOs
  • Performance metrics for 113 DCs
  • Inter Forest trusts
  • DNS
  • DHCP
• Designed autonomous testing environment to vet upgrade and migration process and application compliance
  • Complete scaled replica of production environment
  • Designed testing strategies
    • 815 applications
    • 232 Services
    • Upgrade testing
    • Migration Testing
    • Resource Forest Testing
• Designed complete end state and strategies
  • Consolidation of 113 Domain Controllers to 50
  • Resource forest to house legacy applications
  • Inter-Domain and Inter-Forest Trusts
  • GPOs
  • DNS replication
  • FRS to DFRS replication migration
• Performed ADUA testing with Microsoft
• Designed remediation strategies
• Worked with global branches in the UK as-well-as American business units to design site structure with a hub and spoke replication model

Confidential

Senior Solutions Architect

Engagement to provide architectural solutions in the arenas of:

• Exchange 2010, 2013
  • Exchange environment assessment and design of Exchange 2010 1,000 mailboxes
  • Exchange 2013 server builds for 2007 migration to Exchange 2013 22,000 users
  • Exchange 2007 to 2013 migration of 8,000 users
• Lotus Notes to Exchange migration Lotus 8.1 to Exchange 2010 12,000 users
• Office 365 migration Exchange 2013
• Active Directory 2008 r2 and Active Directory2012 Standard/Enterprise
  • ADFS Active Directory Federation Services, Design, implementation and trouble shooting of ADFS, Single-Sign On 2.0 for client with 27 domains in three forests
  • FIM Forefront Identity Manager Join and projection rule creation and troubleshooting for multiple clients
  • Active Directory Assessment and Design Windows Server 2008 Single forest, three Domains, 27 sites
  • DNS troubleshooting
  • GPO troubleshooting
• VSphere 5.0 and 5.5
  • Upgrading 5.x to 5.5
  • Appliance provisioning vSphere 5.5
• SharePoint 2010 and 2013
  • Assessments and design
  • Hybrid solutioning
• Hyper-V Virtualization
• Azure No on-prem. Design of complete Server 2012 environment single forest/single domain. 2 DCs, DNS, back-end ADFS File server, back-end Web Server, Exchange 2013 server, front end proxy.

Confidential

Senior Engineer / Lync Consultant

This position involved heavy travel out on Sundays and back on Thursdays, every week. I was assigned to customers and projects involving Architecting solutions, Implementation of new Messaging and Active Directory platforms, and migrations in 15 states across the country.

• Active Directory 2008 r2 and Active Directory 2012
  • Assessments of existing Active Directory environments for performance and best-practice adherence
  • Troubleshooting Active Directory, DNS, GPOs, ADFS with a variety of toolsets
  • Troubleshooting FIM Join rules and projection rules, filtering
  • ADFS Federation design and implementation enabling external access to internal apps, cross domain access
  • Domain, Site and Replication creation for Server 2012 environment single forest, dual domain
  • Clustering of Server 2008r2 servers and Exchange 2010 servers
  • DHCP and DNS design, implementation and troubleshooting
  • Lync 2010 design and implementation 35,000 users
• Migrations Quest tools
• Designed migration strategy for Active Directory 2003 to Active Directory 2008r2 6,000 users
• Designed migration strategy and performed Novell to Active Directory migration of over 35,000 users complete design of AD environment, managed 15 Engineers
• Designed migration strategy and performed GroupWise to Exchange 2010 migration 35,000 mailboxes
• Lotus Notes/Domino to Exchange 2010 37,000 mailboxes, Designed migration strategy, performed proof-of-concept, performed successful pilot migration
• Designed migration strategy and performed Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 migration 11,000 users
• Networks Assessed Active Directory Environments for performance, best-practice adherence and solutioning for remediation for numerous clients nationwide
• Exchange environment - Assessed Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010 Environments for performance, best-practice adherence and solutioning for remediation for numerous clients nationwide
• Detailed System Design Specifications, Blueprints and Process Flows
• Detailed System assessments and recommendations
• Detailed As-built documents
• Training guides
• Windows Server 2008 R2 servers
• Windows Server 2012 Standard servers
• Domain Controllers
• Exchange 2010 and 2013 Servers
• Assessments Enterprise level
• Documentation
• Building and tuning numerous:

• Client interfacing Onsite, hands-on client interfacing nationwide
• Managing Engineer Team and Project Management
• PowerShell scripting

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect on an Exchange/Messaging project for the Department of Energy at the world's premier Nuclear Laboratory - Los Alamos National Laboratory. The focus of this project involved migrating the Lab from a number of disparate email, calendar and communication systems to Exchange 2010. It included Active Directory assessment and clean-up, BES redesign and migration, Good Server Design and proof-of-concept for Android and iOS, SCOM monitoring, BoxTone Monitoring, Lync Design and implementation, while supporting their Exchange 2007 and Lotus 8.x environments.

My role encompassed:

• Active Directory
  • Object management The directory structure over a single-forest multi-domain model had thousands of orphaned objects requiring removal and metadata clean-up for properly functioning monitoring.
  • Best-practice assessments were performed to tune the entire system and adhere to best-practices
  • PowerShell Scripting I designed a number of scripts to export data from non-Microsoft databases and ingest it into Active Directory, as-well-as scripting migration and management tasks
  • FIM Forefront Identity Manager Designed FIM rules to provide more efficient AD object creation from home-spun HR application and Single Sign-On capabilities

• Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Microsoft Exchange 2010 migration 17,000 mailboxes
  • Supported Exchange 2007 Environment
  • Supported Lotus and Domino Environment until migration
  • Meeting Maker to Outlook calendaring
  • Unified Messaging/Lync 2010 Design, implementation and testing
  • Lotus SameTime to Microsoft Lync migration
  • Lotus Notes and Cyrus Mail to Microsoft Exchange 2010 migration

• Messaging
  • Designed BES 5.x platform and migrated 2,000 users from BES 4.x
  • Designed and installed BoxTone Monitoring platform for BES
  • Designed and installed Good Server platform for Android an iOS

• Deliverables included:
  • Extensive documentation, assessments, recommendations, blue-prints
  • Migration plans
  • Testing regimen plan
  • BES 5.0 Infrastructure
  • Good Infrastructure
  • Exchange 2010 Messaging Platform
  • PowerShell scripts for managing Active Directory objects
  • Training guide creation
  • Created and conducted classroom and auditorium training
  • Created SharePoint sites to:
    • Monitor all project documents and deliverables,
    • Track consultant tasking and progress
    • Client facing FAQs, knowledge bases, self-help and training sites.

Confidential

Exchange Migration Engineer BPOS Dedicated/ Office 365 / PowerShell Specialist

• Responsible for the development of PowerShell scripts to facilitate the support of Active Directory objects and 30,000 mailboxes during and after Hyatt's migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2010 BPOS. I trained Tier-three and Tier-two support personnel to use BPOS tools Exchange Control panel ECP, CMPMT, FIM Tool provided Tier-three support, escalating issues to Microsoft and delivering solutions to end-users, and extensively documented the processes and transferred knowledge to the business.

Confidential

Exchange Engineer/Enterprise Architect

Responsible for the hands on design and development of Enterprise Conceptual Data Models, ECDM, and Enterprise Logical Data Models, ELDM, and Enterprise Physical Data Models, EPDM, for a number of Allstate's business units. The projects required the use of various Structured Methodologies for the design and implementation of a variety of business systems in accordance with Allstate's business rules and System Development Life Cycle.

Exchange Engineer Exchange Migration: Built 24 Exchange Servers and migrated 160,000 mailboxes and over 300,000 public folders from a six data center model to a two datacenter model.

Enterprise Architect Active Directory Engineer

Worked with Enterprise Engineers to revamp the Active Directory tree

• Active Directory Tree design
• Rights Management
• Identity Management
• Domain Structure
• Site Structure
• ADMT

System Architect Allstate Collaboration: Used Symantec Modelling to prove SharePoint's viability as the de-facto collaboration tool for Allstate.

• Conducted dozens of interviews with stakeholders and SharePoint site managers.
• Produced business use cases for SharePoint
• Reviewed many Microsoft competitive collaboration suites
• Determined SharePoint as the collaboration tool for Allstate