SUMMARY:

• Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, and Office 365 Cloud Architect project architect. With 10 years of experience, provides expert consultation in cloud strategy, technical assessment, solution design, migration, and delivery of infrastructure - as-a-service IAAS, platform-as-a-service PAAS, and subsequent network, storage and virtualization components from Citrix, Cisco, EMC, Microsoft & AWS .A proven track record of results within the fortune 500 and international business community attributed to his successful methodological approach Design, Deployment and administration, Microsoft technologies and network infrastructure. My experience includes research, design, development and the ensuing implementation of differing platforms, especially Microsoft Exchange, office 365 in hybrid and pure deployments along with experience in windows Azure, AWS, Google Compute, IBM Softlayer and Oracle Ravello.
• Expert in Office 365 Azure & AWSDeployment’s and completed many complex ADFS & ADFS Proxy Deployments, ADFS Claim Based Rules, Publishing Of ADFS with TMG 2010, Single & Multiple Domain Federation of ADFS with Microsoft Office 365 Cloud, Dir Synchronization, Exchange email migration using Cutover, Staged and Hybrid Deployment and POP3 and IMAP email clients Migration, Single & Multiple Domain Federation of ADFS with Microsoft Office 365 Cloud, Dir Synchronization. Responsible for helping Enterprise customers with Exchange and Office 365 deployments, migrations and training.
• Scripting with PowerShell I have extensive experience automating many facets of the Microsoft Windows server and client ecosystem. I am a prestigious Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter Management with a focus On PowerShell. I have 6+ years automating just about everything you can think of. One focus is on enterprise automation. This focus entails server provisioning and deployment either on-premise or through Microsoft Azure, automated configuration and much more. Great scripts are not just about solving a single problem today. A great script solves the problem today, tomorrow and again tomorrow in the same way
• Strategic hands-on IT experience includes; executive and senior project management for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 firms across a number of industries including communications, financial services, and national government.
• Enterprise level network design, administration, and support including; all project phases and hands on migrations for organizations up to 63,000 employees from over two dozen sites.
• A leader on teams from three to 35 to 500 individuals including project and time management, impacting over 30,000 users with project costs in excess of $9.5-million.
• Global project management experience of cross-functional teams, having been responsible for the implementation of large Directory-based enterprise messaging, databases, and ID management solutions.
• Sr. Expert level experience with Exchange 2010/2013 and 2016. Design implementation, and migration to Windows 2003, 2008 and windows 2012 r2 platforms
• Experience with enterprise cloud computing to included Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack and AWS virtual servers based off of windows 2012
• Through the use of proven methodologies, tools and best practices ensured the successful implementation of Citrix and Microsoft technologies. Played an integral role in each of the project phases—Analysis, Design, Build/Test and Rollout.
• Proven design, planning and implementation experience with Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013 and Active Directory design, planning and implementation
• Well versed in VMware & XenApp 5.0, 6.0, 6.5 & XenDesktop design, implementation and administration of Citrix servers, VMware Windows servers, documenting product and quality procedures
• Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 migrations and deployments was lead consultant for industry leading business consulting company.
• Exchange email migration using Cutover, Staged and Hybrid Deployment and POP3 and IMAP email clients Migration to Office 365.
• Highly available and secure Outlook Web Access (servers across multiple sites) for organizations with 50,000+ users; front-end/back-end server design and implementation.
• Over 15 years of Microsoft Exchange/E-Mail system design, migration, and implementation
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Technology Adoption Partner lead consultant at Confidential
• Enterprise level Active Directory design, implementation, and support (5,000 - 60,000+organizations)
• Installation, configuration, and migration of Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010/2013 and Microsoft Lync Server 2010 in multi-server environments
• Migrated and consolidated disparate eDirectory and Active Directory structures into an efficient up-to-date Active Directory environment. Normalized schema conflicts, resolved directory application dependencies, and strengthened overall system governance processes.
• Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2010/2013 migrations (3,000 - 50,000+ organizations), in Multi-server environments.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration of 2003, & 2008,
• Storage Array Networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS)
• Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003/2007/2013
• Server Virtualization 5 Years hands-on experience in Microsoft-based virtualization technologies (Hyper-V, MED-V, and App-V) and VMware, virtualization solutions to include Microsoft hyper-v deployments. 2.5 + years of multi-faced experience with specialization in System Administrator azure and Virtualization.
• Experience in implementing sites, web/worker roles, SQL Azure database, storage, service bus, Web Jobs, cloud services, Remote Apps etc.
• Rapid-provisioning and configuration management for Ubuntu and Windows servers and clients using Cloud Formation and Chef on Amazon Web Services and Azure.
• Advanced DNS, DHCP, WINS, TCP/IP, SMTP
• Redesigned DAG’s to not stretch AD sites across data centers. Created multiple AD sites that ensured resiliency in the transport layer and removing a single point of failure and placing the FSW in Azure (cost effective 3 rd data center).
• Responsible load balanced solution to support exchange 2010 CAS arrays to include F5 and Cisco, to include, Support, Configuration, and Management.
• Used for migrations, Quest Migration Manager for AD
• Heavy emphasis on Active Directory 2003 to 2008. Scenarios included co-existence between Exchange 2007 or 2010/2013 and 2016 as well as cross forest migrations
• Advanced troubleshooting of issues such as Active Directory and FRS/DFS replication issues, application memory leaks, Kerberos ticket size, etc.
• All versions of Microsoft Office, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android, and ActiveSync
• Commvault, Veritas Backup Exec backup solutions.
• Designed and deployed skype for over 20 small companies.
• Design and carry out greenfield deployments, cross-forests, data center consolidations, organization consolidations, organizations disjunctions, identify management and directory synchronization projects
• Experience with Microsoft Cloud Technologies, AWS - ADFS, DirSync, Intune, SSO
• Identity Federation, Directory Synchronization & mail migration. Provide Training and technical assistance. Lead and assist the overall IT office 365 Project Team

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured Windows Azure Cloud environments to provide Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) redundancy for high availability. Office 365 implementations that called for the deployment of Azure Active Directory Sync in addition to OneDrive for Business, Lync Online and Exchange Online.
• Windows server 2008 r2 and 2012 r2, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP. Hyper-V, System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2012 r2 (SCVMM r2). Cluster (FCM) Administration on Windows. Windows Azure Infrastructure as A Service Platform (IAAS).
• Experience with Microsoft DirSync and AD integration
• Documented experience with integration and acquisitions as related to Office 365 onboarding
• Hands-on experience with a hybrid Office 365 and Exchange 2010 environment
• Strong passion and desire to stay current on new technology trends relating to Office 365
• Experience daily with Windows Power shell form 2.0 to the current Ver 5.0 & large systems management to include using windows, Azure.
• Resolved Tier 3 issues related to Skype for Business Online and AudioCodes infrastructure capabilities
• Proven design, planning and implementation experience on an exceptional technical level with Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013, Active Directory, and Infrastructure technologies.
• Proven design, planning and implementation experience on an exceptional technical level with Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013, Active Directory, and Infrastructure technologies
• Ability to manage Incident Management and Problem Management.
• Extensive experience in providing end user Support for office 365 implementation of over 75 k users.
• Designed and built out the infrastructure for Skype then did an upgrade to Skype for business
• Extensive experience with Office 365 in a global environment
• Experience with managing messaging platforms (Exchange 2010/2013)
• Strong experience with SSO (Single Sign On) authentication with Office 365 and to support Skype online.
• Experience journaling systems for messaging
• Having over 7 years of Experience on Windows 2008r2 & 2012 r2 servers Active Directory administration for over 10 years of Experience working with Hyper-V & MSCS Clustering.
• Maintaining & Managing User Profiles (Local, Roaming, Mandatory).
• Windows Azure Infrastructure As A Services (IAAS Platform).
• Creating cloud service, Virtual Machine Creation, and services in Azure Portal and AWS SaaS.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage 53,000+ seat consisting of Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange to hybrid Office 365 migration project.
• Set up a customized DirSync connector to MTA Tennent.
• Experience with Microsoft DirSync and AD integration
• Documented experience with integration and acquisitions as related to Office 365 onboarding
• Hands-on experience with a hybrid Office 365 and Exchange 2010 environment
• Extensive automation experience (i.e. PowerShell, VBScript)
• Create detailed planning, procedures, and training documentation
• Develop custom solutions and applications to increase automation and efficiency
• Write technical articles and whitepapers on Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and MIIS\ILM\FIM
• Designed strategy for implementing and improving identity management solution to include a cross-forest PKI infrastructure to support SSO Deployment within the MTA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage 50,000+ seat Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange migration project
• Create detailed planning, procedures, and training documentation
• Develop custom solutions and applications to increase automation and efficiency
• Write Focus on helping organizations manage, expand, and optimize Newmont Microsoft infrastructure. technical articles and whitepapers on Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and MIIS\ILM\FIM
• Design and carry out greenfield deployments, cross-forests, data center consolidations, organization consolidations, i­­­­­­­­­­­­­dentify management, and directory synchronization projects

Confidential

Escalation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained the hardware and software of the system along with the backup in case of emergency.
• Regulated troubleshooting for the two tier and three tier support of the system.
• Coordinated with the external agencies to resolve any up gradation issues of the system.
• Managed the software and hardware for the Windows Server such as the Exchange Server, SQL WSUS, and various others.
• Designed, maintained and provided technical support to the Windows server platform in the data center and remote locations.
• Planned and configured the Microsoft Exchange and provided support to various other email applications such as Outlook and OWA

Confidential

Messaging Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Active directory support tools including able to use LDAP tools; well-versed in LDIF/ ADSI interfaces.
• Successfully engineered a virtual private network solution utilizing ISA server 2006 providing secure connectivity and allowing remote users the ability to use internal network resources.
• Research and build servers, test and deploy virtualization technologies (Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX Server, and Citrix XenServer).
• Migrated and consolidated disparate eDirectory and Active Directory structures into an efficient up-to-date Active Directory environment.
• Normalized schema conflicts, resolved directory application dependencies, and strengthened overall system governance processes Office 365 migration lead with strong knowledge of Sharepoint, lync and exchange online. Systems, network, and database administration; communication and storage system design, deployment, and maintenance; cloud and virtualization technology planning, integration, migration, and optimization; programming and scriptingActive Directory, Microsoft Exchange, and SQL Server servers.
• Implemented session - Remote Desktop Services (RDS)/Terminal Server (TS) - and host-based - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) - solutions utilizing Windows Server 2008 R2 with Remote Desktop Services (RDS). Architect and implement a Private Cloud to deliver Citrix as a Service, based on Citrix XenApp 6.5 services.

Confidential

Lead Messaging Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Migrated and consolidated disparate eDirectory and Active Directory structures into an efficient up-to-date Active Directory environment. Normalized schema conflicts, resolved directory application dependencies, and strengthened overall system governance processes.
• This included a consolation of 23 Novell sites to one primary exchange site with FIM support, implemented on physical hardware and VMware virtual machines.
• The solution contained 23 exchange servers to include a four server CAS array and four mailbox servers, each containing six databases. Lead enterprise-wide virtualization effort, overseeing and personally completing vendor/hardware qualifications, architecture/design, installation, configuration, migration, and documentation.
• Reduced the company’s server hardware footprint by 60% leading to savings in power and cooling. Leveraged highly available VMware Virtual Infrastructure (VI3) environment to improve server availability, reduce workload for IT staff, and automate server deployment for various business units.

Confidential

Sr. Architect

Responsibilities:

• Exchange mailbox migrations including calendars and contacts.
• AD User Accounts migrations including attributes and passwords.
• Contacts and Distribution Groups migration.
• ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) version 3.1.
• Windows SharePoint Services Site Collection migrations

Confidential

Sr. Architect

Environment: supported both production and development environments containing hundreds of servers running SQL, IIS, Exchange, SharePoint, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Approva's BizRights software. Part of my role included the design and implementation on the team with Microsoft and Confidential to create the largest Exchange 2007 environment for the US Army, developing Single sign-on (SSO), with Two-factor authentication in which a user authenticates once with ISA Server and can access any number of servers that are behind ISA Server, without reauthenticating.

Responsibilities:

• Deployed to Confidential customers Windows 2003/2008 Enterprise Class Solutions to included Active Directory with Exchange 2007, Windows 2008 virtualization solutions.
• Create Business requirements, Project Planning and other documents and deliverables
• Enterprise level Microsoft technologies including Exchange, Active Directory, SMS, MOM, Windows 2008, SharePoint, and Unified Communication Systems, and Enterprise wide solutions.
• Management and Administration of an Exchange 2003 International Email Organization, serving over 45,000 users.
• Management of the Corporate SMTP gateway, consisting of Smart Relay Host Appliances.
• Architectural Design, Planning, Documentation and Project Management, of large-scale rollouts for Email and messaging technical leadership to Global Messaging Teams.