SUMMARY:

• Infrastructure Consulting Architect / Project Manager, dedicated to providing the technical and management skills when you need them, wherever you need them.
• Manager / Architect driven to delivering the right solution to meet your business and technical needs in a platform agnostic manner, concentrating on the core infrastructure, messaging, and more importantly, identity and authentication management and federation solutions that are the best fit, not selling you on a platform.
• Kamran has extensive expertise architecting, designing, and deploying enterprise class solutions for not only Confidential 500 companies, but also the small and medium size business markets, without compromising on quality.
• Experiences includes working in the technology, manufacturing, telecommunications, healthcare, airline, and financial services sectors.
• In addition to the technology experience, Kamran also has extensive experience with IT change management processes and business re - engineering around frameworks such as ITIL

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Solutions: BPOS (Business Productivity Online Services) Office 365, Confidential 365, In Tune, Confidential Azure, Azure information Protection, Azure Rights Management, Azure Active Directory Advanced, Azure AD Sync, Auto Pilot, DirSync, Active Directory Federation Services, Google Apps, Apple iCloud, Systems Center Cloud Services, Operations Management Suite.

Technologies: Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSe Linux, Fedora Core, Slackware, Apple Mac OS Workstation & Server 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, iPhone, iPad, Android, IOS. JAMF Pro, Casper Suite, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Confidential Operations Manager 2000, Confidential Operations Manager 2005, SCCM up to 2012, Virtualization solutions such as Confidential HyperV, VMWare, and Parallels, Office Live Communication Server 2003, Office Live Communication Server 2005, Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communication Server 2007 R2, Lync Server, Skype for Business, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2007, MobileIron MDM, AirWatch MDM, In Tune MDM, Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2000, Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004, Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2006, Internet Information Services 5.0

Functional Expertise: Core Infrastructure, AD Migration, Messaging and Collaboration, Unified Communications, Virtualization, Security, Server Management, Federation Services, Cloud Services, Desktop Management, Strong Project Management skills, and knowledge of PMI methodologies in use in IT today, Strong communication skills and stake holder management, BYOD, CYOD, COPE, Multi-Factor Authentication, Identity & Access Management, PKI

Industry Expertise: Technology, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Commercial Airline, Non Profit, State and Local Government, Retail, Financial Services.

HIGHLIGHTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, CO

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead and project managed a project to set up an Confidential 365 proof of concept for the client which included all aspects of Windows 10, and office deployments utilizing SCCM, Auto Pilot, and self service office deployment advertisement through click to run installs of Office pro Plus, Email, teams, One Drive, all managed through InTune services. Proof of concept deployment was limited to 150 users, with a full design plan deploy the same solution to the rest of the users in the organization after the end of the testing period for a total of 8500 seats.
• Provided Confidential 365 subject matter expertise, leadership and consulting services to client guide them on a full upgrade cycle of their entire workforce from Windows 7 to Windows 10, building out their Confidential 365 platform to be able to manage the entire rollout through InTune. Setting up auto enrollment of all new workstations with Azure AD advanced, while looking at a solution to further leverage Auto Pilot to deploy new systems in a zerotouch manner for their help desk services. Further responsibilities included a rollout of Office 365 pro plus, while migrating their existing messaging platform from on premise Exchange 2013 to Office 365, as well as the setup and migration of their user data to One Drive on their Office 365 tenant.
• Lead Office 365 SME involved in the deployment of Office 365 V - Next solution at American Express, involving the next generation office 365 product offering from Confidential .
• Project included the deployment of Exchange messaging solutions offered in the tenant, as well as application deployments such as Teams services, Office 365 Video, Confidential To-Do (Formerly Confidential Planner), and Power BI.
• Lead a project involving integrating a company which was utilizing Office 365 into Atlas Air, which currently is not. By performing activities such as performing a readiness review of their environment to support office 365, and then setting up all of the necessary tools such as AADSync and ADFS etc to facilitate moving the purchased companies user accounts from their old domain to the new domain by disjoining their mailboxes, and then joining them to newly sync d accounts in the new domain so no migration activities would be required. Then set up a Skype for Business POC integrating the Office 365 Skype for business solution with their on premise Cisco Call manager solution
• Consulted on a couple of projects including providing subject matter expertise on migrating from Good MDM to AirWatch, as well as deploying new Ironport servers in their on premise and cloud services environment for mail security.
• Worked as the lead Office 365 Architect in strategically planning Blue Cross blue Shield (HCSC) s migration efforts from Lotus notes to Office 365, as well as the deployment of Skype for Business telephony to replace their existing Cisco deployment. Once the plan was reviewed and approved, we began executing the migration activities utilizing Binary Tree to facilitate the coexistence and migration activities. Also offered strategic planning guidance on building out their Confidential infrastructure to support their Office 365 needs, as well as supporting a Confidential centric back office initiative, while maintaining support for their growing Apple workstations and mobile solutions.
• This initiative involved reviewing their existing JAMF Pro environment for functionality and scalability, to support their growing Mac user base, while leveraging cloud distribution points for software deployment, patch management, and greatly improving the self service solutions provided for their end users.
• Endpoint Engineering temporary contract position responsibility for rebuilding a poorly deployed JAMF architecture, integration, and management of 120+ Macs in a Confidential based infrastructure. Reworked existing Casper and NetBoot environments. Defined standards based Mac packaging workflow for zero-touch deployment and management of the existing Mac hardware, as well as supporting future growth. Took a 12 page deployment guide being used by their help-desk staff, and reduced it to a zero touch single page deployment guide. Also built a BYOD offering to support user owned mobile devices using MobileIron.
• Provided provided strategic planning and guidance on how to support Mac laptops and desktops in the environment, how to manage them using tools such as the Casper Suite by JAMF Software, imaging those devices using Deploy Studio, and how to manage mobile devices using Mobileiron. The focus of this was to test, build and support a zero touch deployment solution utilizing Apple s DEP (Device Enrollment Program) to simplify the deployment of new systems for users.
• Acted as a Sr. level Office 365 SME to build out a new on premise Exchange 2013 hybrid environment for approximately 5000 users as well as helping migrate 80,000 users to Office 365. Performed all levels of work including building pre requisite systems such as ADFS, and FIM to support a multi domain migration path, as well as building out pre and post migration scripts, and helping build the overall migration strategy for velocity migrations.
• Consulting for various business units as part of the Ernst & Young Directories & IAM Infrastructure Service Delivery Engineering team. From providing subject matter expertise with the deployment of Office 365 at Ernst & Young, to consulting on deploying federation services, identity management, etc.
• Providing technical solutions for teaching and learning using Apple technology such as Mac OS X, iPad and iPod, including deployment, infrastructure and ongoing management and integration into enterprise environments.
• Presented workshops and presentations to inform end-users and technical staff on mobile device awareness and security, fleet management and infrastructure development.
• Providing ADFS, Exchange 2010, and Office 365 subject matter expertise and support to Grant Thornton for a series of single sign-on initiatives requiring ADFS expertise, documenting current baseline AD Architecture, supporting pre migration activities to prepare for an Office 365 deployment. In support of the migration we also migrated their mobile offering from Blackberry BES, to MobileIron, as well as assisting in the daily support and maintenance of systems.
• Providing consulting support for proof of concept deployment of Office 365 wave 15, followed by a pilot deployment, and migrating from on premise Exchange 2007 to Office 365. Project also supporting rolling out Lync 2010 video conferencing.
• Also assisted in Migrating Lyondell s AD environment from AD2003, to AD 2012 R2 in order to be at the minimum requirements set forth by Office 365, which also involved a technology refresh for their 144,000 client computers from a mix of Windows XP and Windows 7 to Windows 8.1. Migration tools used: ADMT and Quest Migration Manager suite of products.
• Assisted MetLife in their migration to Office 365 D, primarily focusing on their mobile messaging platforms including building out a migration plan for their existing Blackberry users, as well as new deployments to support BYOD support of user provided phones utilizing Good technologies.
• Deployed Lync 2010 Enterprise voice solution to 5 separate sites consisting of a single centralized site, and 4 remote sites utilizing AudioCodes Survivable Branch Appliances.
• Provided strategic planning on how to migrate 4800 Users from Lotus Notes to Confidential BPOS utilizing Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange, Office 365 deployment included configuring a hybrid deployment with on premise Exchange servers, configuring the ADFS servers to pass through authentication for Office 365 users, and deploying DirSync for synchronizing user accounts to the cloud.
• Performed a DR Assessment review on their infrastructure, and made some recommendations around remediating some single point of failure issues identified.
• Provided guidance on deploying a new Active Directory infrastructure to better support a multi-tenant hosted private cloud configuration, as well as a migration path from Windows 2003 R2 AD, to a brand new Windows 2008 R2 forest. Migrations tools used: ADMT
• Migrated 3000 users from Lotus Notes to Confidential BPOS utilizing Quest Notes Migrator
• Designed and deployed a test and development Exchange Server 2010 environment to support migration efforts from Exchange Server 2007.
• Lead the migration efforts to move over 22,000 users from Exchange Server 2007 to Confidential Exchange Server 2010 BPOS-D Dedicated service, and an on premise Lync server deployment. Also helped migrate their user provisioning and synchronization processes from Oracle Identity Management to Forefront Identity Manager 2010, while extending the services through SharePoint 2010 to offer a complete user self-provisioning and management portal. BPOS deployment included configuring a hybrid deployment with on premise Exchange servers, configuring the ADFS servers to pass through authentication for Office 365 users, and deploying FIM Sync (Forefront Identity Management) for synchronizing user accounts to the cloud.

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Manager, Corporate Server Systems

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 4 systems engineers and 2 help desk staff
• Responsible for the management and maintenance of the entire Confidential based corporate server environments, including the core infrastructure services such as Active Directory, and Exchange messaging environments, as well as all security and compliance systems such as all of the ISA firewalls, and Veritas Enterprise vault.
• Responsible for numerous hardware platforms including HP server platforms such as the Proliant standalone servers, HP’s C Class blade servers, Net App Filers, and EMC Symmetrix storage systems.
• Lead an initiative to identify ideal servers and services for virtualization, and then lead the initiative to build three different virtual environments for the test, development, and production environments.
• Technologies: Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Active Directory, Network Access Protection, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Confidential Operations Manager, Systems Management Server, Live Communications Server, Office Communications Server, ISA 2000, ISA 2004, ISA 2006, Confidential Identity Integration Server 2003.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Advisory Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided subject matter expertise in planning the strategic direction of government IT initiatives, directions and security requirements as dictated by new regulations and support requirements, as well as reviewing and approving new deployment initiatives to ensure they met with supportability standards set forth by Confidential
• Duties include supporting the platforms environment as a Confidential Premier engineer including Windows 2000, 2003, Vista, Active Directory, networking, security, disaster recovery and backup solutions.
• Proactive responsibilities include performing supportability studies on existing environments, design reviews, and offering advisory support on upcoming IT initiatives.
• Supported various federal government clients with their new project deployments, including the Department of Interior's efforts to deploy two factor authentication down to the desktop
• Performed AD supportability reviews, and made best practice recommendations
• Supported the development and deployment of Confidential 's NAP to support the authentication and remediation of employee workstations, and the restriction of contractor laptops and systems to a contractor subnet.
• Deployed several Confidential Identity Integration Server 2003 solutions to support password synchronization across disparate systems such as PeopleSoft, Oracle, Novel’s eDirectory, Etc.

Technologies: Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Active Directory, Network Access Protection, Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Confidential Operations Manager, Systems Management Server, Live Communications Server, Office Communications Server, ISA 2000, ISA 2004, ISA 2006, Confidential Identity Integration Server 2003.

Confidential, Longmont, CO

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing a staff of 4 Systems Engineers and 5 Help desk staff.
• Designed and deployed a new disaster recovery initiative for complete redundancy of both customer facing services as well as corporate support systems.
• Employee mentoring and review, budget preparation and review, vendor relations.
• Deployed a new SharePoint 2.0 solution for document retention
• Migrated AD infrastructure from 2000 to 2003 to support our 8,000 employee organization. Migrated from Exchange Server 2000 to 2003
• Deployed a new Live Communication Server 2003 solution to support internal instant messaging, including federation services with external 3rs party IM clients and partner solutions.
• Implemented cost savings solutions by developing and deploying a standards based corporate desktop policy, and negotiating an exclusive deal with hardware vendor for preferred pricing.

Technologies: Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2000, Exchange Server 2003, Office Live Communications Server 2003, SharePoint Team Services 2.0

Confidential, Denver, CO

Sr. Infrastructure Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Business development responsibilities included identifying new opportunities, leading the proposal development efforts on various RFP's developing presentations and demo's, working with CEO's, CTO's, COO's, and senior management to correctly identify requirements, and offer solutions to those requirements, building relationships through developing content for seminars and co presentations with Confidential and Accenture, and finally participating in contract negotiations, and developing the project goals, requirements and staffing required to ensure a successful contract from start to finish.
• Large scale enterprise deployments and migrations of Active Directory infrastructure for Confidential 500 companies, state and local government agencies, and financial institutions.
• Large scale enterprise deployments and migrations of various messaging platforms to Confidential Exchange among the first engineers to become MOF certified
• Worked closely with the Confidential Operations Manager product team to promote and deploy the new Confidential offering.
• Lead engineer on the RFP response team that won a $45 Million project in conjunction with Accenture.

Technologies: Active Directory, Exchange Server 2000, Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Confidential Operations Manager 2000, Confidential Operations Framework, ITIL, SMS, SQL 2000

Confidential, Denver, CO

Internet Services Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed a group of 12 employees, offering mentoring, technical and professional guidance, and providing end of year reviews.
• Managed departmental budget and finances, staffing and growth, project leadership, customer relations, and managing the daily operations and readiness of all customer facing internet services.