Chris H. Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Senior Director Technology Infrastructure at Texas Rangers Baseball Club

London, United Kingdom

* IT Infrastructure Lead Engineer for Smith and Nephew focusing on server\projectimplementations and global network architecture* Migration planning and implementation for 12 legacy domain environments collapsing into a single domain environment* Lead engineer for 8 mergers and acquisitions, migrating networks and resources from the acquisitions into SNI global IT infrastructure* Lead engineer for 4 datacenter migrations, and migration of multiple apps from on premise to SaaS

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Senior Information Technology Consultant for multiple companies and projects* Lead technical consultant for migration of 600+ servers, 7000+ users and mailboxes, and over 500 applications from one domain to another using Quest migration suite for a Fortune 50 client* Lead technical consultant for migration of 80+ servers, 400+ users and mailboxes from one domain to another using the Quest migration suite.* Active Directory support, implementation, and maintenance for Fortune 50 client, handling everything from improving internal processes, automation, daily maintenance and troubleshooting, setting up DR sites, planning and implementing DR testing, to migration strategies and implementation for new companies merging with the parent company. * Lead technical consultant for Federated services \ Office 2010 rollout to client and 3 other subsidiary companies. Designed and implemented federated services between all 4 organizations and worked as project manager for Office 2010 rollout to over 2000+ users* Technical lead for designing infrastructure and driving implementation, using EMC storage, DFSr, and branchcache to house over 40Terabytes of company data, distributed throughout over 400+ locations* Technical lead for Forefront Threat Management Gateway implementation for client with multiple internet facing web applications* Project Lead for data center migration for client with over 240 servers, moved datacenter from in-house to a hosted colocation facility over a 3 month timeframe, then used in-house datacenter to setup virtual DR facilities for about 130 business critical servers

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Technical lead for The Staubach Company IT department. § Implemented six major projects within the first 15 months of employment Active Directory redesign (group policy, OU structure, security) Virtualization of over 40+ servers Co-location facility build and all enterprise servers moved off-site Implemented ISA 2006 enterprise to publish most enterprise level applications, and VPN Great Plains business portal Human Resources implementation MOM 2005 to SCOM 2007 migration § Project lead for all the above projects, managing resources, budget, technical requirements, and implementation. § Responsible for all supporting documentation for any new system implementation. § Lead engineer for Windows Server 2008 migration of over 250 servers § Implemented ADRMS and redesigned cert\pki infrastructure, delivered ADRMS to everyone within the Staubach company § Lead engineer for the SMS to SCCM migration

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Premier agreement customer support for the following operating systems: Windows NT4 Windows 2000 Server Windows 2000 Advanced Server Windows 2003 Server Windows 2003 Advanced server Windows 2003 R2 § Responsible for directly supporting the following products: Trust Relationships, Domain Migrations ADMT and third party tools,Certificate Server, EFS, Kerberos, Group Policies, Group policy Object Deployment, Application deployment through group policy, Client Side Caching, Client licensing, Terminal Server Licensing, ADSI, WSH, LDAP, FSMO, DCPROMO, Global Catalogs, LSASS, NTLM, File Replication Service, Distributed File System, Schema Management and Updates, Jet Database maintenance and utilities, Authoritative Restores, AD Connector KCC, AD Replication, Sites connections, File Server Migration Toolkit, DFS Consolidations, AD management pack for MOM, AD integrated DNS and DDNS, AD security and port configurations, Server hardening and interoperability with ISA, IPSEC policy, R2 DFS replication and internals, Active Directory Federation services, debug analysis, network trace analysis, Active directory application mode (ADAM), ACL and AD permissions, account lockouts. § Worked with premier customers and technical account managers on a daily basis, to solve complex problems requiring in-depth research, to come to resolutions in a timely manner. § Research and technical writing for the Microsoft knowledge base. § Worked with critical situation cases affecting thousands of users in business down situations. § Research and support documentation for large scale domain migrations.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Network engineer responsible for server infrastructure for North American IT operations. Supporting over 100 domain controllers in 5 different domains, located in one single forest. Provided daily support for 350 other Windows 2000 and 2003 servers hosting various enterprise applications. § Project team member for Brinksinc.com Active Directory forest implementation for North American branches and corporate offices. Responsible for designing and maintaining the domain controller infrastructure and standards, also handled the logistical process to migrate 2 remote branches per week over a two year timeframe. § Lead engineer for Peoplesoft application rollout. This project had multiple servers running Weblogic and Oracle and is the major application for Brinks global finance and HR departments. This is a global application and is used by over 300 users ever day in multiple countries. § Project team member for corporate disaster recovery facility. This project consisted of building out a DR facility 20 miles from the main data center and automating failover from the main network operations center to the remote DR facility. Data replication is maintained in real time for over 80 servers to the DR facility. § I-Cash project member responsible for implementation of web servers hosting the I-Cash application that was developed in house for Brinks customers worldwide. Multiple load balanced web servers and clustered SQL servers were implemented internal to Brinks and externally in the DMZ.

Jonesboro, Arkansas Area

Project Manager for Microsoft Active Directory implementation for the enterprise. Included multiple NT4 domain migrations into Active Directory, DNS, GPO’s, NDS integration and security. § Technical lead for growing the Microsoft infrastructure from 40+ servers to 110+ servers over a year and a half period by completing multiple application hosting projects. § Project Manager for implementing a 15 server Citrix XP farm that hosted most of the hospitals crucial applications. § Project Lead for Exchange 2000 implementation which housed over 4000 mailboxes. § Technical lead for Electronic Medical Records implementation which included configuration and support of 2 SQL 2000 clustered servers. § Responsible for the health and uptime for 110+ NT\W2K, Citrix, Exchange, AIX\Linux, and SQL servers in the enterprise. § Implemented virus scan with McAfee (EPO) on all servers and clients 6000+ nodes across the enterprise. § Managed a team consisting of 3 engineers and an operations support person for the implementation of 6 major projects. All the projects the team worked on finished ahead of schedule and 4 of the projects finished under budget saving the hospital an estimated 500,000 dollars. § Developed and maintained relationships with many major vendors in the healthcare field (Siemens, McKessonHBOC, and Misys).

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Senior Server Engineer for 5 different companies with a total environment of 5500+ users and 64 servers. Lead a team of 6 other server engineers. § Built or rebuilt over 85% of the server infrastructure over a 2-year period and migrated 80% of NT4 environment to W2K. § Project lead for the migration of 3 existing data centers, 28 total servers, located in Chicago, Greenville, and Pittsburgh, to the data center in Dallas. § Company wide migrations and rollouts of all major software packages and operating systems. § Designed and built a 24 server Citrix Winframe\Metaframe farm to host JDEdwards client and 15 other enterprise applications § Enterprise level management, for 5 different companies, of DNS, DHCP, Wins, PDC, BDC, Exchange, NT\2000, Unix, Citrix-Winframe\Metaframe, SMS 2.1, Backups, Anti-Virus, Web Servers, MSCS, and SQL. § Technical lead for upgrading existing B2B infrastructure linking over 12 companies to a secure website driven by ASP and SQL. § WAN management for 115 external branches coming in over 12 T1’s with HP-Openview and CiscoWorks.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Senior Support Engineer for Microsoft products: Windows 98, Exchange 5.x, Windows NT 4, Windows NT 4 server, Outlook 98. § Beta testing for Windows 2000 and Office 2000. § Technical writing and research for Microsoft Knowledge base. § Research and bug testing, for NT 4, Windows 98, and Windows CE

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Consulting contract for Texas Instruments: § Managed 12, Windows NT 4 servers, in a multi-domain environment. § Handled deployment strategies for NT 4 workstation on client machines. § Managed NT deployment team, creating team policies and structure. § Wrote documentation on network changes, security policies, and procedures. § Managed UNIX print environment (25 network printers and 10 plotters). § SMS 1.2 software pushes to client machines for 5 major applications.