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Frisco, Tx, Us

SharePoint Consultant, partnering with the Senior Leadership Team to drive customer architecture, design, implementation and cloud migrations; identifies gaps and implements technology solutions.• Technical Expert: Consults with organizations to implement strategic technology solutions including: PowerShell and native UI experience with Office 365, Exchange, AD DS, Azure AD, SharePoint Online, Groups and Teams, Linux Debian, and Azure IAAS.• Infrastructure: Implements advanced installation and configuration; updates performance monitoring and troubleshooting of Windows server and Microsoft infrastructure platforms. • Cloud Applications: Designed and deployed SharePoint server build and migrations for medium to large sized environments; design, develop and implement hybrid cloud environments.

Implement and design custom solutions and data integrations; consult with small to medium sized enterprises to provide strategic IT planning for core business applications and custom solutions. • Technical Expert: Optimized and configured SQL Server, Active Directory, Active Directory Federation Service, Exchange Server, SharePoint, Scripting, EMS/MDM, C#, Windows Server and Desktop Family, Failover Cluster Services, Intune, Cloud Migrations and Azure• Automation: Created the design, plan and integration for single domain to many with cloud and on-premise environments including Azure, AD DS, AD FS, DNS as well as NSG’s.• Cloud Applications: Designed and implemented customer solutions using SharePoint Online; performed full installations and configurations for development and production environments.• Office 365 Deployment: Performed Office 365 migrations from on-premise Exchange to Office 35, as well as IMAP Migrations.

Designed and implemented Exchange 2010 hybrid migrations with co-existence to secondary Exchange Forest for multiple customers.• Migrations: Designed and implemented Google Apps to Office 365 (IMAP) migration including design and stand up of new Active Directory Forest and AD FS solution in CDW’s Hosted Management Service.• Azure: Created and configured AD FS solutions utilizing Azure as the platform with replication and redundancy to on-premise.Designed and implemented Exchange 2010 hybrid migrations with co-existence to secondary Exchange Forest for multiple customers.• Migrations: Designed and implemented Google Apps to Office 365 (IMAP) migration including design and stand up of new Active Directory Forest and AD FS solution in CDW’s Hosted Management Service.• Azure: Created and configured AD FS solutions utilizing Azure as the platform with replication and redundancy to on-premise.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

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United States

Served as the Lead for the infrastructure team, designing architecture and enterprise software solutions. • Software Solutions: Design architecture and deploy Microsoft enterprise software solutions including Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, AD FS, AD DS, and Azure.• Migrations: Drive migrations for Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory and Lync.

Led a team of Engineers to ensure processes for escalation and triage were implemented. Managed the lab space of over 2500 physical devices; managed a $2 million budget for Microsoft lab.• Triage: Managed triage efforts by running bridges for outages and addressing out of band duties such as ad-hoc requests; identified reporting based on operational weaknesses.• Processes: Created process documentation, troubleshooting guides, and standard operating procedures across technologies (Synthetic testing, Keynote, GOMEZ, Exchange, SharePoint, OCS, MPS and internal components).

Designed, deployed, operated and optimized the server and storage systems for Microsoft Online Services.• Exchange Expertise: Provided in-depth technical and design expertise on large-scale, distributed, clustered, Exchange environments (10K + mailboxes); delivered engineering support.• Architecture: Drove business and technical requirements analysis and scoping; specified server and storage hardware while recommending architectural designs.

• Managed the BOSG lab space of ~2500 physical devices. This lab consists of Software + Service Product Units; Office Live Meeting, Shared View, Exchange Hosted Services, Hosted Management Collaboration, Hosting (CRM, Provisioning, Microsoft Online Platform), and Communication, Collaboration Services business units. Drove initiatives for lab growth, design and space planning for all business units.• Oversaw on-boarding process for all business unit labs into BOSG Lab. Created and organized migration plans for all product groups to move their labs into the BOSG Lab. Designed lab network to mimic enterprise production environments and enhance testing of services. Utilized Cisco hardware (6509, 3750-E, FWSM, ACE) with VRF and F5 BigIP’s (6400 series). Architected infrastructure for Joint Management Environment Infrastructure included AD, split horizon DNS, MOM, WSUS, Exchange, SharePoint, high available storage solution using NetApp 3040 and Filers, ticketing system, automated imaging solution using SCCM (migrated from ADS) and VPN solution.• People manager - prioritize work, provide technical assistance, and support individual career planning.• Created SLA for BOSG Lab. Developed Policies and Procedures for lab personnel and those of who interoperate intimately with the lab resources.• Responsible for 2 million dollar budget, all hardware acquisitions and vendor procurement.• Partner with the Hosting network team to implement designs, changes, and updates as well as develop growth strategies.• Technical resource to business units for deployment architecture, scalability and troubleshooting.

• Aided in design, build out and maintenance of Corporate Data Center of 400+ Windows Servers (2000 Std/Advanced, 2003 Std/Ent, Itanium, and Clustered Servers). Implemented high available storage solutions using EMC CX600.• Architected the Active Directory implementation at the Enterprise level for the consolidation of 85 domains/3500 + users, into one domain. Defined security policies for all tiers, created white papers/install guide, schema updates, monitored AD replication, defined domain controllers geographical placement and configuration, defined IP routing for sites, configured DNS, WINS servers.• Member of the Business Continuity Project (BCP). Facilitated discussion of disaster recovery for the Infrastructure portion of the corporation. • Designed and maintained infrastructure using Windows 2000 Advanced Server(s) and NT 4.0. 37 client stations included Windows 95, 98, 2000, and XP. This included DHCP, DNS, RAS, Norton Antivirus Server and Active Directory. Configured/Maintained Cisco Routers. • Implemented security policies using Group Policies for areas concerning Terminal Services, Network accessibility, Remote Install of Software, and FTP.• Designed/Built Intranet site utilizing ASP.Net, Java, HTML, XML, and SQL Server 7.0 Databases.• Provided end user support for software such as Terminal Services, MS Office, Lotus Notes 5.05, and PeopleSoft. Provided training for new software for users.