Christopher Strain Email & Phone Number

United States

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Carmel, Indiana

Overseeing the technical deployment, configuration and operational support Microsoft Office 365 Services (Exchange Online, Sharepoint Online, Skype For Business, One Drive for Business, Delve), and its integration with existing on premises counterparts and resources. Developing the support matrix, baselines and road maps for service offerings to the.

Indianapolis, Indiana

• On assignment at various clients consulting on Office 365 architecture, administration and deployments. Responsible for day-to-day oversight and administration of the core messaging operations, augmenting the.
• Restarted stalled Office 365 project and moved it forward toward completion
• Planning, and communication for Production Office365 implementation and transition
• Improving relationships and communication between various teams. Helping to create Collaborative environment
• Supporting client’s technical lead in accomplishing the Business’s requirements
• Emergency redesign and implementation of messaging flow, for a cost savings of $300,000.00.

Whites Town, IN

Responsible for day-to-day oversight and management of the core IT Operations team (Infrastructure, Platform, Security and Applications Support), as well as establishing and maintaining strategic and operational plans, development of AOP plans, providing support for high-visibility enterprise programs, and ongoing management of IT Operations resources..

Columbus Indiana

Individual contributor with project level strategic responsibilities. Involved tactically in projects in areas of design, process customization, installation, troubleshooting, cutover support, and knowledge transfer. Collaborated with Project Management and the Solutions Architect teams to communicate technical issues encountered at a project level to make.

United States

• Contributed to development of Lotus Notes network architecture. Responsible for troubleshooting, integration and migration of Domino platforms.
• Performed Domino replication, SMTP, clustering and partitioning
• Provided Tier III support for multi-server, multi-site Lotus R6 and R7 domain.
• Reviewed changes, support issues, functionality changes and requirements for servers.
• Performed technical research, analysis and implementation.
• Administered Blackberry messaging service integration with Domino via Blackberry Enterprise server.

• Oversaw IT operations team and support for 30 Mechanical, Project and Controls Engineers.
• Installation, deployment and maintenance of MS SQL 2000 and Made2Manage production management software.
• Lotus Domino R5-R7 installation, implementation & administration including migrations to later versions.
• Lotus Sametime 3.51 & 7.0
• Maintenance of 80 user Windows/2000/2003 network.
• Windows Active Directory support and user scripting

Network Administrator, Supported Holland Colors Americas IT Services. Deployed and supported Lotus Notes 4, Novell Networks, Y2K compliance issue Resolution and Certification. Worked with, help coordinate and supported Corporate IT initiatives that were to be deployed world wide.