Fred Samuels Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Spring, Texas, United States

Provide business best practice assistance and guidance for Active Directory IAM and Group Policy architecture and cleanup project. Promote phased approach migration to Azure for ADFS and Intune. • Azure AD Connect upgrade and validation of metadata.• AD object access and policy assessment, name standardization, and policy consolidation for Azure.• ADFS and DUO upgrade and phased plan for ADFS migration to Azure.

Houston, Texas, United States

Responsible for leading the IT strategy planning and governance for the organization. Supporting related operating practices and processes, while providing expertise on defining and implementing relevant standards and new technologies. Communicating with a range of stakeholders and managing multiple projects to support wider business goals.• Architect and Secure Azure AD for Conditional Access with MFA and SSO, Hybrid AD Systems, Intune with GPO migration, DLP and Dynamic Tagging for data classification and security.• Migrate services to Office 365 – Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, File Services, Group Policy.• AWS cloud design and datacenter migration for all financial and business critical applications.• AWS design for data lake with multiple third-party data endpoints leveraging serverless and API structures.

Reston, Va

Proactively and holistically help guide the enterprise through transformation and optimization initiatives. Activities include helping the organization grow revenue, optimizing costs and mitigating risks, focusing on understanding, and applying existing, new, and emerging technologies to transform and optimize business and operating models. • Architect New Active Directory and PKI Environment for Zero Trust with both centralized and isolated IAM for SaaS and SAML to support over 200 SaaS customers in AWS.• Build Roadmap for Integration with Microsoft Identity Manager, IPAM and LAPS.• Design DevOps pipeline and automation for security, systems, applications, and AWS services.• Architecture for SaaS Sales team providing cost modeling and application customization.

The Woodlands, Texas, United States

Provide Assessment and Architectural Plan for Active Directory, Exchange, and Teams for o365 tenant consolidation migration of over 20,000 mailboxes.• Identify and mitigate Active Directory issues and security risks for 20,000+ objects and mailboxes.• Design PowerShell for cross tenant automation and validation utilizing custom Graph API• Daily Operation Support when needed.

Florida, United States

Cloud Technologies / Virtualization / Active Directory / Exchange / Principal ArchitectPerforming Cloud and Extended Infrastructure and Service Assessment and Migrations.Working with CEOs and CFOs of different business helping their company develop and implement positive Information Technology solutions for their custom needs and ideas.• HSLC, Inc and Holdings - Migrate Exchange 2013 from Exchange 2010• UR International – Private datacenter cloud design for City of Houston hosted application• Citation - Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008 Migration assessment and roadmap• Petroleum Geo-Services – Roadmap and Migration for Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 • Texas Children’s Hospital – Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 Migration• Altria / Philip Morris USA / Kraft – Exchange 2003 design and migration plan• Winstead Sechrest & Minick Law Firm – AD 2003 / Exchange 2003 design and migration • Museum of Fine Arts Houston – AD 2003 / Exchange 2003 design and migration• Transwestern – Exchange 2003 / SharePoint 2003 design and migration• Pima Federal Credit – AD 2003 / Exchange 2003 design and migration• Universal Electronics, Inc. – Exchange 2003 design and migration• Goodman – Exchange 2003 design• Hazelden Foundation – AD 2003 / Exchange 2003 design and migration• Corporate Synergies Group, Inc – Exchange 2003 design and migration• ABC Financial Services – Exchange 2003 design and migration/ Asset consolidation

Houston, Texas, United States

Infrastructure Architect and advisor for Office 365 Design and Migration from Exchange 2013• Assessment and Architectural Plan for migration from Exchange 2013 to Office 365• Architect and Implement Office upgrade Automation for Office 2007/2010/ 2013 to Office 2016• Design PowerShell Workflow for Office 356 user management and Active Directory user cleanup• Intune Roadmap and Implementation for Mobil Device management and Office 365 Security

Spring, Texas, United States

Private Cloud Architecture and Redesign for HPE’s Global Test Environment 90 sites worldwide.• Assessment and Architectural Plan to resolve Active Directory issues and security risks including redesign of AD Structure, GPO policies, DNS, DHCP, and PKI implementation.• Provide Roadmap and Timing for New Cloud Architecture.• Design Multi-Layer Security Structure for Support External Partner Locations • Architect Structure for DSC (Desired State Configuration) for Windows and RHEL. • Detailed Roadmap for additional Integration for Microsoft Identity Manager, IPAM and LAPS.

Woodlands, Texas

Infrastructure Architect for Exchange HA Design and hyper-Migration • Architect plan for rapid migration of over 15,000 mailboxes from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 for Hybrid migration with o365.• Design high availability Exchange 2013 with existing Exchange 2010 hardware.

Houston, Texas Area

Infrastructure Architect and Administrator for Sysco Foods including FreshPoint and Guest Supply having over 40,000 users and 200 sites / operating companies.• Assessment and Architectural Plan to resolve Active Directory issues and security risks including implementation of Zero Trust and tiered access and administration. • Redesign of Active Directory GPO Structure and policies including CIS benchmark deployment. • Consolidation of DHCP services and IPAM Deployment, Centralization of 200 sites• New PKI infrastructure (AD intergraded Internal) HSM• DNS Project Design for DNS Live migration from Infoblox to Windows DNS• Implementation of System Center Operations Manager and Orchestrator 2016 with OMS• Security design for VMWare VVD VRO VRA deployment• Reassessment of Azure IaaS best practices and support structure• Architectural Roadmap and Support for PST cleanup and ingestion• Bitlocker and MBAM Architecture and Deployment

Houston, Texas Area

Risk Assessment for Critical Line of Business systems and applications including analysis of system access and audit, data integrity, high availability, and business continuity. Developed process and procedures automation for offsite backup resilience and custom AD reporting for audit.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Infrastructure Architect and advisor for American Airlines / US Airways merger over 150,000 users worldwide.• Active Directory and GPO cleanup for o365 additional ADFS rework for o365 Auth.• Exchange Migration o365 from multi-organization Exchange 2007 and 2010 with 2013 hybrid including PST Data Ingestion, Public Folder Migration and o365 Exchange Policy.

Houston, Texas Area

Virtualization, Active Directory and Exchange Systems Architect and Administrator for Champion Technologies Infrastructure of Ecolab.• Architectural Roadmap and Support for VCE vBlock environment including VMware vSphere and ESX upgrade and EMC VNX 5500 Storage and LUN optimized for datacenter replication. • Divesture of Athlon Solutions for DoJ – Net New AD, Exchange, Hyper-V Virtual environment• Exchange Migration multi-tenant o365 from multiple Exchange 2007 and 2010 with 2013 hybrid.• Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, PKI and ADFS support, modification and design for business best practices, divesture and merger, additionally Exchange 2010 and o365 services.• Designed and deployed SCOM and SCCM with Orchestrator.• Roadmap design and project plan for Datacenter Relocation.• Managed Citrix Environment and VDI for SAP and business critical applications.

Houston, Texas

Greenfield Infrastructure Migration for Virtualization / Active Directory / Exchange / PKI• Architectural Guidance and implementation for Net New infrastructure and migration for Active Directory, Exchange, Citrix and all applications including User and System migration.• Symantec Endpoint whole disk PKI Encryption migration.

Houston, Texas

Design and implement Lync 2010 Environment including Voice integration with Avaya.

Houston, Texas, United States

In charge of spearheading the organization's IT strategy development and overseeing governance. Assisting in the management of associated operational procedures and workflows and offering proficiency in the establishment and execution of applicable standards and emerging technologies. Engaging with diverse stakeholders and overseeing multiple projects aimed at advancing broader business objectives.

Houston, Texas Area

• Infrastructure Migration for Active Directory, Lotus Notes and Servers for User and System migration for BJ Service to Baker Hughes. Lotus Notes to Exchange 2007 Migration via Quest Migration Tools.• Developed PowerShell Scripts for Active Directory cleanup and user processing.• Custom SQL Reports and Data warehousing for comprehensive Migration project status.• Assessment and Roadmap design for virtual environment, systems, applications and data.

Houston, Texas Area

Conducting an Evaluation of the Environment to Align Active Directory and Group Policy Objects (GPOs) with Evolving Business Requirements to Enhance the Nabors Infrastructure.Suggest and Develop a Plan and Timeline for the Redesign of the Active Directory (AD) System.

Houston, Texas Area

Architect and lead the project and strategy for the Exchange 2007 Migration. Provided assistance and guidance to Citation Staff during the Migration Process.

Houston, Texas Area

Architected, managed and executed the project and strategy for Exchange 2007 migration of over 10,000 mailboxes. Support environment through Training and Knowledge Transfer as needed.

Houston, Texas Area

Designed, oversaw, and implemented the project and plan for migrating to Exchange 2007. The Exchange infrastructure was a hybrid high-availability setup, with services distributed across both vessels and a datacenter. Additionally, supported the environment by offering training and facilitating knowledge transfer as required.

Houston, Texas Area

• Architecture and Roadmap for greenfield – Active Directory and Exchange 2007 greenfield migration and consolidation for Lone Star College.• Architecture and Roadmap fast-track Active Directory 2003 and Exchange 2007 migration from Windows NT4 and Exchange 5.5 for City of Houston including Quest solution for Exchange.

Houston, Texas Area

Conduct a Comprehensive Business Assessment for all facets of the Microsoft Optimization Strategy. Thoroughly document the current environment, including a comprehensive risk assessment. Develop a Roadmap for implementing solutions that encompass Active Directory cleanup, optimization of Exchange and SMTP Routing performance, SMS re-architecture, and the seamless migration to Exchange 2007. Continuously provide support for daily operations concerning Active Directory, Exchange, and SMS. Additionally, spearhead project design and execution to seamlessly integrate Symantec Enterprise Vault, implement a VMWare solution using ISCSI for Dell Equallogic, and establish a state-of-the-art backup system using EMC Avamar.

Houston, Texas Area

• Design Project based solutions and offerings for clients including PKI, System and Application Virtualization, SharePoint, Project Server, Team Foundation Server, Active Directory, Exchange.• Microsoft EEC engagement for MDOP and Application Virtualization (Softgrid)• SharePoint 2007 Design and Implement for Lotus / Domino application migration.

Houston, Texas Area

Evaluate and set standards for Identity and access, messaging services including email, faxing, unified messaging, and live communication. Work with project teams to assist with systems standards and project implementation while working with business units to address business needs and direction of the company. • Business Continuity and High-availability architecture for AD, Exchange, SharePoint.• SharePoint 2007 Design and Implement for project and team collaboration.• Design step migration for Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2007 through 2003 with Symantec Mail Security for SMTP and Microsoft Live Communications (Pre-Teams).• Avaya voicemail integration with Exchange.

Houston, Texas, United States

Establish standards for identity and access, as well as messaging services. Collaborate with project teams to guide system standards. Support to managers and directors, aid project efforts, and assist clients.• Analysis of business strategies for IT development to streamline costs.• Managed project for Cluster Redundant SAN Solution and architected for critical applications.• Migrated NT4 Domain to Windows 2000 Active Directory, Group policy and supporting services. Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 migration with Full Email EDI automation.• Designed and implemented Windows 2000 Workstation Rollout with Checkpoint VPN solution.• Manager of Network and Systems Design and Administration for Cisco Routers and switches• Microsoft SQL Server Database Administrator and Data Warehouse Architect• New technology budgeting, planning and implementation.• Customer support liaison for technology.

Houston, Texas, United States

Taking charge of shaping the organization's IT strategy planning and governance, while reinforcing associated operational practices and processes. Offering expertise in the definition and implementation of pertinent standards and emerging technologies. Engaging with various stakeholders and overseeing multiple projects aimed at advancing overarching business objectives.• Managed a team of seven including application development.• Responsible for the budget and forecasting for business IT growth and development.• Migrated from Novell to Windows 2000 Active Directory and Exchange 2000• Implemented Desktop Workstation Rollout and Group Policies with Microsoft VPN solution.• Core application re-architecture and go-live 1 year headed of projected in-service.