Marc Weiser Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

As an Enterprise Architect at CDW I focus half of my time to pre-sales/sales and the other half to services delivery. I often sell CDW by selling myself for our enterprise engagements and move onto designing the projects for our delivery teams and document both the project plan, timeline as well as strategy for implementation that is then followed by our delivery teams. Team LeadershipI have been instrumental in the career development of many coworkers at CDW. Before becoming an Enterprise Architect, I worked as a Technical Lead for the Microsoft practice. My rapport at CDW is that of a leader and a go-to person for finding the right match for qualified engineers to staff project engagements.Project Management SupportI supports the project management team on all my engagements. With knowledge including dozens of workloads, I envision the big picture for the enterprise and fit all the pieces together into one cohesive solution.Sales SupportI work with the sales and pre-sales teams to help customer's understand "why CDW" and more specifically "Why Microsoft." Although some solutions are met by other solutions providers, my focus is primarily in the Microsoft space and I help customers realize the full potential of the Microsoft stack and increase productivity within their organization. Dedicated resource to 37,000 seat healthcare giant in the Research Triangle – supporting their hybrid messaging infrastructure and orchestrating the migration of all employees to Office 365 and Intune.  Executed the successful divestment of 12,000 employees from a 60,000-employee global industrial enterprise customer. As part of the divestment, a re-branding and merger of the acquiring company to form a new industrial enterprise of 20,000 employees involving three M365 tenants and two active directory forests. Merged two Chicago-based Healthcare systems totaling 36,000 seats together (Active Directory & Exchange) into greenfield Forest/Exchange.

As a technical lead I work to develop curriculum for CDW's Associates Consulting Engineering (ACE) Program. This program was designed to take "green" candidates and turn them into Microsoft solutions delivery consultants. While serving my team of ACE's I engage them on the projects that I am delivering on in a shadow capacity to teach and guide them to becoming successful consultants at CDW. Many of my former ACE's have moved onto senior roles as well as technical lead roles at CDW; some have also found careers at Microsoft where their contribution to delivering the Microsoft Technology stack can be fully realized.  Deployed Exchange for popular global cycling company of about 6,000 users. Three databases availability groups provided redundancy for each sister company in Europe, New England, and the Midwest. QMM was used to merge the three source environments into one resource forest for Exchange. Implemented Exchange in CDW datacenters for 3000 user agricultural company with two active directory forests. QMM was used to merge the two environments together. The Exchange system offers high availability using hardware load balancing while database availability groups provide site resilience and disaster recovery.  Merged the fire department and convention center governed by state capital city into their existing forest. Consolidated five medical device companies into a single entity of 7,000 employees. Designed the consolidation of global medical device enterprise of seven business units into a single organization of 4,000 employees.  Worked with Ohio based retailer of 3000 employees to merge three business entities together into a single Exchange resource forest using QMM.

Greater Chicago Area

 Supported integrated media, publishing, merchandising and logistics firm with their domain consolidation efforts of 3000 users into a single active directory and Exchange environment using QMM. Provided 5000 user Connecticut and Italy based retailer with planning and execution of global initiative to consolidate domains and Exchange into a single Active Directory and Exchange environment using QMM. Instrumental in the consolidation of prominent Chicago based financial firm using QMM to migrate users from legacy domains to an Exchange resource forest. Design and executed cross-tenant O365 and Active Directory forest migration divestment of global security firm. Design and executed the O365 and active directory acquisition of domestic medical device firm by an enterprise medical device company. Design and deployed Exchange for Chicago based clearing firm. Designed and deployed O365 solution for Raleigh based Federal Credit Union. Design and deployed Exchange for Federal Credit Union in South Carolina. Design and deployed Exchange for Des Moines based insurance company. Design and deployed Exchange for Agricultural coop. Design and deployed O365 solution for Chicago based manufacturer. Design and deployed O365 solution for Chicago based publishing company. Design and deployed O365 solution for Chicago based hospital.

I work to help companies find technologies to make their business communications more efficient. I also design the solutions for businesses centered on Microsoft technologies. My expertise is with email and unified communications, and active directory; I offer years of experience in disaster recovery solutions as well as high availability and site resilience for information systems.

Responsible for the company's enterprise messaging, communications and colaboration system.

Temporary contract to integrate EMC SAN with current network

Temporary contract at The Tribune Company as an Enterprise Administrator for their entire network of 25000+ users

worked small contracts while in the process of moving to Chicago from Maryland