Senior Systems Engineer
CurrentServes as the Senior Microsoft Exchange administrator providing support for over 3,000 mailboxes. Provides Tier II/III support, including on call 24/7/365 support.Provides technical consultation to customers to assist with defining specific hardware, software, or services needed.Migrated disaster recovery email environment from on-premise to AWS and DMZ which included Exchange servers along with IronPort and ZixGateway appliances.Expanded IronPort cluster and reconfigured mail flow policies to alleviate the congestion brought by the increasing demands from moving the environment to the cloud.Scripts daily with PowerShell and assists team with building code.Performs eDiscovery activities in support of compliance, security requests, and audits.Performs system administration for Skype for Business (Lync).Incorporated monitoring scripts into daily reports to provide system metrics and communicate current system status to management.Advised and presented projects to upper management and change management boards.Migrated Exchange 2010 to 2016 in development and test environments.Provided analysis on mailbox litigation hold which led to the discontinuing of email backup.Rebuilt test Exchange 2010 environment in VMWare ESXi virtual infrastructure.Leads maintenance of the messaging environment, including upgrades, patching, and optimization for Ironport, ZixGateway and Exchange.Authored Standard Operating Procedures with work instructions and platform documentation.Advises management on IT trends, best practices and forthcoming IT developments. Performs system administration for Microsoft Windows, Linux, VMware ESX and ESXi virtual infrastructure.Creates and modifies group policy for server and client functionalities.Added custom Exchange roles so that service accounts can impersonate mailboxes.Established SolarWinds AppInsight for Exchange in Test and Production environments.Performed BES 5 and 12 administration.