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Richmond, Virginia, United States

Richmond, Virginia, United States

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Richmond, Virginia, United States

• Coordinated and migrated all on premise Exchange mailboxes, groups and contacts to O365.
• Designed a secure privilege access strategy for Active Directory and the backup environment utilizing tiering, PAWs and resource forests.
• Lead team to define and implement hardening standards within the infrastructure utilizing the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guidelines.
• Managed Entra ID and hybrid Active Directory environment ensuring proper synchronization and compliance for a multi-site global configuration.
• Organized and lead the monthly patch cab meeting. Reviewed the patch list and validated those patches with issues against the environment.
• Worked with application teams to migrate SMTP relay to O365 or internal SMTP relay solution.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Coordinate bi-annual disaster recovery tests along with serving on technical team for preparation and implementation ensuring both the RTO and RPO is able to be met.
• Serve as a representative of the Infrastructure team to continually define and update the business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
• Facilitate integration procedures for acquired companies to ingest Active Directory, Exchange, file services, DNS and application servers.
• Maintain the corporate provisioning application used to automate the deployment of both virtual servers and desktops.
• Manage the Malware/Endpoint Protection environment during the transition from Symantec to Trendmicro and to the current configuration of Crowdstrike.
• Maintain the integrity and architecture of six different Exchange environments.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Designed and implemented a Commvault global D2D backup strategy with local and global deduplication and synchronization.
• Lead project to collapse 5 Windows 2003 domains into 1 new Windows 2008 domain.
• Sr. Exchange administrator for 4 Exchange 2007 Organizations
• Built new Exchange 2010 organization as part of the domain consolidation project and utilized Quest Migration Manager to perform user/mailbox migrations.
• Optimized server deployment for a new Risk Management System consisting of 24 physical blade servers booting from SAN from a single image on a NetApp SAN taking advantage of their flexclone technology.
• Built several SQL clusters ranging from 2 to 6 servers per cluster.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Architected and built an Exchange 2007 multi-tenant environment consisting of clustered mailbox servers and other HA capabilities.
• Researched and proposed a new D2D backup solution as the initial step to a new disaster recovery plan
• Operation of 100 servers consisting of 5 Active Directory forests and 9 domains for both hosted clients and company wide.
• Support NetApp SAN environment ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Designed a hosted desktop business model allowing clients to access supported applications, Exchange and file services utilizing Microsoft Remote Desktop Services

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Maintain email environment comprised of 10,000+ mailboxes, 19 Exchange servers, 5 MailExtender archive servers, BES, LCS and 5 Brightmail spam servers.
• Migrated 80 Exchange databases across 5 servers to a pair of new NetApp SANs. Ensured all software was current and configured database snapshots using SnapManager for Exchange.
• Migrated DFS related storage to new pair of NetApp SANs. Created the necessary volumes, qtrees, quotas, CIFS and snapshot schedules. Configured SnapMirror to mirror data between devices and modified DFS to point to the.
• Lead testing and implementation of new anti-spam solution.
• Monitored the Exchange environment using SCOM/MOM and WMI.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Designed and optimized an Exchange 2003 messaging system to utilize multiple stores and storage groups.
• Implemented a secure virtualized Exchange Front End solution utilizing SSL certificates for Outlook Web Access, Outlook’s RPC over HTTPS and Exchange Activesync.
• Developed site to site replication of data by configuring Windows 2003 R2 Distributed File System to provide site fault tolerance as required by part of the disaster recovery plan.
• Consolidated underutilized servers using VMWare Server resulting in a 2 to 1 server reduction.
• Designed and configured Cisco ASA firewalls to create secure site to site VPN communications between multiple sites.
• Standardized software installation, set-ups, configurations and maintenance, reducing labor and support costs. Created network installations of all programs to streamline the installation process.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Provided IT solutions, encompassing configuration of all network connectivity levels for up to 100 user Windows environments.
• Designed and implemented internal infrastructure installations of startup companies. Coordinated the installation of the computer and infrastructure systems between multiple vendors.
• Standardized software installation, set-ups, configurations and maintenance, reducing labor and support costs.
• Configured and administered Citrix servers running on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 allowing access to all company applications resulting in increased employee productivity.
• Designed and implemented an Exchange messaging solution to scale up to 1000 mailboxes encompassing several remote locations.
• Implemented storage area network (SAN) using LeftHand Networks SAN/iQ to cluster storage servers and consolidate file servers allowing for high availability and protection from loss of data. Created a snapshot.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Led upgrade of multi-server Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000. Created new Windows 2000 AD forest. Utilized Active Directory Connector to allow Active Directory to communicate with Exchange 5.5 directory service during.
• Stabilized a recently upgraded network with severe trouble and partner with Microsoft consultants. Presented Microsoft with findings which became a publicized bug.
• Troubleshoot defective switches in wiring closets. Worked with vendor to determine quality assurance issues with product and negotiate resolution of complete replacement.
• Created and implemented annual imaging process of multiple desktops for over 800 computers.
• Worked with administrators to interview potential candidates for staff IT position and trained new hire.