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Principal (Hands on Azure Stack Cloud Solution Architect) @ Electracloud Hands on Azure Stack Cloud Solution Architect, with 5 years of Azure industry experience. Expertise in architecting cloud solutions for enterprises on Microsoft Azure Cloud. I decided to Building A test Environment with Azure Stack using IBM Softlayer implementation services for projects of various sizes using Azure...

Principal (Hands on Azure Stack Cloud Solution Architect) @ Electracloud Hands on Azure Stack Cloud Solution Architect, with 5 years of Azure industry experience. Expertise in architecting cloud solutions for enterprises on Microsoft Azure Cloud. I decided to Building A test Environment with Azure Stack using IBM Softlayer implementation services for projects of various sizes using Azure technologies using Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud platform product that let Ongard deliver Azure services from our Softlayer datacenter. Using the Microsoft Azure Stack I built a Proof of Concept (POC). In this POC is an environment for learning and demonstrating Azure Stack features. It Gave us at Ongard the ability to deploy all required components on a single physical machine to create an environment for evaluating key concepts and capabilities, and validating the extensibility model for New Azure APIs Greater New York City AreaSr Enterprise Solutions Consultant @ New York City Department of School Construction • Project Engineer in design, managing and implementation currently specializing in Office 365 migrations from legacy email systems. Strong knowledge of Exchange 2003,2007, 2010 and 2013 in additional to Microsoft's Office 365 migrations. Assisted users in migration user environments from 200 - 15,000 users. • Configured Windows Azure Cloud environments to provide Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS) redundancy for high availability. Office 365 implementations that called for the deployment of Azure Active Directory Sync in addition to OneDrive for Business, Lync Online and Exchange Online. From March 2016 to June 2016 (4 months) Greater New York City AreaSR Messagng consultant @ State of Texas Freelancing form 2013 to Present with office 365 and Azure• Office 365 design and planning experience in environments that are dispersed• Over 20 clients that Exchange Online Cutover with Migrations Staged Migrations Hybrid Configuration solutions.• Deploy cects need for ADFS and other services as needed for hybrid deployments • Windows server 2008 r2 and 2012 r2, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP. Hyper V, System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2012 r2 (SCVMM r2).Cluster (FCM) Administration on Windows. Windows Azure Infrastructure as A Service Platform (IAAS).• Experience with Microsoft DirSync and AD integration• Documented experience with integration and acquisitions as related to Office 365 onboarding• Hands-on experience with a hybrid Office 365 and Exchange 2010 environment • Strong passion and desire to stay current on new technology trends relating to Office 365• Experience daily with Windows Power shell form 2.0 to the current Ver 5.0 & large systems management to include using windows Azure.• Proven design, planning and implementation experience on an exceptional technical level with Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013, Active Directory, and Infrastructure technologies.• Proven design, planning and implementation experience on an exceptional technical level with Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013, Active Directory, and Infrastructure technologies• Extensive experience in providing end user Support for office 365 implementation of over 75 k users• Extensive experience with Office 365 in a global environment• Experience with managing messaging platforms (Exchange 2010/2013)• Strong experience with SSO (Single Sign On) authentication with Office 365• Experience journaling systems for messaging• Having over 7 years of Experience on Windows 2008r2 & 2012 r2 servers Active Directory administration for over 10 years of Experience working with Hyper V & MSCS Clustering.• Windows Azure Infrastructure As A Services (IAAS Platform). From February 2015 to March 2016 (1 year 2 months) Austin, TexasSr Directory Consultnat @ NYC MTA Define strategy for Active Directory consolidation and migration from multiple AD Forests, including advices for multiple Exchange organization consolidation and migration to a hybryed Office 365 implementation .• Manage 53,000+ seat consisting of Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange to hybrid Office 365 migration project.• Set up customized DirSync connector to MTA Tennent.• Experience with Microsoft DirSync and AD integration• Documented experience with integration and acquisitions as related to Office 365 onboarding• Hands-on experience with a hybrid Office 365 and Exchange 2010 environment • Extensive automation experience (i.e. PowerShell, VBScript) • Create detailed planning, procedures, and training documentation • Develop custom solutions and applications to increase automation and efficiency• Write technical articles and whitepapers on Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and MIIS\ILM\FIM• Designed strategy for implementing and improving identity management solution to include a cross forest PKI infrastructure to support SSO Deployment within the MTA From September 2014 to December 2014 (4 months) Greater New York City AreaEscalation Engineer @ Willseye Hospital Escalation engineer for Willseye hospital. Primarily focused on Security, Active Directory, Identity, and Provisioning but involved in a multitude of Windows OS related issues for external organizations Performed various operational tasks for maintaining the Exchange and Active Directory.Maintained the hardware and software of the system along with the backup in case of emergency. Regulated troubleshooting for the two tier and three tier support of the system. Coordinated with the external agencies to resolve any up gradation issues of the system. Managed the software and hardware for the Windows Server such as the Exchange Server, SQL WSUS and various others. Designed, maintained and provided technical support to the Windows server platform in the data center and remote locations. Planned and configured the Microsoft Exchange and provided support to various other email applications such as Outlook and OWA From January 2013 to February 2014 (1 year 2 months) Greater Philadelphia AreaMessaging Consultant @ Advanced Network Products Designed Microsoft Directory Services (AD, LDS) 2000, 2003, 2008(r2),2012 in large corporate Environment including trusts (AD and other Kerberos implementations). Supported Configured Group Policy Objects to secure a Windows infrastructure, successfully troubleshot issues in a distributed system and provide resolutions for any and all problems assigned. Provided Root Cause analysis; work with other teams and staff to identify root cause of problems and make recommendations complex directory service environments on a global scale (Including directory site topologies).Experience defining and managing proper site topologies to ensure proper scale and directory availability. on how to stop repeat problems. Worked with Active directory support tools including able to use LDAP tools; well-versed in LDIF/ ADSI interfaces. Successfully engineered a virtual private network solution utilizing ISA server 2006 providing secure connectivity and allowing remote users the ability to use internal network resources. Research and build servers, test and deploy virtualization technologies (Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX Server and Citrix XenServer). Migrated and consolidated disparate eDirectory and Active Directory structures into an efficient up-to-date Active Directory environment. Normalized schema conflicts, resolved directory application dependencies, and strengthened overall system governance processes Office 365 migration lead with strong knowledge of Sharepoint, lync and exchange online. Systems, network, and database administration; communication and storage system design, deployment, and maintenance; cloud and virtualization technology planning, integration, migration, and optimization; programming and scripting,Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server servers. Implemented session - Remote Desktop Services (RDS)/Terminal Server (TS) - and host based - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) - solutions utilizing. From December 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 1 month) Greater Philadelphia AreaSr. Architect @ Comcast Having provisioned over 60,000 customer organizations in this Comcast hosted exchange environment, Comcast had reached or exceeded a number of scalability limits in Active Directory and Exchange 2007. Comcast therefore decided to move to a modular architecture in which no single implementation (or “pod”) will host more than 20,000 customer organizations. Created new domain based on Windows Server 2008 and migrated existing computer and user accounts prior to retiring old domain. Upgraded all servers to Windows Server 2008 R2.Installed, configured, and administered Exchange Server 2007 system consisting of multiple CCR nodes, transport servers, client access servers (CAS), and hub servers. Multiple pods were deployed in there datacenters, and all existing customer organizations had to be migrated off of the original environment. Designed plan and tested the migration of the existing customers to the new POD’s to include: • Exchange mailbox migrations including calendars and contacts.• AD User Accounts migrations including attributes and passwords.• Contacts and Distribution Groups migration.• ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) version 3.1.• Windows SharePoint Services Site Collection migrations From December 2009 to June 2010 (7 months) Greater Philadelphia AreaSr Network arct @ Dell Recruited to lead the testing, design, and implementation of Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008 and served as a technology expert for AD, Exchange, Microsoft virtualization technologies. Part of my role included the design and implementation on the team with Microsoft and Dell to create the largest Exchange 2007 environment for the US Army. Management and Administration Customers Exchange 2007/2003/mixed Domestic and International Email Organization, serving over 75,000 users. Architectural Design, Planning, Documentation and Project Management, of large-scale rollouts for Email and messaging related services. Provide technical leadership as part of the Global Messaging Team. Provide upper tier support to International Administrators. Research and Development.• Deployed to Dell customers Windows 2003/2008 Enterprise Class Solutions to included Active Directory with Exchange 2007, Windows 2008 virtualization solutions. • Create Business requirements, Project Planning and other documents and deliverables • Enterprise level Microsoft technologies including Exchange, Active Directory, SMS, MOM, Windows 2008, SharePoint, and Unified Communication Systems, and Enterprise wide solutions. • Management and Administration of an Exchange 2003 International Email Organization, serving over 45,000 users. Management of the Corporate SMTP gateway, consisting of Smart Relay Host Appliances.• Architectural Design, Planning, Documentation and Project Management, of large scale rollouts for Email and messaging related services. Provide technical leadership to Global Messaging Teams. From January 2006 to October 2009 (3 years 10 months) Principal Consultant 1998 to 2002 @ The Standing Stone Group • Principle Consultant for Systems and Network Integration and Consulting firm serving the Eastern United States, Europe, Central and South America. Managing changes to DNS and implement new Active Directory DNS Design the Windows 2000 Active Directory structure Document migration plan to Windows 2000 Train staff on migration principles and procedures Design the Exchange 2000 environment Train staff for the Exchange 2000 migration • Standard and Poor’s • Designed, Deployed, and Implemented the International roll-out of a worldwide online application to support end users.• Established and Implemented guidelines and processes for thin client computing for all of S&P Responsible for creating and implementing automated installation processes for all of S&P thin client server activities From 1998 to 2006 (8 years) Greater Philadelphia AreaNT Network Engineer @ Merrill Lynch Reviewed, redesigned and streamlined Windows NT network for the international division Proposed and implemented design plan to migrate traders from mixed Novell/NT network to a true NT network. Coordinated through management, project plan and ensure project meets design goals. Coordinated with various support groups to ensure infrastructure design will follow Merrill Network standards. Insured that current legacy applications and 3rd party applications would perform correctly under new environment. Provided solutions to various issues concerning internal support structure and future design of NT infrastructure. Configured and supported BackOffice products such as SMS 1.2, Exchange, SQL 6.5.Provide migration and implementation of legacy and proprietary applications. Responsible for meeting with departments migrating to new environment to discuss issues or concerns and provide solutions.Coordinated, designed, proposed and implemented an NT Single Domain environment to support a 32bit environment, which consolidates existing 16bit proprietary legacy applications, developed around the NT Client/Server architecture. Implemented such BackOffice Products as SNA 2.11, SMS 1.2, and SQL Server designed to support clients and architecture. From 1996 to 1998 (2 years) Cryptologic Secure communications Sr Technician @ United States Air Force The United States Air Force Security Service (often abbreviated USAFSS) was essentially the United States Air Force's cryptographic intelligence/Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) branch; its motto was Freedom through Vigilance. It was created in October 1948 and operated until 1979, when the branch was re-designated the Electronic Security Command. It was later re-designated Air Force Intelligence Command, Air Intelligence Agency, the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency, and is currently designated as the Twenty-Fifth Air Force (25 AF).Composed primarily of airmen culled from the cream of the Air Force's enlisted recruits (the top 1/2 of 1 percent), the USAFSS was a secretive and tight-knit branch of Air Force cold warriors tasked with monitoring, collecting and interpreting military voice and electronic signals of countries of interest (which often were Soviet and their satellite Eastern bloc countries). USAFSS intelligence was often analyzed in the field, and the results transmitted to the National Security Agency for further analysis and distribution to other intelligence recipients.Individual airmen—stationed at locations scattered across the globe, ranging from Northeast Cape Air Force Station, Alaska to Pacific Islands to The Far East to Mediterranean Countries to The Middle East to Western Europe to North Africa—did a variety of jobs, almost all of them related to listening to and interpreting Eastern Bloc, Communist Chinese, and North Vietnamese military communications. Some airmen were linguists who listened to voice communications. Others - known as morse intercept operators, or "ditty-boppers" - monitored Soviet and other nations' military Morse code broadcasts. Others, such as non-morse intercept operators, were engaged in monitoring other types of radio signals such as single and multi-channel radio printer signals and facsimile transmissions. All communications were reviewed and interpreted by analysts. From April 1984 to December 1994 (10 years 9 months) Eilson AkMixed reality collaboration Consultant @ NYXC We built the world’s first Enterprise Class mixed reality collaboration Application and consultative services. We believe that mixed reality experiences will empower the next generation of collaboration, going far beyond what today’s video conferencing and screen sharing solutions can provide. If you have a HoloLens, or any supporting AR you can try the We built the world’s first Enterprise Class mixed reality collaboration Application and consultative services. We believe that mixed reality experiences will empower the next generation of collaboration, going far beyond what today’s video conferencing and screen sharing solutions can provide. If you have a HoloLens, or any supporting AR you can try the Mixed Reality Collaboration Service for yourself by downloading our app on the Microsoft Store for AR (Coming Soon) for yourself by downloading our app on the Microsoft Store for AR (Coming Soon) Greater New York City AreaSr Messaging Consultant @ Newmont Mining Primarily assist organizations in upgrading to the current Active Directory and Exchange versions; allowing them to reduce cost and complexity in their environment while providing improved authentication and messaging services to their user and applications. Manage all aspects of projects, including project plans, scheduling, and task management from the planning and design stages to the documentation, training, and transition stages.• Manage 50,000+ seat Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange migration project• Create detailed planning, procedures, and training documentation • Develop custom solutions and applications to increase automation and efficiency• Write Focus on helping organizations manage, expand, and optimize Newmont Microsoft infrastructure. technical articles and whitepapers on Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint, and MIIS\ILM\FIM• Design and carry out greenfield deployments, cross-forests, data center consolidations, organization consolidations, identify management, and directory synchronization projects Office 365 Infrastructure deployment that include complete ADFS 2.0 & ADFS Proxy Farm Based Deployments. Exchange server email migration by using various approaches Cutover, Staged and Hybrid. Design & Solution Architecture for.Willseye Hospital- Escalation Engineer contract January 2013 – February 2014 Escalation engineer for Willseye hospital. Primarily focused on Security, Active Directory, Identity, and Provisioning but involved in a multitude of Windows OS related issues for external organizations Performed various operational tasks for maintaining the Exchange and Active Directory.Maintained the hardware and software of the system along with the backup in case of emergency. Regulated troubleshooting for the two tier and three tier support of the system. From April 2014 to September 2014 (6 months) Greater Denver AreaLead Messaging Consultant @ Toll Brothers Senior Microsoft Exchange, section lead on design, migration and implementation of a new upgrade to exchange 2010 for 3,500 users. Novell to 2010 migration and consolidation of 3,500 mailboxes and 8.5 TBs of dat. Replaced legacy management scripts with automated data-driven account management process. Migrated and consolidated disparate eDirectory and Active Directory structures into an efficient up-to-date Active Directory environment. Normalized schema conflicts, resolved directory application dependencies, and strengthened overall system governance processes. This included a consolation of 23 Novell sites to one primary exchange site with FIM support, implemented on physical hardware and VMware virtual machines. The solution contained 23 exchange servers to include a four server CAS array and four mailbox servers, each containing six databases. Lead enterprise-wide virtualization effort, overseeing and personally completing vendor/hardware qualifications, architecture/design, installation, configuration, migration and documentation. Reduced the company’s server hardware footprint by 60% leading to savings in power and cooling. Leveraged highly available VMware Virtual Infrastructure (VI3) environment to improve server availability, reduce workload for IT staff, and automate server deployment for various business units. From April 2011 to December 2011 (9 months) Greater Philadelphia AreaSr. Architect @ GMAC Bank GMAC\Capmark Bank had broken its active directory into two customer organizations and exchange 2010 environments. Reasonable for the new Active directory environment with windows 2008 R2 and to a new Exchange 2010 messaging environment. Migrated all users to include computers and file servers to the new domain including access to the legacy environment and the new environment preserving the SID history for access to objects in the new and old domain. Designed and administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and old and the new resource domain. Used Virtual Center to Architect, implemented and maintained a 150-server, 100% virtualized environment supporting Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Active Directory, and a mixed Microsoft environments Vast experience with the Active Directory Migration Tools [ADMT]. I also provided consultative architecture and troubleshooting support clients running VMware-virtualized Exchange domain Services (DC’s), SQL workloads, web portals, and data analysis environments. From July 2010 to March 2011 (9 months) Greater Philadelphia Area