Office Architect
Resume:
Edward Mitchell
Denver, CO
An experienced and motivated business professional focused on, return on investment, reaching company goals, leading, building, and mentoring staff to provide solutions that minimize impact while providing the project deliverables, on plan, on budget and on time.
Education Information Technology – Moraine Valley Community College – Palos Hills, IL
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS - Sergeant, Honorable Discharge
Skills and Certifications
Office 365 Administration, Architecture and Implementations, OneDrive Migrations, Exchange Online Administration, Microsoft Office 2013, 2016, O365 Pro Plus, Centricity EMR GE Healthcare Systems Implementation, Mimecast Email Security & Archiving, Proofpoint Next-Generation Cybersecurity, Cisco Network Administration, SharePoint Administration
Professional Experience
Microsoft Office 365 Administration
Insight Global contractor to Walgreens, Deerfield, IL Mar 2020 – Current
Recruited to join team in delivering Office 365 administration and consulting services.
• Administration of Exchange Online, Premise to Cloud migrations, and development of implementation plans for Teams, SharePoint Online and additional features for Walgreens Boots Alliance focusing on Global migrations bringing all countries, business groups and implementing uniform on boarding policies in Azure Active Directory, Multi-domain migration and consolidation initiative providing Single Sign-on and enhanced user experience with modern technologies and resources.
Information Technology Infrastructure Architect and Manager
Sogeti; City County of Denver, CO Jan 2018 – Feb 2020
Recruited by Senior Management to build the business, deliver consulting services, establish project management and IT staffing to the Denver market. Develop a reputation based strategic growth plan to IT operation stakeholders with a local feel and global reach for the highest return on investment.
• Architect solutions for Microsoft Azure Active Directory with a multi-domain migration and consolidation initiative providing Single Sign-on and enhanced user experience with modern technologies and resources
• Develop the solution and implement the project plan for OneDrive for Business, an Office 365 built-in product delivery for a fifteen thousand base user community
• Project Management for decommissioning the NAS User Home drives freeing up over 85 Terabytes of high speed, high-cost data storage
• Consulting services and implementation of Office 365 Data Loss Prevention providing protection for HIPPA, PII and other protected data categories including banking and credit card processing information enabling PCI compliance
• Recruiting, mentoring, and managing multiple projects supporting the client engagement
Information Technology Infrastructure Architect
Infinity Consulting Solutions; Hub International, Chicago, IL May 2017 – Dec 2017
Worked directly with Senior Management to re-develop the processes and procedures for the Mergers and Acquisitions Group facilitating an annual 20% growth plan for a multi-national commercial insurance company.
• Provided Infrastructure Program Management for continuous migrations of autonomous email systems to a Hybrid Exchange Online collaboration system
• Project Management of the ingest of historical email data to a fully managed online Evault archiving system
• Implementation of a best-in-class email hygiene and security system based on Exchange Online Protection and Mimecast
Information Technology Infrastructure Architect
TEKsystems; Molex Lisle, IL Sept 2016 – May 2017
Responsible for a global email infrastructure migration from premise-based systems to a hybrid Exchange 2016 infrastructure compliant with individual country employment laws and subsequent decommissioning of all systems post vendor support.
• Project Management for migration of all US and International users to a singular Infrastructure and administration interface for a MS Exchange 2010 & 2013 Hybrid Exchange Online
• Managed the project for decommissioning all Exchange 2010 servers worldwide
• Implementation of an Exchange 2016 messaging system, documenting and creating a centralized administration and management solution
• Exchange Online Administration for Office 365
Information Technology Project Management Consultant
TEKsystems; Aug 2015 – Mar 2016
Lions Clubs International, Downers Grove, IL
Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL
Recruited to develop processes to achieve the completion of the "impossible projects" for two politically charged environments, delivering a timely, on-budget solution despite assuming control of project’s behind schedule.
• Bring technical responsibility to the implementation, support, and administration of an Office 365 Exchange Hybrid system migration for a worldwide base
• Project Management of intra Data Center relocation and upgrade of infrastructure equipment
• Skype for Business Systems turn up and validation, cutover scheduling, documentation and knowledge base hand-off allowing seamless, no impact end user deliverable modern communication system for a software driven phone solution
• Spearhead mentoring of staff for Online Exchange and Azure Active Directory Administration
Director of Information Technology
Ocius LLC, Chicago, IL Nov 2013 – Aug 2015
Recruited by the CEO to develop a strategic design implementing solutions to modernize and manage the IT operations for a growing business. This positioned the company for acquisition by Francisco Partners, a global technology-focused private equity firm.
• Re-architected mission critical, revenue generating business systems by establishing a high performance reliable and redundant modern technologically sound environment.
Introduced Agile application development with business analytics to the development team reducing development to production time by 50% by utilizing a TFS repository
• Implement new service offerings, improving project quality by instilling personal accountability and motivating the team to think out of the box
• Created a hybrid infrastructure utilizing Azure and AWS cloud infrastructures reducing annual IT costs by 20% while improving reliability with an online Dev-QA environment
• Implement and manage Amazon S3 solution for off-site data storage
• Recruited and mentored IT personnel providing career paths and goal objectives
• Migrated all Servers to VMware vCenter 5.5 Server HA environment
Microsoft Exchange Administrator
Insight Global; Kiewit Corporation, Schaumburg, IL Nov 2011 – Dec 2012
Recruited to join and lead the support center during the merger of Kiewit Corporation and The Industrial Company, integrating domains, mail flows, connections and rule-based email processing supporting a worldwide based community.
• Exchange Administrator for 2003, 2007, 2010 and BPOS (pre-Office 365)
• Exchange level 3 Administration support, daily operations, managing email
• Train level 1 & 2 technical support teams improved first call resolutions
• Manage internal and external DNS, Domain registrations and ownership transfers
• Forefront Online Protection for Exchange management
• Mobile Device Management for all Apple, Blackberry and Android device
Microsoft Exchange/ LAN / WAN Administrator
Aspen Tech LLC, Palos Park, IL Jan 2006 – Nov 2011
Sole proprietor delivering strategic design concepts, implementing solutions and modernization of IT solutions for small and growing businesses providing the tools and processes for controlled staff augmentations and accelerated revenue expansion and best practice technology procedures.
• Administrator for Desktops, Servers, Backups, Anti-Virus / Anti-Spam.
• Installation and administration of Routers, Firewalls, Virtual Private Networks
• Install and Manage VMware Server, VMware ESX, vSphere client, vCenter Serve.
• Active Directory Administrator for MS 2003 & 2008R2 GPO, Share Permissions.
• Administration of Exchange 2003/2007 Servers, update, backup, configuration
• Managed System backups Arcserve, Commvault, Backup Exec and Avamar
IBM Corporation; Storage Technology Corporation; UFJ Futures; Scientific Atlanta;
Nexus Office Systems
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