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Engineer Manager

Location:
Columbus, OH, 43235
Posted:
June 21, 2011

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Resume:

Andrew

614-***-****

kiran@comtech-globa l.com

Objective:

A responsible and challenging position as a Senior Microsoft Windows

Solution Architect and VMware ESX Consultant that will utilize my Technical

ability, Network Infrastructure and Topology knowledge, Documentation

skills, and Microsoft Enterprise Software experience to help assist in

enhancing a company's competitive marketplace.

Technical Knowledge:

. Design and Implement Microsoft Leading Software Solutions:

* Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) - used to inventory

current client and server asset inventory to report on individual

results for upgrade capability for Office or Windows upgrades.

* Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Update 1 (MDT 2010) - used for deployment

of new Windows 7 images. This can also be integrated into System

Center Configuration Manager.

* Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) - used as

Microsoft's solution for backing up Microsoft software solutions.

* Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2007 R2) - used

for asset inventory, software deployments, Image deployment, MDT 2010

Integration, Windows Updates, and Reporting.

* Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager - used to manage and

administer Microsoft Hyper-V VMs and ESX VMs.

. Fifteen years hands-on experience with Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008,

2008 R2 Standard and Enterprise, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows

2000 Professional, Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 Server.

. Written documentation utilizing Microsoft Best Practices for Windows

2000/2003/2008 (R2) Active Directory Projects that included: Network

Assessment, Design, Test Lab, Pilot, Migration, and Post Migration

Support for clients using Microsoft, Novell, UNIX, and Linux networks.

. Develop Windows 2000/2003/2008 (R2) Active Directory Troubleshooting and

Disaster Recovery Techniques and Documentation.

. Plan, Deploy and Manage Windows 2000/2003/2008 (R2)/XP/Vista/Windows 7

Group Policy, Security Templates, and Logon Scripts.

. Active Directory, Microsoft Hyper-V and ESX Monitoring, Optimization, and

Troubleshooting.

. Microsoft Exchange 5.5/2000/2003/2007/2010 Installation, Migration,

Troubleshooting, and Support.

. Microsoft Exchange 5.5/2000/2003/2007/2010 co-existence/migration with

Windows 2000/2003/2008 (R2) Active Directory.

. Develop Methods used to automate Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP,

Vista, and Windows 7 Desktop Deployments.

. Document Windows 2000/2003/2008 (R2) co-existence and inter-operability

issues with Novell and UNIX operating systems.

. Develop Windows NT 4.0/2000/2003/2008 (R2) Domain Controller, Server and

Workstation Disaster Recovery methodology.

. Utilize VMware's Best Practices to design ESX Infrastructure and networks

that maximize I/O, SAN storage and virtualization technology for

corporations looking to implement solutions that capitalize on return-on-

investment during end-of-life server consolidation and existing VMware

ESX upgrades.

. Experience installing and configuring VMware ESX virtualization software

on EMC and HP SANs or NetApp NAS connected by gigabit LAN, Fibre, or

iSCSI connections to VMFS and RDM LUNs.

. Dynamic DNS inter-operability with existing Windows NT 4.0/2000/2003/2008

DNS and Unix Bind or external ISP's.

. Client Server Builds using Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM

hardware.

. Sales and Installation Certified Engineer for NeverFail software used for

Disaster Recovery and High Availability application protection across LAN

and WAN environments to protect Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, IIS,

File and Print, Blackberry, Low Bandwidth, Data Rollback, and Scope.

. Working knowledge of 3rd Party Domain Consolidation and Migration

Software Tools.

. Twenty Five years of hands-on experience installing and troubleshooting

networks in a variety of environments.

Recent Employment Summary:

Clearway Technology Partners

Senior Microsoft Solutions Architect

06/09 to 12/10

. 2010 Microsoft VTSP - Virtual Technology Sales Professional - System

Center 2007 R2

Provide consulting services to clients that included Active Directory

health checks, Active Directory upgrades along with project plans and

knowledge transfer. Provide Exchange 2000/2003/2007 health checks,

migration project plans, and knowledge transfer for Exchange 2010 upgrades

for on-premise or Microsoft Cloud solutions. Provide clients with

virtualization knowledge on Microsoft products for servers, clients and

applications using Hyper-V servers or VDI technology. Design and implement

Microsoft solutions based upon a client's needs for products that included

MDT 2010, DPM 2010, SCCM, and VMM.

CVS/Caremark Corporate

VMware Solutions Consultant 07/08 -

05/09

. Design and Validate VMware Infrastructure and Upgrade Methodology for

VMware version 3.5 and 3i using redundant HP C7000 chassis's and HP

BL685c Blade servers along with Brocade Switches and Virtual Connect

modules to maximize virtualization technology, server network

bandwidth and LACP uplink connections to an EMC Symmetrix DMX-4.

Design must incorporate Best Practices for Redundancy, Teaming, Load

Balancing and Fail-over within each Virtual Server, ESX Server,

Virtual Switch, Virtual Connect Module, and Core Switches. Project

consists of a Server consolidation consisting of 2000+ servers that

will be virtualized during end-of-life cycles as well as upgrading (8)

eight existing ESX 2.54 and 3.0.1 servers with datastores residing on

Clariion CX3-80's.

DentaQuest

VMware Solutions Architect and Senior Microsoft Solutions Architect

02/07 - 06/08

. Implement VMware ESX VI3 software to create a robust fail-over

environment using two redundant HP DL580 ESX 3.0.2 servers and

VMconverter 3.0.2 software to virtualize DentaQuest's existing 20

Production, Development, and Test Web Infrastructure servers that are

currently operating with Windows 2000 OS's.

. Implement a High Availability fail-over solution for the entire

Production Web Environment using Vizioncore's vRanger software to

provide local snapshots and remote site standby solutions along with

file-level restores.

. Active Directory Design Consultant on DentaQuest's 1000 user Multi-

Company migration from a Windows 2000 Multi-Forest and Multi-Domain

enterprise that included Exchange 2000 to a New Windows 2003 Empty

Forest Root Domain with a Single Branch Domain and a single Exchange

2007 organization using Quest Migration Tools.

Biogen Idec

VMware Solutions Architect

11/06 - 01/07

. Create a VMware Upgrade strategy based on Best Practices; Develop a

PowerPoint presentation; and a Migration Project plan for upgrading

Biogen Idec's existing VMware ESX 2.x environment to VMware's new

release of Virtual Infrastructure 3. The existing topology consists of

one VirtualCenter version 1.4.1 that needs to be replaced with

VirtualCenter 2.x. In addition, Biogen Idec currently has Nineteen

(19) DL580 and DL585 ESX Hosts that are connected to HP EVA8000, HP

XP12000 or NetApp SAN and NAS storage devices. The environment

consists of isolated Test, Development, and Production platforms

running on ESX servers located in Cambridge, Watertown, San Diego,

North Carolina, Japan and Denmark.

Select, Inc `

Senior Microsoft Consultant 10/03 -

10/06

. Provide Senior Level Microsoft Consulting Services for Active

Directory Design projects and Knowledge Transfer including Best

Practices for Windows 2000/2003 migrations that also included

Messaging upgrades to Exchange 2000/2003 for a vast selection of

corporate clients.

Independent Microsoft Technology Consultant

05/02 - 09/ 03

. Provide educational training, technical resources, and project

solutions to companies looking to migrate their Microsoft Operating

System Servers and Workstations to Microsoft Windows 2000 / Server

2003 Active Directory and Exchange 2000/2003. This includes providing

on-site support to render solutions for troubleshooting or diagnostics

on Windows NT4 / 2000 / Server 2003 configuration and setup issues.

Netivity Solutions

Microsoft Consulting Engineer

06/01 - 03/02

. Windows 2000 Active Directory Design and Implementation assignments

for clients migrating from Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 domains.

. Network Design and Implementation of Microsoft Exchange 2000

infrastructure for clients upgrading from ccMail, Groupwise, Lotus

Notes and Exchange 5.5.

AimNet Solutions

Microsoft Technology Specialist

03/97 - 02/01

. Windows NT 4.0 Server/Workstation Domain Infrastructure - Design,

Testing, Deployment, Implementation and Support projects.

. Compaq and HP Server OS Migrations - Windows NT 3.51 to Windows NT

4.0.

. Desktop OS Migrations from Windows 3.x/95/98/NT 4.0 to Windows

95/98/NT 4.0/2000.

. Messaging Migrations - MSMail, CCmail, and GroupWise to Exchange 5.5.

. Exchange 5.0/5.5, IIS 4.0, and Outlook Web Access server installations

and configurations.

INDUSTRY EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS:

. 2010 Microsoft VTSP - Microsoft Virtual Technology Sales Professional

- System Center 2007 R2

. VMware certified VCP on Virtual Infrastructure with ESX Server 3.x and

Virtual Center.

. Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Microsoft Windows NT

3.51-4.0-2000/2003 and Exchange 5.5/2000/2003.

. Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) on Microsoft Windows

2000.

. NeverFail Certified Sales Engineer (NCSE) 4.1

. NeverFail Certified Implementation Engineer (NCIE) 4.1



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