Manager Active Directory

Bill Witten

***** *. ****** ***** ***** Parker, Colorado 80138

303-***-**** *****@********.***

Highly respected, innovative senior technical professional with experience in some of the largest and most complex organizations

that exist today. Nearly 20 years of experience in all aspects of infrastructure sales, design, deployment, operations and

troubleshooting including three years with Microsoft’s Exchange Product Group and 10 years total as a highly-awarded Microsoft

employee. Excels in designing and consolidating large, highly-distributed, multi-system messaging architectures, complex

Active Directory infrastructures and security engagements and providing operational guidance and troubleshooting support to

enterprise operations groups.

Goal: Obtain work on challenging messaging, Hyper-V, directory or security projects

Career Accomplishments

• Developed some of the largest Active Directory and Exchange designs in the world

• Developed a new host-based security model for one of the largest online environments in the world

• Participated in the development of the Exchange Risk Assessment Program (ExRAP)

• Created and implemented the Exchange Ranger Program (Microsoft Certified Architect Messaging)

• Participated in the development of Exchange 2003 and 2007 and increased Exchange deployment success world-wide

• Speaker at several conferences and at the Microsoft Executive Briefing Center on multiple occasions

• Subject Matter Expert status (SME) on all versions of Exchange Server

Industry Experience

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Federal, State and Local Retail Oil and Gas

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Government Hospitality Media Services

• Military • •

Financial/Banking ASP/Cloud Service

• Education (k-12 and • Providers

Technology

higher ed)

• Telecommunications

Professional Experience (Last 10 Years)

Independent Consultant (June 2011-Present) Parker, CO Architect:

Primary responsibilities include: Architecture design of Microsoft server products, security planning and design and client

configuration, migrations, forest consolidation and multiple mail system consolidation. Additional duties include sales, partner

relations, staff decisions, financial management and all other executive tasks.

Recent Project Experience:

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• Exchange 2010 Design and Deployment

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Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 cross- 400-level Training creation

forest migration

• Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)

• Active Directory Hardening

• Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS)

• Security Assessment

• Internet Information Server (IIS)

• Forefront Threat Management Gateway

design and implementation

• Group Policy

• Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 migration

• Windows 8

• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

• Lync Server

• Active Directory Federation Services

• Forefront Identity Manager

(ADFS)

• PowerShell Scripting

• Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 upgrade

• Systems Center Operation Manager (SCOM)

• Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007

R3

• Hyper-V virtual infrastructure/Private Cloud

• AD Forest and domain consolidation

• VMWare virtual infrastructure

Microsoft Corporation (June 2008 – May 2011) Denver, CO and Redmond, WA OSD Shared Services

Principal Operations Engineer/Architect:

I delivered a new, ground-breaking, industry-changing design in host-based network security and drove new thinking in

virtualization, cloud and distributed authentication services. I also delivered a new Active Directory forest design and strategy

and developed an Identity roadmap for Microsoft’s Shared Services Group within OSD. I played a leadership role in the

architectural efforts in extending current software services to meet new scale and flexibility demands to provide a richer set of

core services for Microsoft’s rapid expansion in the software+services markets. I designed new infrastructure components to

automate, manage, and repair these core services. Some key technologies that were used in these designs included Windows

Advanced Host Firewall, Group Policy, SCOM, SCCM, SCVM, Hyper-V, Windows Azure, PKI/X.509 Certificates, IPSec, Active

Directory and Kerberos, claims-based authentication services, interoperability between foreign-entity security boundaries (AD

Forests, Kerberos realms, etc), and networking technologies. I worked closely with external Partners and internal product groups

such as Hotmail, Windows Live! and BPOS (all flavors) to drive design changes and to provide guidance in regards to the

requirements for datacenter scale operations.

I acted as the Principal Architect and GPM for the datacenter virtualization initiative code-named Prometheus that resulted in

Microsoft’s private cloud initiative and spear-headed the host-based security initiative that will reduce networking ACLs in large

datacenters by as much as 60%. Provided thought leadership in migrations to Azure and public/private cloud interoperability.

Independent Contractor (August 2006 – June 2008), Denver, CO –Consulting Architect:

During my time with Microsoft there were several companies that had serious critical situation problems that we were unable to

help due to antagonistic relations between the companies and Microsoft. When the MTC in Austin closed, I saw an opportunity

to develop a revenue stream by reaching out to these companies and solving a problem for Microsoft and said companies.

Xtreme Consulting (January 2008-June 2008): Redmond, WA –Principal Architect:

I was assigned as a senior engineer responsible for the redesign of the Microsoft Online Services’ Active Directory

environment to accommodate the new Microsoft Business Online Services offering.

Avanade (July 2007 January 2008): New York, NY –Senior Infrastructure Architect:

I was assigned as the lead architect to the worst critical situation producer worldwide for Exchange server (American

International Group or AIG). The result of the remediation effort and the new design was a reduction in critsits so that

they were no longer a top producer. Responsible for transforming their people, processes and technology into an

acceptable IT environment for a Fortune 10 company, stabilizing their current environment and planning a migration

for 180,000 users to Exchange 2007 (in a resource forest) from multiple platforms including Exchange 5.5, Exchange

2000, Exchange 2003, Notes and Sun Mail. Customer has in excess of 14 forests and more than 77 physical locations

worldwide. There was a heavy Google compete element in this project.

EMC Corporation (August 2006 July 2007): Denver, CO –Microsoft Consulting Practice, Enterprise

Solutions Architect:

Lead a remediation project with one of the top worldwide Exchange critical situation producers (Universal Music

Group) and was responsible for the reduction in critsits that saw them removed from this notorious list. I completed

projects such as Active Directory design and deployment, multi-forest coexistence/consolidation and ISA design and

deployment. Completed an Exchange 2007 design for a large (220,000 seat) retail customer. I also personally delivered

several additional Exchange 2007 projects with several companies including Qwest communications. Qualified

Exchange 2007 Ignite Instructor.

Microsoft Corporation (April 2005 August 2006): Austin, TX –Microsoft Technology Center, Infrastructure

Architect:

Primary responsibilities include: helping customers have an Excellent experience with our products, advanced infrastructure

architecture design, proofs-of-concepts, strategy development, technical community leadership, thought leadership, one-to-many

technical presentations, one-to-few presentations to Business Decision Makers, pilot program management, consulting, Partner

training and evaluation, responsible for working with corporate in multiple areas leveraging relationships.

Microsoft Corporation (April 2004 April 2005): Redmond, WA –Exchange Center of Excellence, Group

Program Manager:

I transferred from the Exchange Product Group into the ECoE when it was formed. I was responsible for two of the top

worldwide Exchange critical situation producers. I was also responsible for creating a framework for the training of the top

consultants in the world on Exchange. Additionally, I was responsible for providing thought leadership around the areas most

challenging to Exchange and other products and technologies, negotiations and relations with both Partners as well as internal

groups at Microsoft, provided thought leadership on the Exchange Risk Assessment Program development. Skills involved

include advanced design, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, negotiation, program management, people management, executive

communications, public speaking, business case creation and analysis and a host of others.

Microsoft Corporation (June, 2002 April, 2004): Redmond, WA –Microsoft Exchange Product Unit/ CXP

Team, Program Manager:

I was responsible for managing components for a future version of Exchange and provided thought leadership, functional specs

and component design. I also researched supportability concerns and combed through customer feedback to ensure that the

component met the technical needs and market pressures of today. I conceptualized and implemented Microsoft Exchange

Titanium Ranger Program/Community: this community was hailed as the top technical community within Microsoft and the

training was the basis for the Microsoft Certified Architect Depth Training and also provided a career path for the technical field

that wished to enter the product group. More than a dozen of the 48 certified Rangers were hired by the product group. I handled

critical situation escalations for internal Microsoft and Partner consulting organizations. Heavy Customer and Partner interaction,

product testing, thought leadership with regards to both the Exchange Product as well as consulting and training methodologies

were required. I capitalized on opportunities to speak at engagements such as IT Forum in Europe and MGB in the United States

and Executive Briefing Center and Enterprise Customer Labs in Redmond. I produced authoritative technical whitepapers and

technical articles and acted as a liaison between the Exchange Product Unit and MCS and Partner Consulting organizations.

Assisted in fashioning the MCSE+ Messaging certification. I had a single objective: Increase Exchange deployment success. I

delivered on this on a world-wide scale with a budget of only $500.

Microsoft Corporation (May 16, 2001 June 2002): Redmond, WA –Microsoft Consulting Services, Senior

Consultant II

Primary responsibilities include: Architecture design of Active Directory Windows 2000/Exchange 2000, Security planning and

design and client configuration, migration from NT 4, domain consolidation and multiple mail system consolidation. Additional

duties include providing thought leadership and technical reviews for: Active Directory design, namespace design, co-

existence/migration/provisioning, network planning, and all other technical aspects of projects. Yearly-invited Expert at the

Microsoft Exchange Conference.

Awards

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Most-Valuable Employee, Ship It Award (Exchange Ship It Award (Exchange Risk

Mid-Atlantic District--1999 2003)--2002 Assessment Program) 2005

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Distinguished Senior Technical Founder Award for the Contributor Award for

Solution Provider-- 2000 Microsoft Ranger program-- Katrinasafe.com 2006

2005

• Technical Gold Star Award

(Microsoft)--2001

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