Active Directory Maintenance

Curtis Connor

Grand Valley Dr.

Brampton, Ontario

Ph. 905-***-****

Cell. 647-***-****

To whom it may concern

Please Find attached a copy of my resume regarding the MS Exchange

Architect position.

I have a broad background in I.T with a very broad skillset including a

large amount of experience with,Firewalls, switches, Windows platforms,

Virtualization and Network Design and especially Microsoft Exchange

Environments .I have planned, organized and executed large scale I.T

projects, mail servers, AV, Active Directory, virtualization, Security and

disaster recovery and testing.

I work well in either a team based or solo capacity and have a high level

of drive to ensure the issue is resolved no matter what is required. I

possess excellent skills in managing and mentoring other individuals and

strive to constantly improve. I am very organized and give a high

attention to detail and ensuring that deadlines are met.

I feel that I would be an important asset to your organization and look

forward to hearing from you.

Yours Truly

Curtis Connor

Curtis Connor

Grand Valley Dr.

Brampton, ON L6S 2L1

Ph. 905-***-**** / Cell 647-***-****

*******@***********************.**

OBJECTIVE: Network Administrator

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

. Implemented Microsoft CRM systems

. Expertise in leading IT Projects

. Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills

. Backup Technical Lead on the Enterprise Exchange Support Team at

Microsoft mentoring and managing junior Exchange Engineers

. High degree of experience dealing with customers to ensure that their

support experience has been outstanding

. Disaster Recovery management planning and testing

. Planning of Active Directory deployments, migrations, troubleshooting

and maintenance

. Microsoft Exchange planning, implementations, and migrations

. Project planning and risk management analysis for I.T. Projects

. High degree of technical and management skills

. Management experience with supervising and mentoring for junior

experienced support personal

TECHNICAL SKILLS

. Windows Servers - NT - 2012

. Active Directory

. Backup and Disaster Recovery

. Microsoft SQL and other Relational Databases

. Various Routers, Switches and Firewalls

. Monitoring and deployment tools

. Blackberry Enterprise Servers

. Sonicwall CSSA Certified

.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

I.T. Coordinator

March 2010-2013

Tasco Distributors

. Responsible for all I.T operations and support

. Successfully upgraded servers from Windows 2000 to Windows 20012

. Successfully planned and upgraded Windows 2008 to Windows 2008 Hyper-V

Virtualized infrastructure

. Implemented Barracuda Backup solution and cloud storage

. Implemented Blackberry Enterprise Server

. Researched, planned and implemented Barcode scanning of invoices to be

directly linked to EPASS invoices

. Migration of all invoices that had been previously scanned into Canon

software into EPASS

. Planned and Upgraded Exchange 2000-2010

. Planning and deployment of RF Barcoding solution for warehouse and

store inventory

. Maintain and support server infrastructure

. Successful upgrades of multiple SQL Servers

. Successful migrations of workstations to Thin Client environment

. Support for all EPASS issues and upgrades, co-ordinate support issues

with RandD

. Upgrade workstations from Windows XP to Windows 7

. Upgrade and support of Terminal Servers from Windows 2003 to Windows

2008

. Maintain and troubleshoot Active Directory Issues

. Migrate stores to Thin Client Solution

. Implement fingerprint time-clock solution

. Recommend infrastructure improvements to I.T. Manager

. Purchasing and planning for I.T. Equipment and solution's

. Plan and recommend new solutions or upgrades or improvements to upper

management

. Desktop support for all Employees

. Create and maintain images for Desktops and Laptops

. Deploy and support IPAD's IPHONE's and Blackberry's

. Support and maintain VPN's and Firewall's for Head Office and Stores

. Arrange for outside contractors to do telephone and network wiring,

and maintain telephone systems

. Arrange for repairs and maintenance for printers and fax systems

. Update servers and maintain backups

. Disaster recovery

. Provide support for Barcode scanning to stores and warehouse personnel

. Maintain software, server and firewall contracts

. Maintain content filtering and remote user VPN access

. Onsite support and troubleshooting for stores

. Report on security breaches and concerns

. Recommend and budget planning for I.T. projects

. After hours support for remote access users

. SAN implementation and migration

. Provide support and recommendations to management on new projects that

require anything Create I.T. related policies and procedures, train

staff when required in software related procedures and issues

Network Consultant

2007- 2010

Omega Network Solutions

. Maintained and deployed multiple customer's corporate networks

. Designed and deployed multiple corporate networks

. Primary responsibility was maintaining and support for TASCO and

Goeman's

. Server maintenance and upgrades

. All desktop support and server support issues

. Server upgrades and migrations from Windows NT,and Windows 2000 to

Windows 2003 and Windows 2008

. Implementation and migration of servers to Windows 2008 Hyper-v

. Disaster recovery in the event of server failures

. Microsoft Exchange 2000, and 2003 implementation and upgrades

. Active Directory planning and implementation

. Planning, implementation's and upgrades of Windows Small Business

Server 2000, 2003,2008

. Virtualization of Windows 2008 Small Business Server and physical to

virtual conversions

. SonicWall implementations and maintenance, including multi-site VPN

. EPASS support, upgrades and troubleshooting issues

. Windows Vista and Windows 7 workstation upgrades and deployment

. Implementation of Thin Client solution's

. Blackberry Enterprise Server implementation's

. Corporate merger planning and migrations

Disaster Recovery Specialist

2007-2010

Midrange Technical Services

. Assist customers in Disaster Recovery testing

. Help customers design disaster recovery procedures

. Prep servers and necessary hardware for upcoming disaster recovery

tests

. Co-ordinate and recommend server requirements for testing

. Assist customers in verifying and correction of failures to ensure

successful testing for next quarter requirements

. Planned, implemented and maintained new Windows 2003 domain from

workgroup for corporate network

. Planned prepared and maintained all hot-site rooms for disaster

recovery testing

. Created and maintained image server with multiple workstation images

for multiple corporations to minimize recovery time for hot-site

. Performed full hot-site recovery's for several companies that declared

a disaster, this included arranging for offsite backups to be

delivered to the hot-site, prepping workstations, starting sever

restores before the client was onsite and arranging phone transfers.

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Lead Systems Engineer

Dec 2003 - Month 2007

Canada Cartage System Ltd.

. Lead Systems Engineer for a 200 node Windows 2003 Domain

. Designed the current Windows 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure and

implemented the migration from a Windows 2000 peer to peer network

. Implemented Exchange 2003 Enterprise server for the entire

corporation and migrated all of the existing users from MS Mail

. Implemented a nightly backup of all enterprise servers for disaster

recovery

. Deployment and maintenance of core SQL servers and applications

including Microsoft Great Plains, Freight Logix - ( core

transportation management software), Transman for Windows - (fleet

management software)

. Deployment of SQL reporting services environment

. Maintenance of corporate web server along with internal deployment if

IT department intranet using Windows SharePoint

. Site to Site VPN implementation using Sonicwall devices including

implementation of Active Directory Authentication.

. Deployment and maintenance of Citrix Metaframe 3.0 from Metaframe XP

. Upgrade of Citrix 3.0 to Metaframe 4.0

. Installation and management of Windows 2003 Small Business Server 2003

network for Transport Sonar in Montreal QC

. Installation and maintenance of Microsoft CRM 1.2 and 3.0 upgrades

. Blackberry Enterprise server 4.0 installation and maintenance

. Manage relations with vendors regarding new implementations and

purchasing of hardware and software

. Oversee and implement data center re-location for Canada Cartage

System's new head office

. Implement Server based Symantec enterprise anti-virus for all Canada

Cartage sites

. Completed the migration of Windows 98 and Windows 2000 to Windows XP

professional

. Implementation and maintenance of SonicWall firewalls and corporate

managed VPN's

. End user desktop support and workstation maintenance

. Nortel BCM add remove changes for corporate phone system

. Plan and oversee migrations of several small trucking companies to the

Canada Cartage network

Enterprise Messaging Support Team at Microsoft Canada

June 2003 - Dec 2003

Volt Human Resources, Mississauga ON

. 24x7 Enterprise Messaging team Mentor for junior Support engineers

. Support for Enterprise customers of Exchange 5.5,Exchange 2000, and

Exchange 20003 support issues of all types including, but not limited

to, setup, disaster recovery, migration issues, and cluster server

support

. Use of Clarify and S.O.A.P notes for thorough documentation, effective

case wellness and effective support for the customer

. Collaboration with other team members to enhance the learning of

others while determining the best solution for the customer

. Setup and testing of Virtual environments to simulate the customers

direct issue

. Knowledge transfer to the customer so that the customer better

understands the product and why an issue has occurred along with

providing the customer with preventive documentation based on KB

articles

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Position

Mar 2003 - Jun 2003

Gateway ISI, Toronto ON

. Complete design and migration of Windows NT to 2000 Active Directory

. Migration of Exchange 5.5 to 2000

. Design and deployment of Active Directory, Disaster recovery, Security

. Daily maintenance of network operations

Position

May 2002 - Feb 2003

The LAN Shoppe, Toronto ON

. Deployment of several Windows 2000 networks, including Active

Directory Design

. TCP/IP,WINS,DNS, and IIS solutions

. Extensive Exchange 5.5,Exchange 2000 installation,support, migration,

and recovery

. Terminal server, Installation, support in both remote administration

mode and Application server mode

. Pix firewall installation and maintenance

. Maintenance and upgrades of Windows 2000 networks

. Design active directory structure, group policies, remote access

solutions, and security policies

. Disaster recovery testing and procedures for Windows 2000,and Windows

NT environments

. Remote Installation deployment of Windows 2000 pro and Windows XP

workstation images

. Symantec Corporate Anti-virus solutions

Position (Contract)

2002

Ace Network Systems, Barrie ON

. Deployment of several Windows 2000 networks, including Active

Directory Design

. Exchange 5.5,Exchange 2000 installation,support, migration

. Deployment of Cisco Pix Firewall solutions

. Desktop and hardware support for customers

Network Administrator

2001 - 2002

Barrie Learning Centre, Barrie ON

. Network administration for 178 workstation network

. Redesigned complete Network Infrastructure including Re-cabling and

documenting entire network

. Upgraded entire Network to Windows 2000 from Windows NT including

design of Active Directory,Group Policy,and Security

. deployed Windows 2000 Pro and Windows XP using Remote Installation

Services, and RI-PREP

. Deployed Exchange 2000,ISA Server, SMS Server 2.0

. Upgrades, licensing control, maintenance, and security, Virus and

fault tolerance issues

Other Work Experience

. various other broad based jobs utilizing management and advanced

troubleshooting skills

EDUCATION & TRAINING

SonicWall CCNA

2007

MCSE, MCP

SQL server 2000 Database Administration, Trios Training Centre

2004

CCNA Program, Barrie Learning Centre

2001

LAN Administration Diploma, CDI College of Business and Technology

1997

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