Senior Technical Consultant - Productivity
Ultima Business Solutions
Total years of experience :17 years, 4 Months
Provide expert guidance to customers, lead technical design sessions, architect, document, and deploy Exchange, Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility + Security solutions.
Responsible for managing and supporting the messaging infrastructure (Exchange Server, IronPort, FireEye, and Skype for Business Server) for ADIA, the world’s second largest sovereign wealth fund;
Designed the Exchange 2013 environment and performed migration without user impact. Designed Exchange 2016 environment and implemented proof-of-concept;
Reduced Disaster Recovery failover from several hours to a few minutes;
Involved in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) project from a messaging perspective;
Improved Exchange and Skype reporting by developing several PowerShell scripts and the introduction of Splunk for Exchange;
Worked with IT Security and Legal departments to meet compliance and eDiscovery requirements.
Technical writer of Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 related content for the leading Exchange website TechGenix. My articles can be read at http://techgenix.com/author/nmota/
Provided expert guidance to customers, led technical design sessions, architected, documented, and deployed Exchange and Office 365 solutions, from small to global deployments and migrations;
Mentored and technically led the collaboration and messaging team;
Translated business requirements into well-architected solutions;
Drove product selection, solution architecture, and ensured solution strategy was aligned with business strategy and requirements;
Participated in Enterprise level bids.
Managed Parliament’s Messaging Team and services including email, instant messaging and mobile computing. Planned, developed, delivered and supported ICT services and products related to the messaging environment and associated technologies to meet the needs of the business;
Transitioned Exchange 2007 environment to 2010 with the implementation of Exchange Archiving;
Technical lead on the trial of Google Apps and Office 365 with Microsoft AD FS;
Supported and maintained Exchange as well as Office Communications Server 2007 R2;
Implemented Lync Server 2010 PoC for future migration;
Developed several PowerShell scripts to help in the transition to Exchange 2010 as well as for monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting on the entire Exchange and OCS environments.
Designed the end state Exchange 2010 and Lync Server 2010 on a 45, 000 users environment;
Created, tested and documented the plan and approach to be used to transition service and users to Exchange 2010 and Lync 2010;
Migrated users from OCS 2007 R2 to Lync;
Administered the Lync and Exchange infrastructures, including Unified Messaging;
Planned, tested and implemented OCS 2007 R2 and Forefront Security for Exchange (later upgraded to Forefront Protection 2010) and for OCS;
Evaluated and implemented Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 for Exchange and Active Directory monitoring;
Maintained the overall effectiveness, efficiency and security of the email system and ensured a high level of service availability;
Developed several PowerShell scripts to help in the transition to Exchange 2010 as well as for monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting on the entire Exchange environment.
Administered the Exchange Server 2003 infrastructure (7, 000+ users) and its supporting Active Directory dependencies;
Provided out of hours (24x7) support on a rota basis (one week per month);
Worked with team members to document e-mail policies and procedures;
Responsible for the overall effectiveness, efficiency and security of the e-mail system and ensure a high level of service availability;
PoC implementation of Exchange 2007 for future transition as well as Quest InTrust with the purpose of auditing Active Directory, Exchange and File Servers;
Involved in the Disaster Recovery bi-annual tests and responsible for improving its documentation, including Business Continuity Plans and security procedures.
Developed a laboratory consisting on a network capable of simulate BPI’s network (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, MOM, SQL, SharePoint, WSUS, Terminal Services, Cisco ACS and workstations) to explore, test and implement security measures like auditing, log analysis, access control and tools and techniques to analyse and reduce security vulnerabilities.