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• CERTIFIED MASTER TRAINER FOR EXCHANGE 2007 AT MICROSOFT
  Dallas, TX, Present
   
  I have been a guest trainer for the migration portion of Microsoft’s new premier $20,000 Certified Master Exchange 2007 course, formally known as the Ranger certification! (Only available within Microsoft).
   
• ENTERPRISE CONSULTING - EDSONTECH
  Dallas, TX, Present
   
  Am involved in numerous consulting engagements, such as:
  - Recently completed an installation of a Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2 (OCS 2007 R2) VoIP solution, with an Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging back-end. Replacing a legacy Nortel PBX with a SIP to SIP ISP VoIP connection.
  - Completed a Microsoft ResponsePoint SP2 SBS VoIP install with 8 FXO phone lines.
  - Numerous Hyper-V implementations, with either the Windows 2008 environments, or (more often) the stand alone Hyper-V 2008 version. Complete with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) to manage the environments, and clustered configurations for High Availability.
  - Multiple implementations with all types of Exchange 2007 multi-node configurations. CCR, SCR and LCR.
  - Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 implementations.
  - Configuring Windows 2008 Terminal Service Gateway application servers.
  - Network redesigns and the streamlining of such, including: VPNs, WANs, WLANs, with a wide variety of Routers, Switches, and Firewalls.
   
• INTERIM CIO –- RODMAN, LLC
  Frisco, TX, June 2007 to March 2008
   
  Reporting directly to the Board, I overhauled and instituted the entire Information Technology department, establishing procedures, guidelines, providing the vision and leadership in directing and planning the development and implementation of their enterprise IT systems, supporting business operations in order to improve cost effectiveness, service quality, and business development.
   
  As a result, I successfully completed the following:
  - Participated in strategic and operational governance processes of the business organization as a member of the senior management team.
  - Led the IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the organization.
  - Developed and maintained an appropriate IT organizational structure which supports the needs of the business.
  - Created the ERP vision and direction (Microsoft Dynamics AX was chosen) to enable the integration of all the data and processes of the organization into one single system, thus allowing reporting across all boundaries, and introducing business intelligence capabilities to the organization.
  - Provided expert IT deposition in a civil litigation suit, ensuring the win of the lawsuit.
  - Established IT departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures.
  - Ran extensive risk assessments, with recommendations on mitigating the risk.
  - Established, tracked, and controlled the information technology annual operating and capital budgets.
  - Developed business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives.
  - Redesigned, redeployed and architected the EMC Clarion iSCSI SAN infrastructure to suit the Exchange 2007, SQL 2005, VMware ESX 3.02 and Windows 2008 Hyper-V architecture.
  - Ensured the continuous delivery of IT services through the establishment of IT systems monitoring.
  - Defined and communicated corporate plans, policies, and standards for the organization for acquiring, implementing, and operating IT systems.
  - In the process of directing the development and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
  - Approved, prioritized, and controlled projects and the project portfolio as they related to the selection, acquisition, development, and installation of major information systems.
  - Ran the review of hardware and software acquisition and maintenance contracts and pursuit of Enterprise master agreements to capitalize on economies of scale.
  - Promoted and established strategic relationships between the IT resources and external entities, with vendors, and partner organizations.
  - Recruited, and ran the development, retention, and organization of all IT staff in accordance with corporate budgetary objectives and personnel policies.
  - Implemented a fault-tolerant core network infrastructure, changing from off brand dependencies to enterprise Cisco switches and routers.
  - Transformed all critical application servers from a virtual environment to a physical one, thereby greatly increasing performance, capabilities, and stabilization and management.
  - Implemented a fully redundant clustered Email Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 environment.
  - Implemented a redundant clustered design of Database SQL 2005.
  - Introduced the legalization of the software licenses by entering into an agreement with Microsoft for an Enterprise Agreement.
  - Designed the redundant clustered design of File management SharePoint 2007.
  - Led the consolidation and repair of numerous Windows Domain controllers that were causing multiple failures.
  - Centralized network file shares, as well as the securing of such.
  - Implemented central monitoring capabilities of all critical system components through Microsoft Operations Manager 2007, thus ensuring continuous delivery of IT services through oversight of monitoring of IT systems performance.
  - Introduced up-to-date virus and malware protection with McAfee ePO 4.0. (The former being several years out of date).
  - Enabled the establishment of industry best practice guidelines and procedures.
  - Through numerous reporting, created infrastructure transparency to Executive management.
  - Assessed and communicated risks associated with IT investments.
  - Established IT departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures.
  - Established an IT team.
  - Developed and tracked the IT annual operating and capital budgets.
  - Initiated the process of developing an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
   
• PRINCIPAL ENTERPRISE CONSULTANT –- EVIGI TECHNOLOGIES
  SUBCONTRACT TO ENCORE2, DALLAS, TX, April 2006 to Present
   
  Currently assisting with the further development of the consulting branch of Evigi Technologies, involving all network security aspects, their engineering offerings, developing vendor Best Practices Guides, courseware & certifications, introducing high level engineering training, product demo creation, support, and consulting services. Acting as the lead engineer for the testing of security and assessment of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) IT products and solutions, and training on best-of-breed technologies, including SilverPeak systems’ WAN acceleration technologies, numerous UTM devices and much more.

Have been specializing (as well as some configuration and installation projects) on some key network security products, such as McAfee’s IntuShield IPS, and the Foundstone vulnerability scanner appliance, along with the MPE (McAfee Policy Enforcer) network access control system, HIPS 6.0 (Host Intrusion Prevention).

Consulting engagements are too numerous to mention, but they involve consulting on network design, packet-level traffic troubleshooting, (NI Observer & as well as Sniffer) implementation of IPS appliances, firewalls, Host protection software, content filtering and protocol protection systems, Risk and Vulnerability assessments, pattern analysis, trend analysis, network behavior analysis, analysis of malicious code. The design and implementation of End-to-end monitoring solutions for application performance & fault isolation solutions, as well as customer mentoring, counseling and education.
• SENIOR CONSULTANT –- LEVI STRAUSS
  SUBCONTRACT TO ENCORE2, DALLAS, TX, April 2005 to November 2005
   
  Successfully orchestrated the Exchange 2003 migration of Levi Strauss’ International messaging environment, focusing on the email migration & mailbox server consolidation effort. (Destination mailbox servers being in Asia, Europe, & the USA.) Espousing the highest level of Exchange support, enhancing the technical relationship with Microsoft Consulting & third party product partners, as well as creating numerous advanced VBScripts, such as query-based distribution group creation (in a mixed mode Exchange environment), scripting the entire migration process, (in the process, unmasking the need for Microsoft to create a CDOEXM patch for Exchange 2003. KB Article: 883652) thus enabling the automated worldwide migration of the Exchange 2003 mailboxes based on assorted criteria. – Changing Active Directory settings, along with logging & Administrator notification, (By Email) and numerous more. – Heavy Remedy usage for service, documentation, & change management.

Interacted on a regular basis with executive level management, assisting in the mapping of the messaging infrastructure to their business initiatives. (Such as, implementing Microsoft clustering technologies, implementation of MOM 2005, the streamlining of Ironmail and TrendMicro ScanMail, and more.)

On request, for investigative purposes, created email intercept methodology, to enable the revealing of company email policy breaches.
     
 

Methods used include:
  - Worldwide Microsoft Exchange 2003 server configurations using multiple domain, OWA, & SAN technologies.
  - Advanced VBScript creation for mailbox move & Active Directory configurations, User Management, & dynamic distribution membership. (in a mixed mode environment)
  - Extensive MDBView (mdbvu32) usage for Exchange Mailbox, Mailbox Rules, & Public Folder repair.
  - Blackberry 4.0 server & user configurations.
  - Tivoli & LogCaster for server & event management.
  - Remedy 6.0 for Service & Change management.
  - Project reporting to executive management & co-workers.
  - And much more.
   
• SENIOR PRINCIPAL MIGRATION TECH LEAD –- US SENATE MIGRATION
  VARIQ/GENERAL DYNAMICS, WASHINGTON DC, DC, August 2004 to February 2005
   
  Led 4 migration teams for the implementation US Senate’s Enterprise Authentication and Messaging migration, which involved migrating nearly 200 of such domains to newer platforms. The job scope involved creating and training the migration teams, ensuring each team’s migrations completed successfully, being the highest level technical support, and stepping in when an issue exceeded the team lead’s technical expertise. At the same time, leading my own team in our migrations, and therefore guaranteeing that the concurrent multiple migrations completed in the times allotted. Participating in pre-install, technical, managerial and team meetings, working together with subordinates, the project coordinator, and all executive managers in ensuring the project completed within the technical requirements, budget and time constraints.

Was the Senior Migration specialist for the project in meetings with the SAA, SAs (Senator System Administrators), as well as acting as the technical “go-between” for Chief of Staff, (for each Senator) Project Managers, and all levels of General Dynamics’ Senior Executive Managers with the migration process. Was active in resolving obstacles, streamlining migration best practices, documentation, diffusing personnel flare-ups, and insuring their well being and job placement satisfaction.

Streamlined the “zero touch” ADS server rollout configuration, investigated and introduced “government level” data wiping, as it was required to be able to re-use the server media for new server installations. Successfully recovered the Senate Majority leader’s speeches, using forensic data recovery methods when the computer hosting the speeches failed.
     
 

Methods used include:
  - Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 for labs & script testing.
  - Microsoft Windows 2003 Active Directory design, & multiple distributed server configurations.
  - Microsoft Exchange 2003 server configurations using clustering and SAN technologies.
  - Microsoft Visio 2003 & Word 2003 for documentation of the design & implementation.
  - Microsoft ADS 1.0 for Domain Controller, & Exchange 2003 server rollouts.
  - Blackberry 3.6 server & user configurations. (Including the desktop manager)
  - Microsoft Project 2003 for project planning, & resource management.
  - And much more.
   
• SENIOR ENTERPRISE MIGRATION CONSULTANT
  Edsontech, New York, NY, June 2004 to July 2004.
   
  Architected the Dell & Microsoft design & implementation for the Windows 2003 Active Directory & Exchange 2003 server migration, for the Department of Sanitation of the City of New York.

Architecture involved a complete redundant network on all 7 OSI layers, able to survive a complete shutdown of all active devices, & function as if no error had happened! It involved a split network, so continuous backup traffic could be made along one network, while authenticated network clients had secure, full speed access to the services along a separate network! Details too numerous to put on paper, but available upon request.

Methods used enclude:
  - Design & implementation based on Microsoft WSSRA & MSF methodology.
  - Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 for lab.
  - Microsoft Virtual Server for expanded lab.
  - Microsoft Windows 2003 Active Directory architecture, & multiple distributed server configurations.
  - Microsoft Exchange 2003 messaging architecture, using clustering and SAN technologies.
  - Microsoft Visio 2003 & Word 2003 for documentation of the design & implementation.
  - Microsoft MOM 2005 configuration.
  - Microsoft SQL 2000 server cluster configurations.
  - IAS for RADIUS configuration to support a wired LAN (Switch) based 802.1x implementation.
  - Numerous Cluster, SAN & network related issues identified & resolved.
  - And much more.
   
• SENIOR ENTERPRISE MIGRATION CONSULTANT
  Edsontech, Dallas, TX, January 2004 to May 2004.
   
  Successfully designed & migrated a multiple Windows NT 4.0 domain, & multisite Exchange 5.5 to a single Windows 2003 Active Directory & single organization Exchange 2003 migration with multiple Administration & Routing Groups, for one of the largest multi-branch Texas based construction companies; spanning a wide geographical location. Methods used enclude:
  - Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 for lab.
  - Microsoft Virtual Server for expanded lab.
  - Microsoft IIS 6.0 SMTP Relay configuration for Smarthost/SPAM sink setup.
  - Veritas BackupExec 9.1 for lab Exchange backup & restores.
  - Microsoft Visio 2003 & Word 2003 for documentation..
  - Multiple routing scenarios, including emulating the Internet Root DNS servers & public email domains for email generation in the labs.
  - Complete Microsoft SMS 2003 lab configuration, testing & documenting.
  - Microsoft Windows 2003 server configurations.
  - Microsoft Exchange 2003 server configurations.
  - Microsoft SQL 2000 server configuration. (for SMS 2003 install)
   
• SENIOR ENTERPRISE MIGRATION CONSULTANT
  Edsontech, San Antonio, TX, July 2003 to January 2004.
   
  Sucessfully headed up a Novell 5.1, Windows NT 4.0, & Exchange 5.5 to Windows 2003 Active Directory, & Exchange 2003 migration for a large multi-branch migration project for a major South Texas Bank Infrastructure. Tasks Completed include:
- Active Directory Design and Implementation.
  - Training for enterprise technicians and senior information technology staff on Windows 2003 Server, Exchange 2003 Server, ISA 2000 Server, McAfee Security ePolicy Orchestrator 3.01 and more.
  - Migration from Netware and Windows NT 4.0 based server environment to Windows 2003 domain environment.
  - Exchange 5.5 migration to Exchange 2003.
  - Application migrations from Netware to Windows 2003 servers.
  - Workstation Migration to Windows XP and Windows 2003 domain environment.
  - Windows 2003 Security design an implementation.
  - Group Policy design and implementation.
  - Documentation of Windows 2003 Policies and Procedures to conform to Federal Audit Examinations.
  - Enterprise roll out of new Windows 2003 based applications.
  - Implementation of Software Update Services, McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 3.01, and ISA 2000 Server.
  - Created new Networking Operations Manual for the new Windows 2003 environment.
  - Designed and implemented a backup strategy and disaster recovery plan for the new Windows 2003 Server environment.
   
• MCSE 2000/2003, CCNA/CCNP TEACHER
  Technow, San Antonio, TX, January 2001 to Present.
   
  Have taught the complete new Windows 2000 MCSE track. Including, but not limited to: Track 70-210 (Professional), 70-215 (Server), 70-216 (Infrastructure), 70-217 (Directory), 70-220 (Designing Security), 70-221 (Designing Network), 70-222 (Migrating), and others. Most recently, the Cisco CCNA track, along with the complete CCNP track also being a teaching skill, as well as the Network+ and A+ certifications.
   
• LEAD ENTERPRISE CONSULTANT
  fms Technologies, San Antonio, TX, September 2001 to September 2002
   
  Have been the Lead Enterprise Consultant for fms Technologies’ client consulting endeavors, primarily as the design architect and implementation for Windows 2000 Active Directory with, in some cases, complex Group Policy structures. Exchange 2000 configurations, as well as Cisco 515 PIX DMZ solutions, and Cisco 506 PIX based firewalls for their education and commercial clients. Including:
 
- Boerne ISD – Windows 2000 migration, Exchange 2000 in a front end/back end configuration. Cisco PIX 515 firewall with a DMZ setup (Exchange front end server and Web server in DMZ). Remote Installation service setup for Windows XP Professional with Office XP and Antivirus solution rollout to client computers.
- Fredericksburg ISD – Windows 2000 migration, and Exchange 2000 migration from Symantec Mail-Gear.
- Kerrville ISD – Windows 2000 migration, Exchange 2000 implementation, and Remote Installation service setup for client pc rollout.
- Ingram ISD – Windows 2000 migration, and Exchange 2000 migration from Symantec Mail-Gear.
- Harper ISD – Windows 2000 migration
- Brackettville ISD – Windows 2000 migration and Exchange 2000 implementation.
- Parent/Child Inc. - Windows 2000 migration, Terminal server service implementation.
- ATSI - Windows 2000 migration, Exchange 2000 Cisco router configurations for network redesign, and Cisco PIX DMZ implementation.
- Thornton & Summers - Windows 2000 migration, Exchange 2000 and Terminal server service implementation.
Numerous others. Many of these involving over 5000 client workstation computers.
   
• NETWORK ANALYST
  MyDocOnline, Austin, TX, March 2001 to August 2001
   
  Was the senior network analyst consultant for migrating the MyDocOnline network to their new parent company Aventis. The project entailed configuring Cisco 3660, 2610, (both with T1 lines) and 802 series routers (NAT), Cisco 6500 and 3500 series switches (inline power for VOIP) for a new VLAN enabled internal network configuration. Server setup on NT 4.0 Server w/Exchange 5.5 (POP3 and OWA setup), RAS and VPN access, & new Windows 2000 based servers supplying FTP,VPN,DNS, and file/print services, as well as encrypted SSL enabled Terminal server setup (for secure connectivity from the internet). Was also closely involved in supporting the internal end users along with another consultant.
   
• SENIOR TECHNICIAN
  Golden Opportunities, San Antonio, TX, 1995 to 2001
   
  Network and computer design, installation, and maintenance for all contracts with customers of Golden Opportunities, and consulting firms, including:
 
- York Process Systems - Troubleshooting of token-ring network failure, configuration of ethernet to token-ring transparent bridging. Configuration of MS Windows NetBIOS services WINS to repair logon capability. Migration from Novell 4.1 to Windows NT 4.0, & later to Windows 2000. Troubleshooting of network connectivity problem. (there was a strong magnetic field being generated, causing crosstalk problems with the CAT 5 cabling, problem was fixed by using shielded cabling in it's place. Numerous other fixes. Network connectivity with large office printers, plotters, and copiers.
- Kuper Realty - Implementation of a Windows 2000 Active Directory setup, to replace a previous peer-to-peer setup. Implemented a broadband (cable modem) solution with MS Proxy server for a firewalled internet/MLS access & VPN connectivity with the remote office. Numerous other fixes, & network connectivity with large office color printers & copiers.
- Alamo Workforce Development, Bexar County Information Services, San Antonio ISD, University Health System, and VIA Transportation - Involved in assembling and troubleshooting Intel-based personal computers. The projects were in response to numerous bids won for multiple personal computers and printers over several years.
Small business clients too numerous to name. Consulting with all aspects of network and software solutions.
   
• SYSTEMS ANALYST AND COMPUTER CONSULTANT
  Have installed and maintained computers throughout Latin America and the USA (in English and Spanish) for a wide variety of corporations as well as individuals. 1989 – 2001, 2002 - Present.
   
• OTHER
  I have lived and worked with people of many nationalities all over the world as a non-denominational missionary and have considerable experience getting along well with peers, subordinates, and management.
   
   
Updated on December 7, 2009 Copyright © 2009 Luke Edson
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