Woodward W. Walton Jr.

Edison, NJ 08817 732-406-6965 wwalton274@gmail.com

 

Wintel Solution Architect

 

Professional Summary

Accomplished, results-driven Senior System Administrator with 20+ years experience in a Global IT shop. Extensive expertise with business-critical systems for front /back office applications supporting hardware and software systems

·              Proactive problem solver and troubleshooter with multi systems and protocols in the same networking environments.

·              Architect and Design infrastructure that fit into client’s new or existing systems from the purchasing phase through implementation and maintenance. 

·              Support Roll backend for Energy Trading Division

·              Data Center Designs and Disaster Recovery planning and periodic testing

·              Cyber Security Risk Assessment primary contact with

Honeywell and Homeland Security

·              Design and Implementations of acquired company into their new company’s corporate it systems.

·              Office 365 Migration with DirSync and Azure ADSync tools.

·              Design and implementation server consolidation planning to Virtualization to VMware Servers

 

 

Technical Cloud: Office 365, Azure AD, Traffic Manager, AWS, AD Sync

Computers: All Desktops & Laptops IBM Dell HP Clones

Servers: HP- Compaq, Sun Sparc, AS/400, Dell, and IBM

SAN: IBM HP EVA, EMC

O/S: Windows 2000-2012 & XP Windows 7, Vmware 2.51 to 5.1, Citrix Netware 3.12 to 5.0

Cloud: Office 365, Azure AD, Traffic Manager, AWS

Backup: Symantec Backup Exec, ESX Ranger, Tivoli

Virtualization: P2V Platespin VMware Converter, Ghost, Acronis

Security: Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro

Citrix: Presentation Server, Publish Applications, Access Gateway

E-mail: MS Exchange 2000-2013,Office 365, DirSync, Azure ADSync, Lotus Notes, Google mail migration

Network Management: HP Openview, HP SIM Dell Open Manage

Systems: SCADA Networks, PLC’s

Software: Honeywell Experion, AspenTech Advisor and DMC, Rockwell RS Linx

 

 

 

 

 

 

Profession Experience

Jet.com Consultant

Sept 2015-Present

Review ADFS configuration and test. Add third party application to ADFS. Upgrade Azure AADSync to Azure Connect create and test Azure SSO application in the Azure AD domain Office 365 support. Document design and write up process for this startup.

·  AD architecture and planning.

·  Azure Connect implementation upgrade

·  WDS review and image setup.

·  Fail over test Azure traffic manager

·  Azure Cloud service review.

 

 

 

IBM Global Design Architect

March 2015-Sept 2015

Working with Design team and OP with Groupm and WPP move to IBM outsourcing team. Upgrade from Dirsync to Azure ADSync and maintaining Adaxes AD tools. Working with the Office 365 team migrate other domains to Groupm tenant.

·  AD architecture and planning.

·  Azure AADSync implementation upgrade

·  Add new features to Adaxes and research problems and upgrades.

·  Add features to AD to support move to IBM.

 

 

VDX Senior Wintel Engineer

Jan 2015-March 2015

Access client to migrate current e-mail to office 365. Assess current infrastructure, design new systems to support migration and support mail flow. Document and assist test migration plan and train staff on the new systems and product of the new environment.

·  Directory service architecture, planning and implementation using Dirsync, AADSync, ADFS with Azure.

·  Authentication and security best practices.

·  Exchange architecture, planning and migration assistance.

·  Testing of all phase of migration

·  Integration of on-premises services.

·  Deployment planning of O365 client products.

 

 

Atos Wintel Solution Architect Hightstown NJ

Sept 2013 to Dec 2014

Wintel Architect for McGraw Hill Education spinoff from the partner Corp to private company. Duty to review systems and develop design documentation for separation project. Find dependency and develop solution to build new systems and migrate too new data centers. Managed a six member Wintel team to implement the design doc. Pulled off that part of the project to get EUC (End User computing) projects on track.

Main project was migration of exchange 2007 to Office 365 into the Microsoft cloud.

·  Develop Architect design for Active Directory, MS Exchange, SharePoint, SEP, FIM, Citrix, VMware, Print Services, Asset management and others

·  Build out two new Data Center with new hardware to support separation.

·  Established methodology to migrate NAS and SAN devices to new data center.

·  Wrote firewall rules to create a tunnel for the old shared network to new data centers. Both internally and externally

·  Worked with international team to do the same in the UK and Singapore data centers.

·  Setup Jump servers for support staff so there could manage the new system during transient

·  Test and development of a plan for Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2007 migration to Office 365 MS cloud.

·  Office 365 was a staged migration because of the limitation that McGraw Hill Corp would aloud.

·  Cleanup of Active directory to support the migrated

·  Install dirsync and turned over problem AD object to support staff to fix

·  Install hybrid exchange server

·  Migrated test users and worked with test case problem.

·  Updated SPF records to support Migration.

·  Develop troubleshooting documentation for the help desk and pc support staff.

·  Helped train L3 and L2 support staff on issue with migration users.

·  Moved Domain controller to new network created update to Ad site and services to add new IP address range remove old.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hess Corp   Application System Consultant; Port Reading NJ

1999- March 2013

Administration of the Process Control Domain and all Hardware and software that support the process control systems.

·  Develop Architect design and integrate with both Hardware and Software implementation

·  Improved Physical and AD System Security by adding hardware and approved system level processes

·  Established backup system reliability and recover procedures

·  Upgrades hardware platform, O/S versions and  software release to newer supported versions

·  Consolidated systems using virtualization reduce rack space and improve energy cost plus eliminated heat problems

·  Implementation of system monitoring so we could be more proactive and not reactive.

Hess Corp.Senior System Engineer;Woodbridge NJ

As member of the Server Support Team was responsible for 450 Windows and vmware servers. Plus Global duty’s for AD and MS Exchange servers. Monitoring and Troubleshooting; DR planning; Design and Implementations of Corp acquisitions into company’s IT systems. Lab manager for all testing and development of AD consolidation and testing of project with also included Microsoft Exchange 5.5 move to Exchange 2000 and then to 2003

·  Develop Architect design and integrate with both Hardware and Software implementation.

·  Improvement and upgraded MS Exchange 2000 and 2003 systems with integration to fax, SAP and share point systems

·  Design and implemented systems to support environments from Database (Oracle Sybase SQL) and Data marks.

·  Support Roll backend for Energy Trading Division Databases, data feeds and trading software.

·  Established Server consolidation of over 400 windows servers to Vmware. Virtualization including these types of servers, Domain
Controller, Database, E-mail and blackberry servers.

·  Installed Vmware clusters servers using HA and SAN technology

·  Designed ESX Ranger Backups environment to backup the vmware servers

·  Design and implemented a consolidation of 9 NT 4.0 domains into one new Microsoft AD domain.

 

BOC GroupSenior Technical Specialist; Murray Hill NJ

1997-1999

Supported Microsoft Windows servers, Ccmail and Exchange Systems. Responsible for over 140 NT servers located throughout the US in multiple domains and trusts relationships worldwide.

·  Design and implement other divisions domain’s into one within the United State domain  

·  Upgraded remotely manage of servers and enhance local system design and performance.

·  Responsible for Global WINS, DNS system integration that was pushed out world wide inside the company’s many domain’s

·  Member of global 5 member E-Mail migration team from Ccmail and MS mail to MS-Exchange 5.5.

·  Design the standard NT 4.0 build documentation for all servers.

·  Responsible for testing of all new systems software in lab environment before installation into production network.

 

Prior Experience:

Modern Technologies Corp –Sytex Inc.    

System Analyst

Worked as a System Analyst for Department of Defense, overseeing Information Management Branch.  Set policies and review for approval of all equipment and software purchasing orders submitted by subordinate project managers.  Troubleshoot all system problems and oversee resolutions; Review and advise in-house and off-site locations pertaining to system enhancements.

·  Managed the moves of two organizations to Fort Monmouth of all ADP equipment, handling design, installation, and scheduling of wiring requirements for LAN and telephone. 

·  Solicitation of bids and determination of qualified vendors needed for projects. 

·  Worked on survey for the year 2000.

 

CPS Chemical Company Inc.             

Network Administrator

Duties included all LAN and WAN Communications dialup and lease line. System connectivity between Novell, SCO and AS/400.

·  Evaluate, recommend and purchase hardware and software products for company-wide integration. 

·  Implementation of system that gathers data from lab instruments, inputs the data into the software in PC’s which are networked.

·  Design, installation and maintenance of cisco router for WAN communications.

 

 

Education:

B.S. Education – Trenton State College

 

Certification

CNE Certified Netware Engineer  3.12 4.0 & 5.0

 

 

 

Training

MS Exchange 2010                                      

MS Exchange 2003                                        

MS Exchange 2000                                        

MS Exchange 5.5 Administration                   

MS Exchange 5.5 Design and Implementation

Vmware 2.5 and 3.0.1  

Honeywell Experion Installation and Administration

Honeywell Uniformance PHD System Administration

Honeywell HMI Graphics Design and Building

Honeywell TPS Fundamentals GUS LCN/UCN Implementation

ERDAS Training GIS Software

AS/400 System Operations course