BRIAN E. LILJA

4540 Redstone Ridge Road

Monument, CO 80132

brianlilja@hotmail.com

(720) 314-8450

 

 

Enterprise architect with over 30-years’ experience planning, developing and implementing entity-wide, information-technology (IT) programs and policies that support both the organization’s internal requirements and external client needs. Extensive architecture design and systems integration experience in large, national and international organizations with extremely complicated, diverse and dispersed operational environments. Possess an unmatched breadth and depth of technology knowledge regardless of platform, system, application or hardware. Excel at providing comprehensive, senior-level technology guidance and support for product engineering and development, needs’ assessments, enterprise architecture design, and systems integration. Self-motivated, independent, cooperative, flexible, creative, maintain sense of humor under pressure.

 

Active Top Secret Security Clearance.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Northvale Technology Services; Monument, CO

2013 – Present; 2003 – 2005

High-tech consulting services company, providing large-scale design, architecture and implementation guidance and support to regional, national, and international Fortune 1000 companies.

Principal

·         Provide on-site and remote technology management; product engineering and development; needs’ assessments; enterprise architecture design; and systems integration to large, national and international organizations with extremely complicated, diverse and dispersed operational environments.

·         Responsible for business development, client acquisition and relationship management, as well as, day-to-day firm direction and P&L responsibility

·         Architected cloud offerings leveraging the following technologies to address functionality, scalability, reliability, performance and suitability:

o        Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon Cloudwatch, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS, Virtual Private Cloud, Elastic Load Balancing, High Availability across Zones and Regions.

o        Rackspace Cloud, Open Stack - Cloud Servers, Cloud Databases, Cloud DNS

o        Windows Azure - Web Sites, Virtual Machine, SQL Database, Storage, Add-Ons

·         Customer Engagements:

o        Verio, Inc.; Denver, CO: Conducted performance and security analysis of UNIX-based hosting services. Served as wireless subject-matter expert for potential wireless integration between Motorola wireless applications and Verio hosting services.

o        Mega Clinics, LLC; Colorado Springs, CO: Integrated in-house web environment with NetSuite billing application using XML, PHP, Oracle database.

o        Microsoft Partner, National: Provided onsite and remote architecture, design, and migration services for Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, Active Directory and Office 365 products and services to clients nationwide, including Viacom-CBS, Comcast, E.J. Gallo, Fair Isaac, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, and Cigna Insurance.

o        BEA Systems, San Jose, CA: Architected and implemented a worldwide, 6,000-seat Exchange deployment across fifteen international sites. Implemented Exchange and Active Directory monitoring, management, and fault resolution.

 

CO3 Media; Colorado Springs, CO

2012 – 2013

Chief Technology Officer

·         Created, designed and implemented highly available, intelligent, cloud-based lead generation and tracking customer applications using real-time user demographic and habit data.

·         Implemented a load-balanced solution across different geographic locations using both Rackspace and Amazon cloud offerings leveraging the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack.

·         Responsible for company-wide IT planning, development and direction, establishing and directing changes to enterprise applications and systems, including server, storage, network, security, messaging infrastructure technologies and knowledge management capabilities.

·         Worked with all departments to define, select, develop and implement applications and systems to support business objectives and maximize efficiency and effectiveness.

·         Managed organization infrastructure, including phones; laptops; mobile communication devices; onsite, cloud and virtual servers.

·         Oversaw and evaluated system security and backup procedures.

·         Researched, negotiated and managed vendor relationships – from contract negotiations to implementation. 

 

Microsoft Corporation; Washington, DC

2007 – 2012; 2005 – 2006

Senior Consultant II

·         Cloud Architecture and Deployment: Architected and deployed large-scale, cloud-based Office 365 hosted solutions, including Exchange, SharePoint, Lync and Active Directory synchronization.

·         Solutions Provider Architect: Worked with industry leaders to develop enterprise-level service offerings. Provided business analysis of potential solutions, addressing client needs while maximizing competitive advantages.

·         Enterprise Messaging Architect: Provided senior-level architecture and design for Microsoft Exchange and Lync messaging environments, as well as, long-term strategic guidance for future Exchange deployments that supported the customer’s long-term business goals.

·         Operational Guidance and Best Practices: Provided customer with provisioning, support, and operational guidance and best practices. Analyzed existing operational expertise to identify improvement opportunities.

·         Customer Engagements: NTT America, Verio, Cbeyond, Gannett Publishing, Hughes Network Systems, Department of Interior, Democratic National Committee, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), U.S. House of Representatives, Kansas City Missouri School District, Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Science Foundation, Veterans Administration, Millennium Challenge Corporation and McCann World Group.

 

NTT America; Springfield, VA

2006 – 2007

Senior Director Solutions Engineering and Product Development, Enterprise Hosting Division

·         Management:

o        Established and directed the Enterprise Hosting Division’s Solutions Engineering and Product Development Group, consisting of twenty product development and engineering professionals. 

o        Tracked and managed the group’s budget.

o        Cultivated analyst relations with Gartner, IDC, and Tier 1.

·         Product Development: Responsible for new product identification, definition and development; service enhancements; vendor relationships; and marketplace analysis, product positioning and pricing. Product offerings included: messaging, backup, storage, hardware and OS systems, security, network, disaster recovery, archiving, virtualization, and software-as-a-service solutions.

·         Solutions Engineering: Provided design architecture support for new customer acquisition and product upsells; post-sale professional services; and RFP response coordination.

·         Engineering: Leveraging Agile methodology, developed and maintained asset and order management; trouble ticketing, monitoring and alarming; and customer portal solutions for national and international customers.

·         Customer Engagements: Canon, Sony, EDS, Marubeni, Trend Micro, NTT Communications, Live Person, Golf.Com, and U.S. Government entities.

 

USA.NET; Colorado Springs, CO

1998 – 2002

Chief Architect

·         Management: Built and managed a team of architects and software engineers responsible for future service innovations and current offering maintenance and enhancements.

·         Email/Messaging Architecture and Implementation:

o        Architected and led the development of USA.NET’s consumer and corporate Web-email service offering, integrating UNIX, Windows and Oracle to support over 15-million individual users within thousands of unique domain names.

o        Architected and implemented a more than 1,000,000-seat, hosted Exchange service, which, at the time, was the largest hosted Exchange service offering in the world.

o        Charter member of Microsoft’s Exchange Joint Development Program (JDP); an invitation-only think tank that provided feedback and input to guide Microsoft in current and future technology and engineering decisions about Exchange and Windows features and capabilities.

·         Storage/Datacenter:

o        Designed USA.NET’s datacenter with multiple power feeds, onsite generator backup, multiple network connectivity, fire suppression, raised floor, and multiple levels of cardkey access.

o        Designed and implemented HP Openview management architecture for managing Sun Solaris, HP/UX, Cisco equipment and Windows servers for troubleshooting and proactive problem resolution.

·         Application Integration:

o        Worked directly with Research in Motion to architect and integrate the Blackberry service to run in a hosted environment; the first deployment of its kind.

o        Integrated Trend Micro anti-virus software solution across the Exchange and UNIX service. 

o        Integrated VeriSign digital certificates into all product offerings, providing secure message delivery between end users and corporations.

·         Migration:

o        Migrated more than 100,000 corporate email users to Exchange from Lotus Notes, cc:Mail, Openmail, Netscape, and Internet POP/IMAP solutions.

o        Migrated more than 250,000 Palm.net users to USA.NET’s hosted email service.

 

MCI; Colorado Springs, CO

1993 – 1998

·         Senior Engineer II: Designed and architected MCI’s primary SMTP backbone, which integrated all existing messaging systems; routed over 7.5 million messages a week; and supported more than 100,000 POP3 polling transactions an hour. LDAP directory services provided access to key corporate information – email address, telephone number and location. Secure dial-in provided offsite access using a two-password challenge response access method, allowing users full access to MCI’s resources.

·         Senior Staff Specialist III: Designed and implemented a client/server-based LAN/WAN email system that integrated cc:Mail, MSMail, Lotus Notes, Word Perfect Office, Davinci, Profs, All-in-1, and SMTP mail with MCIMail. Planned and deployed a pilot program that integrated audio, video, and voice recognition technologies into MCIMail.

 

Digital Equipment Corporation; Colorado Springs, CO

1982 – 1992

·         Information and Technologies Consultant: Provided nationwide onsite customer Internet technologies design and support. Planned, designed and implemented corporate data centers. Participated in the design and development of Digital's Polycenter (DECmcc) architecture and products – the company’s overall network and system management umbrella. Tested and evaluated vendor equipment for use in network/system designs, including products by Cabletron, Chipcom, Cisco, Motorola, Network General, Stratacom, Synoptics, Telebit, Vitalink, Wellfleet; Digital, Sun, HP and IBM products and interfaced with all major Telecom providers.

·         Ultrix Support and Engineering Consultant: Provided Tier 4 support of Ultrix kernel and applications, TCP/IP, and DECnet networks; fixed numerous "bugs" in Ultrix that involved C programming within the kernel, X windows, networking, and system applications; and supervised a 25-member team that provided day-to-day support of Ultrix.

·         Data Communications Consultant: Provided remote planning, design, installation, and management services for customer networks and supervised a 15-member team.

·         Customer Support Center Specialist: Provided telephone support for UNIX, TOPS-10, Tops-20, and VAX/VMS architectures; TCP/IP, DECnet, LAT, and Pathworks networks.

 

TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE

•         Cloud: Amazon AWS, Rackspace, Azure, Openstack

•         Systems: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Apache, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, MS-SQL, MySQL, Active Directory

•         Infrastructure Technologies: Virtualization, Cloud Computing, VOIP, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Network Attached Storage (NAS), Ethernet, Broadband, WiFi, FDDI, 10baseT, Token Ring, Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN

•         Internet Technologies: SMTP/MIME, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, HTTP, HTML, XML, Wikis, RSS, SIP, RTP

•         Programming Languages: C, Visual Basic, .Net, Perl, PHP, Java, AJAX, ASP, FORTRAN, LISP, PASCAL, COBOL, shell scripts

 

EDUCATION:  Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Colorado, 1983

 

Brian E. Lilja ◊ 4540 Redstone Ridge Road, Monument, CO 80132 ◊ brian@northvaleventures.com ◊ (720) 314-8450

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