Aaron Miller
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Experience:
7/07 to current
CORT Business Services – Austin, TX
Sr. Windows Administrator
Lead support engineer for a 1,800 user, retail and rental company.

• Simultaneously migrating 3 Active Directory domains into a new (Green Field) domain with 1800 users, 2000 computers, and over 100 servers.
• Consolidating 3 disparate email systems into 1 Exchange 2007 environment for 1800 users.
• Successfully planned, managed, and executed the physical move of a Co-Located Data Center, consisting of approximately 30 servers and 1 SAN.
• Redesigned and configured VMWare ESX infrastructure to provide better performance and high availability.
• Deployed Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 to manage Active Directory, Exchange 2007, all Window Servers, Network Devices with SNMP, and Redhat Linux server with SNMP.
• Deployed Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 for 1600 users.

5/07 to 06/07 ModisIT – Austin, TX (Contract to The Home Depot)
Sr. Systems Engineer

• Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance project work.

6/05 to 05/07 Temple-Inland – Austin, TX
Windows Server Admin Sr II (Active Directory\Exchange Specialist)
Lead support engineer for a 16,000 user, Fortune 500 Manufacturing \ Financial Services company.

• Designed and Implemented Delegation of Authority model for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Support 2 Active Directory forests with a total of 6 domains and approximately 16000 users.
• Lead member of Disaster Recovery team for Active Directory, Exchange, and File\Print Servers.
• Lead member of Active Directory & Exchange 2003 migration project.
• Designed a VMWare ESX remote server solution for server refresh\consolidation project.
• Developed a method to automatically set password for servers and change them monthly.

2/04 to 6/05 Silicon Laboratories – Austin, TX (Contract to Hire via Sapphire)
Sr. Systems Administrator
Lead support engineer for a 500 user, international high tech chip manufacturer.

• Redesigned existing Active Directory 2000 environment.
• Designed and Implemented Delegation of Authority model for Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
• Upgraded company to Active Directory 2003
• Designed Exchange 2003 migration plan.
• Designed and Implemented Live Communication Server 2005.
• Support Citrix farm of 7 Servers.
• Support Intranet on Sharepoint Portal Server 2001, planned migration to 2003.
• Lead member of Recovery Data Center project.
• Wrote several ASP.Net and C# applications for ad-hoc use by users, coworkers, and self.
• Served on Change Control Review Board
• Gather requirements for User Provisioning application and managed the developers that wrote the asp.net tool.

1/04 to 2/04 TEKSystems – Austin, TX (Contract to Ercot)
Application Packaging Lead
Lead consultant to migrate ad-hoc application deployment to a controlled process.

• Lead member for full suite of Altiris product deployment team.
• Packaged 50+ applications in MSI with WISE tools.
• Consulted on Active Directory issues and redesign planning.

1/03 to 12/03 Digicosm Corporation – Austin, TX
Owner, Principal Consultant

• Multiple Small Business Server 2003 implementations at various Doctor and Lawyer offices.
• Managed vendor relationship with Dell and CDW.
• Managed Microsoft Certified Partner account.

04/03 to 07/03 (Contract to CompuCom on E&J Gallo account)
Sr. Microsoft Consultant / Development Lead / Application Testing SME

• Same as position with Loch Technologies, just change in contract relationship)

6/02 to 4/03 Loch Technologies – Austin, TX (Contract to CompuCom on E&J Gallo account)
Sr. Microsoft Consultant / Application Testing SME
Lead consultant in a 4000 user, multi-national environment, migrating from NT4 \ 9X to W2K Active Directory \ Windows XP.

• Member of Active Directory Architecture Team.
• Lead Member of Migration Team using NetIQ migration tools.
• Designed the testing environment and developed testing processes and procedures.
• Altiris Deployment and Notification Server implementation Architect.
• Managed roll-out of Altiris clients to Legacy environment for information gathering and Readiness Assessment.
• Engineered build methodology, deployment strategy, and support processes for Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server migration.
• Engineered build methodology, deployment strategy, and support processes for Windows XP Professional migration
• Engineered the processes for application packaging, testing, deployment, and support in a managed environment using Altiris and Wise Packaging tools.
• Manager of Lab with a 6 member development team.
• Reviewed Help Desk Scripts to prepare them for Windows XP and Active Directory.
• Developed custom C# .Net applications to add computers to specific OU’s with ADSI, and used LDAP structure to get custom computer name prefix based on OU.

7/01 to 6/02 BestStaff – Houston, TX (Contract to CSC on Equiva, Motiva, Equilon account)
Sr. Integration Specialist / Lead Technical Architect

• Worked on Active Directory architecture team by creating and applying policies, OU structure creation, and worked on VBScript based logon script.
• Designed and implemented Lab Active Directory for migration and application testing.
• Lead Desktop and Server Engineer of Common Operating Environment (COE) for Windows 2000 deployment.
• Developed Automated Windows XP Professional image build process.
• Used scripted installation and PC cloning practices to create a single OS install to support 8 different desktop and laptop hardware platforms.
• Worked with USMT and ADMT to develop user migration strategy.
• Wrote custom VBScripts using WSH and WMI to perform functions during desktop builds.
• Packaged applications with Wise Package Studio 3 for remote deployment.
• Developed a Web Site and Database with ASP and SQL 2000. The site was to be used enterprise wide for the Windows 2000 deployment effort.
• Used knowledge of Capabilities Maturity Model (CMM) to create and lead development team to Plan, Design, and Build a web based department interface; written in ASP, XML, XSL, VBScript and JavaScript with a SQL Server backend.
• Developed, documented and implemented a standard Configuration Management solution for all projects.
• Proposed, implemented, and managed automated testing solution using Mercury Testing Tools.
• Installed and configure MS SharePoint for a Departmental Portal and Documentation Management solution.
• Served on Change Control Approval Board.

6/00 to 7/01 Sapphire Technologies – Houston, TX (Contract to Air Liquide America Corp.)
Systems Integrator

• Managed development environment for Oracle Global ERP development team.
• Managed Version Control and Problem Tracking Software with PVCS (Version Manager & Tracker)
• Sr. EDI Technician for the US, using Sterling Commerce’s Gentran: Server and X12/XML standards.
• Worked with Mercury Testing Tools to implement automated testing.

10/99 to 7/00 World Trade Network (wt.net) - Spring, TX
Technical Support

• Provide direct customer support in office and through the phone to resolve hardware and software problems such as incorrect configurations of Windows Networking for use with wt.net and other configuration and installation issues.
• Answer technical support and user questions pertaining to use of Windows 9x, NT and Macintosh OS.
• Monitored and Maintained POP Network and Servers.

6/98 to 10/98 Chipsmart - Spring, TX
Computer Technician

• Constructed custom computers on build-to-order basis.
• Consisted of installing all aspects from the motherboard to the Operating System.
• Provided On-site, and telephone technical support.

Skills:
Microsoft Software:
Windows NT, Windows 2000 & XP Pro, All Windows 2000 Server, All Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, SQL Server 2000 & 2005, ISA Server 2000-2006, Live Communication Server 2005, Small Business Server 2000 & 2003, Exchange 2003-2007
Other Software:
VMWare ESX2.5 & 3, Aelita Enterprise Directory Manager (now Quest Active Roles), Quest Intrust, Quest Migration Suite, Quest Reporter, Barracuda Spam Firewall
Programming:
DotNet 1.1 & 2.0 C# & VB.Net, VB6, VBScript, WSH, WMI, ADSI, JavaScript, ASP.Net, ASP, HTML, XML, XSL, SQL

Certifications:
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator 2003 (MCSA 2003)
Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA)
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 2003 (MCSE 2003)
VMWare Certified Professional (VCP)

Education:
2004 - 2005 Austin County College - Austin, TX
1998 - 2001 Montgomery County College - Conroe, TX
Major: Computer Information Systems (2 years completed thus far)

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