John Conway

Current

President & CEO at Ananke, Inc.

Past

Lead Technical Architect / Technical Project Manager at Harvard University
Principal Consultant / Lead Technical Architect at Symbol Technologies, Inc.
Principal Consultant / Lead Active Directory Architect at Bryant University

Principal Consultant at Unicom
Principal Consultant / Lead Active Directory Architect at Citizens Bank
Lead Global Active Directory Architect for General Motors Project at EDS
Lead Global Active Directory Architect at General Motors
Senior Consultant at Interliant, Inc.
Senior Exchange Enterprise Architect / Engineer at XO Communications
Instructor at TMC Technology
Team Lead / Senior Analyst, Systems’ Operations at InVerge, Inc.
Manager / Senior Analyst, National NT Systems at BT Office Products
Manager / Senior Analyst, National NT Systems at Corporate Express
Consultant at BearingPoint
Consultant at KPMG
Senior Systems Administrator at Audionet
Senior Systems Administrator at Yahoo!
Senior Systems Administrator at Broadcast.com
Systems Administrator at Snelling and Snelling, Inc.
MIS Assistant and Applications Specialist / Systems Administrator at Portfolio Acceptance Corp.
MIS Assistant and Applications Specialist / Systems Administrator at NationsBank
MIS Assistant and Applications Specialist / Systems Administrator at Bank of America

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Education

DeVry University

Recommended

38 people have recommended John

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

John Conway’s Summary

john.conway@ananke.com (MyLink500.com)

John Conway brings ~15 years experience as a Senior Architect (with “Big 5” and Fortune 50 experience) designing, implementing, migrating, administering, and troubleshooting in global enterprises and both large-scale and small-scale environments. He has a solid background in Microsoft BackOffice products, networking, LAN/WAN design, large-scale server implementations and migrations, security, and administration with significant experience with Windows 2003 and 2000 Active Directory, NT 4.0, Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2000 and 5.5, Microsoft Clustering, Cisco networking equipment, and f5 load balancing equipment. His experience spans multiple industries including manufacturing and distribution, arts and entertainment, education, government, communications, financial, insurance, retail, technology, and service and consulting. A few of John’s large clients have included, General Motors, EDS, KPMG Peat Marwick, Harvard University, Broadcast.com (Yahoo!), NationsBank (Bank of America), Symbol Technologies, Woolworth, Snyder Oil, Snelling International, WellPoint, and many others. John has exceptional communication skills and a professional appearance.

John Conway’s Specialties:

Understanding Business Requirements and Providing Technical Solutions, Infrastructure Architecture, Systems Integration, Migrations, Identity Management, Provisioning, Microsoft Technologies, Messaging Technologies, Directory Strategies, Project Management, Documentation

John Conway’s Experience

President & CEO

Ananke, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1994 — Present (16 years )
Lead Technical Architect / Technical Project Manager

Harvard University

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

May 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 1 month)

John Conway was contracted by ‘University Information Systems’ to be the lead technical architect and technical project manager for the Windows 2003 Active Directory and Exchange 2003 projects at Harvard University. John was directly responsible for all phases of the projects including the technical project management, discoveries, architectures and engineering designs, peer-reviews for all architecture and engineering efforts, new process development, and implementations as well as implementing or managing support projects that enabled the continued forward progress of AD and Exchange projects. The environment was designed to scale and support a diverse environment shared by all areas of the university. The scope of the project was a university-wide design of, implementation of, and migration to Windows 2003 Active Directory, DHCP, WINS, DNS, DFS, and a SAN based Exchange 2003. The infrastructure was built using a combination of Microsoft’s 32-bit and x64 technologies.
Principal Consultant / Lead Technical Architect

Symbol Technologies, Inc.

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SBL; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

May 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 1 month)

John Conway was contracted to be the lead technical architect for a multi-million dollar project labeled “Project Morpheus” at Symbol Technologies, Inc. John was responsible for all architecture and engineering design work, peer-reviews for all architecture and engineering efforts, and new process development. The environment was designed to scale at a growth rate of 300% over five years and to support a diverse environment shared by manufacturing, distribution, product engineering, and back office operations. The scope of the project was a global design of, implementation of, and migration to Windows 2003 Active Directory, DHCP, WINS, DNS, DFS, SAN based File/Print and Exchange 2003, Avaya Modular Messaging, and a standard Windows XP workstation image. The existing environment consisted of various non-standard workstation OS platforms for ~7,000 users at ~95 locations worldwide, ~1000 Windows NT/2000 and Novell NDS, GroupWise and Exchange servers.
Principal Consultant / Lead Active Directory Architect

Bryant University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

February 2004 — April 2004 (3 months)

John Conway was engaged to design the Windows 2003 Active Directory, Exchange 2003, and SMS 2003 environment architectures for Bryant College. John designed the environments to be flexible enough to accommodate the yearly turnover of both ~4,000 students and ~400 employees as well as secure enough to withstand the demands of an academic institution.
Principal Consultant

Unicom

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2003 — April 2004 (1 year 3 months)

John Conway was engaged to be the lead AD architect for the AD integration project at Citizens Bank.

John Conway was engaged to design the Windows 2003 Active Directory, Exchange 2003, and SMS 2003 environment architectures for Bryant College.
Principal Consultant / Lead Active Directory Architect

Citizens Bank

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

February 2003 — February 2004 (1 year 1 month)

John Conway was engaged to be the lead AD architect for the AD integration project at Citizens Bank. Overall, John was responsible for all Windows 2003 and 2000 Architecture and engineering design work as well as peer-reviews for all architecture and engineering efforts. He architected an environment that will support a rapidly growing environment which was anticipated to quadruple from ~10,000 current users and ~900 locations to more than 40,000 users and 4,000 locations. John’s AD design allotted for an anticipated ~4,500 domain controllers (at least one DC in each location) within ~4,000 sites, 4 domains and 1 forest. John also architected and designed a high-level AD security model, high-level operational processes, and an enterprise naming standard for the bank. John also developed an enterprise migration strategy for moving from multiple NDS environments, 16 NT domains, and Windows 2000 domains to the Windows 2003 Active Directory environment.
Lead Global Active Directory Architect for General Motors Project

EDS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NYSE:EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2002 — February 2003 (6 months)

John Conway was contracted to be the Lead AD architect for all global Active Directory efforts and complete the current global architecture as well as re-architect the deployed environments to meet changing requirements. Overall, John was responsible for all Windows 2000 Architecture and design work as well as peer-reviews for all engineering efforts. He architected an environment that supported over 340,000 users, 240 domain controllers, 78 forests, hundreds of locations, multiple industries such as financial, engineering and manufacturing, and multiple companies owned by GM including OnStar, Saturn, GMAC, etc. John also architected and designed a global AD security model for RBAC (roles based access control) leveraging Quest ActiveRoles. John was part of the “core team” who were responsible for GM’s global directory strategies.
Lead Global Active Directory Architect

General Motors

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GM; Automotive industry)

September 2002 — February 2003 (6 months)

John Conway was contracted to be the Lead AD architect for all global Active Directory efforts and complete the current global architecture as well as re-architect the deployed environments to meet changing requirements. Overall, John was responsible for all Windows 2000 Architecture and design work as well as peer-reviews for all engineering efforts. He architected an environment that supported over 340,000 users, 240 domain controllers, 78 forests, hundreds of locations, multiple industries such as financial, engineering and manufacturing, and multiple companies owned by GM including OnStar, Saturn, GMAC, etc. John also architected and designed a global AD security model for RBAC (roles based access control) leveraging Quest ActiveRoles. John was part of the “core team” who were responsible for GM’s global directory strategies.
Senior Consultant

Interliant, Inc.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; INITQ.PK; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2002 — November 2002 (8 months)

John Conway was responsible for the Active Directory and Exchange 2000 architecture and designs for all of Interliant, Inc.’s clients as well as potential clients. He architected and designed for dedicated hosted, shared hosted, remotely monitored, and traditional corporate environments. John led a four person team to architect and design a 60,000 user hosted Active Directory and Exchange 2000 environment, the largest hosted environment to date. His design was reviewed and accepted as an “industry best practice” model by Microsoft Consulting Services. His clients included WellPoint, George Washington University, and others and ranged in size from 175 users to 60,000 users and have all been Active Directory and Exchange 2000 focused. In addition John created and presented technical solution proposals for large environments to clients such as Northrop Grumman.
Senior Exchange Enterprise Architect / Engineer

XO Communications

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XOCM; Telecommunications industry)

January 2001 — January 2002 (1 year 1 month)

John Conway was responsible for the XO Communications enterprise Exchange Environment. He provided a third level of support and escalation for both the NT and Exchange Engineers for all enterprise level Exchange and NT/2000 Server issues as well as a vast knowledge base and technical insight and troubleshooting sensitive and/or critical enterprise level issues as directed by upper level management. John made environment recommendations for enterprise planning and implementations and evaluated and implemented additional tools allowing real-time analysis and monitoring of Exchange enterprise environment(s). With these tools, he was able to analyze, report, and make recommendations for the planning/implementation of CNCX - XO environment co-existence and integration as well as implement the new environment and perform the 2,000+ user Org to Org migration.
Instructor

TMC Technology

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)

December 2000 — January 2001 (2 months)

John Conway was responsible for teaching a hands-on certification class, consisting of 12 professionals, over a period of 8 weeks.
Team Lead / Senior Analyst, Systems’ Operations

InVerge, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2000 — September 2000 (6 months)

John Conway architected and designed a complex Active Directory to accommodate the business demands made off the systems. This environment included multiple data centers across the US, including DataReturn and Exodus, diversely connected over a private frame relay cloud and through Level3’s facilities. Upon a successful conversion from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000, the server farm environments operated on Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server technology and utilized f5 BIGIP and f5 3DNS technology for local and global load balancing as well as Cisco 2600, 3600 routers, 2900 switches and Cisco PIX firewall technologies for network connectivity and security.
Manager / Senior Analyst, National NT Systems

BT Office Products

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NYSE: BUH; Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

February 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 6 months)

John Conway was responsible for all of BT Office Products International's national systems NT operations. He created project plans and successfully implemented strategies to reduce and eliminate client side downtime and server unavailability by:
Consolidating 36 WINS servers, nationwide, to 2 WINS servers, centrally located and managed.
Designing, migrating, and implementing a new Exchange environment to better suit the business needs of the company while adding redundancy and increasing performance.
Converting and migrating key servers to Windows 2000, utilizing the new technologies for increased stability

John also consolidated 18 DHCP servers to two, collapsed 18 Master User Domains to one, and designed/architected Active Directory and Exchange 2000 configurations as well as created the detailed project plan for the conversion to Windows 2000. These projects were part of a technology transfer from Dallas to Colorado in conjunction with the BT/Corporate Express merger.
Manager / Senior Analyst, National NT Systems

Corporate Express

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NYSE: BUH; Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

February 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 6 months)

John Conway was responsible for all of BT Office Products International's national systems NT operations. He created project plans and successfully implemented strategies to reduce and eliminate client side downtime and server unavailability by:
Consolidating 36 WINS servers, nationwide, to 2 WINS servers, centrally located and managed.
Designing, migrating, and implementing a new Exchange environment to better suit the business needs of the company while adding redundancy and increasing performance.
Converting and migrating key servers to Windows 2000, utilizing the new technologies for increased stability

John also consolidated 18 DHCP servers to two, collapsed 18 Master User Domains to one, and designed/architected Active Directory and Exchange 2000 configurations as well as created the detailed project plan for the conversion to Windows 2000. These projects were part of a technology transfer from Dallas to Colorado in conjunction with the BT/Corporate Express merger.
Consultant

BearingPoint

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BE; Management Consulting industry)

August 1997 — February 1999 (1 year 7 months)

John was a consultant in the Enterprise Integration Services practice of KPMG’s Strategic Services Consulting practice (now BearingPoint). He was responsible for and involved in a wide range of consulting assignments including design and post sale implementations of local/wide area networks in multi-vendor/multi-platform environments. He has experience in the design and implementation of large-scale network integration solutions that are manageable, and effectively support business purposes. John was also part of a rapid deployment team for Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000).
Consultant

KPMG

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1997 — February 1999 (1 year 7 months)

John was a consultant in the Enterprise Integration Services practice of KPMG’s Strategic Services Consulting practice. He was responsible for and involved in a wide range of consulting assignments including design and post sale implementations of local/wide area networks in multi-vendor/multi-platform environments. He has experience in the design and implementation of large-scale network integration solutions that are manageable, and effectively support business purposes. John was also part of a rapid deployment team for Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000).
Senior Systems Administrator

Audionet

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; BCST; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1996 — July 1997 (9 months)

Formerly AudioNet, John designed and implemented a multi-domain environment of over 500 Windows NT 4.0 Servers, Microsoft FTP servers for client updates, submittals and broadcast postings, Microsoft DNS servers, Microsoft IIS 3.0 servers with over 50 virtual sites and hosting over 3.7 million hits per day on the primary site alone, and migrating over 150 Windows NT 4.0 Workstations.
Design and implementation of Microsoft DHCP servers, Microsoft WINS servers, Microsoft Exchange 5.0 server utilizing POP3 technology and News server, POP3 mail servers using Post.Office, Microsoft Index server, Microsoft Chat server, Microsoft SQL Servers, Microsoft SMS 1.2 Servers.
Architecture, design and implementation of Video Streaming technologies. This included Satellite installations, Server builds and configurations, Progressive Network’s and Microsoft NetShow Encoding software installation and configuration, multicasting configurations and media encoding, streaming and archiving.
Senior Systems Administrator

Yahoo!

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NasdaqGS:YHOO; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1996 — July 1997 (9 months)

Formerly AudioNet, John designed and implemented a multi-domain environment of over 500 Windows NT 4.0 Servers, Microsoft FTP servers for client updates, submittals and broadcast postings, Microsoft DNS servers, Microsoft IIS 3.0 servers with over 50 virtual sites and hosting over 3.7 million hits per day on the primary site alone, and migrating over 150 Windows NT 4.0 Workstations.
Design and implementation of Microsoft DHCP servers, Microsoft WINS servers, Microsoft Exchange 5.0 server utilizing POP3 technology and News server, POP3 mail servers using Post.Office, Microsoft Index server, Microsoft Chat server, Microsoft SQL Servers, Microsoft SMS 1.2 Servers.
Architecture, design and implementation of Video Streaming technologies. This included Satellite installations, Server builds and configurations, Progressive Network’s and Microsoft NetShow Encoding software installation and configuration, multicasting configurations and media encoding, streaming and archiving.
Senior Systems Administrator

Broadcast.com

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; BCST; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1996 — July 1997 (9 months)

Formerly AudioNet, John designed and implemented a multi-domain environment of over 500 Windows NT 4.0 Servers, Microsoft FTP servers for client updates, submittals and broadcast postings, Microsoft DNS servers, Microsoft IIS 3.0 servers with over 50 virtual sites and hosting over 3.7 million hits per day on the primary site alone, and migrating over 150 Windows NT 4.0 Workstations.
Design and implementation of Microsoft DHCP servers, Microsoft WINS servers, Microsoft Exchange 5.0 server utilizing POP3 technology and News server, POP3 mail servers using Post.Office, Microsoft Index server, Microsoft Chat server, Microsoft SQL Servers, Microsoft SMS 1.2 Servers.
Architecture, design and implementation of Video Streaming technologies. This included Satellite installations, Server builds and configurations, Progressive Network’s and Microsoft NetShow Encoding software installation and configuration, multicasting configurations and media encoding, streaming and archiving.
Systems Administrator

Snelling and Snelling, Inc.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

January 1996 — October 1996 (10 months)

Network Administration including heavy Novell 3.11, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 95. Other responsibilities include helpdesk support, remote access support, nightly backup of five Novell 3.11 Servers using Palindrome, Microsoft Exchange local/remote e-mail support, new application roll out, ACT! Database administration and installation, SQL Server and EmpACT support/administration, single NT domain administration/troubleshooting with DNS, WINS, DHCP, SQL Server, and internal program/application support. Projects include Microsoft Exchange 4.0 implementation and administration using T1 technology for SMTP and internet access, building and troubleshooting Windows NT 3.51 and Windows NT 4.0 Servers, Windows 95 laptop conversion, roll out, and administration, and software/license library using Microsoft Access.
MIS Assistant and Applications Specialist / Systems Administrator

Portfolio Acceptance Corp.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BAC; Banking industry)

January 1995 — January 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Implemented and maintained all applications, providing helpdesk support of 70-80 users for Windows 95, Windows 3.11, DOS applications, as well as some Mainframe based applications. Set up and maintained users on Novell 3.12 network and MS Mail system while also troubleshooting workstations and LAN.
MIS Assistant and Applications Specialist / Systems Administrator

NationsBank

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BAC; Banking industry)

January 1995 — January 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Implemented and maintained all applications, providing helpdesk support of 70-80 users for Windows 95, Windows 3.11, DOS applications, as well as some Mainframe based applications. Set up and maintained users on Novell 3.12 network and MS Mail system while also troubleshooting workstations and LAN.
MIS Assistant and Applications Specialist / Systems Administrator

Bank of America

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BAC; Banking industry)

January 1995 — January 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Implemented and maintained all applications, providing helpdesk support of 70-80 users for Windows 95, Windows 3.11, DOS applications, as well as some Mainframe based applications. Set up and maintained users on Novell 3.12 network and MS Mail system while also troubleshooting workstations and LAN.

John Conway’s Education

DeVry University

Computer Science 1993 — 1996

Additional Information

John Conway’s Websites:

John Conway’s Interests:

Active Directory, Exchange, Infrastructure Technologies, Architecture Methodologies, Identity Management IdM, Monitoring, Management, Migration, Quest, Windows Server, ISA, Rainwall, E-Mail, Messaging Technologies, Mobile Technologies, IT Security, Boston, New England, Rhode Island, New York, Manhatten, Higher Education, Manufacturing, Financial, Retail, Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consulting, Services, Implementation, MCSE, MCP, Infrastructure Architect, Microsoft, Novell, Longhorn, Vista, Systems Manamgent Server SMS, Provisioning, Directory Strategy, LDAP, Naming Standards, Sarbanes Oxley SOX, FERPA, HIPPA, regulations, audit

John Conway’s Groups:

Business Network International (BNI), Infrastructure Architect, Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, East Bay Chamber of Commerce