Senior Systems Engineer for Microsoft MPSD-ILS
Greater Seattle Area
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- Senior Systems Engineer at Microsoft
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- Systems Analyst / Systems Engineer at NIC Global
- Senior Systems Engineer at Walt Disney Internet Group
- Systems Engineer at Microsoft Managed Solutions (MMS)
- Systems Engineer at Microsoft MSN "Passport"
- Systems Engineer at IBM / Washingtom Mutual
- Systems Engineer at Kindred Healthcare Data Center
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Blair Wright’s Summary
I have large scale enterprise infrastructure experience from working in some of the world’s cutting edge IT companies.
I have worked for IBM (Global Support), WaMu (Washington Mutual), Microsoft (Passport & MMS), Kindred Healthcare (Corporate Data Center) and the Walt Disney Internet Group just to name a few Fortune 500 companies I that I have worked with as a Systems Engineer / Consultant
Some of my professional experiences include designing and deploying a secure 5 domain Active Directory forest and integrating the forest with 4 other AD forests across 5 data centers throughout the US. I then migrated all the Walt Disney Internet group properties to the new PCI compliant “secure” Active Directory forest. Other WDIG achievements include assisting in the design and deployment of critical DisneyMobile.com (MVNO) backend component services that were critical for the launch of the global MVNO service.
I also helped launch a new Microsoft property MMS (Microsoft Managed Solutions) where I was part of a small “Tier III Ops” team that designed, deployed and managed “in-house” large scale Active Directory backend solutions for global corporations.
Another position I had the honor of being a part of was Microsoft MSN passport. There I provided Tier III secure operations support (SecOpsIE) for MSN Passport (Windows Live ID). I worked incident response for 700+ load balanced IIS servers that provided login and SSL authentication for the primary MSN authentication portal for all Microsoft properties.
If my experience sounds like it may be a good fit with your organization, please contact me and I would be happy to send you my resume.
Thank you for your consideration.
Blair Wright’s Specialties:
My specialties include Server 2008,2003, Active Directory, IIS7.0, SCOM, SCCM, IPsec, Performance and Infrastructure Optimization, Hyper-V, Wintel Infrastructures, plus large Enterprise IIS web /publishing environments (including MVNO’s)
DNS, WINS, DHCP, IIS, HP/Dell Server hardware, Terminal Services, Tomcat, Barista, SiteScope, OVOW,
Server Clustering, NLB, Server Load balancing Citrix, Cisco, Nortel, MS Exchange, MS SharePoint Portal Server .
Blair Wright’s Experience
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Senior Systems Engineer
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
February 2009 — Present (6 months)
I work with Microsoft MPSD (Managed Platform Service & Delivery) I am the Senior Systems Engineer for ILS team within MPSD. I provide Tier 3 support for the SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) and SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) Infrastructure to include several hundred servers and 130,000+ clients (users) for MSIT, and global external customers that include Energizer, XL Capital, Doosan and many others.
I am also responsible for operations management, performance and optimization for the infrastructure as well as server budgeting and forecasting for the MSIT and global external customers infrastructure. My primary expertise includes Server 2008, Hyper-V, SCCM, SCOM, IIS 7.0, Active Directory, IPsec and Performance and Infrastructure optimization. -
Systems Analyst / Systems Engineer
NIC Global
(Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
January 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 10 months)
My projects included AD expansion. Design and deployment of SiteScope, Kayako helpdesk solution. Design and deployment of Desktop Authority. I was also responsible for the design, construction and management of the new website nicglobalms.com. In addition recently I was given the responsibility of rebranding from National Industrial Concepts to NIC Global. I was in charge of every facet, from the design of the logo to designing the lobby / building signs, posters, banners, t-shirts and branding our vehicle fleet.
My day-to-day responsibilities include management of AD, Server Hardware, Nortel and Cisco routing and switching networks, WatchGuard VPN & Firewalls. Support of the Citrix Presentation 4.0 server farm and CAG (Citrix access gateway). Maintenance and support of the corporate LAN / WAN. Support for the WinTerm’s, Predator - data funnel stations / Amada turrets and the Cisco WiFi controllers / AP’s. -
Senior Systems Engineer
Walt Disney Internet Group
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2006 — November 2006 (10 months)
Contract position via StarTechnical Consulting: My position at WDIG had me performing a split role. For the 1st half I participated in the deployment and later supported Disney Mobile (disneymobile.com / MVNO) later for the second half of my contract I was asked to design and deploy a secure 5 domain AD forest for PCI compliance. I was also responsible for inter-domain connectivity to all existing WDIG domains. Finally I coordinated migration of all Disney online website to the new compliant forest. The contract was completed successfully.
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Systems Engineer
Microsoft Managed Solutions (MMS)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2005 — February 2006 (9 months)
Contract position via Ciber Consulting: Primary responsibilities are to provide tier 3-4, 24/7 support for all assigned MMS servers (and their respective services) associated with MMS ISS enterprise environment. (Including Domain Controllers, AD, DNS, Terminal Services, AV and GMAS) Contract ended when mandatory 100 day hiatus started.
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Systems Engineer
Microsoft MSN "Passport"
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2005 — June 2005 (5 months)
Contract position via Volt Consulting: Primary responsibilities were to provide tier III, Platinum 24/7 support for 700 Auth, Login and Misc servers associated with Passport Secure Services W2K3 enterprise environment. (Front end web server and associated property / application support) This was a contract for my Tier 3 support during the deployment of Passport 3.0. My contract ended when the deployment was completed successfully.
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Systems Engineer
IBM / Washingtom Mutual
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2003 — February 2004 (10 months)
Contract position via Tek Systems to WaMu: Primary responsibilities were to provide tier 3, Platinum 24/7 support for a 2800+ server NT / Win2K / W2K3 enterprise environment, for IBM Global Services, and Washington Mutual.
My day-to-day duties entailed deploying new hardware peaked servers. Migrating literally hundreds of servers from other Data Centers and consolidating / redeploying them at the Sabey Regional Data Center (SRDC) in Tukwila Washington. In addition other tasks included Tier 3 Platinum (3 hour) support for all regional “WaMu” N_Servers. (NT and Novell) -
Systems Engineer
Kindred Healthcare Data Center
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 3 months)
Contract position via Tek Systems to Kindred: My duties were to build, deploy and support a 3200+ server NT / Win2K enterprise environment, for a fortune 500 company.
My day-to-day duties entailed deploying hardware peaked servers to custom specifications for corporate divisions such as SAP, Novadigm, Intellinex, Kintana, Symposium, Citrix, Medatech, Portal, as well as SQL and MS Exchange servers which required specially tuned or clustered active/passive, active/active configurations.
Other duties performed included Tier 3 support of all the local data center servers, as well as our 750+ remote locations. Additional responsibilities included troubleshooting and analysis of NOS configuration and infrastructure, in order to increase performance throughout the enterprise.
