Janique Carbone

Current

Managing Member at Infrastructor Group LLC

Past

Senior Consultant II at Microsoft Corporation
Adjunct Faculty at University of Houston Clear-Lake
Chief Technologist at OAO

Senior Engineer at LinCOM Corporation
Senior Systems Engineer at Boeing (McDonnell Douglas)
Senior Engineer at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace
Systems Analysis Engineer at Rockwell Space Operations Co.
Graduate Research Assistant at Texas A&M University

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Education

University of Houston-Clear Lake
Texas A&M University
SHAPE International

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Janique Carbone’s Summary

Janique Carbone is the co-author of the Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Resource Kit, and the upcoming Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Resource kit. She has been working in IT for over 15 years on projects ranging from application development to enterprise infrastructure design. Janique has developed Virtual PC and Virtual Server training for customer events such as TechEd, authored whitepapers for the Microsoft Windows Storage team, and has assisted customers in maintaining and optimizing business critical Windows Server infrastructures, including Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 deployments. In May 2006, after 7 years at Microsoft, she founded the Infrastructor Group, whose charter is to deliver in-depth training, consulting, and community education that encompasses the virtualization project lifecycle. At Microsoft, Janique initially worked as a Senior Consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services, specializing in the architecture and deployment of Active Directory for large enterprises. During her tenure at Microsoft, Janique developed and delivered multiple customer and partner Windows training seminars. In addition, she developed and taught a graduate-level TCP/IP network course at the University of Houston – Clear Lake. Before joining Microsoft, Janique worked as an engineer on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station projects for Boeing, as well as various other contractors supporting the National Air and Space Administration – Johnson Space Center (NASA-JSC), in Clear Lake.

Janique Carbone is an MCSE and holds Master of Science degrees in Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering. She lives in Texas where she is on the board of directors of the Homeless Pet Placement League – a Houston-based animal rescue (www.hppl.org). If you would like to learn more or contact her, visit her site at www.doingITvirtual.com.

Janique Carbone’s Specialties:

Analysis and Architecture

Janique Carbone’s Experience

Managing Member

Infrastructor Group LLC

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Infrastructor Group was founded in May 2006 to deliver in-depth training, consulting, and community management encompassing the entire virtualization project lifecycle.
Senior Consultant II

Microsoft Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

June 1999 — April 2006 (6 years 11 months)

Large and medium enterprise consulting specializing in Windows Server operating systems and Active Directory. Developed Windows 2000 Bootcamp training and delivered to multiple partner organizations in the Houston area. Engaged at Chevron during Chevron-Texaco merger, supporting Active Directory design and pilot. Also worked in Microsoft Premier as Senior Technical Account Manager II. During that time, developed Virtualization training and supported 8 client accounts.
Adjunct Faculty

University of Houston Clear-Lake

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry)

January 1999 — December 1999 (1 year)

Developed and taught a semester course titled “Advanced Network Protocols” to first-year graduate students in the fields of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Computer Information Systems. The contents included an introduction to the TCP/IP protocol suite and presented the material at a conceptual level. Areas of focus were definition of the four layers of TCP/IP and the protocols defined at each layer (Link Layer – ARP, RARP; Network Layer – ICMP, IP; Transport Layer – TCP, UDP; Application Layer – Ping, Traceroute, Netstat, TFTP, Bootp, DHCP, DNS, FTP, SMTP, SNMP).
Chief Technologist

OAO

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1998 — June 1999 (7 months)

Architecture of hardware and software services for the OAO-Houston office and the ODIN contract in support of the NASA Johnson Space Center (NASA/JSC). The NASA/JSC campus integrated Microsoft Windows NT, Novell NetWare, and UNIX platforms operating over a FDDI backbone that interconnected multiple shared and/or switched Ethernet networks.
Senior Engineer

LinCOM Corporation

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1996 — October 1998 (2 years 1 month)

Lead for the design and development of three object-oriented software applications for Intel x86-based Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, and Solaris platforms. The software applications were designed for use onboard the International Space Station in the Station Support Computer Windows NT Wireless (RF) LAN.

Involvement in all aspects of the software life cycle from requirement definition to software maintenance transition plan development including application data interface definition, coding, design documentation, and technical design presentations.

Windows NT 4.0 design effort centered around the development of multi-threaded NT services that communicated at the TCP layer with multiple, concurrent client applications and managed retrieval, editing, and updates of ISAM databases.

Windows 95 design effort centered on the development of a Window 95 service to manage TCP layer, sockets-based interprocess communications between Visix Galaxy client applications.
Senior Systems Engineer

Boeing (McDonnell Douglas)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1989 — 1996 (7 years)
Senior Engineer

McDonnell Douglas Aerospace

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

August 1989 — October 1996 (7 years 3 months)

Development of software analysis tools for engineering assessment of large number of Iridium II satellite system configurations. Software development environment included Sun Solaris SPARC workstations and GNU C++.

Lead of design, procurement, implementation, and management of mixed Ethernet (10Base-T) and Token Ring HP/Apollo (HP 9000/700 and HP/Apollo DN10000) engineering workstation cluster for Space Station integrated thermal analysis task. Represented the integrated passive thermal analysis group at the Engineering Computing Facility working group that assessed computing resource allocation requirements.

Development and analysis of Space Station integrated passive thermal control systems mathematical models using Thermal Radiation Analysis System (TRASYS), Systems Improved Numerical Differencing Analyzer and Fluid Integrator (SINDA’85/FLUINT), and Thermal Synthesizer System (TSS) software tools.
Systems Analysis Engineer

Rockwell Space Operations Co.

(Aviation & Aerospace industry)

July 1988 — July 1989 (1 year 1 month)

Conducted a predefined set of integrated GN&C verification tests of shuttle flight software, analyzed test case products to ensure conformance to flight performance criteria and resolved performance criteria violations, and evaluated software change requests to determine and effect updates to Space Shuttle predefined command sequences.
Graduate Research Assistant

Texas A&M University

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

June 1986 — May 1988 (2 years)

Thesis research to determine the effect of geometric and flow rate parameters on selective flow field characteristics associated with the reattachment of a radial jet on an adjacent flat surface.

Janique Carbone’s Education

University of Houston-Clear Lake

M.S. , Computer Science , 1994 — 1998

Research Report: IBM Asynchronous Transfer Mode LAN Emulation Implementation.
Research Report: Preliminary Network Performance Study of a Windows NT ATM Network.
Texas A&M University

B.S. & M.S. , Aerospace Engineering , 1981 — 1988

Thesis Title: Flow Field Characteristics of a Radial Jet Reattaching on a Flat Plate.
SHAPE International

1974 — 1979