
Principal Consultant - Advanced Microsoft Network Solutions Consulting in San Diego
Greater San Diego Area

Principal Consultant - Advanced Microsoft Network Solutions Consulting in San Diego
Greater San Diego Area
As the Founder and President of Gilham Consulting, John is responsible for strategic vision, development and operations. His passion for technology has spanned 15 years. In 2002 John had the opportunity to work for the Microsoft Corporation in Windows desktop deployment, MS Exchange, Active Directories and Mergers and Acquisitions. During his tenure he was responsible for completing many enterprise scale projects for such companies as UPS, Martha Stewart, KPMG, Author Anderson and Price Waterhouse Cooper that encompassed the total migration of over a half-million desktops. His accomplishments also include co-authoring The Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection and the Microsoft Deployment ToolKit for automated, standardized deployments of the Windows platform.
Over his vast career, John has built a solid reputation by leveraging his experience in effectively applying people/process/technology solutions to meet business objectives in a variety of industries for companies of all sizes including Fortune 100 companies throughout the United States and has a proven track record in delivering Microsoft centric solutions.
Providing project management and technical expertise to his team of skilled engineers and consultants, John is committed to delivering to his client’s technologies in a simplified, modular, and well architected manner to streamline their business process and thereby reducing the TCO of their IT infrastructure using Microsoft best practices..
Gilham Consulting is committed in helping clients realize the full potential of their existing technology platform to optimize and automate their key business processes. John prides himself on the delivery of personalized services, the integrity of his employees, and an uncompromising commitment to excellence.
Microsoft, virtualization, cloud computing, hosted data centers, collaboration tools, Microsoft Unified Communications, VOIP, hyper-v, Unifed Messaging, security, PKI, infrastructure, Exchange 2007, SharePoint 2007, Office Communications Server 2007, OCS 2007, OCS 2010, Exchange 2010, Sharepoint 2010, SIP gateways, networking, Cisco, IT mergers and acquisition, disaster recovery, business continuity, project management, automated IT management solutions, data center design, backup..
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2003 — Present (6 years)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 6 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1999 — August 2003 (3 years 9 months)
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; TRNT; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1996 — December 1999 (3 years 10 months)