Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson

Senior Consultant

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Brian's Bio

I have been a senior consultant at e360 for 5 years, primarily working on projects involving Microsoft technology including both on-premises and cloud solutions. Typical projects include helping customers with migrations from on-premises to cloud, mergers and acquisitions and automation using various technologies.

Personal Summary

I am driven for customer success and finding simpler ways to achieve a desired outcome.

Degrees and Certifications

Cal State Fullerton

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Science Degree, Chemistry, California State University Fullerton

Certifications

  • Numerous Microsoft Certifications achieved dating back from Windows NT to current versions of cloud and on-premises technology

 

Technology Skills

  • 20+ years’ experience in the Information Technology field deploying and supporting Microsoft infrastructure.
  • Implementation and support of current and legacy Microsoft operating systems.
  • Implementation and support of current and legacy Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure, including Azure AD.
  • Implementation and support of current and legacy Microsoft Exchange messaging systems, including Exchange Online.
  • Implementation and support of migration tools for Active Directory and Exchange migrations:
  • Quest (Dell) Migration Manager for Active Directory (QMM/AD)
  • Quest Migration Manager for Exchange (QMM/EX)
  • Quest Migrator for Notes to Exchange (MNE)
  • Quest Novell Directory Services (NDS) Migrator
  • Microsoft Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT)
  • Binary Tree Common Migration Tool for Exchange (CMTe) for Lotus Notes to Exchange
  • Implementation and support of migration tools for Office 365 tenant-to-tenant migrations:
  • BitTitan MigrationWiz – used for primary and archive mailbox migrations, OneDrive migration, and Teams migrations. Migration from Google to Microsoft technologies
  • Implementation and support of Azure IaaS.
  • Implementation and support of current and legacy versions of Microsoft Hyper-V.
  • Implementation and support of current and legacy versions of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to perform operating system deployment, package deployment, and inventory systems, etc.
  • Script and playbook development
  • PowerShell scripts for Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange Online, PowerShell DSC, etc.
  • General knowledge of LAN/WAN connectivity, routers, switches, firewalls, and VPN.
  • Invited to Microsoft to determine question sampling for the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 exam. Only five candidates from around the world our given this prestigious opportunity.
  • Technical writing.
  • Customer service.

Technical Engagements

MEDIUM HOLDING COMPANY

  • Migrated user and group accounts from hosted Active Directory environment to greenfield Active Directory environment retrofitting migrated user accounts with existing Azure Active Directory tenant.
  • Migrated multiple acquisitions Active Directory environments: users, groups, workstations, servers, Group Policy.
  • Provided administrative access via delegated permissions and restricted groups functionality in Group Policy.
  • Migrated multiple acquisitions Microsoft 365 environments (tenant-to-tenant): Exchange Online, OneDrive and Teams.
  • Migrated multiple acquisitions Google GSuite environments to Microsoft 365 environment: Gmail to Exchange Online and GoogleDrive to OneDrive.
  • Developed custom PowerShell scripts to install software, make configuration changes and remediate the environment.

SMALL NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION

  • Upgraded legacy domain controllers to Windows Server 2019 domain controllers and introduced net new domain controllers in Azure.
  • Configured virtual networks in Azure to support SD-WAN appliance.
  • Migrated Azure VMs between tenants using PowerShell scripts.
  • Assisted with rebranding of user principal names and primary SMTP addresses leveraging scripts to backup, restore and modify proxyAddresses attribute on Active Directory user accounts.
  • Assisted with SalesForce integration with respect to Outlook client.

MEDIUM ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY COMPANY

  • Deployed Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AADDS) to transition customer to cloud-only environment and allow the customer to retire last datacenter where Remote Desktop Services was employed to provide access to legacy application migrated to AADDS instance.

MEDIUM CREDIT UNION

  • Deployed Azure infrastructure as code (virtual networking, SD-WAN, virtual machines, etc.) using Bicep language to support Active Directory Domain Controllers and Citrix workloads.

MEDIUM LAW FIRM

  • Deployed Azure infrastructure as code (virtual networking, virtual machines, etc.) using Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework using Terraform language to support Active Directory Domain Controllers and Citrix workloads.

MEDIUM MANUFACTURING COMPANY

  • Performed tenant-to-tenant migration of Exchange Online hosted email archives, OneDrive and Microsoft Teams leveraging BitTitan MigrationWiz.
  • Developed scripts leveraging BitTitan PowerShell modules to automate portions of the migration effort.

MEDIUM MANUFACTURING COMPANY

  • Restored Exchange servers after customer was hit with ransomware leveraging dial tone databases.
  • Migrated majority of mailboxes and public folders from Exchange 2010 to Exchange Online and remaining mailboxes from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016.
  • Performed rollout of Azure Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR).
  • Developed scripts to automate portions of migration effort, e.g. new mailboxes, MFA, SSPR, mailbox migrations, etc.

LARGE AUTOMOTIVE INSURANCE COMPANY

  • Migrated acquisition Active Directory 2003 and Exchange 2007 source environment into Active Directory 2003 and Exchange 2007 target environment leveraging Quest Migration Manager (QMM) for Active Directory and Exchange.
  • Migrated acquisition from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange leveraging Binary Tree Common Migration Tool for Exchange (CMTe).
  • Transitioned customer application development environment from NT 4.0 to Windows 2003 R2 and subsequently to Windows 2008 R2. Designed System Center Opalis workflows to automate the requisite DNS changes on the majority of the servers in the application development environment.
  • Migrated from VMware 3.5.x to 4.x. Designed System Center Opalis workflows to automate most of the steps of the migration of virtual machines to the new platform.
  • Installation of MOM 2005 agents and management packs for Active Directory servers and IP services servers.
  • Deployment of MOM management packs to monitor critical infrastructure applications and services, including Active Directory, DNS, Exchange, SQL, MOM, SMS, etc.
  • Implementation of DHCP appliances for disaster recovery project, including interaction between Linux-based DHCP services and Active Directory DNS services.
  • Implementation of delegation in Active Directory to tighten security. Provided help desk members capability to reset passwords, enable/disable accounts, and add workstations to the domain without requiring administrator privileges.
  • Creation of Visual Basic scripts to automate/facilitate tasks associated with Active Directory objects and IP services. Many of the scripts were written to be ran via SMS.
  • Implementation of ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) to replicate mail-related user/group attributes from Active Directory. Configuration of a Linux-based mail gateway appliance to use the ADAM instance for SMTP address resolution of Active Directory mail-related attributes for increased security.