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Interim IT Manager /
Consultant
Interim IT Manager
/Consultant for the
Alberta Security
Commission
(ASC) in
Calgary. Reporting
directly to the IT
Director with 6 direct
reports. Assisted in
making changes within the
organization by
introducing business
case documents, process
changes and launch
electronic change
management to replace
paper based forms.
Supervised the
internal project
management team on large
projects and reversed
the IT focus to have the
business drive IT. While
in this 4 month contract,
conducted Infrastructure
Analysis Review,
Employee Evaluation,
Employee Compensation
meetings, implemented a VOIP phone system and
assisted in the
interview process and
handed off to the new
manager. Asked
to extend the contract
and assist with the
Business Continuity and DRP efforts providing
current state and future
recommendations.
Architect and Design -
Windows 2003 Server, XP
Design & POC
Calgary Board of
Education (CBE)
required assistance to
Architect and Design -
Windows 2003 Server /
Window’s XP for the
desktop and create a POC
Lab.
The
CBE
required a multi phase
project to overview and
update existing
documentation, design
the new Windows 2003 and
XP desktop for a future
implementation and build
a proof of Concept lab
that would provide the
method for migrating
from the existing
Windows 2000
environment. Phase 1
involved gathering the
existing documentation
from multiple
departments,
interviewing the
document owners and
updating the
documentation as
required in the new
documentation format
standard. Provided
the quality assurance
and completeness review
of these documents.
Phase 2 involved the
Technical Architecture
for the Windows XP
desktop and Server 2003
environment which
included the design
documentation and the
build process
engineering.
Phase 3 was the
Proof of
Concept
lab build and
test using two VMWare
GSX servers to emulate
the production server
environment. This lab
used the system states
from production servers
providing a fully
emulated environment
that was virtually
identical to production.
Citrix Metaframe XP
upgrade to Presentation
Manager 4
Performed an upgrade
for Jager
Building Supplies
in
Calgary
This upgrade
also included using the
new Access Suite tools
to create a customized
front end for their Web
Interface.
Intranet Site Design
Worked with the
Calgary Board of
Education’s
staff over a few
meetings to gather the
requirements, developed
and presented a design
document that is being
used today for Microsoft
Content Manager, SQL
Server and Share Point
as the Indexing server.
Rollout 40 NT Servers
Across Western North
America
Responsible for
assisting
BP / AMACO
rollout 40 NT servers
across western North
America.
RDF's knowledge of large-scale
server deployments and SMS experience
produced routines to
automate much of the
requirements. Assisted with the
Exchange server
configuration and
initial user creation
until he trained another
resource to handle this
position.
Windows 2000 Desktop
Build
Technical Team Lead
responsible for 6 direct
reports to deploy a new
windows 2000 desktop
image builds
for
CP Rail.
Instrumental in
developing the
methodology and leading
the team to produce the
build. Responsible for
finding unique ways to
resolve challenges with
changing timeline and
scope and providing EDS
and CP Rail management
with the required
information as needed.
Responsible for
providing a workstation
build for
4500 machines
(4 different hardware
desktops and 4 different
laptops) that could be
deployed from a central
configuration center
with little user
involvement
Desktop Migration
Instrumental in
providing the
Technical
Project Management and
Sr. Consulting to assist Utilicorp
to migrate
their NT Workstation
desktops to the new
standard when this
section of the business
was split off from
TransAlta. This project
required creating a plan
that required touching
every desktop across
Alberta (600)
and
every
lineman’s truck notebook
(200)
and
re-addressing
the static IP devices
(180) at 48 sites
over
the period of a single
long weekend with no
going back. During the
preparation for this
“Big Bang” weekend RDF
managed the project as
well as the 20
contractors used for the
weekend. Additionally
RDF was required to
produce the technical
solutions to assist the Utilicorp technical
staff by creating
automation procedures
that made the job easier
and less error prone for
the 20 field staff and
4 helpdesk staff that
were providing support
during the conversions.
Designed and Implemented
the Infrastructure for
Navision.
Designed, installed and
configured the AD/DC,
Terminal Server, SQL
2000 Servers and
integrated the existing
File server
to assist with the
growth of the company’s
users and locations. The
use of the Navision
accounting application
for
Trinidad Drilling
was required over
multiple users and
sites.
Citrix Upgrade
Designed and implemented
the plan to migrate from
Citrix PM 3 to Citrix
PM4 for
Jager Building
Systems. This involved
rebuilding the website
and fixing server
patching issues.
Architect and Implement
a Complete System
Upgrade.
Calgary Public Library
required
architecting and
implementing a solution
to migrate from their
single NT4 server in a
separate domain to a
pre-existing Windows
2000 AD domain.
Included in the solution
was the migration from
Exchange 5.5 to 2003,
SQL 7 to SQL 2000 and
splitting the existing
Citrix Server Farm into
2 distinct farms for
security purposes.
Linux on the Desktop
Seminar.
Taught
a seminar
on using Linux on the
Desktop.
The course was provided
to give exposure to
these consultants
to illustrate how
using Linux can be used
in a day to day
environment with a slant
towards comparing Linux
to Windows.
Install Oracle 9i on
Redhat Enterprise Linux
3
Provide a default
install of Redhat
Enterprise Linux 3 and
Oracle 9i RDBMS.
Samba Server on Linux
Installed/configured
Samba server to be used
by a small office as a
file server to store
their documents. Users
were unaware that the
new server was running
Linux. Supported this server
for the past 2 years.
IIS and SQL 2000 Cluster
Bell West
required assistance with
implementing and
documenting a Windows
2000 IIS and SQL 2000
cluster that would be
used for production on
one node and development
being used on the
other. This environment
gave the developers
access to a clustered
environment for
development and also
allowed for easy
migration to production
after testing.
Desktop Conversion from
Novell to Windows 2003
Server
This project for the
Agriculture Financial
Services Corporation (AFSC)
required programming and
scripting development
work. RDF developed utilities
to make the desktop
migration run without
the need to visit (and
re-visit) the desktops
as servers were
converted from Novell
Server to Windows 2003
Servers. In order to
quickly handle the
desktop conversions, RDF
developed 2 applications
that would automatically
convert the Novell
printer and drive shares
to Microsoft printer and
drive shares and would
login to the Exchange
domain automatically for
the users. Additionally
RDF’s scripting
capabilities were used
to help build other
smaller utilities to
reduce effort and
timelines.
VMWare Physical to
Virtual migration
RDF created processes
and provided the solution
to migrate 9 NT4
machines in 9 days
(which included
preparation time) with
the ability for
AFSC
to
re-use this methodology
for future servers in
their environment.
RDF
was able to provide a
reproducible methodology
that has since been used
to migrate additional
NT4 machines to the
production VMWare
servers by the client. This was all done
BEFORE
any automated tools were
created by VMWare or 3rd
parties.
Consolidate 6 POP3
domains to one Exchange
2003 Server
Lead the work of
consolidating 6 POP3
domains into one
Exchange 2003 server for
Absolute Energy.
Designed, built and
configured the Exchange
Server to use Secure
SMTP/POP3 mail and
performed the migration
from Goldmine to
Outlook. Assisted with
problem determination
and rectification before
transitioning to support
staff.
Citrix XP Package
Development and Deploy
Responsible for building
the packages and
deploying the
applications on the
existing Citrix XPE
server farm for
Burlington Resources and
overseeing the software
package creation for the
desktop deployment.
During this time created
a method for re-using
the packages created for
the Windows 2000 Pro
desktops on the Citrix
servers saving
duplication of effort
and improving the time
to implement these
packages.
Server Consolidation
RDF created the plan and
performed the migration
of multiple File /
Printer shares to
consolidate on a Windows
2003 Cluster server
using Robocopy for
Neteller. Investigated
and created a migration
plan to standardize on
redirected folders for
the Desktop, Favorites
and My Documents. RDF
also evaluated the
network for issues that
could cause additional
problems for further
server consolidation. Installed Terminal
Server License Server. Assisted with the
evaluation of methods to
migrate SMS and LiveComm
servers to virtual
servers. Documented
existing environment as
a base line.
VMWare GSX to ESX Server
Upgrade and Production
Site Administration.
Architected, designed
and implemented a
production GSX server
environment
to introduce
this customer to virtual
machine technology to
save them money during
the start-up phase of
this software
development company. Initially running 8 VM’s
on two physical servers
which included Window
2003 running IIS 6,
Exchange 2003 on Windows
2003, SQL 2000 on
Windows 2000 and 3 in
development proprietary
applications. This fast
growing company required
more systems then GSX
could support and RDF
justified the upgrade
from GSX to ESX server. RDF installed 2
additional servers
(total of 4) have been
added and the client
virtual machine count
exceeds 50 virtual
machines. RDF has
completed the upgrades
required to bring these
servers from ESX 1.x to
2.5.3 over the last 2
years and has put ESX 3
into the budget for the
upcoming year along with
centralized storage.
Prior to using Virtual
Center using the COM
objects provided by
VMWare RDF created an
application to monitor
the site and each VM
giving email
notification when a VM
changes state.
NT4 to Windows 2000
Upgrade
Architected, Designed
and implemented the
Windows NT 4 to Windows
2000 upgrade for
Absolute Energy. Software upgrades
included Goldmine,
Backup Exec 9 and Norton
AV including the
redirecting of the
workstation to point to
the new server and
profile migrations.
Bell West - Architect
and Install
Architected, designed
and implemented a Citrix
MetaFrame XP Farm to
replace the existing
Window NT4 and MetaFrame
1.8 systems.
This included the
hardware/software
installation, setup of
the servers in the farm,
adding the applications,
documenting and
optimizing the servers.
VMWare ESX Jumpstart
RDF provided
Macleod
Dixon
with a VMWare
Jumpstart which included
the installation of the
hardware, ESX Software,
2 Virtual Machines,
provided training to the
administration staff and
assisted in the design
of the backup solution |
