Project Detail:

Company Name: Confidential
Project Name: IT Reorganization
Description: Reorganize, restructure and consolidate an IT department
Date: 8 2009-7 2010
Role: Contract CTO
Industry: Financial

  • Perform an IT assement of their current infrastructure, software and equipment.
  • Create a IT strategy that includes Server Consolidation using Microsoft HyperV and direct purchase and upgrades to existing equipment and infrastructure.
  • Migrate their Exchange Server, ACT Server, Blackberry Server and SQLServer-2005 machines to a Virtual Servers using Microsoft Windows Sever 2008R2 and Microsoft HyperV.
  • Migrate users and other objects to a new Active Directory domain running on a Windows Server 2008-R2 domain controller
  • Migrate users from Microsoft Exchange-2003 to Microsoft Exchange-2007
  • Create a new Sharepoint-2007 intranet site for document storage and retreival and for workflow
  • Migrate SQLServer-2000 and SQLServer-2005 databases to SQLServer-2008 and create SSIS packages for database maintenance and backup.
  • Provide Technical Advisory, and Industry Knowledge/Trends to executives and investors to help evaluate potential investments and porfolio companies.
  • Manage IT strategy, personnel to increase availability and reduce overall IT infrastructure costs.
  • Create a disaster recovery plan and backup data processing center.