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John Conway
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john.conway@ananke.com (MyLink500.com)
John Conway brings ~20 years experience as a Senior Architect (with 'Big 5' and Fortune 50 experience) designing, implementing, migrating, administering, and troubleshooting in global enterprises and both large-scale and small-scale environments. He has a solid background in Microsoft BackOffice products, networking, LAN/WAN design, large-scale server implementations and migrations, security, and administration with significant experience with Windows 2003 and 2000 Active Directory, NT 4.0, Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2000 and 5.5, Microsoft Clustering, Cisco networking equipment, and f5 load balancing equipment. His experience spans multiple industries including manufacturing and distribution, arts and entertainment, education, government, communications, financial, insurance, retail, technology, and service and consulting. A few of John's large clients have included, General Motors, EDS, KPMG Peat Marwick, Harvard University, Broadcast.com (Yahoo!), NationsBank (Bank of America), Symbol Technologies, Woolworth, Snyder Oil, Snelling International, WellPoint, and many others. John has exceptional communication skills and a professional appearance.
John Conway brings ~20 years experience as a Senior Architect (with 'Big 5' and Fortune 50 experience) designing, implementing, migrating, administering, and troubleshooting in global enterprises and both large-scale and small-scale environments. He has a solid background in Microsoft BackOffice products, networking, LAN/WAN design, large-scale server implementations and migrations, security, and administration with significant experience with Windows 2003 and 2000 Active Directory, NT 4.0, Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2000 and 5.5, Microsoft Clustering, Cisco networking equipment, and f5 load balancing equipment. His experience spans multiple industries including manufacturing and distribution, arts and entertainment, education, government, communications, financial, insurance, retail, technology, and service and consulting. A few of John's large clients have included, General Motors, EDS, KPMG Peat Marwick, Harvard University, Broadcast.com (Yahoo!), NationsBank (Bank of America), Symbol Technologies, Woolworth, Snyder Oil, Snelling International, WellPoint, and many others. John has exceptional communication skills and a professional appearance.
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Understanding Business Requirements and Providing Technical Solutions, Infrastructure Architecture, Systems Integration, Migrations, Identity Management, Provisioning, Microsoft Technologies, Messaging Technologies, Directory Strategies, Project Management, Documentation
Professional Experience
Jan 1994 - Present
0000 - 0000
(0 years)
(0 years)
President & CEO
Business Owner
Ananke IT Solutions
Information Technology and Services
Business Owner
Ananke IT Solutions
Information Technology and Services
Jan 1995 - Jan 1996
(1 years)
(1 years)
MIS Assistant and Applications Specialist / Systems Administrator
Bank of America
Bank of America
Implemented and maintained all applications, providing helpdesk support of 70-80 users for Windows 95, Windows 3.11, DOS applications, as well as some Mainframe based applications. Set up and maintained users on Novell 3.12 network and MS Mail system while also troubleshooting workstations and LAN.
Jan 1996 - Oct 1996
(0 years, 9 Months)
(0 years, 9 Months)
Systems Administrator
Snelling and Snelling, Inc.
Snelling and Snelling, Inc.
Network Administration including heavy Novell 3.11, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0, and Windows 95. Other responsibilities include helpdesk support, remote access support, nightly backup of five Novell 3.11 Servers using Palindrome, Microsoft Exchange local/remote e-mail support, new application roll out, ACT! Database administration and installation, SQL Server and EmpACT support/administration, single NT domain administration/troubleshooting with DNS, WINS, DHCP, SQL Server, and internal program/application support. Projects include Microsoft Exchange 4.0 implementation and administration using T1 technology for SMTP and internet access, building and troubleshooting Windows NT 3.51 and Windows NT 4.0 Servers, Windows 95 laptop conversion, roll out, and administration, and software/license library using Microsoft Access.
Jan 1995 - Jan 1996
(1 years)
(1 years)
MIS Assistant and Applications Specialist / Systems Administrator
Portfolio Acceptance Corp.
Portfolio Acceptance Corp.
Implemented and maintained all applications, providing helpdesk support of 70-80 users for Windows 95, Windows 3.11, DOS applications, as well as some Mainframe based applications. Set up and maintained users on Novell 3.12 network and MS Mail system while also troubleshooting workstations and LAN.
Jan 1995 - Jan 1996
(1 years)
(1 years)
MIS Assistant and Applications Specialist / Systems Administrator
NationsBank
NationsBank
Implemented and maintained all applications, providing helpdesk support of 70-80 users for Windows 95, Windows 3.11, DOS applications, as well as some Mainframe based applications. Set up and maintained users on Novell 3.12 network and MS Mail system while also troubleshooting workstations and LAN.
Nov 1996 - Jul 1997
(1 years)
(1 years)
Senior Systems Administrator
Broadcast.com
Broadcast.com
Formerly AudioNet, John designed and implemented a multi-domain environment of over 500 Windows NT 4.0 Servers, Microsoft FTP servers for client updates, submittals and broadcast postings, Microsoft DNS servers, Microsoft IIS 3.0 servers with over 50 virtual sites and hosting over 3.7 million hits per day on the primary site alone, and migrating over 150 Windows NT 4.0 Workstations.
Design and implementation of Microsoft DHCP servers, Microsoft WINS servers, Microsoft Exchange 5.0 server utilizing POP3 technology and News server, POP3 mail servers using Post.Office, Microsoft Index server, Microsoft Chat server, Microsoft SQL Servers, Microsoft SMS 1.2 Servers.
Architecture, design and implementation of Video Streaming technologies. This included Satellite installations, Server builds and configurations, Progressive Networkâs and Microsoft NetShow Encoding software installation and configuration, multicasting configurations and media encoding, streaming and archiving.
Design and implementation of Microsoft DHCP servers, Microsoft WINS servers, Microsoft Exchange 5.0 server utilizing POP3 technology and News server, POP3 mail servers using Post.Office, Microsoft Index server, Microsoft Chat server, Microsoft SQL Servers, Microsoft SMS 1.2 Servers.
Architecture, design and implementation of Video Streaming technologies. This included Satellite installations, Server builds and configurations, Progressive Networkâs and Microsoft NetShow Encoding software installation and configuration, multicasting configurations and media encoding, streaming and archiving.
Nov 1996 - Jul 1997
(1 years)
(1 years)
Senior Systems Administrator
Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Formerly AudioNet, John designed and implemented a multi-domain environment of over 500 Windows NT 4.0 Servers, Microsoft FTP servers for client updates, submittals and broadcast postings, Microsoft DNS servers, Microsoft IIS 3.0 servers with over 50 virtual sites and hosting over 3.7 million hits per day on the primary site alone, and migrating over 150 Windows NT 4.0 Workstations. Design and implementation of Microsoft DHCP servers, Microsoft WINS servers, Microsoft Exchange 5.0 server utilizing POP3 technology and News server, POP3 mail servers using Post.Office, Microsoft Index server, Microsoft Chat server, Microsoft SQL Servers, Microsoft SMS 1.2 Servers. Architecture, design and implementation of Video Streaming technologies. This included Satellite installations, Server builds and configurations, Progressive Networkâs and Microsoft NetShow Encoding software installation and configuration, multicasting configurations and media encoding, streaming and archiving.
Nov 1996 - Jul 1997
(1 years)
(1 years)
Senior Systems Administrator
Audionet
Audionet
Formerly AudioNet, John designed and implemented a multi-domain environment of over 500 Windows NT 4.0 Servers, Microsoft FTP servers for client updates, submittals and broadcast postings, Microsoft DNS servers, Microsoft IIS 3.0 servers with over 50 virtual sites and hosting over 3.7 million hits per day on the primary site alone, and migrating over 150 Windows NT 4.0 Workstations. Design and implementation of Microsoft DHCP servers, Microsoft WINS servers, Microsoft Exchange 5.0 server utilizing POP3 technology and News server, POP3 mail servers using Post.Office, Microsoft Index server, Microsoft Chat server, Microsoft SQL Servers, Microsoft SMS 1.2 Servers. Architecture, design and implementation of Video Streaming technologies. This included Satellite installations, Server builds and configurations, Progressive Networkâs and Microsoft NetShow Encoding software installation and configuration, multicasting configurations and media encoding, streaming and archiving.
Aug 1997 - Feb 1999
(2 years)
(2 years)
Consultant
KPMG
KPMG
John was a consultant in the Enterprise Integration Services practice of KPMGÂs Strategic Services Consulting practice. He was responsible for and involved in a wide range of consulting assignments including design and post sale implementations of local/wide area networks in multi-vendor/multi-platform environments. He has experience in the design and implementation of large-scale network integration solutions that are manageable, and effectively support business purposes. John was also part of a rapid deployment team for Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000).
Aug 1997 - Feb 1999
(2 years)
(2 years)
Consultant
BearingPoint
BearingPoint
John was a consultant in the Enterprise Integration Services practice of KPMGâs Strategic Services Consulting practice (now BearingPoint). He was responsible for and involved in a wide range of consulting assignments including design and post sale implementations of local/wide area networks in multi-vendor/multi-platform environments. He has experience in the design and implementation of large-scale network integration solutions that are manageable, and effectively support business purposes. John was also part of a rapid deployment team for Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000).
Apr 2000 - Sep 2000
(0 years, 5 Months)
(0 years, 5 Months)
Team Lead / Senior Analyst, Systemsâ Operations
InVerge, Inc.
InVerge, Inc.
John Conway architected and designed a complex Active Directory to accommodate the business demands made off the systems. This environment included multiple data centers across the US, including DataReturn and Exodus, diversely connected over a private frame relay cloud and through Level3âs facilities. Upon a successful conversion from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000, the server farm environments operated on Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server technology and utilized f5 BIGIP and f5 3DNS technology for local and global load balancing as well as Cisco 2600, 3600 routers, 2900 switches and Cisco PIX firewall technologies for network connectivity and security.
Feb 1999 - Jul 2000
(1 years, 5 Months)
(1 years, 5 Months)
Manager / Senior Analyst, National NT Systems
BT Office Products
BT Office Products
John Conway was responsible for all of BT Office Products International's national systems NT operations. He created project plans and successfully implemented strategies to reduce and eliminate client side downtime and server unavailability by: Consolidating 36 WINS servers, nationwide, to 2 WINS servers, centrally located and managed. Designing, migrating, and implementing a new Exchange environment to better suit the business needs of the company while adding redundancy and increasing performance. Converting and migrating key servers to Windows 2000, utilizing the new technologies for increased stability John also consolidated 18 DHCP servers to two, collapsed 18 Master User Domains to one, and designed/architected Active Directory and Exchange 2000 configurations as well as created the detailed project plan for the conversion to Windows 2000. These projects were part of a technology transfer from Dallas to Colorado in conjunction with the BT/Corporate Express merger.
Feb 1999 - Jul 2000
(1 years, 5 Months)
(1 years, 5 Months)
Manager / Senior Analyst, National NT Systems
Corporate Express
Corporate Express
John Conway was responsible for all of BT Office Products International's national systems NT operations. He created project plans and successfully implemented strategies to reduce and eliminate client side downtime and server unavailability by:
Consolidating 36 WINS servers, nationwide, to 2 WINS servers, centrally located and managed.
Designing, migrating, and implementing a new Exchange environment to better suit the business needs of the company while adding redundancy and increasing performance.
Converting and migrating key servers to Windows 2000, utilizing the new technologies for increased stability John also consolidated 18 DHCP servers to two, collapsed 18 Master User Domains to one, and designed/architected Active Directory and Exchange 2000 configurations as well as created the detailed project plan for the conversion to Windows 2000. These projects were part of a technology transfer from Dallas to Colorado in conjunction with the BT/Corporate Express merger.
Consolidating 36 WINS servers, nationwide, to 2 WINS servers, centrally located and managed.
Designing, migrating, and implementing a new Exchange environment to better suit the business needs of the company while adding redundancy and increasing performance.
Converting and migrating key servers to Windows 2000, utilizing the new technologies for increased stability John also consolidated 18 DHCP servers to two, collapsed 18 Master User Domains to one, and designed/architected Active Directory and Exchange 2000 configurations as well as created the detailed project plan for the conversion to Windows 2000. These projects were part of a technology transfer from Dallas to Colorado in conjunction with the BT/Corporate Express merger.
Dec 2000 - Jan 2001
(1 years)
(1 years)
Instructor
TMC Technology
TMC Technology
John Conway was responsible for teaching a hands-on certification class, consisting of 12 professionals, over a period of 8 weeks.
Apr 2002 - Nov 2002
(0 years, 7 Months)
(0 years, 7 Months)
Senior Consultant
Interliant, Inc.
Interliant, Inc.
John Conway was responsible for the Active Directory and Exchange 2000 architecture and designs for all of Interliant, Inc.âs clients as well as potential clients. He architected and designed for dedicated hosted, shared hosted, remotely monitored, and traditional corporate environments. John led a four person team to architect and design a 60,000 user hosted Active Directory and Exchange 2000 environment, the largest hosted environment to date. His design was reviewed and accepted as an âindustry best practiceâ model by Microsoft Consulting Services. His clients included WellPoint, George Washington University, and others and ranged in size from 175 users to 60,000 users and have all been Active Directory and Exchange 2000 focused. In addition John created and presented technical solution proposals for large environments to clients such as Northrop Grumman.
Jan 2001 - Jan 2002
(1 years)
(1 years)
Senior Exchange Enterprise Architect / Engineer
XO Communications
XO Communications
John Conway was responsible for the XO Communications enterprise Exchange Environment. He provided a third level of support and escalation for both the NT and Exchange Engineers for all enterprise level Exchange and NT/2000 Server issues as well as a vast knowledge base and technical insight and troubleshooting sensitive and/or critical enterprise level issues as directed by upper level management. John made environment recommendations for enterprise planning and implementations and evaluated and implemented additional tools allowing real-time analysis and monitoring of Exchange enterprise environment(s). With these tools, he was able to analyze, report, and make recommendations for the planning/implementation of CNCX - XO environment co-existence and integration as well as implement the new environment and perform the 2,000+ user Org to Org migration.
Sep 2002 - Feb 2003
(1 years)
(1 years)
Lead Global Active Directory Architect
General Motors
General Motors
John Conway was contracted to be the Lead AD architect for all global Active Directory efforts and complete the current global architecture as well as re-architect the deployed environments to meet changing requirements. Overall, John was responsible for all Windows 2000 Architecture and design work as well as peer-reviews for all engineering efforts. He architected an environment that supported over 340,000 users, 240 domain controllers, 78 forests, hundreds of locations, multiple industries such as financial, engineering and manufacturing, and multiple companies owned by GM including OnStar, Saturn, GMAC, etc. John also architected and designed a global AD security model for RBAC (roles based access control) leveraging Quest ActiveRoles. John was part of the âcore teamâ who were responsible for GMâs global directory strategies.
Sep 2002 - Feb 2003
(1 years)
(1 years)
Lead Global Active Directory Architect for General Motors Project
EDS
EDS
John Conway was contracted to be the Lead AD architect for all global Active Directory efforts and complete the current global architecture as well as re-architect the deployed environments to meet changing requirements. Overall, John was responsible for all Windows 2000 Architecture and design work as well as peer-reviews for all engineering efforts. He architected an environment that supported over 340,000 users, 240 domain controllers, 78 forests, hundreds of locations, multiple industries such as financial, engineering and manufacturing, and multiple companies owned by GM including OnStar, Saturn, GMAC, etc. John also architected and designed a global AD security model for RBAC (roles based access control) leveraging Quest ActiveRoles. John was part of the âcore teamâ who were responsible for GMâs global directory strategies.
Feb 2003 - Feb 2004
(1 years)
(1 years)
Principal Consultant / Lead Active Directory Architect
Citizens Bank
Citizens Bank
John Conway was engaged to be the lead AD architect for the AD integration project at Citizens Bank. Overall, John was responsible for all Windows 2003 and 2000 Architecture and engineering design work as well as peer-reviews for all architecture and engineering efforts. He architected an environment that will support a rapidly growing environment which was anticipated to quadruple from ~10,000 current users and ~900 locations to more than 40,000 users and 4,000 locations. Johnâs AD design allotted for an anticipated ~4,500 domain controllers (at least one DC in each location) within ~4,000 sites, 4 domains and 1 forest. John also architected and designed a high-level AD security model, high-level operational processes, and an enterprise naming standard for the bank. John also developed an enterprise migration strategy for moving from multiple NDS environments, 16 NT domains, and Windows 2000 domains to the Windows 2003 Active Directory environment.
Feb 2003 - Apr 2004
(1 years, 2 Months)
(1 years, 2 Months)
Principal Consultant
Unicom
Unicom
John Conway was engaged to be the lead AD architect for the AD integration project at Citizens Bank. John Conway was engaged to design the Windows 2003 Active Directory, Exchange 2003, and SMS 2003 environment architectures for Bryant College.
Feb 2004 - Apr 2004
(0 years, 2 Months)
(0 years, 2 Months)
Principal Consultant / Lead Active Directory Architect
Bryant University
Bryant University
John Conway was engaged to design the Windows 2003 Active Directory, Exchange 2003, and SMS 2003 environment architectures for Bryant College. John designed the environments to be flexible enough to accommodate the yearly turnover of both ~4,000 students and ~400 employees as well as secure enough to withstand the demands of an academic institution.
May 2004 - May 2005
(1 years)
(1 years)
Principal Consultant / Lead Technical Architect
Symbol Technologies, Inc.
Symbol Technologies, Inc.
John Conway was contracted to be the lead technical architect for a multi-million dollar project labeled âProject Morpheusâ at Symbol Technologies, Inc. John was responsible for all architecture and engineering design work, peer-reviews for all architecture and engineering efforts, and new process development. The environment was designed to scale at a growth rate of 300% over five years and to support a diverse environment shared by manufacturing, distribution, product engineering, and back office operations. The scope of the project was a global design of, implementation of, and migration to Windows 2003 Active Directory, DHCP, WINS, DNS, DFS, SAN based File/Print and Exchange 2003, Avaya Modular Messaging, and a standard Windows XP workstation image. The existing environment consisted of various non-standard workstation OS platforms for ~7,000 users at ~95 locations worldwide, ~1000 Windows NT/2000 and Novell NDS, GroupWise and Exchange servers.
May 2005 - May 2006
(1 years)
(1 years)
Lead Technical Architect / Technical Project Manager
Harvard University
Harvard University
John Conway was contracted by âUniversity Information Systemsâ to be the lead technical architect and technical project manager for the Windows 2003 Active Directory and Exchange 2003 projects at Harvard University. John was directly responsible for all phases of the projects including the technical project management, discoveries, architectures and engineering designs, peer-reviews for all architecture and engineering efforts, new process development, and implementations as well as implementing or managing support projects that enabled the continued forward progress of AD and Exchange projects. The environment was designed to scale and support a diverse environment shared by all areas of the university. The scope of the project was a university-wide design of, implementation of, and migration to Windows 2003 Active Directory, DHCP, WINS, DNS, DFS, and a SAN based Exchange 2003. The infrastructure was built using a combination of Microsoftâs 32-bit and x64 technologies.
Education
1996
Devry University
Computer Science
Computer Science
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Understanding Business Requirements and Providing Technical Solutions, Infrastructure Architecture, Systems Integration, Migrations, Identity Management, Provisioning, Microsoft Technologies, Messaging Technologies, Directory Strategies, Project Management, Documentation
More about John Conway
First Name
John
Last Name
Conway
Interests / Hobbies
Active Directory, Exchange, Infrastructure Technologies, Architecture Methodologies, Identity Management IdM, Monitoring, Management, Migration, Quest, Windows Server, ISA, Rainwall, E-Mail, Messaging Technologies, Mobile Technologies, IT Security, Boston, New England, Rhode Island, New York, Manhatten, Higher Education, Manufacturing, Financial, Retail, Entertainment, Telecommunications, Consulting, Services, Implementation, MCSE, MCP, Infrastructure Architect, Microsoft, Novell, Longhorn, Vista, Systems Manamgent Server SMS, Provisioning, Directory Strategy, LDAP, Naming Standards, Sarbanes Oxley SOX, FERPA, HIPPA, regulations, audit
My Affiliations
Business Network International (BNI), Infrastructure Architect, Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, East Bay Chamber of Commerce
Awards / Honors
Who's Who In America 2007-2008
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