Microsoft IT Architect

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Microsoft IT Architect

Benoit HAMET

SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA Cell phone: +61 (0)426 994 344 Mail: benoit@hametbenoit.info

Web: http://www.hametbenoit.info – http://blog.hametbenoit.info

Professional Experiences

June 2014 – December 2014: Cloud Solution Consultant at Kloud Solution

(Sydney – AUSTRALIA)

Provide advices to customer for collaborative solution based on Microsoft technologies, covering Exchange, Lync, Office 365 or SharePoint as well as associated technologies such as ForeFront TMG/UAG, ForeFront Security solutions

 Various presales participation

 Design ADFS 3.0 platform hosted on Microsoft Azure with Office 365 & Yammer directory synchronization and federation

 Design federation architecture in a multiple AD Forest configuration

 Design identity synchronization involving multiple AD Forest and SQL databases based on FIM 2010 R2

April 2013 – March 2014: Senior Solution Architect (IT Consultant) at

Capgemini Australia (Sydney – AUSTRALIA)

 Various presales participation

 Define strategy for Active Directory consolidation and migration from multiple AD Forests, including advices for multiple Exchange organization consolidation and migration for an Australian based multinational property and infrastructure company

 Define strategy for implementing and improving identity management solution for an Australian Energy provider

December 2011 – April 2013: Senior Solution Architect (IT Consultant) at

Sogeti France – Capgemini Group (Paris - FRANCE)

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Various collaborative solution architecture presales (SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, BPOS and Office 365, ForeFront UAG)

 Deploy SharePoint 2013 PoC architecture for a French banking company

 Define SharePoint 2013 architecture for a European aircraft manufacturer

 Define and deploy SharePoint 2010 architecture for a French banking company, including knowledge transfer

 Define full new IT infrastructure based on Microsoft products (Active Directory, Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, ForeFront TMG), including migration (AD and Exchange) from previous environment, for a European Financial Authority agency

 Define intranet architecture based on SharePoint 2010 for a French health agency

 Define migration path and authentication/federation solution from BPOS to Office 365 for a French broadcasting agency

 Assistance to a French car manufacturer to define best solution to migrate Lotus forms to SharePoint 2010

April 2010 – December 2011: Senior Solution Architect (IT Consultant) at

Capgemini France (Paris - FRANCE)

 Various collaborative solution architecture presales (SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, BPOS and Office 365, ForeFront UAG)

 Consultant team organization

 Internal SharePoint servers administration

 Australia:

o Support to Australian team for presales and SharePoint architecture

 France:

o Assist customer for a SharePoint hosting 'health data' contractualisation, SharePoint development platform installation and configuration, site template definition and knowledge transfer for SharePoint use and administration for a health group

o Define messaging architecture based on Microsoft Exchange, Online (Office 365) and On Premise (Exchange 2010), with migration from Lotus Notes

o Migration plan definition from Lotus Notes to SharePoint Online (BPOS-D) for a major industrial French group

o SharePoint 2010 architecture definition for the internet site of a French major banking group

o SharePoint 2010 PoC for a major French insurance company

o Migrating from Lotus Notes/Exchange 2007 to Microsoft Online (Exchange)

March 2007 - April 2010: Senior Support Engineer at Microsoft France

(Paris - FRANCE) on SharePoint technologies

Microsoft Premier Technical support on Microsoft Office SharePoint technologies

Assist Microsoft Premier Customer to resolve issues on SharePoint technologies (SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007, and Project Server)

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Provide onsite assistance to solve SharePoint issues (hotfixes deployment, SharePoint deployment, Project issues) or provide knowledge transfer (administration and deployment)

Provide supportability review to validate SharePoint architecture according to best practices and Product Group guidance

 France:

o Troubleshooting interaction between Project Server 2003 and SharePoint 2003 for an automaker

o Workshop to manage SharePoint 2007 technologies

o Troubleshooting performance issue when using 'Explorer view' mode with Windows SharePoint Services v3

o Assistance to validate hotfixes deployment for MOSS

o Diagnostic notification email sending on SPS 2003

o Assistance to configure search services on MOSS

o Assistance to escalation engineer to implement action plan on MOSS

 Germany:

o Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation problems analysis

 Isle of Man:

o MOSS architecture review, working on various issue and provide day-to-day administration operations knowledge transfer

 Scotland:

o Diagnostic search services on MOSS

 Switzerland:

o Assistance to troubleshoot Office client integration and workflow issues

 Tunisia:

o Workshop introducing SharePoint 2007 technologies for an international monetary fund

September 2004 - March 2007: Microsoft Infrastructure Consultant at

Avanade France (Paris - FRANCE)

Provide architecture design based on Microsoft technologies for deployment or collaboration (Exchange, SharePoint, and System Management Server)

 Belgium:

o SharePoint architect during intranet implementation using SharePoint 2003

 France:

o SharePoint (MOSS 2007) architect for a high school of management

o Define the SharePoint architecture to implement an intranet/extranet for Alumni Portal

o SharePoint architect for a French governmental organization

o Validate the architecture and implementation of a virtualized development environment using SharePoint 2007, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Source Safe

o POC (Proof of Concept) using Live Communication Server 2005 for a French banking company

o Project Server 2003 implementation for French major utilities company

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o Packaging technical lead and software distribution architect for a major French insurance company

 Packaging architect for Wise Package Studio product

 Technical lead of packaging team

 Automated software distribution architect (System Management Server 2003)

o Messaging system for a major French utilities company

 Securing SMTP communication

 Test environment architecture and implementation using Virtual Server

 UK:

o Exchange architect during a Windows NT4/Exchange 5.5 migration to AD/Exchange 2003 for the English subsidiary of a French civil engineering company

 POC (Proof Of Concept) using Virtual Server 2005 to implement Exchange clustered environment

o Problem Manager (level III) during Windows NT 4 / Exchange 5.5 migration to Windows Server2003 / Exchange 2003 for an English minister

September 2002 - September 2004 (included one year by alternation):

Engineer - Trainer at Concept Réseau (Versailles - FRANCE)

 Trainer for official Microsoft courses (Windows, development, SharePoint...)

 Trainer on Windows installer technologies (MSI - Wise product)

 Migration from Novell Netware to Windows 2000 AD

o Automated migration procedures (workstation migration, automatic user account creation...)

o Migration procedures from Windows NT to Windows 2003

 Automating antivirus updates deployment using Trend Micro products

September 2000 - September 2002 (2 years by alternation): Computing

assistant at Fédération Nationale des SA d'HLM (Paris - FRANCE)

 Automation of antiviral definition deployment

 Helpdesk

 Knowledge transfer for using messaging solution (Lotus Notes)

Computing Competencies

Competencies

 Cloud Services: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Windows Intune

 Operating System: Microsoft Windows from NT to Windows Server 2012

 Microsoft Office (all version), InfoPath

 Deployment: Windows Deployment Service / Microsoft Deployment Toolkit – Unattended Windows installation - System Center Configuration Manager 2007

 Messaging / Groupware: Exchange - Lotus Notes client - Microsoft SharePoint - Microsoft Live Communication Server - Microsoft Lync - Microsoft Office Project Server - Microsoft Online Services (BPOS / Office 365) - Microsoft Fast Search for SharePoint

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 Virtualization: Virtual PC 2004 - Virtual Server 2005 R2 - VMWare client/server - Hyper V - System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008/2012

 Migration Tool: Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange – Quest Coexistence Manager

 Security: GPO - ISA Server - Norton Antivirus Corporate - Trend Micro OfficeScan - Trend Micro ScanMail - Sybari Antigen - Microsoft ForeFront (Client, Exchange, SharePoint, Threat Management Gateway, Unified Access Gateway)

 Database: SQL query language knowledge – Microsoft SQL Server

 Monitoring: Microsoft Operation Management - Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

 Business Reporintg / CRM: Microsoft CRM

 Network

 Various: GFI FaxMaker - GFI MailEssentials - GFI MailSecurity - Wise Package Studio (MSI package)

Writing

 Co-writer of a book about SharePoint 2010 ("Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010" at Hermès - ISBN-10: 2746225255 - ISBN-13: 978-2746225251)

 Contributor to the French SharePoint Support Team Blog

 Technical translation reviewer of a book on MOSS ("Pratique de SharePoint 2007" at O'Reilly - ISBN 978-2-84177-493-7)

 Co-writer of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2007 ("Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) et Office 2007" at Hermès - ISBN 978-2-7462-1506-1) about MOSS 2007

 Co-writer of 2 books about Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 ("Le portail Microsoft SharePoint" - Hermès - ISBN: 2-7462-0853-9 and "Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server et WSS" - ESKA - ISBN: 2-7472-0716-1)

 Columnist: articles about MBSA, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Identity Server

Conferences

 Speaker at the Microsoft Office 365 Ignite at Algiers (Algeria)

 Speaker at the Microsoft TechDays 2012 (France) "L'entreprise numérique: l'environnement se transforme"

 Founding member, TCO and Executive committee member of UGSF (User Group SharePoint France)

 Speaker at the Microsoft TechDays 2011 (France) - "Prepare the migration from Lotus Notes to SharePoint - experience feedbacks” and "Publish SharePoint 2010 to Internet in a secure manner"

 Speaker for the French SharePoint User Group meeting

 Speaker for Quest during the 'Journée de la performance IT 2010' (France): SharePoint governance

 Speaker for the French SharePoint User Group meeting - "Publishing SharePoint with ForeFront Unified Access Gateway"

 Speaker at the Microsoft TechDays 2010 (France) - "ForeFront to protect enterprise portal" and "What's new in the SharePoint 2010 administration?"

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 2009: Speaker for the French SharePoint User Group meeting - "Preparing SharePoint 2010 Migration"

 Speaker at the Microsoft TechDays 2009 (France) - "Introducing MOSS diagnostic" and "Publishing and securing access to Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 enterprise environment"

 Exposing at the Microsoft TechDays for the GUWIV (France)

 Participant to Microsoft WebTV for the Windows Vista launch

 "Ask the Expert" at TechEd IT Forum 2006 (Barcelona - SPAIN)

 Speaker during the GUWiV "Kick Off"

 Co-organizer and organization management for the GUWiV "Kick Off" (Paris - FRANCE)

 Speaker during the "Microsoft Community Open Days" - showing Windows Vista (Paris - FRANCE)

 "Ask The Expert" at Microsoft TechEd (Amsterdam - NEETHERLANDS)

 Speaker for Technet seminars (Paris - France) - "Why and how deploying Windows XP SP2 and Office 2003”

 "IT Pro Speaker" and "Ask The Expert" during IT Forum 2004 (Copenhagen - DENMARK)

 Speaker during "Rencontres Communautés" (Microsoft Community Days) (What's new about security in Windows XP SP2 (Paris - FRANCE))

 Speaker for Microsoft during the "Journées Microsoft de la Sécurité" (Microsoft Security Days) (Paris - FRANCE) - "Securing your web servers" and "Implementing your perimeter and network security"

Microsoft Certification

MCP, MCSA (messaging specialist), MCSE Windows 2000 - Windows Server 2003, Technology Specialist (Live Communication Server 2005, Windows SharePoint Service 3.0, Office 365)

Beta programs / awards

 Microsoft Windows Azure Advisors (November 2013-XXXX)

 Microsoft Community Contributor on Office 365 community (June 2013 – February 2014 – July 2014)

 Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" program member on SharePoint (2011 – 2012) and on Office 365 (2012-20xx)

 Office 365 The Grid Member of the week

 Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" program member on Windows Server (2002 - 2006) and Windows Client (2006 - 2007) - status lost when joining Microsoft

 Since June 2006: Trend Micro Power User Group member allowing privileged access to beta products

 "Windows XPert" program member. Program created during Windows XP beta program to provide content for Microsoft Windows XP website

 Beta tester Windows 2000, Windows Millenium, Windows XP, Office 11, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Update v5, Virtual Server, Microsoft BaseLine Security Analyser 1.2, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, MSN Messenger 7, Windows Server 2003 R2, Microsoft Update, Microsoft BaseLine Security Analyser 2.0, Virtual Server SP1, Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2006, Microsoft Maestro (Microsoft Business ScoreBoard Manager), Microsoft Office Add-In, Windows Installer, Windows Vista (Longhorn client et server – Technical Adoption Program member), Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft SharePoint Portal

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Server / Windows Server Services v3, Microsoft Live Communication Server 12 (Technical Adoption Program member), Trend Micro Mobile Security, Microsoft Terminology, Trend Micro PC Cillin 2007, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Vista Ultimate Extras, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Office and SharePoint 2010, Windows 8, Office and SharePoint 2013, Office 365 Wave 15, Exchange 2013

Education

 2002 – 2003: Third year specialization (Network and database administrator) with the congratulation of a professional jury - professional diploma of level License (Level II)

 2002 : Professional technical qualification by alternation

 1998: Baccalaureate Scientist option

Various

 Many travels across the world for conference and vacation

 Fluent and technical English - French mother tongue

 Driving license: French cat A and B

 Baywatch license and holiday camps organizer license

 First aid (individual and team)

 Cinema; Swimming; Basket-ball; Volley-ball; Roller; Making models; Music (playing the synthesizer); Economy; Oenology