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Boris Lokhvitsky, MCSE Phone: (650) 248 8964 E-mail: [email protected] Exchange assessment and design recommendations for Silicon Valley Bank. As a follow-up to the Microsof

standard Exchange Health Check procedure, performed Exchange infrastructure assessment focusing on severaareas as requested by customer. Reviewed and analyzed early design proposals for the new site-redundant mes-saging design (two sites, Exchange 2003 front-end/back-end topology, clustering, site resiliency, EMC and HDSstorage design and layout, secure access for external clients); provided guidelines and recommendations basedon Microsoft best practices and personal experience.

SQL Server 2000/2005 Analysis and Architecture for Levi Strauss & Co. Together with application/development consultant we assessed existing database services infrastructure (more than 300 databaseshosted by ~15 SQL Server instances for various applications), analyzed application architecture and requirementsconducted detailed performance analysis, provided server design for the new 64-bit (IBM eServer x366) SQLServer 2005 clustered environment with EMC CLARiiON CX700 SAN storage, formulated requirements for bothSQL 2005 and SQL 2000 cluster systems, performed actual installations of both 64-bit and 32-bit SQL Serve2005 clusters.

Active Directory and Exchange consolidat ion for California State Automobile Association (CSAA). After themerger with Western United CSAA needed a consolidation solution. I analyzed and assessed existing directory(Windows 2003) and messaging (Exchange 2003) services infrastructure, provided recommendations and pro-posed high level design options for the consolidated environment.

SQL Server 2000 clustering for Edwards Life Sciences. Installed and configured 64-bit (IBM eServer x460Windows 2003 based SQL Server 2000 active/passive cluster for the mission critical J DE database. Providedteam training on SQL Server clustering. Provided recommendations on cluster and SQL Server configuration andperformance optimization.

Exchange infrastructure assessment for Wells Fargo Bank. Performed discovery and assessment for Exchange 2000 based messaging infrastructure at Wells Fargo (150,000 users with projected growth to 200,000)Analyzed server and storage configuration (HP ProLiant BL20p blade servers, Hitachi Lightning 9980V SAN stor-age) and conducted performance analysis based on MOM implementation and perfmon logs. Identified configuration issues, risk factors, and proposed remediation steps and design recommendations for the new Exchange2003 based environment. Created an executive presentation and detailed assessment and recommendationsdocument.

Exchange 2003 SP2 rollout plan for Marriott. Performed infrastructure assessment for the existing Exchange2003 based messaging environment at Marriott (95,000 users), analyzed risks and created a testing and deployment plan for Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2.

Exchange 2003 architecture and design for Autodesk. Performed initial discovery and assessment for the existing Exchange 2000-based infrastructure. Analyzed business and technical requirements and architected threepotential design proposals based on stand-alone and clustered Exchange installations for 15,000 users with serv-

ers consolidated in three company datacenters. Performed capacity and performance based storage planning foEMC CLARiiON CX700 SAN storage. Created vision and scope document, detailed design and architecture plancapacity and performance planning document, cluster design document.

Exchange 2003 consolidation, cluster installation, and migration p lanning for Levi Strauss & Co. Designedand documented the 3-node (Active/Active/Passive) Exchange 2003 cluster installation for 5,000 users. Createdconsolidation plan, server and storage configuration (IBM eServer x445, EMC CLARiiON CX700 SAN), namingconventions and cluster configuration, installation scenario, simulation testing plan, pilot migration plan, disasterecovery plan. Conducted performance analysis to determine server capacity and performance requirements. BuilExchange cluster, configured Exchange resources, performed initial troubleshooting and failover testing.

Exchange 2003 public folders migration for Charles Schwab. Used InterOrg public folders replication tool tohelp migrating public folders across different Exchange 2003 organizations. Other tools involved: PubMergePFDavAdmin, Exprofre, mailbox migration wizard, LoadSim 2003, etc. Set up a lab to build the proof of concepand demo the required functionality to the customer.

J uly 2004 J uly 2005 Senior Windows / Exchange Administ rator, ,Google, Inc. Mountain View, CA, USA

At Google, I was member of Windows Operations team responsible for all Microsoft servers infrastructure, with specialization in Exchange.

Ongoing Exchange administration and maintenance. Was fully responsible for supporting Google Exchange2003 SP1 servers (increased number of servers from 1 to 9), performing backup and recovery, resolving client issues. Clients included Outlook in MAPI, RPC over HTTPS, IMAP, and POP modes, OWA, Entourage (Mac Ex-change client), Blackberry PDA handhelds.

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Boris Lokhvitsky, MCSE Phone: (650) 248 8964 E-mail: [email protected] Exchange disaster recovery. During two Exchange outages caused by hardware (disk) failures, performed fu

Exchange disaster recovery using dial-tone database method and RSG (Recovery Storage Group) feature.

General Exchange design. Initial Exchange environment used internal server storage not suitable for productionneeds and impossible to scale. As a tech lead, architected and fully redesigned Exchange 2003 infrastructure tosupport fast growing environment (scaling from 500 to 5,000 to 30,000 users). Designed storage solution, frontend/back-end topology, distributed sites infrastructure, back-end active/passive cluster, secure access for externaclients (using ISA Server in a DMZ), custom mail routing scheme, OpenLDAP based address book support, antivirus protection, backup policy and disaster recovery plan;

SAN storage solution. Researched and evaluated several possible SAN implementations for Exchange (HP EVAEMC CLARiiON, NetApp FAS). Performed capacity and performance planning, designed local and remote replica-tion scenarios and DR plan. Conducted proof of concept sessions with EMC, HP, and NetApp. Finalized recommendations in the design document.

Exchange archiving solution. Researched and evaluated several archiving products (Veritas/KVS EnterpriseVault, Zantaz EAS, EMC/Legato EmailXtender, OpenText/IXOS LiveLink, CommVault Data Archiver, MimosaNearPoint, HP RISS). Extensively worked with vendors on technical discussions and specifications, reference callsetc. Finalized group recommendations for the archiving solution in the design document.

Load balanced front-end. Designed, built, and configured load balanced front-end Exchange servers using NLB.

RPC over HTTPS. Designed, implemented, and configured RPC over HTTPS support based on front-end/back-end Exchange infrastructure, for external clients.

Blackberry support. Administered and maintained Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) to provide Exchange services to Blackberry PDA handhelds. Was troubleshooting various Blackberry issues.

Active Directory administration. Administered and maintained Googles Active Directory. Created and supportedmultiple GPO (group policy objects). Managed groups, accounts, permissions, profiles, etc.

Windows XP SP2 deployment. Participated in a company wide SP2 deployment to several thousand machines in15 countries. This included design of domain and standard profiles, firewall policies, etc.

Daily Windows infrastructure support and maintenance. On a daily basis, was resolving various issues in support tickets escalated to Windows operations group.

Mar. 2004 J une 2004 Senior IT / Exchange Engineer, ,Mimosa Systems, Inc. Santa Clara, CA, USA

Mimosa Systems provides NearPoint a new emerging online backup/recovery, archiving, and life cycle management solution for Exchange.

Exchange servers installation and maintenance. In production, development, and test areas designed, installed and configured several Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers (including active/passive cluster installations onProLiant DL380 cluster with MSA 500 storage), maintained users and mailboxes. Performed multiplebackup/recovery operations as well as disaster recoveries. Was troubleshooting Exchange and Active Directory related issues.

Exchange performance analysis and benchmarking. Designed and implemented scenarios for Exchange performance analysis as part of NearPoint server performance research. Email MAPI operations were simulated usingLoadSim tool with MMB2 and MMB3 benchmarks. Results were used in optimizing NearPoint backup engine.

Exchange market analysis. Performed business analysis of Exchange server market for medium size businesses(100 5,000 users) investigated typical Exchange implementations, server configuration, production workloadand trends. Results were used in designing NearPoint scalability and defining product requirements.

Multihomed network solution. Investigated, designed and proposed redundant ISP connectivity solution for Mimosa multihomednetwork.

Aug. 2000 Mar. 2004 Senior Systems Engineer, First Virtual Communications, Santa Clara & RedwoodCity, CA, USA

FVC (acquired by RADVISION in 2005) offers enterprise scale video- and web-conferencing solutions for TCP/IPISDN, and ATM networks, with IIS based ASP front-end using Windows 2000 Active Directory and SQL Server databases built on MS Cluster Server at Compaq clusters with SCSI RAID. The enterprise solution (ClickToMeet) alsoincludes gateways, Cisco gatekeepers / proxies, multipoint control units (MCUs), and video end points.

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Boris Lokhvitsky, MCSE Phone: (650) 248 8964 E-mail: [email protected] Performance analysis and optimization. At Microsoft Performance Analysis and Research Center (PARC) in

Redmond, WA, worked together with MS experts to analyze application performance (including stress testing), op-timize product design and investigate compatibility with WindowsServer2003.

Design and implementation of video-conferencing server systems. Elaborated Windows 2000 based solutions with installation, configuration and support of SQL Server, IIS, and multi-tier FVC server software. Implemented several Active Directory models with dynamic DNS for different installation scenarios, including multi-treeforests with customized schema and trust relationships. Designed several architectural components and ports dia-grams for FVC multi-tier application server.

Cluster implementation for high availability solution. Designed and implemented cluster solutions based onSQL Server 2000, Microsoft Cluster Server and Compaq CL cluster hardware (using shared SCSI RAID or SANstorage). Wrote installation guides for implementing High Availability solution for FVC application server and configuring operating system and server applications. Performed cluster maintenance/troubleshooting.

SQL Cluster DataCenter installation. This short time contract was performed for MirrorPlus Technologies(http://www.mirrorplus.com). Built two datacenter Compaq clusters (ProLiant 8500R and ML530), based on Windows 2000 Advanced Server, from scratch, configured network for clustering, installed and configured SQL Serve2000 cluster, created and tuned all necessary cluster resources. Both clusters were using Compaq StorageWorksSAN storage with RAID 10 configured hardware RAID.

Cisco routers / proxies integration. Designed and implemented Cisco interoperability solution using Cisco MCMgatekeeper / proxy servers (based on Cisco 26xx / 36xx routers) for managing V

2oIP networks with directory gate

keepers, H.323 proxies, and QoS. Designed several integration solutions for different multi-zone scenarios usedby customers. Contributed into designing proxy and zones support in FVC server.

Installation and support of customer servers. Working in a team (Professional Services group), implementedFVC solutions for customers, built single and cluster servers, installed and configured all software, performed prob-lems troubleshooting. Successfully implemented and supported FVC servers for AT&T, Verizon, EDS, GoldmanSachs, EMBC, GCC, VIA Networks, CalTrans. Performed phone-based consulting and remote troubleshooting, -last example was spyware detection and cleanup at Verizon and AT&T servers.

Security lockdown for FVC server solution. Designed, implemented and documented the security lockdownproposal for FVC application servers to protect from viruses, eliminate spyware and minimize hackers intrusions

This included reconfiguration of anonymous web application accounts for IIS 5.0.

FVC server quality assurance. As a senior engineer in the Engineering & QA Department, was involved in ahigh-level white box QA testing for FVC server components. Major accomplishments were in the installation andgatekeeper testing. Participated in the product design and architecture and contributed into database developmenand gatekeeper server development for FVC server.

Video End Points Certification. This senior QA project included design, implementation and maintenance of the

endpoints Certification Lab to test video end points for interoperability with FVC software. I had designed thetesting specifications, the general test plan, and elaborated five detailed test cases for comprehensive video endpoints testing. Performed actual QA testing of more than 10 different video end points.

Network administration and troubleshooting. Worked with IT department to troubleshoot Windows 2000 andNT 4.0 server and network problems, primarily DHCP / DNS / WINS, VPN / NAT / firewall and different TCP/IP issues. Helped in troubleshooting Exchange 5.5 server. Participated in implementing the merge of two corporatenetworks (500+nodes) in CA and NH and migration from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000. Contributed to design and im-plementation of the companys intranet.

Training support & engineering staff. Designed, wrote and conducted series of seminars and presentations foFVC engineers on different subjects like ISDN, Windows 2000 Active Directory, Windows 2000 security/encryptionMS Cluster server, Cisco gatekeeper/proxy software, SQL database maintenance.

Sep. 1997 - J ul. 2000 Lead Systems Engineer,Stack Ltd ., Tomsk, Russia

Stack Ltd. is a large systems integrator and ISP, specializing in building enterprise network solutions for corporate customers, professional authorized education and certification.

Network administration, configuration and troubleshooting o f Stack Ltd. network (10 Windows NT servers in4 domains, 8 Windows 2000 Active Directory trees, 10 Novell IntranetWare servers in 6 trees, UNIX- and NTbased Internet and Proxy servers, firewall, messaging server (Exchange 5.5), database server (SQL Server 7.0)over 100 Windows 95/NT workstations). Worked in a team as leading specialist in Microsoft-related topics. Designed and implemented Windows NT/2000 domains and two IntranetWare trees for the purposes of educationcenter; installed and configured specialized software and performed network administration and troubleshootingImplemented migration from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000.

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Boris Lokhvitsky, MCSE Phone: (650) 248 8964 E-mail: [email protected] Installation and conf iguration of the firewall secured intranet subnetwork. Used IIS 4.0 and Proxy 2.0 to build

several Web sites with secure gateway to the Internet. For intranet needs, a SQL Server 7.0 was installed. Clients(internal and external) used ASP pages and ISAPI applications to interact with SQL databases.

Design, building and configuration of a web-based Information Center. Designed a Web-enabled Terminaserver providing terminal access to Windows 2000 server with information database installed. Project was basedon Citrix MetaFrame server; terminal sessions were initialized from web client interface.

Nov. 1995 - Sep. 1997 Systems Engineer, Stack Ltd .Education Center, Tomsk, Russia

Design, installation and configuration of education center network. Project included IP and IPX routingscheme, NT-Novell gateway, RAS support. The result configuration provided quick class reconfiguration, includingscripted reinstallation of the operating system and applications, restoration of trust relationships, user and groupsrights and privileges, Internet access and messaging accounts.

Delivery of Microsoft Official Curriculum courses. Stack Ltd. is Microsoft Certified Technical Education Cente(MS CTEC); as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), I was delivering various courses mostly on Windows NT 4.0and TCP/IP (most popular classes were 922, 803, 688, 689, 798, and 955). More than 20 of my students oncourse completion successfully passed all necessary exams and became MCSE.

Organization, installation and configuration of Authorized Prometric Testing Center(by contract with SylvanPrometric). This project was very important because our center was only the third in the whole former Soviet Un-ion. Having signed the Agreement, we installed necessary hardware, mounted the network, installed and config-ured NetWare server and client software and vendor programs used for testing. One of the tasks was to implemenand maintain 24x7 X.25 protocol communications with Prometric central hub in Minneapolis.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION:Please check my MCP transcript here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/transcripts(Transcript ID 659601, access code MSExpert)

2006 Project Management for Team Leads training (course 1401)2006 Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) training (course 1846A)2006 Exchange Environmental Dependencies course & test pre-requisite for Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA)2006 Microsoft TechReady 3, Seattle, WA2005 Microsoft TechReady 1, Seattle, WA2005 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Messaging (MCSE+M) on Windows 2003 and Exchange 20032005 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Messaging (MCSE+M) on Windows 2000 and Exchange 20002005 Microsoft Exchange Security Summit, Redmond, WA2004 Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Messaging (MCSA+M) on Windows 2003 and Exchange 20032004 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows 20032004 Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) on Windows 20032004 Microsoft TechEd, San Diego, CA2003 Microsoft PARC Lab, Redmond, WA2002 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows 20002001 RADVision V

2oIP Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA

1999 Microsoft Certif ied Systems Engineer + Internet (MCSE+I)1998 Microsoft Certif ied Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows NT 4.01998 Microsoft Certified Professional +Internet (MCP+I)1997 Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)1996 Microsoft Certified Product Specialist (MCP ID 369902)

1991 Associate Professor of Mathematics, Tomsk Polytechnic University1987 Ph.D. (Theoretical & Mathematical Physics), University of Tomsk1981 MS with Honors (Theoretical & Mathematical Physics), University of Tomsk

PERSONAL:

Open minded hard worker with strong analytical and problem solving skills; responsible, able to work fast and efficiently; motivated self-starter; enjoy learning new things and mastering new technologies; strong team player attitudeexcellent communication skills. I love sports, outdoors activities, hiking, biking, and traveling.

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ADDENDUM

Microsoft Certification exams passed successfully:

70285 Designing a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Organization

70284 Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 200370296 Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment

(For an MCSE certified on Windows 2000)70292 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment

(For an MCSA certified on Windows 2000)70221 Designing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure70240 Microsoft Windows 2000 Accelerated Exam for MCPs Certified on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

(covers the following exams:70210 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional70215 Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Server70216 Implementing and Administering a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure70217 Implementing and Administering a Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services Infrastructure)70028 Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Administration

70055 Designing and Implementing Web Sites with Microsoft FrontPage 9870081 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Exchange Server 5.570079 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and Internet Explorer Admin. Kit70088 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Proxy Server 2.070098 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows 9870077 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0 and Index Server 1.170059 Internetworking with Microsoft TCP/IP on Microsoft Windows NT 4.070068 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 in the Enterprise70063 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows9570058 Networking Essentials70073 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation70067 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.070049 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows70046 Networking with Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.1170048 Implementing and Supporting Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11

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