James Tanton

Experience

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  K&K Computer Communications, Inc.

  Jan 1987 - Jan 2004

  President, Owner
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  CHRIMS, Inc.

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2004

  IT Manager
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  Info Plus International

  Jun 2004 - Sept 2005

  Consultant

  Projects included: Consulting service for Active Directory and Exchange migration from NT3.5 to Windows Server 2003 and Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000.Exchange 2000 health check and architectural design review. Recommended design changes and provided best practices.

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  Lam Research

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2005

  Contractor on Windows/Exchange Upgrade

  Migrating Windows server 2000 domain to Windows 2003. Upgrading Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.

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  Microsoft

  Sept 2005 - Apr 2012

  Senior Windows Consultant

  Consultant for largest Enterprise customers in US. Expertise in Exchange server, Sharepoint, SCCM, and OS migrations. Envision, plan, design and execute complex migrations and deployments with company wide impacts.

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  Chevron

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2009

  Consultant SharePoint 2007 Deployment Team
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  Genentech

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2011

  Senior Consultant

  Windows 7 operating system deployment using SCCM / OSD Toolkit / USMT. Application testing and remediation for compatibility. Custom USMT Script and custom Group Policy changes to Windows 7 system.

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  State Compensation Insurance Fund

  Apr 2012 - May 2013

  Senior Windows Systems Engineer

  Active Directory, DFS, DNS, DHCP, PowerShell Scripting, VB Scripting, Group Policy, Quest Change Auditor, CommVault Simpana V9, Enterprise Backup and Recovery, Exchange 2007, SharePoint 2007, VMware, HyperV, Windows 2008 server, Quest ActiveRoles, EMC Data Domain, HP Tape Libraries, ESX 4, Avocent, Basic Linux Admin Skills.

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  Granite Construction

  May 2013 - Aug 2013

  Consultant - Sr. System Engineer

  Active Directory and Exchange upgrades.

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  Ellie Mae

  Sept 2013 - May 2019

  Public Cloud Engineering Team. CloudFormation, Terraform, EC2, VPC, RDS, VPN, ACM, and Active Directory 2016 (multi-site and multiple domains, 1800+ users/5000+ computers), Group Policies, , DHCP, Identity management (ADFS), OKTA SSO/SAML, Akamai (Fast DNS), SCCM 2012R2, System Center Orchestrator, VMware 5.5, Netwrix, AD Manager, PowerShell, Certificates management.

  • Senior Cloud Engineer

    Oct 2016 - May 2019

  • Senior Windows Systems Engineer - Server Team Lead

    Sept 2013 - Oct 2017
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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  May 2019 - now

  Cloud Infrastructure Architect