BRIAN CONNELLY 34 Meyers Road * Branchville, New Jersey 973-262-1066

CONSULTANT Accomplished, hands-on IT leader receiving acclaim from

multiple, major corporations. Adept at supporting business goals and
saving costs through creative solutions to complex systems.
Specialist in complex messaging systems, with additional broad IT
knowledge spanning messaging engineering, infrastructure development,
migrations, troubleshooting, performance tuning and workflow analysis.
Email & Messaging: Large-Scale Distributed Domino Mail Design,
Workflow Design & Architecture, Gateways and Conversion Utilities,
DNS, caching servers, load balancing, clustering, VPN, portals, SPAM
and content filtering, PBX/Unified Messaging, Linux. Operating
Systems: NT4&5, W2K, XP, Linux, Autonomic Linux, CentOS Hardware &
Networking: AWS, NetApps, Proxy and caching servers, Compaq, Dell,
IBM and custom-designed Intel servers, LAN/WAN, networking and
topologies, TCP/IP, X.25, ISDN, Novel, TCPIP, Citrix, Remote Server
Administration, VMWare, BlackBerry PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
INDEPENDENT IT CONSULTANT, Branchville, New Jersey * 1993-Present IT
service provider specializing in computer systems integration,
messaging, messaging convergence, knowledge management and system
administration. Contract Domino Administration also redesigned SEC
17(a)-4 Compliant Archiving. * IBM Global Services at The Westfield
Group: Completed Domino Web Application migration, driving upgrade
from Domino R5 to R8, integrating AD with SSO for web portal.
Implimented App Dev Staging and Disaster Recovery environments, *
Audit of Semtech, Inc: Improved global Domino infrastructure
applications and messaging. Project Management/Project Coordination
Partner with a number of businesses to provide hands-on project
leadership. * The Dannon Company: Hand-picked after successful
completion of earlier project to serve as Technical Project
Coordinator, overseeing North American consolidation and conversion
from Lotus Domino R5 to R6. Pinpointed and resolved server
configuration problems. Provided performance tuning and second-level
help desk support. Implemented clustering, transaction logging,
back-up to EMC, http (iNotes). Trained end-users nationwide. * First
Albany: Installed and configured Assentor Content Manager according to
SEC 17(a)-4. Orchestrated migration from Lotus Domino to Exchange.
Developed new email architecture. Consolidated from 6 servers to 2
clusters with 1000 users BRIAN CONNELLY * Page 2 * 973-262-1066 *
Discovery Communications: Served as lead architect to Lotus Domino
Document Management System project. The project spanned clustered
servers in 3 nationwide locations with 10,000 users in 24 countries
and holding an average of 300 documents per 60 seconds of televised
video. IT Architecture Serve in Senior Architect and Lead Architect
roles to deliver on client business objectives. * General Electric
Asset Management: Improved General Electric Asset Management, Traders
Domino Document Management and Corporate Internet. Delivered enhanced
security SSL and performance by overhauling Domino infrastructure.
Installed and configured caching servers, implemented Single Server
Logon with Netegrity's SiteMinder (PKI) and Netscape Directory
Server (LDAP)-142,000 users. Pioneered server consolidation pilot
project, leveraging existing hardware by utilizing VMware. * E
coordinated transition planning with global email administrator team,
using Group Systems. * Confidential NY-area Lotus/IBM Business
Partner: Commanded project teams to provide technical and managerial
support to multiple, simultaneous clients, including Novartis
Pharmaceutical, Eisai, Inc. and Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett.
Projects included Release 4.x to 5.x migration and Domino Audit and
Domain Consolidation Planning. * Hayward Industries, Inc: Played
Architect, Project Leader and hands-on development role of a Lotus
Notes infrastructure supporting Lotus Notes-based ISO application,
Email system redesign and Hosted Domino Additional IT Projects * The
Dannon Company: Took command after other consulting firms had failed,
providing hands-on leadership to restore failing infrastructure and
complete migration from ccMail to Lotus Notes; received formal
commendation from CEO. * IBM: Performed beta testing Lotus
Foundations Reach, including VMWare compatibility with Asterick
Software PBX. * Rhodia Pharmaceutical: Provided email and
application infrastructure performance tuning and troubleshooting on
7-server, 900-user Lotus Domino system. * Discover Re-Insurance:
Spearheaded Domino Email migration planning, SameTime implementation,
performance tuning and infrastructure troubleshooting * Novartis:
Participated as team leader to oversee infrastructure integration
consolidating 5000 regional Domino databases into 1 global
infrastructure. EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts in Organizational
Development / Cognitive Psychology Ramapo College of New Jersey
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Amazon Web Services IBM Tivoli Web Self
Study PMP certification preparation Quality Decision Management
Lotus, Lotus Notes R2 to R3 Conversion / Administration & Development
Action Technologies Workflow Institute, Action Workflow Methodology
Lotus: Lotus Notes Database Development