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Samuel DREY

Issy-les-Moulineaux.

En résumé

Performed jobs in the Microsoft Sales and Services divisions since October 1999

17 years of various experiences in Microsoft, facing a lot of companies, in many situations and in many hierarchical levels (from the network administrator to the IT CEO). The main competencies I acquired and developed so far include but are not limited to:

- Crisis management
- Project management
- Operations management
- Presentations skills (adaptation to the right discussion level)
- Technical competencies on Exchange (deep architecture, operation and troubleshooting), OCS 2007 (architecture) and Windows server and client, including side technical skills such as ISA Firewall

Mes compétences :
Gestion de projet

Entreprises

  • Microsoft Canada - Enterprise Operations and Architecture Consultant

    Issy-les-Moulineaux. 2010 - maintenant --- Since mid-2011 --- Dedicated Consultant for Shared Services Canada, Microsoft advisor for Government Departments (mostly Government Operations and National Security portfolios), Microsoft advisor for the E-mail Transformation Initiative (ETI) team on the Government's side (45 departments, 550,000 mailboxes in total to host in a central environment).

    --- In general ---
    Consulting, Operations, Projects and customer management.
    - Main customers include the Canadian government departments (recurrent engagements in 45+ government departments in Ottawa)

    Significant assignments/projects to lead at:
    - Shared Services Canada (ETI project)
    - Department of National Defence (DND Canada)
    - Canada Revenue Agency
    - Agriculture Canada
    - University of Ottawa
    - Bank of Canada
    - City of Ottawa
    - Public Works of Government Services Canada
    - Canadian National Railway

  • Microsoft - Technical Account Manager

    Issy-les-Moulineaux. 2009 - 2010 - Specialized in financial sector
    - Managed customer and Microsoft reltionship between Microsoft divisions.
    - Answer to customer's needs, technical and sales related, and guide through all internal Microsoft divisions, sales (product group, sales management) and technical (developers, support, consulting).
    - Manage technical and political crisis for Microsoft and the customer.
    - Manage customer's IT development, administration and optimization.
    - Detect and develop key projects that will help customers to take the best from Microsoft technologies to reduce their TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).
    Got the ITIL v3 Foundation certification.
    > Key customer : Société Générale leading french bank.

  • Microsoft - Consultant (MCS)

    Issy-les-Moulineaux. 2006 - 2009 Microsoft Consulting Services.
    ---- project manager
    ---- partners manager
    ---- Architect

    Key projects :
    ---- Présidence de la République : Messaging migration from Groupwise + Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 (messaging architect, technical advisor and communication leader for the customer)
    ---- Crédit Agricole Bank (CALYON) : messaging migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange 2003 (address book synchronization from different organizations - 26 000 entries + mailbox migration)
    ---- ANPE - architect and technical advisor for a long term mission. Architect for Exchange 2003 - Exchange 2007 migration.

    Other projects including but not limited to :
    - Thalès company (Mobile messaging architecture design for military communication outposts)
    - Crédit Du Nord french bank (Messaging migration and optimization - Exchange 2003)
    - NATIXIS french bank (Exchange Server 2007 messaging architect - vision scope/general and detailed architecture/migration project plan designer including resources scaling and timeframe)
    - BNP Paribas french bank for an Office Communications Server 2007 Proof of Concept and optimization project
    - EFMA (a French organization working with the biggest French banks) for a complete Unified Communications project including an AD, Exchange Server 2007 CCR-based architecture and Office Communications Server 2007 architecture

  • Microsoft - EMEA Consultant

    Issy-les-Moulineaux. 2003 - 2006 Consulting and on-site Support mission for Microsoft Windows Server and Exchange Server technologies. An average of 130 missions realized accross Europe (20+ countries visited). The missions were either proactive missions (such as IT audit, optimizations, migrations), reactive (critical issues on IT infrastructures that prevents the companies to work efficiently) and customer trainings.
    - ExRap Mentor (helping the US in designing the first Exchange Risk Assessment Program)
    - Very first Premier Field Engineer in overall Southern Europe based in Microsoft France

  • Microsoft - Support Engineer

    Issy-les-Moulineaux. 2000 - 2003 - Case studies, procedure and architecture validations, and technical support on Exchange Server 5.0, 5.5, 2000 and 2003.
    - 1 technical publication (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1b0bd4cd-169a-4c93-a363-e50bbb2267bf&displaylang=fr)
    - 3 days of JTE (technical presentation to 100 customers)

  • Microsoft - Presales Engineer

    Issy-les-Moulineaux. 1999 - 2000 Presales Engineer for partners. Participation on technical meetings, presales consulting. Got the MCSE Certification.

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