Marty Nickison

About Marty Nickison

As a Senior Microsoft Engineer, I have built an over 20 year career - with a focus on installation, setup, support, and maintenance of many products in the Microsoft product stack. Over trouble tickets resolved and 100 plus change management requests completed successfully to date.SKILLS AND TECHNOLOGIES:BitTitanMigration WizShareGateM365PowerShellActive DirectoryAzure MigrateRackwareEntra IDAzure ADExchangeExchange OnlineHybrid MigrationTenant-To-Tenant MigrationSharePointOneDriveTeamsZero TrustSCCMStakeholder ManagementOffice 365Azure AdministratorAzure Architect ExpertM & AMergers and AcquisitionsDivestiture

Experience

1. Migration Engineer (m & a Divestiture)

   Cornerstone Building Brands

   Jan 2021 — Present · US

   Collaborated with over 10 migration team members and business stakeholders to understand business requirements• Collaborated with 5 team members for the migration projects in performing comprehensive assessments of existing on-premises systems, applications, and infrastructure to identify migration requirements and dependencies.• Assisted 5 team members, 3 times with design and implement migration plans, including selecting the appropriate cloud platform, defining resource requirements, and establishing migration timelines.• Assisted team of 7 engineers/architects to coordinate and execute the data migration of applications and supporting infrastructure to cloud-based environments; ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.• Developed and implemented backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans for Azure and Oracle OCI cloud-based environments – including Azure Backup and Terraform.• Engineered on-prem to cloud migration process; utilized in 3 successful migrations for execution as well as to provide technical guidance to leadership how to migrate to the cloud from VMWare on-prem.• Certified in multiple aspects of Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) during the migrations; in order to stay up to date with the latest advancements in cloud computer and migration strategies, as well as propose innovative solutions.• Developed, documented, and maintained a migration plan that outlines the steps involved in the migration; as well as assisted the Project Manager to create the Smartsheet migration timeline – useful for cost and budgetary analysis.• Assisted team to troubleshoot issues in the week after cutover (Hyper Care).• Executed the migration successfully multiple times; which involved migrating data, applications, and workloads to the cloud, as well as configuring and testing the new environment.• Collaborated with a 5-person engineering team to troubleshoot any problems that arise during the migration projects.

Education

• Youngstown State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science

Skills

• Mcse
• Microsoft Windows
• System Center Configuration Manager (Sccm)
• Active Directory
• Windows 7
• Windows 8
• Windows 10
• Group Policy
• Power Bi
• Powershell
• Microsoft Azure
• C++
• Network Appliance
• Data Center Virtualization
• System Administration
• Emc Storage
• Vmware Vcenter
• Vmware Vsphere
• Windows Server
• Vmware
• Networking
• Domain Name System (Dns)
• Itil Certified