Franco Michela

EDUCATION
1993
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Degree in Information Technology (Dipl.-Ing.)

PUBLICATIONS
"Active Directory", 2000, Microsoft Press Publisher
"Active Directory II Edition", 2003, Microsoft Press Publisher


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009-2012
Reinsurance
- Review and implement a deperimetrization design
- Active Directory infrastructure design for remote access
- Exchange 2007 migration project: design and step-by step guide
- Exchange 2007 GAL-Sync tool specification and implementation
- Evaluation and design for Windows Server 2008 Active Directory

2009
Reinsurance
- Identity Management for M&A

2009
Finance
- Active Directory re-design

2008
Reinsurance
- Evaluation and design for Windows 2008

2008
Industry
- Active Directory migration for 60000 users
- Deployment OpsMgr 2007 (Agents, ACS)

2008
Insurance
- Server hardening for DMZ

2003-2007
Reinsurance
- Monitoring, optimizing and operating all Active Directories
- Architect for an outsourcing project to secure DMZ/LAN
- Evaluation OpsMgr 2007 for ACS (Audit Collection Services)
- ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) concepts
- MIIS concepts for Active Directory Forests cloning
- Security concepts and implementation for infrastructure systems
- Defining enterprise authentication for web-applications
- Competence center for Identity Management
- User provisioning concepts and implementation
- Authentication design for DMZ
- Third level support, troubleshooting

2003
Finance
- Active Directory enterprise design
- Define provisioning processes
- Active Directory implementation
- Define and implement Backup/Recovery procedures
- Third level support, troubleshooting

2001-2003
Reinsurance
- Review partner as architect for an infrastructure project
- Active Directory enterprise design
- Administration concepts (RBAC) with Quest Active Roles
- Active Directory implementation
- Evaluation MOM2000

2001
Bank
- Active Directory design in a Windows 2000 migration project
- Design for a Corporate Metadirectory
- Evaluation DirX (Siemens), MMS (Microsoft), Netscape

2000
Government of Belize (VSO - Volunteer Services Oversea)
- Design of Windows NT network
- Defining operations and security procedures
- Third level support for network, OS and Exchange 5.5
- Creating and leading IT training center
- “Train the trainer” for Office and BackOffice products

1999
Studying and testing Windows 2000 Server, writing the manuscript for the book “Active Directory” Microsoft Press Publisher

1993-1998
- Consulting
Training material development and trainer for Windows NT, Exchange 5.0/5.5, TCP/IP
- Microsoft
Marketing/Technical presentations for new products from the Microsoft Office and Microsoft BackOffice suite

- Editors
Microsoft Access 2.0 database design and operations for a Bosch navigation system

- Other companies
Microsoft Access 2.0 database designs and implementation for small companies, programming in VBA
Software/Hardware upgrade for Windows 3.11 systems