Lingaraj Benni

Worked as Unified Communications Engineering Manager (Leading Microsoft Office365 and Azure Engineering Practice and Digital Bid Management) • Planned and projected Microsoft cloud solutions design for Azure, O365, SQL, Exchange, Active Directory and Skype for Business. • Individual contributor for bids in Digital Space for infrastructure and power stations.

Worked as Unified Communications Engineering Manager (Leading Microsoft Office365 and Azure Engineering Practice and Digital Bid Management) • Planned and projected Microsoft cloud solutions design for Azure, O365, SQL, Exchange, Active Directory and Skype for Business. • Individual contributor for bids in Digital Space for infrastructure and power stations.

Microsoft solutions worked on: • Microsoft cloud solutions design for Azure, O365, SQL, Exchange, Active Directory and Skype for Business. • Conducting Requirement Analysis for new opportunities. • Conducting regular technical roundtable and handling escalations when necessary by communicating and cooperating with customers. • Working on MS Server platforms 2008/2012/2016 & on MS application infrastructure (Active Directory, Exchange, and System Centre).

• Designed SFB on premises implementation for Mouser (2K user base), yet to have implementation completed. • Prepared project plan and design for Exchange upgradation from 2010 to 2013 for TTI (Parent company of Mouser) • Complete analysis of Exchange Infrastructure to prepare readiness. • Carried out AD forest level up gradation for TTI domain. • Proposed some of innovative ideas with POC. (Surface HUB, Dial in conference, automation in Exchange for Identity access management using PowerShell)

• Led SIP Trunk project globally, in aspect of technical delivery and service delivery. • Led Dial-In Conference Project in APAC region. • Producing more POCs within the Azure infrastructure to have Hybrid model tested within Novartis for Azure media services, Azure IAAS. • Engineering the products like iMeet live and Azure Media Services for town hall/large meeting kind of events. • Performed ADFS Implementation. • RODC implementation Projects in regional HUB centers.

•Was responsible for Daily monitoring of 18 domino servers, 42 Exchange Servers, 13 LCS server, 10 Interwise servers, 18 Blackberry Servers, 8 Iron Mail Servers & FOPE on cloud for tasks such as Availability Index Checks, Performance / Disk Structure / Disk Space Checks, Mail Routing Monitoring.

• Migration from Exchange to Domino & Domino to Exchange. • Installation of Exchange 2007 through command line. • Creation & configuring of mail box stores. • Using MTS, Creation of SMART HOSTS, Installation of EXCALCON.EXE. • Directory Connector, Free/Busy Connector, Directory Migration & Mail Box Migration. • Installation of MAPI Client CDO, Creation of PUBLIC FOLDER (EXCHANGE 2007 using EMC). • SSL Settings & EWS Virtual Directory editing using IIS Manager. • Exchange Impersonation using EMS.

• Supporting Exchange 2007 and 2010 (20K mailboxes) with co-existence with Lotus Domino Environment. • Supporting and handling the operations for LCS and OCS environment.

LAN Management • Managing LAN Network, • MS Exchange (2003) Mail Support for 500 users.

PC Hardware & LAN Installation

Corporate IT & Network Management