Who am I?
Howdy! Please allow myself to introduce...myself. I earned my Bachelor's in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University. I have been in IT/communications since 2004. I started off at an Avaya Business Partner (read Consultant) working on Modular Messaging for MSS and Exchange (voicemail). I then picked up some Communication Manager (PBX), Meeting Place Enterprise and Express (audio and web conferencing), and some other Avaya and related technologies.During this time, we started a Microsoft OCS practice, which unfortunately I wasn't part of. But I loved the product. Towards the end of 2010 I was able to make the jump to another consulting company in their Lync practice. The beginning of 2013 I decided it was time to go corporate and experience that side of the fence.
During my time as a consultant I have been involved in the implementation engineer, support engineer, architect, project manager, process designer, documentation writer, technical trainer, end user trainer and sales engineering roles...you're basic jack-of-all-trades.
Why am I doing this?
I'm writing this blog to help out those of you around me who live in this field. I have certainly spent my fair share of time reading technet and blogs trying to learn Lync and then find a solution to my issues.While my blog is focused on UC, there's a lot going on in the world that impacts our field, or is just really cool. Hopefully y'all will allow me my little indulgences when I wander off topic a bit. Anything too far off base I will tag with OT (Off Topic).
My Environment
Currently I work for a global oil and gas services company. I am the Enterprise Architect for Lync, and design/manage/maintain a system that covers 3 datacenters, 16,000 users, and 13 servers. Its a mixed environment of Lync 2010 and Lync 2013. I also help out on occasions with the Exchange 2010 environment and really whatever else they want me to do.**DISCLAIMER**
The views expressed in this blog are strictly my personal view, and do not reflect the views of my company, Microsoft or any other vendor mentioned.
Thanks and Gig 'Em!
Brad
